02-05-2005, 01:57 PM
Personally, instead of being grateful to Allah for the precious health or whatever other gifts that He lent out to me – I get too cranky at the first whiff of an obstacle. Such has been the case with me the few times Allah put me to a simple test. Like most people I know the tendency is to dwell long on the painful episodes while the good life that are generally enjoyed are put out of sight.
Most humans instead of being grateful and happy with the merciful way Allah has treated them, they go out of their way to invite harm to themselves. It’s strange that the animal kingdom has more sense as you’ll never catch an animal in an act of discontent, disobedience or senseless violence while we humans walk this earth inflicting harm on others and on ourselves and get into all kinds of mischief ruining our health and the health of others and basically falling into all sorts of life threatening traps and harmful escapades.