Name: Gratitude, Modernity and the Need for God in the Equation (Part 1)
Uploaded: 2022-07-14T22:04:28.000Z
Channel: Ustadha Lobna Mulla
Description: Ustadha Lobna Mulla reminds us the promise of Allah: that gratitude will lead to Allah increasing us in many ways. Practicing gratitude in times of ease and in times of darkness is a special quality of a true believer. This session was part of the Yaqeen Academic Conference at the 2021 MAS-ICNA...

<p>Ustadha Lobna Mulla reminds us the promise of Allah: that gratitude will lead to Allah increasing us in many ways. Practicing gratitude in times of ease and in times of darkness is a special quality of a true believer.</p><p>This session was part of the Yaqeen Academic Conference at the 2021 MAS-ICNA Convention in Chicago, IL.</p>

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 It's nice to see you all here. I really enjoyed Ustadh Ruhi's presentation and I'm really looking forward to the paper inshallah, as I hope all of you will do inshallah.  Bismillah wa salatu wa salam ala rasulullah. I want to focus my portion of this talk inshallah on really three main aspects.  First, just the general nature of shukr and how I like to call it the superfood for the soul. We know about so many superfoods in this world, but really subhanAllah I believe shukr is a superfood for the soul.  I want to talk about that briefly. I also wanted to talk about how shukr can bring so much positivity in our life.  In our spiritual domain, in our daily life, and really contribute to overall well-being, overall positive relationships.  I wanted to talk about how shukr directly brings upon positivity, how that can influence your life.  And finally, how the concept of gratitude can really help us in times of darkness.  It's so powerful that it's a form of ibadah that is good for us. All of our ibadah are good for us.  And when we remember that, it's that much more inspiring and motivating to make sure that we invest in something that Allah has made obligatory for us, that is so extremely beneficial for us in so many aspects of our lives.  So first I wanted to start off with what Allah says in the Quran.  And he says,  This is in Surah Ibrahim.  And it's so powerful. Basically Allah is telling us that if you are grateful towards me, I will increase you.  Increase you in what? It is a general statement.  I will increase you, as said the Ruhi mentioned, in all aspects.  In wealth, in your health, in your business, in your children, in your dunya, in your akhira.  Allah will increase you. That is a promise from Allah.  So first and foremost, this is something that we should remember as making part of our daily life, inshallah.  Why do I call this a superfood for the soul?  When you make a conscientious effort to be grateful for everything,  Alhamdulillah I woke up and today I can breathe.  How many of you have had COVID? It's not a shame, I've had it.  It's painful. It's painful to breathe. It's painful to even just get up.  So when you're not sick, and even when you're sick, you remember these things.  These basic things we take for granted. I'm breathing on my own, I'm blinking, I can use my hands.  All of our faculties, and that's just in our physical.  What about the things that we wake up to in comfort, big and small.  Even like having socks, subhanAllah.  There's drives just collecting socks for the winter.  Such small things that we don't realize, subhanAllah, unless what?  You don't have them. This is when you notice it.  So why is it a superfood for the soul?  Because it permeates through all aspects of your life.  It will facilitate sabr, it will facilitate patience, it will facilitate contentment, it will facilitate empathy.  All the things that Ustadh Ruhi mentioned.  When you have sabr in your life and you make it something conscientious,  you make an active commitment to doing this every day.  Not just as a well-being, you know the well-being gurus tell you,  okay it's good, it will bring goodness into your life.  It's coming from Allah subhanAllah.  You are bringing goodness from Allah subhanAllah.  He is giving it to you, He is willing it into your life.  That shukr makes all of those other aspects,  sincerity, confidence in yourself, optimism, gratitude, facilitates all of that.  And it allows us to see life in its bigger picture.  We'll talk about this more in times of darkness.  What happens when things get tough?  We start to focus on this aspect that's really hurting us.  And we focus on that.  But what does shukr do?  It allows us to pull back and get the POV where you get to see the bigger picture.  This is why shukr is so important and is really the quality that emanates all other good in our life from this quality.  And another aspect I really want to talk about is how it benefits our overall mental and physical well-being.  We have a mashallah in the audience, I'm shy to speak in front of our neuroscientist, Dr. Marwa Azab.  She's here from Los Angeles and she's amazing mashallah.  One of the things that she talks about, one of the things that we know is that gratitude subhanAllah has a direct physical, scientific, proven scientifically response in your brain.  It allows the release of the happy chemicals, the feel good chemicals, dopamine and serotonin.  It happens, right? So it's not only a spiritual benefit to our life, there is a physical benefit as well.  We feel good when we are grateful.  And you make this a daily practice and you make sure that you incorporate gratitude in every aspect of your life.  Well, if it's going to increase the good feelings, what do you think is going to help you decrease?  Anxiety and depression.  And when we remember that Prophet Muhammad salallahu alayhi wasalam, over 1400 years ago, would make dua for 8 things, seeking protection from Allah for 8 th…

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