Rasul Suluki – The Blessing of Islam
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The speaker discusses the importance of thanking Allah for his blessings and past experiences, as it is a means of proving one's worth and helping others. They emphasize the need to recognize the importance of the test and thanking Allah for blessings on one's behavior. The speaker also talks about how people have to respond to the current crisis and how one can use the test to act on their own worth.
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And alhamdulillah.
Wassalamu alayhi
wa salam.
We praise Allah and ask his peace and
his blessings upon his servant and his messenger,
Muhammad.
Is assigned to his companions, upon all the
righteous.
We missed last week
and
it seems like a year
that I haven't been here just 1 week.
There's so much benefit
in coming
after on.
When you're not here you
sense
that something's
missing your in your own
transactions,
your own
your own lives.
But we were reading something that really
grabbed us and it was from the book
one of my favorite books
the
wayfarers to God
and
he mentioned
thankfulness
and
I've read it many times but
when he said
to have thanks for having thanks
you know this is
being thankful that Allah
who is the cause of everything
gave you the
to be able to thank Him
and then thank him for thanking him
and SubhanAllah
when you realize
what Allah has given you
and what a tremendous
blessing
to be Muslim
to have
entered into islam
unfortunately
I have people in my family that are
not muslim
and they die without accepting Islam
and
you just realize
every time this happens you say what
a tremendous
that Allah
out of his mercy
out of all the human beings that exist
he let you come out of the womb
of a Muslim
and cause other ones to convert to Islam
and become
muslim and because of this tremendous
gift
we really know what it's all about
prior to islam
we were like all the other people who
had no real purpose for our existence
and it wasn't until
islam came into my life
that I realized
this is what it's for,
this is what
the ups, the downs, the good times, the
bad times, the
you
know lots of money, no money,
happiness, sadness, all of it
is for this,
it is for
this test that ALLAH is putting us through
and this test that he's putting us through
is already laid out
and everything
in it has been
written
and so whatever is happening in my life
I can say,
this is what Allah has done
and this is a great relief
from sitting around
why
me? I'm a good person, why should this
be happening to me? What did I do
to deserve
this?
But when you know it's all for the
purpose
of testing us,
how is it that
I'm born into a family,
we have the same parents,
we've seen the same things and yet we're
different people.
You're correct.
I'm different from my brother. He's different from
my other brother. We're all different from each
other.
Allah has let
each of us see something but see it
differently
and so whatever we're going through in our
lives
we have to immediately come to the point
of thanking ALLAH
for it
and even the bad things that have happened
in my own life, I say I look
back on it and say,
if that didn't happen,
what would have been my situation?
If
you know that broken heart didn't happen, what
would have been my situation?
And so
even the bad, we have to thank Allah
because there was some wisdom in it that
we don't know
and we had to go through whatever we
went through
to get to the other side
and because of that we're a much stronger
person than we were before.
So
it is
in recognizing that this is a test
and being thankful to Allah
for
even our trials and tribulations
and and thanking him
that he gave us Islam
and as a result of that
no matter how bad it gets
we know that the relief is there
and that there's some real purpose
for whatever I'm going through
so we should never turn
it's it's quite sad actually
that
people have to turn to therapists and they
have to turn to medication and all of
these things when
actually the key is right in our hands.
It is recognizing that this is a test
from Allah
and if you know that it's a test
from Allah
then you can respond to it by saying
how should I be under this situation how
should I act what should my character be
and Subhanallah
you know that seeing so many people with
with problems in my life I just say
I'm very grateful to our Lord that
he has endowed me with this
tremendous gift
so you have a tremendous gift
and allah has put the key right in
your hand
in his book and in the soon of
the messenger how
can we be the people that are suffering
when Allah has given us so much
and we ask his blessings on his messenger
Muhammad his descendants his companions and upon all
the righteous until the last
day.