The ruling on the belief that the disbelief of disbelievers is the cause of their advancement, and an explanation of the effect of calamities on faith

Question:
A question that often comes to the minds of many people is that the disbelievers and the people of this age who are not of this religion find a life in which the world has been spread out for them, so they think, or many people think, that this is the good life by the expansion of the world and their comfort with desires and shirk (associating partners with Allah), pleasures, and they have forgotten the saying of Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He: So we hope that you, Honorable Shaykh, will clarify this in a way that satisfies the need and shows people the way. The second question is that many of those who walk the path of the people of faith, desiring a good life and a peaceful Hereafter, when a calamity befalls them or a disaster strikes them, they turn back and relapse, and they think that the trial is in the good and guidance they have adopted, not knowing that it is from themselves, or as Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, said: .

Answer:
Okay. May Allah reward you with the best reward and record it in your scale of good deeds. Thank you, may Allah reward you with good and reward you for this good contribution that completes this topic. The question is summarized in two matters. The first is that some people look at the advancement of the disbelievers in this life, and the acquisition of inventions and comfortable means in this life, and they think that this is due to their disbelief or due to their abandonment of religion. They have said this explicitly, that religion restricts peoples from advancing. This is the talk of an ignorant person or a hypocite, without a doubt. Indeed, religion helps in beneficial advancement in this world and the Hereafter, and Allah orders us to take the causes: .
So we are the ones who fell short in taking the beneficial causes, and we slept while they preceded us to them and excelled in them as a result of their diligence and hard work in them. And Allah gives them from this world as a means of drawing them in, not out of pleasure. In the hadith:
So what the disbelievers have been given is only from the perspective of being drawn in and also punishment, because these things torment them, as He, the Exalted, said: So they toil in this world, they toil their souls and their thoughts, and perhaps they do not rest by night or day, and they do not gain from behind these things except misery, because they do not use them to help in the obedience of Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He. So they are originally for the believers, but the believers fell short and were lazy, and they are not excused in this, and they are to be blamed in this without a doubt. But the preventer is not religion, as some of the deluded imagine, and they say that religion is what restricted us and is what... other than what they say in their newspapers, journals, magazines, and books. This is a lie about religion and a fabrication against the truth. Indeed, the correct religion, which is the religion of Islam, encourages what is beneficial in this world and the Hereafter. He said: This is the first matter.
The second point: Yes, many people of faith may take the path of good, but when they are struck by a calamity, they may fall back. Many people of faith may be afflicted with a disaster and fall back; this is due to the weakness of their faith. This is evidence of the weakness of their faith. There is no doubt that weak faith is a great deficiency and causes setbacks for a person. The stronger the faith and certainty of the servant, the easier the disasters become for him, and he knows that they are from Allah, so he is pleased and submits. Allah the Exalted said: And Allah the Exalted said: 'Alqamah said: "He is the man who is struck by a disaster, and he knows that it is from Allah, so he is pleased and submits. In terms of divine decree and destiny, he is pleased and submits. And in terms of himself and his negligence, he holds himself accountable and knows that what afflicted him is only because of his sins." Allah the Exalted said: The verse quoted by the interjector, may Allah grant him success, Shaykh 'Abd al-Hakim, is the saying of Allah the Exalted: And in the other verse, "if he makes the trial of people like the punishment of Allah," meaning if he is afflicted for the sake of Allah, he makes the trial of people like the punishment of Allah. These two verses are about the hypocrite, not the one who is merely weak in faith. Rather, it is about the hypocrite who outwardly displays faith while concealing the opposite in his heart. This person deviates, and his hypocrisy becomes apparent, and what is in his heart becomes clear during difficulties. And when they saw, as He, Glorified and Exalted is He, said, "And when the hypocrites, men and women, said to the believers, and " meaning when they saw the Confederates and what happened in Madinah, when he saw it, He, Glorified and Exalted is He, said, "And when..." He said: . So when they saw the trial and the fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) and the enemy's dominance, what was in them was revealed, because they outwardly display Islam, but there is no faith in their hearts.