When You Hit Your Lowest Point | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

dear brothers and sisters one of the most beautiful things about paradise about jannah and it is full of beauty and allah has prepared for its inhabitants may allah make us amongst them that which no eye has seen no ear has heard and no imagination could ever comprehend but one of its most beautiful traits is that it never gets old what that means is that every day when you think you have peaked in terms of beauty it gets more beautiful when you think you've seen its most beautiful palace allah opens up the doors of another palace when you see your spouse in paradise and no one is single in paradise your spouse is more beautiful every time you see them when you go to its marketplaces you see things that you didn't see the last time the fruits taste better every single moment in jenna is an upgrade it gets better and better and better and better and allah is surely capable of that being never ending may allah make us its inhabitants and no one in jannah thinks that they have anyone above them so that's also one of the blessings of jannah is that you don't have the fear of missing out the person who is in the lowest level thinks that they must be in the highest level because of what allah is unveiling for them that's the beauty of paradise it keeps getting better and better and better and better blessing after blessing after blessing after blessing the counterpart to that is this dunya is this life where sometimes you get hit by a hardship and you think this is the hardest it's ever going to get and then something else happens and something else happens and something else happens and something else happens and so the idea of it all falling apart and of course the way that we come in to the way that we then age and the way that things start to wither away we lose our appetite for this dunya and it just seems to sometimes fall apart and of course that's true also in the collective sense with al-fitan with trials and tribulations they start to strike one after the other one after the other to where you feel like you can't catch up on an individual level you get hit and you think this really hurts and i think that this is the hardest it's going to get and then something else happens you look to the world and if you are an empath the believer sees a person falling off of a plane in afghanistan or off of a boat from libya and where does my heart go to how can i encompass all of this may allah make it easy for all of our brothers and sisters wherever they may be so jannah keeps getting better dunya seemingly at least seems to keep getting worse and one of the things that happens to us is that sometimes it's also our perception that when one trial hits we read into things that aren't necessarily trials as being trials after that or we magnify our trials you know it's like if someone is in a boxing ring and they get hit and they say you know you can tell that the fighter was never the same for the rest of the fight even if they managed to get back up and they managed to recover but the effect of that hit was there and so sometimes what happens after a major trial hits you in life you start reading into it way more than what should be read into it and it's like yeah allah why is it all falling apart what's happening why do the punches keep on coming now what i want to talk about is that lowest point because undoubtedly there is a point that all of us will reach that will be our lowest point and it doesn't necessarily need to be our lowest point in terms of the severity of the tragedy it could be the circumstances that we are in when that happens surely which we know was the lowest point of the prophet salallahu island because he said so that hurt more because the prophet salallahu did not have hadith to wipe his wounds there's no doubt about that there is also a decade of rejection that perceives thought that makes it that much worse and so sometimes and that's why every trial is unique it's the circumstances around it hits you at the wrong time and wrong in quotation marks wrong time and it's like yeah allah this this is horrible i don't know how to get out of this i don't know how to move forward and of course certain trials also have a permanence in regards to the consequences in life you lose someone you love as much as you cope that person will not come back to this earth something falls apart sometimes there's a permanence to that now what do we do and i don't want to just talk about this from the perspective of hardship as a whole i want to talk about that lowest point and how you actually take that and do something with it that's very unique because when you're at that lowest point you know what else you are you're most vulnerable you're most vulnerable in that you're most likely to put your ego to the side and you can humble yourself most to allah subhanahu ta'ala so your most vulnerable which has the capacity to reinvigorate your your prayer your reflection your worship sometimes you see a relationship and they say the best thing that ever happened to that relationship was that it hit crisis and out of that crisis we learn things certain things happen and you look back at that and you see that was a turning point so your ego gets put to the side you're humbled and when you're humbled you're in a perfect place to make sujud and to cry out to allah and prostration and say ya allah i'm humbled you're also in that vulnerability in a perfect place to rethink things to be introspective to actually start to think about what preceded that moment and what can be done after that moment so it's an interesting place that you find yourself in and you have to remember that allah subhanahu wa ta'ala doesn't give you a swamp allah gives you a springboard when you're in that low point you have a chance to jump up there is no fall that any of us will ever encounter than the literal fall of adam arihi-salaam from paradise to earth but even then there was an elevation in his station his maqaam his status with allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that made his station even greater than before he felt the same thing with unisadi has said i'm plunging to the bottom of the ocean that's a fall that none of us could probably quite come to terms with but you're in this place where you can rethink you're in this place where you can reevaluate reassess and then get back somewhere or where you've actually never been and let it be an actual better place and the reality is that a lot of times especially when you're talking about the secular sense when someone hits that low point they talk about their potential from that downfall in this world it's restricted to this world that's the problem with a dunyawi dunya a worldly world view it's so restrictive it's so limited what's the maximum they could talk about your potential coming out of that and certainly that's part of it that there's a certain potential of strength and resilience that can be gained from that place but when we think about it we think about it also in terms of the potential of a higher place in paradise the potential of a higher station with allah and we're taught not to necessarily wish for the low point to achieve that potential very beautiful dua if there is a station that you have gotten people to through hardships and trials then allow me to reach that station without the trial that was his dua if you let someone reach a certain position we read about yusuf i mean the only