Saif Morad – Gratitude Shukr Principles For A Good Life #3 .

Assalamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu my dear

brothers and sisters. What's going on? May Allah

Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala bless us with the best

in this world and the next.

In this video we're gonna be looking at

one of the most important principles of a

good life which is gratitude.

What we focus on and the meanings we

give to things

determines how we feel and act.

Some people only choose to focus on the

negative.

They only focus on those things that they

don't have,

And they're constantly complaining.

It's as if they are saying that Allah

has been unfair to them,

while the believer understands that every blessing that

they have is from Allah alone.

Because Allah said,

That any blessing that you have is from

Allah alone. And they are grateful for that.

And they also understand that the secret to

getting more

is by being grateful.

As Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala tells us in

the Quran.

Allah the Almighty is making it known in

this ayah that if you truly were to

be grateful to me,

then I will always increase you. This is

conditional

Based on the fact that if we are

grateful and if we are, Allah will always

increase us. And this is the speech of

Allah and Allah does not lie.

And he said that if you are ungrateful,

you think it was because of your hard

work and your intelligence that you have all

these things,

and you are ungrateful towards me,

then my punishment is severe.

And the believer understands that gratitude protects the

blessings.

Not only that, it also attracts more blessings

from Allah.

So what exactly

is gratitude?

He said that gratitude

is built upon 5 principles.

Firstly, to be humble and submissive towards Allah,

the one who gave us this blessing.

Secondly, and having love for Allah.

We love Allah for all the things that

he has given us.

Thirdly, to acknowledge

the fact that all these things are from

Allah,

understanding that every blessing is from Allah alone.

Fourthly,

and to praise him for these blessings.

And lastly,

that we don't utilize it in that which

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala dislikes.

So in other words, gratitude

is to acknowledge in the heart that every

blessing is from Allah

And we speak about these blessings.

Our speech shows that we are grateful to

Allah.

And lastly, our behavior.

We behave as people who are grateful towards

Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. We utilize these blessings

to do good. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala created

everything for us.

Why? So that we utilize it in obeying

him, in doing that which he loves.

And from the names of Allah is the

one who recognizes and rewards for good. And

he's the one who appreciates.

Allah is the one who recognizes even the

smallest of good deeds and he rewards us

for it. And his reward is a minimum

of 10

up to 700 or even more than that

based on how sincere we are.

And at the same time how many of

our falses Allah

overlook.

And he doesn't take us into account right

away, but he gives us chances to turn

back to him and we mess up yet

he still gives us chances to come back

to him. And he gives more to the

ones who are grateful, who are thankful to

him And he remembers

the people who remember him. Allah is Ghaneeb,

the one who doesn't need us. He's independent.

Yet Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala remembers us if

we remember him.

And if we draw closer to Allah,

Allah draws even closer to us.

So if this is how Allah

is towards us, the one who does not

need us,

we are the ones who need him, then

how should our behavior be towards him?

And the reality of gratitude of shukr is

action.

As he tells us in the Quran,

That oh family of Dawood,

act as if you are grateful.

Utilize the blessings and do more acts of

worship and be grateful.

And Allah says,

that

few of my slaves are the ones who

are truly grateful.

Dawood alayhi wasalam in his narration that he

said, that oh Allah how can I be

thankful towards you? How can I give you

thanks

when gratitude itself is a blessing from you?

And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told him that

now you understand.

Now you are grateful when you understand that

every blessing is from me. So like that,

we focus on the good in our lives.

We focus on the blessings that Allah

has given us, and we utilize them to

obey him.

Following the example of the prophet salallahu alayhi

wasalam, he used to pray for so long

at night that his feet would start to

crack.

And they told him, Dayan Rasoolallah, why are

you doing this when your sins have been

forgiven already?

And the prophet

said that should I not be a grateful

slave?

And Feroz al Ababi, he said that, Ashukr,

that gratefulness is connected to increase.

That it comes with more. Because Allah subhanahu

wa ta'ala said,

That if you are truly grateful,

then I will for sure increase you and

give you more. So he said that if

you don't see your situation improving,

you don't see it changing,

then move towards shukr.

So we need to change our focus. We

need to focus on the good. We need

to change our behavior. We behave like those

individuals who are grateful.

We try to see the good in every

situation

even when things are difficult.

And we need to understand that if we

want our situation to change then we need

to change first.

When we change, everything changes.

Be grateful for all the little things. Say

thank you to Allah for every blessing. Say

thank you for your house, for your car,

for your children, for your spouse, for every

blessing that you have. Be grateful towards Allah.

And we need to recognize that the biggest

blessing that we have

is the blessing of Islam, the blessing of

faith. As the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam

told us in the hadith, that Allah gives

this dunya

to those individuals that he loves and at

the same time to those that he does

not love.

Having this dunya is not a sign of

Allah's love.

But he only gives faith, iman, to those

individuals that he loves.

So if a person has faith,

then that is a sign of the love

of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala towards this person.

So may Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala make us

amongst the shaqireen, the ones who are grateful.

Until next time, Assalamu Alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wabarakatuhu.