 الحمد لله على كل حال نحن نقوم برأيز الله سبحانه وتعالى على كل حال ونعوذ بالله من حال أهل النار ونحن نحاول برأيز الله سبحانه وتعالى من المحاول من الذين يجب أن يكونون في حل فاية من الله سبحانه وتعالى يدفعنا والصلاة والسلام على أشخف الأنبياء والمرسلين نبينا محمده على آله وصحابه والتابعين ومن تبعهم بإحسان إلى يوم الدين وبعض نقوم برأيز برأيز والسلام على محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم ونقوم برأيز أهل الأنبياء ونحن نقوم برأيز الله سبحانه وتعالى على كل حال ونقوم برأيز الله سبحانه وتعالى على كل حال ونقوم برأيزنا من المساعدة التي يمكننا أن نذهب through كل one of us has to be going through some form of hardship and difficulty without exception there is no exception not a single exception we all have to it's the plan of Allah سبحانه وتعالى be going through some form of hardship or difficulty the magnitude of which differs but nobody can be free of hardship not one may Allah سبحانه وتعالى make it easy for us may He make it easy for us to understand why He has chosen for us to go through hardship and to endure so we ask Allah to bless us all and our offspring those to come up to the end and may Allah سبحانه وتعالى grant us all goodness my beloved beautiful brothers and sisters in Islam when I say beautiful here I'm talking of the heart I'm talking of the fact that we meet warm people with the most beautiful character and conduct and over and above that I'm also speaking of how how handsome and beautiful Allah has made all of us for some people the hardship is the way they look why be proud of your identity be happy regarding your complexion it is your gift from Allah سبحانه وتعالى some people are depressed they think they are too dark in complexion sometimes they think they are too big or too small or they think they are too short or too tall that is something you have actually affected yourself by thinking about it it's not Allah who actually did anything wrong to you not at all it is you and your perception and the fact that you've allowed the world to have an impact on your thinking that you now think being short is a problem you now think being dark is a problem you now think perhaps something that is of your nature you know having small nails is a problem سبحان الله having hair that might not be straight is a problem or having straight hair according to some is a problem these are not hardships this is not what I am here to talk about this evening these are sicknesses that people have in gratitude may Allah سبحانه وتعالى forgive us but yes one might endure when others begin to look at you differently because of where you come from because of your race because of your tribe because of perhaps your complexion then we do agree that you will have to endure and you will have to go through those hardships whether you like it or not Question number one why my maker is غفور رحيم أفضل أفضل Why did he make us such that we have to endure difficulties and hardships Why? I need to understand it it's a question every young man and woman asks if Allah is so merciful Why does everyone on the globe go through difficulties Why do we see so much in terms of problem and hardship Why do we see currencies crashing Why do we see situations very difficult on the globe Why do we see weather patterns that are erratic Why do we see floods Why do we see so much of hardship Wallahi You need to know the answer Allah says I created you in order to test you This is what differentiates a believer from the one who doesn't believe You don't believe that there was a maker who made you Perhaps you might have believed something else Well you may be free to believe that but you might pay for that in what way You won't understand the plan of the Almighty And why we're going through all these difficulties and what's going on And where we will go and we will die because when you get close to death that sickness will be such a great hardship that it will be so depressing and you think let me end my life because you don't have any belief and you think that once I end my life it's over not realizing it's actually only the beginning So when you believe you have a gift What is the gift That gift is you understand the plan of the Almighty Why he made you in the first place We ask Allah Subhanahu و تعالى to grant us ease So Allah says in the Qur'an وَلَنَ بِلُوَنَّكُمْ صُورَةُ الْبَقَرَةَ And I will stop there I just read one verse Sorry, one word of the verse Allah says And the lamb the lamb that starts that verse there is a wow which means and the lamb is actually for emphasis Allah is saying And we emphasize to you We emphasize to you That's the meaning of just the lamb Right لا وَلَا Then Allah says نبلوة means We will test We will test If Allah wanted He could have said That means we will test you But Allah says نبلوة نكُمْ That noon The double noon It means definitely Definitely indeed We are emphasizing it again and again Wow Allah has emphasized it more than once Just in that one word Subhanallah No language has the power of the Arabic language Where a single letter can actually add so much meaning to that word So Allah says وَلَا نبلوة نكُمْ Indeed We will definitely test every single one of you And we are emphasizing that there is no way out We will have to test you Why? That's why we made you to test you You are here In order to pass through examination after examination And when you are through with all your exams You will die And graduate And receive your certificate How did you do? Back in your school That's what it was This is our school My brothers and sisters I cannot dress how I want I must wear the uniform That the school has decided I should wear I cannot just eat as and when I wish And what I want There is a place and a time for everything And at the same time A certain quality and standard of food that I need to eat The same applies to what I say I cannot utter the words I want In this beautiful school known as life I need to utter words that are the most beautiful words Make sure when you talk to your children When you talk to your family members You have the best of words It's your test When you graduate You will see your certificate If you had bad words You failed If you had good words Then Allah looks at everything else The best of words أشهد الله إلا الله وأشهد أن محمد عبده ورسوله I bear witness that there is none worthy of worship Besides he who made me And I bear witness That Muhammad peace be upon him Is a messenger of Allah Who was sent to teach us How to lead our life To teach us how to worship the Almighty And to teach us Why we are here in the first place That's the most powerful statement You repeat that Trust me Your certificate is ready for you It is waiting On condition that you Lead your life In accordance with the rules And regulations of this beautiful school My brothers and sisters So as you are born The first hardship that you may face Is where you were born Subhanallah You might say how And you might already know You might have experienced it What if you were born in a war zone Was it your fault? No It was Allah's test That is evidence enough to prove That your maker decided to test you By making you Be born in an area where It was going to be a war zone Subhanallah Your test Your hardship You were born into hardship As soon as you were born In fact, when you were conceived You started hearing sounds You started hearing sounds Of bombing Sounds of shooting Sounds of people screaming and yelling That is a test Wallahi It is a powerful test May Allah make it easy For those in that type of a test Those who are being tested From when they are in the wombs Of their mothers But there is A test That actually goes beyond that one Do you know what it is? Allah says I want to test you And I want to give you such a big test And I want to explain before I say this test The hardship, right? That Allah says Subhanahu Wa'Ta'ala Through the blessed lips of Muhammad Salallahu Alaihi Wasallam That when I test someone It's a sign of my love for them How? I'm sure you've heard that It's not wrong to ask how You need to know how There was a time when we were young We used to go to the Sheikh Or the Maulana And say But how? He says Hey, shut up Keep quiet Sit down You know that's a verse You cannot argue with it I'm not arguing I want to understand it Now as we grew a little bit older We allow the children to ask us Any question that crosses their mind No matter how Silly someone else might think it is If you tell them When Allah tests you It's a sign of his love You have the right to say Please explain to me how I don't understand it And they will explain to you And you can still say I still don't understand You are allowed to say that There