And by the way, please remember those words next time.

Any of you, if you're expecting a child

and that you were hoping and your mother was hoping

and your father was hoping and your extended cousins were hoping

it's gonna be a son.

And you have a daughter. You remember that Allah didn't highlight the birth of a child like he did the birth of Miriam, Sala, and Arlihan.

It's an honor to have a daughter. It's a gift of Allah to have a daughter.

Our duas are a means by which we connect to Allah.

Our doas are not a means by which this world becomes heaven.

This world is going to be full of trials.

People that were much better than we are, had difficulty in life.

Today's chutba is dedicated to a very unique individual mentioned repeatedly in the Quran.

It's Mariam, Sala M. Alleha.

And the reason I decided to give a hubba on some aspects of her life

that Allah highlights in the Quran are actually inspired by a question somebody asked me this week.

Somebody came to me this week and said that they've had a very

close relationship with Allah since childhood and that they make they've made

duah to Allah from a very early age praying Tahajud, even when they were a teenager, and whenever

they asked Allah for something Allah provided, this person actually had a pretty tough life.

You know, father passed away at an early age, no brothers and this

this woman has lived a pretty lonely life and basically decided to really

truly depend on a lot. And so as she grew and developed in her years, she found that

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