#quranic lessons

[laanam]

It was losing the fish which made Musa (as) find Al-Khidr.

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Why is it that people got everything they wished for and here I am, still asking Allah after years and He hasn’t granted?

It’s been so long and the trial still hasn’t ended. He just needs to say “Kun” and my life will change, but why isn’t He saying so?

Why is the khayr being delayed? What is the hikmat behind delaying the khayr?

Yousuf AS was sent to prison. He knew that a man would go free and serve the king. He asked him to mention him before the king and ask the king to free him. But what happened? Allah made that man forget. So, Yousuf AS had to spend years in prison. Why?

In the longer trial, in the delay, there is khayr. More patience is equal to more Ajar. What Allah has decreed for us is better than what we think for ourselves.

If Yousuf AS had gotten out soon where would he have gone? What would he have done? There was nothing that he could have done, no place he could have gone to take refuge. He got out of prison years later at the request of the King himself and from that moment his entire life changed. He reached a high status the moment he got out of prison. If he had left the prison soon he would have been in the position to ask the king himself, but now the king himself summoned him, he himself needed Yusuf AS.

Things turned out way better than they’d have been before. Things were in Yousuf AS’ favor now.

Allah knows it’s been long. He knows you’re waiting for the trial to end. He is all-hearing, all-seeing. Yes, His one KUN can change our lives, but if He is delaying it, Have faith that there is khayr in it. Just as He did for Yousuf AS, He’ll take you out of your prison too. Hang on. Do not give up.

When you’re put in hardships and times of loneliness. When you feel like your abilities are being wasted. When you feel imprisoned, locked up. Accept the decree of Allah. You are not being wasted. Yusuf AS’s time in prison did not go to waste, there was a learning for him. He has to be in prison because he had to experience something over there that he wouldn’t otherwise experience

[laanam]

سَتَجِدُنِىٓ إِن شَآءَ ٱللَّهُ صَابِرًۭا

“You will find me patient, Allah willing,”

(Quran 18:69)

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عذاب

I enrolled in Nemrah Ahmad’s tadabbur lessons on Surah Ibrahim. During my 3rd lesson today I learned a word that we use repeatedly in any usual situation without realizing the deep meaning behind it.

What exactly is عذاب? It comes from the root word ع ذ ب which means “the sweetness in something”, but we do not use it for sweetness, we use it for “something from which the sweetness has been removed.” The other meaning is to refuse to give sweet water to someone. It is also used for extreme thirst, the kind of thirst for water that makes you incapable of eating. For example, you have a table full of food in front of you but you cannot eat anything because of extreme thirst. All you wish for is water and someone restricts you from drinking. This is the actual Azaab. This is called giving someone Azaab.

The message this word conveys is that azaab removes the sweetness from one’s life. Azaab is that one important factor or ingredient in our lives that if removed, will take away all the pleasure from our life with it even if our table(life) is filled with delicious food(multiple pleasures).

We were supposed to live our life as per Allah’s command, But we forgot Him. We did everything He stopped us from, we didn’t obey Him, we acted ungrateful despite all the blessings, so what happened? We lost the sweetness in our life. Even when our table was filled with food, we kept running after one thing, and that snatched away all the pleasure from our life which we would have gotten easily if only we had listened to HIM.

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“Why me? Why do I have to face difficulties one after another?” Allah saved Yusuf AS from a sin. How? By sending him to prison. Sometimes we’re faced with a difficulty. We don’t understand it. We see it as a punishment. But, it might be Allah’s protection from greater trouble. We learn that Yusuf AS did Ihsaan (good) wherever he went. Yet, he faced trials one after another. Yusuf AS was dumped by his brothers, sold off, ended up at Aziz Misr’s house. But, he learned a lot there. He got to look at the world from a different perspective, from a governor’s house, from their point of view. When he went to prison, he lived among common men, the lower people, it was a different experience that was necessary for him to learn for what he was going to receive later in life. Him being a prisoner wasn’t wasted. There was a learning for him in it. So, when you’re left alone, when you’re faced with a trial, look through it. Find out what Allah is trying to teach you and don’t let it go to waste. Keep doing Ihsaan (good) and don’t lose hope in Allah. Allah does not put us through anything without any reason. Whatever circumstances Yusuf AS faced did not stop him from doing good. As a result, Allah helped him at each step. His worth was revealed every time. People sold him just for a few dirhams, but the man who purchased him saw good in him. He was sent to prison, but the people there found him Mohsin (a doer of good). It was his good doings that made him reach the king who had a dream. Imagine if he had stopped doing good, stopped helping others when he was sent to prison. Imagine if he had given up on doing good when he was falsely accused and deprived of freedom. He could have said, “Why me? Why am I being put in so many difficulties? Why am I in trouble when all I do is good?” But he did not say that. He kept doing it. And it was his good that saved him. He helped two fellow prisoners, and one of them mentioned him in front of the king, and that is how he got out of the prison. https://www.instagram.com/p/CYGs0jCtWRR/?utm_medium=tumblr

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What comes to you of good is from Allah, but what comes to you of evil, [ O man], is from yourself. And we have sent you, [O Muhammad], to the people as a messenger, and sufficient is Allah as witness.

The fundamental principle I have learned from this verse is that whatever happens, happens from the will of Allah but sometimes we ourselves are the cause of that bad thing that has happened to us. So whenever in life there is a difficulty, I ask myself, “Have I committed any sin?” “Could this be a consequence of something that I have done?” Once I realize, once Allah shows me that I did forget HIM and as a consequence, I feel lost, disoriented, and wounded. I beg for HIS forgiveness. And whenever I do so, I witness flowers blooming out of those same wounds.

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Allah said: "Worst destruction

will fall upon مکذبین". These are the people who

heard the message of islam, they were exposed

to the message of Quran and Prophet SAW,

they found the argument convincing, but they didn't want to accept it. They either called the message of Quran a lie, or called the Prophet SAW a liar or dismissed both altogether.

The word مکذب comes from the word کذب, means to deny. Denying isn't just an act of non-muslims but, whoever have the knowledge of Quran yet they ignore it, put it aside to follow their desires, does not follow the message of Quran, does not offer Salah is committing Takzeeb.

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