Haifaa Younis – Test versus A Blessing
AI: Summary ©
The speaker discusses various topics related to Islam, including gratitude, joy, and the importance of staying true to Islam. They encourage listeners to be grateful and to not
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AI: Summary ©
You want more, be grateful.
وَإِن شَكَرْتُمْ لَأَزِيدَنَّكُمْ It's a statement of condition.
You do this, you will get this.
You're grateful, Allah will give you more.
وَإِن كَفَرْتُمْ Ungrateful, my punishment is severe.
He didn't say what's gonna happen.
So you want more, Allah gave you one
thing, Allah gave you whatever.
I mean for the youth, gave them the
thing they want.
Whatever they were asking, dying to ask their
parents.
And finally they said yes.
You want more of that, then be more
grateful.
First thing we should do when Allah give
us something we want.
Small or big.
What is it?
You prostrate to Allah out of gratefulness.
That means you did this first.
You felt it's from Allah immediately.
You remember, I'm sure many of you.
How many of you love soccer?
Right?
These days, the Muslims are playing, right?
And they score a goal.
What do they do?
They prostrate.
It's beautiful.
Because they have been playing for 90 minutes.
Right?
And this is the last one.
They will win.
And they didn't say we were very hard.
I go immediately, gratefulness to Allah.
You want more, be grateful.
You complain from A to Z.
And you don't use it or I don't
use it.
The way pleases Allah, I'm telling Allah take
it away.
I'm telling Allah take it away.
Because that's what he said.
Right?
And I'm going to just share it because
we only have a few minutes.
I'm going to just share with you a
couple of sayings from righteous people.
It was beautiful.
Look at this.
A righteous man asked a righteous man, how
did you wake up this morning?
Let me see.
I asked him.
But really, I asked him, how are you
this morning?
What are you going to tell me?
Oh, I woke up, I have a headache.
Oh, I have a long day today.
Right?
Oh, just look at my to-do list.
Oh, I have classes.
Right?
Am I correct?
How are you this morning?
We woke up and we are immersed in
the blessings.
Unable to be grateful.
Look at this one.
Allah come close to us so we love
him and he doesn't need that.
And we do things so he doesn't love
us, though we need him.
If I, if each one of us just
had the concept of the first thing, we
are woke up, immersed in the blessings of
Allah.
Immersed.
Alhamdulillah, we are awake.
The best ni'mah, the biggest ni'mah, you know
what?
We are alive.
The biggest ni'mah we are alive because at
least I still can, can do, can change,
can, I can serve Allah, I can serve.
But once I'm dead, I'm done.
In this one, which is also saying to
Sayyidina Umar, he said, whenever I am tested
with a test, memorize this one.
And each one of us in this room
is being tested.
Small or big, doesn't matter.
Whenever I'm tested with a test, I remember
three things.
Number one, it's not in my deen.
It is not in my religion.
I did not reject Islam.
I did not stop praying.
I did not do this or that.
And you'll be surprised what you see these
days.
May Allah protect us.
Wallah, the test outside is very hard.
So that's number one.
Number two, I know it could be worse.
Right?
Anything that happens can be worse.
True or false?
Right?
Third, which is the best one, that's the
connection with Allah.
And I know Allah will reward me.
I know when Allah will reward me for
this.
That's a grateful person for a test.
The last but not the least.
Also, a righteous man asked a righteous man,
how did you wake up this morning?
All of you remember this tomorrow.
How did I wake up?
He said, I woke up between two blessings.
I woke up between two blessings.
I don't know which one is better.
Let's see.
Bismillah.
Two.
You're going to probably think, oh, he has
this, he has one boy, one girl.
Or he has one wife.
Right?
Me and you think this way.
Not them.
He said, sins,
Allah concealed it.
And no one can shame me for it.
Because nobody knows.
Each one of you in this room, think
about sins we did today.
Did you delay your Salah?
Did you miss a Salah?
Did you bite God somewhere?
Did you look at Haram?
We don't know.
Don't say it.
Allah concealed it, covered it, keep it covered.
Right?
So that's one.
And people loves me.
Although I didn't do, Allah put it in
their hearts to love me.
Although what I did does not deserve this.
Right?
When people praise you.
Oh, she's so sweet.
She's so nice.
She's so helpful.
She's so smart.
Whatever they praise you, if they knew the
reality, they will know.
But he concealed it.
As one of the scholars also said, if
sins had smell, you would not be able
to sit next to me.
SubhanAllah.
If sins had a smell, you would not
be able to sit next to me.
SubhanAllah.
Anything that happens in my life is a
reminder.
That's why I shared with you the shukr.
Am I grateful?
Am I going to be with Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala from this field?
Very few of them.
Am I one of them?
This one, I wish.
I don't know.
Maybe I am.
But all of us can be.
The answer is, can we all be grateful?
Yes, we can.
Yes, we can.
At least I start.
Start with the first.
I think that we start with the first
one.
Everything happens to you.
You've been with Him.
Then you're starting.
Even the test.
Even the test is a ni'mah by the
way.
Because the test, many of us comes back
to Allah through tests.
Very few of the human beings go back
to Allah when He gives them.
Right?
And that's why the concept of those who
are extremely rich and extravagant in the Quran
is always in a negative way.
The majority of the human beings, Allah brings
them back by the test.
And may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala not
do this to us.