Sometimes, when you have been wronged… Wronged so badly that you’re left without any recourse or means to defend or change things… in those times, your only defence is resilience and patience. To bide time.
At those times, others looking at you might judge you to be weak or foolish. “you’ve lost, just admit it” they may say.
But those fools were never in the fight, they are bystanders, jealous and spiteful of your courage, your resilience. Though they may seem to have more than you and though they may seem not to have been affected by that which trials you… the truth is that what they have is superficial, a veneer that doesn’t even belong to them.
Slaves they are, enjoying the scraps that their masters feed them only to keep them alive.
They ask you to give up the courage that makes you strong in a pretence of wanting you to have mercy on yourself. Secretly they hope that you do not outshine them.
But patience allows the oppressed to grow an innate strength so powerful that pain or pleasure both lead to growth and enrichment. In that time, the oppressor grows weak and his outwardly power erodes and implodes.
When the time is right, Allah (swt) changes the smallest of factors. Variables that you did not notice due to their supposed insignificance. The game changes completely and suddenly that which made you weak is your very strength.
“And seek assistance in patience and prayer and it is burdensome (to do so) except for those in awe of their Lord”
Al Baqarah, 45.
Our nation is not one that can be destroyed.
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