Pain
Pain is not always a negative force and it is not something that you
should always hate. At times a person benefits when he feels pain. You might
remember, that at times when you felt a lot of pain, you sincerely supplicated
and remembered Allah.
When he is studying, the student often feels the pangs of heavy burden,
sometimes perhaps the burden of monotony, yet he eventually leave this stage of
life as a scholar. He felt burdened with pain at the beginning but he shined at
the end.
The aches and pangs of passion, the poverty and the scorn of others, the
frustration and anger at injustices – these all cause the poet to write flowing
and captivating verses. This is because he himself feels pain in his heart, his
nerves, and in his blood, and as a result, he is able to infuse the same
emotions into the hearts of others.
How many painful experiences does the writer undergo, experiences that
inspire brilliant works, works that posterity continues to enjoy and learn
from. The student who lives the life of comfort and repose and who is not stung
by hardships, or who has never been befallen by calamity will be an
unproductive, lazy, and lethargic person.
Indeed, the poet who knows no pain and who has never tasted bitter
disappointment will invariably produce heaps upon heaps of cheap words – absolute
humdrum. This is because his words pour forth from his tongue and not from his
feelings or emotion, and though he may comprehend what he has written, his
heart and body have not lived the experience.
More worthy and relevant to the aforementioned examples are the lives of
the early believers, who lived during the period of revelation and who took
part in the most important religious revolution that mankind has seen.
Indeed, they had greater faith, nobler hearts, more truthful tongues,
and deeper knowledge: they had all of these because they lived through the pain
and suffering that are necessarily concomitant to great revolutions.
They felt the pains of hunger, of poverty, of rejection, of abuse, of
banishment from home and country; of abandonment of all pleasures, of the pains
of wounds and of death and torture.
They were in truth the chosen ones, the elite of mankind. They were
models of purity, nobleness, and sacrifice.
“That is because they suffer
neither thirst or fatigue, nor hunger in the Cause of Allah, nor they take any
step to raise the anger of disbelievers nor inflict any injury upon an enemy,
but is written to their credit as a deed of righteousness. Surely, Allah wastes
not the reward of the doers of good.” [surah At-Taubah – Ayah 120]
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