30. GLORY TO HIM WHO CREATES WHAT HE WISHES AND CHOOSES
Glory be to Him who has occupied each person with a different form of art.
He made this person love the sciences of the Qur’an, and instilled in the other person love of hadith, and a third person language and grammar. Had it not been for this, the sciences would not have been preserved.
He inspired one person to be a baker, the other to be a grinder, another to bring plants from the desert, and another to treat skin conditions.
This is so people’s affairs become sustained. Had He inspired most people to be bakers, then they would have made too much bread, resulting in mould and wastage.
He inspired different people to work on different things, so the affairs of this life and the Hereafter become well organised.
It is rare that Allah inspires one person to perfection, seeking that which is best and acquiring more than one specialty or more than one science.
People vary in their specialties, so glory be to Him who Creates whatever He wishes and selects.
We seek His forgiveness if He is not pleased, and we seek His safety if we were not good enough to perform an interaction appropriately.
(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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