Page 10 - Those Who Exhaust All Their Pleasures In This Life

INTRODUCTION

T he world is filled with countless blessings, but
many people are not even aware of them. Buried in
T their own pains and anxieties, they cannot see the
beauty around them or take pleasure in the things they
experience. If you asked them, they would say that life is a
difficult struggle up a steep slope, for they are bored with
it and exhausted. They continually complain that they find
no pleasure in it any more, that they want to die in order to
escape it. Some even go so far as to attempt suicide.
But life does not have to be this way. Of course, it has
been created together with many imperfections and limita-
tions. But the way to face them is not to struggle with life;
rather, the solution lies in believing in Allah, for:
Anyone who acts rightly, male or female, being a
believer, We will give them a good life and recompense
them according to the best of what they did. (Surat an-
Nahl: 97)
The world, together with its imperfections, is filled with