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Challenges of the Chosen

Mufti Menk

Muslim Central

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Islam

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🗓️ 2 February 2016

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Lecture at the event in Davao Philippines

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We praise Allah, Subhanahu wa Ta'ala. We thank him upon all conditions. We send blessings and salutations upon Muhammad,

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we ask Allah, Subhanahu wa Ta'ala to bless his entire household without exception. And we ask Allah,

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Subhanahu wa Ta'ala to bless every single one of the companions of Muhammad,

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we ask Allah, Subhanahu wa Ta'ala to bless every single one of us and our offspring, those to come

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up to the end. May Allah, Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, grant us goodness, may he grant us ease, may he grant us

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the ability to serve him in the correct way. I mean, my beloved brothers and sisters, you and I

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know that in life we face difficulties. From the time we were born, we came to this earth crying,

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we came to this earth crying, where we were not crying, we were made to cry. It is considered normal

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and natural to immediately break into a yell as you are born. Because your lungs inflate and because

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the rest of your organs coming to play for the first time, it happens so suddenly. I would like to

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think that it also depicts that you will be crying all the way up to the end, up to the last of your

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life. The nature of this life is that you will never get exactly what you wish and you want, but rather

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you will get what the Almighty Allah, Subhanahu wa Ta'ala wants to give you. So let's get this understood.

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I am going through a lot of difficulties and challenges in my own life and it's normal and natural

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and you are going through a lot of difficulties and challenges in your lives. It is normal and natural.

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Do not think for a moment that there is a single one of us or there was a single one of us in the past,

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in the present or in the future. There would be not a single one of us would have a life that has no

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challenges, no difficulties, no hardship. This is all from Allah, Subhanahu wa Ta'ala. It is the

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nature of this life. This life is known as a life for testing. An ibn-e-Lah is supposed to come to

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you. Allah has kept it for a short period of time between 60 and 70 years as the Hadith. The Prophet

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Al-Alahi wa Salam says, Arabic The lifespan of the people of my Ummah between 60 and 70 years,

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