What Does It Mean To Have Contentment

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.

of Allah, for the sake of Allah.

of Allah, for the sake of Allah.