Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Why You Get Upset With Your Suffering [Hikam 106]
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Continuing on from
the last aphorism, these few aphorisms are connected together.
So the last time we read aphorism number 105, on page 191, which was
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to soften or to soften for you the suffering of affliction. He has
taught you that he is the one who causes trials to come upon you.
For the one who confronts you with his decree of fate is the same,
who has accustomed you to his good choice. So that's the one we
discussed last session. This one
now is a culmination of that. And once we've understood that he
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Whoever supposes that his gentleness meaning Allah's
gentleness is separate from his decree of fate does so out of
short sightedness. Anybody who thinks that Allah subhanaw taala
has compassion, kindness, gentleness, doesn't is not part of
his decree. When He decrees something, especially when it's to
do with difficulty or sickness or loss or something, then a lot of
people they start thinking that there's no compassion involved in
here.
Because on the one hand, we hear that Allah subhanho wa Taala is
Rahman Rahim. We're dude. Jawad, Karim, Haleem, Rahul, all of these
attributes of beauty, forgiveness, mercy, compassion, love. So when
we have an affliction, we wonder where is all of that gone?
It's the same as if there's somebody who we think loves us,
who we think cares for us, like, let's just say a good teacher. We
think they care for us or a parent is probably the best examples. And
suddenly, one day they tell us off. They give us a rebuke. They
censor us, they tell us off.
They correct us for something and it seems harsh. So we think that
they don't like us anymore. There's no compassion left, there
is no mercy. Where's all the Mercy gone? Where's all the love gone?
They're probably having a bad day. These are the thoughts that go
through your mind. And these are the thoughts that some people may
have about Allah subhanaw taala, when they don't understand when
they saw mistaken about the nature of difficulties in this world. And
so he's clarifying here, that whoever suppose is that Allah's
gentleness is separate from his decree of fate, whatever that
decree of fate is. Right, whatever is happening at that moment, then
does so out of short sightedness. They only think this because
they're short sighted, they don't know Allah. That's why while this
book is a book on spirituality, spirituality is just
this in Islam, spirituality. That's why Islamic spirituality,
the so Sufism can never be separated from Islam. You get
these people, especially in America, and other places who like
the Rumi and so on, they want to be Sufi without being Muslim. They
don't want to make five daily prayers a day, but they don't mind
attending a vicar gathering. So the idea here is that this is the
whole idea of this is to get our understanding the magnifier of
Allah, the Oneness of Allah, the greatness of Allah, His
attributes, to get an understanding of that. And once we
get that understanding, our worship and devotion improve,
then we know when we're doing something right, it will stop us
from thinking the wrong way about Allah. And anybody who thinks
wrongly about Allah. That's really bad. Allah wants people to think
good about him, even in the worst of times, because that's who he
is. He wants us to know Him in reality, as he is, so nobody
should think essentially what he's saying is that anybody who thinks
that when a moment of Qatar, especially those that you don't
like, when a decree that we think is bad or unfavorable comes upon
us that we should not think that Allah subhanho wa Taala has mercy
He is not involved somehow in here, whether his compassion is
not part of this, it is part of this. This is for believers.
Of course, when it's punishment, it's punishment. For especially
for people who do not believe people who do people who deserve
that punishment, but anybody who wants is telling us that this is
not the way you should think. Subhan Allah, it's one of the
greatest gifts of Allah, you could say, it's one of the greatest
gifts of Allah subhanho wa taala. His greatest favors
that on believers, because Allah says in the Quran, Allah who will
lead you will mean Allah is the friend of the believers, Allah, it
looks after the believers, Allah takes care of the believers, Allah
is in charge of the believers.
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Allah loves those who believe, and those who believe love Allah, that
is, has to be there. So a believer is loved by Allah subhanaw taala.
And humans in general, are loved by a life they just give Allah the
chance, if they just open up their hearts, for mercy, and for that
love to come. So it's one of the greatest gifts of Allah subhanaw
taala and His favours that his compassion
and his gentleness will never separate from any decree of his.
