 Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Allah has guided us for this and we were notidentified if we have guided Allah.techn founders of our room have informed Abana Mohammed and his family, his Prince and Salam. My Hasid will guide me better and this will bring the起lamin from my voice. Respected brothers and sisters we begin by praising Allah, Subhanu wata'ala. and deserving of our praise. We ask Allah and we ask Allah alone to guide us, to prevent us from being misguided and from misguiding others. We ask Allah to bless us to keep our communities safe, to keep our families safe and healthy. We ask Allah to bless his noble Prophet Muhammad Ibn Abdullah, sallallahu alayhi wa aalihi wa sahbihi wa salam, to bless his noble companions, his family and the righteous everywhere. Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala in the Qur'an refers to and exposes to us several conversations that will occur in the afterlife, in the life hereafter, between those who have, well in several places, between those who are Ashab al-Nar and Ashab al-Jannah, between people who are dwellers of Paradise and dwellers of the Hellfire. Elsewhere in the Qur'an, Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us about a conversation or conversations that will take place between him and the people of the Hellfire. And in one such example in Surat al-Mu'minun in the 23rd chapter of the Qur'an, Allah ta'ala tells us about such a conversation. And in it, Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala asks the people who live this life frivolously and didn't do much in terms of obedience to Allah, didn't do what was required of them, what was called upon them. And Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala will say, He will say, How long did you dwell on the earth? How long did you dwell on the earth? How long was your existence? How long do you think that you lived? And they will say, They will say, Day or after day, They will ask, That perhaps we lived a day or portion of a day or day or two, Ask those who keep account of such things. And I want to pause here and talk about this exchange in particular because it underscores our temporal existence. The very idea of a temporal existence is that we exist in time. Time has consequence on us. The last time I was here, in fact, I talked about the idea that the Arabs have many words. In fact, many words are employed in the Quran and in the Sunnah of the Prophet, Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, to describe or to talk about time because time is important. And when something has multiple words that are used or employed, it underscores the importance or the value of that term. So there's Zahar and Asr and Sa'a and Waqf, Zaman. So many words that are employed that refer to this idea or refer to time because we are temporal beings. We live in time. Whereas Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala is beyond time. God Almighty is outside of time. He created time. But we are temporal beings. And the very word temporal beings reminds you of what? That this life and that this existence, this temporal existence is exactly that. It is temporary. It is temporary here for a limited time, not for eternity. And so this conversation that occurs where Allah asks potentially all of us, potentially any one of us, how long did you live in this existence? How long was your life? And you will respond, we will respond by saying it was a day or maybe a part of a day because that's how we conceptualize time, right? When we think about time, scholars tell us that there is what they call or they refer to as prospective time and then there is a retrospective time. Perspective time is time right now, right? If I ask you to tell me when a minute is up, you can probably do a pretty accurate job of coming and telling me when a minute has expired. But if I ask you to tell me when a year has expired or 10 years has expired, you'll have a more difficult time if you don't have a watch or something that tracks time for you because this is how we analyze or how we look at time, either prospectively or retro-expectively in the past. And so when we look at our existence in the retrospective, that is what is happening here in this conversation. How long did you live on the earth? You're being called on to reflect on retrospective time, time that has already occurred and you'll say a day, maybe a portion of a day because that's how we conceptualize time. And for those of us who are probably 40 or over can appreciate the fact that our memories, our concept of a decade of your 30s or your 40s feels a lot quicker than it did when you were a teenager or when you were in your 20s. That's not because time has changed where we've measured time differently, but it's rather how we think about time in the past versus time in the present. And I say all of that to ask you to reflect on something. And that is that I imagine all of us, each and every one of us has lost someone dear to us, a parent, a sibling, a relative, so on. If I ask you to close your eyes and to think about that loved one, and if you were to ask, or if I were to ask you to try and either write down or journal or document all of the memories that you have associated with that person. So I personally would think about my father, right? Who I lost now 12 years ago. I spent almost 40 years of my life with my father. But if I were to think back and to journal all of my memories of my father, I would probably be hard pressed and I would find it difficult that in the humiliation of all those memories and his advice that he gave me and the moments that I shared with him and what I was able to glean and get from his life and his teachings and his advice to me and how he lived and how he spoke and how he conducted his day-to-day life, I would probably find it difficult to even come up with a month of time. If I were to accumulate, as I said, all the memories that I have of my father, all the things he said to me, all the memories that I have, I would probably find it difficult to even document one month and he lived 62 years of his life. I spent 40 years with him. That is because or that is the nature of this world. That is the nature of temporal existence. It is temporary and it feels as such when we reflect back on it. And so the important thing, the lesson brothers and sisters then about the temporal existence that we live, we can't get out of temporal existence. Well, we can by dying. That's how we are relieved of temporal existence, if you will. But otherwise, that's the nature of this dunya. That's the nature of this world. Is that this life is temporal. And so we can't do a lot about retrospective time. Those that time that has expired. What we can do and what we can be mindful of is prospective time. How we live each and every moment. Going forward today. How you live your life. The memories that you will cherish. The legacy that you will live. 20 years from now, 30 years from now, my child may have to reflect back on my life and the moments that she shared with me or that they shared with me. And they may find it hard pressed to document a month of memories that I have left behind with my children, with my wife, with the people that I love and that I care for and that I spend time with. And so all that we can do is be cognizant of and be mindful of our prospective moments that we live. How we choose to live our life going forward from this moment. How we choose to think about the legacy that we leave behind. The memories that our loved ones will cherish of us. How we will be judged on that final day. On Yom Asa, the final day where Allah will judge us for our actions. How that will all turn out is the moments that you have going forward. And we don't know how many moments they are. They are, we don't know. And again, that's the nature of this world. But what we can do is make each and every moment important and we can focus on those things that matter and those things that are of importance to us. I pray that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gives us the ability to be cognizant of our time going forward. To make our time meaningful. To do those things that are important and have consequence and have meaning and have profound meaning. Both in our lives and the lives of those that we will one day leave behind. I say to you, I say to you, I say to you, I say to you, I say to you, I say to you, I say to you, I say to you, I say to you, I say to you, I say to you, I seek refuge with Allah from our evil souls and from our evil deeds that Allah will not hurt, nor will He harm, nor will He harm, nor will He harm. I prostrate to Allah, except Allah, except Him, no partner. I prostrate that Muhammad is His servant and Messenger. May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon our beloved martyrs, the master of Muhammad and his family and companions, O you who believe in Allah, the truth is to fight him and you will not die except you are Muslims. O you who believe in Allah, the One who created you of a single soul and created her husband and blessed a lot of men and women from them, and may Allah be pleased with him and have mercy on him, may Allah be pleased with you. O you who have faith in Allah, say, I say to you, I prostrate to you, I seek refuge with Allah from your evil deeds, and whoever is given by Allah and His Messenger, he has gained a great weight, or after that. Rabbana, la tu'akhidna, innaseena, awakhta'na. Rabbana, wa la tahmil alayna, isran kama hama tukhu'a la ladina min qablina. Rabbana, wa la tu'hammilla, ma la tukhu'a la nabi, wa'afu'anna, wa ghfir lana, wa rhamna, anta maulana, fansurna alil qawmi al-kaafineen. Yai wa ladina hama, Rabbana, atina fi dunya hasnah, wa fi al-akhiri hasnah, wa kina azaab al-naar. Subhana rabbika rabbil izzati yama yesifoon, wa salamun ale al-mursaneen, walhamdulillahi rabbil alameen, wa aqeemu al-salah.