Abdur-Raheem McCarthy – Are you grateful to Allah – Friday Bayan

			Santa Monica Tula. Mr level hamdu lillah wa salatu salam ala Rasulillah Allah early WASAPI woman,
Walla,
		

			Walla, well, I'm the lead for the first time ever on Facebook. So YouTube, Facebook all the time,
and also Instagram. So we're live now on three platforms at once. And this is gonna be a
continuation of our Friday reminders that we started on Friday we had that we were doing it Ramadan
to continue and every Friday. And in today's ban, we're going to be talking about one of the
greatest forms of worship that many of us tend to neglect and not to really focus on. And that is
there a bada, of sugar, of gratitude, of being thankful to Allah subhanaw taala.
		

			And when we look around the world and days that we live in, and we see the situation of the people
around the world, we see that most of us unfortunately are lacking when it comes to our gratitude or
thanks to Allah. And we are not truly grateful to Allah subhanaw taala for all of the great
blessings that He has bestowed upon us, and the Lord taught us in the Quran very clearly. And in
direct do neonatology letters, if you were to try to count the blessings of Allah that you could not
count them. And the blessings of Allah subhanaw taala are so great that we're not able to count
them.
		

			And the biggest problem that we have is and we asked, you know, why are we so ungrateful? And why is
it that we're not thankful to Allah subhanaw taala
		

			there's two main reasons. The first reason is the fact that
		

			we look at success as being monetary as being money.
		

			If you're making money, you're rich, you're doing well, then Hamdulillah you know, everything is
good. But if that's not the situation, then
		

			you know, we say that we're in a terrible situation. And law hasn't blessed us because we're looking
at it from that aspect of what we don't have the money that we want. So we look at as a monetary
thing as well. If you don't, well, then you're successful, then you're happy, then you're blessed.
And the second reason is that we'd said tend to forget the other great blessings that Allah subhanaw
taala has bestowed upon us. And I'm gonna give you an example. For both of these from the Quran and
from the sunnah of our beloved prophet Sallallahu sallam. The first category we said is or the, or
the first reason that we said is that we look at happiness than the one who is happy as the one who
		

			has no been given from the wealth from the, from the from the money from the monetary issues of the
dunya we look into the sunnah of our beloved Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam there's two amazing
Hadith. The first hadith is
		

			the Prophet sallallahu sallam said, in Aloha customer bein Okoma, Florida calm come across a
customer Boehner calm or Xapo calm. The law has divided amongst you your morals just as he is
divided amongst you, your risk your provision,
		

			within pay attention to the rest of the Hadith, and then he said Ali salatu salam, we're in Allaha
you're duniya mon you hate woman lay your head. But Allah gives this dunya gives this world to the
one that he loves and the one that he doesn't love. Wallah you're a pill Imana elderly man you hate
but he only gives the man the faith to the one that he loves. And the other had the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. He said either right. Allahu Yorkville abdomen a dunya Allah ma See he
may your head Boohoo. If you see a law giving someone from the dunya that what she likes, why he's
being disobedient to Allah. He said Nima who is the Grouch? Really what's happening is that he's
		

			being lured in. And then he read it salatu salam, the verse from Surah Talon fella Manas, who took
you Ruby he and then when they forgot that's what they had that which they had been reminded us, but
not only him about where Baku Lishi that we opened up for them, the doors of everything had that you
that fairy who will be able to until they became happy with that what they were given a hug now whom
bugged that we seize them suddenly, but either who Mobley soon, and then they are in despair. And
this is the reality of so many people around the world today that we they seem happy they fake like
they're happy online, on Instagram or on the photos, but the reality is that they're living in a
		

			living *. So just because someone has a monetary gain or he's wealthy, doesn't mean that he's
happy doesn't mean that he's successful. And clearly from this hadith, we know that Allah subhanho
wa Taala it's not proof that Allah truly loves him.
		

