 As-salatu wa-salamu ala-ashraf al-anbiya'a Muhammadan wa-a'alihi al-tayyibina al-taahireen. Allahumma salli ala Muhammadan wa-a'alim Muhammadan. Dear viewers, As-salamu alaikum wa-rahmatullahi wa-barakatuh. May Allah's peace and blessing be upon each and every one of you. We are thankful to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and grateful to him, Almighty, that he has blessed us to continue discussing verses of the Holy Qur'an and learning from this holy book and the narrations of Ahlul Bayt alaykum as-salam. Within the previous episodes, we reached to the point of being grateful and thankful to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. We got to the second verse of Surat Al-Hamd, Surat Al-Fatiha, which was Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. And we discussed how important it is for us to be grateful and we will continue discussing that. And one of the narrations that we read within this verse and understanding this verse and bringing it to our lives was from Ma'amir Radha, al-salam, where he states, If we are not thankful, if we are not grateful to people, to the creation of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and whatever that they do for us, we have not been thankful and grateful to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So it is very, very important. We left off with this narration and inshallah we are going to a little bit more elaborate on this point and this concept of being grateful and thankful to other. And it is very important to keep this in mind. We see another narration also from Ma'amir Radha, al-salam, a book that we have given as an action plan, which was the book Tuhaf al-Aqool, inshallah. We have downloaded it and you have next to you and you have it with you if it's on your iPhone, inshallah. You're reading one hadith a day, one narration a day from Ahl al-Bayt, al-Aliyum, al-salam, and also bringing those narrations into your lives. Where Ma'amir Radha, al-salam, states that the person's intellect won't be complete until he has ten characteristics. It's an amazing hadith. It's a beautiful narration, but we're taking one segment of it, one of those characteristics. We're discussing it and inshallah you can refer to the book Tuhaf al-Aqool and get to the section which has the narrations of Ma'amir Radha, al-salam. Inshallah you will find this narration. Ma'amir Radha, al-salam, says, An individual's intellect won't be complete until he has ten characteristics. He mentions a couple of them. One of them is Any small thing that someone does for him, he sees it as very, very big. He would really, really appreciate it. He would be grateful to be very, very small. Maybe somebody gave, he was about to write something. He gave him a pen. He said, okay, this pen is for you. Small pen. And so somebody gave him a cup of water. Very small. When somebody does something small for him, he will go everywhere. Oh, have you seen this brother? Masha'Allah, or this sister, or my brother, or my mother, or my wife, or my husband. Masha'Allah they are being, they are really, really helpful. I can rely on them whenever I'm in need. And always they mention it. They always are thankful and grateful. Some people we do something for them. They might say thank you one time and they are grateful one time. But Imam says When somebody does something small for them, everywhere they go they discuss it. Basically something big for them. Because we have to keep in mind. We should not have expectation toward others. Some people unfortunately have expectation. Why didn't he do this? Why she didn't do this for me? And he or she, he or she, my parents, my relatives, my co-worker, my brothers, my sisters, my husband, my wife, and so on and so forth. We have high expectation from people. That shouldn't be. So when we have high expectation and people do some small little things for us, we'll say okay, I mean they're supposed to do it for us. But when we bring our expectation to zero, when we don't expect anything from anyone, and I do mean it, when that becomes actually an action plan for us. Wife from husband, husbands from wife, parents from kids, kids from parents, brothers from sisters, and relatives and co-worker. Everybody, we should not have expectation that okay, he or she must do something for me. They're obliged to do this for me. Nobody's obliged to do anything for anyone. But we should do good to one another. But we should not have expectation from people that when our expectation is not met, we will be upset. We won't be happy. So when we have no expectation and people do something small for us, that would be very big. We will really appreciate it. We will be thankful. And we will be grateful. And by us being thankful to the creation of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, to other creation of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, we are thanking Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala with our actions. Because