Can't Defy Allah's Plan

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful, Most Compassionate
Assalaamu alaykum

Dear Friends

I pray that you are well.

There is no good luck or bad luck but there is Divine plan. Instead of asking why those people have it so easy and my life is a pit, ask Allah, "O Allah! Why do you that for me? Do I really deserve that? I am the one who is disobeying, not following the sunnah, not worshiping You the way You want me to do, and with all of that You are taking care of me (look at all the things you have--just look at the functioning of your bodily parts, you hearing, your sight, your intellect, your voice and many many more blessings that you have taken for granted)?" This will increase the love of Allah in your heart.

Prophet Yusuf alayhissalaam, his father loved him more than the other brothers. To have your father loves you is good. But this love led to his brothers' jealousy of him and they threw him in a well. This is bad. He was picked up by a caravan and the people sold him to the Prime Minister of Egypt, and he came to live in a house that has power and prestige. This is good. The wife of the Prime Minister tried to seduce him and he was put in jail for a long time. This is bad. Many years later (some said as long as 30 years later), the king freed him and made him his right hand and he became the most powerful man in Egypt. This is good. The story ended with a happy ending and we feel good. But stories are not about happy ending or bad ending but Allah had planned it that way.

So, we might not be able to see the wisdom of what is happening, nonetheless we have to respond to it the proper way. Whatever problems we have, whatever problems we see around us and around the world, don't be too excited and get all emotional. The desert man who defecated in Abraha's church responded to him emotionally and it turned into a disaster. Emotion is good to have but it is not a means to respond. The means to respond in our religion is the Shari'ah.

We must rely on Allah in everything. Always pray for help from Allah and we wait with patience. This earth belongs to Allah. He can give to whoever He wants. But the best outcome is for the righteous, without distinguishing between men and women, noble and ignoble, rich and poor. The soldiers of Allah will come to help the righteous. How, where, when, this is the Divine plan. Our job is to fit our plan in the Divine plan.

Sometimes we think if we have control of such and such thing or such and such place, we will make things good. You think? You might turn out to be just like Fir'aun. You don't know. What we know is that Allah plans everything that is in our hands.

قَالَ مُوسَىٰ لِقَوْمِهِ ٱسْتَعِينُوا۟ بِٱللَّـهِ وَٱصْبِرُوٓا۟ ۖ إِنَّ ٱلْأَرْضَ لِلَّـهِ يُورِثُهَا مَن يَشَآءُ مِنْ عِبَادِهِۦ ۖ وَٱلْعَـٰقِبَةُ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ ﴿١٢٨﴾ قَالُوٓا۟ أُوذِينَا مِن قَبْلِ أَن تَأْتِيَنَا وَمِنۢ بَعْدِ مَا جِئْتَنَا ۚ قَالَ عَسَىٰ رَبُّكُمْ أَن يُهْلِكَ عَدُوَّكُمْ وَيَسْتَخْلِفَكُمْ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ فَيَنظُرَ كَيْفَ تَعْمَلُونَ ﴿١٢٩

Said Moses to his people, "Seek help through Allah and be patient. Indeed, the earth belongs to Allah. He causes to inherit it whom He wills of His servants. And the [best] outcome is for the righteous." (128) They said, "We have been harmed before you came to us and after you have come to us." He said, "Perhaps your Lord will destroy your enemy and grant you succession in the land and see how you will do." (129)
Qur'an Al-'Araf 7:128-129

May Allah save us from the trials and tribulations of this life and the next and make us among the righteous and the patience. Ameen. Please don't forget us in your night prayers. Jazakallahu khairan.

And Allah knows best.
Wassalaam