Ali Ataie – Having Patience & Hope Through This World’s Discomforts
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This is recorded by Imam
Muslim.
The world is the prison of the believer.
The world is the prison of the believer.
Meaning that we are not meant to be
too comfortable
in this world.
That the believer, the moment,
should feel a type
of constriction
in this world.
Of course, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
does not give us more than we can
handle.
There are degrees
of comfort and joy
in the dunya,
but the overarching sense
of the world for the believer
is one of
constriction,
of tightness, of discomfort, like a prison cell.
Thus, life in the dunya requires
patience and hope.
Even a of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Even a saint of
God
whose desires have completely aligned
with the Quran and sunnah
is not comfortable in this world. Especially a
saint of God.
I should say and this is one of
the definitions
by the way
of of
nearness to Allah.
The
not if you truly believe
until
his Hawa, his desires
are perfectly in accordance
with what I have brought.
So what did the prophet
bring? He brought the Quran and Sunnah.
That is to say, he brought the word
of God in text
and the word of God in practice.
He brought the Quran
and he agreed upon and well known
ethos
and custom
of the prophet
which is the Quran's
greatest
exegesis.
The
is the greatest
of the Quran.
So, Allah
for example, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us
in the Quran speaking directly to the prophet
Muhammad
that verily, verily, you dominate magnificent character.
Your ethos is vast.
What is this
that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is speaking about?
The sunnah tells us
that He salallahu alayhi wasalam
waszaibanfishri
saflanfuluqi
That He was
always cheerful,
He was easygoing,
He was affable.
He was gentle.
He was not harsh.
He was not coarse.
He was not lewd or crude.
He was a real man,
as our mother, Aisha
describes him as well as
in the Quran and the Sunnah?
Now imagine a Wali of God,
a friend of God
whose desires
have aligned
perfectly with the Quran and Sunnah,
whose joy is to pray and fast,
whose joy is to restrict his appetites,
whose joy is to read and study the
Quran,
Whose joy is to give charity.
Even he is not comfortable
in the dunya.
Why?
Because he longs to be with Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala in the
also he longs to be with the prophet
in Jannah.
That's called show. That's called longing.
And is discomforting,
longing for once beloved
due to a
due to a separation
causes anxiety.
When
he was on his deathbed in Damascus, Syria,
his wife was screaming.
Oh, disaster.
Oh, calamity.
He said,
and his fellowship.
Say Nabi love
the prophet
with a love that was unbelievable.
The message of the prophet
saved
the in every way imaginable.
When the prophet
passed away, had
separation
anxiety
that only
death could
cure.
The prophet
in his fatal illness, called his daughter Fatima
Zahara.
And told her a secret.
Because of which,
she started weeping.
For Bakkak.
Then he called her and told her another
secret.
And she started laughing.
Well I asked her about that. She replied.
The prophet
told me that he would die in his
fatal illness.
And so I left.
But then he secretly told me
that from amongst his family,
I would be the first to join him.
So I left.
What makes a woman
in her early twenties
laugh at death?
The answer is reunion
with her beloved.
This is why the people of Naifa,
They say
about the
So we should know the nature of the
world.
We should be cognizant
of the essence of the dunya.
Allah
says
in
the
Quran,
Indeed, we will test you with something of
fear
and hunger
and loss of wealth and loss of lives
and loss of the fruits of your labor
and some say means the loss of your
children.
The address here, the
addressee,
the is second person common and plural. In
other words, Allah
is speaking to humanity.
But then Allah
without skipping a beat says,
but give glad tidings to the patient ones.
Now the addressee is second person
masculine singular.
This sudden change in addressee is called It
is a rhetorical device Quran.
But who is this new addressee?
Who is the second person masculine singular The
answer is the prophet
Muhammad So, after telling us that he will
test us with calamity and disaster.
Allah
commands the prophet
to give glad tidings, to give bushraw to
the patient ones.
In other words, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is
telling us that the source of our relief
is
the prophet
The dunya is indeed our prison.
But take take solace in the fact
that when we get out of prison,
we will have a defense lawyer as it
were,
an advocate to intercede on our behalf
with the judge of judges,
with the king of kings.
We are now in prison, but we have
hope. And remember I said
that prison requires
and the rajah.
It requires patience
and hope.
Allah
says
You have in the messenger of God, a
beautiful example of conduct.
For anyone who has vote
in Allah
and in the final day
and makes frequent remembrance of Allah
Look to him
for our relief. He is the greatest embodiment
of the mercy of Allah.
This
I am the prophet of mercy. I am
a gifted mercy. Even Ajiba says in the
that
the meaning of this verse, is
that he is
a
cause of happiness.
In both abodes in this world and in
the hereafter.
He is the means of our guidance and
salvation.