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How can we truly thank Allah for our blessings without appreciating the blessings we have by mentioning those that are not as fortunate as us?

How can we truly understand how blessed we are unless and until we

connect with those who are not as blessed and we feel their pain, we feel their

suffering, we take on their cause. And so today I wanted to just go into a bit of

a tangent because my whole day has just been thinking about this sad reality that

so, Allah, here we are living a very good life by and large.

And the Islamophobia that we face in America

is utterly trivial compared to what people are facing in Burma with

the Rohingya refugees, in Syria with the 7 million refugees and a million and a

and a million and a half dead in fella slain for the last 75 years.

And so forgive me for diverting the topic away, but I felt that it is actually

very pertinent for us to understand what it means to be

thankful by thinking about what it means to be in pain and suffering and by appreciating as Allah says in the Quran

a ladi a tautah mahum in ju and a manahum in hoof that thank Allah for two big

blessings he has given the korai in this Aya and us extended by this

Aya. The one who has given them enough food so that they're not hungry and the

one who has saved them from fear so that they're not in civil war, they're not in

distress.

So the biggest calamities in this world are two.

Number one, the calamity of not having enough food and shelter, and number two, the calamity of

civil war and strife. Who cares if you have food if there are bombs dropping on your head?

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