Look deep within yourself at what you could have done wrong, do istighfar and stop doing it and take positive action. Ask yourself difficult questions - is there anything I've done here, that could have caused this issue I'm going through? Then stop the excess or the wrongdoing and do something about it. The things you can't control (as it's pointless) and the things you CAN control (as you can do something about it).įor mushkila, it's easy. This actually reminds me of the quote I once heard in personal development circles saying there are two things you should never get upset about in life.
That pain you're now undergoing is your own fault. You may have consumed too much food and now you have a stomachache.
COVID can be put down to this.Ī Mushkila is something you caused. Think of an act of God, a natural disaster. But it's important to know the distinction, even for the sake of your own sanity.Ī Museeba is not your fault. This directly translates as difficulty and it comes out of the wrong doing that you personally do.īoth are part of the tests and trials of being Muslim. There is another type which is called muskhila. This is difficulty that comes from Allah directly, and therefore is out of your control. There is museeba which translates as misfortune. I realised it's actually quite a simple thing to comprehend.Įssentially, there are two types of difficulty in Islam. So I wanted to look at difficulty in Islam and try and understand it better*. Some people are wondering how much more can they even take and why is this even happening to them. This has had the effect of seeing many people down and out. This in conjunction with the fact it is an extremely confusing time, unprecedented in the amount of strange things that are going on and the madness shows no sign of unrelenting any time soon. COVID-19 and its devastating impact still continues to affect millions of people, who have suffered from a loss of income, a loss of health, or worst still, even a loss of life of loved ones. We are living in extremely difficult times.
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