WEBVTT 00:00.211 --> 00:15.659 [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. 00:16.679 --> 00:18.360 [SPEAKER_00]: I will give you more reasons to be ungrateful. 00:18.620 --> 00:24.383 [SPEAKER_00]: This is a metaphysical equation, gratitude equals increase in blessings. 00:29.656 --> 00:31.437 [SPEAKER_00]: This is a part that it's a law. 00:31.737 --> 00:36.761 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a metaphysical law that says true as the Newtonian physics that you learned in high school. 00:38.001 --> 00:43.245 [SPEAKER_00]: If you're ungrateful, then Allah will give you more to be ungrateful about, more to wine about. 00:43.425 --> 00:44.546 [SPEAKER_00]: You think it's bad now? 00:45.937 --> 00:47.818 [SPEAKER_00]: You have no idea how bad it can get. 00:47.898 --> 00:54.062 [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. 00:54.403 --> 01:01.908 [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. 01:04.269 --> 01:05.810 [SPEAKER_00]: Now it's a lot higher, why? 01:05.830 --> 01:07.111 [SPEAKER_00]: Because they keep complaining. 01:08.092 --> 01:09.753 [SPEAKER_00]: Go ahead, complain all you want. 01:11.860 --> 01:15.644 [SPEAKER_00]: Because if you love to complain, Allah will give you plenty to complain about. 01:17.065 --> 01:22.030 [SPEAKER_00]: But if you want to show gratitude, Allah will give you plenty to show gratitude about. 01:22.070 --> 01:23.911 [SPEAKER_00]: They did a study at Davis. 01:24.592 --> 01:26.754 [SPEAKER_00]: It's called the gratitude study for depressed people. 01:26.774 --> 01:30.818 [SPEAKER_00]: They had them write down every day, every morning, 10 things they were grateful for. 01:31.358 --> 01:34.742 [SPEAKER_00]: Over a period of a month, people's depression started being lifted. 01:36.039 --> 01:48.568 [SPEAKER_00]: We enter dun'a'am atul-ma'al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al 01:51.242 --> 01:53.043 [SPEAKER_00]: or some people have dry eyes. 01:53.343 --> 01:55.845 [SPEAKER_00]: So if you have moisture in your eyes, what are blessing? 01:56.605 --> 01:58.406 [SPEAKER_00]: If you have teeth, what are blessing? 01:58.646 --> 02:01.948 [SPEAKER_00]: If you don't have teeth, if you have dentures, what are blessing? 02:01.968 --> 02:03.369 [SPEAKER_00]: There are people that don't have dentures. 02:04.269 --> 02:05.810 [SPEAKER_00]: If you lose one arm, what are blessing? 02:05.830 --> 02:06.931 [SPEAKER_00]: You didn't lose both arms. 02:07.351 --> 02:08.952 [SPEAKER_00]: If you lose both arms, what are blessing? 02:08.972 --> 02:12.694 [SPEAKER_00]: Now they have prosthetic devices that enable you to do things. 02:13.594 --> 02:19.219 [SPEAKER_00]: Even Abbas said, in every tribulation in dunya there are three blessings hidden that you have to recognize. 02:19.580 --> 02:22.643 [SPEAKER_00]: The first is that it could have been worse. 02:23.864 --> 02:29.389 [SPEAKER_00]: The second is that it's in your dunya and not in your dean. 02:30.129 --> 02:33.232 [SPEAKER_00]: And the third in your world, the affairs are not in your religious effort. 02:33.452 --> 02:35.855 [SPEAKER_00]: And the third, it's in this world and not in the next. 02:36.893 --> 02:38.275 [SPEAKER_00]: And you should be grateful for that. 02:38.896 --> 02:40.298 [SPEAKER_00]: People now are complaining. 02:41.059 --> 02:44.464 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah said, liya bluhakum, as you can ask, senua amala. 02:44.785 --> 02:47.969 [SPEAKER_00]: He's going to try you to see who of you are the best in actions. 02:48.250 --> 02:49.452 [SPEAKER_00]: What are the bluhakum? 02:50.112 --> 02:51.214 [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to try you. 02:51.675 --> 02:51.835 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's 02:51.835 --> 02:53.877 [SPEAKER_00]: You will be tried in your wealth and in your lives. 02:53.937 --> 02:55.199 [SPEAKER_00]: And in your lives. 02:55.219 --> 02:56.240 [SPEAKER_00]: And in your life. 02:56.260 --> 02:56.981 [SPEAKER_00]: And in your life. 02:57.281 --> 02:58.202 [SPEAKER_00]: And in your life. 03:10.676 --> 03:11.376 [SPEAKER_00]: What does he say? 03:11.436 --> 03:12.296 [SPEAKER_00]: How's our response? 