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THERE IS GOOD IN EVERY EVENT

to God for the gift of life. They have faith that God may have
protected them from committing an evil act or against too
much attachment for possessions. Accordingly, they give their
most inner thanks to God because no loss in this world equals

the loss in the hereafter. Loss in the hereafter means eternal and
intolerable punishment (unless God wills otherwise). Those
who keep themselves occupied with the remembrance of the
hereafter view every event as goodness and beauty leading to
the hereafter. Those who overcome such ordeals will recognise
their weaknesses before God, and will reconsider how much
they are in need of Him. They will turn to God with more
humility through prayers and that remembrance will bring
them closer to Him. This is surely an enormous benefit to one's
hereafter. These aside, by putting absolute trust in God and
showing steadfastness, they will earn God's pleasure and will
be rewarded with eternal bliss.
Man should seek goodness and beauty not only in
ordeals, but also in daily routines. For example, burning the
food one has painstakingly prepared may lead that person to
take numerous measures which would, by the Will of God,

prevent a more serious accident in the future. A young
person might have failed the college admission test he had
pinned his hopes for a future on. He should, however, know
that there is goodness in his failure, too; he should be able to
think that God might have willed him to avoid some adverse
circumstances or people and thereby feel pleased with the
result. Alternatively, thinking that God has placed in every
event many other blessings which are either obvious or are
way beyond the imagination, believers see the beauty of full
submission to the guidance of God.