Mufti Menk – When Goodness Comes Into Your Direction – It Hurts Them

When goodness comes in your direction, your enemies

will become angry. And when bad and evil

befalls you, your enemies will become happy.

But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, But if

you are patient, and if you bear consciousness

of Allah, that is better for you. Listen

to what He says in surat Allah Imran.

When goodness comes in your direction, it hurts

them. You see when a person has an

enemy,

what happens when a person has an enemy,

is that

when something good happens to them, the enemy

becomes upset. And when something bad happens to

them, the enemy starts rubbing his hands and

saying, Yes. Yes. You see? May Allah subhanahu

wa ta'ala protect us. Allah says,

If you are to bear patience

and you are to be conscious of Allah,

their plot and plan against you will not

harm you in any way. May Allah subhanahu

wa ta'ala protect us. So you require patience

in order to be protected from the plot

of the evil doers.

Then Allah

tells

us that, Definitely you will be tested in

every way. There will be non Muslims who

will laugh at at you. The people of

the book who were given the book before

you, they may laugh at you and joke

about you and make your life difficult. Allah

says, if If you bear patience, it is

the best thing you could do. Listen to

what Allah says again in the same surah.

You will be tested in your wealth, and

in yourselves, in every single way.

By the loss of life, possibly by your

health, possibly by so many other things within

you. Allah says, We will test you in

every way. And on top of that,

You will hear a lot of harmful statements.

And you will it will a lot of

harm will get to you from

those who were given the book in the

past, and those who associate partners with Allah

He says they will try to harm you

and they will scoff,

laugh at you. They will say things against

you. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,

If you are going to bear patience,

and if you are going to be conscious

of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, that is the

best thing you could do. It is the

best of affairs, the most recommended. May Allah

subhanahu wa ta'ala grant that to us.