as we mentioned within the previous episode, saying Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen, everything that happens to us, whatever makes us happy or upset, we say Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. This is part of our action showing appreciation to others. And through that, we appreciate and we are grateful to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So it brings us to a discussion of being grateful and happiness. There are people who have all the means to be happy, but they are not grateful. Because some people claim that if you have everything that you want, you will be grateful. But we do see there are people who possess all means of happiness, but still they are not grateful. Grateful. They are happy. There are people. They are grateful despite having anything, having or not having, possessing something or not possessing it. So there are people, we see them who have a lot of misfortune. And and deeply they are happy and they are grateful. We see them, they do have a lot of motivational speakers and mashallah. A good amount of them are out there. We can find their YouTube that they have. They have faced a lot of misfortune within their lives, but they are grateful. Despite not having, for example, one of them, despite not having any of those hands or hands or legs, only half part basically is a good motivational speaker. So it's not about having something to be happy and then happiness makes us grateful. There are people that are happy because they are grateful. It is not happiness that makes us grateful. Rather, it is gratefulness that makes us happy. Being happy, being content, being satisfied, being grateful to Allah SWT because why? Because every moment is a gift. Every minute that we live, every inhale and exhale, our existence is a blessing from Allah SWT. A gift that we have not worked for. A gift that we don't, we have not earned it. A gift that we don't deserve it. We haven't done anything toward for Allah SWT that deserves him creating us. Accept that Allah SWT says, Why Allah then created us? Accept those chapter 11 verse 119. Accept those on whom your Lord has mercy and that is why he created them. Allah SWT created us to show mercy to us. So he does, he's not obliged to create us. He created us to show us his mercy that he's merciful. So every moment is a new gift that we have to be grateful. Every moment, every minute is a new opportunity that we have to take. Even though if we fail, we're doing something, well, we have the next minute. We should be thankful to Allah SWT. He blessed us to be able to continue and continue and not being unthankful to Allah SWT. One thing that we must do for us to become more grateful, for us to be truly and genuinely when we say, For that thanking Allah SWT, for that gratefulness to come from all of our body parts and our hearts and each cell of our body should be grateful. We need to do, this will be our action plan. Stop, we shouldn't rush through life. Some people, they are really rushing through the life and they just work and home and paycheck and bills and they have occupied themselves so much that they don't sit and relax and think of all the blessings that Allah SWT has bestowed upon them. So stop. Look, see all the blessings that Allah has bestowed upon you and start counting them. We mentioned that in the previous episode, we will remind ourselves that we should not rush through life. We should stop, pause, think of all the great blessings Allah SWT has bestowed upon us which we don't deserve it. We haven't earned it. We haven't worked for it. It's all based on His Rahmani and Rahimiya of Allah SWT, all beneficent, all merciful. It's because of His mercy that we have all of these blessings. So when we stop and when we look and we observe, we will be more thankful. We will be more grateful. We will appreciate everything that we have and we will start building our future on whatever we have. Unfortunately, we get so much occupied with what we are doing that we don't think that we have so much within our, we have so much in our plates that we can do more our capabilities and our potentials are really, really high. But we get so much trapped in small little things and we get busy who said what, somebody's agree with me, somebody disagree with me, trying to satisfying people, trying to do this and this. Stop, pause. Look what you have, all the potentials that you have that you can grow and then you can enhance yourself where Amir al-Mu'mineen, the commander of the Faithful, Ali Ibn Ibn Ibn Talab, says, You think you're a small germ, you're a small little germ that doesn't have any benefit not knowing that the whole universe has embedded in you? That shows our potential. That shows what we can get, how much we can go high. Basically, the sky is the limit. So, gratefulness and being thankful, it's not only verbally, it's the way of life that we see everything as an opportunity. We see everything as