The Problem of Suffering Answered by Shaykh Gibril Haddad
I was walking home one day, when a man approached me. He knew I was a Muslim by looking at the hat I was wearing. Nevertheless, he kindly asked me a question that I could not answer. The question goes as follow:"If your lord is the most beneficent the most kind, why has he killed so many innocent people in Bam?" I was wondering if you would be able to answer his question.
You should be able to answer this question very easily because it is the most childish trap by which Satan tries to turn people into atheists.
The reply is the same as why did the Lord create death in the first place? Why not endless life filled with pleasures and bowls of roses? Why did he take away our Prophet Muhammad whose death is a worse disaster than Bam?
Because this life is not the purpose of existence but only a brief moment in the endless time promised human beings (hence Satan is enraged with envy against them), and these cataclysms are tests of faith as well as purifications for the believers as are all sufferings and indeed all joys on this earth.
For our Prophet said, upon him and his Family blessings and peace, that even a mosquito bite erases the sins and raises the degrees of a Believer; non-believers, on the other hand, are unable to see other than suffering and are stuck with "Ouch" instead of remembrance of their Lord. And yet! On their death-beds even *they* cry out My God, my God.
Hajj Gibril
I was walking home one day, when a man approached me. He knew I was a Muslim by looking at the hat I was wearing. Nevertheless, he kindly asked me a question that I could not answer. The question goes as follow:"If your lord is the most beneficent the most kind, why has he killed so many innocent people in Bam?" I was wondering if you would be able to answer his question.
You should be able to answer this question very easily because it is the most childish trap by which Satan tries to turn people into atheists.
The reply is the same as why did the Lord create death in the first place? Why not endless life filled with pleasures and bowls of roses? Why did he take away our Prophet Muhammad whose death is a worse disaster than Bam?
Because this life is not the purpose of existence but only a brief moment in the endless time promised human beings (hence Satan is enraged with envy against them), and these cataclysms are tests of faith as well as purifications for the believers as are all sufferings and indeed all joys on this earth.
For our Prophet said, upon him and his Family blessings and peace, that even a mosquito bite erases the sins and raises the degrees of a Believer; non-believers, on the other hand, are unable to see other than suffering and are stuck with "Ouch" instead of remembrance of their Lord. And yet! On their death-beds even *they* cry out My God, my God.
Hajj Gibril
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