Quran 24:30 – Evil And Our Actions
If this was the case then prophets would never face hardships, innocent children would never suffer, good people would always live easy lives. The verse is telling us that: MANY hardships in our lives our natural consequences of human actions cuz we’ve been given free will. Not all, not always, but Many. This is cause-and-effect realtionship: C orruption –> poverty Injustice –> social collapse Arrogance –> broken relationships And read the full verse, at the end it’s written: “He pardons much” Meaning that allah doesn’t always fully hold us accountable. Similarly many consequences are reduced and delayed and many mistakes are overlooked. If these verse were about punishment this last part of the verse wouldn’t make any sense In islam hardships can be categorized into 3 parts: Hardships as natural consequences:- means poor choice would result into poor outcomes or injustices would result into instability. This isn’t punishment this is how life works natural cause-and-effect situation. Hardships as test’s:- this means that this is a different category where hardship comes without doing anything wrong and often happen to mamy people are meant for growth, elevation and exposure of inner strength. For example u can take prophets they were tested the most, and if it meant punishment then they would’ve been the most sinful people. Hardships as warning and correction:- this mean that sometimes hard times come to shake the person so he can wake up to the reality or maybe to stop him from going to a destructive path or to force reflection. This is not punishment and also not a test of innocence either we can call it moral course correction. And in the verse last part he says ‘He pardons much’ means even then he doesn’t fully enforce consequences. And tbh we should think of Allah as someone very intelligent and very just being not someone who is very strict or scary(i used to have same view but eventually it changed) I hope this helps u