give you an example someone passes away may allah give them jannatul
someone close to you passes away someone perhaps has an accident and they
break their bones or become paralyzed what a big test may allah make it easy for such people
someone for example loses a job and they cannot pay the
for example perhaps the monthly installments that they are supposed to be paying for something they
might have bought or purchased and then it's taken away from them it's repossessed
and so on and it becomes a massive challenge so allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is obviously
testing us i know of people who lose their faith sometimes and they start thinking to themselves
after having been obedient for so many years they start saying you know what
where is allah what is he doing where is allah in my life i'm sick i'm ill and i'm just not getting
better and i'm praying every day for the last 20 years it hasn't helped me i remember entering
a hospital once and there was a person who was telling me i'm considering abandoning islam and
i said why so he says because i'm a muslim i've been praying to allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for so
long and i'm just not getting better i said well you know what two things what are you considering
becoming he says i'm looking into this faith and that faith and he gave me a few names i told him
i know of people in that faith you want to go into who are even worse than you and i know of
people in the other faith who are also quite sick it's not going to do with what faith you belong to
it's going to do with the test of that faith that you have that's what it is you cannot say
i'm abandoning islam because allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is not curing me well everyone has to die
at some point are you going to say i'm abandoning belief in totality because people die if that's
the case you've lost what is going to come after that death and this is what makes you a believer
may allah grant us an understanding so some people lose their faith when they are tested and others
become stronger when they are tested you know when you have a problem you start calling out to allah
oh Allah help me o Allah guide me Allah strengthen me i've got an examination oh Allah open the doors
may or may not give you exactly what you've asked but he will definitely keep in store
for you something in layer of the prayer that you have made subhanallah so you're never at
a loss if i say oh Allah help me to pass this examination i might fail it but that prayer of
mine was not a waste the reason is as a result of calling out to Allah that act of worship was so
blessed that perhaps the other examination in the hereafter he will make me pass it and he will say
look we might not have given you success in that exam the mathematics test that you had that you
were praying for but we gave you something bigger and that is the success in this huge exam on this
particular day the day of judgment may Allah grant us ease on that day i mean so when we look at
things we will always understand the plan of the almighty and sometimes if we don't we should be
believing that there is a bigger plan the almighty definitely has something that we don't realize and
recognize so going back to the point i was making some people lose their faith some people become
strong some people after having worshipped Allah for so long something happens in their lives that
makes them falter and you have some people who spent their lives in the disobedience of the
almighty doing that which was against what the almighty had asked but towards the end Allah gave
them the tawfiq the acceptance the goodness and the opportunity to turn and they turned
they turned in such a way that they became better people they stopped their sins they sought the
forgiveness of Allah and you know what my brothers my sisters when you seek the forgiveness of Allah
don't ever let the devil come to you and make you doubt the mercy of Allah