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Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips was born in Jamaica, but grew up in Canada where he accepted Islam in 1972. He completed a diploma in Arabic and a B.A from the College of Islamic Disciplines ( Usool ad-Deen ) at the Islamic University of Madeenah in 1979. At the University of Riyadh, College of Education he completed an M.A in Islamic Theology in 1985 and in the department of Islamic Studies at the University of Wales, U.K, he also completed a Ph.D in Islamic Theology in 1994. The author replies to these questions in the form of this book. Some of the major tribulations of human existence are the consequences of committing sins and spreading evil into the world. According to the moral scale of Islam, it is known that man is imperfect and fallible and prone to committing sins. This is part of his innate weak nature as a finite limited creature. However, it is a sin if he has the ways and means to attain relative moral perfection and deliberately chooses not to seek it.