oh no he said always look in fact no
there's a hadith he said the Provencal
item said about dunya that you should
look at people who are less than you in
dunya because you'll always feel
grateful now there's always people less
than you that guarantee you you'll
always find people less than you right
so you say I'm doing that I mean if you
don't have a lot of money in this
country were rich in the biblical times
to put a jar of honey on your table was
a sign of great wealth a jar of honey on
your table was a sign of great wealth
really and now people one man said to uh
if a null model he said to him you know
I'm a poor man and he said do you have a
house he said yes he said then you're
not poor he said do you have a wife he
said yes and he said you're wealthy and
then he said you have a servant he said
yes because in those days like now you
know in some countries you don't have to
be wealthy to have a servant there's a
lot of cultures like if you live in in
in Bangladesh
or Pakistan you even you know lower
middle class people have really poor
people as their servants because all
they have to do is give them food and
they'll work in their house so he said I
even have a servant he said you are rich
beyond you know so this is the thing
here in America the majority of people
are would be considered in any previous
time they would be considered living in
palaces the idea of having running water
in this country in the 1930s still about
70% of Americans did not have running
water the idea of having running water
the fact that you can take a hot shower
by just turning a a knob
people don't even think about that you
in Mauritania will lie where mop that
has lives there's three women Aisha
Afiya and I can't remember the third one
three women their job is to bring water
every day it takes them about two hours
to go get the water it takes about an
hour to fill it up and it takes them two
hours to come back five hours every day
just to bring drinking water to their
village and that's their life that's
their life they have to load the
donkey's right with the kettlebell when
they drink water
well lie these and have didn't amitin
meThe narrative man do their water is
it's brown it's brown most of them have
urinary problems because of the sediment
in the water
you
people forgotten this you know I'll just
give you an example well I I read this
the other day I was reading a letter and
don't ask me why I was reading it but I
was reading a letter by robert e lee who
was the head of the Confederate Army in
the Civil War and after his house had
been taken by the federal troops his
wife he wrote a letter to his wife
because she had to flee the house it's a
it's a mansion now you if anybody's been
to Arlington Cemetery is called the
Custis Lee mansion anyway that was his
house and it was captured she had to
flee so he wrote this letter and he said
I reflect on all of the great blessings
that we shared in that house and I feel
fear in my heart that we did not show
enough gratitude to God while that house
was in our possession and for that from
his wisdom he has taken it away from us
that's that is the way Muslims used to
think I mean did that was a Christian
man but that's how he thought about it
because that that's that is hikmah
that's a way to think you know why did
this happen to me this is unfair that's
not the response the response is what
did I do to lose this blessing because
Allah subhana WA Ta'ala says in the
Quran in allaha la ayuda Muhammad had to
die you know maybe enthusiam Allah does
not change a people until they change
themselves the attic Vienna lauhala
McCune when I am an amateur at opponent
my idea in Edmonton and amaha de palma
had to Yanam IBM for zoom Allah will not
take a blessing away from a people until
they change something in their hearts in
other words they don't show gratitude
for it
in Kunta phenom eaten for in an mile c20
name like the poet said Allah if you're
in a blessing then be vigilant about
that blessing because disobedience will
take that blessing away from you so
people used to know that people don't
know that anymore they've forgotten that
just the nemah of the houses we live in
think about that really
nana of the houses we live in the nana
of water the nemah of food on our table
the Ngata of clothes to cover our
nakedness to keep us warm the nemah of a
bed you know the namma of being healthy
I mean never todavía that you got up
this morning and you weren't sick think
of how many people got up this morning
they had to empty out a bag that had
their their urine in it a bag that
they'd have to change every day think of
how many people got up this morning
think of how many people that got up
they couldn't go to the toilet or that
bled blood think of how many people with
asthma that couldn't breathe this
morning that woke up you know without
really think of how many people that
spent their night coughing last night
couldn't sleep because of a cough really
that's why I mean then just shook up
just showing gratitude for a loss of
Hannah a tad just gratitude I mean this
country you have to wonder about this
country just the blessings that this
country has been given and the
complaints of people but also the Muslim
world Muslims complain a lot now I mean
Muslim there's still people and of all
the Muslim people that I know the best
ones that I've seen are pride the
Mauretania the second best are the
Moroccans Moroccans are pretty
impressive if you go to Morocco you ask
because i if you go to some color I'm
going to mention them but I've been to
some Muslim countries you because I
always do this it's a test of levels of
gratitude you ask the taxi driver how
things are going they start complaining
the gas is too high you know this that
the government etc etc you ask a
Moroccan taxi driver I'm serious you get
in rockin taxi you say Kiva da hua a
town dude I'm fine animal I'm in a
blessing I swear you they you know 90%
or more of those guys you ask them how
things are happening now I was in one
place in a Muslim country and I asked
this guy how things were going he said
algebra
he said petrol is so expensive
I'm not making any money and I said you
know what the complaint will make it get
more expensive if you complain about
it's going to get more expensive like
Americans they're all grumbling about
the price of gas this is the cheapest
gas in the world they drive the biggest
cars in the world look at the cars they
drive some of these cars I don't know
how they get them in their garages do
you know and the bigger the car the more
arrogant the person generally it's
axiomatic the smaller the car the more
humble by the nature of cars you know
people get in big cars especially those
big trucks that elevate them those
people it's amazing some of those
characters you know I'm sorry about
truck people but I've just watched them
and observed them on the road in fact I
just saw two people today I was with
Issa and you know there's a lot of
traffic and there were two cars one was
a truck person and I let him go I didn't
have to do that but I just stopped my
car a little early and let him get in
the thing he didn't even acknowledge me
not even a you know a wave that's fine
you know if you do things to get thanks
from people you'll be disappointed you
know but just to be human being try to
maintain our humanity out there right so
I'm that's what I'm doing out there
despite it all I'm just fighting to stay
human because I don't want to turn into
one of those people
so he goes car truck guy as if it's his
right you know of course I have to stop
he's a truck and I'm just a little car
you know but that's the reason so he
goes on fine that's fine and I said
watch this next guy small car I told
that he said I said he'll wave right so
he goes on you know he gives me a wave
like thanks a lot you know because he
sees your cars a little bigger than mine
you're letting me go
you know whatever I mean it's
interesting why people are like that you
know but there's people out there like
that do you know if you have people that
have very fancy cars it intense and
Aleya
aha rahu stamina human being start
becoming oppressive when they start
feeling independently wealthy it's just
ecology that's why a wealthy person
that's humble is something very high in
a lot of sight because the nature of and
that's a way a lot of people are out
there they're just arrogant either
really arrogant there's people out there
they think they own the road and you
will see generally if he's got a 1965
Volkswagen Beetle he doesn't have that
psychology he's just driving around
trying to get where he's going he's very
humble and but if he's got a Jaguar you
know this or that and he's out there
with that arrogance and it's all about
thinking that I'm independently wealthy
it's an arrow from Allah if Allah gives
you wealth it should humble you it
shouldn't make you arrogant should do
the opposite because you look at other
people out there and you feel super
Haleh I don't you know you people say
what did I do to deserve this they can
do it both ways if somebody too horrible
happens they say what did I do to
deserve this
you exist that's that is enough as a
crime right really it's enough as a
crime to think that you exist beside
Allah you are a criminal because let you
die in Allah there's nothing worthy of
worship but Allah and yet here you are
walking around thinking this little
contingent creature that is totally
dependent for every breath for every
instant on Allah subhana wa tada and he
thinks he's independent if you're in a
state of heedlessness you are a criminal
if you forget Allah for one instant you
are a criminal and you stand condemned
and anything that happens to you you
deserve it because you've forgotten who
allah subhana wa tada is yeah you
wouldn't send Mahara kabir Abeka Kadeem
what has deluded you about your Lord
what what has deluded you about your
Lord why are you in a state of delusion
thinking that you don't need every
instant you don't need a lawsuit pan
over to Ana just to take the next breath
to have the next heartbeat the heartbeat
what activates it an electrical impulse
