Secrets in The Expansion and Diminishing of Blessings
In the Qur'an, God reveals the reason why He grants blessings or takes them back from people:
| That is because God would never change a blessing He has conferred on a people until they changed what is in themselves. God is All-Hearing, All-Knowing. (Surat al-Anfal: 53) Everyone has a succession of angels in front of him and behind him, guarding him by God's command. God never changes a people's state until they change what is in themselves. When God desires evil for a people, there is no averting it. They have no protector apart from Him. (Surat ar-Ra'd: 11) | ||
What is related in these verses are very important secrets that people are mostly unaware of or ignore. God says that He will expand the blessings of those people who engage in good acts, and will restrict the blessings of those who perform evil acts, and that the blessings on people will alter in accordance with the changes in their behaviour and sincerity.
Believers who know this secret of God try to see the hidden purposes in God's creation in every situation they encounter and remain heedful about this subject. They never feel self-sufficient, but strive hard to attain the moral perfection described in the Qur'an, and to correct their wrongdoings and failings. In this sense, they never dare to falter in displaying moral perfection and the refinement of their conduct.
- Introduction
- God Answers Everyone's Prayers
- God Increases His Blessings On Thosewho Are Grateful
- Secrets of Submission to One's Fate and Putting One's Trust in God
- There is Good in Every Event
- There is Surely Ease with Every Difficulty
- God Obscures the Comprehension of Disbelievers
- God Bestows Understanding on Those Who Fear Him
- Those Who Do Good Meet Goodness
- There is Light in Believers' Faces, But Disgrace in Those of Disbelievers
- The Secret That God Erases Bad Actions
- Divine Purposes In Spending In God's Way
- The Effect Of Good Actions And Good Words
- The Secret That God Provides Room For People
- God Certainly Helps Those Who Help His Religion
- Quarrelling Causes Loss Of Strength
- Only In The Remembrance Of God Do Hearts Find Satisfaction
- The Cunning Of Satan Is Weak
- Obeying The Majority Misleads Man From The Right Path
- Secrets in The Expansion and Diminishing of Blessings
- Obedience to the Messenger is Obedience to God
- A Small Group of Believers can Overcome a Vast Majority of Disbelievers
- God Makes His Religion Supreme When One Worships Him Alone
- God Casts Dread into The Hearts of Disbelievers
- Wisdom and Decisive Speaking are Blessings from God
- Man will Also Account for His Thoughts and Intentions
- It is God Who Places Love in People's Hearts
- The Deaths of Disbelievers and Believers will not Be The Same
- Prayer Keeps Man Away from Evil
- Those Who are Killed in The Way of God are not Dead
- God is The Giver of Honour
- Secrets of Finding the Straight Path
- Man's Inner Self Commands Evil Acts
- Secrets of Abundance and The Wealth Given To People
- Conclusion