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Thank Allah for all the blessings he has given us,

the blessings of health, the blessings of wealth,

the blessings of safety, the blessings of security,

the blessings of food and drink.

To him belongs Hamth in the heavens and in the earth.

Wherever you are, whenever you are.

But your brothers and sisters, in today's ch'bba of Eid, my topic was the topic of shukar.

And so working on that for the Friday chutba, I wanted to remind ourselves of one of the main

manifestations of shukr, which is the topic of

Hamd, of praising Allah, suhanna, and this topic, which is a fundamental topic of the Quran

and of the sunnah of the prophet sallu.

It is one of the primary mechanisms of remembering Allah, and that is to praise him by saying al-hambul-llil-la.

This phrase is so important that Allah chose to begin his final revelation with this phrase.

Al-Hamdu-Lillah, Rhabil-Alamin.

Almost half a dozen suras in the Quran began with the phrase al-Handul rabbi alamine almost half a dozen

suras in the Quran began with the phrase alhamdulillah and Allah reminds us that

praising him is a timeless concept it is a concept that we must constantly do

regardless of the place the location the time frame we find ourselves in

Allah says in the Quran wellah al hamdu for the Oula

to him belongs hamed from the pre- eternity and to the post-eternity to him

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