When Allah Tests You With What You Love Most | #3 Stories from the Golden Generations of Islam #AMAU

Bilal ibn Rabah, the muezzin of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, Umayyah ibn Khalaf, ordered until Muhammad al-Azza, Urwah ibn al-Zubayr, was taken to all the doctors. They looked at him and found nothing for this man except amputating his leg. They said, "You need to take an anesthetic that will take the pain away." He said, " Carry on cutting my leg. I can't imagine someone drinking something that will make them lose their mind." He put the sore on his leg and had it amputated without any medic, and they never cut it. Those who [sing] follow them, then those who follow them. Praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds, and peace and blessings be upon His servant and Messenger, our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and companions, all of them. After that, God Almighty, may God bless him and grant him peace, and combine with the theme that we have been taking in the last few months during these classes, which is to choose a particular attribute of our character as a Muslim and then to look at examples of stories from the rah, from the golden generations about the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace. The best of people are my generation, then those who follow them, then those who follow them. them and those who follow them and our, God willing, patience with God's painful decrees, upon the full things that happen to you and a small introduction to what patience is in common language, and holding your restraint yourself from what you are holding your back from holding your back from losing patience, holding yourself firm away from the opposite of what patience is, as for inl there is a definition mentioned by Qayyim, may God have mercy on him, patience is restraining the soul from what God has forbidden and restraining it from His obligations and restraining it from resentment and complaining about their decrees. God is forbidden, forbidden. In configuring the daily prayers, take patience to pray in the with it takes patience and to keep your away from resentment. God, the Exalted, and the next, you accept the criminal, may God have mercy on him, leaving the complaint from the wrongdoer to other than God, not to God, there is no god but God. Said about you go to other than complaining to Allah, this is beloved to God and tells us about God, tells us that He said, "I only complain of my grief and sorrow to God, and I know from God that which you do not know." God, the Exalted, and the next, O you who have believed Seek help through patience and prayer, for God is with the patient. God is with them especially. And power, no canap, we are all sitting with you, aid and tell you this life is a place of test and trial. And loss of wealth and lives and fruits, and give good tidings to the patient, who, when afflicted with calamity, say, "Indeed, we belong to God, and indeed, to Him we will return." Those are the ones upon whom are blessings from their Lord and mercy, and it is those who are the [rightly] guided. Will and hunger and of wealth and life and fr I want you to mind because we have around this the of sa the ofance. And give good tidings to the patient, who, when afflicted with calamity, say, "Indeed, we belong to God, and indeed, to Him we will return." Those people are you, they say, "Indeed, we belong to God, and indeed, to Him we will return." Those people have blessings upon them from their Lord and mercy, and they are the ones. Goes, go in the patience, you have God tests you with some trials and tests of this life. The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, was asked, "Which people are most severely tested?" He said, "The prophets, then those most like them, then those most like them. People are tested according to their religion, so whoever has a strong religion, his trial is severe." Captivity and weakness of faith weakens one's trials. May God Almighty have mercy on him. A man may be afflicted with trials until he walks among people without sin. We all commit sins all the time. Who among us could walk on earth without sin? Not a single sin is written against us. The person who is tested and tested and tested and said, "And their reward is that they are leaders who guide by Our command when they are patient and certain of Our signs." Imam Ibn al-Qayyim, may God have mercy on him, said that leadership is only attained through patience and certainty. Patience and certainty are needed. Patience repels desires and corrupt wills [snoring sounds], and certainty repels doubts and suspicions. The hadith of Abu Sa'id al-Khudri, may God be pleased with him, states that some people from the Ansar asked the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, and he gave them. Then they asked him again and he gave them until he had nothing left. He said, "Whatever good I have, I will not withhold from you. Whoever seeks chastity, God will make him chaste, and whoever seeks patience, God will make him patient." And no one has been given a better and more abundant gift than Patience, people, supporters