#056 When Life Becomes Hard...
...Whoever truly has faith in Allah, Allah will guide that person's heart.
Assalamu Alaykum guys,
Today’s newsletter is a short one. Nonetheless, I hope you will still gain tremendous benefits from it.
Whatever calamity happened to you, any kind of calamity that struck, for example:
somebody got in a car accident
somebody got diagnosed with a disease
somebody's family member passed away
somebody lost a job
somebody got into a fight with their spouse and they're getting divorced
somebody you know ran away from home
People experience different kinds of calamities in life.
The first thing Allah says is, مَآ أَصَابَ مِن مُّصِيبَةٍ إِلَّا بِإِذْنِ ٱللَّهِ ۗ [64:11] : Nothing struck anyone ever except that Allah allowed that to happen.
That’s number one.
But then the question is, why did Allah allow something so terrible to happen?
And Allah says sometimes, in this aayat, there are many ayat on this, but this aayat Allah teaches us a powerful lesson.
He says, [64:11] وَمَن يُؤْمِنۢ بِٱللَّهِ يَهْدِ قَلْبَهُۥ ۚ: whoever truly has faith in Allah, Allah will guide that person's heart.
Allah will guide their heart, and what is Allah saying?
Allah is saying
my heart feels anxiety
my heart feels anger
my heart feels sadness
my heart feels frustration
my heart feels this person got away with something, they should they deserve justice; they got away with it
my heart feels that it was unfair
my heart feels unrest
my heart feels all of these things…
..but if I have Iman in Allah, Allah will guide my heart through these negative emotions.
Actually some of those negative experiences are a test of my Iman and if I do have Iman, Allah will guide my heart.
In other words, I'm supposed to go through some of these difficult experiences to truly experience guidance.
And this will be the way my Iman gets secured. And Iman is the greatest asset a human being can have.
Because on Judgment Day the only thing that matters,
..nothing will be of any benefit except people who come before Allah and they have a good heart.
And the only way to have a good heart is, to have Iman in that heart.
And the only way to have Iman in that heart is Allah will guide that heart.
And the only way that heart to be guided is to go through a tough experience and hold on to your faith anyway.
This is a remarkable thing Allah has said in this aayat.
Allah is telling us to face a traumatic experience, to face it, to deal with it, but deal with it with faith and not let it change you.
And this is why the best people, the best people that ever lived, the prophets themselves, every one of them are victims of trauma.
Every one of them was surrounded by toxic people…
p.s: The sharing is a short clip, and here’s the video: