Mufti Menk – Why is it so difficult?

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			a Salaam Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh
		

			Smilla he will hamdu Lillahi wa Salatu was Salam ala Abdullah he Rasulullah he Muhammad wa ala alihi
wa sahbihi Jemaine
		

			my brothers and sisters before you were born, Allah Almighty has already written certain things
about you and I, the exact time of birth, the exact time of death, whether or not we will be
fortunate, and at the same time, the sustenance that will be ours, the tests and the major
challenges. So the major aspects of your lives and mine were written prior to your birth.
		

			Now the tests that you were going to have are going to have shall have are also determined by Allah
Almighty. Ma Saba me Muslim by to fill out only one laffy Fujikura in Luffy kita beam
		

			Carboni Annabelle Raha in other Anika, Allah Allah here see, any calamity difficulty hardship or
test that has come in your direction or anything that is on earth of a similar nature meaning
difficulties hardships calamities, except that it has been written by Allah Almighty in a book from
a long time back. So it is written by Allah predestined. You need to know your tests, you will go
through them, you have to go through them one by one. It is impossible for anyone on Earth to have
it smooth sailing totally. Some people have an easier life than others, but they have a different
type of a problem. You have someone who doesn't have wealth at all, but he has good health. You have
		

			someone who has good health, for example, but maybe they don't have children. Or you might have
someone who has children, but they are not good and they are a source of his or her stress and
sadness. Sometimes you have a person who is relatively healthy, and wealthy, for example, but they
suffer because of an earthquake or a loss in business, something of
		

			things that they didn't imagine all this was planned and predestined by Allah, it's up to you to
realize you cannot have it smooth sailing, there is not a soul on earth. Who has everything because
you came onto this earth in order to be tested, your examination paper was already written by Allah
before you were born. So what do you do?
		

			Well, what you do is, you have to look at the examination question. You can't skip it because you
might fail. You don't know the next questions that are going to come. You have to ask yourself, How
did my teacher teach me to go through this question? What answer should I put here? What should I
do? Who's your teacher? Nabi? Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, where did he get the answers
from? Allah subhanho wa taala. So anything that happens in your life? Ask yourself, how did Allah
teach me to go through this and follow it blindly? Subhanallah follow it because that is success.
You follow what Allah says? Why do we pray five times a day? Why does Allah speak so much in the
		

			Quran about patients patients suffer? Why does Allah say when you're a pious person, when you're
closer to Allah, or when Allah loves you, he's going to make you go through and then do more
patients than others. Because Allah knows he's your maker. He wants you to have a high status. When
you answer an examination question correctly, no matter how tough it was, you are the champion,
right? When you go through an exam paper at school, for example, you learned a lot and then you find
it's really, really tough because your level is very high. The a stream and the Beast stream are not
the same. You have to go through challenges and each one will go through a different challenge. But
		

			Allah Almighty is the examiner. He says we have sent you onto Earth to test you, you will be tested
you shall be tested like those before you in order to distinguish who is truthful in their faith and
who is not. We've heard that verse so many times of Surah Tolle angebote
		

			So remember
		

			My brothers, my sisters, don't be upset because you have a test. Be happy. Thank Allah Oh Allah, you
put a test in my life this one I can manage it by your help Subhan Allah. Because if you don't want
one of the tests, Allah says, Okay, we're going to give you another one that one might be more
difficult imagine it might be more difficult. So take it in your stride. Thank Allah, look at your
challenge. What did I just suffer today? For example, a huge loss in business that was written by
Allah predestined how does the same Allah teach me to go through it? How does what does he say? He
says, bear patience and pray a lot. Yeah, are you loving monastery no be sobered he was Salah in
		

			Allah Hamas saw beating are you who believe seek assistance through your difficulties, hardships,
whatever it may be. By engaging in patience, forbearance, endurance, and at the same time prayer,
pray a lot come close to Allah. This is nothing this worldly life you came on here. With zero you
were *, you were naked when you were born. So whatever you have right now, is plus, you see what
we mean? If someone were to ask you, do you have more now or the day you were born? You have to say
now no matter what you have, even if you've got very little because you know what? When you are
being buried, you will be buried with more than what you actually brought onto the earth because you
		

			have two pieces of cloth yet when you were born, there wasn't even two pieces of cloth. So it's
Allah's plan to show you man, you came onto the earth we provided for you, didn't we? We may not
have given you the luxuries you wanted because it was part of our test. Like I said, some people
come with different tests. Allah says, law you can live on long enough son in law I was Aha.
		

