Yousef Bakeer – Dua When Facing Hardships

toward this dua to one of the greatest Sahaba with the name of

Abu Salam. And Abu Salam thought this dua to his wife, Omar selama,

Radi Allahu Allah. So I'm gonna give you a little background about

the life of Omar Salah model the Allah Allah. She was among very

few Sahaba who migrated twice, one time to Abyssinia and the other

time to El Medina. But as she's leaving Mecca to migrate to and

Medina along with her with her family, Abu Salim out of the

Allahu Anhu and selama. The tribe of Abu selama caught wind of this.

So the actually prohibited Abu selama and Omar selama and selamat

to migrate together, they forced Abu selama to migrate to Medina,

and the send almost selama and selama back to Makkah. So that

that was the first hardship that OMO selama went through. Now she

was forced to be separated from her home crew from her own

husband, that she loved so much. Abu Salim was such a great man

with a very good character, and almost selama it was just

heartbroken. She was heartbroken was heartbreaking for almost

cinema to process the idea that she will be separated from her own

husband.

But the difficult time did not stop right there.

The clay or the tribe of Abu selama decided to take her own

son, because they said that it belongs to Abu selama it means

that it belongs to us. So we will take that son away from from his

mother.

And imagine just you know, being separated from first from your own

husband, but now from even your own son. What a tests what an app

to let you know, when you are tested with your own, you know,

wealth, your own property. Obviously, it's a big test. And

when you're tested with your own health, it's also a big test. But

the test of your own children and your own spouses, this is

unmatched test. It's just a very hard time for almost selama to to,

to, you know, to try to go through but all of a sudden one of the

Allah onhand obviously she was heartbroken. She actually used to

go to the spot where the took away her son every single day for

almost a year. And she cries over there. She prays to Allah for

Allah to bring her back her own son.

And then eventually after one year, the tribe of Abu selama you

know, they used to observe her every single day comes that spot

cry to Allah for you know, for her own son. So Allah has sent some of

the Mercy on their hearts. So they accepted the fact that they will

give her her son back

when that happened, finally, who said Mr. Radi Allahu anha was able

to migrate with her own son to see Abu Salah Mara the Allahu Anhu in

El Medina.

But the problems her problems, her difficulties, did not stop there.

Subhanallah when she just got a little bit of hope,

again, that the calamity strikes one more time, where she sees now

her own husband on his deathbed because he received he received

this you know dangerous womb during one of the battles

and now she said to Abu Salah Maria Abu Salam let's make a

promise.

If one of us passes, let's make a promise that we will not remarry

again.

And I will sell him a look at her and said you know, I want you to

remarry if I pass away I want you to re marry someone better than me

Inshallah, Allah will give you a better husband.

And, and then he taught her this beautiful dua that we're going to

be learning together in sha Allah Tala. It says a young Muslim, say

Allah Houma journey female see Betty, Ya Allah reward me for the

calamity that I'm going through. And then what lift me higher a

minute and replace that calamity was something better or repeated

or against beautiful, very powerful guy.

up Allahumma giorni femal see Betty, yeah, Allah reward me for

the calamity that I went through

while loop near Hydra minha and give me something even better

replace it with something greater.

Now, if you look at this Subhanallah when Abu Salah passes

away, and almost selama start to make that God, Ya Allah, reward me

for my calamities, all of the hardships that I went through and

replace it with something better Wallahi looking at this, there's

so many reminders and listen that we can unpack from this dua at

that moment of almost Salah model the Alana. Number one. She was she

flipped the script. She went from this, this psychology of the

provision to a psychology of abundance. What does that exactly

mean? She did not look at herself and say, You know what, I'm a

failure. You know what, I'm a loser. You know what, it's my

fault. You know what I made wrong? decisions in my life that brought

me to that point. She did not blame herself. She did not point

you know the finger to herself. She does not turn the mirror

towards herself and she'd start to blame her own self.

In fact, she thought positively about it. She said, Yeah, Allah,

all what I want from you right now is a reward. I deserve a reward.

Yeah, Allah give me a reward and replace it with something better.

You see here were her psychologists, at this point is

thinking about every word. And in fact, she is you know, in a moment

of calamity. Such a beautiful, beautiful thing to reflect on

Subhanallah brothers and sisters.

In our deen, we have an amazing concept that when somebody goes

through hardships, in our deen the prophets of Allah, Allah, Selim

promised that there is a reward for whoever for whoever is going

through difficult time. And if this reward is not here, because

you may think, well, I lost somebody who is very dear to me.

How is it possible to actually replace that there is no way I can

replace that. Or even think about something in your life that you

really think that there is no replacement here in this dunya for

that loss or for that calamity. But well, it's beautiful. What is

beautiful about our deen is that even if you are not rewarded in

this life, you will be rewarded in the accurate.

