There are No Complains from the Person of Adab

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

Shaykh Muhammad Nazhim Adil al-Haqqani (q.s.) said, “Our Grand Shaykh said, ‘Allah (s.w.t.) Sent our Prophet (s.a.w.) to complete good character, to change bad characters into good.  He taught, during his life, how a man can change his bad character into good.  This is the main goal of prophethood.’ 

Once, I asked my Grand Shaykh, ‘O, my Master!  Is there any complaining from a man with good character?’ 

‘Never!’ he replied to me.  ‘You, will not find a man with good character complaining.’  There are so many complaints from man, you cannot count them.  Yet, you will never find a man with good character complaining.  A person of good character is like a healthy body.  If you touch a healthy body, there is no complaint.  But if a man has sores on his skin, then, ‘Ouch!’  So, likewise, people of good character are healthy in their spiritual lives.  But people of bad character, they are like a man wounded; wounds everywhere; you cannot touch any side of him, any part of his body. 

Therefore, it is the measure of a man’s good or bad character, how much he complains.  As his complaining diminishes, you know how diminished the bad characteristics left with him are.  When you finish all your complaining, you know that you are healthy.  This is an important point, because a person of good character has patience.  And when he has patience, it means that he has real faith, real iman.  Real faith equals good character, and real faith also equals patience.”