are you an optimist or pessimist?

[BilalKid]

while browsing news this question caught my eye. which one do you fit in pessimist or optimist?

i am an optimist

[BeTheChange]

Asalamualykum,

I think news is designed to offer a doom and gloom picture.

Bad news sells unfortunately.

On a positive note, Alhamdulilah, i see myself as a positive individual as well as a realist.

[strivingobserver98]

I think the best definition for Optimist & Pessimist is found in this quote below:

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill

Alhamdulilah I'm an optimist too , I expect positive outcomes and stay resilient after difficulties.

[Ahmed2014]

absolutely optimist. No muslim should ever be a pessimist.

[sister herb]

Seems that everyone whose have answered to the poll are optimist.

Maybe possible pessimists have thought like "it doesn´t worth to answer".

[Abz2000]

i'm an optimist and a pessimist, and everything in between.
hopefully i can say with sincerity that i'm a Muslim and that makes me ultimately optimistic since i can see the light at the end of the tunnel and have hope in reaching it.

وَأَيُّوبَ إِذْ نَادَى رَبَّهُ أَنِّي مَسَّنِيَ الضُّرُّ وَأَنتَ أَرْحَمُ الرَّاحِمِين

021:083*
And (remember) Ayub (Job), when he cried to his Lord:
"Verily, distress has seized me,
and You are the Most Merciful of all those who show mercy."


Say: "I have no power over any good or harm myself except as Allah wills.
If I had knowledge of the unseen, I should have multiplied all good, and no evil should have touched me:
I am but a Warner, and a bringer of glad tidings to those who have faith."*
[7: Al-Araf-188]

يَا أَيُّهَا النَّبِيُّ إِنَّا أَرْسَلْنَاكَ شَاهِدًا وَمُبَشِّرًا وَنَذِيرًا {

وَدَاعِيًا إِلَى اللَّهِ بِإِذْنِهِ وَسِرَاجًا مُّنِيرًا

O Prophet (MuhammadSAW )! Verily, We have sent you as witness, and a bearer of glad tidings, and a warner,

And as one who invites to Allah [Islamic Monotheism, i.e. to worship none but Allah (Alone)] by His Leave,
and as a lamp spreading light (through your instructions from the Qur'an and the Sunnah the legal ways of the Prophet SAW).
Quran 33:45-46

إِلاَّ تَنصُرُوهُ فَقَدْ نَصَرَهُ اللّهُ إِذْ أَخْرَجَهُ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ ثَانِيَ اثْنَيْنِ إِذْ هُمَا فِي الْغَارِ إِذْ يَقُولُ لِصَاحِبِهِ لاَ تَحْزَنْ إِنَّ اللّهَ مَعَنَا فَأَنزَلَ اللّهُ سَكِينَتَهُ عَلَيْهِ وَأَيَّدَهُ بِجُنُودٍ لَّمْ تَرَوْهَا وَجَعَلَ كَلِمَةَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ السُّفْلَى وَكَلِمَةُ اللّهِ هِيَ الْعُلْيَا وَاللّهُ عَزِيزٌ حَكِيمٌ
009:040*
If you help him (Muhammad SAW) not (it does not matter), for Allah did indeed help him when the disbelievers drove him out,
the second of two, when they (Muhammad SAW and Abu Bakr radhiallahu'anhu) were in the cave,
and he (SAW) said to his companion (Abu Bakr radhiallahu'anhu): "Be not sad (or afraid), surely Allah is with us."
Then Allah sent down His Sakinah (calmness, tranquillity, peace, etc.) upon him, and strengthened him with forces (angels) which you saw not,
and made the word of those who disbelieved the lowermost,
while it was the Word of Allah that became the uppermost, and Allah is All-Mighty, All-Wise.

the black and white chequerboard it appears has meaning, only that realism should be adopted over self deception.

[BeTheChange]

Alhamdulilah very good to hear!

May Allah swt help us all stay positive and show sabar through difficult trials Ameen.

[oasis123]

The neutral term realist which is said to be in between optimism and pessimism is for me

[Snow]

I hope for the best and accept the worst.

[M.I.A.]

For you I'm an optimist I hope.

[Abz2000]

For you I'm an optimist I hope.

call a spade a spade.

if you try to deceive Allah and those who believe, you'll only be deceiving yourself - but you most likely won't REALIZE it.

is he being brutally honest - or telling deadly lies, asks the government and media controlled by dajjal's war machine.
it's what you intend when you put a piece of info out there, what you intend to take from it, and how you use it that will be looked at in complete context on the last day - before going to paradise with honour or getting thrown into hell in disgrace.
the sure reality, and what is the sure reality? you'll find some answers in surah al Haaqqah.
seek the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, and the truth shall set you free.

a gram of soma won't do when coming to terms with the situation and finding a solution.
not even a billion kilos.
that is the day on which the truthful will profit from their truth.

