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The Life of this World According to the Idea of Karma

they will continue to trust in Him in the face of difficulties, and
whether they will show strength of character.
Anyone who knows that all the good things in the world are gifts
from Allah, who gives thanks to Allah for them and who lives by the
limits set by Allah, using these good things in a way that will be pleas-
ing to Him as set out in the Qur’an and the Sunnah, may expect to be

well rewarded in the life to come. However, anyone who regards
Allah's gifts as their own and forgets that they are gifts from Him, and
who becomes spoilt and proud because of these gifts and departs from
the correct path to do things that are prohibited, will meet with de-
served punishment in the next world. In the afterlife, everyone will re-

ceive the just recompense for their belief, trust in and acceptance of
Allah and His Messengers, or their rejection of Him and of them, and
for the good and bad things they have done. Allah tells us in the fol-

The life of this world is a place of testing, a test that lasts no longer than the blink of an eye.
Allah tests every individual by means of his reactions to the events he encounters in the life
of this world.

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