ok the only reason i joined these forums is to ask a question
regarding allah
first of all .. this is post of mere question and not intend to insult anyone's belief
the examples might be harsh .. but also are facts
second as my profile says am muslim " kind of "
i was muslim since birth but since few years a question poping in my head which
i found no answer for anywhere
this could be long but i'll try to make it as short as i can
the simple question is .. is allah all fair and wisdom ?
he certinally claim that ... and i certinally don't see this through life
the way i see it
i see poor ... i see rich
i see weak ... i see strong
i see healthy .. i see sick
there's beauty .. and there's ugly
there's happiness and there's sadness .. the list goes on forever
where is the wisdom and fairness in that ?
what sets the people from the first class above .. over the second class ?
in what rights people must work for their whole life for simplest things
that other got before they were born ?
what makes the person with happy life more special to have a good life
and what makes the person too ****ed to get bad life with poor resources ?
the same thing could be applied for all above ...
but on the outcome allah will judge eventally all of us for all i know with no regard
for our situations in life .. and the path some are " forced " to take
for example : a rich person allah have adviced honest marriage and to thank allah for his blessings on him
but a poor person who wouldn't afford marriage ? what did allah advice ? to fast
that's right .. by the way am an arab and i know what am talking about
a person who can't afford marriage god adviced him to fast " doesn't make sense to me "
but supposedly fasting reduce the lust
however this is a mere example
so god gave the rich the means to enjoy life .. while given the poor .. an extra duty replacing
one of life's joy
there's no wisdom in that ... if there's i certinaly don't see it
moving on ..
a person who lives hard life .. eiather is poor .. sick .. ect ect
have harsh life which sometimes is forced to ask these kind of question
which i view them as questions with no answer and will lead eventally to believe in god's existence .. but ain't worth of worship .. " the state i reached "
this is not question i came up with yesterday or so
this is the result of years in search for question that allah did not answer
by all means am 22 now .. this question been with me since i was 16
any one with suitable explaination please share .. it's most welcome AND needed
now please before attempt to answer this .. read below
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it's not that this the first time am asking such thing so i got answers which i consider
flawed and non realistic or not rational here they are so i don't get the same answers i dismissed in the past
answer 1 : the life is only one part of human existence
there's the afterlife where god would give those who weren't given in life
dismissed for : person with happy life and comfortable one is easier for him to thank god for his blessing and all
but what about a person with hard life who the life had forced to question the order of things
and to question allah's wisdom coz there's no answers enough
that person might be forced to say : why the hell i should work hard to get what i want and always not enough .. while other people born with life of luxury
and come up with the conclusion allah is not fair
such questions are poisoned but once asked there's no turning back and the answers so far
aren't convicing ... to point it simple
it's eaiser to thank god by rich person with happy life
than to have patience of person with bad life
answer 2 : life can't go on if we're all rich or poor there must be people who have money to give other people's to do jobs these people don't do
dismissed for : simply what makes the person with money better than the cleaners of the streets ? why are those who meant to clean .. and the others are meant to be rich to pay for it ?
again .. no wisdom .. no explination
answer 3 : allah gives who ever he wants
dismissed for : being the most stupid answer ever coz it doesn't answer anything but further prove my theory of allah ain't fair .. which i hate to say but forced to
answer 4 " my favorite " : allah got reason behind his acts which are reason a human beings with their limited thinking can't know them
dismissed for : the reason it's my favorite answer coz it's the closest to be true .. but alas also flawed
suppose allah really did has reason to do what he does .. a reason we cannot understand because
we were created in a way which we weren't meant to understand allah's acts
so when we see god's acts as wrong .. they got reason behind them
but since we are human beings and can't see those reasons .. it's stupid to consider those reasons without knowing them .. because allah and islam encourage us to use our brain
not to shove it in the dark and follow blindly
and when we use our brain .. we come out with questions that got no answers
answer 5 : world is a test
dismissed for : the test vary from people to other .. some tests are eaiser and some tests are harder ... again there's no fairness in that those who fail at hard test are wronged compared to those who success at simple tests
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so people .. any person with answers beside the above listed .. is very welcome
as much as i doubt there's any .. but nothing gained nothing lost
and thanks in advance
Asalaamu Alaikum, Brother firstly you or i are not in a position to judge the life of others. Be they poor, rich, handsome or ugly. We do not know what they go through on a daily basis. It maybe that a rich man although may look happy to you on the outiside but we know nothing about what turmoil or anguish he is going through in his life. You may look at a poor man but is may be completly content and happy with his life even more than the rich man.
