57:22] Al-Ḥadīd-الْحَدِيْد
"No calamity occurs in the earth or in your lives but it is in a Book (al-Lawh al-Mahfuz, the station of Allah’s pre-eternal knowledge,) before We make it happen. Surely, this (all-encompassing and perfect knowledge) is very easy for Allah, "
[The Glorious Quran]
Fortitude:
Perils, and misfortunes, and want, and pain, and injury, are the more or less certain lot of every man that cometh into the world.
It behoveth thee, therefore, O child of calamity! early to fortify thy mind with courage and patience, that thou mayest support, with a becoming resolution, thine allotted portion of human evil.
As a camel beareth labour, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of man shall sustain him through all perils.
A noble spirit disdaineth the malice of fortune; his greatness of Soul is not to be cast down.
He hath not suffered his happiness to depend on her smiles, and therefore with her frowns he shall not be dismayed.
As a rock of the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not.
He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet.
In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart sustaineth him, and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.
He meeteth the evils of life as a man that goeth forth into battle and returneth with victory in his hand.
Under the pressure of misfortunes his calmness alleviates their weight, and his constancy shall surmount them.
But the dastardly spirit of a timorous man betrayeth him to shame.
By shrinking under poverty, he stoopeth down to meanness; and by tamely bearing insults he inviteth injuries.
As a reed is shaken with the breath of the air, so the shadow of evil maketh him tremble.
In the hour of danger, he is embarrassed and confounded; in the day of misfortune he sinketh, and despair overwhelmeth his Soul.
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