How to Distinguish Between Gradual Ruin and an Increase in Blessing
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: How does a believer know, when a blessing befalls him, whether it is gradual ruin or an increase in blessings?
Answer:
He knows it through insight, the light of insight that Allah grants him. By it, he knows the trial, the calamity, and the blessing.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: How does a believer know, when a blessing befalls him, whether it is gradual ruin or an increase in blessings?
Answer:
He knows it through insight, the light of insight that Allah grants him. By it, he knows the trial, the calamity, and the blessing.
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، فصل والفتنة نوعان : فتنة الشبهات وهي أعظم الفتنتين وفتنة الشهوات — islamhouse.com (46:33)
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