Waseem Hendricks – How To Show Gratitude
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Alhamdulillah.
Alhamdulillah.
Alhamdulillah,
greeting,
the greeting of Islam, as
Well as the greeting
of
Jannah, Alhamdulillah, we say Shukri to Allah Subhanallah, such
a beautiful day. I mean, Jamal Muslim will look at Allah
subhanahu wa has the ability to see nature while doing a vow,
whilst Alhamdulillah pleasing Allah subhanahu wa actions of Jura
and Allah gives us beautiful Willow on this beautiful day,
Alhamdulillah, so we once again, we shall utmost gratitude to Allah
subhanho wa Taala by saying Alhamdulillah that indeed all
thanks and praises are due To Allah subhanho wa taala, the Lord
of the Worlds, and we send our choices salutations,
who
truly came as a mercy to the worlds. We are so honored that we
can once again, you know, as the Ummah, calling yourself a Muhammad
sallallahu alayhi wa, Sallam indeed, is a great bounty. Allah
subhanahu wa saved us from so many difficulties. Just imagine Allah
subhanahu wa at this moment,
Allah subhanahu wa, those who Allah subhanahu wa
suban wa Taala chose, chose you and I to be of those who possess
Iman.
And for that in itself, we need to show
gratitude to Allah subhanahu wa tonight, to encourage ourselves.
You know how we should and how we can show gratitude to Allah,
how we can show gratitude. And this is very important, because,
you know, Allah says in the Quran Subhan,
Allah,
reminds us that human beings
and Allah mentioned this because Allah knows us.
Allah knows that Allah subhanahu wa
such a beautiful Salah that Allah subhanahu wa to
show gratitude in what that Salah does for us. It will be such a
gratitude that we shout. It will be for every limb
in our body that is functioning in a proper planet. But to be honest
with ourselves, who of us do this every morning the time, and
then God after fajr, we take out some time, and we await for that
moment, you know, being in the remembrance of Allah. And
then we perform those beautiful tua Kaala Kaal, and what happened?
Allah Subhan will definitely be pleased with us. Why? Because we
perform those two Ahura Kaal that's showing gratitude to the
Almighty Allah, your Creator, and Mahi, who have learned in the body
that's functioning
properly. We're talking about this. But who of us this morning
opened our eyes after sleeping, after having the mind, and we
said, Alhamdulillah,
one of my teachers, Rahim Allah, he mentioned that the one who
waits.
Sat in the morning and he don't say
if he
does not show gratitude to Allah at that moment when he opens his
eyes, he's destined for the house.
Can we imagine how serious it is to show gratitude to our Creator?
But I know we like stories, so let us put something into perspective.
And I think we all get we will just be reminded of this beautiful
story of the king, and he had his servant, who Masha, he loved so
much. And here he was a party of the servant of the king, and his
name was, what sugar? Anybody knows that the meaning of sugar.
It means gratitude, right? Gratitude. And this lady, you know
him very well. Why? Because he was somebody that always used to show
gratitude. And the king, you know he used to admire him for his
gratitude that he always mashallah show, and how he also presented
Alhamdulillah. So the king love him so much that one day, rasha
Allah, the King used to take it everywhere, and the king decided
that they're going to go.
And as they went on this
the king let food own arrow, you know, and he shook his deer and
what he should do, but he normally do space. That's best. He said,
Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah. And the king, you know, he loved this
so much of sugar,
nice. You felt beautiful about the
fact, you say, and
what happened,
then mashallah,
the journey. Now, after this, it continued. And then what happened?
A delegation,
what happened after that? The king took this beautiful deer, and they
decided to slaughter the deer. And as they slaughtered the deer, a
small little incident took place the king now, unfortunately, by
slaughtering he kept a portion of this small, little portion of his
Pitkin, the small
kings,
Oh, praise is due to Allah, and the king did not appreciate that
sugar, that gratitude that he showed him. What did he do? He
said sugar to jail now,
and
as they do, and
how many? Everybody was perplexed about this, but this was every
situation mashallah, he showed gratitude
to Almighty,
Allah,
Subhanahu
wa dedication, right? They came around and they look like
beautiful people. They presented themselves, and they invited the
king for the meal.
And the king bled because they look like these simplified people,
and as the king over them, little did he know that he was the meal.
He was the meal
to use him, and there
was no sugar now with
him, you know,
now you
found
us, these people, they'll put this crisis on you. Well. Doesn't
mean this
wasn't a true the day before
this guy is going to complete
something wrong with him. We cannot give people that are not
pure and in a full state to our God. We can't sacrifice people
like this. And they let the King go free
and his head towards the the cause of an immunity to jail. And he
relate, and what did you can do? What he does best? Alhamdulillah,
Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah. And sugar couldn't stop Alhamdulillah.
