A poet once said, "I stayed up late at night when people had fallen asleep, and I supplicated to my Lord, complaining about what my Lord already knows." In our day and age, it so often feels like all Muslims have fallen into a long, deep sleep, a sleep like death. I like to present pictures in my khutbahs (sermons) because pictures tend to increase our awareness, and, as I have repeatedly said, awareness is the beginning of everything. If we are not aware, there is no hope. Awareness plants the...