Mohammad Elshinawy – How To Balance Ups And Downs Of Life
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The speaker discusses how one woman, known as ateenth century Muslims, used to use her father's commandments to avoid suffering from sadness and suffering. She describes how she used her father's commandments to obtain forgiveness and gain rewards, even though she was still suffering from pain. The speaker suggests that forgiveness is not just a question of actions, but also comes from actions and intentions.
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So how do you suggest that someone can
balance the pursuit of happiness with positivity
while acknowledging you know and accepting sadness grief
stuff like that of this world you know
because
it will happen. You will become sad. You
will grieve somebody, but how do can you
balance happiness with that as well?
You know, it is reported that one of
the Salaf, one of the early Muslims,
a righteous woman,
she was seen smiling after she cut her
finger.
She cut her finger like that.
Or she may have cut it off entirely.
And they said to her, how can you
sort of, like, manage the pain?
So it is reported that she said,
that the sweetness of the reward
caused me to forget. It's sedated for me.
Like sedatives?
It's sedated for me
the bitterness of it being cut. The prophet,
salaam, said, there is no Muslim that goes
through nasab, which is fatigue, walaawasab,
nor sickness,
walahem, nor any anxiety, concerns about the future,
nor any sadness or grief, meaning about the
past,
except that Allah
cleanses them of their
misdeeds
by that
even the prick of the thorn. You stub
your toe. You bang your finger. Sort of
you you you chip your nail, whatever it's
gonna be, except that Allah will expiate of
your sins with it. The hadith ends by
saying
and, like, afflictions,
you know, will continue
adhering to the servant, like they're inseparable from
you, until you walk on this earth
without a sin to atoll.
You can be sinless the way angels are
sinless,
simply by the things that you didn't even
initiate getting forgiven for. Allah sent them your
way to make sure you get rid of
them. And that's not reward, that's just forgiveness.
Then if you anticipate the reward
because you need to be having intentions to
be rewarded,
then there's reward. So you're actually getting all
of this
potentially within a single incident.
So is there other instances like like this?
Like,
because
I I already knew something like that where
it's like if you're injured or something that
you you have your sins forgiven, but is
there any type of other instance where?
Maybe it's not being injured or maybe it's
not grieving that you can also gain reward
without even knowing or being forgiven without even
knowing?
Yeah. Absolutely. I mean,
the
scholars like Ibn Qayy and Rahimahullah,
he counts,
and don't test me on this,
11 stations of forgiveness, like different ways Allah
ensures your forgiveness in this world and then
different ways Allah ensures your forgiveness
when you're beneath the earth in your grave
and then different ways you could be given
a pass of forgiveness in the next world.
Like, 11th day, like,
the odds are stacked in our favor in
incredible ways.
I'll accept someone bent on self destruction.