Abdul Nasir Jangda – Confidence – Overcoming Adversity – Stories from the Seerah

			The Prophet sallallahu Sallam had a very special relationship with his uncle embleton him. Ever
since the age of a double tala was the man who raised the prophets a lot he sent him. His father
passed away. A couple of months before his mother gave birth to him. His mother passed away when he
was only six years old. His grandfather passed away when he was eight years old, he did not have any
biological siblings. So I will tell you it was basically the family of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wasallam. When the prophets a lot of them started preaching and teaching his message, particularly
when he went public with his message in the city of Mecca. There was a lot of opposition and
		

			frustration, and even anger from the people of Makkah towards the prophets a lot SLM, Abu Talib, the
uncle of the Prophet sallallahu Sallam the entire time, even though he was a leader of the Quraysh.
And he was a very important figure in Mecca. But Abu Talib had given the prophets a lot of them is
full support. And the benefit of is protection saying nephew, you do whatever it is that you feel
like you need to do whatever you think the right thing is, and don't worry, you have my protection,
you have my support.
		

			Eventually, when the situation really came to a head,
		

			a lot of the leaders of the quarter is pretty much the entirety of the leadership of the Quraysh.
They got together, and in the form of a very formal delegation, they came to Abu Talib, and they
spoke to him. And they leveled with him or, and they tried to reason with him.
		

			Again, of course, from their perspective, and they said that, you know,
		

			we've been dealing with this situation in regarding your nephew for quite some time, it's gotten to
the point where we can no longer deal with it, we can no longer tolerate it. We have a lot of
proposals and offers, there's a lot of things that we can offer to him, there's a lot of things that
we can do for him. But we need you to rein him in, we need you to either give them up,
		

			you know, stop protecting him, which I will tell him looked at them and said, You know, that's not
going to happen. Then they said, Okay, well, at the very least you need to convince him to
compromise with us and work with us and sit down with us and negotiate with us. And keep in mind the
profits a lot. decem was a very agreeable, a very pragmatic, very practical person. But when they're
talking about negotiating, they don't mean an actual real negotiation of terms of peace or anything
like that. What they basically mean is that he's got to just completely abandon his position and
stop doing what he's doing. So I will call him calls for the profits, allottee sentiment, the
		

			profits, a lot of the same comes. And he sees all these leaders of Croatia and he realizes something
is up, and it will dial up says, Look, these are your brothers, these are your elders. These are
like your uncle's from your people. And they have such and such complaints about you. And these are
the requests that they have of you. Why don't you Please sit down? Why don't you work with them
Don't be so difficult. And
		

			at that moment, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, I want you to again, just really process
the moment. And I want you to process the emotion. This is like the only person in the corner of the
prophets allottee salaam, his uncle, the man who raised him who's like, he's his family. He's like a
parent to him.
		

			And this man is basically now telling the prophets, a lot of them in front of the opposition to the
prophets a lot so that I need you to
		

			be a little less difficult. I need you to work with these people. And want you to imagine what that
feels like. There, there, there could be a feeling of abandonment, of being isolated, of being left
out to just kind of being left out alone.
		

			And then nobody in your corner.
		

			And I want you to imagine how difficult and challenging that moment is where you feel like you're
alone. You feel like you're isolated. You feel like nobody has your back. Like you're cornered,
you're pinned against the wall.
		

			And in that moment, how does the profits validation push through and overcome that moment of
adversity?
		

			He says Yami Oh, my beloved uncle Well, lucky, lo Waldo shum, Sufi emini with a comma fee sad that
even if which they cannot, but even if it's an expression, Arabic, that they could put the sun in my
right hand and the moon in my left hand like if they could give me everything in anything I could
ever ask for.
		

			He says that I would not stop preaching my message. I would not stop doing what I'm doing. until
either my mission the tasks that God has sent me for is realized, or I die trying
		

			Lakin matakohe
		

			I will never quit, I will never stop.
		

			And the narration The story goes on that the prophets allowed him as tears in his eyes because he
feels like he's maybe lost, I will tell him
		

			and he turns around with tears in his eyes, he starts to walk away and Abu Talib realizes kind of
the, the what the prophets, a lot of them is feeling and what he's going through. And he calls out
in front of all the opposition and calls out to the prophets a lot. He says, nephew, you keep doing
what you got to do, what you think it whatever it is, that is the right thing to do. You keep doing
what you got to do. And you still have my support and my protection. And he turns to the opposition,
he says, I'm sorry, but I can't help you.
		

			Moments of difficulty and adversity will arise. And a lot of times they present themselves in the
form where you have some opposition, you have some you have an adversary, you're being picked on by
someone, you're being singled out by someone, you're being persecuted by someone. And they're trying
to pull all of your support mechanisms away from you. And you start to feel like you're isolated and
alone. The solution. The key to overcoming that adversity
		

			is resolve. Be resolute and have resolve
		

			and have conviction. Never doubt yourself in that moment. But know who you are and what you believe
in why you're doing what you're doing. And you will be able to overcome that moment have a moment of
adversity. And not only that, but your your resolve in that situation, your strength and conviction.
Your confidence in that moment, will inspire others around you, to rally behind you and to support
you and to get behind you. May Allah subhanaw taala give us all confidence in our faith, the ability
to know and do what is right and give us resolve and strength in the face of adversity.