We all will be looking at the book on Stations of gratitude. This is pretty amazing we got to the reality of Shukr, which was taqwa and then he said Shukr has two mcoms there's
two stations of sugar, Mohammed Shakur which is the mama like Allah says Adina many body a Shakur very few of my servants are Shakur.
The Shakur is the one who's grateful for calamities and tribulations not just blessings. He actually, he feels gratitude when horrible things happen because most people just feel at best they'll be patient or resigned but the Shakur he actually says alhamdulillah alhamdulillah. He knows that only Allah only does good
for his believer right there's a hadith
in Sahih Muslim a Japan the Ambrym
Oatman fin Amaro hula hoop hula hair how
wondrous is the affair of the believer
his affair all of it is good right
like they say in the hood it's all good
and that's what they say that's like a
modern kind of phrase it's all good
I mean they what they need to learn is
if you're a believer it's all good if
you're not a believer it's all bad even
the good but if you're a believer it is
all good and that's why if you if you
really do believe that you enter into a
state of gratitude even for the
tribulations alhamdulillah and always a
good thing to remember is even a bad
said no matter how bad it is
it could be worse and there are people
like that there are people even
non-muslim you'll meet non-muslims that
are like that
they always look at the good side well
it could be worse
think of this count your blessings
I mean we in to do we're into it to a do
net metal lettuce oh ha if you attempt
to enumerate the nemah of Allah you will
never enumerate it right lettuce Oh ha
now just look at one nimah look at the
nemah for instance of the eye this is
one nama first of all think about this
blinking just think about blinking you
don't even notice that you blink now if
you didn't blink you did you ever see
pictures of aristotle onassis
when he got old he had to have the
richest man one of the richest men in
the world he had to have band-aids
holding up his eyelids because he lost
the muscle that returned the eyelid and
his eyelids just dropped all the time so
he had band-aids to hold his eyelids up
but then he had to put drops in his eyes
all the time because if your eyelids
don't close they get dry and you get
dust in them because one of the things
that blinking does is it it brings the
dust back down it's like window wipers
right
you know those windshield wipers it
brings the dust down and then what
happens is the dust moves to the side
and accumulates in the in the corners
right so when you wipe your eyes you'll
get some little dust in it you don't
even think about that it's just that's
just one part of the eye but then you
look if you look at the eye look at the
the nerve of the eye and how that
developed the myelination of that sheath
the fact that that there's synaptic
response the fact that you know there's
neural transmission because that breaks
down for some people we don't even think
that think of the electricity right also
colors just think of colors just color
a lot could have made everything black
and white look at all the subtle colors
that he put in though in the world and
you can experience those the eye can
experience an incredible variety of
colors right I mean that's an Emma and
then look how some colors you they just
give you pleasure seeing them you don't
even think about it
but there's a vibration if you look
there are seven colors right I mean all
colors go down to seven primary colors
and I mean in color theory they'll go
down to three I think but there's
basically seven in a spectrum so visible
light if you look at the visible light
spectrum each one of those colors has an
effect on you red is a certain
vibrational resonance right it's a lower
resonance than violet violet is that the
high spectrum red is at the low spectrum
red if you see red it stimulates you you
don't even know that they know that now
in in color theory because they've done
Studies on people if you put people in
red rooms it has a different effect than
if you put them in blue rooms it will
actually change them because it's a
resonance there's a electromagnetic
radiation that's all radiation so it's
having an effect on you you don't even
know it now the thing about the world if
you go and look at green green will make
you feel good that's why people love to
look at grass or love to look at trees
it has a you know you nourish that's
what the arabs say it's called the Rabia
that's why i said oh allah make the
quran the spring of my heart out of the
alcalde it's a hadith along Medina Quran
or a vehicle v what does that mean it
means that thing that brings your heart
back to life because spring brings your
your whole being back to life you know
people start feeling good the people get
what they call seasonal affective
disorder it's called sad right there's
people to get depressed in the winter
time but then spring comes around they
forget how to press they were in the
winter they start feeling wonderful why
are they feeling wonderful green colors
