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With Hardship Comes Ease | Dr. Omar Suleiman
The Tafseer of the two repeated verses in the Quran about how every Hardship is Accompanied by ease. This lecture was organized by the Drexel Muslim Students Association.
Transcript
This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings. I hope you all are well. Alhamdulillah, it's great to be back. I think I came to Drexel, I think it might have been 6-7 years ago. Was anyone here when I came to Drexel? Oh, okay. Y'all have moved on at this point, right? So it was about 6-7 years ago probably. Alhamdulillah, I mean it was one of the most memorable trips that I had and it's a blessing to be with you here. And I know that in settings like this, Q&A is far more valuable. So I won't speak for too long. InshaAllah ta'ala I'll offer some remarks on this concept that I hope will be a little bit different or at least enriching to what you already have heard about when it comes to sabr, when it comes to patience, when it comes to this beautiful ayah or two ayahs in the Qur'an. innama al-usri yusraa, innama al-usri yusraa. Verily with difficulty comes ease, verily with difficulty comes ease. Now, I'm just going to take a show of hands. I mean, how many of you feel like the khutbas and the lectures in the last two years have revolved around this concept? Have y'all heard a lot of khutbas about difficulty? Yeah? Okay. One of the things that I see with this discourse is that a lot of this comes down to whether or not you're going to apply some of these basic concepts from the Prophet ﷺ in regards to how to show sabr. You know, if you think about it, at the end of the day when you're talking to someone that's going through a hardship,
it's a lot easier for you to find the words to give to them than it is for you to actually express them in a heartfelt way when you're in the midst of a difficulty. And that's why, SubhanAllah, the blessing of simply saying alhamdulillah, the blessing of simply praising Allah ﷻ, saying alhamdulillah when you are in difficulty is in and of itself enough to build you a home in paradise. It's not this long prayer that you have to say. It's not something that's elaborate or comprehensive. It is one phrase in the midst of difficulty that at the first strike, عند الصدمة الأولى, to say alhamdulillah is enough to have a home built in paradise called the house of praise. Alhamdulillah. You don't have to do much more, right? It's not complicated. You don't have to sit there and think about what you remember. And you know, it was really interesting when I think about how simple that is and how beautiful it is. I had a friend of mine who was in a really bad car accident. And this is what I think about when I think of this hadith and the simplicity of it. And in the midst of this car accident, when they got to him, they started asking him, they said, what's your phone number? And he couldn't remember his phone number, right? Or a phone number of a family member or a friend, right? When you're in the midst of it, there's a level of shock, right? And he said, the only thing I kept on saying was alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah. So I forgot my phone number. I forgot my phone number, but I didn't forget alhamdulillah. Because the believer is so accustomed to constant hamd, to constantly saying alhamdulillah, thanking Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala, that you hope that when the test comes, that that will be your natural first instinct. But in order for it to be your natural first instinct, it has to be your regular habit. The same thing as this dream that we all have, that Allah takes us saying what, what do you want to be saying when you die?
