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Second Article
The Struggle Between the Human Soul and the Sunna of God in Missionary Activities
"Is it not time that the hearts of those who believe should be humbled to the Remembrance
of God and the Truth which He has sent down, and that they should not be as those to
whom the book was given aforetime, and the term seemed over long to them, so that their
hearts have become hard, and many of them are ungodly?" (Qur'an 57:16)
Praise be to God and peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of God.
Ever since the Sun of guidance dawned upon the soul of the Muslim in our society, a series
of tribulations accompanied it. The manifestations of tribulations and fitnas which man
faces are varied. When a man begins to pass through problems and normal situations, he
sometimes faces the most difficult of them before the guidance (comes). However, his
experience of them after his heart has been fused with the vision of faith is a completely
different experience. There is the fitna of marriage, the fitna of wealth, and the trial for him
in (finding) his job and the source of his income, and so forth. Whenever he succeeds in
confronting the fitna, a white spot appears in his heart commensurate with the size of the
fitna which he succeeded in overcoming [i.e. the blackness of his sins are cleansed, restoring
his heart to its pure, clean state]. Thus, his faith continues to be elevated.