[AhmedGassama]

Islam told us to be optimistic so we can be useful in life

[M.I.A.]

call a spade a spade.

if you try to deceive Allah and those who believe, you'll only be deceiving yourself - but you most likely won't REALIZE it.

Make of me what you will lol.

To be fair that's the only way you would find out what I'm not.

...still chasing cars I suppose.. My own take on the world being a beautiful women story.


Abz2000... You posting potato quality videos again lol.

Although truthfully dumb is good right?

Autopilot works so much better, I have no idea if they hear and obey or if I can't comprehend what goes through there minds.

The rememberence of Allah swt is like the difference between the living and the dead...

Loosely paraphrased.

Sorry for the jumbled post, iv held my tongue so long I don't even know what's going to come out..

Probably not me.

...but for you, I'm an optimist

:|

[Abz2000]

youtube's robot deletes the video's wrongly despite them containing lawful content for educational purposes so i have to record them grainy.
back to optimism - depends really on what you're being optimistic about huh?
oh you know you want it, oh you know you like it would be too generic and confusing unless a clear context is given wouldn't it? it would also need to be a halal outcome to be optimistic about.
astaghfirullah, best thing to do is repent, submit to Allah and obey Him with sincerity.

[M.I.A.]

Agree, fear of Allah swt and the last day is often enough.

To make a person change there ways and repent for there known and unknown actions.

....Chasing cars but not money

Maybe a spade is still a spade.


Write a letter to the universe lol.. A proclamation of faith would have been better than a wish list.

If only we would or could write positive posts, the foundations for tomorrow would be a lot firmer..

Optimism.


...OK end on a light...ish note

https://youtu.be/P1ULjJ3EqyY

[Abz2000]

yay, solid foundations are for fundamentalists, welcome aboard.

but i sure as hell (or heaven) aint gonna pretend the king's got clothes when the swindlers weaved on an empty loom!
and i'll say he's got clothes when he's got clothes.

[M.I.A.]

Lol.

Allah swt raises and lowers as he wills.

[Abz2000]

tower of babble:

4 And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”
5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.
6 And the Lord said, “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them.
7 Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city.
9 Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.
— Genesis 11:4–9

. "Babel" means the "Gate of God", from*Akkadian*bab-ilu*(���� ����), "Gate of God" (from*bab*"gate" +*ilu"god")."
*According to the Bible, the city received the name "Babel" from the Hebrew word*balal, meaning to jumble.

babble

[bab-uh*l]verb (used without object),*babbled,*babbling.
1.to utter sounds or words imperfectly, indistinctly, or without meaning.
2.to talk idly, irrationally, excessively, or foolishly; chatter or prattle."">verb (used without object),*babbled,*babbling.
3.to make a continuous, murmuring sound.verb (used with object),*babbled,*babbling.
4.to utter in an incoherent, foolish, or meaningless fashion.
5.to reveal foolishly or thoughtlessly:to babble a secret.noun6.inarticulate or imperfect speech.
7.foolish, meaningless, or incoherent speech; prattle.
8.a murmuring sound or a confusion of sounds.
9.babbling*(def 2).
10.Telecommunications.*a confused mixture of extraneous sounds in a circuit, resulting from cross talk from other channels.

negative action and intention disguised in the garb of positive assimilation:

A Foreign body should be planted in the heart of this nation...“
There are people who control spacious territories teeming with manifest and hidden resources. They dominate the intersections of world routes. Their lands were the cradles of human civilizations and religions.
These people have one faith, one language, one history and the same aspirations.
No natural barriers can isolate these people from one another ... if, per chance, this nation were to be unified into one state, it would then take the fate of the world into its hands and would separate Europe from the rest of the world.
Taking these considerations seriously, a foreign body should be planted in the heart of this nation to prevent the convergence of its wings in such a way that it could exhaust its powers in never-ending wars. It could also serve as a springboard for the West to gain its coveted objects.”

1902 - Sir Campbell Bannerman, Prime Minister of Britain [1905-08]*

34.*We have already sent down to you verses making things clear,
an illustration from (the story of) people who passed away before you, and an admonition for those who fear ((Allah)).
35.*Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The Parable of His Light is as if there were a Niche and within it a Lamp: the Lamp enclosed in Glass: the glass as it were a brilliant star: Lit from a blessed Tree, an Olive, neither of the east nor of the west, whose oil is well-nigh luminous, though fire scarce touched it: Light upon Light! Allah doth guide whom He will to His Light: Allah doth set forth Parables for men: and Allah doth know all things.
36.*(Lit is such a Light) in houses, which Allah hath permitted to be raised to honour; for the celebration, in them, of His name: In them is He glorified in the mornings and in the evenings, (again and again),-
37.*By men whom neither traffic nor merchandise can divert from the Remembrance of Allah, nor from regular Prayer, nor from the practice of regular Charity: Their (only) fear is for the Day when hearts and eyes will be transformed (in a world wholly new),-38.*That Allah may reward them according to the best of their deeds, and add even more for them out of His Grace: for Allah doth provide for those whom He will, without measure.

