Why Allah (SWT) tests us: questions and answers

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It is well known that Allah (SWT) safeguards the noble Quran so that it remains unchanged to this day. The Injil and Tawrat, however, has been corrupted. I was researching why they were not preserved as well and found this answer:

"from what I understand, its not a matter of whether God knew what he was doing or not? Of course he knew what he was doing and that these books will eventually get corrupted. It is simply a test for the people. Will they let their ego and desire go to believe in the word of God or not? For example when God sent the Torah, the Jews were to believe and abide by it. but over time they corrupted it themselves and thus the Gospel was sent and they were to believe in that. So its basically another chance and reminder from God to the people to believe because the books and messengers are only sent for our benefit. when the final messenger and book came this was the last chance humanity got to believe and whoever believes in it today are the successful ones. its a test from God." https://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130919025204AAGoJnP

But why would Allah (SWT) create us simply to test us while knowing who will succeed and who will fail and then reward or punish accordingly? I know this may be a crude example but my understanding is that it's like an exam. It is meant to test your knowledge and the ones who pass are the ones who study hard and the ones that fail do not study. Allah (SWT) knows who will study and who will not. In rebuttal to those who slander and say God is sadistic and created us just to punish us (istighfar), allowing war criminals to live to old age and children to die, that is wrong. Salvation or damnation rests on the shoulders of the people. People can choose to drink water or poison. Those who do evil and prosper in this world will suffer in Jahanam for eternity while those who do good and suffer in dunya will be rewarded with Jannah. And Allah (SWT) is all-knowing and merciful.

Please let me know if my understanding is accurate.
 
As eternal benevolence and pre-eternal (azalee) wisdom necessitated, the Pre-Eternally All-Wise One created this world to be a place of trial, an arena of examination, a mirror to His Most Beautiful Names, and a page for the pen of Divine Determining and power. Now, trial and examination are the cause of growth and development. And growth causes the disposition to unfold. And this unfolding causes the abilities to become apparent. And this emergence of the abilities causes the relative truths to become evident. And the relative truths’ becoming evident causes the embroideries of the manifestations of the All-Glorious Maker’s Most Beautiful Names to be displayed, and the universe to be transformed into a missive of the Eternally Besought One. It is through this mystery of examination and the mystery of man’s accountability that the diamond-like essences of elevated spirits are purified of the coal-like matter of base spirits, and the two separated out from one another.

Thus, since it was for mysteries such as these, and for other most subtle and elevated instances of wisdom which we do not yet know of that the Pre-Eternally All-Wise One willed the world in this form, He also willed the change and transformation of this world for those instances of wisdom. He mixed together opposites for its change and transformation, and brought them face to face. Combining harm with benefit, including evil with good, and mingling ugliness with beauty, He kneaded them together like dough, and made the universe subject to the law of change and mutation, and the principle of transformation and perfection.

A day will come when this assembly of examination is closed, and the period of trial is finished, and the Divine Names have carried out their decree, and the pen of Divine Determining has completed writing its missives, and Divine power completed the embroideries of its art, and beings have fulfilled their duties, and creatures accomplished their acts of service, and everything has stated its meaning, and this world produced the seedlings of the hereafter, and the earth has displayed and exhibited all the miracles of power of the All-Powerful Maker, and all the wonders of His art, and this transient world has attached to the string of time the tableaux forming the panoramas of eternity.

For the eternal wisdom and pre-eternal beneficence of the All-Glorious Maker necessitate truths like the results of the examination and trial, the truths of those Divine Names’ manifestations, the truths of the missives of the pen of Divine Determining, the originals of those sample-like embroideries of art, the aims and benefits of the duties of beings, the wages of the acts of service of creatures, the truths of the meanings the book of the universe stated, the sprouting of the seeds of innate disposition, the opening of a Supreme Court of Judgement, the displaying of the sample-like panoramas taken from this world, the rending of the veil of apparent causes, and the surrendering of everything directly to the All-Glorious Creator. Since the All-Glorious Maker’s pre-eternal wisdom and beneficence necessitate these truths, they require the purification of those oppoites in order to deliver the world from change and transience, transformation and extinction, and to separate out the causes of change and the matters of conflict. And most certainly they will bring about the resurrection and purify those opposites in order to obtain these results.

Thus, as a result of this purification Hell will take on its eternal and dreadful form, and its inmates will manifest the threat:

And get you apart this day, O you sinners! (Qur'an 36:59)

While Paradise will assume its everlasting and majestic form, and its people and companions will manifest the address of:

Peace be upon you! Well have you done! Enter here to dwell for ever. (Qur'an 39:73)

Through His perfect power, the Pre-Eternally All-Wise One will give the inhabitants of these two houses eternal and permanent bodies which will not be subject to dissolution, change, old age, or decline. For there will be no causes of change, which are the cause of decline.

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