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In Ta'aleem-ud-Deen Hazrat Aqdas Hakim-ul-Ummat Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanwi Sahab (RA) records that in the creation of bad things there are many secrets and not everybody can fathom them.

In view of that the best thing to do is to submit to the Will of Allah (SWT).

From above statement of Hazrat Thanwi (RA) it is clear that some people can understand the things happening around us. The trick is that all of us should not insist upon understanding everything.

Those of us who understood some of the things happening around us have told us a few things.
Like bad things happen to believers to elevate their stature. Bad things happen to disbelievers to punish them. Good things happen to disbelievers to compensate for their good deeds in this world itself.

And indeed disbelievers will find it difficult to understand these things.

Same is true about free will and determinism.

And I do not think that there is no good answer to these questions - answers are their but the point is whether we can figure them out or not. For example free will versus determinism question is very clear from last two verses of Surah Takweer.

1. If God is all powerful, then he doesn't need to use a means to achieve a goal. He doesn't need to make someone suffer to "elevate his status", but he chooses to.

2. Simply claiming that it's clear doesn't make it so. The last 2 verses of takweer only clarify one side of the issue.

If it were all so simple, we wouldn't have had people trying to answer the problem for centuries.