Chapter VI: Love, Longing, Contentment
There are innumerable proofs in the Quran to show that the sinners should be hated. God says: The believers do not take the unbelievers as friends. God says: O believers, don't take the Jews and Christians as friends. God says: Thus I give power to some, sinners over others. There is in Hadis: God has taken promise from every believer that he will consider a hypocrite as bad and has taken promise from every hypocrite that he will regard every believer as bad. The Prophet said: A man is with one whom he loves. He said: He who loves a nation and makes friends with them will be resurrected with them on the Judgment Day. The Prophet said: To love for God and to hate for God is firm rope of faith.
Question. There are verses of the Quran and Hadis to show that one should remain satisfied with the decree of God. Sin is a decree of God and to go against it is impossible. If it is a decree of God, to consider it as bad amounts to considering the decree of God as bad. What is the solution of this?
.Answer. There is doubt in the minds of those who could not acquire the secret things of knowledge. Some predecessors also . had such doubts. It is true that contentment and dislike are contradictory terms but they are not so if they are united in the same thing with different objects, in other words, to dislike from one standpoint and to remain satisfied from another standpoint. For instance, Zaid is your enemy. He is also an enemy of your enemy. If Zaid dies, your mind will remain satisfied for one reason, but you will be sorry for another reasons. The two reasons of happiness and sorrow are quite different. Your enemy died and you are secure. For this reason, you are satisfied, One the other hand, Zaid kept your enemy engaged till he was alive. So he did not get- opportunity to injure you while your enemy was alive. For this reason, you are sorry at his death. So
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happiness and sorrow are not contradictory as they wise for different reasons. If they are for the same reason, they would have been contradictory.