Why Everything Works Out for Believers

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Muslim. This narration is on the authority of Abi known to most as ari which directly translates to Su the Roman. But Su Arumi was not Roman. He was originally from Iraq and as we see here his father's name is Sin which is an Arabic name rather he was referred to as Sarumi because during the expansions of the Roman Empire he was captured and taken as a slave and he was sold as a slave. later to be sold to some of the chieftains of Mecca where he then resided until the prophet sallallah.aii wasallam was appointed as a prophet. Because of this, the name kind of stuck. It's not his origin, but it's where he came from. He came from the Roman front. So, he's referred to as Suib Ai. a lot of so he was Arab and slaves during the time of Jahia and pre-Islamic and postIslamic times were not necessarily of any ethnicity or any race. They were whoever they could get their hands on. Whoever the stronger dominating party could get their hands on, they would take them and they would sell them into slavery. We see that Yuisam was sold and purchased as a slave. And in the Quran and here we have Su Arumi, an Arab. However, he was sold into slavery. And the true difference in pre-Islamic and post-Islamic is that in pre-Islamic times, a slave had many many ways of becoming a slave. If you could imagine with me a triangle of a pyramid or if you could imagine with me a cone, right? So in pre-Islamic times that cone was upside down. It was an upside down. There were many many many ways a person could become a slave. Many ways. But there was only one way that the person could be free and that is if his master freed him. That's the only way. And some of them were even left behind as as part of inheritance and would make generations of slaves. However, Islam turned that upside down, turned it around, right? So now the cone is the tip side up. How is that? There's only one way a person can become a slave. Only one. What way is that? Prisoner of war. That's it. That's the only way. So, no more slaves except those who are captured on the battlefield actively fighting against Islam and the Muslim. However, the ways to be free became many many ways to become free. Person could buy himself. A person could be freed by his master. A person could purchase himself. A person could be and the masters are encouraged to free a slave. Almost at every turn, we are encouraged to free slaves in our religion. Even if even if it's as much as breaking an oath or swearing to do something and failing to do so, first thing, first course of action, free a slave, right? A person messes up and and breaks his fast during the day of Ramadan, free a slave. a person, you know, and so the the amount of ways that a slave can become free became very numerous. And the ways that a person could by law become a slave are only one way. And so this helped to progressively without shocking the local economy and without shocking the and without shocking the slaves themselves because if you could imagine thousands and thousands of slaves immediately becoming free. Many of them would have preferred to go back to their masters because now they have to fend for themselves. It's a very complex issue and so Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala very progressively urged towards the freedom of slaves without placing a burden neither on the master nor on the slave. So Abu Su Abu Yahban Sui he was from Iraq was taken as a slave later brought to Mecca and he is one of the first companions of the prophet sallall.aii Wasallam. And now he narrates that the messenger of Allah. Wasam said the affair of the believer is a very curious affair. All of his affair. Anything that happens to him, anything that doesn't happen to him, anything that he comes to succeed in, anything that he doesn't come to succeed in, all of it, all of his affair is good for him. Yet, this is only true for the believer and his affair, the one who believes. How so? He says in if he is given something good, something to make him happy, he thanks Allah and that then becomes best for him and good for him. And yet if he is afflicted with a difficulty he is patient and that then turns that difficulty into good for him. So no matter what the believer cannot be won over, one against by a shaitan. No matter what is thrown at him, it is good for him. And so the prophet sallallah.aii wasallam says and this is not for anyone except for the believer. The disbeliever loses on both fronts. If he gets a good then he is not thankful and that turns that good thing into a responsibility that he failed to uphold which is gratitude. And if he is afflicted with a difficulty and he is patient he's not rewarded for his patience. So it is pure difficulty for him. However the believer all of his affair is good for him. This narration was collected by im Muslim in his authentic compilation. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to teach us patience and wisdom. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to teach us the secrets and the wisdoms of his book and the sunnah of his prophet sallall.aii wasallam. Alhamdulillah.