I gave it some thought, and came up with an answer, but would like your comments too before communicating to him the answer. I wouldn't like to tell you about my answer since it might affect your original thinking.
All people should know that Allaah is All Wise, and that
there is great wisdom behind His commands and decrees. He may let His slaves
or some of them know the wisdom behind them, or it may be concealed from
them as a test and a trial.
What He decrees in
general matters happens for a general reason, such as sending the Prophet
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him). Allaah has told us that He
sent him as a Mercy to the worlds. And similarly He created the jinn and
mankind so that they might believe in Him and worship Him alone.
Ibn Taymiyah said:
Based on this, everything that He does, we know that there is
wisdom behind it. This is sufficient for us in general terms, even if we do
not know the details. Our lack of knowledge about the details of His wisdom
is like our lack of knowledge about the details of His Essence. Just as it
is proven that His attributes are perfect but we cannot know how His Essence
is, so we do not reject what we know and are sure of (that He is perfect)
because of what we do know (the details of His perfection). Similarly we
know that He is All-Wise in all that He does and commands. The fact that we
may not know the wisdom behind some minor decrees and issues should not
undermine the basic principle of what we know of His wisdom. So we should
not deny what we know of His wisdom because we do not know all the details
of His wisdom. We know that whoever realizes the brilliance of
mathematicians, doctors and grammarians but does not share their attributes
by virtue of which they deserve prominence, cannot criticize what they say
because he does not comprehend what they are saying. People are less likely
to understand the wisdom of Allaah in His creation than the common man is to
understand mathematics, medicine and grammar. So objecting to Allaah’s
wisdom is more ignorant and the one who does that is worse off than an
ignorant man who criticizes mathematics, medicine and grammar without having
any knowledge of these disciplines.
Majmoo’ al-Fataawa, 6/128
Undoubtedly in Allaah’s
allowing children to suffer there is great wisdom which may be hidden from
some people, thus they object to the Divine decree and the Shaytaan takes
advantage of this issue to turn him away from the truth and right guidance.
Among the reasons why Allaah allows children to suffer are
the following:
1-
It is a means to show that the
child is sick or in pain; if it were not for that suffering it would not be
known what sickness he is suffering from.
2-
The crying that is caused by
the pain brings great benefits to the child’s body.
3-
Learning lessons: the family of
this child may be committing haraam actions or neglecting obligatory duties,
but when they see the suffering of their child, that prompts them to give up
those haraam actions such as consuming riba, committing zina, not praying or
smoking, especially if the child’s suffering is due to an illness that they
caused, as happens in the case of some of the haraam things mentioned above.
4-
Thinking about the Hereafter,
for there is no true happiness and peace except in Paradise; there is no
suffering and pain there, only good health, well-being and happiness. And
thinking about Hell, for that is the abode of eternal and never-ending pain
and suffering. So one will do that which will bring him nearer to Paradise
and take him further away from Hell.
Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah said:
Then think about the wisdom of Allaah in causing children to
cry a lot, and the benefits that that brings to them. The doctors and
naturalists have attested to the benefits of that and the wisdom behind it.
They said: There is moisture in children’s brains which, if it were to
remain in their brains, would cause a great deal of harm. So crying draws
that moisture out and drains it from their brains, which makes them stronger
and healthier.
Moreover, crying and yelling widens the breathing passages
and veins, and strengthens them, and it strengthens the nerves.
How greatly do children benefit from the crying and yelling
that we hear from them. If this is the wisdom with regard to crying that is
caused by pain and the wisdom behind this never crossed your mind, the same
applies to the suffering of children and its causes and good consequences.
There is a great deal of wisdom that may be hidden from most of the people
and they are greatly confused about it.
Miftaah Daar al-Sa’aadah,
2/228.
He also said:
These pains are one of
the inherent features of man’s development from which no man or animal can
be free. If man were free of pain he would not be a man, rather he would be
an angel or some other creature.
Children’s pain is not more difficult than the pain
experienced by grownups, but grownups have become accustomed to pain so it
is no longer a big issue for them. What a great difference there is between
what a child suffers and what a rational adult suffers.
All of that is one of the main aspects of the human
condition. If man were not created like that he would be a different
creature. What do you think if a child gets hungry or thirsty or cold or
tired – is it something that he was singled out for and tested with that the
grownups are not tested with? Man – and indeed animals – have been created
on this basis.
They said: If someone were to ask: Why has man been created
thus? Why was he not created without this vulnerability to pain and
suffering?
This is a flawed question, because Allaah has created him in
a world of trials from a weak substance. So he is vulnerable to diseases and
suffering, and Allaah has created him in such a way that he is vulnerable to
all kinds of pain…
The fact that these pains and pleasures coexist is one of the
signs of the Hereafter, for divine wisdom has decreed that there should be
two abodes: an abode that is devoted fully to pleasure, in which there is no
pain at all, and an abode that is devoted fully to pain in which there is no
pleasure at all. The former abode is Paradise and the latter abode is Hell.
Miftaah Daar al-Sa’aadah, 2/230,
231.
And Allaah knows best.
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