How do you react?

I was checking the newsfeed on my fb and I came across an article that is so eye opening and touching. It reminds me of how a Muslim should behave especially at the time when things are not right, when things get worse or even when things are messy. I'd like to share with you the article below and may you benefit from the article as much as I do.



Learning To React Appropriately
By: Harshita Aini Haroon

Not a day goes by that we are not tested. Big tests, small tests, tests that we would not necessarily call or regard as a test, tests we deem as unfair, or justified. Tests we kind of expect, or tests that jump on you when you least expected it. Tests at home, at work, on the road, between friends, between colleagues, between strangers, between sworn enemies. Tests that involve our own kids, which make us sometimes want to scream - WHY???



And then, there's the reaction part to it. There are tests that make us laugh, or cry, or that which simply leaves us speechless and baffled. Or tests that put us on an all-time low, and an all-time high. Tests that make us forget. Tests that make us remember.Tests that make us feel big, or heroic. And tests that make us want to hide forever. Tests that make us lose sleep and cry buckets.



And as much as I am tempted to react in the most dramatic way sometimes (and I do still, sometimes), Alhamdulillah, I am woken to the fact that it is about redha. I know Allah loves me. He will protect me. He has good plans for me, and although the path that he so lovingly presents to me may be bitter and hard to swallow, i believe what lies waiting for me at the end of it all is sweet, Insyaallah.



In the tests, Allah is teaching me to depend on Him and Him alone, and that dependency should not even be placed on a being who is even the closest to me. In my enslavement to Him, I realise, redha is key, and I still badly need to work on this. I have to learn to feel the sweetness of the experience, for it comes from Allah for a good reason, whatever that good may be.



Allah is my protector, Allah is my provider, and in Allah I believe lies the best for me, for he is ArRahman and ArRahim.