By Sheikh `A'id Abdullah Al-Qarni
Da`iyah and Scholar — Saudi Arabia
An intelligent person transforms losses into profits; whereas the unwise aggravates his own predicament, making two disasters out of one.
Da`iyah and Scholar — Saudi Arabia
An intelligent person transforms losses into profits; whereas the unwise aggravates his own predicament, making two disasters out of one.
§ The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was compelled to quit Makkah, his beloved homeland, and to leave to Madinah. With lightning speed, Madinah took its place in history.
§ Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal was imprisoned, severely tortured, and flogged. Yet he emerged triumphant, becoming "the Imam of the Sunnah."
§ Imam Ibn Taymiyah was put into prison; he came out an even more accomplished scholar.
§ Imam As-Sarakhsi was kept as prisoner at the bottom of a deserted well and he managed therein to produce twenty volumes on Islamic jurisprudence.
§ Ibn Al-Athir became crippled, and thereafter, he wrote his Jami` Al-Usul wa An-Nihayah, one of the most famous books on the science of Hadith.
§ Imam ibn Al-Jawzi was banished from Baghdad , afterwards he mastered the seven different ways of reciting the Qur'an.
§ Malik ibn Ar-Raib was on his deathbed when he recited his most famous and beautiful poem competing the poetical works of the later poets of the Abbasid period and still appreciated until this day.
§ When Abi Dhu'aib Al-Hudhali's children died before him, he eulogized them with one of the best and most moving Arabic poems; it is still admired and it became an integral part of Arabic literature history.
Therefore, if you are afflicted with a misfortune, look on the bright side. If someone were to hand you a glass full of squeezed lemons, add to it a handful of sugar. And if someone gives you a snake as a gift, keep its precious skin and leave the rest, for Allah Almighty says in the Qur'an what means,
(It may happen that you hate a thing that is good for you) (Al-Baqarah 2:216)
Before its violent revolution, France imprisoned two brilliant poets: one an optimist and the other a pessimist. Both of them looked through the bars of their respective cell windows. The optimist stared at the stars and laughed, while the pessimist looked at the dirt of a neighboring road and wept.
Look at the other side of a tragedy; a circumstance of pure evil does not exist, and in all situations one can find goodness and victory and reward from Allah.
* Excerpted with some modifications from www.islamcan.com
Sheikh `A'id Abdullah Al-Qarni is a prominent Saudi scholar and da`iyah. He has his doctorate in Hadith. He has made many audio lectures and a number of TV programs about different Islamic and Da`wah-related topics.
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