khutba- praising allah
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All praise belong to Allah, we seek his aid and his assistance, and ask his
forgiveness and we seek refuge in Allah from the evil of our souls and from the
evil of our actions.Whomever Allah guides, none can mislead him. Whomever he
leads astray, nobody can guide him. And we send salaah and salaam upon the
habeeb, the rasuul, the abd of Allah- Muhammad (s) and upon all his subservientfollowers until the end of time.
InshaAllah today ill be speaking about being thankfull to the sublime. Allah (s)
Says in the Quran: Allah is full of bounty to mankind, yet most of you are
ungrateful.
Consider that there were two children whom you gave sweets to. The first one
just took the sweets and walked away. You would say what a discourteous child
and immediately you would begin to dislike him. On the contrary the other childsaid: Thank you very much! You would be inclined to say what a cultured child.His actions would endear him to you. In addition if you ever have another set of
sweets you have to tendency to give it to him.
Similarly is the case with Allah, if we thank and praise Him for His myriadbounties and favours upon us, He would have the disposition not only to love us
but to confer better graces and bounties upon us.
Firstly we must understand that everything is from Allah, irrespective of themedium. If we cannot conceive this concept then we would be similar to the lass
in the following story:
A young lass was sitting in her house on her birthday, when the doorbell rang.
She hastened to the door. When she opened it, the postman gave her a package.
She returned inside to open her package. She found out that it was a doll set.
She was ecstatic. Later on her grandmother called her and asked her if she like
the dolls that she sent her. She replied that: you did not send the dolls. The
post did.
This shows that she did not discern that the postman was just the medium of
transportation.
Likewise when something beneficial happened to us, we should thank Allah first
irrespective of the medium. As it is Allah who send it to us. Although we should
also thank the person as the prophet (s) said: those who do not thank man
cannot thank Allah.
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We should also thank Allah even though we might be experiencing the worst
situation of our life.
One author said: there is always, always, always something to be grateful for.
Straight roads never make a skilful driver.Smooth seas never make a skilful sailor.
Clear skies never make a skilful pilot.
And an obstacle free life never makes a successful person.
Allah (s) said: Do people think that they will be left alone because they say:
'We believe,' and will not be tested?"
He(s) also said: "Or think you that you will enter Paradise without such (trials)
as came to those who passed away before you?"
So we should never be wary of Allahs mercy as he is only testing us to make us
better. Instead we should remain patient and thankful as Allah never breaks Hispromise.
Once someone told me a story. There was this great Muslim parachutist who was
doing his stunts one day. During it he made a mistake and consequently broke hisfoot. To the surprise of the people he exclaimed, Alhamdulillah. One of them
said, we understand why youll say it if something good happened to you. Butwhy would you say it when you just broke your foot? He replied: am I not alive?
Do I not have hands and eyes? I couldve lost my hands also. Shouldnt I then be
thankful to Allah?
We should look at what we have- not at what we dont have. We should look at
the people that are more unfortunate than us and ponder how lucky we are.
Then we should thank Allah for all of boons and favours.
Allah (s) says in the Quran: If you are grateful to Me, I will surely give you
more.
There is an anecdote that I would like to share with you. Once in the life of
Prophet Musa (a) just before he was about to go to speak to Allah, two men
came to him. The first was a rich man. He asked prophet Musa (a) to ask Allah
to decrease his wealth as he had too much and it was increasing exponentially.
The other man was a pauper, he asked prophet Musa (a) to ask Allah what he
had to do to increase his wealth. After some time prophet Musa (a) returned
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and the two men return to him for the answers. He told the rich one if he
wanted to become poor he had to be ungrateful to Allah. He replied: how can I
be ungrateful to Allah when He has given me so much. He had a pomegranate and
at that moment it was transferred into gold. Then the poor man came to him and
asks him what Allah said he had to do to become rich. He replied: Allah saysthat you should be more grateful. He said: what has Allah given me to be
grateful to him? At that moment a fierce wind blew and carried away the pieces
of rags that he was wearing.
Allah (s) says: And He gives you of all that you ask Him; and if you count Allah's
favors, you will not be able to number them; most surely man is very unjust, very
ungrateful
We rarely thank Allah (SWT) for these things which are indeed great favors.Take a little pause and think for a while about the bounties of Allah Almighty
within yourself. May Allah (SWT) grant us the ability to recognize His bounties
and thank Him more often.
In closing Ill narrate to you an important incident that happened in the life of
the prophet(s).
Narrated by Muadh ibn jabal: The messenger of Allah (s) took hold of my hand
and said: By Allah I love you so never forget to recite after every prayer
O Allah! Help me to remember You,
To be grateful to You,
And to worship in the best of manners.
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Subhaana rabbika rabbil'izzati 'ammaa yasifoon. Wasalaamul 'alal mursaleen.
Walhamdu lillaahi rabbil 'aalameen.
"Glory be to your Lord, the Lord of Might above what they describe. And peace
be upon those sent. And praise be to Allah, the Lord of the worlds." (Surah As-Saffat 37:180-182)
Subhanakallahumma wa bihamdika, ash hadu anlaa ilaaha illa anta, astaghfiruka
wa atoobu ilaik.
"How perfect You are O Allaah, and I praise You. I bear witness that none has
the right to be worshipped except You. I seek Your forgiveness and turn to Youin repentance"
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