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Alhamdulillah, all praises due to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala who raised the heavens and created the creation.

He spread forth the earth and he beautified it with vegetation and he gave us the cycle of the night and day in perfect alteration.

He revealed to us the Qur'an as his speech and divine revelation and he sent to us a prophet in whose belief is our salvation.

His religion unites all of mankind, the black and the white, the Arab and the Ajim without discrimination.

So it is to Allah and Allah alone we turn and we worship and it is to him that we bow our heads in prostration.

As to what follows, Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala reminds us to be conscious of him when he says in the Qur'an,

Ya Ayuhalladheena aam anuttakullaha hakkatukathe wa latamutunna illa wa antumuslimun.

Dear Muslims, as we are all aware, the globe is currently facing a financial crisis yet again and it is likely, it is possible that our country and many countries will see yet another economic recession,

in which prices are already going higher and higher and jobs are becoming more and more scarce.

It is human nature to be worried about our sustenance and risk.

It is human nature to want to protect ourselves and our families.

So in today's khutbah, I want to remind myself in all of you of a very, very beautiful Islamic concept.

That of maximizing the quality of what we already have and not just concentrating on the quantity of what we do not have.

We as Muslims, we believe in a very amazing concept.

We believe that Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala blesses certain things more than others.

So outwardly, the quantity might be the same, but when Allah has blessed one and not the other, then the quality of that which is blessed will be more.

You will get more out of that which Allah has blessed than that which Allah has not blessed.

And this is the concept that is known as Baraka.

When Allah gives Baraka in something, quantity will be the same, the same hundred dollars.

When Allah has given Baraka to somebody's one hundred dollars, that one hundred will bring much more happiness, much more joy, much more comfort.

And when there is no Baraka, that same one hundred can bring pain and misery.

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