 يا عائشة أخبيرينا بأعجب ما رأيتي من رسول الله تخبرنا about the most wondrous thing that you saw from the messenger of Allah and she said أيو شأنه ليس عجبة what thing that he did wasn't wondrous ولكن دخل عليها ليلا فدخل في راشي he came one night to me and he entered into the bed with me حتى مسجلته جلدي I could feel his flesh up against my flesh فقال يا ابنة أبي بكر ذاريني أتعبدو لي ربي oh daughter of Allah leave me to go and pray to my lord and she said والله إني أحب قربك يا رسول الله I love to be close to you لكن أثيروا حواك but I prefer what you prefer فقام إذا قربتي ماء وتوضأ ولم يكثر صب الماء he got up to the place the water container and he did wudu and it was a light wudu فقام يصلي فبك حتى السادة دمعه على صدره so he began to cry until the tears covered his chest ثم ركع فبك ولا يزاروا كذلك حتى جاء بيلا آذنه بالصلاة and he continued like that until بيلاو came and he told him the prayers come in in other words fajr so عائشة said يا رسول الله ما يبكيك ما يبكيك وقد غفر الله لك ما تقدم من ذنبك وما تأخره what is making you cry when you're seeing it when your sins anything you've done and his sins are doing a virtuous thing when a more virtuous thing could be done when all your sins have been forgiven what passed and what is to come and the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said should I not be a grateful slave should I not be a grateful slave in the hadith in a similar hadith in البخاري حتى تورمت قدمة فقال سألته فقال أولم أكون عبدن شكورة he stood until his feet had the adima from standing so long and he said should I be a grateful slave gratitude الله سبحانه وتعالى says ومن كان مريضا أو على سفر فعدت من أيام الأخر يريد بكوم العصر ولا يريد بكوم العصر الله wants ease for you in this fasting he doesn't want hardship for you ما انزلنا عليك القرآن ولي تشقا he didn't reveal this Quran for you to be miserable he wants ease for you ولي تكمل العدة ولي تكبير الله على ما هداكم ولعلكم تشكورهم in order for you to complete this fasting in order for you to elevate your lord to declare his greatness and in order for you to be grateful gratitude this is the secret of Ramadan this is the time to be reminded يا يوهل الذين آمنوا كولوا من طيبات ما رزقناكم وشكروا لله إن كنتم ياهو تعبدون oh you who believe eat of the good things of Allah but show gratitude for those things if you are truly worshiping الله سبحانه وتعالى one of the most blessed things that we have in this world is food it brings us together it nourishes our bodies it sustains us and then the pleasure of food itself this is a great gift Allah could have made brackish water that we had to drink he could have given us rocks that we had to crush as our nutrition but he gave us cherries and grapes and figs he gave us varieties of meats he gave us all of the blessings that the earth brings forth what does Allah ask us شكر إعملوا آل داود شكرا وقليلوا من عبادية شكور work do things out of gratitude oh al-dawood and how few of my servants are always grateful always grateful أولم أكون عبدن شكورة this is he didn't say أولم أكون عبدن شكرا shouldn't I be a grateful servant شكر you can be shaker at one time or another time when you're shakor it's called صغ مبالغة it's the form of hyperbole it means you're always grateful our Prophet ﷺ was always in a state of gratitude this was his his whole experience of the world was gratitude one of the worst things about modern times is ingratitude is cultivated in people they're they're ungrateful for the police they're ungrateful for government they're ungrateful for their education they're ungrateful for everything people just complain all the time and Allah سبحانه وتعالى واتأذنى ربكم لا إن شكرتهم لا أزيدنكم ولا إن كفرتهم إن عذابي الشديد your lord has declared if you're grateful I will increase you in blessings to be grateful for but if you are an ingrate if you lack gratitude in fact if you show ingratitude I will give you more reasons to be ungrateful I will give you more reasons to be ungrateful this is a metaphysical equation gratitude equals increase in blessings ingratitude equals decrease in blessings this is a قاعدة it's a law it's a metaphysical law that's as true as the Newtonian physics that you learned in high school if you're ungrateful then Allah will give you more to be ungrateful about more to whine about you think it's bad now you have no idea how bad it can get read history to know how bad it can get you think Syria is bad read about the Mongol invasion they didn't have any place to flee to you think the Muslims are having tribulation in America read about Nazi Germany and what happened to the Jews we have to be grateful because if we're ungrateful and always complaining Allah is going to give you more to complain about I was in one of the ghost days and somebody was complaining about the price of gasoline the taxi driver 25 cents at the time now it's a lot higher why? because they keep complaining go ahead complain all you want because if you love to complain Allah will give you plenty to complain about but if you want to show gratitude Allah will give you plenty to show gratitude about they did a study at Davis it's called the gratitude study for depressed people they had them right down every day every morning 10 things they were grateful for over a period of a month people's depression started being lifted when you start counting the blessings of Allah you'll never come to an end and you can count blessings like just eyelashes but people don't have eyelashes they fall out eyelashes are a wonderful blessing or some people have dry eyes so if you have moisture in your eyes what a blessing if you have teeth what a blessing if you don't have teeth if you have dentures what a blessing there's people that don't have dentures if you lose one arm what a blessing you didn't lose both arms if you lose both arms what a blessing now they have prosthetic devices that enable you to do things even Abbas said in every tribulation in dunya there are three blessings hidden that you have to recognize the first is that it could have been worse the second is that it's in your dunya and not in your dean and the third in your worldly affairs and not in your religious affairs and the third it's in this world and not in the next