Holy Month Of Ramadhan - Weekly Series - Sayed Hussain Makke

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Join the Lebanese Youth Foundation - LYF tonight for the Final lecture in the Holy Month of Ramadhan series with Sayed Hussain Makke.

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Session 4 (6th May) – Building an Attitude of Gratitude

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[2:21][Music] bismillah brothers and sisters it has been a spiritual and soul

[2:56]cleansing few nights with layla's i hope you maximized as much as

[3:01]possible on prayer and supplications and kept us and the community in

[3:07]your house welcome back to our final session in our weekly thursday

[3:11]series with during the holy month of ramadan i would like to

[3:18]take a moment here uh as it is the final session to

[3:22]thank said hassan for the amazing insightful lectures he has given over

[3:24]the last couple of weeks and of course we look forward to

[3:30]more programs with said in the future as a reminder we have

[3:34]one more final monday session with sister zahara mckee starting at 7

[3:38]p.m so please do make sure you tune in for this finally

[3:43]i wanted to highlight there are events and workshops are dependent on

[3:47]the generosity of our community and the viewers there is no amount

[3:52]too small and will go a long way in helping us to

[3:54]continue to serve the community and facilitate these kinds of programs please

[3:59]do message us via our social media if you wish to find

[4:04]out how you can donate i will now switch over to said

[4:08]hassan mckee who will be talking today about building an attitude of

[4:14]gratitude sorry just uh a technical [Music] on the path to allah

[5:27]i often mention that there are three keys there is the key

[5:33]of sincerity of knowing that everything that we do is done in

[5:40]the path of allah it's not for any fame any glory any

[5:44]material wealth ultimately we would do without any of these things whether

[5:50]they come or go but what we do in our actions in

[5:54]our thoughts in our intentions is for allah that's number one number

[6:01]two and this is in no order of priority but number two

[6:05]is humility to know that your knowledge is not the compass of

[6:13]all knowledge there are many things that you may be wrong about

[6:15]there are many things that you may not have the capacity to

[6:21]yet understand that means that one has to be humble for now

[6:24]at the very least thirdly and this is what i wanted to

[6:30]speak about today one must have patience one must have perseverance i

[6:38]remember when i was first embarking upon my own personal journey and

[6:43]when i had to have difficulties in breaking through my plateaus i

[6:48]asked my teacher and he said if you are patient and you

[6:53]have to call on allah and you're doing this for him and

[6:58]you persevere then it does not matter how difficult your circumstances may

[7:04]become but allah will definitely open a door for you but you

[7:09]must persevere you must push through it first we look at the

[7:14]athletes and their history and we see that they often passed on

[7:18]something at their deathbed to the imam that was going to follow

[7:24]them from imam ali to imam hassan imam al-hassan to imam al-hussein

[7:27]hussein to imagine there was a piece of advice that they each

[7:36]passed on and when the imam is passing on this piece of

[7:41]advice it's not like when you and i speak about anything there's

[7:44]a reason why they want to pass on this specific piece of

[7:48]advice if he's about to leave this world and he wants to

[7:53]give not just his son but the imam after him the one

[7:55]responsible for the ummah after him he wants to give him the

[7:58]advice to make him push through it's like everything encapsulated into a

[8:03]pill he tells him my son stand with the truth even if

[8:12]it is bitter be patient with the truth even when it is

[8:20]bitter to stand with the truth and be patient with it is

[8:27]difficult when the world does not want the truth when the world

[8:29]is pushing lies down the throats of everyone to stand with the

[8:37]truth makes it a difficult life to live but patience and perseverance

[8:42]is the advice of the imam it's like he describes it as

[8:50]a mountain climber going up the mountain it's a very difficult endeavor

[8:54]he's going to face many difficult circumstances both in his inner world

[9:00]and on the outer world inside he has to face issues of

[9:06]his fears his doubts he's going to want to give up want

[9:11]to come back down on the outside you're going to have to

[9:15]face the terrain the climate the weather the animals the wolves but

[9:20]with the strength to persevere one has to climb the mountain reach

[9:27]the pinnacle reach the peak of the mountain life is this way

[9:30]you're going to go through inner difficulties inner battles and outer battles

[9:36]and your patience is going to dictate your decisions and how far

[9:42]you go a lot of the time people think that going to

[9:49]for example hauser is a path that's very difficult because of the

[9:54]knowledge seeking and that's not the difficult part it's not if you

[10:00]commit enough time you can gain knowledge you can understand different languages

