I have a question to ask to all of you, how do you
feel if you are in the hardtime of your life and suffering the big obstacles but in the same time you are still to be in state of bliss and contentment. Can you imagine it?
Allah mentioned in the quran, sabr jameel. Fasbir
sabran jameela from surah maarij, what can we understand literally is beautiful patience. So what is beatiful patience? And what is the connection between patience and beauty? Allah SWT has elevated patience to something that is beautiful, thus bringing us away from the materialistic view of things and letting us look beyond into the spiritual realm. He SWT is telling us:
But perhaps you hate a thing and it is good for
you; and perhaps you love a thing and it is bad for you. And Allah Knows, while you know not. (baqarah:216)
He SWT reminds us that trials, the need for
patience, and to display it with dignity and beauty is because of the final day when our deeds will be our only source of salvation. He SWT also tells us that everyone in this world is bound to go through trials as this is how people are tested and believers are separated from the others.
And We will surely test you until We make evident
those who strive among you [for the cause of Allah ] and the patient, and We will test your affairs. (muhammad:31)
We have the examples of Bilal (RA), Sumayya
(RA), Khubaib (RA) and other companions who displayed not only supernatural endurance to immense sufferings but joy while inflicted with torture. How could it be that they were happy while others around them were crying over their pain?
We can only understand it if we have
experienced even a moment of reality of Iman where everything in this life becomes meaningless and the only thing that matters is making Allah SWT happy. These people had
reached a level where they were already living in
the hereafter and they weighed every situation according to its significance in the afterlife. Dear brothers and sisters, Allah SWT is the one who has created us with emotions and feelings, and He knows that it is not easy to be patient over the hardship of life. This is why He SWT has promised immense rewards for those who can handle the situation patiently until the difficulties blows away from them.
Have faith in him that every obstacles and
tribulation just a test from Allah that are not beyond from our abillities to face it. La yukallifullahu nafsan illa wus'aha. Allah does not charge a soul except [with that within] its capacity. (baqarah: 286). So dont have to feel bad if anything happen just not as our dream to be true.
Before i end up my speech. I want to sing few
verses from a beautiful song.
When you feel all alone in this world
And there's nobody to count your tears Just remember, no matter where you are Allah knows Allah knows When you carrying a monster load And you wonder how far you can go With every step on that road that you take Allah knows Allah knows CHORUS No matter what, inside or out There's one thing of which there's no doubt Allah knows Allah knows And whatever lies in the heavens and the earth Every star in this whole universe Allah knows Allah knows