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Peace be upon you. One of the followers on Instagram asked a question: "What is the wisdom of our Lord in not stopping the genocide that is still happening today? My mind can no longer comprehend. What is the wisdom behind more than twenty thousand children dying without reason, some of whom did not even live for a single day? Among them are newborns who did not complete a single day of their lives."
There is no doubt that this question lingers in the minds of many: Why does Allah allow calamities, trials, and the killing of children in Gaza, Sudan, Arakan in Burma, and others?
Firstly, what if you do not know the answer to this question? Does your faith depend on understanding the wisdom behind it? The fact is that as a Muslim, you have great evidence of Allah's perfection, wisdom, and mercy. If you do not understand the wisdom behind one of His actions, does that mean the other evidence is invalid?
Your inability to comprehend with your limited mind the divine wisdom behind the trials of children does not mean that the wisdom does not exist. You are a servant dealing with a Lord, and the status of servitude means that you accept that Allah has wisdom in all His actions, even if you do not understand it. If you demand to know all the wisdom, you are demanding to know as Allah knows and claiming that you can know what He knows, which is an encroachment on the status of Lordship: "He will not be asked about what He does, but they will be asked."
In our daily lives, we refer to specialists in their fields without questioning them on every detail; such as a doctor when he prescribes medication or a procedure, or an engineer when he uses specific measurements in construction. We do not question them on everything because our scientific level does not allow us to understand everything they do, so how about the Lord of all humans? And the Surah Al-Kahf, which we read, contains many events whose apparent aspect is evil, but there was good in it that Allah concealed even from one of His prophets, who is Musa, peace be upon him.
The second point: the trial of children is not a punishment for them because they are not accountable, so they have no sin. Rather, it is a mercy. Those whose vision is limited to this world think that the story begins and ends here, so if their worldly life is troubled, they have lost; and this is how Allah describes them: "But most of the people do not know. They know the outward aspects of the life of this world, but they are heedless of the Hereafter."
We, as believers, never think in this way. Rather, we know that this world is a place of trial, not a place of reward, and we know that this world is not worth to Allah the wing of a mosquito, and that we are in it like a traveler who seeks shade under a tree, then leaves it.
Notice that Allah the Almighty spoke about "the buried alive girl" and said: "And when the buried alive girl is asked, with what sin was she killed?" The buried alive girl is an innocent, poor child who is placed in a hole and covered with dirt until she dies by suffocation; a painful, ugly death. Nevertheless, Allah did not speak about His wisdom in allowing these criminal fathers to do their deed, and there was no objection from the Muslims regarding the divine wisdom in this because they understood that this world is a place of trial and the Hereafter is the place of reward.
You say in your question: "My mind has given up comprehending... they died without reason, some of them did not live a day." All these children are in Paradise; there is a consensus that the children of Muslims who die are in Paradise. When you say: "some of them did not live a day," what would they do with living in this world when they are waiting for eternity in Paradise instead? As for the pain, burning, and what they suffer before death, all of it is forgotten with a single dip in Paradise.
Thirdly: from the wisdom of Allah the Almighty in the trial of children is that He trials their parents and others who feel compassion and mercy for them. If they are patient, they will have a great reward. The Prophet ﷺ said: "There are no three children of Muslims who die before reaching the age of accountability except that they will be brought on the Day of Resurrection until they are made to stand at the gate of Paradise, and it will be said to them: Enter Paradise. They will say: Until our parents enter. It will be said to them: Enter Paradise, you and your parents." Imagine parents who lose three of their children; it is a very painful matter, and yet it is a guarantee of entering Paradise by the grace and generosity of Allah.
Fourthly: from the wisdom of Allah in the trial of children - especially as it happens in Gaza, Sudan, and Burma - is that He trials us with them, to bring out from us servitude in striving against criminals and oppressors, and servitude in supporting the oppressed with what we can, and that we wake up from our heedlessness hoping that Allah will lift the humiliation from us.
And let no one think that our talk about wisdom means "let them be killed as they will go to Paradise"; but if we abandon them and support their enemies and do not strive to lift the oppression from them, what is the benefit that they go to Paradise and we go to Hell - God forbid?
Fifthly: how does Allah bring tranquility to these small, tender hearts? How many children of Gaza we have seen who are patient and seek reward, and these are evidence against those who are not patient among the people. Allah proves with them that He strengthens these small hearts against what shakes the mountains, and this is from the manifestations of His wisdom and mercy. And I say that while I am a father of a daughter who was sick with cancer and suffered severe suffering until it took her life, and she was patient and seeking reward by the grace of Allah the Almighty.
Sixthly and finally: you, who ask this question, what did you do when you saw these children being killed? You wonder about the actions of Allah the Almighty and you know that He is not asked about what He does, and they are asked.
You, the "famous" one, who puts this question to your followers, did the suffering of the children awaken in you a faith that raises the level of what you publish to people to be regulated by the law of Allah? Has your content after the events become different from what it was before? Have you made it your goal to please Allah and clear your conscience and not to be of those who abandon their brothers?
All that we have mentioned is a small part of the wisdom of Allah, and "they do not encompass anything of His knowledge except what He wills." In conclusion: Allah the Almighty has perfect wisdom, and He is more merciful to the children than we are, and He will reward those who are patient among them with the fullest reward that the people of ease among us will wish for on the Day of Resurrection. The important thing is that we busy ourselves with what we have to do.
May Allah have mercy on our brothers in Gaza, Sudan, Arakan, and everywhere, and may He help us to support them. Peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah.