 because Allah Azza wa Jann is with us. And Allah Azza wa Jann is with us in every moment and those moments that He's with us, there's a responsibility on us to remember that He is with us. There's a responsibility for us to remember that He has asked us to partake in every single moment He's actively engaged in every moment, and that we're our engagement with Him, Azza wa Jann in every moment. That Allah is the One Who's At-Tawwab, He's the One Who turns to us. Where's our Tawbah? Where's us turning to Him? The Tawbah linguistically, the literal meaning of Tawbah means to turn. That Allah Azza wa Jann turns to us. And what stops us from developing a relationship with Him, Azza wa Jann, is that we don't turn to Him. That He is actively engaged with us. Where's our engagement with Him? That these moments pass by, these breaths pass by, and they don't come back. These moments again, there's no qadha, there's no actual makeup in reality. Allah gives us the opportunity, if you miss a prayer, you can make it up. But that moment never comes back. That moment never comes back. Once it's gone, it's gone. That one of the scholars said that you're consistently between two non-existence, the non-existence of the past and the non-existence of the future. What exists is us right now, at this moment, and our responsibility right now, that if we're too distracted by what happened before and too distracted by what happens next, we miss the moment that we're in. We miss that moment of what Allah asks of us in that moment now, that existed moment. What is asked of me right now? When Allah is actively engaged in that shatana, in that affair, what is asked of me during that affair? That right now, what's asked of us is to be a Juma'ah. What's asked of us is to pray our prayers, pray our Juma'ah prayer. That's what's asked of us now, and it's easy to remember when we're all gathered together. But when we depart from each other, when we depart from the company, the Juma'ah, when we depart from the reminders that we give to each other, then do we have the ability to remember? Do we take everything else as a sign for us to remember? When we're driving by and you see these hills, and they're sprouting with the greenery, they're sprouting with these trees that they weren't here a few weeks ago, that Allah put life into them. Like Allah put life into them, He can put life into our hearts, that like He allowed those spring of these flowers to come. And we're in winter now, winter is a sign of the end of things, that one day our life is going to end, that we don't have that much time here. And we're going to return to Him, that if those realities are absent to us, that we miss those realities and we're distracted from the realities that we don't take the signs around us to remind ourselves that one day these moments are going to pass, and we won't have the opportunity to get them again. We won't have the opportunity to remember Allah again, to pray those two rak'at again when we had that free time after that wudu that we made. The Prophet ﷺ said whoever makes the fresh wudu, and then prays the prayer, and asks for his haja, asks for his need, Allah answers it, that opportunity won't come. And if we don't recognize that our need is solely towards Allah, we don't recognize that Allah Azza wa Jalla gave me the opportunity to ask Him, because I was the one who needed to ask Him, not because He needed me to ask Him, that He gave me that opportunity to ask Him to remind me that I am Muqad, that I am holy and urgently dependent on Him. And when He recognized that reality that we're holy and urgently dependent on Him, that who is going to answer the one desperately in need when He calls Him. We don't ask and say, may Allah give me this and that. Ya Allah, I ask for this job, for this opportunity, whatever it may be, we don't have that equally law, we don't have that sense of urgency, where we think, well if Allah answers, He answers, and if He doesn't answer, He doesn't answer, I'm fine by myself. If we don't have that sense of urgency, it's difficult to have your du'ad answered, because then we still have the feeling in our hearts that whether Allah answers or not, I'm still going to be doing my part, that this comes from me, the Ana, that there's too much Ana, there's too much me, where's the Huwa, and where's the Yi. These moments pass, and they don't come back again. And Allah reminds us of the significance of these moments when He says, He swears by asa, by time itself, and Allah doesn't swear by anything except that it's significant. Right, we have wa-l-fajr, wa-shamsi, wa-l-waha, wa-l-qaman, wa-l-asr, time itself, He swears by it. That's our mind of the time. Time is what we have, we don't get paid for the work that we do, we get paid for the time you put into that work that we do. The reason our particular skill might be valuable is because of the time it takes to develop it. That time is what's valuable, wa-l-asr, swears by time to shake us. Insan, the entire jinn, the entire jinnis of insan, ba-di-khusu. Three modes of emphasis, that mankind is in utter loss, and if that doesn't drive us to desperation, then