 But now look at ourselves maybe we were leading lives completely heedless of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala So how did we get here then? Think about it How did you get to Salatul Juma'a? How did you get to Islam? It's a ni'mah of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala at one point. We were totally heedless at one point This was not a priority at all. I'll tell you something when I was in ninth grade I was at the San Ramon library And I was just studying there and a south asian brother who was an exchange student I think he was in my history class. He saw me there And he said what is your name? I said Ali. He said oh you're muslim and I said No, not really my parents are muslim. I think He said oh really So he started to tell me about the meaning of la ilaha illallah And he started to tell me about Islamic ethics and wallahi I started laughing in his face I mocked and derided him and made fun of him. I made fun of his accent. I can remember this very very clearly Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala did not give up on me You probably have similar stories in your own life