This is the Answer to Trial or Punishment

Is it clear what the answer is? Or not yet?

Have I answered indirectly? Is it a trial? Or is it a punishment?

Let's put it this way.

Having said all of that,

if the misfortune if the adversity that occurs,

happens, and is clearly a result of some sin that you did

the know very well that it is a punishment from Allah subhanaw taala.

So you partook, in some

unequivocally haram financial transaction.

And afterwards,

locusts destroyed your wealth.

Termites ate all of your money, guess what, it's a punishment, it's not a Tila clearly, because then the punishment is of the same type of the sin that you are committing.

Similarly, God forbid if it was some STD as a result of

fornication and going beyond the limits of Allah subhanaw taala.

And other examples, when that catastrophe is of the same type

and related to the sin that you committed, then it is clearly a punishment from Allah subhanaw taala This is not a tiller.

On the other hand,

if

that's it, Tiller that tests that predicament or adversity,

happened at a time when you were never closer to Allah subhanaw taala

when you just

performed some action, that was in complete obedience to Allah subhanahu wa taala

when you just left something, for the sake of none other than Allah subhanho wa taala.

You saw the Haram that was going on in your company, and you said, I'm not going to do it. And you lost your job if Tila

know what with certainty,

for the same reason, because you were doing something out of obedience to Allah subhanaw taala this was a clear haram, you abandon that which is prohibited for the sake of Allah subhanaw taala necessarily, that adversity that touched you

was a test from Allah says it wasn't a punishment.

Is that part clear?

Okay. One if the adversity is not a result of committing a sin, or some obedience, you're living your life normally.

And something happens, you lost a loved one.

You your marriage fell apart.

You had you lost big in some transaction and some investment.

You had an accident, whatever happens.

The usual predicaments and adversity that people experience in their lives.

In that situation, is it a test or is it a punishment? Okay, again,

let's take the black and white situation and then we'll come to the gray. The black and white situation is

if you are the type of person who is far away from Allah subhanaw taala, you are a sinner.

You're not keeping to your prayers, you will not do riffle towards your parents, dutiful towards the people around you, whatever it may be.

There's a good possibility that this is a punishment.

But if you are for all practical purposes, again, we said always the priority is self deprecation. Don't raise yourself to a pedestal, but for all practical purposes. Alhamdulillah you do what is obligatory? You perform your prayers, you stay away from his prohibitions, and so on and so forth.

So there's a good possibility that whatever adversity occurred is if Tila

that it is not a punishment from Allah subhanaw taala. What if,

what if,

again, you're just your normal person.

Just like you

me doing the best that we can we have sins May Allah forgive us laws or shall

raise our status insha Allah

and then the adversity occurred.

Will you know for sure not necessarily. And we mentioned before that that uncertainty is okay.

Make it an incentive.

All right