Do you Know thė Blessing of Forgetfulness?
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Do you know thė Blessing of Forgetfulness?
Al-Hafidh Ibn al-Qayyim -Rahimahullaah- (d. 751 A.H.) said:
‘From the strangest of blessings upon a person is the blessing of forgetting!
Indeed if it was not for forgetting he would not be pleased with anything (i.e. he forgot that matter and it made himself feel better after having forgotten about it), nor would any grief or sorrow end, nor would he be able to console himself from affliction, and sadness would not die off, nor would he be free from someone having envy of him, nor would he enjoy anything from the pleasures of the Dunya whilst remembering all his shortcomings and sins.
Nor would he have hope of neglect from the enemy, nor a respite from the envious one, so reflect upon the blessing of Allaah upon that person in relation to remembering and forgetting, along with their differences and their opposites and that Allaah placed for each one of them a different type of benefit.’
[From: ‘Miftah Dar as-Sa’ada’ by Ibn al-Qayyim 2/788]
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