I mean,

there are some people really go through a difficult time

processing this. You know, recently, I was visiting a one of

my family members who was diagnosed with cancer. And I was

at the surgery room, looking at him, you know, going through that

surgery.

I was picturing this after after, you know, the surgical handler was

very successful. And they were able to remove that, you know,

cancer from the Oregon and Alhamdulillah is going he's doing

amazing now Hamdulillah, blah, blah Mima Allah give him full chi

fat.

But I was reflecting on this. And I was, you know, thinking,

let's say that the time I spent during that surgery is a video of

20 minutes.

If I were to look at the first 10 minutes of that video, I will see

somebody who's getting opened, drop, you know, blood is dropping

everywhere, that the skin is getting opened, the flesh is

getting opened, it's very painful.

If I pause the video and the first 10 minutes, I will think that this

is an absolute evil.

But if I resumed the video,

and they finished the video of 20 minutes, and I see that

Alhamdulillah the surgery is very successful. And Al Hamdulillah he

started you know, now healing all of his, you know, flush and all of

his skin is starting to heal. Now he's gonna be in much better you

no shame, I will look at it in a different lens. I will actually

never think that the first 10 minutes is an absolute evil. It's

actually not an evil at all. Because if that didn't happen, he

would not reach to the moment of he'll.

Now, this example brings us to think broader than this, the whole

idea of the existence of evil

and I want you to pay to pay attention with

Now, in Islam, there is an amazing aspect, that if you will not be

rewarded in this life, you will be rewarded in the hereafter.

Now,

the non Muslims look at this and they really have hard time

processing the idea of the creation of the of the existence

of evil because they say, you know, now, why this is happening,

and what is the reward of that somebody was is going through, you

know, difficult time.

And there is no way he can get compensated in this life because

they don't believe in the hereafter. They have hard time

processing. So they so they will say it's unfair, it's not added,

well, in Islam, we believe that if you are not going to be rewarded

in this life, if you're not going to be rewarded in this life, there

is an eternal rewards and the day of judgment. So if you look at it

through the lens of dunya, we, the lens of dunya it's absolutely

evil. There is no way

you don't deserve you know, that hard time that you're going

through, and you're gonna pass away and there is no day of

judgment. What is the what is the what is the add in here? Where's

the justice? So if you look at it from the dunya, we perspective

from the dunya we lens, you will have hard time processing this,

I'll tell you that.

But Subhanallah in our deen Allah said it's in the Quran, Allah Vina

Eva Tomasi been called, in Allah, Allah, he were in LA, here's your

own. When a calamity strikes, they say, We belong to Allah, and we

shall, you know, return to him back. What does that mean? You

reminding yourself that there is going to be a reward in the day of

judgment and that what matters the most?

You refreshen your faith by saying even though I don't get their word

here, there is a still, you know, definitely a chance to get that

word on the day of judgment. And then the Day of Judgment, you will

look back and say Alhamdulillah that I had this calamity. Now I

will get the reward, the eternal the eternal rewards. Allah said

after this in the law, you're in the LA here's your own. Hula Iike

Allah him, Salah were to murabahah him what Rama will ecohome remoter

doing three things will happen to the people that they have belief

during the time of a calamity. Three things first, the will be

blessed, Allah him salah, toma, Robin, these blessings will they

will be showered with these blessings. And again, I will

remind myself and you if it's not here in the dunya, it will be in

the Asha. And then Allah subhanaw taala says,

Allah him Salah tomorrow be him whare that the will also Allah

subhanaw taala will shower them with mercy. And then he said, and

they will be guided, I mean, if you have this mindset, it means

that Allah has guided you, it means that Allah has put you in

the right thought process. And therefore you will be able to

process that My dear brothers and sisters, that I have almost Salama

bring so much hive, she,

you know,

she was just thinking that, well, I'm not going to be in this black

hole, I still see light at the end of the tunnel.

I still want the word of Allah subhanaw taala I don't want to

look at it as something that's the end of the journey. Because if

that happens, it will prevent you from finding another alternatives

or another solutions of your own problem. Sometimes a calamity

strikes, and there is actually a room for you to work on. Sometimes

you need to figure things out. And if you go with the perspective,

that's all it's all done. I'm a failure. I'm a loser. It will

prevent you from finding solutions and alternatives.

Think about it. Think about hard time that you went through and

think about it now. And think about what you know what

possibilities that you had at that time, but you did not think about

it because you were so into that calamity to the point that it

refrains you from looking at the bigger picture.

So again, I do it that gives me and you hope I do it. That gives

me and you patience. I do i that can give me and you faith in Allah

subhanho wa Taala faith in the color of Allah subhanaw taala May

Allah subhanaw taala make me, me and you among those who

Learn the deep meaning of this guy. Again I'll say this and I I

pray that we all can utilize this weapon This is very powerful but

Salah Salem again said Allah who met your knee theme we'll see but

yeah Allah reward me for my own for the calamity that that strikes

me work lift me higher Amelia and replace it with something better.

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