Pearls of Wisdom

Assalaamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu,

I pray that this reaches you in the best of health and Eeman.

If one is endowed with power, honour, status, rank, or wealth, he must realize that he is being tested. When Prophet Sulaymaan (Solomon) saw the throne of Bilqees (Queen of Sheba) brought before him, he said:

“This is by the Grace of my Lord to test me whether I am grateful or ungrateful! And whoever is grateful, truly, his gratitude is for (the good of) his ownself, and whoever is ungrateful, (he is ungrateful only for the loss of his ownself). Certainly! My Lord is Rich (Free of all wants), Bountiful.” Surah Al-Naml (27) – Ayah 40.

Thus Allah gives a blessing to see who accepts it properly by being thankful for it, by preserving it, and by taking advantage of it in a good way; and to see who denies it by not being thankful, by wasting away the favour, or even by using it to wage war against the One Who gave it to him in the first place!

We must understand, therefore, that blessings are trials from Allah. It is through trials that the gratitude of the grateful person becomes revealed while the ingrate becomes exposed. And we must remember that Allah tests us in good times as well as in bad times.

“As for man, when his Lord tries him by giving him honour and gifs, then he says [puffed up]: My Lord has honoured me’. But when He tries him, by straitening his means of life he says: My Lord has humiliated me!’ Nay!..” Surah Al-Fajr (89) – Ayaat 15-17.

Wasalaamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu Ahsin.
Details Taken From – “Don’t Be Sad” by Shaykh Aaidh Al-Qarni.

Supplication for one whose affairs have become difficult

‘O Allaah, there is no ease except in that which You have made easy, and You make difficulty, if You wish, easy.’