The tests and trials may be divided into two categories:įirst is the test by the rules of the shari’ah and tenets of faith. If God were to send all persons to Paradise or Hell according to His own knowledge without putting them to test for their beliefs and deeds, then those sent to Hell could rightly complain that why were they being punished without any sin on their part while others enjoyed bliss of Paradise without any good deed in their credit? So in order to uphold the principle of justice and fairness, it was necessary for God to test all persons before sending them to Hell or Paradise.
Although God knows everything, it still is necessary that all men and women be put to test so that the true form of God's justice and mercy may emerge on the Day of Judgement. The test which we are to undergo is not meant to add to the knowledge of God. Since we believe that God knows everything, then why should He test us? Why the Day of judgement when everything is pre‑arranged? And whose judgement when one does only what has been ordained for him by God? Those who believe that God has already predestined our actions and our ultimate destination, then can neither justify the theory of test which is mentioned in numerous verses of the Qur'an nor can they justify their belief in the Day of Judgement. If our place in the hereafter is predetermined, then why should we be given orders to do this and not to do that? Test presupposes that the man is not predestined to go to Paradise or Hell, as some groups of the Christians and the majority of the Muslims suppose. Test will be held for all persons, believers and non‑believers alike. We have indeed showed him the way, now he be grateful or ungrateful.
Verily, We created man from a drop of mingled sperm so that We may test him and therefore We made him hearing and seeing.
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But how to ascertain the standard of our virtues? To make us understand the judgement of Allah easily, He has established a system of tests which determine our spiritual perfection or lack of it, as the case may be. Now you know that we have been created to acquire virtues so that we may be nearer to Allah.
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