Authorship
Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips
Reviewing
Muhammad AbdulRaoof
Short Description
Discusses the question
of why Allah created, and why Allah created humans
Part Six
Reminder
Tests
sometimes serve as a punishing reminder to those who have gone astray
and an encouragement for them to return to the correct path. When people
deviate, they seldom listen to the advice of those around them.
However, when a calamity strikes them or those near and dear to them, it
jolts those who still have some faith into recognizing their error.
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“I64 will make them taste a lesser punishment before the greater punishment that perhaps they may return [to the right path].”
Qur’an 32:21
The test of calamities which remind humankind of their deviation may come in the form of man’s inhumanity to his fellow man, as in the case of the unspeakable atrocities unleashed by the Serbs against the Bosnian Muslims who had strayed far away from Islam, or Saddam’s brutal invasion of Kuwait and America’s subsequent indiscriminate bombing of civilian targets in Iraq. Allah points out that whatever humans suffer at the hands of other humans, they brought upon themselves. However, the suffering is a reminder to return to the path of righteousness.
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“Corruption has appeared on the land and in the sea because of what man’s hands have earned, in order that [Allah] may make them taste a part of what they have done, and in order that they may return [to the right path].”
Qur’an 30:41
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Qur’an 32:21
The test of calamities which remind humankind of their deviation may come in the form of man’s inhumanity to his fellow man, as in the case of the unspeakable atrocities unleashed by the Serbs against the Bosnian Muslims who had strayed far away from Islam, or Saddam’s brutal invasion of Kuwait and America’s subsequent indiscriminate bombing of civilian targets in Iraq. Allah points out that whatever humans suffer at the hands of other humans, they brought upon themselves. However, the suffering is a reminder to return to the path of righteousness.
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“Corruption has appeared on the land and in the sea because of what man’s hands have earned, in order that [Allah] may make them taste a part of what they have done, and in order that they may return [to the right path].”
Qur’an 30:41
64 “We" in the original Arabic is the majestic ’we.’ referring to God.
Hypocrisy
Calamities also expose those who falsely claim faith, as well as slrew those who disbelieve that they choose hell by their own free will. There have been many cases of people converting to Islam for the wrong reasons, and after finding more difficulties in their lives than prior to their conversion, they revert to their former beliefs. God states in Chapter al-‘Ankaboot of the final revelation:
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“Do people imagine that they will be left alone and not tested with affliction because they say, ‘We believe’? Indeed, I65 have tested those before you. Allah will know those who are truthful and those who lie.”
Qur’an 29:2
Punishment
Those who transgress the limits set by God expose themselves to punishment in this life and the next. Throughout the Qur’an, Allah describes numerous past nations who rejected divine guidance and were subsequently destroyed. These stories serve as warnings to humanity of the consequences of rebellion against the commandments of God. In Chapter an-Noor, Allah gives a general warning as follows:
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“Let those who contradict his command beware a trial or a severe punishment.”
Qur’an 24:63
The punishment may come in a variety of different ways. Perhaps the most obvious punishment afflicting humankind in all countries today is the disease AIDS,66 which appeared for the first time in medical history in the beginning of the ’80’s.67 The vast majority of those who are affected by it around the globe are the promiscuous. Initially homosexuals were the main victims, then bisexuals, followed by promiscuous heterosexuals and intravenous drug users. All of these groups were in open rebellion against the divine laws that restrict sexual relations to males and females within the bounds of marriage and those laws that prohibit the use of intoxicants. Some may point out that AIDS was also spread to chaste individuals through blood transfusions and to children by their parents. However, medical statistics show that such cases are relatively few in comparison to the other categories. In any case, Allah has warned in Chapter al-Anfaal of the final revelation that when His punishment comes it is not limited to the evil, but affects the society as a whole.
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66 Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a condition transmitted by a virus which attacks the body’s system of defence against disease, leaving the sufferer extremely vulnerable to disease and likely to die eventually from any one that he or she catches. (Chambers Pocket Dictionary, p. 19.)67 It was first identified in 1981. (The New Encyclopaedia Britanmca,
vol. 10, p. 676.)
“Let those who contradict his command beware a trial or a severe punishment.”
Qur’an 24:63
The punishment may come in a variety of different ways. Perhaps the most obvious punishment afflicting humankind in all countries today is the disease AIDS,66 which appeared for the first time in medical history in the beginning of the ’80’s.67 The vast majority of those who are affected by it around the globe are the promiscuous. Initially homosexuals were the main victims, then bisexuals, followed by promiscuous heterosexuals and intravenous drug users. All of these groups were in open rebellion against the divine laws that restrict sexual relations to males and females within the bounds of marriage and those laws that prohibit the use of intoxicants. Some may point out that AIDS was also spread to chaste individuals through blood transfusions and to children by their parents. However, medical statistics show that such cases are relatively few in comparison to the other categories. In any case, Allah has warned in Chapter al-Anfaal of the final revelation that when His punishment comes it is not limited to the evil, but affects the society as a whole.
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66 Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a condition transmitted by a virus which attacks the body’s system of defence against disease, leaving the sufferer extremely vulnerable to disease and likely to die eventually from any one that he or she catches. (Chambers Pocket Dictionary, p. 19.)67 It was first identified in 1981. (The New Encyclopaedia Britanmca,
vol. 10, p. 676.)
“Beware of a trial which will not afflict only the sinful among you, and know that Allah is severe in punishment.”
Qur’an 8:25
One thousand four hundred years ago Prophet Muhammad (M) prophesied the coming of such a trial. Ibn ‘Umar quoted him as saying, “ Whenever promiscuity is openly practiced among a people, a plague and anguish will spread among them which was unknown to their predecessors ”68 However, AIDS is only one in a series of diseases. Before AIDS, a warning came in the form of another disease called herpes, which became widespread among the sexually promiscuous beginning in the 1960s and ’70s. It was declared an epidemic in America in the mid-seventies, and there is no known cure for it until today. People’s attention switched from it by the end of the ’70s because it was not fatal,69 while AIDS was.
Qur’an 8:25
One thousand four hundred years ago Prophet Muhammad (M) prophesied the coming of such a trial. Ibn ‘Umar quoted him as saying, “ Whenever promiscuity is openly practiced among a people, a plague and anguish will spread among them which was unknown to their predecessors ”68 However, AIDS is only one in a series of diseases. Before AIDS, a warning came in the form of another disease called herpes, which became widespread among the sexually promiscuous beginning in the 1960s and ’70s. It was declared an epidemic in America in the mid-seventies, and there is no known cure for it until today. People’s attention switched from it by the end of the ’70s because it was not fatal,69 while AIDS was.
69 Collected by Ibn Maajah and authenticated in Saheeh Sunan Ibn Maajah, vol. 2, p. 370, no. 3246.
69 When symptoms occur, fever and malaise are followed by burning pain in the genital area and enlargement of the lymph nodes in the groin. Blisters and small ulcers are usually found in the area of infection, and there is severe pain and burning upon urination. (The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, vol. 21. p. 536.
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