will come a point when we say Look, that's revelation I accept it But I don't really understand Subhanallah I'm a believer When I'm a believer I may not really understand Every aspect that there is there But I believe That's what believing is all about So Allah says When I test someone It's a sign of my love I tell you one of the reasons why إِنَّ اللَّهَ إِذَا أَحَبَّ عَبْدَنِبْتَلَاهُ مُحَمَّدْ بِسْبِي أَبْنِمْ سَيْسُوَنَ اللَّهَ أَبْدَنِبْتَلَاهُ And what happened is In fact, let me make it a BMW Because people might think That yesterday I said Mercedes Let me change it today Subhanallah Okay So you had a BMW And what happened is You carried on You went to school You went to the best of schools You had everything going for you Subhanallah And what happened to your Salah I know of families The parents Mashallah Very religious They wouldn't miss a Salah But here comes the son The daughter Those parents Because they had it easy going Whatever happened They sent their children to schools And did the best for them But they didn't realize We are concerned about ourselves Here are our children They are not even fulfilling Salah No Salah So father Mother When you look at them And you look at the children It's like from two different families Subhanallah Why? Something's gone wrong When Allah loves those children They will come a day You go to the doctor You get a test And you realize You have cancer That's the biggest gift That you could have just had At that stage in your life What happened? Whoa First thing That crosses your mind I'm going to die Cancer May Allah grant cure To all those who are affected With any disease Be it cancer Or AIDS Or anything else I mean Say I mean loudly So My brothers and sisters That's a gift How is it a gift? Allah is tapping you To say Listen You got the whole world Everything Start preparing to come back to me You don't realize Your life Very little is left I love you so much I want you to do something So that when you come to me At least I can give you through my mercy A lot You might say Oh Allah Give it to me Without doing anything Allah might tell you Well it's not fair On the others who've done so much Subhanallah Do something at least One deed at least Subhanallah Imagine You suffered Your whole life Pleasing Allah And here comes a person Who's never pleased Allah And he wants Jannah just by the mercy of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Something might Urque you a little bit So Allah says At least do one deed You know No matter what it is Try something This is why we say When you've done one deed You know Or you may not know How powerful the deed was Subhanallah And through that Allah might give you Jannah تلفردوس He has the capacity Of giving Paradise to you Without even that deed But here we're talking about The mercy of Allah While you're alive You had forgotten The existence of your maker His commands Meant nothing to you His instruction And everything to do with the school That I spoke about A few moments ago Had nothing to do with you You were leading a life Outside of that box So Allah tapped you Out of his love Come back What happened? As soon as you got back From the doctor Or while you were at the doctor You said Oh Allah, cure me Subhanallah رب العالمين First time in your life You're calling out to Allah A hardship Allah says we will help you Go through the hardship Don't worry The best way to go through That hardship is to believe in me I am the most powerful I'm your maker I made you in the first place Guess what? You're going to return to me Just focus on that It will help you Go through your suffering So anyone of us Suffering in any way First thing Focus on your maker Turn to your maker Develop your link with your maker It will help you ease the suffering Surviving hardship Will happen When the one who put that hardship in your life Has Is close to you Because you have developed a link with him Subhanallah So when I go through hardship difficulty Point number one I turn to Allah And guess in what way I start off by saying أستغفر الله Oh Allah, forgive me Maybe I might just have done something bad and wrong That now I'm being tested It's possible It's not always the case But it's possible But Allah says as a gift to you We want you to know when you seek forgiveness When you seek forgiveness from us We will automatically help you Go through your hardship You will survive the hardship You might ask how Go back to what نوح عليه الصلاة والسلام Told his people قل تستغفر ربكم إنه كان غفارا I told my people Seek forgiveness Allah is most forgiving يورسي لسماع عليكم مدرارا As a result of that seeking of forgiveness And achievement of forgiveness He will send rain from the heavens In the right proportion For you And it will result in the flourishing of your economy Because you sought forgiveness When you continue sinning You continue deserving the Roth But Allah says hang on I will still give you through my mercy But If you really want my mercy You just need to seek forgiveness That's all I will give it to you Keep on seeking forgiveness Don't say I sought forgiveness yesterday Why should I do it today Seeking forgiveness from your maker is different From seeking forgiveness From a fellow human being You seek it Even if you haven't committed a sin Because Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم Saw it up to 100 times a day He didn't need it But It elevated his status every single time He asked Allah's forgiveness How many times do we seek forgiveness Then we want to survive the hardships That we are going through Noah knew عليه الصلاة و السلام May peace be on him He tells his people as a result of you Saying استغفر الله Asking Allah's forgiveness He will send rain for you He will improve your condition وَ يُمْدِدِكُمْ بِأَمْوَلِ يُوَبَنِينَ And he will increase your wealth We have financial hardship How do I survive it Number one Seek Allah's forgiveness He will increase your wealth He will give you more You want more money Turn to Allah in forgiveness In repentance Guess what He owns the wealth That you are seeking He is the owner أجبت لمن طلب الدنيا من غير ماليكها I am surprised By people who are requesting for the world From someone who doesn't own it الله أكبر You are asking for money From a person who doesn't really own the money You are asking for sustenance from one Who does not own the sustenance You want cure from someone who doesn't own the cure Go to your maker He is the owner of your sustenance The owner of cure The owner of your whole life سبحان الله So to survive hardship Develop a link with your maker It has to be There's no way out You have to Otherwise that hardship Becomes a double hardship Look at those who believe in Allah How Allah didn't promise them They will not face hardship Allah says I will help you through عجبا لأمر المؤمني فإن أمره كله له خير أميزي are the affairs of a true believer For indeed all his or her affairs are good for him Or her إن أصابته سرع شكرا فكان خير الله When something good happens A believer is thankful So it's better for him or her وإن أصابته ضرعوا صبرا فكان خير الله And when hardship affects Him or her Meaning a believing male or female Then he or she Bears صبر صبر means to endure To be patient To restrain yourself To be patient So he or she is patient But still happy with Allah's decree So it's better for him or her So here comes the man He was diagnosed cancer He turns to Allah That evening He reads صلاة العشاء For the first time in his life And he cries And he weeps The doctor told him You have two months to live It is stage four May Allah grant cure To all those who are second أمين What happened? He turned to Allah He cried to Allah Oh Allah cure me Now there are two things that can happen Either Allah will cure him Or Allah will not cure him If Allah did not cure him It was still the biggest gift Because his last days in the world He was so close to Allah Allah says I love you Look at this condition You are crying for me You are getting close to me You are worshiping me alone You are seeking forgiveness For all the sins you committed in the past And you don't know There are only two weeks for you to live But look how I brought you to me Look how I brought you to me You came to me Is it not a gift? When you die After that And you started getting close to Allah Two weeks before you died The hadith speaks about how you are judged according to how you were when you died At the end A football match is only finished at 90 minutes or after the overtime The score is only confirmed when the final whistle is blown In the middle Anything can happen I've watched a match once Where one of the teams had scored three