Hidden Blessings

Moutasem al-Hameedy

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and whomsoever Allah leaves to go astray, Nan can guide I bear witness, that there is none worthy of worship, except Allah, the Almighty Allah. And I bear witness that Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa early he was Salam is His servant and his messenger are you who believe, fear Allah as you should be feared and I do not accept in a state of submission to Allah as Muslims all mankind. Be beautiful to your Lord who created you from a single person that's Adam. From him, he created his wife as Eve. From them both he created many men and women and fear Allah through whom you demand your mutual rights and observe the rights of your kin. Surely Allah is ever an all water over you, or you will

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believe keep your duty to Allah fear him and speak the truth. He will direct you to righteous deeds and will forgive your sins. And whoever obeys Allah and His Messenger has indeed attained a great achievement. The best words are the words of Allah and the best guidance is the guidance of Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him. And the worst things in the religion are the newly invented matters for all the newly invented methods and religion, or an innovation and betrayal and every bitter is misguidance

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Prophet sallallahu Sallam advises a person and he says, sees five things before five other things arrive.

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sees your youth before the before old age comes about

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and take advantage

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of your state of wealth and abundance and sufficiency, before lack and poverty strikes

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and utilize your health before it is taken away.

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And take advantage of leisure time when you have free time on your hands before the time off

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of busyness comes about

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and utilize and make good use of your life before death arrives.

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These are great blessings from Allah subhanaw taala that we take for granted and because they are very profound, they are subtle. We take them for granted at the hem in aluminium Allahu xojo Island in southern

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every person on the Day of Judgment.

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They will be asked by Allah about four things about their youth. What did they spend it in? About their life? What did they do with it? About their wealth? How did they earn it and how did they spend it and this coincides with the previous Hadith, same thing there is the Prophet SAW Selim is saying in the first Hadith sees these blessings, that are easily can easily fall in the cracks of your life where you don't appreciate them. You take them for granted, you think you're entitled to them, you think they will remain with you forever, because they're very convenient. But you only realize the value once you lose them.

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And this is why in the Arabic language they say a Sahar Tutera, Dona Ana, Rosa, La Rosa, an IRA for who in the number, that health is a crown above the head of every healthy person, it's only appreciated by those people whose health is compromised.

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So and this is the concept of Afula that we humans can easily get used to something that is available, and we think we are entitled to it, we think we are entitled to health. That's the norm. We think health is just there. We think wealth, if we are in a good state, we think wealth is just that. It's life is meant to be like this food is available, accommodation is available, and you live a convenient life. But that's because you've never been exposed. Or you didn't have to deal with lack. Well, you don't have food for a day or two. Or you didn't have to deal with a time when you were severely ill. And you realize you had no energy, you had almost no control over yourself. You

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couldn't even use your time. Or, and this is something very common these days. People are bored. People are suffering from chronic boredom, to say I want to kill time. I don't know what to do with my time, especially at this stage when people have to stay at home. And people are unable to utilize their time. People are so bored of staying at home. You know, they don't know what to do with time. They have plenty of time on their hands. And it's become a burden although it's a gift from Allah subhanaw taala it's a precious gift. And this shows that every gift that Allah Subhana Allah gives us we are responsible for it. It's not random. It is given to us so that we do something with it.

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We're never entitled to blessings just like this. Everything in this life that is given to us we will be asked about it.

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A colossal Allah He sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and others Huberty hereby Amen. For all letters Aluna and herb from Matala Coppola, who Tada from Illumina, your maiden name, the prophets Allah Allah when you send them one day he eats from food with some of his companions. And he says, You shall be asked about this fruit. Then he quotes the verse from solids,

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Taka, Taka, Taka Mara to saloon Naomi in any name, then you shall be asked on the day of judgment about every blessing, you will be asked about it. And Allah subhanaw taala we know from many narrations from the Prophet SAW Selim, and statements from the companions of the Allahu Anhu like my other manager, but probably Allah who I know that Allah subhanaw taala will set the scales on the Day of Judgment, where he would wake up his blessings against our deeds.

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And then Allah subhanaw taala will tell our blessings, each one of them to take its own share from our deeds.

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So there's a narration from

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for your code of law, they adopted me here at the

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Allah would say to the least of his blessings upon a human being, and this is a person that seems to have done a lot of good deeds. Stand and take your rights take your worth, from the deeds of my servant fact are all over the state and federal court.

