convert a lemon to a lemonade
An intelligent and skillful person transforms losses into profits;where as the unskilled person aggravates his own predicament,often making two disasters out of one.
The prophet(bpuh) was compelled to leave Makkah,but rather than quit his mission,he continued it in Madinah-the city that took its place in history with lightning speed.
Imam Ahmad ibn Hambal was severely tortured and flogged and yet he emerged triumphant from that ordeal,becoming the Imam of the Sunnah.Imam ibn Tamiyyah was put into prison;he later came out an even more accomplished scholar than he was before.
Therefore,if you are afflicted with a misfortune,look on the bright side.If someone were to hand you a glss full of squeezed lemons, add to it a handful of sugar - Dr 'Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni
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