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Why does a fawn suffer and die in a forest no one sees? Why do children who have not even sinned yet fall ill?
In philosophy this question is called the "problem of evil", and for three centuries it has been the hardest issue in Western thought. This video seeks a three-layered answer from the Islamic scholarly tradition:
1. The gate of words — two readings. Whether you say "problem" or "wisdom" changes the answer; even the dictionary meaning of the word "musibet" (calamity) — good, evil, trial, test — determines how we read the event. Like the three-door meaning of the shahada, words are windows.
2. Leibniz's distinction. Metaphysical evil, physical pain, moral evil... On which scale are we weighed? In the world of trial, the difference between saying "what a pity" and "ma sha Allah" opens with the address of Surah al-Mu'minun: "Woe that Day to the deniers."
3. The heaviest pan of the scale. Sinless babies, young animals, the forsaken... To Ivan Karamazov's cry, Bediuzzaman's answer and Alyosha's silence: some accounts can only be seen on the scale of the hereafter.
All visuals were generated as neon line art by artificial intelligence. The video has subtitles in 7 languages.