It is like a physician prescribing a certain medicine for a patient...

It is like a physician prescribing a certain medicine for a patient; that we consider is good and useful even though we may not know all the evidence for its usefulness.

If we see that Allah has granted someone wealth and He did not do so for someone else, or He made one to have certain qualities and not the other, or He caused someone to become sick and has kept another person healthy, and suchlike in all such cases we must believe that all such cases are based on some kind of benefit and wisdom even though we may not be aware of their benefit and wisdom.5 It is stated in a hadith, or tradition, that “Moses (A) asked Allah to let him know something about His Justice, which looks otherwise on the surface.

Allah ordered him to go to a certain water fountain in the wilderness to monitor the events that would take place therein. When Moses (A) arrived at the fountain, he saw a horseman who had arrived at the fountain to freshen up. When the horseman left the scene, he forgot a bag of money behind. Afterwards, a boy came to the fountain, saw the bag by the fountain, with all eagerness and happiness picked it up and hurriedly left the scene.

Then a blind man came to the fountain to wash himself for prayer, and at this time the horseman came back searching for his bag of money, and when he did not find it, he accused the blind man of taking it. Consequently a dispute flared up between the horseman and the blind man, and eventually the horseman killed the blind man, and left the scene. Moses was astonished at all this.

Allah then revealed to Moses (A) that the horseman had stolen the bag of money from the father of the boy (who had found the bag of money left behind at the fountain by the horseman.) In this way the property was returned to the rightful owner. The blind man had previously killed the father of the horseman and therefore the horseman at the end punished the killer of his father.”6 This is how Allah’s justice and wisdom works, even though it may look some how far from the conventional rules. 3.

Prophethood When Almighty Allah created man, He wished him happiness and prosperity in this world, and felicity and paradise for the hereafter. And this cannot be achieved unless mankind has a programme that coincides with his mind and nature, and a course that is in harmony with his body and soul.