O Brother, this is the ninety-fifth and the last lesson of Surah al-Baqarah and this is the Verse number two hundred and eighty five. Allah Almighty says:
"

The Messenger (Muhammad) believes in what has been sent down to him from his lord and (so do ) the believers, each one of them believes in Allah, His Angels, His Books and His Messengers"

 Or you can read it as the following:

The Messenger (Muhammad) believes in what has been sent down to him from his lord, and the believers each one of them believes in Allah, His Angels, His Books and His Messengers"

 Both recitations are possible.
 O Brother, the Prophet Mohammad (peace be upon him) has absolute faith in his Lord, his faith impelled him to obey his Lord and to become close to Him, and so do the believers, and Allah has enjoined on the Believers the same orders He enjoined on His Messengers despite the great difference between the Noble Prophet and a Believer.
 The Prophet said in an authentic Hadith:

(Allah commanded the Messengers as He commanded the believers)

[Muslim, Termizi, Ahmmad narrated by Abo Huraiah]

 There is another proof from the Holy Quran:

"Stand firm and straight( on Islam) as you are commanded and those who turn in repentance with you"

[Hud 112 ]

 I've clarified this example to you earlier a health procedure must be applied perfectly by any nurse in a hospital just as by the highest surgeon, so in spite of the great difference between the two positions (of the nurse and the surgeon) the conditions are the same.

Disobedience of Allah’s instructions indicates faith weakness

 Whoever doesn't apply the orders of Allah, his heart lacks of faith.
Allah Almighty says:

"The Messenger believes in what has been sent down to him from his Lord"

 There is a slight hint. When Allah Almighty says:

"Allah will destroy usury and will give increase for alms"

[Surah Al-Baqarah 267]

 If you actually believe in this Verse, you will not take usury nor will you help sh3er in practicing it.
 When Allah commanded you to be honest, you will not lie because you believe in His orders, and when Allah commanded you to be sincere, your real faith will prevent you from cheating.
 So, it is not a matter of Blessing, i.e. whoever reauthors the Holy Quran only to get the blessing of it and does not act according to it, it is as if he does not believe in it.
Suhaib narrated the Prophet( Peace and Blessing be upon him) as saying:

(He doesn't believe in the Holy Quran who makes legal what is forbidden in it )

[Termizi]

 The word (believe in the Holy Quran) means: believe that it was sent down from the Creator of the universes, from the Most High, the Most Great, the Well-Acquainted with all things, the All-Strong, the Free of all needs, the All-Wise and the All-Knowing.
 So, whoever doesn't carry out the commands of Allah, his faith is weak.
 The word"The Messenger believes" means that the truth is what was revealed down to him, and anything else is falsehood, the real happiness is in following Allah's order and if you follow anything else you will be distressed; the tranquility is in the Remembrance of Allah, otherwise your life will be a misery.

"Verily, in the Remembrance of Allah do hearts find rest"

[Ar-Rad 28]

Belief in the Quran means application of its verdicts

 We must understand the meaning of the Verse"The Messenger believes"
 When you believe-with regards to your health- that salt causes hypertension and that it may produce paralysis or losing eye sight –as a taken for granted truth_ you would not neglect this fact; instead, you will deal with it carefully.
 So, when our belief becomes deeper we will know that it is Allah Who ordered, forbade and made legal and illegal; the commitment to His orders, doing legal and avoiding the illegal is the only sign of your belief.
 So, the mark of your belief in the Holy Quran is putting its verdicts in effect; otherwise, your heart lacks of faith.
 Once, a man coming out of his shop in one of Damascus markets, wanted to take my advice on his daughter’s marriage. He said: a handsome wealthy young man came to me and asked my daughter's hand. He has a factory, luxurious house, and a vehicle but there is  a weakness in his faith. What should I do?
 I asked him: don't you reauthor the Holy Quran? Allah Almighty says:

" A believing slave is better than an idolater even though he pleased you"

 Then I asked him: what do you say after concluding your reciting? You say: Allah Almighty has said the truth.
 That man gave his consent upon the marriage, but it didn't last for a long time; they got divorced soon.
 When he accepted that young man to be his son-in-law he didn't believe from the bottom of his heart that

"a believing slave is better than an idolater even though he pleased you".