who's activating it a lawsuit behind
with youth
get your brain is not your brain your
brain is not doing that they don't even
know what's doing it you can cut all of
the heart you can cut all of your nerves
to the brain and the heart still beats
right there's some people doctors at
Asia you studied physiology here are you
a doctor
yeah what makes the heart beat seriously
tell us and all this knowledge they gave
you at the university what makes the
heart beat
do you know physiologically what makes
it beat right there's a there's a
electrical activity there's no doubt
about that
right but what what makes that beat why
I mean you well I mean no but seriously
how can you explain that be they don't
even know why cells heart cells start
beating at a certain point they beat
before the central nervous system is
even formed in the infant right in the
embryo what makes those cells just start
beating not only that if they cut them
up they've done these experiments they
cut them up and separate them they start
beating on different beats they bring
them back together they synchronize
again right I mean that's one of the
things that's in that book evolutions
and he talks about that look at the
hadith of the Prophet when he told
people to close ranks in their prayer
because he said if you don't your hearts
will differ one of the things about
people that are close together their
hearts synchronized we know that now
seriously your breathing will
synchronize women who live in the same
house will start having the periods at
the same time of the month they
synchronize it's well known if you live
in close circulation with people you
begin to breathe as one and that look at
that Hadees staked close together in the
prayer line if you don't your hearts
will be different because you want to
beat together as one thing I mean look
at this hadith
Aladin you cut in a liability no kata
Rocephin Ola Bell Idina patroness often
Booya no muscles as if they're a
well-structured house they fight
together in one rank as if they're a
well structured house
what's a well structured house it's well
designed Muslims fight based on strategy
on thinking on design right military art
straight they don't just go out and do
things without planning he gave you the
blessing of this you were just like
those Mu Shu became cadet occur come to
mental Furman Allah I think um you were
just like that before and then Allah
gave you the blessing of Islam what
woody why you think you're so different
I mean the beauty of Islam for from one
of the many beauties but one of the
beauties of Islam and this is what I
love about share abdullah bin via islam
you see there's two ways of embracing
there's the embrace of an equal and then
there's the embrace of a superior did
you ever think about that
what's the embrace of an equal well I
mean you embrace somebody who's the same
as you like if I embrace you you're my
brother you're a little bigger than me
but we have an equal embrace I put my
arms around you you put your arms around
me
what's the embrace of a inferior a
superior to an inferior the child the
child can't put his arms around you you
pick them up and you embrace them and
you hold them see that's Islam Islam can
take all those other religions and just
embrace them all God is so great that
God will even allow somebody that denies
him to exist I mean that's greatness
he'll feed him nurture him give him
reign keep his body healthy give him a
wife children that love him Allah will
do all of that and that person denies
God's existence
all that does is it it shows the
greatness of God now if if you can't let
that person survive it's like there's a
story it's an apocryphal story I don't
know how but there's a wisdom in moment
of Azadi mentions it about ibraheem and
asa damn one night a he's he never ate
alone sane abraham ever he always found
somebody eat with but
night he couldn't find anybody he went
out found a man and he bottom he was a
mushrik and before the man ate he
blessed his food in the names of his
idols and when abraham heard that he
said you can't eat any of my food you're
an idol worshipper get out of here the
man left and then allah revealed to
ibrahim that that man i have been
feeding him for forty years
and patient with his idolatry you
couldn't be patient with him for one
meal and so if i hit my knees and i went
and found that man and apologized to him
and invited him back to his table and
the man asked him why and he told him in
the man became muslim that's islam we
can embrace them
she Dawa what is Dawa in Arabic what
does that word mean Dawa
it's an invitation now if I put a gun to
your head and say you're coming to
dinner tonight at my house is that an
invitation seriously it's not is it
that you're not inviting somebody you're
forcing them to come lettre have a dean
an invitation is only valid if you allow
the person the possibility of refusing
the invitation now who would allow the
person that possibility a generous host
Allah has made a house he called it
dawdled Islam and he invited his
creation to it and he gave them the
