 Bismillahirrahmanirrahim, Alhamdulillahirrahmanirrahim Wa-Aqbar Al-Sara wa-Tamwa Tasleem A'la Sayyidina wa-Mawlana Muhammadin Wa-A'la Alihi wa-Sahbihi wa-Salamajma'in Subhanaka la ilmanana illa ma'a ilam tana Inna kanta al-Aleem al-Haqeem Wa la hawla wa la quwata illa bilahi al-Aliir Azeem Alhamdulillah, on the bounty of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala He has brought us together on this evening to talk about what we hope to be a discourse of iman. And this is the way that the companions were and they would do it unofficially without a program or without an announcement and without coming together in the way that we are but we can follow their sunnah by doing it in this specific way. They would speak to each other and they would say, Ta'al nu'min bilahi sa'a Right? They would speak to their companions and they would say that come with me so we can that literally believe in Allah for a period of time they believe in Allah throughout all of their different states but what it really means is let's sit down and talk and discuss matters that are going to strengthen our iman that are going to strengthen our faith that are going to help us face whatever it is that we need to face as human beings and from the blessing of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala everything in our religion from A to Z from beginning to end is exactly what it is that we need nothing could be more relevant than the teachings of Allah and the teachings of our Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi wa sallam everything about it is relevant to every single aspect of our life and so when we talk about Islam being relevant we need to be very careful when that we talk about certain people being irrelevant or certain that ways they present themselves being irrelevant I understand what people are saying they might mean that there's a disconnect between people that are speaking in the name of the religion and the hearts that they are addressing and the minds that they are speaking to but we need to be very careful there because this question that then rises in people's minds and that questioning the relevancy of these truths that have been revealed to our Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that just understanding the fact that he was the only universal Prophet and this goes along with understanding the Shahada of la ilaha illallah Muhammad Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that he was a universal Prophet and he was the only universal Prophet and that his teachings are for all times and for all people and all different times and in all circumstances what remains then is how you and I understand those teachings and then put them into practice so nothing could be more relevant to every single aspect of our life than the teachings of our blessed Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and if you want to look at it from the frame of health and all of the dimensions of health beginning first and foremost the foundation of health at the level of the spiritual religious dimension of the human being all health ultimately was rooted in this dimension no matter how much how healthy someone is if they don't have religious and spiritual health they can never truly be healthy and then if we move down and think about after that our intellectual or even you could say rational health everything in our Dean trains you how to think trains you how to that see through the frames that are the true frames and how it is that you view the world every aspect of our Dean is like that and then when you talk about psychological or emotional health the same thing applies when you talk about the fourth dimension of health which is your physical health how many examples do we have in the blessed Sunnah of our Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam about health and our ummah should be the healthiest ummah so we don't want to relegate health merely to the physical there's three other dimensions that are beyond the physical that we just mentioned and physical health is of course a part of it but then we don't want to limit ourselves either to those four dimensions of health that primarily relate to the individual there's a fifth dimension of health that's social health and sometimes referred to as that social intelligence or even emotional intelligence when you're interacting with other people this is very important we practice this is a clear dimension of health that needs to be there for a person and a community or a family or an even greater level of society to be healthy and then you have environmental health there's all these various dimensions and one of the things that is truly important is that you and I are healthy in all of those dimensions and when someone's healthy the health speaks for itself you notice when someone's not healthy by certain signs they look weak or that there is some type of physical ailment that they have that they're not acting or can't do what is that they normally do we have signs that indicate to us a lack of health but good health speaks for itself and all of the blessed teachings that we have if we can open up our heart to them and find a way to increase in them we'll grant us and give us health at every single level of the individual and by extension all of those that are around us so when we look at this topic of discussing how to maintain faith and hope through difficult times there is no doubt that human beings experience difficulty this is part and parcel of being a human being from the very moment that we enter into the world is that we are crying as babies but we don't realize it and then the people tend to be happy and when we exit this world is that if we've been in a good state and we see our place in paradise we will be happy and that we leave people crying this is the nature of the world and we recognize from the very beginning as we enter into this world and the Adhan is called in the right ear