His choice is better

In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful, Most Compassionate
Assalaamu alaykum

Dear Friends

I pray that you are well.

The One who gives only gives those things that is good for you.

When you are on the Truth and you find afflictions and difficulties on your path, e.g. having a bad spouse, financial crisis, unreasonable mother-in-law, difficult children, people backbiting/slandering you, going in and out the hospital, you know that this is good for you.

You may be longing for something or someone but it didn't come. Remember that something or someone is a creation of Allah. It belongs to Him. He didn't want to give it you and that is definitely best for you. His choice for you is better than your own choice for yourself. He already know the results of that what you want for yourself and that you don't know the result of that you want for yourself.

You may desire lots of money so your problems would go away, so you think. You may desire lots of money so you can do all the righteous works---feed the poor, build an orphanage, build schools, build masjid. But what do you know? You might turn into an arrogant person and forget Allah entirely. May Allah protect us from this calamity. Ameen.

"Had God expanded His provision to His servants, they would have been insolent in the earth; but He sends down in measure whatsoever He will; surely He is aware of and sees His servants." Qur'an al-Shura 42:27

"God outspreads and straitens His provision unto whomsoever He will. They rejoice in this present life; and this present life, beside the world to come, is naught but passing enjoyment." Qur'an al-Ra'd 13:26

So you should not despair in the face of problems. Submit and say Alhamdulillah, inna lillahi wainna ilayhi raji'un and ask Allah to give you the reward that is in these difficulties and for Him to grant you support in your misfortune and compensate you with something better.

May Allah make us steadfast. Ameen. Please don't forget us in your night prayers. Jazakallahu khairan.

Wassalaam

Rains of reward

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

Calamities are just like bitter lessons to a man walking in the path of Allah. They show path towards the next world. It is that though a medicine is bitter and distasteful, it is a bliss for the sick. When the man see the reward of calamities in the next world he will be grateful to his Creator.

The rewards of disasters and calamities are more than them. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said: Allah said, When I give calamity to the body of a servant or to his wealth or children and he proceeds forward keeping patience, I shall feel ashamed in setting up Balance for him on the Day of Resurrection. He also said, When a man falls in calamity and says according to the order of God 'we are for Allah and to Him we shall return, O Allah, give me protection in my calamity and leave for me good therefrom,' Allah does for him accordingly.

The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said: There is no good in one whose wealth has not gone and whose body is not diseased. When Allah loves a servant, He examines him with calamity. When he falls into it, he keeps patience.

The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said: When Allah wishes good of a man and establishes love with him, He sends down upon him troubles and calamities and afflicts him with mishaps. When he prays to Allah, angels say: This voice is acquainted with us. When he prays to Him a second time and says, O Lord, Allah says: O My servant, I am present, fortune for you. I have given you what is good for you and I have kept deposited with Me what is better for you. When there will be Resurrection, the pious will be brought and their actions will be weighed in the Balance--the actions of those who prayed, those who paid zakat, those who fasted and those who made hajj. Then those who were afflicted with calamities will be brought but their book of deeds will not be opened in their presence. Reward will be rained over them as calamities were thrown over them. Those who were happy and safe in the world will see the high rank of those who suffered troubles and calamities and say: Alas how good it would have been if the flesh of our bodies were severed by scissors. For this reason, Allah says: Surely the patient will be given full rewards without account.

إِنَّمَا يُوَفَّى ٱلصَّـٰبِرُونَ أَجْرَهُم بِغَيْرِ حِسَابٍ ﴿١٠

...Indeed, the patient will be given their reward without account. (Quran, Az-Zumar39:10)

May Allah make us among the patient. Ameen.

Allahumma salli 'ala Muhammad wa 'ala aalihi wa sahbihi wasallam.

And Allah knows best and is Most Wise, and He alone grants success, and to Him is the final return of all.

Wassalaam