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SEEING GOOD IN ALL

causes; they all act under the control of God. Man is
vulnerable to microbes because God wills it so. If a man
becomes seriously ill due to a virus, it happens because this
is within the knowledge of God. If a car hits a person, leaving

him disabled, this is also an event that has come into being by
God's Will. No matter how one strives to avoid them, he can
never alter the course of these happenings; not even a single
one of them. He cannot remove a single moment from his
destiny, because, fate is created as a whole. For a person who
submits himself to the All-Mighty God, and who trusts in His
infinite wisdom and mercy, an accident, disease or another
adversity, is a temporary trial that leads to ultimate bliss.
It is the good moral qualities that a person adheres to in
such circumstances that is important. Diseases and accidents
are the incidents in the face of which believers have the
opportunity to show forth their patience and good morals,
and through which they can draw nearer to God. In the
Qur'an, God discusses diseases while relating the importance
of patience through such times:

... Those with true righteousness are those who believe
in God 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 and to orphans and the
very poor, and to travellers and beggars and to set slaves
free, and who attend to their prayers and give alms;
those who honour their contracts when they make
them, and are steadfast in poverty and illness and in
battle. Those are the people who are true believers.
Those are the people who go in fear of God. (Surat al-
Baqara: 177)