If you spend a second complaining, you have wasted a second.

It might feel good to complain but literally no progress is being made. It also shows that you’re dissatisfied with Allah’s qadr (fate) he has ordained for you.

All of us in life will go through good times and bad, the one thing we must not do is complain. There’s another saying that whatever you focus on will be true to you.

You can probably find a million ways you’ve been cheated and no one is denying that these things didn’t happen. But what can you do today that’s going to change the past? It does you no justice to feel bad or pity yourself. How about instead we learn from the past and thank Allah for the lesson that can be learned from these experiences. It truly is a blessings of Allah, we just need to see it as such.

If you instead switch the question around and ask all the ways He has blessed you, you’ll have a million different reasons to praise Him. Learn to thank Allah from the smallest of things like the lace on your shoe to bigger things like your health, wealth, and family.

Allah is not limited, he is the most gracious and most merciful. You can ask for all your heart desires (as long as it’s permissible). What we need to mindful of is to desiring something and invoking Allah but then having a fixed expectation of the outcome.