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What are the possible solutions, guidance, and advice for dealing with the incident of threat and scandal that led to abandoning studies and the imamate of the mosque, and is abandoning the pursuit of knowledge due to this incident considered a correct course of action?

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God created humans to test them. The servant must be content with God's decree and destiny. The questioner's impatience, lack of perseverance, and ill thoughts of God—by abandoning the pursuit of knowledge, deeming the answer to his supplication delayed, and concluding that God does not wish him well—do not align with his knowledge that he is being tested and tried. The solution begins with the questioner re-evaluating his own state, and moving away from the state of one who worships God "on the verge," and contemplating the words of Allah Almighty: "Do people think that they will be left alone because they say, 'We believe,' and will not be tested?" [Al-Ankabut: 2]. He should know that trials reveal hidden inner flaws in the servant, so he must hasten to remedy them. Moreover, seeking a hasty answer and abandoning supplication are among the impediments to its acceptance. Beautiful patience is the mount of the believer in hardship, so he must recall the patience of the Prophet, peace be upon him, and his household.

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