Our Golden Past, Our Bright Future

And so they put out this word against the Prophet, and they used to follow him around. And as he went to the tribes, he would go to the different tribes coming into Makkah, and he would give them the dawah, call them to tawhid. And they used to follow him, some of the wicked ones, and especially one by the name of Al-As ibn Wa'il As-Sahami.

The Insult of Al-As and the Revelation of Surah Al-Kawthar

And this one, Al-As, he was really committed to bring down the Prophet, totally bring him down. And so when he went to the tribe, he would say to the people, "Leave this man alone. He is abtar. He is a person who is cut off."

And the meaning of that within the Arabian society was that he is a man who has no male inheritance. He has no boys. And when you don't have any males in a society such as this, you don't have people to be protecting you. You don't have leaders that can sing your names to the poets. And so many people in this Jahili ignorant society, they felt that if a person does not have male children, that he is cut off. He is abtar, and for them he is useless man. He is cut off. He is of no benefit. His name will not pass the time of his life.

And this hurt the Prophet as a human being. This would naturally hurt him. And it is reported that one night when he was in his sleep, he smiled, and Jibreel came down to him and revealed the Quran, and he revealed to him:

"In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Indeed, We have granted you Al-Kawthar. So pray to your Lord and sacrifice. Indeed, your enemy is the one cut off."

He revealed to the Prophet that surely we have given you an abundance, so pray to your Lord and sacrifice. For surely the one who insults you, he will be cut off.

The Miracle of Surah Al-Kawthar

Now this is a standing miracle—the revelation of Surah Al-Kawthar, which is the shortest chapter in the Quran: 10 words. And I'm sure I can almost say with surety that most of us are hafiz of Surah Al-Kawthar, because we remember first Al-Falaq and An-Nas and Qul Huwa Allahu Ahad. This, especially if you want to make your express salat, you know, then you got the shortest one—this one is 10 words. It's 10 words. All of us are hafiz.

But what is the miracle about the Quran is that even though it is the shortest chapter, it is expanding and expanding and expanding and will continue to expand to the Day of Resurrection. How is this possible?

Allah has revealed: "Verily we have given you Al-Kawthar," which is an increase. And this is a form of the Arabic—it is mutlaq, ghayru mahdud. This means we have given you a lot, we have given you an abundance. And has also revealed to us that this Al-Kawthar is a river coming from Jannah, and this river will feed into the

Hand on the Day of Resurrection, the watering place. Its liquid is the whitest, like white as milk, as sweet as honey. It is as cold as ice, and you drink it one time and you'll never be thirsty again. And so this Al-Kawthar, this is a bushra.

But also when we look at this, and the companions of the Prophet and the mufassireen are also looking at this, there's something else in this. There's something else, because Al-Kawthar is an abundance in Arabic. We have given you an abundance. We have given you something that will continue to expand, continue to move.

And when we look and we see that the Prophet was given, of course, the kalima La ilaha illallah, which in itself is our knowledge of it, expands and expands, because this is connected to Allah. Also An-Nubuwwah, that this prophethood is the final prophethood, and the largest Ummah on the Day of Resurrection will be the companions of the Prophet ﷺ. The largest nation on the Day of Resurrection. May Allah make us all of his companions on that day.

The Expansion of Islam

"Verily we have given you an abundance, so pray to your Lord and sacrifice." (Quran 108:1-2)

An abundance, something that continues to expand. And the followers of the Prophet are continuing to expand right now at this very moment. And the followers of the Prophet people are entering into Islam who we never thought would come in, Islam in crowds.

In the Americas now, Hispanic people are coming in to Islam, Alhamdulillah, that we never thought would come in large numbers, because they were stuck with a serious form of Catholicism. Also when I visited Puerto Rico and in Central America, you would find on the corner always you would find alcohol, you would find a pub selling alcohol, and you find they're selling pork. And so alcohol, pork, and the cross—and these three things were actually obstacles in the way of the people to come to tawhid. And it seemed like it would be impossible to reach people like this, especially we have a wrong understanding of the connection of Muslims to Spain and Portugal itself.

But by the mercy of Allah, people in Spain and Portugal, especially living in the provinces of Andalusia and the south, that with the new so-called democratic changes—one of the positive things about democracy is that the government will give you as minority groups the right to express yourself. And so when the people of Andalusia, they looked in their roots, everybody looked in their roots. What part? You're Basque, you're from Catalonia, you're Aragon, you're Castile, whatever section you are from.

