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My brothers and sisters, the first and most important piece of advice that we always deliver,

is to be conscious of Allah, something known as Takua Allah,

whoever has the Takua, whoever engages in Takua, shall save himself or herself.

If you would like to save yourself from the torment, from the punishment of this world and the next,

you need to develop what is known as Takua.

People generally translate it as the fear of Allah, but it is a combination of the consciousness of Allah,

the development of the relationship with Allah, the worshipping of Allah alone, the hope in his mercy

and the fearing of being cast into his wrath.

Perhaps one of the first instructions that Allah has kept in the Quran,

O people, worship your Lord, who has created you, worship the one who made you,

he is unique in his names and qualities, he has no partner, you shall worship none besides him,

it is unfair, my brothers, my sisters, to worship deities that are false,

anyone or anything besides he who made you, it is not correct to worship them.

No matter how much of power they made depict in this world, no matter how much of authority or

wealth, no matter how much they look in terms of grandeur and greatness, they will never compete with

the Almighty who made entire creation. We repeat this every time we speak, we start off with

every single time we commence a reminder, we start off with this every sermon on a Friday because

it is the core and the crux, what is it? Worshiping Allah alone, we do not worship sticks or stones,

nor do we worship other humans, dead or alive, nor do we render an act of worship to anything or

anyone besides he who made us. So what is an act of worship? An act of worship is that which was

taught by the messenger who was sent to us from the same maker to teach us how he would like

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