Sayyiduna Abu Huraira (RA) reported that the Messenger of Allah (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam), said: “Shall I not tell you about the best of you?”

The word "sadness" does not appear in the Qur'an except in the form of forbidding it or negating it. Allah says “Do not worry and do not be sad” and“So there is no fear for them and nor will they grieve.”

Allah Ta‘ala promises in the Quraan: “It is Our duty to assist the believers.” However, we find that from the 1930’s there was always a decline in the condition of the Ummah, so where is the promise of Allah Ta‘ala?

(Reproduced, with minor editing, from ‘The Intellect’ magazine (published in Karachi, Pakistan), with direct permission from the Interviewee and Shaykh Mufti Taqi Usmani)