The Andalusian looked in his roots and said, "I'm coming from a Muslim family," because when you go back, we see Tariq ibn Ziyad at 711, he enters into Spain. And when it opens up to 1492, when it was given away, over 700 years with solid leadership and authority in that land, they recognized this is our roots. And so now

they are returning, and the message is going now to California and to Texas and down into Mexico and into Central America, and Spanish-speaking people entering into Islam, people we never thought would enter.

The Name Muhammad: The Most Popular Name

They did a study of names, and they looked at the name: what is the most popular name on earth? And when they looked, they found that the name Muhammad is the most popular name on the face of the planet earth, because if you think about it, how many people name themselves Jesus? Not very many. The Spanish would say Jesus, but not many people are going to call themselves Jesus. How many people say Moses, Moshe or Moses? How many call themselves Mao Zedong or Julius Caesar or Alexander the Great? How many take these names? Think of the great people in the world.

Muslim, when they get their son, they won't say Salih, they say Muhammad Salih. They won't say Abdul Karim, they say Muhammad Abdul Karim. I even knew a brother from the Sudan his name was Muhammadain. That's two Muhammads. Another one was, he's filling out his immigration form, he's filling out his passport, and his name was Muhammad Muhammad Muhammad, because his name, his father's name and his grandfather's name he had three of them.

So when you look at the world, you see it is the most popular name right now on the face of the planet earth. Subhanallah.

Who Is Cut Off?

So who is this person that said you are abtar? How many people know the name Al-As ibn Wa'il As-Sahami? Who knows that name? Even amongst the Arabs in the Arabian Peninsula, who knows the name Al-As? No, it is cut off. The only way that we even know this name is because of his son Amr ibn Al-As or his grandson Abdullah ibn Amr ibn Al-As. That's the only way that we even hear his name, but he's at the end. So who knows him? He's cut off.

Allah revealed:

"The one who insults you, he will be cut off."

And Sadaqallahul Azim. It came to pass.

The Prophet's Command to Travel and Seek Knowledge

And so an expansion, an expansion. And I looked at this. The Prophet sent his followers out and said, "Those present in the Arafat sermon should take this message to all those who are absent. Seek knowledge, strive, travel in the earth, travel in the earth."

And the Quran and the Sunnah gave them this encouragement: travel to different lands, see what happened to the people who came before you. And so they traveled to the different lands, gaining the knowledge, putting it together with a Tawhidic form, with that oneness—not only the oneness of the Creator, but the oneness of humanity, the oneness of knowledge, all this knowledge coming originally from Allah, Al-Alim.

And so we see the Prophet sending out his companions. He sends them out into the north. The Roman Empire had attacked. They respond to the attack. They defeat the Byzantines. They enter into Egypt.

The Arians: Believers in One God

And it is now reported to us clearly that in Egypt itself, not only were the Muslims engaged in this conflict with the colonial forces of the Romans, but the Coptic Christians themself and also another group called Arisin, the Arians. These people were also involved.

And now studies have shown us that the Prophet was concerned with this group. This is a very important point. And right now one of our brothers, Fadl Suleiman, has taken a stance and written a book: "Muslimun Qabla Muhammad." It is causing uproar in Egypt right now. Coptics, who were the Muslims before Muhammad? The Coptics, the people who believed in one God, Muwahidun. How could he make a statement like that?

In the letter that the Prophet sent to Heraclius, the great emperor of Rome, in part of this letter the Prophet says to him:

(Sahih Al-Bukhari 7)

"Peace be upon those who follow the guidance. As for what follows: I call you to the beginning of Islam. Accept Islam, you will be saved. Accept Islam, and Allah will give you two rewards. But if you turn away, then you will be responsible for the sins of the Arisin."

What was the Prophet saying to him? He said, "Peace be upon those who follow the guidance." He said, "Accept Islam, you will be saved. Accept Islam, and you will be given two rewards by Allah. But if you turn away, then you will be responsible for the sins of the Arisin."