and the Ikhama is called in the left ear the Salat-e-janazah doesn't have an Adhan we've been preparing for the moment that we're going to meet our Lord from the moment that we entered into this dunya the Adhan and the Ikhama had already been called for our janazah even if we lived to 120 years old from the time that we were born and one of the things that we've learned especially when you see death up close especially when you see tribulation up close there is a certain way that you and I need to live in order to prepare for what lies ahead one of the very beautiful lines and the devotion as Dr. Omar translates it of Imam-e-nawi Imam-e-nawi compiled a very blessed litany and this is available I recommend that you purchase the book it's translated with commentary and notes by Dr. Omar Quruq Abdullah and one of the lines and there is Ad-dakhabtullaha likud-lishidda that is very powerful and the idea here of is storing something up we tend to have a reserve fund whatever type of account it is is that when there's a need we have an emergency fund that we can then take care of certain things and we tend to prepare in all different types of ways for various circumstances when you're going on a travel you have a contingency plan or at least you should you think about you put air in your tires and that you change the oil in your car and all of these other types of things and that you prepare for unexpected circumstances and this is the way that we live here in this world and it shouldn't be any different when it comes to the meeting with our Lord subhanahu wa ta'ala and facing tribulation while we're still here but what a meaning iddihar is to store something up and the greatest thing of all that we can store up is our relationship with Allah and developing a relationship with Allah now as we are living preparing for the future iddakhabtullaha likud-lishidda that I that in that through my relationship with my Lord and through my devoting myself entirely to Him preparing myself for every hardship that I might go through in my life so you're preempting it and as iddihar knows if you know that you're about to go through a painful experience when you brace yourself it helps you that get through that painful experience there's things that you can do ahead of time if you know that some type of painful experience you're about to have some type of painful experience but then this is the same meaning that our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that he taught us and that he taught us too that ta'arraf ilallahu firraqa ya'rifka fishidda come to know Allah in times of ease and he will know you in times of difficulty what does it mean for Allah ya'rifka fishidda for Allah to come to know you in times of difficulty it means that He will be there for you He will facilitate your affairs for you and He will lighten the burden of that tribulation upon you and this is the amazing thing how two different people could go through the exact same thing but they fare very differently and they respond very differently why was one person able to do that and why was someone else not able to do that and the time in which we live and I want to speak about this for just a moment and shortly but the time in which we live is not helping us prepare for tribulations whereas there are still pockets in the world today and traditionally this was much more the case just by virtue of growing up in a certain household this is what you learned and you and I know I was blessed to marry into a that beautiful family from Afghanistan and to see how amazing these people were in relation to that what they learned by virtue of the environment that they grew up in and how just by growing up in that environment without a lot of formal learning the way that they respond to tribulations people in our time just seemed like it's impossible for them to respond like that how patient they were with very difficult circumstances my wife's grandmother on both sides have passed away but one of them that we used to call her Adegh that she lived well into her 90s and she had married a man that was he was an Afghan general and he passed away at an early age and she raised I believe 10 or 11 kids on her own as a widow in Afghanistan and she wasn't even educated and she had to go out and learn skills and she raised 11 children and all of her kids said they never heard her complain once a raising 11 children in a traditional society where it was very difficult to do so and she never asked anyone for anything that is unbelievable and on top of all of that one of her family members passed away and she took their children in on top of all of her other own children and it's hard now we were talking about this with someone recently it's hard now for young men and young women to raise two children and I'm not coming down hard on the men or the women and that there's reasons why this is the case we don't live in a society that is preparing us for the reality of life and if someone their only exposure is going to school going to college and I'm not knocking people for going to school or going to college don't get me wrong but I'm saying there's consequences for the decisions that we make if we don't consciously create the environments that we need that are going to lead to people having the traits that they need to have and so if people just go through school and they just go through college and they might work a little bit and then all of a sudden that they find themselves in a relationship which is limiting and it's of itself and then all of a sudden that they have a child where now you have a needy individual who needs your attention much of the day is interrupting your sleep hours you're not able to do what it is that you normally do that's not that's hard for people in our time and there is a lot of our sisters especially that go through postpartum depression and we don't even know because we don't even know that even happens to people when they