Haifaa Younis – Do we understand the meaning for a Test
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When the weather change, like, 3 months ago,
I think if I remember well, there was
a possibility of a tornado or whatever. Right?
We were Muftaddun.
It was a test. It's a severe weather,
right, we were Mu'tadun, we were guided,
we have practiced Sabr and Salah and we
are with Allah, so when the test comes
in, I wouldn't say I'm ready, but my
response will be the way that Allah wants
me.
So take home message,
especially from this,
we all will be tested.
This dunya harihi Daruktila,
that's how they call it. This dunya Daruktila.
This life is a place of a test,
and the test in 2 ways because I
don't want you to keep thinking test is
bad.
So if I'm healthy, I'm not tested.
If I am sick, I'm not tested.
Both.
What does that mean?
When you are healthy, alhamdulillah, all of us
now, right? Meaning I can see,
I can think, right, I can walk, doesn't
matter what else, but at least the major
ones.
I am tested.
What are you doing with this health?
And when I am sick,
I can't do what the healthy people
do.
I am tested
how I'm gonna respond.
So the test is different like when you
have 2
desserts, they're all desserts
or 1 is this, 1 is that
and 1 people like and 1 people
doesn't like, but in both ways what does
Allah want from me when I'm eating dessert?
He wants me to be
grateful.
When I am being tested,
I have everything, I'm tested, I don't have
anything, I am tested. The response needs to
be the same.
Question for everybody.
May Allah not test us the same way.
Which 1 is better?
Us in the sight of Allah?
Us
or the people of Gaza?
I wanna hear it.
I'm sorry?
Why?
Okay. So the people of us. Why?
I'm sorry?
No habibati. This is what I wanted to
change. Don't you think their test is worse
than us?
No.
You will be asked about the luxury.
You know what's a naim?
The luxury?
You think the luxury is a is a
home on the beach?
Said Nabla Abnaba said
the naim,
the the drink of a cold water when
you are thirsty.
The sip of a cold water when you
are thirsty, this is nayim.
You will be asked about that.
So which 1 is better? Which 1 in
the sight of Allah
responding to a test?
The test of Gaza is tough
externally,
and our test is
not tough externally.
But it's both tests, and he's waiting for
the response.
Right?
Which 1?
Which 1 is tougher?
Which 1 failed?
And which 1 did not fail?
1 person, raise your hand.
Yes, Mariam.
I'm I can't hear you.
It's not about here.
It's about response. Hear about action.
Hear about action. Of course it's taqwa if
I'm thinking of Allah.
Right?
Which 1 is better?
Our
test is better.
Our test is better? Because we have so
many,
easily. Right? If we keep
steadfast still and If if if
if are we?
Are we focused? Again, because
the goal of this, maybe it's gonna be
next week and the week after,
is not only to feel for the people
of Gaza because that's this is taken.
What did I learn?
Why did Allah this brought this to my
life?
And I'm living it
day by day.
Now we used to live it through the
social media. Now we are living it through
people going and coming back, and they saw
and they share. What does he want from
me? That's the most important thing.
Right?
Now what I need to do is the
following.
Identify your test,
And the test, again, is not negative always.
What test you are going test of health,
test of wealth,
test of beauty,
test of children,
test of a good spouse,
test of education,
test of religion,
test of being religious,
test of being half of the Quran.
These are all tests. How do you respond?
How do you respond?
If I am gonna respond in a way
not pleasing to Allah, I failed it.
So if I am busy collecting
and enjoying
all the time. Doesn't mean don't enjoy.
Don't forget your share from dunya. The people
said to Karun,
multimillionaire,
billionaire,
don't forget your share from Dunya. But number
1, what Allah gave you,
us
1 question,
all this,
where is akhirah in your daily life?
Healthy.
You have everything.
Doesn't matter. You have a 1 bedroom apartment
or you have a house. You have a
you have
a roof as the I still remember that
surgeon who looked at me and says, oh,
we're living in Paris,
And here I am
living in Paris,
half a room, the half is full with
furniture, the other 1 only for her. The
son sleeps
outside. And the bathroom don't ask me how
many people are using it. And she rubbed
the face, me and doctor Henna with me.
And she said, if you only saw where
we were, at least there is no bombing
on our head.
So when
we are all tested,
how are you responding?
How are you responding?
And don't you think,
and this is to everybody myself, number 1,
when Allah keep giving us
that mean we are okay
or Allah loves me. By the way, the
sign of love of Allah is never a
dunya,
otherwise he would have given it to Rasul
alaihis salat Rasul,
right?
We'll give them more time, let them collect
more sins.
So here I am when I see this
clips coming from Gaza,
right? And somebody says Alhamdulillah and they're
dead in front of them or the whole
house is destroyed, you've seen that very famous
clip in the beginning says Alhamdulillah now he
his response, some response is exactly what Allah
want, now when I have a house
and I don't have
and I'm not living in a war and
I have no issues and I look around
and I see beautiful everything around me, what
is my response?
Is it Alhamdulillah
the way He pleases Him or Alhamdulillah to
put the tongue?
Did you see my point? Because that's how
we learned.
The other 1, and I wanna probably gonna
end up here is when Allah said again
why You Rabbi?
This is in Surat Mohammed all the way
at the end. Why?
Me. No. Why why I'm tested? Allah doesn't
love me. It has nothing to do with
love.
Has nothing to do with love because there's
nobody Allah loves more than the prophets, right?
Sayyidina Musa,
so we know who those
will struggle
for the sake of Allah and don't think
again of struggle
the harsh way you know what's the biggest
struggle? When you are the only woman who
wears hijab in your school,
when you are the only woman who dress
properly in the middle of everybody in August
because it is hot and you still cover.
You are you are struggling
when everybody around you
looks different, tells you who you are, what
are you doing to yourself, and you're steadfast.
And
now I am struggling, and I need a
lot of patience to stay
on the straight path.
And I in the midst of everything I
was seeing, I was like, what is the
big deal for the woman in Gaza to
wear hijab? Everybody is wearing hijab.
Everybody.
But come here.
Come here. Whether a Muslim or a non
Muslim,
you are a minority,
Let alone a minority among
minority.
We are all tested.
In in adversity, we are tested, and in
prosperity, we are tested. The question is, how
are you responding?
So remember this anytime now. I hope when
now you're seeing
the the scenes that's still coming from Gaza,
now you start to reflect on yourself.
Not only them and praise them and make
dua and do everything we need to do,
but the most important thing, I cannot face
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and he made me
live this for months now and Allah knows
how long it will take
and then I learned nothing
and I changed nothing,
then I have a problem.
Then please forgive me. My
faith is fake.
I'm talking about the the real connection. I'm
not talking about being Muslim,
but by being the real Muslim faithful believer
to Allah once.
If nothing changed,
same,
then I have a problem.
Then all this
in front of me did not change me,
and
SubhanAllah he will look and says what else
I'll do to you people?
That's why another concept in the Quran
kept coming to me and said
walk on this earth,
earth.
What does it mean see?
See,
see, and he puts many
things after
many
things. So you when you see this for
the last 6 months and you are not
walking physically in Earth, but you're seeing it,
it's coming to us within a second.
Right? As if I traveled and then came
back.
And
see,
what did you learn?
These are all questions I'm throwing it to
everybody because that's how we need to react.
What did you learn? What did it change
in you, if anything?
And if it didn't change anything, you way
do, I say this to myself.
Woe on me.
And again, I'm not trying to make you
feel bad, but we need to really learn
and wake up so we are ready.
We are ready. If Allah test us, may
Allah not, but if He want
we already are prepared and ready.
May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala make us among
those people who listen to the word of
admonition
and You Rabbi benefit and help. May Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala not test us the way
that he is testing them. May Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala not test us in any way
that we are not able to use this
test to get to Jannah and to get
close to him.