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

loss, and other hardships as part of their destiny.
Understanding that these events were designed
to test their belief and that their patience will be
the source of their eternal reward in the
Hereafter, they also realize that these ordeals will
help them mature. Thus they entrust themselves
to Allah and remain content, joyful, and happy,
free of all anxiety and spiritual imbalance. In fact,

their joy and excitement actually increase.
This situation is quite the opposite for the
unbelievers, for they suffer spiritual distress and
various kinds of physical pain.
Their sense of fear, despair, ap-
prehension, pessimism, and neg-
ativity are the first stirrings of the pain

they will suffer in Hell. In the Qur’an, Allah de-
scribes those people who deviate from the true
path:
When Allah wills to guide
someone, He expands his [or
her] breast to Islam. When He
wills to misguide someone, He makes his [or
her] breast narrow and constrict-
ed, as if he [or] she were

climbing up into the sky.
That is how Allah de-
files the unbeliev-
ers. (Surat al-
An’am, 125)

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