Stop complaining to the people!

 

As Sufyān Ath-Thawrī said:

حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ، نَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ الحَرْبِيُ، نَا أَبُو حَذَيْفَةَ؛ قَالَ: رَأَى الثَّوْرِيِّ رَجُلًا عِنْدَ قَوْمٍ يَشْكُو ضِيقَهُ، فَقَالَ لَهُ الثَّوْرِيُّ: يَا هَذَا! شَكَوْتَ مَنْ يَرْحَمُكَ إِلَى مَنْ لا يَرْحَمُك!


Aḥmed reported that Ibrāhīm Al-Ḥarbī narrated that Abū Ḥudhayfah said, "Ath-Thawrī saw a man sitting with people complaining about his difficult situation, and he said to him, 'Hey you! You complained about the One who has mercy for you to the ones who do not have mercy for you."

[al-Mujālasah wa Jawāhir al-ʿIlm (al-Dīnawarī)]



The One putting you through these difficulties is the One who has Mercy for you. 

The hardships He puts you through make you to return to Him — this is in itself a mercy.

So do not be from those who respond to trials by turning to the people with complaints.
Because in reality, such a person is complaining about the One who put him in this tribulation.

And this is the reality every time we complain.

 ﴿ قَالَ إِنَّمَاۤ أَشۡكُوا۟ بَثِّی وَحُزۡنِیۤ إِلَى ٱللَّهِ ﴾

“He said: I only complain of my grief and my sorrow to Allāh”
[Yūsuf, 86]

Be like Prophet Yaʿqūb عليه السلام. Humble yourself before your Rabb and take your complaints to the only One who can remove your difficulty.

People do not carry with them the solutions to your problems.

What can the people do for you when they have problems of their own? How will the people help you if Allāh does not will for them to help you? How can you rely on the people to save you when they are just as poor as you?

﴿ یَـٰۤأَیُّهَا ٱلنَّاسُ أَنتُمُ ٱلۡفُقَرَاۤءُ إِلَى ٱللَّهِۖ وَٱللَّهُ هُوَ ٱلۡغَنِیُّ ٱلۡحَمِیدُ ﴾

“O humanity! It is you who are poor and in need of Allāh, but Allāh is Rich (free of all needs), Worthy of all praise.”
[Fāṭir, 15]

So turn your heart to Allāh ﷻ — not the people. For the One who trials you is the only One who can relieve you.

—Benefitted from Ustādh Muḥammad ibn James Sutton وفقه الله 

🖊️Umm Muṣʿab Al-Ghāniyyah Al-Almāniyyah

 

https://t.me/uponthepathofsalaf/231 

I said: Be like that kid who cries and calls to his mommy for help while his mommy herself is the one giving him a good beating because he was such a bad boy. 

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