Do Not Be Sad, for There Are Means of Making

Do Not Be Sad, for There Are Means of Making It Easier to Bear Calamity.

Among them are the following:

1. Expecting reward and recompense from Allah, the Exalted:

Only those who are patient shall receive their rewards in full,without reckoning.

(Quran 39:10)

2. Visiting those who are afflicted and seeking comfort in that you are better off than many others.

A poet said:

“If not for the many mourners around me,

Who weep for their brothers, I would have taken my own life.

So look at those who surround you; there will not be one, except that hardship or affliction has touched him.

3. Appreciate that, compared to others, your trial is light.

4. If you know that your trial is not in your religion, but is in worldly matters, then be content.

5. Absolute submission to the Will of Allah at the affliction is greater and higher than the partial one i.e., patience leads to grand success.

6. Know that no trick or artifice can be used to undo what has already taken place.

A poet said:

“Do not use trickery to change the circumstance,

For the only trick is in leaving all trickery.”

7. Appreciate that the choice of what is good for you or not good for you belongs only with Allah:

… and it may be that you dislike a thing which is good for you…

(Quran 2:216)

[SOURCE: Laa Tahzaan – Don’t Be Sad]