Allāh might give you a very precious gift wrapped in hardship. IF you’re patient, the wrappings will unravel and you’ll get your gift.…
Sufficient for us is Allāh, and most excellent is He in Whom we trust. Perhaps Allāh is testing to see NOT how great a patience you can observe, but how great a trust you can place in Him. Especially if Allāh has rectified your Dīn and much of your Dunyā. He subḥānah might leave a gap in your affairs, so to speak. An unrectified gap. And that gap needs to be filled by you with tawakul (complete and total trust…
Despite the worsened situation that we (the Ummah) are in, we still need to be very optimistic that relief will come to us very soon. The Qurʾān is filled with examples of those before us and the hardships and calamities they bore. These stories are for us to learn from and they’re to encourage us to have a positive and hopeful outlook no matter what we’re faced with. Take the story of the Youth of the Cave for example. Allāh…
The Dwellers of Jannah will remember their time in Dunyā and the Qurʾān relates to us snippets of these memories that trickle back to them. And of all the memories the Qurʾān could have mentioned, it mentions their memories with their friends. Not property, not wealth, not the thrills and adventures of this world, but their friends. Friends that become family, and the friends that are lost.. Now do you see the importance of loving, and of loving the right…