Nurayda

Ibn al Qayyim رحمه الله said,

“Women (wives) are the cause of happiness of the heart that’s why they’re also called the reason to the happiness of the soul.”

The wise person is the one who soothes himself in patience with the promise of reward and the easing of hardship, so that the time of affliction passes while he remains free of complaint—then he seeks refuge in Allah, asking for well-being.

نَعَمْ، وَتهُونُ الأُمُورُ الصِّعَابُ

A door will open when one is shut,

Yes—hard matters will become easy.

وَيتَّسِعُ الحَالُ مِنْ بَعْدِ مَا

تَضِيقُ المَذَاهِبُ فِيهَا الرِّحَابُ

Circumstances widen after they constrict,

When all paths seem tight, space appears.

مَعَ الهَمِّ يُسْرَانِ هَوِّنْ عَلَيْكَ

فَلاَ الْهَمُّ يُجْدِي، وَلاَ الاكْتِئَابُ

With worry come two eases—so lighten your heart,

For neither grief nor depression will avail.

فَكَمْ ضِقْتَ ذَرْعاً بِمَا هِبْتَهُ

فَلَمْ يُرَ مِنْ ذَاكَ قَدْرٌ يُهَابُ

How often you dreaded a matter, distressed,

Yet found in it nothing truly to fear.

وَكَمْ بَرَدٍ خِفْتَهُ مِنْ سَحَابٍ

فَعُوفِيت، وَانْجَابَ عَنْكَ السَّحَابُ

How often you feared cold rain from clouds,

But were spared, and the storm dissolved away.

وَرِزْقٍ أَتَاكَ وَلَمْ تَأْتِهِ

وَلاَ أَرَّقَ العَيْنَ مِنْهُ الطِّلابُ

And provision came to you though you sought it not,

Nor did your eyes lose sleep in pursuit of it.