Suhaib Webb – Lesson Seven Resilience

Welcome back to Sanitation of the Soul.

Great to be with you guys. And last

time, we were talking about gratitude,

and that was the second foundation of the

10 foundations of living a life a life

of faith and devotion. The first we said,

of course,

was toba, repentance.

The second was gratitude, and now the third.

The sheikh, he says,

And this is the second half of that

line. The line says,

So after thankfulness

is gonna be what? Resilience. In fact, many

of our teachers used to say that faith

resides between these two qualities.

Gratitude

and resilience.

Gratitude

and resilience.

SubhanAllah. So the sheikh, he says

That you should be upon the blessings of

Allah,

grateful. And that you should be on the

test and challenges that Allah has provided in

your life

resilient.

Allah

uses the word bala in a very interesting

way in Suratul Mulk. He says,

the one who created

death and life. He mentions death first because

the dunya is death. This is where we

die. And he mentions life second because that's

the akhira where there's no death. SubhanAllah. Are

we living to die or dying to live?

This verse

forces us to ask that question.

So you will be tested.

Means a test and we're unaware of how

the person being tested will react. That's.

Of course, this is not talking about Allah.

Allah knows. But it's for you and me

to see how we react.

So sometimes difficulties

and challenges are there so that we

can truly gauge ourselves.

When my daughter was born, she was born

sick.

It was Ramadan

almost 2 years ago,

and

I've never dealt with a sick child and

may Allah make it easy for all of

us, but man it rocked me.

I I was devastated.

My daughter was in the Nikku,

and I was terrified,

you know, and felt like, wow, I'm I'm

I'm in this position where I have to

be the one that's receiving

the imam coming or the sheikh coming or

the teacher coming. I can't give now. I

can't give anything. I need.

I was so weak.

And at that moment I said, you know

what? This is a test from Allah to

see to see the true content of your

character. My wife, Allah bless her, she was

a soldier.

Everything worked out. But that test

taught me a lot about myself. When I

lost my mother,

I saw my mother die in front of

me

and that brought out things from me that

I never knew were there. It took me

a while to recover from that.

So the bala comes

not because Allah needs to know what we're

up to,

but so we can honestly

assess ourselves.

And in many ways, that's a blessing even

though it's hard.

Even though it's hard.

So the sheikh, he says

and also we understand something. And we have

to be careful of the current furnishings

of contemporary Christianity in America, the feel good

Christianity, the Joel Osteen stuff.

And sometimes this spills over into the Muslim

community, like, if you become Muslim, everything's gonna

go great. Not necessarily.

The early Muslims in Mecca, things didn't go

great for them.

The dunya is not promised to anybody. Jannah

is promised.

* is promised.

So what we understand, he said,

we're gonna talk about this in our classes

on Aqidah and theology. Is it also trials

and tests and difficulties

can come from Allah. It's not always gonna

be good.

So he says,

upon

the traumatic test he sends you away.

Resilient.

That's the third foundation

is resilience.

Ashaikh Ahmed Dardir,

he says.

The third foundation,

is to be patient patient with traumatic tests.

The word sabra in Arabic is translated as

patient.

I'm not a fan of it. I like

resilience, but it actually comes from word which

means hubs,

to hold back. And, you know, in Oklahoma,

my grandma would say, hold your horses. Hold

your horses.

Right? Hold your horses. Very similar meaning.

To hold back.

He says,

Subhanallah.

It's a tough definition.

He says that resilience is

to hold back the nafs,

to

to stay steady,

to be resilient.

And that you do so in a way

that when it hits you and when it

happens,

you show contentment

with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

It's tough, man.

And he said, this is what he means.

He's talking about himself. He does it in

the 3rd person out of humility.

But he says, and this is what the

writer means when he says,

be patient upon

his traumatic test and trials that fall into

your life.

He gives examples. He said,

sickness.

And when you have

constricted provisions

and when you lose your property and you

lose family members

and so on and so forth. Allah says

in

Right? We are gonna test you with a

loss, family, life, health, property, so many other

things.

And give good news to those who are

resilient.

This also

touches on other issues

that we don't fall into the class system

of this age,

that we don't allow ourselves to be moved

by the opulence,

our values for people to be impacted

by the cult of materialism

and predatory capitalism,

and that is that we value people regardless

of what they have.

Allah

says to sayna Muhammad

And stay resiliently with those who invoke their

Lord all the time, morning and evening. And

this was sent about the poor

followers of the prophet.

Sayna Suhaib, Sayna

Bilal, Sayna Salman, or the allahu anhu.

In the narration the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa

sallam after this verse came he said alhamdulillahi

sabbarani. Praise be to Allah

who made me resilient with these people.

Because nobody can perform

in the office of prophethood

if they don't respect people

for being people.

Not based on what they have,

their wealth,

their class, their race, their language, their color,

their shape, their size.

All that's dunya.

Anyone that values people by those things is

someone who has an unhealthy attachment to the

dunya.

The prophet

said

Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala doesn't look at your

shapes and sizes. He looks at your hearts

and your deeds. So another component of resilience

is not only with the test and challenges

of Allah, but in society and with people

and with others

and with your soul

and with yourself

as you grow

in your process of iman.

The sheikh, he says,

and to be resilient with salah, with fasting,

the obedience of Allah

to show that resilience,

not to give up.

He said on these things be sabura.

Sabura actually is a is a noun which

is a form of which means

be super resilient. Just like shakurah, be super

gracious. Have tremendous gratitude. Have tremendous resilience.

Because Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la loves the people

of resilience.

Allah

says in the Quran so at Baqarah verse

155. And Allah says

that the people of resilience, their reward in

the hereafter is you can't measure it.

You can't measure

it.

And he says that these components

of gratitude

and resilience

are the qualities of the righteous.

Gratitude

is the ability to show

thankfulness.

Resilience is the ability to hold back

when needed from evil, which also is a

form of, like,

expressing gratitude, but in a different way holding,

one is doing, one is holding back.

So Alhamdulillah, we took now the first three

foundations

of the path to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

Patience,

gratefulness

and resilience.

We ask Allah