[10:07]recently my wife was telling me about a student that was going

[10:12]to embark on the journey to hauser and i was asking about

[10:14]their circumstances and i felt that they might not do very well

[10:21]and she said that but they're very smart and i said yeah

[10:24]i know but it's not about that it's a lot more to

[10:31]do with patience and perseverance along with the smarts smarts are important

[10:36]you need the smarts you have to be intelligent but how patient

[10:42]can you be to study for 10 years in maybe not the

[10:48]best of circumstances imam musa called him his name called him came

[10:58]from here from this understanding you don't allow yourself to lash out

[11:08]with anger because you are patient and he teaches us something when

[11:14]he is taken into the dungeons and usually you would think that

[11:19]someone would panic at this stage and say my life is over

[11:28]i'm in prison now but instead he thanks allah and he says

[11:37]lord i have been praying for the opportunity to devote myself to

[11:41]you and worship you and now you have given me that so

[11:44]thank you he gives thanks to allah in this very difficult situation

[11:49]now someone might say he's an imam he's an infallible this is

[11:54]how they are but this is not the usual way that a

[11:57]human being interacts with their situation and i would say no he's

[12:02]actually teaching us something here a universal principle that if we are

[12:07]to apply in our lives we will increase our patience and our

[12:10]whole world will transform and it is the idea of gratitude and

[12:19]having appreciation over expectation they say building an attitude of gratitude if

