How would I not know it. My life is going downhill means not accepted here. I have started to shirk means nothing hereafter either.
This hadith is enough proof that Allah answers our duas
“Allah the Most High said, ‘I am as My servant thinks (expects) I am. I am with him when he mentions Me. If he mentions Me to himself, I mention him to Myself; and if he mentions Me in an assembly, I mention him in an assembly greater than it. If he draws near to Me a hand’s length, I draw near to him an arm’s length. And if he comes to Me walking, I go to him at speed.’” - See more at: http://hadithaday.org/hadith-qudsi/i....48sPiL63.dpuf
i am not doing jumma after the failures. I just cannot. I am so much tested in life that all the pleasure and exhileeation of unexpected good new things is gone. I just want my life to end as it is beyond repair and I cannot see anything good in life after the failures.
i am not doing jumma after the failures. I just cannot. I am so much tested in life that all the pleasure and exhileeation of unexpected good new things is gone. I just want my life to end as it is beyond repair and I cannot see anything good in life after the failures.
No brother, that would be the biggest mistake ever, as ending your life doesnt end there, the torment of the action of killing yourself will continue until doomsday, so please dont ever consider it.
Jumah salah is compulsory. Missing out on this is start to failure in life and never ending problems, as you yourself can see. Please do make a start somewhere, brother, so that your quality of life may improve, insha'allah.
I am in such a rut and vicious circle of failures that if I start praying people will say that he is coming to masjid vecause hes a failure. More fun and ridicule will follow. Why does Allah have to make joke of some people like me ?
I am in such a rut and vicious circle of failures that if I start praying people will say that he is coming to masjid vecause hes a failure. More fun and ridicule will follow. Why does Allah have to make joke of some people like me ?
Why are you so concerned about what other people think? It means nothing. Nothing at all!
What is important is what Allah thinks of us. You need to develop a bond with Allah swt.
Read the biography of the Prophet and his sahabah, and see what did they go through because they held onto Islam, and here we are complaining already! See what they went through to bring the message of Islam to us.
Brother, there was once a time I was in so many trials and tribulations I was like a walking corpse. I had finished living.
But Alhamdulillah my Sabr and tawakkul in Allaah remained intact. I knew Allaah Loves his creation more than x70 than our mothers, and He wants only good for me. Even if I didn't feel it I believed it as this is what Islam teaches us.
Maybe the trials were a way of cleansing my sins? Raising my ranks? Punishing me? Allaahu Aalim.
But Alhamdulillaah a million times over, that I am in such a good place now () that I cannot thank Allaah enough. I have learnt to be HAPPY when in pain, because of this very strong hadith I have come acrossL
Jabir (RadiAllaahu Anhu) narrated that the Prophet said:"On the Day of Judgement, when the people who were tried (in this world) are given their rewards, the people who were pardoned (in life), will wish that their skins had been cut off with scissors while they were in the world." [Jami At Tirmidhi]
I've ever failed in my business and fell into bankruptcy. That's happened in mid of 90's. I tried to rise, but failed again and again. Finally in 1999 I didn't have a job, while I already married and had a child. Then Ramadan came. It made me sad because I wanted to have money for Eid. So I made du'a. Nothing happened in the next few days. However, prior to mid of Ramadan I got a feeling that I should visit my mother. So I went to to my mother's home, and I met my paternal uncle who visited my mother too. I rarely met my uncle because he always moved due to his job. I talked with my uncle, and suddenly I remember that he knew an Eid parcel producer. I told him that I wanted to be connected with that parcel producer. Next day we went to the parcel producer, and a day later I started to sell Eid parcel on my mother's house terrace. Alhamdulillah, when Eid came I had money more than I expect.
I believe, the feeling that I should visit my mother was the answer of my dua. My visit to my mother made me met my uncle, made me could sell Eid parcel and got money. I believe it because my life experiences made me believe it.
Do you know, young bro?. Allah never gave me what I want. But Allah always gave me opportunity to get what I want. Then I do my effort to get what I want. Sometime I succeed, sometime I failed. But I never blame Allah when I got failed because I realize, that’s caused by my own mistake in doing my effort.
There is a logical reason why Allah doesn’t give us what we want in “ready to use” form, but just give us opportunity to get what we want. If Allah always give us what we want in “ready to use” form, we would be lazy. Imagine if you want to get a job. You just make dua and stay at home, then a business owner come and give you a good job. If you want to have a wife. You just make dua and stay at home, then a father come and offer his daughter to you. With easiness like this, you would be lazy to do an effort, don’t you?.
Allah always answer our dua, but we often not aware when the answer is coming. Imagine if I ignored the feeling that I should visit my mother. I would not meet my uncle, would not sell Eid parcel, would not have money in Eid.
Your dua always reaches Allah, and Allah always answer you dua, but usually not in the form that you want. This is why you didn't realize it and regard that Allah never answer your dua.
Brother, after reading your few quite similar threads, this story came to my mind:
Barbers don´t exist
A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed. As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation. They talked about so many things and various subjects. When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber said: “I don’t believe that God exists.”
“Why do you say that?” asked the customer.
“Well, you just have to go out in the street to realize that God doesn’t exist. Tell me, if God exists, would there be so many sick people? Would there be abandoned children? If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain. I can’t imagine a loving a God who would allow all of these things.”
The customer thought for a moment, but didn’t respond because he didn’t want to start an argument. The barber finished his job and the customer left the shop. Just after he left the barbershop, he saw a man in the street with long, stringy hair and an untrimmed beard. He looked dirty and unkempt.
The customer turned back and entered the barbershop again and he said to the barber: “You know what? Barbers do not exist.”
“How can you say that?” asked the surprised barber. “I am here, and I am a barber. And I just worked on you!”
“No!” the customer exclaimed. “Barbers don’t exist because if they did, there would be no people with dirty long hair and untrimmed beards, like that man outside.”
“Ah, but barbers DO exist! The problem is that some people don’t come to me.”
“Exactly!” affirmed the customer. “The same thing is true of God.”
Brother, there was once a time I was in so many trials and tribulations I was like a walking corpse. I had finished living.
But Alhamdulillah my Sabr and tawakkul in Allaah remained intact. I knew Allaah Loves his creation more than x70 than our mothers, and He wants only good for me. Even if I didn't feel it I believed it as this is what Islam teaches us.
Maybe the trials were a way of cleansing my sins? Raising my ranks? Punishing me? Allaahu Aalim.
But Alhamdulillaah a million times over, that I am in such a good place now () that I cannot thank Allaah enough. I have learnt to be HAPPY when in pain, because of this very strong hadith I have come acrossL
Jabir (RadiAllaahu Anhu) narrated that the Prophet said:"On the Day of Judgement, when the people who were tried (in this world) are given their rewards, the people who were pardoned (in life), will wish that their skins had been cut off with scissors while they were in the world." [Jami At Tirmidhi]
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I know we have to have sabr.
So the reason why all this bad happens is because we don't turn to Him? I believe that Allah is the one who wills good and bad to happen, cuz nothing can happen except that Allah wills it. So how do I know whether Allah wills good for me? I guess my mindset is wrong.
But I don't know what Allah intends for me, but isn't it soo if I think good of Allah, Allah will do good to me? So Allah is to us how we think of Him?
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and his sahabah, and see what did they go through because they held onto Islam, and here we are complaining already! See what they went through to bring the message of Islam to us.
) that I cannot thank Allaah enough. I have learnt to be HAPPY when in pain, because of this very strong hadith I have come acrossL
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