 قال الله تبارك وتعالى في كتابه الكريم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم هو الذي جعل لكم الأرض The Lulan it is he your lord who made the earth tractable for you The Lulan فم شوفي مناكبها So travel in its open roads فم شوفي مناكبها وكلوا من رسقه and eat from his provision وإليه النشور but you're going to stand before him Your resurrection is going to be before him My friends this life is a journey of learning A journey of learning from the beginning to the end Every day is a day of learning Is a day of inspiration Is a day of discovery for us And one of the things that we learn through them Is when you travel a seir of the earth A seir of the earth Which is mentioned in the Quran How many times the Quran says سيروا في الارضي فنظرو When you walk, when you travel, reflect ونظرو Look left and right, go to other nations Go to other countries, go to other societies But you have to learn Don't go blinded Don't go just to lay down in the sun So you get sun tan and then you come back After two weeks with different color Go there to learn To discover To learn The Prophet asked his community At the time where there are no airplanes No trains, no vehicles, no vessels, nothing That even if it takes you to go to the farthest point Which is China Then you must go to learn Go to learn To discover سيروا في الارضي فنظرو كيف بدأ الخلق That is in Chapter Al-Ankabut In Surat Al-Rum God encourages immigration God says travel If you are restricted in your area No work, no job, no opportunity, no change Then move it Move, go to another area Leave it and go to another area ألمتكن أرض الله واسعة سورة الروم ألمتكن لم أصدر هذه العالم for you This is for you Why are you restricted? Why do you stay in one area For the rest of your life Even the conditions are terrible and bad Don't do this ألمتكن أرض الله واسعة فتهاجرو It's an encouragement for us to move Leave that spot Don't stay If there is no progress Don't stay, don't blame it on God God says I don't create an opportunity for you here Maybe it is somewhere else Go and find it Until you find it Until you grab it Don't sit somewhere and say I'm poor God wanted me to stay poor No, no, no, this is not right God says I want you to be rich But at the same time I want you to move I want you to go and discover Discover nations, what is happening Sometimes we think This is the best village And my people are the best And my language is the best And my country is the best I don't know that God created many other cultures And nations And languages And people يا أيها الناسوا إنا خلقناكم من ذكر And we made you into Thousands of nations and tribes وجعلناكم شعوبا وقبائل So you discover each other You travel and you learn from each other We learn how they Did they succeed And how they failed We learn from both Quran says also learn Not only from their success But from their failures If they have a problem You have to learn Why they have this problem Why they have dictatorship Why they have famine Why they have civil war Why they have discord among them وانظروا كيف كان عقبة المكذبين So learning Is not just going through the scuri But when you travel In the land When you walk in the land of God That belongs to God And see the people around you Interview people Talk to people Learn from these people This is a huge encyclopedia of knowledge About anthropology About sociology Psychology And so on and so forth We have to learn it One of the benefits of Travelling Is that we learn patience And tolerance And for burns When you travel When you leave the comfort of your home The comfort of your bed Your living room Then you're going to encounter difficulties And challenges One of the mind-boggling stories In this book In Chapter 18 The trip that Musa made Musa made a trip An important trip And it changed his life It changed his life entirely It was a wake-up call for Moses Because Moses one day asked God God show me some of the unseen Some of the things that ordinary people Do not notice God says Okay are you ready for it He said yes But he wasn't quite ready He wasn't If you read Surat Al-Kahf He wasn't He's a human being So God said to him Go to such and such a place To find such and such a man That is going to be your mentor Your tourist guide Listen to him Don't disobey him So he found him Some stories say This is another prophet Al-Khidr Who was the teacher of Musa And Musa humbled himself before him To teach me I accompany you And I serve you I'm even ready to serve you So it changed his life He saw things that are Very incredible in this story And thinkable some of them And thinkable Musa was shocked But that guy said to him You have to be patient You have to be patient till the end If you are not patient You are not going to learn So when you travel Tell your wife Tell your kids You have to be patient One of the things we learn When we travel Is we are patient The other thing that We learn And I learn when I travel When I go to poor areas Deprived areas Poor communities They have no privileges They don't enjoy what we enjoy In the richest state in America The state of California In the richest county in America Orange County They don't have these privileges Amenities They don't They can barely find in some communities Barely find some food To survive On basic food So when we return We have to be thankful to God We have to be grateful to God When you look at your family Living in peace They have education They have healthcare They have bed They have electricity They have running water They have medicine They have peace and security In some countries They don't dare leaving their homes Their neighborhoods It's not safe So when you find these things You have to give thanks to Allah Always give thanks That Alhamdulillah Much better than others Look at the suffering of others But sometimes I see the opposite Sometimes I see the poor people They give thanks to God And the rich people They don't give thanks They complain I see the opposite We have to learn To be thankful And to be thankful is not easy This is the biggest test To be thankful To be thankful To appreciate To be grateful to God One day Someone came to Imam Al-Sadaq He said to him God has given me so many things So many things in my life How can I thank him? Imam Al-Sadaq said You can thank him When you say sincerely From the bottom of your heart Alhamdulillah رب العالمين When you say it With conviction With understanding You are paying back to God You are becoming thankful to God Do we say this sentence? How many times do we say Alhamdulillah رب العالمين So we have to say it We have to learn To be thankful Otherwise we lose what we have لأن شكرتهم لأزيدانكم And the last part Of traveling What do we learn? Traveling also Teach us How to survive on the minimum Because sometimes thanks to United Airlines And Delta And American Airlines They charge you on the back So people put all their things In the carry on So they don't pay extra money But this is good Believe me It teaches you How for three days Four days one week Ten days You survive on the minimum And then when you come back home You realize that Much of the things that you have Is extra You really don't need it It's not necessary You can survive without it You come back You look at your wardrobe The stock of clothing Shoes that you have Too much You don't even use them And you could survive For two weeks On the minimum So we learn We learn that Happiness does not mean I have more and more And more I go to the market And buy more and more And more They become burden on us Imam Hassan says Take what is necessary And necessarily leave it for others Leave it for others This is how we fight a greed We fight a greed When I use what I really Whether it is food Clothing Space Vehicle I use what is really necessary For me to survive The rest If I leave it for others There is no more greed There is no more conflict There is no more fighting