prophet who we know that walked away from his people prematurely yet he was the first prophet that allah revealed to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam in the spirit of praise he got back up and he elevated only by the mercy of allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and even is narrated to have mentioned that most of the people that enter paradise don't enter paradise by a good deed that they do but by the way they responded to a hardship a hardship came your way and there was a sabbath a patience a resilience a steadfastness that you showed and that was the means by which allah delivered you to a place that you otherwise would not have been able to get the thing is is that you don't see that place right now and so sometimes it becomes hard to be able to see outside of where you are at the moment to be able to see light at the end of the tunnel to be able to see that position in a paradise that you can't even imagine it's hard to imagine it it's hard to grasp it it's hard to act in accordance with it but that's what makes it so rewardable subhanallah you get this one life this one life to live in this dunya that is consequential to the rest of your eternity and there are things that happen to you one time events that happened to you in this life and there is one moment in that one time event that if you capitalize on it changes your entire hereafter assad that first strike you know in the prophet saws that patience is at the first strike it's not as the scholars say that patience is only at the first strike it's that there is a unique patience at the first strike that if you seize that moment and you respond in that once in a lifetime moment once in a lifetime hardship with a once-in-a-lifetime patience what does it unlock for you in the hereafter beitul a house of praise that you walk into jannah and you say ya allah for me yeah allah how did i get to this place because you got hit and you responded right it's that one moment that you could seize and you could captivate and subhanallah a lot of us are so paralyzed in that one moment may allah make it easy for all of us i've heard a lot over the last couple of years i mean it's the environment around us right like i don't think i'm gonna this is the worst it's ever been for me this is the hardest i don't know how i'm going to recover out of this i don't know how i'm going to come forward sometimes it's self-inflicted allah didn't give you a swamp you stepped into one but even then there's a life jacket allah subhanahu ta'ala has given you a way back and you know how do i get out of this yeah how do i get out of this but you have to think about the potential just as you are feeling the pain of the uniqueness of the hardship you have to think about the uniqueness of the reward in that moment like there's something right now that if i do yeah allah i can achieve so much from allah i can gain so much from and allah brothers and sisters there are various low points that we find in the quran and it's really interesting subhanallah that when you go through the prophets in the quran you know you get a an array of experiences sometimes allah gives us a lot about their tawa about their call sometimes allah gives us a lot about their people sometimes allah gives us a lot about their circumstances but one thing that's almost always consistent is we learn about their hardships almost every prophet that allah tells us about in the quran there is that moment i'm overwhelmed i am in need i fakir i am poor in need vulnerable for what you would descend upon me your blessings i'm in need of your blessings yeah allah i'm feeling overwhelmed yeah allah i don't where do i go from here la ilaha unto subhanahu have mercy on me almost all of them why because pain is the universal human experience that we can all relate to but that unique reward that unique place and i want to end this because i don't want to make this too long i want to end this by putting you in a conversation with your mother your mom my mom you know it's really interesting i remember the first time doing a study of al-bukhari how many times hadith the slander the chapter of the slanderer comes up because there's so much it's so long when she tells her own story of how she was slandered and the circumstances of it and there are tangents in her story she goes off on a tangent sometimes there is fich in there there's jurisprudence to be learned you go through the books of hadith you can go one by one capture this moment capture that moment and these gems but if you're sitting in a living room with your mom and she is our mother and our mother felt a lot of pain and i'm listening to my mom talk about the most painful moment in her life where everything was darkness where even the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam who was always a source of comfort to her even the prophet saws was withheld from comforting her in those moments all alone did absolutely nothing wrong and her honor is being dragged through the streets of el medina our mom and our mother is talking to us she's talking about the moments she's talking about what was going through her mind she's talking about what ayat of quran she could remember and the ones that she couldn't she's talking about how she felt when people looked at her how she felt in this conversation how she felt in that conversation i was just paying attention to this one sentence that she says and she says wallahi and yunji left i never thought that allah would reveal quran for me who am i so that allah would reveal revelation from the heavens for me that's your mom talking i didn't think i was worthy of that i never would have imagined that allah subhanahu ta'ala would reveal quran for me who am i ten verses of the quran come down to defend me who am i and you take the quran that the quran would speak about me i never thought that revelation would descend from the heavens for me dear brothers and sisters we don't know what comes from the heavens for us when we're in those low points but we know that the lord that descended those verses from the heavens and the lord that rescued a and answered those prayers is the same lord that we're calling upon you allah does not let the reward of the good doers go to waste nor does he let the reward of the patients go to waste and so when you're in that moment your brothers and sisters and you're thinking now i have a window i have a window where i can really capitalize on the reward remember that there are things that would come down from the heavens for you that you will only see when you make it to paradise and do not belittle yourself to where you think that the mercy of allah will not encompass you if our mother is said that i never thought allah would reveal quran for me who knows what allah will do for us we ask allah to grant us patience to grant a steadfastness to maximize our reward to grant us the highest station in this life to allow us to reach our maximum potential in this life of pleasing him and to allow us to reach the maximum position and station in paradise and the companionship of our beloved prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam we ask allah to forgive us for our weak points to forgive us for our shortcomings we ask allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to make the best of our deeds the last of them and the best of our days the day that we meet him allah means foreign you

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Published: Fri Aug 20 2021