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Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and peace and blessings be upon the honour of the prophets and messengers.
Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and his family,
and peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and his family,
My brothers and sisters, one of the most important things for us to do is to become grateful people.
To become among the shakireen, the people who are grateful to Allah.
You know, if you think about this, today we live in a world where we seem to be surrounded by bad news.
In the newspapers, this and that, and all kinds of stuff all over the place.
But give it a little bit more thought.
Today, if you look at our lifestyle, and I'm not talking about the lifestyles of the high and mighty, the rich and famous.
I'm talking about the lifestyles of ordinary people like us.
We have lifestyles, and we live in comfort that is superior to the loyalty of the West and the East in medieval times.
Far better than the kings and queens lived in Europe, and far better than the kings and queens lived in the East.
Europe, I don't even want to talk and compare because their lifestyles are different.
But if you look at the lifestyle, it's pretty sad if you look at the parameters.
Say, for example, let's take two or three parameters to judge the lifestyle.
One, let us take health.
You know, these were the days before penicillin, days before antibiotics.
It meant that if you got a wound on one of your limbs, which was very, very common for all kinds of reasons,
not just wars, but, you know, exercise, practicing with weapons, working in the fields, just playing, anything, right?
If you got a wound in one of your limbs, and they had some very brutal ways of dealing with it,
with those things, and if it didn't work, if it got infected, which it did,
you had a very good chance of losing the limb itself or having to get it amputated.
And amputation also, including, for example, treating the wound if it needed to be stitched, amputation, everything.
Remember, these are the days before anesthesia.
So amputation was that they would grab you, put you on a...
table or on some platform, hold you down,
and then somebody would either take an axe or a saw and do the job.
Not a nice image at all, right?
But that was medical treatment.
Infant mortality was through the roof.
There was not a house in which some child had not died.
Many women died in childbirth.
And it didn't matter because disease does not differentiate between royalty and nobility and the common folk.
The treatment that they had in the West for disease was practically one thing, which is bloodletting.
So if you are sick, they opened a vein in your arm or...
somewhere and they drained blood, sometimes quite a lot of blood.
And they believed that this was something which cured you.
It actually killed you because you had now also to deal with loss of blood.
In the East, it was slightly better because medical treatment was a little bit more developed, but not particularly more.
Food could not be refrigerated. There was no such thing.
People used to eat food, which if you eat today, you would die.
Because meat would be almost putrefying when they were eating it.
And that's why they used a lot of spices to mask the stink of rotting meat.
This is as far as food and health is concerned.
Again, in the East, it was better.
Especially if you were wealthy enough, you managed to get some decent food.
But in Europe, it was very awful.
There was obviously no heating and cooling and so on and so forth.
So in the summer, you got hot. In the winter, you got cold.
You froze.
In the West, in Europe, they believed that bathing was dangerous to health.
So they never bathed. Never bathed.
They never brushed their teeth because they didn't know anything about oral hygiene.
So by the time a person was about 30 years old,