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« on: September 04, 2011, 03:49:32 am »

MashAllah sister, that's what I call super analysis, the way Allah would want us to follow the quality of optimism.   Though a simple matter as you stated, it has proven a tricky issue for people to understand and most don't.  The so-called scholars are most confused about it, almost as much as the secularists.  They get perplexed by the study of optimism and they forget to give it the right balance in relation with the definition of despair.   That's why they wrongly assert lack of optimism as Haram.  Their confusion arises from their misunderstanding of Verse 60:13 of Surah Al-Mumtahanah which I quote:

"O ye who believe! Be not friendly with a folk with whom Allah is wroth, (a folk) who have despaired of the Hereafter as the disbelievers despair of those who are in the graves."  (60:13)

The words "despaired" and "despair" mentioned in the above Verse in context with the disbelievers makes a lot of Muslims misunderstand the characteristic of "despair" as Haram because they associate it with disbelief.  What they don't see is that the term "despair" or "despaired" does not refer to the kind of listless feeling a person may experience during depression or sadness or grief caused by the ups and downs of life.  Despairing of the Hereafter means not believing in the Hereafter.  Similarly, to despair of those in the graves means not believing in the Resurrection of the dead of those in the graves.  Thus, the term "despair" in the Quran carries a very different meaning compared to how it has been construed and given the Haram connection by our ulemas.
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