Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Difficulties and Good Come from the Same God [Hikam 105]
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The speaker discusses Allah's advice to make one's lives easier by focusing on issues that may arise, and emphasizes the importance of not hesitting to believe in the reward they receive. They also discuss the benefits of hardship, including focus on one's life and empathy for others, and emphasize the importance of positive experiences and a state in one's life. The speaker offers advice on dealing with difficult situations and offers advice on how to deal with difficult situations.
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If only we could appreciate this in the Arabic itself. But what
he's saying here is that to soften for you the suffering of
affliction,
to make it softer for you, to make it easier for you the suffering
affliction. He has taught you that he is the one who causes the
trials to come upon you.
To make it softer and easier for you. He's telling you that I'm the
one who's sending these issues to you. I am the one who's putting
you under trial.
For the one who confronts you with his degrees of fate is the same
who has accustomed to you.
His good choice seems a bit vague, but what he's basically saying is
that the one who is confronting you with his decrees of faith we
basically all the difficulties that may come upon us or
challenges that may come upon us.
All of those are decrees of Allah, they all within the decree of
Allah. So the one meaning ALLAH who's
confronting you with his decrees of fate, these difficulties?
Remember, he's the same one, the same being
who is also accustomed due to his good choice? What do you mean by
his good choice when he's favored you and done good things for you?
Are you saying that you've never had anything good in the world
there's some people have a few bit big issues. So then they think
that they just forget all the good things that have happened to them.
Because they're basically saying that right now made a bad thing.
So it doesn't matter what's happened two years ago, even
yesterday, what matters is now so even if for 10 years or 15 years
or even 50 years I've had a good and now I've just had a difficulty
that 50 is should be brushed out because what matters is every next
moment, but basically the idea is that if you had good times in the
past and inshallah the next, this could be overcome and then you
have a next one because Allah says that with every difficulty comes
ease.
Just remember that
when you keep in mind that the misfortunes that befall you from
Allah, this is what Sheikh Abdullah Gringo, he says in his
book of wisdoms, in the commentary come out of shame, when you keep
in mind that the misfortunes that befall you are from Allah Most
High, Allah knows about them. And Allah is the cause of everything.
The worldly causes, then have absolutely no significance in
disregards
you know, the anger, you feel that somebody who did something wrong
to you,
he cut you off or whatever. If you just start thinking, well, maybe
I, Allah wants that to happen to me, well, not maybe Allah wants
that to happen to me, suddenly, can you see how you take away your
whole aggression against that person?
He's just a tool. Now, he was just an excuse.
You know, it doesn't, I mean, of course, the crimes are committed
by people and there is that you know, punishment has to be has to
be provided and so on. But at the end of the day, this is a
management issue, that if you know Allah is with you, then you will
manage your life very, very well.
So then he says that the worldly causes, then will have absolutely
no significance in this regard, then the grief and sorrow will be
lessened.
You will realize that the being who has afflicted you with the
most misfortune is the same being who has always acted for your
welfare in your all your affairs. So all of 10 years 15 520 whatever
number of years has been good for you.
He is the one who's given you a little difficulty right now.
You know, if we can think like this, don't you think that we'd
forgive people much more easily.
We won't hold the grudge for too long.
It's amazing, isn't it?
But with Allah subhanaw taala once you recognize that everything
comes from Allah.
So we have to then realize that he's done good things for me as
well.
And he has always treated you with love and kindness before this.
Just this is a little lapse that he just wants to destabilize you a
bit. Just want you to remember him. Maybe he wants you closer to
Him. Because the fastest one of the fastest way to get closer to
Allah is by difficulty when you're patient over difficulty. If you
remember we read a few weeks ago that you
The purpose of it is that when you do have a loss or calamity, you
actually now believe that the reward you're getting right now is
more beloved to you than had you not had this loss and calamity,
and not being able to be patient.
In view of Allah's kind and loving treatment in all your affairs,
you know, just think back at all the positives. And that's what
counselors and psychologists will tell you do the same thing they
think back about good things that have happened to you. So in view
of Allah's kind of loving treatment in all your affairs, you
will understand that there most certainly is some benefit for you
in the hardship. Having had hardship before where it became a
positive thing afterwards. It made us stronger. A hardship makes you
stronger. A hardship makes you more cautious in the future. A
hardship makes you more appreciating, more grateful. A
hardship makes you more empathic to others. Right, you get more
sympathy for others, because you've been through difficulty. It
gives you greater experience. That's all the benefits of
difficulties.
This is Allah's world we're dealing with. So everything has a
purpose. So if you're looking at it from that perspective, you will
suddenly start realizing that there's some benefit in your
hardship. While Austin's ostensibly the hardship appears to
be a misfortune, I mean, obviously, the hardship as company
is going to look like a misfortune right now. But in reality, it is
for your benefit. In fact, it is a mercy for you. Because it's coming
from the Most Merciful One, that means he has to have mercy. When
this knowledge develops into a state now, that's what's
important. Now, all of this that we've studied, and we've been
reading, we know about it, then we'll forget it until we're
reminded again. But the important thing is that if you want this to
really help our life,
and help ourselves deal with difficulties, then this needs to
become our state. Where this is practice to such a degree that
every time something happens, we remember this
that two times three times four times it'll become our state, then
like when something difficult happens, instead of swearing or
something like that, we can actually say in that Allah, or may
Allah make this easy. Oh Allah, you know, something like that,
whatever, just something with Allah.
So when this, this knowledge should not just remain knowledge,
it should become a state, your worry and grief will disappear,
you'll be able to just deal with it instantly. Although the
hardship you have to remember the hardship will produce pain, if
you've been struck, May, God forbid, you will feel pain, you
might have to get a plaster, you might have to stay in bed. If it's
your car, you'll have to get it fixed. Or maybe you'd have to buy
a new car, maybe we'll have to look for a new job. But
Allah will just make it easy. Like imagine several things go wrong
with your car. So you're paying 120 pounds for brakes 100, and
something pounds for service, 300 pound for road Rotex 700 pound for
insurance, and then x, y, and Zed. And it all happened at once. You
know when your insurance was due when your mot was due? And it all
happened at once. So you end up like 15 1600 you could buy a new
car with that.
How do you deal with that?
Just think well,
Allah is making it difficult he's provided in the past, I've never
become absolutely a pauper. By doing this, what else am I going
to do? That's what it is. It's my curse word ALLAH given me I must
do it.
Or you can make a calculation by something else and describe this.
If it's worth doing that, you have to make that judgment call. But
this needs to become a state. Although the hardship may will
produce the pain to your physical body or to your physical heart.
Your spiritual heart, though will be contented and delighted that
yes, this is difficult, man. But you know what? Subhanallah I am
getting rewarded for this. Allah has something in store for me.
That's why Allah in Hola, hola. Hola. Hola. fanatee himolla home,
your husband,
the friends of Allah, they know they're in good company. la joven
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la joven Ali Baba has known, you know, these people who get caught
in things, but they've got context, right? So even if they
weren't put in prison for a while or wherever. They know that
they're quite content. I know somebody's gonna pull me out as a
bad example. Right?
But they know they're going to be pulled out even though they have
to get a bit humiliated. Right? But that's the world that's done.
Everything's done up context. This is Allah subhana wa Tada.
And the wonderful thing is that you might think but Allah doesn't
do that for me. Well, why don't you increase your positivity
towards Allah and see his positive
Everybody come through.
Because Allah says in a hadith and Cozzi, I am with my seven as he
thinks of me.
Because a lot of people are going to be thinking that but Allah
doesn't do that for me who am I?
You have the ability to be greater than so many other people.
If you just get it right,
if you think in the right way,
increase your positivity with Allah subhanaw taala and you will
see the positivity come from him as well. We ask Allah subhanaw
taala to make this a state for us and give us our fear and grant us
the ability to do that which pleases Him in whatever state we
are in working with that runner and Al Hamdulillah