 Assalamu alaikum, Bismillahirrahmanirrahim, Asalaamu alaikum, Asalaamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa rahmatullahi wa sahbih, Just a few words insha'Allah to Allah and then we'll pray it for a week insha'Allah to Allah. Just being in prayer and being filled with incredible gratitude to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala for being in the Masjid, the Masajid, or the most beloved places to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala to be with the company of the righteous, many of my teachers, many of my beloved ones. This is a tremendous ni'mah and sometimes we don't stop and think about these ni'mah. Allah SWT tells us in the Qur'an that if you were to even try to enumerate the blessing of Allah SWT, one blessing of Allah SWT, you would not be able to do so. And above that, I mean, we're listening to the beautiful recitation of Qari Amr, may Allah SWT preserve him, the story of Musa A.S. and it reminded me of something I read in a book called The Lives of Man by Imam Abdullah ibn Ali al-Haddad, Rahim Allah SWT, in which he said that, he said on the authority of Ibn Abbas, may Allah SWT, he said the Prophet Muhammad SAW, he once came to a group of Sahaba and he said to them, what do you say about this ayah? That you were not at the side of Mount Sinai when we called out and the Sahaba said, Allah SWT, Allah in his messenger, no best. And then the Prophet SAW, he said, this was when Allah SWT, he revealed the alwah, the tablets to Musa A.S. and he described the Ummah of the Prophet Muhammad SAW in the alwah and Musa A.S. was so absolutely mesmerized by what he was reading that he requested to Allah SWT, oh Allah, make this my Ummah, make the Ummah of Ahmad SAW my Ummah and Allah SWT said to him, no, your Ummah is many Israel and then Allah SWT continued to describe the virtues of this Ummah in the scripture of Ahlul Kitab and there are many, many descriptions of the Prophet Muhammad SAW to this day in their books and Musa A.S. he was so smitten by what he was reading and at one point according to the Hadith, Musa A.S. said to Allah SWT, oh Allah, make me a man of that Ummah just a believer, a Muslim in the Ummah of Ahmad SAW Musa A.S. wanted to become just one of us we were the envy, good envy, this is a good envy we were the envy of prophets this is the ni'mah that Allah SWT has given us and then Allah SWT said to Musa A.S. he said, no, your Ummah is many Israel but you can hear their voice if you wish you can hear the voice of this great Ummah and Musa A.S. he said, I wish to hear their voice and then Allah SWT said, oh Ummah of Ahmad, in all of us, all of us, we said, Allah bake, Allah bake at your service and Allah SWT said, praise me and we said, Subhanallah and Allah SWT said, give me praise and we said, Alhamdulillah, La ilaha illa Allah and Musa A.S. heard our praise, heard our tasbih and our tahmeed and our tahleed he heard us say, Subhanallah and Alhamdulillah, La ilaha illa Allah and the Prophet SAW said, this is the meaning that you are not at the side of Sinai when we called out, when we called out to the Ummah of the Prophet SAW and Musa A.S. heard our voice this is a tremendous ni'mah we have to think about these things may Allah SWT increase us in this beautiful virtue, it's called a theological virtue Imam Al Ghazali and Rahim Allah Ta'ala he enumerates 19 theological virtues and towards the top of the list is Shukr gratitude to Allah SWT this is the epitome of the Akhlaq Nabawiyah the Prophet SAW when he is praying all night long and his feet were swollen red or his heels were cracking and his beloved wife, our mother Aisha she said, why do you do this Allah SWT has forgiven your past and future transgressions and the transgression of a prophet is completely different than our transgression a transgression of a prophet is leaving his master virtue but he's always virtuous what was his response what was his response shall I not be a grateful servant shall I not be a grateful servant he was Shakurah which is different than the Shakir the Shakir is the one who praises Allah in times of prosperity but the Shakur is the one who continues to praise Allah SWT whether in prosperity or in times of deprivation Allah SWT because he knows, he has the wisdom that Allah SWT if someone is asking Allah SWT for something and he doesn't get it the wise person knows that Allah SWT is insha'Allah he is taking something possibly dangerous or harmful away from me I don't deserve this thing, it's not good for me and he continues to praise Allah SWT this takes spiritual majority Allah SWT increases in Shakur to him peace be upon you