The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ Contentment is not incompatible with asking for more goodness from God ]

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FUTMAK.COM الفتوحات المكية: الصفحة 198 من الجزء Two

Our contentment is not being satisfied with what is present without asking for more. God Almighty sent upon Job, and he was an honorable prophet. It was said about him what an excellent servant he was, that he was one who responded and praised him for being patient with his supplication to his Lord to remove harm from him, so he removed it.

So when he sent upon him a man from Locusts of gold, so he began to collect them in his garment, and his Lord said to him, “Am I not sufficient for you in this?” He said, “O Lord, I am indispensable to your goodness.”

If he did this for what was apparent in the situation, then it is what we intended, even if he was to emulate him in that. He only did what was more worthy of closeness to God than abandoning it, and he was one of those whom God guided, and God commanded his Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, to imitate their guidance, and he said to us, “Indeed, you have in the Messenger of God a good example.


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