Alhamdulillah.
Please,
because he shows a lot of gratitude, but this time, he was
exceeding the limits. And he asked the king, why are you so happy?
You know?
And he said, If I were with you, you know what would happen? They
would have left you, and they would have repeated me over the
day so you could be to Allah.
And you see, sometimes be grateful can save our lives.
It can save our lives. You know, look at this person, be grateful
in every situation, and how ungrateful we are. Allah gave us
life.
Why did Allah give us life
to get to
know Allah
practices of the Prophet the chop.
Gratitude for Allah, you know, put
forth and not to be ungrateful for
you SubhanAllah. And that is why Jonathan just mean Allah subhanahu
wa, ishiwahi,
Allah He is, and to Him belong whatever is in the heavens and the
earth. And to him is due worship constantly,
constantly we need to worship Allah. Allah created you and I for
Allah kings.
Allah created us to worship Allah. Allah mankind
to worship Him, the Almighty alone.
You have some of us, we try our best, but when we do this, what
happens we, you know, develop this connection with our
we develop this dialog with our Lord, Allah. And
what does that do? We get to know you Peter.
We get to love Allah and
explain
it means
to recognize this great being, the
Almighty, the creator of the worlds. And there is a purpose.
How do we worship with God that we don't know?
The challenge that I always refer to all the brothers is, who will
be willing to stand up out I'll give the mic to you gladly.
I come to stand in front Masha Allah and speak only for five
minutes, only about Allah, only
about Allah. It's a huge challenge. And believe me, you
know even myself sometimes, you know, we can't even speak about
Allah for five minutes. I do want to give that one. You have to
discuss the Muslim marriages following everyone you everyone,
although everyone but no knowledge the simplicity, the simple things
in life we don't value. And that
is just before you teach people Hajj
song, which is what the main goals in Islam? I have to know this. He
says, Before this, we teach the people they
didn't have a connection. And you know how Islam started,
Rasulullah.
He practiced it, preached
only one away to know your Lord, Allah. And what do we think?
What's going to happen if we know Allah, it's going to be so easy to
worship, because we know this is a great being. This is our Creator,
our Sustainer, our change, our nation, Allah, the
One who, as we say,
we belong
to Allah. We return. It
will be a reality for us. How am I going to return to my Lord Allah,
and in Allah after the seas? Is it other than Allah that you fear? We
need to ask ourselves this,
what? Need to ask ourselves is, what do we fear today?
Let them go. Okay, the
world's gonna stop.
Allow us to
worship
Allah. Has done the right to
control whether you were now one of the riches of the world, when
you were the poor with his power,
with his Sakhi, that was Allah. Allah brought the
tape into people's hearts in a time when we shouldn't beat this
place and sometimes, for those who would you know, they did not
really appreciate Allah,
Allah placed in demand in order for them to have a little bit of
space. Why? Because Allah wanted the taker of Allah to take place.
Allah wanted us to remember him and
remember Allah. Allah say, remember we mentioned this last
week, raishin. Mentioned
this last week.
They will have a good place tonight. They want to know what to
do. They want to know how to
worship properly. And
then Allah
says,
Allah, upon Allah says, and whatever you have or favor, it is
from Allah.
Do we think everything that we have today is
from ourselves?
Because sometimes you see and he just want to come and ask.
Was the owner of what is in the
heavens
and the earth. Allah say, everything. So what are we? BISM?
We are temporary beings. We are beings that has been born where
Allah has no beginning. And we are beings that will close our eyes
and Allah will be forever and ever and ever, and by the Bible of
Allah, but Allah,
Allah, grant us either to be in a state of bliss, or we will,
forever and ever be in a state of punishment.
Allah want us to be of the people of paradise, people that will have
continuous Felicity, joy and happiness that should be a right
working towards something that is much greater in this world
is cursed. Whatever you need is
cursed. Illah except ALLAH, was ALLAH,
except ALLAH,
choose to be of the chosen servants of Allah, Subhanahu.
Servants of Allah,
Subhanahu wa,
live as you want,
but we will see the outcome.
The outcome will be forever perfect.
And is that what believers want? No.
Dunya. The dunya. A present for
a believer.
We work hard, and we need to work hard.
There's no time to
sleep in this world, what is meant by that?
