Misfortunes of the World

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

Shaykh Abu al-‘Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad at-Tijani (q.s.) said, “As for the misfortune in this world, it will surely happen for any human being committing sins unless he rejects this misfortune by giving alms to the poor, or through what he spends such as money for family relation, or by the fact of paying back debts for someone, or cancelling a debt which was due to him, if not, be sure that misfortune will happen to him. 

Therefore, keep an obeying Allah (s.w.t.).  If there is ever disobedience, and the servant is not screened from sin, one must repent quickly, and become obedient, as far as Allah (s.w.t.) is Concerned, for if this has not been done quickly, one must know that the servant is losing his esteem near the True One in such a situation he lays himself open to Allah’s (s.w.t.) Anger, unless he feels deep down in his very heart that, because of this sin he does need Allah’s (s.w.t.) Mercy, and because of that, he is broken-hearted, he is aware of his fall in the different steps of his nafs without someone need blame him as far as the servant is following the divine right way.”