Yaser Birjas – Facing Trials With Patience
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The speakers stress the importance of punishment in Islam, including hardship and evil actions as rewarded actions. They emphasize the need for testing one's love for Allah and finding out who it is. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of patient and content within the heart to avoid punishment and the negative impact of negative experiences on people's health and well-being. The speakers stress the importance of showing patience and not giving up, as well as the need for people to consider their position and reward when facing hardship or punishment.
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If if something happened to if Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala punishes somebody in the dunya,
is it better than to get their punishment
for the wrongdoing in the dunya or the
akh? What do you guys
think? Duniya is better. Right? Because if it's
a akhah, what is it gonna be?
I mean,
Lamastan, jannah.
And then whatever punishment you go through, in
comparison to what's happening in the Akha, it's
a different thing. So let's hear how does
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala do it with the
Ibaat, with his servant.
Hadith number 43
In this narration, Anas
reported the messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
saying,
when Allah wills good for his slave,
he punishes him in this dunya, in this
world. But when he wills an evil for
a slave, he does not hasten to take
him to ta to task, like he delays
that,
but calls him to account on the day
of resurrection.
So here he's saying,
that if Allah subhanahu wa'anahu wa'ala,
what does that mean? Allah, aza wa'al,
all his actions
and all his wills are what the jamaa.
All of
it. Including the things that we might perceive
to be evil.
Because there is when Allah when we come
to Allah's actions,
absolute evil is inexistent.
Everything that Allah will
has higher embedded with it, Whether whether we
perceive it or otherwise.
We could see it, we couldn't see it.
Sometimes, you know, it doesn't happen right away.
But with patience Allah
revealed
the outcome in some other time as Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala said in the Quran.
Perhaps you,
and you wish for something
and you desire something. Allah would put so
much
so much share in it. And sometimes it's
the opposite.
Things that you dislike, Allah will put so
much in it. So here, the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam said if Allah was good
for somebody,
then this person will be punished for their
sins or for their errors and mistakes in
this dunya. Like what?
Falling sick,
losing their job,
financial constraint,
concerns,
sleepless nights.
God knows what they go through. So all
these things could be sometimes
expiations for their sins.
But how do 1 of this is a
considered an expiation, this
considered, test from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala or
punish from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. We don't
know. But our ulama they say, usually you
look in in in matters of yourself, you
look at it as if it was a
punishment.
But when you think about Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala, always have you have to have has
not done.
That Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala was was good
for you. That even what you go through,
when you think about about this from Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala, maybe Allah's testimony.
So Allah wants to purify me, remind me.
But when you think about yourself, maybe I
earned that. I deserve it because of something
I've done. So that's how the believer think
about these matters.
If Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, wills
for somebody
to go through hardship and difficult and evil
evil and things,
he will delay their punishment until the day
of judgment.
And when that day comes, he will take
them with the with the punishment, with with
the details of everything, and that difference is
gonna be severe.
Now there's an extension for this hadith, narration
in in Surat al Surat al Simeon says
That
that the amount of reward you receive
is compatible with the amount of hardship you
go through.
So the the bigger the the test,
the bigger the reward.
The bigger the test, the bigger the reward.
If
Allah loves some some people, he will love
someone,
he will put them to test.
Like, Allah's gonna test your love.
You claim you love Allah as the wazal.
Alright. I'll test you.
You know, sometimes happen to your husband and
wife. Right?
And if if if you would like to
express your love to your spouse, what do
they say? They put you to the test.
You see? I know that you're not true
about it.
They test you sometimes with that, and that's
between human beings. And the last of has
the best example. So if you claim that
you love Allah,
he will test you. As he said,
Like,
what people will be left to say, we
believe, and they're not gonna be tested. So
no. No. No. We're gonna test you just
like we test this all before
you. So they scrutinize, those are truthful, those
are not.
So here it says
that
that the harder the test,
the greater the reward. That should give you
a sense of solace, sense of peace.
So that when when people go through some
hardship and difficulty,
endure that with beautiful patience
and you shall be fine.
Your reward will be great for that.
Those who,
are content, meaning if you accept that from
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala test, from
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will be pleased with
you. If you're pleased with Allah, Allah will
be pleased with you. And
those who don't, if you reject that, Allah
will reject you.
Like, he would not take that. You won't
be serious about being a true believer to
Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. So
showing patience in the face of
AAA tragedy, a calamity, a hardship, a difficulty
is extremely important.
And I think is to remember the different
categories, how people
did their position from this test between complaining,
being patient, not saying anything wrong,
being, content within the heart, and even being
grateful to the highest level. So may Allah
subhanahu wa'ala will make us some of those
who are truly grateful to Allah
Any question?
So to what extent are we allowed to,
judge people
if other people if they're going through a
test or they're being punished?
We can't.
We do, we cannot.
But we perceive it, like, for example, if
you know somebody's life was sinful life
and then they were tested with somebody.
You might say, you know what? I mean,
they have it coming.
Because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala did this in
the Quran, the son of the prophet sallallahu
wa sallam, he taught us to condition things
like, you know, that if people extend their
their sin,
Allah will bring them that it wasn't for
the from the people before.
So, yeah, we start perceiving things as being
punishment. Like, for example, COVID, for example.
I know a lot of people, they would
say, you know, that's a test. That's a
that's a punishment.
Honestly, it could be
because the prophet mentioned that in the in
the if the and the sin sinful life
becomes, you know, evident in the life of
a people, Allah
will expose them to,
trials and tests and disease they've never seen
before.
So that was mentioned in the hadith as
well too. So anything that was mentioned in
the hadith,
we accept that in general terms,
but none specifics.
Yes,
sir.
I can barely hear you, by the way.
I can't hear you if you skip you
speak up a little bit.
Can someone convey the message for me?
I'm sorry. Never mind. When it takes me,
I never.
Is it it's just a young age?
Oh, death at a young age?
Death at a young age to be a
punishment?
Well, sometimes they're relief, Youqeulillah.
It depends really on,
yeah, on the circumstances. There is no indication
of this to be actually a punishment or
otherwise. When it comes to to life,
it has been determined by Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala.
Has nothing to do with them being punished
or being rewarded.
And some people who die
relatively young age in our perception they died
young.
But with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala died when?
When their time expired. Is
it? That's how Allah gave them qadr.
Similarly, people they live 60, 70, 80 years.
That's
Allah extension of their live of their life.
And even Aisha,
her she she, lived lived to become an
older lady.
And as she was aging, all the Sahaba
because she was young, obviously.
So all the other Sahaba before her were
dying ahead of her.
So she's seeing everybody's dying,
and she said a very famous kind like
I
said, like, those who deserve to live among
them are all gone,
And I'm left like a a sore or
anything in on the skin. I'm I'm just
living in a crowd that I don't know
who they are anymore.
This is sometimes how stranger she felt in
her lifetime.
So, yeah, there's no meaning of saying it's
a punishment or otherwise.