Page 50 - The Secret Behind Our Trials

THE SECRET BEHIND OUR TRIALS
they get up one sleepless morning and try to please their friends by
supplying whatever they need. Most often the recipients of such
good deeds do not know who did it, and the doers, pleased with
their own moral conduct, would never let it be known if it caused
them any difficulty.
Allah says that Muslims have a deep sense of pleasure in living
according to the Qur'an's morality and find the opposite kind of be-
havior reprehensible:
However, Allah has given you love of faith and made it
pleasing to your hearts, and has made disbelief, deviance,
and disobedience hateful to you. People such as these are
rightly guided. It is a great favor from Allah and a blessing.
Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. (Surat al-Hujurat, 7-8)
But in spite of everything, Satan tries to make it appear that all
illegal activities are legitimate. To do this, Satan shows that those
who do evil things are in the majority. A large number of people take
forbidden money, pay no attention to what is permitted and what is
not, and transgress the tenets of the Qur'an's morality. Thus, Satan
always intimates the illogical idea that the majority is right and that
what it does makes sense. But the Qur'an says that those who do evil
deeds are not on the right path, even though they are in the majority:
"If you obeyed most of those on Earth, they would misguide you
from Allah's Way. They follow nothing but conjecture..." (Surat al-
An`am, 116). But, on the contrary, Allah says that only a small com-
munity of people has faith and that the majority are on the wrong
path. For this reason, Satan cannot fool believers but can only influ-
ence those whose belief is weak, whose minds are open to doubt
and apprehension, and who openly reject Allah.
The attentiveness of devout Muslims comes from their belief in
Allah and the unwavering decisiveness that this belief brings with

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