Intellect, reason, perspicacity, and intelligence in mundane and religious affairs help earn the pleasure of God. These understandings rescue man from the disasters of this world and the punishment of the Hereafter!
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If we do not become bad, that which descends upon us from above will not become bad; rather we do things that change the rains of mercy into punishment.
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God Himself sends tribulations, "(Why did they not entreat) when Our punishment overtook them"[Surah al-An’aam (6): 43] out of entreaty, i.e. He wants His servant to entreat and lament to him, and this is desired.
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