ولا تجد أكثرهم شاكرين
“Then I will come to them from before them and from behind them and on their right and on their left, and You will not find most of them grateful [to You]” – Surat Al Araf
“ثُمَّ لَآتِيَنَّهُمْ مِنْ بَيْنِ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَمِنْ خَلْفِهِمْ وَعَنْ أَيْمَانِهِمْ وَعَنْ شَمَائِلِهِمْ وَلَا تَجِدُ أَكْثَرَهُمْ شَاكِرِينَ” – سورة الأعراف
How did Shaytan know mankind was going to be so ungrateful? How did he know we’d turn out to be this way? He didn’t. He was never sure. He just assumed. He had his own suspicions of the descendants of Adam (AS), while Adam himself didn’t even think twice when Shaytan tried to trick him into eating from the tree, because that’s our nature; our fitrah. Which goes a long way to show how the assumptions of evil (سوء الظن) is originally a quality of Shaytan. How and why suspicion in some cases is considered a sin.
It’s so hard to always assume good of people in this time we live in, but it’s surely never been easier to jump into conclusions and make all kinds of assumptions from the very first instance. Trying to come up with excuses no longer comes that naturally to most of us. It takes a lot to be able to remind ourselves we know so little of what goes on behind people’s closed doors. We’d rather start victimizing ourselves than try to rationalize. We’d sometimes unconsciously go as far as suspecting Allah’s own philosophies and wisdom. Because we’re so used to assuming evil, we don’t even realize we’re doing it anymore.
Something to think about.