			A man came to USC but it obeyed Rahima
		

			Lo Tada. And he was complaining about his situation. Situation was so difficult going through
difficult times. And we see this all the time, a lot of the message you begin online, people always
complaining about, you know, their situation, and especially their financial situation. So when he
came to him and complain to him, he said, would it make you happy? And would you be willing to give
up your eyes for 100,000 duckhams? That's probably a couple of million. And the money that we have
today, he said, Would you give up your site for a couple and for 100,000 dirhams? And he said, No,
of course not. He said, Okay. What about your hands? Would you give up your hands for 100,000
		

			dirhams? He said, No, of course, not either. So okay, what about your legs? And he said, No, I
wouldn't give up that either. And then he kept reminding him for all the blessings that have so
these are the blessings that we have that we never think about. He's reminding about these
blessings. And then he said to him, I see that you have all of these blessings.
		

			But yet, yeah, he said, I see that you have all of these, you know, hundreds of 1000s of blessings,
because he's cutting out the money each when he gave him 100,000 100,000. He said, No, no, it's so
you have these hundreds of 1000s of blessings. But you're still complaining about your situation.
And this is the problem that we have, when we say are we thankful is that we're looking at what we
don't have.
		

			We're always looking at we don't have enough being thankful for the blessings that we do have. If
you reflect on the verse and sort of the natural
		

			ending from the greatest blessing that we have, hearing seeing Allah subhanho wa Taala mentioned
Walla Walla who are coraggio caminho, Tony OMA heretical, Letta Allah, Masha, Allah extracted you
from the wombs of your mothers, you don't know anything? And then what did the Lord give us? What
you Adela chromosoma? Well, elbow Surah whatever that. And then Allah gave you the hearing the
vision and the intellect. He made you saying,
		

			what is the objective of all of this? Why did the law give us all these numbers, all these
blessings, lambda competition guru that perhaps you will be thankful?
		

			Allah subhanaw taala gives us all these blessings. But we're always looking for something else. Like
we don't have it. I remember amazing story that one of the scholars
		

			one of the scholars of Islam, he visited one of his friends who worked in the mental hospital and he
found that
		

			there was a young girl who was he was sitting in the waiting room she came in, she was one of the
patients but he didn't realize that in the beginning because she looked very normal. And she said
that she was gonna She was very beautiful. So we had to have our gaze and to look away from her she
was so she was so beautiful. And then you know, the sutra that the lot of the golf shafts were in
the middle, like the little scarf.
		

			Actually, the original dress of the era was the the turban, but then they started to wear that a bit
later. The point is that he was wearing this. And
		

			the girl came up and she took this and she started to dance with it in front of the dancer and
stuff. She was looking down and then she starts to disrobe. She starts taking off her clothes. And
you can imagine the situation is like, Oh my God, what's happening? What's going on? All of a sudden
the security came in and they grabbed her. They took her to a room. They came later they apologized
to the ship. They said, You know, you might see her as being someone who is sane, because she's very
beautiful. But he said, Well, why is she she's up here she's completely empty. Myskina she's
completely empty. She's not she's not with us. She's completely insane. So, so the sheer who said
		

			that I thought and I said they said, Have I ever thanked ALLAH SubhanA wa Asana, for the blessing of
sanity have ever thanked the law, for being sane for the blessing of this number that he's given me
of being of my brain of my mind and my sanity and my intellect. He said never ever ever think the
last panel was on a fork. And he said I realize I have it and every time I mentioned this story as
to people and you guys can mentioned to me in the comments below are watching any Have you ever
thought about this blessing? Honestly, let's be honest. Have you ever thought about this or not? And
the most people will tell you Allah He we have you know, most people have it. And then one of the
		

			greatest blessings that we have. And Allah mentioned in the verse we just mentioned, whatever either
your intellect Allah subhanho wa Taala opened up in it gave you the sound brain, the sound
intellect, and he Allah subhanaw taala gave us all of these blessings, even then the air that we're
breathing, what happens if it stops for one second, all of these blessings that we don't have, we
don't we don't realize that we have we're always looking for something we don't have. That's why
Allah tells us in the Quran, when to do an amateur law.
		

