DON'T BE SAD Episode 13 CONVERT A LEMON INTO A SWEET DRINK

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*DON'T BE SAD*

Episode 13

*CONVERT A LEMON INTO A SWEET DRINK*

An intelligent and skillful person transforms losses into profits, whereas, the unskilled person aggravates his own predicament, often making two disasters out of one.

The Prophet (Blessings and Peace of ALLĀH be upon him) was compelled to leave Makkah, but rather than quit his mission, he continued it in Madīnah - the city that took its place in history with lighting speed.

Imām Ahmad Ibn Hanbal was severely tortured and flogged, and yet he emerged triumphant from from that ordeal, becoming the Imām of the sunnah. Imām Ibn Taimiyyah was put into prison: he later came out an even more accomplished Scholar than he was before. Imām As-Sarakhsi was held as a prisoner, kept at the bottom of an unused well, he managed therein to produce twenty volumes on Islamic Jurisprudence. Ibn Atheer became crippled, after which he wrote Jam'ey Usool and An-Nihayah, two of the most famous books in the Science of Hadīth. Imām Ibn al-Jawzi was banished from Baghdad. Then, through his travels, he became proficient in the seven recitations of the Glorious Qur-ān. Mālik Ibn Ar-Rayb was on his dead bed when he recited his most famous and beautiful poem, which is appreciated until this day. When Abi Dhu'aib al-Hathali's children died before him, he eulogised them with a poem that the world listened to and admired.

Therefore, if you are afflicted with a misfortune, look on the bright side. If someone were to hand you a glass full of squeezed lemons, add to it a handful of sugar. And if someone gives you a snake as a gift, keep its precious skin and leave the rest.

Surah Al-Baqara, Verse 206:

وَإِذَا قِيلَ لَهُ اتَّقِ اللَّهَ أَخَذَتْهُ الْعِزَّةُ بِالْإِثْمِ فَحَسْبُهُ جَهَنَّمُ وَلَبِئْسَ الْمِهَادُ

And when it is said to him, "Fear Allah", he is led by arrogance to (more) crime. So enough for him is Hell, and worst indeed is that place to rest!

Before its violent revolution. France imprisoned two brilliant poets, one an optimist, the other a pessimist. They both squeeze their heads through the bars of their cell windows. The optimist then stated at the stars and laughed, while the pessimist looked at the dirt of a neighbouring road and wept. Look at the other side of a tragedy - a circumstance of pure evil doers not exist, and in all situations one can find goodness and profit and reward from Almighty ALLĀH (Sub-haanahu wata'aala).