Omar Suleiman – Two Blessings that are Rarely Combined

			One sound like I'm running to my head with a counter. So now I come to now slots are so tight and he
was like the Manuela. So you can probably tell that my voice is a little lower now
		

			as I'm just dealing with a little bit of a sore throat and some congestion, but you know,
		

			as you all can see, I'm okay, so please don't worry too much. But I'll take all the rights that I
can get in Charlottetown. So I did want to take advantage of the opportunity to share just a short
reflection shala. And tonight will be shorter than usual
		

			because of my voice. And that is the famous Hadith of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam where
he said that there are two blessings, mother born and female phenomena that are lost on people. And
the word libnah in the Arabic language is used to describe
		

			when a seller desires profit, okay, well, the seller desires to make some money. So motherboard
means that they are profitable blessings that people have. And people do not take advantage of them
a slave to once off, which is health and free time. Now, health is.
		

			Health is of course, something that we usually don't take for granted. Obviously, everything that's
happening right now is helping us keep in mind, the blessing of health and free time obviously, is
is sometimes forced upon us we're forced under duress under certain circumstances, to find ourselves
in these situations. But I wanted to give a very particular angle to this Hadeeth inshallah Thailand
with the short time that I have with you. And that is that half of the bonacci Rahim Allah to Allah,
He said that these two blessings of health and free time, are almost never combined with one
another. Why he said, Because usually, you have to have an abundance of one to realize the blessing
		

			of the other. And so for example, he said that what ends up happening is that, you know, when a
person loses their health, then suddenly they have free time. Okay. And that is, you know, typically
the idea of a person that's retired or in a hospital that or because of their circumstances of
health, they're not able to work and they're not able to do certain things. On the other hand, he
said that when people have an abundance of free time, I'm sorry, when people have an abundance of
health, then they are going to use as much of that health as possible in pursuit of this world. So
in pursuit of material things. And so, you know, as healthy as they are, they're going to make
		

			themselves busier and busier and busier and busier, so that they can keep on making use of the time
to give themselves worldly benefit. So, essentially, what ends up happening is that these two
blessings are almost never combined for a person. If you have an abundance of free time, it may be
because you lack health, if you have an abundance of health that will be directly to the detriment
of free time. And somehow, here we are in these times. Extraordinary times and we are sitting at our
homes we are quarantined, and we have an abundance of both free time and health and it's an
opportunity for us inshallah Todd to make use of both of those things together. And that is one of
		

			the blessings of this time. So again, and my dear brother, Dr. Hussain had given a beautiful
reminder of this, if you go over to the Athena Institute, Facebook page, you'll see there are daily
reminders from our team there and that was the first daily reminder In fact, last Sunday from Dr.
autocracy, but the idea that how merciful is Allah subhanho wa Taala when he gives us these two
blessings together when we almost never get that together, so I'm not going to push this any
further. Does that mean well hold on for your jobs inshallah. Tada, I hope I'll I'll be able to
regain my full full voice back and shall listen and may have lost contact keep you all safe and
		

			protected. And desert aloha Charlottetown. I'll see you all tomorrow. So I'm ready to come up with a
working bucket.