goals And the other one had zero And it ended 4-3 to the opposition And the people were so excited You know football is no longer about the players and all of that It's about the fans It's about the fans They get more excited than the players themselves Maybe the players might have a bit more money You know it amazes me how Some of the richest people in the world are those who can just kick a ball That's it May Allah SWT help us I met a young boy I asked him son And I like to do this What do you want to become? Football I said football Okay okay Why? He says my father said there is a lot of money And you don't need to go to school May Allah SWT forgive us Even the fathers are wondering If my son can kick a ball I am set May Allah SWT forgive us That's how some other people survive their hardship By encouraging their children to go into life in such a way That it might create ease for them Not realizing that yes You know I'm not attacking football or anything But I am saying My brothers and sisters There are lessons for us to learn even in football If the game has a beginning and an end Your life also has a beginning and an end If that game The aim of each person is to try for the entire 90 minutes To score a goal Then in your life for the entire 90 years You need to score as many goals as possible Even if the opposition is weak And you've already scored 10-0 It is better for you to score 20-0 50-0 and break history Break it Do you know I know of a match And I'm not mentioning the names of the teams Because I don't want to embarrass people But I know of a match It was a World Cup match There was an embarrassing result And this team kept on scoring Like there was no one on the other side May Allah SWT help us But the lesson for me is When shaitan comes to attack me I need to keep defending I need to keep going through shaitan's defense And scoring my goal One after the other Another after the third and fourth and so on And that's how I will survive the hardships I look forward to worshipping Allah You look forward to the next salah With happiness Allah will make it easy for you Whatever you've gone through has become simple Because your link with Allah is powerful So Allah says When I love you, I test you Look how I love you so much And I noticed that you were very far from me And I knew you were dying in two weeks time So I wanted to bring you close to me before you die So that you don't lose the hereafter Because you had the whole world You had everything in this world We spoke about it, didn't we? Then I want to give you the hereafter as well Because you had a good heart You were a good person So I brought you closer to me Two weeks before Two months before Two years before And I let you go through hardship For a short space of time Subhanallah Now do you understand That Allah loves you When Allah loves you, he tests you You say, but you love me Why do you test me? No, when he loves you, he tests you Because by testing you He actually brings you closer to him If you have belief You don't question him You become closer to him That's belief But when you are dilly-dallying in belief Then you become further away And more despondent You become further away from Allah When you are tested What? I have a disease? Who did it? Well, if you are going to say Allah did it And you don't understand why It's going to drive you further away And if it drives you further away خسير الدنيا والآخرة ذلك هو الخسران المبين He has lost this world and the next And that is indeed a clear loss So don't do that My brothers and sisters I was saying worse Than being born in a war zone Is when Allah has chosen for you That you will be born into this world With some challenge In the form of disability So you are born And you did not see from day one That is a hardship And Allah says That hardship is not only for you But we want to give the opportunity To those around you To earn their paradise Through serving you Wow So A person was born They couldn't see A child was born Cerebral palsy A child was born perhaps Without an organ A child was born perhaps Some form of deformity The test is for the parents And for those around And the community And the philanthropists The test is for them Are you going to rise to the occasion Are you going to help another of your kind You've only got one more year to live Let's see what you're going to do For this child That you witnessed and you saw I remember a wealthy man Again I know him But without names Was watching a television channel And in Niger He saw people He saw a specific child A specific child Eating the sand Out of hunger And this man was a multi-millionaire Perhaps into the billions And he decided I want to find out who this is And I want to do something about these people And wallahi I'm not joking He got hold of the channel It was a western channel It was CNN He got hold of whoever He found out from his own people Who are around him Where that was He got hold of people there He found the exact location And he located the person It took him a bit of time He decided to build a school To drill boreholes To make roads To do whatever he had to I don't know about the roads But I know He built a school And he gave them food And he taught them things And he did clothing for them And whatever else He changed the whole community And guess what A few months later He passed away of cancer The same man May Allah grant him جنة الفردوس What brought him to do this? He was flicking the channels He was flicking the channels He saw someone going through a hardship He felt it He did not know them He did not know who they were He just knew they were human beings They were suffering This is a Muslim man And he decided I've got all the money in the world What am I going to do? I've got all the money in the world What am I going to do? Let me help these people Later on they found out That he did it for many Many communities Subhan Allah That is how he spent his money How have you spent your money And we sit And we busy bad mouth The same people Without even knowing The good they've done We had floods here in Sri Lanka Some time back Mashallah The best thing that could have happened happened What was it? People rose to the occasion It was such a blessing to see Muslims Go to assist non-Muslims Amazing That's your opportunity Amazing To show that you are human beings And it happened People were talking about it across the globe Did you hear what happened in Sri Lanka? Well, the Muslims got up and helped those Perhaps who didn't even like them You know, the media portrays such a bad image of Islam And the Muslims That sometimes the non-Muslims think We are evil people Not realizing that 99.99% of us Are actually lovely people Who care for humanity at large So there it was How did they go through their suffering? Allah created you Not to sit back and watch You're drowning Let me quickly take a photo I can put it on Instagram I witnessed the drowning Throw your phone away my brother Throw it away Dive in and save the person A long time back when people screamed How? Everyone ran Today when people scream How? Everyone runs But the difference is Before they ran towards the person Today they run towards their phones May Allah forgive us First I need my phone Take it out Let's see what's going on Okay, help Wait, I'm coming But let me take the The person's dead by the time Throw your phone away كيف حياتهم حياتهم؟ كيف حياتهم حياتهم؟ أخبركم By everyone reaching out to them The day you have such a hardship I promise you They will reach out to you When we go through collective hardship All the barriers drop You become a human being That's it I'm a human being When people are drowning Or there is an earthquake Or someone is suffering somewhere لا أحد يظهر إيه أخي أسفة أخي أخبرني ماذا تفعلت بحقك؟ قبل أن أردتك لا أحد يخبرون أنه يجب أن يتساعد يساعدون أذكرت في الوقت أعتقد أن أعرف my vehicle على الرد When I noticed people With a puncture Or people whose vehicle has broken down And I have stopped I don't need to tell them who I am I don't need to give them Any other detail And I have helped them Without them knowing who it was And they just look at you And they are just so shocked Because they see someone dressed in white With a big beard and so on And Subhanallah You roll your sleeves And you start working Forget about dirtying your clothing If you think my clothing Is going to be messed Your humanity can leave you Sometimes You forget about everything Dive in straight Your clothes know whatever it is You don't have to wait I will dive in But I need a swimming costume Let me go to the market And buy it Jump in straight there But by all means Don't just remove all your clothing Before you jump in So when you help others Survive their hardship The day you have a hardship Trust me They will come in your direction By the will of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala So congratulations to you The Muslims of Sri Lanka When the floods came in The whole world heard About how you reached out To the Buddhists And to the others Who were not even Muslim I heard with these ears How poor Muslims Riding bikes Had actually gone to make donations Of whatever they could Scratch together And give it To say listen This is from us For who? These people The Buddhists bear witness That the Muslims helped What a great teaching of Islam And what a beautiful teaching Of Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam You have revived And shone as an example For the rest of the world May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Help us And I really hope That if anything were to happen To us one day We would also have Everyone come to our assistance Because that is how We survive hardship Don't think that You can survive alone You cannot Number one You need Allah Number two ولا تنسى و الفضل بينكم Don't forget To be virtuous to one another Allah created you Interdependent For your bread You need the baker For your milk You need the farmer Or you need to go to the dairy And so on These are simple examples When you get sick You need the doctor He will help you By the will of Allah To go through your hardship What's the hardship I have an ailment A sickness I have a cough My throat is sore Subhanallah Alone What could happen You had to do something You had to go to the shop You had to buy So when you have a good relationship with others It will help you The day you are going through your hardship So to survive your hardship In advance Have a good relationship with people What do you do to people In the mind Being Loving And kind To all human beings Is actually half of intellect That's what it is It's half of what Half of intellect Because the day you go through hardship Trust me You will be like a king The whole world will come Because you've helped everyone You've helped everyone So this is the gift of Allah Survival through hardship In advance When you have a relationship with Allah The day you go through difficulty Allah will rush towards you تعرف إلى الله في الرخاء يعرفك في الشدة Get close to Allah Become acquainted with Allah During days of ease Do you know what that means When you had the money You had the position You had everything You were young You were good looking You had everything Then Get acquainted with Allah Because the day that you are going through hardship Known as a شدة شدة means hardship Difficulty Allah will get acquainted with you Allah will come to you Allah will rush towards you And you'll be a happy person My brother Mahmood May Allah grant him cure In Dubai He's not well He has been paralyzed For many years Over a decade He cannot speak He communicates with his eyes Each time I go to Dubai I try to visit him It is a test Subhanallah For everyone Those around him And himself as well But guess what Wallahi He told me If you think That I'm not a happy man You are wrong If you think I'm not content With the degree of Allah And with what Allah has chosen for me You are wrong I'm the happiest man in the world Wallahi Those are the people May Allah grant them جنة الفردوس May Allah ease the suffering Of their family members And may Allah help me To learn a lesson From such a great man Such a great man Someone who inspires me And may we all be inspired By this example Those are hardships But Allah creates Allah sprinkles goodness Through that Imagine a person who's born From birth They haven't seen I remember a young boy I told him Can I offer you a banana He said yes He couldn't see And guess what I realized I said You've never seen a banana He says no But I know what it's all about I said okay I said what color is it He said yellow Banana yellow Yes it was yellow So I was happy I said oh mashallah You guys are quite advanced You see when you have a problem If you keep on thinking I have a problem Say you're losing your eyesight May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Grant Or restore the eyesight Of those who've lost their eyesight Or those who are losing their eyesight I mean If you start thinking Oh I'm losing my eyesight It's going and you know I can't see And what's going to happen And so on You become depressed And it's not going to restore Your eyesight By worrying about it But if you start thinking Oh Allah cure me And I'm going to try The medication And I'm going to do everything But in the meantime I'm going to learn Braille I'm going to go forward I'm going to try my best To start doing things As a person who perhaps Might not be able to see Very soon And then You pluck up the courage And you go Wallahi You can achieve much more Than those who are cited Possible One example How did you go through it Help of Allah Courage Be strong Don't be weak Do not pity yourself No Because the world is not going to Pity you Don't pity yourself Oh you know what I lost my leg I lost my leg What a big heart I agree it's a big hardship I'm not saying no But for as long as you carry on Thinking that I lost my leg Now what am I going to do I'm depressed I'm sitting at home For as long as you are thinking That you are not going to be helped You went through a divorce Very big hardship Sometimes for no reason A man will come He met a girl in the nightclub And he comes home And he says I divorce you Because you know what I met Susan Well To hell with him And he's Susie Allah saved you From something bigger Pick yourself up Stop pitying yourself And stop wanting to harm him It's over Allah will deal with him For as long as you want To pay back And revenge And retaliate You're harming yourself You're not going to survive That hardship It's going to affect you So to survive That type of a hardship Get on with life Get up and move Forget about that That was a dirty episode A bad episode سبحان الله May Allah سبحانه وتعالى Help us Guide us So you need to get up And move on And guess what? Perhaps Abdullah will marry you Mashallah And what happened After that You think to yourself Oh Allah I thank you That I went through this divorce Because had I not gone through the divorce I wouldn't have married Such an honorable man فلولس فلولس Meaning in the eyes of human being sometimes I know of many cases Today I spoke to someone Today And this person was telling me Wallahi My first marriage Before my first marriage I used to make dua Oh Allah Give me a husband Like this Like this Like this Like this Like this And so many things I had a list And I got married And I had the worst condition And I tried And tried my best But it ended in divorce And after divorce I went through hardship Because there is stigma of the family And stigma of the others And the people Because you have a child They are pulling tug of war And so on And it is very difficult So hard And I kept on making dua To Allah Oh Allah I know you have a plan for me I know there is something And I kept on trying Now some people They go through one divorce And that's it You know what? I'm not going to get married again Because men are bad Or women are bad No way You mean you're trying to tell me I'm bad May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Forgive us They are beautiful people Lovely souls There are so many And then she told me Today She says Wallahi I want you to know That I married again And it was a miracle of Allah Every dua I made Was answered Amazing And you know what? I said Allah wanted you To appreciate The man He had always chosen for you By making you go through someone Who was not a good person For you to know What good and bad is all about You don't know heat You don't know What hot is Right? Until you know what is cold Subhanallah And you don't know cold And cool Until you know what is hot Subhanallah No, sorry I'm talking of heat I'm not talking of hot As in hot You know? So the hardships The difficulties You are going to go through Allah makes you go through Difficulty So you can recognize ease And this is why Wallahi Powerful Means of survival Of hardship is When the hadith Of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Says no matter what You are going through Or you have انظرو إلى من هو دونكم Look at those Who are worse than you You lost your husband He passed away in a car crash Or you lost your wife He passed away She passed away In a car crash Or sickness Or illness So on So forth Murder Arm robbery It happens in many countries Where so unsafe People come in And begin to shoot And people lose their lives And guess what? Look at someone Who lost not only the husband But three children Together with the husband And they are still surviving Yes, you have Times when you will break down You start crying Crying is a means A very healthy way Of surviving your hardship It's not wrong to cry Cry It's natural It's human nature Even the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Shed a tear When Ibrahim His son Was in his hands Passed away The Sahaba رضي الله عنهم Asked him يا رسول الله Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam What is this? You know Meaning you You're supposed to be strong He answered This hadith Is in Sahih Al-Bukhari A beautiful response He says إنما هي رحمة جعلها الله في عباده الرحمة This is indeed mercy That Allah has put In the hearts of those Who are merciful You feel You lost your child Subhanallah May Allah grant that child Goodness But may Allah make The child a means Of your entry Into Paradise How? Because you will bear patience When you bore the patience Allah rewarded you إنما يوفص صابرون أجرون بغير حساب Indeed we grant those Who bear patience A reward Without a limit Unlimited reward You lost your child You were patient إنّا لله وإنّا إليه راجعون You cried a bit sometimes You missed your child Once in a while And as time passed Obviously it faded a little bit Because Allah creates occasions And Allah creates things That you will go through That make you forget About a difficulty You were in in the past You went through a difficult divorce But now you're married so happily You forgot about what happened there So when you lost the child Or you lost someone And you bore the patience And you then met With Allah Subhanahu و تعالى After you passed away Allah tells you Do you know what You bore so much of patience You were happy with my decree That means you believed I was God Almighty الله أكبر It's a sign of belief This is why in Islam In your declaration of Eman Allah has kept in it A clause That will help you survive your hardship What is the clause وَالْقَدْرِ خَيْرِهِ وَشَرِّهِ مِنَ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى Good and bad fate I declare and I believe It is from Allah alone What does that mean? When something good happens I declare it's from Allah When something bad happens I declare it's from Allah Subhanahu و تعالى In order for us to be able To go through Or to survive The hardship That's why Allah kept One of the clauses of belief One of the tenets That I declare I believe in fate تقدير I believe it Once you say Oh Allah You took my child away Or you took my leg away Or you took something away from me Or you did this to me Oh Allah But I surrendered to your decree And helped me to be patient Helped me overcome it Replaced it for me With something better The Prophet ﷺ When something bad used to happen He used to say إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيهِ رَاجِعُونَ Indeed we belong to Allah We are going to all return to Him There can be nothing That Allah ﷺ has kept everlasting on this earth And then The Prophet ﷺ taught us to say اللهم أجرني في مصيبتي Oh Allah You know one is You are asking for the help of Allah You are asking for a recompense A reward from Allah Recompense From Allah ﷺ Help to go through the difficulty And the hardship Oh Allah Grant me that And وَخَلُفْلِ خَيْرَمْ مِنْهِ أو منها Oh Allah Grant me in return Something better than what you took away Something better than what you took away These are supplications There are so many supplications That will help you Survive your hardship Many supplications Learn them And go and see The stories of others I mentioned moments ago Look at those who are worse than you Take a look at people Who were born in refugee camps Today they are 11 years old 12 years old Take a look at those Whose weddings happened in refugee camps Take a look at those Subhanallah who gave birth While they were fleeing bombing And so many other things We have tasted zero Compared to them They are going through hardship May Allah make it easy for them And that brings me to another point To survive your hardship Pray for others Who are going through hardship Feel for others And it will help you Because when you raise your hands And you say oh Allah Help the suffering brothers and sisters in Syria Those who have lost their homes In Iraq, in Afghanistan Those who are suffering in Bangladesh, in Burma Those who are struggling in Sudan Or in Somalia Wherever else it may be Those who are struggling in any country And you really think about them And you really raise your hands And pray for them You don't need to put up a status On Facebook about it You don't That's not the requirement Of Allah and His Rasul The world does not need to know What you've done about the people Suffering across the globe I always get this People say Shaykh Why are you so quiet About what's happening in the world Show me a verse of the Qur'an That tells me that I need to put up a status On Facebook Show me a hadith That tells me that I need to use Twitter To tell the world what I think No People are doing a lot of that There are some people who are Activists Let them do all of that Not everyone needs to specialize In the same thing But everyone needs to do something About it You have to What I did You don't need to know In fact, I should hide it from you That's the sunnah And I may not be able to do What you've done But guess what I may have just done something You cannot do Subhanallah In fact, sometimes It becomes more of a hardship Now I'm not talking of a global level I'm talking of personal hardship It becomes more of a hardship When you advertise what you're going through Hey, I have a toothache And you put it on Facebook And you take a picture of your tooth And you put it on Instagram I have a toothache Can you see What's going on That's not going to help you Go through a hardship Wallahi It will create a greater headache You only had a toothache Now you have a headache Because your husband saw someone commenting nice teeth May Allah SWT forgive us So you need to think of Allah SWT's way I said learn the supplications Look at those who are struggling more When you make dua for them The angels actually make dua for you If I say Oh Allah, help those who are suffering The angels say And oh Allah, help this person as well Subhanallah They don't know me I don't know them I pray for all of them All of them And wherever I can reach out I will reach out And whenever I can help people I can help people In whatever way I can Subhanallah May Allah SWT forgive those Who think That we don't do anything about The people suffering across the globe May Allah forgive their shortsightedness And when I say we I'm not talking of me alone All of us Because sometimes One dua can be more powerful Than anything else You could have given the person Don't underestimate it I know someone Who gets up At the time of the Hajj Especially To make dua For people suffering across the globe Only That's their contribution perhaps That's their way of doing things perhaps That might be Single-handedly More powerful Than a lot of what others are doing Could be And they told me That They overheard someone say That dua does nothing for you Dua does nothing for you Subhanallah Subhanallah How weak is your iman We are not saying Only do dua But sometimes That's the best gift You can give them I'm helpless to do anything else For example We are taught when you are sick You cannot just make dua And sit back at home We agree Your sickness Because you can in your capacity Do something about it By visiting the doctor By having some honey By for example You know Having hot water with lemon And ginger And something else Everyone will tell you so many things Or getting a course of medication Whatever it is But you did something And you still rely on Allah Subhanallah What you did may Or may not cure you It may But together with that You make a dua But sometimes Nothing's happening Everyone's trying The doctors have told you You know what There's nothing we can do about it You've got a little time To survive To live And so You keep on making dua And that's about The only thing you can now do Have hope in the mercy of Allah I tell people Who are terminally ill Number one Make dua That Allah grant you A miracle Miraculous cure To start with And make dua That Allah has mercy upon you Because if he has decided To take you away Go with a smile We all have to go I have to go You have to go So if it's a terminal illness And your situation Is deteriorating There is a brother here Subhanallah Who sometimes I think about I think about him quite often And I always