La ilaha illallah. See, all y'all said it. You want death to get to you while you are saying la ilaha illallah. May Allah give us all that ability to say la ilaha illallah at the time of death. May Allah make it our last words on our tongue and in our heart. You're not suddenly going to come up with la ilaha illallah if it wasn't a regular dhikr. You know, if you think about the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam when he says keep your tongue moist, keep your mouth moist with la ilaha illallah. Keep your mouth moist with la ilaha illallah, right? As a form of remembrance. What a blessing from the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam to teach us something so simple yet so profound. Because if you are accustomed, if you train your tongue to while when you are walking from place to place, walking to class, going somewhere else, you're saying la ilaha illallah, la ilaha illallah, la ilaha illallah, constantly moving your tongue with it, then when that moment comes to you of death, whether it is sudden or if it is at the end of a long extended trial, la ilaha illallah will be natural for you. Because you've made it a habit to constantly say la ilaha illallah. So it's very simple things with huge rewards. To say alhamdulillah at the time of musiba, at the time of tragedy, guarantees you what? A house of praise in paradise. To say la ilaha illallah at the time of death guarantees you entrance into paradise. Because the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said whoever dies and la ilaha illallah is their last words, dakhalal jannah, you will enter into paradise. That's why Allah doesn't give it to anybody. It's a special gift that Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la gives to you. What Muslim doesn't know alhamdulillah la ilaha illallah? We all know it. You could talk to a Muslim that is thoroughly educated and deep in the faith or you could talk to a very simple Muslim that lives somewhere in the third world in a desert cut off from people. What Muslim doesn't know to say alhamdulillah for good things
and alhamdulillah in times of patience and la ilaha illallah at all times. Every Muslim knows that. So Allah is not giving us a difficult equation here. It's whether or not you can bring yourself to actually say it in the moment. Now I gave a khutba about this a few weeks ago. Sabr, the short term of sabr, and the sadmat al-ula, the first strike, is to say alhamdulillah. The long-term determination of patience is whether or not you're making progress in your relationship to Allah. The long term is whether or not you're making progress in your relationship to Allah. So are you succeeding in the short term? Did you say alhamdulillah when it happened? Or did you shout out a bunch of you know curse words or say a bunch of things you shouldn't have said and then when you cooled down you said alhamdulillah. The long term of it is measure your patience by your progress. That's the long term. Okay now I want to come back to this ayah. Inna ma'an usri yusra. I was thinking about this ayah as much as I could. What's an angle, what's something that we can extract from it that is not already obvious from the ayah itself? That verily with hardship comes ease or with difficulty comes ease. Verily Allah Subhana wa ta'ala says it twice right he repeats it. With hardship comes ease. I can't tell you how many times I've been invited to give a khutbah or a lecture at a university and they said what's your topic? I said what's your topic? What's my topic? With hardship comes ease. All right no offense to the direction I'm saying. You guys could have been a little bit more creative here. But in reality though the Quran as a whole offers us an opportunity for infinite reflection. Like you don't stop reflecting on the Quran. You don't stop extracting gems from the Quran. So there's actually beauty in the fact that these few phrases stick with us because they become part of the ethos of the Muslims. This becomes who we are. With hardship
comes ease. Inna ma'an usri yusra. So what does this refer to? The word usr is a very interesting word. All right difficulty. Usr is a very different word and of course in the Arabic language you have such a rich you know spectrum of words to define seemingly a singular concept that each one of them offers you a lot of benefit. And so there's the word mashakka. And mashakka typically the scholars say of the language that it refers to very tangible pain. Very tangible pain. Okay something where there's a wound or there is a quantifiable loss of something or difficulty you know sweat blood all of that. Mashakka typically refers to something very tangible. All right. Usr is a state. A state of difficulty. And so it covers more and it refers perhaps to some of the things that aren't as easily identifiable. And so Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la mentions about the day of judgment. Yawmun asir. A day of great difficulty for the wicked, for the disbelievers. Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la mentions wa inta asartum. Some of the scholars mentioned in terms of divorce. All right and going through that and everything that it covers in that regard. So usr and by the way this is very interesting because Allah also talks about people in debt. People in debt through us a person that's in a state of difficulty. And some of the scholars mentioned that one of the benefits of that is that you know when a person is in debt it's not just the debt itself. Right not just the the dollar amount that is causing them difficulty but there's a lot of stress that comes from it that is really deeper than that. And that's why Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam used to seek refuge in Allah from debt and taught us to seek refuge in Allah from
