Think! Maybe It Is for the Best

Remember when you were very young and loved to play in the kitchen with all the gadgets? Very likely, your mother would let you play with some things but do not with others. Years passed and when you got older you wanted to try different things and go many places. Perhaps your parents let you try some but disapproved of others. At such times, you would feel frustrated and even angry that you failed to get what you wanted.

Now you are facing life on your own. Your parents have done their job and raised you, protected you and taught you as much as they could. Now you are on your own-just you and your Creator.
Are you still frustrated and angry when you do not get what you want from life?

clipped from www.islamonline.net Almighty Allah wants us to turn to Him for help, guidance, forgiveness and support. Out of His wisdom, Almighty Allah leaves us free to make decisions and explore life but He is there when we call on Him and turn to Him sincerely seeking His pleasure. Almighty Allah knows we will make mistakes and He sends us people and situations to test us and to help us learn. Sometimes, He the Almighty takes things from us but if we are patient and trust in Him, He gives us something better. Almighty Allah says: “…it may be that you dislike a thing which is good for you and that you like a thing that is bad for you. Almighty Allah knows but you do not know.” (Al-Baqarah 2:216)  “There is nothing that befalls a believer, not even a thorn that pricks him, but Allah will record one good deed for him and will remove one bad deed from him.” (Muslim) Almighty Allah says in a hadith qudsi: “I am as My slave thinks of Me and I am with him whenever he remembers Me.” (Agreed Upon).