03:12.336 --> 03:12.977 [SPEAKER_00]: What's our response? 03:13.137 --> 03:14.097 [SPEAKER_00]: We in Tospiru. 03:14.497 --> 03:21.339 [SPEAKER_00]: And if you show patience with Tattapu and show piety, restraint, control yourself. 03:22.059 --> 03:26.660 [SPEAKER_00]: The innetic and manazement or more, because that is at the essence of this matter. 03:26.960 --> 03:29.141 [SPEAKER_00]: That is at the essence of this matter. 03:29.561 --> 03:32.241 [SPEAKER_00]: This is our Dean, Allah Subhanahu Wa Dane said, 03:39.583 --> 04:00.567 [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 04:08.423 --> 04:09.304 [SPEAKER_00]: It was tranquil. 04:11.065 --> 04:14.167 [SPEAKER_00]: It had provision in abundance coming from every place. 04:14.247 --> 04:17.950 [SPEAKER_00]: Like we have today, we eat berries from Chile. 04:18.811 --> 04:20.432 [SPEAKER_00]: And we drink tea from China. 04:22.253 --> 04:26.517 [SPEAKER_00]: And we have rice from India, Basmati rice in your homes from India. 04:27.773 --> 04:31.737 [SPEAKER_00]: You get all this blessing from all over the world. 04:31.817 --> 04:32.658 [SPEAKER_00]: So what did they do? 04:32.958 --> 04:37.543 [SPEAKER_00]: Instead of saying, alhamdulillah wa shukulillah alhamdulillah. 04:37.843 --> 04:39.224 [SPEAKER_00]: Qafarat bi anamillah. 04:39.665 --> 04:41.607 [SPEAKER_00]: They were in great, ungrateful. 04:41.647 --> 04:42.748 [SPEAKER_00]: This is the meaning of Qufar. 04:43.048 --> 04:44.169 [SPEAKER_00]: Qufar is in gratitude. 04:44.630 --> 04:48.273 [SPEAKER_00]: You can be a Muslim and be a cather in the meaning that you're in great. 04:51.992 --> 04:54.794 [SPEAKER_00]: This ingratitude, that's the essence of Qufam. 04:55.074 --> 05:03.620 [SPEAKER_00]: The essence of Islam is gratitude, sugar, a feeling of blessing that Allah has given, the biggest blessing is that we exist. 05:04.160 --> 05:11.906 [SPEAKER_00]: Named to, an Ejad, when Named to the imdad, the blessing of giving us our existence and then sustaining our existence. 05:11.926 --> 05:14.287 [SPEAKER_00]: He could take away that sustenance at any time. 05:14.788 --> 05:19.291 [SPEAKER_00]: So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says that he enveloped that city in, 05:19.951 --> 05:24.392 [SPEAKER_00]: hunger, look of the blessing of food, in hunger and terror. 05:25.892 --> 05:31.954 [SPEAKER_00]: Hunger and terror, the basil, juri, wal-khaufi, y, b-ma, b-ma, b-a-seba-b-ya. 05:32.194 --> 05:32.954 [SPEAKER_00]: What's the cause? 05:33.194 --> 05:34.695 [SPEAKER_00]: Because of their ungratefulness. 05:36.395 --> 05:39.716 [SPEAKER_00]: And this is what we've lost an understanding of our religion. 05:40.136 --> 05:43.417 [SPEAKER_00]: We look at all these events, and we don't see the real source of these events. 05:43.917 --> 05:44.677 [SPEAKER_00]: In gratitude. 05:46.352 --> 05:52.777 [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. 05:53.057 --> 05:54.158 [SPEAKER_00]: Government is a blessing. 05:54.598 --> 05:57.520 [SPEAKER_00]: Even the worst form of government is better than anarchy. 05:58.881 --> 06:03.244 [SPEAKER_00]: Even a tyranny is, but this monarchy, even Ana said this, these weren't ignorant people. 06:03.384 --> 06:07.047 [SPEAKER_00]: These were genius people because he lived through civil wars. 06:07.267 --> 06:09.268 [SPEAKER_00]: He saw what happens when things break down. 06:10.249 --> 06:11.390 [SPEAKER_00]: The people of Damascus 06:12.687 --> 06:15.688 [SPEAKER_00]: Six years ago, we're eating beautiful food. 06:16.008 --> 06:16.988 [SPEAKER_00]: They had good clothes. 06:17.268 --> 06:20.849 [SPEAKER_00]: It was one of the few countries on the planet that was actually self-sustained. 06:21.729 --> 06:23.610 [SPEAKER_00]: And now all of this tribulation. 06:26.411 --> 06:30.032 [SPEAKER_00]: And if you say, you know, why is it happening to them and not us? 06:30.332 --> 06:34.633 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe because a lot loves them more because we know how to sham have a muckum. 