 إن الحمد لله نحمده ونستعينه ونستوثره ونؤمن به ونتوكل عليه ونعود بالله من شروع أنتوثنا ومن سيئات عمالنا من يهده الله فلا مبلله ومن يبلل فلا هادي الله ونشهد الله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له ونشهد أن محمدا عبده ورسوله أرسله بشيرا ونذيرا بين يبيت ساعه من يفعل الله ورسوله فقد فاز فرز عظيمة يا أيها الذين آمنوا التقوا الله حق تقاته ولا تموتن إلا وأنتم مسلمون يا أيها الذين آمنوا التقوا الله وقولوا قولا سديدة يخلح لكم عمالكم ويبشر لكم ذنوبكم ومن يفعل الله ورسوله ومن يقئ الله ورسوله فقد فاز فوزنا عظيمة الحمد لله نحن نستطيع أن نتوثي here on this blessed day of Juma'ah وهذا هو the blessing that we must think الله سبحانه وتعالى فوق and we must constantly be in gratitude and sugar to Allah سبحانه وتعالى الله سبحانه وتعالى لدينا في هذا الوقت أن نتوثي in a time when people are not able to gather so in this time we should be extremely grateful to him because he has kept us safe and he has kept us healthy and he has allowed us to see one another in a community setting most of our lives however these days are surrounded by our families and many people have many different circumstances in their families so this is an opportunity for us for those of us who have the ability to to have the opportunity to to connect with our families in a much more meaningful manner and one of the ways that we can do this as I can see most of the people here are elders so it is likely that many of you have children and there is this concept in our religion of growing with your children you're supposed to give them this type of study as they grow and you're supposed to engage with them and you're supposed to love them and you're supposed to show compassion to them however these are at age that when it's reached you're supposed to act to them as if you are their friend and you're supposed to view them as if you are their friend but being their friend does not mean that the Serbia has ended and so what happens is many parents unfortunately they begin to become the lesser of the friends to their kids or other parents what they do is that they're overly exerting with their children until if their children are not able to make that connection I'm not here to tell you how to raise your children I'm just here to say what it means to be a friend to children when children go off and they're engaged in their school activities extracurricular activities with their friends online whatever it may be that is one of the greatest fears of influence on their mind that is one of the greatest influences on their heart and so anything that they hear and absorb in those times it is likely that those things will fit with them for the rest of their life friendship is an extremely important part in our religion the people who surrounded the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ were known as the Sahaba there are the companions of him ﷺ companion just another word for friend so we should be companions to our kids and encourage our kids to be companions and friends to us and so the Serbia that takes place at this time when you're engaged as a friend to your child or as a friend to your parents is not just eating together or watching the next or to go show together or just doing whatever but it's also an exchange of ideas it's also an exchange of growth it's a time to influence one another in a positive light in a positive manner and if the parents are not the ones who are taking this role of friendship for their children then the people who are going to be taking that role are going to be the people who are corrupting the mind in the general society that we see and you guys know what I'm talking about especially in this Bay Area community there's much corruption that's open however it's a hundred people gather around to bully one kid and that one kid has one friend who stands up for them that bond between those two people is going to be unbreakable that kid is not going to look at a hundred people attacking that kid is not going to care about what those hundred people think about him or her they're going to find value in the friendship with the person who stands up for them in the friendship they're going to want to engage with that individual they're going to believe the same things as that individual and so it is the responsibility of parents to their children and children to their parents to be that intimate friend for one another and Alhamdulillah many parents have much wisdom to offer much knowledge to share and it's in this time where technology has become so needed that parents seem to be the ones who are learning from their kids so I'm also here to remind the parents that don't forget of the wisdom that you possess of the experience that life has given you the stories that you went through the struggles that you overcame those are things that your children will cherish and want to pass down to their children and so on your lives have been meaningful especially a sign of your lives have been meaningful is that you are here in this pandemic on this Day of Juna'a worshipping Allah this is a sign that you have been chosen by Allah that you have been accepted by Allah so reflect on your lives recognize that you have something to give your kids you have something to pass down you have something to teach be that friend to your children be the person who your children can when they are asked who do you love most in this world after Allah and the Rasool they can follow the hadith with extreme genuineness in their heart and sincerity in their heart and they say I love my mother and I love my father be that friend to your children your children will respect you they will be saved from the things that society faces they will be saved from the evils of the corrupt people in their own age group and they will be able to carry on a legacy that is protected because you put in the effort for them and the religion of Islam is going to live on and imagine meeting the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ imagine meeting him on the Day of Judgment and seeing him on that Day and then smiling at you and embracing you imagine that fear of happiness that will be flowing down your faces and then imagine him saying to you this is because you passed on the thing that I brought to you and you were able to pass it on to another individual and them to another and them to another and for the child know that when you enter into jannah that success that you will be experiencing for most children it will come and they can realize this now and they will realize it then that that happiness and success the child will experience is going to be because they have been kind and merciful to their own kind because they love their parents because they respected them the success in this world and in the next lies at the feet of our parents or children and the future of Islam or parents lies in your hands to pass down to your kids so we ask Allah ﷻ what's out of his success we ask him to ease in this difficult time and we ask him to allow this trial that has faced us to be a means for our success to be a means for our forgiveness to not look at these times with despair but to look at them at a time of joy that Allah ﷻ is choosing me over and over and over again in every moment to be an abd to him to be a slave to him and to obey him we think Allah ﷻ for this and we ask him to keep us upon this ربنا لا تزي قلوبنا بعد ربنا لا تزي قلوبنا بعد هديتنا وحبلنا من ربنا لا تزي قلوبنا بعد بعد ما هديتنا وحبلنا من لدنك رحمة إنك أنت الوحاب جزاكم الله خيرا استغصر الله لي ولكم الإسائر المسلمين قلوبنا بعد الهديتنا وحبلنا من لدنك رحمة إنك أنت الوحاب ربنا إنك جامع الناس ليوم لا رب فيه إن الله لا يخلف المعاد الحمد لله الذي هدانا لهذا وما كنا لنحك دي لولا أن هدان الله اللهم صلي وسلم وبارك على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحه وسلم عباد الله رحمكم الله إن الله يأمر بالعجي والإحسان وإتائذ القربار وينهى عن الفحساء والمنكر والبغي يعيذكم لعلكم تذكرون اذكروا الله يذكركم ودعوه يستجب لكم ولذكروا الله تعالى اعلى وأولى وأكبر وأقوموا الصلاة