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Your heart becomes despairing and your tongue becomes complaining.

So Allah Azza wa Jalla is criticizing, chastising mankind for the opposite of patience.

Now in today's brief Hattira, you know we talk about patience a lot and we all know Sabr and Jamil,

we all know that Allah Azza wa Jalla says,

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How about the opposite of patience?

How about the one who does not manifest patience?

What do we do about the one who's constantly complaining, constantly dissatisfied?

Today we're going to do the flip side of being patient and that is demonstrating impatience by constantly complaining.

And this is a very sensitive topic because at some level to complain is human.

At some level we all complain, we have a bad day at work, what happens?

We come home and we are complaining, right?

So at some level it is normal and yet at the same time the Sharia has come very clearly, very explicitly

discouraging us from constantly moaning and groaning and you know just giving your shakwas to everybody.

In fact Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala praises the prophets for not complaining.

When Ya Qub alayhi s-salam, when his children came to him with the story of Yusuf and what did he say?

What did Ya Qub say? Who can tell me?

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I'm not complaining to you.

Don't think I'm complaining to you.

I am complaining to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala.

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