Mufti Menk – Dear Sisters – The Ultimate Gift Is Waiting For You

We are going to test every single one

of you, Allah says. With what?

The first thing he says,

Have you ever thought of why he mentioned

that first? He says, with a bit of

anxiety, fear.

Fear of the unknown.

Anxiety,

that's what it is. People suffer. You just

lost your spouse, now what's gonna happen? He

was the breadwinner.

I'm sitting with so many children. I'm a

widow now. What should I do? I don't

know where to earn.

May Allah make it easy for you, my

sister.

My sister, we are here for you. We

are a community.

We are here for you by the will

of Allah, for the sake of Allah.

Be strong. Allah will give you the strength.

You may have to get up and do

things you've never done before,

but Allah will give you the strength.

Believe in Allah,

and believe that Allah will give you that

strength. But

when you pity yourself and you're expecting

other people to do for you, that's not

going to happen.

Ask the widows. They'll tell you, 1st week,

everyone was at home,

then

it cut down to a weekend.

Few weekends, people used to come home. During

the week, I was quite lonely.

Then even the weekends, they stopped coming. It

was only on the day of Eid they

came,

and they actually

spoiled my Eid.

It happens.

Sometimes those who want to assist are actually

the source of the problem.

People have experienced it,

but that is Allah showing you, they'll come

to you for a few days.

Within that time of your iqdah, pick yourself

up and realize it's a blessing of Allah.

It's a blessing. Allah is going to give

you the strength.

What to you is success? That's my question,

my beloved sister. What is success to you?

Can I give you the answer?

Success is when you have

led a life in a way that the

end

prize is paradise.

That's the only success. There's no other success.

If you had the 1,000,000 and the 1,000,000,000

and nobody died in your family before you

and you still did not get paradise, you

lost everything.

That's not success, that's failure.

Because you lived for a few years,

went into your grave.

But if you had almost nothing on earth

or you suffered loss after loss, and sickness

and disease and this problem and childbirth was

an issue, and you suffered miscarriages, and you

went through this and through that, one after

the other, and you kept pushing yourself and

thanking Allah, worshiping Allah, praising Allah, not giving

up on Allah. Do you know what? When

you earn jannah,

that is the ultimate success.

That is the ultimate happiness. That is the

virtue of Allah. That is the gift of

Allah.