Pain is not always a negative force and it is not something that you should always hate. At time a person benefits when he feels pain.
You might remember that, at times when you felt a lot of pain, you sincerely supplicated and remembered Allah. When he is studying, the student often feels the pangs of heavy burden, sometimes perhaps the burden of monotony, yet he eventually leaves this stage of life a scholar. He felt burdened with pain at the beginning but he shined at the end. The aches and pangs of passion, the poverty and the scorn of others, the frustration and anger at injustices. These all cause the poet to write flowing and captivating verses. This is because he himself feels who lives pain in his heart, in his nerves, and in his blood, and as a result, he is able to infuse the same emotions, via his work, into the hearts of others. How many painful experiences did the best writers have to undergo, experiences that inspired briliant works, work that posterity continues to enjoy and benefit from today.
The student who lives the life of comfort and repose and who is not stung by hardships, or who has never been afflicted with calamity will be an unproductive, lazy, and lethargic person.
Indeed, the poet who knows no pain and who has never tasted bitter disapointment will invariably produce heaps upon heaps of cheap words. This is because his word pour forth from his tongue and not from his feelings or emotion, and though he may comprehend what he has written, his heart and body have not lived the experience.
More worthy and relevant to the aforementioned examples are the lives of the early believers, who lived during the period of revelation and who took part in the most important religious revolution that mankind has ever seen. Indeed, they had greater faith, nobler hearts, more truthful tongues, and deeper knowledge than those that came after them: they had all of these because they lived through pain and suffering , both of which are necessary concomitants to great revolutions. They felt the pains of hunger, of poverty, of rejection, of abuse, of banishment from home and country, of abandonment of all pleasures, of the pains of wounds, and of death and torture. They were in truth chosen ones, the elite of mankind. They were models of purity, nobleness, and sacrifice.
In the history of the world there are those that have produced their greatest works due to the pain and suffering that they experienced. Al Mutanabbi, when afflicted with a severe fever, wrote some of his best poetry. An Nu'maan ibn Mundhir threatened An Naabighah with death, and that is when the latter produced some of his best poetry. They well known line he spoke, roughly translated is:
'' Verily, you are the sun, and the other kings are the stars: for
when the sun rises, no star in the sky is visible."
In fact there are many examples of those that prospered and achieved as a result of the suffering they experienced. Therefore, do not become excessively anxious when you think of pain, and do not fear suffering. It might well be that through pain and suffering you will become stronger. And furthermore, for you to live with a burning and passionate heart that has been stung is purer and nobler than to live the dispassionate existence of person who has a cold heart and shortsighted outlook.The word of passionate sermon can reach the innermost depths of the heart and penetrate the deepest regions of the soul, usually because the one who gives such sermons has himself experienced pain and suffering.
If you wish to affect and influence others, whether it is with your speech or with your poetry, or even with your actions , you must first feel the passion inside of you. You must be moved yourself by the meanings of what you are trying to convey. Then, and then only, you will come to realize that you have an influence upon others.
