Mustafa Khattab – Muslim Manners 14 Gratitude I Ramadan 2012
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The speaker discusses the qualities of Islam, including gratitude to Allah for everything he has done and the importance of being a Muslim. They also mention the struggles of jobless people with no money and the lack of knowledge about organs in their body. The speaker describes a situation where a liver transplant recipient had to have a heart transplant and the speaker describes how they were embarrassed and scared of the secret.
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So one of the qualities of a Muslim
is that he is grateful to Allah
for everything he or she has.
If you look at the Quran, Allah praised
Nuh alaihi salaam for being a grateful and
a thankful servant of Allah
Although
he spent 950
years making dua to his people and only
few accepted his message.
His son died as a kafir.
His wife died as a kafir, but still
he was grateful to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And the prophet as reported in Muslal Abi
Dawood, he used to ask Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala to help him to be grateful to
Allah because he himself
couldn't show enough
or sufficient gratitude and thanks to Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala without the help of of
Allah
So the first nirmah that you have in
life is you being a Muslim.
If you look at those who worship the
cow and those who worship the holy elephant
and those who worship mice and those who
worship fire and those who worship Izzah, and
those who worship Buddha, and those who even
worship the devil,
and those who are atheists.
So now you can appreciate the niramah of
Islam. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala calls Islam
in a namah the Surah Al Maidah. Today,
I have completed my favor upon you and
I chose Islam as your religion. So Islam
is a namah.
Also the namazoo of having a wife and
children
and also being healthy
and that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has given
you a good job and a decent life.
There are 1,000,000 in this world
who are jobless or they
have no job and they have no money
and they are not married. They don't have
kids. So if you are one of the
chosen few, you are one of the chosen
few in this world. So at least every
time
when you are sitting in your room by
yourself if you remember all these favors
make sujoon shukla to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
and say Alhamdulillah.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in the Quran.
Most of the people that they don't know
even the favors that they have.
The people in the village, they have never
been to school. They don't know what a
pancreas is. They don't know nothing about the
organs in their body. But Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala put these organs in them and they
live, alhamdulillah, a decent life. And again, very
few are thankful to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
So a friend of mine about 3 years
ago had to have a liver transplant
it cost him around a $100,000
and he passed away about a month later
so this is the liver, one organ. What
about the kidney? What about the eye,
the brain, and everything you have?
Isn't Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala?
Doesn't he deserve
to say thank you, Alhamdulillah,
Yani?
And, I remember
about 2 months ago when I first had
the, LASIK eye surgery I couldn't see for
for about, 2, about 2 weeks. It was
very blurry and this is one organ in
the body I couldn't function I couldn't see
even when I have to give the football.
I couldn't people were flying all over the
place. People were sitting on the wall to
me. This is what I saw when I
gave the football.
I remember
I was, going outside the Nasrin and
after a month or something we were planning
for a soccer tournament
and that was a top secret.
I one of the brothers, he's a Somali,
he's the captain of the team, he was
leaving with me and I told him come
I'm gonna tell you a secret about the
tournament but don't tell anyone. He opened the
door for me, I took him to my
ark. We walked for all the way to
the street and I was telling him all
the secrets about the tournament.
And when we reached the street almost close
to my house he was telling me why
why are you telling me all these secrets?
And I looked at him, he was not
the Somali brother, he was a Lebanese brother
very tall
and I
couldn't see and I was so embarrassed and
of course the secret was all over the
place
but anyway
Alhamdulillah