Page 93 - In The Name Of Allah, The All-Merciful And Most Merciful

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

destiny with great patience, morality, and desire to draw
even closer to Allah. Illness and accidents are periods when
believers can show their patience and good moral character
and they are important opportunities for them to draw close
to Allah. In His endless mercy, the Lord has created illness,
anxiety and hardship as tests and He desires by these means
that everything will turn out for the good of His faithful ser-
vants. In the Qur’an, Allah has determined the period of ill-

ness and told us about the importance of showing patience in
the face of hardship.
Rather, those with true devoutness are those who believe
in Allah and the Last Day, the Angels, the Book, and the
Prophets; and who, despite their love for it, give away
their wealth to their relatives, orphans and the very poor,

travelers and beggars, free slaves, and who perform
prayer and give alms; those who honor their contracts
when they make them, and are steadfast in poverty, ill-
ness, and battle. These are the people who are true. They
are the people who guard against evil. (Surat al-Baqara,
177)
As the period of illness has already been determined, we
need to realize that we must endure that particular test in a
way that pleases Allah, for He has created both the test and

the cure. We must not falter in the face of seeing no good in
the situation; rather, we must submit to Him in complete sin-
cerity and wait to see what happens, sure in our knowledge
that He will reward us with endless beauty in the Hereafter.
Most importantly, when we are passing through any given

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