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Smilalah al-Hibilah, what is what is what is what is what is to do

Allah, al-Aulah al-Ahi, usahabihi, women, wala.

So, inshallah, as we continue and inshall

I know that some people are probably still logging on

from the previous stream.

You know, I wanted to talk about this subject

of how Allah's aana awards our honesty when we're in a difficult situation.

And I wanted to take a very particular angle to this. So let me frame it, in sha Allah taara, in sort of a personal discussion that I was

having this morning with someone that's experiencing an extreme amount of

financial difficulty. And obviously many people in particularly the COVID-19 era are experiencing financial hardship for the very first time or at least for the first time in a very long time in this way. And as people start to experience financial hardship, and it's

actually a paper that, in shala, I'm working on alongside Sister Nudgewa and sister Saar Sultan with the mental health as

was the faith element to it as how we deal with financial uncertainty.

As people start to experience financial uncertainty, like many forms of uncertainty, certain options become

available to them and certain things open up for them that might not have been open to them before.

And I want to preface this by saying that there are legitimate fatwas,

for example, legitimate scholarly opinions, for example,

that if a person finds themselves in this situation then they're able to, you know, out of necessity, engage in this particular type of financial transaction which otherwise would be prohibited.

A lot of it behind Mahibouat that necessity makes things that are ordinarily prohibited,

permissible, in a restricted sense, right?

And one of the problems is that people usually go beyond the restricted

to the moment and they just kind of go far into it.

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