Is sadness over a job considered dissatisfaction and servitude to it?
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, this questioner says: If I applied for a job and was initially accepted, but Allah did not grant it to me, and I became sad about it, is this considered dissatisfaction and servitude to this job?
Answer:
No, this is one of the traits of the soul. There is no doubt that if a person misses out on something, he regrets it, and the good may lie in missing that thing. So he should not regret it in a way that leads to despair, but rather he should hope that Allah will compensate him with something better than what he missed. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, this questioner says: If I applied for a job and was initially accepted, but Allah did not grant it to me, and I became sad about it, is this considered dissatisfaction and servitude to this job?
Answer:
No, this is one of the traits of the soul. There is no doubt that if a person misses out on something, he regrets it, and the good may lie in missing that thing. So he should not regret it in a way that leads to despair, but rather he should hope that Allah will compensate him with something better than what he missed. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، هل يعد الحزن على الوظيفة من السخط ومن العبودية لها؟ لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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