History between Passive Observance and Active Agents

Added: 2026-06-08

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[00:14:43]I praise Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala the lord of the worlds the creator of heavens and earth. I thank Allah for the blessings that he has granted us and our loved ones and I ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to continue to increase those blessings upon us and to make us worthy and deserving of them. I bear witness that there is no deity worthy of worship save Allah and I bear witness that Muhammad is Allah's final prophet and messenger the teacher the leader the inspiration I thank Allah for the gift of Muhammad and I ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to give us the strength to walk steadily in the footsteps of the beloved messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam and I ask Allah to extend his blessings to the prophet's family his companions and their followers and the men and women that walk in their footsteps and adhere to their path and teachings and I ask Allah to make us among them.

[00:15:32]My dear brothers and sisters, I greet you with a greeting of Islam.

[00:15:39]If I asked you what is history, you will say history is the events that happened before us. And I say this is the wrong definition of history. The past is the sum total of the events that happened before us. History is the academic undertaking of selecting those events for recording, writing about them, explaining them, and documenting them.

[00:16:07]That is history. History is someone's perspective on the events of the past.

[00:16:13]The past is a million things. I may write about a man and a woman that sat down and had dinner 200 years ago. That would not be worthy history unless that person is a king or that person is a general or that person is a conqueror or some prominent person in their community. The event itself does not always translate to history brothers and sisters and we have to be very careful as we read history. History is never removed from the intentions and the agenda and the objectives and the ideology of the historian.

[00:16:50]The past is the past but history is someone's perspective on that past and we have to be very careful and Allah subhana wa ta'ala tells us stories in the Quran about events that happened in the past. He taught us about the stories of the prophets and the messengers and the nations before us. But there is always a purpose. And Allah subhana taught us in the Quran.

[00:17:16]There is always a lesson. There is always a purpose. There's always some something in the tale that is being told that reminds us today. And that is why I always say selective disjointed reading of history can be very very dangerous.

[00:17:33]Why is it dangerous? Because any reading of history that does not lead to positive action is harmful.

[00:17:40]There's always positive things and the negative things to see in history. If I focus on negative things, then it's not informing my present. It's not helping me make better decisions today. People in especially in the western forms of recording history. By the way, Muslims always recorded history for its lessons, for its instruction. The western world treats history like an academic undertaking. I just need to know when Napoleon entered this city and how many soldiers in his army and how many casualties after the battle. That tells me absolutely nothing. I could care less what Napoleon did. What I need to know today is why he did it and what moral perspectives he was following and how many people he hurt that were civilians and innocent people and what that say today about power and about force and about strength as we manage our own war.

[00:18:35]There has to be some type of lesson and instruction as we read history. And I will give you an example. It's a very stark example about one particular century that at face value seems to have been very very difficult for Muslims. If you think that it's difficult to live in the Trump era, try living as a Muslim in the 13th century. The 13th century historically was a very very difficult century for the um Subhan Allah. Look at Muslim Spain and Andelucia and what was happening over there, right? one city after the other fell to the Christian reconquest to the Castellians, right?

[00:19:17]And so you have in this order the city of Tortoba fell and then the city of Valencia fell and then the city of Sevilla fell, right? 1948. So literally in about 15 years, we lost maybe 10 cities.

[00:19:35]10 cities. It was the darkest century for Muslim presence in Spain.

[00:19:40]Zoom out of Spain and then zoom back into the Middle East. What was happening in the 13th century? 1220 thearism Empire was completely destroyed by the Mongols. 1258 the Abbassis were destroyed. The city of Baghdad fell to the Mongols, right? It was a horrific century for the Muslims, right? We lost Muslim Spain for the most part and we lost the Abbasid Empire for the most part and we lost in what is today in Afghanistan and so forth. We lost that too. But it didn't end there. We had three crusades.

[00:20:17]Three crusades in that century.

[00:20:21]1217 the fifth crusade. 1228 the sixth crusade. And 1248 the seventh crusade.

[00:20:30]three crusades in one century. Like I said, the 13th century was a very, very difficult century for the Muslims. But here's what I want to do with you. I want to go through an exercise to just show show you right now that this was a very biased and selected selective reading of the 13th century. It is also the 13th century, brothers and sisters, where in 1267 the very first Muslim empire was established in Indonesia to evolve eventually into the largest Muslim country in the world today. Over, you know, 350 million Muslims, right?

[00:21:09]that century 1258 the same year that we lost the city of is also the same year that Rahman was born 1258 and then later on in that century 1299 established what became the Ottoman Empire right it is also in that century 1260 2 years after the fall of Baghdad that the battle of Jalut took place and the Mongol army was obliterated. We stopped their advancement into the world. Literally, the the Mongols were not civilization builders. The Mongols were not the Romans and the Greeks. They were not the Persians. They were not us.

[00:21:51]The Mongols understood one thing. Rape, destroy, pillage, lay waste to anything that they see. The Mongols were the virus. They they were they all they believed in is scorching the earth, right? And the Muslims stopped them.

[00:22:06]They did not build culture and civilization and libraries. They did not have a religion of their own. Nothing.

[00:22:11]Just take and then destroy and the Muslims stopped them in. Right? That too happened in that century. It is also in the 13th century that we retook the city of Jerusalem. Alus in in 1244. In fact, the Muslim retaking of Jerusalem in 1244 is what prompted the seventh crusader four years later when Louie the 9th led this crusader mostly of French people coming into Egypt because that was the seat of Mamluke Tower that controlled the Muslim world at the time. Initially they took the city of Damiera in Egypt and then months later they were completely obliterated in the city of my ancestral home. My people came from the city of Mansura and he Louis the 9inth was actually taken as captive for three years in Mansura. He was left in someone's house until the French had to ransom.

[00:23:07]We can look at the 13th century and see darkness and defeat. Or we can also look at the 13th century and see a lot of hope and incredible things that happened. And I'm just giving you very few examples. Why is that important today brothers and sisters? Because if we look at our times, it's very easy for us to do the same selective reading of history and see nothing but darkness and depression and defeat for the Muslim woman, right? You see the rise of materialism. You see the rise of the alphabet people. You see the rise of of hollenness and atheism. You see the rise of Zionism. You see the attacks on you see attacks on Iran and now southern Lebanon. You see complacency by the Arab world and Muslim world. and they're all basically agents for Zionism. Yes, you can read history negatively if you want.

[00:23:56]Or we can also see other things. I see Iran was able to fend off American and Zionist attacks both at the same time.

[00:24:07]Say whatever you want to say about the Iranian regime and and and whatever that they have done, you know, to Yemen and and to Syria and other Muslim places. We acknowledge all of that. But if we talk about political power, if we talk about military power, they managed to fend them off.

[00:24:23]We may see the rise of of of Zionist attacks, you know, in in in in in Raza.

[00:24:29]And now that they've destroyed everything that can be destroyed in they're moving into southern Lebanon because this disease needs to continue.

[00:24:37]But you know what? It's just a disease.

[00:24:39]And every sickness in the world has a cure. And if it does not get fixed by medication, it gets fixed by surgery. It can be excised. Trust me, whatever they do is just this last convulsion before death. That's my opinion. It's that very last attack because they know that the future is not theirs. We can also see the rise of Muslim presence in the United States. We can see all the Muslims that are now running for office and winning. We can see the shift of public opinion. We can see the massagid in South America. A brother just came back from Brazil. He says every city that he visited, the massagid were full.

[00:25:20]And these are not immigrants. These are local people whose ancestors converted to Islam. Descendants of Palestinians and Lebanese and Syrians, but also South Americans that are coming back to the faith because they started realizing that their ancestors may have actually been Muslim. You see the rise of Islam in Spain. You see the rise of Islam in central Asia in Usuzbakistan and Kazakhstan and Dakistan and all these countries. People are coming to the deal. You see the rise of Indonesia and Malaysia as very powerful economic centers of the world. We can see negativity or we can see positivity.

[00:25:57]It's up to us. That's the thing. History is a tricky thing, brothers and sisters.

[00:26:02]And as Muslims that live in this era, we need to find positive ways of reading our own history. ways that will propel us forward that will help us achieve beautiful and amazing things and I have some spiritual insights to share with you inshalla today this summer we wanted to talk about history in an instructive way in a positive way we wanted to talk about the history of our um and how that informs our decisions today I'm not going to be standing here telling you tales though I'm going to be sharing with you instructions about how to contribute in the very making of history brother and ers remember history is not the past events.

