Pain is made forgotten by a stronger pain.

Pain is made forgotten by a stronger pain. Grief is healed by a greater one. As my Hazrat Alisher Navoi said: “To have no grief is the greatest grief.” It is not advice and lessons that make a person grow, but pain and sorrow. Is there any educator in the world of creatures like affliction?! The injustice in our lives is only a spark from a great bonfire of injustice. The greatest injustice is not the one others do to us, but the one we do to ourselves. A person does not suffer injustice from people until he wrongs himself. Divine mercy prevails over divine wrath. We lit the bonfire of injustice for ourselves, and Allah permitted one of its sparks to touch our being. And at this spark we cried out as though the whole world were burning. The spark touches us so that we may become aware. The bonfire of injustice itself goes on to Hell ahead of us. We seek refuge in Allah! A person's injustice against himself begins with breaking the divine limits and not refraining from what is divinely forbidden. A person sinks so deep into this injustice that he loses the ability to perceive injustice and torment. Suppose an injustice, a pain, coming from outside makes a person alert. It wakes him. Examining again and again the injustices and pains that come upon him, a person is astonished when he sees that the first link of the chain is fastened to himself — to his intentions and deeds — and he realizes that he has met the greatest Grief. And all the other sorrows shrink. So much so that he finds them unworthy not only of mention, but even of a glance.

Akrom MALIK