GOD'S TRIAL IS DIFFICULT
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GOD'S TRIAL IS DIFFICULT
God's commandments are aimed at revealing man's submission to the Creator. But, unfortunately, man being unaware of the secret behind those commandments keeps on asking about the benefits of the Islamic laws and their socio-economic effects, which have their roots in materialism. This way of thinking is not limited to a specific period. All prophets have been asked such questions with sinister results.
FAILURE OF PEOPLE OF SABBATH
IN GOD'S TRIAL
According to the Holy Quran, a Jewish tribe was living in a town near the sea and their job was fishing. On God's order, the Jewish tribe was duty-bound to keep the Sabbath, that is, to be engaged in prayer and not to catch fish on that day. Since God's trial is always accompanied by difficulty, it so happened that fish would come to the surface of water abundantly on Saturdays, which was the Sabbath, but were scarce on other days. The abundance of fish on the Sabbath was so alluring that refusal to catch all those fishes was painful for the Jewish tribe. ??Thus did we try them because they transgressed. (The Holy Quran; 7:163)?
Finally, avarice overcame faith and pushed the mammonists to sin. So they tried to catch fishes on Saturday with the tricks that Satan had taught them. Hence, God sent tribulation upon them. In this relation, the Holy Quran says: Ùَلَمَّا عَتَوْا عَمَّا Ù†ÙÙ‡Ùوا عَنْه٠قÙلْنَا Ù„ÙŽÙ‡Ùمْ ÙƒÙونÙوا Ù‚Ùرَدَةً خَاسÙئÙينَ.
?Therefore, when they revoltingly persisted in what they had been forbidden, We said to them: Be (as) apes, despised and hated. (7:166)?
