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Animals Suffering In This World
why animals suffer? So many innocent animals in this world who suffer daily. slaughtered, getting eaten by it’s prey. Used for hard labour, dying of hunger.
If God is good why does he let that happen?
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Animals Suffering In This World
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The notion God is only good or only mercy creates such kind of issues.
You need to first learn how God has described itself.
Please see responses of Irfan sb and Umer sb for similar question
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according to dr irfan God will compensate them at the end but that’s not the point. the animal sufferings seem unnecessary and avoidable. it was possible for God to avoid that. either God was not powerful enough or he was not good enough to do that.
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Secondly, what does it mean that God is not “only good”… Is he “somewhat bad” too? if his every action is not good then some of his actions are bad? Is he somewhat evil then?
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As I stated earlier, the first step is to see how God defines Himself in the Qur’an. Ignoring that foundation means you are debating without engaging the primary source.
Your worldview and knowledge are confined and lack the creative power that belongs only to God. From within those limits, you conclude that His created mechanisms unnecessary. But this conclusion reflects the boundary of your knowledge, not the boundary of truth.
If you truly wish to understand, you must recognize the limits of human reasoning and allow revelation to expand beyond what intellect alone can reach.
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I’m not saying that his mechanism are necessarily “unnecessary”. I’m saying even if there is a purpose to that suffering, it was possible for God to achieve that without suffering innocent animals. Either he was not powerful enough to achieve that or he was not good enough to avoid that.
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We have been only told the humans are here for a test.
To say something like it is avoidable or not powerful without knowing the whole plan is not meaningful.
From my perspective, why create the universe in the first place would have been a more meaningful question.
However, because of our limits , we can just think but perhaps may not reach the right conclusion without God telling us.
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There are two possibilities.
Either animal suffer necessarily or they suffer unnecessarily.
If they suffer necessarily God is not powerful enough to avoid that.
If they suffer unnecessarily God is evil.
Is there a third option?
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