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Rain drop by drop

Rain drop by drop

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 Auto-generated transcript:Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wa Salatu Wa Salamu Ala Ashrafil Anbiya wal Mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Alaihi Wasallam. Tasliman Katsiran Katsiran. Fammamadu. My brothers and sisters, we continue with our reminders on things that we should thank Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala for. And we ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to enable us to live a life of awareness and a life of thoughtfulness and not just, you know, randomly just live. Because to live is not merely to draw breath. Breathing is not living. Living is when it is done thoughtfully, consciously, and where we respond to what Allah has given us by thanking Him and by spreading goodness around us. Because if you think, if you think about that, a person who is in a coma is also alive. He's not dead. But you don't call that living. Because the person is in a coma. He can't, he doesn't know what's going on. He can't communicate. He can't do anything. But he's breathing. So if we, may Allah have mercy on us, there are many of us, if not most of us, who live like as if we are in a coma. Because, you know, we're just living. We're just breathing. We get hungry, we eat. We feel sleepy, we sleep, and so on. That is not life. Life is to live consciously and thoughtfully. Let me mention for you a couple of things, which we usually take for granted. Let me ask you, when did you last clip your nails? Now, you might say, well, last week, you know, two weeks ago or something. And hopefully, if you have not clipped your nails for two weeks, your nails need clipping. So go clip them. And then also, in the process, learn how Rasulullah ﷺ clipped his nails. So you can do that according to the Sunnah, inshallah. And also get some... Go out for it. And similarly, let me ask you, when was the last time you had a haircut? And you will tell me something, you know, two weeks ago, one month ago, whatever. The reason I'm asking you why or when you had a haircut and when you clipped your nails is because... Let's reflect on this. What if nails and hair were live tissue and not dead tissue? Because these are all epithelial cells. These are all... Parts of your skin. The skin forms into nails and skin forms into, you know, the hair follicles come out of the skin. What if it was live tissue? What if it had capillaries which... What if it had capillaries which... With blood in them? What if it had nerve endings in them? Believe me, every time you needed to clip your nails, or every time we needed a haircut, you would have had to go to a hospital and go under general anesthesia for this to be done. And then every hair end that was cut would have to be cauterized to stop the blood flowing. If somebody just shaved your head, you would die. It would be tantamount to somebody taking the skin off your skull. But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave us hair and gave us nails and made them also into objects of beauty. Think about the billions of dollars worth of industry which is dedicated to hair care. I remember a friend of mine telling me, you can't do anything to it. Hair is hair. It's dead tissue, right? What can you do to dead tissue? If you are going to put stuff or, you know, massage your head with oil and so on, it's the... Oil is going into the... Oil is going into the... into the skin, right? Hair is dead tissue. But despite that, it's a... It's something of great beauty. And, you know, women especially, and of course a lot of men also nowadays, they spend a lot of time on haircuts, on growing hair long or short or perming them or God knows what. All time and effort and expense on dead tissue. And the fact that it is dead tissue is a blessing, is a huge blessing in itself. Think about that. I mean, just one small thing, but how important it is. Second thing, let me ask you, how many times did we thank Allah SWT for sending us rain in individual drops and sending us snow? Because right now in America, it's extremely, extremely cold and a lot of snow. Um, Allah SWT has sent this snow also in flakes, individual flakes. The reason I'm asking this is, just think about this. Now, right now I'm in Hyderabad. Hyderabad has a area of about 2,000 square kilometers. The overall area of the city, about 2,000 square kilometers. It gets approximately 20 inches of rain in a year. Now, one inch of rain covering one square meter, one square kilometer, one inch of rain spread over one square kilometer weighs approximately 25,400 metric tons. This is one inch of rain, right? Now, do the sums. Uh, 20 inches of rain over 2,000 square kilometers. That comes to, in terms of the weight of water, that comes to 1,016,000,000 metric tons of water. This water is falling on us from a height of 10,000 feet average. 10 to 15,000 feet is the, uh, is the cloud height. So, take 10,000 feet. This water, 1,016,000,000 metric tons of water is falling on Hyderabad from a height of 10,000 feet. And obviously, as it is falling, it accelerates at ...
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