Quranic Guidance: Don’t Be Sad! God Is With Us! [Resilience] | Mufti Abu Layth

hmm okay so bismillah taking a look at today's lesson be is nila i also believe in the shaytan regime right surah baqarah verse 216

it does this this is beginning from this part of the verse okay because this is the the part i want to speak about these verses are so important

incredibly important you see it may be this term asa in arabic it's not with the sword i saw with the sod means to disobey asa with the scene is used as perhaps or it may be the antakara it may be that you dislike something you don't want to do it you don't want it to happen you don't want to be a part of

it and you don't want it to be a part of your journey yet it is good for you allah you see there are many things that we will now allah then mentions when you say how how is this good for me i'm going through a tough time you know i would want

i would want this to carry on maybe somebody's lost a job somebody's fallen ill relationships broken down person saying this is a disaster what do you mean where's the good in this i would want this to carry out want the job to carry i would want this relationship to work perhaps it is that you would love for something

and it is actually harmful for you in the greater outcome but you say you don't know it is only in time to come as the story your story the chapters become complete that it will make sense in hindsight you don't know at this stage this chapter of your life you may be in

chapter 3 chapter 5 of your life and maybe this is gonna tie in with chapter eight you don't know you're thinking well this doesn't make any sense in fact this is horrible it's the worst thing that's happened to me god knows

but you don't know there is an element of submission of surrendering that you see it's happened anyway whatever the situation is whatever difficulties people are facing it's already happened unless you're just you're just catastrophizing mentally it has already happened so why not then just put your trust in god it's happened anyway so why not trust him you know

allah and this second verse really complements this once again from surah baqarah while another one can be so and we shall try you we shall test you in this world what does this mean you see this is a matter of perspective allah is not saying it because see there's different ways of looking at these one way is oh this is what god's purpose

is to test his creation so often you get people atheists saying oh so god just wants to test people no this is you see you have to look at this from the superposition perspective of the quran superpositions are that an aspect at one time any particular thing any ruling anything has multiple superpositions to it see disasters catastrophes crises these

things will happen it is the nature of reality with a capital r it is the dunya what is he saying it is the dunya he says the you know by its nature it's just

catastrophes but it is the nature of this dunya that we will it is the nature of life we will face difficulties we will face and and here they are summed up look this summed up fear hope hunger and and fear is such an amazing one because hopefully mother

feminine nurse fear from people yeah sure you know fear from being killed fear from sure those things but it's greater than that and the fear is within you afraid of rejection afraid of no validation afraid of being yourself

afraid to walk this path not being dependent on other people in and here it's being said as we will but that's because ultimately everything ultimately everything is in motion by god ultimately so since it's going to happen anyway look at the superposition of the quran see because to the person that it's happening to they are going through this

so what do they do they read this it gives them that response straight away see it's from god be resilient have patience um it changes the story straight away because a person might be saying oh you know i'm it's because of this person is because of that person and it is in the dunya it is because of these people this person's being a pain this person has fired you from work it's because of this illness you're like this it's because it is because of these things but a different superposition to that is well

okay this is god he's trying me it's a test let me be resilient you change the narrative all of a sudden you find the resilience you also find it in yourself all of a sudden to be less toxic and hating on the other people look at the beauty of that it's not that people say oh is this because god is doing this no but look at what the shift in the narrative does to your narrative and then in turn to you in how you face

challenges in life all of a sudden you find it in you you know i'm not going to fail allah if allah has tested me with these things then you know you can lift allah enough then if he has burdened me with it it's because he knows i can carry the burden you find yourself rising you stand to the challenge you see you shift the narrative oh it's this person he's done this to me all this person such a so-and-so and this all these group of people oh my social media account has

been blocked and oh this is this oh i've fallen ill oh because of this oh i hate this i hate my life i hate look at the story how it changes allah says what bashir is sobbing give them glad tidings give them glad tidings that hang in there you know it may seem dark but the darkest hour is just before dawn stay strong so this

these lessons these verses they jump up at us because it doesn't matter who you are where you are in life there will always be some challenges that's the name of life so and following from that if we just bring these verses back up

these two beautiful verses and then one of the most powerful verses and i tell you say this like a mantra to yourself if you ever find yourself in any difficulty speak to that inner breathe in

into your heart and say la tassen do not be sad in allah allah is with us you'll find yourself you'll find yourself cutting through the forests of crises no matter how thick they are you'll fly through them so these verses give so much power when you reflect on these things that inna let me just bring them back up

do not lose hope in the mercy of god in his help in his salvation only those who have no faith but why is he know that why is allah saying that he's saying it because everybody has faith we all have faith everybody has it even eight everybody has faith i mean for the love of god we are on a

huge gigantic rock that is spinning at you know unimaginable speeds hanging in nothingness [Laughter] rotating around another rock that is on fire and yet we are so calm and we are living our lives everybody you know they say dunya um that the world itself only stands

and goes on by hope so it's true this is what lies right because it doesn't here it's not just about as in they disbelieve in god it's that ultimately everyone has faith you see so don't give up on that no matter what the circumstances no matter what the challenge is and i thought this is honestly such a striking and beautiful verse to share and to just remind us all that these verses and

especially the second the second that you see here in surah verse 40 i tell people use it like a mantra whenever and it's not here but we have given you a new opening a new victory but you just can't see it yet but that's okay you don't need to see it yet but in time it will unfold so having that resilience

it's so important because god knows you know anybody watching this what challenges they are facing in their own lives what difficulties they are facing in their you know what the obstacles people may be critically ill people may be terminally ill people may have just lost a parent lost a sibling lost a child god forbid people may have just lost a relationship lost a job lost a home lost lost something or maybe there's other problems going on in

life but whatever it is that we know that bashir is sobering this is why that poem is these waves that are

you you see impending doom in that it's not impossible [Laughter] that these very waves take us to the shore it's not impossible have a little faith so allahu akbar may allah make easy everyone's struggles