 respected listeners, Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala is the Soaring Lord of the heavens and the earth. Tabarak al-Ladhi bi yadihi al-Mulk wa hu'ala al-Lisha'i al-Fadih. He is the owner and the Lord of the entire universe and all the power and He has power over everything. Wa Lillahi Junudu Samawati Wa Al-Ard. All the armies in the heavens and the earth are under His leash. All the affairs and control is in the hands of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala. Wa Lillahi Al-Puwa to Jamia. All the power and strength is in the hands of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala. There is no power or strength except in Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala. And Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala respected listeners, shortest living in the COVID times, who is in charge, who is in power, who is helpless and who has been humbled. Wa Lillahi Al-Mulk wa Al-Lisha'i al-Fadih. He is the owner of the entire kingdom in the heavens and the earth. He gives power to whom He wishes. He takes away the power from whom He wishes. He gives honor to whom He wishes. He dishonors whom He wishes. If Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala wants to give power to any of His creations, we know Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala is fully capable of that. And Allah does not need to give power to a human being respected listeners. Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala showed us today, from the last year and a half, Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala put a disputed crown. Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala put a disputed crown on the head of a small virus, which not even a regular microscope can see. You need a powerful microscope to see the coronavirus and Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala showed the entire world and He put the crown on this little unseen virus with the naked eyes. It held the leash of power and command to the entire world. He told everybody to stay away from six feet, everybody stayed away six feet. Everybody put on masks, everybody put on masks. If I was standing six feet away from that person, I know there was an angel of it standing between me and that person. The things we were dazzled in the malls, the same things we're afraid to touch thinking does it contain the virus. The money we draw from the ATM machines pressing that button, drawing those $20 bills into our hands, we're wondering if these bills are carrying the virus. If I would sneeze in front of a whole person, he would be scared. Am I carrying the virus? The largest army in the history of the world, the army of China, could not prevent this little unseen virus from the naked eye spread from Wuhan. The second largest army on the planet Earth, the army of India, could not give free oxygen to the people who were dying of coronavirus. The most powerful army in the history of the planet Earth, the army of the United States of America became powerless, respected listeners. There is no power or strength except in Allah SWT. Allah is the one who holds the leash of the armies of the heavens and the earth. Allah SWT tells this over and over again in the Qur'an to remind us that the maqloogh, the creation cannot do anything to you. It is Allah SWT who is in control in charge and the doer of everything. King Abraham, he came with an army of 6,000 marines and commandos to destroy Kaaba with an addition of 60 elephants in his army. On his mighty army of commandos and marines, Allah SWT sent little sparrows and birds who would carry little pebbles made out of volcanic ash. And with the Amor of Allah, they dropped it on the army. His marines and commandos, a lot of them died, but he retreated with the remaining of his army. And Allah SWT sent an Ebola-like virus to him and his army. Blisters on their hands, he could not even reach his home country. Allah SWT is telling over and over again in the Qur'an of the story of Musa A.S. and Fir'aun. Fir'aun with a mighty army would himself call himself I am the Lord most high in all the billah. Allah SWT sent a simple man to him in rag tacks, stitches on his clothes, broken shoes, broken slippers standing with his staff in his hand. Allah doesn't need a mighty power to take out the mighty power, mighty king from his throne, respectively. Fir'aun with his arrogance, with his power, building mighty mausoleum pyramids for the rotting dead. Allah talks about him and his mighty general in the Qur'an. Neither his power, his might, neither the strength and power of his general could not do anything to the army of Allah SWT. He did not listen because the arrogance took the better of him, the greed from power. Allah SWT sent frogs to him, frogs in his bathroom, frogs on his bed, frogs in his water did not heat. Then Allah SWT mixed water in the blood. He took the glass because there was blood in the water. Did not the arrogance took the better of him? Then Allah SWT sent a corona-like virus Ebola to his army and hip. From the biblical narrations, his own son died with the virus. The Qur'an, the tafsir of the Qur'an says the son of his famous his mighty general Haman died with the virus. Could not do anything. Prophet Ibrahim, Allah SWT, Allah talks about the conversation between him and the mighty tyrant king of the time Namroof in Surat Al-Baqar. You have not seen the argument between the tyrant king and Prophet Ibrahim, Allah SWT. The tyrant king to whom Allah SWT has given the kingdom. He said to Ibrahim, Allah SWT, You see what you mean? When Ibrahim, Allah SWT, there was a drought going on in Palestine at that time. Namroof would give grains, bags of grain and food to the people who would come and ask him. And proclaim in the house of Allah that he is their lord. You would ask them who is your lord? You would say you are our lord in the house of Allah and then you would order his people to give them the bags of grain. Ibrahim, Allah SWT's army, his family was starving. He was standing in the line with two empty sacks to take food to his family. When his turn came, Namroof asked him who is your lord? You mean Allah, Prophet Ibrahim, Allah SWT. My lord is the one who gives life and death. I give life and death. I am your lord. He calls two people. One is already sentenced to death. He says you are free. I have given you life. And then he calls when he is supposed to be set free. He calls him and he says, execute him right now and they execute him. Ibrahim, Allah SWT, the Prophet and the pious people don't argue. Don't get into arguments with the people. Ibrahim, Allah SWT changes the topic. Ibrahim, Allah SWT says, My lord is the one who takes the sun out from the east and makes it set in the west. And when Ibrahim, Allah SWT said this, it confounded him. It made him speechless and in shock would not say anything out of his anger he threw Prophet Ibrahim, Allah SWT out of the palace. Ibrahim, Allah SWT says, I cannot go empty handed to my starving family. He fills up dirt in his bags and goes to his house exhausted, falls asleep, wakes up with the aroma, smelling of a very