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So it will stand and it will take its do from the deeds it will consume the deeds of this person the prophets of salaam told us in an authentic hadith in knowledge Jhulan female mother but added Allah has it DNS, Anna you're so much the hard way a common name for them my Bertha Hello your monthly Jana. Okay, what can I know the zeal? What can I know? Shojiro thun thun Bitola who Leominster Martin Fayer Kudo Mina on February 8 They all monthly Yama

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for Lim Mechanicville Hey Saba call hola hola. Oh yeah be the third Hello Ginetta variety called bill at Hulu Have you had money

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for call Allah azza wa jal dinero met universal reversals

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aka eliminate aka T O Kumbhakarna. Alayhi Salatu was Salam. O ye so a was you know, mutton bustle B and man very bad. The DCT in Asana or NFL pa shirt magazine magazine will ama were third bullet magazine on Amazon Barsaat philam. Developer they are available at Hulu Hamitic. The prophets of salaam told us about the man from previous nations that came before before the message of the Prophet sallallahu Allah He was in

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that he worshiped Allah for 60 years.

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He would pray all night and he would fast every day. And he lived on an island by himself and there was a tree that would give him a fruit every day as a miracle from Allah. And the man had no distractions, no engagements, but worshipping Allah subhana wa Tada.

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So

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the man passed away 60 years after 60 years, and he's resurrected on the day of judgment he will stand before Allah and Allah will say to him into paradise, by my mercy, our allow you into Paradise will have mercy on you, and that will allow you into paradise through My Mercy. A man looks at 60 years of worship and he says, Oh Allah, I'll enter Paradise by my deeds, I sort of earned it.

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So Allah Azza wa Taala will save to the angels way up his good deeds against the blessing of eyesight. So they wouldn't be weighed against on the opposite sides of the scale. And the blessing of eyesight would outweigh all of his deeds. By far. When he sees this he says oh Allah and enter paradise through Your mercy. And this is why the prophets of Allah when he was sending them says in the Hadith lineage hola Hello mean como Jana Tabby Annalee called water until ya rasool Allah, Allah Allah Allah, Allah Anita Han Madani Allahu binaire letting me know with other the Prophet SAW, Selim says to the Companions, that are the Allahu anhu, none of you will enter paradise through your own

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deeds. They said, O Messenger of Allah, and, and even, you know, the worship of the Prophet salallahu it we send them and he says, not even me, unless Allah subhanaw taala shows me with his forgiveness, and His mercy. So, it is important for for all of us to appreciate and value these blessings that we take for granted that because they are constant, and they are continuous, and they are profound, we don't seem to observe them, we don't seem to be aware of them. We seem to grow heedless and unconscious, of the presence of their value of their importance of their impact on our life. And we only wake up to their value onto their presence when we lose them. And that's what the

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Prophet SAW Selim warned against. He said, Don't be unconscious of them

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to the point that you that it passes you or you miss out on utilizing them because these gifts are not given to you randomly. They're given to you with a purpose that you utilize them. These are raw material that is given to you so you can utilize it you can you can utilize them, you can do something with them. In order to draw closer to Allah and you will never be able to earn paradise you will never be able to

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earn a standing with Allah subhanaw taala. But all what Allah wants from you is sincerity, devotion and truthfulness towards him. And this is something of paramount importance in the light of everything that we are going through, you look around in the world, you see a lot of political, you know, atrocities, there's a lot of issues. And there are a lot of complex phenomena that we have to deal with. And people seem to be distracted by a lot of those. Yes, as a Muslim community, as Muslim individuals, we need to connect, we need to respond based on the principles of divine legislation, we will need to

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embrace responsibility, whether individually or collectively based on the guidance of the prophets of Allah when he was sent them. But that doesn't mean in any case, and by any stretch of the imagination, to forget about the essence of all of this, and that you are in this life, as a test, and you need to draw to Allah subhanaw taala your personal relationship with Allah subhanaw taala is paramount is stands paramount in your life, it comes before everything else, and unless you get it fixed, and you put it in good shape, any other or any further engagement would be blemished by other motives, and other payoffs. And that would compromise your sincerity. So we ask Allah Subhan Allah

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to ALLAH to open our eyes, and to help us grow conscious of the value of his blessings upon us and to help us appreciate them, be thankful to them and utilize them in the way that pleases Him alone who only heard that was the federal law Hollywood a conference stuff.

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And haven't hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa salatu salam ala Sayidina Muhammad in what I heard he was had the asthma in my bed.