It has come clearly to us now: these Arisin, these are the Arians. These are the followers of Arius, the Libyan Christian bishop who stood against Constantine in 325 AD in the Council of Nicaea. He and his followers believed in one God. They thought that Isa was a human being. He was a prophet. They did not accept the Trinity. They did not accept the deification of a human being. And they were killed and they were tortured because of this.

And so the Prophet is concerned about people who believe in one God. When the Muslims went across North Africa, opening up the lands, finding believers in one God, because the Arians and other groups had spread all across North Africa, finding Muwahidun.

The Opening of Spain

And when they reached Qayrawan in the present Tunis, Tunisia, and Uqba ibn Nafi, the great Tabi' leader, he established Qayrawan as his base. And from there they connected, they extended themselves to the other believers.

And it is reported that a Christian prince, the Prince of Ceuta, which is still now Spanish territory in Morocco, the Prince of Ceuta living under the rule of the Muslims, sent his daughter into Spain to be educated, and the Visigoth Trinitarian King Roderick fell in love with his daughter. She refused. He raped her. She was violated.

And so the Prince of Ceuta, a Christian, came to Musa ibn Nusayr, Amir Al-Mu'minin in that area, and asked for assistance. When they realized he was serious and that people were being oppressed in the Iberian Peninsula—not only were the Christians who believed in one God, but the Jewish people also, believers in one God, were suffering under the Trinity—he then sent Tariq ibn Ziyad across the straits, and he opened up Spain. Allah gave him victory over a huge army of Roderick.

Every town that they went to, the people were cheering for them to come in, realizing now the taxes would be gone, the oppression would be gone.

The Golden Age of Andalus

And when Islam was established in Spain, called Andalus, it was a free society. For the first time in that part of the world, a minority group had rights within a city-state. As the Prophet had written the Constitution when he came to Madinah, the minority group had rights. They did not have to accept Islam.

And so during that time in Andalus, it was the golden age of Jewish literature. You also have scholars coming from Christendom sitting under Muslim scholars and leaders, going back to their lands, and then the universities in Europe are developed.

At that time in the year 1000—and we were all really upset by this millennium thing in 2000—but a study was done by one of the major magazines. Newsweek magazine, they went back in and they brought out the 10 largest cities in the world in the year 1000. And I was shocked to see that the largest city on earth at that time was Cordoba—over a million inhabitants, over 200,000 houses. It had hundreds of universities, public baths. The streets were lit for 12 miles in any direction, running water, when the rest of Europe at that time was living in darkness, living in mud, and not having any of these facilities.

But they opened it up. They took the knowledge of the ancient ones along with the scholars in Baghdad and in Cairo. They took this knowledge and they put it to the test of tawhid. They brought it together and put it in a new form.

Islamic Contributions to Civilization

And so they gave the people, they gave to the people the present numeral system, the zero—sifr, an Arabic word coming from ancient India. Also I found this in Egypt. I went to the step pyramid in Saqqara and found underneath the temple there was a relief. It was zero in decimal numbers. This is 3000 BC.

And so they brought this knowledge of the ancient ones. They brought it, put it in a modern form, and then put it at the feet of scholars. And this encouraged the people into what they now call Renaissance.

But the problem we have with this concept of Renaissance is that they say it was a European Renaissance where the knowledge of the Greeks and the Romans was brought to life, and the thousand-year period or so between 400 AD and 1500 AD, nothing went out—it was the Dark Ages, and the lights went out.

So maybe the lights did go out in some parts of western Europe, but not in the Muslim world. And in Andalusia, right there in the Iberian Peninsula, the lights were shining. Knowledge was prevalent. It was a common thing for a person in Spain to be able to speak Spanish, to read Latin, to speak Arabic and other language is a common thing. And so people had that ability, and they were able to take that knowledge and then raise to a high level.

Most of the sciences that you are studying in the universities now, you will go back and see either it was originated by Muslims or it was improved by Muslims during that time. And it's shocking the more that we look at this, the more that we find out the inventions. Right now there is a display: "1001 Inventions That Were Made by the Muslims." It is shocking that even flying in planes, the use of the computer-you know, all of these things were actually initiated by the Muslims during this golden age.

The Fall of Andalus

But the key factor for us, that is, that when we are practicing Islam, when we are honest to our sources, then Allah gives us authority. But when the dunya becomes too much on us, remember what Allah said: every nation has a test, and the test of my nation is wealth.

