Heartwork The Messenger #23

Where we were at the end of, not last week, but the week before, the last session that we talked about, we spoke about the process that the Prophet was being trained through.

And I did not know how relevant those words were going to be to me today, that when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tests you, he's forming you.

And in that formation, there is a purpose and there's a reason why you're going through that.

And whether or not you know the reason, whether or not you're aware or it all makes sense, What the Muslim does, and in this case what the Prophet, peace be upon him, did, was he understood the component of trust and the component of submission.

So the biggest test that the Prophet ﷺ was experiencing up until this point was the test of the revelation of the Quran not coming to him for an extended period of time.

After receiving these revelations and giving him this substance, this mission, this purpose, then all of a sudden it became paused.

And it was known as the period, the pause of revelation.

And we talked about like, why did it make sense? Like, why would Allah do that? And when we reflected on it, we realized that despite the maybe more apparent challenges, you know, the Quraysh like mocking him or people maybe having doubt in him or him even wondering what's going on momentarily.

What the Prophet, peace be upon him, what he gained from that pause in revelation was something that he would need in order to fulfill what he was about to embark on, which was his mission of messengership.

That in order for him to be strong and to be able to carry on, he had to be able to endure what he endured.

So six months of not having the answers, six months of people asking questions, six months of wanting more consolation and conviction in his own path forward, and he didn't have it.

And then suddenly Allah reveals the chapter of Al-Duha which is the chapter about the daybreak.

And we talked about why that chapter was so powerful was because it symbolized the conclusion of that silence.

And it gave the Prophet a clear path forward.

It illuminated, right? So to speak.

The daybreak, the chapter of the daybreak illuminated his path forward.

And we spoke about how that this became something that the Prophet ﷺ in his own journey, it became a healing for him.

And one of the reasons why Allah ﷻ put him through that process was because in order to be a person that healed others, you have to have gone through some healing.

That's why if you look at the surah, it's broken up into two kind of parts.

Allah Ta'ala in the beginning, He is taking an oath and He is promising and swearing by these beautiful phenomena.

وَالضُّحَىٰ وَاللَّيْلِ إِذَا سَجَىٰ He's swearing by the illumination and the brightness of the day, the daybreak.

And then he's swearing by the period of the night which is most calm and still.

And then he promises by the virtue of these things.

And I want you to think about like subhanAllah, there's so much metaphorical meaning.

The scholars, Imam Al-Razi, who's a great scholar of Quranic explanation, he said that if you think about what Allah did there, the daybreak and the night, it's basically the two parts of the day.