start changing theirs photosynthesis all
that chlorophyll
is starting to come back to life
reactivate flowers look at flowers I
mean what is that a flower why do people
like that smelling a flower that's
another scent but just the eye to look
at a flower right or beauty when I looks
on Beauty why do why do we all respond
the same way right when you see
something beautiful and most people
share a common taste in beauty if you
see something beautiful you're attracted
to it it's an attraction why it's
because beauty is an attribute of God
and what you're seeing is a reflection
of a divine attribute so you're
attracted to the divine that's the real
attraction the real attraction is not
that that ephemeral beauty that fades
it's what you're seeing a manifestation
of the divine in creation that's the
real attraction but people don't realize
that I mean that's where it's coming so
the eye all these things about the eye
and and we don't even think about it
look at the eyelashes and the eyebrows
they're serving a purpose eyelashes
serve a purpose right I mean when
anything comes near your eye you close
your eye and it protects the eye is
something amazing so all these things
just the eye if you start thinking about
and then there's all these net we don't
even know about we don't even know about
it
for instance light why do people get
depressed one of the reasons they think
is because serotonin levels drop
serotonin is a it's a it's a hormone in
the brain that is released based on
light right cortisol I mean it's all
light so you're taking in light during
the day you don't even think about it
melatonin is also based on light
melatonin is what makes you get sleepy
that's why people that have artificial
light don't get sleepy the eye is the
one that's doing that the eye is
dictating that's why you get tired you
get it's all based on the eye so even
your sleep patterns are being affected
by the human eye you don't even know
that when you feel awake when you feel
drowsy right it's all result of the eye
I mean that I just the eye alone if you
start
doing that and looking at the eye you
can't you can't there's no way you can
enumerate all of the blessings that's
one namo namo 13 and and but we don't
there's untold blessings in it and it's
one namo so the Shakur is the one who
shows that gratitude but this comes from
absolute certainty and this is a maqam
related to real dot which is contentment
with Allah and it's a state of muhabba
because once you fall in love you can't
see anything I mean that's the beauty of
love is that when you're in love you
can't even see faults right yeah I mean
if you love Laila and anybody tells you
you know Laila did this or later you get
angry you know what later would never do
that
you know I saw Laila did this you're
lying you're a liar
Laila wouldn't do that that why because
he's in love with Laila no matter what
you say about Laila he won't believe you
that's real love people don't even know
that type of love anymore right so if
you're in love with a lot a lot can't do
anything that would upset you nothing
because you'll see it's myself I did it
to myself
Allah didn't do that Allah wouldn't do
that I did it to myself or Allah is
doing it because like the father that
punishes the child you see I mean you
see a father punishing the child the
father loves the child so why is it
punishing it because it knows that in
the punishment is benefit for the child
it's disciplining the child is bringing
the child back it's reminding the child
has bound if you see a child running
towards fire and the father slaps the
child's hand it wants to taste a light
pain in order to avoid a great pain you
see because it knows that pain is
nothing compared to the pain of the
flame and when Allah gives you great
tribulations those are nothing compared
to the fire nothing so if Allah is
purifying you to prevent you know to
keep you from that then you realize this
is the love
a creator for his creation and the
prophets Eliza damned once saw some
birds being fed by their mother and he
and he said no he saw a woman giving
nurse to her child and the prophets a
licen have looked and this is the man of
Allah takes discernment from everything
he takes a bra right discernment a
lesson there's a lesson in everything
Navajo a bra
his glance is a bra work Adama who
hikmah and his speech is wisdom there's
a reason for what why he speaks the
prophets Eliza once saw a woman nursing
her child and he said to a Sahaba do you
think that this woman would throw her
child into the fire and they said that
would lie he also a lot that she would
never do that
he said Allah has more mercy for his
servants than this woman for her child
allahu allah ma ba ba de men had a dome
Louella dia allah has more mercy for his
servants than this woman does for her
child Allah subhana WA Ta'ala says about
new ideas to them in ocaña abdun
shakoora he was a grateful slave look at
Noah 950 years calling people to Allah
and all they did was reject him but he
kept calling who could do that I mean
people now they get fed up after a week
of Dawa you know these people they'll