What is meant by that, is too much to do for a billion
our neighbors, they need to hear about the beauty of Islam.
Our co markets. They need to see the beauty of Islam,
the people that we deal with, they need to see how we should deal
according to Islam.
And what will they do? It will suffer the hearts of Islam.
They will not to each other say, what is this that you are
practicing? Let me
tell you about this
way. Why? Because whoever loves his wife, whoever loves him,
will be what he meant. So
you want to be successful. You want to see true success. Follow
that
measure. We need to show gratitude for what we have.
Jamati, and this is us, and when adversity touches you
to him, you cry for
help, but only when we
mention
immediately.
When he removes the adversity from you, at once, the party of you,
associates, others would be Lord.
Just now we pray to Allah because of the difficulty that we were
pleased in.
Priest is truly humankind. They are grateful
beings. What
are we
going to do about that statement?
We need to live a life of gratitude. We see a life of sugar
or the life of gratitude. And what do you do it save this life.
You know when our lives need to be saved
today that we will be
answered, every word that crossed our lips,
every connection that we had, every conversation that we had,
every meal that we had,
Allah that day, Allah is going to be that don't need
to answer
because we know.
Only Allah,
the true word you will remain, and Allah Abu Asmaa
may benefit you today.
None of us will be around.
All of us will be gone, and Allah will be alone. And
if Allah Abu
Asmaa
resurrection questioning
be just. Justice will be served
through justice, justice from the most just alone of the world. Now
we find ourselves in the situation, and now what do we
need? We need that gratitude that we had to show because told us,
as he led, I will increase it. And then after the
those who are ungrateful,
Allah says, My punishment
is, wait for it.
You are ungrateful.
Look what Allah subhanahu
wa need to cry, because look what Allah would make so with
gratefulness, Allah say, if you are grateful, I could make today
my punishment disappear.
There should be a huge warning for us
every day, Allah
grant says, who can show gratitude? Just do oxygen.
Imagine
something you need
to rush. This
oxygen will
be snatched away from
us this minute.
Away
from this
oxygen, it
is how much gratitude.
Now, the gratitude will come in the form of human being.
He was a grateful person. Please don't punish him.
It will be a means for us.
But if you are ungrateful, Quran was
recited, you know, what is the best way to show gratitude to
Allah? How can we even show gratitude
for every brokenness? Prophet. The best way to
show gratitude to Allah is to pay our zakat to go for
*, we are able
To do so to ask Allah. To
do so.
Amen,
her
over beautiful,
be
grateful.
We have families. We have children. They need to be the
future leaders of the world. Be careful what we do.
Guide them, protect them from the punishment of Allah. And
that prediction will be a prediction for you the day of the
amah, because that child will say, Oh, Allah, my father had justice.
Please don't punish my father.
I Who doesn't want children like that? There you go. What do we
need
a child that you leave behind that
will make dua for us? The children must not forgive us.
But we have parents and pastor. Are
we making are we
visiting the graves and our parents because we wanted to come
to our graves?
Are we doing it? We need to lead by example. Comes the time. It's
the time for us to do this. Be grateful for
Yogi Man. Be
grateful for Yogi man. Allah will stand on the Arak extension away
from
us in a brief covid 19. Somehow we need to we need to ask ourselves
to be said.
Alhamdulillah, the
way the world is coming. Subhanallah,
the guy,
the
limit of you devise, is a deer. The
guy goes and is a deer day with his own
they said, Well,
he identified as a deity. You
can feel his feelings. You can be a deer,
but if he's a deer, we're going to shoot him. You
This is where the world is heading to protect our Imaan. Predict the
Imaan of our children. They are exposed to so many things show
them that this is how grateful we are for ima, and you should also
be grateful for your ima, or you can be of those who are lost.
People want to identify as an animal, they are protectors.
The world is standing
and what is happening is going back to the time of January.
Children are being exploited, just for people.
Children are being thrown in the desperate
night. Dying
people have no more heart.
What does this remind us about?
It is in our boasting that Allah subhanahu
wa that we need to work on his massage, but the voting is
nothing,
but we need to make a sacrifice
somehow, to be of those who's going to worship in that
mercy five times a day, it
should be saying Amin,
that is the spirit inshallah five times
today make a picture. We never know we might say,
because of your knees. Sincerely, Allah will change your he will be
the one and say you need to come with me to worship we're going to
perform. Because you know what Qiyamah is here.
I mean, just because of your intention, do not be scared. Don't
be shy. Ask Allah for your heart's desires by the one who conscious
of his open
up the way to him. What is the way that we open for us? May Allah, we
want to give those who practice and keep free.
