“Running From Allah’s Qadr to Allah’s Qadr”
There was a discussion between Abu
Ubaidah and `Umar (may Allah be pleased
with them both). During this discussion`Umar
decided not to proceed to his trip to ash-
Shaam, when the news reached him that
there was a plague spreading there. Thus he
decided to go back to Madinah, telling the
people “I’m returning back, thus you should
return as well”. In this incident Abu Ubaidah
did not attend Umar’s consultation with the
people and the result of the consultation.
However, when Abu Ubaidah heard of Umar’s
orders he came to `Umar asking him
“O `Umar, are you running away from Allah’s
Qadr?”
By this he was objecting to `Umar’s decision
to return back to Madinah. `Umar was
amazed by this objection raised by Abu
Ubaidah and `Umar said to him,
“O Abu Ubaidah. I wish someone other than
you would have said this. Yes. I am running
away from Allah’s Qadr to Allah’s Qadr”.
He explained this by saying, if you see a man
coming to a place where there are two areas,
one area is lush and the other barren. Don’t
you see that if he takes his cattle to the lush
area, he is doing so according to Allahs Qadr
and if he takes his cattle to the barren area,
he is also taking it by Allah’s Qadr.
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Put it another way; sometimes a individual is
confronted with a situation and it may be
totally out of ones control. Although the
individual accepts that it is from Allah, one
does not just accept it and give up. No. Rather
one repells the qadr of hunger with the qadr
of eating, the qadr of being attacked with the
qadr of defending oneself, the qadr of
poverty with the qadr of searching for work
in order to survive etc.
So whatever comes our way it is required for
us to continue along the path seeking the
pleasure of Allah by repelling one type of qadr
with another type of qadr according to the
situation that we’re in. If something does not
work, one tries doing something else until
one attains whatever it is they are trying to
attain while being patient along the way.
book Madaarij Al Saalikeen.