 So, everyone must watch himself. When you act against what is enjoined on you in the Holy Quran in all your social relations, in getting and spending your wealth, in approving and disapproving your daughters' marriage and when you act without a guidance from Allah, you don't believe in the Holy Quran, with all due respect that you are Muslim but you aren't a true Believer.
 You do not discuss the instructions given by an honest skilled doctor; whatever the doctor says is applied, you may sell your very expensive house because of only one word from a cardiologist: this house doesn’t fit you any more(because of the stairs) you have to sell it and buy a ground floor apartment. So, why is it that you don't argue when it comes to the instructions of the specialists?

Submission to Allah’s commands is the Mark of faith

 O Believers, this is a fact, when you don't carry out the straight orders of the Holy Quran, you don't have the complete faith in it – to be precise – the savior belief that stimulates you to obey your Lord, to know that it is the Holy orders of Allah and to know that the reason of any order is that it was enjoined by Allah Almighty.I'll never forget a dialogue between an oriental Muslim scholar and his American counterpart who had newly embraced Islam. The oriental scholar spoke for a long hours about the risks of eating pork to the health, but his counterpart –who had absolute belief in his Lord- replied: it is sufficient for you to tell me that Allah has forbidden it!
 So, when you believe that these orders are from the Creator of the universes, from the only Lord, the All-Wise and the All-Acquainted, this is the meaning of"The Messenger believes".
 Any person can claim to be a Believer, so why do a thousand million Muslims have no control over their own issues? Why don't they have the upper hand? Why do disbelievers get triumph over them? Because they believe in Allah theoretically (without practicing His order) and they will not benefit from this superficial faith, but concerning the straight instructions of their Lord, have they applied it? They haven't.
 So, the meaning of the Verse:"The Messenger (Muhammad) believes in what has been sent down to him from his lord" is that this is the reality; Paradise, Hell-Fire, gaining money legally, lowering one's glance, holding the tongue, being dutiful to parents and every item in the orders of Allah is a truth. So, the sign of your faith is your surrender to Allah's orders.

Prophets are at the top rank of mankind

 The token of a feeble faith- God forbid –is the disregard for the matters of our Lord's path, and this is the case of many Muslims; you don't find the application of Islamic laws in their houses, their work, their wedding and grieve ceremonies, their travelling and dwelling and in buying, selling and gaining money ; However, they come to mosques frequently, perform Islamic rituals, pray and fast although Allah wants us to rise to the level of our acts of worship( to practice it in our life) not to practice our acts of worship superficially as most people do.

" All of them"

 Which means the prophets and the believers.

"All of them believe in Allah"

 They believe in Allah as the Creator, the Raiser,
the Controller, the Existing, the One and the Perfect; they believed in His 99 attributes and His Virtue Adjectives.
 All of them believe in Allah, His Angels, His Books and His Messengers. The Books are the instructions which Allah sent down to His Prophets. The Messengers are those who reached the summit of mankind and are a great figures in whom Allah laid down the perfection that everyone must be characterized by. They invite to Allah by their speech, behavior, situation and their endorsement. So they reached the top of mankind and are an examples for us. Allah Almighty says:

"You have a good examples to follow in the Messengers of Allah for him who hopes for meeting with Allah and the Last Day"

[AL-Ahzab 21 ]

It is not right to draw a comparison between Prophets

 This is a very critical point. Allah says:

"we make no distinction between any of His messengers."

[Surah Al-Baqarah 286.]

 It is wrong to compare and contrast between Prophets although Allah Almighty says:

" Those Messengers! We preferred some of them to sh3er"

[Surah Al-Baqarah 253]

 None has the right to prefer some of them to the sh3er but Allah, and we are not allowed to do that. for example- it is not a child's business, one who is still in elementary school, to compare between two atomics scientists; it is none of his business, nor is it within his power and he isn't capable to do that. So scholars agreed that this comparison isn't allowed although Allah has granted every Prophet his own position and despite that Allah says" we preferred one of them to the sh3er" because this comparison is done only by Allah not by us.
 In fact, we believe that all Prophets have the same call (to Allah) an have the same orders (from Allah). Allah Almighty says:

"And we didn't send any messenger before you but We revealed to him (saying) none has the right to be worshipped but I so worship Me alone"

[ Surah Al-Anbiya 25 ]

 Their call is the same because it is from the same source; but on the contrary, their followers fight each sh3er. In Palestine –for example – the followers of Muse are fighting against the followers of Muhammad peace be upon him. So, when people don't genuinely follow their Prophets, their stickiness to religion becomes a kind of partiality.