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So what is a way to utilize these blessings or not fall in a state of laferla in a state of blindness, where we are, where we become deadened to the reality of the things that are in our life. Let's look at the Hadith in a little bit more detail and see how we can utilize them. So the Prophet SAW Selim first says,

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Shabaab aka oblah holonic, you need to utilize your youth. Youth is the peak of your life where you have lots of energy physically, you are the healthiest when you are in your youth, you have the most energy in your youth, you have the

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most resources and the capacity for endurance and for patients and for hard work during your youth. And that's why the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam singled it out. So you are going to be questioned about your youth more emphatically than the rest of your life, which is your childhood, when you are more of a helpless like, to a great deal. You are helpless, you're under the control of others and you don't know that much. And when you are older when you are not as resourceful and not as strong and where your stamina has been compromised. So you the question about the youth will be emphasized. So if you are a new youth, and youth doesn't mean 20s It doesn't mean teenagers or 20s or 30s.

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Actually youth could exist. Youth refers to any time where you have good levels of energy, and you have a sense of autonomy. You have a say in your life and you have resources and you are conscious you are aware.

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So all of that falls under you youth and there are narrations that indicate that the Prophet SAW Selim who died at the age of 63, some of the companion said Murtala solo law he Salalah and he was in Amercia

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Lamia confederacy he was here to here in LA Shaybah. To do that, the Prophet SAW Selim died as a young man as a youth. So again, sometimes the way we apply the concept of youth or Shabaab in our today's culture is inaccurate. So we understand the Hadith of the Prophet sallallahu Sallam according to the language of Quraysh at the time of the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam. So youth could include teenage years and 20s 30s 40s 50s as long as you are healthy, you are capable and you have your wits and your mind is intact, then that is time of youth B

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On June 8, and before you there is times of weakness, lack of autonomy, a lot of dependence on others and ability to manage your own affairs. So this is time that you are responsible for because you have, you have choice, you're able to decide what to do with your time, how to use your time, what to focus on, what actions to do and what things to avoid. So that's what you're supposed to utilize. And youth here refers to your lifetime. It's a big, it's the peak of your lifetime. So how are you using your life? That's the foundational the basic resource, Allah subhanho wa Taala has blessed us with and life is not just time that you spend here, every second in your life is a gift

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from Allah is a new gift from Allah that is handed to you. Second, by second it is given to you and how are you going to use it? This is the question so there is no time to be wasted. Time is not yours. Time is not yours. It is a trust.

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It is a trust. It's some raw material that Allah gave you. And the test of this life is how do you use this resource or this raw material of time? What do you do with it? And this is why you will be questioned about that on the Day of Judgment because time belongs to Allah, it doesn't belong to you. It is given to you as a gift. When you claim ownership over it. You think you've earned it, you think you are entitled to it, then you will tend to use it it will become a burden in gold. I'm just killing time I don't know what to do with this time. That means you have lost your focus. You have lost your sense of purpose. When you have a sense of purpose. You have no time to waste some of the

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tambourine. Rahim Allah Tada I think that was the Fianna theory.

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He said

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Allah Hina better tomorrow hella 10 Min Ohmori Allah to z the fee mid mount to the Danica Wachtell. It says Allah has reached a stage in my life where if I were to introduce a new good deed into my daily routine, I have no space for it.

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There is no second wasted in his day everything has been allotted to a specific act of worship are something that is beneficial to do.

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And hustle and bustle you used to walk through the market and look at the people in the market just chatting and no passing time. And you'd say well Allah he will lie low can walk to your store or Lestari to meet her at home with the heavy wall football. He says Wallahi if time could if time were a commodity that could be bought and sold. I would purchase the time of these people with gold and silver.

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And he said he addressed these people when they he said Wallahi not to acquire Milan I should do Harrelson either Oh quality him mean come on Ernie Rico. He said wala he I caught up with some people, these are the companions that will be Allah who I know that we're so keen

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to utilize and benefit from their time more, more than you are keen and so careful about your money.

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There was so protective about the time that it should not go to waste.

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So this is something that needs to be appreciated. And the way a good start with this is just look at your time and look at yourself throughout the day. If there is any time when you feel you are bored, you don't know what to do just realize you have fallen into hafla meaning offline from your purpose.

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You have fallen unaware of the purpose of your existence.

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And that's a serious matter.

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So make sure that every time every second, I wouldn't say every second that's just an advanced, let's start with at least let us know our end your day. go to waste. And we have no shortage of distractions in our times, especially these smartphones, and social media. If there is nothing beneficial, that brings you closer to Allah that you are doing with social media. Don't engage in it.

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Don't engage in it. Don't scroll down your list of videos or list of posts or news feed or whatever. If the if you have no good purpose behind this, that is to draw closer to Allah or to benefit his creation, which is actually drawing closer to Allah. If there is no such benefit. We're just killing time. If you just you know trying to

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feel entertained. I recommend

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I don't say abstain from that. But give a deeper thought. Is it worth it? Is it worth it because you are using a less time on

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Allah's gift to you without a sense of responsibility. And the thing is, you will be questioned about that time.

