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HERE ARE FIVE REASONS AS TO WHY ALLAH TA'AALA WILL PUT YOU THROUGH HARDSHIPS:

1.Allah uses problems to DIRECT you.
Sometimes Allah must light a fire under you to get you moving. Problems often point us in a new direction and motivate us to change. Is Allah trying to get your attention? "Sometimes it takes a painful situation to make us change our ways."

2. Allah uses problems to INSPECT you.
People are like tea bags...if you want to know what's inside them, just drop them into hot ever water! Has Allah tested your faith with a problem What do problems reveal about you? "When you have many kinds of troubles, you should be full of joy, because you know that these troubles test your faith, and this will give you patience."

3.Allah uses problems to CORRECT you.
Some lessons we learn only through pain and failure. It's likely that as a child your parents told you not to touch a hot stove... But you probably learned by being burned. Sometimes we only learn the value of something... health, money, a relationship...by losing it.

4. Allah uses problems to PROTECT you.
A problem can be a blessing in disguise if it prevents you from being harmed by something more serious. Last year a friend was fired for refusing to do something unethical that his boss had asked him to do. His unemployment was a problem - but it saved him from being convicted and sent to prison a year later when management's actions were eventually discovered. "You intended to harm me, but Allah intended it for good."

5. Allah uses problems to PERFECT you.
Problems, when responded to correctly, are character builders. Allah is far more interested in your character than your comfort. Your relationship to Allah and your character are the only two things you're going to take with you into eternity. "We can rejoice when we run into problems..they help us learn to be patient. And patience develops strength of characer in us and helps us trust Allah more each time we use it until finally our hope and faith are strong and steady."

The problems you face will either defeat you or develop you - depending on how you respond to them.

May Allah guide us and protect us Always.Ameen

Submitted by SHABEER BULBULIA

THE PENCIL AND ERASER

PENCIL: I'm sorry

ERASER: For what? You didn't do anything wrong.

PENCIL: I'm sorry because you get hurt because of me. Whenever I made a mistake, you're always there to erase it. But as you make my mistakes vanish, you lose a part of yourself. You get smaller and smaller each time.

ERASER: That's true. But I don't really mind. You see, I was made to do this. I was made to help you whenever you do something wrong. Even though one day, I know I'll be gone and you'll replace me with a new one, I'm actually happy with my job. So please, stop worrying. I hate seeing you sad.

LESSON: Parents are like the eraser whereas their children are the pencil. They're always there for their children, cleaning up their mistakes. Sometimes along the way, they get hurt, and become smaller / older, and eventually pass on. Though their children will eventually find someone new (spouse), but parents are still happy with what they do for their children, and will always hate seeing their precious ones worrying, or sad….However our parents are getting smaller and smaller each day…One day, all that we would be left with will be eraser shavings and memories of what we used to have.

Allah, Most Wise admonishes us: "Thy Lord hath decreed that ye worship none but Him, and that ye be kind to parents. Whether one or both of them attain old age in thy life, say not to them a word of contempt, nor repel them, but address them in terms of honour. And, out of kindness, lower to them the wing of humility, and say: My Lord! Bestow on them thy Mercy even as they cherished me in childhood." (Quran-17:23)

Submitted by SAFIYA SEEDAT

FUN ANIMAL FACTS

* Butterflies taste with their legs.
* Starfish don't have brains...although they have a nervous system.
* The word 'orangutan' comes from the Malay & Indonesian words meaning; 'person of the forest'
* A flea can jump around 200 times it's own body length(imagine a person trying to jump over half a rugby field!).

Submitted by ASMA DAYA

I recently met a Chinese man and his name was Sipho Mthethwa and I asked: "How did you ever get a name like Sipho Mthethwa, being a Chinese man?"

"Many, many years ago when come to this country, was stand in line at Home Affairs Document Centre to apply for I.D. book. Man was in front of me. Lady at counter look at him and ask, "What is your name", he says, "Sipho Mthethwa".Then she looks at me and asks, "What your name?" I say, "Sem Ting"

Submitted by FIRDOWS SHAH

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