of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, need God. Are you with them until everything is gone? [Snoring sounds] He said, " If I have any wealth with me, I will never hold it back from you. I will never save it for myself. Whatever I have, I will give to you." God's lawful, lawful, lawful. Ham. See people. God will make him sufficient. Meaning, he will not ask the people, and whoever is patient, God will make him patient. This is from the knowledge that men can be acquired right because the one who doesn't say, "He is like that." May God be pleased with him. Indeed, patience is to faith as the head is to the body. If the head is cut off, the body perishes. Then he raised his voice and said, "Indeed, there is no faith for one who has no patience." The stories and to section. Let's see how much, and if we have made sessions, we have made the first. You are the one from the earliest of the people to accept Islam. Bilal ibn Rabah, the muezzin of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, was God, and I'm going to try to go through different types of patience. This one is about patience in the face of a threat to your ancestry and a threat to your life. The prophet specifically tested J for the most famous view is that he was and it said other than that, may God Almighty be pleased with him. Saeed bin Al-Musayyab, may God have mercy on him, was robbed of Bilal because he was stingy with his religion and was tortured for the sake of God. So he met the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, and said, “If we had anything, we would buy Bilal.” Saeed bin Al-Musayyab, may God have mercy on him, was Abu Bakr. So Abu Bakr met Al-Abbas and said, “Buy me Bilal.” Abu Bakr died. Al-Abbas said, “Bilal is dead.” So Al-Abbas bought him and sent to Abu Bakr, and Abu Bakr freed him. Abu Bakr freed Bilal. Our master Abu Bakr freed Bilal. May God be pleased with him. Said in year 20 after the in over the placeed with it. Now if we talk about how he had patience let's go to the narrations. We said we do n't want to mention these as just stories without bringing them back to what is found in the books of and the books of what is specifically mentioned about this particular situation, what is mentioned about, may God be pleased with him. So Umayyah, meaning Umayyah ibn Khalaf, would take him out when the heat of midday was intense and throw him on his back in the valley of Mecca. Then he would order a large rock to be placed on his chest and say to him, "You will remain like this until you die or disbelieve in Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, and worship al-Lat and al-Uzza." And he would say, while in that state, "One, Bilal, Umayyah, Muhammad, God, al-Uzza, Bilal." Abdullah ibn Mas'ud, may God be pleased with him, was the first of seven people to openly declare his Islam: the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, Abu Bakr, Ammar, his mother Sumayyah, Suhayb, Bilal, and al-Miqdad, meaning al-Miqdad ibn Amr. He was the one who prayed for God, peace and blessings be upon him. Abu Bakr, Ammar, Sumayyah, Suhayb, Bilal, and al-Miqdad ibn Amr. As for the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, God protected him through his uncle Abu Talib. As for Abu Bakr So God protected him through his people, Abu Bakr, and as for the rest, the polytheists seized them, dressed them in iron armor, and exposed them to the sun. None of them yielded to their demands except through the malice of the polytheists. And they were not outwardly complicit with Bilal, for he was insignificant in the eyes of God, and Bilal was insignificant to his people. So they seized him and gave him to the children, who paraded him through the valleys of Mecca while he said, "There is no god but God, the Exalted, and I worship His servants." And if you come about him, he said, "I pray two rak'ahs, and whenever I break my ablution, I see that I owe God two rak'ahs to perform." The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said, "Bilal never prays rak'ahs and never goes without performing them." And seeing him, I would pray for him. You can be patient in the face of this kind of torture and this kind of suffering, but you can't be patient in prayer. You can't be patient with, for example, the trials and tribulations. with the are linked I never broke my except I went and I made and I prayed and I never accepted I prayed and was the next is pa in the face of bring the story The Nubian, a female companion, may God be pleased with her, Umm Sulaym, Umm Sulaym, name: Al- Ghumaysa or Al-Rumaysa Al-Ansari, when Anas bin Malik, may God be pleased with them both, embraced Islam. She was in sy when it was proposed to listen to what he did. And if you will be my accept and became from the best, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, may God be pleased with him, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him. Again, someone that he specifically mentioned will be from the people of parad would even go out with the fighters to the wound and carry water on her back. And on the day of whenory said of kill those capes who you said. And God is good. Any 30 Anas, may God be pleased with him, said: A son of