Example Dentist

Your son... advises him not to eat too many sweets and to clean his mouth after eating them. He doesn't listen to your advice... he eats them in excess, his teeth decay, and he comes to you complaining: (Daddy, my teeth hurt). (So go to the doctor)... (No, Daddy, please! I will be in pain). (You must, my son, otherwise the decay will worsen and you will suffer greater pain). You go, he sits on the doctor's chair, the doctor starts removing the decay... your son screams in fear and pain: (Daddy, please stop).. You scold him: (Be quiet, Daddy! Let the doctor treat you). The doctor returns to the treatment, your son is silent then screams: (Daddy, stop, that's enough).. You scold him firmly: (The doctor knows best, let him finish his work)... During this, does your child look at you with hatred?! Never of course, he knows you want his well-being. He doesn't want to be in pain, but he knows that the doctor's treatment will spare him greater pain later. You as a father, feel pain as you see your son in pain, to the extent that you may leave the room because you can't bear to hear his moaning. The treatment ends on time. Your son gets up from the chair, and you leave... on the way back, your son looks at you with love and respect: (Father wants my well-being in everything he does. The pain has gone, and now I have healthy teeth)... And Allah is the highest example. May Allah forbid us from the "sweets" of sins and command us to purify ourselves from them whenever we consume them... We neglect, so sins and heart diseases befall us. Our Merciful Lord knows that these sins and diseases will worsen if left and will harm us. He places us on the chair of affliction to purify our hearts from them. We suffer, we fear, we ask Him to raise us from the chair of affliction... And our Lord, by His mercy, knows that the treatment is not yet over, and that there is still decay in our hearts. Yes, you can ask Allah to relieve you from the affliction and insist on that, but no matter how long the treatment lasts, you remain looking at Him with the eyes of that child who knows that his father wants his well-being, so you have good thoughts about your Lord and are certain that His choice for you is better than your choice for yourself, and you cannot for a moment have ill thoughts of Him, but you remain asking Him and loving Him. It is very important to know: Allah does not like to see you in pain, but He likes to see you purified, because He knows the danger of sins and heart diseases to you. In the sacred hadith narrated by Bukhari, Allah says: (...And I do not hesitate about anything I do except hesitating over the soul of the believer, who hates death and I hate his evening). Allah has decreed death for the believing servant, yet He does not like to see him displeased with death. And this is not, of course, like the hesitation of creatures arising from doubt about the benefit or doubt about the ability to act—refer to the link to understand that: https://islamqa.info/ar/102377 The conclusion: If you are afflicted, even if it involves injustice from servants, know that Allah wanted to purify you. Ask Him to relieve you, but as long as you remain in affliction, have good thoughts about your Lord and increase in love for Him, for He is more merciful to you than you are to yourself.