 You See In Our Lives We Have So Many Things To Complain About One Difficulty That Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Sends And We Start Complaining We Complain About Our Body Our Work About Finances About Our Risk About Our Connection With The People But Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Is Flipping This Completely Around Here Is Telling Remember The Good Times Remember Those Times When When You Did Have Things When You Are Blessed With The Na'amat With The Blessings With The Mercy Remember Those Times You See Sometimes It So Happens That We Go Throughout A Whole Day Without Saying Shukran Lillah We Go Throughout A Whole Week Sometimes Saying Alhamdulillah Sometimes It So Happens That It Goes A Whole Month That We Forget To Thank Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala But Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Is Reminding Us Remember Of The Good Times That You Had In Your Life Be Thankful To Me And If You Do I Will Surely Increase You In Your Favors One Of The Companions Of The 9th Holy Imam SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam Who Alai By The Name Of Abu Hashim Al-Ja'fari He Comes In The Presence Of Imam Muhammad Taqi Al-Hadi And As Soon As He Comes If The Imam Is Looking At Him And He Realizes Abu Hashim Is In A Not Very Good Mood He Understands That Abu Hashim Has Actually Come Here To Complain You See Many A Times You May See Someone From Far And You Know That Yep He Is Not In A Good Mood Today So Imam At The Same Way Recognize That Abu Hashim Is Not In A Good Mood Today So As Abu Hashim Comes In The Presence Of The Imam He Greets Him The Imam Responds To Him In His Greeting Before Abu Hashim Could Respond With And He Could Initiate Any Conversation Imam Starts The Conversation And He Asked Abu Hashim Which Of Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Blessings Have You Come To Thank For Today Have You Come To Thank Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala To Have Provided You Eman Faith So That The Fire Of Hell Will Never Touch Your Body Or Have You Come To Thank Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala To Have Provided You Well-Being And Health So That You Are Able To Obey Him Or Have You Come To Thank Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala To Have Provided You With The Contentment So That You Are Never In A Position To Be In A Lowly Position Oh Abu Hashim Which Of Allah's Blessings Have You Come To Thank For Today Abu Hashim Hadn't Come To Thank Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala For Anything Rather He Had Come To Complain Rather He Had Come With A Very Bad Mood However Imam Muhammad Al-Hadi Is Trying Tellers That Whenever You Or Yourself Is Looking At The World As A Glass Of Half Empty Water Turn It Around Look At The Glass Of Water In This World As Half Full Concentrate On The Blessings That Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Has Indeed Given You Has Surely Blessed You With And What's Beautiful Things That Imam Is Highlighting For Us The First Thing That He Highlighted Abu Hashim Was Oh Abu Hashim Have You Come To Thank Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala For The Eman For The Faith That He Has Given You So That Your Body Will Never Justifier Of Hell Subhanallah Is This Reason Not Enough For Us To Prostrate For A Long Amount Of Time To Spend Our Lives In Prostration That Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Has Guided Us Either Raised Us In A Family Or Has Guided Us Later In Our Life So That We Believe In The Oneness Of Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala With The Prophethood Of His Messenger With The Reliance Of Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib And On The Ghaiba Of The 12 Fajr Al-Qaim Adjala Allahu Ta'ala Farajahu Sharif Is This Reason Not Enough For Us To Thank Allah On The Second Level He Says Oh Abu Hashim Have You Come To Thank Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala To Have Provided You Health So That You Are Able To Obey Him Alhamdulillah I Have Health So That I Am Able To Stand Tall In Prejudice I Have Health So That I Am Able To Complete The Lengthy Fasts Of Shahr Ramadhan I Have Health So That I Am Able To Walk Long Distances In Performing Hajj In Performing The Ziyarah Alhamdulillah I Have The Ability To Talk The Ability To Recite The Holy Quran I Have The Ability To Think I Have The Ability To Interact With The Creation Of Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Properly Is This Reason Not Enough For Us To Spend Our Entire Life To Say Alhamdulillah On The Third Level What Does Imam Hadi Try To Tell Abu Hashim He Says Oh Abu Hashim Have You Come To Thank Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala To Have Given You The Level Of Contentment That Will Make Sure That You Are Never In A Position To Go Out In The Streets And Beg How Many Of Us Alhamdulillah Shukrin Allah Can Say That We Have That Level Of Satisfaction That Level Of Contentment Qanaat That We Are Not In A Situation To Go Outside Of Our Home And Beg In The Streets Alhamdulillah Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Has Provided Us With So Much Things That We Have To Thank Him For All We Have To Do Is Reflect On The Things That He Has Provided Us On The Bounties That He Has Provided Us With Many A Times You Will See In This World There Are Problems Of Depression Now I Agree There Are Some Cases Of Depression That Are Legitimate Cases Of Depression And May Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Help Those Individuals But A Lot Of The Cases Of Depression Is Not Because Of Pure Depression Is Because Of The Lack Of Reflection Is Because Complacency In Life Because There Are People There Are Individuals Myself Included This Advice Is First To Me And Then To Yourselves There Are A Lot Of People That Complain More To Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Than Actually Concentrate On The Positive Things That Allah Has Blessed Them With For Example Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Has Blessed Me With A Beautiful Family With A Beautiful Community With Food On My Plate With Roof Over My Head Are These Reasons Not Enough For Me To Thank Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala For And Not Be Complacent If You Are Thankful To Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala I Will Surely Increase You In Your Favours