And so when the wealth poured in on the people in Andalus and they started to build huge buildings, to drink wine, they got corrupted. And they started looking at each other not as believers, but this one is light-skinned, this one is dark-skinned, this one is Arabi, this one is Ajami, this one is Turkish, this one is Persian, this one is Berber, Amazigh. Different confusion. Tribalism sets in.

And when tribalism sets in and economic exploitation sets in and the use of alcohol and corruption starts to set in, then we see the clearest case where Allah took the authority away from them. And by the year 1492, after having one of the greatest empires in the history of this planet, they were defeated.

And 1492 is the important date. That is when Abu Abdullah, called Abu Abdil, signed the treaty with the Catholic king and queen. He signed away Granada, the last stronghold of Islam. That's the importance of 1492,

not Christopher Columbus discovered America. We found out about this already. He was lost and he bumped into America on his way to India. He called the people Indians, and not Indians, man.

So 1492 is a cutoff point. It's a cutoff point. The authority in Western Europe was given away. And the treaty said: the masjids will remain intact, women will be safe, madrasas can continue, just pay your taxes, just submit to the authorities. Within 20 years, masjids destroyed, families violated, madrasas ruined.

And in the next few years, when you look at the total, over 3 million Muslims were murdered in a massive genocide the Spanish Inquisition. And it caused people to flee all over the planet because of what happened in this Inquisition.

And so the example is clear to us. When we are following the way, when we don't let the dunya overcome us, we are not overwhelmed by the dunya, then Allah will give us authority. But if we take these few trinkets that we have, this seeming material security that we have, and we think that it's going to last, we are living in fool's paradise.

The Hadith on Selling One's Religion

And when it overcomes us, as the Prophet said:

(Sahih Muslim 118)

"You will sell your religion for a little bit of the life of this world."

When this happens, it is decreed that we would be humiliated.

The State of the Muslim World Today

And so we see our Muslim world today having great wealth but poverty. Now the largest buildings in the world, the giant skyscraper, all hitting the clouds. The largest shopping mall in the world. The largest airport in the world. But at the same time, some countries you go in the village and there is no shops. But they are the same Muslims.

So why is your wealth not coming to deal with your brothers and sisters? Why is your armies not opening up Masjid Al-Aqsa when they are digging under the masjid trying to bring it down? Why is your armies not dealing with the dunya has gotten to you, too much or too little.

And so we need to seek refuge in Allah. And we are not blaming just blame governments. We have to blame ourselves right inside of ourselves, because in our own little governments, in our own home, we also are having problems. So we need to be serious about following the ways of Allah.

A Ten-Point Plan of Survival

And so I want to bring you a ten-point plan of survival which came to us from above seven heavens, ten-point

plan. And what is beautiful about this divine revelation is that sometimes when you read it, it is as though Allah is talking to us even though it was revealed 1400 years ago.

And so we look in Surah Ash-Shura, in verses 36 to 39, and we see that Allah has revealed to us:

To bring the brightness back to our future, and we need this. We need to look to our sources, to be serious about what Allah has revealed to us. We were very euphoric five years ago, ten years ago, and we thought that we accept Islam and everything is going to change, the whole world is going to change. Alhamdulillah, Allah gave us the chance, but the struggle has to continue. Once we stagnate and we feel satisfied with ourself, then the evil one can come and fool us and make us think that we are actually saved.

Point One: Recognition of Materialism

And so in this ten-point plan, number one is recognition of materialism.

"What you have been given from the things of this life, it is nothing but material parts of the world."

"And the life of this world is nothing but material deception."

And so if we realize these materials we have is a deception, you can't take it with you. And we see stories over and over again of people who then he spends his whole life, he takes out a bond, and he spends his whole life, he's working and working and working to try to pay his bond. And he reaches sixty years old, sixty-five years old, he's just about paid the thing up and he drops dead. So he can't even live in his own house. He never owned his house. The bank owned his house. He's driving in a Mercedes Benz like he is the hardest thing on the block. He's in his Lamborghini, but he doesn't even own it. The bank owns his car.

He's in fool's paradise, because these things in the dunya we have to leave them above ground. And our body will go under the ground. Our soul will go to the Barzakh. You cannot take it with you. So it is a deception. It's a material deception in front of us. It is a test to see what we will do with it. The conditions of this.

