Appreciate What We Have

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Hamdulillah

we were talking about the byway that this and that. And I was saying that you know, Hamdulillah, the ask, we thank Allah subhanaw taala for Islam?

Because if you did not have the actual divine revelation, if you did not have Allah subhanaw taala introducing himself, what would you do?

You would imagine that you would imagine what do we want to measure. And the human being,

by definition,

can only imagine something which is in his own experience in one way or the other. So it might be something that you have done, or it might be something you heard of something you read about something you saw in a movie or whatever, right? So if you say for example, imagine

the most beautiful creature, what will you

do will imagine either a woman or a man or a cow or a bar or a goat or an elephant or something which exists already, you might have this you might have this, which is what this is how these all these so called Gods and Goddesses get created the pictures. It is the thing about the Hindu, Hindu pantheon is all Asian Indian men and women.

Does not one African is that right? There's not one Chinese in that there's not one Eskimo in that.

Why not? Because that's your imagination. So, instead of imagining now a regular man, you will imagine the man with wings or with you know something else and what not what not. So effectively it is a marriage some version of the man.

Because this is hunger. This is hunger, like the hunger of the body, right? If you're hungry, you will eat. Now, you will try to the normal tendency of human being is to find the best possible food. Anybody I mean, nobody will go and eat something which is nasty or spoiled or rotting. Or they won't do that by choice. By choice you if you have a choice, you will always eat something which is good. But if you don't have a choice, if you're starving, what do you do?

You eat whatever you need, you eat leaves, if you'd if there is rotting food, you eat rotting food, you get sick, you die, maybe even there's cases of cannibalism, people eating other people in cases of severe starvation, you will eat dogs, cats, rats, cockroaches, anything, right? Because you have to eat.

Similarly, and even at a far higher level is the hunger of the soul of the row.

So when the row when the soul is deprived of its

pure food, which is the caliber of Allah, the Quran, Allah, this is the food of the soul

is the tomato, it is the connection with Allah subhanaw taala. So it is the Dhikr of Allah disallow the Quran, it is, you know, reflecting thinking introspecting, about Allah subhanaw taala and our connection with him. So when the soul is deprived of that, what will it do? It searches, whatever it can find.

And that is how all of these, you know, all of these theories and all of this stuff gets gets emitted.

But effectively what is it is the soul searching for it food.

It's not getting the food. Now hamdulillah

unlike in the case of

physical food, material food, you might actually have a situation where it is not there.

But with the soul, Allah subhanaw taala didn't leave it like that, throughout, from the first person created Otherwise Allah Allah subhanaw taala always ensured that food for the soul was always there,

which is his color, which is, you know, the revelation, which came to different prophets in different ways and so on and so on right up to

the force over the food for the soul has always been there. It has always been free.

What people choose to take or not to take up then you can't blame. You know, you can't blame others for it. I didn't get it. No, you didn't get it. You got it. You chose not to take it.

It was there in front of you.

So people are people that people see other Muslims, they see somebody who looks and walks and talks like a Muslim pray like a Muslim. They might hear the Quran somewhere they might hear some thoughts somewhere else or plus Allah subhanaw taala also gave us the ability, the thinking thinking power to just reflect on our own and at least even if you don't have an app X actual answer saying Allah, it takes you to a point at which you start inquiring for example, if you look around

If you sit down there

I think two weeks ago when I came, this lake was frozen.

There was nothing today the lake the whole leg is it's liquid so the ice is gone. And you have a whole flock of geese.

So this is the holder of the hollows Florida and now we are coming into springs we're going to see flowers and we will see. We also see a lot of pollen so if you are allergic to it, and we sneezing a lot. So the point is that the whole Wrath of Allah subhanaw taala the

creation of Allah subhanaw taala the power witness monitor is visible. It is visible it is out there. It's just needs us to open our eyes and reflect and think that is the reason why Allah subhanaw taala said in a few healthy Sahaba or the acapella field lady wanna hurry.

Allah said very early in the creation of the heavens and the earth and the alternation of the day and the night there are signs for people of intelligence. Right, just look at a sunset video, I posted the picture of a sunset and so on. Also on my timeline. We were in Florida. And as you know, this friend of mine,

Dr. Ismail and his wife, who's also a doctor, they both were there with us and their little daughter. So we went to one place at the jetty looking out over the Gulf of Mexico, and took a picture on our side of the sunset. Amazing

how the sun since seems to just go into the ocean, you know, it's

the way it looks like that. And it's something which is which is also in my head. He said, You know, every day it is different.

There are no two sunsets the same. If you actually make this into a plan, say every day, I'm going to take a video of the sunset.

Every day is different every day, the sunrise is different from the same spot. Obviously, if you go to different places it will be but even from the same spot, every single day is different.

My brother told me one fantastic story, he said he was on a cruise.

And there was this nature photographer, not a Muslim guy.

And

it was his exhibition, he did an exhibition. So there was this fabulous photographs of sunrises and sunsets.

So many of them, couple of 100 of them, all of them different. And the man was supposed to make a presentation about it.

He said just one line, his whole presentation.

He said he creates all of this every day.

And he doesn't care who looks.

He doesn't care who looks. Allah subhanaw taala says

if you don't want to see it, but if you see it and if you recognize it, this is where the

issue of seeing and looking.

There's a hotbar of mine on this, I think I'm not mistaken looking and see looking is a physical action

that I am looking at moment.

So what do I see? I see Mommy, I'm seeing this guy sitting there.

But what I'm seeing what am I seeing? I'm seeing my friend here.

