 Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu, alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah, Allah Subhanu wa Ta'ala has blessed all of us to have in our hearts a desire to remember our Prophet ﷺ and to internalize the reality of his reality so that we become a reflection of his character, of his stature, of his state, of reflection, not the reality, he's the reality, but if we can reflect it then our hearts are beautified by reflecting his heart, our character is beautified by reflecting his character, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and over time, over time we're transformed and that's critically important, but we're transformed into becoming to the extent of our limited potentiality, Muhammadayyik, so a person whose character, whose state, whose being gives evidence of a desire to be like our Prophet ﷺ, that's critically important because as Muslims, as we systematically knowingly or unknowingly, voluntarily or involuntarily are secularized in our thinking and our thoughts and our actions, we lose touch with that reality, with that Muhammadayyik reality and in losing touch with that we lose touch with Allah Subhanu wa Ta'ala and so if there's no conscious effort at remembrance then we'll forget and forgetting about the Messenger of Allah, we forget about Allah because he is our, he leads us to Allah Subhanu wa Ta'ala, he is Al-Hadi, he is the guide to Allah Subhanu wa Ta'ala, as Qasirah says, Antababu Allah, he is the gate that leads unto Allah Subhanu wa Ta'ala, so in forgetting about him, we forget about Allah Subhanu wa Ta'ala and in forgetting about Allah we forget about our souls, we forget about what we're in this world to do, we think we're in this world to do stupid things like we're ripped up clothes that we buy, like think about that's, people are doing that, some Muslims are doing that, they wear their pants until they're ripped up, they throw them in the garbage, go to the store and spend a hundred dollars buying pre-ripped up pants, so that's what a human being becomes when we forget about Allah, we forget about ourselves, we forget about the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, we forget about the fundamental human dignity, we forget about the mercy we should have to each other, I was coming from the airport and we were on the San Mateo Bridge and we get a call that some person who's a Muslim in Phoenix, Arizona, shot his wife in front of his children, he forgot, he forgot about who he is, he forgot about Muhammad, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and forgetting about Muhammad, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he forgot about Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and forgetting about Allah, he forgot about one day, that one day he'll be standing before Allah and he has to give account for his actions, he has to give account for the murder of his wife, he has to give account for the trauma he's caused his children, so may Allah bless us to be amongst those, well don't be like those who forgot about Allah and He caused them to forget about their souls, and so in remembering Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, we remember Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and in remembering Allah we remember our souls, may Allah bless us to be amongst those who are mindful, so these are not gatherings of entertainment, they're gatherings of comfort, but not entertainment, there's a purpose, we are singing and songs are very easy to recall, we remember the melodies and then the melodies evoke the words and the words evoke the meanings and the meanings evoke action, so this is this is a vital step in our efforts to walk in the footsteps of our Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and I'll stop because I hear someone's praying, that's called a subtle hint, if we don't walk in the footsteps of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, then what happens? We walk in the footsteps of Shaitan, khutwa to Shaitan, and there's no third path, there's no third path, may Allah give us Taufiq Ta'sir, may Allah bless us to be elevated, may Allah bless us to be dignified human beings when people are losing their dignity, may Allah bless us to remember our Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam when people see the prophetic heritage as some relic, a dinosaur to be studied like you study dinosaur bones, may Allah bless us to be people who understand that our carnal nature is what unites us with dogs and pigs and monkeys, and it's our spiritual nature and our intellect that distinguishes us as humans, so may Allah bless us to cultivate our spirit and to cultivate our intellects and to do that in the light of Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he's the Badr, Ta'al al-Badr al-Aina, he reflects the light of the full moon, he reflects the light of Allah, and so may he guide us to Allah, wa Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, Sayyidina Muhammad wa La'Alihi wa Sahbihi wa Sallam Taslima kathira, Subhana Rabbika al-Rabb al-Azzati ama yasifun wa salamana al-imbersinina walhamdulillahi rabbil alameen.