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Today's khutbah we're going to be having someone embrace Islam but it's a very

special way in which that brother will be embracing Islam. Brother Sebastian

will be taking Shahada with us. He's deaf here but his heart is alive and as

Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala mentions to us that it's not the sight that is blind,

it's not the ears that are deaf, it's the hearts that go blind, it's the hearts

that go deaf and this message is so profound and so potent that it can reach

people wherever they are through generations, through cultures, through

circumstances and it can give life to a person's heart in a way that nothing

else can and we live that on a regular basis with Hamdari Allah with the beauty

of Allah, Ilaha'u Dallahu Muhammad al-Su'ullah circulating through our hearts

and veins by ibn Allahi Ta'ala and inspiring us towards our daily practices now

with that being said I know that it can be deeply inspiring to watch someone

else take Shahada, it can be deeply inspiring to see the videos online that are

constant now of people that are embracing Islam right and left but one of the

things that ends up happening here is that you disconnect yourself from the

process and don't see yourself in the position of potentially being that one. That Allah

Subhanahu wa Ta'ala chooses to deeply transform someone else's life through. Now the

du'a of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, Allah Mu'allahu Alaihi Wasallam wa Ta'ala

wa Ta'ala wa Ta'ala wa Ta'ala wa Ta'ala wa Ta'ala wa Ta'ala wa Ta'ala wa Ta'ala wa Ta'ala

wa Ta'ala wa Ta'ala wa Ta'ala wa Ta'ala wa Ta'ala wa Ta'ala wa Ta'ala wa Ta'ala.

Guidance overtakes all of us. O Allah make him guided and guiding and guide through

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