give birth and we look at the generation before us and it's like Subhanallah they were very different my mother-in-law to this day I could tell her within two hours notice that I want 10 people to come over for dinner and she will be excited and feel honored and prepare a meal well Jude bin Mojude any generosity is to serve whatever is that you have and cook an amazing meal and that be happy about it do all the cleaning up with very very little help go to sleep late and then wake up for tahajj why everyone is still sleeping how were they able to do that how is that even possible and many of you have parents aunts uncles grandparents that are like that why is where they able to do that they were living these meanings of ad-dakhar fallah ad-dikudi shidda this is part and parcel of how they grew up they grew up in certain environments and often times many of them didn't have the luxuries of what we have in the modern world and that's definitely part of the story and it's important for us to understand our time and how that it is in a very real way undermining the building of the meanings in our heart that's very important to understand we get so used to having things now and being able to through applied technology to control our surroundings that we quite literally are teaching ourselves to have a lack of patience and everything that is that we do so that if we are hot for 10 seconds we turn on the climate control in the car and then okay I want it at 68 instead of 65 okay this now I'm a little bit cold so I'm gonna turn it to 70 69 and till you get it right on the mark and it's the air is coming out too fast so I'm gonna put it down a notch and then okay still it's on the lowest notch but it's still because I'm on the highway coming too fast so I'm gonna have it come from up in the near the feet and so forth and so on the point is that we have an ability to control our environments in a way in unprecedented ways but there's consequences to that and this is why we have to be cognizant of it and we have to live the meanings to a certain degree of wakhshoshinu it is good to teach yourself to have a little bit of khashuna where we're not just so soft at the edges that any prick that all of a sudden we can't respond to that particular situation where we train ourselves to get used to a little bit of hardship and that is not actually the you know this is not the way most parents are thinking in terms of how they raise their children one of the worst things we all and we all do this unfortunately but one of the worst things that we all do to our kids is that we spoil them rotten all of us spoil our children and that's one of the worst things you can possibly do is to spoil your children to an extent where you don't keep them to appreciate the blessings but plastic toys again this is part and parcel of our time is it okay if it doesn't work it's actually cheaper just to throw it out and get something else and there was one time that there was this this picture where there were these two old people and that it said at the quote in our times that when something broke we fixed it when something broke we fixed it but if people are getting used to that their whole lives that styrofoam cups paper cups paper plates plastic toys just throwing all this stuff away in this culture of stuff as I think her name is Annie Leonard what she calls it don't think that that doesn't have repercussions in your relationships where all of a sudden that you think that you could just throw away a relationship because you're so used to throwing everything else away and that you're not you're so used to not inconveniencing yourself that you think that this is just what I'll do with the relationship as well and you can see how the difference there and that how people that in previous generations and even though the Sunna of our prophesies is to see the spouse before they the spouses to see each other before they get married how many people do we know that didn't see their spouses and that I saw my spouse before even though the Afghan tradition you put the blanket over in the mirror right and not that that's always the case in every that marriage but there's many marriages that were that quote-unquote and this is a very that bad word if you talk about an arranged marriage it's like oh you are part of an arranged marriage but how successful were many of those marriages that we see and people learn and of course there's exceptions to this rule and I'm not talking about the bad cases but in general that everything came and people learned how to make things work and there was definitely a stigma but for good reason that divorce had a stigma but for good reason when you even talk about these meanings now you have to talk about them in a whole different frame in our context which is that unfortunate but the point here really is there was something about these societies that made people resilient and we don't want to simplify it to one particular thing there's a combination of different factors but really the important part of this it's for you and I to look at our own circumstances and to see what are practical things that you and I can do given how it is that we're living to actively fulfill what Imam al-Nawwi is saying what our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is saying how do we come to know Allah in times of raha in times of ease in times of that prosperity and one of the helpful things there really is is to begin by understanding the frame the religious frame of tribulation this is one of the most beautiful things that we have to offer the modern world and especially people that are plagued by the quote-unquote problem of evil in the world when you understand tribulation from the way that we understand it as Muslims it gives you a very unique perspective and it gives you a frame that prepares you at every level of your being for going through hardship which is something that you and I know absolutely we will