option to refuse to come to the house so
if people refuse it why why are you so
fearful of them why are we so afraid of
those people you should have no fear the
see the thing about people that are
ignorant they fear that that's that's
what a fundamentalist is is somebody
who's afraid of the other he's afraid of
having his Eman he's so afraid and his
he's so afraid that he won't even allow
for the other to exist he can't he's not
going to allow that possibility he wants
them eliminated
really and that's a disease that's why
Islam is the only religion that's ever
allowed other religions to exist side by
side with it you study the history of
religion Christians never did it this
all this tolerance now it came from
John Locke who wasn't even a he didn't
even like Christianity or David Hume who
didn't like Christian that's where they
got all this ideology do you think these
founding fathers were Christians see
Christians now they brag about how great
Christianity is in America were number
one blah blah blah they don't even
realize that this is all anti-christian
the whole thing was founded based on
people that rejected Christianity it
really was Thomas Jefferson wrote a
gospel called the Gospel according to
Thomas Jefferson and he took out
everything that bothered him I mean
that's blasphemy you tell a
fundamentalist that he'll say that guy's
going to hell well why are you boasting
about him as this great Patriot and
great American if he's going to hell
seriously
so where did they get those ideas the
Muslims had those ideas centuries before
the Christians we got it from our
booklet Carroll heffa Dean there's no
coercion in the religion because we are
not afraid
but now the Muslims are so empty they
have no knowledge of their religion
they're threatened by all of these
ideologies out there you see really
because it's all there's no see if
you're on you're not on solid ground
you're afraid of the slightest wind if
your house is made of you know in in
West Africa they have these houses made
of grass right if your house is made of
grass you're afraid of wind if your
house is made of stone you think wind
bothers you wind doesn't bother you're
not afraid of it it's not going to do
anything to you but now we're afraid of
it because our house is no longer solid
it's not on solid foundation because
we've displaced our teaching
we don't have educated scholars anymore
we don't have them with the Kalima we
don't have theologian do you think we
have any theologians in the Muslim world
right now I'm serious most of these
Christian theologians that are really
well trained because I've read some of
their books they have brilliant they
have genius is still working in theology
they would wrap rings around most of
these so-called Muslim scholars
cuz Muslims don't even know there to
hate anymore really
that's why Muslims are so fearful of all
this stuff because we've lost our
tradition we don't learn it we don't
study it we don't think about it we
don't reflect on it so that's the second
mahkum of sugar and then he says that
the basis of lack of gratitude is
ignorance well also local data sugar Al
Jarreau bin mo it's ignorant see if
you're ignorant you don't realize how
much blessing you actually have and if
you don't realize that then what
subbable jihad been amicus or al Midler
and the reason for ignorant about your
blessing is your lack of knowledge about
our loss of behan with data first of all
what is the greatest Nana
well what proceeds even islam existence
narrated egad that he has given you
existence consciousness
what an mo really people say oh I don't
want that namma why to have just to be
conscious to have a conscious your
essential creature to have the ability
to think what an mo what is the next
namah namah tude M dad that he sustains
your existence I mean I read this I was
reading this book is called the atheists
the Atheist debaters handbook and it
teaches atheist how to debate religious
people right
I wouldn't recommend reading it but I
mean it's it's interesting if you're you
know I think for me it's just
understanding how they think you know
because if you're confronted with that
the thing about a Muslim scholar or a
daddy or anybody working in in the field
you have to be prepared for questions
for you really do and you shouldn't be
afraid I'm not afraid because I've
studied my Dean I've studied Torah he'd
I'm not afraid anything they throw at me
not worried about it but in this book he
said he was talking about the Ark the
cosmological argument which is the
favorite argument of Muslims right and
he said
these he said these people argue that
everything is contingent upon something
else and then he says which is that's
patently false
for instance human society is not
contingent upon anything other than
humans right this is his argument so
he's giving somebody fuel right
so he says human society is only needs
humans right so it doesn't need anything
outside of humans so there's something
that's not contingent upon anything
other than the thing itself so he said
so why should the universe not be
