Dear Visitors,
We were together in the Gulberenk Children’s Group on the last day of the week. In our Before Sleep Program tonight, we covered the “Thankfulness” issue. If one wanted to groan and complain, one could find many excuses; but if she/he intends to be thankful, even if the disease comes, he /she will say, “O Allah! This is also from You. By this means, let me understand the wisdom and complete shortcomings and correct my mistakes!”.
Our Creator, Almighty, says: “I increase the grace of those who are grateful.” (Ibrahim, 7). We, too, in order to be rewarded with this grace, we must be children who are firm and willing to stop hitting and puffing, no matter what happens to us. We learned that people who know how to be thankful radiate positive energy around them. Besides, everybody likes such people and wanted to be together with them. Instead of expecting happiness from others, we should add peace and comfort to the hearts of those we sit and chat with or with whom we communicate even when they are far away. We should be an occasion for their thankfulness.
Also, to make ourselves feel good, we should not except others to say: “How beautiful you are!”. Our beloved Prophet Hz. Muhammad Mustafa sallallahu alayhi and wa sallam went in front of the mirror and would say, “O Allah! Make my inner soul beautiful as you make everything and my appearance beautiful beautiful!”. As he said, this way we could also pray and increase our gratitude. If we do this, we will both feel joy and gain the reward of doing a sunnah.
For Allah, every servant, in accordance with the Ahsani Taqwim, that is, he created all of us in the most beautiful way, when we accept everything from our eyebrows, eyes, mouth and nose, our smiles will increase and beauty will be added to our beauty. All together tonight we thought, “What can we thank for?”, and recorded our voices and sent it to the Gulberenk Children’s Group.
Listening to what each of us said gave us all positive and beautiful energy. Our hearts got filled with joy and peace. In addition, we thanked our Allah for providing the opportunity to bring our friends and voices to each other, who are aware of the blessings around them. Our Almighty Allah created us and endowed us with so many blessings. As you can see, no matter how grateful we are, this would be a little less than Allah’s grace and gifts.
After these beautiful reflections, we took our ablution and performed our prayers. We miswaked our teeth and combed our hair. We kissed those in the house and asked for forgiveness. Thankfully, we went to our bed and read the Surahs of Ihlas, Falaq and Nas. Then we turned to our right and slept.
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Writer: Hatice SAGLAM
