Why Me? | Your Relationship With Allah Ep.14 | Sh. Alauddin ElBakri | Ramadan Series

2 moments mention “Trust in Allah”: 5:067:32

1. 0:00Assalaamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh
2. 0:01and welcome back to Tawasaw's Iinstitute Ramadan series for 1446
3. 0:06your relationship with Allah SWT One of the most common
4. 0:09questions that I get as an Imam and a Sheikh in the community is something
5. 0:15that I found Allah SWT spoke about in the Quran at least six times
6. 0:20That is the moment that people feel that their relationship with Allah SWT
7. 0:28has changed and is disturbed and they do the wrong
8. 0:33interpretations for life events, what am I talking about? It's usually when you
9. 0:40were living a perfect, amazing, complete life and then suddenly something hit you
10. 0:47that flipped everything upside down. You either had a major loss of health
11. 0:53major loss of wealth, major loss of loved ones, major loss in relationships or
12. 0:59you're feeling all of a sudden insecure and incomplete. When things happen like that
13. 1:05it goes from a good situation to a completely disastrous situation then the
14. 1:11human loses faith in Allah in God Almighty and feels that the relationship
15. 1:18between them and Allah is not good and they come up with so many
16. 1:22interpretations. Let's see what Allah SWT said about people's
17. 1:27interpretations when they get hit with a hard destiny. Allah mentions that the
18. 1:34human becomes
19. 1:35(Utterly desperate, ungrateful)
20. 1:37the human gives up and thinks: Oh my god it's the
21. 1:41end of the world, it's the end of my life, becomes hopeless and helpless
22. 1:47and Allah the Mighty and the Majestic says after that he loses his faith: Oh my God why is this happening to me?
23. 1:55How in the world? As Allah said in Surah Al-Ma'arij which we use it
24. 2:00as a foundation in this series
25. 2:02(Indeed, humankind was created impatient:
26. 2:04distressed when touched with evil)
27. 2:07The human goes through Jaza'a, Jaza'a is when you become frantic, anxiety, panic
28. 2:14scared, afraid, you're completely shaken because something happened in your life
29. 2:20Allah SWT warns us against that, Allah in a way tells us that your faith
30. 2:26that you've built over the years should carry you through hard times, you should
31. 2:31have a strong foundation, why? Because one of the best things in the Quran is that
32. 2:37Allah told us what to expect in this world, He told us to expect trials and
33. 2:43tribulations, He told us that problems will come in five different ways. One, you
34. 2:49will lose health, wealth, loved ones, disturbance and loss in relationships
35. 2:57and then lack of security
36. 2:59(We will certainly test you with a touch of fear and famine and loss of property, life
37. 3:05and crops. Give good news to those who patiently endure)
38. 3:08So Allah in this world already warned us, already told us that He will test us and
39. 3:15that's one of the beautiful things about relationship with Allah, there is
40. 3:19predictability, there is honesty, there is clarity, Allah is not hiding from you
41. 3:26anything, He's very clear and He's telling you what will happen, you better
42. 3:31be ready for it when it comes and hits you because it's gonna feel like a train
43. 3:35hits you, like an 18-wheeler hits you and you should be strong enough that you
44. 3:40can withstand the collision. My dear brothers and sisters Allah mentions that
45. 3:47the human goes hopeless and then goes helpless
46. 3:54that the human becomes ungrateful, loses faith in God and becomes completely
47. 4:01ungrateful, that the human could turn on the other way
48. 4:05(Endless prayers) or
49. 4:07(They cry out to their Lord, turning to Him)
50. 4:09That the human will make so much prayer, so much supplication when
51. 4:14hard times hit but when hard times are gone you will not hear from them
52. 4:20they will go completely as if they've never prayed in their life, as if they've never
53. 4:25been in a hardship. This going through hardship in life will take you into an
54. 4:30experience with Allah SWT, you will never be able to have a
55. 4:34strong relationship with Allah without going through hardship, hardship is
56. 4:39essential, it's what's gonna bond you with Allah, it's what's gonna give you a
57. 4:43strong relationship, it's what's gonna open and explode inside you so many
58. 4:48dimensions of faith and belief that later on will be very helpful. As they say:
59. 4:56"The hit that doesn't kill you will make you stronger" and then in essence that's the
60. 5:01point of going through trials and tests and tribulation, you become higher
61. 5:06stronger, better, more full of belief and faith and trust in Allah SWT
62. 5:13Allah tells us in the Quran that when the human is hit with a hardship
63. 5:18he takes it personal and He said:
64. 5:21(They protest "My Lord has humiliated me")
65. 5:26We as Muslims don't
66. 5:27talk like that, we don't ask why did God do this to me? Why did God let this
67. 5:34happen? Excuse me? You're questioning God? The One who knows everything and you
68. 5:40know nothing? You're all of a sudden, because you went through hardship
69. 5:44when God even warned you and gave you an alarm, an early warning and alarm that
70. 5:49you will go through hardship and what does Allah want from you? He wants this
71. 5:54hardship to make you closer to him. What did Allah say?
72. 5:58(Give good news to those who patiently endure, who say, when struck by a disaster
73. 6:02“Surely to Allah we belong and to Him we will ˹all˺ return.”)
74. 6:05So those when the hardship hits them
75. 6:07they say: "To Allah we belong and to Him we shall return"
76. 6:11In another verse Allah taught us to say
77. 6:13(Allah is sufficient for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs)
78. 6:17Allah is enough for me and He's the best One to rely on
79. 6:22Sickness? Allah is the best healer, Allah is Ash-Shafi (The Healer)
80. 6:26What? Financial hardship? Allah is Ar-Razzaq (The Provider)
81. 6:29What? It's a loss of loved ones? Insha'Allah they went ahead of us to heaven
82. 6:36and Allah is Ar-Rahman Ar-Rahim, Allah is more merciful to our relatives than we
83. 6:41are merciful to them. What is it? Loss of relationship? If you did not lose your
84. 6:47relationship with Allah, then you've lost nothing. As our Salihin, our ancestors
85. 6:53and righteous scholars in the past they said: "The one who found Allah, found
86. 6:58everything, and the one who missed Allah, missed everything" so these trials and
87. 7:05tribulations are designed to make you find Allah and create a stronger bond
88. 7:10with Allah in your life and this is very essential, very predictable, we should
89. 7:16be ready for it and when it hits, we're ready with
90. 7:19(Allah is sufficient for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs)
91. 7:21(To Allah we belong and to Him we will return)
92. 7:23and the third one is
93. 7:24(There is no power nor strength except in Allah)
94. 7:26is no change from any situation to
95. 7:28another whether from good to bad, from bad to good except with the power of
96. 7:32Allah SWT, so I'm gonna put my trust in Allah, I'm gonna delegate
97. 7:36my matter to Allah and I'm gonna let Allah do His work and Allah always is
98. 7:42The most merciful, the most compassionate
99. 7:46May Allah make this month full of mercy and compassion and forgiveness
100. 7:50May Allah make us always get closer to Him through hard times and trials and tribulations
101. 7:56and may Allah elevate our faith in every possible way, we ask Allah Al-Afiyah (wellness)
102. 8:02we ask Allah safety and the state of well-being. We don't ask Allah for trouble, we don't ask
103. 8:08Allah for tests and trial and tribulations but if Allah chooses to
104. 8:12test us we better be ready
105. 8:15Ameen Ya Rabb Alameen
106. 8:16May God’s blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad and all his family and companions