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Juz 18: How to Face Trials | Ust. Lobna Mulla

How can Allah put righteous people through such painful trials? How do I deal with losing a loved one? How does grief change a person and those around them? What can I do to build trust in Allah's timing and qadar?

Join Ustadha Lobna Mulla with hosts Dr. Omar Suleiman and Sh. Abdullah Oduro as they reflect on Juz 18 of the Qur'an, discussing the beautiful characteristics of the prophets, worshipping false gods and material things, trusting Allah and His Wisdom, and finding strength in Him in grief and difficulty.

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A. Anbya
B. Hajj
C. Mariam

Chapters:

0:00 - Highlights
📌 0:41 - Today's trivia
1:13 - Introduction

📌 2:01 – Dr. Omar Suleiman reflects on the characteristics of the prophets
4:16 - Approach Allah with humility and awe
5:10 - Avoid idle speech and have haya'
6:00 - Give charity
6:21 - Protect chastity
6:50 - True to trust and covenant
7:06 - Observe prayer

📌 7:28 – Sh. Abdullah Oduro reflects on Allah's characteristics and Lordship
7:48 - Allah the Creator
10:20 - Allah is the Source
12:04 - Allah is in control

📌 13:38 – Ustadha Lobna Mulla reflects on qadar and hardship
16:28 - Allah's timing and precision

📌 17:46 – Reflections
20:46 - Hadith Qudsi on losing loved ones
22:31 - The reward for Ayyub (as)'s patience
24:10 - What a patiently grieving person is like
26:51 - A sign of Allah's Love

