Name: Ep. 19: Faith in Hardship | The Faith Revival
Uploaded: 2017-06-15T14:12:50.000Z
Channel: Dr. Omar Suleiman
Description: The firm belief that what has come to you is decreed by Allah SWT can keep you steadfast during times of hardship.

The firm belief that what has come to you is decreed by Allah SWT can keep you steadfast during times of hardship.

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 As-salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Welcome back to the Faith Revival. So this  hadith comes in the form of a father speaking to his son, which makes it very powerful.  This is the famous companion Ubadah ibn Samit radiyaAllahu ta'ala. Ubadah, as he was passing  away, he says to his son, Ya bunayya, O my dear son, innaka lantajida ta'ma haqeeqat  al-iman. You will not taste the reality of faith. You will not be able to taste the reality  of faith. Hatta ta'lama annama asabaka lam yakun yukhtiak. Until you understand that  that which has come to you was not meant to have missed you. Wa annama akhtaak lam yakun  yusiibak. And that which missed you was not meant to have come to you. And he says to  him, Ya bunayya, O my dear son, I heard the Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wa sallam say, inna  awwala ma khalaqa Allah al-qalam. The first thing that Allah created was the pen. Fa qala  lahu uktub. So Allah said to the pen, write. Qala rabbi wamaatha aktub. And so the pen  said, O my Lord, what should I write? So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, uktub maqadira kulla  shay' hatta taqooma as-saAAa. Write the decree of everything until the day of judgment is  established. Ya bunayya, inni sama'tu rasoolAllahi sallAllahu alayhi wa sallam yaqul. O my son,  I heard the Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wa sallam say, man mata ala ghayri hadha falaysa minni.  Whoever dies with an understanding other than this understanding is not from me. Meaning  is not of my followers and not of this religion in the true sense. This hadith is so profound.  You will not taste the reality of faith. What does that mean? It is so easy to talk about  faith when you're not in hardship. It is so easy to talk about what should work and what  shouldn't work, but your faith is really put to the test, your iman really is put to the  test when you get hit with something of divine decree that you were not expecting. Something  comes to you of divine decree that you were not expecting and that's where all of that  building up of iman is supposed to hold and take root when something comes at you and  respond to the test and respond to the trial. Ibn Abbas says, whoever establishes their  belief in divine decree has established their belief in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and whoever  destroys it would destroy their belief in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. It all goes back  to that firm belief. Now notice here that Ubadah radiyaAllahu anhu is saying to his  son it starts with knowledge. If you want the reality of faith you have to at least  have the intellectual understanding. Spiritually you might bend a little bit when something  happens and hopefully not break. You might have a hard time with sabr, with patience  when something comes to you that would test your faith. But at least intellectually first  and foremost you have the ilm, you have the knowledge that what has come to me was not  meant to have missed me. You know why? Because how do people end up letting shaytan into  their lives? The prophet sallAllahu alayhi wasallam said never say the word law if. Why?  Because he said that opens, kalimat law, if you say the word if it opens all of the doors  of shaytan. Shaytan now has so many entrances because the word if opens so many possibilities.  If I would have done this, if this would have happened, if such and such happened, if that  happened. You're not going to have any time to let your iman take root in Allah subhanahu  wa ta'ala if you're constantly questioning well if this happened and that happened. The  point is Ubadah radiyaAllahu anhu is saying to his son come back to the realization that  if you did that and if you did that and if you did that this still would have happened  to you. You still would have been in the same situation and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala never  lost control of the situation. Your iman has to be able to take root in that and you have  to find comfort in that understanding. And Ubadah is not saying you're going to taste  the sweetness of faith. He said you will not even begin to taste the reality of faith until  you come to that understanding first. You have to come to that understanding that the  circumstances are beyond my control. That Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has obligated me  to do certain things but circumstances are beyond my control. If you have that understanding  then iman settles in the heart and you're able to taste the sweetness of the fruits  of that iman so long as you come to that understanding. Things happen and this would not have missed  me and this would not have come to me. All of this is planned and all of this is in Al-Lawh Al-Mahfood.  All of this has already been written by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. I'm comforted in knowing  that I do not know what the next page contains but that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will not  allow me to escape from his knowledge or from his mercy subhanahu wa ta'ala. May Allah subhanahu  wa ta'ala allow us to taste the reality of iman. Allahumma ameen. See you all next tim…

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