Why are suicide rates in the west so much higher than anywhere else in the world? Even though the west has all of the riches in the world. Simply because people are not happy or content with their lives even though they may have wealth. Just a couple of months ago in the UK in London this millionnaire committed suicide. His family was asked his story and his mother said that he lived a normal life until he won a lot of money on th lottery. After that he bought himself a huge house and lived in it partying all of the time with his friends and he lived a life of indulgence. She mentioned sadly that out of the blue he just took his own life. When it was asked of her why her son did such a thing she said that if he did'nt win the lottery then he would still be alive today. When he won the lottery he bought whatever he wanted and he lived the high life but he was never happy. He died in a huge house all alone out of misery.
I also remember watching a documentary of a celebrity property developer who went to the slums of Bombay. He was astounded when he went there and what he had experienced. He said in a place of such poverty you would have thought that you would see people who would be miserable and depressed but they are so happy. He kept saying why are they so happy? He just could'nt understand why they were so much happier than people in the west. In the end he accepted that although these people may be the poorest people on earth but they were content and happy because they had family and friends around them and they had just about enough to survive and that was enough for them. That changed his whole perception of life because it taught him that money does not by happiness but happiness and contentment comes from other things like family, religion, feeling a sense of belonging etc.
Therefore you should never "judge" another and say just because he is rich he is happy or he is poor he is unhappy because you could not be more wrong. You do not know anything about a persons life and what they are going through and what they have experienced etc. We cannot look at another person and say they are happy even though we may always see them smile because what a person is truly going through we would never know. What is hidden inside is not necessery going to be reflected in the exterior of a person.
So accept the fact that you cannot judge who is happy or unhappy for that is something we are not aware of. We can only judge our own lives. Wealth and riches although they may bring some ease in a persons life certainly do not bring about satsifaction, contentment and happiness for it may be that a poor man has a much richer and fulfilling life than a rich man who although has all the riches in the world may live an empty existence.
So we are clear now that you can only judge your own life not the life of others. You also judged how some people are given easy or hard tests but again how can you truly know what kind of tests a person goes through throughout their lives?
A person does not just go through one or two tests in their lifetime but one goes through many tests all throughout ones life. A person may have a simple test one day and somewhere down the line get hit by a very hard test.
We all go through a varying degree of tests in our life. It doesn't mean that we are given one or two simple or hard tests. You or i will never know what kind of tests a person will go through in our lives. People do not always advertise their tests. If we were to know the kind of tests people are going through i promise we would all be shocked and think how would we ever have guessed that person is going through whay they are going through.
So my brother do not judge the life of others by what you see on the exteriour or what you hear about from others as you and i do not know how happy or sad they are throughout their lives and you and i do not know what kind of tests they will go through throughout their lives. You will only ever truly know about a fraction of a persons life and what they have been through as whatever is in the heart is hidden from us so again do not judge the life of others.
What you see on the outside is notnecesserily what is reflected on what a person is feeling on the inside. Wealth does not bring happiness nor does beauty or health. A person who is poor, ugly or ill maybe much happier and content in their life than a person who is rich, A ugly person may have more contentment, happiness and peace in their heart than a person who is beautiful. An ill person may feel more contentment and happiness than a person who has health.
It maybe that a wealthy person loses their wealth. Or a healthy person loses their health. Or a beautiful person loses their beauty. We do not know what we have until its gone. None of these things cause lifelong happiness and so you or i cannot judge happiness or sadness in ones life based on these things.
You need to ask yourself what is the purpose of my life? Is it to live, work, marry have kids and die? No of course not and if you are Muslim then you would know that is not the answer. We are only created for one purpose and that is to worship Allah. Along our journey in life we will be tested. So in effect we are in a test ground. So obviously on a test ground we are going to be tested. Maybe right now you are being tested more than me. But maybe tomorrow or next week a bigger test may come to me and your test maybe eased. Life is full of varying degree of tests.
If you have an important exam then will you pass if you don't revise? The simple fact is that if you don't work hard and make the effort then you will fail. Therefore you will have to work very hard to pass your exams. Sameway we are in an examination but the only difference is it can end at any second as we are not aware when our exam will come to an end. So just like an examination there will be easier and harder tests. So if we want to pass we need to put the effort in and that applies to anything in life. You have to work hard to get what you want. Sameway if you want Paradise then you have to work for it.
But let me ask you something. our life is on average 70 years. Lets say your 30. You have on average 40 years left in this life. Now if you devote 40 years of your life to Allah then you will gain eternity of bliss in return. Is that fair?
40 years worship= Eternity in Paradise
That is very unfair. Why should we be given eternity of bliss in Paradise for only 40 to 50 years of devotion? That doesn't seem fair to me that we should be given so much for such little devotion. That is being too generous but Allah is the most generous. For just 40 - 50 years of suffering and patience he will give eternity of bliss in Paradise. That is like a few seconds compared to eternity.
Now if a person suffered more and was patient relying on Allah, invested more into the hereafter as in worshipping and pleased Allah and another person just did minimal as in prayed, fasted and kept away from major sin etc then is it fair that they both go to the same Paradise? Of course not and that is because there are many different levels of Paradise depending on how much one put into the hereafter and pleasing Allah. The more suffering one endures with patience and the more one invests into the hereafter the higher the rank of that person will be in Paradise. The difference between one Paradise to another is like this earth and when you look up at the night sky and the star that you see far far away.
So everyone will get what they are entitled to according to their situation and what they went through in life . That is something we cannot know or judge. Only Allah has that knolwedge for he is the best of all judges and Ais most just and true justice will ONLY happen in the next world.
Therefore we are getting SO much more in return for our short life in this world yet we still complain? In the hereafter the currency will be good deeds not money or gold. Once we see our deeds we will wish we went through so much more suffering and endured it for the pleasure of Allah just so that we can gain more good deeds.
So the Reward of going through difficult trials and hardships is so much more than the suffering that oen would have gone through!
Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah Allah's Messenger (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) said, "On the Day of Resurrection, when people who have suffered affliction are given their reward, those who are healthy will wish their skins had been cut to pieces with scissors when they were in the world." (Al-Tirmidhi #1570)
We will wish we had invested so much more just so that could have had more good deeds. We will wish we were taken back to the earth so that we can live this life again just so that we can live a life pleasing Allah and doing good deeds but we will not be able to as this is our ONLY chance. We must NOT waste this one chance we have.
Shaythan is always trying to deter us from the right path and one of the ways he tries this is by telling us how unfair Allah is when in reality what we will get in return for our devotion and patience is WAY TOO MUCH than we deserve. It is a bit like your manager giving you a million pounds a day for the current job you are doing. The simple fact is will get MUCH more than we can ever comprehend for the little good we would have done in this world.
If we think deeply about the favours Allah has done for us for will never be able to comprehend his favours because they are too numerous. What is required of us is so little in return for what we will get inshallah. So let us realise that Allah has given us too too much for us to ever even think of thinking of him as being unfair. He created us so knows what is best for us.
And Allah knows best in all matters