We want to practice and keep
freely. Allah,
this was the concern of the visitors of Allah. AJ, he says,
You are like a hot, burning tool. In my head, I see how you run
towards the fire trying
to keep you away,
speaking about us, Allah, we are running towards the fire. He wants
to save us. Let
us practice this beautiful this is our success. Islam
is
our success.
If we are not going to realize this. Now, when are we going to
realize this? Gave us three years of covid. We didn't realize
anything when the covid was true,
but we will meet. We were in a, you know, in a state of
depression. We thought we
would never get out of it,
yeah, never take us back to the time
like Allah.
Up like Allah said.
Allah said, be grateful, and Allah will open up ways for you. Allah
will increase for you in faith, Allah mentioned specifically, it
is a genuine thing. So Allah will increase you in your health, in
your strength, in your relationships. What are you
struggling with? Make
sure Allah, you don't make it happen.
Evening, when you cannot make sugar because cooking the food,
Inshallah, because you say sugar tomorrow, she will make the cup of
tea food. Reason, you know, but we need to show gratitude.
We can't
make Allah's
words
in being like Allah to pray for me, man, Allah's words, Allah
never breaks a promise.
Never if
you ever think or have the thought in your mind, and Allah will go
back on Allah's promise. This problem,
we have to believe that Allah is true. Allah's promise, Allah will
increase me in my love. Allah will increase Me in prayer and witness
in my marriage. Allah will increase me with good children
inshaAllah AMI, our spirit. They will be the future flag, flag
bearers of Islam.
They will hold the flag very high for us. Amen, that is what we are
yearning for Ya Allah, to grant us to contribute to a legacy. You
know that we can be so grateful for the legacy of us Allah, the
legacy of the Sahara, the legacy of the legacy of the legacy of the
Salaf, the legacy of the will of the legacy of
our will. Slaves
and
servants.
It will
walk through the doors of Allah.
Through
the
doors
of Jannah, Allah. It
is
a SubhanaHu
wa
family
members,
and
then
we
have Daniels, who is very, very ill in hospital. Then we
have my father, mother, one of them, Inshallah, that will be
going to Palestine. We say Palestine once again. It's
nice to
hear the word Palestine. We're going to visit
our first
journey. We'll be leaving on the 24th picture, I make dua for him.
You know, what is we make every day. If you didn't memorize this
yet, please memorize it. If you don't know, send me a message.
Inshallah, I will send you this dua, but make it every day, Oh
Allah, grant us to perform salah. Ima
Aziz at such a time when he is free from occupation, say, ami,
that is, that is our pride. That is our joy. That is where we need
to be. That is where we need to perform salah. And ya allah and
our children be the IMA, the Imams of majlima, Abu, Amin Alamin. Let
us be of those who liberate Aqsa, Amin ya Raban Alami. And then we
have very sad news, I think all of us, we have heard by now, one of
the trustees of Grenfell Masjid the sagari Parker, the father
Siraj Parker, his son, has been Subhanallah shaft this morning,
trying to hijack it. You know, it's getting very, very dangerous.
It came down, you know. But what can we do? You know, what we can
do? We can unite. We can make the hatch. We can ask Allah to suffer
the hearts of these people first. And if Allah is not going to
suffer, ya, Allah, you decide how to take them out. We are not
vijanaki. We're not going to do this. But ya, Allah, you are aware
of what is happening. You are Ali Muhammed. You are the most
knowledgeable of things, and you are most aware of what is
happening. Oh, Allah, protect our business people.
May Allah, protect our business people.
We don't want our business people to be protected. Wallahi, we need
it. We need it. If it is us, may Allah increase us, but Ya Allah,
protect him. Why? Because they are the people that assist. They are
the people that we need. They are the people that we run to when we
are in need. May Allah, you praise the day to protect and ya Allah
for them to do much more good. And this is Ya Allah, Rahima.
Allah, may Allah, family members. It's not easy. You know, for a
parent to bury a child, it's not easy. You know, my brother in law
also lost his sister. You know, tragically, how innocently went to
purchase furniture. I.
A gang rival shot, and she was, unfortunately the one in the
middle, and she passed by Allah grant her.
She
died as a shahid. She had no clue that this is going to happen, but
that is Allah
speaking. You know, Allah subhanahu wa grateful, And
we
Allah
SubhanaHu
wa, Allah.
Allah,
Out.
Allah,
Allah,
Double
Allahu,
And yes,
Allah, A
in
Allah,
who
Allah.
Allah,
thank you.