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FAITH: THE WAY TO HAPPINESS

for their benefit will suffer a great loss. Since these people do not
evaluate events in accordance with Qur'anic criteria, they approach
everything they encounter from a negative point of view and so
have a hopeless and pessimistic mindset. The only way to pro t e c t
oneself from this is to surrender to fate in the full sense and try to
find the divine wisdom in every event. This is a way to happiness
which ignorant people cannot possibly know.
When people who do not submit to Allah and fate are con-
f ronted with undesirable events they take on an irritable state of
mind. This increases their distress and discomfort even further. It is
t roubling to such people to come across events whose source they
do not know and whose cause they do not understand. This trouble
represents the consequences in this world for those who resist Allah.
It is clear there f o re, that the torment of those who resist Allah and
avoid serving Him has its beginnings here on Earth. Allah points to
this reality in the Qur'an:
We will give them a taste of lesser punishment before the
greater punishment, so that hopefully they will turn back.
(Surat as-Sajda: 21)
The only things people who do not submit to fate as they
should will meet in this world are unhappiness and problems. The
comfort, tranquility and security a person feels are in direct propor-
tion to the strength of his faith and trust in fate and his submission
to Allah. By this means he will both achieve a balanced spiritual
state and be able to see more clearly the good and divine purpose in
the events he encounters.

They Have Adopted Insincerity as a Principle
To put it briefly, sincerity can be defined as behaving in a deter-

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