			Allah does not burden anyone with more than he or she can actually shoulder if Allah has sent a
challenge in your direction he knows you can cope. He knows you can manage he knows you will manage.
So don't complain to anyone besides Allah. Allah Houma inmy ESCO la cavaco wa T working letter he
Lottie, the Prophet peace be upon him used to say, Oh Allah, I am complaining to you regarding my
own weakness, yet he was the strongest, oh Allah I'm complaining to you.
		

			Regarding my inability, yet he was the most able from all of us. SubhanAllah.
		

			So what about you and I, we will go through hardship.
		

			We may go through a health problem for a year or two years. Take it in your stride. Do not sweat
Allah. Do not let it make you angry and bitter. become a good person buried with patience.
		

			And thank Allah if your problem makes you a better person, it's a gift from Allah. And if your
difficulty makes you bitter and ugly, and makes you drift away from Allah, it is perhaps a
punishment from Allah.
		

			No one on earth will have what they want. Everyone has a unique set of examination questions set by
none other than Allah who made you and I, you will not have two days the same days will come with
challenges, imagined people fought the best of creation, Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam by
preparing armies to go and fight him. What did he say? With the help of Allah? We will not fail.
		

			People planned to kill him so many times. What did he do?
		

			There were days when he had very little in terms of material wealth, Yet Allah could have given him
everything. What did he say? What did his family say? They were patient. They looked at what Allah
said, and the way Allah has chosen to solve this particular this particular problem, and that is the
answer. That is the answer. So you don't have an answer from your pocket or mine. Sometimes we have
a challenge. And we think we want to solve it our own way. No, it came in your direction. What does
Allah say about this? What does the messenger say about that's what makes you a Muslim and the
moment if you do not want what Allah and His Messenger have said, in terms of solution to your
		

			issues, your matters your problems, then you can expect nothing but failure and regret, because
Allah is your Lord and mine. We say we are believers but Allah He we have a lot to look into in
order to confirm are we true? Or are we just paying lip service? That is why Allah says
		

			while ah pardon fatten Levine? Cabernet, Himalaya lemon long hula vino sada Kula yarn, lemon coffee
bean. We have tested all those before you as well, in order to distinguish
		

			Who is truthful and who who are lying, lying in what? In their claim to believe in Allah?
		

			If you believe in Allah and there is a huge earthquake, yes, it is difficult, yes, it is tough. Yes,
we will try and help Yes, you may cry, yes, you are a human being you may find it extremely
difficult, extremely difficult, but I promise you, with the help of Allah, you will survive, you
will make it you will come out of it. And ultimately, when your time is up, and your examination is
over, because the duration is up, you cannot keep writing, the books have to be closed and you have
to go at that point, nothing is going to delay, you know, is it going to bring you earlier, you
can't say oh, now I know the answer for those questions. Let me go back to late the invigilator will
		

			actually cross you off if you were to cheat or you want to delay further. Allah is the Creator. In
agile Allah EDA, Allah you are for when the prescribed time of Allah for you, for anyone for
anything comes to won't be delayed. It can't. In another place. Allah says lie is that Pharaoh NASA,
Ayatollah stuccoed the moon, they are not going to be delayed by a moment, nor will they be brought
forward by a moment. It's your time it's up, take it in your stride, you came onto the earth, where
were you before you came here? Well, trust me and trust Allah, that wherever you work, you're going
to go back. That's all.
		

