Allah has given us freedom of choice. Having this freedom means that we can rebel against Allah and make choices that are contrary to His desires. Since we can say that evil is anything contrary to Allah's perfect and holy will, then anyone who chooses anything contrary to Allah's perfection is committing evil. But this is the risk of being able to have freedom of choice. Evil and suffering are the result of making bad free choices.
we cannot know all the reasons that Allah has for allowing evil and suffering in the world. It is not logically necessary that since Allah has not stopped evil and suffering in the world, that He cannot. Allah could be using suffering for His divine plan, in order to teach, for discipline, because people are free, etc. The existence of suffering does not at all mean that Allah cannot stop all of it. It means that He simply has chosen not to do so.
The question of stopping evil means that if Allah is to stop evil, then He must stop all evil. This means that the murderer must be stopped along with the thief. But it also means that thinking evil, which is in rebellion against Allah, must also be stopped as well. That is, if all evil is to be stopped.
Therefore, for Allah to stop evil and suffering may very well mean that He must remove the ability for people to freely choose what they want to do. So, if Allah is going to stop evil, is He required to stop all of it or just some of it? If only some of it, then the question would still stand. If He stops all of it, would we be free?
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Believe in The Truth (NL&ENG)
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