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Returning to Allah (سُبْحَانَهُ
وَتَعَالَى) is the
greatest of ways to remove calamities, hardships, epidemic diseases, chronic
illnesses, depression and sadness. Allah (سُبْحَانَهُ
وَتَعَالَى):
وَبَلَوْنَاهُم
بِالْحَسَنَاتِ وَالسَّيِّئَاتِ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَرْجِعُونَ
“We tested
with good times and bad that perhaps they would return [to obedience].” (Al-A’rāf
7:168)
So, disobedience, going overboard
in sins, lewdness and immorality are from the causes of corruption, tribulation
and hardship in the lives of the people. Allah stated:
ظَهَرَ الْفَسَادُ فِي الْبَرِّ وَالْبَحْرِ
بِمَا كَسَبَتْ أَيْدِي النَّاسِ لِيُذِيقَهُم بَعْضَ الَّذِي عَمِلُوا لَعَلَّهُمْ
يَرْجِعُونَ
“Corruption
has appeared throughout the land and sea due to what the hands of people have
earned so He may let them taste something of the consequence of what they have
done that perhaps they will return [to obedience].” (Ar-Rūm 30:41)
Allah
(عَزَّوَجَلَّ) decrees
whatever He decrees of good and evil, and whatever takes place of corruption on
land and sea so that mankind may return
to the Truth - that they may rush to repent for their sins and transgressions - and they might hasten to His obedience and to
the obedience of His Messenger (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ).
That
is because unbelief, and disobedience to Allah (تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى) and His
Messenger (صَلَّى اللهُ
عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ) are the reason behind every evil
and calamity in this world and punishment in the Hereafter.
And it
is the Tawhīd of Allah, which is to single Him
out with worship Him, alone and without partners - and to have Imān in Him, to believe in the resurrection after death and in
the Day of Judgement, to believe in Allah’s Messenger (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ) and what
was revealed to him, to obey Allah and to obey His Messeger (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ), to hold
fast to His Sharī’ah and invite others to it, to advise (and even refute) the
one who opposes the Sunnah and the Sharī’ah - it is in that lies the means to every goodness in this world and
the next...
Base loosely on an article and sermon delivered by Shaikh Khālid Adh-Dhufīri (may Allah preserve him).
Extracted from the article How Do I Cope with the Trials, Suffering and Hardships in My Life? Explained in light of the Qur’an and Sunnah page 5-7, Written & Prepared by Ustadh Abu Khadeejah Abdul-Wahid (may Allah preserve & protect him).
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