Shaykh Muhammad Mukhtar Ash-Shinqitee.
Below is a transcript of the talk that I was listening to. I decided to transcribe the talk as I could not find any available transcripts online. It's such a wonderful lecture that I would love to share and keep as a reminder and for future reference.
He says:
"O you
We have not found Him except He is Forbearing, Merciful. We have not found Him except He is Generous and Great. He opens for you the door of relief from where you expect and where you don't.
And there is no slave who calls upon Allah with truthfulness during a hardship except that Allah grants him/her one of the best of two things; if Allah knows its better for his/her hardship to be relieved, He will relieve him/her immediately, and if Allah knows it is better for his/her hardship to be prolonged, He will give him/her certainty and Iman and submission such that hardship becomes for him/her a source of blessing and happiness. May Allah make us and you the likes of that man/woman.
If you have trust in Allah and called upon Him and longed for Him while being truthful, believer and relying on Him then either He will relieve your hardship or He will grant you patience and certainty such that punishment becomes mercy, and your status is elevated and your reward becomes enormous and your sins are forgiven and your troubles, anxiety and grief are relieved.
And therefore in trials and tribulations, there is a happiness of longing for Allah that has no equivalence. How pleasant are those moments, and how pleasant are those blessed hours in which you call upon Allah in seclusion, and you address your sorrows to Him, and you address your hardship, anxiety and distress to Him. And you ask Him, and you privately consult Him, call upon and have trust in Him (Glory be to Him).
The happiest of people is the one who addresses his/her complains to Allah and not to one of His creations. The happiest of people are the ones who places his/her certainty in Allah and does not place his/her certainty in other people.
Imagine if your friend tells you that he/she will talk to such and such person, and your problem is something simple for that person, and you know that the matter will be resolved. How certain are you of that your problems being settled and your hardship being removed? But how about the King of the Kings, the one who has depositories of the heavens and the earth in His hand? How about The Most Generous, which the fullness of His hand is not affected by the continuous spending, night and day.
People turning away from you is indeed a blessing from Allah, He wants you to turn to Him. The forsaken is the one who turns away from Allah to other than Allah. The forsaken is the one attached to the people and feels that whenever calamity befalls him/her or he/she faces difficulty, they'll go to this and that person and the matter is resolved. But as for you, you knock the doors but they do not open, and you ask people but they do not give you assistance, and you come to people but they humiliate you and dishonour you and might even slander, smear and disgrace you!
The happiest of people is the one who says "Ya Rabb" (O' Lord) and Allah answers his/her supplication. By Allah, happiness is not in wealth; if it was in wealth, the happiest of the people would have been Qaarun, but he was among the most miserable people.
Have you ever seen your Lord abandoning a slave who was truthful in worshipping Him? By Allah, no! And what are these stories that Allah tells us in His Book. Allah has mentioned stories in His Book so that we may flee from Him to Him.
The happiest of people are the ones when calamities befall on them they say:
And be aware of regarding a matter as too huge for Allah to resolve it. "Allahu Akbar" means Allah is greater than anything. Allah is greater than every anxiety, distress and hardship that is between us and the meeting of Allah, until we meet Allah with Him being pleased with us. O'Allah relieve us from anxiety and from distress and hardships. O'Allah relieve us from every concern and appoint us a way out of every distress and keep us safe from every turmoil. O'Allah we seek your victory, so give us victory and we seek your assistance so assist us. O'Allah do not abandon us, O'Allah relieve us from every concern and appoint us a way out of every distress, and keep us safe from every turmoil. O'Allah bless our health, our parents, our family, our provisions and bless everything that You've granted and gave us. O'Allah we ask You to put blessings in all of our matters, sooner and later, that which we knew of and that which we don't.