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So let's start with this. In the Prophet SAW Allah when he was salam said,

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Shabaab aka Kubla haram IC

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o while in our company of a worse a headache, a compressor clinic, your health, before illness comes about.

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Again, during your health, you are focused, your mind is sharp, physically you are fit, you can do things your energy is there. So you can do you can perform, you can pray, you can recite Quran, you can learn Islam, you can help someone who's in need, you can support someone who needs some kind of any kind of support. You can, in any profession, which whichever profession you are in, maybe you're a teacher, so you can you can teach, maybe you are a writer you can write,

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maybe you are an influencer. So you can influence people in a positive direction.

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So utilize that because the moment you fall ill, you are incapable, your health is compromised, and thus your capacity and your productivity plummets. And there is way less that you can do so and all of us go through times ups and downs. So the uptime is that when you are healthy. So see what you're doing with the health look at this health, not as a given, not as an entitlement, not as something that belongs to you know, it is a gift that is given from Allah to you so that you do something good with it. Then the Prophet SAW Allah Salam said,

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fall off, aka Kabbalah show like we all go through stages in our life, where you don't have a lot of demands. Your day and night is are not consumed by urgent matters.

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utilize that time that's a bit more of a zooming in

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the concept of your life and your your your youth. Okay, we're going a little bit higher resolution here. And that's basically when when you have quality time, there's not a lot of distractions, there's not a lot of urgent matters that you have to deal with urgently, that consume your attention. So at least, what do you do with this? Because there is more responsibility here because when you are busy, you might have an excuse with Allah subhanaw taala. You know, I have to provide enough for my family, I have to deal with an urgent matter. So there was a distraction. But when you don't have any urgent matter, you have no excuse. You have nothing that is vying for your attention

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and for your time. So why are you not using your time that means you have lost a sense of purpose. And then the Prophet SAW Allah when he was sent them says

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what Ferrara? Vaca, copula Schulich

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that's your, that's your life. Because the moment you die, you wake up to the value of life. And sometimes as we are immersed in life, we don't seem to appreciate it. We don't seem to value it again, because of the habit of the mind of this human knifes. That sort of when when it gets used to something, it doesn't appreciate it. You know, we say that in relationships, when a friend takes you for granted, they don't care about your emotions, they treat you like you're insignificant. They don't care about your emotions, they might even you know, you might be the last on their list. Right? Why? Because they don't take you seriously because you are always there for them. That's not

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not necessarily your mistake. That's their mistake. Because, again, we humans have this tendency to, to start appreciating less and less the things that are constant in our lives. They sort of become part of ourselves, and we stop realizing that they are the default is that they are not always there. But they are actually a gift. That they are a special thing and we need to nurture them, we need to preserve them, we need to take care of them we need to appreciate them, otherwise they would go and Allah subhanaw taala makes this clear in the Quran. He says if they're not bucola in Shackleton as either nichrome we're in Chicago we're in Chicago when we think of autumn in either be

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Russia did when covered them in either Delicia did last month, Allah says and your Lord made it clear made a declaration that if you are thankful, I shall increase you I shall give you more but if you are ungrateful, the punishment of Allah is Severe. Imam Shafi used to say plainly do a near me shook

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you know, tie down blessings from Allah with gratitude and gratitude is not just saying, Oh Allah, thank you. That's not gratitude. Allah

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It says in the Quran or earlier there was a chakra, or family or household of their would act in thankfulness. Thankfulness is an attitude that shows in your attitude and your work and so on and so forth. So again, just to put all of that in perspective, you know, we live in an ocean of blessings. And if we feel otherwise, then that's because we're not looking. That's because we are blinded by our heedlessness and our Krafla. So we need to some, sometimes step back and take a fresh look at life. And look at the great blessings that Allah subhanaw taala has bestowed upon us the blessings that we are enjoying day in and day out to the point that our life has become so convenient that we

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are taking them for granted. And we need to every day sort of reboot this kind of freshness of the blessings of Allah and see yourself as nothingness. And this nothingness has been given all of these blessings by Allah subhanaw taala every day, so act towards them as if they are new, as if they are given them for the first time because this is what this is the reality of them. And this would motivate you to utilize these inshallah this would help you on the Day of Judgment, show enough sincerity and enough dedication to Allah subhanho wa Taala that Allah would show you with His mercy and forgiveness and allow you into paradise Allama another no brainer way so often the empty now

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