ASK THE CREATOR NOT HIS CREATION!
When one complains he is giving the message that he wants others to help him by either stopping whatever is hurting him or by doing something to help him. The servant has been commanded by his Lord to ask Him alone, not His creation.
'Umar Ibn al-Khattāb (radiyaAllāhu'anhu) used to read in the morning prayer (fajr):
إِنَّمَآ أَشْكُوا۟ بَثِّى وَحُزْنِىٓ إِلَى ٱللَّهِ
"I only complain of my suffering and my grief to Allāh. [Yūsuf 12:86]
Book: Gardens of Purification
By Shaykhul-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah
Translated and Published by Dār as-Sunnah Publishers, p. 166, 167
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