02-12-2005, 12:44 PM
Bismillah
As Salam alykom
I received this in Arabic on an email, was very touched and saw to share it with my brothers and sisters
It might be good
One of the kings had a wise minister who served on his advisers. The king always had him close by taking him everywhere he went to. Whenever the king endured a problem, the minister would just tell him "it might be good', the king would immediately become calm and content. Till at a time the king had a finger cut off. Still the minister commented, it might be good. But this time, the king became very furious and ordered for the Minister to be prisoned. While the minister was taken to jail, he still said, it might be good. The minister spent a long time in jail. One day the King went out hunting, he went after his hunt, which took him far from the gaurds. While going after his hunt, he passed by a group of people worshiping and idol. They captured him in order to present it as a sacrifice to the idol. Only when they found his missing finger, that they released him. Immediately the king realized the Wisdom of Allah, had he not have a missing finger, he would have been slaughtered under the feet of an idol which own no harm or benefit. First thing he did after returing back is to release the minister and apologize to him. He also told him he now realized the Wisdom of Allah, but more importantly he showed gratitude to Allah for this. But then he asked the minister how did he perceive his imprisonment as good? The Minister said, if I was not imprisoned, he would have accompanied him during his hunting trip, people would have saw him with full 5 fingers and presented him instead. Therefore, Allah's Decree had much good in it.
Sobhan Allah very thoughtful and true.
