A man once found a cocoon of a butterfly.
One day a small opening appeared. He sat an watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. It got to a ponit where it had stopped making any progress. It seemed as if it had gotten as far as it could an now couldn’t go any further.
So the man,out of humanity decided to help the butterfly. He took a pair of scissors an snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon.
The butterfly then emerged easily. But it had a swollen body an small,shrivelled wings.
The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge an expand to be able to support the body, which would contract in time.
Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings. It was never able to fly.
What the man in his kindness and haste did not understand is was that the restricting cocoon and struggle was required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening were Allaah’s ways of forcing fluid from the the body of the butterfly into it’s wings so that it would be ready for flight once its achieved its freedom from the cocoon.
Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our lives. If Allaah allowed us to go through our lives without any obstacles, it would cripple us.
We would not be as strong as what we could have been. We could never “fly”!
I asked Allaah for strength……..
an Allaah gave me difficulties to make me strong!
I asked for wisdom………
an Allah gave me problems to solve!
I asked for prosperity………
an Allaah gave me brain & brawn to work!
I asked for courage………….
an Allaah gave me danger to overcome!
I asked for love…………….
an Allaah gave me troubled people to help!
I asked for favours…………..
an Allaah gave me opportunities!
I received nothing i wanted…………
but everything i needed!!!
“Fatabaarakallaahu ahsanal khaaliqeen!”
“So blessed be Allaah, the best of creators!”
(surah 2,verse 14)
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