Suhaib Webb – There Is Wisdom In The Struggle

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.