All Prophets have the same call and instructions

O Brother:

" Each one believes in Allah, His Angels, His Books and His Messengers, we make no distinction between one and another of His Messengers"

 It not our business to do that distinction; it may occur to someone's mind that the Prophet (peace be upon him) -who is the master of mankind and the beloved of the Truth- didn't invoke Allah against his people (when they did harm to him), instead he said:

( O Allah guide me people; because they don't know)

[Al Jame-Al Saghir]

 while Moses invoked against his people as he said:

" O our Lord, destroy their wealth and harden their hearts"

[ Surah Yunus 88]

 In fact, when did Prophet Noah invoke Allah against his people? It was when Allah revealed to him that:

" It was revealed to Noah that none of your people will believe except those who have believed already. So be not sad because of what they used to do"

[ Surah Hud 36]

 So, neither Believers nor Scholars are permitted to made such a comparison because it is above human position, we believe that Prophets have the same call and the same message and are sent down from Allah; when the source is the same, all branches are united.
 The returning of all creatures is to Allah.
 Allah says:

" They said: we hear and obey, we seek Your forgiveness Our Lord and to You is the return"

 That means: Our Lord we ask Your forgiveness and we will return back to you. In fact, we must tremble when we think about the matter of returning to Allah; do whatever you want and you will return to your Lord.

" To Us will be their return then verily for Us will be their reckoning"

[ Surah Al-Ghashiyah 25-26 ]

 All creature will return back to Allah, he will reward them for good deeds and will punish them for evil ones.

" They said :we heard and we obey"

 Some Prophets' followers said: we heard and disobeyed. So, after Friday Prayers the Believers say: we hear and obey, but it is more appropriate to say always:

" we hear and obey, we seek Your forgiveness Our Lord and to You is the return"

 O Our Lord, we ask you your forgiveness because we aren't sinless, and we will return back to You, You know what ever one has done, his sincerity, his sacrifices and all his deeds
None can specify the human capacity except Allah Almighty
No one can specify the human capacity because it is identified by Allah Alone. The last Verse in Surah AL-Baqarah is very precise, in the first paragraph Allah Almighty says:

" Allah burdens not a person beyond his scope"

 This verse is beyond place and time, that is to say: at any time and in any place, the straight instructions of Allah which sent down to his Noble Prophet can be applied at any circumstances, and whoever says: I can't stand firm and straight on Islam is ignorant because Allah Almighty will not enjoin on us what we can't tolerate.

" Allah burdens not a person beyond his scope"

 i.e. the commands of Allah: do or not do is within the human capacity. The first and significant fact is: no one is allowed to specify the human capability because it is specified by Allah Almighty Alone, and you can't say: I can't carry out the Islamic laws, or: how can I lower my glance?
 If you are more honest and sincere, you will control yourself. Had the prophet not been a human with all its characteristics of a human being, he wouldn't be the master of mankind, why is the prophet at this position? Because he is a human like us; he likes, hates, desires and fears as we do. Every human likes relaxation and sensual pleasures and hates exhaustion and tiring matters, but the truthful Believer prefers the obedience to Allah Almighty to anything else; he obeys his Lord, sacrifices, pays the cost, keeps his desires under control and overcomes his appetites. So, human beings are of the same nature. Allah Almighty says:

" It is He who has created you from a single person(Adam)"

[Surah Al-Araf 189]

 The first thing to say is you can't say: it is hard to obey Allah Almighty because Allah says:

" Allah burdens not a person beyond his scope"

 Some pretexts of the neglectful people are: we can't carry out the commands of Allah, we are in the last Age, and what shall I do with my money? I have to put it in the bank, is it reasonable to put it there without interest? He takes the interests which is ill-gotten gains.

