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How You Look At Things Changes The Things You Look At | أمر المؤمن كله خير | #Perspective

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alikum folks the way we look at things changes the things we look at now in some way that is going to be very natural to us like let's say looking at something with love we become more forgiving looking at something with ha hatred we become much more take to account every little mistake in fact IM Sha's poem

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that that the eye that uh is so pleased it doesn't see mistakes that the eye the glance of anger it it brings out a person's mistakes and errors you catch them out so in this sense we all understand this yeah of course you know we're more forgiving to our loved ones we find excuses for them our look our glance shapes our reality

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about those matters things we Favorite Things We love in or are endeared to us but there's more to this is the way we see problems and challenges also shapes our reality that if you see the world with a negativity then that's what appears that's what's created around you you know there's a a powerful verse inah

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verse 30 that that when it is said to those people who are God conscious God mindful what and this means what did your lord reveal but also what has your lord sent down in Revelation but in life as well that what what is this problem that your lord has sent down what is that Calamity how is that suffering that your lord has sent down you know this is people are saying this sometimes they're saying it

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sarcastically to wh people of Faith up that oh so what has your lord sent down the tribulations the trials natural disasters the suffering genocide Gaza what is you know cancer diseases bankruptcy whatever people are going through depression

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heartbreak they said goodness Allah that that in this world there is Hass there is always for those people ofan that see goodness in this world there is always

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goodness and the world to come after is is always abundantly good what an abod what an afterlife what a wow you see a mindset that you can think oh you know I'm everything's so terrible everything's so or you could think you know what actually I'm at think of it like a game okay this is fun okay let's see how this adventure

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Pano why not you're in it anyway you know the Hadith which is in sah Muslim that the prophet said I it is so wow like I can't get my head around the affair of a Believer all of it is goodness that in you know if he is if if he finds or she finds herself with uh goodness and abundance and pleasure and happiness they are

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grateful it was better for them why and if they were Afflicted with tragedy they were patient for that it was better for them they were patient now notice the Hadith says that there was goodness in it for them had they adopted that method that the way we look at things

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changes the things we look at is this oh my life is horrible it's a tragedy I never get I'm always failing I mess up in everything I do or this is an adventure right okay upwards and onwards from here that let's see what abundance Allah has in store for me you know like a like a game like you see Allah says describes this world as a game the playfulness you know there's a scene from when I was a kid I

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love Jackie Chan movies and there's a scene from wheels on meals uh Meals on Wheels sorry and he's he's getting badly beaten up by this guy at the end you know the final scene and then he thinks okay let's treat it like a game like a sparing session of fun and then all of a sudden he you know he jumps at it treating it but in many ways that is life you now if we bring that Spirit it will bounce back like Allah bless you and your

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journey may Allah Grant ease to each

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2024, September 9). How You Look At Things Changes The Things You Look At | أمر المؤمن كله خير | #Perspective [Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tfuvy7hxrmq/
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Mufti Abu Layth. 2024. "How You Look At Things Changes The Things You Look At | أمر المؤمن كله خير | #Perspective." Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded September 9, 2024. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tfuvy7hxrmq/
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