Coretan Hidup

Very meaningful paragraphs from La-Tahzan. Just wanna share them with you guys here as they can be good reminder for us to be a grateful servant to Allah swt and also a grateful person to the people around us especially our parents.

So be at peace if you are requited with ungratefulness for the good you have done. Rejoice in your knowledge that you will be rewarded from the One who has unlimited treasurers at His disposal.

This is not to say that you should refrain from performing acts of kindness towards others: the point is that you should be mentally prepared for ingratitude.

Perform acts of charity seeking Allah’s pleasure, because with this attitude you will assuredly be successful. The ungrateful person cannot really harm you: praise Allah that the person is transgressor and that you are the obedient servant. Also, remember that the hand that gives is better than the hand that receives.

We only feed you for Allah’s sake; we desire from you neither reward nor thanks [76:9]

Many people are shocked at the nature of ingratitude in others, as though they had never come across this verse and others like it:

And when affliction touches a man, he calls on Us, whether lying on his side or sitting or standing; but when We remove his affliction from him, he passes on as though he had never called on Us on account of an affliction that touched him; thus that which they do is made fair-seeming to the extravagant.[10:12]

Hence do not be in a state of agitation if you give someone a pen as a gift and he uses it to satirize you, or if you give someone a walking stick to learn upon and he strikes you with it. As I pointed out earlier, most human beings are ungrateful to their Lord, so what treatment should you or I expect?