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[Machine] "It is better for one of you to bite on a live coal until it cools down or to hold on to it until it cools down than to say something that Allah has decreed, 'I wish it had not happened'."  

الطبراني:٩١٧١حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ ثنا أَبُو نُعَيْمٍ ثنا الْمَسْعُودِيُّ عَنْ أَبِي حُصَيْنٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ بَابَاهِ قَالَ قَالَ عَبْدُ اللهِ

«لَأَنْ يَعَضَّ أَحَدُكُمْ عَلَى جَمْرَةٍ حَتَّى تَبْرُدَ أَوْ يُمْسِكَ عَلَيْهَا حَتَّى تَبْرُدَ خَيْرٌ مِنْ أَنْ يَقُولَ لِأَمْرٍ قَضَاهُ اللهُ لَيْتَهُ لَمْ يَكُنْ»