The people of kindness (iḥsān) are the most to be afflicted with tribulations.
They have been affected by cares of time's calamities and emergent needs.
But it is consoling to know that no one is free from concerns except those who have no thought or insight.
As for the one with a sound mind, his thought is occupied with the end and outcome (of his life), and the paths to the hereafter, and the tribulations that befalls him.
But the one whose emotions are void, whose thought is oblivious, and whose affairs are unknown, he has nothing to be concerned for, because he has no thought, no essence, and no life.
How would any concerns befall him? And how would he be occupied with gloom?
In that, Abu At-Tayyib Al Mutanabbī said in his valuable poem:
Virtuous people are busied with time (life)
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But careless are those without discernment
A believer's insight and vision of the afflictions —though his cares are decreasing and abating— is that for him they become a luminous beacon, and a strong base if he pulls through, and overcomes them.
For their fruits after patience are tastier than the honeycomb, and the best to quench thirst.
Ar-Rāfi’ī said in his letters (page 157):
“cares are most of the time a beginning to the hidden blessings”.
By: Dr Haya Bint Salman Al Sabah
-may Allāh forgive her, her parents and all Muslims-