As one who has devoted his or her entire life to Allah, optimism is the ability to recognize that things will always be for your benefit. Recognize Who is on your side.
O you who believe! Spend charitably out of what We have provided for you, before a Day Hereafter come in which there shall be no trade, nor friendship, nor intercession. Then as to the disbelievers who embrace false gods, it is they who are the wrongdoers, godless in heart. Allah! There is nothing worthy of worship but Him, the All-Living, the Self-Subsisting All-Sustaining One. Slumber does not overtake Him, nor does sleep. To Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth. Who shall intercede with Him, except by His permission? He knows what lies before them and what lies behind them. And, they do not comprehend anything of His knowledge, except that which He wills. His Seat of Divinity extends over the heavens and the earth, and preserving them does not fatigue Him. For He is the Ever-Exalted, the Magnificent.
There shall be no compulsion in religion! For truly righteousness has been made clearly distinct from perversity. Thus whoever disbelieves in false deities and believes in Allah alone has truly grasped the firmest handhold, which is forever unbreakable. And Allah is all-hearing, all-knowing. Allah is the Patron of those who believe. He brings them out from the veils of darkness into the light. And those who disbelieve, their patrons are false deities. They bring them out of the light into the veils of darkness. These are the companions of the Fire of Hell. They shall abide therein forever. – Quran 2:254-257
