Be among the grateful

Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center

https://youtu.be/WWVxwb5wCdg ⚠️ AI-Generated Content: This transcription was automatically generated using AI. Alhamdulillah Rabbil Alameen. Wasalaatu wasalaamu ala isharafil amliyai wal mursaleen Muhammad wa Rasululahi sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallamu wa tashreeen wa an kaseeran wa kaseeran wa badhu. My brothers and sisters, you can see here the temperature right now is about minus six Celsius. I am in Mitinigyu Park on my walk and you can see the beautiful patterns of the ice that is covered this stream. The stream flows through the park and goes out and eventually reaches the Connecticut rivers. But you can see this amazing, fantastic patterns of the ice and how the ice crystals form and all that has to do with the differential temperature of the water. First of all, the whole stream doesn't freeze solid. What actually happens is that the water right on the top which is in contact with the cold air freezes first. And when the ice forms of a particular thickness, then below that the water doesn't freeze so it continues to flow. So that's one of the interesting things about water, apart from many other interesting things. So now that Allah SWT said, Allah SWT said, Allah SWT said, So in one case Allah SWT said that you cannot count the blessings of Allah SWT no matter how hard you try. Even beings are, they are jalim and they deny to their transgressors in their deniers of the mercy of Allah. And in the other case Allah SWT said, That you cannot count the blessings of Allah SWT. There are so many but Allah is the most forgiving, the most merciful. So Allah is saying effectively that even though sadly the nature of a human being is such and we ask Allah to change our nature and to make us on those who are the Shakiri and those who are grateful to Him. Despite this and despite the fact that Allah has blessed us and we do not count those blessings. We cannot even count the blessings so obviously we do not express gratitude for them because the idea of the blessings of Allah and the idea of being aware of them is not simply to count them, keep a list. But to thank Allah SWT for everyone, You gave me this, you gave me this, you gave me this and making shukar of Allah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah. We don't do that but Allah SWT said despite that Allah is the most forgiving, the most merciful. I always remind myself of the beautiful hadith of Rasulullah SAW who said that if a man wakes up, if a person wakes up, secure in his property, meaning that he has a house to live in, he has a roof over his head, secure in his property, secure in his health, his body works and he has enough food for the day, enough food for the day, enough food for the day, enough food for the day. If a man wakes up in that man, meaning man or woman wakes up in that state, then Rasulullah SAW said it is as if the entire world and everything in it has been gathered for him. Right? How can he want anything more than that? Now imagine, this is the level of gratitude that we are expected to have, that if we have, if we are secure in our dwellings, secure in our homes and we have our health is fine, Alhamdulillah, and we have enough food to eat, then what's there to complain about? Rasulullah SAW is saying it's as if the whole world and everything in it has been collected for you. SubhanAllah, may Allah grant us the ability to constantly and constantly and constantly thank him and for those who thank Allah SWT, I say, Allah SWT has announced, Allah SWT has announced, Allah has declared that the one who is grateful to Allah, the one who expresses gratitude to Allah SWT, that Allah SWT will increase him in goodness, will increase the blessings on him, on this person, and the one who is ungrateful, Allah SWT said let him beware of the punishment of Allah. So we ask Allah SWT to keep us always, always, always among those who are grateful and never be ungrateful. So anytime there is a word of or a thought of complaint,...