Re: if your family was wiped out would you move closer or away from religion?
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Yes it does. Nice words. :)
Re: if your family was wiped out would you move closer or away from religion?
don’t be …i know how it feels to be in the same boat …just when you think that your prayers are unanswered …just carry on asking …as allah mia is content with the fact that you have to turned to him for help…i look back and to be honest I feel that although my belief was always there, the rest of my family participating in regular prayers didnt even make me get up and do the basics… I just intended to but in practice it was non-existnt. But now I know even with all the things that have not gone my way, all the problems that I have had, have still got …one thing that has changed is that I have become much closer to my religion. that is not to say that all our problems will be solved but you just watch inshallahyou will get what you want.
Re: if your family was wiped out would you move closer or away from religion?
It depends on your faith in God and your beliefs.
I know when something bad happens to me, I do feel angry and upset and question why "horrible" things are happening in my life but I never let go of prayer because I find solace in prayer. I don't think I would totally turn away from God because He has always helped SO MUCH. I might be upset for a brief period but I know that I would pray to God to ask for the deceased family members' maghfirat and to grant me patience. It has worked in the past so I know it will work in the future.
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My personal observation is that generally those who are already a little distant from God (pray occasionally/rarely or Eid ke namazi) tend to get farther and those who are relatively closer (pray on and off) get closer in case a disaster strikes them.
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It wouldn't matter either way. Spirituality is not instantaneous. It is forever there if you are spiritual. Trying to justify, why god would do one thing or another" is futile. God is too busy doing other stuff.
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JazakAllah 
Re: if your family was wiped out would you move closer or away from religion?
I think most people have a mixture of these feelings becuase of their grieve. Then when they come back to senses, mostly they do move closer to Allah.
My parents used to tell us, that when we pray and still something bad happens, it doesn't mean that Allah didn't answer our prayers, it means that if we wouldn't have prayed, that bad thing would've been far worse.
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It's natural to grieve over someone close you have lost. There's hikmah in everything that Allah (SWT) does. The following verse sums it up well.
"And certainly, We shall test you with something of fear, hunger, loss of wealth, lives and fruits, but give glad tidings to As-Sâbirûn (the patient)." [Surah Baqarah 2:155]
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Re: if your family was wiped out would you move closer or away from religion?
I don't see an ounce of hikmat in whatever happened, to be bluntly honest. I guess this is the "Allah ki Rehmat" all people fast for during Ramzan, isn't it?
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Most muslims on this forum are idealist sheep. When you do find a job, it won’t be because of any rehmat. It would be because you had been working your ass off looking for one. Tell that to the sheep here, and they will cry Kaafir and come to kill you. That’s just how it is.
Re: if your family was wiped out would you move closer or away from religion?
The question begs the amount of Imaan in one’s heart.
People of faith become stronger in their belief in God with such trial for they can relate it to the signs and ayaah of ALLAH:swt:
Those who are ignorant and those who lack Imaan will drift away anyway.
Make your choice for in the end, the real day of winning and losing is not in this world.
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Put yourself in their place; imagine losing a mother, a father, a spouse, a sibling, or a child. Would you not feel grief? Would you not feel that whatever happened was unfair? Don’t tell me that feelings of hatred and anger would not come up. If religion/Allah tells human beings to not mourn for a loved one because they have gone to an “afterlife”, Allah should have made robots instead.
Re: if your family was wiped out would you move closer or away from religion?
Grief is one thing but drifting away from ALLAH is another. It depends on one’s faith. Even prophet:saw: grieved over the passings of his loveones. That’s natural. But to blame ALLAH:swt: for things that we do not know why it happened is sign of unfaithfulness to say the least.
But again, it all boils down to the level of Imaan.
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I was out of work for two years. Allah:swt: is the all knower and is the best planner. You got to keep striving and have faith in Him. He indeed shows His signs from the unknown.
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god would really want to test people of kashmir? most of whom suffered during various wars. the refugees living in deplorable conditions and thousands of innocent children. it does make me want to read shikwa by iqbal.
but the feeling of not being able to physically help our brothers and sisters in this time of need is more than the pain of seeing countless images of the disaster.
legbreakgoogly, bro if u r a US citizen, got a Bachelors degree. send me ur resume. [email protected]
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I will suggest jawaab-e-shikwah instead.
and what do we know about the tests? Allah tells Himself:
2: 214 "Do you think that you will enter paradise without undergoing such trials as were experienced by the believers before you? They met with adversity and affliction and were so shaken by trials that the Prophet of the time and his followers cried out “When will Allah’s help come?” Then they were comforted with the good tidings, “Yes, Allah’s help is near.”
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thank you for your replies, personally if I had lost my child, father or someone in a natural disaster i would feel anger and move away from religion.
It would be different if they were killed by man made destruction but a natural diasaster, one that is created by God would make me move away from Religion.
Someone mentioned earlier that these people died in ramadan and that they died instantly so its not that bad as it initially seems, well..... i dont think they died instantly, a lot of them are dying because of starvation/dehydration as we speak right now... not a very pleasant way of dying is it?
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won't man made destruction will move u away from man and humanity? if not then you have more faith and trust in man than God.
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Rizwan…This is a dangerous question you are asking, but a valid one…
If those who say, Oh, we would have become closer to Allah :swt:, are inviting a trial to see if they live up to their word…
And those who say, we’ll drift away are doing the same…
Let us not look into such things and just make Dua that Allah :swt: protects and grants Maghfirat to all Muslims, however they die and to give them Taqwa and Eeman as long as they are living, Ameen…
This reminds me of an Ashaba, who during the lifetime of the Prophet :saw: said, that no matter what comes Allah was enough for him to bear it…
Allah :swt: put him through a trial where he couldn’t urinate…Then he had to make Astaghfar for being too cocky…
So be careful what you ask for…May Allah :swt: protect us all in His Mercy, Ameen…