Why Is Life So Difficult? | Islamic Spirituality & The Hidden Wisdom of Struggles

“Why is life so difficult?”

This is a question we often find ourselves asking while trying to search for an answer, so that life may become a little better...

Sometimes we succeed, and sometimes even more difficulties arrive. But it never truly happens that a person completely fixes everything. Why is that? Perhaps today we may be able to search for its answer in this article.

For this, let us reflect upon a famous saying of Ali ibn Abi Talib (A.S):

إِنَّكُمْ حَصَائِدُ الْآجَالِ وَأَغْرَاضُ الْحِمَامِ

“You are the harvests of the appointed terms and the targets of death.”

Now if we look deeply at this, mankind has been called a harvest, and it is said that we are tied to appointed terms, while being the targets of death.

Then the question arises: what is harvested?

Crops.

So all of us are like crops, and every crop has different assigned terms, and all of this must be completed before death, right?

Then how does a crop become ready?

By ripening under sunlight, correct?

It needs sunlight, right? But instead, it keeps protecting itself from the sun and remains hidden in the shade.

And when night arrives, it reveals itself under the light of the moon and thinks that now it will ripen — but will it truly ripen? Rather, it will only become wetter because of the dew, and its roots may even rot from too much moisture, simply because it fears the sunlight.

Then if the time of death arrives, what will happen?

The entire process will have been wasted.

But the one who endured the burning sunlight and eventually produced a healthy seed — when death comes to him, he feels happiness, because at last he became successful, even though those days beneath the harsh sunlight were difficult.

And this is the reason why life feels difficult to us.

But this is only for a short time. Everything will change. Your seed will be planted in Paradise, where sunlight will never trouble you again.

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