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Your brothers and sisters, there is nothing more beautiful than the succession of Islam, the succession of belief, from parent to child, and then from parent to child, and from parent to child, and in many ways we are looking around at these communities being developed, you know, some analogous on my way in here, noticing all of the massages that have been built, and seeing so many people, we are the fruits of that succession from the time of the

Prophet ﷺ and the companions, that at some point, even if you are the first person to convert to Islam in your particular bloodline, at some point there is a da'iyyah, there is a caller to Islam that came from a caller to Islam, there is a convert, there is a point where it dropped off, and then it picked back up, but there is nothing more beautiful than when you can trace that line, and you can see the succession of belief and faith, and what I mean by that is that,

in many ways, when you see worldly success, when you see that the children have followed the parents' footsteps, and then their children have followed, and you start to have a heritage that represents some sort of value, and the upliftment of something that is great.

And when you look in the Qur'an, you find that Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala speaks to that from the perspective of Ibrahim al-Hissalam, of the du'aahs of Ibrahim al-Hissalam, where the multiple du'aahs that he made for his offspring, the multiple du'aahs that he made for the succession of Islam within his own loins, and the succession of Islam on this earth,

and the purity of every generation to come from that which contradicts the monotheism that he upheld. You see it in almost every single one of his du'aahs, his insistence that this be something that goes on beyond him,

and you find that Ibrahim al-Hissalam is calling his children to him at the time of his death, and what a long life, and a difficult life, an eventful life he lived, and Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says,

What is that will, what is it that they are impressing upon them at the end of their lives?

Ya Baniya, in Allah, hastaf alaikumuddin, O my children, Allah has chosen for you this religion of Islam.

Now this isn't some sort of regret that Ibrahim al-Hissalam has at the time of his death where suddenly it impresses upon him like,

I really messed up with my kids. My kids and my grandkids have left the faith, and they no longer have anything to do with Islam, and now as I'm leaving, I'm feeling this overwhelming sense of guilt.

And so I need to try to salvage what I've been missing my entire life. This was Ibrahim al-Hissalam reaffirming what he has been affirming to his children for their entire lives, and to his grandchildren for their entire lives.

And that's an important distinction to make. Why? Because Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala covers through the life of Ibrahim al-Hissalam, the life of a parent who prayed for his kids, the life of a parent who worked with his kids,

because he's building the Kaaba with this Ma'id al-Hissalam just a few ayat before that, the life of a parent who was sincere to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala

and didn't have a speck of hypocrisy which could be sniffed out.

Ibrahim al-Hissalam represented satq truthfulness, sincerity, and the life of a parent who now is sitting with his children in his last moments and saying,

My children, I remind you that before I give you the wasia about our businesses, our land, this and that, or anything worldly,

the main thing I want you to remember is that we were sent here for Tohid, we were sent here for that call of la ilaha illa Allah.

Stay upon that until you're dead. And how beautiful Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says,

And then Yaqob al-Hissalam comes, you know, and Yaqob al-Hissalam is speaking to his children,

what are you going to worship after me? So now the succession comes, and this isn't the son of Ibrahim,

this is the grandson, so it's succession, to succession, to succession.

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