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The Prophet Muhammad SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
showed exemplary resilience, endurance,
and optimism throughout his difficult life.
You could argue that his life was an avalanche
of hardships and adversities.
And he also was not someone who is some stoic,
someone who is indifferent to life's ups and downs,
never happy, never sad.
No, this was someone who was not emotionally detached.
This was someone whose pains would spill his tears.
And yet at the same time,
his unique trust in God allowed him to live a life
of such peace and such contentment that we cannot find,
really in any other human being.
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Shouldn't we consider it miraculous
that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
was able to rise from this abyss
of negativity and not just survive,
but to be a source of inspiration for countless human beings
throughout human history.
Only God can do that, the same way that only God
can bring the living out of the dead
and only God can cause a rock to spring forth with water,
and only God can nourish a rose in the middle of the desert.
It was only God that kept him smiling throughout.
Playing with his grandchildren,
standing firm upon his principles,
lifting the spirits of people
that suffered so much less than him.
Only God could have kept that heart of his grateful
at a time when people couldn't even be patient
and only God could have made his heart merciful
at a time when people couldn't even be just.
Even in the darkest hours,
all that compounded anguish and distress never broke
the Prophet's perseverance, peace and blessings be upon him.
In a world that seemed hopeless,
what he saw with his heart would override
the apparent hopelessness he would see with his eyes.
He was always confident in Allah's promise,
always trusting in his decree.
You know, in one incident they were tracked,
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam by mercenaries
to a cave, him and Abu Bakr, may Allah be pleased with him,
are there
And the mercenaries just had to bend down
and nothing would have stopped them from seeing
and capturing the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
and Abu Bakr al-Siddiq and yet in that unnerving moment,
he calmed Abu Bakr and said, what is your worry?
What is your assumption so long as we are two,
but Allah is our third.
Do not grieve, Allah is with us.
You know, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
recited verses from the Quran.
Years later about this incident, when Allah said,
if you support the messenger of Allah or not,
know that Allah has already supported him.
On that day when he was turned into a refugee,
turned into a fugitive, chased out of Mecca,
and there was two of them in the cave.
And he said to his companion at a time,
that seemed apparently hopeless, right.
He said to his companion, do not grieve.
You know, for argument's sake,
had the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
made up this incident after the fact,
made up this verse and taught it to his followers,
would Abu Bakr al-Siddiq admire him even after his death
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam until his very last breaths.
Abu Bakr al-Siddiq considered him the most inspirational,
most admirable, the embodiment of integrity,
his Prophet and ours,
the Messenger Muhammad SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
So it was incidents like these when despair would penetrate
the hearts of the firmest souls,
that the Prophet Muhammad SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
showed the Supreme faith and conviction he had in God.
This is just like what the Quran says about Moses,
by the way, when they got to the sea and everyone lost hope,
Moses said, no, Allah is with us.
He will show us a way, he will save us as he promised
from Pharaoh and his army.
This is the resilience and the trust in God
of the prophets.
Even if the world loses hope they would never unravel.
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