Hidden within every hardship and difficulty are innumerable spiritual bounties. Once this reality is recognized, a believer can successfully navigate even the most difficult ordeals. As the first book of the Wisdom of Hakim al-Ummah series, this brief anthology unveils many of the secrets that lay concealed within some of the greatest struggles in life. Collected from the works of the Great Sage of the Ummah, Mawlana Muhammad Ashraf Ali Thanwi and other great scholars, readers are sure to benefit from a complete change in perspective that will, inshAllah, allow them to face the most challenging moments of their lives.