 We praise Allah, Subhanahu wa ta'ala, peace and blessings upon His noble and most beloved and final messenger, Muhammad ﷺ and we seek refuge in Allah, Subhanahu wa ta'ala, from the evil of our own actions and from the evil that exists in this world and we ask Allah, Subhanahu wa ta'ala, to make this from amongst the people who follow and fulfill the sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. One day the Sahaba were sitting with the messenger of Allah, and in the famous hadith narrated by Umar and one of the first hadith that we learned when we opened up the books of hadith that a man came and it was Jibril ﷺ and he asked the Prophet ﷺ four questions about Islam, what is Islam and he gave them answers and what is Iman and he told him what Iman was and what is Ihsan, what is the perfection of that faith and then he said what are the signs of the end of times? So there were four questions, four areas that make up our deen and later the Prophet ﷺ told Umar, he asked him, he said do you know who this was? He said Allah ﷺ and his messenger know better. He said this was Jibril ﷺ and he came to teach you your deen. So we know from this very foundational hadith that our deen is made up from these four areas, understanding what our faith is, Iman and what the practice of our faith is, Islam and what is the perfection of our faith Ihsan and then also understanding the context of the times that we live in, understanding where we are in the world and where we are in time. So when we look around our current events we can't just focus on Ibadah on our worship and forget that we live within the context of a world, of a nation, of communities and we work towards addressing those things and during this week and the last week and during these weeks of voting many Muslims exercised their rights to vote and chose to speak up, some didn't choose not to, whatever choice was made many of us were thinking about the state of the nation, the state of the world and how we as individuals what can we do to affect a change, to affect positive change, to make some positive change and in reflecting on this I remember the hadith of the Prophet ﷺ, another very famous hadith but sometimes we don't understand exactly what he was talking about. Why? Because one of the things that the Prophet ﷺ was given and it's one of his miracles that Allah only gave him, they're called Jawa Amir al-Kalim, comprehensive speech. In other words and he told the Sahaba this, he said I was given preference over all of the prophets, all of the other prophets, 124,000 or 125,000 according to the various hadith narrations. There were things that only he was given, no one else was given so that Allah could show not only all of humanity but all of the prophets this is my chosen one, this is the most noble of amongst you. You or prophets are the most noble amongst Benny Adam, the children of Adam but you or Muhammad are the most noble and cherished and beloved to me amongst all of the prophets. These are the khasa'is and during this month of Rabi'at Awad that's something that the Muslims traditionally have focused on studying, what studying his seerah, his biography, his sunnah and what he did and what he said, what he commanded, what he prohibited, his shama'in, how he looked, how he acted, how he spoke and his khasa'is, the things that were very specific to him so these are the things that we should work towards becoming more and more familiar off with. What are his descriptions and what are the things that only he was given, he was given later to Isra'a. No other prophet was allowed, no other creation, even Jibril said you have to go by yourself. No one else was given this. One of the things that he was given is very comprehensive speech. So when we read something or when we hear a hadith and it might just be a few words but we have to realize that these words have a magnitude of meaning, deep meaning. So in one famous hadith he said and what does this mean? What does ad-deen al nasiha mean? Sometimes it's translated as religion is giving good advice, nasiha. Commonly now Arabs will say nasiha means advice but it has a much deeper meaning. The Sahaba wanted to grasp some of this ad-deen. He said, who do we give this nasiha? He said, advice. He said to Allah and his book and his messenger and to the leaders of the Muslims and to the general population of the Muslims. So we shouldn't translate it exactly as nasiha or advice because this word nasiha has an ocean of meanings. So much so just to show you this one hadith ad-deen al nasiha. Religion is, our deen is nasiha. There's a book by Sili Ahmed Zahruf, a complete book just on this one hadith to explain this hadith. What does it mean? And on that book Ibn Nuzukri wrote almost a 1,000 page commentary on that one hadith. The doctors are scratching the surface. So imagine that this one hadith that a book is written on it and a commentary to expand on it. That's the depth and the magnitude of the hadith of the Messenger of Allah SAW. So let's not take it lightly when we look at a collection even something as seemingly simple, as seemingly simple as the 40 hadith of the Imam of Novi. He collected those hadith to show 40 hadith that explain all of Islam, the entirety of religion. And so in this hadith the Prophet SAW is reminding us, he's saying have nasiha which its definition is being sincere and being just and being fair and doing what's good for that person. If you do something good for a person even if that person is rude to you or mean to you or took your right but you have a chance to give that person their right and treat them fairly and treat them justly. One of the descriptions that can be said about that is nasahtubu. You have given him nasiha. You have been sincere in your interaction with that person and with the leaders of the Muslims and also with the Jew. So one of the things when we exercise our right to remind people, right to vote for our leaders and try to guide them, give feedback and give our opinions, we're exercising our right and fulfilling our duty as Muslims to do nasiha. We're the