Hawzah News Agency- If a believer is given the whole universe or if he is afflicted with oppression and persecution, he who trusts God knows that it is good for him and sees his tests and problems as expiating his sins and elevating him spiritually. Unlike what a simple-minded person might think, being poor is not a sign of God’s anger, just as being rich is not a sign of God’s love. Afflicted with poverty, a person who is not familiar with the teachings of the prophets may think that he is being humiliated by God. The Qur’an reads, “And when He tests him and tightens for him his provision, he says, ‘My Lord has humiliated me’” (89:16). However, “whenever his Lord tests him and grants him honour and blesses him, he says, ‘My Lord has honored me’” (89:15). Both of these attitudes are false; poverty is not humiliation, and blessings are not necessarily honor; rather, they are both means by which we are tested. ...

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