Question: When evil, failure, and tragedy occur, where does your God (Allah) go?

Question: 

When evil, failure, and tragedy occur, where does your God (Allah) go?

Answer:

Islam and Allah do not offer any promise or guarantee that believing in Allah will bring worldly success in this life.

Islam’s account of life is that this life consists of both good and evil, and that life itself is a test filled with such good, evil, and tragedy. That is the meaning and definition Islam gives to life.

Islam is the religion that gave life a precise, clear meaning and definition, and therefore gave life a precise, clear purpose and sense of purpose. In other words, the God (Allah) of Islam is the one who gave life a precise, clear meaning, definition, purpose, and sense of purpose.

There is no Islam, no Allah, that says “believe in God (Allah) to succeed in this life.”

The Allah that one must believe in to succeed in this life is not the God (Allah) that Islam introduces.

This is because only Islam teaches that both the good and the evil in this world come from Allah. Thus, in Islam there is only a God (Allah) who owns everything — both good and evil.

The God (Allah) that Islam introduces is not one who claims only the good for Himself while disowning responsibility for evil.

Only Islam has a God (Allah) who claims that both good and evil equally come from Him, who is the owner and controller of everything.

Only Islam and Islam’s God (Allah) teach that life itself is a test, that life in its entirety is an examination.

Therefore, believers in Islam should not ask, when evil and failure befall them, “where did your God (Allah) go?” There is no point in asking such a question.

There is no Allah (God) in Islam who says that if you believe in Allah and pray to Allah, you will succeed in everything in this life.

There is no Allah (God) in Islam who says that if you believe in Allah and pray to Allah, you will never lose in anything in this life; there is no God (Allah) in Islam who says He will come to help the moment you fail; there is no God (Allah) in Islam who offers the gains of this life as a source of hope.

There is no God (Allah) in Islam who turns such hopes into merchandise, sells them, exploits people, and reaps profit. Islam does not introduce a God who gathers and hoards such wealth.

Accordingly, there are no priests, temple-authorities (thanthris), or gurus (swamis) authorized to exploit people by offering hopes in the name of God (Allah) — this is not permitted in Islam. There is no need, and it is not permitted in Islam, to perform offerings, worship rituals (puja), or anjali before priests, thanthris, or swamis in a manner that leads to exploitation in the name of God (Allah). Nor are there donation boxes to be filled with money — these too are not present, and not permitted, in Islam.