Some people might say: all people are tortured. There are famines, earthquakes, floods, oppression
, wars, and volcanoes, so why are people miserable? Materially most people are poor and tortured. The answer is: why is a car made? To go. Why then the manufacturing company puts brakes in it. Don’t they contradict with its movement? Using brakes is necessary for its safety. The car was manufactured to move but brakes stop it on the right time so that it wouldn’t destroy its owner. Allah created us to make us happy and for this very reason He created affliction. They were created for another purpose that man doesn’t think of, as he is distracted with this world, so calamities and affliction come as a reminder of the major task for which man was created. This is the essence of every calamity on earth:

:Allah the Almighty says

And if the people of the towns had believed and had the Taqwa (piety), certainly, We should have opened for them blessings from the heaven and the earth, but they belied (the Messengers). So We took them (with punishment) for what they used to earn (polytheism and crimes, etc.).