Part of Concepts of Ahl as-Sunnah (series completed)
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Summary of Sunni concepts | Concept (953) | Optimism
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A summary of the concepts held by the Ahl al-Sunnah.
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Optimism.
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Optimism is a feeling of the heart.
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Its motivation is having a good opinion of Allah, the Almighty and Majestic.
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It stems from knowing Allah, the Exalted.
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And knowing His most beautiful names.
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And His sublime attributes.
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For His names, glory be to Him—
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The Most Gracious, the Most Merciful,
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The Kind, the Benign,
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The Powerful, the Almighty,
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And other names of majesty and beauty—
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Yield the fruit of hope in Him, glory be to Him,
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And a good opinion of Him,
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And the realization that His relief is near,
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And that with hardship comes ease.
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The believer who knows his Lord,
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And His most beautiful names,
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Will never allow into his heart
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Pessimism, despair, or frustration,
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No matter how intense the trial becomes,
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Or how much falsehood spreads at any
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Given time.
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We have in the Messenger of Allah,
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Peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, the perfect example.
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For here he is, saying
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To Khabbab Ibn al-Aratt, may Allah be pleased with him,
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When he complained
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To him about the torture of the polytheists,
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And asked for victory
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During the Meccan period:
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"By Allah, this matter will surely be perfected,
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Until a traveler journeys
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From San'a to Hadramawt,
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Fearing none but Allah,
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And the wolf for his sheep;
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But you are a people
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Who are impatient."
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Narrated by al-Bukhari.
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And here is the Messenger, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him,
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During the Battle of the Trench,
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When the disbelievers gathered against them,
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And attacked Medina
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From all its sides,
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And the Muslims were shaken with a
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Severe shaking.
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He was broadcasting hope and optimism
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Regarding the triumph of this religion over Persia
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And Rome.
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He would say while striking with the pickaxe:
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"Allahu Akbar!
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I have been given the keys of al-Sham.
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Allahu Akbar!
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I have been given the keys of Persia."
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The intensity of the trial
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Is the prelude to victory,
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Just as the
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Companions of Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, understood,
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When Allah said about them:
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"And when the
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Believers saw the confederates..."
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“And when the true believers saw the clans, they said: This is that which Allah and His messenger promised us. Allah and His messenger are true. It did but confirm them in their faith and resignation.” (33:22)
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Allah and His Messenger,
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And Allah and His Messenger spoke the truth,
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And it increased them only in
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Faith and submission.
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Among the signs of optimism
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That herald the nearness of victory
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In our time:
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First,
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The narratives from the verses and hadiths
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That contain the promise of Allah,
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Almighty and Majestic, regarding the triumph of this religion
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Over all the earth, over all religions,
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And the conquest of
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Constantinople and Rome.
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It is the promise of Allah; Allah does not fail
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To fulfill His promise,
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But most people
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Do not know.
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Second,
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The global and local return
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To this religion,
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And the entry of groups of disbelievers into it,
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And the repentance of many
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Of the children of the Ummah and their guidance.
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Third,
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The need of humanity today,
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As it lives in this misery,
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For a savior,
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And there is no savior for it except the religion of Islam,
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The religion of innate nature, reason,
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And knowledge.
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Fourth,
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The decline of the West and its regression,
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And the inciting of the disbelievers
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Against one another,
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So that they may exhaust each other,
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Along with what their countries are witnessing
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Of economic and moral collapse,
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And disasters,
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And divine punishments.
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Fifth,
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The preservation of the religion of Islam
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From human interventions
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That tampered with corrupted creeds
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And distorted them;
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For it is the religion of Allah that is destined to prevail.
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Sixth,
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The awakening that the Muslims are witnessing,
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And the strength of the sense of resistance,
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As they see the conflict
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Between truth and falsehood,
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Where many aspects
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Of the truth have been revealed
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That they were not aware of,
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And many aspects of falsehood
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That they were ignorant of,
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And were ignorant of what
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Allah, the Almighty and Majestic, informed us of
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Regarding the enmity and hatred of the disbelievers.
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Likewise, those who belong to the truth,
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From among the callers and the mujahidin,
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Their commitment to it has strengthened,
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As has their enthusiasm for supporting it,
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And sacrificing for the sake of Allah,
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Almighty and Majestic.
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Seventh,
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The reaching of injustice, arrogance, and corruption
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By the enemies of the religion to their peak,
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From among the disbelievers and hypocrites,
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And nothing remains but for the promise of Allah, glory be to Him,
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To be fulfilled against them
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With destruction and eradication,
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And the empowerment of the believers,
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“And that Allah may prove those who believe, and may blight the disbelievers.” (3:141)
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And He destroys the disbelievers.