In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful: "There is none worthy of worship except Allah, the Ever-Forbearing, the Most Great, the Lord of the Tremendous Throne; the Lord of the Heavens, the Lord of the Earth, and the Lord of the Noble Throne. Ever-Living and One Who sustains and protects all that exists; by Your mercy do we seek Your aid. "
"0' Allah, Your mercy do we hope for; so do not leave us, not even for the blinking of an eye. And make well for us all of our affairs. . . . . ."We seek forgiveness from Allah; He is the Ever-Living and the One who sustains and protects all that exists, and we turn to You in repentance."
"O' Allah, verily we are Your slaves; our forelock is in Your hand, Your order concerning us will be executed and just is Your judgment upon us. We ask You by all of Your names that you have named Yourself with, have revealed in Your book, have taught to one of Your creation, or is in Your knowledge only (from the matters of the unseen) — make the Quran the spring of our heart, the light of our chest, the remover of our sadness, and the purger of our anxiety. "
"O Allah, we seek refuge in you from anxiety and grief, from inability and laziness, from avarice and cowardice, from being engrossed by debt, and from being overpowered by men. . . .Allah (Alone) is Sufficient for us, and He is the Best Disposer of affairs (for us)."
Having prayed thus, there is no more cause for us to harbor doubt about the faithfulness of Allah. We must at all times be of good cheer; bearing a gloomy mien and frowning countenances are marks of a lowly character, a troubled nature, and hot-headedness. The Prophet said: "Do not disparage and underestimate any good deed (no matter how small it is), even if that deed was to meet your brother with a friendly countenance."
Ahmed Ameen said in his book Fayd al-Khatir:"People who are always smiling not only make their own lives more joyful, but what is more, they are more productive people in their work and have a greater ability to live up to their responsibilities. They are more prepared to face difficulties and to find expedient solutions for them. They are prolific workers who benefit themselves and others."
Given a choice between having status in society and plentiful money, and between having a happy, radiant, smiling self, I would choose the latter. For what is great wealth if it begets misery? And what is high position if what comes with it is constant gloominess? What good is the most beautiful wife if she transforms her house into a living hell? Much better than her — a thousand times at least — is a wife who has not reached such a pinnacle of beauty, but nonetheless has made her house a kind of paradise.
There are those souls that are able to turn everything into misery, whilst there are those that are able to derive happiness from the most difficult of circumstances. There is the woman whose eyes fall upon nothing but mistakes. Today is black because a pot is broken or because the cook put too much salt in the food: Then she flares up and curses, and no one in the house escapes from her execrations. Then there is the man who brings misery upon his own self and, through his disposition, heaps the same upon others. He is affected gravely by the most insignificant of things that occur to him, or that have occurred to him through his actions. He is drawn into misery by profits lost, by profits expected that went unrealized, and so on. The whole world from his perspective is black, and so he blackens it for those around him. Such people have much ability to over-exaggerate the trifles that occur to them. Thus they make mountains out of molehills. Their ability to do well is negligent, and they are never happy or content with that which they have: Discontented souls, they are never satisfied with little or plenty.
Most people do not open their eyes to the beauty of life, but open them only to gold or silver. They pass by a lush and luxuriant garden, a beautiful bed of roses, a flowing river, or a group of singing birds, yet they are unmoved by such scenes. All that moves them is crinkling of coins in their pocket. Money is but a means to a happy life. They have reversed this fact, have sold their happy existence, and have made money to be an end in itself.
Nothing causes the soul or the face to frown more often and with more intensity than despondency: If you want to be a smiling person, wage war against despondency and hopelessness.
The smiling soul sees difficulties, and loves to surmount them. When it sees problems, it smiles, reveling in the opportunity to solve and overcome them. The frowning soul magnifies it while spending all its time justifying. It loves success in life, but is not willing to pay its price. Don’t be a human lobster; the lobster waits on the beach waiting for the tide to rise and wash it into the sea, yet it could have crawled and reached the water.
Our Lord! Grant us what Thou didst promise unto us through Thine apostles, and save us from shame on the Day of Judgment: For Thou never breakest Thy promise (Quran 3:194)
Barka Juma’at and a happy weekend
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