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Therefore, when He wills to guide a given community, He will employ for this purpose a means ( sabab ) which would actualize what He has willed, thus He opens their breasts to Islam. In contrast, if He desires a people to go astray, He will employ means which would actualize what He has desired; accordingly He makes their breasts narrow and straitened. 2***.

“And when We desire to destroy a town, We command its affluent ones {to obey Allah}, but they commit transgression in it, and so the word becomes due against it, and We destroy it utterly.”***[^18] According to this verse, when Allah intends to annihilate a nation because of their own actions, He would take up a means ( sabab ) which would lead to their corruption. Thus, He would make them affluent, and this affluency ( tarf ) would lead the…