'Any disaster that strikes you is through what your own hands have earned' (Surat Ash-Shura: 30)

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There is an important characteristic of the lower self of a man.
When something good befalls on one; when he receives goodness and
kindness from the people around him; when things go the way he wants
them to go, in a way that would cheer him up and make him happy; he
feels rather complacent. He believes that the beautiful things going
on around him and the benevolence he receives are taking their sources
from him. He thinks the reason why things go well for him and why
course of events go the way he hoped them to go, is because he strives
a lot and because he is a good person who makesa great effort in many
subjects and because he acts reasonable and precautious. In other
words, he is of the idea that he had earned all the good things
befalling on him to the smallest detail.
However when the sameperson faces things that he doesn't want to face;
when goodness and benevolence is not anymore offered to him by people
around him; when things do not give the results he wants them to give;
when the blessings in his life lessen and some difficulties and
troubles arise; he would not think that "all those, again to the
smallest detail, befall on him because he earned themall himself". On
the contrary, he believes that he did not deserve any of those things
happening to him, he feels hard done-by and wronged. He even
thinksthat all these things befall on him because hehas been too good
towards everyone and thus he lives in the psychology of a person"being
wronged".
Most of the time, a person living through these things would not stop
to think: "Could there be something wrong with me? Could it be that I
have some wrong beliefs and a wrong point of view? Dothe things that
befall on me have something to do with such wrong beliefs I have or
with mymorality? Would the goodness and beauties in my life be any
different if I acted somehow different? Could it be that I have been
experiencing all these because I earned them due to the flaws I have
in my morality?"
Had he been thinking like this even for a very short time; and instead
of looking for the problem in other details,had he sincerely censured
himself; he would have realized the truth which in fact is very
evident.
Allah revealed in the Qur'an that: "Any disasterthat strikes you is
through what your own hands have earned" (Surat Ash-Shura: 30)
This verse gives a personthe true point of view with which he could
evaluate the things he is experiencing in a correctand sound manner.
In another verse Allah informs us that; "Those who do good will have
the best and more" (Surah Yunus: 26). Whena person keeps his heart
pure and sincere; when he looks at every event in his life by
searching the approval of Allah; as long as he thinks by the morality
of the Qur'an and approach people only through this point of view
stemming from the Qur'an; Allah would definitely "increase the
beauties in such a person's life".
If he is harboring any evil in himself, if he doesnot think purely by
the Qur'an and if he is adding a little bit of the moral values of
ignorance in his approach, if he evaluates the incidents taking place
not by the Qur'an but by the rules and value judgments of the
ignorance, it is natural for the things that befall on him and the
things he experiences to be just like that. Whatever he manifests
spiritually would somehow reflect on his life.
It is very important not to forget this truth, which has been very
explicitly revealed in the Qur'an. Man is very prone to think
continuously well of himself; he adopts a wrong point of view by
thinking that he earned all the good things that befall on them but
that he never deserved (Allahis beyond such claims) the troubles he
experiences. To think on these verses of the Qur'an is in fact
sufficient for him to see that these suggestions ofhis lower self are
not true.
Allah is All-Compassionate and Most Merciful. His Mercy extends to all
things. Allah is the One Who loves His servants infinitely, Who
continuously bestows goodness and beauty onthem through concealedand
overt means. Every moment of a person's life is full of thousands of
details in which he can see the love of Allah. And Allah is the Owner
ofthe Infinite Justice. Allah shows His Mercy even ona person who has
committed the worst evils on earth and showshim the ways to salvation.
Allah creates new means every moment for man and inspires his
conscience what is right for him, to abstain from doing wrong, feel
remorse anddesist.
One should see this infinite perfection in Allah's Character and
submit himself to His Justice. If one has some adequacies in his life,
heshould search for the solution of this in his own morality. He
shouldintend to love Allah evenmore; to live by the morality Allah
commandsmore fastidiously; to erase even the smallest evil thoughts
from his heart; to look into every incident through the Qur'anic point
of view; and to live all his life with the accuracy Allah demands.
Then, by the leave of Allah- as Allah promised- all the goods he had
done, would be recompensed with even betters both in this world and in
the Hereafter.
Anyone who acts rightly,male or female, being a mumin, We will give
them a good life and Wewill recompense them according to the best of
what they did. (Surat An-Nahl:97)