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Bismillah alhamdulillah wa sallam wa l-ala rahsallallahi wa sallam wa la l-alihihi wa sahbihi wa min wa l-hamabadi.

Today short Khatar is going to be about a topic that is not very common to hear about, but it is very important.

And that is just some brief remarks about how the Quran in Sunnah, how the Syirah of the Prophet ﷺ is teaching us to deal with those who are emotionally or physically challenged in our societies.

You know, Allah tests some people that they don't have what other people have, Allah tests some people physically, they don't have what other people have, emotionally, they don't have what other people have, mentally, they don't have what other people have.

So what can we talk about from the Quran in Sunnah, from the Syirah about this reality or this phenomenon?

Let us begin by pointing out that those people that are tested, there is no question that it is a very difficult test and it is a part of the Sunnah to give them glad tidings of Jannah if they are patient.

So we have the incident of the blind man coming to the Prophet ﷺ and saying that, you know, O Messenger of Allah, you know, ask Allah to cure me.

In fact, even before this, there is another Hadith that links with this, our Prophet ﷺ said, whoever Allah takes away his two beloved things, the eyes, and he is patient, Allah shall give him Jannah.

So he told us beforehand that, whomever Allah takes away his eyesight and he demonstrates patience, there is nothing less than Jannah.

And in the Hadith also, we learn that on the Day of Judgment, when Allah shall reward those who have been tested and tried, those who are not tested and tried, the Afea people will look at that reward.

And they will wish that in this dunya, their skin were peeled from their live bodies so that they could get the reward of those people who were tested.

So in this world, we don't want to be people who are tested. But in the next world, the people who were not tested will feel jealous of the people who were tested.

And they will wish to go back and be tested, of course they're going to wish but it's not going to happen because when you see the results, it's different than those here.

So we don't want to be tested but we give glad tidings to those who are tested. And it is human nature, when you are tested, you don't want to be tested.

And that's halal and that's permissible. And you ask Allah to lift up the test back to the Hadith I began with, that the blind man came to the Prophet ﷺ.

He said, Ya Rasulullah, make dua to Allah to cure my blindness. It's okay, it's halal. You don't want to be blind. Nobody wants to be incapacitated. Nobody wants to be sick.

So the Prophet ﷺ said to him, If you wish, I'll make dua. And if you wish, be patient and I guarantee you Jannah.

What a beautiful thing. If you want to make dua, okay. But I'm telling you that if you maintain this and you are patient, you will get Jannah.

And the man, he's a human being, even he's a Sahabi, he said Ya Rasulullah, make dua. It's panAllah. Make dua.

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