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No pain no gain

No pain no gain

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 Auto-generated transcript:My brothers and sisters, this is a follow-up on my previous khatira, that happiness is a choice. Happiness, you don't become happy because of the possessions you have or the circumstances you find yourself in or because of what somebody else does for you or does not do for you and so on. Happiness is not a factor of external things that happen to you in life and definitely not of any material possessions. Happiness is a choice. You become happy when you want to become happy. And that's a very powerful and very empowering thought to keep in mind because you will find people in the best of situations who are constantly complaining. I have a friend of mine who, I even joke with him, but that's his life. He's had the best of jobs. He's risen to the maximum height possible in his career. He has wealth. He has properties. He has, you know, all kinds of stuff. But anytime you talk to him, you always say, yeah, you know, this is a but, yeah, but. I mean, this but is the root cause. The but is the biggest and the most clear symptom of this disease of ingratitude, of being ungrateful to Allah. Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest and in that he had all his experiments and so on and so forth. And his whole life's work, so it was, you know, God knows, a few thousand experiments maybe. And one day there was a fire in the night. It was a huge fire, completely uncontrollable. And Thomas Edison's son says that the minute I discovered and I realized there was a fire, I went looking for my dad. I thought he must be going completely crazy because that's his whole life's work. And it's just, you know, going up in flames and nothing can be done to stop it. And he said, I saw him standing there with his hands clasped behind his back, watching this fire. So he said, I went to him, I said, Dad, are you okay? Is it, you know, this terrible thing has happened? He said, go call your mom, tell her she'll never see a fire this big again. Now imagine, this is the attitude of the man. His whole life's work is going up in flames before his eyes. And he tells his son, go call your mom because she's never going to see a fire like this again in her life. So the son says to his father, he said, he says, that's okay. But I mean, you know, this is your whole life's work. I mean, what do you have to say about that? He said, look, how many people get a chance to have all their mistakes wiped out and to start afresh? Yes. How many people get a chance to have all their mistakes wiped away, wiped off and to start afresh? Now, the same thing. It is a fire. All your life's work, all your experiments, everything is going up in flames. The question is, do you go into despair? Do you commit suicide? Do you say my life is over? Or do you say this is a fresh beginning? Who makes that choice? It's as simple as that. Who makes that choice? And the answer is very simple. You know, I don't need to tell you the answer, right? But do we make that choice? This is our challenge. Allah SWT did not promise us ease. Allah SWT promised us growth. And growth comes with pain. No pain. No gain. Growth comes with pain. The question is, how do you see that? I used to do Aikido at one point in time when I was in Bangalore. And we were sparring in the dojo. My partner and I using Bokken, which is wooden swords. Basically wooden sticks, slightly shaped like the, like the katana, the Japanese samurai sword. But obviously they have no sharp edges and so on. So my partner, obviously we are all friends. So he was, you know, sparring with me. So he's attacking me and I'm blocking and so on. Our sensei, Julius Abe, he came up to us and he said, you know what? The best, the best partner, ...
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