[12:29]we look at those main problems that we experience in our lives

[12:38]we realize they boil down to two main emotions your fear and

[12:45]your anger anger and fear fear and anger anger and fear fear

[12:52]and anger often are the beings of human existence all your arguments

[12:57]all your fights all your problems your anxieties and your stresses come

[13:02]from fear and anger and usually those two states come from a

[13:10]feeling of expectation when you expect things to go a certain way

[13:15]and they don't go that way you get angry or if you

[13:19]expect things to go a certain way and you're worried that they

[13:24]don't go that way in the future you are now experiencing fear

[13:27]and this causes you so many difficulties in your daily life that

[13:33]you can't get on with it you can't be happy they're blocking

[13:36]you from your happiness this feeling comes stems from that state of

[13:44]expectation and what you ought to do is if you are to

[13:47]go into a state of appreciation rather than expectation when you are

[13:53]in a state of gratitude then you cannot feel fear or anger

[13:59]there is a state that does not allow you to feel fear

[14:04]and does not allow you to feel anger at the same time

[14:06]as you are in that state and that state is the state

[14:11]of appreciation the state of being grateful when you're grateful and this

[14:16]goes back to the advice of the imams says contentment is a

[14:26]kingdom that will never perish it's a treasure that cannot perish when

[14:30]you are grateful and people now they perform these gratitude exercises as

[14:37]a part of their morning routine and i would really recommend you

[14:40]to take part in that so that you can understand how powerful

[14:45]gratitude meditation can actually be so for example if you are to

[14:51]do something like if you want to every day sit down with

[14:53]a notebook it helps to write it down you don't have to

[14:56]but it helps if you want to do it in the morning

[14:57]or in the night time and it's part of your muhasaba when

[15:02]you are thinking of those certain qualities in your life that make

[15:10]you grateful and you can order this into three different categories so

[15:14]the first thing would be to think about someone in your life

[15:22]that you're thankful for an individual in your life that you're grateful

[15:27]for that you're thankful for it can be anyone and you don't

[15:32]want to be generic you don't want to think of your parents

[15:35]straight away or your siblings straight away and you don't want to

[15:38]be the same person every day there's a reason i'm always explain

[15:41]that in a moment think of someone in your life that served

[15:46]you somehow however little and be thankful for their presence so for

[15:51]example i am very thankful for my old year seven english teacher

[15:59]miss krupski i don't even know where she is right now i

[16:02]sometimes look for her on facebook can't find her i hope she's

[16:08]okay but miss kropsky was a great influence on me when i

[16:11]was a child when i was 11 12 years old she got

[16:13]me into lord of the rings she would help me read books

[16:17]and write different stories for her and she really helped me in

[16:21]those early years i'm very thankful for miss krovsky i'm grateful for

[16:28]miss kropsky if i sit down and i think of miss kropsky

[16:31]and i say allah thank you for letting me meet this person

[16:36]i'm grateful for the lady at the airport a couple of years

[16:41]ago who helped me when i lost my airplane ticket she helped

[16:45]me she went she printed it out for me again and she

[16:47]was the main reason i was able to fly out i would

[16:52]have missed my flight if it wasn't for her i don't know

[16:54]her name i never saw her again but i'm grateful for this

[16:57]person to have walked into my life at that particular moment now

[17:00]what happens is guys as you start to do this your mind

[17:04]slowly day by day will go into a default mode of gratitude

[17:09]a default mode of appreciation and then when you look at people

[17:14]outside in the street you have what is called the hostname towards

[17:17]them you think good over them you give them a benefit of

[17:21]a doubt this increases your feelings of appreciation and no longer feelings

[17:27]of expectation where you think people are going to always serve you

[17:30]that's not what we're thinking we're thinking we're grateful for people who

[17:33]are good that people are good we want to have that feeling

[17:37]towards them the second thing that you can think of in this

[17:42]exercise is three main things the second thing that you can think

[17:47]of is look around for any small little object that usually is

[17:51]deemed insignificant to most people and be thankful for it when you

[17:57]appreciate it right now there can be so much around you that

[18:01]you're not appreciating even this phone right now that i'm recording with

[18:03]how efficient and how much easier does it make my life for

[18:08]me to conduct my work if i look around i see this

[18:13]little pillow okay a pillow a heater whatever it may be and

[18:16]i say alhamdulillah for the pillow that i'm going to lay on

[18:22]tonight alhamdulillah for the bed that i'm going to lay on tonight

[18:24]a lot of people don't have such beds and you really are

[18:27]you give yourself 30 seconds to truly be grateful for that bed

[18:30]or a heater there's a heater in the winter time it's very

[18:37]difficult i'm going to be cold without this heater or if i

[18:39]come inside usually i expect it to work right i put it

[18:42]on doesn't work i get angry because i expect it to work

[18:44]but if i come inside and i turn it on and i'm

[18:50]grateful for it even if it doesn't work i'm grateful and just

[18:52]having the heater there when you are in this state you start

[18:56]looking around you and you start seeing what's around you and the

[18:59]objects around you and how much you have and then you realize

[19:03]how much you are to be grateful for then you really can

[19:06]say alhamdulillah this chair that i'm sitting on or this sofa it's

[19:11]comfortable sofa right without this sulfite i have to stand up my

[19:15]back my ache my legs you have to do this as part

[19:18]of the exercise and when you say thank you and you really

[19:21]mean it this creates a default state of appreciation inside you thirdly

[19:25]think of a moment in your life that you're thankful for any

[19:29]moment whether it was writing a moment of solitude a moment of

[19:34]happiness a moment of gratitude whatever it is a moment of gratitude

[19:38]to feel gratitude this exercise can really help you into molding yourself

[19:42]into a point where you are cultivating an attitude of gratitude and

[19:49]in dua joshen sahir that is attributed to imam qaddam alaihi islam

[19:54]you find that he does exactly this but in the opposite way

[19:59]he begins to state several different situations and scenarios that are very

[20:03]difficult that are very scary that are faithful experiences but then at

[20:10]the end of them he describes them with such vivid adjectives but

[20:13]at the end of them he says and yo allah i am

[20:15]safe from all of this.

[20:16]and this is the man who was in the dungeons for how

[20:21]many years and he's able to speak about this in a way

[20:23]that cultivates gratitude which gives us patience so i wanted to read

[20:26]some of these for us and go through them so he begins

[20:31]he says oh my god many an enemy and sheathed the sword

[20:39]of his hostility against me honed his dad his dagger's edge against

[20:43]me and sharpened their heads of their weapons against me this is

[20:48]when people are plotting to harm you they're getting together they're finding

