When God, the exalted, takes something away from you, He compensates you with something better, but only if you are patient and seek your reward from him. The prophet (pbuh) said: ‘Whoever has his eyesight taken away from him and his then patient. He will be compensated for it with Paradise’. So do not feel excessive sorrow over some misfortune, because the one who decreed it has with Him paradise: recompense and a great reward.
Those that are afflicted in this world and are close to God will be praised in the highest part of heaven. Truly, the life of this world is short and its treasures are few. the hereafter is better and everlasting and whosoever works hard here shall find ease there. As for those who cling to this world, who are attached to it, and who are in love with it, the hardest thing for them to bear would be to lose the world’s comforts and riches : they desire to enjoy this life alone. Because of this desire, they don’t react mmto misfortune as well as others do. What they perceive around them is mthis life amlone: they are blind to its impermanence and insignificance.
O’m afflicted ones, if you are patient you lose mnothing: and though you may not perceive it, you are mprofiting. The person who is amfflicted with hardship should reflect upon the outcome in the hereafter, the outcome for those who are patient.
