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

The Creation of Weakness and Illness Is

From Allah’s Endless Mercy

Those who do not follow the Qur’an’s morality interpret
every anxiety, hardship, or illness as a disaster that upsets

their orderly lives and destroys their dreams. This is because
their plans for the future, which they expect to realize, deny
such possibilities, even though such things happen every
day. There is no place in their plans for a sudden illness or an
accident. Many, even though they have a healthy body, think
that they cannot confront these kinds of misfortune that hap-
pen to thousands of people every day. As a result, when con-

fronted with such events, they become rebellious and begin
to question Allah’s destiny for them.
Seeing the cause of illness only in terms of germs and
viruses, or traffic accidents as the result of bad driving, they
remain unaware of the fact that Allah creates, and therefore
controls and has knowledge of, every cause. If a person be-
comes very ill because of a virus, this illness is included in
Allah’s knowledge. If a person is hit by a car and is left para-
lyzed, this is also subject to the fate that Allah has created.

People are free to do whatever they want, but they cannot
change their destiny, for it surrounds them on all sides. Those
who submit to Allah’s eternal power and trust in His endless
wisdom and mercy view each illness, accident, and disaster
as a temporary test that will end in good.
What is important in such instances is that the believers
show their good moral character while submitting to their

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