Abu Bakr Zoud – Calamities – Is Allah Against Me

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			How Allah works? We don't know, but we
		

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			accept the calamity. Don't think that Allah is
		

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			against you.
		

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			Rather, this calamity is a purification for you.
		

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			It's cleansing you. It's preparing you for the
		

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			meeting with Allah.
		

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			It's giving you a chance
		

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			to exercise the beautiful patience Allah wants to
		

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			see.
		

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			How can you be patient if you never
		

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			tested in your patience?
		

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			How can you practice this beautiful worship of
		

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			patience
		

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			if you never tested?
		

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			So Allah wants to elevate you. So he
		

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			tests you to bring out this beautiful worship
		

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			of patience.
		

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			And the beautiful worship of a dua, and
		

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			the beautiful worship of
		

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			seeking his help.
		

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			All of these are worships of the heart.
		

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			It will never come out if you're not
		

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			tested.
		

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			So no. It's not the matter of fact
		

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			that Allah is against you. Otherwise, what are
		

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			we gonna say about prophets?
		

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			Allah was against them all along.
		

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			No one will say this.
		

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			So don't understand wrong.
		

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			The tests are there for a for a
		

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			reason and Allah already promised us this. It's
		

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			not like coming out of the blue.
		

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			He said, be shame, be not sin. We're
		

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			gonna test you with loss.
		

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			And and the reason for why Allah told
		

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			us this is so that we become more
		

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			acceptable of it. We prepare for it. You
		

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			know, like if I was a teacher, I
		

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			came into the classroom and I said brothers
		

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			and sisters, you have an exam
		

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			today. You are all shocked. What do you
		

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			mean? You didn't tell us. We are not
		

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			prepared.
		

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			I mean, imagine I'm a teacher and I
		

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			said to you brothers,
		

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			in a month's time, you have an exam.
		

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			So, a month's time, come I give you
		

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			the exam. Is anyone shocked?
		

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			No. But Allah told us in the Quran,
		

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			we will test you with loss.
		

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			But when the loss comes,
		

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			didn't Allah already tell you? Whoever's wrong.
		

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			There's 1 or 2 things. Either Allah did
		

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			not tell you or you're not reading the
		

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			Quran and reading what Allah has promised you.
		

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			1 of 2.
		

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			So the believers prepared.
		

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			Quran.
		

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			It shapes the mind, it shapes the attitude,
		

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			it puts you on that path that you're
		

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			supposed to be with Allah