delicious food and bread. He wakes up, his wife Sarah, presents him bread and food. He asks, where did you get this from? He says, what are you talking about? You are the one who bought this, the finest grain I had ever seen in my life from the bags you brought. Allah SWT miraculously changed the dirt into grain. While this conversation is going on, this is the might and power of Allah SWT respected listeners. Allah SWT sends a mosquito into the nostril of Namru who goes into his nostril and bites him in excruciating pain he hits his head against the walls of his palace. Allah gives him time but his arrogance and power took the better of him and he dies in that condition. Allah has given us this very big sign in our times, respected listeners. Allah is telling us to become, to recognize him, to recognize his presence, to have faith. Allah is in charge. Allah is in control of everything. Coronavirus respected listeners. Coronavirus doesn't give death. Heart attacks don't give death respected listeners. Of course, we take all the precautions. If Coronavirus gives death, then where did you eat and eat and meet go? Where did the one who gives life, the one who gives death go? People with heart attacks survive. People with Coronavirus survive. This shows that death, walla yakhir allahu nafsani idha ajaluhah. Allah says when that moment comes, when that moment comes, when that second comes of you living the world, nobody can delay that second. The death comes with the Amr of Allah, respected listeners. Yes, heart attack becomes the means for a person to die. Coronavirus becomes the means for a person to die. But the death is in the hands of Allah, one of my friends, Dr. Sohail yesterday evening, fine, hardly 50 years old, no issues, no complaints, no problems. He had pain in his leg. He went to see a therapist yesterday evening at Muhrib time. Then he said, I have to go to the bathroom and not feeling well. I have to go to the bathroom. He went to the bathroom, did not open the door. After some time, they knocked on the door. They had to force open the door and they saw him dead lying on the ground. His janazah is in an hour with the Livermore Symmetry. Death is in the hands of Allah, respected listeners. This yakhir may Allah bless his soul. He was a very pious person. You can count on the fingers, people you know of good akhlaq in this world. silman qata'a wa'fu amman zalamak wa'ahsinu ila man asa'a ilayk people who do good to others, even though who do bad to them. People who join ties with those who break away ties with them. People who forgive those who run just to them. He was one of those. You will not miss his Salah. You will meet everyone with good akhlaq who would help others out of need, and this way he would help them. But Allah took his soul away because our souls we have come from Allah we are returning back to Allah and this is the yakeen we have to constantly put in our hearts respected listeners. this is the time respected listeners all of us need to get closer to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has sent a major sign to all of us via this coronavirus. The signs cannot get more major than this for us in our lifetime respected listeners. Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam Meenah haditha fuqsi the report of Imam Bukhari Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says I declare war on a person who shows enmity to my friend. And then Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said a person gets closer to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala a person gets nearer to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala when he performs the farayah when he or she do not miss the fardh salah, they do not miss the Ramadan fasting, they do not skip the payment of the zakah, the only two and a half person Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is telling us to spend out of our savings at the end of the year whenever you want to calculate there is all Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wants us to do and perform Hajj if you can afford when you do this Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said you attain the nearness to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and then if you want to attain more nearness to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and then when you perform the extra non obligatory prayers non obligatory acts of worship then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala starts loving you said Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam you not only become more closer and nearer to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala loves you and then and then what happen if you love him you will hear him and see him and then when Allah loves you Allah becomes your years with which you hear Allah becomes your eyes with which you see Allah becomes your hands with which you strike Allah becomes your feet with which you walk and then if you ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Allah will grant it to you and if you ask protection from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Allah will give you that protection three things respected listeners to get closer to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala not miss no matter what our salat respected listeners not miss our fasting not miss our zakah not miss our hajj if you can afford to do hajj and then increase our prayers increase our non obligatory prayers rabiya razi allahu ta'ala young sahabi and from the Ansar comes to Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam he stands every night outside his house carrying the water pray is tahajjud sallam Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam ask me something I will make dua for you what do you want to ask rabiya razi allahu says o prophet of Allah make dua pray o prophet of Allah that I have your company if you want my company in paradise increase your prostrations increase your suju the non obligatory acts we increase that respected listeners we increase that to attain the closeness of Allah and then Allah becomes our eyes if Allah becomes our eyes how can we commit a sin with our eyes commit our sins with our hands if Allah becomes our hands how can we walk to places which displease Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala he becomes our feed respected listeners Allah says I will protect you you come under my protection I will forgive your sins we make dua to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make us among those when my heart says I should read at least one page of Quran right now we should read one page of Quran when you do that one of the names of Allah Allah will make us move ahead more closer to him more nearer to him more nearer to him respected listeners many thought of good deed comes from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala we should do that if he postpones it, shaitan tells us always to postpone he doesn't tell us not to do it he tells us to postpone we should try to do it immediately and gain that nearness to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala