Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds.
And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the prophets and messengers.
Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and his family and his companions.
Peace and blessings be upon them all.
After this, my brothers and sisters, first and foremost, I would like to thank Allah the Exalted for having given me the opportunity to be here for these six years.
It's a study in how fast time passes.
I cannot myself believe that six years have passed.
Alhamdulillah, they have passed.
And we have been through, thanks to COVID and so on, different times and different things.
And Alhamdulillah, I thank Allah the Exalted for His constant help and His constant courage and support
that Allah the Exalted gave me.
And gave all of us.
I want to thank very specially the board of this masjid.
And they know and I know that I don't, I'm not just saying this formally.
But this is a masjid, the board of which represents the kind of brotherhood and diversity that brother Muhammad talked about.
Where there is this understanding between the board members
and their own dedication to serving this community.
Many times in the face of opposition which is from people who don't understand what is going on.
Despite that, they have been serving and they have been doing a brilliant job.
And they all do it only and only for the pleasure of Allah the Exalted without any compensation.
I want to thank especially Dr. Bajwa, who has been a mentor to me from day one.
And Alhamdulillah, we have done some good work with the interfaith community.
But I have always looked upon him and I continue to look upon him as a mentor and a teacher
in how to deal with the interfaith community.
My experience of the interfaith community was practically zero when I came here.
Because we don't have this kind of thing in India.
But after I came here, Alhamdulillah, we have been able to do things which I am satisfied about.
But all of that is thanks to Dr. Bajwa's introductions, his guidance, his continuous support, his advice.
Alhamdulillah, and I ask Allah to reward him in keeping with His Majesty and Grace.
I will not name all the other people because there are so many.
And they know and I know and Allah knows who they are.
And I ask Allah to reward all of them in keeping with His Majesty and Grace.
So I want to express my thanks to this entire community.
To the children, to the elders, to the men and women, all of whom I have had the pleasure and privilege of interacting with.
And Alhamdulillah, these are memories I take with me.
The second thing I want to say to you is that while I am away,
there are certain things which you have been receiving for me which will continue.
One is the two classes a week.
Right now, one of them Dr. Ali is doing, which is the Tafseer class.
But that also is my responsibility.
So two classes a week, the recording of the Jummah Khutbah.
These three things you will get every single week.
The second thing which you will get is the daily Khatira.
Now here you get it live every alternate day.
Because Sheikh Abdullah and I take 10 days.
But the virtual is always there.
But you will get the daily Khatira, InshaAllah, every day.
That will also come to you.
So InshaAllah, this will also continue.
So also with regard to any advice that any of you want, any questions you want asked.
I don't say I have the answer to all questions.
I wish I did.
But certainly I will try and I will try to get you whatever answers you want.
Or any kind of help you like. InshaAllah.
Whatever I can do, I'm at your service and will continue to be at your service as we go forward.
So I want to start with these two things.
So you are sure that I will, that you can't get rid of me that easily.
I want to remind myself and you that we are on a journey and the name of that journey is life.
And like in any journey,