In the moral world, you missed a sala.

You woke up late.

You didn't pray, Fajar.

And now you're praying it late.

And then that day you had a job interview.

And the job interview didn't go well.

And you're like, this is because I miss sala.

Now the answer to that is it may be and it may not be.

And there's no way you will ever know.

There is no way you or anyone else will ever know.

But the thing that will help you is,

I'ma'n'n'i abdi be.

The thing that will help me is that Allah says, I will be as you assume me to be.

If you're assuming, Allah took revenge from you and put this on you because you missed Fajar,

then that's who Allah is to you now.

But the thing here that I wanted to highlight is what is the role of our iman, the fact that we're

believers, that we believe in Allah, and our ability to deal with calamity. And how are we supposed

to respond to calamity as believers? I, you know, for a lot of people who's, and this actually

depends on our level of understanding of what it means to have a

relationship with Allah, subhanna, and on the one hand, the first thing I'd like to explain to you

that the Quran is very wise about is to make a separation between two different kinds of bad

situations. There's a bad situation that looks like a bad situation that was completely out of your control.

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