I’m bored, so let’s start another inane religious thread:
Most religions have an Unendingly Good God, and an Unredeemably Evil Devil.
Now, when you believe in a religion, any religion (along those guidelines)- you’re establishing the idea that these major figures have a certain power over the world that you live in. God can make people’s lives better - the devil can try to make you miserable.
Now, given that…
Many religious types try to describe the benefits of their religion to you in terms of things they believe are small miracles. They couldn’t pay their bills, and someone in the family got an unexpected bonus from work. They didn’t have food, so their neighbors offered to feed them. Often, little things like this are used to describe the small things that the god you worship has given you.
Now - generally, one of the jobs of the devil(s) in these religions is to make people lose belief in God, or come not to believe in Him.
Let’s use Christianity for an example. The devil (Beezelbub) wants to keep you from believing in God. Now, since he exerts some power over the world, it would seem possible, if not likely, that he would perform beneficial “miracles” to those of other religions. Why? So that they think their god is making miracles for them - and it reaffirms their belief in their (wrong) religion, ensuring that they don’t convert to Christianity.
Now, if that seems plausible, then it would naturally be equally plausible that the “little miracles” Christians experience, the ones you ascribe to God, were engineered by the devil of another religion.
My understanding is that the Christian God and the Islamic God is the same. The two religions worship the same entity, they just have different ways of approaching HIM. From this POV, it doesn’t make sense to say “the Islamic Devil” or “the Christian Devil” either, and that’d be my little contribution to that interesting thought.
Just one more thing: AFAIK Islam has a very interesting way of seeing Satan - the Devil has some kind of agreement with God that allows him to temptate human beings in order to test them. That’s IMO one aspect I really like - God wants to test you, so he sends the incarnation of Evil to you to see what you’ll do.
That makes sense, but this isn’t limited to “the big three”
That makes a lot more sense than the Christian way of seeing it, which seems to be… God hates Satan, and will eventually throw him into hell, but, well, not yet, uh, I guess.
I’m not sure the spirit of evil is to get you to not believe in God, but to reject God and His will. After all, the devil believes in God, but rejected His will and was cast down.
As far as “smal miracles” are concerned, the kinds of examples you talk about could be seen as coincidence. But the key is to be thankful to God for them. Good things and happiness are from God, whether miraculous or not, and He is to be thanked for them.