Re: Hadith about own deeds affecting children
Hmm. It’s said that it’s better to receive Allah’s punishment in this world than the next. So going by what Muzna has said above…perhaps if you have hurt someone’s child (hypothetically speaking)…Allah might give you a punishment involving your own child…and this might be a “trial” for the child whereby the child earns reward for patience or receives an elevated status…while the child’s trial serves as punishment for the parent. Is this view valid from an Islamic perspective?
Also sometimes I wonder if Allah allows one person to hurt another so that the action becomes a means of mercy for one person and punishment for another. Lets’s say that X is severely jealous of Y…and harbors ill will for Y. X proceeds to harm Y…and Allah allows X to be successful in his scheming. But what X may not realize is that Allah just allowed him enough rope to hang himself later on. What I mean is that maybe Allah made it eeeeaaasssy for X to harm Y…so that there will be grounds for X to be punished…and the suffering endured by Y may be means of mercy and cleansing if endured with patience. Would this perspective be valid in Islam or no? Or perhaps there’s a chain reaction. Maybe Y had once hurt someone, so the pain he endures from C is like Divine karma for him. Who knows?