Yahya Ibrahim – Finding Light in the Dark, Healing in the pain, reinforcement in our weakness

Whenever a challenge arises in our life, there

are 3 important considerations

to have.

If it makes us bitter with Allah

if we turn away,

if our heart

contracts and we find it difficult to accept

the difficulties,

the austerity,

the tragedy,

the pain,

and we are not content with Allah Subhanahu

Wa Ta'ala, if we don't esteem Allah and

think of Allah greater than the very moment

that we're in, if If we don't see

past the dark patch to the glorious radiant

light of our life,

then it becomes a punishment from Allah Subhanahu

Wa Ta'ala.

If our condition with Allah remains the same,

we don't really,

do anything different.

We continue doing our salah as we normally

do.

We function as best

and as well as we can,

as we have previously done.

It seems that we just recognize that things

will get better eventually.

Then this is a cleansing and a purification

from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Nothing has really

improved in our spiritual connection with Allah, and

Alhamdulillah

nothing has changed in our connection with Allah.

But if we grow in love for Allah,

and if we become more patient and enduring

and resilient,

If we

make

Allah will suffice us.

If we recognize that this hardship is also

in the governess and the control of Allah

Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,

and that it brings us closer to Allah,

It causes us to wake up in our

nights to pray when previously we hadn't,

to fast and to give penance and to

give charity and to increase our love and

output towards others.

If it moves us closer towards Allah, then

it is a sign of Allah's

love for us. And therefore any incident in

your life my dear brother, my dear sister,

it's one of those 3.

It's either may Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala protect

us when our heart

has this kabd and this contraction, it is

a nikma, a punishment from Allah.

Or it can be a tuhr and a

purification from Allah.

If nothing really changes in our life and

we continue,

as normal.

But if it becomes a source of

connection to Allah, and return to Allah, and

repentance to Allah, and is sukhar to Allah,

and seeking Allah in a way that we

had not done previously,

then it is love from Allah Subhanahu Wa

Ta'ala

and

And without the

there can't be the arrival of

Allahayhi barakfina feequm. Your brother Ibrahim.

Have a blessed Jumuah Insha'Allah.