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How do we reconcile God's justice and wisdom with the tribulation of a committed young woman who experienced divorce due to her ex-husband's sin, while he is progressing in his life and she feels stuck and unsuccessful despite her commitment and obedience?

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You must continue to supplicate, for Allah has promised to answer. Do not let what you are experiencing be a measure of Allah's justice and wisdom, for He gives and withholds out of wisdom. Your delayed marriage does not mean that you are bad; perhaps the withholding is a blessing and the trial a mercy. Allah decrees nothing but good for the believer, for you may dislike a thing, and it is good for you. If Allah bestows worldly things upon a disobedient person, that is a gradual enticement from Allah, and then punishment comes to him suddenly. It is permissible for you to seek help from trustworthy and righteous people to find a husband, and it is even permissible for you to offer yourself to someone you desire.

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