Haifaa Younis – The Quran Has It All #24 Failure
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Speaker 1 discusses the importance of testing in the face of failure in Islam. He uses the example of a person who lost their life and found success in their life by practicing Islam. He emphasizes that the test is not just a matter of whether someone is positive or negative, but rather how they respond to the tests. He also mentions that the test is for success and should be taken with caution.
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So one of the things in dunya is,
are we successful
or are we a failure or we have
failed?
Is that even in the Quran?
And
the answer is yes. Allah in Suratul Hajj
said,
among people
who worship Allah
on the edge, at the border.
If goodness happened to him,
he's very content with Islam.
Trial, failure,
issues that he or she doesn't like, they
turn their back to the deen.
And Allah here is saying, this
person has lost this life and the hereafter.
That is indeed
the clear
loss.
As a human being, we go through trials,
and especially when we start finding Islam, enjoying
Islam, changing in our life, and then we
see tests comes in. Or we say in
general, well, the people who practice,
they are tested more than the people who
are not. The people who believe they are
not tested, they have everything in dunya. And
Allah is telling us that tests is are
gonna come,
and this will be
the litmus paper for me to show
Allah my sincerity
to this religion.
Test or fitna as Allah
used it here, affliction,
disease,
loss of a loved one, loss of a
business,
it doesn't mean this is failure in the
sight of Allah.
We look at it as a failure in
this life
by our human being measures,
but in the sight of
Allah, not necessarily it is. It depends how
we respond,
and this is what this verse is telling
us, and that's what Allah is teaching me
in the Quran.
When you are tested, and he used the
word
went through trials,
how I am gonna respond?
If I am gonna turn my back on
this religion, I'm gonna move away from Allah.
I'm gonna say I am closer to Allah
and this what's happened, I don't want it.
Then Allah
will leave me.
So, basically, this surah or this verse in
and this is in Surah Al Hajj,
paint a picture of a person,
and not you and me, weighs up faith
against
profit or loss.
He's likely
achieved. So if I get
good
business,
money, children, then this is success in life
and the akhirah.
And if the opposite,
then this is a failure.
So if good happens, that's good. If bad
happens, that's bad. I'll change my relationship with
Allah.
Now why this is failure in Duniya and
Akhir? Because why does Allah test us? Many,
many reasons, and he said it in Suratul
An Kabood.
Does people think they will be left to
say we believe and they will not be
tested?
So Allah knows who are those who are
truth truthful and those who are not. And
then Allah also will show my real faith
versus
my on the edge faith, or may Allah
protect us all. Maybe I'm a hypocrite.
So to
not fail,
this is what I need to do.
When the test comes in, I'm gonna say
this to myself,
this is from Allah.
Everything comes from Allah's khayr.
Everything comes. He is the most merciful. He's
the most beloved. He is the one who
loves his servants. He is the one who
doesn't wanna punish his servants. So I'm gonna
tell myself, this is coming from Allah, it
is khair. Sometimes we see
it. Sometimes we see the message.
Sometimes we see the reason, and sometimes we
don't.
My response should be always,
since it is from Allah,
this is good for me. What does he
want from me?
Accept it. Be content as much as you
can.
Be grateful
that because of this test or
failure,
I should go back to Allah. My du'a
should be better. My connection should be better.
My salah should be better.
If I respond this way, then that's a
success in this dunya
because I took it. I have no choice
to change it, but I took it well.
And the most important thing, when I meet
Allah
all these tests will be in my book
as a sign of success because it will
be all good deeds multiplied and multiplied.
If I didn't do that,
complained, rejected,
changed,
then, again, the test has not changed. I
still have to go through it, but, unfortunately,
I lost in the akhirah.
So may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala give us
the insight to see that every test in
this life is expected, is from Allah, and
should bring me closer to him. And may
Allah make it easy for everyone who's going
through a test.