If anything was Meant to be achieved within your desired or perceived time-frame then it'll happen. Otherwise just accept that it wasn't Meant for that time.
It can be very hard and a Test.
Allah perhaps Meant much Wisdom behind His Delays that might only slowly manifest to you. You will plan but Allah is The Best of Planners.
You may never know what your Final Calling might become but be grateful for what you do achieve and gain on the way.
It is said that among the signs that a person is forgetting Allah and is getting too attached to the world, is that when anything doesn't happen within desired time-frames despite best efforts, so depression and frustration happens. Beware of this... our enemies have corrupted time perception so that we lose our imaan and humanity that way.
We perceive time to go faster because we forget Allah and lose spiritual connection via Qur'an, Zikr etc. and are heedless of the Islamic lunar calendar. The remedy for us is to hold onto the rope of Allah with the firm grip, upon the thasawwuf, so that Allah Causes even time to bend our way and so we perceive time as it ought. Other spiritual benefits and protections come from thasawwuf.
Everything that Shaykh INH says about it makes sense.
Humility is key.
If anything was Meant to be achieved within your desired or perceived time-frame then it'll happen. Otherwise just accept that it wasn't Meant for that time.
It can be very hard and a Test.
Allah perhaps Meant much Wisdom behind His Delays that might only slowly manifest to you. You will plan but Allah is The Best of Planners.
You may never know what your Final Calling might become but be grateful for what you do achieve and gain on the way.
It is said that among the signs that a person is forgetting Allah and is getting too attached to the world, is that when anything doesn't happen within desired time-frames despite best efforts, so depression and frustration happens. Beware of this... our enemies have corrupted time perception so that we lose our imaan and humanity that way.
We perceive time to go faster because we forget Allah and lose spiritual connection via Qur'an, Zikr etc. and are heedless of the Islamic lunar calendar. The remedy for us is to hold onto the rope of Allah with the firm grip, upon the thasawwuf, so that Allah Causes even time to bend our way and so we perceive time as it ought. Other spiritual benefits and protections come from thasawwuf.
Everything that Shaykh INH says about it makes sense.
May Allah Guide us, aameen.