Tom Facchine – The Attitude of Gratitude

			One of the main things going on in the news today, that's taking up many of our
		

			much of our attention is the World Cup.
		

			And one of the main stories to come out of the week or so that the World Cup has been going on, was
the massive upset of Argentina about by Saudi Arabia early this week. Of course, Argentina has
messy, one of the best footballers in the world. Argentina was considered to be one of the
favourites to win the entire tournament. Whereas Saudi Arabia came in as the second lowest ranked
theme in the entire tournament. And yet, Saudi Arabia beat Argentina earlier this week to 211 of the
Muslims. On Twitter commented about this, they said this is the biggest upset for the Muslims since
the Battle of feathers.
		

			And indeed, one of the pictures that spread around social media after the game was a picture of the
Saudi Arabian players after the whistle had blown, and everyone was going off the field, getting on
their hands and knees, making St. Jude to Allah subhanaw taala in an expression of gratitude.
		

			Gratitude is something that is so central to our faith. And it's something because of the Federal
holiday that many of us have asked for this week. That's on our minds. And here we have a viral
image of gratitude and what gratitude looks like.
		

			In a slum gratitude is so central and so important that Allah subhanaw taala often equate the faith
itself.
		

			And the opposite of gratitude in gratitude is so vile and so reprehensible that it's often equated
to rejection of Allah subhanaw taala himself. Allah subhanaw taala says the mayor federal law who
will be either a beacon in Chicago Tsum mentor McHale, Allahu Shakira and check it on Alima
		

			what would Allah subhanahu wa taala do with your punishment if you're grateful, and believe, and
ever is Allah subhanho wa Taala appreciative and knowing, which basically means How could Allah
possibly punish you, if you are grateful? And if you believe the two go hand in hand, they're right
there next to each other, to be grateful is to believe and to believe is to be grateful.
		

			And the opposite is COFA. Literally kuthodaw The word and Arabic it means to cover something.
		

			And the cover something doesn't make sense unless that thing is already manifest and apparent. You
can see it anywhere. But somebody who denies and rejects and is not grateful they're covering
something that is obvious to everybody. The process that Allahu alayhi wa sallam said, We'll return
now at the XO alpha and Nisa, you have fallen? Do you know a coulomb Billa Kalia coronella She and
we according to SN raha hoon Bukhari the prophets of Allah Allah He was salam said, I was shown the
hellfire, meaning the people that were going to be in the hellfire. And most of the people in
hellfire were women who denied he said cooker. Now hold on pause. Nobody can misunderstand this
		

			hadith rest I'm gonna get in trouble.
		

			It's not a commentary, this hadith is not a commentary on who is better men or women. From a purely
statistical point of view, women have to be the majority of the Hellfire because there are many more
women in the world than men. And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, that's going to be
especially true in Alaska as a man. The closer we get to the end of days, the closer we get to the
Day of Judgment, the more and more and more that women are going to outnumber men. So when he says
fill Allahu Allah He was salam that he was shown the inhabitants of the Hellfire most of them were
women. This is not a commentary about the genders or about the sexes. This is not a battle or
		

			competition. He is trying to get us to understand what was the attitude that led people into the
situation in the first place. And so he continues the Hadith. He says yet foreigner, he says they
denied
		

			and the people that were listening to the Hadith I said, Wait a second, yet for them Allah. He said,
were they denying Allah Subhan Allah to Allah and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said no,
he said, They denied what their husbands provided for them. And they denied the SN, the excellence
that was done for them. Again, we have the equation of belief and gratitude, gratitude and belief
and to reject one is to reject the other. To reject gratitude is to reject belief. The blessings are
manifest, but someone who is engaged in cooker the literal meaning of the world is to cover them up
and to act like they don't exist. Whether it's
		

			towards people, or whether it's towards Allah subhanaw taala is the same, the province that Allahu
Allah He was telling me, he said, Mala Mia scaliness Let me ask Allah, Raja Tirmidhi. Whoever isn't
thankful to other people is not thankful to Allah subhana wa Tada. It means that these are
transferable skills. You work on one, when you work on the other. It's like going to the gym and
doing two different parts of your arm, you're going to build muscle mass here, and you're also going
to help something else.
		

			And that's why you see there's often two types of people, there's a certain type of person, and they
live by this Islamic sort of ethic, where it doesn't matter if they're talking to the janitor, or if
they're talking to the president. It's the same.
		

			They see the janitor, changing the trash can mopping the floor. How're you doing? How's your day
going today? Hey, thank you, I appreciate what you do. And then there's a second type of person that
they only even acknowledged the president and if they go by the janitor, it's like they're part of
the wall. They walked by them. Or maybe even worse than that, hey, you missed a spot. Hey, why
aren't you doing this over here?
		

			To be grateful to people is to be grateful to Allah.
		

			And sometimes, and this happens in the sort of customer service experiences we try to act out to get
what we want. We try to raise a fuss. We try to say this is ridiculous. How can you treat me this
way? It's not a very grateful attitude. And we don't realize that what we're doing we're doing to
try to get something that we want in the dunya but we might be undermining our ability to be
grateful. While we're at it.
		

