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There are two causes, as stated in the Risale on Qadar, in everything, in every disaster, especially the cruel calamities caused by humans:

One is the humans who look only to the apparent causes.

The other is Ilahî Qadar. Humans look to the apparent causes; sometimes they make mistakes and commit dhulm. However, Qadar looks at different points and acts justly. Here are three matters currently associated with the Risale-i Nur circle that evoke a deep sense of concern and are warned to me as a response to the ma’nawî question regarding the justice of Qadar.  

First Question: Why are the self-sacrificing mothers, who have a high degree of compassion, deprived of inheriting some assets of their children at this time? Why has Qadar allowed this?

The answer received is this: because mothers misuse their compassion due to the inoculation of this age. They urge their children into the world and the schools with all their strength, hoping they will gain honour, prestige, status and official positions. Even if they are pious, they withdraw their children from studying the Quranic ‘ilms and bind them to the world. It is due to this mistake in this kind of compassion that Qadar has condemned them to this deprivation.

Second Question: I felt pity for some people associated with the Risale-i Nur. Although the right of a man over the assets of his father is two-thirds, why did Ilahî Qadar allow him to be deprived his right partially?

The answer received: while it is necessary to show respect to one's parents and unconditional, complete respect and obedience in return for the kindness of one's father and mother, at this century, a strange inoculation has led to the corruption of genuine respect and obedience in the majority of the people. Consequently, they have been deprived unjustly of their rightful share of two-thirds. Qadar allowed this due to their mistake. Since the girls, although they have many flaws in other respects, are in greater need of protective and compassionate hands due to their weakness, and they increased their respect and need for their fathers and mothers sensitively, Qadar has permitted some of the rights of their brothers to be given temporarily to the girls by the dhâlim hands of mankind.

Third Question: Why do certain religious men suffer much difficulty from their mahrams who have plunged into worldly life? There are so many of these sorts of incidents in this region.

The received answer: In this age of women’s freedom, as a requirement of their devoutness, Qadar has allowed those religious men to be struck by the hands of liberated women due to their mistake of meddling with the world by means of such liberated women. The remainder has been postponed due to an unintentional interruption by a blessed lady.