By BADEA ABU AL-NAJA | ARAB NEWs

MAKKAH: Sheikh Saleh Al-Talib, imam and khatib at the Grand Mosque, called on Muslims to fortify their faith in Almighty Allah as a means to wipe clean their hearts of hatred and hostility.

“Whoever tastes the sweetness of faith will never experience the thoughts of hatred, evil or hostility,” Al-Talib said in his sermon on the first Friday of Ramadan. Hundreds of thousands of faithful attended the congregational prayer at the Grand Mosque.

The sheikh stressed the futility of a man depriving himself of food and water in Ramadan without accompanying it with plenty of good deeds, charity and repentance. “As the blessed month will pass quickly, believers should do good deeds to earn a place amid the blessed in the world and the hereafter,” Al-Talib said.