Ali Ataie – God Will Be Merciful Even if You Don’t Want Him to Be

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The speaker discusses the difficulty of responding to negative comments about someone's technicality and how it affects their bodies. They also mention the story of Medgar Evers' body being in pristine condition after being shot by a Klansman on his driveway and how this is something for a Muslim to consider. The speaker wonders how judge can judge individuals and consign them to the flames, as they are uncertain of their past experiences.

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			Mean, according to Imam al Ghazali, in order
		
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			for someone to it's very difficult, very difficult
		
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			for someone to go to *, and they
		
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			don't go to * on a technicality.
		
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			No one goes to * on a technicality.
		
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			It's interesting. The prophet said that the flesh
		
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			of martyrs does not decompose.
		
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			That God, he preserves them. They're incorruptible.
		
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			You go to places in the world that
		
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			that, you know, afflict saints are buried or
		
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			they're not actually buried. They're in open air
		
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			tombs.
		
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			They're not decomposing
		
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			and that's something for the Muslim to think
		
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			about. When they exhumed Medgar Evers' body in
		
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			1993,
		
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			30 years after he was shot by a
		
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			Klansman on his driveway,
		
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			his body was in pristine shape, pristine condition.
		
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			There's something for a Muslim to think about.
		
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			God will be merciful even if we don't
		
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			want him to be. How can we possibly
		
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			judge someone
		
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			and consign them to the flames?
		
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			We don't know what that person's been through.