If you persevere, you will win
Bismillahir Rohmanir Rahim.
Praise be to Allah Almighty.
Peace and blessings be upon our Prophet.
Imagine having the opportunity to travel with the wisest person in the world. He is such a wise man that no one before you or after you was lucky enough to travel with him.
The sage will accept your companionship on one condition. During the trip, you will not interfere in any work of the sage. You don't ask questions until he speaks to you. After promising not to interfere in the affairs of the sage and to be patient with the events that happen on the journey, you will go on a journey. Your journey begins on the ship. The owner of the ship will honor you. Only a wise person pierces a ship without reason. The ship slowly begins to fill with water. Instead of thanking the owner of the ship for doing you so much good, you will be angry at the actions of the wise man.
"Where is your humanity?" Why did you do that?! you are angry. The wise man said, "You wouldn't interfere in my affairs, would you? No matter what I do, you wouldn't question it, would you?' You remembered the promise you made when you said. The wise man will continue to be with you because you apologized for not being able to control your anger, not to interfere in his other affairs, not to ask questions. You start walking together. You will meet a small boy on the way. A wise man approaches a boy who appears to be poor and destitute and kills him without saying anything to the boy. You can't stand him killing an innocent boy any more than he committed murder.
"Why did you take the life of an innocent child?!" What did this boy do to you? If you're not such a cruel person?!' you vent your anger on the sage.
The sage: "Didn't I tell you that you can't bear to be with me?" When he reminds you of the previous warning, you remember your mistake. "Give me one last chance. I promise, if I interfere with your work, ask questions, do something contrary to my promise, I will not continue the journey with you," you try to convince him.
You will reach a village. Both of you are tired and exhausted from road fatigue, hunger and dehydration. You want to ask the villagers for food and drink. Whichever door you knock on, it's going to stick hard in your face. Nobody cares about you. You drink water from the pool in the middle of the village, eat a couple of bites of food, and rest on the side. A wise man, having rested for a while, goes to restore a wall of a garden in the village, which has collapsed. He restores the wall like a skilled craftsman. When he finished his work and intended to continue on his way, "the people of this village did not treat us well. They did not give food or water. You repaired their wall. At least if you could get money for rebuilding the wall, it would be enough for our needs!' you said to the wise man.
Our companionship with you ends here! - began the wise man. - You failed to fulfill your promises. I can't be with you anymore! This is the third time you are questioning me. Of course, it was not easy for you to be patient with the events you witnessed on the trip. I will give you an idea of what you saw on the road before we parted ways. When we set out, the owner of the ship we boarded showed us respect, but he was angry with me for having punctured his ship. I pierced that ship to reward the owner of the ship. If I did not pierce the catch of the owner of the ship, who, despite being poor and destitute, loved to do good to people, the tyrannical king, who was seizing all the strong ships around to prepare for battle, would also seize his ship. I pierced him so that his ship wouldn't get out of hand.
I know you are angry with me for killing an innocent baby. The child's parents are religious and good people. If the child survived, he would grow up and oppress his parents. So that the child of such good people would not suffer from oppression, I killed that child. This child died, they will have another child. Inshallah, their unborn children will not hurt them, they will be worthy children.
You were both angry and surprised at me for rebuilding the wall of the villagers who didn't treat us well. The wall I restored in the village was the wall of an orphan. If I don't restore this wall, the villagers, who do no good to anyone, will try to take possession of the orphan's wall and the treasure under the wall. No one knows that there is a treasure under the wall. I built the wall so that the treasure would not be seen until the orphan boy grew up and could own his own property. Do you understand now, son? Do you understand now, my son, that I pierced his ship to protect him, that I showed his birthmark so that his child would not suffer, that I built a wall to help an orphan? You couldn't bear to see me as a companion. I hope that what you hear will be a lesson to you and that you will be patient with the worries that come to your head.
All right, trust God!
(The story was inspired by the verses of Surah Kahf (verses 65-82 of Surah Kahf).)
Those who understand the Holy Qur'an as a book to be read in a cemetery, those who take the Qur'an in their hands to read "Yasin" on Thursday evenings, those who have no relationship with the Qur'an except for finishing it in Ramadan, a life lesson from the story of Hizr alayhissalam It's unbelievable that they get it, of course. Those who do not use the Qur'an as a mirror of life, but act like a religious ritual and a book read on certain days, are forced to worship medicine and not God in the face of life's worries. A Muslim who is able to look at life from the perspective of the story of Hizr alayhissalam, knows how to be patient with the misfortunes that befall him.
Hizr, peace be upon him, who wanders by our side and represents the wisdom of the troubles that have befallen us, is not with us! I recommend two things to those who think: Read the Qur'an commentary and the history of the Prophets over and over again! Because the Qur'an is the guide of life, and the history of the Prophets is the history of suffering. Not only the history of sufferings, a person who reads the history of the Prophets can also see how to behave in the face of sufferings and the rewards in the hereafter. May God grant us all to walk like Moses who walked with Hizr alayhissalam on the journey of life and to reach the end!
