Allahu ta’ala gives favours, blessings, gifts
that is, His kindness reaches everybody every moment, no matter
whether he is good or evil. Without discriminating, He sends everybody
property, children, food, the right way to Islam, guidance, safety,
and every goodness.
The difference is in the way people accept and
receive Allah's gifts, or in their failing receive them. It is
declared in the thirty-third ayat [1] of surat-un
–nahl [2]: "Allah ta'ala does not torment
or do injustice to his born servants (men). They treat themselves
cruelly and torment themselves with their own evil thoughts and
loathsome deeds that draw them to toments and sufferings". As
a matter of fact, while the sun shines over the laundryman and over
the line in the same manner, it tans the man's face while whitening
the linen. By the same token, though it shines over the apple and over
the pepper in the same manner, it reddens and sweetens the apple, yet
it reddens the pepper and makes it bitter. Though the sweetness and
the bitterness are caused by the rays of the sun, the difference
between them is not from the sun; it is from themselves. Because
Allahu ta'ala pities all people very much, more than a mother's mercy
upon her child, He has declared in the Qur'an al-karim how every
person family, every society and every nation, all over the world, in
each century should act in each of their undertakings, in which way
they from should run their activities, and what they should abstain
from in order to be comfortable in this world and the next. The Ahl
as-Sunna scholars learned all these with their keen insighit, and,
writing millions of books, they communicated them to the whole this
world. This means to say that Allahu ta'ala has not left people to
themselves in their activities. Consequently, there is not a place
left on the earth where Islam has not been conveyed.
GLOSSARY:
[1] ayat: a verse of al-Qur’an al-kerim; al-ayat al-karima.
[2]
Sura(t): a Qur’anic chapter [a chapter of the Qur’an].