never listen I mean this is 950 years
doing what Allah so behind without that
Shakur one of the things also model that
has told me is from tafseer but he said
no I never once went to relieve himself
except that he came back saying and
hamdulillah the earth have an onion
other you know praise be the one who
removed this harm from me even just
having sugar for like some Mac once went
to visit Haruna Rasheed he was a great
ahead and in a while and her owner
rashid said would you like anything and
he said bring me a glass of water so he
ordered water they brought him water and
he said yeah i'm it
meaning if if you if you would be
refused this water what would you give
for this water and he would said I would
give half of my kingdom for a glass of
water if I couldn't have it
he said if you drank that water and then
you couldn't release it what would you
give to release it he said the rest of
my kingdom he said what is a kingdom a
Dominion that is not worth a cup of
water or the release of it as urine and
what do you really possess if you know
he said Mao and Mon Cala D let you say
we shot a bet imagine what I thought
about it doesn't equal water or the
flowing of urine so you think of that
you know is the blessing of just eating
and the fact that you digesting you
don't have to tell your hydrochloric
acid to be released you don't have to
push any buttons here really you eat
something and if it's protein then it
sends and it breaks down the proteins
down to amino acids and then your body
reassembles them as protein if it's fats
it breaks it down to fatty acids then
your body reassembles them if it's if
it's carbohydrates it breaks them down
to carbohydrate takes them to the brain
right if you have extra the insulins
released takes it to the liver and
stores it as glycogen so that when
you're out of energy the liver will
release the glycogen break it down and
you and you get cover you didn't have to
tell the body to do any of that and yet
it's all doing it for us right now
you're at 90 you know I once had this
man I was talking about Islam and and
and I said well Islam is based on being
grateful to God and he said I guess I
have a few things to be grateful for
that's what he literally said to me he
said God's done some things for me in my
life and I said to him who do you
think's maintaining your body at 98.6
right now anyone seriously who's
maintaining that why don't why not you
want you right now you could be in a
fever
you could be shivering even if it you
could all be if I was sick right now
that Poblado law if I was sick right now
even though it's a moderate temperature
I could be shivering right now feeling
cold and it's not even cold if I had a
fever I would be boiling right now in a
moderate you're all fine but if I had a
homo if I had a fever I would be wanting
to take off all my clothes and really
think about that York Allah is keeping
you at at this 98.6 even if it's a
hundred degrees outside your body is
releasing fluid in order to maintain
this 98.6 on average it's going to be
around there if it's a hundred degrees
outside
why don't you boil up to 100 degrees
what created that inner thermostat that
keeps you at that balance if it's cold
out why don't you drop down because you
will if you go out in ice-cold and for
long enough you'll freeze but for a
period of time you won't you'll stay at
98.6 right why you can go swimming even
and your temperature in a cold water
your temperature will will will will
maintain its might drop very slightly
and that's all from allah subhanho wa
taala so showing gratitude and then he
said Allah subhana WA Ta'ala there's a
hadith that says youn a demon Aden Yama
Yama Yama Yama Delia Pullman muhammadun
that may let the people of praise get up
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Lee Webb Fayette Haruna Jenna then a
group of people will get up and they'll
be given a flag a banner and there
they're told to enter into paradise and
they asked the prophets Elijah Muhammad
hoon who are these people
he said a lineage Coronel da-da-da-da-da
coolly ha
they're the ones that are always
thanking Allah no matter what their
condition is and these are people on
your team you're going to hear that
somebody somebody called Valley Apple
muhammadun that all the people of ham
Madone Ahmad is mobile aha
it's called Seva mobile Allah it's a
hyperbolic form in Arabic it's Hamid not
hamid hamid everybody who says al
hamdulillah is Hamid how mad they're
always saying alhamdulillah
alhamdulillah Calahan al hamdulillah
adequately have right and in another
rewire at essaouira evil bharat those
who praise allah in good and harm invent
things that make them happy things that
make them sad the second maqam is those
people who look at those that are less
than them in their worldly affairs right
feel more at dunya without a Dean for
your aluminum metal lighter and idahe be
said Amity I'd be with Deanie why I feel
to me map to the Adaro be your album
narrative dunya daily Mahalo so those
who look at other people that are in
tribulation and they feel great grateful
that's less it's a lower ma calm but
when you s