Omar Suleiman

And it's great for our limbs as well, right?

And that's one of the added benefits, right?

It's good for us.

Worship that we do is not torturous.

It's actually good for us.

However, the core objective of worship has to remain that it's something you do out of worship and something you do out of a sense of obligation and gratitude to God, not because of those things.

Like I'm not gonna fast because it's good for my health, but I know it's good for my health to fast.

But it's pretty cool when you walk into, I'll share this with you.

There was a man, he was a scholar from Turkey, an Islamic scholar from Turkey.

And he had visited us in Dallas and he was 108 years old.

And he could still pray, bowing and prostrating.

I mean, his limbs.

And you think about that, like someone at that age still being able to do that.

So I'm sure it's good for your limbs.

It's good for your health, good for your gut, good for your sleep, good for your mind.

So Mecca is the home that Abraham, peace be upon him, built along with his son Ishmael, peace be upon him.

And it gives the Muslims a unified direction of prayer.

It's sort of at the center geographically of who we are.

And when we pray towards it,

It's not that that's the only place that you can supplicate turn towards, but it gives us a unified sense of direction.