Shadee Elmasry – Muslim Scholar Explains Why God Allows Evil and Suffering

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