Our Role in Life’s Hardships and Calamities
Some of them are about inequalities that exist among people while these inequalities have various reasons.
We neglect our own role in calamities and attribute everything to God, asking if He is Adil (just and fair), why that happened to me. Obviously, many of the problems we face in life is the outcome of our own decisions and actions. We fail to observe the rules of hygiene and, as a result, we become ill. We fail to prevent corruption by Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice and, as a result, villains gain dominance over us. We fail to study our lessons properly and we fail the exams. We refuse to make efforts and we achieve nothing. Who is to blame for these except us?
If I face a problem in what I do today, it may be the outcome of a problem I created in someone else’s life earlier. According to a Hadith, if one digs a pit (so that his brother will fall into it), he will fall into it himself.
The Quran also highlights this in numerous verses:
“If affliction befalls you, it is what your own hands have earned, but He pardons a lot.” (Verse 30 of Surah Ash-Shura)
“When people receive mercy, they are happy with it. However, when hardship befalls them because of their own deeds, they despair.” (Verse 36 of Surah Ar-Rum)
“However, when his Lord tests him by a measured amount of sustenance, he says, ‘God has disgraced me.’” (Verse 16 of Surah Al-Fajr)
This is while God never cuts one’s sustenance without a reason.
“No! But you show no good to the orphan, nor do you urge one another to feed the needy.” (Verses 17-18 of Surah Al-Fajr)
It was done due to your negligence and indifference to others’ needs.
“(People), consume the pure and lawful sustenance which God has given to you and thank God for his bounty if you are His true worshippers.” (Verse 114 of Surah An-Nahl)
These verses clearly show that it is our own bad conduct that causes many of the problems in our life.
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