Why Allah did not create all people in health without disease?
Why there are many pains and aches that make people suffer in this life?
Why there are gaps and differences among countries, some suffer poverty and hunger while others live in comfort and wealth?
Simply, because its dunyah or life.It is a testing place,not a resting one.
Allah subhanahu wata'ala when he created the heavens and the earth and made all the subjects that we know and we don't, he created for every material subject meaning to it.
In order to know the meaning (or the importance) of any subject you have to know the opposite because by their opposite things are made manifest.
For instance
- you'll never know what is light if didn't know darkness
- you'll never know what is sound if you didn't know silence
- you'll never know what is health if you didn't know illness
- Finally, you'll never know what is life if didn't know death.
The benefits of afflictions and calamities that happens to the believers
ومن رحمته - عز وجل - أن نغص عليهم الدنيا وكدرها لئلا يسكنوا إليها، ولا يطمئنوا إليها ويرغبوا فى النعيم المقيم فى داره وفى جواره. فساقهم إلى ذلك بسياط الإبتلاءوالامتحان، فمنعهم ليعطيهم وابتلاهم ليعافيهم ، وأماتهم ليحييهم
Ibn al-Qayyim, may Allah have mercy on him, said:
On the benefits of afflicting and calamiting the believers: from - the Almighty - Allah's mercy is that he subject them to the life or الدنيا and its distress, so that they will not like to be inhabited to it, and they are not satisfied with it or feel secure in it.
the only thing that they desire is the bliss residing in Allah's house' jannah' and in his vicinity.
So what led them to that is the whips of calamities and the exam.
Allah forbade them to give them more.He afflicted them to heal them, and slay them on life to make them survive in the thereafter life, which is the long lasting life.
This is a text that makes the believer not only patient with affliction, but also rejoice in it And the wisdom in the words of the Imam is contained in the Holy Qur’an
:قال تعالى
وَلَوْلَا أَنْ يَكُونَ النَّاسُ أُمَّةً وَاحِدَةً لَجَعَلْنَا لِمَنْ يَكْفُرُ بِالرَّحْمَنِ لِبُيُوتِهِمْ سُقُفًا مِنْ فِضَّةٍ وَمَعَارِجَ عَلَيْهَا يَظْهَرُونَ * وَلِبُيُوتِهِمْ أَبْوَابًا وَسُرُرًا عَلَيْهَا يَتَّكِئُونَ * وَزُخْرُفًا وَإِنْ كُلُّ ذَلِكَ لَمَّا مَتَاعُ الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا وَالْآخِرَةُ عِنْدَ رَبِّكَ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ
سورة الزخرف
About hanger and poverty
Allah Subhanahu wata'ala says in surah Al-balad (90-4)
Verily, We created man into a life of pain, toil and trial
Which means no matter how much money you have, no matter how healthy you are, no matter how beautiful work you do, you'll definitely go through pain, toil and trial.
I know and perhaps you too know a lot of wealthy, healthy and rich people and celerities they struggled and went through awful pain and end up with them by suicide.
Therefore, you have to know that it's not about money or health to live a happy life, simply it's about content.
Islamic revelation provides us with many reasons for why Allah has allowed evil and suffering to exist.
Allah is not only The-Merciful and All-Powerful; rather, He has many names and attributes. He is also The-Wise.
Since the very nature of Allah is wisdom, it follows that whatever He wills is in line with Divine wisdom.
When something is explained by an underlying wisdom, it implies a reason for its occurrence.
Allah has the picture, and we have just a pixel.
Many children are scolded by their parents for something they want to do, such as eating too many sweets.
The toddlers usually cry or have a tantrum because they think how bad mummy and daddy are, yet the child does not realise the wisdom underlying their objection (in this case, too many sweets are bad for their teeth).
this life is not our Eternal place
This dunyah is not our Eternal place. Our end will be either in the paradise or in the hellfire .
We came to this world to be tested , to see who deserves the paradise and who deserves the hellfire.
The life or dunyah is not created for the long lasting happiness.The real happiness is only in the paradise.
Allah makes us sick or unhappy to be near to him, to pray for him, to trust him.
Also Allah wants to test our faith to see who will be patient and who will refuse Allah's orders.
Who will be satisfied with Allah's fate and this one will deserve the paradise and who will object to Allah's fate and this one deserves the hellfire.
life is a mere experience.
That's to say not all experiences are successful. However, we shouldn't give up.
We as muslims should rather keep trying until we fulfill our goals.That's the charming aspect of life.
We should know that our God let us choose our way so that we enjoy success and accept failure.That's life.
Life beginning
The idea of life began with making human's father Adam a caliph on the earth.
When Adam peace be upon him disobeyed Allah, he said to him, “Go down to inhibite the earth one of you, an enemy of one another.”
Here the idea of affliction and calamition on earth becomes embodied for us.
All these calamities of worldly and life matters are something that is destined for a person to experience.
Allah says
قال تعالى
و هو الذي جعلكم خلآئف الأرض و رفع بعضكم فوق بعض درجات ليبلوكم في ما آتاكم
Here, the Almighty Allah looks at the person afflicted by poverty or disease or the one who have issues and struggles with life and how they received the affliction, whether they received the issues with satisfaction or indignation.
When the real meaning is being realized in mind and heart by the afflicted person, whether with satisfaction or anger and rejection, accordingly, the reward and penalty will be Heaven or Hell, respectively.