The following is a summary of Shaykh Husain Abdul Sattar's January 6, 2002 talk on BRINGING BARAKAH INTO OUR LIVES.
The Principle - to attain any goal, we need:
- Effort - whoever makes effort will get results (1:1 ratio expected)
- e.g. if you put effort into a piece of metal, you can make it fly (airplane)
- Barakah - when added to effort, the result is multiplied
- e.g. when a Muslim puts an effort but puts barakah into it, it is multiplied.
Think about our beloved Prophet
- within 22 years, he established such an environment that even today we are practicing Islam & thinking about him . How many things last 1400+ years? SubhanAllah!
How does one take this barakah in?
- Follow in the footsteps of our beloved Prophet .
Why is barakah in our lives?
- when we connect ourselves to Allah Ta'aala by following in the footsteps of our beloved Prophet , everything we do goes further (e.g. sleep - knowing how to sleep according to the sunnah of Rasulullah - there is barakah in it and when we have barakah in your sleep, our few hours of sleep goes further than a person who sleeps 7-8 hours and still feels tired! It is because we connected ourselves to Allah Ta'aala.)
Read Imam Ghazali's books, especially From Error to Guidance
- Sunnah isn't just there for us to read about but for us to act on/interact with. Emulate our beloved Prophet
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The Secret: Sunnah - you achieve barakah by following our beloved Prophet
. Everything he did was for Allah Ta'aala. This is our continuous dhikr - following the sunnah of Rasulullah 
