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You see the problem is that whenever something bad happens to me I feel it is Allah's punishment towards me and i feel like He SWT is displeased with me.This is why I feel like im not close to Allah because i always feel like im doing something wrong and that His punishihg me for it and for most of the time His displeased with me
Please bros/sis with your knowledge. Telll me am i being paranoid ? whatever misfortunes befalls upon me are not necessarily punishments from Allah Almighty ?? is it Please bros/sis Help me and May Allah SWT Bless you all.
Wa'alaykummusalaam wa rahmatullahi wa barakaatuh,
Brother, try not to think too negative on what had happened to you. Even if it's a bad thing. What you face in life, be it a hardship/calamity or even an abundance of wealth, it is a test from Allaah.
When you are tested with hardship, Allaah wants to test your patience. When you are tested with easiness, Allaah wants to test either you are grateful to Him or not.
Tests in life. Each and everyone of us face it in this duniya. But how do we know that if that test is a blessing from Allaah or a punishment from The Al-Mighty?
If the result of that test brings you closer and purer to Allaah, then know that it was a blessing. Even if the test meant that you lost almost everything, everything in your life. It was Blessings in Disguise.
But if the result of that test was that it brings you farther away from Allaah, then indeed it was a punishment from Allaah. Perhaps a punishment from Allaah so that that test may purify your soul.
Do keep in mind one thing, though. That always, always think good of Allaah. Always. We not only think good [husnu dhon] to human beings but also to Our Creator. Because know that, He subhanahu wa Ta'ala loves you so much. Love His Slaves more than a mother who loves her baby.
An analogy for you to think: Imagine that there are many non-believers, atheists, sinners in this world [as well as the pious, alhamdulillah] but yet, Allaah still shower His Mercies upon them. Allaah still gives them food, let them breathe and Allaah still let them live on His Earth! We sin and we seek forgivness from Allaah. How Allaah is Al-Ghafur. On the contrary, sometimes, when we do
one small mistake to a friend, how long did it take for him/her to forgive us *completely*?
Our goal in this life is that we hope and we pray to meet Allaah subhanahu wa Ta'ala someday with a
sound heart. Qalbun saalim.
"The Day when there will not benefit [anyone] wealth or children
But only one who comes to Allah with a sound heart." [26:88-89]
InshaAllaah, console your heart and mind with this ayaat:
"But perhaps you hate a thing and it is good for you; and perhaps you love a thing and it is bad for you. And Allah Knows, while you know not." [2:216]
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