Asalam-o-Alikum brothers, Sorry for not being around. Now a days I am a bit busy with my team for few upgrades in our project.
hmmm. Yes these are hard times for everybody. But just to renew, in our minds the Master Game Plan of Allah almighty, do read these lines:
We shall test you through fear, hunger, loss of life, wealth, and crops. (O Prophet), give glad news to the people who have patience (al-Baqarah 2:155)
So life is an examination, right? All what we will have to show is PATIENCE. As it is said in Surah Asar:
Verily! Man is in loss, Except those who believe and do righteous good deeds, and recommend one another to the truth, and recommend one another to patience .ā [Al-Quran 103:1-3]
Our prophet (P.B.U.H) sought refuge (in Allah) from trials in these words,
"O Allah! By Your knowledge of the unseen, and Your Power over the creation, keep me alive for as long as You know that life is better for me. And give me death when You have known that death is better for me. O Allah! And I ask You for Your fear in the unseen and the seen, and I ask You for the word of truth in pleasure and anger. And I ask You for resolution in poverty and in affluence. And I ask You for delights that do not end. And I ask You for the consolation for the eye which does not seize to continue. And I ask You for the pleasure after the decree. And I ask You for the coolness of the life after death, and I ask You for the pleasure of the look at Your Face, and the love for the meeting with You, without any damaging adversity, nor any trial with the possibility of going astray. O Allah! Beautify us with the beauty of Imaan and make us the guided leaders" (Saheeh Sunan an-Nisaa`i 1237)
There are also guidelines present in Sunnah for barkat in rizq. And the best of them is sadqah. And according to hadiths Sadqa is not only paying money to the poor but controlling anger, being good to relatives, being respectful to elders etc also come under the fold of sadqa.
Best of luck to you all in this examination. May Allah give all of us the true PATIENCE which may take us to the true SALVATION. Ameen
regards,