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🗓️ 23 March 2025
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0:22.9 | to families in need. |
0:29.2 | Assalamu alaikum and Rahmatulah and Barakato. |
0:33.6 | Comparison is almost a sin, especially when we're comparing what we have with others in a way |
0:42.2 | that is belittling of what we have. In a world of social media, it's become so difficult. |
0:48.8 | Everyone showcases things they don't even have at times. And then people who see it are looking at this perfect image of some perfection that didn't exist |
1:03.0 | because it was either Photoshopped or it was just a video shoot for a purpose. |
1:10.0 | And yet we begin to think what I have is nothing I don't have a spouse |
1:14.5 | like this I don't have children like this I don't have a home like this I don't have |
1:18.9 | holidays like this I don't have money like this I'd a lot of it is material the |
1:24.9 | Prophet Muhammad Peace Be Upon Him helps us dealing with this difficulty of comparison |
1:30.6 | by telling us that look at those who have less than you in terms of worldly material items. |
1:39.5 | It will help you to appreciate what you have, live in contentmentment the minute you're going to compare with |
1:45.9 | those who have more or those whom you and i presume have more because of the deception of the |
1:52.3 | gram the deception of social media then we're going to struggle so when you look at those who |
1:59.0 | have less than you what happens happens? You appreciate. I have a house. |
2:05.7 | Al-hambul-ll-ll-ll-ll-llah, these people are living in a hut. Al-hamdallah, we have a road, |
2:11.1 | a tarred road, a narrow one. They have a gravel road, subhannallah.-Hamdhallah, we have water from the tap twice a week. |
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