The continuation of the story of the people of the garden. This scene is actually amazing because it was the poor who advised the rich, and not the other way around! “It was better for you to say when you entered your garden: ‘This is what Allah has willed, there is no power except with Allah!’ If you see me less than you in wealth and children. It may be that my Rabb will give me something better than your garden, and will send on it a torment from the sky, then it will be a slippery earth. Or the water thereof (of the gardens) becomes deep-sunken (in the underground) so that you will never be able to seek it.” [Surah Al-Kahf 18: 39-41] The friend continued to advise him to thank Allah by saying: مَا شَآءَ ٱللَّهُ لَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِٱللَّهِۚ Ma Shaa Allah, la quwwata illa billah. This is what Allah has willed; there is no power except with Allah. Sheikh Ibn Uthaymin rahimahullah said that when a person sees something about himself that amazes him, he should say “Ma Shaa...