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· Lesson 14 of 30
Breeze of Magic | Episode (14) | There is comfort in forgetting
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The breeze of dawn.
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There is comfort in choosing to forget.
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This life requires of you a little positive negligence.
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Regarding that which, if remembered, brings distress to the soul.
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For ruminating on those painful memories serves no purpose.
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Nor is it desirable to bring them back into the mental present.
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Indeed, there are things close to the present.
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That are better erased from the mind.
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So that the face of one’s happiness does not become clouded.
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As for the sorrowful past, choose to forget it from your mind.
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Do not seek to resurrect it after it has died.
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For bringing it out from the grave of the past.
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Will revive the soul's anguish and disturb its serenity.
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And make its present miserable.
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Thus, sadness connects to reality after having been severed from it.
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Do not resurrect old sorrow, for it.
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Casts melancholy and gloom upon the soul.
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How many a man’s day has been spoiled when overshadowed.
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By the grief of remembering its heat, though it has long since faded.
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And choose to forget the favors you have done for people.
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Because you may see them denying or ignoring them.
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Indeed, they might even treat you like an enemy.
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You would then grieve with intense sorrow.
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That they did not acknowledge your kindness toward them.
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Therefore, do good for people.
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And await the reward from Allah alone.
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Allah the Almighty says:
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“(Saying): We feed you, for the sake of Allah only. We wish for no reward nor thanks from you;” (76:9)
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“(Saying): We feed you, for the sake of Allah only. We wish for no reward nor thanks from you;” (76:9)
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So choose to forget your favor upon them.
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And do not await any reward from them for it.
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Do not feel secure from their denial of it.
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And do not remind them of it as a burden.
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So that you do not grieve over doing good.
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And torment your own benevolent self.
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The wise and the poets have praised.
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Doing good and then choosing to forget it.
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The poet said:
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Your favor to me has grown in greatness.
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Because in your eyes, it is hidden and insignificant.
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You forget it as if you never performed it.
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While in the eyes of people, it is famous and momentous.
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And another said:
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If they turn to enmity, they reveal it.
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But if they perform a kindness, they conceal it.
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You would think, from their lack of acknowledging your status.
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That they have bestowed a favor, yet they do not even know it.
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He means:
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They do not count their kindness and favor as anything.
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As if they were unaware of it.
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Due to their forgetting and heedlessness of it.
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Likewise, choose to forget and overlook.
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The shortcomings of people in honoring your rights.
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If you possess a virtue over them.
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Through knowledge or calling to the truth.
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For you may be a teacher to them.
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And a caller among them.
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And how much Allah has benefited them through you.
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Yet you do not find from some of them.
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The reverence and respect.
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And gratitude for that great favor.
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If you were to dwell upon this within yourself.
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It might sadden you and make you regret.
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What you have offered them.
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And this is a gateway for the Shaytan.
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To frustrate your deeds.
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And restrain the soul from continuing in goodness.
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So teach and call for the sake of Allah.
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And do not await any reward from people.
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Whether tangible or intangible.
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And if you also wish to find rest.
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Then choose to forget past enmities.
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And do not seek to retrieve the files of the past.
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Saturated with the hostility of relatives or strangers.
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Who have wronged you with their enmity.
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And their poor treatment.
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Rather, bury that.
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For if some of it crosses your mind.
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Then turn it away from you and occupy your mind with something else.
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For Allah has placed in the passage of time.
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That which cools the heat of enmities.
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So that souls may find rest.
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If the soul had remained in its state.
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At the time the spark of enmity was struck.
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We would not be able to bear life.
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Therefore, do not try to return once more.
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To the torment of the soul.
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And how beautiful is this choosing to forget.
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Regarding brothers and sisters for the sake of Allah.
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From whom a gesture of enmity has emerged.
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And a challenge to previous affection.
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And how great is the one who forgets that.
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And remains upon his love and brotherhood.
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Al-Asma'i narrated from some of the Bedouins that he said:
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Choose to forget the faults of brothers.
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Their love for you will endure.
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Some of the scholars advised a brother of his.
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And said:
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Maintain all affection.
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Even if you find no one to maintain it with you.
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And be a connector to your friend.
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Even if you find no one to connect with you.
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Al-Mawardi said:
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It was narrated from the daughter of Abdullah Ibn Muti'.
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That she said to her husband.
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Talhah Ibn Abd al-Rahman Ibn Awf al-Zuhri.
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And he was the most generous of the Quraysh in his time.
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"I have not seen a people more ignoble than your brothers."
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He said, "Why is that?"
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She said, "I see them, when you are wealthy, they cling to you."
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"And when you are in need, they abandon you."
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He said, "By Allah, this is from their nobility."
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"They come to us when we are in a state of strength to provide for them."
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"And they leave us when we are in a state of weakness, unable to help them."
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Look at how he interpreted their behavior with such nobility.
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Until he made their ugly actions appear beautiful.
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And their apparent betrayal appear as loyalty.
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This is the essence of generosity and the core of virtue.
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And with such, it is incumbent upon the virtuous.
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To interpret the slips of their brothers in the best light.
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And Al-Shafi'i said:
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When I forgave and held no grudge against anyone.
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I relieved my soul from the burden of enmities.
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The breeze of dawn in bringing happiness to mankind.