what does? Desperation is slowly to him, Allah, that we don't have control over time, inna insana la fi-khusu. However, there's no hope, there's no takhweef, no, Allah doesn't cause us fear in our hearts without giving us hope, inna ladina aman, except those who believe. And the people who believe, who are they? They are those who take the moments that Allah has given them of this life, these few moments, 60 years, 80 years maybe, if we're really pushing it. Some of us passed before that, some of us passed after that, if we lived the 20 years, lived about a third or a fourth of our life expectancy, that it's not that much time we have, illa ladina aman, with those in this world they believe, because belief is for this world. And hereafter, everyone is going to witness and believe that Allah Azza wa Jalla exists, that his jannah is true, that his fire is true, that his Prophet ﷺ was true, that Allah Azza wa Jalla is true, the surat is true, the bridge is true, the hashir is true, the questioning is real, illa ladina amanu, that those who believe in this life, who take heed of the moments that are given in this life, wa'ameena s-salihati, and do righteous deeds, and what are righteous deeds, except reactions to the moments that Allah gives you, that the arhan is called and the reaction to the arhan is to stand up and pray, that you see someone who needs, you see the beggar on the street and the reaction is that you give them, and say ya Allah, like I gave this person, and whatever I was able to give them, that I didn't prevent them ya Allah, don't prevent me, wa'ameena s-salihati, that those who have, we actually see this prop to them, to those moments that Allah gives them. Right, that's not what it literally says, it literally says those who do good deeds, and those who enjoin to the truth, that our shyness doesn't stop us from telling somebody that such and such is not good for you, or such and such is good for you, that you should do this or you shouldn't do that, with wisdom and with love and with care, not to make an embarrassment, not to humiliate someone when you see somebody not doing something they're supposed to be doing, somebody makes a mistake in their wudhu, we take the example of Hassan al-Hussain al-Sanaad, that when they saw somebody improperly making their wudhu, they gave nasiha, they gave their advice in the most beautiful manner, right, and if we're familiar with that story that they both made the wudhu correctly and asked that person, which one of us is doing it wrong, and that person realized I was the one doing it wrong, that's what تواصل بن حقق, to call the truth with wisdom, with love and with care, what تواصل بن صبر, and sometimes these moments in which we react the way we should react, it takes صبر for us sometimes, waking up and you have those cold nights, two days ago as the winter solstice, three days ago, shortest nights of the year, getting up from pajr then, and صبر is either in regards to the commandments of Allah that He's given you, or صبر in being able to fulfill the rights of Allah, or صبر in the difficulty that Allah puts you in, that that's صبر, but تواصل بن صبر, and so when we see people, those that we care about, we should care about all of humanity, and those we care about need a little bit of صبر, there's complaints that come from them, we remind them for this, we remind them to have صبر, to have ريضة, to have contentment, to have the pleasure, to submit complete submission to Allah. What we said earlier is nothing new, we've heard it a ton, many times. The bread that we take, our life is clean, and everything is perishing, except for His captain, this عز و جن, that the captain is the Lord, the possessor of majesty and beauty is going to remain, and that's what remains, and so when we focus on things that don't remain, we find disappointment, so we're not people who set ourselves up for this, that when death comes, for those who live their lives right, it's good news, but now we're meeting Him عز و جن, may Allah make some people ready to meet Him, عز و جن, may Allah make some people who are cognizant of the moments that we are given, may Allah allow us to be people who take every breath in His remembrance, عز و جن, and whatever man of that may be, whatever man of that He asks, may Allah make some people who are consistently upon what He asks of us, and may Allah make some people who avoid that which we should avoid, may Allah make some people who are prophetic in our stillness, in our movement, in our thoughts, may Allah make some people who are prophetic in our behaviour, in our habits, may Allah make some people who are prophetic in our gazing, may Allah make some people who are prophetic in our speech, in our accual, in our actions our aff'al and in our state our accual, may Allah make some people whose hearts are connected to Allah عز و جن and His Prophet ﷺ. May Allah make some people who find no solace in anything except that, may Allah make some people who find no solace, no salam except in May Allah have pleasure in our teachers, may Allah have mercy on our teachers particularly our first teachers of our parents so we say