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GratitudeFrom the masjid's own video, Nov 25, 2025.

Gratitude means using blessings for good

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“True gratitude is a state not only within yourself but in action.”

The khateeb, at 4:02

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In one sentence

True gratitude is not merely verbal thanks but a heart-state expressed through patience, worship, and using Allah’s blessings for good, through which Allah promises increase.

The khutbah in 6 steps

  1. Introduces gratitude as Allah’s life hack that unlocks spiritual blessings and increase.
  2. Defines gratitude as tongue, heart conviction, and action rather than empty words.
  3. Uses Sulaiman and Ayyub to show gratitude in ease and hardship, especially through patience.
  4. Uses the hadith of three tested men to contrast acknowledging blessings with hoarding them.
  5. Applies gratitude to health, wealth, senses, skills, family, community, and humanitarian concern.
  6. Recommends nightly reflection, family gratitude, giving to others, and thanking Allah in dua.
Try this week
Use health, wealth, time, skills, and other abilities to serve Allah and help people in need.
Use the eyes, ears, tongue, and body for beneficial purposes while avoiding forbidden sights, harmful listening, and backbiting.
Reflect each night on three things for which you are grateful.
At the dinner table, acknowledge the food and express gratitude aloud with family.
In dua, thank Allah for existing blessings rather than only asking for new ones.
Help family, community members, the wider ummah, and people facing hardship.
Sources the khateeb cited
Quran 14:7Used to establish that gratitude brings increase from Allah.
Quran 31:12Used to explain that gratitude benefits the grateful person, not Allah.
Quran 76:1-3Used to frame human life as a test of gratitude or ingratitude.
Quran 34:13Used to show that gratitude requires work and action.
Sahih al-BukhariThe story of three men tested through restored health and wealth illustrates gratitude through generosity.
Sahih al-BukhariThe Prophet’s night prayer is presented as gratitude despite his blessings and forgiveness.
Quotes

In the khateeb's words

“Gratitude, true gratitude is a state not only within yourself but in action. Gratitude in action.”
UMMA · Southfield, MI
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“Gratitude is giving your all. Exerting it into the fullest for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. It is effort.”
UMMA · Southfield, MI
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“For a believer gratitude is every day. Shukr is every day.”
UMMA · Southfield, MI
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Talk about it at home

For the dinner table

Today’s lesson is that gratitude is more than saying “Alhamdulillah.” It means recognizing Allah’s gifts in the heart and using our health, wealth, skills, senses, and time for good. Prophet Sulaiman showed gratitude in ease, while Prophet Ayyub showed it through patience in hardship, and the Prophet Muhammad showed it through long night prayers. We can practice by naming three blessings each night, sharing gratitude at the dinner table, helping someone in need, and thanking Allah for what we already have when we make dua.

  1. Which blessing did you notice today, and how could you use it to help someone?
  2. How can our family turn gratitude into an action this week?
  3. What could you thank Allah for before asking for something new?
Where it was given

The masjid

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