debt. Because like it's not just a matter of I need to pay this off in a certain amount of time. Right what it brings what it induces of difficulty is is great. Right so usr typically refers to a state of difficulty and it could be an overwhelming state of difficulty. You know when especially the hardest moments. By the way Allah referred to it in tabook. You know that that hour of great difficulty where it just consumes every part of you. Right one of the things about being in that state is that you're not rational. You are not rational. All right and it's actually important to understand that like someone comes to me in the midst of great difficulty and they're asking me to explain something to them. Like look in the midst of you're not going to accept a rational answer. What will be much more helpful is for me to remind you of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and to give you words of comfort. But you're not going to clarify deep concepts when you're in the midst of deep trauma. It just doesn't work that way because it also overwhelms your senses. It overwhelms you in every way. After this talk I'm sure some of you will come up and ask questions that are very difficult. May Allah help you. I'm not saying that I won't listen to your question. All right and then I'm not interested in hearing about your pain. I'm just saying that you have to also understand that this is not a you don't have a rational problem and so a rational answer is not going to solve you know your sudden crisis and world view. This is not going to happen. When you're in the midst of it it is hard for you to see a way out. It's one of the that's one of the things about it. You know subhanAllah as believers if you realize how much emphasis there is in the Quran on vision beyond the immediate eyesight right. The idea of belief in al-ghayb. Those who believe in the unseen. Part of the unseen is qada' and qadr right. The divine decree of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. The same way you can't see Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. The same way that you can't see the day of judgment. You can't
see the workings of qadr. You can't see the workings of that divine decree and so it's not the mechanics of the divine decree that's the problem. It's your ability to trust the whole idea the divine himself in his decree. Not to question the mechanics of it or try to get an understand. It's just not going to work. You have to put your faith in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and you have to affirm that. That's why Ibn Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala said that whoever affirms their faith in divine decree has established their tawhid. Their idea of the belief in one god. If you lose that your tawhid is destroyed. You're going to destroy your belief in god as a whole. It's all going to come falling apart and so it's not a rational response. It is reaffirming your trust in the one who knows what you don't know. Reaffirming your trust in the one who understands what you what you don't understand. Reaffirming your trust and acknowledging your limitations to the one who has no limitations. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Right so that's that's actually what the isr is. You cannot see past it and sometimes maybe while in the moment we won't fully admit it it is it is a profound short word of wisdom that sort of wakes us up and helps us keep perspective. You know it is someone putting their their hand on your shoulder saying hey look you're going to get through this inshallah okay. I love you and I know you and I know you can do this. It's like that's not really profound but maybe it helps. Maybe it's because you trust the sincerity of the person that's saying it. Maybe and I remember and I'm not I'm not going to veer into psychology here because I'm sure that there are people here that are actually experts in the field. But you know I remember reading a book on counseling because that's what we had to do. When you're an imam you got to know how to change light bulbs. You got to know how to counsel people. You got to
know how to like everything right everything in between right. So I'm like in the masjid okay now you got to do all these different things. So what did I have to do? I had to read a bunch of books on counseling and one of the things like when you're talking to someone sometimes when they're not so certain they will draw their strength from your certainty as you're talking to them. Right so maybe they're trying to tell themselves on the inside like I'm going to make it through this but there's a there's a doubt there. But when you're saying hey you're going to get through this I believe in you. I know you. Allah has a plan and you say it with certainty. They might draw as a recipient from your certainty. That actually might be what affirms them in the moment. Okay and so that's the value of nasiha. That's the value of advice. It's the value of being with someone. To walk with your brother in their time of need. That's the value of that because sometimes it's that the certainty in your voice that actually is going to give them the voice that they need on the inside. When you're in it can't see past it. You know someone's in a really really bad relationship. Messy messy breakup. You know thought I was going to marry this person. It's not working out and I now see it slipping away or you know maybe even a divorce itself. Like I can't see happiness after this because the greatest happiness I think I experienced up until this point was when this was at a high right. When this was going in a certain direction and so now it's like you're taking away any notion or any possibility of happiness from me. Now as a guy on the other side that's seen people recover from bad relationships and seen people recover from divorces that didn't know they're you know on that side I can be like you're going to be okay. Look inshallah you're going to be okay. But that person's like but I can't live without her. I can't live without him. Like yeah you're going to live. You're going to be okay. Seriously I've done it enough times to tell you you're going to be fine inshallah. Is it going to hurt sometimes?