			If you tried to count the blessings of Allah, you couldn't even count them and I want to reflect on
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			on a reality. The reality is that most people are not thankful knows most people do not show
gratitude to Allah subhanaw taala and Allah mentioned this in the Quran and several verses and one
verse, and sort of often ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada said, even Aloha, Lao Tzu fugly. gnarliness that
		

			If Allah is full of bounty for the people, what is the reality of the people while our kidnapper
Nursey lair school, but the most of the people, most of the people are not grateful. And then in
Surah, Sabah, Allah subhanho wa Taala said at the end of the verse, were clearly luminary baddie
Ushiku, that most of my servants are not grateful. Most of them are not grateful. There's very few
of my servants who are grateful. But if you reflect on this verse, something very interesting.
Talking about the family of Duluth, back to the beginning of the verse,
		

			and sort of the offer
		

			will also sort of sub excuse me when Allah subhanho wa Taala said, Yeah, I'm Aluna LA who may or
share woman my head Eva, whatever Thiele. What G Fern in Kel Jawa Cal Joby will go doodle Ross yet
that they made for him, elevated chambers, and statues and basins of large reservoirs and stationary
cattle as stationary kettles. What is the objective of this? What does the Lord want to want us to
do after he gives us all these numbers, all these blessings? He said, No, no, no. Whoo, the chakra.
He said work oh, family of download and gratitude. Work, oh, Family of God and gratitude work
colleague and in the end of the verse, what illumine everybody, as you're cool, and very few of you,
		

			my servants are shook, who are the ones who are the grateful ones.
		

			When we ask ourselves, why are so many people so ungrateful? There's several reasons or perhaps two
main reasons. One of the main reasons is one of the main objectives of Shavon of Satan is for us not
to be thankful Allah makes this clear and sort of the latter off in verse 17. When Allah said, when
he mentioning that what a bliss says to the unknown, then I will come to them, men benei ad him from
in front of them, women hifi him and from behind them. One Emani him on the rights one Shema Ely him
and on the laughs Well, did you do act Federal Home Shaqiri and you will not find the most of them
are grateful. This is one of the main objectives that shaytaan wants us to run away from, is being
		

			grateful and being thankful to Allah subhanho wa Taala and that's why and then the second reason is
because most people from their nature is
		

			that they're ungrateful and they're only grateful during the times of troubles and difficulties when
they are reminded of the need for a loss of pinata and how weak they are at these times. Yes, they
start to become grateful at these times. And that's why any the ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada made gratitude
and being thankful a test for our human to see if you're a true believer, was cruel Allah He
enquanto el Tambo Dune, and
		

			show gratitude to Allah be thankful to Allah, if you are truly were if it's truly him who you're
worshiping.
		

			And then Allah subhana wa Tada told us in the story and another verse and sort of the normal.
		

			Talking about who the man is Salam when he said to her, I mean fugly rugby, pay attention is VS
palance very deep, said this is from the blessings of my rock.
		

			What is the objectives of this blessing? What is the law what to do? They Allah wants to test this
because the demand said in the verse, Lea blue Ernie, to test me
		

			a squirrel, UK for will I be thankful? Or will I be ungrateful? Will I be grateful or ungrateful?
And then he said, Woman Shikara in them is Google NFC. And whoever is grateful he's grateful for
himself. When you're thankful, you're benefiting yourself. You don't benefit a little subpanel with
that he didn't need us to be thankful. But it's his right upon us. And then he said at the end of
the verse, woman Cafaro, but in the rugby Valley, you can carry that whoever is ungrateful, then
indeed my Lord is free of need, and generous. subhanaw taala
		

			what is true gratitude? What is truly being thankful? First of all, it's something obviously it
starts in our hearts. We always talk about singing our tongue and hamdulillah but that statement, if
it's just on our tongues, that Hembree lamp, it's something that has to come from the heart. And the
beautiful thing about the word Alhamdulillah is that you can even feel it come out when you see it.
Alhamdulillah it comes from inside it makes you feel good. You see the word Alhamdulillah the Quran
starts as soon as you start Alhamdulillah we we make an earth caught up to the day and today in a
hamdulillah taking also Panama time, but when it's something on the tongue and it's in the hole
		

