These are three axes that concern man, occupy his mind, and revolve around which his thinking revolves.
The first is benefit, which he loves for himself and strives to achieve and attract to himself with all his strength and resourcefulness, and he is deeply saddened if he misses out on benefit and is unable to attain it, or if a part of the benefit is neglected, even if it is small.
The second is harm, which he is repelled by and avoids and wishes that nothing from it would befall him, and that he would be safe from its evils, as long as he is alive. The third is the unseen, which he does not know what it hides and what it cloaks, and therefore he fears it and his soul is apprehensive and anxious about its mysteries and fears.
I am not going beyond the truth if I say that these three issues represent the life of man and his struggle in it and what he suffers and fluctuates with various feelings, which take over his soul between worries, sorrows, fears and joys, and come and go, oscillating between three centers: hope, fear and optimism.
Do you know what your salvation is, O man, from those many sorrowful matters, in which your soul is divided and your heart is scattered, so that you become confused in mind, your mind is flying, and anxiety and fatigue have taken over you?
Read verse 188 of Surat Al-A'raf: (Say, "I do not possess for myself any benefit or harm except what Allah wills. And if I knew the unseen, I could have increased in good, and no harm would have touched me.")
The verse begins with the word (Say), meaning say, O Muhammad, who is the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, supported by revelation and miracles. So what do you think of the rest of humanity? Are they not more deserving of this statement that establishes a fact of the facts that occur in human life, a fact that has great importance, when the heart absorbs it and it settles in its folds, its arteries are reassured, and its pulse calms down.
How many times has the soul gone in regrets after a lost benefit, which it longed for and pursued with greed, but when it passed, its dust covered it and filled it with sadness and depression.
How many times has the soul flown in fear, when harm has befallen it, which has descended from it to the level of a swamp on the earth, whose effect is not praised, nor is its goodness hoped for, but rather it is a source of everything that is bad and painful, so harm has become harms.
How anxious and worried the soul has become as it explores the unseen, and extends its eyes to anticipate its caravans and clouds, hoping for their arrival and rain, and fearing their concealment and disappearance, and the unseen is an unknown world that no human being knows, no matter how hard his intuition and mind strive, what will come, and what will spread or fold.
Hence, if a person is fair to himself and has mercy on him, he is excused, and his excuse is that if he knew the unseen, he would have increased good and no harm would have touched him, and this meaning alone is sufficient to alleviate the affliction, and to stop thinking about it, truly the human being is excused, and he is the weak being who is ignorant of his weakness or denies it, and how much more deserving this being is of humility.
(Except what Allah wills), Allah’s will is the most powerful, and it is also the guide for the confused minds, which have been exhausted by their long thinking and their continuous striving day and night, and whose only comfort is to remember the words of Allah: (And you do not will except that Allah wills. Indeed, Allah is ever Knowing and Wise), and there is no power or strength except with Allah, and this Hawqala, as the Messenger of Allah said, is a treasure not from the treasures of the earth but from the treasures of Paradise, with which Allah has bestowed His blessings upon us and provided us with its shady shade.
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