One week of Ramadan 1439ه has gone by... "All those tribulations that you have- if you put them next to the blessings that you have, they're nothing. So that's why if you focus on your tribulations, you'll become ungrateful, if you focus on your blessings, you'll become grateful... And Ramadan is one of the greatest blessings... People- the righteous cry when Ramadan ends. So this is my advice. We need to show more gratitude and stop complaining. Iblis is the complainer in the Qur'an- he complains all the time. He's so upset about things. And he wants to just make us ungrateful- it's his favourite thing to do- make you ungrateful for your wife, make your wife ungrateful for you, micro aggressions and all these grievance theory and victimology- it's a disease that Iblis has spread among humanity... All these problems have been lying around- how do we address them? ...we have to let these grievances go, we're all Banu Adam, we're all children of Adam, we're all cousins, if we went back far enough, we would see somewhere down the line, we're cousins, we're family. It's the human condition. There's people- they're terrible. But this is the reality- how do we make it better? . . . Remember God and don't forget Him. Be grateful and don't be ungrateful." - Shaykh Hamza Yusuf #beautifulreminder #shukr #gratitude #shaykhhamzayusuf