Yeah but you'll be fine. Allah has created us not just with with immense capacity of patience but also immense the immense capacity to recover. Recovery is part of the sabr that Allah put inside of us. The possibility of recovery Allah put inside of us. It's actually remarkable. It's a gift from Allah that he's given us that possibility to recover. Not to where we don't hurt when we remember certain things. Not to where sometimes there isn't long trauma from certain things but we we do have the ability inside of us as a gift from Allah to actually move on. But when you're in the midst of it you don't really think that way right. You know what's so beautiful about the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam? He was a walking Quran. His character was the Quran. If Innama al-Usri Usra is not the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam you know in hijra being caught by Suraka ibn Malik as a fugitive right about to be killed possibly on the run from his people to a people that he doesn't yet know really well as a refugee to them and him telling Suraka by the way how will it be oh Suraka when you are carrying the gold bracelets of Kisra the most powerful ruler in the world in your hands if that's not Innama al-Usri Usra I don't know what is. That's literal and the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is the one who's in the deepest Usra in this moment. He almost just died. How do you I mean SubhanAllah like we talk about now the effects of remembering things and the effects of of trauma afterwards. He and Abu Bakr al-Siddiq radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu were in the cave and they were right there these people that wanted to do horrible things to them were right there and the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam of course tells him how is it oh Abu Bakr with two people and the third is Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. He's the one affirming Abu Bakr radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
and he's telling Suraka how will it be when you are carrying the bracelets of the most powerful man in the world the most powerful ruler in the world. That is prophetic vision beyond the moment that is the greatest hardship that you experience as a people you're fighting for your existence as a community against the people that want to wipe you off the face of the earth and in the darkest times in the ditch you see the light of Islam spread throughout the world Inna ma al-usri yusra. It's going to come out of this something is going to come out of this so when you're in usur you're overwhelmed your senses are gone you're overwhelmed by the difficulty and when was this surah revealed to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam by the way was it revealed to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam as a victory lap was this after Badr that this was revealed when is this revealed to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam when there is no yusr in sight that's when it's revealed to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam right this is revealed in Mecca when there is no rational pathway out of this you couldn't sit with the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam in those moments if we were limited to the rational and say to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam or say to other companions you know look here's here's how this is going to go we have a plan all right we're Abyssinia is going to open up for us uh the ruler of Abyssinia the one ruler that will take us in will thwart a rebellion and he'll provide some ships just in case to eventually get to Medina and this other place is going to open its doors to us and you're going to have a people that love us more than they love themselves that will jeopardize all of their alliances to establish a civilization in accordance with this message that we have wealth coming from this direction or we have help coming from this external empire there's no there is no rational pathway in the moments that this is
revealed to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and the companions the Quran was not just for the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam right there's nothing right you can't rationalize a pathway up look what Allah Azawajal did now imagine being a companion who was there when this was revealed in Mecca and then 20 years later you're doing Hajj to Wada' from Medina with over a hundred thousand companions from Medina to Mecca and everything between the two revolves around the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam this message that a handful of followers were about to be wiped out with imagine what it was like for Ibn Mas'ud or Bilal to read this ayah having lived through that history again in the midst of it it's hard to see but they did not place their trust in the ability to see the rational pathway out they placed their trust in the one who sees what they don't see that was the point what does Allah Azawajal say at the end of this I haven't started to break down some of the concepts yet but what does Allah say at the end of this now get back to worship focus on your worship keep paying attention next move on to the next cause of worship move on to the next course of action to worship Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala who's not going to be limited by these things that's what Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala does puts them back on track stay focused that's the call to action at the end of this stay focused stay engaged in worship not look for the next sign stay engaged in worship it will come to you Verily with every difficulty comes ease. Now scholars mentioned a few things here some of the scholars said the repetition here is a form of taqid it's a form of just reaffirming comforting
