Excerpt from Umar Palanpuri’s speeches.
One more thing I want to say don’t insist that this want of mine has to be fulfilled. In some cases, getting what we want is beneficial to us and in some case cases not getting what we want is beneficial for us. Only Allah knows what is beneficial and what’s not. Why then should we insist?
For example, passenger has his suitcase, passport, ticket everything is ready except boarding the airplane. Check-in is also done. As passenger was about to board the plane a thief stole his suitcase which contained his passport as well. Now infront of the passenger, everyone else is boarding the plane except him.
Seeing all this the passenger starts exclaiming “this is so unfortunate, why did this happen? This work had to be completed! Now I cannot do it. My whole plan failed.” In anguish he would say all this. While being sad, he sees the plane take off infront of him. All of a sudden in the air due to malfunction, it suspends and crashes to the ground infront of him, not one person survives. When he sees this, he said “Praise be to Allah, that my plan failed!” Now if he sees the thief he would reward him for stealing his suitcase.
If something doesn’t happen according to what we want, its Allah’s wisdom. This is meaning of being content with destiny. Whatever condition Allah places us in, we be content but commandment of Allah should be fulfilled.
Second example, one beautiful woman from privileged family, there are four proposals. Everyone making effort to influence the decision, eventually one offer got accepted. Marriage happened and thousands were spent. Now those three families that offered alliances they are sad “Oh the marriage didn’t happen! It didn’t work out”. The family whose offer got accepted “Yes! the marriage happened, things worked out”.
Four months went by, things came to surface such that divorce happened. When divorce happened, the family whose offer got accepted they said “if only things didn’t work out, it would have been better for us”. And the other three families “Praise be to Allah, that it didn’t work out for us.”
Thus, in some instances if things work out they are good. While in other instances if things don’t work out they are good for us as well. We plan but we rely on Allah on the outcome. Whatever Allah decides, there is good in it, condition being we follow His commandments.
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One more thing I want to say don’t insist that this want of mine has to be fulfilled. In some cases, getting what we want is beneficial to us and in some case cases not getting what we want is beneficial for us. Only Allah knows what is beneficial and what’s not. Why then should we insist?
For example, passenger has his suitcase, passport, ticket everything is ready except boarding the airplane. Check-in is also done. As passenger was about to board the plane a thief stole his suitcase which contained his passport as well. Now infront of the passenger, everyone else is boarding the plane except him.
Seeing all this the passenger starts exclaiming “this is so unfortunate, why did this happen? This work had to be completed! Now I cannot do it. My whole plan failed.” In anguish he would say all this. While being sad, he sees the plane take off infront of him. All of a sudden in the air due to malfunction, it suspends and crashes to the ground infront of him, not one person survives. When he sees this, he said “Praise be to Allah, that my plan failed!” Now if he sees the thief he would reward him for stealing his suitcase.
If something doesn’t happen according to what we want, its Allah’s wisdom. This is meaning of being content with destiny. Whatever condition Allah places us in, we be content but commandment of Allah should be fulfilled.
Second example, one beautiful woman from privileged family, there are four proposals. Everyone making effort to influence the decision, eventually one offer got accepted. Marriage happened and thousands were spent. Now those three families that offered alliances they are sad “Oh the marriage didn’t happen! It didn’t work out”. The family whose offer got accepted “Yes! the marriage happened, things worked out”.
Four months went by, things came to surface such that divorce happened. When divorce happened, the family whose offer got accepted they said “if only things didn’t work out, it would have been better for us”. And the other three families “Praise be to Allah, that it didn’t work out for us.”
Thus, in some instances if things work out they are good. While in other instances if things don’t work out they are good for us as well. We plan but we rely on Allah on the outcome. Whatever Allah decides, there is good in it, condition being we follow His commandments.
Desiring & getting what we want doesn’t guarantee benefit
Excerpt from Ml Umar Palanpuri (rah)’s speeches. In some cases, getting what we want benefits us, and in some cases, not getting what we want benefits us. Only Allah knows what is beneficial …
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