[00:26:42]History is how we read those past events and how we document them, record them and process them. And every single one of us can be a maker of history. And I will show you throughout this series how to achieve that together as a community and as an spiritual insight that I wanted to share with you today is that you cannot be a spectator anymore.

[00:27:05]You cannot be a spectator letting history unfold and you are just on the passive receiving end of that history.

[00:27:12]You have to contribute. You have to contribute in the making of history by your microactions every single day.

[00:27:19]Allahh says in the Quran, why are you not giving support to one another? As we give support to one another, brothers and sisters, history unfolds favorably and the events unfold favorably.

[00:27:35]Favorably meaning to support and righteousness and beauty and equality and justice. So he cannot just sit in the corners, wait for history to unfold and then complain. You have to participate. every brother, every sister in the community that has been doing political action, that is doing economic work, that is doing financial work, that is doing cultural impact, every single one of those, as little and small as they are, they are contributing to the making of that history. Brothers and sisters, the second insight that I wanted to share with you is that history does not necessarily unfold in a favorable or an unfavorable direction.

[00:28:14]At least not in accordance to our standards. You cannot judge the actions of Allah subhana wa tala based on your preferences. Well, it didn't go the way I want. Therefore, it's bad. Doesn't work this way. Allah says in the Quran, every day Allah is engaged in his own affairs, in his own priorities. Our job as believers is to make sure that our actions are in line with the priorities of Allahh. It doesn't necessarily have to look favorable or unfavorable for us.

[00:28:46]It just has to be the right thing and I need to be on the right side of history by being on the side of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and make no mistake about that brother and sisters. Right? So Allah subhana t has his own priority and we are part of that priority. The third advice that I have for you or the third insight that I have for you today is this.

[00:29:06]As we engage in our own actions every single day, we don't know the snowball effect and the butterfly effect and the consequences of those actions in the long term. You know, Allah tells you in the Quran, you will know the consequences of your actions later. Allah says in the Quran, I just need to do the right thing. I talked to you earlier about the Muslim Mluks fending off the Mongols in the battle of Jaloo in 1260 in the 13 in the 13th century. I keep thinking about that event and I realize that the soldiers that fought in that battle did not know that they were averting global catastrophe. They thought that they were just fighting the army of an invading country such as the Mongols. They did not know that they really protected the rest of the world from the disease that was the Mongols, right? And and today as Muslims here in this country, as we push back against materialism, as we push back against godlessness, as we push back against purposelessness, as we push back against sexual deviations, as we push back against the evil of Zionism, as we push back against the the corrupt elite, as we push back against the exploitation of little children, we may think that these is small actions that, you know, individuals are making, But ultimately in the grand scheme of things, you literally are changing history. You're changing the course because we don't know. Historians actually say that when Andelucia fell to the to the Europeans, one of the unforeseeable consequences of this is that a lot of these minds, a lot of these philosophers and mathematicians and poets and engineers and physicists and all these incredible scholars that used to live in Muslim Spain, they migrated eastwards and then they relocated in the Ottoman Empire, injecting power, injecting uh resources, injecting, you know, all kinds of of beautiful ideas that actually helped the the Ottoman Empire rise. A lot of people don't know that in in the in the 1500s when Sultan Sleman the Magnificent was rising in the Ottoman Empire that is actually when we lost the very last Muslim enclave in Spain happened at the same time. There was this kind of switch of power, this transmission of minds that moved from Spain to Istanbul to the Ottoman Empire. And these are this is the work of Allah subhana wa tala brothers and sisters, right? We cannot we can and one of the great examples to this by the way I told you that in 1220 the empire was destroyed and then in 1244 the city of Jerusalem was taken back from the crusaders. You know who took it from the crusaders? It was theian soldiers and immigrants that came from central Asia and relocated to Jerusalem.

[00:32:05]It was the great soldiers that lost the battle. So they had to relocate to a safer space. It was those soldiers that took it from they were not even from the region. They're Muslims, but they're Afghans. They're not from the region, but they took the city of Jerusalem back from the crusaders. It's the work of Allahh. We do what we do because we're soldiers of Allah subhana tala. and let Allah decide on the details on the consequences. Brothers and sisters, the other spiritual insight that I wanted to share with you is this. Sometimes it's the names of the prominent people, the famous leaders that are recorded in history. But history is actually made by the actions of the day-to-day individuals like you and I.

[00:32:47]It's the things that you and I do today as we come into the masid, as we leave the masid, as we drive back to work, the people that we interact with, as we shop, as we operate on social media. All of that is actually what makes history.

[00:33:07]Allah will not let uh go to waste the reward of those who do good. So continue to do good, brothers and sisters. And the last spiritual insight that I wanted to share with you at the beginning of this is this. Allah subhana t says in the Quran when you are done with one task stand up with strength in order to carry out the next task we continue to work and be on the side of Allah subhana wa tala no matter what every single day no matter what happens to us we don't need to be motivated we don't need to be driven it's our sense of duty that inspires to do what we do brothers and sisters when we are done with one challenge We roll our sleeves and we gear up to the next challenge.

[00:33:54]That's what we do as Muslims. We never cave. We never bend over. We never lose hope. We continue to serve Allah subhanaa tala. Once one challenge is over, we're going to get ready for the next challenge. This is how you make history. This is how you build the civilization. And don't say to yourself, well, the is just sharing all these lofty goals with us. I'm just a little guy. I'm just an immigrant. I came to this country couple years ago. What do I know about building a civilization?

[00:34:22]Pay attention to what I'm saying. It's the microactions and the things that you do and say every single day that contribute to making a history. Doesn't have to be great major things. You don't need to conquer Fresno in order to write history. You just need to do the right thing and be on the side of Allah subhana wa ta'ala every single day and contribute as I will show share with you in the second half of this. I ask Allah to answer our prayers to forgive us our sins and to establish us firmly on his path. Raise your hands brothers and sisters and ask Allah subhana tala for his guidance and forgiveness.

[00:35:24]Alhamdulillah.

[00:35:56]My dear brothers and sisters, I try to distinguish today between past events and the word history. And I said history is someone's take on the past. History is an attempt to record the past. And that is never removed or devoid from the intentions and the agendas of the person that does the recording. And so as Muslims, we need to look at history in an instructive manner. History that helps us move forward to avoid the mistakes of the past. history that brings positive energy and not history that will make us weak and complacent and and hopeless and and and I shared with you the 13th century, the 1200s as a great example of a century that could be characterized as catastrophic for the Yet it is also a century where incredible things happen. And I said that as Muslims, and this is the most spiritual insight of this, as Muslims, we cannot always be on the receiving end of history as it unfolds. We need to be contributors. We cannot be spectators anymore. We have to in a in a very small way, you know, that is proportionate to our impact and our influence. And we're all here, you know, simple people. We're not great leaders. We're not billionaires. We're not elected officials, right? We're not conquering generals. We're all simple, you know, folk here. And I'm saying at our level there is a way with our contributions with our actions and efforts to actually be a part of making that history. And I will talk to you in over the summer over the next you know two months or so about ways to do that you know in in in our series. And I wanted to share with you if the ask today, if the ask of of my community today is for us to contribute into the making and the writing of history, then I have to give you some action items. I have to give you things to do. What do I take home today? If I if if your spouse or your child or your friend asked you what was about today, what is expected of us? What is the im asking us to do? Let me give you some action items, some tasks for you to work on. Right? Number one, Allah says in the Quran, meaning use the Quran and the teachings of the Quran to inspire your striving against bad ideas.

[00:38:20]As we push back against bad ideas in the world, we need to be inspired by the teachings of our book. Which means that we need to understand those teachings.

[00:38:30]If someone asks you why is gambling wrong, then you have to understand from the perspective of the Quran why gambling is really bad for society. Why is prostitution bad for society? What does Islam say about immigration policy?

[00:38:44]What does Islam say about the capital punishment? What does Islam say about gun control? What does Islam say about free speech? You have to from the Quran, you need to be inspired yourself and you start pushing back against bad ideas in the world around you and you have to be ready with good answers. Which means that we need to write. We need to engage in conversations. If you are active on social media, vlog and blog and produce content that will help people understand the ideas of the Quran. Engage in think tanks. We have mashallah in our own community uh uh uh the institute for Muslim advancement and renewal is our own think tank. If you love to write and you have an academic perspective and you would like to put your ideas out in the world there are ways to do that.

[00:39:34]Alhamdulillah right here in this community. So we have to use the Quran to push back against bad ideas otherwise bad ideas will continue to fester and perpetuate in the world. Right? Number two, Allah subhana t says in the Quran that there are homes in which Allah subhana t allowed for them to be established and for his name to be mentioned. A lot of people translate bu as what?

[00:40:04]>> As was massag, right? They translate it as mass. But that is a restriction on the word that is undue.

[00:40:11]Buy here or houses means that all the spaces that belong to the um that perpetuate the name of Allah subhana tala. All the spaces that raise the banner of Allah subhana wa tala. It could be our massid but it could also be our Islamic schools. It could be our think tanks. It could be our political action committees. It could be our economic organizations. It could be, you know, cultural institutions. It could be a variety of things. If someone wants to create a museum of Islamic art and history in order to expose non-Muslims to that, that would be B as well in accordance with the meaning of this. So I invite you today as you take the Quran as a source of your mujah of your striving to push back against the bad ideas in the world. I invite you to select one of those homes, one of those platforms that would enable you to actually go into the world in an organized way and push back against bad ideas, brothers and sisters. Right? So we take the Quran with us everywhere and we find a beautiful platform in order to perpetuate those teachings of the Quran brothers and sisters. But then Allah subhana t also tells you in the Quran.

[00:41:30]He says to the believers establish justice.

[00:41:34]Meaning that we as Muslims we cannot be complacent with with injustice around us. We we cannot allow for things to happen without having a say a stance. As a Muslim, brothers and sisters, you're responsible today to push back against that type of evil. Boycott products that are used to perpetuate injustice and tyranny and help with voter registration campaigns. Help someone that is running for office and support them or maybe consider running for office yourself.

[00:42:07]We've been seeing a lot of young people running for a county and running for a city and running for school board and running for local elections and state elections as well, possibly even federal. Why not? Some of the most unpredictable people, some of the most insane characters that we've seen have assumed political office. Why not us?

[00:42:29]Why not good people who have actually good ideas, brothers and sisters? Right?

[00:42:34]So we have to be those who establish justice.

[00:42:39]Number four, Allahh says in the Quran, cooperate with each other in matters of righteousness and in matters of God consciousness and I take this ayah very seriously because for me it talks about social cultural but also financial transactions. Brothers and sisters, we need to cooperate with each other as a community and as an ummah to build financial power. We need to generate wealth for our own community to support our own community. We need to find ways for halal financing. There's so many projects in the community that are waiting for proper halal financing. We don't get engaged in the ribba interestbased system that is destroying the western world. We don't do that. We want halal alternatives, which means that we need to start with ourselves.

[00:43:28]Engage with other Muslim businesses, hire Muslim contractors, you know, find ways for halal finances. Don't keep giving yourself the excuse, "Oh, they're all just the same. They're charging us more." It is your responsibility to find a halal way to finance your own projects. As Muslims, we need to exercise austerity and frugality. Make money and let's create incubators in our community that help people, you know, start business and teach them about how to establish a successful business. But practice frugality. It's okay to invest.

[00:44:02]You can become a millionaire, but you don't need to buy a Gwagon and tell everyone, you know, look at me, I am wealthy. It doesn't need to reflect on the branding of your clothes. You can still wear your clothes from Costco and Walmart and be a simple person that lives in a simple house, but you're a millionaire. Be smart about your wealth.

[00:44:22]Be smart about your financial power as a community. And don't see your brothers and sisters as competition. See them as allies. Work with them. You know, if if you have two hands, they can clap together. Find a few people in the community. I'm not even saying I'm not saying become business partners. I am saying exchange ideas, build trust and maybe one day you can become business partners. Right? But Allah instructs us in the Quran to work and cooperate together on these affairs particularly on financial matters. Brothers and sisters, number five, Allah says in the Quran, avail yourselves and your families of fire. We protect our children from the fire by putting them in the right programs, by putting them in Islamic institutions, by bringing them to the masjid every single day, by enrolling them in summer camps and and and and trips and camps and and Sunday schools, by making sure that our children are in.

[00:45:22]If you say this program is too expensive, yet you go to the restaurant and you spend $200 on a dinner, then you've decided on your priorities. And your priority is not the well-being of your children. That's a decision you make. The fact that the masid charges $300 for Sunday school over four months and you still think that this is too expensive, yet you literally fill your car tank with $75 at once, twice a week.

[00:45:51]Then you've decided on your own priorities. And then when your kids turn 16, 17 and 18 and they stray from the path, you come to the masid and you start crying and you start saying to the imam, "Help me." There is something that you can do about the children from now.

[00:46:06]Any generational shift requires, brothers and sisters, that we teach our children differently. If you hand over your kids to strangers at a public school, you share no values or principles with them and they're teaching them harmful stuff, don't be then very shocked and surprised when they stray from the path. And so there are things that we can do in order to protect ourselves and our families from the fire today. Right?

[00:46:36]Number six, the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam taught us Allah subhana wa ta'ala has established excellence in everything. As Muslims who are trying to change the world, we need to practice that excellence. We need to be prompt. We need to show up on time.

[00:46:56]We need to pay people before they start, you know, annoying us and sending us messages and emails. We need to be civilized as we come into the masid. We need to follow proper parking and and and traffic rules and regulations. We need to look neat and look nice and be organized and and really be Muslim. One of the things that really irk me the most is when people say Muslim standard time. You don't know what you're talking about. Muslim standard time means you've made a promise and you show up on time.

[00:47:24]That's Muslim standard time. What you're practicing is your own corrupt standard time. Don't attribute this to Islam.

[00:47:32]Don't attribute this to us. You're making a choice to be weak and complacent. you are pathologically late for everything. Don't blame Islam for that. That's just this Muslim culture.

[00:47:42]They're all like this. You know, they're all like this because you started it and because you let it happen. We need to to practice thisan at work. You're the best in your social relations. You're the best with your friends. You're the best with non-Muslims and Muslims. You're always the best. Always conscious, always trying your on your to be on your best behavior as a Muslim. Right. And last but not least, brothers and sisters, Allah subhana t also taught us that there will be consequences to all of this. There's going to be push back.

[00:48:14]If you're trying to change your culture and rewrite the history of your environment, you're going to be a target and you're going to be hated and you're going to be attacked and that's fine.

[00:48:24]We will take the blows and we will continue to move forward. The more attacks you get, then you're doing the right thing and you are on the right path. And I ask Allah subhanaa tala to answer our prayers. I ask Allahhana to strengthen our um and our community. I ask Allah subhana wa tala to help us chart an honest path forward for this umah. And I ask Allahhana to help us start with ourselves and our families and our community. I ask Allahh to protect us from evil to protect us from distractions to protect us from seduction and temptation. We ask Allahh to keep us focused and fixated on the goals and to make our goals in line with divine objectives and directives. And I ask Allah subhana wa ta'ala to give relief to our brothers and sisters uh all over the world and right here at home we are who are struggling against poverty against tyranny against disease.

[00:49:17]I ask Allahh to make us instruments in their relief.

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[00:52:00]It'll be in a day filled with fun activities for the entire family.

[00:52:04]Looking forward to being with all of you guys. Zabia is looking for dedicated volunteers 18 plus for our upcoming Sunday school program for students of special needs. Let us know in if you're interested in helping. Also for our full-time school program, the center, we are open for registration for the fall.

[00:52:22]Let us know inshallah if you would like to register uh your you know four to six uh you know years of age in that program inshallah. Some dua requests a sister requests dua for the daughters of two of her close friends in Sacramento and in Roseville who are going through severe mental health issues for several years.

[00:52:42]We ask give them fully and a community member bought a new car and is asking the community to make dua to ensure his safety. We ask Allah subhana t to give you its best and to protect you from its worst. Our dear brother Mik, a 15year-old boy is currently in the ICU in critical condition fighting for his life. His parents humbly request that you pray for him and ask Allah to give him full shifat and to bring him to his family safe and sound. A sister requests to offer a family member who gave birth to a healthy baby but is now having postbirth complications. We ask Allah to give you full health. A mean brother Sami Sili is requesting dua for his nephew Shir who died in a car crash in the Bay Area. We ask Allahh to accept him amongst the and to give the family and perseverance in this difficult hour.

[00:53:35]Also our dear brother is Khan was the former manager of the greater Muslim cemetery the greater Sacramento Muslim cemetery passed away hours ago. Um he was one of the leaders of this community and one of the founders of the Muslim cemetery and he served literally I've seen him every single day for years and years and years being the one that buried people. Now it was his turn to go into into the earth and to be with Allah and his janaza is today at the Muslim cemetery at 2:30 p.m. we ask to grant him his and to give his family Foreign speech. Foreign speech.

[00:54:42]Thank you so much.