Auto-generated transcript:The second thing I want to remind myself and you is to thank Allah in good and as well as in difficult times.
And therefore I advise you and myself to be grateful to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Grateful for what he gives us and even more grateful sometimes for what he takes away.
Because the one who takes away does that for one reason only.
Because he wants to give you something better.
My Sheikh used to say that if you go, if somebody has this what we call da'at-e-aam.
So this is you know feeding the poor.
You got a whole Sufra Dastur Khan there and everybody in the whole village, the whole town is there.
Hundreds of people and you also go there and you sit down there along with the people on the floor.
And suddenly your host sees you.
What will he do?
He will come and grab you by the arm and pull you up.
Now when that happens, what do you say?
Do you cry and say, oh my God, he's depriving me of my meal?
Or do you feel proud and say, alhamdulillah, I have been recognized.
My host knows who I am.
And he lifted me from this place only because he wants me to sit at the head table to give me honor.
He's not depriving me of the food.
He wants to give me that food in a much more honorable place.
And therefore, we thank Allah for what he gives us and for not giving sometimes what we ask.
And for what he takes away from us.
In the hadith in Musnad Imam Ahmad, Abu Sayyid al-Khudri reported that Rasool Allah said,
there is no Muslim who calls upon Allah who makes dua.
And in this dua, there is no sin.
He's not asking for something haram.
Nor is there cutting of family ties.
But that Allah will give him one of three answers.
He says, Allah will give him one of three answers.
He will quickly fulfill his supplication.
He will give him what he asked.
Or he will store it with him.
He will store it for this person in the hereafter.
Or he will divert an evil from him similar to what he asked.
So the Sahaba said, Ya Rasool Allah, in that case, we will make more and more dua.
We will ask more and more.
And Rasool Allah said, no matter how much you ask,
Allah has more.
Allah reminded us of the way to increase His blessings,
which He has given us.
And He said,
He said,
He said,
And remember when your Rabb proclaimed and announced,
if you are grateful, I will certainly give you more.
But if you are ungrateful,
surely my punishment,
is severe.
See the mercy of Allah.
Allah did not say, I will punish you.
Allah said, beware, the punishment is real.
All the promises of Allah are for the muttaqun.
Not simply the Muslimun.
When we accept Islam, we enter the gate, the boundary of the palace.
You are not on the street, you are in the fort.
You are in the boundary of the palace.
But from inside the gate, to the palace,
and through the door, then inside that,
to the throne room, to the treasury,
is a journey.
But real rewards are there.
If you are only standing on the outside,
if you are running around in the periphery,
you haven't even entered the palace,
this is not a great idea.
And therefore it reminds,
it is for us to constantly remind ourselves,
about Allah .
And that is why Salah is made farad on us five times a day.
That is why Allah sends Ramadan,
to instill Taqwa in us.
And that is why we have so many opportunities to worship Allah in so many ways.
And at so many times.
Let us not wait for a blessing to end,
before waking up to the fact that it is gone.
The last thing, I remind myself and you,
is to maintain unity.
And not allow divisions.
For any reason.
Any reason.
Allah said,
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and he saved you from it.
This is how Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala makes
his revelations clear to you
so that you may be rightly guided.
I advise myself and you to be together
and not allow anyone to divide us.
Please note Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala did not say