This audio is brought to you by muslimscentral.com

My beloved brothers and sisters, it is my first time in this beautiful part of

Zambia known as Livingston. And Mashallah, the beauty of this place is unique because everyone is gifted by Allah.

At times when we have a gift ourselves, we don't know it and we don't appreciate it. Whether it is the place you live in or you yourself,

the reality is you have a gift from Allah. What is it? Look for it, search for it, ask Allah to guide you to it and thank Allah for it because everyone was created by Allah.

He is the Creator. He made us. He put us on earth. Some people think, oh, I come from a poor country. Some people think, oh, I come from a poor background. Some people think, oh, I don't have this and I don't have that.

In Islam, we are taught to look at what you have. Look at what you have. If you look at what you don't have, you will not be able to thank Allah.

Few minutes ago, our Imam Shuhayb, he said in Shakatum, it means, if you are going to be thankful, I will give you more.

In order to be thankful, you need to count the favors of Allah upon you. Today I want to tell you something very interesting and I want to ask you a few questions.

Think in your mind right now. How many favors has Allah given you?

Well, Allah, you won't be able to come up with the answer because they are innumerable. You cannot count them. Your eyes, your nose, your ears, your lips, your chin, your head, your face, your cheeks, your identity, your hair,

your hands, your feet, your nails, your fingers, your kidneys, your heart, your spleen, your liver, your intestines, your eyes, your veins, your arteries, your blood, the list goes on and on.

We are only looking at you, yourself. We haven't even gone beyond that, right? Subhanallah.

Imagine to go beyond that, the food you have, the little you have, the clothing you have, the accommodation you have, the water you have, the weather you have, the beautiful, the nature that you have in this part of the world, the animals, people have never seen animals.

I have come with a friend of mine here. He said, it's my first time in Africa, my first time to see this animal, my first time to see that and I'm thinking, wow, we come from here, we take it for granted.

If you see an elephant, you might even not even look, or if for you it's nothing, it's maybe even a nuisance, right?

But for others, they see an elephant, they are paying money, they are paying money to come here, minimum thousand dollars, to come here to see something that you are just looking without payment.

You understand? You are looking without payment, there is no payment, in fact for you it's, what is this, I hope there are no elephants today, and they are making do I, I hope there are elephants today.

So when you see the elephants that do others have clashed, you are saying I hope there are no elephants, they are saying I hope there are elephants, isn't it?

The same applies, the Victoria Falls that is here, right across here, few meters from where we are.

I want to tell you that people pay money, they pay large sums of money to come, just to see, I mean you who are living here, you think to pay, I would never pay for this thing, right or wrong, because why you lived here, you grew up here, or you are living here now for many years.

So you take things for granted, Allah says, when you don't have something, you will appreciate it.

...