Page 105 - The Solution To Secret Sorrows

Harun Yahya

People Who Surrender to Hopelessness
in This World Should Fear Joining Those
Who Abandon All Hope of Salvation
in the Hereafter for Eternity
When faced with even the slightest difficulty, those who are in-
capable of appreciating Allah's boundless power and mercy and His
love for His servants and generosity towards them, immediately
give way to hopelessness and abandon their hopes of Allah's mercy.
Allah tells us that this is a characteristic of unbelievers in the verse,
"... Do not despair of solace from Allah. No one despairs of solace
from Allah except for people who are disbelievers" (Surah Yusuf:
87). For this reason, those who cannot overcome this weakness in
their morality, despite knowing this provision of the Qur'an, should
fear being left in such sorrow for all eternity and falling into a truly
hopeless situation in the Hereafter.
In the Qur'an, Allah refers to the hopelessness of people in Hell:
It will not be eased for them. They will be crushed there by
despair. (Surat az-Zukhruf: 75)
On the Day the Hour arrives, the evildoers will be in de-
spair. (Surat ar-Rum: 12)

People Ungrateful for the Blessings They Possess
Should Remember that in the Hereafter,
They May Be Deprived of All Blessings
Those who take no pleasure from the beautiful things around
them, are ungrateful for the blessings they do possess and do not
praise Allah's bounty as they should, will spend their worldly lives
unhappily. Because they have not returned gratitude for the bless-
ings Allah has given them, they will receive a life in Hell as repay-
ment for their ingratitude. In the verses of the Qur'an, Allah tells us

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