Any order that Allah has enjoined is within our capacity

 Other claims are: meeting between men and women is a natural aspect of our life, so why not attend parties where men and women are together? And the biggest pretexts Satan gives for the slack people is that we are living in a difficult era, Allah will forgive you, you have children and all people take ill-gotten gains so do like them as it is a general mistake (a mistake which is forgiven because it can't be avoided), the orders of Allah is above our capability and is more fit to the companions of the Prophet who lived a simple live in a desert not in a modern city like us, how could l hold my tongue?, I must buy this apparatus(TV); otherwise, I will be backward. So these are their allegations which seem as if they are rejecting this Verse:

" Allah will never burden a person beyond his scope"

 or as if they are saying: O Our Lord, these instructions are above our capacity; You have burdened us above our scope, despite the saying of Allah Almighty:

" Allah will never burden a person beyond his scope"

 Every order of Allah is within our capacity; This is a fixed fact but the most dangerous thing for you is to specify the capability by yourself whereas it is identified by The All-Acquainted Who ordered you to break your fast if you are travelling or in the case of sickness, and if you are fatigued then perform your prays sitting down, it is the All-Acquainted Who instructed women not to observe fast during their menstruation period or in postpartum because He is the All-Acquainted, and Who allowed you in special cases (when you are forced by severe hunger) to eat what He had forbidden. Allah Almighty says:

" And none can inform you like Him Who is Well-Acquainted with everything"

[Surah Fatir 14]

 So, you can't pinpoint the ability by yourself. Another point is: the disobedient thinks that these orders are above our scope, and Allah will not punish him for it. Who told him that? These days l find many Muslims who are making lawful what Allah has forbidden for the pretext that the instructions of Allah are beyond their ability or because of embarrassing situations such as when they are living in another societies; some of them tells you that it is so difficult to stand firm on Islam in Western countries, who told them that it is allowed to live in the west permanently? Whoever lives in disbelievers' countries is out of the protection of Allah for the reason that when a person lives in society which is full of sins and guilty, he may be influenced by these sins and may commit them without feeling guilty, so what was his sin? He lives with disbelievers so Allah has become free from all obligations to him.
Allah will reckon people for their deeds not thoughts
 If you consider Allah's commands, you will find it integrative; what has severe influence against your faith is illegal, what weakens it is disliked but not forbidden, what doesn't have neither negative nor positive influence is lawful and allowed, what strengthens it is desirable but not compulsory and what is essential to is compulsory; the meaning of compulsory is as to say drinking water is compulsory because there is no life without it, and the same thing is said for eating, breathing…etc whereas it is not compulsory to eat all kind of fruit because it is from life nonessentials. But it is permissible to do so.
 So, in Islamic provisions there are things which are compulsory, desirable, lawful, slightly disliked, strongly disliked, and illegal, and what destroys your faith and causes a great damage to you in this life and the after-life is illegal and forbidden. So these are our Islamic provisions.
 O brother, the first fact is: the instructions of Allah are within our capacity which is determined by Our Creator and Our Lord; Allah hasn't burdened you beyond your scope and will not punish you for your thoughts, though the Believer is advised not to let bad thoughts flow for fear that they may convert into actions; initially, whatever comes to your mind you will not be punished for, due to the fact that Allah Almighty calls people to account for their deeds only.

"Allah burdens not a person beyond their scope"

 Allah hasn't enjoined on you what you can't bear, you will not be punished for bad thoughts that don't satisfy Allah, but you mustn't let them flow lest they turn into actions
No one will be called to account instead of another

" No bearers of burdens shall bear another's burden"

[Surah Al-Anam 164]

 If a person was born of a drunk or gambler father, he will not be punished for his father's mistakes.

" No bearers of burdens shall bear another's burden"

 you will not be penalized for sins you haven't committed. So, some of the intuitive principles of Allah's laws that Allah will not punish you for
things that you can't bear, nor will He penalize you for sins you haven't committed; Allah Almighty does not punish a person for other's sins and everyone will be called to account on his own. That is what Allah Almighty says:

"Allah burdens not a person beyond his scope, he get rewards for that(good) which he has earned and he is punished for that(evil) which he has earned"

The verb (earned) in the last Verse has three meanings

 In Arabic Grammar, the addition of letters to a word causes an addition to the meaning, the verb (to earn good) in Arabic is( KASB) which is a three-letter verb while the verb (to earn evil) is (IKTASB ) which is a five-letter verb

1- Allah punishes for evil deeds unless we repent

 The first meaning: Allah penalizes you for your sin after you commit it, persist in it, and neither repent nor regret it; instead, be proud of it then the sin will be recorded against you. By contrast, good deeds are recorded as soon as you do it.
So, as the three-letter verb is simple and the five-letter verb is complex, the same thing is applied for deeds: the good deeds are immediately recorded for you, whereas the evil deed isn't recorded till you insist on it and never repent from it. This is the first meaning.