			At the same time, something we feel we feel, that's when we truly show gratitude. When you see Al
Hamdulillah you think about and Hamdulillah I just had a beautiful, healthy dessert that my wife
made for May Allah bless her, I mean, some saint hamdulillah because I'm still remembering the
coolness and how beautiful it was as it went down. And I was saying hungry last, the first thing
that came to my mind when I thought about it, and that's that's the reality when you think about
these blessings that you have and how we think Allah subhanaw taala the help that we have, we see
someone less fortunate, we say hamdulillah and then after that it has to show up in our actions. We
		

			look at our beloved Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he would pray throughout the night until
His feet will become smaller, at least salatu salam
		

			and his wife Aisha Radi Allahu Allah, she asked him, if you pray like this, and you you're harming
yourself because your feet are becoming swollen.
		

			But you pray like this all throughout the night. What was his answer? I listened to a Salah and this
is a viewer says your past and future sins have been forgiven, but you're still praying this law.
		

			And he said Ali salatu salam, Ala Moana adventure Cora should not be a servant who is thankful.
		

			It shows up in our actions, it shows up in our sadaqa giving us the card giving sadaqa giving
charity for Allah subhanho wa taala. You see the blessings that we have, we see those who are less
fortunate and has to show up and our actions and how can we be more thankful? This is the question
is what we're going to end today's beyond today's reminder with inshallah Tada is seven ways that we
can be more thankful in shallow time.
		

			The first of which is to look at those who are less fortunate than us. Don't look at those who are
more successful, don't look at those who are more rich, don't look at those who are more healthy.
Don't look at those who are in better shape than you all the time. Sometimes that can be an
inspiration, it gets you in a better shape to make you want to be better at what you do. But
generally, we're talking about when it comes to the financial things and differences are issues of
success.
		

			That you always want to look at those who are less fortunate. Obviously, those who are more
fortunate can be an inspiration for you make you better, that's good. But we look at those who are
less fortunate. Why? Because that makes us more thankful when you look into the beautiful teachings
of our beloved Prophet alayhi salatu salam, he said in the Hadith, and it's inside Bukhari and
Muslim on the row. Eli, a man who has Fela Miko
		

			look at the one who is lowered intima here in this financial situation, who is less fortunate than
you? What are total ILA man who have overcome and don't look at the ones who are above you.
		

			And something very, very beautiful this Hadees were always mentioned this part of the Hadith that a
lot of times we don't mention the end of it. Because there's a hikma mentioned at the end of the
Hadith that we tend to forget we mentioned that first part, which is beautiful, so beautiful
teaching. But here the Prophet Alayhi Salatu was Salam. He mentions one of the hikma is one of the
wisdoms behind it. He said for in for who edge double Allah tells the rue nematology Alikum. He
said, For indeed, that is more worthy so that you will not be little Allah's favors upon your Allahu
Akbar. And that's what happens when you look at
		

			the blessings other ones.
		

			Situation got nothing. But when you look at someone's lesson force you to humble and have a Nam I'm
in a blessing was blessed me and humbling. Don't look down upon the favorites that you have. When
you see someone's handicap. What is the Sunnah? What is the promise of them teach us to say
Alhamdulillah Hilah the asana them up telegraphy were fought de la Cathy Calacatta de la hamdulillah
the Lord has any blessed us to not be afflicted what you're afflicted with. And he's given us His
any His favor that he's given to a lot of the mankind has given it to us but a lot of people have
been afflicted we have been affected humbly Allah is the Sunnah of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
		

			sallam. The second thing is that we must be content and what happens when you content amazing to
amazing Hadith Subhan Allah the first time he was narrated in the Sunnah of imagine that the Prophet
alayhi salaatu wa salaam, he said, Khun Connie and to Khun ash Caranas be kitset and you will be the
most grateful of people to Allah. And the next study the second Hadith in Sahih, Muslim Marian Sahih
Muslim, our beloved prophet Alayhi Salatu was Salam he said, but Allah Herman s lemma while Ruzicka
CAFR fun welcome now who Allahu be mad that he is successful, the one who has accepted Islam, and he
has been given sufficient risk that was enough for him and for his family enough to survive enough
		

			to get by.
		

