How are you?

How are you?

When people asked the Holy Prophet (s), “How are you?” he would say, “Thanks to God in all situations.”

The mood, which God has mentioned the most about human beings in the Qur’an, is being ungrateful. God’s biggest complaint about human beings is about them being ungrateful. The beginning of a person’s misery starts when he feels bad. God is severely sensitive about people’s moods.

Why are you feeling bad? If a person is not feeling good, it is as if he is saying he is an unbeliever. There is a God but he is trying to say that there isn’t any God. If you don’t want to say that, so why are you feeling bad? When a person sins, it’s because of his bad mood. He sins to feel better. Why did you feel bad in the first place?

God determines, changes, and ordains people’s destinies according to their moods very much. When a person feels good, God will prepare a good situation for him. When he feels bad, God will ruin his situation. Whoever senses that he is feeling bad and is not full of energy and vitality should say, “I have become ungrateful.”

The interesting point is that when Satan causes someone to sin, he ruins his mood afterwards. He doesn’t improve anyone’s mood with sinning. Satan incites him to sin, and then he says, “Ah! You won’t become a good person! What were you thinking? You thought God would forgive you that easily?! You ruined everything!” Then, the person feels bad.

However, God says, “Repent right now. If you repent right now, I’ll forgive you. But, don’t feel bad!” Satan wants us to feel bad, not to make our deeds bad. Satan even says, “Do good deeds. That’s not important. But, feel bad.”

The Prophet Ibrahim (‘a), who was called the “Friend of God,” was put on a catapult aimed towards a fire. The trustworthy Gabriel came and asked, “How are you? Do you want me to help you?” I’m saying it in my own words! He asked, “Do you want me to help you?” Ibrahim said, “I’m good. I don’t need your help.” Believe me, if he had felt bad, he would have been burned by that fire. Why didn’t all that fire burn him? Because he felt good. If he had felt bad, he would have been burned.

People asked a mystic, “What did you do that wisdom came to your tongue? What did you do?” The mystic replied, “I went to Mecca. I loved my oldest son very much. When I returned, I was told that my son had passed away. I was starting to feel bad. Suddenly, I controlled myself. I said, ‘God, since you wanted this, I’m satisfied with it.’ I didn’t feel bad. From the next day, wisdom flowed from my heart to my tongue.” This was the reward for him not feeling bad.

When people asked the Prophet (s), “How are you?” he would say, “Thanks to God in all situations.” We are thankful to God in any situation. I pray that God will make us thankful in all situations, and make us feel good.

[From the series of speeches under the topic of, “A human being’s moods, as stated in the Qur’an”]

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