2- Doing good is easy and approved

 There is another meaning which is: doing good is very easy, nobody will criticize you, feel malice toward you and bring suit against you; if you do righteous deeds; pray, smile to sh3er faces, spend your money on them, be generous to them, give alms to the poor, do a favor to a weak person, pay a visit to an ill man and all other good deeds are very easy and no one will penalize you for practicing them; whereas, if you take ill-gotten gains there is someone who will call you to account and penalize you, and if you have a pure soul you will feel that you are veiled from being close to Allah; when you take ill-gotten gains or when you neglect the orders of Allah, you will be veiled from closeness to Allah. So, doing good is easy and has a good reputation, good scent and a nice fragrance while doing evil is disagreeable, ugly and condemned by you and sh3er, thus, this is the second meaning.

3- The real act is from Allah

 The third meaning is that man has only the acquirement of the action while the real act is from Allah; When you want to perform a good deed, Allah will give you power, So all of us are needy to Allah, we are weak but Allah makes distinction between us by our deeds that He enables us to perform according to our faithfulness to Him; Your are an ordinary person if you are truthful to Allah in helping sh3er, He will give you very great abilities which you haven't dreamt of it before, so you have only the acquirement of the action which is called by scholars as"Emission"
 For example if you want to pray, to bring up your children in a right way or to call people to Allah, Allah will give you help; So the act is from Allah and you only have the:"emission"
Another example: when a man wants to steal he acquires the action because he only has the will to do it, then Allah will guide him sagely to the proper person- who will be cultivated by the stealth –so he chooses stealing but he can't choose the person he will rob, Allah is guiding everything, He will lead the robber to a person who will be cultivated by losing his money; therefore, you only have the acquirement of the action whereas Allah has the real act.
 For that reason, when the act is ascribed to you, only its reasons are ascribed to you, whereas when an act is attributed to Allah, its achievement is attributed to Him, as when we say: the teacher failed the student"we attributed the failure to the teacher because he signed it, but the reason for it was the laziness of the student; it is right also to say:"the student failed" because we mentioned the reason for the failure which is the student himself while the teacher carried out the failure. So you only have the acquirement while the rest of the action is from Allah.
 In fact, this is a very precise word, it means: everyone is capable of doing a great deed if he is honest with Allah even though the deed is above his capacity, his mental and his intellectual abilities because he wants to perform a great deed, so who is the real miser and who is the real coward? He is the person who stints himself from a righteous deed because Allah creates the deeds.
 By Allah, I believe that anyone wants to spend his money on poor, Allah will endow him money instead, and no one wants to refrain himself from illegal deeds but Allah will keep him away from it, so the act is from Allah and the acquirement is from people.

Performing good deeds is very easy.

 Allah Almighty says:

"He gets reward for that good which he has earned"

 So, you only have the earning, you don't have the act..

"He gets reward for that good which he has earned"

 Performing good deeds is very simple whereas performing evil ones needs stages; if someone practices a bad deed, it will not be recorded against him till he doesn't repent, regret or conceal himself (not to practice his sin in public", so if someone performs a bad deed, he will be despised, blamed and punished by law; for example, if someone steals, there are worldly laws that will call him to account while practicing good deeds is very simple.
 Allah Almighty says:

"Our Lord! Punish us not if we forget or fall into error"

 Abo zar Alghafari narrated the Prophet peace be upon him as saying:

"Allah forgives my people for mistakes, forgetfulness, and what they are forced to do".

 Allah Almighty says:

Our Lord! Punish us not if we forget""
Our Lord, forgive us if we forget to obey You or commit sins unintentionally.
if we forget or fall into error""

 we make jurisprudence but we committed mistakes.