face at one point of our life and sometimes it happens very early sometimes it happens throughout sometimes it happens in that the latter part of our life and sometimes in between and sometimes it's difficult and then it gets easy and there's a lot of different ways people experience difficulty but I want to share with you first and foremost a blessed hadith of our Prophet ﷺ and this is narrated by Abdullah Ibn Mughal and he says is that a man came to the Prophet ﷺ and said to Rasulullah so if you look at these are beautiful windows hadith is so amazing to study a man just comes into the presence of the Prophet ﷺ and he's so attached to the Rasul is that he needs to share his feeling and he says to him in near Hebbuk which is emphasizing how much he loved the Prophet ﷺ and then the Prophet wanted to teach this particular individual a lesson and there's other instances where that people express their love for the Prophet ﷺ where different things happened but in this particular incident the Prophet ﷺ said to him and this is really like him saying that think very carefully about what you're saying think about what you're saying and then the man said and he emphasized it further now with an oath by Allah so there's different ways of emphasizing in the Arabic language and that one of them is by saying Inni using Inna which is the heart of Tokid another way is to say but then there's what's called Tokid Lakhli where you just repeat what it is that you're saying and so someone says it I'm telling you I'm telling you I'm telling you you're emphasizing what you're saying so he says it three times and then our Prophet ﷺ respond to him by saying If indeed that you are true in what you're saying if you're sincere then prepare for poverty and prepare to be patient in poverty so this word tijfafen in the Arabic language is that a type of that covering or even that armor that they would put on war horses and just as that comes between the enemy arrow or blade in the horse this is what it does for you in other words is that prepare it's a way of saying to have patience in other words is that if you were saying you truly love me then prepare for yourself prepare yourself to go through states of poverty and to be patient in it and to have is that poverty that reaches someone quicker than a flash flood in a very dry area reaching its point where it's going to then rest and what is our Prophet ﷺ saying here is that there is something about true people of faith they will go through tribulations and this is something we know but we have to reinforce this meaning time and time again in our minds and to prepare ourselves because we don't know whatever moment that we are going to be afflicted and we know that no one was tried like the prophets and messengers no one and so if we want to emulate them and to be like them and then we are declaring that as is the case of this particular Sahabi we have no other we have no other nothing else we can do except to prepare فاعدة it's the consistent language فاعدة للفكري تجفافة prepare to experience poverty patiently تعرف إله come to know Allah يعرفك في شده إدخ it's all the same meaning in other words is that we have to actively preempt those situations and that our Prophet ﷺ is that I have that experienced that the going face to face with enemies in a way that no one else has I have been harmed in ways that no one else has and then he mentioned something specific about going 30 days ﷺ and not having enough food to eat that anyone that has a liver would eat مينين خلاص he and Bilal and he mentioned Bilal specifically here would go through intense pains of hunger we all know that story where the Sahaba were that tying a rock to quell the hunger pains and then the Prophet lift up his shirt and there was two this is what he went through ﷺ and there's a wisdom in why he went through all of that so that he could be the exemplar force in all of our different states but first and foremost so that we can have the correct frame if we get the frame wrong we're never going to be able to put into practice what we need to be able to put into practice and this gets back to right what we have in the Fatiha رَيْدَ مُرْدُوا بَيْدِيمٌ وَلْلِينَ and there are people that go to astray through a lack of knowledge and then there are people astray through having knowledge but not being able to put it into practice these are the two main archetypes and so you have to get the frame right and this is broadly understood and all the different khitabs in the Quran those who believe and do righteous deeds those who believe and do righteous deeds Imam gives us the most important frame of all for us to understand existence and understand that Allah brought everything into creation and nothing happens except through his power Subhanahu wa ta'ala and that is enlightening and prepares us then to respond in a way that is pleasing to him Subhanahu wa ta'ala so that if we look at for instance in Surah al-Baqarah where Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala that uses the word bala'a which is one of the words for tribulation in verbal form and that two verses before this is that he actually Subhanahu wa ta'ala gives us the remedy before it is that he talks about what is going to happen and so he says Subhanahu wa ta'ala Oh you who believe that seek the help of patience in prayer use patience and prayer now prayer makes sense but you might first think how can I seek the help of patience when patience is not something that I seems like it's easy for me to have cultivate the meanings of patience within yourself learn about it and that live a life that teaches you how to have patience and this is of the utmost importance there's so many things that we could do to teach ourselves and to teach the upcoming generation how to have patience and how to endure but we don't make it a priority and you and I all know I'm a father of three teenagers we know what our daily schedules are like and we know what we're