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.