Wahaj Tarin – Patience and Perseverance
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Ladies and gents, brothers and sisters, friends and
colleagues, so life has its ups and downs.
It has its happiness and sadness.
It has its sickness and health.
It has its poverty and wealth.
These ups and downs are part of life.
They are part of this great test called
life.
But it's up and it's down as a
test.
If Allah has given you health, it's a
test.
And if he has given you sickness, it's
a test.
The same way as in your test papers,
there's a question about addition and there's a
question about subtraction.
There's a question about multiplication.
There's a question about division.
All the opposites and whatever's in between it
are tested.
And in this test, the people who win
are those who have this characteristic called sabr,
patience.
Patience, sabr in English, patience and perseverance together
give the meaning of the word sabr.
And whoever has sabr has succeeded.
And give glad tidings to those who have
patience, meaning give them glad tidings of success.
And of the greatest acts of worship is
sabr.
For example, someone dies in your family.
Allah give everyone a long righteous life, Ya
Rabb.
Someone dies.
It's very painful.
You're jolted.
You don't know what to do.
So you see people, some people cry and
some people wail.
They start to hit their chest and pull
their hair.
And some people are more composed and you
see them say, And you see some people
fall in sajdah and they say, O Allah,
it was from you and you took it
back.
And others, you see them very contented.
They're okay.
All these are levels of reactions.
Some are good.
Some are not right.
They're bad, wrong.
So for example, the one, just have a,
I want you to work through this with
me.
So this person has lost a father.
Allah give them all long lives, Ya Rabb.
Or has lost a husband or a child.
Allah protect everyone, Ya Rabb.
And then the reaction is, they wail, they
cry, Ya Rabb, why me?
Why didn't that person's father die instead?
And he was such a nice man.
Ya Rabb, why is all the good people
going?
And then they pull their hair and they
start beating themselves and wailing and crying.
Question number one, does the dead person come
back?
I have a person I know outside.
I told you this story.
His mother passed away.
Not easy.
Allah protect, Ya Rabb, not easy.
Mother passed away.
In response, he broke the furniture, threw things
around, stopped eating for days on end.
Went into sadness and depression.
As a result, lost his hearing, lost his
hair, lost his health.
Did the mum come back?
So the first level is, the first level
of sabr is to realize that a calamity
has happened.
And there's nothing we can do about it.
This is called acceptance.
To accept.
This is what it is.
In English they say, no point crying over
spilt milk.
Because if you cry, milk doesn't come back
into the bottle.
It's already spilt.
So even amidst non-Muslims, they had this.
They said, a calamity has come.
Me mismanaging it does not reduce the calamity.
It just causes harm to myself.
This is entry level of dealing with a
difficulty.
Now let's look at the next level.
Next level is to surrender to the decree.
To surrender to the decree.
That's what we Muslims do.
We say, we belong to him, we return
back to him.
He gave, he took, we surrender.
And that's it.
We'll be sad for a couple of days,
three days allowance, and then we move on
with life.
Does that mean we don't love the person
enough?
No, but we know that no amount of
calamity, sadness, you know, misery, difficulty, depression is
not going to reverse what has happened.
So we say, we have surrendered to you,
Ya Rabb, you knew best, you took.
This is the second level.
Second level of patience with calamities.
The highest level, the highest level is ar
-ridaa bil-qadhaa.
To be pleased with the decision of Allah.
So not just to accept it, not just
to surrender to it, you remove every, you
know, resistance you have inside you from it,
not just that.
Next level, ar-ridaa bil-qadhaa.
To say that what Allah has decreed for
me is much better for me than what
I had chosen for myself or wanted for
myself.
He knows best, and you're actually happy with
his decision.
I'll give you an example.
In the past, there's a person called Sa'd
ibn Abi Waqas, a companion of the Prophet,
and one that the Prophet ﷺ would lovingly
refer to as my uncle, because maternally linked
to him.
So the du'as that the Prophet made
for the different Sahaba are different.
For this Sa'd, he made the du'a
that may your du'a be accepted.
You understand?
So whatever du'a Sa'd used to make,
Allah would grant.
And the Sahaba used to test, he used
to make du'a, Allah would grant.
So when he used to come to Mecca
or he was in Mecca, there used to
be a line of people waiting for him.
He used to sit, people used to come,
O companion of the Prophet, I have this
sickness, make du'a for me.
So he'd say, Ya Rabb, give him cure.
So khalas, he used to go, Allah used
to cure him.
This one used to come, you know, O
companion of the Prophet, I am suffering from
this.
I have this, make du'a for me
that Allah does this.
So he used to make du'a, and
the line used to come.
But he himself, the man making du'a
was blind, eyes can't see.
So they used to tell him, you are
someone whose du'a is accepted.
Just make du'a, O Allah, cure my
eyes and Allah will cure it.
