Count our blessings

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds.
And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the prophets and the messengers.
Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace,
and may Allah grant him peace, and may Allah grant him much, much peace.
And then, my brothers and sisters, we know the ayat of Surah Al-Bahim.
Allah, the Exalted, said,
Allah, the Exalted, said,
Which means, let it be announced that the one who is grateful to Allah, the Exalted, for his blessings,
Allah will increase the blessings.
And the one who is ungrateful, let him beware that the punishment of Allah, the Exalted, is severe.
Before we go further, let us just reflect on this.
Allah said,
The one who,
thanks Allah,
Allah will increase the blessings.
But the one who is ungrateful,
Allah did not say, Allah will punish him.
Allah said, let him beware, the punishment is severe.
Right?
Normally, if you look at the construction of a sentence,
it should be, I will give you, I will not give you.
I will reward you, I will punish you.
But this is the rahmah of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Allah does not say,
I will punish.
Allah said, beware, punishment is severe.
Meaning, there is always room for us to make izdighfar and tawbah and not reach that point where the punishment becomes wajib.
Today, I went to a place called Longmeadow Conservation Area,
which is 15 minutes from here,
just behind Bay Path University.
And I took some photos, I posted them.
Whoever is interested, send me a message, I will send you the photos.
I saw two families of swans.
Absolutely fabulous.
Most beautiful two hours that I spent.
15 minutes from here.
How many of you never heard of this place?
You lived here how many, 30 years, 40 years?
Why?
Why don't you go out?
Why don't?
Why don't you go and see the khudrat of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala?
What are you doing?
Sitting in the house every day from morning till evening, making money to do what?
Please, enjoy the mercy of Allah.
See how Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has blessed us.
Today, unfortunately, we live in a world where we hear only negative stuff.
This is bad, that is bad, that is bad, that is bad, right?
So, let us look at something.
Some of the opposite, which is true, which we should really focus on.
And I'll just go back to my own childhood and growing up.
I'm not going back to ancient history of how it was in ancient Egypt and with the pharaohs and with, you know, kingdoms.
No, I can give you all of that as well, but just by...
When I was growing up in our house, and alhamdulillah, I didn't come from a poor family.
I came from a very wealthy.
I came from a very wealthy family and a very noble family.
My father was a medical doctor, physician.
We lived in a huge house.
I was born in a house which had three acres of land around it.
But then we moved to my father's house, which had four bedrooms, half an acre of land around it.
And this is in Hyderabad.
Mango trees, this, that.
But no hot and cold running water.
I'm not talking ancient history.
I'm talking about the 60s, late 50s.
No hot and cold running water.
Not because we were poor.
Not because there was no hot and cold running water.
System didn't exist.
No air conditioning.
And why is air conditioning important?
Because right now, as I'm speaking, the temperature in my city in Hyderabad is 120 Fahrenheit.
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The chicken lays an egg, it becomes an omelet straight away.
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My family, you've met a few children.
lt's not.
They live in an apartment building or whatever.
You took your children.
What would you do if she was not with you?
She wasn't?
You wouldn't even neck her?
You wouldn't even?
generators. So we had something called the Hawa Daan. How do you translate Hawa Daan
into English? It was a box of air. So it was a covered,