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Romanticism: Miscellanea

view every little thing in such a way, it does not matter if the weather
were hot or cold, rainy or windy; they turn whatever it is into
something to complain about. We could illustrate, with pages of
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examples, how these people find excuses to feel dissatisfied at every
opportunity. It is a manifestation of what God says in the following
verse, "Let them laugh little and weep much, in repayment for what
they have earned." (Qur'an, 9:82) In another verse, He reveals the
behaviour of the disbeliever, who becomes "Desperate when bad
things happen." (Qur'an, 70:20)
Another essential reason for the unhappiness felt by those
without faith is the fact that their plans do not turn out as they expect.
For example, an emotional person prepares a meal for her husband
and is disappointed when she does not get the reaction she expected.
She saves money to buy her friend a present, but again she is sad
because she thinks she wasn't as happy with the gift as she had hoped.
She buys a house, but again she feels sad because she thinks the
painter has not mixed the colours well. The possible reasons for being
unhappy are endless. The defeat of a favourite football team, getting a
few points less than expected in an examination, being late for work,
a traffic jam, breaking a pair of glasses, losing a watch, getting a stain
on a favourite suit or dress at a party-everything can become an excuse
for being unhappy.
A person who assesses a situation superficially and reacts
emotionally to it cannot foresee how, if something were to happen to
him, that it might in a later stage turn out beneficially for him.
Consider, for example, a person dejected because he missed his bus;
how does he know that that bus will not be in an accident a moment
later? Maybe God determined he miss the bus as part of his fate so that
he would escape the accident. Let us consider another example: a
driver misses an exit that he is very familiar with and gets on the
wrong road. Assessing the situation from his superficial level of
understanding, he becomes angry at himself, his joy evaporating
because he will have to drive farther. However, it was God who made
him take that road; as in every occurrence, this too was his fate.