Suhaib Webb – There Is Wisdom In The Struggle
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The speaker discusses the importance of knowing who has dispensed in the Maqam of Rasool station for guidance. They also mention the difficulty of reaching Nabuwa and the importance of knowing the reaction of individuals to datchers. The speaker emphasizes that contentment is a fruitful combination of hardships and tests, and that the datchers are a fragile place.
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And the sheikh, he says something very important,
and and I hope people can pay attention
to this,
That the Maqam of Rasool
the station of the prophet
is Naboo,
prophethood.
And, of course, for us, we can we
can never reach
Nabuwa.
Allah knows best who he chose as his
messengers.
Allah knows best who he has dispensed, the
rahma meaning
who he has dispensed that amongst. Look how
he calls prophethood, mercy.
But there is a question out of all
of the manazil
that the righteous person
and the person who struggles
encounters as a believer. There are there are
different what are called
Right? The stations of those who are are
headed to Allah deliberately.
And the last station is very interesting.
The last station is recognized by many of
the of the Arifin
is arribah,
subhanAllah,
is to be to be content with Allah.
And if if you think about this. Right?
If you think if you think about this,
our entire life is really
to to measure the sourness of this dunya,
and the difficulties of this dunya
with us being content in the Lord of
this dunya.
That's why there's a statement that
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala said to Sayyidina Musa,
You Allah,
that my happiness
is
parallel
to your happiness with what I have decreed
for you.
So perhaps the attainment of contentment with Allah
is predicated on a life that has to
face tests,
that has to face hardships,
that test our
so that the outcome of that is that
we reach that station, where it doesn't matter
what's going on around me, I'm gonna work
for the good, alhamdulillah,
no matter where I am.
But I am pleased with Allah
more than I am frustrated with dunya.
I am content with Allah
more than I am nervous and anxious
about this temporary world.
And that is one of the great wisdoms
of tests.
That's why Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
said
who created death and life.
As mentioned by Al Asfahani
is a test
where the the reaction of the one being
tested is not known
even to the one being tested. The only
one who knows it is Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. So Sayyidina Rasul, salallahu alaihi
wa sallam, is going through all these difficulties,
but Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala astaffah,
wakhtar.
Allah chose him, Allah
raised him, and he became
Muhammad
Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam.
What about those of us who may be
dealing with substance abuse issues,
maybe dealing with the issues with our parents,
with our spouses, with our jobs,
COVID 19,
all of the things around us that tend
to rock us,
are simply meant to remind us that we
should not completely be content with dunya.
The dunya is a fragile place.
But if we turn and look to the
truth,
then we're gonna find true contentment, and that's
ri'uda
with Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala.