Mufti Menk – What Does It Mean To Have Contentment
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The speaker discusses the importance of contentment and being tested for one's behavior. They explain that the tests are designed to protect the person and encourage them to take small tests, such as a small one for a grade one certification. The speaker also talks about the negative consequences of anxiety and loss, and how it can lead to negative behavior.
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If you are struggling
to dress appropriately,
and I'm wording it very respectfully,
If you're struggling to dress appropriately and you
find that
you're going to push yourself for the pleasure
of Allah to do the right thing,
For the sake of Allah,
no matter what the world says,
I promise you within a short span of
time,
you will start witnessing the doors of mercy
open
one after the other. The first thing you
will achieve
is contentment.
Contentment means I lost my husband, I lost
my son, I lost my daughter, I lost
my father, I lost my mother, and I
lost my brother and my sister.
But I'm sitting here saying,
Oh, Allah, to you belongs all praise.
Why? Because I'm content.
I lost a lot. It's going to be
challenging. My sister,
pick up the pieces and move on.
Allah will give you the strength.
Pick up the pieces and don't pity yourself
because it's you're not the first person it
has happened to indeed. But at the same
time, it's Allah who loves you because He
says to us through the blessed lips of
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
When Allah loves you, He will test you.
No test. You must be worried. Why am
I not being tested by Allah? Perhaps something
wrong with me. We pay in order to
write the entrance exam to enter the prestigious
schools?
When we get into the school, test after
test, exam after exam, we are proud. We
actually wanted those tests. The more difficult the
tests at the school, the higher the qualification.
Don't you agree? Well, Allah operates in a
similar
yet slightly different fashion.
The greater the test, the higher the qualification.
If you were tested with a pimple that
a mosquito bit you, and you had it
and you scratched it and so on, that's
a minor test. For some people, it's like
a kiyama,
especially if it's on the face.
But to be honest with you,
it is relative because that is such a
minute thing that distracted you so badly,
But it's a small test. The certificate you're
going to get because of saying alhamdulillah
when a mosquito bites you and there's a
lovely big red mark on your nose, and
you still say, alhamdulillah,
at least the rest of my face is
okay.
I wonder if that happens.
But if you do say that,
you get a certificate. What is it? It's
a small one, a grade one. That's it.
You passed. Maybe ECD. There we were. That
was actually the mosquito that bit you. Now
let's see. The next time, what happens?
May Allah protect us. You suffer a bigger
loss. You are challenged in a bigger way.
You came onto the earth in order to
be tested.
Some people say, how do I know that?
You know it because you are being tested
every single day. Notice it. You get sick.
You get upset.
You suffer loss. There's robbery. There's accidents. There's
negativity. There's loss of life, loss of produce.
There's anxiety. All this is from what? From
the tests of Allah.
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.