WHAT YOU DISLIKE IS BETTER
FOR YOU THAN WHAT YOU LOVE
"What the servant dislikes is better for him than what he loves because what he dislikes incites him to make supplication, but what he loves diverts him from it."
* Al-Faraj Ba'd al-Shiddah of Ibn Abī al-Dunyā (no.22).
Book: A Principle Regarding Patience and Gratitude
By Shaykh al-Islam ibn Taymiyyah
Translated by Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafīq
Hikmah Publications
P. 15
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