contingent upon anything other than
itself
that's his argument that's a that's in
the Atheist debaters published by
Prometheus books and they published very
anti Islamic books as well they
published there's this guy even what a
rock right you know that guy that's
probably from Prometheus books they
published a book called the problem of
God right well I mean they admit he God
is a problem and for them he is a
problem he's going to get bigger and
bigger the problem right
but anyway so look at that argument all
right well human society is not
contingent upon anything other than
humans what about space can't have
humans without space so that's not part
of that's outside of humans your space
is outside of yourself you occupy space
without space you couldn't exist what
about time can't have human society
without time right I mean it's an
addictive thing so they say well the
universe doesn't need anything but
itself the universe needs space with the
University of space dummy right well
wait a second what was there before
there was no universe nothing so the
universe needed space to exist in right
doesn't it I mean the universe can't
exist without space the so if you're
going to say universes space well what
was there before the universe nothing
well so it had to fill something right
and space is dependent on what what is
space dependent on
matter you have to have something to
fill the space if there's nothing that
fills the space there's nothing so
everything is depending on something
outside of itself right I mean this is
this is just thinking things through but
this is the nature of ass officed the
nature of Sophos is that they make what
what Socrates asked what ass office was
he said they make the better the worst
cause look like the better one we calm
lawyers now right lawyers that's what a
lawyer does he can take the worst case
they say a jury is 12 people who decide
who paid the most for their lawyer
that's what they do they just decide who
was the most eloquent who is the most
convincing and that usually is the one
that cost the most money not always but
not usually so ignorant about a lawsuit
vahana with Donna and Morten him
why are you ignorant about a lot turcica
to or Fein at me he see you have to
reflect on the blessings of Allah Allah
subhanAllah darkness tells us to reflect
he says the Prophet SAW isome said let
half a coral feel air but I can't ever
go to VI lae he don't reflect on Allah
but reflect on the blessings of Allah
what does that mean not to reflect on
allah subhanhu that not to reflect on
allah you cannot conceive you can't
conceptualize allah you can't you cannot
your intellect is finite and you cannot
conceptualize the infinite you just
can't do it
and therefore it's Haram to think about
Allah you cannot think about allah
sydney abu bakr said l hold Oh
hell Allah he is Scirocco that to
reflect on allah subhana wa da Dada his
nature is shirk right well as you an
Iraqi he otaku and the incapacity to
conceptualize Allah is conceptualizing
Allah in other words the fact that you
know that Allah is laser committed ishe
you know who Allah is when you know
there's nothing like Allah you know who
Allah is that's why the
as him said about the end of time in the
end of time
he said if everything gets confusing
know that your Lord does not have one
eye right so anybody that tells you that
this is God it has one eye this can't be
God right this is not God but they
called the almighty dollar people die
for it
Fiza be to dole out really they'll die
should he do the law people will kill
for this it's a piece of paper you can
light it on fire and it disappears you
can't do that to gold
Gold doesn't disappear and if you're
going to worship something worship gold
you know this is not worthy of worship
neither is gold but I mean if you're
going to compare the two get it straight
this is not money this is not real money
this is monopoly it's a paper game right
but they've convinced people that this
has intrinsic value it doesn't they just
print them up that's why things get it
more expensive every year because they
just keep printing it up right it's not
money it's not God and yet people
worship it they'll die for it they
believe that their sustenance comes from
this they believe that there's people
that think that the only reason they can
buy food is because they have money in
their pocket don't worship the Sun in
the moon but worship the one who created
the Sun and the moon right that table
with the ships well I'll come up don't
worship the Sun or the moon but worship
the one who created the Sun in the moon
don't worship the the dollar don't
worship gold worship the one who created
all those things Allah subhana WA Ta'ala
says food guru
Allah Allah he look him to flee hone
remember the blessings of Allah what is
the greatest blessing of Allah of all
the blessings what is the greatest
blessing of Allah as really the Prophet
is the greatest blessing he's the
greatest blessing he's an animated Cobra
he's an amateur Ozma
that is why reflecting on him is the
