When The Going Gets Tough! Surah al-Kawthar [سورة الكوثر]

assalamu alaikum folks let's share a few words on suratul kothar the shortest in the quran yet so incredibly compact with such a powerful message that can teach you on how to keep going in life okay let's just put that there for a moment all of us in life there is that we have the objective to pursue to be happy we want something that we can devote ourselves to that can give us that happiness we need objectives we need goals we need a path and one of the things that happens when we're on such

a on track to achieving is also dealing with hate and toxicity and stuff like that let's go back to this surah 108 highlight in the quran in fact memorize it it's that simple that's it memorize it people let's check this out and remember what i said about developing that interpersonal relationship with the quran yes it has its asbab and those understandings and they're amazing but

the one of the wonderful aspects of the ayat is that it can have multiple meanings that touch your daily lives okay so that we and this is speaking to you and me by extension we have given you kother abundance okay now first point is we said about happiness how does this how does a person achieve that and there's two different ways one is the acquisition spike where you get something but that's fleeting the other way to develop actual happiness is a nurtured growth of happiness and that begins with gratitude

and here in now we have given you abundance and the additional wow they says the extra letter is for such great abundance just look around you you've got so much to be grateful for and this is where the journey begins devotion and this by extension other things that you set your mind to that focus to you set your heart to it okay one heart and then sacrifice and there's a wonderful story that ashur

the maliki legend mentions as one of the explanations that the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam before prophethood would participate in the annual hajj and sacrifice the meat but there was a dilemma that because most people were all doing this to the pagan gods should he refrain even though the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasn't but should he refrain but then on the other hand there's the needy who need this food so the prophet's conscience is clear so in that case that is the objective serve them for soliloquy okay

be devoted and then serve go forward but what happens when you're on a path in life when you're trying to achieve success and you're devoted what comes your way waves of toxicity waves of negativity people with you know hatred people trying to hate on you be negative what do you do you have to ignore these people that have such toxic hearts that have such negativity they are deprived in a shani aka well they are deprived from the blissful state from allah so people you've got this surah is one that's so

compact but empowers your heart it's all about that abundance gratitude and devotion and then sacrifice remaining uh cons persistent persevering and then ignoring any of the toxicity or negativity around you really to surah all about heart if you think about it the gratitude coming from the heart the devotion and then serving the needy which is once again being the people of heart okay so it's just if you haven't already memorized it do it this also speaking of heart reminds me of murad

but we aren't those who the world has set up people have an awesome day may allah bless you alaikum is