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam verily to say it twice right some of the scholars also mention if you pay attention Verily with every single difficulty comes ease. It's not al-yusr it's in the plural ease. It's a weak hadith but it is something that that's that the sahaba can be traced to the companions and some of the salaf that one hardship will not overcome two forms of ease. So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala mentions ease twice but only mentions one difficulty the beauty of that that the ilama mention and there's so much to talk about here is that with every single difficulty comes multiple forms of ease similar to when Allah says whoever is mindful of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala taqwa typically comes when sin is presented to you and you restrict yourself you restrain yourself from that sin you might think that you're missing out right you're missing out because you restrain yourself from that sin so the pleasure of that sin you're foregoing it therefore inducing hardship for yourself right not only is Allah going to make a way out for you Allah is going to provide for you from ways that you don't even understand ways that you didn't even plan things will come to you from directions and in packages that you could have never planned for yourself so the scholar said when it comes to the test the blessings that are unlocked after the test in this life and the next are multiple are multiple you know if you're actually taking an exam most of you being students I presume you can understand
this when you're actually taking the test right to get this particular degree what the degree will unlock for you in terms of career and in terms of potential and profession right are multiple doors whereas the test is limited to a time a moment you have to pass this particular test and so when trials come to us in this life look you've got to get through this moment but what will come after it is multiple multiple in what sense multiple in that the blessing might come to you in this life and or the next but certainly in the next if you are patient you'll certainly be rewarded for your trial in the next no matter what so long as you are patient and you also may see some of that ease come in this life as well now as we said there is yusr in the plural eases in the plural is in the singular right I want you to remember that next time you're reading this okay as great as your usur is the yusr will always be greater notice here Allah did not minimize your hardship Allah doesn't say you're not really in pain it's not a big deal get up walk it off Allah does not minimize the hardship he simply maximizes the reward there's a big difference between those two remember I said the person good counselor good counselor is someone that gives you that gives you that strong advice affirms you speaks with certainty belief in you right a bad one's like walk it off what's your problem other people go through this all the time don't you hate that when you're going through something bad like other people go through this all the time you know I went through this two three times I didn't cry like you that's how I got fired for my message no that's not what happened not what happened all right but like you don't tell someone walk it off right not a big deal stop being a cry baby because you're minimizing the pain you don't minimize the pain
you maximize the reward right so a lot in comforting does not say to the prophets like some five doesn't really hurt that bad does it right this persecution in Mecca is not that bad but Allah folk turns the prophets like some focus in the believers by extension to the reward to the reward okay the difference between the two in the prophets I some now is the one that's consoling when khabab radi allahu ta'ala and who comes to the prophets ice on them and I think of the scene and and it's a it's a hard one honestly khabab struggled well the allah ta'ala one of the greatest sahaba honestly you read about khabab radi allahu anhu you fall in love with this man what he went through what he struggled with incredible human being and khabab radi allahu anhu sees the prophets like some sitting with his back against the kaaba and his legs extended meaning you know sometimes uh you know when allah says that you might think someone is from the agnia they're okay because of their ta'af because of the way that they're carrying themselves you might make the wrong assumption about the amount of suffering or the amount of pain they're going through right person might be going through a lot but uh something is keeping them going in a certain way and so to the outside you're not you don't really understand the full extent to what that struggle is so khabab sees the prophets ice on them reclined against the kaaba and he says to the prophets i said them ya rasulullah aren't you going to make dua for us aren't you going to seek victory for us let me ask you a question don't you think the prophets isam was doing that a lot i mean in bed the whole night before the battle of bed the prophets i some didn't sleep to get refreshed for the for the
fight he spent the whole night making dua for the muslims for what victory prophets i some could have told khabab hey you don't understand i'm doing that he didn't do that he didn't do that told khabab that people that came before you were sawed in half for this belief allah is going to give us victory we're going through this together it's going the yusr is going to come focus on that focus on that it's gonna come it's gonna come so here in the mind is focusing on the yusra focusing on the reward the greater the difficulty the greater the reward think about this for a moment for some there will be no yusr except in the hereafter and as a believer you accept that i'm telling you one of our greatest problems is that we we demand justice be imminent we demand the answer be imminent we demand ease be imminent we want to see it now now now now it's natural to want to see things happen but now or else i'm gonna stop making dua i'm gonna stop believing i'm gonna have a crisis no as a believer that's not even a question for me because the one who can answer in one second can answer in a million years as he sees fit why would i take my limited understanding and try to impose it on him i'm good i'm gonna work for justice i'm gonna work for my prayers to be answered but i'm not gonna impose my understanding on al-alim al-hakim doesn't make sense the all-knowing the all-wise why would i try to impose my understanding my understanding on him in the hereafter yusr is yuqta bi ashad din nasi
