Dealing with Tough Times by Mufti Menk (Part 2)

Assalammualaikum w.b.t,

I pray to all of you who reading this may Allah bless you abundantly, protect you, keep you steadfast and grant you what's best for you in both worlds.

Sources: Podcast channel of Mufti Menk

Say you don't have a child, Allah knows that if you had one, and you not going to have one. What would have happen had you had one, He will show you that one day if you want to see it perhaps. 

Allah knows that which is not going to happen. If it did happen, how it would have happen. That's what Allah knows.

We read Surah Al- Kahfi. In that surah there is something very powerful regarding the meeting of Musa AS and Al-Khidr. When Al-Khidr decided to kill the little boy, later on, there was an explanation to say had he been given life. He would have been so disobedient to his parent. Allah says take that life away, "don't worry We will replace him with a better child". Subhanallah. The child never ever grew up. So Allah knew this child is not going to grow up but if the child had grown up, which didn't ever happen was never going to happen, Allah says 'We know what would have happen'. Allahuakbar.

It's a little bit  to deep, you need to think about it.

The affair of a believer are amazing. The reason why this topic are repeated is because we are going through a lot of hopelessness on earth.  

When you have a tough situation instead of saying any bad words, you said Alhamdulillah. That is a Mukmin. So believe Allah says "you are here to be tested, don't become despondent because of one or two challenges in your life or a hundred or a thousand challenges" and you need to know another thing the Prophet Muhammad SAW says 'the more Allah love you, the more test He put in your life'. Sometime you think, what just happen here, you cry, 

Allah says "I love those tears"

Why?

"You are now relying on Me alone, no longer in anything else"

Allah says "We will shake you to test you, what is your limit, then We will take you across to Jannah"

Allah says "The help of Allah is very near, don't lose hope"

Our Imaan will be tested, come back to solah. Seek assistance, seek help through patient and prayer. You don't pray, you are going to complaint, I can't cope. You are not patient, you are going to complaint, I can't cope

          'The bigger the test, the greater the reward, the more Allah LOVE you the                                                        more Allah will test you'

We are going to be tested everyday in fact if you are not tested you need to be worried. When something happen in your life, how do you know whether it is a test or a punishment?

Quiet Simple!

If you take it in your strike, it's a test. Which mean, if you calm about it, yes it will hurt you, it might change you a little bit, but if you calm about it, if it bring you closer to Allah, if it make you more humble, it make you a better person. It's a test, it cannot be a punishment.

A punishment does not bring a person close to Allah. It's DESTROY them.

So says, a big thing happen and you came through a masjid or you started seeking forgiveness. Allah says "We love you so much, We put a test, so that you come close to us". But if something drive you away from Allah, make you questioned Allah, make you angry, make you upset and hopeless, perhaps it's a punishment.

DON'T LOSE HOPE. NO MATTER WHAT YOU LOSE, NEVER MIND, ALLAH WILL GIVE YOU BETTER. IF THEY SABAR AND SOLAH, ALLAH WILL GIVE THEM 10 TIMES MORE. MAY ALLAH SWT KEEP US HAPPY, MAKE US HUMBLE, MAKE US RESPECT ONE ANOTHER. JUST REMEMBER YOUR RIZK IS WRITTEN FROM ALLAH, YOUR SOLUTION TO YOUR PROBLEM WAS ALLAH, NOT ANYONE ELSE.