 Welcome, we are all lucky to be here. Alhamdulillah, I would like to ask everyone to make your way forward. Grab a seat. Welcome. Alhamdulillah, it's an honor to be here. We will commence inshallah with a recitation of Quran from our boulder and our pillar, our constant teacher for decades in this community. Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah, I definitely do not stand out in the bay area. Alhamdulillah, but the love is mutual between all of us inshallah. And it's really an honor to be here in your company. It's an honor to be here in the company of our blessed guests. May Allah bless them. Keep them safe, give them tawfiq, barakah, khlas, and safety in their travels and their teaching through their inshallah. Alhamdulillah, I just as some points of reflection for myself inshallah that wanted to share that inshallah through these gatherings when we hear the remembrance of Allah, the remembrance of the Prophet, that we should inculcate in our hearts a deep desire to return to Allah in all of our affairs and that to keep Allah first and foremost in all of our affairs and that our consciousness should be directed to Allah swt first and foremost in all of our affairs that one of the third century masters of Baghdad, Amr ibn Uthman al-Maki, Rahimah Allah, he says, at thalaatatun min aalamatil awliya. He says there are three things that are from the signs of the people that Allah loves, arruju'u ila Allahi fi kulli shayt, to return to Allah swt in every circumstance. Walfaqru ila Allahi fi kulli shayt and to be indigent in need of Allah swt in every circumstance. Walfaqru ila Allahi fi kulli shayt and to be confident and have a good opinion in Allah swt in every single circumstance and so that if we realize these realities of turning to Allah in a state of need and a state of trust and confidence in Him and inshallah we'll start to witness His Lordship we'll start to witness Allah swt's Lordship which is one of the blessings even of trials and difficulties that we face in our lives there are opportunities to see Allah's power to see Allah's Lordship and we do not ask for difficulties but we realize during those difficulties that Allah ta'ala is our Rab and we are the abd and that one of our masters says he says that your slavehood to Allah is to actually witness His Lordship that our slavehood to Allah swt is to witness His Lordship not just to realize it but to see the magnitude and the power of Allah swt and that this inshallah is a way for us to approximate ikhlas we can approximate sincerity to Allah swt through realizing His Lordship in all of our life circumstances and that if we can become people of ikhlas and we can continue to cultivate that ikhlas inshallah day in and day out then we might fall under the category of those people that are of perpetual ikhlas and in that light one of the tabi'een Makhoor Rahim Allah he says he says that no servant is sincere genuine with Allah swt realizing Allah's Lordship for 40 days straight except that wisdom springs of wisdom will gush forth from his heart upon his tongue except springs of wisdom will gush forth from his heart upon his tongue and then when that happens the person becomes a person of zikr and then when they become a person of zikr then they've been granted the proclamation of sainthood as Abu Ali Adhaq says he says remembrance of Allah swt is the proclamation that Allah loves you whoever is granted tawfiq to make remembrance of Allah swt then they've been granted the proclamation asserting that they are friends of Allah swt but whoever a zikr is removed from then they have been demoted and removed from that station and so that people to be people of zikr of Allah swt and this is on that light or Prophet ta'ala in the hadith khutzi that Allah himself says that I am in the opinion of my servant of me and I am with him when he makes remembrance of me I am with him when he makes remembrance of me and there are some people in this community that they make zikr just for this ma'iyah they make remembrance of Allah swt just to have the witness of Allah swt and that this is the illumination that is in their hearts this is illumination in their hearts and that as we become people of zikr of Allah swt then the light will grow in our hearts and this is something that we live in a time that does not know light we live in a time that all it knows is the material element of the world and it does not realize the spiritual reality of human beings but if we can become people of remembrance of Allah swt returning to him in all of our circumstances then we will start to reflect something of light that not only for ourselves but others can see it says there is never a light in the heart except that with that light is a mercy from Allah swt commensurate to that light so so long as a servant is making remembrance of Allah swt then mercy is descending upon that servant like rain but when he is unaware of Allah swt then he is in a state of a drought when he is unaware and heedless of Allah swt then he is in a real drought and so these types of gatherings that we can experience the remembrance of Allah swt the group zikr especially when there is a powerful angelic presence inshallah we should make a deep intention to leave these gatherings as people of remembrance of Allah swt and as people of this illumination and as people of this ikhlas and as people of this this turning to Allah in every circumstance and so inshallah we ask Allah to accept from us action Dearest brothers, dear sisters Salamalikum warahmatullah itz circulating We are very honoured, proud to be with you this night in this sacred place, this divine home. And to share with you some remembrance of Allah SWT and some prayers on the Prophet SAW. We came from Morocco, but we found that we are at home. It's not strange for us, but we are found in some brothers, some sisters. Finally, we are at home. Alhamdulillah. This night we will share with you this performance about Moroccan Samah and Madih, Madih and Nabawi. We will choose some poetry from our poets. Imam Al-Busiri, may Allah be pleased with him. Sayyidi Abu Al-Hassan Al-Shushari, Sayyidi Omar Al-Farid, Sayyidi Muhammad Al-Haraq, Sayyidi Abu Median Al-Ghaud to summarize some illustrious poets, Muslims poets, Sufi poets, which the impact is very, very deep. The words will not have the same impact because the word is in Arabic. But I am sure that the sense and the essence will be... Normally we start with Al-Qur'an and we continue with As-Sama'a and Madih. Two words just to make a difference between As-Sama'a and Al-Madih. Al-Madih, as the sense is clear, this is all the Madih, the practice of the Prophet SAW. All the things linked to the person of the Prophet SAW. But as-Sama'a is another thing. All the subject is about the loving of God, subhanahu wa ta'ala. The loving of between people, the loving of our Mashayikh and also all the personality of our history. Insha'Allah we will take a small part of all this to share with you insha'Allah this night. Barak Al-Lawfiq. Thank you for visiting us and exposing us to this beauty. And thank you everyone for coming today. And thank you to the volunteers. Thank you for those who prepared the food. It was all homemade and home cooked. So may Allah reward all of you who volunteered in every way. Amin, may we internalize these meanings. May these meanings penetrate our souls and our tongues and our actions and our minds and our hearts and our relationships. All these meanings. Amin, Amin, Amin. We thank you everyone. Keep MCC in your dua and your support and your love. Mash'Allah it's an excellent, amazing, beautiful organization. Insha'Allah it's an excellent organization. Peace be upon you.