Often, we find ourselves in situations that are uncomfortable and difficult to comprehend why it happened to us. But as creations with limited knowledge, the best that we can do is trust that this is the best for us and always seek the hikmah of the situation and that takes time, guts and effort. Fight. Harder.

“There is a story which Sayyidna Jalaluddin Rumi tells of an ant that’s creeping across the carpet in a mosque, and the ant complains to God saying: “what is this, these bumps, and strange colours, and patterns, this must have been created just as a meaningless obstacle course, what a futile thing to have made.”

But of course the carpet maker, looking at it from above can see the patterns and the purpose of it, and can see that the whole thing is perfect. And Allah (swt) is often like that.

We often can’t make sense of the misfortunes because we are two dimensional, we are at ground level, we can’t see what it all means, but the servants of Allah (swt) knows (even if he can’t always see) that this is a manifestation of Allah (swt)’s will which is always good and always perfect and always beautiful.”

- Shaykh Abdul Hakim Murad