azad Allah brings forth a person who lived the worst possible life that you can imagine the worst life i want you to put in your mind right now a person who you know that struggled more than anyone else that you've known think about that person right the person amongst the believing men and women who had the worst life one dip in jannah one dip just this just this that's yusr so the whole of this world and the worst of this world with one dip in yusr in the blessing of jannah one dip then he's pulled out he just got in now have you ever seen any hardship have you ever seen sadness it's hardship what's sadness he doesn't even know what is anymore i've never seen any sad i don't know what i don't know what what's what's being spoken about here no put me back in there right i don't i i've never seen sadness in my existence the one dip in yusr was greater than the entire existence of us in this world that's in the most extreme case allah did not however limit it just like when allah just like when allah azawajal says if you are grateful i will increase you not just in jannah not just in faith not just in perspective not just in the thing that you are grateful with and for in the expanded sense don't limit allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's definition i will increase you you with hardship comes ease with every difficulty comes ease with every difficulty comes ease and i'll say one more thing here you know uh when it comes to dua when it comes to
supplication the sahaba did not used to focus on the answer to the dua umar al-khattab radi allah ta'ala said i don't concern myself with the answer to the dua i simply concern myself with the ability to make the dua because allah would not let me make the dua unless he was going to answer abu huraira radi allahu ta'ala said i'm not afraid of being deprived from the ijabah i'm not afraid of being deprived from the answer i'm afraid of being deprived from the ability to ask that's what concerns me so ibn ata'illah said when allah lets you move your lips it's because he wants to give you something he wants to give you something so if allah let your tongue move he's going to give you something right i want you to think about this very very carefully the reward of being able to make the dua itself the reward of being able to make the dua itself some of the scholars mentioned in the matter is to use in the matter is to use they said the yusr of allah actually giving you patience patience is actually a blessing from allah to thank him for it's actually a great gift from allah subhanahu wa ta'ala the ability to have patience you meet people i just came back from bosnia the way that i mean just the resilience that you see in someone i posted about this one this one woman subhanallah a widow of surah banitza lost all that she did and she has this contentment this rida in her face incredible to where she advocates for the widows of surah banitza she's someone that's working her life towards it and she's so just tranquil i'm not minimizing her pain i'm sure she has nights where she can't sleep i'm sure she has nightmares i'm sure that she has memories i'm sure she has trauma but the way that woman says alhamdulillah sitting in the place sitting in surah banitza by the way where it all happens the way she says alhamdulillah and drinks
her cup of tea i'm like if that's not a miracle from allah i don't know what is that's ayah that's a miracle what i'm witnessing right now is a miraculous human being this is a miracle it's a lesson for me right and you think about what the prophet said he said inna fis sabri ala matak rahu khayran kathira that one that impatience with that which you dislike is all types of good all types of good and in another narration he says wa ma o'tia ahadun a'ta'an huwa khayrun wa awsa'u minas sabri no one is given any blessing that is better and more expansive than patience that covers more if you develop resilience if you develop patience what that does for you the character the faith the ability to persevere which by the way has benefits in your world your worldly matters as well as your matters in the hereafter what that does for you is absolutely incredible that's a blessing from allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in and of itself so allah does not just give you the reward of patience that you should thank him for allah gives you the blessing of patience itself which you should you should thank him for it's just like alhamdulillah if you if you died with your last words being alhamdulillah and all you were saying alhamdulillah for was the ability to say alhamdulillah you'll still die in debt because you're one alhamdulillah surely alhamdulillah for being able to say alhamdulillah sabr you thank allah for the patience itself not just the reward of patience that you seek so there is no greater blessing that's given to a person than patience wa ma o'tia ahadun a'ta'an huwa khayrun wa awsa'u minas sabri and then innama yuwafa sabirun ajra hum bi ghayyi hisa' allah rewards the patience without measure the reward for patience on the day of judgment is greater than the reward of anything else that you've done so both the blessing that allah gives you as well as the reward he gives you for that blessing are forms of yusr our forms of ease
that we should thank him for innamar yusra may allah grant us the ability to be patient and the full reward of our patience and may allah grant us the best of this life and the next and we ask allah as one of the salaf did allahumma in kuntah balaghta ahadun min ibadika if oh allah if you have delivered one of your servants darajatan bi balain a station with you through trial faballighniha bil aafiyah allow me to reach that same station with aafiyah while being spared we ask allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for al aafwa wa al aafiyah fiddunya wa al aafiyah allahumma inna nas'aluka al aafwa wa al aafiyah fiddunya wa al aafiyah oh allah we ask you for forgiveness and for safety in this life and in the next allahumma ameen
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