“To accept one’s state is the key to being grateful. Being unhappy with one’s state in this world is like trying to stop the sun from setting or rising. No one apart from Allah Ta’ala has the power to do this.

Thus we must learn to accept what is destined for us. We must understand that we will be blessed with moments of happiness and we will also have to undergo difficulties and sorrow.

All this has already been predestined for us. Despite our emotional feelings, we must accept what is inevitably to come and that which has already arrived.”