			And he is content with that which Allah has given him.
		

			Because in the reality, what is really important in this dunya if we look into
		

			the hadith of our beloved Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam which is narrated in the Sunnah of the
mama Timothy
		

			he said man as the humming come, Amina PCB that whoever wakes up in the morning and he's physically
healthy.
		

			I'm in a facility that he has
		

			As he just said, he wakes up in the morning is physically healthy, and he's feeling safe and he has
a safe place around him. He has a roof over his head. And then he said, when we're in the WHO to
Yomi, and he has the provision that he needs for the food during the day. So what are the three
things in the Hadith? First of all, that he's safe and safe places, he has a roof over his head.
Secondly, he is physically healthy. And thirdly, that he has his daily food is provisioned when he
needs to eat. He said nema. He's at low duniya. He said it's if it's a he has obtained the whole
world.
		

			This is the beauty and it shows us that that was really important in this in this life. Are these
things that we have a house a roof over our head, we're safe, we have an hamdulillah we're
physically healthy, we have enough to eat. This is the blessing from Allah subhanho wa Taala well
hamdulillah
		

			The fourth thing or the third thing
		

			that's going to help us be more thankful and truly show gratitude to Allah subhanho wa Taala is
realizing that we're going to be asked about these blessings God will pay homage or small verse that
all of us memorize. from Surah to the castle to mulatos Yo Ma Eden and in name and then you're going
to be asked on that day, about the name about the pleasures.
		

			And something amazing I was just speaking to my wife a bit ago about this
		

			is that when you go back to the books of Tafseer and it shows you that you know the self the early
Muslims where they were and where we were Subhanallah because we talk about you will be asked about
the name we're talking about the big things usually when you go back to the books that have seen
they said about the hopes but the piece of bread
		

			about the piece of bread about short but LSL about some honey that you ate elmen Bear it cold water
as a panel how many of us you know when you when you can't find water? We don't realize it but what
for us Bismillah and we need some water is right there. All we have to do is put our hand and we
have the blessing of the cold water right there in front of us and hamdulillah
		

			but how many people don't find that core how many people don't find clean water to drink but every
time all I have to do is put my hand out
		

			all I have to do is say heavy duty to my wife Samantha you if you can please bring me some water or
I get it myself and I go to the kitchen I get it Hamdallah
		

			don't think about these near miss
		

			don't think about these blessings but as the Lord told us to Mala to Aluna Yo Ma Eden and name and
on that day you will be asked about those blessings.
		

			My hustle and bustle re Rahim Allah Allah
		

			is the importance of being with the self with the early Muslims, the pious predecessors and taking
from their knowledge Look at the beauty of the statements of Al Hassan adversity the amazing Tandy
came from the photos of the Sahaba
		

			few words but beautiful gems that he would give us Rahim Allah Tala, he said oak Pharaoh, Min vicar
hottie and now he said constant remember these blessings, why they never grow hair sugar because
remembering them is actually a type of sugar blessings. That type of being thankful showing
gratitude will also pan what's
		

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			fourth thing that will help us and it's you can take it even from what hustle and bustle he said
we're him Hello Tana is to sit down and to memorize them to think about them to try to enumerate and
try to counter the costume memorizing or contemplating or reflecting on the blessings that Allah has
given us like we mentioned the video we gave several examples of things that we might never think
about. That's a blessing when I get up now
		

			and I didn't turn on my lights on so might be a little darker I apologize for that because the
weapons on I realized after I started this million, so after you if I'm ever gonna turn the lights
on, it's just it's a click of a switch is there Hamdulillah I have the AC on Alhamdulillah unblock
you know you see the blessing that you have we don't even think about and if you if you just sit
down say I'm just sitting here in my room and I'm looking like wow mashallah that decoration is
beautiful mashallah beautiful
		

			it was raining today. I have a wrinkle right here smooth and raincoat. I was gonna go it's all
there. It's all easy to handle. Now I was blessed. That's a blessing other people when they might
not have had that. So these small things and when you start to add them up used to really see the
greatness and that makes you more grateful and thankful to Allah subhanaw taala
		

