She is complaining about being ugly. I have heard taunts about my looks for a long time. I have been through a lot of social pressure because of how I look and remain depressed most of the time. With acne prone skin, misaligned teeth, and average height, I consider myself ugly . So does that mean ALLAH hates me?where is my fault? I didn’t choose to be ugly. Praise be to ALLAH. Beauty and ugliness are like sickness and health, wealth and poverty, and success and failure; ALLAH has distributed all provisions between His slaves through His vast wisdom, perfect mercy and abundant favour upon His slaves. Granting of any of those things or others is not an indication of ALLAH’s love for the one to whom He granted or provided those things. Nor is withholding any of them a sign of His displeasure towards the one being deprived. Allah says (what means): “ And as for man, when his Lord tries him and [thus] is generous to him and favors him, he says, My Lord has honored me. But when He tries him and restricts his provision, he says, My Lord has humiliated me. (al-Fajr 15-16) If people were to follow your example in your speech,,there would only be complainers and disgruntled people on earth. ** The ill would say: why have You made me ill and saved the people? The poor would say: Why have you made me poor and made others wealthy? Those being tried would say: Why are you trying me and left others in a good state? ** The believer is to be pleased, observe patience and anticipate reward while others become annoyed with and complain about their Lord. Do you not realize that you have two eyes with which you can see while millions cannot even see?! Do you not see that you are able to walk on your own two feet, you go and come wherever you wish while an infinite number of people are paralyzed and disabled?! Let’s say you lost all that; do you not realize ALLAH’s favour of Islam upon you, and that He chose you for this great favour (which all the pleasures of the earth cannot equal) over most of the creation who do not believe in ALLAH. On the Day of Resurrection, ALLAH the Exalted will say (what means): “Oh Adam! And he will respond, Here I am and blessed by You, and all good is in Your hands. Then He will say: Remove the delegation of the fire! He will say: And what is the delegation of the fire? He will say: From every thousand, nine hundred and ninety nine. Al-Bujari (3099) and Muslim (327) Ponder over this story : Al-Awza’i narrates from ‘Abdullah ibn Muhammad that he said: I went out to the shore as a patrolman and our patrol at the time was in ‘Areesh Misr. When I arrived at the shore, I came upon an open area and there was tent on it. In the tent was a man who had no hands and legs and he was hard of hearing and sight. None of his limbs were of benefit to him but his tongue, and was saying: O ALLAH, grant me (the ability) to praise you a praise through which I can sufficiently thank You for the favours You have bestowed upon me and by which You have preferred me over many whom You have created a great preference. Al-Awza’I said: ‘Abdulla said: By Allah, I will certainly go to this man and I shall certainly ask him about this speech. An understanding, or knowledge or inspiration which was inspired to him? So I approached the man and greeted him and said to him: I heard you and you were saying: O ALLAH, grant me (the ability) to praise you a praise through which I can sufficiently thank You for the favours You have bestowed upon me and by which You have preferred me over many whom You have created a great preference.; so what favour from the favours of ALLAH upon you are you praising Him for? And in what way did He prefer you over others a great preference that you need to thank Him for it? He said: Don’t you see what my Lord has done? By ALLAH, if He sent the sky to me as a fire which burned me, or ordered the mountains to crush me, or the oceans to drown me, or the earth to swallow me up; it would only cause me to be more grateful to my Lord for the favour of this tongue He bestowed upon me. Have you seen the state of this slave ? Did you see his praise of and pleasure with his Lord? Did you see how the blessing of faith from ALLAH was greater to him than all he lost? Do you see that there are many things for which you and others can still praise and thank ALLAH for. They are innumerable, leave alone being able to properly thank ALLAH for them. If you don’t have a share of beauty, then what did the non Muslim woman who was deprived of Islam do with her beauty while your Lord granted it (Islam) to you? Where is she now if she has passed on? And where will she be tomorrow if she died upon disbelief? Will her beauty be of benefit to her on the Day when neither wealth nor children will be of benefit, except those who come to ALLAH with pure hearts? ** Would you really be pleased with the alternative? That you be beautiful but non Muslim and that she be ugly but Muslim? ** There are many such questions you need to ask yourself and answer in light of this reality in which you are displeased with your Lord And ALLAH the Exalted knows best.
Posted on: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 01:59:59 +0000
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