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Do not grieve over your mistakes
It is not wise to keep grieving and lamenting over a mistake. We must accept that Allah’s will always prevails, and sometimes, a regrettable situation could not have been avoided. For example, apparently, Adam (AS) and Hawwa (AS) got humanity expelled from Paradise, but in reality, Allah had predetermined the earth to be our abode in this world, as He had earlier revealed to the angels: 'Indeed, I will make upon the earth a successive authority.' (2:30) Hence, the whole episode of the expulsion from Paradise was merely to demonstrate why humans are not worthy of Paradise without undergoing a trial period on earth. So, just as there is no point in grieving over the expulsion of our ancestral parents from Paradise, we must try to see Allah’s wisdom and purpose in seemingly regrettable situations we encounter, instead of bemoaning them.