Principles of Islam
16. God’s Blessing
~ 43 ~
16. GOD’S BLESSING
Right from a glass of water to political power,
everything that people possess in this world is from
God. Everything is a direct blessing of God.
Whatever one finds in this world is there because of
the will of God. If God does not will it, no one can
have anything, no matter how hard he tries for it.
This is an undeniable truth proved by the Qur’an
and the Hadith.
Another thing that we learn from the Qur’an and
the hadith is that there are two forms of divine
blessing. One special and the other general. Political
power is a special blessing of God. We learn from
the Qur’an that political power – is not given to
everyone. Neither can it be received through
political movements or the gun culture. It is directly
related with the way of God. One of the
sunnah
of
God is that if a group proves, in the real sense of the
word, to have true faith and to be virtuous in action,
then God grants that group political power: God
has promised those of you who believe and do good
works to make them masters in the land (24:55).