doing on a daily basis just keep it real if we don't keep it real we're never going to get to a solution that ultimately we are finding that they're in school all day long and then they come home when there's very little time and either they're relaxing a little bit or they're doing after school sports or that they have a tutor or something else and then on the weekends we're super busy we're going from here to there much of our lives are so filled with school after school activities sports things of this nature and maybe a little bit of family which is a good thing we don't make time for the things that they really need and this is a serious problem and it's not an option for us just to let things happen as it they are happening we really need to think about ways how can I cultivate virtues within our own selves for instance foremost but also in our own children how can we cultivate virtue in them right how can we if you look at in traditional societies and if you some of the people in this room could you imagine being at the dinner table and starting to eat before your parents right could you imagine finishing getting up from the dinner table and going to watch TV or play a video game where everybody's still sitting around the dinner table this is a small thing but why are our kids doing that now when we came from a family that no one would ever do that it's very different and one of the questions there is well how many family dinners have we had in the first place and are we making that a priority to use the family dinner as a means of cultivating adep and manners that in the upcoming generation this is just an example but there are a number of other examples like this and teaching our own children when they have friends over to give them the best food to not be the first person just kind of goes in and eats when you need someone to serve someone else first how do we do this we need to find ways to cultivate these virtues that were naturally learned in a traditional society I'm not worried as much about people that grew up in those societies but how do we inculcate this in our children we have to be creative and the meshed plays a role the community plays a role there's different programs we can put on but first and foremost as parents we can't wait for all that to happen we cannot wait for that all that to happen we have to find ways in of ourselves despite our busy work schedules despite all of our responsibilities to do this and in their free time spend time that on these things which are really important but I hope as well we have that people think about this ahead of time where we have camps and we have programs that are tailored specifically to teach the upcoming generation something of what's called potua because potua sometimes transit as spiritual chivalry is one of these that these great approaches because it really is an approach there are certain traits that are indicative of someone having potua but really it's a way of being and the true people of potua are the prophets and imama sulami which his book is translated in his kitabut potua he presents potua isintra as being the way of the prophets and he has a long list of amazing character traits and etiquettes that we'll read to even take a few of those and inculcate them within someone that it would go a long way let alone all of them this is how we want our people to be that learning the meanings of self-sacrifice learning the meanings of preferring people over yourself learning the meanings of generosity learning the meanings of what to do and what not to do and even teaching our children how to sit still in traditional societies I remember not too long gone terim especially in rabiel owa there's gatherings that last for like two hours and you will see five or six year old children that might readjust two or three times the entire gathering and they're not sitting on soft carpet with padding underneath some of these gatherings are sitting out on stones and the only thing that's covering the stone is like a tarp it's not comfortable and we as adults are like moving around and changing our leg position and your leg gets tired this way so you switch your leg around that way that subhanallah five year old children and for juma it's easy that they know at what age to bring children to juma and the children that they tend to bring to juma don't make noise why is it what is it about our lifestyle that's causing I'm not able to give all of those answers I'm just hope to say some thought provoking things that can then stimulate you to think about this and to think about small things that we can do the society in which we it's so pervasive you can't fully hit it head on and this is a general principle is that you have to do what's called to walk of zamanic and if you try to hit your that time head on then it's going to topple you over it's like hitting a wave head on but if you that ride the surf or and box or terminology roll with the punch it's not going to be as bad if someone hit you head on that's going to really hurt and if it's in the chin you might get knocked out but if you roll with the punch and you deflect it slightly and still hit you but it's not head on it's not going to have as much impact so we have to really think about these things and that spend time talking to our spouse talking to other community members learning best practice what are ways that we can actually help with this but if we move towards this verse now and then Allah ta'ala then says because some of the most difficult things that we go through is loss of life ولا تقول لمن يقتلوا في سبيل الله and what do not say that those died and the path of Allah are dead بالأحياءون rather they are alive ولكن لا تشعرون but you do not perceive but then Allah Ta'ala Qatara says ولا نبلو النكم بشيء من الخوفين He's going to mention several things سبحانه وتعالى that ولا نبلو النكم we will surely test you but from His mercy سبحانه وتعالى with something of meaning