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Expecting the Best from Allah by Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi

EXPECTING THE BEST FROM ALLAH

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“Most people – in fact, all of them except those protected by Allāh – assume other than the truth, and assume the worst. Most people believe that they are deprived of their rights, have bad luck, deserve more than what Allāh gave them, and it is as if they are saying:

‘My Lord has wronged me and deprived me of what I deserve,’ and his soul bears witness to this while his tongue denies it and refuses to openly state this.

And whoever digs into his soul and comes to know its ins and outs will see this in it like fire in a triggered explosion…

And if you dig into anyone’s soul, you will see that he blames fate and would rather have something else happen to him than what actually did, and that things should be this way or that…So, dig into your own self: are you protected from this?

 If you are safe from this, you have been protected from something great.

Otherwise, I do not see that you have been saved.”6 He also said: “The more you have good expectations of your Lord and hope in Him, the more you will rely on and trust in Him.

 This is why some explained true reliance and trust to be having good expectations of Allah.

In reality, having good expectations of Him leads to relying on and trusting in Him, as it is unthinkable that one can trust in someone that he has bad expectations of or no hope in, and Allāh Knows best.”

He also said: “The one who hopes in Allāh should always be optimistic, cautious, and hopeful in Allāh’s bounty, expecting the best from Him.”8