I’ll never understand this argument. I see it all the time on reddit. People who are understandably frustrated and venting about terrible things happening in their life like an innocent child getting cancer or they themselves getting diagnosed with a terminal illness. And I’m sure plenty of Muslims experience the same feeling when their loved ones are sick and dying too. When a Muslim feels that their life has had too much suffering, too many burdens and feels so abandoned by Allah that they doubt whether He’s even really there. How could Allah let all this happen?
But is this not the most emphasized thing in Islam? That this life is nothing but a test? This life is temporary, almost pointless. It is not meant to be full of happiness, it is supposed to have misery and suffering. It’s supposed to be unfair. If God decided to let only good things happen, as people wish for God to do if He really exists, then what differentiates life from heaven?
I know that’s not the right thing to say to someone who is grieving, or that “God has a plan” in this situation. Because I disagree. Sometimes there is no plan, that person was just destined to die at this particular time. They were destined to suffer, because that is life. I know it sounds dark, but the suffering of this dunya should instead be used as a motivation to work towards reaching Jannah in the hereafter, because trying to find peace in this life is meant to be impossible. That’s the whole point of life, from an Islamic perspective. I feel that this important concept of accepting suffering as part of life in Islam gets lost the more that society becomes focused on the dunya rather than death.
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