make a dua And Allah grant him Jannah to the Firdaus And Allah grant him A cure through your mercy In my heart I know Subhanallah It's Allah's mercy If he wants He will cure If he doesn't What happens? Well, if he gives you Jannah to the Firdaus You have succeeded I always ask a question And I want to ask you today again I want to ask all of you this question If the angel of death Came right now And told you Now you know who you are You know your money You know your wealth You know your family You know everything If the angel of death Came right now to you And told you Listen We take you away Right now And Allah gives you Jannah Who would say Okay, take me الحمد لله May Allah And grant us ease Wow I'm impressed I tell you why Because it goes to show That the main aim Is actually Jannah to the Firdaus Your wife, don't worry She'll be taken care of By the guy who always wanted to marry her You did not expect that, right? Okay, let's reword that She will be taken care of Your children will be taken care of There are others who have already gone At a younger age Than you leaving prettier wives Than yours And they were taken care of Properly by the people Mashallah They rose to the occasion Haven't they? Their children became Successful businessmen Perhaps the only problem In this life for all of them Is you So maybe you should go May Allah make it easy Getting a bit more serious The difficulty is We don't understand That sometimes Allah takes someone away At a specific point Because he knows If they die at that point I will give them Jannah to the Firdaus I will give them paradise So Allah took him away 29 years old, gone Don't worry He's gone to a better place Allah will take you When he knows it is The right time for you to go Which is already predestined It's done It's amazing We go through so many difficulties In hardship In our lives But we smile Allah creates ease With every difficulty Sometimes you're going through something stressful A person in your business And they've done this to you And that to you Someone stole And you go home And you see your daughter smiling at you Smiling at you What happened? Allah gave you a gift To forget about your problem for a while But don't ever think that the bottle Will help you forget your problems Because the bottle itself Is a bigger problem It is a greater hardship I met a man in Zimbabwe Who was drinking so much And I told him My brother Why are you drinking? No, I need to forget my problems He spoke exactly like that You know So I told him But for how long? He says Well, even if it's for one night So I said When you wake up He says Well, the problems come back So what do you do? I drink again That means the problem is not solved Now he's addicted He's losing his family Losing everyone around him There are more problems So don't ever think That's an intoxicant Will help you through your problems Because wallahi it will not I swear by Allah Intoxicants will never help you They will actually compound the problem Make it worse So what do you do? You turn to Allah Sit on the Sajada Sit on that prayer mat And cry to Allah Clean yourself And cry to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala It's healthy Draw closer to Allah Perhaps It's the first time You actually did that And you feel so good When you get up Half your problem is solved Then to survive your hardship Be careful Like I said You don't have to place it on Facebook or Instagram You also don't have to tell the whole world You know This is what happened You know that's what happened You don't have to say You need to know The closed circle That Allah has bestowed you with And some confidants Some people who are close to you Whom you trust You can tell them I mean I was walking with three people And highly respected people And I remember a man Coming up and asking one of them How's your wife? No, no, no I heard she had a miscarriage No, she put it on Facebook Oh wow Imagine the embarrassment of a man His wife told the whole world On Facebook I had a miscarriage A poor man He was walking with me I promised you with me I felt embarrassed for him I felt embarrassed for him Guess what he told me after that Do me a favor Can you please speak about this One of your talks So anyway brother I spoke about it May Allah make it easy He means educate everyone To say And I agree You need to know What you can release In the public domain Social media is powerful And it is very, very delicate At the same time It has in it A lot of dangerous spots Dangerous spots You put something And you don't know How far and why it's gone You don't know How people have abused your image You don't know What they've done May Allah forgive us I know of another case Of a hardship Created out of a face That one girl put on The social media A wise crack Took that face And he Photoshopped A naked body under the face And then he sent it To X, Y and Z And they all thought They had the naked image Of this young girl Innocent girl And if you want to know How that ended It was terrible Because he started demanding money He started doing things And this girl sought the help Of her father And this brings me to something When people are trying to blackmail you Seek the help of your parents I'm talking to the young people Don't ever think I need to pay him the money So what? You don't You don't need to pay anyone Any money Don't allow yourself to be blackmailed Seek the help of your parents And my beloved parents If your children come to you In a scenario like that Even if they have Out of the devil's trap Sent their own nude images to people Learn to help them Out of it Learn to help Because it is happening on the globe That's why we're talking about it today You help them survive their hardship Allah will help you through something else How could you do this? How could you send a nude image to someone? Dad, I made a mistake May Allah forgive us Watch out Those nude images go very far Very far Everyone is watching them They are paying To watch you And you thought you were having a nude phone call With some guy Or some girl Somewhere in the States Or somewhere in any other country There are dirty people There are people who are actually maniacs Across the globe Subhanallah Scattered all over Who are waiting to make money Out of this type of behavior It's a hardship It's the times we are living in As parents We need to rise to the occasion Help them So that no one makes money Through your kids' mistake And don't even believe If someone were to tell you I have the nude image of XY or Z No A lot of the times 90% or more of the times It's photoshopped On my little phone I have here I was taught how to photoshop In such a way that the pic looks More original than the original And then you have the experts You know, one of my sons He can look at it and say This is photoshopped You tell him how And he shows you how He actually shows look This is not what it is You know, we saw a supermoon recently So a lot of the images were true Because we saw it But some people were trying To create images to become public Or to become famous To put in the public And immediately the son of mine Says this is photoshopped How? Come, let's zoom in And look at the rings around this moon here See what's going on Check, this is straight They can tell But I can't I'm not an expert in it I look at it And I think Wow, Subhanallah Look at the creation of Allah You know Well, look at the creation of Allah He's created You know, he's helped people Create a phone And now they've created photoshop So you are saying Wow, Subhanallah But you are saying it To how powerful the photoshop is May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala help us So the difficulties we go through The hardship we face Get close to Allah Pray to Allah Pray for others Look at those who are worse than you Never look at those above you Because that itself Is a hardship You won't survive it You have a problem Let me give you some of the hardships People face today Financial hardship Very difficult The world Is actually like a A whole ship That is rocking at the moment You don't know which way It's going to sway next You have your money While you're holding it It's losing value Imagine what type of a robbery That is I'm holding it It's in my hand But it's going I'm holding it tight I sleep with it under my pillow When I get up in the morning It's half its value What happened? Well, it's a hardship How do I go through this? Usually financial hardship We tell people to adjust Their lifestyle Because a lot of the times We are buying things We don't need We are spending money Based on what we used to have In terms of finance Now