God, Glorious and Exalted, is the Creator of everything. He brought us from nothing and provided us with all blessings. Life is from Him, and death is from Him, and sustenance is in His hands. There is no limit to His power, no equal to His strength, and there is no god but Allah. He knows the secret and what is even more hidden. And when He wants something, He says to it, 'Be,' and it is. The occasion of this speech, my dear brothers, is that today, man is above the earth. There will come a day when he will be beneath the earth, and he will stand before the Creator on the Day of Judgment. We remember that we should know our Lord before death. Knowing our Lord after death will not be of any benefit, my beloved.