 Bismillahirrahmanirrahim in the name of God the compassionate the merciful there's a story in the book of Maulana Rumi one of the america's favorite poet who is an austric muslim saint he mentions a story about a a prayer man a man who used to always pray he says this man used to call upon God all the time he would call upon God in the morning in the evening when he was sick when he was happy when he was prosperous every occasion he would call upon God to the degree that his mouth would always be moist and sweet from the remembrance of God so what happened one day gov shaitan so satan comes to him one day and he says oh aren't you the prayer man who call upon God all the time i've heard you call upon him millions of time have you ever heard an answer from him what is wrong with you you call upon him when you're sick i've seen you call upon him in the middle of the night you call upon him when you're happy you call upon him when you're tired exhausted from work what is wrong with you i'm telling you he will not answer you god is sitting in the seven heaven on his throne you think he has time for you to answer your call ruby says satan broke the man's heart and he's good at that that is his area of expertise he breaks people's hearts he said the man stopped calling upon God time passes by when he falls asleep and he hears the voice of God in his dream and he says gov he naziq chun wan wan dayi chun chun poshaimani azan kish khan dayi he said what happened weren't you the man who's the remember us all the time do you regret calling upon us why did you stop calling gov labbe kam nimi aya javab zan hamitarsam kibosham raddabab he said you never answered me i never heard an answer i called you millions of time not even one time you could have answered me i'm afraid i'm amongst the rejected one and you don't care about me and then god responds he says gov on allah had to let bake a most he said you're calling was the answer you're calling that was the answer one the also that the susan bake a most and remember those times you used to call upon us when you were sick with that trembling voice that was the melody of the seven heavens all of the angels used to gather to listen to your calling he lehaw chaw rasaw zihai to jaz bama buddha gushat on pa'i to remember those times used to sin and disobey us and then used to come up with an excuse to say oh god forgive me who do you think put that excuse in your heart it was us we put the excuse in your heart because of your calling tarso ishle to kamaan the leth famaas zihra had yaw raddabab to la bake haas i swear to you on my dignity or my servant that when you your fear when you had fear we put that in your heart so you don't disobey us when you loved us and you did all this amazing thing we put that in your heart and i swear to you every time you call for every single call of yours i had a million answers hidden inside of that call satan was telling him that you have called him a million times you haven't answered you god is telling him for every calling i had a million answers for you this is how god works this is how god works our job is to pray we shouldn't occupy ourselves whether he hears it or not because god hears even the most subtlest of the sound we pray we end with a prayer in the name of god the compassionate the merciful dear lord we ask you to give us hearts that are filled with your light in compassion towards your creation we ask you to give us eyes that can see the beauty in your creation we ask you to give us tongue that speaks that which is beautiful or remains in silence we ask you to give us ears that listens to the truth we ask you to give us hands that helps those who are fallen we ask you to make us beacons of light and we become guides and not obstacles dear god we ask you to bring peace to the regions of this planet that are suffering with wars and destruction as our tradition states you're not a true believers until you want for your brothers and sisters in humanity what you want for yourself we ask you to give us strength to practice these ideals and at the end we ask you to remove this pandemic from every nation and make make this a means that we realize that there is no power or strength except that which comes from you and there's nothing worthy of worship except you amen