we don't have that So don't have the same buying habits Call your family together And tell them Look, we are going through A little bit of hardship We will have to remove you From that school Because we cannot afford the fees Be honest It will help you survive We cannot afford the fee anymore So I'm going to take you out And we're going to put you Into another school Explain to them If you don't want to tell your children That Because you're too embarrassed Don't But tell your spouse Explain to them And convince them somehow That we're going to take you Out of the school And put you in another place Sell the product to them But you have to downgrade your life It will help you Through your hardship If you don't And if you want to live on credit And you go to the banks And get the loans That itself is a hardship We won't be able to help you For that one Because Allah told you Not to do that And you know I know of people Who have weddings Their weddings are so big And everyone says Wow And the whole of Instagram Is talking about it And it becomes You know The images are used For wallpaper Across the computers Of the globe The marriage is broken Within two months No one spoke about that But the poor father Is paying two years later The bank loan That he took to have The marriage Let's hope he could show His face on Instagram After all of that Who told you To take a massive loan In order to have A marriage A wedding Why Be a Muslim Have a simple wedding In the Masjid And distribute a few dates And it's over You couldn't afford it You are forgiven It's over What is my Walima Well myself My family members My brothers and their families We sat together For a meal That was my Walima So what What was the maher It was a basic amount Alhamdulillah Baraka Allah helps you You will survive You will go through You lead a happy life It's not all about figures It's not all about figures May Allah make it easy for us Whenever Allah has spoken About alleviating The suffering of people He's never spoken About giving them money In order to solve their problems Not once He's spoken About giving them contentment Making them happy With what they have been given But we've become materialistic The whole globe Runs behind The latest The latest It becomes such a bad habit Such a bad habit The handbags must be the latest The shoes must be the latest The perfumes must be the latest The car must be the latest The phones must be the latest The bathrooms and kitchens must be the latest Everything must be the latest Such That The day you don't have That level of finance You are suicidal Let alone depressed So one of the ways of helping yourself Through financial hardship is By adjusting your life And don't be embarrassed to do that Because you will be a role model to others Role model This is why we are taught That when you are wealthy When you have position Be humble One day it might go If you were close to the ground When you fall You don't really get hurt You stand up and you just walk again But when you're flying in the sky And you fall Your balloon popped Allah work But what happened? You came crashing down And as you fell You broke all your bones It was embarrassing Now I can't even get up That's why when you have it You have the fame You have the name You have the wealth You have humble yourself Still greet the people Talk to them Be okay with them You know Try and help as much as you can Smile Go to the masjid Read in the first stuff Or whatever else Be a man I know of some Extremely wealthy people Who wouldn't miss a Salah I know of a brother Who would not miss an Adhan Adhan That means he's in the masjid Prior to the Adhan Gone May Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'ala Help us So these are just some points That I've made mention Of regarding hardship And surviving hardship I said People go through this hardship Of finance Financial issues Matters We spoke about health matters We spoke about divorce We spoke about Natural disasters We spoke about Various other things Deformity Then there are those Whose hardship is That Allah has not bestowed Upon them children So you're married One year, two years Three years, five years Ten years You still don't have children Allah has a reason Believe in that Allah's reason Is bigger than Whatever you can imagine He is favouring you He is Favouring you How? That's what we want to know I want children I'm not getting them You are telling me It's a favour of Allah Well What if you had a child Who grew up To be a person Who was a total burden And he was a drug addict And a person who was in the clubs And he was the one Pinching all your electronic gadgets And selling them In order to buy his drugs It's happening And the day comes when you said Oh Allah, I wish I didn't even have this child So Allah says You know what? We love you enough We don't even want you to go through something What if you had a child And I'm going to say this It's a hardship It's gruesome It's difficult to hear But let's listen to it What if you had a child And at a tender age The child was crushed under a truck May Allah not do that to us It has happened to some Imagine the type of hardship They went through Allah will only let someone Who will be able to go through Such hardship Go through that hardship Because he says لا يُكَلِّفُ اللهُ نَفْسَنْ إِلَّا وَسَاهَا Allah does not test Or burden someone With something more than they can manage They can handle That's your limit Well, it's your limit You're still there So Allah says We knew That you would go through this difficulty And so on So we did not give you the child In the first place It's a blessing So now you sit And you start worrying You know I'm already 48 50 years old I don't have children It's just me and my husband What's going to happen When he dies Or I'm alone And you know No one's going to be taking care of me And what's going to happen I know that other auntie there You know, she was old and aged They didn't have children And then when the husband died Look at what happened to her All this is unnecessary tension Unnecessary tension Because Allah created you He has a plan for you He knows what the plan is So lay your trust in him He has that plan In your capacity Whatever you have You can try Some people might say Okay, I'm going to look for A beautiful old age home Where we can register Or perhaps where I can Go and retire Wow, that's your plan If you want to start doing it From now, there's no harm But so long as you're not depressed In the process You're just planning Or I'm going to make amends I'm going to try and speak To this person, the sister of mine Someone else to say Look, when this happens That's what I'm going to do Or I'm going to get a helper To come and live with me If I'm all alone I'm talking of real hardships It is a concern But it must not be A point of depression It must not be You must trust Allah enough For it not to become A point of depression I'm depressed Because of this Allah knows He has a plan for you Don't worry That plan might include A little bit of difficulty In hardship But then again He wants to give you جنة الفردوس If you take a look at سورة الكهف Where Allah SWT Speaks about the story Of Musa A.S. And Al-Khidr There was a young man That they saw And you know what? Al-Khidr comes And executes him And Musa A.S. says How could you execute this man I'm sure you've probably Read the story a lot of you سورة الكهف So he says As for this young man الله says As for the young boy خدر is telling Musa A.S. He has his parents And he's young Perhaps when he grew older He would have grown older In total disobedience And disbelief And a lot of Hardship and difficulty Would have come to burden his parents So Allah wanted to replace him With someone who was better than him In goodness and obedience And the coolness of the eyes Of the parents Whatever So this was from the instruction of Allah Now I may never understand Why That story is in the Quran The way it is But I will extract as much as I can From it In terms of lesson For me One of the big lessons I learned From that story is When Allah knows That something will happen With this child Later on Such that you won't be able to handle it It would have just been a blessing That Allah took the child away While the memories were all still happy But you didn't look at it as a blessing But it was It is Okay What guarantee do you have That that child was going to be a bad child I have no guarantee But I do know That when Allah took the child away Allah took the child away at the best timing It's a test for you also Go through the sabr You get جنة الفردوس Look after your family Who are perhaps disabled