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If there’s a God why’s there suffering

If there’s a God why’s there suffering

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 Auto-generated transcript: In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the Prophet and the messengers. And peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and companions. And peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and companions. And after that, my brothers and sisters, sometimes people who are atheists and people who don't understand, even sometimes, may Allah have mercy on us, Muslims who don't understand Islam, who have not taken the trouble to learn anything. They ask this question, they say that if there is a merciful God, if there is a merciful God, why is there suffering? If there is a God, or a merciful God, why is there suffering? Seems to be a... a reasonable question, if you look at it in one way. That's why I said, people who don't understand, ask this question. Because people who understand and know the Qur'an, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentioned very clearly, why there is suffering, despite the fact that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is there, and this is Haqqa. This is the truth. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, in Surah Ar-Rum, Zahara al-fasadu fil barri wal bahri, bi ma kasabat aydi al-nasi li yuziqahum ba'da alladhi amilu la'allahum yarji'oon. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, which means, the fasad, the trials, tribulations, difficulties, calamities, diseases, wars, all the orphans and widows, all the blood and gore, all that you are seeing. Zahara al-fasadu, jo fasad zahir hai, fil barri wal bahar, zameen pe aur paani pe, on the earth and on the oceans. bi ma kasabat aydi al-nasi, yeh insano ke haaton uska kia hua hai, yeh aapki mehnat ka sila hai. Allah said, this is the result of, and the fruits of what your hands have earned. Kasabat aydi al-nasi. Kasab, Urdu ka raaz bhi hai. Kasbe maash. Ayd, aydin, yadam, yada, is hand. Aydi al-nasi. Insano ke haat, kut ki. Bi ma kasabat aydi al-nasi. Now you might say, well, okay, so why doesn't Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala intervene? And why doesn't Allah change everything? Can He do it? Of course He can do it. Why doesn't He do it? Allah says, li yuziqahum ba'da alladhi amilu, la'allahum yarjihu. So that we can allow you to test the result of some of your deeds, so that you may turn towards Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Ta ke aap apne amal ka maza chakhe, thoda sa, chakhe, poora khaye nahi. Zaa'iqa, yuziqal, li yuziqal ladhi ba'da al-amilu, la'allahum yarjihu. Ta ke Allah ki taraf, Lord Almighty. So that you may turn towards Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. A good way to understand this is, say for example, the mother is cooking in the kitchen and the, imagine the old days when the stoves would be at the, floor level. So the mother is sitting there cooking and the little kid is trying to put his hand into the fire because the fire looks very nice. Right? Fires are extremely attractive. You look at it, the flames going up and down, the orange and the yellows and the colors and it's very nice to see. So the child doesn't understand what is a fire. So the child is constantly trying to put his hand into the fire and the mother keeps pushing him away, pushing, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it. Finally, one day, when the child tries to cook, when the child tries to cook, when the child tries to put his hand in the fire, the mother slaps him on the wrist. So when she slaps him on the wrist, it hurts. Right? So he starts crying. Yeah, my mother hit me. Why did she hit you? To prevent you from doing something which would have caused you far more pain. If she had not hit you and she had allowed you to put your hand into the fire, then you would have burnt. And the pain of burning is far, far more than the pain of being slapped on the wrist. So Allah says, we allow you to taste some of the result of your own deeds. Right? So people say, if there is a God, why is there suffering? There is suffering not because there is no God, there is suffering because you are not doing your duty. Another example, in America they have this practice, or this possibility, opportunity. You can go to the local police station and you can say that you would like to enroll for the ride-along program. So the ride-along program is, this is a police public, you know, PR thing they do, where they give you the opportunity to sit in the cruiser of a car, and you take the police officer and go with him on a shift. So you are riding along with the police officer. So you see whatever he sees, you are participating in whatever he is participating. So I did once in Florida, and we caught several people on the highway and gave them tickets. And the, so when I went there, the police officer I went with, Paul Bosco. So he, first of all he deputized me, he gave me a badge. And he says, you are legally, officially a deputy now. And then he gave me a bulletproof vest to wear. So his car, when I saw it, it was freezing cold ...
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