Mufti Menk – Children’s Series – How Can I Love Allah When I Have Not Seen Him?

			Salam Alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh, my beloved children Subhan Allah, someone asked me a
question, how can I love Allah when I have not seen him? Well, that's a good question. But what we
need to realize is all the signs of Allah are everywhere. If you look at who created you, where were
you before you were born, like two years before you were born? And so we believe that people pass
away, when they pass away, where do they go? Is it just the end of everything? You know, we're so
sophisticated. We are so complicated. We have feelings we have. We love those around us. We have
parents, maybe we have children at some stage, maybe we have those whom we love around us. Do you
		

			really think that if you were to die, or anyone dies, then they would actually disappear into thin
air, you know, yet we're so complicated. I'm sitting, I'm talking to you. Now, I have eyes, I can
see that's a sign of the existence of a supreme maker, someone made me and we are Muslims. We say
whoever made me, we call him the worshipped one, we call him a lot. And we worship Him alone. Oh,
you who made me, I worship you alone. I do my five prayers for you. I do whatever you tell me to do,
and so on. So Allah Almighty definitely exists. Now there are people who say he doesn't. And those
people, we disagree with them. But it's okay. They can have their say, for now, what we need to know
		

			is, when we die, it's not like we're going to disappear, we are going to go into the Hereafter, we
are too complicated to just be disappearing, we have to be from those who go into a much better
place. Life is so short. I mean, if we are such a sophisticated people, we have feelings, we have
everything, how would it be possible for us to suddenly just disappear? And only after a few years?
I mean, you come on to the earth? How long do you live for? Someone might live for 5060 7080, maybe
90, some might be fortunate to get to 100. After that, where do they go? They have to be going
somewhere to the place where they came from initially. So where did we come from initially? Well,
		

			wherever it was, that's where we're going to go, we will with whoever made us and we're going to go
back to whoever made us. And this is why in Islam, Allah subhanho wa Taala has taught us that when
something happens say a person passes away or calamity strikes,
		

			which means something difficult happens. When we say in Allah he were in LA Hara Joan, indeed, we
all belong to Allah. And indeed, We are all going to return to Allah Subhana Allah Subhana Allah. So
that's something really amazing that we are going to return to Allah subhanho wa Taala, because
that's where we came from initially. Now. What we need to also understand is, we are taught to do
good things on Earth. When you tell the truth when you pray, when you give charity to the poor, when
you're a good person without bad words, when you are when you dress appropriately, when you don't do
wrong things, it helps you in this world, it makes you are a better person, you can be very
		

			successful, you are not distracted, you can become a very, very successful person. And on top of
that, in the Hereafter, you will also succeed because
		

			Allah is happy with you, he sent to us messengers from the very beginning, you know, all this
started somewhere, and it's going to end somewhere. So where did it start? It started wherever the
beginning was just like I started at a certain point. Before that, where was I? See, and after I
die, where am I going, I'm not going to a bad place. I'm going back to Allah. If I were a good
person, I'm going to definitely be going to a very, very good place. May Allah subhanho wa Taala
grant us, goodness and understanding. So Allah has given us our brains, Allah has given us so many
things. Allah has given us our eyes. Allah has given us our hands, our feet, our bodies, Allah has
		

			given us everything. In fact, on Earth, Allah allowed fruit and vegetables to grow so many
creatures. There are so many amazing creatures. So Allah says in the Quran, that if you are to look
at all what we made and ponder over it, meaning Think about it, you would you would realize there is
a maker, someone has made this, it can't just have come like that, you know. So this is a beautiful,
beautiful way of looking at Allah subhanho wa Taala Allah Almighty, we are Muslims, we believe.
		

			And this is what we believe that there is a maker, he made us and we definitely love him. He loves
us. That's why we're here. He's going to test us when you go to school. For example, you get
		

			Test, it doesn't mean that your teacher doesn't like you, doesn't mean the school doesn't like you,
they want you to go to the next level, they want you to get a certificate in order to graduate. So
Allah loves us, he will test us, He wants us to go to the next level, he wants us to get a
certificate in order for us to graduate into the hereafter. So these are some amazing thoughts. And
this is what we believe as Muslims, we will continue to do good Allah sent reminders to us, all
those who came to us to remind us to do good and stay away from bad the messengers of Allah, those
who were sent by Allah, we respect all of them. We don't say a single word bad about them, no matter
		

			who they were. And we believe that they were the best of the lot at the time. And we believe that
the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Sallam was the best from amongst us. When he grew up, he was known
as a sodic, an amine, he was known as the truthful, the trustworthy, he didn't lie. He didn't use to
cheat people or deceive them. And he was very trustworthy. He used to fulfill the trust. He always
was honest, very honest. So he was the best of all of us. And Allah chose him to carry the message
to us, we have it, what does the message have in it, it tells us to dress properly, not to do bad
things, not to waste our time to pray to Allah To tell the truth, to reach out to the poor, to eat
		

			that which is pure and clean, to be clean and pure, to respect people, to your parents and so on.
Not to make the lives of others difficult. These are amazing teachings that will make you a very,
very successful person in this world. And even when you pass away, so remember that we love Allah
because he's given us the whole wide world and we know that we will worship Him and He will help us
through the challenges that we need to go through in order for us to get to graduate into the
hereafter and inshallah we will all meet in paradise in general for those akula Kohli ha that was
Salam Alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh