The Quran Has It All #24 Failure

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

through a test.

through a test.