that it could have been a lot worse and it could have been a lot more severe and the vast majority of people live an average lifespan and the vast majority of them are healthy most of their lives most people that live and that's from His mercy سبحانه وتعالى so I will we are going to indeed try you with something of fear hunger that loss of wealth loss of life and loss of that ثمارات literally fruits and there's different interpretations of that but part of one meaning is there's the agricultural aspect وَبَشْيَدُ السَّابِرِينَ but give glad tidings to the patient so we already told us in the beginning to seek the help of Allah to add it through patients and one of the meanings of that is to cultivate patients within yourself in prayer but then after saying this He says give glad tidings to the sábireen and then look what He says after this those when they are afflicted with a tribulation say indeed we belong to Allah indeed unto Him that we will return and this is that very profound in other words if we have cultivated within ourselves in a very deep in real way and one of the most best ways to do this is the five daily prayers and in two or three minutes we're going to stand up and play salvation every single time that we stand up to pray before our Lord it is an opportunity for us to that cultivate these meanings within ourselves and when we truly understand that we don't belong to our own selves inna linda it's to the degree that we have realized that meaning within ourselves and it is to the degree that we realize that we're going to return to Him is that when we are afflicted and stung by some type of difficult tribulation that we will position ourselves then to respond to it in a way that was pleasing to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and then out of His mercy subhanahu wa ta'ala if you at least take those steps you start cultivating patience within yourself that you start praying with presence of heart and realize how important it is and at the same time that you are developing the meanings of servitude in a very deep way in your heart then that you are going to be from the people that Allah says in the next verse those people will have salawat from Allah and mercy in other words is that you do your part and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will make it even easier and He will facilitate further and He will allow those meanings of servitude to get deeper and He will allow those meanings of that recognizing that we belong to Allah and He will uproot the meanings of entitlement from your heart and that thinking only about yourself so that we then become pure servants of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and for some this verse is a proof that the meaning of salawat of Allah upon us is not mercy because the wow you feed in mughayrah and that generally speaking that they will say is that when you talk about that the salah of Allah upon the servants it's rahmah you'll hear this explanation which is valid because the scholars have said so but here that because that Allah says that that salawat in the plural and rahmah there's mercy but then the salawat according to the conventions of the Arabic language must be something different than mercy and some other type of blessing that comes to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and it's when these realities descend is that we have the transformation in a very very very very real way and these are the people that are the muhtadum so this in a very real way is one of the great things that you and I can prepare for hardship prepare for difficulties in our life first and foremost is that we change our conception and we understand that there is deep wisdom in tribulation and I hope everybody listens to that the 17 benefits of tribulation it was based upon a book of Imam is the deen of ibn ab-as-salam and that book is just as pertinent now as it was previously as it was during hind time and all the success of the subsequent times until this day and age and that once we open up the door to understand the multiple wisdoms of tribulation and that there are other writings that we have as well about the one of them called the divine wisdom of suffering but we can learn about this alternative perspective which for us is the sound foundational perspective on how to view this but then it's not enough just to get the frame right then on a daily basis we have to consciously try to build ourselves to prepare our iman in islam and islam from being undermined and we have to consciously try to that put ourselves and our children and those that we are responsible for in environments where all of this is cultivated they were out of time there was much more that should have been said about this that may Allah SWT give us tofiq to do this and bless us to be people of true belief or no matter what it is that we go through it makes our faith even firmer and it never causes us to lose any hope and inshaAllah ta'ala that we're able to remain steadfast and firm upon these meetings until the day that we meet our Lord SWT may Allah SWT give us tofiq and all of our different affairs and to bless this mission and to bless this community and to bless all of us and all of our families and love one and give tofiq to all of us inshaAllah and grant relief to the ummah of our Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and to lift the calamities and tribulations in the world Ya'r hamur a'ameen wa sallallahu alayhi wa sallam alhamdulillahi wa sallallahu alayhi wa sallam JazakAllah khair that was a wonderful talk inshaAllah Salat al-Ishah is downstairs we're praying Salat for the next month at least until the next month downstairs in the open area due to the pandemic restrictions we're trying to keep it open for those of you that would like a tour of the new Musallah after Salat al-Ishah if we can come back upstairs we'd be glad to facilitate that we did that last time when Imam Zaid was here I see a few