Being afflicted with misfortunes and blessings (sermon) | ISLAMHUDAA

Being afflicted with misfortunes and blessings

Praise be to God, Lord of the worlds, and may blessings and peace be upon His Noble Messenger, and upon all his family and companions. As for what follows:It is among the great wisdom of God that He tests His servants with hardship and prosperity, wealth and poverty, and with what they love and what they hate.He enumerated the calamities and blessings, and varied them for them, and linked that to many of His wisdom, and He, Glory be to Him, said:We will test you with evil and good as a test, and to Us you will be returned.(Al-Anbiya’: 35)That is:We test you – O people – with calamities and hardship at times, and with prosperity and blessings at other times. As a trial for you, that We may see your patience and your gratitude,And to Us you will be returned﴾YesAnd it is to us – O people – that you return, not to anyone else, so we will reward you according to your deeds.[1]As God Almighty said:And We tested them with good deeds and evil deeds so that they might return.(Al-A`raf: 168).

Ibn Abbas, may God be pleased with them, said: “We test you with hardship and prosperity, in health and sickness, in wealth and poverty, in lawful and unlawful things. Obedience and disobedience, guidance and misguidance.”[2]. Ibn Zaid, may God have mercy on him, said: “We test them with what they love and what they hate. We test them with that; Let us see how they are grateful for what they love, and how patient they are with what they hate.”[3].

And God testing His servants with misfortunes, and restricting and restricting provision is not an insult and humiliation to them, just as testing them with abundant blessings Provision does not indicate his honor or preference for them. Rather, this is for testing and testing, so that the obedience of the obedient person may emerge from the disobedience of the sinner. God Almighty said:As for man, when his Lord tests him and honors him and bestows blessings on him, he says, “My Lord has honored me.” But when He tests him and bestows upon him his provision. He says, “My Lord has insulted me.”*No(Al-Fajr: 15-17). God’s honor toward His servant is through piety and obedience, and His disgrace to Him is through disobedience and sin, not through wealth and poverty.

And the Almighty said –In the context of being tested with blessings:﴿Indeed, We have made whatever is on the earth an adornment for it, that We may test them as to which of them is best in deed.(Al-Kahf: 7). God Almighty made all the adornments on earth – such as gold and silver, dwellings, clothing, boats, crops and fruits. And animals, and children, and other types of blessings; He created all of this to test His servants, which of them is most obedient to Him and most satisfied.[4].

And the truth of it is the Almighty’s saying:Adorned for mankind is the love of desires, such as women and children, and hoisted heaps of gold and silver, and well-bred horses, and livestock, and farmland. That is the enjoyment of the life of this world, and with God is the best of return.(Al Imran: 14).

And God Almighty said–In the event of being afflicted with calamities and tribulations:﴿We will certainly test you with something of fear and hunger and a loss of wealth and lives and fruits. But give good tidings to those who are patient.(Al-Baqarah: 155). It is necessary for people to be afflicted with tribulations and calamities. So that the truthful person may be distinguished from the liar, and the good people from the evil people, and so that their obedience, patience, and return to Him may be evident; Because his wisdom requires that[5].

An example of this verse is the Almighty’s saying:You will surely be tested in your wealth and your souls, and you will hear much harm from those who were given the Scripture before you and from those who associate others with others, and if you are patient. And beware, for that is part of the determination of matters.(Al Imran: 186).

And harm:A comprehensive name for everything that causes harm.And what is meant:The types of harm that befalls believers from the enemies of God, whether in word or deed. From attacking them, their religion, their book, and their Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace, opposing them, warring against them, discouraging them, and abusing them. To them, and all of this is a test; So that the piety and patience of the believers may be demonstrated, and so that they may reassure themselves that this will happen from the enemies of God, so they will prepare for it obediently and submissively.[6].

Ibn al-Qayyim, may God have mercy on him, said: (The affliction that befalls a servant in the name of God does not fall into four categories: it is either in himself, or his wealth, or his honor, or his family and those he loves, and what is in his soul may be at times by its loss, or by its pain without it. Damage. This is the sum of what a servant is afflicted with in God, and the most severe of these types is the calamity in the soul.[7].

Trials and calamities are their cause.:Sins and transgressions; Either by neglecting an obligatory duty or doing a forbidden act,And the blessings are the cause of it: God’s grace, His favor, and His generosity, and all of that does not fall outside the scope of affliction. God Almighty said:And if a good afflicts them, they say, “This is from God,” and if an evil afflicts them, they say, “This is from you.” Say, “Each is from God, so he has money.” These people hardly understand a word.*Whatever good befalls you is from God, and whatever evil befalls you is from yourself.(An-Nisa: 78, 79).What is meant by good and bad:Blessings and misfortunes. When the unbelievers and hypocrites were blessed with a blessing – such as fertility, a provision of fruits, children, produce, and other things – they would say: This From God; Because of the good he knew about us! And if a calamity befalls them – such as drought, barrenness, a shortage of fruits and crops, or the death of children and produce, and so on – they say: This From Muhammad – may God bless him and grant him peace because of the religion he brought; Pessimism and flightiness!

