the artist...

Once upon a time, a well-known painter was finishing a painting. The painter wanted this painting to be a masterpiece. He worked on it for weeks on the top of a 24-storey building. He was so consumed by and excited with his own painting that he unconsciously took a few steps backward while admiring it. He didn't look where he was going as he walked backward. He kept on walking backward until he was a step away from the edge of the 24storey building. Just one more step back and he could have fallen to his death.
 
A man saw what the painter was doing and was about to shout at him to warn him when he realized that his shout might surprise the painter and thus make him take that one fatal step backward and fall down. So the man took a brush and some paint and began to paint on the beautiful painting until it was completely damaged.
 
Upon realizing what happened to his painting, the painter got very angry and moved forward to hit the man. However, some other people who were also present at the vicinity held him and showed him how the man had actually saved him.
 
Moral of the story: Sometimes we have painted our future with such beauty and dreamed
of exquisite days, but then God seems to destroy our beautiful painting.
 
When God, in His Infinite Wisdom, tests us with a situation that we think is difficult or takes away something that in our mind was good for us, we need to remember that perhaps it may not be so. Whatever He has decreed for us is actually better for us, for He is All-Wise and All-Knowing.
 
"...and it may be that you dislike a thing which is good for you and that you like a thing which is bad for you. God knows but you do not know." (Baqarah: 216)
 
A calamity that makes you turn to God is better for you than a blessing that makes you forget the remembrance of God.

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