Be sure that someday you'll praise and thank God for your unanswered prayers that once you had wept for them.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that sometimes our unfulfilled desires may lead to unexpected blessings and gratitude in the future.
Shams Tabrizi's quote emphasizes the concept that what we wish for may not always align with what is truly best for us. It encourages us to trust in a higher plan, suggesting that our unanswered prayers may be an unseen protection and that, with time, we may look back and recognize the wisdom in those unanswered requests, finding reasons to be grateful instead of disappointed.
In practice
Sharing this quote during a church service to encourage faith in God's plan.
God is busy with the completion of your work, both outwardly and inwardly. He is fully occupied with you. Every human being is a work in progress that is slowly but inexplicably moving toward perfection. We are each an unfinished work of art both waiting and striving to be completed. God deals with each of us separately because humanity is a fine art of skilled penmanship where every single dot is equally important for the entire picture.
Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighbourhood of despair. Even when all doors remained closed, God will open up a new path only for you. Be thankful! It is easy to be thankful when all is well. A Sufi is thankful not only for what he has been given but also for all that he has been denied.
If you are insulted, if you are accused, if they gossip about you, don't say anything bad. Don't be the one who sees the shame, be the one who corrects it.
Remove all the walls and curtains so you can get closer and purely love. Have principles but do not use them to exclude or to judge the others. Stay far from idols, specially from those you made from your own principles. Have a powerful faith, but do not play the powerful.
You can study God through everything and everyone in the universe, because God is not confined in a mosque, synagogue or church. But if you are still in need of knowing where exactly His abode is, there is only one place to look for Him: in the heart of a true lover.
If you look around, you can find a face of God in each thing, because He is not hidden in a church, in a mosque, or a synagogue, but everywhere. As there is no one who lives after seeing him, there is also no one dying after seeing him. Who finds Him, stays forever with him.
There is only one map to the journey of life and it lives within your heart
Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
When it comes down to it, I don't have much in the way of advice to offer you, but here it is: Read to children. Vote. And never buy anything from a man who's selling fear.
The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.
I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit
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