Farhan Abdul Azeez – What Is Your Greatest Blessing?

			What is your greatest blessing and Muslim Institute presents q&a with Farhan Abdulaziz, I remember
in medical school, we had a class on the nervous system. And they brought a lady in to our classroom
to talk to us. And what happened was, she was in the Middle East somewhere.
		

			vacationing she was underneath, she had kind of buried herself in the sand, just her head was
sticking out. And this is an area where people were, you know, riding there, those dune buggies. So
it's like four, four wheel vehicles kind of going through and having a good time. And so this person
came not seeing her buried in the sand, and Grove right over her, but she was just under it. And
from that she actually became,
		

			she broke her spine, and she became paralyzed. And so they brought her into our class to talk about
how recovery for from a, you know, a disaster like this, and how her therapy kind of like every
single day to try to get certain movements back. And she talked about the blessing of health, and
being able to do things that we find to be so easy that you and I can do on a day to day basis.
Right? And so if you ask someone, what's their greatest blessing, the typical typical things that
come to mind are our health, you know, the ability to be able to, to walk or to use the restroom on
our own, to be able to eat and feed ourselves, right. Some people will say, family to have, you
		

			know, a supportive husband or wife or parents or children. That's the greatest blessing. Once you
have a child, perhaps that's the greatest thing in your life. And nothing else is more important
than that child, right? And so there's all these things that we can think about, or maybe some
people are very superficial, and you know, they're brand new car that they have that that's the most
important thing to them or their iPhone, or whatever it is, but some kind of law and sort of Herat,
a pseudo that was revealed at the end of the life of the prophets, I send them to give all these new
Muslims coming into the community, a blueprint, a guideline of how to develop themselves, to having
		

			the faith and the character of a believer. One of the things that sort of outlines and emphasizes is
that the greatest blessing that we have is actually our faith in Allah Subhana, WA Tada. And even if
we were to lose our health, or lose our family, or lose any of material things that we have this
world, so long as you have your faith, you have the greatest blessing Allah has given you a loss of
that I call that a fumble and a bounty and a blessing. And then he at the end of the sewer on kind
of summarizing the beautiful flow, the sutra goes through. He calls out these new Muslims who came
into Islam, and they were trying to tell the president that they're doing him a favor, that we
		

			embrace Islam without fighting you. So we're actually doing you a favor, and the law says, you know,
they try and show that they're giving you a favor of Omaha's eyes on them. He says very loudly
Emanuele caminhada commonly man, it is rather Allah Who gave you that bounty by guiding you to
faith. Right? And so, faith is our greatest blessing. And sometimes we we we think that, you know,
attending a seminar on Islam or you know, praying five times a day or giving in charity, or whatever
it is that we've accomplished, something that we've, you know, return the favor to Allah subhana wa
Tada. This verse is so powerful that that is Allah who actually gave his favor upon us, to guide us
		

			to his faith to guide us to all what faith brings in us from good qualities and being charitable and
being generous and kind and, and all those things that come with faith. It's actually a blessing
from Allah upon us. So I hope you join us in our upcoming class, faith and honor where we look at
suta hydrops. And we find out how we can really firmly establish our faith in Allah subhana wa tada
and we can build in ourselves, the qualities and the characteristics of a believer and the manners
that he or she should embody. I hope to see you at faith and honor