 That the Tajalli, that the Divine Manifestation of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is so powerful on this day, there would be that we prayed it individually and we wouldn't be able to take it. And that is in the reality because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in the Qur'an, when He says to our Prophet Moses, but let him that Tajalli Allahu l-Jalali, Allah ta'ala manifested himself to the mountains on a decking that it became pulverized. And this is a reality that we come to understand the true nature of reality that we are here that we've been created to understand, is that we are not just here, we are not just here in vain, that we are here for a noble and an elevated purpose and in the decisions that each and every single one of us make and every single one of our moments of our day are going to determine that what is going to happen to us, not only in this world but also what is going to happen to us ever eternally into the next world. And this is one of the greatest aspects of the human being, the abilities and those powerful aspects of the human being, the ability that we have to make decisions, is that when you're in a particular position, is that we're making decisions subconsciously all of the time all throughout our days, but it is the way of a believer to be conscious and to be aware of the decisions that we're making. And oftentimes if we're not aware of the ruse of our lower nature, the ruse of our soul and the ruse of the wasawis and the whisperings of shaitan, we might find ourselves making decisions that are not well thought through. We might find ourselves making decisions informed by other than what Allah Ta'ala has revealed to us in his book and has told us upon the tongue of our Prophet ﷺ, is that the decision making aspect of the human being is one of the most important aspects of the human being, is that if we have the ability to master this, that we have the sense to do the very best that we can in ensuring that what is going to come to us in this world and let alone in the next world is going to be great from our Lord, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And from the wonders of Allah's creation that you find, is that two people in the same household will respond to a particular situation in opposite ways. That for one person it will be a means for them to be completely cut off and rejected. And for someone else, we'll see that differently, it will be a means for them to draw near to Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. The way that we perceive, the way that we interpret every single one of us has a modus operandi, a way that we do things, a methodology, whether or not that it is according to the Sunnah of our Prophet ﷺ embedded in the understanding of the Qur'an or not, this is the big question that you want to have to ask ourselves. To what extent is each and every single decision that we make that help us in this quest and to fulfill the whole purpose that we've been sent here in was Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala's inspiration he's given us. And one of the most important concepts that relates to this is that we have to understand, is that if there's decisions that we make that are in accordance with what Allah Ta'ala has revealed to his Prophet ﷺ, is that we are sending ourselves up to attain what is called, we lie. And this should be something that we know very well, theoretically at least. We should be very well informed that there are awliya of Allah. There are people that Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala has selected. There's people that he has chosen. And we liya is kesfi. It's not like prophecy, which is wafi. Prophecy is something that is a divine gift. But we liya is something kesfi. And in reality everything that is kesfi is wafi, but that's another story. But it's kesfi in the sense that you and I, that the human beings earn it. It's something that we have to do outwardly. And as a result of that action that we do that there's a response that we receive from our Lord Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala. And this is why that we see in the Quran a willaya amma and a willaya khasa. A general sainthood in a specific sainthood. As for the general sainthood, as for the general willaya, if we will, sainthood, we'll translate that as when we talk about the willaya khasa. But this protection that we receive from our Lord Allah Ta'ala says in the Quran, Allah will lead you ladina amanu. That Allah is the wali. He is the patron. And He is the protector, al ladina amanu, of those who believe that wa ladina kafiru awliyahum yakhirijuhum in al-lurumati il-innur. What is the reality of Allah Ta'ala being our wali is that He takes him from the darknesses, the shadows into the light. Wa ladina kafiru. And that as for those who disbelieve, awliya amma ta'abut. That they're awliya. They're patrons and projectors are these ta'abut, these false deities. Which we will get to the meanings of, but it has the opposite effect. Yuhu rijumum in al-nurir al-warimat. Is that they take them from the light into all of these successive darknesses. So we see one group juxtaposed to the other group. Is that we have this first group, the wakata is the wali. And the reality of this is that what, is that the wakata will take them from the darkness into the light. And this is something that is very important for us. Not just metaphysically speaking. And all of the symbols and meanings that are underlying the various shades of understanding we have of darkness and light. But there's a reality to light. There's a reality right now here as we sit. If we're tuning our hearts in to the reality of the day of Juma. That your heart is being enlightened. That light is touching your heart. Right now as we speak if you tune in. There's a reality that as you will leave today it was stronger in hand than you would before you came. If your heart is tuned in. Every prayer that you pray it's increasing light upon your heart. That every single time that you say subhanallah, alhamdulillah wa la ilah, alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah wa la ilah. Any of the wakata suddenly have, you're increasing the light in your heart. And the light in your heart the more light that you have, the stronger you manage. Because the reality of you manage is light. There's a direct correlation between these two. And light for us is very important. But there's also darkness. And even though in a mannequin since we don't believe as duelists do in this ever struggle between darkness and light, a lot to out us called it out of a pretty shape. But there's a reality to darkness and light and there is a competition in a sense. In that as we walk out and based upon the decisions that we make in any given situation, is that we have these different tugs to these different directions. So you can be tugged in the direction of life, you can be tugged in the direction of darkness. And darkness for us is of many types. And this is why it's mentioned in the plural. We have the darkness of the wassailess of the Cheryl team. These wisp rays, the reality of the source of all evil that insinuates. And that when he places his trunk upon your heart and puts a thought in your heart that you think in that moment that you're making the right decision, that reality is nothing but wasswasa from chiffon. As if the reality of the darkness of following your hawa, the darkness of following your caprice of at these desires that come and then they go. And then if you follow a dedication to something and it might potentially be displeasing to your Lord, there's different types of darkness, the darkness of kufr, the darkness of jahad, of ignorance. And all of these other types of darkness that when you take Allah to Allah as your willee, that He will take you out of all of these darknesses and these shadows, and He will take you to the light subhanahu wa ta'ala. But all of this is still the first level of willayah. And there's other degrees that come after that because the opposite of which is what is the process of taking place without the blessing of iman because by having iman in and of itself, is that Allah ta'ala, He will be your willee. That iman is one of the greatest protecting factors that creates a fortress upon your heart. Just by saying la ilaha illallah, alhamdulillahi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And then we have in weak narrations as said, for the reality of even the most disobedient believer to be shawm, and where there are light to be unveiled, la tabbaqa ma bainas sanayum, Allah, that it would have filled up that which is between the heavens and the earth from the strength and the intensity and radiance of the light of the believer even the most disobedient believer, why? Because of the power of la ilaha illallah. Where la ilaha illallah is placed on one side of the scales and the seven heavens and the seven earths and the other side of the scale will be outweighed by la ilaha illallah. Is that la ilaha illallah is something profound. It is something deep. That it is something in and of itself that is at the very heart of who we are as believers. And that when you say that, is that there is a protection that comes over you that you receive from your Lord just from the blessing of saying that. And this is why, is that if you have an experience what it's like to not say la ilaha illallah. If you've always been in that fault just often times you don't know what the bitterness darkness of disbelief is like. It's bitter. Well, Allah to Allah tells us about this, that these people that Oman yadidina illallahou and those that He wants to be destroyed that it is as if He is halajan. It is as if that you can halajan and the way of Sa'ad is the reality of the heart is that it is narrow and constricted as if they're trying to ascend up into heaven. This narrowness and darkness that comes from rejection of the truth of la ilaha illallah. But when one says that there's a protection involved in it and then after this, Allah to Allah also tells us that not just about those who have a willaya amma a general protection from Him, Subhanahu wa ta'ala there's also a willaya khasa there's also a special protection that comes. And this is what our Lord says, Subhanahu wa ta'ala Allah in the awliya Allahi La khufun alim wa lahum yakhzanun. Indeed that the awliya of Allah that they shall not fear nor shall they grieve. They shall not fear nor shall they grieve. Meaning that what? Getting back to the decision-making process that the power of decisions is in that you are living in that particular moment. Is that you are not excessively troubled by what comes in the past nor are you excessively worried about what is coming in the future. You are living in that moment. And then to the degree that you let yourself be tangled in the past or preoccupied with the future is to the extent that you are not doing what you can do in that moment which is the most important thing of all. This is why one of the righteous said, he said that we are to see someone commit a major wrong action and they disappear behind that tree and then where I just see them a second time I would think that they were from the awliya because they might have made a toba and a repentance in that moment that were to be spread out amongst the people of the worth or they would have sufficed him. The way that our Prophet Sallalaihissim referred to the lady who had the punishment imposed upon her and he said Sallalaihissim were her toba or her repentance to be able to be dispersed amongst the people of the earth it would have sufficed them. What kind of toba is that? That is a toba of deep potency and of deep meaning and that can happen at any single moment of someone's life is that they decide in that moment to make that decision to make their life, to change their life and to do something different and to be able to take the path of awliya and one of the difficulties in this time when we talk about this awliya khasa which turns into sainthood which turns into this special protection that they receive from our Lord Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is that we're lacking examples. We're lacking examples. Is that we need examples in order for you to, you need examples in order for you to be like that and you also need environments and in the secular world in which we live it's very difficult for this to exist except in small pockets. This is the most important thing of all if you take a seed and how many beautiful analogies do we make between the world of farming and the earth that we've been given which is like our mother and between the creation of people Imam Abu Hassan al-Shadr he was asked and he didn't author a book. He said, why didn't you ever author a book? And he said, my students are my book. They are who I've authored in no greater capacity we've seen and accepted in the capacity of the Prophet ﷺ with his companions. He authored