How wondrous the affair of the faithful Mu'min, as there is good for him in every matter and this is not the case with anyone but the faithful. When he encounters joy, he gives thanks and thus this is good for him. When sorrow or distress befalls him, he is patient, and this is good for him.
~ Rasulullah s.a.w. (Sahih Muslim)
I was having a class about loving goodness for others, and someone shared this again. It's funny sometimes how words you've seen multiple times only hit you proper later in the future, and not now exactly, not necessarily the present moment when your heart initially twinges at an unseen-yet significance. I just recently reread a quote from Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist, and this line really got me today:
...no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.
ohmyheart. There's this funny thing that happens when one strives and struggles; whether one achieves the dream is a separate story. You start to have to rely on something amorphous and intangible and something deep inside you that we often hear referred to as the inner self, the higher self, intuition, and above all God. It's almost like... through the striving for your dreams... you're meant to connect with the bigger divine purpose and reaching eternity, and even the dream you chase falls into its requisite lower but essential place, marking itself as the necessary signpost to the bigger scheme of your life. As you finally marvel at this tapestry, Alhamdulillah... what can you do but simply marvel. Everything, within this marvelous moment, is beautiful and good.
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