In advising us on how we should be in terms of looking for the ease after the hardship Sheikh as Sa’adi explained the following:
O
mankind, fear Allaah. Ponder upon the way that Allaah has ordained for
things to be in His creation. Verily He is praised because of that,
and we are ever thankful to Him for it.
Know
that whatever affects you from hardship, than it is because of that which your
hands have put forth, and yet Allaah over looks a lot of our bad deeds and
shortcomings. You have to understand that these problems and
issues that the people are going through, can only be removed by the one that
is All Powerful over everything. The time will come that He replaces the
hardship with its opposite (or ease). We know this because this is that which has
been promised by The Truthful, The All Hearing and The All Seeing.
So take a good look at yourselves and admit your sins and shortcomings.
You must return to Allaah in sincere repentance from all of your sins.
Do as you have been commanded by Allaah, which is be patient when
standing in-front of hardships. He has commanded us to expect and
wait for the reward when these trials come into our lives.
Spend all of your time being humble in-front of your Lord. You
should be in all of your situations, asking Him to remove from you these trials
and asking for Him to show you His Generosity. Turn your
hearts towards the one who is the possessor of the mercy
and the provisions. Wait for the good times and the removal of the
hardships that will come only from The Merciful, The Creator. For verily from
the best of the types of worship is waiting for the good times from
The Merciful, The Provider.
There should be no way that you should be overtaken by those feelings of
despair which try to cause you to give up. Nor should you allow yourself to
begin to use that type of speech which shows your displeasure and anger with
your situation. But rather the believer should never give
up on asking His Lord. He should yearn and hope for the graces of Allaah to be
bestowed upon him. The believer understands that they are always in need of Allaah
when it comes to obtaining the good as well as being saved from hardship. We
say all this to say that in terms of the believers, if they are affected by an
abundance of good than they should be from the leaders of those that show
their appreciation to Allaah, and if they are affected by hardship they
are from the patient.
The believer knows that he has no lord other than Allaah, so therefore he
supplicates to Him and makes Him his focus. Because of the fact that he has no
other deity other then Allaah, he turns to Him for all his wants and
desires. This is because he understands that there is no where for him to turn
to other than Allaah. He is not sour or upset when some trial hits him or of
those people that hate what Allaah has ordained for him. Rather he simply goes
with that which Allaah has ordained whether it be, in his eyesight, good or
bad. He is comfortable with hit and his heart remains firm with Emaan. Allaah
has guided this persons heart to understanding that
the one that is in control of all the affairs is the one that says, “Be and it
is.”
This is the successful worshiper. He has benefited from his
Lord and been firm in establishing His worship in all of their affairs. This
person has achieved two types of happiness. They are the fact that they are not
worried and the fact that their situation and possessions are good
and they have earned good deeds.
Allaah Says:
No calamity befalls, but with the Leave
[i.e. decision and Qadar (Divine Pre-ordainments)] of Allaah, and whosoever
believes in Allaah, He guides his heart [to the true Faith with certainty, i.e.
what has befallen him was already written for him by Allaah from the Qadar
(Divine Pre-ordainments)], and Allaah is the All-Knower of everything.
[64:11]
[Taken from Majmoo' al
Khutab by Sheikh Abdur Rahmaan as Sa'adi]
[Translated by Abu
Abdillah Abdul Lateef]
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