Submission

If we fully submit…

Accept everything, even misfortune and misery. If you are able to, then you will subdue it easily.

Let us say you plan a trip to the desert. To endure its extreme conditions, you would have to gear-up; you would have to take water, food, a tent, a compass, and what have you, right? This preparation would not only prepare you to sustain the difficulties involved, it would even allow you to enjoy it to a good extent.

Now if you were to own a tool that will enable you to accept the sorrow or indigence, and subjugate them, wouldn’t you agree that you would be able to brace yourself for the hardships of life? If you “gear-up”, you would learn to accept whatever befalls you and even learn to see that it has been a good thing for you after all.

We see it all the time, great thinkers emerge from very unfortunate backgrounds, great achievers surface through a chain of abuse and harm.

{Say: 'Nothing will happen to us except what God has decreed for us: He is our protector': and on God let the Believers put their trust.} The Noble Quran 9:51

Well, Allah (SWT) revealed to us that bad things happen, but they are good for you on the long run. Nobody can make you believe this, except yourself, and your very own experiences.

“Leave them alone; let them eat and enjoy themselves the while the hope [of vain delights] be guiles them: for in time they will come to know [the truth], those who are patient in adversity, and true to their word, and truly devout, and who spend [in God's way], and pray for forgiveness from their innermost hearts,”3:16-17

Accept Everything

Rejoice when something good happens to you, sustain whatever hardship befalls you.

Anticipate that it will not last forever.

Believe that something good will come out of it.

Ask yourself this:

What have I previously done in my life?

What have I done with my life?

What do I plan to do with my life?

{Any disaster that strikes you is through what your own hands have earned'} 53: 30

Intention

Be honest when you perform your self-evaluation. Be transparent and objective. You will see that you deserve every minute thing that happened and still is happening to you, whether be it good or unfortunate.

Keep in mind that bad things are not a punishment as much as it a processing means to cleanse the impurities of our defective lives.

Embrace your experiences and remember that what does not break you makes you stronger.

Aren’t catastrophe, calamity, and distress the best tutors in confidence and prudence.

Lessons are not cheap. Life’s lessons are most certainly not. Let us learn.

Let us learn, because we have paid a big price for these lessons, let us not waste what we have endured…A Draft Book