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I love you Long. There will be hardship, there
will be difficulty. We have one gift, many gifts,
but one number one. We have the gift of faith.
We believe in the Almighty. We know good days will always
come after the difficult days, the days when we thought we were
broken and there is no way out. Allah Almighty suddenly opens
doors and suddenly we see nearly all of us.
Perhaps we may have had days when we really felt like there
was no way out. It was tough.
It is so hard. I just wish that this earth
could open and swallow me. And today you're sitting and
you're smiling and saying, you know what?
All those problems were solved to solve them.
How did they resolve? It was a miracle, was it not
Allah? So that means if you are going
through that today, don't worry, tomorrow a day will come when
you will even forget about what happened and if you remember it
will just be slightly not much. Allah will open your doors,
Allah will bless you. Keep trying, keep praying, keep
doing better. Because we are weak environment.
We know how it is, the pressures of society, community, those who
are around us. The world is changing on a daily
basis. Every moment the world is
developing, changing. It's not getting any better.
Things are getting tougher, but your faith keeps you going.
I know Allah has a plan. Secondly, another gift of Allah
is we are in it together. How's that?
We are in it together. When you have another person
struggling and the other one struggling.
Someone was asking me, I heard there's going to be a credit
crunch and I heard there's going to be a recession and I heard I
said, well, we'll cross the bridge when we get there.
I don't want to speculate, Subhanallah, if you're going to
suffer, I'm going to suffer with you, Subhanallah.
And if anything, we're going to help each other.
That's what it's going to be. I'm surviving.
You're surviving. If I go down, we go down
together, Mashallah. May Allah subhanahu wattala
grantas ease. Look at the people struggling in
Pakistan, look at them struggling in Afghanistan and
other places right now as we speak with the floods and so
much more. To be honest, the fact that
there are so many of them together, it makes it a little
bit easier for them even before the aid comes from afar.
May Allah use us to help them, may Allah use us to help even in
a small way, and may Allah make it easy for them.
But imagine if you're the only one and everyone else has gone.
That would be tough. That would be really, really
difficult. May Allah protect all of us.
So one of the gifts of Allah is that we're together.
You have someone, you have people around you.
Sometimes you might have a bad relationship with those who are
living immediately around you, but you can always navigate
through that by turning to the Almighty.
Perhaps, depending on what the matter is, what the situation
is, if the communication is not helping, if you're involving
others has not helped, you may want to detach a little bit for
your sanity, for your sanity. Like I say, it depends what the
matter is. You don't just break your home
for a small thing. You don't just run away because
someone disagreed with one or two things about you and your
life. Not at all, because you might go
away and there might be 20 things that will go wrong where
you were. There were only two things
wrong. So thank Allah.
Don't throw a gift that Allah has given you, because if you do
that, He might not give you another one.
Who knows to appreciate what you have, but if it is really
difficult, if it is almost impossible, if it is really so
hard for you to take that it is starting to affect you in a huge
way, remember. And if there is no improvement
and you're not, you're noticing there's nothing.
Allah has shown you a way out. You can go further.
You might want to detach no matter what.
You might want to go and live on your own.
Perhaps if you can afford it, you might want to seek the help
of someone further apart. That also is a favour of Allah.
At the end of the day, He's created us such that we have
within us an element of care for one another.
If only you recognise your Maker.