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There is something deeply profound about the way that the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ used to speak about his circumstances.

And many times there is a connection between how we speak about things and how we think about things.

And if we speak in a negative way, then our circumstances will almost always follow, even if they're beautiful.

That's why you could have two people with the exact same set of circumstances.

And one of them, if you ask them how they're doing, they will praise the good of their circumstances and another person,

will speak to you as if they're ayyub alaihi s-salam, as if they have the worst life in the world in the most difficult moments in their lives.

Two people with the same circumstances.

Ibrahim alaihi s-salam, the Prophet Ibrahim when he visited his son Ishma'id alaihi s-salam.

In Makkah, he visited him twice.

And the first time,brahim alaihi s-salam visited, he sees a wife of Ishma'id alaihi s-salam and asks her how she's doing and all she pointed to were the negativities, the hardships that they had.

And then he comes back later on and I'm paraphrasing the story and finds that Ishma'id alaihi s-salam has married a more righteous woman in her place,

asks about her circumstances and she praises everything that they have, even though it is the exact same set of circumstances.

So it's not about the circumstances.

It was about how they were experiencing those circumstances and then speaking about those circumstances and there is a connection between the two.

So much so that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, and we often kind of brush over this very quickly,

as for the blessing of your Lord upon you, speak of it.

Say Alhamdulillah for it.

Thank Allah for it and be very conscious about how you speak about it.

You know when you take your sip of water and you say Alhamdulillah, did you actually just internalize Alhamdulillah for the sip of water?

Thank you Allah for the sip of water.

There's something very powerful about that.

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