Saad Tasleem – Why Lex Luthor Hates God

			It's not about leaving the plans. It is about understanding that if a loss penalty, Allah has
decreed something for us, then it is definitely part of the bigger picture. And that there's no such
thing of a life where we're not going to go through difficulties and tests and trials. And indeed,
those difficulties. And those tests. And those trials are part of the plan of a last panel of
dialogue. And, you know, interestingly enough, and I apologize that I'm going to do this for the
second time in one talk.
		

			But I need I need to talk about comic books again.
		

			How much of the NASA gentleman just walked in? It's gonna be awkward, I'm still gonna try not make
eye contact.
		

			Those of you who saw
		

			Batman versus Superman, right, and I'm not encouraged.
		

			Why would you bring them? Okay, first of all, I'm not I'm not going to defend that movie, right,
even though I believe is it was a, it was awesome, right?
		

			But actually, I will defend a part of that movie. So one of the one of the one of the criticisms of
that movie, is that the main villain in the movie,
		

			he is he's a lacking character, right? his motivations are not clear. And usually when it comes to
storytelling, it's an important aspect of his storytelling that when you have characters that you
understand their motivations, and they have a story, arc, and so on a character arc, and so on and
so forth. So a claim that is made, by the way about Lex Luthor, who is the main villain and if I've
completely lost you, I apologize. I'll be done with this analogy in like three or four minutes in
general.
		

			But these there's, there's a claim that he doesn't have. There's no what like, his motivations are
not clear. He just hates Superman, and he's trying to kill Superman and trying to get rid of him.
But in actuality, those of you who saw the movie and I'm not encouraging you to watch movies or
watch that movie, you want to make that clear for all the parents and uncles that was in the house.
		

			But he actually makes his motivations very clear. In a particular scene, there's a scene where he's
standing on the rooftop, it's called it's called, like the rooftop scene, where he has Louis lane,
the love of Superman, and he throws her off of the the building, it's a very high building anything
he throws her off, because he knows Superman's gonna come and save her. And that's why it does that
and Superman does common saver and then he comes in he he faces Lex Luthor, and then Lex Luthor at
that point, explains to him why he hates him so much. And he says, Look, I learned a long time ago.
And this is not an exact quote, but it's pretty close to what Lex Luthor says. He says, I learned a
		

			long time ago, that you can't be all good. Sorry, you can't be all powerful, and all good at the
same time. Right? If you're all powerful, then you won't let anything bad happen. Right? So if God
and he says this, in his speech to Superman, is that if God is all powerful, then he cannot be all
good. And if he is all good, then he cannot be all powerful. I figured out way back. God is all
powerful, you cannot be all good.
		

			And he is all good. And he cannot be all powerful. And neither can you be.
		

			And he views Superman. As his as as you know, he cannot obviously Lex Luthor can't go after God. So
he can go after a quote unquote, when they read the bill, ah, God like being right. So you've used
Superman as a god like beings
		

			on top of everything else.
		

			Because that's what God is.
		

			Horace,
		

			for Joseph.
		

			So he says, Listen, I want to prove to the world that you're not a good person, that you're not
good. Because if you were good, then you wouldn't allow any type of bad or evil to exist. They need
to see the fraud you are
		

			with their eyes,
		

			the blood on your hands. And now this had a lot this issue. And by the way, that's his motivation.
Right? For those of you like he doesn't have a motivation, or it's not clear, like why does he hate
Superman? That's why he hates Superman, and obviously has a history of child abuse. We learned in
the movie as well, that his dad would beat him. And as a child, he would think, Well, where's God
now? No man in the sky intervened to deliver me from daddy's fist and abominations.
		

			Like, what if God is all good? Then how come God isn't protecting me from my father hitting me?
Right? So he came to the conclusion that God can't be all good. Now, this is what we call a shubha a
doubt in our aqidah in our belief, we understand actually and I just
		

			Sometimes I think all someone needed to do was to sit Lex Luthor down and give them a lesson nap at
the end maybe he wouldn't hate Superman so much he wouldn't be trying to take over the world. But
the point is that it is part of our apt to believe that a last panel with data allows seemingly bad
things to happen. But there is no such thing as pure evil or pure bad, because there is some
goodness or there is some there is goodness attached to everything, whether we see it or realize it
or not, and that my brothers and sisters is the essence of our token on Allah subhana wa Tada. Then
when matters are getting hard matters are getting difficult when things seem to be evil and bad. We
		

			trust in the in the bigger picture in the larger plan of Allah subhanho wa Taala. So when we go
through illness, which from our perspective is evil or bad, we remind ourselves that there is some
goodness in this bad, right for example, we know that sickness is one of the ways that allows
parents removes our sins. Difficulty as a whole, is one of the ways that electronic data removes our
sins. So lost credit to Allah puts us through difficulty, to cleanse us of our sins to to to raise
our rank with a loss penalty. And that is why if we look at the lives of the prophets, all of them
every single Prophet, went through tests and trials and they went through immense difficulty.