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www Muslim Central.com forward slash donate. If only this hadn't happened I would have been so happy right now.

If only this hadn't happened I would have been so happy right now.

If only this situation went my way, I would have been married by now.

If this, then that.

The word if is short, but its impacts are long standing and have the power to trap you in the

thoughts of what could have been and leave you disappointed

with what actually is.

Rassuul-Ala-Sala Salah al-L-Iwis-Lam warned us about the danger of dwelling on if.

But does this mean you aren't allowed to feel sadness or regret at all?

Where is the line between healthy regret and an unhealthy level of dwelling on the past? I'm going to. During the time of some of the worst fithna this uma has ever seen, there was a man in Basra who was a general in the army of Ubaidula bin Ziazid bin Waiya. So this general says that one day while I was on my rooftop,

I fell down and I broke both of my legs.

And as I was laying at home with both of my legs broken,

the righteous scholar Abib Rachimu

Hulab and he said to me, Arju and Yakuinadari kahara, I hope this was

actually better for you.

And so I responded to him and I said,

yeah, Abakilah, what in the world could be good

about my legs being broken?

He said, listen, Maasat al-Alahla al-Aqsa.

What Allahi K

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