#1028 If God is actually there, then?

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Inner Peace Be Upon You

# 1028 Peace and Blessings Every Day

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If God is actually there, then?

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We often hear this. In fact, we, ourselves, may have said this:

If God is actually there, then why is _____ happening?

As I was driving to work one morning, I was listening to

Sheikh Hamza Yusuf’s lectures on the life of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH),

and this question just popped into my head.  God was sending

me a message because along with the question came an

Inner Peace Be Upon You moment.  

What we often perceive as [bad] things happening, and yes there

are plenty of things that are really devastating and [bad], are

really tests.

You see for many believers, including those of my own faith of Islam,

this wordly life (this dunya as it is in Arabic) is really a test.  Tests

are not meant to be easy.  

Tests come in all shapes and form: they are difficult, they can come

as a surprise when we aren’t prepared, they can be long, short, they

can come at us when we are least wanting or expecting one.

The beauty of these life tests is God will only give us the test that

we can handle and stand.  We may not think we are ready during

the test, but then again, are tests such that they’d be so easy we’d

feel like we were ready?

We can obviously prepare for these tests as best as we can, and

with each test we get from God, our objective should be to

get better, be better, and do better the next time the test is given again.

These tests from God will not always be easy, but then again, this life

was meant to try us for our next life.  We just can’t forget that with

every difficult test and hardship in this life there is relief.

So much that in the qur’an it is repeated twice in the same Surah:

For indeed, with hardship [will be] ease.

Indeed, with hardship [will be] ease. (Quran: 94:5-6).

Inner Peace Be Upon You.

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