Mufti Menk – When You Have A Hardship, Look At This

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My beloved brothers and sisters,

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the world is going through a lot. We

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know that there are challenging times. People are

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struggling

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while there are a few who are actually

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doing very, very well. But this is the

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plan of Allah

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He will keep testing us from the point

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of birth to the point of death.

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It's us being tested, our parents, our siblings,

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or people around us, etcetera.

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That's part of the plan of Allah Subhanahu

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Wa Ta'ala. Now one thing we need to

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realize is that

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whenever we have hardship and difficulty, the only

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way to navigate through these hardships is to

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look at revelation and what Allah has given

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us.

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So he has given us the Quran and

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the sunnah of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.

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He has given us a lot of beautiful

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scholars who have, from the very beginning,

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been teaching us the goodness.

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And when I say the very beginning, I'm

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talking about the scholars from among the Sahaba

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radiallahu anhu

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coming down to those who followed them and

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those who followed them, etcetera, etcetera.