the other night in my messes I was speaking about you know this concept of a man who probably has
never who doesn't who doesn't read anything about charity or does not know all of the ayat and
a hadith about charity but they are naturally generous people they already have the quality
they've experienced the quality of generosity and so when they're put in a situation they give and
their generosity overtakes them even though they don't necessarily know all the technicalities
in the concepts or the virtues of that said generosity there are different people that
have different qualities and there are people that are tested with different things and when they are
tested suddenly suddenly all of the things that you think that you had down are not as prominent
in your character as you would have hoped they would have been suddenly you feel like you're
reeling you thought maybe that you'd be able to handle these types of tests but the tests came
and your faith struggled your faith could not hold you up you thought that you had patience
you've attended lectures on patience you've heard hope was about patience but then something happens
to you and you're not patience and at the at the core of that issue is that people tie their faith
to so many different things to so many different circumstances to so many different people that
when that circumstance changes or when that person changes or one that aspect of their life changes
suddenly the faith starts to wither away and disappear and that's what a loss of a Norton says
in the Quran well Nyna nasi minyak buddha lejana health some people worship allah on an edge they
worship allah literally at the you know on a cliff if something happens that's good to them or what
they deem good because only Allah truly deems good and bad but something happens to them that
they deem good then they are grateful they say we love this we're good with everything we're good
with our faith everything is great alhamdulillah the minute that something bad happens to them that
they deem as such that they deem bad then they are literally like a person that's jumping off of the
cliff of faith suddenly it starts to wither away how many people do you see that weren't
so quote-unquote religious before a devastating health tragedy of health or loss of health came
to them some sort of disease or sickness but then threw that disease and threw that sickness they
found faith and they found that wake-up call and they turned back to faith and they turned back
to their Creator whether whereas there are so many people that were quote-unquote religious
but then once they're put in that circumstance it doesn't hold up because the learned is not
like the absorbed and the preached about is not like the experience it has to go back to your
own fundamental experiences and the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam for example he
said o maniacally - good let me ask Rebecca Thea that whoever does not think Allah for the little
things in life is not gonna be grateful for the big things in life whoever is not patient with
the small things that are going to happen to them how are they going to truly find patience
with the major things that happen to them in life if you can't have patience with someone cutting
you off on the side of the road and hold yourself if you can't have patience in an argument how are
you going to have patience when you're facing a disaster in life the experienced is not like the
learned the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said in the mellah ELMO be no more in them and
he'll move it Tehillim that knowledge is through seeking knowledge and patience and forbearance is
through practicing patience and forbearance you have to constantly make sure that those
qualities are well established in your heart well established in your character so that when
those things come when those tests you know how to deal with them your faith actually holds up