			Is it a bad place? Well, if I've tried my best on Earth to be a worshipper of Allah, to solve my
problems, according to what Allah and His Messenger have dictated, and I've tried to be a good
person to others, I don't need to fear I don't need to worry. So many times Allah says, law, how
often I lay him wala homea Zonen, no need for those people to fear, no need for them to be sad, for
which people, those who kept trying on Earth, you are human, you have faults. You may sin from time
to time because of your human nature. You might end up sending but it's not because you defy Allah,
it's because you're weak. The solution to that is keep seeking the forgiveness of Allah. Keep asking
		

			Allah's forgiveness. That's why we say when something really bashes you in the face in your life,
boom. And suddenly a limb was amputated or suddenly a huge loss in business. Or suddenly you've lost
a loved one or something major happened. Do you know what? Yes, we say in alila he were in La
Mirada. What does that mean? What does that mean? A lot of us we grew up just saying it without
actually thinking what it means. It means I belong to Allah in the first place. And guess what? I'm
going to go back to him anyway. So everything that came or went was from Allah went back to Allah wa
ala man Almighty Allah we determine at Allah Aenean foucha Be Shea Mian for Oka B Shea in Makkah.
		

			Ketubah Hula, hula, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in powerful advice. He says you need to
know if the whole nation everybody gets together to help you or to harm you. They will not be able
to help you or harm you except by that which Allah has written for you or against you, otherwise
they can't do it.
		

			In another narration, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam explains so beautifully, my Asaba
Columbia Coolio. What got to you was never meant to miss you, and what missed you was not yours. It
was never meant to be a grain of rice that is written in your sustenance, no matter what anyone on
Earth tries to do will never ever go to someone else. It has to come to you. A grain of rice has to
come to you. You have to eat it. It has to go through your system. Allah knows the finest of detail.
Allah will give you Allah will provide for you, why are you turning to haram when you want to
provide for yourself knowing that Allah has kept it for you in halal, and if Allah Almighty is not
		

			giving you it's because it's not written for you so knock his door and keep knocking his door.
		

			Calamity and hardship generally what we have seen it comes in cycles. Look at use of Alayhis Salam
story. Seven years they had ease seven years they had difficulty. Then they had ease once again.
Sometimes you might face difficulty for seven days for seven months, for seven years. But after
that, guess what? It's coming, be patient. Your day is coming. It's coming. And if Allah has written
your death before that day, go, no problem. We will go but we won't go complaining to Allah. We will
go happily thanking Allah Allah you gave me a life. Many people you asked him Are you ready to go?
No. Why? Because a my wife, my children, my whoever else. You know what? It doesn't stop. If you
		

			pass away, they will continue. They have to carry on. There is no way that they cannot carry on.
It's the plan of Allah Almighty. Imagine my brothers, my sisters. If each one of us were given
		

			their own date of death you choose, I think most of us wouldn't want to die before 100 But even then
Subhanallah when you start getting ill you start getting sick. You're a burden on everyone. What's
the point at that stage? That's why you make a dua Oh Allah keep me alive for as long as you know
life is good for me. Take me away when you know it's good for me to go. It's a difficult to answer
because you might go today, Allahu Akbar. But isn't it the most honest dua? Are you a true believer?
You have to go Why do you want to go after you are a burden to everyone in this queue, he's finally
dead. La hawla wala Quwata illa biLlah. I'd rather go healthy without having been a burden to
		

			anyone, and life will carry on for everyone else. The same applies when you are making dua because
our examinations of blade by Allah and every test that comes in our direction is planned by Allah.
Allah teaches us call out to me saying what? Oh Allah, what should I say to you say to Allah, Oh
Allah, if this is good for me for my ID in my religion, my faith, my worldly life, my present and my
future, make it easy for me and let me have it or let it happen for me. And grant me blessings in
it. And oh, Allah, if this is not good for me in your knowledge, and you know, it's bad for me for
my connection with you for my current life for my future, then take it away from me and
		

			take me away from it. And make me pleased with your decree. It's called istikhara. Why? Why is the
hara because I don't know the future. Sometimes you see a crucial deal. You want to dive into it, it
looks beautiful. Two years down the line, the same guy crook to you and robbed you of 10 times more
than you ever put in. Sometimes Allah wants to block you from the very beginning. So he starts
showing you signs to say, You know what, don't even get involved. It sounds too good to be true.
Remain with your millions don't go into the billions of talking of Zim dollars RTGS, by the way,
		

			because if you go into the billions you know what, you might lose a lot of other things that you
have Subhanallah what don't you have look at it. Someone might complain, well, I don't have this I
don't have that. There are others who would die to be in your situation. They would love to be
living your life and you are complaining Subhan Allah Hara Bilal. I mean, the whole aim of today's
talk was to remind you and I that tests come from Allah, you can manage, but only with the help of
Allah on your own, you cannot do it. If you remove Allah from the equation and you don't want to
pray and you don't want to bear patients, you won't succeed. Allah says You cannot have profit every
		

			day, you have to have a loss. You have to have some element of fear. Anxiety has to come in your
life, there's no chance that we're not going to have someone without anxiety. You don't know the
future that itself is the level of anxiety but faith will keep you going with calmness.
		

