 For most of us who have, who are praying Taraweeh, we're on the 19th bar in that bar we have Surah Namaal. And in Surah Namaal is a very fascinating, very compelling story of Sulaiman A.S. And the story of the ants and many of us are familiar with it. And the purpose of these stories as Allah SWT says in Surah Al-Hood And each of these stories, and grammatically this verse is meant to say that every single one of these stories and there's a purpose for why every single story has been mentioned in the Quran. And each of these stories that we have narrated to you, just to the Prophet SAW That we have narrated these stories in order that we may strengthen your heart. We may solidify your heart. We may grant firmness to your heart. So there are lessons that we can implement in our day to day lives. Now, Sulaiman A.S. is coming with his army. And they come on a valley of ants. Now, Allah SWT had granted Sulaiman A.S. the power of street. And they came on a valley of ants. And they came on a valley of ants. And Allah SWT had granted Sulaiman A.S. the power of speaking to birds. Of subjugating the mountains and the winds to Sulaiman A.S. And Allah SWT has a very interesting genealogist in Islam. Fareed Bin-A'addad, who is this poet that actually inspires Rumi in 12th century Iran, writes an entire Sufi treaty called Mantiqat-Tay. And so this incident has, and then Mirza Ghalib in India ends up actually recreating the story of Manta Qatir in Persian first, which is a digress. But, so the ants say, So this ant tells another ant, tells the entire colony of ants that move away, unless that Suleimanah A.S. will trample you with his army and his horses, and they won't know. Now because Allah SWT had granted the power of the wind and speaking to animals, to Suleimanah A.S. he heard this. The Suleimanah A.S. he smiled in the state of amusement because he heard the ants. And what is the first thing that he said? Not right, thank you O Allah. The O' Allah, give me the power, give me the Taufiq of thanking you. Rumi has this beautiful couplet. O Allah, grant me, not adab, but grant me the Taufiq of doing adab to you. Because the bay adab, man, the person who is bay adab, who doesn't have adab, he is mahrum as fazlirah. He is deprived of the fazl of Allah SWT. Right, they have to say in Urdu, bay adab, bay nasib, bay adab, bay nasib, and bad adab, bad nasib. The someone who has adab, he has good nasib. Someone who has no adab, he has no nasib. But someone who has terrible adab, he has terrible nasib. So it's better that you have no adab than you have bad adab. And so the purpose of this is to highlight the Suleimanah A.S. statement. In fact, his conceptual greatfulness to Allah SWT. That our religion is a religion of speech. There is so much emphasis placed on speech in Islam. And this is something that when Europe came into India, they didn't understand that probably we're all illiterate. Right? And in Surah Anfal, Allah SWT says, That those people who follow the unlettered Prophet, the unlettered Prophet, he couldn't read. They're right. Not write down, recite. Because there is so much power in how much we speak. Ya ayuhalladheena amanat taqallaha wa quluqaulah sadida. That oh, you have taqwa, say things that are straight. Teeqiba, say things that are just straight. So not the mustaqeen. Right? And this is something that, which is why there is so much emphasis that the Quran wasn't written down and told after the Prophet passed away that there is so much, there is so much power in the way that we speak in this materialist, Eurocentric world that we live in, we don't really understand the implications of how much we speak. Right? We have the first amendment, the free speech, and it's as long as it's not harassment or hate speech, all of that is fine. But that's not how it works in Islam. We have an entirely different, al-nibunyad. We have an entirely different conception of knowledge in Islam that the way we speak. And remind the believers, because barely in your speech, there is this metaphysical element, there is this divine element in your speech and your capacity as a human. That barely Allah has created Adam in his own image. And one of those elements is the way that we speak. Allah SWT is Kaleem. Allah has this prophecy couplet. This work is not the work of a doctor, but it's the work of Kaleem and Musa A.S. Right? You didn't send a letter. He spoke. And that speech is also embedded in all of our lives and all of our souls in Alem Al-Wah. That this was implemented within us. And it's really, it's incredibly important. It's so easy for us to say things that we don't even realize that Rasulullah A.S. has a hadith. How often does it happen that a person, a Muslim, he says something and it drops him in the pits of hell? And then how, and Rasulullah A.S. has another hadith where he says that three things will take a person to hellfire. One of those things, Qaida Faal, he said, she said. That we forward a message, right? We forward a meme. We, we just say something. Yeah, I heard someone say, I saw you share a Facebook post. That it has metaphysical elements within our community that we don't understand. That this materialist world doesn't understand, doesn't engage. But this is something that has been very profound and very entrenched in our tradition from the Prophet, to Rumi, to Al-Faal, to Mirza Khalil. And, and it's incredibly important as we go through Ramadan that we remember this step. More important than many of our physical ritualistic deeds is that we aware, that we're aware, we're cognizant of what we say. I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. Come to peace. Come to peace. Come to success. Allah is the greatest, Allah is the greatest. There is no god but Allah. Allah is the greatest, Allah is the greatest. There is no nation after his nation, no book after his book, no law after his law, no companion after his companion, or whatever. Allah has said, may Allah bless and bless you, in the Holy Qur'an, and in the Holy Qur'an, after the coming of Allah, from the Holy Shaitan, in the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. O people, may your Lord be with you, that the Zalzah is a great thing. And Allah has said, in another place, And all of us have been told by the Prophets, that we will not be able to bear your burden. And you have come to this right, a promise and a reminder to the believers. And Allah has said, in another place, O you who have believed in Allah, and say a wise word, He will make you good deeds, and He will give you your children. And those who obey Allah and His Messenger, have already achieved great success. And the Prophet, may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, said, If my son, Adem, was from Zahab, I would like him to be a Wadiyaan for him. And the Prophet, may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, said, in another place, He was very keen on saying and saying, Allah has honoured the great, and His Messenger, the Noble Prophet. And we are among the viewers and the viewers. And praise be to Allah, Lord of all the worlds. And praise be to Allah, we worship Him, we worship Him, we worship Him, and we believe in Him, and we trust in Him. And we seek refuge in Allah from our sins, and from the evil deeds of our deeds. Who guides him, Allah, does not misguide him. And who makes him misguide him, does not guide him. And we bear witness that there is no god but Allah, He is alone and has no partner. And we bear witness that our master, and our master, Muhammad, his servant and his Messenger sent him with the right, the good, and the warning between his hands. Who guides him, Allah and His Messenger, has already achieved great success. And who guides him, Allah and His Messenger, has already achieved great success. Allah is the forgiveness of the believers, and the believers, and the Muslims,