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Wisdom And Good For Believers In The School Of Yusuf

tions. Divine grace came to my assistance, and the following was
imparted to my heart: “Divine Determining, which is pure jus-
tice, has a large part in the wrongful oppression which these peo-
ple are inflicting on you. And you have food to eat in this prison;
that sustenance of yours called you here. It should be met with

contentment and resignation. And dominical wisdom and mercy
have a large part, which is to illuminate those in this prison and
console them, and to gain you reward. This share should be met
with endless thanks and patience”… 3
Those who enter the School of Yusuf, do so because it is written

in their fate, and they must therefore accept these circumstances
with patience, gratitude and submission. Every sincere Muslim who
is tried with prison must, like Bediuzzaman, find and uncover the
wisdom and good inherent in his confinement, in order to make the
most of such an important period for spiritual development.
Bediuzzaman also said that in the garden of the School of Yusuf,
there are good people as well as bad ones, and reminded the believ-
ers to see the good ones but not the evil ones, and not to occupy their
minds unnecessarily with such matters:

Secondly: According to the meaning of “Whoever believes in
Divine Determining is saved from grief and sorrow,” and “Look
on the good side of things,” and, Those who listen to the Word
and follow the best [meaning] in it; those are the ones whom
Allah has guided, and those are the ones endued with under-

standing, (Surat az-Zumar, 19) we should now look on the good
side of everything, the aspect that affords ease of mind, so that
meaningless, unnecessary, harmful, ugly, distressing, temporary
circumstances do not hold our attention and preoccupy our
minds. In the Eighth Word, one man entered a garden while an-

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