Cry not out at misfortune, O wretch, come, trust in Allah! For know that crying out compounds the misfortune and is a great error.
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Find misfortune's Sender, and know it is a gift within gift, and pleasure.
So leave crying out and offer thanks; like the nightingale, smile through your tears!
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If you find Him not, know the world is all pain within pain, transience and loss.
So why lament at a small misfortune while upon you is a worldful of woe?
Come trust in Allah!
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Trust in Allah! Laugh in misfortune's face; it too will laugh.
As it laughs, it will diminish; it will be changed and transformed.
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Know, O arrogant one, happiness in this world is in abandoning it.
To know Allah is enough. Abandon the world; all things will be for you.
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To be arrogant is total loss; whatever you do, all things will be against you.
So both of the states demand abandoning the world here.
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Abandoning the world is to regard it as Allah's property, with His permission,
in His Name...
If you want to do trade, it is in making this fleeting life eternal.
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If you seek yourself, it is both rotten and without foundation.
If you seek the world outside, the stamp of ephemerality is upon it.
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Source: The Second Station of the 17th Word,1
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