Suhaib Webb – Lesson Seven Resilience
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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