Allaah Knows Best

Assalamu Alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu.

Sometimes things happen for a reason and sometimes those things aren't always what they seem to be. What starts off as something bad may turn out to be one of the most positive and it is the same the other way around. When we feel like nothing is going or can go right, that nothing ever works in our favor, we assume that it is bad luck or that we are, for some reason, being punished by God so therefore we are not getting "our way". Sometimes the things we want the most are the things that are the worst for us and those things that we think would be the worst for us, are the best. Nothing happens, good or bad, without Allah allowing it.

It is true that we have been given the freedom of choice, to choose for ourselves which paths we will take in life, but all of the potential paths have been written. It is a natural human reaction to be envious or jealous of the things that others have, thinking those things would be best. We tend to spend too much time wishing, begging, hoping for the things that we don't have but think that we should and forget to count the blessings that we DO have and thank Allaah for those instead. Only He knows what is best for us, while we do not.

When it seems that someone has something that you don't think they should, it does get hard to understand why they are afforded those things instead of us. For instance, when a person one ever does bad things but wins the lottery, it is easy to ask "Why Allaah, does so and so get this or that when I am a good person, I help the less fortunate and I do the right things??" It would seem as though the better person would deserve to have the "nicer" things or the most wealth but this isn't always so. Those with the best character, the ones who sacrifice the things they want for the things they need or those who help the stranger when no one else will, those are the people who will benefit the most and will have the most deen when their time to be judged by Allaah comes. This life shouldn't be about who has the best, biggest, newest, most expensive things or the most money.

I'm not perfect and I'm not the best but I try. It is a journey that I am on daily and there are struggles and hard times. It's getting easier though and getting rid of the negativity and remembering that while I might see something that I'd like to have, I know that in shaa Allaah there is something better for me in the end.