highest thing that you can reflect on in
this world because he has the qualities
of human perfection he has all the luck
he has the a lot of divine attributes
that's why Allah called him but are
opened rahim
these are two attributes of allah he's
not divine but he is the most generous
of those humans that can show generosity
nobody was more generous than mara a to
occur Amaterasu Dida I never saw anyone
more generous than the prophet of Allah
I never saw anybody more gentle Mara a
to Eliana arica - Meera Sudha I never
saw anybody more gentle than the
messenger of allah the prophet sal Ison
was gentle in his nature so reflecting
on the prophets a license attributes his
qualities that's why learning his serie
learning his Shama ill all of these
things will draw you closer to Allah
I really they'll draw you and they'll
make you love him more and more the more
you find out about him the more you have
to love him and that's why the most
ignorant people of him are the furthest
from Allah and those who know him the
most are the closest to Allah
really and that's why even one of them
said whoever sees me will enter paradise
this is a shop hat it's a famous
statement of Samara but somebody's one
of the owner may heard that he said abu
jahal saw the prophet and he goes to
hell and they told this man that and he
said Allah Mira nebula
your team Benny Hashim he didn't see the
prophet of Allah he saw the orphan of
Benny Hashim had he seen the prophet of
Allah he would have been for paradise
you see to see someone and to see their
reality are two different things and and
so seeing the prophets all I am is
seeing who he was and he was a little
colicky let the best of Allah's creation
so he is an admitted Cobra right because
without him you wouldn't know Allah had
it not been for him you wouldn't know
Allah well Olin Wasi apart that they
have become Al Queda and more salt had
it not been for the means you would have
not known the end
that's why why did Allah say Muhammad
Allah saw a lot to become Muslim yet why
wasn't it just a shadow Allah in a hail
Allah
why not that really think about that
why do you have to say wash had one in
Mohammed up why if shirk is the only
thing Allah won't forgive why did he
make his toe he'd well I shadow under
Mohammad ur Rasool Allah and I bear
witness that Muhammad is the Messenger
of Allah that's part of till he'd you
can't have to hate without that I
guarantee you in our understanding of of
towheads and motto he'd is three things
it's the Allah he at the Nevada and the
summer yet right if you don't believe in
in in the o Muhammad that's your toe he
is not complete so knowing Allah is one
is not enough you have to know who
taught you that because the the Jews and
the Christians no longer know Allah is
one the way we know Allah is one the
Christians believe that he's
three-in-one and the Jews believe that
he has parts right the Jews actually
believe they have anthropomorphism if
you study Jewish theology they have
anthropomorphism they believe that Allah
is in space Speight if you're in space
then you fill up you need space
so you're dependent how can Allah be in
space but then you what then that means
alot nothing no that doesn't mean a lot
of nothing it just means you can't think
of what Allah is because all you know is
space so you assume everything has to
fill space that's only because your
analogically reasoning with your
intellect but when we speak about Allah
leisa committee he che there's nothing
like him
so all we know is he doesn't have space
we don't know his nature because we
can't know his nature but we know his
the negative aspects we know the selby
yet right so allah has existence without
space now Oh Sue Ann Veronica Roth are
bad he says if you forget the Nima if
you if you're ignorant of Anatomy you
don't know it and if you don't know it
you don't give gratitude and if you
don't give gratitude it gets cut off
that how do I know plenty like that so
you have to know the name of Allah
because you'll lose them what does he
say well Sunni remember alpha played era
thought about the first the
root blessings are for right
the first blessing is the nutfah because
all of living creatures came from it in
other words you were initially as I got
and Allah brought you forth from as I
got as I got is just it's a two proteins
that come together and form the first
cell that's what we were initially and
then a lot of right this is a blessing
Lydia regime Gaza and Jimmy Jimmy a
thermal everything that was brought out
Allah brought forth from the earth was
was the blessing of bringing forth all
of the plant life the vegetative life so
the first is animal life and then
vegetative life right and then what he
says the next is elma right because
without water there's no animal or
vegetable life so you have animal life
vegetable life and then you have the
blessing of water without which neither
can exist and then fire right because
fire with it you have light that you can
see and live and then you have all the
blessings of food from it right and then
also because for the people of inner