Rania Awaad – The Prophetic Way Of Dealing With Hardship
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The speaker discusses the difficulty of understanding the meaning of ease and the importance of people being affected by it. They share a personal story about a man who experienced a difficult time and lost track of his time, leading to embarrassment and loss of friends. The speaker emphasizes the need for people to be self sufficient and not feel alone in the face of the difficulties they face.
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When we talk about difficulty,
people think, well, how is ease
with difficulty? Because it's not after difficulty comes
ease. It's literally what?
Nara. It's with.
Literally tucked tucked
into the difficulty
is your ease.
But sometimes you can't see it right away.
And sometimes that ease isn't the thing itself,
but rather circumstances
around it. People, individuals,
resources,
just the ability to deal with something heavy
emotionally.
All of these are forms of
yusra.
Right?
And so look at the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam in this year of prolonged sadness and
difficulty. What happens after the death of the
uncle
and in the backdrop
of this economic boycott, the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam says, well, I have distant family that's
in Ta'if. I no longer have protection of
Quraysh,
and they're not going to be listening to
me. There there are there the people that
are, you know, the important people of Quraysh
are no longer listening to me. So why
don't I try another set of distant family
members and another tribe altogether? Maybe they'll listen.
So he literally walks.
And here you have the Prophet
head over there, and he starts his dawah.
He starts to call people to Islam. He's
got very specific
the heads of the tribe that he wants
to reach 1 by 1. And he goes
to them 1 by 1. You know what
they say to him?
One person says to him, what? Your Allah
couldn't find someone better than you to send
us?
Someone else says, if you really are the
prophet, then I'll be cursed.
Right?
The next person says, don't even try to
talk to me. Basically, each one of them
kicks him out. Each one of them in
turn kicks him out.
And so he decides despite all of this
pain, right, of people being very humiliating
him, he decides to stay in thought for
a little bit longer. Why?
He says, well, let me give the Dawah
to the common people.
Right? There are leaders that want to listen,
maybe the commoners will listen.
And then they started to actually be interested
in what is this message of the staff.
Do you know what happens next?
The leaders
get wind of the fact that the people
are getting interested in this now. So what
do they do? They literally drive him out
of Taif,
and they literally pick up stones
and pelt him
with this so much so that literally he
starts to bleed, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. It
said that his heels
were so *
from this incident of so many
stones hitting him that his foot is sticking
into his sandal
because of the blood,
And you know when you're when you're,
targeted like this, you're so humiliated like this.
He said, I lost track of where I
was. Can you imagine? You're being driven out
and being pelted and pelted with stones, and
you're bleeding,
and you're kind of a little bit confused
where you are. He said, I did not
even know where I was
until he got to a specific orchard.
SubhanAllah. Where is the where is the yusla
tucked into the usr here?
He's sitting in an orchard,
and the orchard belongs to people who are
technically enemies.
Right? But he's sitting there,
and the people see him and he's bleeding.
And so they said they sent their servant
to him, and they said give him some
grapes
from the orchard. Remember I told you orchards?
Right? So when he when he see when
he when he's offered these grapes, he says,
Bismillah.
And the servant who listens to this, he
says, who taught you to say this?
And he
says, I'm a prophet of God. I'm taught
this the way Allah has taught the prophets.
And so he says the servant says, I
haven't heard anyone in these lands say these
words.
And he said,
I too am a descendant of Sayidna Yunus,
and I am a prophet just like the
prophet Yunus, and we are both given a
message from the same God. Do you know
that that servant right there took shahada
and became a Muslim? People don't know some
of the little finer details, but that was
he hoped for Ta'if to become Muslim, but
he had this one person. And he said
with this one person,
it was the weight
of that entire current city. And you think
about had that whole city been annihilated,
there wouldn't have been those believers today.
But let's go back to our story. Here's
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
He's had what? Multiple losses one after another.
Why do I share this?
Because when you think about the discussion on
mental health
and you think about person's well-being and mental
wellness,
we turn first to the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam.
What is it that we don't see?
We don't see somebody
turning, after some difficulty turning against Allah
We don't see somebody saying, why me?
We don't see somebody saying,
I can do this completely on my own.
That last point is very important,
and he had his community
And he went and tried to seek out
support from the leaders who wouldn't listen to
him, but he was trying because he knew
that you don't do this alone.
See, today we have a little bit of
a trouble with this. A lot of us
believe that we can do things completely on
our own.
We think that we need to be self
sufficient.
We need to be able to wipe away
our own tears, and in fact, we maybe
shouldn't even have tears in the first place.
And that's just simply not the message of
our prophet or the prophets of the Quran.