Shafayat Mohamed – GREED VS GRATITUDE SHORT ISLAMIC REMINDER

Alhamdulillah, so as we were saying, be it

in the line, the first khutba,

we discussed

over the past few weeks a couple of

the diseases that we have in our hearts.

And today,

I wanna quote a verse from the holy

Quran

to remind us and remind

ourselves,

our viewers throughout the world,

most of all, myself,

A very interesting verse

of that disease of selfishness.

You know, a lot of us are very

selfish.

That's a disease.

Think how we think. It's all about ourselves,

Our nafs, our ego,

our desires,

our greed.

You know, greed

you know, the prophet

reminds us about and tells us that if

a person has 2 valleys of gold,

what next?

That person is so greedy that person will

want a third.

What Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says about all

of this,

that's a disease in the heart, and I

wanna connect to that

disease verse of Surah,

Yunus, the shifa.

Shifa.

The Quran is the cure for these diseases.

You know, if we will ponder over the

Quran, not just read it in Arabic,

ponder over it.

Ponder on the verses, the meaning, the consequences.

It will remove some of these

diseases.

And that

disease of not

of being selfish all about ourselves,

not about Allah,

not about the Rasool, sallallahu alaihi wasalam, a

lot of us are just selfish about Allah

because we want from Allah.

You follow that point? It's not that we

love Allah.

We just wants from Allah. Because if we

really love Allah, we'll obey his commands in

the Quran.

If we really love Allah, we will follow

the sunnah for Surah Alaihi Wasallam.

Didn't Allah

say that in Surah Al Imran?

He told the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam to

tell the people, Surah Al Imran, chapter 3

verse 31.

Say, if you love Allah, then follow the

sunnah of Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wasallam.

So a lot of us don't follow the

sunnah. We don't care what the prophet salallahu

alaihi wasallam has said.

It's like, oh,

that was then.

That was

him.

Because we don't really love,

but if it's something that will benefit us

financially,

if it is something that will benefit us

in worldly gains, it's all about selfishness,

ego, nafs.

Many of people pray not because you want

to thank Allah,

that you Allah, you have blessed me with

health.

You have blessed me with wealth.

You have blessed me with a breath to

breathe.

You have blessed me with life.

You have blessed me to live.

You have blessed me with this. You have

blessed me with that. It's not about thanking

Allah.

There are a lot of people who pray

because we're still asking Allah for more money.

We get sick. Now we want Allah to

cure us.

We don't remember to thank him when we

were healthy.

Oh, yeah.

We don't remember to thank Allah when we

were healthy.

That's a that's a disease.

Mhmm.

It's all about wanting,

not about thanking Allah. What about the prophet,

sallallahu alaihi wa sallam? You remember the hadith?

The incident in the life of the prophet

sallallahu alaihi wasallam?

When the Sahaba said,

why do you pray so much salah?

Your feet have become so swollen.

Why do you need to pray so much

to cause harm and injury to your feet?

Your sins, your past sins have been forgiven.

Your present and future sins have been forgiven.

Why you need to do all of this?

And he said, should I not at least

make this shukur of Allah?

Our prophet Muhammad salallahu alayhi wasalam

used to read extra nafil prayer,

optional prayer, only to thank Allah

for the favors and bounties that Allah has

bestowed upon it.

We don't even pray the farus salah to

thank Allah

You see the ego?

The selfishness? It's all about what we want

and what we are afraid of going to

*.