Auto-generated transcript:Alhamdulillah Rabbil Alameen wa salatu wa salam ala ashrafil anbiya wal mursaleen.
Muhammad wa Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam tasleeman kathiran kathira.
My brothers and sisters, I want to share with you some words from the heart.
I call these attitudes of success.
The first one of them is an attitude of gratitude.
To be grateful and to express gratitude.
To thank people.
We landed here in Hyderabad less than a week ago.
And two things that simultaneously stood out for me.
One was the attitude.
The absolutely tumultuous welcome that we received.
From friends, from relatives, from neighbors.
Absolutely.
As if I was the best thing or we were the best thing, my wife and I, that happened to them in their life.
I ask Allah to make that true for them.
And for them not to be disappointed.
So, amazing.
We are settling into our house.
And we are flooded with food.
Different people send us all kinds of absolutely fabulous Hyderabadi cooking.
From their homes, hot.
Fills up the fridge.
At the same time, I go on the street and there is completely insane traffic.
And unfortunately,
unfortunately,
the infrastructure is so bad that on the one hand, we have these buildings which if you keep your eye and you look at the angle of what 45 degrees, you will not be blamed for imagining that you were in Manhattan or you were in downtown Chicago or something.
Beautiful buildings, huge skyscrapers, absolutely steep.
And glass everywhere and so on.
But lower your gaze and you find a road that is from the previous century.
Completely filled with, I mean, I don't think you can call it a road because it's like one pothole joined with another pothole.
And people are, you sit in the car, you have to hold on because you're being thrown from side to side.
The only good thing about it is that traffic moves at walking pace.
Now, I have a choice.
I have a choice to moan and groan about that and say how bad the traffic is and how bad the road is.
And obviously, there's a lot of pollution and so forth.
Or I have the option of feeling immense gratitude to Allah SWT for putting love and respect and honor for me and my wife in the hearts of people.
So people go out of their way.
People welcome us.
People are, you know, very, very good to us.
Now, this is a choice.
And believe me, no matter what situation you are in, this choice is always there for us.
Which aspect of your life do you want to look at?
Everybody in the whole world, no matter who they are, have things in their lives which are good and they have things in their lives which are painful.
Everyone.
Irrespective of...
Place, irrespective of position, irrespective of wealth, health, you name it.
And at the same time, they have a choice.
What do you want to look at?
So I remind myself and you, let us have an attitude of gratitude.
Be grateful for what we have.
Don't worry about what we don't have.
Bear what is painful with dignity and silence.
And then you make sure...
Make sure that you thank other people.
You thank the people who are doing all this good for you.
The good comes from Allah .
But Allah uses people to get that good to you and me.
And that's why Rasulullah said, the one who has not thanked the people has not thanked Allah .
It's very important to thank people because you may forget, but they won't.
And that is called reputation.
And you can't put a dollar.
Value on it.
So the first thing to do is attitude of gratitude.
Second one is to define your purpose.
Don't live life by default.
Cows live by default.
Buffaloes live by default.
Get up in the morning, go eat some grass.
Uh, come back to the stable in the night.
I go to sleep.
That is the life of animals.
It's not the life of human beings.
So take thoughtful decisions based on their expected outcomes.
And as far as we are concerned, the expected outcome is the effect of that decision in the Akhira, not just in this world, in this life.
I want to suggest to you a wonderful book in thi...