			The fifth thing is
		

			that we're grateful and we show gratitude towards people when they are kind to us and they're good
to us. And um, that we have this in the West, where we say please, we say thank you. We're very
polite and humble as when the good things that we have in the West. Other countries have it as well.
		

			Not so much. Sometimes the police I think some countries, they don't say please don't
		

			matters but in some Arab countries, but they do say but not in some lettuce tomato in public but not
as much but they say shoe crown in South Korea, things like that, but showing gratitude, it's
actually from the teachings of Islam. Look at the beautiful hadith of our beloved Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam. He said Laos caught a lot of Malays colonists that the one who doesn't show
gratitude to the people, he doesn't show gratitude to a law. He's not grateful to the people they're
not grateful to Allah subhana wa Tada.
		

			The sixth thing that can help us to be more thankful to Allah subhanho wa Taala is to strive to
establish the top on our lives to talk while which is the consciousness of a law in our lives, a
type of fear and hope from Allah subhanaw taala to know that Allah can see our actions and it'd be
wary of that. This is the mean of the taqwa.
		

			And something very beautiful that Imam immunise have mentioned in his CRO, when he talked about the
verse and sort of Ali Imran Allah said, Well, I've got no sorrow qumola who will be doing well and
to Mozilla, that Allah made you victorious in the battle abundant when you were only a few a number,
they wanted to say, what you need to do in return the to be thankful for this victory. He said, But
upon law Allah Allah competition guru, he said in fear of law that perhaps you will be thankful, be
grateful once again. Even as happy said, this means but the Holy then fear me you have the tough
work in your life. They know who should chronometry because this is an A showing sugar showing
		

			gratefulness for my blessings are amongst you, upon you. And the last thing that we're in with in
shallow Tada, which is the dua one of the great things that help us be more thankful is the DUA and
this is from the teachings of our beloved Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that he said to my
Lord, the Allahu and
		

			Omar that will give you some advice he said, don't leave reciting this supplication after every
prayer Allahumma are in the Allah the quicker we're sure quicker sooner about it. And the O Allah
helped me remember you and be thankful to you and help me worship you perfectly. And I'm going to
have a whole book about this hadith in detail, you can find it online and channels on it. And that
brings us to an end of this reminder, I went a bit longer than I planned on it's it's 27 minutes I'm
only supposed to go between 15 and 20. So I apologize. Next week in shallow Tana we're going to
continue showing what happens when we're people and when we are not grateful what happens as well
		

			also taking directly from your Quran and from the sunnah of our beloved prophet Sallallahu it was SO
SHALL these reminders will be every Friday and like I said, this is the first time that I've ever
gone live on YouTube. So I don't know inshallah usually there's short videos that I do on YouTube or
some other times some long lecture sometimes, but generally speaking, I've never done a live before
on YouTube. So those of the brothers and sisters who have watched the lecture to the end and once
the watch from the beginning will hear this but the ones who have watched from from the beginning if
you could let me know inshallah and what you think about the live lecture if you enjoyed in cello
		

			Don't you think we should continue on YouTube humbler on on Facebook and on Instagram? We always do
so those who are doing on Facebook or Instagram will definitely continue they're doing live. We'll
see that we this is the first time trying on on YouTube inshallah. So let me know what you guys
think if you enjoyed it in general Tana and wishing you continue doing live like this and Chautala
and until next time Malolos best Allahu animus Allah wa Sallim wa Barik Hamid what does that mean
Will Ferrell was Salam alaykum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh