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Sep 24, 2013 · Explore the relationship between calamity, human sin, and divine predestination in this enlightening discussion. The Quran emphasizes that disasters stem from our actions, while Hadith encourages us to accept Allahs will without succumbing to selfdoubt or despair.
- Allah Created All Things, Whether Lawful Or Unlawful
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- Allah Created All Things, Whether Lawful Or Unlawful
Oct 12, 2005 · One of the reasons for calamities is sins, but that is not the only reason. Allaah may test some of His slaves who did not sin, so that they may attain the reward of the patient, and thus be raised in status. Allaah may also test some children, who have no sin.
Jul 15, 2014 · Ali on Trials: Calamities due to sin, removed by repentance. Ibn al-Qayyim reported: Ali ibn Abi Talib, may Allah be pleased with him, said, “A trial is not sent down but due to a sin, and it is not lifted but with repentance.”.
The trials and challenges we face in life due to our families, illnesses, or finances can also be calamities. In other words, we may sometimes be tested through our offspring, health, or wealth. And this continues until we meet Allah Almighty, completely cleansed of our sins.
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Jesus’s response was brief and blunt: What Jesus didn’t say was shocking. He said nothing about a messianic deliverance of God’s people from the humiliating Roman oppression and the grievous Gentile occupation of the Promised Land. He said nothing about the offense to God’s glory in the temple’s defilement. He said nothing about specific sins the G...
The people listening to Jesus that day were looking for an answer that all people of all eras look for: Why this suffering? Why this evil, and why did it befall these victims? What can I do to escape from it befalling me? We know, not only from this text in Luke 13:1–5 but from numerous places in Scripture, that many held to a theology of suffering...
That last point was Jesus’s main point, the urgent message he wanted the people to hear in the headline-news tragedies of the day. Whether perishing came through the agency of evil human volition (Pilate), or the various effects of futility-infused creation (falling tower), or, as he would address just a few verses later, the effects of evil spirit...
Jesus is not simplistic when it comes to the agonies of human suffering. Reading through the Gospels, we see that “repent” is not the only way he responds to our afflictions. He responded with manifest compassion and kindness to many, such as a mother about to bury her son (Luke 7:11–15), a leper who longed for healing (Matthew 8:1–4), and a man pa...
We are called to respond to the myriad human suffering in the world in many ways. But one takes precedence above them all. As with his original hearers, the urgent message Jesus wants all of us to hear in the headline-news tragedies of our day is “unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.” These are shocking words to hear in the face of suff...
Nov 28, 2023 · While the Bible speaks of God’s judgment and wrath through calamity, we must remember to respond to calamity in the right way. We must be humbled and repent of our sins, showing a willingness to turn away from evil and turn towards God.
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We are sinful men, and what we complain of, is far less than our sins deserve. We should complain to God, and not of him. We are apt, in times of calamity, to reflect on other people's ways, and blame them; but our duty is to search and try our own ways, that we may turn from evil to God.
