Experiment this when you are blessed with a chance!
So you meet someone, and find them to be awfully rude, mean, terrible, you just absolutely dislike them. What do you do? How do you react? And most importantly how should you react?
Why not become their friend, fisabilillaah! You already dislike them, it’s more worthy and harder for you to do good to them, therefore your deed is definitely for the sake of Allaah. What can be more motivation than that? Be blessed with the benefits Allah (Subhaanahu wa ta’aala) promises,
“Nor can Goodness and Evil be equal. Repel [Evil] with what is better: then will he between whom and you was hatred become as it were your friend and intimate! And no one will be granted such goodness except those who exercise patience and self-restraint–none but persons of greatest good fortune” (Quran 41: 34-35)
Alhamdulilaah, I tried it and it works. But don’t take my word for it! Try it yourself! Next time you don’t like someone, realize this is your time to make effort fisabilillaah and make it your intention to be super nice to them. Repel all evil, with that which is better!
May Allaah make you amongst those who love each other for the sake of Allaah, and be shaded on the day of judgment (Ameen wajm’aeen)