them in that sense sallallahu alayhi sallam is that he was the one to make them who they were. He was the one to train them and nurtured them then sallallahu alayhi sallam and then from the power of what they had they disseminated and the potency of the secret of this transmission is reached up till this day. This is why they said that if you see if you see a face that has been felicitous then how could you yourself not be felicitous? There's a secret in another. There's a reason why there's a secret in the actual process of seeing. Don't just think it's about it's seeing someone useful why there's a secret of transmission that is taking place. When you start with people who have sat with people who have sat with people why was it in the measures of Rasulullah ﷺ when we used to come into his measures sometimes they wouldn't even know who the Prophet was. One because of his humility but two that the radiant light that was in his face was also in the faces of the companions. And as the Arab says that your face is your salifah and is your scrolls. Is that your face is indicative to see imahum people doing metadunah sujood is that their traces, their signs are in their faces their signs are in their faces from the traces of prostration. There's a reality to this transmission and this is why the most important thing of all that we all need to be thinking about here as communities anywhere on the earth this is unrelated to the United States of America wherever Muslims are where are the environments that are going to be able to produce and to cultivate and to grow people that become aliyah of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that these are the most important people that we need to have on the face of this earth aliyah, sa'a na'kin, ulamah people that know this religion outwardly and inwardly people that are preserving the inheritance of the Prophet outwardly and preserving the inheritance of Rasulullah As-salamu alayhi wa sallam inwardly without these people Khala what is the meaning of existence? This is the most important thing of all is to have these people in traditional societies where many of you are from if you go back home to Morocco or anywhere across North Africa if you go back home to the Arabian Peninsula if you go back home to places like Turkey all through the subcontinent and the different places where Muslims have lived historically is that people know who the righteous are that people know that who are the people that they need to go to and they want someone to pray for them that this is something that was part and parcel of the tradition of what was being passed down to the next generation they used to take their children to the righteous when they were born they wanted the righteous to be in their children there's a deep blessing in this it instituted from the time of our Prophet Salaam himself but where are these environments that we're trying to create that if you take a seed and you just throw it on the concrete it's obviously not going to grow it's that you have to have the right soil and you have to put the seed a certain distance underneath the surface of the earth and then you need to cultivate it and not under water it or over water you need to take care of it and sometimes you need to place a stick in order for it to help it grow at first and so forth until eventually it bears fruit and this type of investment is the most difficult type of investment because you're not going to see true fruits except for 7 and 10 and 15 years down the line is that this community that we're all living in and many of these young people here now that are turning the Juma were not to be some of those that came before these people wouldn't be here in this message right now taking part with you it would be like most other messages where you go where 90% of people there are just 40, 50, 60 years old and over what took place in this community to allow some of these young people here that who knows what they would be doing were not to be that they met these enlightened individuals that were a catalyst for them to be able to dedicate themselves to the Lord we need to be people who are in tune and know that there are a people that are righteous there are people, there's how many hadiths of our public sites that talk about the righteous that encourage us to connect to the righteous and have a relationship with the righteous that these people are essential for us to be able to move from the willaya amna to the willaya khasa that which our Lord says to Subhanahu wa ta'ala they are those who don't have no fear nor are they those who breathe they are the people who have iman, they have faith and they are people of taqwa they are people of piety these are the willaya of Allah were there not to be some way to know then why does our Lord Subhanahu wa ta'ala tell us to be with the Sadaqeen that wakuna ma'a Sadaqeen be with the people of truth if there wasn't some way of knowing that then our Lord wouldn't command us to be with them is that we have to know who these people are we have to seek them out and that we have to be people who desire what they desire and that they then recount what they recount and tell others what they've told us because then Allah ta'ala goes on to say that that they will have glad tidings in this world and before the next in this world and in the next what is this Bushra that our Lord is telling us about Subhanahu wa ta'ala read what the commentators in the Wafasoonin say is that it's a number of things one is that the greatest sign of Allah is that there's taqw there's obedience one of the secrets of obedience is is that our Lord has given us a way for us to be able to over come our the Sunnah of our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam one of the underlying wisdoms of every single individual is the ruling of the sacred law one of the great wisdoms is is to protect you against the evil of your own caprice about which our Lord Subhanahu wa ta'ala says it can be taken as a Lord other than a God Subhanahu wa ta'ala and it also is one of the greatest ways for us to be led astray is that we have a Sharia we have a way that we can make ourselves adhere to the divine will of our Lord Subhanahu wa ta'ala this is one of the greatest aspects of this Bushra but there's many others as well everything that Allah promises in the Qur'an to them of Taqeen this is from the Bushra from is having the honor of faith from being someone who has Karama and who is honorable in the sight