Point Two: Iman and Tawakkul

Number two: to get this benefit, it is there for those who have Iman and tawakkul—those who truly believe and they depend upon their Lord. And Iman should be the complete Iman. You just don't say it. It is Al-Qawlu Bil-

Lisan Wal-Tasdiq Bil-Qalb Wal-Amal Bil-Jawarih. You say it with your tongues, you confirm it with your hearts, and then you practice with your limbs. It's not enough to say it anymore. It's not enough to wear the right thawb or the right abaya. What are we doing with it now? We have to put this Iman into practice and to truly depend upon Allah.

It may seem dark in front of us, difficult, but we need to have that dependence. When the difficulty comes:

Then we should say, "Allah is the best to protect. He is the one who will ultimately account for us."

Point Three: Stay Away from Major Sins

And number three: for amongst this is that we should stay away from Ijtinab Al-Kabair. We should stay away from major sins. Try to read studies on Al-Kabair. What are some of the major sins? We should try to stay away from them.

And we know that some of them coming out of the traditions, they are those which have the hudud, where there is a punishment in Sharia—those prohibited acts which are warning has come to us, those which the Prophet cursed the people who are involved in.

We know in many traditions: Ash-Shirk Billah-polytheism, sihr—magic, akl ar-riba—eating interest, eating the wealth of orphans, running from the battle, accusing innocent Muslim women of immoral acts, many different sins that we know, major sins. We need to at least try to stay away from these. If we can stay away from these major sins, then maybe we can get the benefit of this revival, the benefit of this authority in the earth.

Point Four: Avoid Indecency

Number four: avoid indecency-Al-Fawahish. And this is a very serious situation, because now we are finding that even believers, even those practicing Islam who have said the kalima, said the statements, join the Islamic movements if our priorities are wrong in marriage itself, if we get caught in the dunya.

As they have programmed the television, programmed the movies toward us—in what the Greeks would call erotica-they would put erotica. There is something erotic in all their movies. They are out in space fighting aliens, and somebody falls in love. They are underneath the ocean, someone falls in love. They are playing rugby or football or baseball, somebody falls in love. Every movie, somebody is falling in love. Why? Why are they? Erotica. This is erotica. This is to keep the minds of people involved in their sexuality, desires to overcome you.

And then the fashions come in, and they lower it down. They tighten it up. They do it so that a woman must show part of her body in order to be modern or accepted in society. And then they say, "No, it's women's rights. We are protecting the rights of women." But they want to sell a new Toyota, and there is a woman next to the

car. So what does that mean? If you buy the Toyota, then you will be married to her? What does it mean? You are exploiting her sexuality to sell your products, playing on the desire of men.

And so fawahish, this has come. And now it is reaching epic proportions in what is coming into our eyes, what they are putting on this. There are some things they are putting on television that would be considered before blue movies. What they would put on it before, I can remember watching television as a young person in America, and they had this program and maybe before some of you, it's not that old—but it was called "I Love Lucy." And in "I Love Lucy," because of the morality of America, they could not show Lucy and her husband sleeping in the same bed at night. It could not come on the television because they would not allow this is immoral.

Now look what they put on the television, all types of strange things. And so it is now a major test. It is like this verse is talking to us. It's talking to us. And it starts with our intention. Who do we want to marry? What do you want? You want fashion models? Ph.D.? Lower your standards. And it's not low. It should be raised in terms of taqwa. But who do you want?

If we are watching this images coming on the television, these are not even real people, because most of the models and the movie stars, they are actually drug addicts. They live in a state of confusion in their own lives. But when they come on, they are hot and they are dancing around, and they look so good in their clothes, and they are afraid to eat food. Their lives are in a state of confusion. They are not real people.

But we project this and try to project it on our wife. We project this Superman, Batman, superhero, and try to make our husband he has to be like a mutant creature now or something like this. We want to project this on our husband. He is just a regular Ali and Zaid. He is just a regular guy, okay? But if he is a regular guy who is making his salat and he is a good person, he is fasting in Ramadan, he is trying to be a Muslim, that is a person that is better than a person who is a supermodel or a superstar and has no morality.

So we have to raise our standards in terms of taqwa and lower our standards in terms of this so-called false reality of people, because we end up turning on each other. We have false expectations, and so we need to change.

