Be thankful

Auto-generated transcript:Alhamdulillah Rabbil Alameen. Wa Salatu Wa Salamu Alaa Ashrafil Anbiya wal Mursaleen Muhammadu Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Alaihi Wasallam Tasliman Katsiraan Katsiraan My brother and sister began his Qalam by his word Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim and then he said Alhamdulillah Rabbil Alameen. All praise and all thanks are for Allah the protector, the creator, the sustainer, the Rabb of the worlds. Rabbil Alameen. Then Allah SWT in the Quran Allah said Wa Ista'azana Rabbukum la in shakartum la azidannakum wa la in kafartum inna azabi la shadeed Allah SWT said the one who thanks me I will increase my blessing for him. And the one who does not thank me let him beware that my punishment is severe. SubhanAllah. I remind myself and you that to thank Allah SWT, to make shukur of Allah SWT, this is the essence of Ibadah. This is why we pray. We pray to thank Allah SWT. Now the question is what do we need to thank Allah for? And the best standard for that is to thank Allah. The best standard for that is the hadith of Rasulullah SAW where he said the meaning of which is that if you wake up in the morning with your body is healthy. You wake up in the morning with a healthy body. You have a roof over your head meaning that you are in a state of Aman. And you have food for that day. Three things. One, that you are healthy. Number two, that you are not living in fear. You have a roof over your head. You have a place to stay. And three is that you have food for that day. Now we shall have said if these three things are there for you, then it is as if the whole world is in your hands. The whole world has been collected for you. This is the standard. This is the standard. A healthy body. Now they say that you have a thousand problems in life until you have a health problem. And then you have only one problem. So supposing you feel you have a lot of problems in your life and you say Allah take away my problems. One way of those problems being taken away is you get a health problem. Then everything else goes. The only thing which is there is that health problem. We all went through Covid. Our memories are very short. That's one of the problems. The human mind, we don't remember things. It's both a good thing and a bad thing. But the downside of it is we don't thank Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. We went through Covid. And at least those of you who are here, you know what all you suffered. Alhamdulillah, Allah Ta'ala kept me away from here during those times. So I did not suffer all that. But I heard of what happened here. Only one problem that day, that time. Illness. And many people didn't even get Covid. We still suffered. So enumerate. Count for yourself what are the ni'maat of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Health. Second thing Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, A roof over your head. Alhamdulillah, we have, we not only have homes, we have comfortable homes. We have homes in which we have climate control. Right? We have homes which are safe. We have mosques where we can pray. Nobody bothers us. Alhamdulillah. We have transportation. Multiple forms of transportation, not only one. We go where we want. We come where we want. Alhamdulillah, we have disposable incomes. Nobody bothers us. Nobody here is living from hand to mouth. I know each of you personally. Nobody is living hand to mouth. Do we thank Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala? We are healthy. Our near and dear ones are healthy. Even when you are making dua. Dua is for somebody who is further away. It is a friend or some relative or something. You are not staying awake in the night because that person is sick. Let us face it. At the most you make dua, that's it. You are not sitting there by their hospital bed. You are not paying their hospital bills. You are not, you know, staying awake in the night because of them. Nothing. That can happen to you and me. We can be that person. To whom it is happening. So we need to thank Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Ya Rabb, we are so grateful to you. We are so thankful to you. You see, literally, I mean, I was also born here and grew up here. If I just think back. In the days of my childhood and my youth and when I was growing up and when I was in college. All of you have seen those. You guys were not born but at least the older ones who were there at that time. There was a time when we used to get, we used to have electricity for two hours and three hours in the day. We used to have power for two or three hours. Yes? Load shedding happens, right? So light, the current didn't go off for two hours. It came for two hours. There was a time we lived in homes, big homes, but there was no hot and cold running water. Remember? You remember when you have a shower, you have that immersion heater. You have to put a bucket in it and plug it in. When you are in the city, hot, cold, you are doing this and that. You are not doing anything. You are not doing anything. When you are in the city, hot, cold, you are doing this and that. Your temperature also adjusts. Doesn't it happen? We used to get water only so many times in a week. We have seen all this. And today, Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah. You go and stand under the shower. You turn the shower on. Alhamdulillah. You have hot water, cold water, everything in your place. In my childhood, we used to live in the Czech colony near Albins. And my nanny is in Nurkhamazar, Aziz Bagh. So on weekends and so on, my father had a, he was a doctor there in Albins. And he had a Fiat 1100 car. So we used to go to Aziz Bagh. I am not exaggerating. From Sanat Nagar to Aziz Bagh, or at least till, I won't say till Aziz Bagh, because Mohanja market and so on, they were. But if you come up to, from Sanat Nagar, you come up to say Khayar Tawat. That entire road, when we would drive, maybe we would have three cars, four cars crossing us. That's it. Today. Just the other day, there's two elderly gentlemen who came here. Friends of mine. One of them lives in Czech colony. So he said, the moment I told him, I grew up there, he said, I'll take you, right now to show you. I said, okay, let's go. We went. I cannot recognize anything there. Nothing. There are only two, two of the old houses, which were, you remember the houses. The only two houses are left. They're obviously, they're in a terrible state. Totally dilapidated. Otherwise, absolutely nothing. Anyway, I lived there for three years. I lived there 15 years. I don't recognize anything. And if you look at it in a sort of developmental perspective, all of that is, in many ways, all of that is positive. People have made money. They have built buildings. Their whole life quality has changed. Right? Many, all is, everything is good, Alhamdulillah. Do we thank Allah for that? So I remind myself when you, I mean, I can go on endlessly with this. I think I learned this. Alhamdulillah, Allah has given us so many blessings. There is no end to this. Even if you take the awareness of religion, compared to the time when we were growing up to now, there's a huge change. Huge change. People are more aware. People are more knowledgeable. People have, we have access to knowledge. You want to know something? Yes, you can, multiple people, you can go and check and you can ask. Alhamdulillah. Careers, career options, I mean, today is the opposite. There are so many that it's confusing. Those days, there were three. Doctor, engineer, civil service. Period. That's it. There was no fourth career. So I remind myself when you, let us thank Allah swt. Over and over and over. And let us not be among those who are ungrateful to Allah swt. Yes, there will be some problem. There will be some irritation. It's okay. Alhamdulillah, this is all part of life. Allah swt did not make this dunya perfect. Allah swt made the akhirah perfect. So we ask Allah swt to give us Jannah, which is perfect, inshaAllah. But this dunya, we have a problem. Okay, so your problem. Along with, maybe the problem is there, but so many other blessings Allah has given. Alhamdulillah. We ask Allah swt to help us always, always, always to be grateful, to show gratitude and to live in a state of satisfaction. A state of submission to Him and obedience to Him. And may Allah send His blessings upon the most noble and most noble and the most noble among the people, and may He keep us in His company.