Right. So when you look outside, you'll see oh, you see there's some there's a water, some trees and so on. So on.

What when you when you look out, that's when you're looking, but when you see

you see beyond the picture,

you see the glory or magnificence of Allah.

Last time I was here we were going out actually remember the

the red tailed hawk, which had killed rabbits. And then the female was on it and the male was on the side of it. Man see the whole of the wall as well. And those birds

they know that in this country in this place, nobody will disturb them. So that bird is sitting and eating their rabbit in the middle of many people walking around and people dying if ordered as is not bother.

Because about nobody will do anything to it. So

didn't fly away didn't do anything.

The signs almost ran Otara are visible for us.

Everywhere.

In many ways, I'm just talking about one aspect which is by looking at it. But there are signs almost Valterra in how people treat each other signs of Allah subhanaw taala in

you know in our feelings in our thoughts and our actions, in what we listen to and so on and everything.

The question is do we stop to riff

lectin thing

that is very important. And that is what distinguishes us from animals. We are mammals.

So like other, like a cow, or a dog or a cat or something, we also have eyes and ears. And we also have, we also think to some extent, they also think there's not as they don't, they'll think

what they don't do is reflection. What they don't do is introspection, what they don't do is conceptualization of learning.

These are very uniquely human things.

And it will also see and also learn how you can train an animal, the animal learns by its own, you don't necessarily have a trend, for example, a predator lion or a leopard or, you know, Gita or something learns to hunt, the mother teaches the young one to hunt.

If you if you have them in captivity, they're born in captivity, they don't order it.

So if you put them on cats, for example, housecats, which are born and bred in house and so on, you will find they have no clue they use you, if you see the mouse, it'll look at versus mouse will come and eat from the same, you know, container as the cat.

It's only when it's in this natural state, it is taught by the mother then it learns what

so it will also love difference between us and animals is what you do with that learning. So with us, what we are supposed to do, and Mullah gave us the capacity is to reflect and to introspect, and to conceptualize three,

three steps, right. So you reflect on whatever the incident is, or the experiences.

And then you introspect on that, which is internally how did that connect with me, reflection,

is to replay that in your mind.

So something happens,

that is what we call a concrete experience.

Experience is over.

Now you are in another place, you're thinking about, Okay, what happened there?

I met Miraj, he told me about this.

So when he's not there anymore, I'm somewhere else. I'm thinking about that, what happened? So that is deflection effectively is like replaying that thing in my mind, right? So suppose imagine, I take a video of that now watching the video. So this is not a physical video, it's in my mind the experiencer. So, I go through that.

And then I introspect, how did i What did I do there?

What did I do there? What could I have done? What choices did I have, you know, all of this introspection

so I said something to him, What else could I have said to him,

remaining silent was an option did I exercise that option and so on. So whatever, right.

And then from that, you create or you in you extract a concept, which is, therefore when I now marriage is not in the picture, therefore, now when I speak to another person, whoever it might be, is not only marriage,

this is how I should speak,

which is a better way, more effective way, kinder way, more compassionate way more polite way, whatever it is, right. So you're trying to improve yourself by saying, This is what happened to me today. Something was good, something was not good, I was reduced, that make it more powerful, make it more effective, make it more

focused, and so on. So this capacity to introspect, to reflect, to introspect and to conceptualize this is unique to human beings.

Then we take it a step further, which is documentation, that's where you are, right?

That's very important.

Dog documentation actually opens your mind even more. So when you're writing something down, it helps the thinking process much more.

So that is the whole the what Allah has given us. Is that hamdulillah in Islam, what we do now is you also were appropriate and may not be necessary everywhere but where it is necessary.

You also look at it on the framework of the deen

so this is what happened but Islamically How do I see this?

Islamically what is it that my perception of this thing as a Muslim gives me an advantage gives me a leverage over anybody else. Looking at

At the same thing

that's where and that is why the knowledge of the deen is so important. Because if you don't have the framework How will you need the river?

Right We ask Allah subhanaw taala to help us to

truly appreciate this deen and the way to truly appreciate the dean is to learn about this deal. And to practice this, then you get the advantage of that the

supposition and not only resolve and as the great they know the benefit of it.

So because of this now I have an advantage I am able to do things I am able to get things I'm able to deal with situations much better than any ordinary person because that ordinary person doesn't have what I have.

It's like having a credit card without a spending limit. And somebody else is paying that bill.

If you look at that credit card, it's the same piece of plastic.

Right It doesn't grow or doesn't fly around.

But if you know what it is, which is your noise you understand it, you appreciate it. Then what you do with it.

Put it in your pocket and you beg somebody please can you give me five bucks why I need a coffee?

You have in your pocket something with which you can buy the that whole Dunkin Donuts and you want to beg me for five $5 to buy one cup of coffee you're crazy.

No, you would say that you're really lucky. So what what's wrong with you?

That thing is no spending limit. I can I go there and say well, how much for this whole property three or $300,000? Here it is. Right?

And instead of that you are asking me can you give me five bucks I made doesn't make sense.

So abbreviation means to go use it.

Know what it is and use it.

That's what gives you the advantage that's what gives us the power.

We ask Allah subhanaw taala to help us to understand and to use this deed

in this dunya Allah acha acha is the result

the usage is here in this dunya

when we use this Deen in this dunya then we get the benefit in the ACA there is no usually use it the use of the in the industry. Once a while in the graveyard desk I think we will see that now you are deceiving. And we ask Allah to give us the best day but that best depends on what we do here.

Right? We ask Allah for this is like Allah.

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