27. PATIENCE AND ACCEPTANCE OF DESTINY
Whoever is aware of the work of fate (qadr), will have patience (sabr) towards it. The most ignorant of people is he who tries to resist the work of fate because the purpose of the One who predestined the fate is that people show humility (dhull) to Him and submit to His Will. Had people been able to change the predestined, they would not submit nor show humility.
For example, when a poor person (faqir) feels extremely hungry, he endures it patiently until he is no longer able to, and then he resorts to begging. Yet he begs while he is shameful (mustahayyan) from Allah for asking people for aid though he is excused for seeking the help of people. As he sees himself defeated by patience, he continues to feel ashamed of resorting to the creation and not the Creator and this is what Allah expects of him.
The departure of the Prophet from Makkah and being unable to return to it until he was under the protection of Al-Mut’im Ibn ‘Adi, who was one of the (benevolent) disbelievers is another example on this. Glory to He who made the outcome dependant on their causes so that people to take the means!
(Source: al-Hafiz Abu’l-Faraj ibn al-jawzl [d. 597AH] “CAPTURED THOUGHTS being” a translation of his masterpiece ‘Sayd al-K hatir)
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