Point Five: Forgiveness in Anger

Number five: this is an interesting point. In anger and provocation, they forgive. This is an interesting point. When they are angry, the emotion is up, there is a dispute between husband and wife, one masjid against another masjid, my organization against yours. When they are angry, then they forgive. Look at that quality. We normally forgive when everything is alright, but when we are hot and angry, especially, then can you forgive?

Can you forgive your wife at that point? Can she forgive her husband when she is angry? Can one leader forgive another leader and hug and say, "We are all Muslims. It doesn't matter what happened in the past. I forgive you.

You are a person of the Qibla. I forgive you. Let us practice Islam together." That is what we need now to survive in this age.

Point Six: Responding to Allah

Number six: Al-Istajab Lillah.

"Those who respond to their Lord." (Quran 42:38)

Al-Istajab is like kalima jamia. It is a word which gives a broad meaning. Al-Istajab is that person is ready to respond. Anytime they hear something from the Quran, they get something from the Sunnah, they are ready to respond, because their heart is open like a child responding to his mother or a mother. We respond to Allah. We respond to the Sunnah of the Prophet. And so this is a crucial type of attitude.

Point Seven: Establishing Salat

Number seven: Iqamatul Salat. Not only do we make salat, but we establish salat in our lives. Base your day not on your work or other things. Go around your salats. Think about where you are going to make dhuhr and asr. Where is maghrib? Right. Keep your salat as the basis of your rhythm.

Point Eight: Mutual Consultation

Number eight: mutual consultation. This is their conduct in life, and it starts with consultation in the home. That husband and wife need to sit down together and take consultation with each other. Don't argue. Don't fight. Even the children, bring in the children. If you want to make a decision, have your children, especially teenagers. Let them get involved. Let everybody be part of the shura.

And the amir—then the husband or the father—then he makes the decision based upon the best counsel he has gotten from his family and the guidance from Allah and His Prophet. This also happens with our communities. It happens with our nations. Either we need in our own countries, if they would listen to the words of Allah and take shura instead of making wild decisions by themselves.

Point Nine: Helping Others

Number nine: they never forget helping others.

"And from what We have given them, they will give out." (Quran 42:38)

And so this dunya, the materials they got, and from what we have given them, they will give out. And this is the time of crisis that we are living in. This last earthquake was 8.8 on the Richter scale in Chile. This is serious— 8.8. It is epic proportions that we are reaching. And so we will be involved with relief, involved with helping those in crisis. Make it as part of your life.

As we go to the Day of Resurrection, we need to know that these material things we have, not ours. We survive off it, and then we should be giving to the poor and the needy.

Point Ten: Standing Up to Oppression

And number ten: they stand up to oppression. When the oppressor attacks them, when the oppressor takes away their rights, they will stand. These are the qualities of survival.

Conclusion: A Win-Win Situation

And it is though Allah is talking to us directly in this 21st century as we go through this crisis as an Ummah, as masjids, as communities, as families and as individuals.

But never forget: it is a win-win situation. Either we win in this life or we win in the hereafter. The Prophet used to say to his companions when he sent them out:

(Sahih Al-Bukhari 69, Sahih Muslim 1734)

"Give glad tidings, don't drive people away. Make it easy, don't make it difficult. Don't make the religion difficult. Make it easy."

It is a win-win situation for us. Either we win in this life or in the hereafter. Allah is the one who has power over all things.

And this world as we see it is gonna change. It's happening now rapidly. Within the next few years—and Allah knows best-the constitution or the face of this planet will be radically changed. The question will be: where will we stand as Muslims?

Will we wallow in the valley of self-pity, crying over ourself? Or will we listen to the words of Allah, taking the survival plan He has given to us with the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of the Prophet, go forward in a positive way, confront the challenges that are with us, hold hands with believers, forgive each other, go forward, love your brother, love your sister? This is the time. Drop those phony names and bring our hearts together as one line.

Closing Prayers

May Allah purify our hearts, purify our minds, bring us together as one self. And may Allah forgive us for those actions that we have done, for we know not what we do.

Allah and His angels send blessings upon the Prophet. O you who have believed, send blessings upon him.

Allahumma, send blessings upon Your servant and Your messenger Muhammad and all his family and companions. And the end of our call: all praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds.

May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon you.