Hardships: Path to the Most Merciful

(1) Ease comes with the hardship, not after it.

(2) When one still has something such as iman, then he got everything.

(3) Instead of putting full trust on ALLAH, seeking His help,
we start to shift our focus from the One who solves all problems
to the issue itself and we even try to solve the problems by ourselves,
This is our mistake.

(4) Our mistake is we think ALLAH as a professor.
When ALLAH gives us exam,
He wanna us raise our hands to ask for His help and to go back to Him.
He is directing us towards Him.

(5) When we got hit by hardship,
Where do we go first?
Where is our dependence?
From whom we seek help first?
The One who saves us, the One who cures us is Subhan ALLAH

(6) Desperation, our need for Subhan ALLAH, begging Him for help

(7) The reason why we feel heavy when ALLAH sends us hardship is because
we try to work out ourselves.
We don't depend on ALLAH when we got hit by the hardship.

(8) When every other door is closed,
then we only can turn to ALLAH,
seeking His help.
He alone we ask for help.

(9) One can come so much near to ALLAH in the hardship,
it's the best blessing, the mercy from the hardship.
Had that storm never come, one will not taste the closeness to ALLAH.

(10) Even in the ease, we cannot get deceived.
Maybe the hardest test of hardship is not the hardship, but the ease itself. 
The test of ease is sometimes more difficult than the test of hardship.

(11) Hardship purifies us, it brings us back to Subhan ALLAH and it humbles us.

(12) If we response correctly to hardship, no hardship is the punishment for us.

(13) Sabr (Patience, endurance) صْبِرْ : Complaining to ALLAH only

(14) Rida (Contentment, satisfaction, inner peace) رضا or رضى  : The highest level in response to hardship.




Here is Yasmin Mogahed's another speech on Hardship: Hardships and the Path to God

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Speaker: Yasmin Mogahed

The Prophet (S.A.W.) said: "If Allah wills good for someone, He subjects them to hardship."
How could that be?
How can hardship ever be good for us?
What is the purpose of trials?
why does Allah promise that we will face trials and tribulation?
In what way does hardship purify and develop us?
When is tribulation a punishment?
When is it a blessing?
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(1) When someone beats the rug with a stick, 
he is not beating the rug, 
his aim is to get rid of the dusts inside of the rug


(2) The purpose of this life is to please Allah Subhan Allah;
needs for body is for temperate this life
but needs for soul will remain eternal

(3) Making our attachment to Allah Subhan Allah; 
the five pillars is actually about detachment...
verily it is such a brilliant point when talking about hardship/trial in life,
why does pain and hardship comes to us,
anytime when something new comes to us,
go through it and see Allah behind it...
Allahu akbar is such a powerful word, which means
Allah is above all things all attachments in life...

[Note]
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رضى الله  satisfaction of Allah
رضى الوالدين satisfaction of Parents
في  on
--> رضى الله في رضى الوالدين  To make Allah satisfied , we have to make our parents satisfied
(rida Allah fi rida Alwalidayn)
رضا الوالدين من رضا الله  To satisfy parents its to satisfy Allah
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