Thankfulness

Recall people in your life, whom you may have taken for granted like your parents, spouse, children, co-worker, or teacher, who were caring and loving.

List some of Allah’s gifts that are not tangible or were not obvious to you before. Sulayman, a follower of the Prophet’s Companions, once said: “Remembering His blessings makes one love Allah.”

This simple mental exercise not only makes you a grateful person, but also a healthy one. According to a 2001 research by the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love (IRUL), based in Ohio, just 15 minutes a day focusing on the things you are grateful for will significantly increase your body’s natural antibodies, will make you less vulnerable to clinical depression,and will keep your blood pressure and heart rate stable.

I found this in a forward it is by brother Taha Ghayyur. I think it's so interesting how all our complains and ungratefulness actually affects our mental and physical beings. Why can we not be satisfied with what we have? Humans, they are creatures that always want even sahabahs and great awliya wanted but they wanted to please Allah S.W.T while our average human being wants for thenselves... as my Tafseer teacher said we do shirk how?? by Worshipping ourselves.. how do we worship ourselves?? when Allah S.W.T orders to do something but we do not do it because it goes aginst our own comfort or our own will...
May Allah helps us to understand the true meaning of life and deen and may He make us people who want only to please Him. Ameen.
Exercise
for each letter of the alphabet think of things you are grateful for.
A: ALLAH, apples, Autmn, animals(espicially that yummy chicken:), abayas, alcohol(rubbing alcohol ofcourse..dummy:), antibiotics, amino acids, amylase(they help with digestion)...
B: Brothers, blood, bodies, Brooms, BOOKS, Beaches, belly buttons, buttons, Beauty, Babies, BEDS, butterflies, Brains, Birth, BANANAS, Bread, BOMBS(haha Kiddin Kiddin)
C: Candles, cars, calmness, conversation, colour, CANADA, candy, cheese, cookies, children, Cheecks (so i can kiss em),charity, CORN(u know what im saying? some will)
D: Dads, Daal (eventhough i dont like it), Diapers:), days, Dawn, DNA,digestion, dars, dates
E: Eman, energy, eclpise, ears, education, electricity, entertainment, elders, elevators, EYES,
F: Family, Friends, Farsi, Fasting, Food, feet, fingers
G: goodness, gas, groceries, grapes,gallbladder
H: Happiness, hugs, Hajj, Hidaya, Home,Hands
I:Ilm, insaan,ihsaan, inshallah (the word is so magical),
J: jokes, jumping, jogging, JANNAT
K: Kaaba, Khatera(thats me:), ketchup, Kisses, Kulfi
L: Love, Listening, Legs, Lips, Light,lungs,liver
M: Mothers, Muhammad(S.A.W), Mahdia(thats ME too:), milk,mahram men (how else r u supposed to do umrah and hajj?;), mantu
N: Naan, night, namaaz, naikee,
O: Omar (ra), October,olives
P: pizza, Prayer, Prayer mats, Pickles,
Q: QURAN, qalb(heart),
R: Ramadan, rest, rain,
S: Sisters, Salaam, Sun, Salaat,
T:tape, taraweeh (i love goin to the masjid for that), tea, TREES ( I LOVE TREES), toes,
U: umbrellas, understanding,
V: Victory, vinegar,
W: Winter (cuz the nights are longer so you can wake up for tahajjud;) and its pretty), wet wipes, wheat, WATERMELONS, waking up,
X: X-rays,
Y: yellow, youth,
Z: zippers,