			What's going to happen tomorrow, they're going to make a massive announcement about something and
something big deal. Let's wait for it. We'll see when it comes we'll cross the bridge when we there
were so many will do it together. Mashallah. Right. But we start getting worried, you know, this,
you know, that. I remember there was a time when a brother said, you know, if you have to travel to
another country, you have to quarantine for 14 days. I said, well then don't travel, the millions
are not traveling, but I need to well, if you need to go then quarantine. So what's the big deal?
No, but you know, hang on, you're getting excited. You're getting upset, simply because you haven't
		

			acknowledged acknowledged that that's reality on the ground. It's all they will change it. They
cannot continue forever and ever. And guess what a time came when they changed it. In fact, at one
stage, they didn't even implement something. Because they knew this is not going to be easy to do.
But that's just one example. Those things happen in our lives every day. Fear Fear Factor. People
threaten you people do this, that you might have a challenge in your life. No problem. Are you close
to Allah? Yes. Have you hurt and harmed someone? That's a big question. Normally, when you suffer
the first question you should ask yourself, have I made someone else suffer? The answer is yes.
		

			Well, then I need to make amends. That's effect people might not tell you this, but I promise you,
if something came smashing at your door, and you really feel this is a huge loss. You know what, ask
yourself Have I been a kind soul to everyone? Is there anyone I've really been so nasty to or I've
made their life difficult? Well, if it's yes, come today no to done. It shall be done unto you as
you as you have done unto others. So it comes around. May Allah subhanho wa Taala make it easy for
us. However, generally, the calamities the difficulties, the hardships that we have my beloved
brothers, my sisters, these are planned for you and die from Allah. Some people may not have
		

			children. May Allah bless you with children in the interim. Thank Allah, you have so many other
things. If I were to ask you, what don't you have? There's a list of just a few things.
		

			The rest you have you realize this, but what does man do? He complains about the three things he
doesn't have. And he doesn't want those tests. So Allah says, Alright, we take away these, let's
give it to you, but we're gonna test you at something even bigger loss of limbs. So now you're not
going to have any limbs but then that's even bigger. Well then why didn't you thank us for the test
we put in your life and when you thank Allah says Lane shakar Tula as he the neck when you're
thankful, we will give you increase in goodness, you should have just thanked us and continue Oh
ALLAH thank you for this challenge. Imagine the house of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
		

			going on for a few months with no food and drink as such besides water and dates, complaint, no
complaint anyone knew no one knew. Subhanallah and who was he? No comparison, nothing to compare him
with the best of creation. He went through challenges. You and I are bound to go through a lot in
life, you will face a lot. Life is not just supposed to be an easy little thing. No, it ends with
death, which we look at as the end of goodness. Yet, as a believer. It's the beginning of the
goodness.
		

			Someone says what's the worst thing that could happen? Well, he could die, I could die. This one
could die, die, death who has thing that could happen? Allah says to mean in moto, that's a hadith.
The gift of a true believer is if you die, then come we give give you all your prizes that we've
kept for you. Come on man. So hon Allah, may Allah make it easy for all of us. May Allah grant us
goodness, he knows what's better for us. May Allah make it easy for every one of us, my brothers, my
sisters, your calamities, your hardships, your difficulties, go and check. What does Allah say? How
How should you deal with it and deal with it that way? Turn to patience, turn to prayer. Don't act
		

			irrationally. May Allah Almighty, forgive all of us seek the forgiveness of Allah and Allah will
open doors come closer, come closer. Ultimately, we have to return to the one who made us and on
that day, when he says to us you have passed Allah He we will be the happiest and proudest of people
in a good way. May Allah grant that to us aku loco Leha or sal Allahu wa salam ala Nabina Muhammad