====== Affliction ======

  * “Our ability to meet our endless demands is negligible. We are threatened with **afflictions** that our own strength cannot withstand. Our strength is limited to what we can reach, yet our wishes and demands, suffering and sorrow, are as wide as our imagination.”((Bediüzzaman Said Nursi, //The Words//, New Jersey: The Light, 2013, p. 20.))

  * “O soul and friend, our nature contains two faculties: the means of fear and the means of [[love|love]]. Such love and fear is felt for either the created or the Creator. Fear of the created is a painful **affliction**, and love of the created is a troublesome pain, for you fear such things or persons that they show you no mercy or reject your request. If this is so, fear of the created is a painful **affliction**.”((Ibid., p. 377.))

  * “Observe the three manifestations of Divine Mercy: [[love|love]], affection, and [[intellect|intellect]]. If human life resulted in eternal separation with unending pangs of parting, that gracious love would turn into the greatest **affliction**, affection into a most painful ailment, and the light-giving intellect into an unmitigated evil. Divine Compassion, however, (for it is Compassion) never inflicts the agony of eternal separation upon true love.”((Ibid., p. 540.))

  * “... any [[love|love]] in the carnal soul’s name, like that of worldly, [[heedlessness|heedless]] people, causes much pain, trouble, and affliction in this world, and the ease, pleasure and enjoyment it gives is little. For example, [[compassion|compassion]] turns into a painful **affliction** because you cannot do something. Love becomes a consuming feeling because of separation. Pleasure becomes like a poisonous drink because it is subject to transience. Since such love is not love in Almighty God’s Name, it will be useless in the Hereafter. Also, it will bring torment if it has driven the lover into illicit dealings.”((Ibid., p. 657.))

  * “**Afflictions** come from our sins, mistakes, the darkness within us, and our ego being suppressed. Moreover, because God is very merciful, He does not immediately chastise us for every wrongdoing... He even forgives many of them.”((M. Fethullah Gülen, //Asrın Getirdiği Tereddütler-4//, İstanbul: Nil Yayınları, 2011, p. 100.))

  * “Through disasters, **afflictions**, and difficulties, a person will purify and come to their true essence.”((M. Fethullah Gülen, //Fasıldan Fasıla-1//, İstanbul: Nil Yayınları, 2008, p. 83.))

  * “The actions of a believer are on the ‘goodness’ trajectory. When they face any **affliction**, they show patience, which is good for them. And when they attain any blessing, they express gratitude, which is also good for them.”((M. Fethullah Gülen, //Fasıldan Fasıla-2//, İstanbul: Nil Yayınları, 2008, p. 209.))

  * “According to the statement of our Prophet, ‘Patience is the determination shown when **afflictions** first strike.’”((M. Fethullah Gülen, //Fasıldan Fasıla-4//, İstanbul: Nil Yayınları, 2011, p. 121; Bukhari, Janaiz, 32; Muslim, Janaiz, 14, 15.))

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