Abu Bakr Zoud – Patience During Calamity Becomes Easy When You Reflect on This
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The speaker discusses the importance of patience in gaining rewards and gaining opportunities. They give examples of how the fruit of patience was apparent in a book and how it became easy for people to obtain it. The speaker emphasizes the importance of having faith in All subjects to gain reward and opportunities.
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Al-'ulamā' they said, man ihtasaba al-ajra, hāna
alayhi al-sabr.
The one who seeks Allah's reward and looks
forward to Allah's reward for the pain of
the calamity you are experiencing, patience becomes so,
so easy.
Let me give you an example, Ibn Qudamah,
he mentions in his book, Mukhtasar Minhaj al
-Qasim al-Basideen, a wonderful book, but he
wrote there a few lines that are gold
and he gave an example, he said, imagine
a king told a poor man, every time
I whip you with this stick I have,
I will give you a thousand dinar, right?
Every whip, every lash, I'm going to give
you a thousand dinar.
You know that the poor man would love,
would love to be lashed many, many times.
Not because he enjoys the pain of being
lashed, but because he's looking forward to the
millions and millions of dinar and dollars that
he's going to receive at the end of
it.
Allāhu Akbar.
And this is how the righteous used to
go through their sickness and their pains.
And that's how patience became very easy upon
them, because they looked forward to the reward.
What is Allāh going to give me?
What Allāh is going to give you is
so huge and so big to look forward
to, that the pain doesn't become anything anymore.
What's the pain then?
What's the pain compared to what Allāh is
going to give you?
Ikhwāni, if I said to you, there's a
whip, come, I'll lash you a hundred times
and I'll give you a million dollars.
Wallāhi, you'd be the first to go on
your knees and raise your shirt, yallā lash
me, I don't care, I'll handle the pain,
so what?
But at the end I'm looking forward to
what I'm going to get in my hands.
That we understand.
That kind of worldly pain, we understand, we're
willing to go through.
Why?
Because we see money in front of us,
we know the value of money.
But most of us, Wallā hawla wallā quwwata
illa billah, don't value Allāh's reward.
We don't value the ḥasanāt, we don't value
it, so we don't care about it.
And so as a result, we're just thinking,
we're in this life now, how am I
going to handle this pain?
Where's the reward?
I can't see it.
But this is all part of your faith
in Allāh.
This is all part of your faith in
Allāh, that you believe Allāh would give you
a reward for it in the hereafter.