leaders but the hadith goes on to say wa'ama to him and the general Muslims. That's where I remind myself, I begin by reminding myself and others that if we are to fulfill our duty as Muslims of nasiha then it's not just to the general public, it's not just to the leaders. We exercise that at the time but now that that's done now we focus on the other aspects of giving nasiha. When the Rasul, alaihi salam, from the best medium of Allah said, are we really fulfilling the rights of being just with Allah? Are we fulfilling the rights of the Qur'an upon us? Are we reading it? Are we reflecting on it? Are we implementing it? Are we fulfilling the rights of the Messenger of Allah? Especially during this month of Muhammad, we know that he was born in this month, passed away in this month and he made his hijrah in this month. Are we taking time to reflect on who he was and what he means to us? And in whatever way, in whatever capacity are we following him? And we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for the showcase, for the success to be able to follow him, to follow this. We begin in the name of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala with a peace and blessings upon the noble and final Messenger of Allah, alhamdul sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, and I enjoy you and I enjoy myself to have taqwa Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and to make sure that we have, remind myself and remind myself and remind me to say he said to Allah and to speak to this Messenger, and to the leaders and to the general public of the Muslims. Meaning, we start with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, we start with his book, we start with his Messenger and then everybody else comes after that. And we have to remember that so that we don't over focus in one area of our lives. It's not just our career, it's not just our education, it's not just our family. But we don't neglect our family and focus on our careers. And we don't neglect our careers and focus just on other aspects of our life. We have to have this balance. One time the companions of Isa al-Islam asked him a question. He mentioned, he said that the rules of all diseases of our heart is for the love of this world. They said, why? He said, because it leads to arrogance and showing off. So then they said, well what if he has dunya and he doesn't have those aspects? He's not arrogant with his money and his wealth and everything he accumulates, he or she. He's not arrogant and he's not showing off. He said, then. Taking care of that wealth will cause him to forget the dhikr of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. To forget the dhikr of Allah. So we have to remember our priorities. Yes, we have to support ourselves and our families and our communities. But how much of our careers and our projects are taking us away from the dhikr of Allah. We are here today showing our responding to the call of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to show up for Juma'at. Even in the midst of the pandemic, the Muslims wanted to get back to the Masajid and Alhamdulillah they're starting to open up little by little and hopefully soon we'll be able to get back into the Masjid. But for this time being, what brought each and every one of you here was responding to the call of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Allah says when the call is made for Juma'at, then go fast. Travel to the dhikr of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. To remember Him. And that's what you're doing even in your silence, even in your sitting, you're doing dhikr of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Because by fulfilling the commands of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, that is a form of dhikr. Umar, radiallahu anhu, said that the greatest form of dhikr is remembering Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala at His commands and at His prohibitions. Every time you think to yourself, that's haram, I can't do it. That's far that I have to do it. That is a form of dhikr of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So Allah tells us to come to this dhikr. But you thought we'll be at the Salat? Then what happened? When the Salat is over, when the prayer is over, then go out in the world and seek the bounty of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So that's the balance that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is finding us of. Yes, we start with that, but we also have to live our lives. So then we go out and we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to give us the tawfiq and the success, to be able to bring that balance into our lives. And that when we go out in the dunya, when we go out into our careers, our educations, our family, our communities, our projects, our self, our own personal interests and hobbies, that we remember Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and that we bring the dhikr of Allah and we bring the nasiha to His Book and to His Messenger into our lives and into our works. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for the tawfiq, for that, for the success, and we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to bring ease to the pain and suffering that so many Muslims and so many human beings around the world are experiencing. Ya Allah. Huzoor, Alayna, Ahmetik. O Allah, send down upon us your mercy, your mercy in as many forms as your mercy in the form of rain. Ya Allah. O Allah, forgive all of us who have transgressed against your limits, Ya Allah. Ya Allah, bring shefa, bring healing to those of us who are sick. Ya Allah, bring mercy and rahma to those of us who have passed away. And Ya Allah, give us the tawfiq to fulfill whatever it is that you want for us to do in this dunya and make our place in the akhira a beautiful place and bring us together with the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, and peace be upon him, and I seek refuge from Allah from the accursed and the ungrateful of the Muslims. Peace be upon him.