thanking Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for what he has given us, what he has given us. So, that becomes part of the action plans and understanding of us of this verse, Alhamdulillah, Rabbal Alameen of basically keep reminding ourselves that he is blessing us every second, every moment is a new opportunity that we have to be grateful and thankful to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Alhamdul, we talked about thankfulness, gratefulness, being appreciating Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Rabbal is the one who owns something and owner of something, Rabbal Bait, Rabbal Ebel, basically the owner of the camel, the owner of the house and also he's the master, he's the one who's nurturing and he is involved in our upbringing. For lack of better term, he's our coach. That he is bringing us and discipling us and basically he's involved in every minute of our upbringing. This is called Rab, or coach, or master. So, he is the true and genuine owner of everything and everything is under his hand and under his supervision and he has placed a process for everything to reach its perfection, to reach the highest level of completion. Everything, from the animals, from the humans, from objects, everything has a process to reach, every element has a process and has steps that it can take to become perfect. Some Taquini, some are within it and some Taashri'a, basically by Allah. We are giving this opportunity, he has given us the intellect, internal guidance and external guidance, the prophets and the imams, to guide us by us following them, and we have the elements and others that are Taquini, part of their nature that are going toward completion. We read chapter 6 verse 164. قل أغير الله أبغى ربا وهو رب كل شيء. Say, shall I seek a Lord other than Allah while He is the Lord of all things? Another place that we see the word رب which we explain to us the definition also from Quran chapter 26 verse 24. رب السماوات والأرض وما بينهما. The Lord of the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them. So we are thinking Allah who is the owner, who is the Malik, who is the owner and He is the one who is upbringing us and nurturing us. So we see a very, very close relationship between Allah Subhanu Wa Ta'ala and His creation. And contrary to other, some sects within the Islam that they say Allah Subhanu Wa Ta'ala created the universe, created mankind and He basically let go of it. He let them to move on. No. Alhamdulillah, رب is the one who coaches us. And he takes us basically step by step toward our achieving higher level. Not like an artist, not like an architect or a contracting artist. He will draw a picture and he will basically sell it and it goes. An architect or a contractor, he will build a building and he will let it go. No. Allah Subhanu Wa Ta'ala created His creations in the best of manners, in the best of ways. And also He is involved through the process of upbringing them and elevating them. And He shows them basically the path. So the whole universe, every creation of Allah Subhanu Wa Ta'ala, is under His hands reaching higher and higher. Allah is showing them the potential that they have. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. We mentioned, we talked about it. Alhamdulillah, رب العالمين. Alhamdulillah, we talked. Praising Allah, all praise. So Allah Subhanu Wa Ta'ala, رب العالمين, basically all the worlds that we are discussing. Alhamdulillah, رب العالمين, all praise belongs to Allah, Lord of the worlds. So the action plan will be from this episode that we are number one, going to be more thankful, less expectation from other people. Hence, we will be more grateful to other people because of what they're doing and we don't have any expectation for them to do this for us. So less expectation, smaller things that they do. We'll be really grateful toward them and by us thanking them, also we are thanking the Creator, which is Allah Subhanu Wa Ta'ala, and it becomes part of our life. It becomes all of our body parts are thankful to Allah Subhanu Wa Ta'ala and that basically becomes our way of life, of being grateful to what He has created and what He has blessed us with. Ar-Rahman Ar-Rahim, insha'Allah, will be in the next episode. We will conclude our lecture and this session, insha'Allah, by reciting dua for the hasten, the reappearance of our beloved Imam Mahdi, Ajar-Allah Ta'ala, Faraj Al-Sharif, which this dua is the most important dua that we should always remind ourselves and read it all the time, asking Allah sincerely and genuinely to hasten the reappearance of our beloved Imam Mahdi, Ajar-Allah Ta'ala, Faraj Al-Sharif. Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem. Allahumma kulli waliika al-Hujjat ibn al-Hasan. Salawatu ka alaihi wa ala aba'ih. Fi haathih al-sa'at wa fi kulli sa'ah. Waliyan wa hafidha wa qa'idan wa nasra wa dalilan wa aina. Hatta tuskinahu ardaka taw'a wa tumatta'ahu fiha tawila. Barahmatika ya ar-Rahman ar-Rahmeen. Al-Fatiha.