He says in his letter that there are two types of life. The happy life, and I do not mean happiness through wealth and status, but rather that happiness which comes from

The questioner : This is a letter we received from a listener. The seeker of truth from the Iraqi Republic, the city of Kirkuk, says in his letter: There are two types of life. The happy life, and I do not mean happiness through wealth and status, but rather that happiness which comes from the soul, meaning that a person is at ease psychologically.
Second, the humiliating life, and by this I mean psychological humiliation, meaning that a person is humiliated psychologically. The question is: Why is a person created humiliated in the Ummah of Islam, where Allah the Exalted said: and he mentioned several verses, including His saying: and several other verses. He asks: Can we consider that those whom Allah created as psychologically humiliated were not included in this vast mercy, and that their hearts and souls still live in darkness and have not seen the light, and consider this to be injustice from Allah, Glorified and Exalted, toward them?

The Shaykh : Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may peace and blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions. As for what follows, this question asked by the brother concerns a great matter, which is the matter of divine decree and destiny. People are divided into two groups regarding it: some are granted success in standing firm, and some are granted success in going astray. This is the point of difficulty for many people: how is this one misguided and how is this one guided? But we point out an important point in this matter, which is that if a person is misguided, the cause of his misguidance is himself. This is based on the saying of Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He: and His saying: and the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) when he informed his Companions that every person’s place in Paradise or Hellfire has been written for them. They said: “Should we not then rely on the work, O Messenger of Allah?” He said: “Work, for every person is facilitated [for his destiny].” Then he recited this verse: So we say that these people whom the questioner described as humiliated were humiliated by sin, and guidance was not written for them because they are the ones who brought about their own misguidance, as their intention was not sincere in seeking the truth and reaching it, and in acting upon it after it became clear and explained. If they had been good in intention and sincere in resolve, they would have been granted success in the truth, for the truth is clear and facilitated: So what I advise this brother and those like him, for whom this matter is difficult, is to first return to themselves, improve their intention, and correct their resolve, so that the intention is sound and the resolve is sincere in seeking the truth. At that time, I guarantee that they will be granted success in it, for Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, is the One who promised that: And consider that the verse came with the letter "sin," which indicates the nearness of what follows it and the realization of what follows it, for the letter "sin," as is known, indicates these two meanings: the nearness of what follows it and its realization. But the affliction is from ourselves. And consider also the saying of Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He: For this forgetfulness, which is the heart’s distraction from the known, and also the forgetfulness which means abandonment, they are stripped of their knowledge and are not granted success in righteous work because of their breaking of the covenant.

The questioner : Yes.

The Shaykh : Yes.