No Gift Is Better Than Patience
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The importance of showing generosity and self sufficiency during difficult situations is emphasized, as it is crucial for individuals to be successful. The speaker emphasizes the need for patience and education in achieving success, and the importance of learning to be patient and finding one's own satisfaction. The speaker also highlights the importance of balance and embracing one's own worth, and emphasizes the need for patient mental health.AI Generated Transcript ©
If you would like to ask Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala to give you a special gift,
a special gift, a special trade.
What trade or gift would you ask Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to grant you?
Give me answers.
Knowledge? Beautiful.
Forgiveness.
Hajj,
While you're still in this dunya jama, wisdom.
Kids. Kids.
Be careful.
Be careful what you wish for.
Let's learn that from the prophet, salallahu alayhi.
What is the best thing you can ask
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for? And what is
the best gift that Allah would ever give
you? And this hadith number 26 and the
other salihin.
A group from the Ansar
came to the prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, and
they asked him, you Rasoolah, give us.
Give us what?
So just to give the context of the
story here, is that usually whenever the prophet
receives any war spoils
or collection of these dakat, for example, it
comes in massive amounts
and everything is stored in the masjid for
distribution.
Everything will be stored in the masjid for
distribution afterwards.
These people know the prophet and generosity,
That none of that stuff is gonna last
long.
So the moment these things arrive, everybody rushes
to the prophet, salazar, hoping to get what?
A share.
I get something extra.
By the way, including the wives of the
prophet used to participate also at.
We had somebody came from Al Bahrain. We
want to get some of that stuff.
And the prophet says, no I gave you
a share already. Khalas, you're done. The idea
here is that this amsar, they heard about
the collection and they immediately came to the
prophet
can we get some of that stuff? So
the prophet
gave them.
They say,
more.
He said, give them more.
And they kept asking, they kept the Prophet
kept giving them. He kept giving the people.
Until what he has
already, is all done.
Is all distributed.
When the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam,
he,
exhausted everything that was in his position, sallallahu
alaihi wasallam. He said to them
Because whatever wealth I have, I will not
withhold from you.
Like don't worry,
if I have something, I'll give it to
you. I'm not going to spare anything. I'm
not going to withhold anything from you. If
I have it, I will give it to
you. That's again showing the generosity of the
prophet
He said afterwards,
And Allah,
and whoever would be just and modest, Allah
will keep him just and modest.
Meaning,
if you, you yourself,
take yourself above that level of asking.
Like if you show humbleness and modesty,
and if you show this kind of, you
know, shyness away from asking,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will suffice you. That's
what it means.
Like if you're not gonna go out there,
keep asking the people every time there's an
opportunity to go ask. So Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala will put
He will put that sense of richness
and sense of satisfaction
into your heart. That's what the prophet means
by this by this statement.
And whosoever,
would seek self sufficiency,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will make himself sufficient.
I don't know if you remember we talked
about the difference between
being
and What's the difference between
and?
In the Arabic language means abundance.
And you have a lot of stuff. You
have a lot of stuff.
But
means what?
Self sufficient
or sufficiency. What does that mean? It doesn't
matter how much you have
because sometimes you have so much abundance,
but you're still you're still not satisfied.
You're still not satisfied.
So that's not the honey. You're not rich
then.
You're only wealthy, that's all. But you're not
rich because no matter how much wealth you
have, it doesn't set us it doesn't make
you feel rich enough.
So you're always worried. You're always scared. You're
afraid that you're gonna lose this. You're
all the time.
But it doesn't matter how much you have
in your hand, even if it was something
little. But if you have the satisfaction with
this thing, then you're rich.
You're rich.
What matters if you have a million or
you have a dollar and you're happy with
a dollar, or you're never happy with a
million?
So that's the meaning of being rich. So
he says, and if you have, if you
teach yourself to be rich,
to start to find that sense of of
self sufficiency in the heart, not in the
hand, not in the money, not in your
pockets. Because Allah
will make you rich.
In the Arabic we say,
If you have a content heart,
then you and the one who have the
ownership of the entire world are equal.
Because it doesn't matter if your break if
your breakfast is only
bread, crumbs of bread and eggs and and
that's it, or you have a whole feast
masha'Allah.
You're happy with that egg and bread and
satisfied
versus you know somebody who has all that
feast and is still looking at the missing
you know plate from the from the breakfast.
If you're satisfied with what you have Alhamdulillah,
then you're rich already.
And then he said
He said
and whosoever
would be patient
Allah will give him patience. Translation a little
bit off here
because the word The Arabic text is where
Why the hadith was given over here.
We said that many, many times before that
in the Arabic language.
Any addition to the, actual,
structure of the word
will add meaning to it as well too.
So the word for patience is what in
the Arabic language?
Sabr, right? If you want to tell somebody
to be patient what do you say?
Isber. But if you want the person to
exaggerate
and intensify his exercise of patience you say
what?
So what do we add over in the
word? The.
There's there, and that
if you even notice how you pronounce it,
it takes longer to pronounce the word with
Shadda than without Shadda.
Right? So here
which means
if you hold yourself and if you bring
yourself to be patient,
which means if you exercise
patience, if you persevere,
if you endure, if you make the effort,
exert the effort to be patient,
Allah will facilitate way for you to be
patient.
What do you learn from the statement of
Ima?
That being patient is what?
It's a skill.
You can learn it.
So don't you ever come to me and
say, Sheikh, you know, I'm short-tempered. It runs
in the family.
I don't believe in that.
Don't think it is a generic.
Even if your whole of your line bloodline,
all of it is known to be angry
all the time, you can still learn to
be patient if you do what?
Exercise patience.
So how do you exercise patience then? Learn
the skill that makes people endure
and start practicing that. You're gonna fail first
time, second time, 100th time. Hopefully 101 will
be on the right path.
And then the prophet said at the
end This is the answer to the question
I asked earlier.
No one, salallahu alayhi wa sallam says. No
one has ever been granted a gift
that's better and more comprehensive than patience.
Did you hear that?
All what you guys have said, there are
valuable things to ask for, including kids.
Right?
But the prophet said, there is nothing more
valuable.
No nothing more precious
than being patient.
And we have learned that earlier from the
ayah that imam imam,
at the beginning of the chapter when he
says
Those who persevere in patience, they shall receive
their word without what? Measure.
Which means,
obviously and very clearly,
that this is a very precious thing. SubhanAllah.
Nothing more valuable than this. So ask Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala to help you be patient
all the time.
Because you can be patient with rude people,
you can be patient with circumstances,
patience again, stuff falling into the haram or
enduring the worshiping Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. There's
so much,
so much you could use patience for. It's
a very special skill.
The last thing that we'll look add to
it as well is with patients, there's always
another skill that you need to acquire to
balance it with. What is that?
Patient needs what? I I hear whispers.
Sugar. Sugar.
Gratitude.
Because you need to be grateful for what
you have
and also patience for what you lack.
So that's very important to balance these 2
together, inshallah. May Allah make us among those
also. Always endure patience, And
always exercise patience in their affairs. Any
question, you know?
Yes.
So you ask for patience, is that what
you're saying?
Oh, easiness. Of course. I mean, don't ask
Allah to test you so you can exercise
patience.
No. Don't ask Allah to test you to
exercise patience. Rather, always ask Allah for
ease. Always ask Allah for your affairs to
be easy, affairs to be good. You don't
need to ask for for that. But
if things go in your life that requires
ask Allah to make you.
ask Allah to make you.