Araf 94-95
94- WHENEVER WE SEND A PROPHET TO A PLACE, WE TAKE ITS PEOPLE WITH HARDSHIP AND WITH AFFLICTION SO THAT THEY MAY PLEAD FOR MERCY.
95- THEN WE REPLACE THE AFFLICTION WITH GOODNESS UNTIL THEY HAVE MORE OF EVERY THING AND SAY: “OUR FATHERS SUFFERED HARDSHIP AND AFFLICTIONS”, AND THEN WE TAKE THEM SUDDENLY AND UNEXPECTEDLY.
This is Allah’s policy on Earth. Allah the Highest sends prophets and messengers to guide people to His way. Allah the Highest said to Adam: “WE SAID: “GET DOWN FROM IT ALL OF YOU. WHEN YOU RECEIVE GUIDANCE FROM ME, THOSE WHO FOLLOW MY GUIDANCE, THERE WILL BE NO FEAR UPON THEM, NEITHER WILL THEY BE SADDENED” * “WHILE THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE AND REJECT OUR FAITH, THEY ARE THE PEOPLE OF THE FIRE, WHERE THEY WILL ABIDE FOREVER”. (S: 2 A: 38-39)
The majority of people reject the message carried by the prophets and messengers, at least to start with. Allah the Highest knows our nature, and knows that at times of difficulties and hardship, we tend to plead to Him, even the disbelievers plead to God for help. Soon after they are relieved of their difficulties and hardship, they tend to forget about them and after a generation has passed, they remember them as something that happened to their fathers and forefathers.
When they do forget, Allah the Highest may even give them more. Allah the Highest said: “HAVE THEY PLEADED WHEN OUR HARDSHIP CAME TO THEM? BUT THEIR HEARTS HARDENED, AND THE DEVIL BEAUTIFIED THEIR DEEDS FOR THEM * WHEN THEY FORGOT WHAT THEY WERE REMINDED WITH, WE OPENED THE DOORS OF EVERY THING GOOD FOR THEM, UNTIL THEY BECOME PLEASE WITH WHAT THEY WERE GIVEN, WE TOOK THEM UNEXPECTEDLY, THEN THEY WILL BE DESPONDENT * THEN THE UNJUST PEOPLE WILL BE ERADICATED, AND THANKS AND PRAISE TO ALLAH THE LORD OF ALL BEINGS”. (S: 6 A: 43-45)
Allah the Highest gives them time until they have plenty of everything before punishing them, because then the punishment is felt harder; as in falling from the top of a building is harder than falling off the curb.
The believers are the opposite of that, they gain from good things as well as afflictions in their lives. They are rewarded for being thankful for good things and are rewarded for being patient when afflictions hit them. Allah’s messenger, prayer and peace upon him, said: “I am amazed about the believer, whenever Allah decrees something for them, it will be good for him; if something good happen to him and he is thankful it will be good for him, and if afflicted and he was patient it is good for him”. (Bukhari & Muslim)
Allah’s messenger, prayer and peace upon him, also said: “Whatever affects the believer of tiredness or of sickness, or worry, grief or upset, even when he is pricked by a thorn, Allah will clear some of his sins away for it”? (B: Marda; 1 & M: Ber; 52 & A: 2; 303)
All circumstances and events can be positive and rewarding for the true believers, including serious affliction.
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