Just remember that next time, there must be some decree in this,
there must be some compassion, a subtle hand of compassion that we
can recognize. That's something that will never exist. That's who
Allah subhanaw taala is. So anytime that any decree comes upon
us, either just before it, some kind of gentleness or compassion
would have passed, and it will come along with it.
And how do we know this? How do you prove this? Am I just making a
claim just making you think a certain way? Now, this should be
understood both through our reveal sources which tell us how Allah
subhanaw taala does things in this world, through Quran and Sunnah.
And it also tells you, if you think about it, you can actually
come to a rational decision regarding this. So let's look at
the rational understanding first, how intellectually you can come to
this decision. So firstly, any masiva any calamity, difficulty or
loss that comes upon a servant of Allah, you have to remember that
in the arsenal of Allah,
in the repository, from where things come, Allah subhanaw taala
has endless ways of doing things. So what's come to us that lists
lost that we're having,
whatever it may be, there can be something so much greater than
Allah could have sent to us.
Thank Allah, it's only this.
Right? It's only this. And in fact, we should think that that's
happened to other people. There's people who suffered much more,
there's people who are suffering a lot more.
So if we have trouble, but yet mashallah, we've got food to eat
and everything, but we've got some other trouble. There are people
who've got that trouble plus no food to eat.
Plus no place to live.
So whenever a mercy becomes upon any human being, just think of
those who have a worse situation.
Allah subhanaw taala is the same one who's dealing with them, just
as he's dealing with you. Hasn't he dealt with you in a more
merciful way? Just from your perspective? Do you think that's
his mercy? How many how many human beings are there today? Who are
being Subhan? Allah in China, for example? How many Muslims there
who are going through that suffering? Subhan Allah?
May Allah subhanaw taala bring about respite for them? And
there's people in other places Muslim or non Muslim who are being
cut up, shred to pieces killed?
How many of them are dealing with deadly diseases?
Leprosy
just really deadly diseases in really bad COVID situations. Some
people are insane. They just can't think they're dealing with
insanity, madness, no cure for them. Some people, they, they're
blind.
They're dealing with blindness. May Allah make it easy for them.
No, may Allah make it easy. I mean, each of these people if they
make suffer, the people who are blind and people who are insane,
the mean insane one might be very difficult. Those people they don't
but the blind person has mashallah and ability to turn all of this
into good deeds, their entire life.
How many of those people you've seen they've been sent to
hospital?
By their families or they brought themselves in hospitals, they've
gone to specialists, they cannot figure out what their problem is.
And they have pain and they are suffering and have absolutely no
idea what's going on. They have spent huge amounts, not Allah
Afia the IMA feed darling, we ask Allah subhanaw taala for
wellbeing, his permanent well being that he can give us in both
the worlds. So that is the intellectual way of looking at it,
that what's happened to you? Is it as bad as what's happened to
others couldn't have Allah subhanaw taala put you somewhere
else and put you in a much worse state. So can you see not a bit of
compassion and kindness of Allah subhanaw taala towards you as
well. Now when it comes to the Quran and Sunnah, then it's very
clear. And, and the reason is that Allah subhanaw taala has put
sickness and he tests people in this world with sickness. But the
beautiful thing is that there are so many rewards. There are so many
rewards that have been promised for various different forms of
ailments. In fact, Allah subhanaw taala has upgraded so many
elements if especially if you die if you die from them into a
shahada into martyrdom, which is one of the highest forms of
Recompense because when you die as a martyr, the difference right,
there's a lot of good deeds, but if you die as a martyr,
it has a huge impact in your brother.
Because it's for the martyrs that it's written that they're not dead
for the first part, especially, you know, the proper martyrs. And
number two, their souls are going around in Jannah, or by the door
of Jannah or whatever, they have a special status. Martyrdom has a
very special status you know Salah is very good as a huge amount of
reward, because a Martin most likely is going to be praying
salata as well. Right. But that has a very, very special status.
So Allah subhanaw taala is saying that or our deen tells us that if
you do have if you are troubled and afflicted by a sickness, pain
somewhere diseases somewhere there's so many Hadith and
verses about then pretty much all the verses about suburb apply
here. Whereas the suburb for when else are you going to do suburb?