[20:51]out ways to expose you to hurt you they mixed for me

[20:56]their deadly poisons and they leveled at me their arrows and they

[20:59]kept a sleepless eye on me people who are trying to hurt

[21:04]us people who are obsessed with causing us in our family's pain

[21:06]and they decided secretly to target me and make me taste the

[21:12]deadly poison of their bitterness but you have kept me safe from

[21:19]this lord alhamdulillah and glory be to you lord many of your

[21:24]servants in the eaves in the mornings live in the darkness of

[21:28]the seas in the storm of winds in horrors and billows they

[21:35]are anticipating drowning and perditioning out in the middle of the sea

[21:39]you haven't seen life of pie in the middle of the sea

[21:43]and there's no one there and if you scream no one can

[21:44]hear you here he is describing that very scary feeling that many

[21:52]people feel when they're stranded at sea and they are experiencing the

[21:55]rattles of death death and their hearts are horrified but i am

[22:00]safe from all of that so all praise be to you oh

[22:06]lord alhamdulillah my lord my master many a servant of you is

[22:12]in the eaves and the mount shackled and enchained in the hands

[22:20]of his enemies who show him no mercy he is separated from

[22:24]family members and children and detached from his friends and his country

[22:30]each hour he wonders what kind of killing he will be killed

[22:34]they're going to torture him he's a prisoner and what kind of

[22:37]mutilation that he will be mutilated with but i am safe from

[22:44]all of that i mean this part is maybe the most heartbreaking

[22:57]part for me because it feels like he's talking about imam hussain

[23:02]he says my lord many of your servants in the eaves and

[23:08]the moons are contending a war conducting the fighting by himself he's

[23:16]surrounded by enemies from all sides with swords and spears and instruments

[23:24]of war trying desperately to do everything possible that cannot find any

[23:33]further means and cannot find an escape he is seriously experiencing wounds

[23:40]or is totally covered with his blood under the toes of the

[23:44]hooves and under their feet of the horses he desires a drink

[23:51]of water or a look at his folk and children but he

[23:54]cannot get it while i am safe from all of that lord

[24:01]the luck allah is trying to build this understanding of appreciation inside

