Hamza Yusuf – Aisha Bint Abu Bakr – Ra Describes The Prophet S Level Of Gratitude

Hamza Yusuf
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Ya Aisha, tell us the most wondrous thing

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that you saw from the Messenger of Allah.

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And she said, What thing that he did

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wasn't wondrous.

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He came one night to me and he

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entered into the bed with me.

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I could feel his flesh up against my

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flesh.

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O daughter of Abu Bakr, leave me to

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go and pray to my Lord.

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And she said, I love to be close

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to you.

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But I prefer what you prefer.

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He got up to the place, the water

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container and he did wudhu.

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And it was a light wudhu.

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So he began to cry until the tears

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covered his chest.

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And he continued like that until Bilal came

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and he told him the prayers come in.

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In other words, Fajr.

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So Aisha said, Ya Rasulullah, what is

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making you cry when your sins, anything you've

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done, and his sins are doing a virtuous

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thing when a more virtuous thing could be

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done.

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When all your sins have been forgiven, what

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passed and what is to come.

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And the Prophet ﷺ said, Should I not

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be a grateful slave?

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Should I not be a grateful slave?

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In a similar hadith in Al-Bukhari, He

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stood until his feet had the edema from

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standing so long.

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And he said, shouldn't I be a grateful

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slave?

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Gratitude.

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Allah ﷻ says, Allah

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wants ease for you in this fasting.

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He doesn't want hardship for you.

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He didn't reveal this Qur'an for you

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to be miserable.

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He wants ease for you.

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In order for you to complete this fasting,

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in order for you to elevate your Lord,

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to declare His greatness, and in order for

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you to be grateful.

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Gratitude.

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This is the secret of Ramadan.

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This is the time to be reminded.

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O you who believe, eat of the good

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things of Allah.

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But show gratitude for those things.

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If you are truly worshipping Allah ﷻ, one

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of the most blessed things that we have

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in this world is food.

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It brings us together.

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It nourishes our bodies.

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It sustains us.

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And then, the pleasure of food itself.

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This is a great gift.

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Allah could have made brackish water that we

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had to drink.

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He could have given us rocks that we

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had to crush as our nutrition.

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But He gave us cherries, and grapes, and

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figs.

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He gave us varieties of meat.

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He gave us all of the blessings that

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the earth brings forth.

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What does Allah ask us?

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Shukr.

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اعملوا آل داوود شكرا وقليل من عبادي الشكور

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Work.

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Do things out of gratitude.

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O al-Dawood, and how few of My

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servants are always grateful.

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Always grateful.

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اولم اكن عبد شكورا He didn't say, اولم

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اكن عبد شاكرا Shouldn't I be a grateful

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servant?

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شاكر, you can be شاكر one time or

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another time.

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When you're شكور, it's called سغى مبالغة It's

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the form of hyperbole.

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It means you're always grateful.

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Our Prophet ﷺ was always in a state

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of gratitude.

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His whole experience of the world was gratitude.

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One of the worst things about modern times

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is ingratitude is cultivated in people.

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They're ungrateful for the police.

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They're ungrateful for government.

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They're ungrateful for their educations.

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They're ungrateful for everything.

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People just complain all the time.

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And Allah ﷻ says وَتَأَذَّنَا رَبُّكُمْ لَئِنْ شِكَرْتُمْ

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لَأَزِيدَنَّكُمْ وَلَئِنْ كَفَرْتُمْ إِنَّ عَذَابِدَ الشَّدِيدِ Your Lord

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has declared, if you're grateful, I will increase

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you in blessings to be grateful for.

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But if you are ingrate, if you lack

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gratitude, in fact, if you show ingratitude, I

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will give you more reasons to be ungrateful.

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I will give you more reasons to be

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ungrateful.

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This is a metaphysical equation.

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Gratitude equals increase in blessings.

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Ingratitude equals decrease in blessings.

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This is a قعدة.

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It's a law.

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It's a metaphysical law that's as true as

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the Newtonian physics that you learned in high

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school.

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If you're ungrateful, then Allah will give you

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more to be ungrateful about, more to whine

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about.

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You think it's bad now?

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You have no idea how bad it can

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get.

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Read history to know how bad it can

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get.

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You think Syria is bad?

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Read about the Mongol invasion.

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They didn't have any place to flee to.

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You think the Muslims are having tribulation in

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America?

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Read about Nazi Germany and what happened to

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the Jews.

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We have to be grateful because if we're

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ungrateful and always complaining, Allah is going to

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give you more to complain about.

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I was in one of the Gulf states

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and somebody was complaining about the price of

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gasoline.

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The taxi driver, 25 cents at the time.

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Now it's a lot higher.

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Why?

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Because they keep complaining.

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Go ahead, complain all you want.

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Because if you love to complain, Allah will

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give you plenty to complain about.

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But if you want to show gratitude, Allah

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will give you plenty to show gratitude about.

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They did a study at Davis.

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It's called the Gratitude Study for Depressed People.

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They had them write down every day, every

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morning, 10 things they were grateful for.

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Over a period of a month, people's depression

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started being lifted.

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وَإِن تَعُدُّوا نِعْمَةَ اللَّهَ لَا تَحْصُوهَا If you

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start counting the blessings of Allah, you'll never

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come to an end.

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And you can count blessings like just eyelashes.

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People don't have eyelashes.

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They fall out.

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Eyelashes are a wonderful blessing.

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Or some people have dry eyes.

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So if you have moisture in your eyes,

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what a blessing.

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If you have teeth, what a blessing.

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If you don't have teeth, if you have

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dentures, what a blessing.

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There are people that don't have dentures.

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If you lose one arm, what a blessing.

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You didn't lose both arms.

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If you lose both arms, what a blessing.

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Now they have prosthetic devices that enable you

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to do things.

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Ibn Abbas said in every tribulation in dunya,

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there are three blessings hidden that you have

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to recognize.

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The first is that it could have been

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worse.

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The second is that it's in your dunya

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and not in your deen.

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And the third, in your worldly affairs and

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not in your religious affairs.

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And the third, it's in this world and

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not in the next.

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