This Will Make You Be Grateful To Allah. ️

One time, I sat talking to somebody and he was complaining that he was not able to go on a holiday to another country for five years. His friends going to Morocco, Spain, Taiwan, Bosnia and he's stuck here driving to Blackpool and back. I said, okay.

He said, one of my friends, he has a big job. He's not married. He goes, travels here, there, here, there.

I said, okay, that's fine. How old is he? He said 30. I said, he's 30.

He's unmarried. He has no kids. Ask him, go and ask him, would you like to enjoy the blessing of a family? He'll cry.

If you go to your house right now, you've got a wife and you've got three kids smiling at you, waiting to see you, excited, running to the door. He doesn't have that in his life. Why do you think he's running away to Morocco and Spain? Something's lacking, something's empty, some emptiness in his life.

Don't wish for what he has. Go home and see what you have. You will be grateful to Allah.

The Prophetic Guidance on Gratitude

This is what the Prophet ﷺ said. Don't look at those who are doing better than you in this world. Look at those struggling.

"Look at those who are below you, and do not look at those who are above you, for that is more likely to keep you from belittling Allah's favours upon you."
(Sahih Muslim, Book 53, Hadith 55 — also narrated in Sahih al-Bukhari, Hadith 6490)

Because that will make you somebody who will not belittle Allah's favours.