“Don’t worship Allah so He may give you. Rather, worship Him so He may be pleased. For when He is pleased, He will astonish you with His Gifts.”
By the dawn
And the ten nights
And the even and the odd
O you tranquil soul!
Return to your Lord, well-pleased and pleasing
[al-Fajr: 1-3; 27-28]
Loftiness is attained in accordance to one’s struggles,
And whoever seeks nobility, remains vigilant by night.
Whoever wishes to achieve without due effort,
Will waste their life seeking what’s impossible.
You search for glory and yet you sleep at night,
It’s only the seeker of pearls who dives deep into the sea.
– Imam al-Shafi’i, al-Diwan
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He could’ve… but He didn’t.
He could’ve sent a fierce wind or an earthquake to break Yusuf free, but instead Allah sent a dream. With Yusuf in full command over it. It’s like a code was placed in the mind of the King, and a puzzle spread out in the land, but none of these people had the keys to it. Not even the King whose mind contained the puzzling dream.
Instead the solution was placed in the hands of Yusuf – a prisoner confined between walls. And the keys he was given not only solved the riddle and interpreted the dream, but they paved the way for his freedom and saved a nation from starvation and ruin.
Contemplate the ways of Allah. They are not always straightforward, but they are wise and often mind-blowing.