By: Simon Hajj
In light of the new events in GAZA, where over 40,000 people, as of this writing, have perished, 70% of whom were women and children. This number would be much higher once all the bodies under the rubble have been recovered.
Beside all the killing of innocent people and the demolishing of their homes, the environment is getting to be unbearable. Sewage and trash all over the streets and neighborhoods, the lack of medicals and hygiene, the lack of food and everything else.. Endless displacements, and the spread of diseases.
Many people are asking, where’s God?? Why isn’t he protecting those innocent people? Among the dead people, men were there to support their families and women were there to take care of their families, and yet the children died before they’ve had a chance to experience life, how sad!!
The Israelis who are known to have no compassion or value for the Palestinian lives have killed so many people for no reason and destroyed their homes. So why didn’t God protect them from these atrocities considering that the people in GAZA are the most religious and God fearing people in the world? He could’ve downed the Israeli planes that bombed their homes, he could’ve rendered their bombs and missiles unexplodable, he could’ve stricken their soldiers with a deadly disease, but he didn’t do any of that and allowed all this carnage to take place.
Some videos on you tube, talk about the end of Israel, but when? And some videos talk about God punishing bad people as in surah “Alfeel” and what he did to the people of “Sodom and Gomora”, and yet he allows some man-made disasters to take place with devastating results and he did nothing, but why??
If you ask a religious person, where’s God? and why is he allowing all this to happen, he will tell you that God wanted what has happened to happen, but why? and those who died will be in Heaven, and nothing happens without God’s will. But if you ask an atheist the same question, he’ll say, there’s no God and this is the proof.
So, there must be some wisdom and a good reason as to why things happen the way they did, and why is God allowing the devastating consequences of the events that took place in GAZA. So what is this wisdom and the reason for these events?? The truth is “NO BODY KNOWS”. I spoke with some religion scholars and people who think they know the answer to everything and I have yet to find someone who can give me a convincing answer. If anyone has a good explanation and the reason for what’s happening these days in GAZA, please let me know.