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Change is inevitable.

We moved through cycles of opposites, of happiness and sadness, of good and bad.

But what does it mean when everything is suddenly falling apart?

When you face the loss patiently but are instead faced by regression in a domino effect.

The tips of your life falling rapidly down one after another.

What do you do when it feels like even the blessings you were grasping on to are now rapidly being snatched away? Why does it feel like Allah is taking away the little that was holding you together in the first place? Oh, I want you to imagine how the Prophet SalalahI was felt after the Battle of Badur.

Allah Subhanoa Taala just gave you victory

over your enemies in a miraculous way that everyone could see.

He sends down angels,

and he particularly attributes that blessing of victory to your duat.

And when you come home to Medina, you have the Ansar ready to receive you and they have more conviction now than ever.

And then as you enter into Medina, you find out that while everyone is celebrating the great

victory, your daughter Rokaiya just passed away.

And they used to call the day of Badir, the day of great joy, and the day of great sadness.

Because as happy as the Prophet,

Sallalah al-Ari-Wale-Wa-Sala was that Allah just gave him victory in Bedar,

Allah Subhana took away his daughter Luccia on the very same day.

And that's usually how life is. You get a nirma and then you get a test right after the nirma to remind you that you're still in a place of test.

Abdullah no Omar radi al-Anhuh narrates that of the d'uas that the Prophet-s Allah O'Lah and who narrates that the Prophet-Lahahr

would frequently make was this duah.

Allahhmm in Zawale nirmatik,

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