06:36.535 --> 06:48.847 [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. 06:49.668 --> 06:53.832 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe it's the places that aren't being afflicted, that deserve to be afflicted, that should be worrying. 06:55.112 --> 06:57.413 [SPEAKER_00]: This is the way Muslims traditionally looked at things. 06:57.653 --> 07:02.756 [SPEAKER_00]: When the Mughal came down, when the Mongols came down, they didn't say these evil Mongols. 07:03.076 --> 07:05.897 [SPEAKER_00]: They said, how the Adabatullah al-Ladina l-Dunubina. 07:06.197 --> 07:07.218 [SPEAKER_00]: This is a punishment. 07:07.258 --> 07:09.699 [SPEAKER_00]: God has sent us because of our wrong actions. 07:09.859 --> 07:11.060 [SPEAKER_00]: A lot put them in power. 07:11.240 --> 07:12.920 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, He gives power to Him, ever. 07:12.980 --> 07:14.441 [SPEAKER_00]: He pleases, Muslim had it. 07:14.921 --> 07:22.785 [SPEAKER_00]: If Muslims had nuclear weapons right now with the idiots that we have, we would have nuclear concentrations all over. 07:25.878 --> 07:27.699 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah knows who he gives power to. 07:28.159 --> 07:30.660 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, they have used their power, but to what degree? 07:30.840 --> 07:31.681 [SPEAKER_00]: Who would be worse? 07:33.601 --> 07:35.742 [SPEAKER_00]: People want the destruction of America. 07:36.102 --> 07:38.604 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, let's see what happens when China gets the world power. 07:38.624 --> 07:40.264 [SPEAKER_00]: See if there's going to be an evil grave that you hear about. 07:40.284 --> 07:42.005 [SPEAKER_00]: See if there's going to be any way recourse to redressing any wrongs. 07:42.025 --> 07:55.731 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah 07:59.071 --> 08:12.183 [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. 08:12.243 --> 08:14.826 [SPEAKER_00]: When they were asked, where did this calamity come from? 08:15.046 --> 08:19.130 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah says, God, I mean, in the unphysical, it's from your own selves. 08:20.971 --> 08:23.153 [SPEAKER_00]: It didn't say, oh, it's from those evil courage. 08:25.555 --> 08:26.776 [SPEAKER_00]: It was evil courage. 08:27.437 --> 08:30.019 [SPEAKER_00]: No, Allah wanted the courage to become Muslim. 08:30.619 --> 08:34.423 [SPEAKER_00]: Dahlah Alayim Rasulullah, madah Takulu Takulu Neviya. 08:35.624 --> 08:40.228 [SPEAKER_00]: Ahum Karim, even though Ahun Karim, here are no Muslim and a noble. 08:41.068 --> 08:42.890 [SPEAKER_00]: It happened yoga and to mutlalaqah. 08:43.591 --> 08:44.531 [SPEAKER_00]: You're free today. 08:44.712 --> 08:45.432 [SPEAKER_00]: I forgive you. 08:45.572 --> 08:47.734 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, what, let Hathri Baaliko. 08:47.754 --> 08:52.979 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, what you said to his brothers who threw him in a well and left him to die. 08:55.012 --> 08:57.894 [SPEAKER_00]: That's a free body, because that's the state of believers. 08:58.714 --> 09:00.515 [SPEAKER_00]: What are the people whom you love if you don't? 09:00.535 --> 09:02.316 [SPEAKER_00]: When they get angry, yes, we get angry. 09:02.676 --> 09:05.898 [SPEAKER_00]: But they realize what am I really getting angry at? 09:07.059 --> 09:11.721 [SPEAKER_00]: At a test that God sent me, who am I really angry at? 09:12.281 --> 09:15.863 [SPEAKER_00]: So you can be humanly angry, but who are you really angry about? 09:16.164 --> 09:19.886 [SPEAKER_00]: If everything is a test from Allah, then who are you really angry at? 09:20.906 --> 09:21.747 [SPEAKER_00]: That's a question. 09:22.778 --> 09:23.900 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'arya said, La'alukum te shkurun. 09:23.920 --> 09:24.481 [SPEAKER_00]: La'alukum te shkurun. 09:24.501 --> 09:33.457 [SPEAKER_00]: Te et denarabababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababab