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Last week, a sister came to me, called me up, and explained a situation of hers.

And her story is very tragic, I'm not going to go into the details, but she's suffered

one calamity after another, from being a refugee to personal marital problems, to financial

problems, and then an issue with her child.

And she was almost to the point of breaking down completely and saying, for how long?

For how long is this going to happen?

I feel helpless and hopeless.

And in the course of that conversation, I reminded her of some verses of the Qur'an,

Allah says in the Qur'an,

Give good tidings to those who are patient.

Bashar means to cause to cheer up, and that is why a smile comes from the same root in

the Arabic language.

This is really profound because the one who is patient, we come and we console that person.

We never say cheer up, we never say good news.

We feel that the one who is afflicted, we need to make them feel sympathetic.

And that's fine, nothing wrong with that.

The Qur'an flips it around.

Bashar, tell them they're fortunate, tell them they're lucky, what Bashar is sabirin.

And the psychology here is very straightforward, and that is that from our perspective, those

that are being afflicted and are patient, Allah has blessed them, Allah has chosen them.

They are the elite amongst us, they are the chosen as our Prophet, Allah, O Ali, who

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