Hamza Yusuf – Aisha Bint Abu Bakr – Ra Describes The Prophet S Level Of Gratitude
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Ya Aisha, tell us the most wondrous thing
that you saw from the Messenger of Allah.
And she said, What thing that he did
wasn't wondrous.
He came one night to me and he
entered into the bed with me.
I could feel his flesh up against my
flesh.
O daughter of Abu Bakr, leave me to
go and pray to my Lord.
And she said, I love to be close
to you.
But I prefer what you prefer.
He got up to the place, the water
container and he did wudhu.
And it was a light wudhu.
So he began to cry until the tears
covered his chest.
And he continued like that until Bilal came
and he told him the prayers come in.
In other words, Fajr.
So Aisha said, Ya Rasulullah, what is
making you cry when your sins, anything you've
done, and his sins are doing a virtuous
thing when a more virtuous thing could be
done.
When all your sins have been forgiven, what
passed and what is to come.
And the Prophet ﷺ said, Should I not
be a grateful slave?
Should I not be a grateful slave?
In a similar hadith in Al-Bukhari, He
stood until his feet had the edema from
standing so long.
And he said, shouldn't I be a grateful
slave?
Gratitude.
Allah ﷻ says, Allah
wants ease for you in this fasting.
He doesn't want hardship for you.
He didn't reveal this Qur'an for you
to be miserable.
He wants ease for you.
In order for you to complete this fasting,
in order for you to elevate your Lord,
to declare His greatness, and in order for
you to be grateful.
Gratitude.
This is the secret of Ramadan.
This is the time to be reminded.
O you who believe, eat of the good
things of Allah.
But show gratitude for those things.
If you are truly worshipping Allah ﷻ, one
of the most blessed things that we have
in this world is food.
It brings us together.
It nourishes our bodies.
It sustains us.
And then, the pleasure of food itself.
This is a great gift.
Allah could have made brackish water that we
had to drink.
He could have given us rocks that we
had to crush as our nutrition.
But He gave us cherries, and grapes, and
figs.
He gave us varieties of meat.
He gave us all of the blessings that
the earth brings forth.
What does Allah ask us?
Shukr.
اعملوا آل داوود شكرا وقليل من عبادي الشكور
Work.
Do things out of gratitude.
O al-Dawood, and how few of My
servants are always grateful.
Always grateful.
اولم اكن عبد شكورا He didn't say, اولم
اكن عبد شاكرا Shouldn't I be a grateful
servant?
شاكر, you can be شاكر one time or
another time.
When you're شكور, it's called سغى مبالغة It's
the form of hyperbole.
It means you're always grateful.
Our Prophet ﷺ was always in a state
of gratitude.
His whole experience of the world was gratitude.
One of the worst things about modern times
is ingratitude is cultivated in people.
They're ungrateful for the police.
They're ungrateful for government.
They're ungrateful for their educations.
They're ungrateful for everything.
People just complain all the time.
And Allah ﷻ says وَتَأَذَّنَا رَبُّكُمْ لَئِنْ شِكَرْتُمْ
لَأَزِيدَنَّكُمْ وَلَئِنْ كَفَرْتُمْ إِنَّ عَذَابِدَ الشَّدِيدِ Your Lord
has declared, if you're grateful, I will increase
you in blessings to be grateful for.
But if you are ingrate, if you lack
gratitude, in fact, if you show ingratitude, I
will give you more reasons to be ungrateful.
I will give you more reasons to be
ungrateful.
This is a metaphysical equation.
Gratitude equals increase in blessings.
Ingratitude equals decrease in blessings.
This is a قعدة.
It's a law.
It's a metaphysical law that's as true as
the Newtonian physics that you learned in high
school.
If you're ungrateful, then Allah will give you
more to be ungrateful about, more to whine
about.
You think it's bad now?
You have no idea how bad it can
get.
Read history to know how bad it can
get.
You think Syria is bad?
Read about the Mongol invasion.
They didn't have any place to flee to.
You think the Muslims are having tribulation in
America?
Read about Nazi Germany and what happened to
the Jews.
We have to be grateful because if we're
ungrateful and always complaining, Allah is going to
give you more to complain about.
I was in one of the Gulf states
and somebody was complaining about the price of
gasoline.
The taxi driver, 25 cents at the time.
Now it's a lot higher.
Why?
Because they keep complaining.
Go ahead, complain all you want.
Because if you love to complain, Allah will
give you plenty to complain about.
But if you want to show gratitude, Allah
will give you plenty to show gratitude about.
They did a study at Davis.
It's called the Gratitude Study for Depressed People.
They had them write down every day, every
morning, 10 things they were grateful for.
Over a period of a month, people's depression
started being lifted.
وَإِن تَعُدُّوا نِعْمَةَ اللَّهَ لَا تَحْصُوهَا If you
start counting the blessings of Allah, you'll never
come to an end.
And you can count blessings like just eyelashes.
People don't have eyelashes.
They fall out.
Eyelashes are a wonderful blessing.
Or some people have dry eyes.
So if you have moisture in your eyes,
what a blessing.
If you have teeth, what a blessing.
If you don't have teeth, if you have
dentures, what a blessing.
There are people that don't have dentures.
If you lose one arm, what a blessing.
You didn't lose both arms.
If you lose both arms, what a blessing.
Now they have prosthetic devices that enable you
to do things.
Ibn Abbas said in every tribulation in dunya,
there are three blessings hidden that you have
to recognize.
The first is that it could have been
worse.
The second is that it's in your dunya
and not in your deen.
And the third, in your worldly affairs and
not in your religious affairs.
And the third, it's in this world and
not in the next.