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Some Secrets of the Qur'an: Secrets in the Expansion and Diminishing of Blessings

Contents
  1. Introduction
  2. God Answers Everyone's Prayers
  3. God Increases His Blessings on Those Who are Grateful
  4. Secrets of Submission to One's Fate and Putting One's Trust in God
  5. There is Good in Every Event
  6. There is Surely Ease with Every Difficulty
  7. God Obscures the Comprehension of Disbelievers
  8. God Bestows Understanding on Those Who Fear Him
  9. Those Who Do Good Meet Goodness
  10. There is Light in Believers' Faces, but Disgrace in Those of Disbelievers
  11. The Secret that God Erases Bad Actions
  12. Divine Purposes in Spending in God's Way
  13. The Effect of Good Actions and Good Words
  14. God Certainly Helps Those Who Help His Religion
  15. Quarrelling Causes Loss of Strength
  16. Only in the Remembrance of God Do Hearts Find Satisfaction
  17. The Cunning of Satan is Weak
  18. Obeying the Majority Misleads Man from the Right Path
  19. Secrets in the Expansion and Diminishing of Blessings
  20. Obedience to the Messenger is Obedience to God
  21. A Small Group of Believers Can Overcome a Vast Majority of Disbelievers
  22. God Makes His Religion Supreme When One Worships Him Alone
  23. The Life of the World is in Fact Very Brief
  24. God Casts Dread into the Hearts of Disbelievers
  25. Wisdom and Decisive Speaking are Blessings from God
  26. Man Will Also Account for His Thoughts and Intentions
  27. It is God Who Places Love in People's Hearts
  28. The Deaths of Disbelievers and Believers Will Not be the Same
  29. Prayer Keeps Man Away from Evil
  30. Those Who are Killed in the Way of God are Not Dead
  31. God is the Giver of Honour
  32. Secrets of Finding the Straight Path
  33. Man's Inner Self Commands Evil Acts
  34. Secrets of Abundance and the Wealth Given to People
  35. The Secret of Why God Does Not Immediately Punish the Disbelievers
  36. Conclusion

In the Qur'an, God reveals the reason why He grants blessings or takes them back from people:

That is because God would never change a blessing He has conferred on a people until they changed what is in themselves. God is All-Hearing, AllKnowing.

Surat al-Anfal: 53

Everyone has a succession of angels in front of him and behind him, guarding him by God's command. God never changes a people's state until they change what is in themselves. When God desires evil for a people, there is no averting it. They have no protector apart from Him.

Surat ar-Ra'd: 11

What is related in these verses are very important secrets that people are mostly unaware of or ignore. God says that He will expand the blessings of those people who engage in good acts, and will restrict the blessings of those who perform evil acts, and that the blessings on people will alter in accordance with the changes in their behaviour and sincerity.

Believers who know this secret of God try to see the hidden purposes in God's creation in every situation they encounter and remain heedful about this subject. They never feel self-sufficient, but strive hard to attain the moral perfection described in the Qur'an, and to correct their wrongdoings and failings. In this sense, they never dare to falter in displaying moral perfection and the refinement of their conduct.