A Solution To All Your Problems - Nouman Ali Khan
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00:00Allah Created Human Beings in Difficulty
00:07Allah created human beings in difficulty.
00:10And He created human beings in heavy burden.
00:13لَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا الْإِنسَانَ فِى كَبَدْ
00:15We certainly created the human being
00:17buried under heavy loads,
00:19exhaustive labor.
00:21Emotionally you're struggling,
00:23physically you're taxed, you're struggling,
00:26health-wise you may be struggling,
00:27financially you may be struggling
00:29because of people you may be struggling.
00:31This life, Allah designed it to be difficult.
00:34Sometimes you look at other people and you say,
00:37they have it so much easier than I do.
00:39But you don't know what other difficulties
00:41Allah gave them that are invisible from you.
00:43Everyone has difficulties,
00:45everyone has challenges.
00:47You would think for example
00:48that the Pharaoh, Firaun, had kingdom, empire,
00:52he had the world's largest army at the time,
00:55he had everything you could want,
00:56all the wealth you could want,
00:57all the power you could want,
00:58all the status you could want,
00:59he has everything.
01:01And how come he has everything
01:02and the believers have nothing?
01:03And yet Allah describes about him
01:05that he lived in a state of fear.
01:08وَنُرِيَ فِرْعَوْنَ وَهَامَانَ وَجُنُودَهُمَا مَا كَانُوا يَحْذَرُونَ
01:12وَكَانُوا يَحْذَرُونَ
01:13They used to live in a state of fear.
01:14He used to get nightmares at night,
01:16he couldn't find peace.
01:18Sometimes people have material things
01:19but they don't have peace.
01:21Sometimes people have physical health
01:23but they don't have mental health,
01:25they don't have emotional health.
01:26So all human beings were put
01:28in a state of struggle
01:29and that's believers and non-believers.
01:32So the first thing that I want to get across
01:34to all of you and remind myself of,
01:36is because we are believers,
01:39that does not mean our problems disappear.
01:42It's not like because I'm a believer,
01:44I'm not going to be sad.
01:46Or because I'm a believer,
01:47I'm not going to experience anxiety.
01:50Or I'm not going to have family problems.
01:52Or I'm not going to have financial problems
01:53or health problems or whatever else.
01:55Belief, our faith in Allah,
01:57our relationship with Allah
01:58is not there to solve our problems.
02:01It's not there to get rid of the people in our life
02:03that are causing us trouble.
02:05That's not the purpose of our faith.
02:07If that was the case,
02:08then the Prophets, a.s.w.,
02:10who had the most close connection with Allah,
02:13would have had the easiest life.
02:16They would deserve,
02:17because they would make du'a,
02:18all their problems would disappear.
02:19And if you study the Prophets,
02:21the closest people to Allah a.s.w.,
02:23they have the hardest life.
02:25They have the toughest life.
02:26And the toughest life comes to them,
02:28not even from some far away enemies,
02:30it comes to them from their own families.
02:32In other words, it comes to them from people
02:34they can't even escape.
02:35They're with them every day.
02:36They're with them their whole lives.
02:38And they can't escape those problems.
02:40So the idea that human beings are created
02:43and were placed in a situation
02:44where they're going to struggle,
02:46they're going to have to deal
02:47with very difficult circumstances,
02:49very difficult situations and even people,
02:51they're going to have to deal with that,
02:53is part of life.
02:54And that has nothing to do with,
02:56if you had more iman,
02:57you wouldn't have these problems.
02:59As a matter of fact,
03:00people assume the higher your iman,
03:02the problems are going to go away.
03:03No, it doesn't work that way.
03:05Allah created us and He put us inside of a storm.
03:08Imagine a storm in the ocean,
03:10you're in a storm.
03:11And the waves are turbulent,
03:13and you've got your little boat, etc.
03:14And you're constantly worried about sinking.
03:17And you're worried about those
03:18who are sinking next to you.
03:20What does the faith do?
03:21It gives you the strength,
03:23and it gives you the ability
03:25to go through the storm,
03:26to navigate the storm.
03:28It doesn't mean you don't get wet.
03:31It doesn't mean sometimes
03:32the boat almost doesn't tip over.
03:34But you now have the ability
03:36to go through it and survive the storm.
03:38You see, that's the purpose of our faith,
03:40is not to get rid of the problem,
03:42but to actually strengthen us
03:43so we can go through the problem.