and we’re learning through this that, this is one of the greatest reasons, for why people fall into the fitnah Of kuffar and shirk or whatever it is why do people fall into fitna, Why?
it is because they assume that the promise of Allah is very far away. this is one of the greatest reasons for why people fall into the fitnah Of kuffar and shirk and sin and Disobedience and Rebellion. and this is the reason for why bani Israel at this time worshiped a calf, what was the reason, because they had assumed that the promise of Allah is very far away.
“ya musa, you are promising us a good life or the paradise or ease where is it? too far away”
Musa [AS] IS SAYING TO THEM “did you see the promise of Allah being fulfilled very far away”
and you see subhanallah, for a believer the promises of Allah, the promises of the afterlife are not far. they’re extremely close.