Shadee Elmasry – Muslim Scholar Explains Why God Allows Evil and Suffering
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The speakers emphasize the importance of having a choice and avoiding negative consequences of having a choice, including negative outcomes and consequences from indirect actions. They also discuss the negative consequences of the lack of peace in the Netherlands and the importance of testing people and finding out who has had a choice. The segment also touches on the Iraq War and the lack of peace in the Netherlands, highlighting the need for a culture of peace and a culture of peace for children. Finally, they emphasize the importance of testing people and finding out who has had a choice.
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Basically you're asking why bad things happen? Because Allah gave
human beings free will and human beings use that free will to do
about things. We cannot have free will. And yet Allah interfering
every single time someone does something bad, you're going to
have two things. Either you're going to be have no free will and
be like an animal or an angel.
And you have no reward either, and no punishment and no test and
nothing unique about you. Cats. Is there anything unique about the
lifestyle of a cat today? And 3000 years ago? Same exact behavior,
giraffes, monkeys, elephants, angels, their behavior is one in
the same there is no storyline there. Humans have a storyline.
There's a story. There's uniqueness. Why?
Because we're the people. We're the creation that has choice. If
you have choice, be prepared for bad things to happen. And don't
blame anyone but yourself. Oh, but Allah knows why doesn't he stop
it? Why do you? We just said you have choice. If you have choice,
you're gonna have bad things happen. Okay. And by the way,
we're told in the Quran in the primordial realm before we came
down to this body.
It was offered to us and we chose to take moral choice. Okay.
Okay, in I don't know, man at RMIT world, well, gee, bad for urbane
and Yamuna, was fucking Amina Mohamed El insert. What does this
mean? This means that moral choice, the idea of look, I can
give you choice to behave as you want. You can get a great reward.
You can suffer a lot, yet, you have the choice. Allah said, I
offered the sky the choice. We offered the earth the choice, we
offered the mountain the choice. They all said no. And they were
scared of it. They were scared of such a choice was fucking a
minute. But the human being said, I'll take it. Okay.
So it's our choice, we chose to have choice. And Allah decrees his
will through our choice. It is Allah's Will, that we that we have
choice.
Everything that we do is Allah's Will that we that we will.
Yes.
Choice.
Yeah, no, we had the choice of yes or no, you have a choice. Everyone
had that choice? Everyone had that choice? At that moment, Allah gave
every all these creation the choice? Do you want free will?
And the will to do right and wrong. And drive your own destiny,
so to speak, Colloquially speaking, not theologically speak.
They all said no. So at that moment, they were given a choice.
Okay, now the question is now someone can ask, alright, you, you
explain freewill? But then what about all the natural things that
happen? Why is there so many poor people in the world? And they're
like earthquakes happening? And you know, they're getting
punished, but they have nothing? Yes. And then
simultaneously to this.
There are two answers to this. Number one,
there are indirect results. Not everything that happens to us is a
direct action, okay.
Is not a consequence of a direct interaction. Okay, so I drive
along the street and I have a car accident. That's direct.
Choice I chose to, to text while driving.
But I get diagnosed with cancer, Hey, what did I do to get cancer?
Cancer is likely the result of indirect actions that you're not
even guilty of. We're not saying that every consequences because
you're guilty. But we humans chose to make plastic, chose to use
everything in plastic. And then the next generation has no choice
but to live with plastic, the consequences. Trickle down,
whether we like it or not, you can be totally innocent consequences
come to everybody. Consequences are not just for the guilty or the
innocent, or the one who does it. Okay. The entire nation
of Iraq is destroyed. On the decision of one min
George Bush, if he didn't want to go to war, there will be no war.
Three generations later, they're still living in poverty or two
generations later, still living in poverty. There are kids born
today.
them and their parents never had anything to do with this war. But
they're born in poverty, right? Consequences. They're drinking
polluted water, their kids will have cancer. Right? So it's
consequences. This domino effect. That's number one. Number two,
we're in an abode of testing when we said Oh Allah, we want to be
the people who have choice. test us so that we can get Heaven or
*. Allah has the right to test us how he wishes. Forget all human
beings forget their actions.
very quite simply put Allah has the right to test us for
absolutely no reason you're born without an ear for absolutely no
reason he's born blind Allah reserves the right to test you.
Okay and as a result of that how you react to that will be a reward
some people go and they do amazing things and have amazing sacrifices
and have amazing have horrible enemies and they are the our
heroes right?
They're heroes some people do not have enemies do not do anything
great. But yet Allah wants them to attain a certain level how by
testing them taking their eyes away taking their mom away okay?
We're a religion are telling you directly face to face Allah has
the right to test you and it doesn't mean he doesn't like you.
Oh, well. Why can he give me paradise right away. Paradise is
created to be earned. It's not created to be ended up ended up
for free.
If he gave you paradise without you earning it, you wouldn't enjoy
it. If he gave people Hellfire without them earning Hellfire they
would say it's not fair. Also then speak on the attributes of
Netherlands and mercy because oftentimes people will preface the
question with oh, how can your most benevolent, Most Merciful God
allow these things to happen? They'll they'll, they'll slip in
those two attributes in the beginning to make it even more
emotional, the benevolence and the love of Allah is about the end
result, not the process. Okay? You also have a benevolent mom, she
makes you study the best loving moms competent loving moms. They
don't just let the kids do everything they want have
Skittles. Okay, let's go. Do you ever see these moms? Every time we
go out? You're only allowed one gift? What? How are you raising
kids? Right? You're spoiling them? Every see moms like that. Your
every time we go out, you're only allowed to ask for one thing,
where we got two things a year on 8918 And the next day, right? So
that means that these kids, they go out. If they go to the
supermarket, he's allowed one toy from the toy section, little
plastic ball or something like that. They go to the little 99
cent store. He gets to get to buy a shovel or something like that.
Right? You're spoiling them right? It's not a good month. The good
mom, the good parents, they make you
study, read, memorize Quran, do push ups, then you can have a
break out of every three things that you did that's useful for
your future. You can indulge in your present, right? One time the
Chinese 100 times before you ever indulge the Indians and the Hindus
100 math lessons before you get to take a break. Okay, well what do
you have now CEOs all Hindus look at the result is that result to
them or result to their parents? Their parents