So he used to say, no, what Allah
has chosen for me is more beloved to
me than what I choose for myself.
So he has chosen this for me.
I am happy with it.
Ar-rida bil-qadha.
And this is a level we all need
to work to.
It's not required.
It's not required.
The requirement is to surrender.
But to go above it, to say, I
am pleased with it.
Amidst the scholars of the past is a
person known as Fudayl ibn al-Iyad.
Fudayl.
Fudayl had a son.
Allah had blessed him with a son that
sent envy to sons.
He was someone who when the verses of
punishment used to be recited, when someone used
to recite verses of azab, Jahannam, anger of
Allah, he used to fight out of fear
of Allah.
Like what a heart.
To be so connected to Allah, Rabbul Izzah,
that any mention of his dissatisfaction makes you
quiver to the level that you faint.
So his father knew that my son has
a really sensitive heart.
And anytime anyone recites verses of azab, the
young man gets overwhelmed.
So he used to never recite it when
he used to pray and lead the salah
and his son used to be behind him.
One day he forgot.
So the father's in salah, reciting verses, the
son is behind.
And in the verses came verses of punishment,
verses of azab.
And the young man in the back gets
overwhelmed to the level that he dies.
So this is a person they refer to
in history as the one that was killed
by the Qur'an, like as in the.
So Fudail is a mighty scholar and he
had reached a very high level.
So they say when he found out his
son has died, this way he smiled.
Like this level of rida.
That, ya Rabb, what a gift you gave
me.
And subhanAllah, think about this.
14 centuries later, here in Australia, I'm talking
about his story.
So Allah honoured him through time and space.
But what a gift you gave me, a
son with such a wholesome heart.
That not only was your verses enough to
hold him from sin, because they did that,
and not only was it enough that he
reacted to it, but to the level that
he would find that now has died and
then imagine what he will be resurrected as.
So dear ones, when calamity comes, when difficulty
comes, accept it, number one.
Minimum accept.
This is what it is.
Sickness comes, khalas.
Alhamdulillah Second level, submit to the will of
Allah, Rabbul Izzah.
Say inna lillah wa inna ilayhi raji'un.
Ya Rabb, your decision, you know best, khalas.
Alhamdulillah.
Third level is to in your heart of
hearts, in your hearts of hearts, be pleased
with the decision of Allah, Rabbul Izzah.
You know best, Ya Rabb.
And whoever does any of the levels of
sabr, sabr has a huge reward.
Listen to this, Allah, Rabbul Izzah says, The
first, Allah is with those who are patient.
Can you imagine Allah, Rabbul Izzah decreeing that
I am with you, meaning in this one,
this is ma'iyya al-khasa, that I
am with you, and I will support you,
I will protect you, I will nourish you,
I will cherish you.
To have that joy.
One of the sheikhs was ill.
They went to him on his sickbed and
they said, how are you?
He goes in the best position.
I have a calamity and I am bearing
it, so I am patient.
And Allah says, So I am in the
company of Allah, Rabbul Izzah.
The second one, the second part, is the
reward of sabr is like reward of nothing
else.
Allah, Rabbul Izzah says, for those who bear
patiently, I will give them their reward without
count.
So two meanings, number one, He will give
you so much that it can't get counted.
And number two, without sitting and counting with
you, did you do this and you didn't
do this, Allah will forgive you and bless
you with rewards.
So a huge competency to aspire to, and
if you master it, you are ready for
leadership.
Remember this, no one can lead without patience.
If you master this patience, you are ready
for leadership.
We made them leaders to guide by our
words when they learnt patience and they were
people with conviction.
So patience has all good in it.
Allah, Rabbul Izzah not test me in you
more than you can bear, but whenever difficulties
come, dear ones, bear it.
And Ali radiallahu anhu said that bravery, bravery
is a moment of sabr, a moment of
patience.
There was a huge Arab warrior in the
past, his repute used to go through the
land.
So once a person saw him and he
saw a small man, he's not a big
man, he's not muscular, so he goes, how
have you got this reputation that you're so
brave and so courageous?
What's your secret?
So he goes, listen, let's play a game.
You put your finger in my mouth, I'll
put my finger in your mouth, you bite
my finger, I bite your finger, whoever cries
out first loses.
So they swapped fingers and each other's mouth
and this one's biting that one, the other
one's biting this one.
You can imagine blood's coming down and then
the man goes, ah.
So he goes, do you see the difference?
I was in the same predicament as you,
I was about to shout as well, but
I waited, I had a moment, extra patience
with you, now I will go down in
history as having won this and you go
down as someone who lost this.
So shujaa, sabr, sa'a, a moment of
bearing the nerves.
Allah bless you, Allah guide you, Allah guide
you.
Faqultu maa qultin taku hasanatan famina Allah, wa
in taku sayyi'atan famin nafsi wa shaytan.
Ud'u Allah wa antum muqinoon bil ijabah.