[SPEAKER_00]: Your Lord has declared, if you're grateful, I will increase you in blessings to be grateful for, but if you are in great, if you lack gratitude, in fact, if you show ingratitude, I will give you more reasons to be ungrateful.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will give you more reasons to be ungrateful.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is a metaphysical equation, gratitude equals increase in blessings.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is a part that it's a law.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a metaphysical law that says true as the Newtonian physics that you learned in high school.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you're ungrateful, then Allah will give you more to be ungrateful about, more to wine about.
[SPEAKER_00]: You think it's bad now?
[SPEAKER_00]: You have no idea how bad it can get.
[SPEAKER_00]: We have to be grateful because if we're ungrateful and always complaining, a lot is going to give you more to complain about.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was in one of the ghost's days, and somebody was complaining about the price of gasoline, the taxi driver, 25 cents at the time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now it's a lot higher, why?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because they keep complaining.
[SPEAKER_00]: Go ahead, complain all you want.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because if you love to complain, Allah will give you plenty to complain about.
[SPEAKER_00]: But if you want to show gratitude, Allah will give you plenty to show gratitude about.
[SPEAKER_00]: They did a study at Davis.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's called the gratitude study for depressed people.
[SPEAKER_00]: They had them write down every day, every morning, 10 things they were grateful for.
[SPEAKER_00]: Over a period of a month, people's depression started being lifted.
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[SPEAKER_00]: or some people have dry eyes.
[SPEAKER_00]: So if you have moisture in your eyes, what are blessing?
[SPEAKER_00]: If you have teeth, what are blessing?
[SPEAKER_00]: If you don't have teeth, if you have dentures, what are blessing?
[SPEAKER_00]: There are people that don't have dentures.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you lose one arm, what are blessing?
[SPEAKER_00]: You didn't lose both arms.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you lose both arms, what are blessing?
[SPEAKER_00]: Now they have prosthetic devices that enable you to do things.
[SPEAKER_00]: Even Abbas said, in every tribulation in dunya there are three blessings hidden that you have to recognize.
[SPEAKER_00]: The first is that it could have been worse.
[SPEAKER_00]: The second is that it's in your dunya and not in your dean.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the third in your world, the affairs are not in your religious effort.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the third, it's in this world and not in the next.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you should be grateful for that.
[SPEAKER_00]: People now are complaining.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah said, liya bluhakum, as you can ask, senua amala.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's going to try you to see who of you are the best in actions.
[SPEAKER_00]: What are the bluhakum?
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to try you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's
[SPEAKER_00]: You will be tried in your wealth and in your lives.
[SPEAKER_00]: And in your lives.
[SPEAKER_00]: And in your life.
[SPEAKER_00]: What does he say?
[SPEAKER_00]: How's our response?
[SPEAKER_00]: What's our response?
[SPEAKER_00]: We in Tospiru.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if you show patience with Tattapu and show piety, restraint, control yourself.
[SPEAKER_00]: The innetic and manazement or more, because that is at the essence of this matter.
[SPEAKER_00]: That is at the essence of this matter.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is our Dean, Allah Subhanahu Wa Dane said,
[SPEAKER_00]: mutma inna, yatihar is uha, min kuhli makhan fakhafarat bi anamilah fahadataha Allahul ibasil jhuri will hovi bi makhanu yusna'un Allah strikes a similitude for you to think a similitude, Allah strikes a similitude for you to reflect
[SPEAKER_00]: It was tranquil.
[SPEAKER_00]: It had provision in abundance coming from every place.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like we have today, we eat berries from Chile.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we drink tea from China.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we have rice from India, Basmati rice in your homes from India.
[SPEAKER_00]: You get all this blessing from all over the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: So what did they do?
[SPEAKER_00]: Instead of saying, alhamdulillah wa shukulillah alhamdulillah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Qafarat bi anamillah.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were in great, ungrateful.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the meaning of Qufar.
[SPEAKER_00]: Qufar is in gratitude.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can be a Muslim and be a cather in the meaning that you're in great.
[SPEAKER_00]: This ingratitude, that's the essence of Qufam.
[SPEAKER_00]: The essence of Islam is gratitude, sugar, a feeling of blessing that Allah has given, the biggest blessing is that we exist.
[SPEAKER_00]: Named to, an Ejad, when Named to the imdad, the blessing of giving us our existence and then sustaining our existence.
[SPEAKER_00]: He could take away that sustenance at any time.
[SPEAKER_00]: So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says that he enveloped that city in,
[SPEAKER_00]: hunger, look of the blessing of food, in hunger and terror.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hunger and terror, the basil, juri, wal-khaufi, y, b-ma, b-ma, b-a-seba-b-ya.
[SPEAKER_00]: What's the cause?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because of their ungratefulness.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this is what we've lost an understanding of our religion.
[SPEAKER_00]: We look at all these events, and we don't see the real source of these events.
[SPEAKER_00]: In gratitude.
[SPEAKER_00]: If we want to change the world, we have to change our state and our attitude about all these blessings that we've been given.
[SPEAKER_00]: Government is a blessing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Even the worst form of government is better than anarchy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Even a tyranny is, but this monarchy, even Ana said this, these weren't ignorant people.
[SPEAKER_00]: These were genius people because he lived through civil wars.
[SPEAKER_00]: He saw what happens when things break down.
[SPEAKER_00]: The people of Damascus
[SPEAKER_00]: Six years ago, we're eating beautiful food.
[SPEAKER_00]: They had good clothes.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was one of the few countries on the planet that was actually self-sustained.
[SPEAKER_00]: And now all of this tribulation.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if you say, you know, why is it happening to them and not us?
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe because a lot loves them more because we know how to sham have a muckum.
[SPEAKER_00]: So Allah will put all of the torment of the Ahra, He'll put it in the dunya for a short period, and then they go back to Allah completely free of any tribulation or punishment.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe it's the places that aren't being afflicted, that deserve to be afflicted, that should be worrying.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the way Muslims traditionally looked at things.
[SPEAKER_00]: When the Mughal came down, when the Mongols came down, they didn't say these evil Mongols.
[SPEAKER_00]: They said, how the Adabatullah al-Ladina l-Dunubina.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is a punishment.
[SPEAKER_00]: God has sent us because of our wrong actions.
[SPEAKER_00]: A lot put them in power.
[SPEAKER_00]: He says, He gives power to Him, ever.
[SPEAKER_00]: He pleases, Muslim had it.
[SPEAKER_00]: If Muslims had nuclear weapons right now with the idiots that we have, we would have nuclear concentrations all over.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah knows who he gives power to.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, they have used their power, but to what degree?
[SPEAKER_00]: Who would be worse?
[SPEAKER_00]: People want the destruction of America.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, let's see what happens when China gets the world power.
[SPEAKER_00]: See if there's going to be an evil grave that you hear about.
[SPEAKER_00]: See if there's going to be any way recourse to redressing any wrongs.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We don't know, the different way of looking at the world, people don't want to look at it that way, but I read the Quran and the Quran, it comes back to me, what am I supposed to say but I don't want to hear that.
[SPEAKER_00]: When they were asked, where did this calamity come from?
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah says, God, I mean, in the unphysical, it's from your own selves.
[SPEAKER_00]: It didn't say, oh, it's from those evil courage.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was evil courage.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, Allah wanted the courage to become Muslim.
[SPEAKER_00]: Dahlah Alayim Rasulullah, madah Takulu Takulu Neviya.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ahum Karim, even though Ahun Karim, here are no Muslim and a noble.
[SPEAKER_00]: It happened yoga and to mutlalaqah.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're free today.
[SPEAKER_00]: I forgive you.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, what, let Hathri Baaliko.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, what you said to his brothers who threw him in a well and left him to die.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a free body, because that's the state of believers.
[SPEAKER_00]: What are the people whom you love if you don't?
[SPEAKER_00]: When they get angry, yes, we get angry.
[SPEAKER_00]: But they realize what am I really getting angry at?
[SPEAKER_00]: At a test that God sent me, who am I really angry at?
[SPEAKER_00]: So you can be humanly angry, but who are you really angry about?
[SPEAKER_00]: If everything is a test from Allah, then who are you really angry at?
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a question.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'arya said, La'alukum te shkurun.
[SPEAKER_00]: La'alukum te shkurun.
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