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Transcript

This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings.
They can kind of help them walk through that grief. To give them tarbiyah, even in that moment. Of like, we're here with you and we want to educate your friends and your community on how to help you guys through your grief. So, just absolutely amazing. Absolutely amazing teachers, subhanAllah. Sheikh Abdullah, I feel like when you read about the prophets of Allah, we should be inspired by them in the same way, right? Like that's the challenge, right? Is the Qur'an, when you read it, these aren't mythical figures. These aren't metaphors. These are like real people. Like Ayyub and Zakariya cried real tears. Maryam had real fear for her life and really wanted to be forgotten. That's, this is real. These are real human beings. And so, when you become a companion of the Qur'an, like you're becoming a companion of all these people too. By extension, if you're reading it deep enough. And like, I agree, like the most, the highest my iman ever is, is when I'm around people of iman, losing their loved ones. It's the highest, like, cause they're just, like breezes are coming from them, you know? Yeah, subhanAllah, it's amazing. And you see that, it's that faith activated, you know, subhanAllah, and that reliance on Allah. And like mentioning Ghaza and you say, cause sometimes you ask yourself, sometimes you may say to yourself, if it was me, I don't know if I'd be this way or how could they, you know? And then you say, subhanAllah, you know, this is, you know, you know, if Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la loves, it's a sign of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la's love. And we ask Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la to place serenity in the hearts of these parents of their lost loved ones. You know, I mean. Not only not a sign of Allah's hate, it's a sign of Allah's love. Complete tahawud, like complete shift of perspective. Not only does Allah not hate you, this is a sign of Allah's love in the nighttime, based upon your response. May Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la comfort the grieving parents of them all. May Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la comfort those who have lost their loved ones. And may Allah Azza wa Jalla join us all with our beloved Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Go through those. Allahumma Ameen. JazakumAllahu Khayran. Ustadur Rabbuna. JazakumAllahu Khayran. Shukr to Allah and to all of you as well for tuning in. BarakAllahu feekum. Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. For my servant, if I take away his or her loved one, thumma ihtasabahu, and that person said, alhamdulillah, inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi wa raji'oon, illa aljannah, except for jannah. It's as if even the wording of the Hadith Qudsi, you know, my sheikh, when he taught it to me, he, or taught it to us in our class, he said, SubhanAllah, it's like Allah Azza wa Jalla is saying in this Hadith Qudsi, as if it's saying that there is nothing else that could comfort a person that's been through a tragedy like that. And there's nothing else that would make it worth it for that person to have gone through something like that, except for jannah. So what else would I give this person except for jannah? If they were patient with this tribulation, like what else is there? Because I don't think there's a single person that has lost a child in this dunya that ever really quite feels the same about it again. You know, you kind of get over a loss of a job, even, you know, and it's very difficult, the loss of a parent, like these types of losses, like the loss of a spouse, the loss of a child, those are different. They hit you differently. Like, will you ever really taste the sweetness of this life again? You'll have happy moments, but that will always kind of, that will still be your life story. And that's why Allah Azza wa Jalla is saying jannah. Like you were sent here to earn jannah, and you earned it, walhamdulillah. So stay on that hamd, stay in that state. And not only, and this is in the previous juz, and I'm sorry, I know I'm going so long, but may Allah reward you. It opens so many, so many things.
But with Ayub alaihi salam, Allah did not just give him the reward of jannah. Allah gave him his children back and doubled the family size. So he lost all 10 of his children. He got 20 in return, and he got his jannah, and he was immortalized in the Quran for his ibadah in the previous juz. So, qadr, min ajaib al-qadr, subhanAllah. Yeah, subhanAllah. And I just wanted to point out to my friends, particularly those parents of the four, both parents, mashallah, all eight of those individuals, amazing belief, amazing acceptance. They grieve, and yet in their moment of grief, walahi, they taught all of us. And some of them, there's hundreds in the attendance of their funerals, of their children, and some thousands. And walahi, they taught all of us what it means to really accept Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's qadr, and may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala bless them and grant them the highest levels for their patience. They all, all of them, without exception, we'll say Ahl al-Ghazza, the people of Ghazza taught them something. Brother Aftab and Sister Hanifa, when they lost Abdul Hadi, your friend, and of course our friend as well, mentioned Ghazza. Brother Faiz al-Usman, whose mother passed away, and we bury his mother, on the way to the janazah, said Ghazza, we're talking about Ghazza on the way to the janazah, on the way to the burial. Because these people have shown us what these prophets looked like in their moments of grief, and shown us the potential of what we can be in our moments of grief, too. Absolutely. Sheikh Abdullah, I want to... No, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala bless you, Sheikh. Ustad al-Lubna, I guess I'll ask you one more question, inshaAllah ta'ala, because you've been around people. What is the hal of a person's heart? What is the state of a person's heart, like, in these moments? Is there like an energy around someone? You know, who's grieving, but with joy and with pleasure. What does that do to the people around them?
It's totally uplifting. It's so hard to explain it, but to see somebody crying, just over the loss. They accept Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's qadr, but then maybe just a sentence afterwards, they're remembering something funny that their child did, and it's bringing them joy. That is so powerful in and of itself. It's truly a sign of their acceptance from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, truly a sign of their really high level of iman, mashaAllah, that they're able to bring peace. I've seen the people who lost their loved ones, they're comforting other people. They're comforting their friends who are crying louder than they, you know, they're accepting, and they're comforting others. That's the energy that they're bringing. They're able to accept Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's qadr with such grace that they're even able to, you know, have some joy in those moments when they're remembering the passing and even comfort others. And I wanna say one other thing, subhanAllah, my friends, Dua and Yemen, who they lost Harith on the way to his wedding. They flew, the moment they heard that Abdul Hadi had passed away, they flew to his janazah, even though brother Yemen was about to have surgery, so that they can kind of help them walk through that grief. To give them tarbiyah even in that moment of like, we're here with you and we wanna educate your friends and your community on how to help you guys through your grief. So just absolutely amazing, absolutely amazing teachers, subhanAllah. Sheikh Abdullah, I feel like when you read about the prophets of Allah, we should be inspired by them in the same way, right? Like that's the challenge, right, is the Quran. When you read it, these aren't mythical figures. These aren't metaphors. These are like real people. Ayyub and Zakariya cried real tears. Maryam had real fear for her life and really wanted to be forgotten. This is real, these are real human beings.
And so when you become a companion of the Quran, you're becoming a companion of all these people too, by extension, if you're reading it deep enough. I agree, the highest my iman ever is, is when I'm around people of iman losing their loved ones. It's the highest, because they're just, like breezes are coming from them. Yeah, subhanAllah, it's amazing. And you see that it's that faith activated, subhanAllah, and that reliance on Allah and like mentioning Ghaza and you say, because sometimes you ask yourself, sometimes you may say to yourself, if it was me, I don't know if I'd be this way, or how could they? And then you say, subhanAllah, this is, you know, you know, for Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala loves, it's a sign of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala's love. And we ask Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala to place serenity in the hearts of these parents of their lost loved ones. Ameen. Ameen. Not only not a sign of Allah's hate, it's a sign of Allah's love. Complete tahawud, like complete shift of perspective. Not only does Allah not hate you, this is a sign of Allah's love in the nighttime, based upon your response. May Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala comfort the grieving parents of them all. May Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala comfort those who have lost their loved ones. And may Allah Azza wa Jalla join us all with our beloved Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. Allahumma Ameen. Jazakum Allah Khayran. Ustadur Rabbuna. Jazakum Allah Khayran. Shukr Allah to all of you as well for tuning in. BarakAllahu feekum. Wassalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.
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