Today's verse

بِسْمِ اللّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيْم

Surah 101.

Al-Qari'a,

The Striking Hour

ﺳﻮﺭﺓ َ ﺍﻟْﻘَﺎﺭِﻋَﺔُ

Verse  10

Arabic:

ﻭَﻣَﺎ ﺃَﺩْﺭَﺍﻙَ ﻣَﺎﻫِﻴَﻪ

Transliteration:

Wa maa adraaka maa hiyah

Meaning:

10. And what will make you know what it is?

Tafsir

Ash'ath bin Abdullah says that after the death of a believer, the angels take his soul to the souls of other believers and say, "Give solace to your brother. Till now he was in troubles." Now those noble souls ask him (the new soul), "How is so and so?". He replies, "He is dead. Did he not come to you?" They understand the fact and say, "He was taken to his abode Hawiyah".

Tafsir Ibn Kathir

Comment:

I'll like to point out something very important from the commentary.

Note what the angels told the believers when they brought the soul of another believer who just died to join them - " Give solace to your brother. Till now he was in troubles." -

Meaning that the believer who died and whose soul was taken to join the soul of the other believers who had died before him in Paradise did not live a life full of luxuries and all he wanted.

No, rather - till his death he was in troubles - perhaps he was looking for a child, perhaps his marriage had challenges, or he faced health problems, or he was financially handicapped, or he had leprosy and so was constantly taking drugs to suppress it so it doesn't embarrass him in public....the list is endless.

But he kept faith and worshipped Allah, and that's why he could still make paradise.

But imagine the friend who was taken to hell fire - he too would have faced challenges because no one comes to this life without his own problems, but he didn't keep faith and so became an inmate of Hawiyah.

My dear sisters, as women, we will face problems - with beauty (whether you're too ugly and unwanted or too beautiful and lusted after), with wealth (whether it's too small and living is tough, or too much and you become arrogant), with marriage and children (whether your husband is uncaring and you feel unloved or he even divorced you or marries someone else who is making your life unbearable, or your marriage is so perfect you feel those who have challenges are not as good as you) etc.

Allah's test can come with positive or negative challenges, let's keep faith in our Creator and His worship regardless of our lot in life so we won't be an inmate of Hawiyah.

May Allah save us from the punishment of the Fire, Amin.