 We begin by praising Allah by thanking Allah and by reminding ourselves that our purpose is not this world We weren't created for this world We are travelers in this world We are strangers in this world and If we take this world as our home We're confused this world is the home for the homeless at Dunya Daru Manila Darala We already have a home our home is in the next abode the next life Let's not be confused and We also are here to warn ourselves that we're returning to Allah and We come on Fridays to rectify ourselves and to beg Allah to rectify us To reorient ourselves to a higher calling to a higher purpose this world Catches up with us It hypnotizes us. We get busy. We get distracted. We get deluded, but in the end Waladarul Akhirat Khair Waladarul Akhirat Khair The next life is much better The next life is much better Waladarul Akhirat Khairun Laka Mina Lula the next life is much better than the previous one Waladarul Akhirat Khairun Wa Abqa the next life is Much better and much more everlasting And so we come on Fridays to remember that and we need this reminder Because sometimes we forget by our nature But in the end when we go to the grave and it's our turn When we're in the coffin and we're wearing our kefen The kefen has no has no pockets The kefen has no pockets We're not going to take anything with us So when we go to the grave Three things go with us and two of them return and one stays with us We go to the grave with our families with our money and With our deeds and our actions Our families go back our money goes back and the only thing that stays with us illuminating our grave is our deeds and So my question for us today Why is it? Why is it sometimes that we are satisfied with our level of spirituality and At the same time dissatisfied with our level of Materialism why is it that we're satisfied with our religiosity with our religiousness? But we're dissatisfied with our dunya. Why is it that we're satisfied? We're satisfied with how much how well I can recite the Quran But I'm not satisfied with how much money is in my bank account Why is it that we're satisfied with how many with my concentration in prayer or how much? But I'm not satisfied with how much I'm getting promoted at work Why is it that we're satisfied and with how much the kid we do and remembrance of Allah, but we're not satisfied with the size of our home Or the luxury of our furniture Why is it that we're satisfied with how many days we fast in the year? How much Sadaqah we give but we're not satisfied With the kind of car we have and the challenge today the invitation today is to switch those switch those two words satisfied and dissatisfied and Switch the lens in which we're living and and and traversing this light switch the lens and So that way we can be dissatisfied With my level of thick it and so I can do more Dissatisfied. I've only fasted. I only fasted Ramadan. Let me add a few days in the year Let me add out of that. Let me add 9th and 10th of Muharram Let me add, you know, three white days of the lunar month 13 14 15 Let me be dissatisfied with my concentration and prayer so that I can Try to concentrate more When we go when we look at our career, why why is my house not big enough? Why is my promotion not soon enough? Why is my raise not coming quick enough and We carry that burden. We feel that burden. We think about it But when it comes to how well I read the Quran, how much I understand the Quran It doesn't bother us. And so today the challenge is to switch these two lenses and The way we can do that is this prescription as follows when it comes to materialism dunya money cars house square feet Shoes clothes apparel when it comes to all of these things Which the Son of Adam is never satisfied except with dirt in the grave. We get a mountain of gold We want a second mountain of gold will never be satisfied The strategy the prescription is this to look at those Look beneath us and not above us Look at those who have less than us Look at those who have less than us