By: Nada Adams
A person nowadays doesn’t have to look to hard to see how our world has changed for the worse. Everywhere you look and on every continent injustice and suffering prevail. Prophet Muhammad foretold about this matter of widespread injustice, disobedience and sinning, that when this happens, prepare for calamities and tribulations to fill the earth. Hardship comes in all forms, whether it’s a loss of one’s job, home, wealth, loved ones, illness, etc. If you are suffering from one, others have suffered from all of those hardships compounded with the pain of loss being unbearable. Out of all the losses here, the loss of one’s health is only second to the loss of a loved one. Illness can strike all of the sudden and in the spiral of uncertainty, here are several suggestions to assist you:
1. What is meant for you will not miss you; what’s not meant for you will never reach you. You must realize that whatever calamity you are experiencing today, it’s no mistake you have it. There is nothing that you could have done to avoid it. Everything in your life happens by God’s Destiny. Don’t feel despair, God is the Most Merciful and knows about your hardships. It’s your chance to gain even more reward until the relief comes back into your life. The Awliya’ of this nation would be so delighted when God sends them calamities because they know the reward of the hereafter is better than someone giving them a million dollars.
2. Accept your Challenges – this doesn’t mean that you like it or want it to stay, however, accepting puts you in a state of mind of letting go which releases your need to change things and allows you to see the good around you and in your own life. You are able to see that there is nothing wrong with the immediate moment of right now and make every minute appreciated.
3. Be Grateful to Allah and appreciative of the innumerable endowments we have been given. God revealed in the Qur’an that with every hardship there is ease elsewhere. Be grateful for what God has made easy for you because of your other hardships. Hardships are there to make you a better person if you allow them. Choose patience over anger and trust in God’s Will for you.
4. Be Relentlessly Hopeful – your mindset is crucial for your own mental health and the health of those in your life. Especially around the person who is ill if you’re the caregiver. I acknowledge the caregivers!! They are the ones who usually suffer in silence. Please make time for you to fill your emotional cup so that you can be strong and continue to help yourself and your loved ones.
5. Wake up in the late-night 1 hour before Fajr – make Salat and ask Allah for help. Also make Istighfar (by saying: Rubbigh-Fir-Liy 100-300x).
6. Don’t complain, say AlHamdulillah instead – Gratitude is the highest of emotional energies and the more you are grateful to Allah for what you have; the more God gives you.
7. Be Relentlessly Patient – Just because you don’t get what you want when you want it doesn’t mean your prayers will not be answered. Trust in Allah. God has the power to create this entire universe in less than a second, however, God created the entire universe in 6 days that were equivalent to 6000 years. Why? To teach mankind not to be hasty in doing things. With Patience, the relief will most definitely come guaranteed! Not in your timeline but in what Allah has eternally willed to be. Breathe…
Of course, this is a deep subject however, I’m confident these lessons when applied will make a difference in- sha’ Allah. One thing that is certain about this life, nothing stays the same! If you are successful, things will change and if you are struggling, things will change…change is inevitable! Put this article on your fridge to remind you every day.
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Tuesday, April 28, 2026
