HAVING SET EXPECTATIONS FROM LIFE
Life does some time look difficult to us. The most common reason for this
is that we have a set template in our minds about how our lives should be. We
have decided that me must have a big house, we must have so much wealth, we must
have so much earning, we must have a certain standard of living, a certain lifestyle,
we should have so many children, so much bank balance, and if the reality falls
short on any of these expectations then we forgot all that we have been blessed
with, and start being ungrateful for what has not been given to us, and start
complaining about how unfulfilled and miserable our lives are.
In the Hadith above the Holy Prophet ﷺ has brought our attention to the point that it is a big mistake
to have such set expectations of life in advance. Because if we have these
three blessings, that we are safe in our homes, that our body is healthy, and
that we have enough food to sustain us and our families for one day, then we
have been blessed with the whole world. If a person has an expectation that
these three things are all the worldly blessings he is going to get, then if he
gets more he will be grateful to Allah Ta’alah for giving him more than he
deserved, and if he doesn’t get any more than this then he will not be
ungrateful and will think that this was the share of the world he was going to
get anyway and has got it now.
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