Advice to students – #2

Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center

---*This transcript was automatically generated by AI and may contain errors. *--- My brothers and sisters, second advice is to be thankful, is to express gratitude. How many people here? When you go home, you know that there is going to be a good tasty hot meal ready for you. Yes? Who cooks your, who cooks the meal? You? Your dad or your mom? Fantastic. Who cooks the meal for you? Your mom, alright. The older ones? Who cooks the meal? Your wife. Now let me ask you a question. How many of you thank your mom and say thank you very much for this food? How many of you thank your wife? You thank your wife? You understand what I am saying? It's very important to thank. And that is why Rasoolullah SAS said, The one who has not thanked Allah, who has not thanked the people. The one who has not thanked the people, has not thanked Allah. Sometimes we feel, oh but why do I have to say thank you, thank you, thank you all the time? Don't they know? Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said in surat Ibrahim, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, the announcement was made and said to them that, the one who thanks me, I will increase my blessing. So if you say about your wife or about your mother, why do I need to thank, why do I need to thank my dad? Doesn't he know? But doesn't Allah know? Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, Who knows me is the best of all. He even knows what's in your heart. So why is he saying the one who thanks me, I will... Why? Because he doesn't know? Allah is showing us that to thank Allah, to thank is our job. It's not because they know or they don't know. To thank is my position as the recipient of the blessing that I must thank. Whether the other person knows or does not know is not my concern. My concern is I must thank. So make this an absolute wonderful thing for yourself and say I will thank. Gratitude is a fantastic thing. They did a study in the University of California with people, patients of chronic depression. So these are people on anti-depressant medicine and they are like suicidal almost. They are so deep into depression. The experiment they did was the control group, they gave them what they call the gratitude diary. They gave them a notebook and they said every morning when you wake up, write down 10 things that you are grateful for. 10 things. And they said you can write the same 10 things every day, doesn't matter, but write 10 things. So for example, I am grateful that I have eyesight. Do we think about this sometimes? Did you thank Allah, say, Alhamdulillah, I have eyesight? Did you say, Alhamdulillah, when I stand up, get up from my bed and I go to the bathroom, I am not... I can walk steadily, I don't fall down? We don't even think about that because Allah is made us strong. But you know this is a major problem, you know this is a problem which if you live long enough when you get older, this is one of the first things that happens to you, you lose balance. Doctors who do geriatric care, doctors who care for elderly people, you know what they tell them? They say do whatever you want but don't fall. Don't fall, make sure you don't fall. So don't try and... When you put on your trousers, don't stand and put... sit down, sit down and then put your trousers on. Don't stand. You say, I did it all my life. Yes, all your life you did that, but all your life you were not 70, you were not 80. Now you are 70 and 80. Sit down. Do not fall. Don't stand and wear your shoes. Sit down and wear your shoes. Yes? So when you are now in a stage where you are not 70 and 80, Abdullah you are strong, you can stand on one leg and do stuff, should you not thank Allah for this? We race up and down stairs because the knees are good. You live long enough, a day will come when arthritis will come. And with arthritis the cartilage in the between the knees, between the... in the joint will go. And then you have bone on bone. Should we not thank Allah? Alhamdulillah, my knees are okay. Alhamdulillah, my hands are okay,