			The key thing that Allah Subhana Allah wants us to realize is that Being grateful is not for him.
Being grateful is for yourself. Allah subhanaw taala says Well, I call the Artena Look, man will
Heckman and his school Lila will may Yes Will for in the mayor school Lena FC woman kappa for in the
LA Hogan Ian Hamid and we have certainly given milkman wisdom and we said hey, be grateful to Allah,
and whoever is grateful they're grateful for their own benefits. And whoever denies the opposite of
gratitude, that indeed Allah subhanaw taala is free. He doesn't need it. And he is praiseworthy.
Gratitude is a choice. It's an attitude that you choose every single second, every single minute,
		

			every single hour of every single day. Allah subhanaw taala said a Fatah ha that mean thought the
rugby Leah Balu Winnie, as score am at for woman Shaka up in MySQL enough see woman Kappa Alpha in
rugby, Ronnie young Kadeem, and when saw a man saw a place before him, he said, This is a favor from
my Lord, why to test me? Am I going to be grateful? Or am I going to be ungrateful and whoever is
grateful? Again, he is grateful only for his own benefit. And whoever is ungrateful than Certainly
Allah is free from need, and very generous.
		

			What's one of the obstacles that holds us back from this attitude? This attitude of gratitude that
Allah subhanaw taala wants us to have one of the biggest obstacles is what they call today, a
scarcity mindset. What's a scarcity mindset? Scarcity Mindset means that you live in the world as if
there's not enough to go around. We've got a lot of men here and women upstairs that are working,
they have a job, right? You've got young kids, you've got responsibilities, you've got bills to pay,
you've got things to do. And it doesn't seem like there's enough time in the day. How can I have
time to be thankful to Allah? How can I find the time to pray that extra prayer to make that extra
		

			fast to go to stop what I'm doing and go on camera, or try to go on hij? there just doesn't seem to
be enough time. We got a lot of the young men and women that are back from school, over the holiday,
it goes double for them. Exams are right around the corner. You've got more credits than you can
handle. You've got this paper and that exam and this responsibility in that extracurricular club.
How do I find times to pray at night? How do I find time to make my even my five daily prayers on
time? It doesn't seem like there's enough time to go around. And when we view life that way, we get
stingy. And we say You know what? I'm going to delay that to later. I'm going to figure it out
		

			later. Right now I gotta get mine. Right now. I've got to take care of my dunya the dean will be
there waiting for me later on. Allah Spano. Tata says, no, no, no, no, no. That's not the way it
works. Taking the time to be grateful, is actually going to increase the time that you actually
have. And it's called Baraka. It's called blessing. Allah subhanaw taala says
		

			What is the other hot become the in Shackleton the as Eden, Nicole, what are Inca Fortum in the
other OB Nisha deed and remember when your Lord proclaimed, if you're grateful, I'm going to
increase you. I'm gonna give you more. But if you deny, if you're not grateful, the know that My
punishment is severe, you're afraid of taking time out to be grateful. But you don't realize that
being grateful is going to give you more time. Whereas not taking time to be grateful is actually
going to take away your time and give you less time in a day. Not that the time is ours in the first
place. The time is not ours the time belongs to Allah subhanaw taala. He said of Allah MK can compel
		

			up to Jalna Allah Compy Hama is Colleen Emma has Kuru we have certainly established you upon this
earth and made it for you there in ways for livelihood meaning we've given you everything that you
could possibly need. But little are you grateful. That's everything. That's your talents, that's
your skills. That's the time you have in a day the money you have in your wallet. Everything that we
acquire through work or for effort, it first belongs to Allah subhanaw taala and the least that we
can do for ourselves is to be grateful for it. Allah subhanaw taala says, while Allah who are
logical member Tony Doherty can lead to Allah Munna che wa Jalla. Como sama will have a thought or
		

			will have either the Allah contest guru, Allah has taken you out of the wombs of your mothers, you
didn't know a thing. You came into this world as a baby, you didn't know anything. And he made you
he gave you the tools so that you could educate yourself, the hearing and the vision and the
intellect. So perhaps you would be grateful
		

			of all the blessings that we have time, money, relationships, success. The greatest blessing of
course, is guidance. Allah Akbar orthos had come out of Santa Fe Kuma Tula mean Komatsu, Alikum area
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Nutella moon, just as we have sent among you a Messenger from among yourself reciting to you are
verses purifying you teaching you the book and the Wisdom and teaching you that which you then that
you did not know before. Then Allah says right after it, that's cool Rooney as Corticon was school
truly what our tech fortune, so remember me, all of what I've given you, you did not have to be a
		

			Muslim.
		