" Our Lord! lay not on us a burden"

 A burden that is unbearable

" a burden that which You did lay on those before us( Jews and Christians)

Every sin has a punishment

 Some scholars said: in the laws of those people who were before us, repentance required killing oneself in order to be accepted" kill yourselves"
 Allah instructed the Children-of Israel to kill themselves when they wanted to turn in repentance to Him; there are many provisions in the laws of those who came before us so Allah teaches us to invoke Him saying:

" Our Lord! Lay not on us a burden that which You did lay on those before us( Jews and Christians)"

 So. Our Islamic laws are acceptable and tolerable -Praise be to Allah- as observing fast for thirty days, five prayers a day, the first illegal glance is for you (you will not be punished for it because you do it by accident ) but the other intentional glance is against you, and necessity knows no laws..and so on.

" Our Lord! Lay not on us a burden"

 a burden that we can't tolerate.
 There is a very critical point; there are intolerable punishment means, but what was the cause of it? For example, when a man is taken to execution, how does he feel? When he hears the utterance of the capital sentence or when he stays in a jail for many months, whenever he hears the sound of keys he thinks that he will be taken to be executed. In fact; this is above human tolerance but the reason for it is that he committed a crime that an ordinary person does not commit. Therefore, every sin has a punishment that might be above human endurance. Another example, a man was advised by his doctor to stop smoking, his doctor calmly gave his instructions supported by proofs, but that man insisted on smoking till the Open-Heart Surgery became a must, first of all he couldn't cover the cost of the surgery, then he asked himself: will he survive after the surgery? In such operations, surgeons anesthetize the heart then they give it an electrical shock at the end of the surgery in order to revive it, but in some cases it doesn't work so the patient dies. So, he persisted in smoking which forced him to have an Open-Heart surgery that is above his endurance.

Major sins have intolerable outcomes

 Allah Almighty says:

" Our lord, put not on us a burden"

 Of course the last example was a medical one. There is another example: when a man assaults sh3er then he is shocked when sh3er oppress him because he does not bear it, but tit for tat! When another man takes ill-gotten gains, then it surprises him that all his wealth has been confiscated, stolen or plundered, he might not tolerate the matter, but that happened because when he committed sins he paid no attention to his deeds. So, every sin has its own penalty, and the consequences of major sins aren't tolerable.

" Our Lord, put not on us a burden greater then we have strength to bear"

 Sometimes there is an incurable disease, two counter diseases that each one's medicine harms the other, or you may not be able to afford price of the medicine, so there are very hard inflictions but the reason for it is that the one who was afflicted by it has committed a sin which is not done by ordinary people. A man who neglects Allah's instructions may drink wine, another man killed all his children while he was drunk, but when he sobered up he couldn't bear the affliction so he committed suicide.
 Each sin has its own bad negative impact
 O brother, every sin has a bad negative impact, and when sins accumulate, man will feel unbearable distress and boredom.

" Our Lord, put not on us a burden greater then we have strength to bear. Pardon us"

 In Sahih Muslim Ibn Abas said:

"when this Verse was revealed:"whether you disclose what is in your own selves or conceal it, Allah will call you to account for it" the companions of the Prophet found it very difficult for them, so the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said:" say 'we heard, obeyed and submitted', then Allah cast faith into their hearts and this Verse was revealed:"Allah burdens not a person beyond his scope, he get rewards for that(good) which he has earned and he is punished for that(evil) which he has earned"Our Lord! Punish us not if we forget or fall into error" then Allah said:"I have done"""Our Lord! Lay not on us a burden that which You did lay on those before us( Jews and Christians)" He said:" I have done"" Our Lord, put not on us a burden greater then we have strength to bear. Pardon us and grant us forgiveness. Have mercy on us.You are our Maula( Patron, Supporter and Protector"He said :" I have done"

 So"Pardon us"
 He said:"I have done"
 "Grant us forgiveness"
 He said:"I have done"
 "Have mercy on us"
 He said :" I have done" so it is from Sunnah to utter these three phrases separately
 It is from Sunnah to reauthor these three phrases separately
 "Pardon us"
 Then a slight silence
 "grant us forgiveness"
 Then a slight silence
 "Have mercy on us, you are our Maula (Patron, Supporter and Protector"
 You are our Master, we have no supporter but You. There is another Verse that has a deep influence into the heart:

"That is because Allah is the Maula ( lord, Master, Supporter,Helper),of those who believe and the disbelievers have no Maula)

