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So make a sincere intent that I'm going to try to be better.

I'm going to strive to have a better life.

I will minimize and eliminate as many sins as I can, knowing that I can never be better. I'm going to strive to have a better life. I will minimize and eliminate as many

sins as I can, knowing that I can never be perfect, but at least I will try.

Alhamdulillah, Lhulah, Lhulah, Lhulah, then alHamda-Lah, then al-Hamdilah. We begin by praising Allah, Subhanahua-Tal, for having blessed us to be Muslims, having blessed us to have iman in him, having blessed us to be in the best of all ummas to be the recipients of the best of all

books all of these blessings we didn't earn them we didn't deserve them

Allah chose us out of so many others Allah azzavajal blessed us to not only believe in him

but to al-hambulillah be wantingl-l-h-l-h-l-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-haw-hying to worship him. There are many who say they believe, but their actions are minimal. And whatever our shortcomings, whatever our sins are, tonight we find ourselves, al-h-h-h-l-h-h-l-h-hazhazhazhazh and wanting to come close to him wanting to have our sins

forgiven wanting to experience a closeness to him and inshallahua ta'a this is a blessing from

Allah in and of itself that we cannot thank him enough for and And today, my dear brothers and sisters,

tonight, I don't have any profound, deep lecture prepared.

I have been thinking for many days, weeks, really,

about so many things happening in this Ummah.

But let me begin with a completely random fact a few weeks ago

i was watching a documentary about uh dinosaurs and the various stages of creation on this earth

and what struck me of course you've heard this you've read this you know this what struck me, of course you've heard this, you've read this,

you know this, what struck me for the first time thinking about a different way,

they were talking about the different eras of the dinosaurs. And you know, the famous one is

the Jurassic era and you have the other eras as well I don't remember their names here

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