39.*But the Unbelievers,- their deeds are like a mirage in sandy deserts, which the man parched with thirst mistakes for water; until when he comes up to it, he finds it to be nothing: But he finds Allah (ever) with him, and Allah will pay him his account: and Allah is swift in taking account.

40.*Or (the Unbelievers' state) is like the depths of darkness in a vast deep ocean, overwhelmed with billow topped by billow, topped by (dark) clouds: depths of darkness, one above another: if a man stretches out his hands, he can hardly see it! for any to whom Allah giveth not light, there is no light!

sulaiman (pbuh) used the tools available to get the satans to build a real house of Allah, and he eatablished Allah's laws - now that's positive and optimistic.
wa maa kafara sulaimaan walaakinna asshayaatueena kafaroo.




ENTERED APPRENTICE TRACING BOARD

انطَلِقُوا إِلَى ظِلٍّ ذِي ثَلَاثِ شُعَبٍ
Khan:
"Depart you to a shadow (of Hell-fire smoke ascending) in three columns,
077:030*Maulana:Walk on to the shadow, having three branches,
077:030*Pickthal: Depart unto the shadow falling threefold,
077:030*Rashad:Go to a shade of three different densities.
077:030*Sarwar:Proceed to that shadow, rising in three columns
077:030*Shakir:Walk on to the covering having three branches,
077:030*Sherali:'Aye, move on towards a three-pronged shadow,
077:030*Yusufali:" Depart ye to a Shadow (of smoke ascending) in three columns,

لَا ظَلِيلٍ وَلَا يُغْنِي مِنَ اللَّهَبِ
077:031*Khan:"Neither shading, nor of any use against the fierce flame of the Fire."

And [remember, O Muhammad], when those who disbelieved plotted against you to restrain you or kill you or evict you [from Makkah].
But they plan, and Allah plans. And Allah is the best of planners.
Quran 8:30

And they (disbelievers) plotted [to kill 'Iesa (Jesus)],
and Allah planned too.
And Allah is the Best of the planners.
Quran 3:54

it would be useful at this instance to delve into the revelation of surah al Fussilat (expounded-made clear), it is available in the link below, and when the Prophet pbuh chose to use it as a response:

some lessons from the interaction:
They (the infidels from Quraish) had given a clear notice to the Holy Prophet to the effect: "You may continue your mission of inviting the people to yourself,
but we would go on opposing you as hard as we can to frustrate your mission."

For this object they had devised the following plan: Whenever the Holy Prophet or a follower of his would try to recite the Qur'an before the people, they would at once raise such a hue and cry that no one could hear anything.

They were desperately trying to misconstrue the verses of the Qur'an and spread every kind of misunderstanding among the people. They misconstrued everything and found fault even with the straightforward things.
They would isolate words and sentences from their right context, from here and there, and would add their own words in order to put new meanings on them so as to mislead the people about the Quran and the Messenger who presented it.

Wretched is the man who gets as company such satans from among men and jinn, who show him nothing but green and pleasant, who make his follies seem fair to him, who neither let him think aright himself nor let him hear right from others. But on the Day of Reckoning when their doom overtakes them, each one of them will say that if he happened to get hold of those who had misled and deceived him in the world, he would trample them under his foot.

This Quran is an unchangeable Book. You can not defeat it by your machinations and falsehoods.
Whether falsehood comes from the front or makes a secret and indirect attack from behind, it cannot succeed in refuting it.

http://www.searchtruth.com/tafsir/Quran/41/index.html

1.*Those who reject Allah and hinder (men) from the Path of Allah,- their deeds will Allah render astray (from their mark).
2.*But those who believe and work deeds of righteousness, and believe in the (Revelation) sent down to Muhammad - for it is the Truth from their Lord,- He will remove from them their ills and improve their condition.
3.*This because those who reject Allah follow falsehood.
while those who believe follow the Truth from their Lord:
Thus does Allah set forth for men their lessons by similitudes.

from Chapter Muhammad

optimism in the wrong state of mind and being can be dangerous:

[greenhill]

Another way of putting optimistic or pessimistic perspectives will be to take a glass that's half filled. Half full or half empty is the perspective.

Without much thought in the past, I would put myself in the optimist category and add confident (as in believing I am capable enough).

I have long ago learnt that success or failure is independent of the belief in capabilities and effort, though it has bearings on increasing the odds into our favour.

But this thread has made me wonder.. that it is an 'adopted' state of mind, like confidence, you are subtly categorised, defined and understood via psychological definitions that can become self fulfilling. As usual, I'm not sure if I'm clear as to the point I'm trying to form as result of this thread prodding me

Makes me think that there are more of these subtle 'definitions out there to make people feel inadequate about themselves...

Hmmmm... then...

...in desperation....

....we turn to the 'solution' offered (by the Judeo - Christian Alliance) (What? How did I get here?)

Better go already!

[M.I.A.]

why cant you be like normal people and click the poll already!

...stop derailing the thread!

;P