In the past year I experienced a whole series of events which, if I had dwelled on them too long, would have sent me around the bend. Indeed, one sleepless night, I did have this recurrent thought: “Someone is pranking me, seriously.”
But in the end, you just have to tell yourself to move on. Write off all you see as patternicity alone, seeing what’s not really there. Or as a series of random coincidences, that ought to make you smile. Or, yes, as divine decree meant to test you, and send you scurrying back to your Lord.
Any of those explanations could be valid. My response: Alhamdulilah, Subhanallah, Mashallah. The only adequate response to all I have seen.
Last modified: 5 March 2023