[24:20]us because when you think of everything that could happen that hasn't

[24:25]happened because you're safe allah kept you safe from it then you

[24:29]slowly begin to have a lot more appreciation for the smaller things

[24:33]in life in my first year in lebanon when i started studying

[24:39]i only lived on about a thousand dollars for the whole year

[24:43]and that was one of the greatest days of my life i

[24:46]had no phone no internet i used to we used to eat

[24:50]hummus in lebanon and you know get by on the cheap foods

[24:53]and that really raised something inside me i told you this inshallah

[24:59]so you can benefit from from my experience because it's been a

[25:02]great benefit for me and it makes me feel that no matter

[25:05]what happens in this life i know that insha'allah if god gives

[25:10]me strength i can be okay because i've been through it i

[25:12]know what it's like already i remember when i went back to

[25:19]london that first year that first summer and i opened the fridge

[25:26]and i actually cried because i felt you know i was raised

[25:30]my whole life in london so it was a normal thing for

[25:32]me when i was in london but after i had lived that

[25:35]year it wasn't normal for me to eat whatever i wanted at

[25:38]whatever time i wanted and here i am now back with my

[25:43]family and my father has provided for us and everything's there for

[25:47]us and i cried i remember because i felt so much gratitude

[25:52]for something i had my entire life but i had taken for

[25:58]granted a year of being deprived of it made me feel grateful

[26:01]for it now i'm not saying you have to deprive yourself i'm

[26:05]saying go through the meditation of thinking about it like indoor or

[26:09]through the meditation of being appreciative for the small things and for

[26:13]the people and for the moments that you've experienced you look at

[26:19]someone like alema tabatabai and his son narrates the story of how

[26:23]when he was in najaf they lived a very difficult life with

[26:27]difficult circumstances najef is a difficult place to live in and he

[26:31]was there for many years and they had to sell much of

[26:34]what they owned but the most difficult part of their stay in

[26:37]najaf was before his son was born allama's wife kept having miscarriages

[26:44]she kept having miscarriages one after the other and alama had to

[26:49]make a choice to leave to go to a place where it

[26:52]was more suitable for his wife or to stay and try to

[26:57]persevere in najaf now he chose for his reasons to stay and

[27:02]persevere in najaf and that needed patience he had to push through

[27:07]and have to work on allah eventually as the halema's wife she

[27:11]once asked say that his teacher about her pregnancy and he told

[27:16]her that you are pregnant right now and insha allah is going

[27:21]to go smoothly and the son who was born from that pregnancy

[27:25]narrates this story but you see how one has to have patience

[27:27]in the most difficult of circumstances look at malcolm x right you

[27:33]don't want to talk about infallible look at malcolm x he was

[27:37]also sent to prison and he was someone who was known as

[27:39]satan right because of how devilish the people used to find him

[27:45]the street thug goes to the dungeon solitary confinement in prison seven

[27:51]years he ends up in prison making a change in his life

[27:54]committing himself to reading and knowledge he ends up writing the entire

[28:00]dictionary from front to back so that he can increase his vocabulary

[28:05]and know how to write and know how to read properly and

[28:08]he comes out and he becomes malcolm x one of these one

[28:12]of the most influential people in the last century and leaders of

[28:16]the civil rights movement so you have these people constantly giving us

[28:23]examples and in the quran you look at one of the greatest

[28:30]examples of nabi yunus when he had left his people and when

[28:52]he was on that ship they threw him into the sea and

[28:56]he is swallowed up by the whale where their noon is in

[29:01]the belly of a whale imagine it's a real story actually before

[29:08]before he screams out in the darknesses saying that yunus was certain

[29:18]what don over here means means certainty that we will not tighten

[29:24]our provision on him that we will give him sustenance we will

[29:27]give him risk that we are going to give him this sustenance

[29:30]he was certain of it because he is certain that you're going

[29:34]to give him this sustenance sorry one second hello hussein just giving

[29:40]a lecture okay okay i have to have to focus okay i'll

[29:45]see you in a minute sorry about that so here nebus has

[29:56]certainty that allah is not going to tighten provision upon him he's

[30:00]going to give him that risk so this is the first lesson

[30:07]that we take in those difficult situations in those moments of hardship

[30:10]we have certainty that allah is still going to provide for us

[30:12]risk not only being materialist but risk of spirituality risk of knowledge

[30:18]of maharifa of patience so allah is saying i won't leave him

[30:21]and he knows i won't leave him.

[30:28]he called out in the darkness as the lament he didn't say

[30:33]one darkness darknesses and in the narrations of the athlete they tell

[30:36]us of three darknesses the darkness and the whale you can't see

[30:39]a thing it's pitch black darkness but even if you are to

[30:44]come out of the whale there is a darkness of the sea

[30:46]and even then if you are to come up and take a

[30:52]breath of air there is a darkness of the sky encompassing you

[30:56]you can't see a thing three darknesses whilst he is encompassed in

[31:00]these darknesses he calls out la there is no lord but you

[31:09]glory be to you i am one of the oppressors he breaks

[31:12]himself down so allah builds him back up so what does allah

[31:17]say so we answered him and we saved him from this difficulty

[31:27]and this is how we come to the rescue of the believers

[31:32]even if you are in such a situation as that which by

[31:37]the way if we just went through their little qatar and you

[31:40]know when we say allah is it comes from yunus it's the

[31:52]decade of nebus because he says so we've been reciting his dicker

[31:58]on the most hopeful night of the year and this is something

[32:02]that you should always recite we want to cultivate this attitude of

[32:11]gratitude we want ourselves to be able to be patient when the

[32:19]difficulties occur and to know that bala and difficulties is a way

[32:23]in which one ascends to the proximity of allah look at all

[32:28]the greatest prophets the greatest imams the closest people to allah always

[32:34]went through the most difficult stages it's the hardship and it's the

[32:38]way in which you are growing it's the birth pains of your

[32:42]growth this is how you grow into a glorious human being so

[32:47]we want to be able to go through this bala with grace

[32:51]you do that with an attitude of gratitude you do that with

[32:57]appreciation over expectation you do that with patience and perseverance you do

[33:03]that with the younus you do that with the advice of the

[33:06]imams so that when we go through the hardship we always remember

[33:13]when allah loves his servant and wants to raise him in stations

[33:17]in my command that he gives them this difficulty in order for

[33:21]them to go through it and grow unfortunately many of us we

[33:25]fall we say why me why me why me will make you

[33:30]fall and fail your test if you are to take it in

[33:41]grace then you raise your makkah you raise your station and then

[33:45]we understand what rasulullah meant because rasulullah lost many children many sons

[33:52]he lost his sons before sayada fatima assalam was born he lost

[33:59]his sons he lost qasim and was reported he was allah what

[34:03]did he say though he loses his son this is maybe the

[34:09]most difficult thing anyone can ever experience he says that the eye

[34:17]tears and the heart feels pain but we will not say anything

[34:20]except that which pleases our lord patience and perseverance because it's not

[34:27]60 70 80 years my brothers my sisters our life is infinite

[34:34]so act in terms of infinity was foreign

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