No Despair

The Quran says, “Say, [God says] ‘O My servants, who have committed excesses against their own souls, do not despair of God’s mercy, for God surely forgives all sins. He is truly the Most Forgiving, the Most Merciful.” (39:53) Whenever a person is frustrated, it is because he sees only his possibilities. He will never be disappointed if his eyes are on God’s possibilities.

There is a limit to human possibilities. But there is no limit to God’s possibilities. If a man knows this fact, he will never be disappointed. At the very point where man feels he has reached his limit, he will find another possibility that has no limit and no obstacle to it. The fact is that faith in God gives a man such a treasure of hope that he never gives up. He never feels that there is nothing left for him to do. Faith in God and despair cannot go together.