Sometimes remembering other people’s afflictions eases your own ordeals.
In the Qurʾān, Allāh consoles Rasūl Allāh ﷺ by reminding him that if he is being challenged and refuted, a prophet before him had to go through worse:
The People of the Scripture ask you to bring down to them a book from the heaven. But they had asked of Mūsā [even] greater than that and said, “Show us Allāh outright,”
an-Nisāʾ:153
Knowing that it could have been worse establishes gratitude in your Nafs. You become content and at peace with your situation.
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