{"id":6697,"date":"2024-07-10T07:43:51","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/why-do-bad-things-happen-to-good-people\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T21:49:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T16:49:30","slug":"why-do-bad-things-happen-to-good-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/why-do-bad-things-happen-to-good-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Bad Things Happen To Good People?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>Why  does evil strike good people on a continuous basis? Is being dumb that  big a fault? Why doesn&#8217;t God intervene and help out people who He made  dumb? It does not seem fair to me. Why does God allow an unfair world? I  understand that this is a test in this world but how long a test should  be? I&#8217;ve seen someone suffer all her life and I see no way in the  future that her suffering will end? Why do some people never feel afraid  that they are making someone feel miserable? Why doesn&#8217;t God stop  people from making her feel scared all her life? <\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>There are attributes of God that can be fully seen and appreciated in this world, like &#8220;Khaliq&#8221; (creator). <\/p>\n<div>There  are attributes of God that can be fully seen and appreciated only if  the whole system of creation of human being is considered as the scope,  which includes this world and the hereafter. Among them is &#8220;Adel&#8221; (Just,  Fair). We can only appreciate the Fairness of God to His creation  (specifically the human being) if we look at both the Hereafter and this  world. <\/div>\n<div>Yes  we may think that Mr. A suffering all his life and Mr. B having fun all  his life is not fair. We however come to realize and fully appreciate  the Fairness when we find in the hereafter that Mr. B is questioned very  delicately and strictly about his duties with regard to himself and his  fellow human beings when he was having all that fun and is asked what  he did with all the blessing that God gave him in the world, while Mr. A  is treated with more lenience, appreciating his special condition, and  much of his sins are forgiven because of his sufferings. <\/div>\n<div>The  general rule is that every one will be treated in the hereafter  according to the circumstances and conditions in which he has lived in  this world. <\/div>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Farhad Shafti<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2015-02-18<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6697\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why  does evil strike good people on a continuous basis? Is being dumb that  big a fault? Why doesn&#8217;t God intervene and help out people who He made  dumb? It does not seem fair to me. Why does God allow an unfair world? I  understand that this is a test in this world but how long a test should  be? I&#8217;ve seen someone suffer all her life and I see no way in the  future that her suffering will end? Why do some people never feel afraid  that they are making someone feel miserable? 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