  My Good friend Lolo had the following response to what I shared with Athar: Both of your perspectives make sense and I think it is really interesting that you differentiated between God ALLOWING something to occur and him WANTING it to happen (hani). I think that goes hand in hand with Job's life. He was doing nothing wrong and disaster still came upon him. I think in this situation God wanted and allowed this to happen to Job. In the end, God did not want to "punish" or "fix" job up; he just wanted to take him deeper.
And i think (if im understanding this right) that's where hani's point comes in. Because God has our future in mind, he wants certain things to occur so we could either reach a certian level or for whatever reason. However, I think (and this is just my opinion) that in athar's situation, it could have been both a matter of "want and allow". I say this because God could have been allowing it to happen since there wasn't "full surrender"(or whatever you want call it) and he also could have been allowing it so that it could benefit Athar in the future.
I think that this is a clear summary of what I was thinking (yep, Lolo is also a budding philosophy major) but I want to emphasize the main point I was making: Bad things do not always happen inspite of God's will and pleasure but many times they occur because of his will and pleasure. 
