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In the Name of Allah, The All-Merciful and Most Merciful

Companions of the Garden, in fulfillment of the true
promise made to them. (Surat al-Ahqaf, 16)
These glad tidings manifest the All-Merciful and Most
Merciful Allah’s endless generosity to His servants, as does
His changing of bad deeds into good. The Qur’an tells us of
this in the following words:

Except for those who repent, believe, and act rightly:
Allah will transform the wrong actions of such people
into good – Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. For
certainly all who repent and act rightly have turned sin-
cerely toward Allah. (Surat al-Furqan, 70-71)

But as for those who believe, do right actions, and be-
lieve in what has been sent down to Muhammad – and it
is the truth from their Lord – He will erase their bad ac-
tions and improve their condition. (Surah Muhammad,
2)

Believers believe in Allah Who created them, obey His
commands and prohibitions, live according to the Qur’an’s
morality, and, most importantly, have great hope and ex-
pectation for the Afterlife. As a result, they are far removed
from all sadness and spiritual anxiety, for they believe in
destiny and that Allah has created everything. And so they
submit to whatever happens, for “nothing can happen to us

except what Allah has ordained for us” (Surat at-Tawba,
51). They seek Allah’s favor and say: “Allah is enough for
us and the Best of Guardians” (Surah Al ‘Imran, 173).
Since the world is a place of trial, believers will en-
counter hunger, illness, sleeplessness, accidents, material

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