O'Allah we complain to You about all our troubles and make that which You've granted us an aid for Your obedience, Your love and Your satisfaction O The Ever Living, the Self-subsisting. O'Allah forgive us and our fathers and mothers and our families and our loved ones and our scholars and those who advised us and those who sought our advise and those who are present with us and those who are absent and those who loved us for your sake. O'Allah forgive us all and make our righteous ones a reason to forgive our sinners. And be in charge of our affairs, O' The Most Merciful. O'Allah have mercy on us, a mercy that because of it you forgive our sins and relieve us of our hardships and straighten our crookedness and reinforce our path. A mercy that brings us Your Great mercies, in this world and hereafter. A mercy that You open with it the gates of Your Magnificent Grace for us. O' The Most Merciful, O' Forbearing, O' Merciful, O' generous, there is no god but You.
If you have trust in Allah and called upon Him and longed for Him while being truthful, believer and relying on Him then either He will relieve your hardship or He will grant you patience and certainty such that punishment becomes mercy, and your status is elevated and your reward becomes enormous and your sins are forgiven and your troubles, anxiety and grief are relieved.
And therefore in trials and tribulations, there is a happiness of longing for Allah that has no equivalence. How pleasant are those moments, and how pleasant are those blessed hours in which you call upon Allah in seclusion, and you address your sorrows to Him, and you address your hardship, anxiety and distress to Him. And you ask Him, and you privately consult Him, call upon and have trust in Him (Glory be to Him).
The happiest of people is the one who addresses his/her complains to Allah and not to one of His creations. The happiest of people are the ones who places his/her certainty in Allah and does not place his/her certainty in other people.
Imagine if your friend tells you that he/she will talk to such and such person, and your problem is something simple for that person, and you know that the matter will be resolved. How certain are you of that your problems being settled and your hardship being removed? But how about the King of the Kings, the one who has depositories of the heavens and the earth in His hand? How about The Most Generous, which the fullness of His hand is not affected by the continuous spending, night and day.
People turning away from you is indeed a blessing from Allah, He wants you to turn to Him. The forsaken is the one who turns away from Allah to other than Allah. The forsaken is the one attached to the people and feels that whenever calamity befalls him/her or he/she faces difficulty, they'll go to this and that person and the matter is resolved. But as for you, you knock the doors but they do not open, and you ask people but they do not give you assistance, and you come to people but they humiliate you and dishonour you and might even slander, smear and disgrace you!
"Many a person with shaggy and dusty hair, dusty and driven away from doors were to swear by Allah (that something would happen), Allah will certainly make it happen." ~Muslim~And what will make you perceive that this trial gets you to know about Allah such that you'll not be afflicted with neither anxiety nor grief except with a relief?
The happiest of people is the one who says "Ya Rabb" (O' Lord) and Allah answers his/her supplication. By Allah, happiness is not in wealth; if it was in wealth, the happiest of the people would have been Qaarun, but he was among the most miserable people.
"And We caused the earth to swallow him and his home" ~28:81~We ask Allah for safety and well-being. Wealth is not happiness and happiness is not when you ask people and they give you, and happiness is not if you go to this and that person your matters become simple . Happiness, virtue and increase in goodness is when you say "Ya Allah" and the doors of the Heaven open for you and happiness is when you say "Ya Rabbi" and complain to Allah and Allah answers your supplication and removes your hardships. Indeed, amongst people there are those who are overwhelmed with trials, tests and adversity and they know this and that person who could assist them but he/she never complained. And among people there is the one who can easily contact this rich person and that wealthy person, but says
"I'm shy of Allah seeing me asking other than Him".
So he/she is pleased with Allah, and he/she left his/her matters to Allah, and he/she is attached to Allah, and was truthful with Allah so Allah has granted him/her a relief and a way out (of hardships) between the plates of heaven and the earth.Have you ever seen your Lord abandoning a slave who was truthful in worshipping Him? By Allah, no! And what are these stories that Allah tells us in His Book. Allah has mentioned stories in His Book so that we may flee from Him to Him.
The happiest of people are the ones when calamities befall on them they say:
"It is my shortcomings, I'm the sinner, I'm the wrong doer, I've not thanked Allah for His blessings. It was my shortcomings O'Lord. I've not remembered You as you should be remembered. I've not thanked You as You should be thanked, so forgive my shortcomings in thanking You for the blessings".
So he seeks forgiveness, repentance, and turning to Allah and the narrowness is widen and widen and seeking forgiveness becomes a mercy that takes away his grief and relieves him of distress.
The happiest of people are the ones who turns to Allah during calamities. If anxieties and distress surrounds the person and his/her hardships are overwhelming and if that does not increase in him/her except his/her attachment to other than Allah, and does not increase in him/her except complains to people and going to this and that person for assistance, then that is a misfortune, we seek refuge in Allah from that, that is a misfortune.
Have trust in Allah and rely on Him and think well of Allah and that you ask more for forgiveness and know that you have been afflicted because of your sins. So hate the Shaytan, and the self that's inclined towards evil and seek forgiveness, then start reviewing yourself. Have you oppressed one of the muslims? Did you take someone's wealth? Have you transgressed on someone's honour? Did you swear at your muslim brother/sister? Did you slander him/her?
Then you start purifying yourself from oppressions and sins. Whoever does that trials become beneficial for him/her, and what was in distance becomes nearer for him/her that is what I advise you. To be truthful with Allah and turn to that which makes your situation better in the sight of Allah and you firmly work on having certainty that a relief from Allah is coming.
"Verily, with the hardship, there is relief," ~95:5~Allah has not put hardship on someone except with two reliefs. So trust in Allah, and know that if you fear the consequences and hardships of the future, and if you talk to yourself about this then know it is a shaytan knocking on your heart. (If you trust Allah, you will not fear the future)
"Shaytan threatens you with poverty." ~2:268~Shaytan does not promise you except every evil, every trial and every harm. So be with Allah, be truthful with Allah and do not worry. Repentance and seeking forgiveness, and having certainty in Allah's relief and taking appropriate means, and thinking well of Allah that He will relieve you from this hardship and by increasing your supplications at times they're best accepted. For example, when the call for the five prayers are given and between the azan and iqamah and during the sujud and also in the depths of the night (before dawn). Relief comes to you from where you expect and where you least expect it. So whoever is truthful with Allah, Allah is truthful to him/her.
And be aware of regarding a matter as too huge for Allah to resolve it. "Allahu Akbar" means Allah is greater than anything. Allah is greater than every anxiety, distress and hardship that is between us and the meeting of Allah, until we meet Allah with Him being pleased with us. O'Allah relieve us from anxiety and from distress and hardships. O'Allah relieve us from every concern and appoint us a way out of every distress and keep us safe from every turmoil. O'Allah we seek your victory, so give us victory and we seek your assistance so assist us. O'Allah do not abandon us, O'Allah relieve us from every concern and appoint us a way out of every distress, and keep us safe from every turmoil. O'Allah bless our health, our parents, our family, our provisions and bless everything that You've granted and gave us. O'Allah we ask You to put blessings in all of our matters, sooner and later, that which we knew of and that which we don't.
O'Allah we complain to You about all our troubles and make that which You've granted us an aid for Your obedience, Your love and Your satisfaction O The Ever Living, the Self-subsisting. O'Allah forgive us and our fathers and mothers and our families and our loved ones and our scholars and those who advised us and those who sought our advise and those who are present with us and those who are absent and those who loved us for your sake. O'Allah forgive us all and make our righteous ones a reason to forgive our sinners. And be in charge of our affairs, O' The Most Merciful. O'Allah have mercy on us, a mercy that because of it you forgive our sins and relieve us of our hardships and straighten our crookedness and reinforce our path. A mercy that brings us Your Great mercies, in this world and hereafter. A mercy that You open with it the gates of Your Magnificent Grace for us. O' The Most Merciful, O' Forbearing, O' Merciful, O' generous, there is no god but You.
"Exalted in your Lord, the Lord of might, above what they can describe. And peace upon the messengers. And praise to Allah, Lord of the worlds." ~37:180-182~
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