In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Bestower of Mercy.
O Allah, pardon and forgive.
The industrious imam, Shaykh al-Islam, the Mufti of humankind, Taqi al-Din Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Taymiyyah, said:1
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Allah—exalted is He—has made every condition in which His believing servants find themselves good for them. They are always enjoying the favor of their Lord, whether they are met with what they love or with what they dislike. He has turned His judgments and decrees—those He passes for them and ordains over them—into marketplaces through which they profit with Him, and into pathways by which they reach Him, just as is authentically established in the Ṣaḥīḥ from their leader and exemplar—he for whose sake, when every people is called on the Day of Resurrection with its leader, they will be summoned—may Allah’s blessings and peace be upon him—2