When things take a turn for the worse and you hurt within and without, then you know how resilient the religion makes you.
And here I don’t mean the resilience of obstinacy, nor that of the hardened heart of a stoic that sees evil as necessary.
Rather it makes you more thankful for you are forced to focus on the little you have.
And then it is our belief, which is unusual amongst the three Abrahamic faiths, in Qadr’Allah - that it was written for you- that enables you to first accept it as a given, and then to search for the good in it.
And this search enables you to move beyond it.
As our Messenger (saw) told us, for the Muslims there is only good no matter what happens. Because we both search and find that good, and God most gracious rewards us for it.
And then when that pain recedes.
It only makes us more happy and grateful.
And we do not revenge.
But if the pain is too great.
And it affects not us but our loved ones.
Then God keeps us safe from the negativity of revenge, for we ask of Him to revenge on our behalf so that our hearts may be free from it.
And sincere supplication is our succour ever and always.
Shafees.
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