[Surah Muhammad 11]

 Think about a son of a great, wealthy, pious, intellectual, and good father who provided his son all means of good upbringing, healthy food, he took care of his son's mind, body and morals, he educated him socially, psychologically, morally and intellectually, he facilitated all accommodations to him, then the son grew up and got a Diploma, then his father arranged his marriage as he is a great supporter for him. Compare between this son with another one who spent all his time in streets, from nightclub to another, from jail to another, from bad situation to another, and in addition to that he is filthy, ill-natured and eccentric, that son has no supporter; despite the great divergence between the two examples but, by Allah, this is the state of the believers"Allah is the Maula of the believers" He takes care about you, cultivates, warns and cautions you, allows you to be close to Him or veils you, provides you with all means of subsistence and sometimes lessens it because he is fostering and taking care about you, whereas the unbeliever has no Maula ( protector),he only waits death which will end everything.

The major Grace is to be under the fostering of Allah

 The greatest blessing is that Allah takes care of you, while the major penalty is to be out of the care of Allah. Take from this life what you want, the greatest penalty is to be out of Allah's cultivation as a man who does what he wants ( whether it is legal or not), who is as strong as an ox, has a great salary, goes to nightclub every night without feeling guilty ; in fact, he is the most miserable man in the world because after his death he will be in Hell for ever. But in contrast, if a man feels fear or gets illness, this is a good sign ( that Allah is refining him). Once, one of the Prophet's companions has no problems in his life so his wife doubted about his faith, she went to the Prophet (PBUH) to complain to him that her husband is not a believer, but while they were on their way to the Prophet (PBUH), her husband stumbled and fell down, she said to him: go back, the matter came to an end!
So a sign of your closeness to Allah is that Allah cultivates you, warns, and lessens your sustenance. Allah has commanded the worldly life to be troublesome and to exert pressure on His Holy men so that they will like His meeting- as it was mentioned in a holy hadith:

( By My Mighty and Majesty, I will not make My believer servant die while I like to Grant My Mercy upon him, till I punish him for every single sin he had committed, this punishment might be an illness, lessening his sustenance or a trial in his wealth or children, and if he still has sins, I will harden the agony of death till he meets Me with no sins)

 So, your state is a million times better than a stingy wealthy strong disobedient. We are in the divine providence. In fact, to be in it suffering (because of our sins) is a thousand times better than being out of the care of Allah, and the most obvious Verse is:

" So, when they forgot ( the warning ) with which they had been reminded, We opened for them the gates of every (pleasant) things, until in the midst of their enjoyment in that which they were given, all of sudden, We took them( in punishment), and lo! They were plunged into destruction with deep regrets and sorrows"

[Surah AL-Anam 44 ]

The price of victory is faith, obedience, and preparation

 You may visit west countries, and find in it plenty of rain, large green lands and innumerable wealth, while all sins are committed there, but do you think that Allah is pleased with them? God Forbid! On the contrary, you may see very poor orient countries, but you will find religion there, piety, fear of Allah, and remains of shyness, devotion and fidelity. So, I want you to pay attention to this point: don't compare between one worldly life and another, instead, compare the worldly life to the Hereafter, join the worldly life to the Hereafter then compare between that and another worldly life and Hereafter.
 For example, if you have a simple restaurant in which you don't offer wine, can you compare it to another one that offers alcoholic drinks and has millions in profit? Consider the destiny of offering wine after one's death, compare between a restaurant that it's owner doesn't offer wine and fears Allah in everything and considers the happiness that he will find in the Hereafter, and the other one that you will find there wine, all sins are committed in it, and consider the misery that is awaiting its owner in Hell, so don't compare between worldly life and another; this is a wrong comparison; instead, compare between worldly life joined to the hereafter and another one; this is the right comparison.
 Allah Almighty says:

" Our Lord, put not on us a burden greater then we have strength to bear. Pardon us and grant us Forgiveness, Have mercy on us. You are our Maula ( Parton, Supporter and Protector)"

 We have no protector but You.

"Give us victory over the disbelieving people"

 This victory has a cost –as I mentioned previously in the Sermon-. the price is the faith that impelled you to obey your Lord, and it is also to make all available preparation against our enemy, and Allah will undertake the rest of the matter.