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YES i know Allah is oft merciful but what if you just feel in in heeart you are being punished and deep down you know ur being punished there is no other way to explain it what if the events that has happened in your life has just keeps taking you away from allah i mean you just dont feel the love and mercy like before your just always affraid affraid of everything and everyone cant escape any of it past future present. Most people say anxiety and depression are cause of ones sins so how long is a person suppose to suffer. what if everything and everyone has been taken away and your left alone with no one to talk to or turn to know one who understands. thnan you feel ungreateful when you complain cause how can you complain when you might have caused this because of your sins yes allah is mercifull but he is also sever in punishment.
There are so many things that goes wrong in this world ok im not innocent so i deserve all injustice and every bad thing that i get but what aout those innocent people who get their life ruin by this and that and other.
assalamu alaykum
I pray to Allah that what I say doesn't sound harsh or insenstive. You know Allah is Merciful already. So, I just want to say sis/bro that if you feel you are being punished, then please please still be grateful to Allah. I know it might sound strange to you that I say this. But I say it because for every suffering some of your sins are erased. Allah subhana wa ta'ala doesn't even let a believer suffer without rewarding him for it. And be grateful that what seems like a big punishment now is nothing compared to the punishments in the here-after. Even our sufferings are a blessing if it means we will escape the punishment for those sins in the here-after.
Put your trust in Him totally. When things go 'wrong' for me I dont see them as going wrong. I see them as barriers against something worse that might've happened. I see them as neutralizers for my sins. If I feel Im being punished due to my own sins, I am still grateful, I'm being punished now rather than in the akhirah. By changing your perspective on things, you will find it easier to cope with whatever life has in store for you. By being grateful to Him and accepting everything as His will, you are showing complete submission to Him. Will He then not make ease for you?
On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), who said that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said:
“Allah the Almighty said:
‘I am as My servant thinks I am (1). I am with him when he makes mention of Me. If he makes mention of Me to himself, I make mention of him to Myself; and if he makes mention of Me in an assembly, I make mention of him in an assembly better than it. And if he draws near to Me an arm’s length, I draw near to him a fathom’s length. And if he comes to Me walking, I go to him at speed.”
Men leave their families and homes in search of Allah, when Allah is closer to us than our jugular vein.
Allâh is "closer to him (the human) than [his] jugular vein."(Quran 50.16)
InshaAllah turn to Him as He has said and He will fulfil His promise to you.
wa alaykum assalam.