This audio is brought to you by Muslim Central.com. Today's hoodba is really actually about one aya of the Quran and that's in the middle and it's repeated twice by Allah

Azawajal in Sotul in Shirah, also called Soto Sharch.

Allah says for Inna al-Usriusra,

inna-A-L-Usra.

Commonly it's translated, then certainly with every difficulty or with difficulty comes ease.

Or with every difficulty there is ease.

That's an average translation of the Aya.

I wanted to give a little bit of background as to how to appreciate the short

sorta a lot of you have memorized it your kids have memorized it and it's actually a

really beautiful thing to learn about our religion and about life itself some of

the shorter sorta of the Quran have some of the most profound teachings

and actually it's part of the wisdom of Allah that he made them short so people can

easily memorize them and remember some very powerful life lessons through those short

sures. Allah Azawajal is describing a time when the Prophet

Allah O'Lahu Ali-Sala al-A-Sala was going through tremendous difficulty,

and as he was preaching the mission of Islam,

the message of Islam, not many people were willing to listen.

It was not like our time now, and it was not like what happened after, you know, after

Houdebia where droves and droves of people were coming and accepting Islam.

Earlier on in the mission, people were only making it harder and harder for him, and it seemed

like anybody who accepted what he was saying was labeled crazy, was labeled, you know,

a suffahat, you know, fools, not very intelligent, or, you know, people that have been fooled by him, etc, etc.

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