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THE SOLUTION TO SECRET SORROWS

are creating a world of unhappiness for themselves by their own ef-
forts. As Allah tells us in the verse, "Allah does not wrong people in
any way; rather it is people who wrong themselves" (Surah Yunus:
44), these people are only tormenting themselves.
The unhappiness experienced by these people leads to the real-
ity described by Allah in the verse, "Leave them then until they
meet their Day when they will be struck down by the Blast: the
Day their ploys will not profit them at all and they will not be
helped. And those who do wrong will have a punishment besides
that, but most of them do not know it" (Surat at-Tur: 45-47). In the
Hereafter, Allah gives people recompense for what they do on Earth,
but He also warns people that a torment of which most are not even
aware will begin in the life of this world.
Allah refers to the difficulties that people who turn away from
the faith will experience in worldly life, and what they will receive
in the Hereafter in this verse: "... if anyone turns away from My re-
minder, his life will be a dark and narrow one, and on the Day of
Resurrection We will gather him blind" (Surah Ta Ha: 124). Allah
has shown people the way to protect themselves from this trouble
and, as we have noted before, it is possible to do so through genuine
sincerity and a deep faith in Allah.

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