There are a few simple steps that can resolve any difficulty in your life:

  1. Read the Quran.
  2. Watch for the commands of Allah.
  3. Implement them in your life.
  4. If the difficulty persists, return to step 1.

The evidence for this is Allah’s statement:

وَمَن یَتَّقِ ٱللَّهَ یَجۡعَل لَّهُۥ مَخۡرَجࣰا

And whoever fears Allah, He will make for him a way out.

65:2

Obeying Allah in His commands and prohibitions is the evidence of taqwa. That obedience to Allah is a path out of difficulty is not only a reality related to the ghayb; it’s also an apparent reality. Many times our problems are actually attitude problems.

Many conflicts with family can be solved with patience and gratitude. Gratitude for the good in them leads to patience with the bad in them. Obeying Allah increases faith. Ibn al Qayyim, rahimullah, said:

“Iman is two halves; half is patience and half is gratitude.”

Tools for the Patient and Provision for the Thankful

Another was in which this dynamic is visible is that it makes our problems seem so insignificant that they don’t even seem like problems any more. If we are busy with sadaqa or jihad or helping weak and oppressed Muslims or other acts of obedience, our focus shifts to those in much worse circumstances than our own. In this way, a difficulty may remain externally, but our internal condition is that we have exited from it, because it is no longer difficult to bear when compared to what others are facing.

Sometimes our lack of acceptance of a situation harms us more than a difficult situation itself. A very concrete example of this are cases of heavily intoxicated people miraculously emerging from car accidents. There are numerous reports of accidents where drunk or unconscious people survived unharmed while the sober passengers died. This is because injuries can be caused by the way a person responds to an event. Someone in a state of relaxation is less likely to be injured than someone in a state of tension. So trust in Allah is actual visible protection.

Of course this doesn’t mean it’s okay to drink alcohol; Allah told us there is benefit in it, but its harm is greater than its benefit. This same effect can be achieved, however, through strong iman.

Allah is الظاهر) adh-Dhahir) andالباطن) al Baatin) – the Manifest and the Hidden. The signs of Allah’s favor are everywhere to see, but it requires patience and gratitude to see them.

إِنَّ فِی ذَ ٰلِكَ لَءَایَـٰتࣲ لِّكُلِّ صَبَّارࣲ شَكُورࣲ

In that are signs for every patient, grateful one.

14:5

And what we cannot see is much greater.

والحمد لله رب العالمين