Rania Awaad – The Prophetic Way Of Dealing With Hardship

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.