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Muslims believe that every event that happens to the believer has some sort of goodness in it. God states that even events that seem to be unfavorable may have a lot of good in them:
[ It may well be that you dislike something in which Allah has placed a lot of good.] (An-Nisaa' 4:19) [It may be that you hate something when it is good for you and it may be that you love something when it is bad for you. Allah knows and you do not know.] (Al-Baqarah 2:216), aware of this secret, believers seek goodness and beauty in every event. No seemingly adverse incident, hardship, or mischief ails or worries them. They maintain their composure, whether the experience is insignificant or a serious ordeal.Sincere Muslims even see goodness and Divine purpose in the loss of all their hard earned possessions. They express gratitude to God for the gift of life.
They have faith that God may have protected them from committing an evil act or against too much attachment for possessions.Accordingly, believers give their most inner thanks to Him because no loss in this world equals the loss in the hereafter. Loss in the hereafter means eternal and intolerable punishment, unless God wills otherwise.Those who keep themselves occupied with the remembrance of the hereafter view every event as goodness and beauty leading to the hereafter.
Those who overcome such ordeals will recognize their weaknesses before God and will reconsider how much they are in need of Him. They will turn to God with much humility through prayers and remembrance that will bring them closer to Him. This is surely an enormous benefit to one's Hereafter.These aside, by putting absolute trust in God and showing steadfastness, they will earn His pleasure and will be rewarded with eternal bliss. Muslims believe that people should seek goodness and beauty not only in ordeals, but also in daily routines.
For example, burning the food one has painstakingly prepared may lead one to take numerous measures that would, by the will of God, prevent a more serious accident in the future. A young person might fail the college admission test on which all hopes for the future had been pinned.People should, however, know that there is goodness in their failure, too; they should be able to think that God might have willed them to avoid some adverse circumstances or people and thereby feel pleased with the result.
Alternatively, by thinking that God has placed in every event many other blessings that are either obvious or beyond the imagination, believers see the beauty of full submission to the guidance of God. Believers may not always see the goodness and divine purpose behind every incident. Even if this is the case, they know for certain that there is goodness in all events. They offer prayers to God asking Him discover the goodness and divine purpose hidden behind everything that happens.Those who are aware that everything has a purpose in God's creation never use phrases such as "I wish I had not done this" or "I wish I had not said that" and so on.
Mistakes, defects, or seemingly unfortunate events essentially include blessings, and each one of them is the trial of destiny. God gives important lessons and reminders to humans in the destiny He creates individually for each person. For those who can evaluate with insight, there are no mistakes or adversities, but rather lessons, warnings, and wisdom from God.Consequently, Muslims believe that no matter what one encounters in this life, the ordeals will all eventually end. A person who recalls a hardship will be amazed that it is nothing more than a reminiscence in the mind.
Accordingly, one day will come and the most painful experience will become only a memory, more like the image of a scene from a movie. Only one thing will remain: the attitude a person assumed during the time of hardship and whether God is pleased with him or her.People will not be called to account for their experiences, but rather for their attitudes, thoughts, and sincerity they displayed at the time of these experiences.
Therefore, according to Islamic teachings, endeavoring to see the goodness and the divine purpose God creates in the situations encountered and taking a positive attitude will bring bliss to believers both in this world and in the hereafter.
No sorrow or fear awaits these believers who are aware of this secret. Similarly, no one, no event can create fear, harm, or distress in this world or in the hereafter. God reveals this secret in the Qur'an: [Those who follow My guidance will feel no fear and will know no sorrow.] (Al-Baqarah 2:38)
[Yes, the closer servants of Allah will feel no fear nor shall they grieve: those who believe and have done their duty, there is good news for them in the life of the world and in the Hereafter. There is no changing the words of Allah. That is the great victory.] (Yunus 10:62-64
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * This article is republished with some editorial changes from the author's book, Some Secrets of the Qur'an, with kind permission. The author, who writes under the pen-name Harun Yahya, was born in Ankara in 1956. He studied arts at Istanbul's Mimar Sinan University and philosophy at Istanbul University. Since the 1980s, the author has published many books on political, faith-related and scientific issues. Some of the books of the author have been translated into English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Albanian, Arabic, Polish, Russian, Bosnian, Indonesian, Turkish, Tatar, Urdu and Malay.
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