Abu Talha died from Umm Sulaym, so she said to her family: Do not tell Abu Talha about his son until I tell him. Anas, Abu Talha, Umm Sulaym, said: So he came and she brought him dinner, and he ate He drank, then she made herself more beautiful than she had ever made herself before, and he slept with her. When she saw that he was satisfied and had had his fill of her, she said, " O Abu Talha, what if some people lent something to a household and Abu Talha was in need of it, and they asked their family to stop them?" She said, "Then consider your son as a reward from God." He became angry, saying, "You left me, then you told me about my son." So he went until he came to the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, and told him what had happened. The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said, "May God bless you both in the remainder of the night." And what did he do because of that birth to another to them and the propet made for the blessing of what did look at the pa look at the pa in the face of such i tell you from the stories of Urwah ibn al-Zubayr, may God have mercy on him, Abu Abdullah Urwah ibn al-Zubayr ibn al-Awwam al- Qurashi, Madinah, Aisha, may God be pleased with her, 94. A gangrene appeared in the leg of Urwah ibn al-Zubayr, and it went up his shin, so al-Walid sent for him and carried He called the doctors and said, "There is no cure for him except amputation." They told him, " Drink the sedative." Urwah said, "Go on with your business. I never thought that a creature would drink something that would remove his mind, so that he would know how to drink it." He placed the saw on his left knee, and he did not hear a word from Urwah. He said, "God, take my son Muhammad from me, and not another from you." He said, "God, I have never seen an old man more patient than him." Then he was afflicted with the loss of his son Muhammad on that journey. He did not hear a word from Urwah about that. We have suffered hardship on this journey of ours. O God, I had seven sons, and You took one and left me one. I had four limbs, and You took one and left me three. If You have afflicted me, You have healed me, and if You have taken, You have left me. He said, "You certainly gave me the means to survive this trial, and if You take away from me, You have certainly left me what is sufficient for me." And I want to conclude with one more story, and this one is a bit of a long one, but It's Abu Qulaba al-Jarmi al-Basri al-Azdi, may God have mercy on him, a follower of Abdullah ibn Abbas. He saw Ayyub, and I never knew anyone more knowledgeable than him in jurisprudence. Any more likely was required to be judged away from anded inam between 107 after this story narrated by al-Awza'i, the Imam, may God have mercy on him. Al- Awza'i, Abdullah ibn Muhammad, meaning Ibn Hibban, in his book "The Reliable Narrators," Imam al-Awza'i, Abdullah ibn Muhammad, said: I went out to the seashore to guard the borders, and our border post at that time was Arish, Egypt. He said: When I reached the coast, I saw a marsh, and in the marsh was a tent. In it was a man who had lost his hands and feet, and his hearing and sight were impaired. He had no servant, and no limb that could benefit him except his tongue. He was saying: "O God, grant me the ability to praise You with a praise that is commensurate with the gratitude for Your favor which You have bestowed upon me, and You have favored me over many of Your creation." It was Arish, Arish. When I reached the seashore, I came upon a marsh, and in that land was a tent, and there was a man who had lost his hands and feet, and he couldn't see and he couldn't hear. And he had no functioning limcept his tongue and he was making Allah inspire me to praise You with a praise for which I can repay the gratitude due to You for the blessings You have upon me and You have me above so many of Your creation. Al-Awza’ says, “Abdullah said, ‘By God, this man, and I will ask him if he has understanding, knowledge, or inspiration.’ He said, ‘So I came to the man and greeted him with peace. He said, ‘I heard you saying, “ What blessing? What blessing of God’s blessings upon you do you praise Him for? What favor has He bestowed upon you that you thank Him for?” What is the blessing of God, and what is that which He has preferred you over all the people? And what has my Lord done? You see what? By God, even if He sent fire from the sky upon me and it burned me, and commanded the mountains and they destroyed me, and commanded the seas and they drowned me, and commanded the earth and it swallowed me, I would not increase in gratitude to my Lord except in thanks.’ But, O Abdullah, when you come to me, I have a need of you. You see me on What a state I am in! I am unable to harm or benefit myself. My son used to look after me at prayer times, performing ablution at the appointed times. If I was hungry, he would feed me, and if I was thirsty, he would give me water. I have lost him for three days now. I can't find him to come for prayer times to help me. He said, "But I have seen him for three days." May God have mercy on you. I said, "By God, no one who has walked in the service of another has a greater reward with God than one who walks in the service of someone like you." So I went in search of the boy. I hadn't gone far when I came upon some sand dunes. There I saw the boy, devoured by a wild animal. I said, "To God we belong, and to Him we shall return." I said, "The man brought him with a gentle face." As I approached him, the memory of the Prophet Job, peace be upon him, came to mind. When I reached him, I greeted him, and he returned the greeting. He said, "Aren't you my companion?" Going to tell him, he said it occurred to me. Sit the prophecy, peace and blessings be upon him. So man, he asked him, "Sal me, you man, I sent away to look for my." I said, "He said, 'Yes, him.' He said, 'What did you do about this? I asked you to do it for me.' He said to him, 'Honor the mother of the Prophet Job.' The Prophet said, 'I said, "Do you know what his Lord did to him? Did He not test him with his wealth, his family, and his children?" He said, "Yes." I said, " So how did God find Job? He found him patient, grateful, and praising God." He said, "He was not satisfied with that until He made him an object of fear for his relatives and loved ones." God said, "Yes, God found Job." He said, "He found him patient, grateful, and praising God." I said, "He was not satisfied with that until He made him an object of fear for passersby. Do you know?" God asks, " So how did his Lord find him?" He said, "Patient." May God have mercy on you. The boy you sent me to find, I found him among the sand dunes. A beast had devoured him and eaten his flesh. May God grant you a great reward and inspire you with patience. Praise be to God who did not create from my offspring a creature He disobeys Him, so He punishes him with fire. God, make up, God, then he said, "To God we belong and to Him we shall return," and he gasped and died. God we belong and to Him we shall return. How great is my calamity! A man like this, if I leave him, the wild beasts will devour him, and if I stay, I can neither harm nor benefit him. He said, "But I can't do anything for him. I don't have anything to bury him with. I don't have anything at all I can bury him with or any way to stop him. If I leave him, the wild beasts will devour him, and if I stay here, I have nothing to do for him." He said, "I came to him with a bundle." He said, "I covered him with a cloth," and he said, "I just cried at his head ." While I was sitting, four men came to me and said, "O servant of God, what is your situation and what is your story, Abdullah?" So I told them my story and his story. They said to me, "Uncover his face for us so that we may know him." So I uncovered his face, and the people fell upon him, kissing his eyes once and his hands another time. My father, whose eyes have always been lowered from what God has forbidden, and my father, whose body has always been prostrating while people slept. I said, "Who is he, may God have mercy on you?" They said, "This is Abu Qilabah al-Jarmi, the companion of Ibn Abbas." Abu Qilabah al-Jarmi, Abdullah ibn Abbas. He had a great love for God and the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace. May God bless him and grant him peace. Night fell upon me, and I laid my head down and saw him in a dream in a garden of Paradise, wearing two garments of Paradise. He said, " Peace be upon you for what you patiently endured." He said to the man in my dream, "Are you that manent with arms?" and he said to him He said I told you this where you get all of this paradise from He said that God has degrees that cannot be attained except by patience in times of calamity and gratitude in times of prosperity along with the fear of God Almighty in secret and in public level only people are patient inalamity andful in times of ease and those fear mighty and maestr and this is and you know what the str is find conusion is was the was was even look at what this had in those golden generations people who that patient and so grateful for something so which we would see as so small you know we would not think about the blessing of that has given you and how they were patient at the l of so much and have even small even so really brings you back to the patient when Allah tries youamity when decrees for you some difficulty and the diffic are small compared to what those people and test acc and are best of our so they improved more us for us you know a person loses a job loses you know something reasonably small and you look at how these people l what you can't even lose and They are patient and grateful to Allah and I just want to conclude with a thought to us Glory be to Him, the Most High. We test you with evil and good as a trial, and to Us you will be returned. And We test you with evil and good as a trial, and to Us you will be returned. And family and loved ones and fruits and all the sicknesses and suffering they went through. Likewise, you're being tested today with your health, with your wealth, with the safety you live in and the ease and comfort you have. God is Most High, God is Most High, God is Most High, and peace and blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon his family and companions. May God reward you.