Becoming Better Than Before
Ptg also known as a positive reaction from a traumatic or highly challenging life circumstances.
Whereas PTSD is a mixture of negative feelings such as depression and anxiety and often leads people to turn to drugs, alcohol, or even suicide. PTG is about having growth as an after effect of an difficult event of one’s life.
Why am I bringing this up?
Now, what I am about say might not be as extreme as these terms describe but it is a perfect example.
When we have bad days, hardships, sins by disobeying Allah or just have low Iman, we tend to succumb to bad thoughts and some even to depression.
We think that Allah can never forgive us as we can’t even forgive ourselves. We “wither away” into thinking that we can never go back but we can. We can take this situation and turn it into our advantage.
We can grow from it and be better than yesterday. We can become closer to Allah than before, bounce back and higher than ever. It really is a cheat-code if you look at it from a this perspective.
If you turn away from Allah, you’ll turn to other things that will never satisfy or comfort the way Allah can and does. Take a step back and talk to Him. Utter His name and trust me, you’ll get more than you can imagine. You’ll get more than you ever gave. Know that Allah is Ar-Rahman and that His mercy overcomes His anger.
“Say, "O My servants who have transgressed against themselves [by sinning], do not despair of the mercy of Allah. Indeed, Allah forgives all sins. Indeed, it is He who is the Forgiving, the Merciful.”
One thing I want to point out is that even when we cannot forgive ourselves know that Allah can, He is the Most-Merciful, The Most Compassionate.
But I want us to think this way as there a two lenses to look at life. You can either look at as if Allah is punishing you or you can look at it as a mercy from Allah.
How is a hardship a mercy?
Well, the answer is quite simple.
First of all Allah never gives a soul more than it can bear Allah knows that we can go through it. And sometimes we might have accumulated too much sins and these hardships are a way of cleansing.
We as believers want to get to Jannah, some like me even to the highest level which is Jannatul Firdaws but maybe sometimes our deeds are not enough.
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