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My brothers and sisters, gratitude to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, is what will bring about increase in the goodness that you have.

Gratitude to Allah Almighty is what will bring about increase to the goodness that you have.

I want increase in what Allah has bestowed upon me in terms of favor.

Be it that which is connected to this beautiful worldly life or connected to the even more beautiful hereafter.

My beloved brothers and sisters, Allah has created us as human beings.

He chose to make us from this species and the choice was his alone.

You are not on earth by a choice of yourself.

You are not on earth by a choice of yourself nor are you in a place where you had chosen to be born in terms of your place of birth.

It was Allah who chose and everything Allah chooses remember it's part of your test.

So Allah Almighty puts you in a situation and a condition whereby certain things you have no say in.

But many other things Allah gives you the ability, the capacity, the brain, the understanding to a degree and Allah wants you to use all of that to worship Him and Him alone for this reason Allah says in the Qur'an.

I have not created mankind or mankind except for them to worship me.

One might ask what does that mean because the young children think that worship means to be engaged in perpetual prayer or to be involved in perpetual Qur'anic recitation or to be fasting every single day that is what worship is.

But as you learn more and more you realize that just by you living your life in a halal, beautiful way fulfilling the instruction of Allah, staying away from the prohibitions your life becomes an act of worship.

Every aspect of your living becomes an act of worship when you connect it to Allah the minute you disconnect from Allah you lose the path.

And this is why if you take a look at the most repeated du'a on earth it is the most important du'a.

What is the meaning of du'a? Du'a is supplication. Some people say prayer.

Prayer in actual fact yes it does translate as du'a but when we say salah some people say well that is prayer.

Truth is the English language doesn't qualify to give you the proper meanings of all these terminologies that are used in order to refer to what Allah has ordained or even for that matter that which is in the Arabic language.

So when you say prayer in English it depends what you are talking about. It is more supplication and du'a than salah.

Although salah is a certain type of calling out to Allah in a way that starts with Allah who Akbar when you are starting the prayer and ends with a salam.

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