As the Maliki teacher from California has taught us, the Holy Prophet, upon whom be blessings and peace, was also a believer. Look, then, at this most salient response to the Divine decree. Although the marriage was a result dutiful fulfillment of revelation from The Almighty, the Holy Prophet as a believer had to contend with the negative world result: namely, the passing of one wife and then another that were given to our master of The Double Light.
From the Swedish Shadhuli Sufi Master, we learn Shaykh Jalal al-Din Rumi’s description of the greatest spiritual work: belief in The Divine.
To meet Divine decree with ever higher degrees of cheerfulness, hope, gratitude, and the creative spirit that rises above the material world: this is our Way.
‘Asmah ibn Malik said: When the daughter of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and his family and grant them peace, died under (the roof of) ‘Uthman, the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, ‘Get ‘Uthman married. Even if I had a third (daughter) I would have got him married, and I did not get him married except through revelation from Allah.’