Nīkah Written by Qādr, Tested by Genotype Chapter Twelve: Questions Without Answers After everything we had been through, after the joy that once filled our lives and the pain that slowly replaced it, a question continued to rise within our hearts in a way that we could not ignore, no matter how much we tried to silence it or push it aside. That question came to us in the quiet moments of the night when sleep refused to come, and it followed us into the day when we tried to remain strong in front of others. We found ourselves asking, with hearts that carried both belief and pain, why all of this was happening to the four of us at the same time, why it had come at this stage of our lives, and why the same kind of difficulty had unfolded in such a similar way among us. We were not asking out of rejection of what Allah had written for us, because deep within our hearts we knew and believed that everything that happens in this life is by His decree. We understood that this was Qādr, a...