نحمده و نصلي و نسلم على رسول الكريم، أما بعد :
فأعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
إِنَّ الَّذِينَ يُحِبُّونَ أَن تَشِيعَ الْفَاحِشَةُ فِي الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَالْآخِرَةِ
و قال النبي ﷺ : 《 إذا ظهر الزني والربا في قرية، فقد أحلوا بأنفسهم عذاب الله 》
أو كما قال عليه الصلاة والسلام. صدق الله العظيم.
Allah Ta’ala has made this world a place of cause and effect. There are many means which produce a certain effect by the will of Allah Ta‘ala.
Generally, a particular cause will cause a particular effect which Allaah Ta'ala has placed in it. For example, a person is hungry and he eats something. Eating is the means and the hunger being satiated is the effect. A thirsty person drinks water. Drinking water is the means and the effect of it is that the thirst will be quenched. Similar is the case of placing one's hand in a fire. The fire will become the means of burning the hand. However, if Allah Ta‘ala wills, the fire will not produce the effect of burning, as in the case of Ebrahim (عليه السلام) being placed in the fire of Namrood.This was an exception, whereby not a single hair of Ebrahim (عليه السلام) burnt in that fire.
However, the rule is that the means adopted in this world will cause a resulting effect to be experienced and all this happens only with the will of Allah Ta‘ala.
This is something we understand and except when it comes to our day to day lives. No sane person will place his hand in a fire because he knows that it will burn him. Even though the incident of Ebrahim (عليه السلام) is before him, he will not take a chance. ّThe incident of Khaalid bin Waleed (رضي الله تعالى عنه) is also before us, where he read the du'aa and drank deadly poison which, with the command of Allah Ta‘ala, had no effect on him. Yet, none of us will take the chance of ever sipping any poison, because the system that Allah Ta’ala has put in this world is that the drinking of poison will produce its effect. Thus we all abide by this principle of cause and effect, and accordingly adopt those means that produce a positive effect and refrain from those means that have a negative effect. This is something that is part of our day to day life.
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