If it's not for the difficulties upon the difficulties when else
are we going to do suburbs? And for Subhan Allah subhanho wa Taala
says in Surah Zoomer in nama your for sabe Runa Agera Hoon be Lady
haisa In nama UEFA sobre una Jerome believed the ASA that those
who the patient ones, Allah subhanho wa Taala will fully fully
give them fully grant them their reward without any kind of a
mounting of it without any kind of limit. It just
bucketfuls of it, or huge worlds of it. You know, whatever is great
in the, you know, in in Allah subhanho wa Taala system, then
Allah subhanaw taala in Surah Baqarah whoever she is soldering
is numerous, give glad tidings to the patient ones. Then Allah
subhanho wa Taala says in Surah Al
Baqarah, again in Allaha mas sobbing Allah is with the patient
once. That's another kindness of his UB. So if you have a
difficulty and you start doing sub Allah is with you.
That's quite an amazing way to think about it. You have
difficulty you have COVID you start making Sabha and Allah is
with you. Subhan Allah, Allah subhanaw taala gives us the
difficulty. Then he gives us the sub, and then he says, Okay, I'm
going to be with you and I'm going to help you out. Amazing. The
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam there's so many I had so
many verses about this but just to keep it brief, a hadith one famous
one now you'll see Bill min min wasabi wallet, wasabi. Wallet
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very clear that any believer, any believer who's afflicted by a
difficulty, by a suffering by a sickness by a grief by a sorrow,
whatever, right such that even a prick
you've got a zip, you know, because nowadays we're you know,
we're not going outside you know getting pricked by a thorn is you
know, let's have the modern you know bricks of thorns or whatever
it is a zip or something little piece of metal is coming out of a
wall or something you get pricked by it and you get cut, or any
suffer any any grief or anxiety.
You make sober and Allah subhanaw taala will start removing your bad
deeds from that. So now this tells us from a from a perspective of
the Quran and Sunnah. What's happening when the difficulty
comes to how can you say that there's no mercy as part of this.
So there's mercy as part of this in the sense that it could have
been something worse, Allah just wanted to give it to you for this
reason. And number two, Allah is going to be removing your sin is
going to be purifying you is going to make you closer to him. And
he's going to give you lots and lots of reward when you make
something about this. So is the Mercy absent. That's why he's
saying that the person is short sighted,
is hypnotic. Allah knows what he's talking about.
Really, it's experiential knowledge. Yes, based on, you
know, an experience that he's had.
There's numerous other ahaadeeth that
shift if not a bird, and many others, they've written about this
subject and
you can read up numerous other lectures and so on. So I'll read
to you a shake up the log and go how he explains this. He says the
idea that Allah's gentleness is only with the servant in the state
of pleasure and prosperity. In fact, sometimes a person is in
pleasure and prosperity, everything is happening as they
want. It's just going to Well, that could actually be a
punishment, because eventually it will end all of a sudden, and
there'll be a rude awakening. So that's not the case. So Allah is
He saying that the idea that Allah's gentleness is only with
the servant in the state of pleasure and prosperity, not in
the state of difficulty and hardship, is the product of
deficiency of the intellect, the believing servant who holds this
notion is lacking in Insight, because his gaze is limited to the
external circumstances. We're just looking at the immediate pain Man,
look, I can't get up. I can't play my football. I can't go out. I
can't do this. I can't do it this pain. Why is it therefore? Why did
the car break down?
They're just looking at that, in difficulties and hardships. The
believer achieves inner bounties that he does not acquire in
prosperity.
so easily. In fact, in the luxuries and the state of
prosperity, there are numerous calamities involved. Because when
the ego acquires the object of its pleasure, it gains strength.
That's one of the challenges of it. Hence, its rebellion will
increase. It will thus become involved in sin easily, if not
sin, then at least it will certainly fall into forgetfulness.
