this
āyah
also, is closeness to Him—
wa-ʿalā Rabbihim yatawakkalūn—
they
place their trust in Allah. I tell you, if you and I develop this attitude, then
worldly possessions and worldly gain and worldly loss will become easy to deal
with.
Relationships become easy because if you realize, what Allah has is better,
the next time you get into a quarrel—some kind of tension between you and a
friend, you and a family member and your pride gets in the way of fixing those
tensions. We must realize that what Allah has is better, and this world is going to
go before we know it. Before we know it this will mean nothing. There are
people that have ruined relationships for years because their pride gets in the
way of apologizing. They can’t get themselves to say sorry. ‘No, I’m not going
to say sorry; it’s the other one’s fault. Why should I say sorry?’ And they’re
going to take that to their grave. They didn’t have much time here and, by the
way, when we’re standing in front of Allah, the pride’s going to be gone. You
and your brother, that you were angry with, are both standing in front of Allah
and you’re both begging Allah for mercy. Had you forgiven each other you
could have both earned
jannah
. Just by the act of forgiveness. When you put it in
perspective, is your pride really worth that much? Is your anger really that heavy
that you couldn’t earn yourself what Allah is offering?
When things are put in this perspective, life becomes easy to deal with. We
learn the expression:
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