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How to think positive?
Dear Islamic brothers! All of the foregoing seven Madanī pearls deserve great consideration. The seventh point, in particular, has been very common these days. For example, if a relative has not invited the other relative to a wedding ceremony, the latter does not also invite the former. If someone has invited his relative with more people and the latter has invited the former with a few people, the former resents it greatly, resorting to even criticizing and backbiting. Similarly, if a relative does not attend a ceremony of the other, the other boycotts the ceremony, widening the gap between them. Even if someone has not attended our ceremony, we can still have positive thinking about him in many ways. For instance, he may have fallen ill or forgotten or got some important piece of work or faced some urgent problem that he may not be able to explain to us.
Anyway, whether he informs us of his absence or not, we should have positive thinking, reaping reward and paving our way for Paradise. The Revered and Renowned Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم has said: ‘حُسۡنُ الظَّنِّ مِنۡ حُسۡنِ الۡعِبَادَةِ’ Positive thinking is from excellent worship.
Commenting on the differing meanings of the foregoing Ḥadīš, Muftī Aḥmad Yār Khān عَـلَيْهِ رَحْـمَةُ الْـمَـنَّان has stated: That is, having positive thinking about Muslim and not having an ill opinion about them is also one of the acts of excellent worship.
(Mirāt-ul-Manājīḥ, vol. 6, pp. 621)
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