And that is your paradise But if you want to jump off the boat At that stage You just lost out Like some people They have a child who is disabled They give the child up for adoption That's it Adoption Why You just jumped off the boat Allah gave you a chance To earn paradise Through serving your child Who is perhaps challenged or disabled And all you did is You jumped off the boat By giving the child away That's it I'm gone I'm no more on this scene Why Because the child is disabled Well Allah says We gave you the chance to get paradise Just by serving the child You refused to do it Well You gave that opportunity to someone else The child will still be looked after By another And I want to give Those who have these type of children A word That will be A word of goodness Do you know That not only paradise But even in this world Sometimes When Allah blesses you With such a challenged child Allah opens other doors for you Many other doors So your sustenance increased Your business started doing well You might be struggling To actually look after your child But Some other things happened It brought husband and wife closer together And you were not so close before that Some other things happened And this is why Read Surah to الشرح What is Surah to الشرح ألم نشرح لك صدرك ووضعنا عنك وزرك الذي أنقض ظهرك ورفعنا لك ذكرك فإنما العسري يسرأ إنما العسري يسرأ فإذا فرغت فنصب وإلى ربك فرغاب لن نرى السورة so many times It's repeated in Salah And we know it off by heart When we were young We learnt it The problem is we did not go through its meaning That's the problem That's the hardship on its own I want to take from it Two verses Allah says فإنما العسري يسرأ إنما العسري يسرأ I've read a research just on these verses A research What was the research all about? Talking about the meaning of it What exactly does it mean? And I've always preferred the Translation of Abdullah ibn Abbas رضي الله عنه Beautiful But let me give you عسرن In the Arabic language means hardship And يسرن means ease So the difference is just an eye عسر and يسر عسر means hardship And يسر means ease So the distance between hardship and ease Is the distance between the eye and the ya That's it After hardship There has to be ease When a person is terminally ill And they've passed away What do people say? He's at peace now Right? He's no more suffering That's a fact He's at peace It had to come There was a breaking point At some stage It had to come Or they had to get cured So That hardship and this ease The relationship between the two الله says Indeed With the hardship is ease And he says it again He didn't just say it once He says So indeed With the hardship With the hardship There is ease إنما عل عسر يسرن He says it again And indeed With the hardship There is ease Those of you who know the Arabic language And those of you who are experts In what is called نحو نحو is The linguistic rules And regulations Of the Arabic language Anyone who's an expert in that Will tell you That these verses are Amazing They have deep meaning Because ألف and لام Now I'm sure Most of us would actually Understand what that means ألف These are letters In the Arabic language ألف and لام أل That أل Has so many meanings In Arabic So many meanings So when Allah says أل عسر It means In English We just say The difficulty The hardship But that The In the Arabic language Actually refers to something Sometimes it's talking About all hardship All hardship It is called لستغراق الجنس That which actually includes Everything of its kind When you say أن ناس You are talking of All the people So it's not the people All the people That's Arabic language So In this verse الله said أل عسر It could mean All the difficulty But The linguistic experts Say no It's talking of The difficulty Why? For a reason Allah says With the difficulty There is ease Sometimes That ألف and لام Actually refers To something specific That people know للعهد It's called ألعهد ألعهد means Something you know about I'm talking about If I say Give me a book You don't know the book But if I say Give me the book Between you and me You know which book I'm talking about And if you don't You'll say Which book? I'll say The book Say which book? Then you give me The title of the book I expected you to know Because we are close We were talking about a book Now that we were talking About the book I'm telling you Give me the book Without batting an eyelid You give me a specific book The people watching Know that between you and I We were talking about Some specific book I used T-H-E To refer to a specific book So in the Arabic language When you said ألعصر You could be Referring to something That people know about But in that verse In that context Allah has not yet Spoken about something So when I say the book People need to ask Well, what book? When I say the hardship People might ask What hardship? So Allah says Wait He repeated the same verse Again Because when Allah said With the hardship There is ease And then he said إنما العصري يسرى And with the hardship Now which hardship Are you talking about? The one we just Spoke about now There is ease Which means With the same hardship There are two points of ease Wow Subhanallah Now do you get What it means? فإنما العصري يسرى Indeed with the hardship There is ease إنما العصري يسرى Indeed with the same hardship We were talking about In the previous verse There is another ease Which means If I add those two verses together It means With every hardship There are two points of ease What are the two points of ease? One is Allah will create ease for you Now this is another تفسير This is a third تفسير Allah creates ease For you in the dunya And Allah creates ease For you in the year after It's included in the meaning But I still prefer That which Abdullah Ibn Abbas said رضي الله عنهما He says This verse is speaking about Two points of ease With the same hardship Subhanallah And this gives me a lot of courage And a lot of encouragement It actually boosts me In so many different ways مي الله سبحانه و تعالى Grant us ease So those who are going through hardship Don't worry يا صاحب الهمي إن الهم منفريج أبشير بخير فإن الفارج الله إذا بوليت فثق بالله ورض به إن الذي يكشف البلوى هو الله أو you who is going through hardship Difficulty worry Concern Don't worry That worry is actually That concern that hardship Is going to go It has to go For indeed the one Who will cause it to go is Allah Give Be A person who has glad tidings Get the good news Of goodness that is going to follow For indeed Allah will alleviate your suffering Have hope in Allah Don't lose hope in Allah Keep on making dua A day, two days, three days I know of someone who was In their thirties Mid thirties Not married A female And she was a person who said I wanted to get married at sixteen That's how forward I was looking To having a husband Double that age Still not married And I'm making dua From the age of ten, twelve Oh Allah Get me married Oh Allah Get me married Oh Allah I want to get married Make it easy for me And it just didn't come So there are some types of people Some lose hope They stop making dua And that's it They can And some continue making dua They have hope She says When I was 36 years old 36 years old I got married To the prince of my dreams Can't happen Subhanallah You might have lost How many years? Twenty years But you still got Prince of your dreams Alhamdulillah Some of us stop dreaming Subhanallah May Allah make us all The princes and the kings And the queens And the princesses Of our spouses Imagine if you had to refer To your spouse How would you refer to your spouse? Anyone here Would call their wife Princess of my dreams Men are just looking at each other What's going on? Subhanallah I know One young man says Well If you want me to call her The princess I first need to be the prince You know May Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Create ease May Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Bless you all Remember The Quran is filled with beautiful verses Read the words of Allah They will bring comfort to the heart Read the words of Allah Read the life of Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam It will help you through any hardship Through every hardship Read his lifestyle His biography Go through the stories of the prophets Go through the stories of the companions See what you learn It will help you through your difficulty If you increase your ذكر The remembrance of Allah ألا بذكر الله تطمئن القلوب Allah says Indeed It is with the remembrance of Allah That the hearts become calm The hearts are collected Calm Down So remember Allah often Turn to Allah For indeed He is the one who will help you أقول قولي هذا