Mustafa Khattab – Taraweeh Gems 11 Alot To Be Greateful For

Today, we'll talk about gratitude to Allah Subhanahu

Wa Ta'ala.

And this is a quality that is mentioned

throughout the Quran.

We say Alhamdulillah

at least 17 times a day. Twice we

salatul fajr Alhamdulillah rablalameen

Al Rahman Al Rahim.

1st rakaa second rakaa. You do it 4

times in Luq, 4 times in ask, 3

times in maverick, 4 times in asha. And

if you do taraweeh, that's another

several times throughout the day. And this is

a quality that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala likes

that you say alhamdulillah. You thank Allah for

everything.

It's a quality that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

likes about the prophets.

When Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala speaks about nur

in the Quran, one of the qualities that

Allah likes about nur, in nahu kal aftin

shakur. He was a grateful servant of Allah.

One of the qualities that Allah subhanahu wa

ta'ala lies about Ibrahim alaihi salaam, shakirali anaromi.

He was always grateful to Allah. So it

is good to be grateful.

So

what what to be grateful fair for?

Wallahi, as I always say, in

There's a lot to be grateful for.

The other day we're at the hospital, we're

visiting a couple of brothers at the hospital

in the intensive care unit

and I told him there are 3 situations

that I always learned gratitude

from. So when I go to the hospital

and I see sick people, people who are

between life and death, they're struggling to survive,

I am grateful for the for the niyama

of health.

I'm grateful to Allah for my health. When

we take a janazah to the cemetery for

the burial, I'm grateful for the niyama of

life.

When I go to jail

to visit the brothers over there, I'm grateful

for the for the name of freedom. This

is something

not every one of us appreciates. But when

you go there, for example, to, the prison,

and you talk to the brothers there, and

they tell you they will give you everything

they have, all the money they have, and

everything, so they can just go out for

half an hour and enjoy life, and breathe

freedom, and see their family. And this is

something we don't appreciate. Right?

So what to be grateful for? Why number

1, you have to be grateful to Allah

subhanahu wa ta'ala for the nirma of Islam.

I studied different faith, I go to different

places of worship, and I see how people

suffer.

Right?

Those of you among us today, and I

see some faces

who came to Islam, they were not Muslim

before but they accepted Islam.

When I talk to them I see how

they appreciate the niyama of Islam.

Many of us who were born and raised

Muslim, they cannot appreciate the niyama because they

didn't try anything before. Right? And Allah Subhanahu

Wa Ta'ala calls Islam, nama fisoolatul Mahidah.

This

day I have perfected your faith for you,

and I've chosen Islam as your faith, and

I have perfected my favor of Islam upon

you. So Islam is a favor, Islam is

a nirm.

When

you do Ibadah, like you fast in the

month of Ramadan or you pray, This by

itself is man, That

this is something you should be grateful for,

that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala made it easy

for you

to do Ibadah. Because there are so many

Muslims who are not fasting, they're not praying,

they don't taste the sweetness of Ibadah.

Before I gave the,

the the example of a brother,

I met in Edmonton. He lived in Saudi

for about 20 years. He was driving between

Mecca and Jeddah for 20 years,

and he said it never occurred to me

that I should do the Hajj. Right? 20

years he was there,

then he came here

and he had to pay like 10, $12,000

to go to Mecca for the Hajj. Right?

Although he was there, but Allah subhanahu wa

ta'ala didn't make it easy for him. There

are some people who live in Mecca or

Madinah,

like 5, 10 minutes away from the Haram,

they never prayed in the Haram. So now

imagine if you pray in the Kaaba, how

many,

salawat you get? A 100,000?

Right? Is this the right number? You pray

in Makkah, a 1000, you go to Masjid

Al Aqsa, how many you get? Still they

don't do it because Allah didn't give them

the Ne'amatul Ibad. Right? So when you fasted

Ramadan, when you pray, you pray taraweeh,

always think of all the people who were

not guided to pray because they're not practicing,

and they are in the millions,

or maybe because they are not even Muslim

and they are in the billions. You are

one of the chosen few. Allah Subhanahu Wa

Ta'ala shows you for this.

It is Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala who creates

and who chooses.

Think of the niyamah of the family. You

have a family.

I talked to some brothers and sisters, they

are desperate to get married. They cannot find

a good person to marry. Right? So this

is a favor. Thank Allah for your parents.

There are some people who don't have who

lost their parents.

Thank Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for the wife.

Thank Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for the husband,

for the children.

If you have women in the family, you

should be grateful for it because they are

way you're way to Jannah.

In the hadith of the prophet shalallahu alaihi

wa sallam, if you have daughters, Allah gave

you a daughter or 2 or 3, and

if you teach them, you make them good

muslims, they will protect you from Jahannam. You

will not go to Jahannam.

If you have a wife, if you got

married to a sister,

she completes the second half your of your

faith. So if you marry 1, you have

half of the faith, you marry 1, you,

you know, you get the second half of

the faith. If you marry a second one,

you lose all of your faith altogether.

Yeah. This is what they at least this

is what they say in Egypt. If you

have a mother if you have a mother,

then Jannah is under her feet.

Right? So thank Allah

for all these people.

Tomorrow insha'Allah we'll talk about how to show

gratitude to Allah. Today we spoke about gratitude

and what to be grateful for. My time

is running, but tomorrow we'll talk in detail

how to be grateful to Allah in a

way that he likes. InshaAllah.

So, the question for last night, there's a