No, it was not an accident!
Imagine you are working on a project with a professional. You don’t know much about the subject this project is about but your mentor happens to know a lot. Your mentor is also someone close to you and you know that he wants you to be successful by the end of the project.
So you start working on this project with your mentor. Sometimes your mentor lets you have your way but other times, your mentor guides you to change the idea that you have. Sometimes, your mentor even suggests you change the work that you had already done. But you don’t get offended and you accept those changes. Because at the end of the day, you trust your mentor’s knowledge and the care he has for your success.
Allah swt is above any analogy. Think about this for a moment. About how Allah deals with you. Sometimes, your plans and Allah’s plans are the same. He swt lets you have your way in life. But other times, Allah has planned something else. Perhaps He Knows in His Knowledge that you deserve better. Perhaps He Knows that by changing those plans, you will grow closer to Him. Perhaps He is Protecting you from a harm that was coming your way with the plans you were hoping will come true.
Look at the words that the Prophet (SAW) taught us to say when we are afflicted with something:
قَدَرَ اللّه وَمَا شَاء فَعَل
“Allah has decreed it and did as He Willed”
[Sahih Muslim]
How comforting are these words dear brothers and sisters? To know that nothing in our lives happens by accident. To know that everything was precisely decided by Allah even before it happened to us. And to know that Allah is the One Who Loves us the most and He is the One Who Knows what’s best for us.
Rasool (SAW) did not teach us these words as a mere saying we say in a time of difficulty. Rather he (SAW) has taught us an entire attitude that we must carry. Let us be among those who have this attitude!
May Allah make us of those who always put their trust in Him. Ameen!
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