 السلام عليكم رحمة الله وبركاته وعلى صادر بلطة والتباقية وليس لأ شعور شخص وشخص ومواصله بسم الله ورحمة الله وصلاة وسلام على رسول الله وعلى آله وارصحة بيجمايم we graze the Almighty we send blessings and salutations upon all those who were sent from the beginning all the way to us to guide us to remove us from the darkness to the light his highness شخص سعيد بن تحنون أو، أن трغماتですote here the leaders of all the fates my brothers my sisters of all fates and all denominations or here this evening it is really an hon Gente to be speaking about the interfaith happiness and I think it's important for us to understand that our entire life is a search for happiness within this world and the next and in that نحن سنكون only able to cover one or two aspects every time we spoke about happiness. So this evening, I have chosen to speak about one aspect of happiness because it is relevant to every one of us. I see my brothers and sisters of so many different faiths and I'm really happy because it gives us a great opportunity to extend the hand of warmth وراء الناس وراء كل شيء أخرى. أريد أن أرى لك بعض الأسئلة من القرآن والأسئلة من المساعدة من محمد محمد بيس بي أبنى. أبدأ بشيء جميل جداً where the Prophet Muhammad بيس بي أبنى has taught us something amazing. خير الناس أنفعوهم للناس which means the best of people are those who are actually the most beneficial to the rest of the people. Amazing. If you want to know how good you are you need to know how much you have benefited others. If you have not benefited others you do not stand a chance of being from among those who are the best. So if I want to be the best I need to start doing something about it I need to make sure that I benefit others as much as I can. Notice the term used does not mostly mean it is a nurse, the people those who are benefiting the rest of the people the most and we go back to ask why. The reason is we all believe we come from one root in fact even the atheist who does not have a faith believes in his own way that the root is all one right? In his own way. We who believe that we come from Adam and Hawa Adam and Eve may peace be upon them we also believe that the root is one perhaps we believe differently but either one of us believes that there is a root that would make us all part of one huge family because at the beginning we were all together and I think where we have gone wrong is when we have forgotten that because the moment you forget that you are part of one family you tend to notice or feel a distance that is not actually there but it's created because of numbers you know you have your brother you are from one mother one father then you have a son and your brothers have children and your sisters have children and their children's children they become second cousins third cousins before you know it it's too far subhanallah but if you are really a true human being who wants to understand why the Almighty has made you you need to go back to the root to always say I differ with this guy but guess what he is my brother I differ with this sister but she is my sister in humanity to begin with and this is where we will come to this narration of the Prophet Peace be upon him that speaks about the best from amongst you those who don't forget that you are all one so you need to be the best to each other and in fact means the one who benefits the other the most and now I want to mention a beautiful narration that I will cap with because I don't want to actually take up too much time but I think it's very very powerful for me you know there is a narration that states that there was a man in the desert and in the desert it was a hot day he was very thirsty so he found a well and when he went into the well he actually had to climb down because there was no bucket he drank as much as he could and he came up and this narration is not even argued it means it's absolutely authentic he came up and as he's walking away from the well he was full he was full he quenched his thirst he noticed something what did he notice? a dog فإذا كلب يأكلوا الثرى من العطش أو يلهد يأكلوا الثرى من العطش in the Arabic language it means that he suddenly saw this dog that was so thirsty it was panting and literally sniffing into the sand because of the thirst and imagine the person the man who looked at it he thought to himself this dog is as thirsty as I was before I went into the well let me go into the well and get some water for it because there's no bucket here I need to go in again for who? not for who for what? for a dog so he decided to go down again and he had nothing to take the water back up to the dog so guess what he did? he took his shoe imagine look at your shoe my shoe I have gloves by the way I don't think I want them to get wet you know so he had this leather sock of his the type of shoe they used to wear he took it off he filled it with water imagine to come back not a human being but a dog and he quenched the thirst of a dog you and I know if there was a dog around I think we would actually walk the other direction right? in a lot of cases right? so he actually made the effort he took it he brought the dog back closer to him he made the dog drink and the Almighty was watching the Almighty says I love this deed of compassion so much that I have forgiven this man for him is paradise wow this is the statement of Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم and I want to raise for you something amazing why was there a dog and not anything else? have you ever asked yourself that question from amongst you the Muslims would know probably this narration but I'm going to take it from a different angle why a dog? because if there was anything besides a dog perhaps the intention of that man could have been questioned because there is a dog the intention is not questioned nobody's ever questioned the intention it was compassion for the sake of the Almighty imagine if there was a beautiful peacock you know you see the bird wow and you come up ew lovely bird let me come up with the water for this bird intention is messed imagine you saw a lovely woman wow ew let me impress her by getting water for her and I'll get her both of my leather socks and tell her here is your water but the Almighty not knew that if there is a dog the man's intention is absolutely clean and superb I want to ask you my brothers and sisters a question and that is if this man achieved paradise and forgiveness by showing compassion to a dog what do you think one would achieve if he were to show compassion towards a human being who differs from you you have someone belonging to a different faith someone belonging to whatever they do someone thinking in a totally different way trust me they are not just humans they are part of your broader family to reach out to them not just with water but with anything else and this is why the Qur'an says وَمَنْ أَحْيَا هَا فَكَأَنَّ مَا أَحْيَنَّا سَجَمِيعًا whoever saves a single life is equivalent to the one who has saved entire humanity the term Muslim is not mentioned the term in fact the term used is a nafs someone who has saved a life that which is living because you have contributed towards preserving and protecting humanity so that was the message that I have for myself and yourselves a reminder to say we all come from one root the fact that we differ in faith and inclination etc should never lead us to utter hurtful hateful words because the beginning of violence is a hurtful word a hateful word it downgrades and it becomes such that people start attacking each other so I would like to protect myself from words that are filled with hurt and hate so that I can preserve the goodness of the Almighty at the end of the day remember your life and mine is approximately 70 years perhaps a little bit more in some cases and a little bit less in some why do I need to take that life away before that may the Almighty grant us a deep understanding may we learn to respect one another like I said if we have another opportunity perhaps sometime we may discuss another aspect of the care that we should be having for one another in order to achieve happiness without caring for one another we will not be able to taste the sweetness of the happiness that we are searching for from the beginning and we are looking for it I pray that the Almighty granted to us not just today but every day and not just for ourselves but may he allow us to light the candles of the rest so that we can all live in peace and we can see the growth of our generations in a happy way