“A slave will not reach true faith until he knows that what happened to him was not going to pass him by, and what passed him by was not going to happen him.”

Reported by al-Bazzār (1/21/1/33 in Kashf al-Astār): ʿAmr narrated to us: Sulaymān b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān narrated to us: Sulaymān b. ʿUtbah narrated to us and said: I heard Yūnus b. Maysarah b. Ḥalbas narrate from Abū Idrīs: from Abū al-Dardāʾ – he then mentioned a ḥadīth with this chain, then said, with his chain, from the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ who said…he then mentioned it.

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Lessons

• Belief in the Divine Decree (Qadar) is essential and one cannot be a true believer without it.
• One has to believe that Qadar involves, among other things, the good and the bad.
• True faith is achieved by believing in the Divine Decree of Allāh.
• The futility of complaining over the trials and afflictions one faces in the natural course of life – what’s the point of complaining over the inevitable?
• The futility of grieving and complaining over what one missed out on when it was never going to reach him in the first place – why grieve over what was not meant for you?
• One should learn to be content with the Divine Decree of Allāh – this ḥadīth will help one to attain that.