Suhaib Webb – Between Fear & Hope

Being here in Andalus is an absolute gumball

of emotions from, like, extreme euphoria and happiness,

romanticized

history,

like pain, suffering, sadness, and trauma with what

we lost. Now it's kinda like what life

is, especially in this era. An era, I

want you to think about this. If you're

into fitness, if you're a parent, whatever, You

see these videos that are so curated, when

you look at them, you feel bad that's

what they're meant to do because they create

an idea of excellence that's not humanly possible.

And that's the irony of transmodernity,

that it actually burdens human beings with things

which Islam recognizes they are incapable of doing.

How do we

kind of travel through that, if you will,

take the path, move through the tunnel of

transmodernity? Imam Al Qazari says with 2 important

ingredients,

fear and hope. Ibn Al Qayyim says fear

and hope are like wings on a bird.

Without 1, you can't fly. And Imam Al

Qazari says that hope is good as long

as it leads to responsibility.

And fear is good as long as it

inspires hope. SubhanAllah. So, let's try to work

on creating the capacity for a balance between

in fear and hope that keeps us motivated

and responsible.