Among the human beings, one 
major category is that of atheists.
When we talk to them, we feel that the basic reason
 behind their not accepting existence of God is that
they believe the corruption and injustice in this world and other 
issues that ignore merit do not corroborate with presence of God.
My question is that the corruption, injustice and cruelty we see around 
us and the presence of such crooks on the most coveted positions
and the claims of presence of a true, powerful and just God who 
holds the system of the universe in His hand clash with each other.
Due to this clash, the atheists remain unable to explain 
the system of the universe and the presence of God.
Please explain your 
position on this issue.
In the name of Allah, the most 
beneficient, the most merciful. 
Ladies and gentlemen, I am thankful to you 
for being here to listen to my humble views.
I am also thankful to those 
who arranged this meeting.
To answer the question that has been put
 forward, I will explain a few things for you.
My common experience about the people who 
develop negative understanding about God
and His Messengers demonstrates that the reason
 behind all this is the attitude of the religious people.
When a person gets mature, one thing is that he develops a 
belief that he should not keep himself restricted to such issues.
He considers the social cultural 
background and knows that as a Muslim,
Hindu, Christian, or Jew, he will have
 to live with this cultural background. 
Just like I have my parents, my country, my nation or my generation, 
the people to whom I was born also have a specific religion. 
He lives his life according to that particular civilization and 
cultural background. However, all the people are not the same.
Some of the human beings created 
by God are ideologically very sensitive.
When such people see that they have a religious 
recognition, they try to reach the depth of this factor. 
They find some religious leaders around them who are performing 
their religious duties as teachers or Imams of mosques.
Similarly, they hear many things about the religion 
from their parents, friends and other relatives. 
The imagination, teachings and attitudes they observe, according 
to my observation, this is the first thing causing their anxiety.
In their opinion, the content they receive does 
not fall in line with knowledge and rationale. 
The first result is that one should abandon all other businesses
 to completely devote himself to the religion and its content. 
He should raise himself to a higher level and see things 
standing above his local Imam, khateeb or teacher.
The other possibility is that he totally gets disappointed 
with the present limited instructions of the religion.
When such an opinion is formed, it gradually deprives a 
person of his capability of seeing things from broader angles.
Ths is the codition that many
people see cruelty and injustice.   
They notice that the poor are suffering and the those blessed with 
authority and power have become dangersous for others, 
Difficulties, earthquakes, and storms destroy complete cities, 
and in most cases, only the poor have to face these troubles. 
This feeling makes them anxious as they find themselves unable to 
understand that if God exists, what is He doing with His servants.
Initially the problem begins when the religious people 
of the same cultural background cannot convince them.
Gradually, the feelings and emotions continue to grow 
stronger enough to take one to such beliefs.
This requires that we should
 correct both the matters.
The first thing to correct is that we should 
educate the people particularly the Muslims.
Our parents, mothers, fathers, and our atmosphere
 should be familiar with the real message of Islam.
I do not want to say that every individual
 should become a religious scholar.
But at least he should have such fundamental information as can 
prevent such an anxiety to a person capable of understanding things.
After that, when a person deliberates in 
peace, he will be able to understand that
he needs to understand the scheme of 
God behind the creation of this universe. 
They need to understand that Allah did not create 
this world on the basis of justice and fairness.
This is not the basis of the 
creation of this world at all. 
They first need to learn from the creator 
that on what principle has He created this world.
When you see a creature, the first thing to 
try to know whether it has been created to fly,
a car has been made to ride on the road, and what
 is the relationship of a medicine with the disease.
Similarly we should try to know if God has created
 this world on the principle of justice and fairness.
The divine Prophets 
have told that this is not so. 
If the divine messengers had told that this world 
is based on the principle of justice and fairness, 
God is just and has created man
 on the basis of justice and fairness,
and is running the universe on this very principle, 
then our objection would have been reasonable.
But that is not the case. The divine messengers have 
clearly told that this world is a temporary world.
The real world to be based on justice and 
fairness will come into existence after death.
Before that, this temporary world has been 
created on the principle of test and trial.
It is not based on the principle of justice and fairness. 
It has been based on the principle of test and trial.
The creator of this universe has created it after deciding 
to pick people from this world for the next world. 
That world will appear after death.
That world will be an eternal one. The pleasures there
 will be permanent. There will be no limits of development.
Man will share the eternity of God. 
That great world is the real purpose.
Before that, a place of test has been created
 to make people qualify for that eternal world.
For a place of test, the basic necessity 
was to give man freedom and authority.
It is because without authority, a man cannot be tested fairly. 
When authority is given, the misuse of it is inevitable.
There will be difficulties and tough troubles. 
Patience and gratitude of man will be tested.
If you look from this angle understanding the divine scheme of this 
world, you will find that for a test, no better setup could be arranged.
If you see it from the perspective of justice and fairness, 
it is a reality that it looks like Lila of Ram or a theatre of Yazna.
But if you see it from the angle 
of test, it looks to be a perfect world.
Every person as individual, nation, father, mother, spouse or 
in any other position is facing test everywhere and every moment.
His actions and reactions 
are being watched all the time.
The Holy Quran has described
 this world in the following words: 
[He] who created death and life to test you 
[as to] which of you is best in deed. (Q 67:2)
It means that this world has not been created
 on the principle of justice and fairness.
Instead, it has been created to observe who, despite 
facing cruelty, injustice, testing conditions, transgression,
and all the problems, remains steadfast 
with the truth and performs deeds of piety.
This world has been created on this 
principle. We have to clarify this notion.
The first thing is to explain 
the scheme of the creator. 
If the scheme of the creator is the principle
 of justice, then the objection is valid.
But if the scheme is based on the principle of test, then you 
should talk after comprehensively understanding the scheme. 
Another question that rises is that as you
 have said that it is place of test and trial,
if we see it from this angle, we 
can understand this explanation.
But sometimes we feel that the test and trial 
is exceeding the limit. I give you the example.
A colleague of mine has a daughter. The 13 year 
old girl was born deaf, blind, and paralyzed.
She was born with all these complications
 and she has been confined to the bed.
In such cases we think that although the world is for a 
test, yet for the girl who is born with these limitations
and growing up facing all these hardest circumstances, 
even if you accept the reality that the life is a test,
such cases reveal that the
 test is too hard to handle. 
In this case, you can imagine the
 condition of the girl and her family.
Does not it mean that a test beyond one’s 
capacity is nothing but an injustice and cruelty?
There is no doubt that at some points, the onlookers 
start to believe someone is facing a test too harsh.
But the condition of test also varies for every individual. It 
is not restricted to the recipient of the difficulty or hardship only.
Through him/her, the people present in his/her 
family and community are also being tested.
I have also told you that from the 
perspective of test, this is a perfect world.
If you ponder, you will see thousands of flaws in
 it because it has been made a temporary place. 
But from the perspective of test, it does not have 
any flaw at all. It alerts man from different angles.
What is the main reason behind man’s ignorance 
towards his God and His remembrance?
Obviously, it is his being fit and healthy, capable
 to think, understand, and deliberate on the matters,
and his confidence to get what he wants 
when he reaches the age of adulthood.
To make man alert, God shows him 
some very unusual things and events.
Sometimes he witnesses the worst level of diseases 
and sometimes he sees the worst level of poverty
so that he can see that if his God takes back all the 
blessings from him, what he would be going through.
It is like a poet has said: har waqr daftari ast ma’rifat 
parwardigar. Every leaf of it has a test written on it. 
Sometimes we think those blessed with so many bounties
 to be tested for gratitude are having an easy test.
Those who ponder over the system of the universe 
have correctly concluded that the test of patience,
such as the test of the girl and her parents, is not consequentially 
as dangerous as that of those being tested for gratitude.
It is because her pain, suffering, and her problems 
keep reminding her of her creator every moment.
They pray to God and seek His attention to their 
suffering. But the test for gratitude makes one totally ignorant.
As wealth continues to grow, the feeling 
of gratitude gets weaker and weaker.
Man thinks he is getting it due to his deservingness. He
 thinks he got it through hard work or inherited it from his parents.
As a result, when the result will arrive, he will find 
that the other person has succeeded while he has failed.
Those having more 
blessings fail their final test.
Therefore, as long as you don’t see this world in comparison
 with the Hereafter, such questions will continue to rise.
God commands us to view this world standing 
on His side but we keep seeing it from our side.
We see cruelty, injustice, difficulty and hardship, and 
for Him, it is a test of 5, 10 days, to 50, 60 years.
He tells everyone to come to Him, go through this test 
showing patience and gratitude and enter the heaven.
Its doors are open all 
the time and for everyone.
Therefore, when He sees things from His side,
 this particular thing disappears from his sight.
We continue to see from our side. The reality 
is that man is compelled to see from his side.
When you trim the grass, you do this to beautify your 
lawn. Did you ever see it from the side of the grass?
How would you feel? So you need
 to see where you actually stand.
If you see it from God’s side, you will see that He is standing 
to welcome us when we return to Him after a small period of test.
He tells us to remain patient through this test
 and enter the ever open doors of heavens.
If you see this limited test of 60 to 70 years in comparison
 with the eternal life of bliss, it is like a drop of an ocean.
But since it is the real world for us, 
we see it from our side and get worried.
But this test of hardship only falls 
on some people chosen by Allah?
Whether it is the matter of food or 
shelter, only the poor have to suffer.
It is just like someone has said: khana anwari kuja 
bashad. Every test and difficulty is for the poor only. 
You said that the rich also face the test 
as they become ignorant towards God 
but the physical and painful 
test always falls on the poor.
It seems as if God has picked the poor for such tests 
and He will only test this method upon them alone?
He has divided mankind in two classes.
Some are facing the tests that demand patience while others 
face the test demanding gratitude. This was the right choice.
If the test and trial had been shifted 
continuously, it would have lost its value.
The people facing test for 
gratitude would never think of patience.
For those facing test of patience, they would 
have found it a world of test for patience only
because every individual would
 have been facing up and down.
That would have 
rendered the test ineffective.
If you see it from the angle of test, the best choice is that one 
side should be tested in one way and the other in a different way.
That is what is happening in this world.
That is why when any hardship arrives
 from the heaven, it demonstrates:
khana anwari kuja bashad 
(where is Anwar's house?).
It asks this question because if 
God repeatedly changes the system, 
people will get alert and will 
not remain lost in their ignorance.
They will realize the situation and correct them. 
Sometimes, He does change the situation.
He brings down some people 
from the heaven to the earth.
Sometimes He showers great blessings upon 
those who start their life in a great misery.
But He does not use
 this phenomenon regularly.
The reason is that if the cover is removed
 in this world, the test becomes ineffective.
To maintain its original perfection, God treats one 
class in one way and the other in a different way.
He changes this system 
in some instances though.