On the contrary, in difficulties and hardships, the power of the
ego weakens, since faith exists. Now. See, if you don't have faith
at this time, it could be very, very dangerous, because you
already messed up in the world, and then psychologically, you're
messed up. Now spiritually, you're messed up because you have no god
to call on to. At least for the believers, if you're physically
have a problem, psychologically, you're suffering, you at least got
this spiritual connection, there's a window open to Allah subhanaw
taala that look Allah, especially after you hear these things.
So since faith exists, Alhamdulillah Allah Iman, you
know, all praises to Allah on the faith has given us because we'd be
in worse off states. Now the stories you hear people being
troubled in COVID At least we as believers have a way of look, it's
a it's a Mercy of Allah, it's a punishment of Allah, it's Allah's
will. You know, we're being rewarded for the patient that
helps. Can you imagine if you don't have a way to think of it
His way this misery, we just want to go out? We just want to protest
on the streets. Get rid of this locked down, we'd rather get the
disease than not get it Oh, it's all a big
you know, it's all a big conspiracy. You know, maybe a
conspiracy for two three weeks, but not a young man. Come on. This
is a very big conspiracy, if it is, you know, for a year now come
on, like over a year. How big is this conspiracy?
People are still not getting it. Subhanallah so since faith exists,
the servant turns his gaze towards Allah Most High he supplicate to
Allah Most and adopts patience. He turns away from the world and
cultivates the attributes of contentment with the Divine
Decree. These attitudes are the act or acts of the heart which are
superior to the outward acts of worship, executed by a healthy
person in a state of peace. Subhanallah that's a really
powerful statement. You know, when the heart connects to Allah,
that's that stronger than when you just do external acts of worship.
Now, of course, if you can connect your heart while you're doing
external acts of worship, then that is the best. May Allah grant
us that. Thus it is a deficiency in one's intelligence to believe
that Allah Most Thais mercy is lifted during difficulties and
hardship. It is very much present. And we ask Allah subhanho wa Taala
to drain chest and shower us in His mercy allow him to sit her
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we ask you for your special mercy we ask You for Your forgiveness of
Allah We fall we fall we become weak we have shortcomings we have
problems of Allah we have weaknesses of Allah we have sins
Oh Allah, forgive us our misdeeds of Allah forgive us our violation
so Allah forgive us our shortcomings. Forgive us our sins.
So Allah, those we do in a moment of weakness those we do purposely
Oh Allah, those that we forgotten about those that we remember how
Allah protect us and stop us from doing wrong so Allah make us
recipients of Your mercy recipients of your forgiveness. So
Allah allow us to treat the wrongdoings as wrongdoings and the
wrong is the wrong. And Oh Allah, we ask that you allow us to
abstain from the wrongs and allow us to see the good as the good and
allow us to do the good of Allah, we ask that you are you. You give
us the ability to control ourselves, our
our tongues, our sights, our ears, our hands, our minds of Allah in a
way that is pleasing to you, of Allah that you do not allow us to
expand them and use them and utilize them in the wrong means.
So Allah make us forces for good change in this world, for positive
change in this world allow us to live a positive and beneficial
legacy. Allow us to make the home a place of happiness, a place of
stability, a place of love and affection, a place where we can
bring up the next generation which is our responsibility, oh Allah
protect us, our families and our generations and our progeny is
until the day of judgment of Allah bless all of those who facilitate
these programs are Allah those who listen, Oh Allah, those who take
part in our life accept all of us. Oh Allah accept all of us remove
this pandemic from us, keep us protected. Oh Allah, you have
given us so much more than so many others in this world. Oh Allah.
Allow us to think of you and understand you in the right way.
Give us your proper understanding and Gnosis and awareness. Do not
allow us to have be short sighted regarding you have hola what a
detriment that will be on the Day of Judgment, what an embarrassment
what a sense source of loss it will be on the day of judgment if
we've misunderstood you and we've not worshipped you in the correct
way and we've done the wrong and transgressed our like scepters our
lug fulfill our permissible needs and our lucky bus away from the
wrong even if we feel that there's some benefit in the Oh Allah we
are sent abundant blessings in our messenger Muhammad sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam grant us his company in the hereafter Subhana
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