			If Allah subhanaw taala wanted to make it so you could have been far far astray. You could have left
the deen of your fathers and your ancestors. Or if you're a new Muslim, you would not have found
Islam in the first place. But Allah says, Remember me and I will remember you take that time out.
Express your gratitude. And Allah subhanaw taala is going to give you even more and be grateful to
Me and do not deny me Allah because Allah says in the law that you fought the nurse will act in the
act on a nurse layer school. Allah subhanaw taala is full of bounty abundance more than you can
imagine. But most people do not show their gratitude now colloquially hada was stuck with the law he
		

			will commonly certainly Muslim equally them Mr. Piru in the hula hula rocking
		

			Alhamdulillah he Allah if Sony was shook Allahu Allah topi if he wasn't in early Warszawa La ilaha
illallah wa Hatha hula should he color are the militia and he mashallah went on to be and never say
you did that Mohammed Abu hora, who were there are you there, honey? So Allahu alayhi wa early he
was happy he was when he was studying with his demon cathedra.
		

			Allah subhanaw taala calls us through a life of gratitude and a life of thanks. And the greatest
possible thanks that we could demonstrate his obedience to Him Subhan Allah.
		

			When Allah subhanaw taala describes the month of Ramadan he says your eID Allahu econyl Useful
Wallah you read will become an officer while he took me all the way to capital Allah Allah Allah
Hadoken wala contest Quran, Allah subhanho wa Taala wants ease for you. He doesn't want to make it
hard for you.
		

			And He wants you to complete the period he's talking about the period of fasting and to glorify
Allah subhana wa Tada for that which He has guided you to, and so that you would be grateful.
		

			A lot of people these days, they think I'm going to be grateful when I'm older. I'm going to worship
Allah
		

			As the panel data, when I'm older, I'm going to get to that point. Or I'm the old uncle, or I'm the
old Auntie in the machine with the vicar beads, and my prayer mat and all these sorts of things five
times a day. I'll do it later. There's a cat. I'll do it later. Hi, John. I'm gonna, I'll do it
later. We're putting off to later something. And that's very, very, very dangerous for two reasons.
One reason we all know. But a second reason that not a lot of people talk about. The first reason
that everybody knows is that nobody is guaranteed tomorrow. You're not guaranteed to live to later.
How many people in our community have passed away at a young age, where they thought maybe that they
		

			would get right later, that they will become pious later and later never came? That they're our
they're sad. Their reckoning came earlier than they anticipated. That's something everybody knows.
But the second reason is even scarier. And part of why it's scary is that nobody talks about it is
that what if you're not the same person, when you get there,
		

			you have the motivation now, to be grateful. You have the motivation and the health and the ability
now to make your prayers on time. Now to go to Hajj and Umrah now to pay you as a Cath, and to do
all these sorts of things, you're assuming you're going to be the same person, when you're 60 or 70
years old. Well, Allah who I mean, there are people that when they get there, they don't have the
motivation anymore.
		

			They said they were going to wait. They said they were going to delay, they said that they would get
right. But you're not going to be the same person then.
		

			And worship is like going to the gym.
		

			It's exercise, it's muscle memory, you build your capacity, the more you do it, the more you can do.
		

			If you sit for 10 years, or 20 years, or 30 years or 40 years, and you never go to the gym,
		

			how's it going to be that first day back,
		

			you will be very fortunate to walk out of there live. Worship is the exact same thing. You worship
now, you're developing your capacity, you're building yourself up, you're going to be able to do
more so that when you reach that status, you're old, your kids are out of the house, you don't have
any responsibilities anymore, people are taking care of you. Now you've got that ability to be able
to put it into practice, and take advantage of your time. But if you wait, if you leave it until
then, you're going to get to the point where you're just an old man or an old woman, and you're not
going to even have the ability or the desire or the inclination to do all those great things you
		

			thought you were going to do when you get there. Gratitude is now
		

			gratitude is now That's why Allah subhanaw taala said after the Battle of better remember how the
Muslims were, they were weak. They were poor. They were sick. They were outnumbered, they had every
single material disadvantage you could possibly think of
		

			and they happen to win from Allah's help. And what does Allah say we'll call the nasolacrimal Allah
who be better in well and to Mithila that sack Allah, Allah Allah contest Quran, Allah had already
given you victory at the Battle of better while you were few in number than fear Allah so that you
will be grateful he did not tell them to wait. He didn't tell them to wait until they were stronger
or wait until they were financially stable. He didn't tell them to wait until they had more free
time. Be grateful now.
		

			Our example is the Prophet alayhi salatu salam, the best of all creation. And then the BS that
Allahu alayhi wa salam Khanna you suddenly had her terima Oh 10 taffy, ha ha dama for you call you
Allah.
		

			Why are you doing this by a cool if Allah Hakuna Abu Denisha Curatola al Bukhari, the prophets that
Allahu alayhi wa sallam used to pray at night until his feet would crack and bleed.
		

			And Aisha and others asked them why are you doing this yada still Allah, you're a prophet. Your sins
have been forgiven. We all know the storage of real took the little black part out of his heart and
washed it when he was five. All these things we learned in Sunday school. Why are you doing this?
		

			Then Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would reply shouldn't I be a grateful servant?