It is the same custom of Pharaoh’s people before.:﴿So when a good deed comes to them, they say, “This is ours,” and if an evil befalls them, they fly with Moses and those with him. Indeed, their bird is with God, but Most of them do not know(Al-A’raf: 131)This is the custom of a righteous people.:﴿They said, “We have made a mistake with you and those with you.” He said, “Your help is in the sight of God.” Rather, you are a people who will be tried.(An-Naml: 47). Glory be to God Almighty! Their hearts, habits, and bad morals were similar!And the bottom lineOne of the morals of the infidels – in every place and time: is that they add the misfortunes that befall them to the actions of the people of faith!

Then God Almighty explained to His Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace,: That whatever blessing and calamity befell him, all of that came from God Almighty – creation, creation, and appreciation. Because everyone has his own destiny and destiny:Say, “All from God.”﴾.

He explained it to him as well: The blessing, prosperity, well-being and safety that befell him; It is from God’s grace, grace, generosity, and blessings upon him, and whatever calamity, distress, hardship, harm and abomination befalls him; Because of his sin and what his hand caused him – even if that was destined for him:Whatever good befalls you is from God, and whatever evil befalls you is from yourself.﴾. On the authority of Abu Salih, may God have mercy on him – in his saying: ﴿And whatever evil befalls you, it is from yourself.He said: (Because of your sin, and I have imposed it on you.)[8]. The speech: To the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace,And what is meant: Human sex.

The blessings: By the grace of God Almighty.And misfortunes: Because of sins. As God Almighty said:And whatever calamity befalls you, it is because of what your hands have earned, and He pardons many.(Al-Shura: 30) And he said:Corruption has appeared on land and sea because of what people’s hands have earned, so that they may taste part of what they have done so that they may return.(Al-Rum: 41) He also said:And when We give people a taste of mercy, they rejoice therein, and if evil befalls them for what their hands have put forward, then they despair.(Al-Rum: 36).

The second sermon

Praise be to God… O Muslims…The Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, mentioned some calamities, and arranged their occurrence as a result of the commission of some sins, yet they are not outside the scope of their occurrence. A testHe said: “O community of immigrants, five things, when you are tested with them:–I seek refuge in God lest you overtake them: immorality has never appeared among a people until they announce it; Unless the plague and torments spread among them, which had not passed among their ancestors who passed away, and they did not diminish the measure and the balance; Unless they were oppressed by the years, the severity of the provisions, and the oppression of the ruler over them, and they did not withhold the zakat on their wealth; Unless they prevent rain from the sky–Were it not for the animals, it would not have rained, nor would they break the covenant of God and the covenant of His Messenger. Unless God gives power over them an enemy from other than them, and they seize some of what is in their hands, and unless their leaders rule according to the Book of God, and they choose from what God revealed; Except that God will divide them among them“Sahih – narrated by Ibn Majah and Al-Hakim.

We are afflicted with misfortunes and blessings, misfortunes and hardships. A year ago until the Day of Judgment: Nations will be testedWith misery; These are the diseases and ailments that afflict them in their bodies,And through hardship; It is the poverty and need that befalls them, and the like, that perhaps they will submit to humility, return to God, call upon Him, and seek relief from harm. About them: ﴿And We did not send any prophet to any town except that We took its people through affliction and affliction, so that they might humble themselves.(Al-A`raf: 94).

If this does not work, and their tyranny continues; We have turned their situation around, and have exchanged hardship for prosperity, sickness and disease for health and well-being, and poverty for wealth. That they may be grateful and turn in repentance to God:Then We replaced the bad with good until they were pardoned.﴾.

Unfortunately, they did not do this or that, nor did they feel that God was testing them in both cases.!﴿And they said, “Our fathers have been touched by hardship and prosperity.”﴾;YesThey claimed that this was a common custom among the first and following generations. Sometimes they would be in good times, and other times they would be in bad times. These are the fluctuations of time! ﴿So We seized them suddenly while they were not aware﴾ [Al-A’raf: 95];YesThen We seized them suddenly with torment, while they were unaware.[9]; Rather, it did not occur to them that they would be tortured.Then when they forgot what they had been reminded of, We opened for them the doors of everything until, when they rejoiced in what they had been given, We seized them suddenly, and behold, they were in confusion.(Al-An’am: 44).