of Allah Ta'ala being someone who's been given victory and there's all different means of being given victory and the most important victory that we've been given is victory against our own self because how many times a day does our self conquer us is that we think that we're men and we think that we're strong and we think that we can't even overcome our own selves is that no human is truly a man and that he can conquer his own self until you and I continue struggling with our own selves and the speaker has more problems with this than anyone else is that not one person in this room is willing to be called a raja unless you can conquer your own self until you or someone that can stand up against your own passions and say no and hold back the steps of something that is more befitting of animals or into something that is Karama and will distance you from your Lord that these are the meanings that Allah Ta'ala says Bushra also has other meanings that the sweetness of faith that Allah puts in their heart that is a Bushra in this world that the glad tidings that they've received as our Prophet said from Allah said prophecy is in it but what remains are these giverance of God's tidings what all these Mubashirat Ya Rasulullah it is a Ruh Ya Salihah it is a good vision that someone has sees Ya Rahim Mumin that he sees or someone sees for them when was the last time someone gave us a Bushra that of a good dream that we've had dreams are real they're very real visions are real the scholars have dealt with it in the books look at the numerous commentaries from the greatest traditional scholars about these ahadith and what they say about it that these are real when was the last time we saw a noble vision when was the last time we saw our Prophet or one of the Sahaba or one of the righteous or something that was at least something to motivate us when was the last time we saw what these things are if we're not seeing these things regularly it means we haven't entered into this category yet it means that we have to rectify the way that we do the world and then practically how we're implementing it if we're going to be able to taste the sweetness of Allah they will have this Bushra in this world in the greatest aspect of that Bushra is when they take their last breath is that they either see their place in paradise or they hear the glad tidings from an angel let alone in the next world because whoever loves to meet Allah that Allah loves to meet them that Allah loves to meet them we're all going to take our last breath what is going to be our state when we take that last breath is what is going to be hammered into our heart a deep longing desire to meet our Lord or is it going to be like now I want to say all of us are going to face that moment this is the ultimate moment of truth and there's people that are out there we just heard someone mention people like this this morning where there was some and there was Mark for the sake of Allah and there's people with them that also martyr and usually that this person was with them in this particular gathering he wasn't there that one day and he thought something was wrong with him the fact that he wasn't chosen to be that that day when these other people were taken meaning that he wanted to be taken in that state this takes courage and it takes standing up against these forces that are trying to prevent us from taking this path through which we are selected from our Lord and the reason that we are right around the Ramadan is right around the corner we are in a blessed month from the words of our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam we are in a blessed month because the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam made you after this month and one of the wisdoms of this du'a is to cause us to prepare for this blessed month that is just around the corner like anything else in life that if you don't ever exercise then all of a sudden one day you go and you hit it hard you might hurt yourself that you have to prepare like anything else if you're going to run a triathlon or you're going to run a marathon then it's surely in your right mind that you would train for that day that you actually go and you run that marathon similarly with the blessed month of Ramadan there is no month of it is the best of months it is the month that we expose ourselves to the greatest sense of the divine reasons of Allah s.w.t of all of the other aspects of the marathon this blessed month that we have to take this seriously it's right around the corner and that we have to prepare ourselves mentally and physically and we have to be ready for this day that for that first night, boom as soon as that first night comes in is that we are ready to exert ourselves in a way that we don't exert ourselves in the remaining part of the year and if you exert yourself in Ramadan and you give it more than what you give your normal days you are from the blessing of what you've exerted in that blessed month of Ramadan just add if you give to the day of Juma that what you don't give to you in the other days you have a blessing that extends through the remaining part of the week from the blessing of what you've exerted that this is what our Prophet s.w.t says and he says as he says this is a very blessed time Allah s.wt that fill our hearts with Eman and the people of Taqwa it was our hearts to be able to be attached to the Salliheen with the technique of the Salliheen as the Prophet s.w.t said in the book of Allah s.wt a cause is to be attached and connected to the Salliheen that in the law of Allah Yes, he was leading I am from the Salliheen he was the one who was leading the Salliheen and the Salliheen and the Salliheen and the Salliheen and the Salliheen I ask Allah s.w.t to fill our hearts with love and after the Eman and with the blessing Allah s.w.t will be able to be embraced and we seek Allah s.w.t We seek Allah s.w.t that give us openings that we know and we wrapped ourselves entirely into this game to take care of all our affairs and to see who are all All Muslims that are suffering and struggling in any place in the world, on brothers and sisters, in Palestine, on brothers and sisters, in Syria, on brothers and sisters, For everything might be struggling in Somalia, Iraq, and all throughout the world, may Allah SWT, and in Afghanistan, may Allah T'araih, Allahumma, l-Ruddin, may Allah be with us, may He be with us, may He be with us, may He be with us, may He be with us, may He be with us.