Tom Facchine – The Truth About Allah

			One of the things about Alaska, Montana is that he loves everybody to a certain degree, right? We
hear this kind of claim. Some people, they speak against the sun and they say, Oh, well, your God is
a God of maybe vengeance or whatever, you know, where's the love, you know, and they're coming from
this assumption, because Christianity has gone gone so far off the deep end with the kind of love
narrative that they imagine that love is just accepting absolutely everything and everybody and
Allah loves to the extent where even the people who are deliberately flouting his rules and going
against them, and you know, everything's just love, love, love. And so in a tradition, where we say,
		

			well, yes, but Allah is also just and justice comes from his love, right? So how can Allah love
people, and those people are being slaughtered, and not do justice to the people who are
slaughtering them? Right? So this is something that that, you know, in Islam, we have a much
stronger sense of justice, and even of punishment in this life than the next. And we don't see a
contradiction between that and love, right? So some people will come and they'll come with this
doubt. It's like, oh, well, you know, Islam is not a religion of love, or the law, like the god of
Islam, quote, unquote, is not a God of love. And in this sort of thing, and we say, No, that's not
		

			true. Allah loves everybody enough to create them, right? Love is not just one thing. Let's put that
let's put that out there. Love is not just one thing. There's not just one level to love. Love is
not a homogenous category, right? Allah loves everybody enough to have created them in the first
place. And this is actually an extremely important point versus secular materialism, which imagines
that we just came about randomly, that means there's no intrinsic value to human life or to any
life. So we have to find, why is human life valuable through some other sort of paradigm, whether
it's human rights or natural rights or whatever? No, we believe that we are creatures created from
		

			the last file, tada. And the fact that we are created by a loving and intelligent and wise God makes
every single one of us valuable. That's where we get our value from. Okay, that's the first point.
However, however, there are different categories and types of love. And many people can share that
baseline value and being created out of love, but not have earned other levels of love due to their
actions due to their choices, etc. And so how can it would not be fair or just or merciful if Allah
subhanaw taala loved the same somebody who spent their entire life being grateful to their Sustainer
for everything that they have, recognizing his bounty upon them, acting within his limits,
		

			respecting his rules and regulations, right, versus somebody who spent their whole life denying
those sorts of favors upon them and rejecting the guidance and flouting the rules and flouting the
regulations, all these things, you're going to tell me that a just merciful God is going to love
both the same. That's not possible. And that's not fair. And that's not even merciful. Even if you
might think that that's merciful. That's not merciful, right? So maybe we can say that Allah loves
them both in the sense that He loves them enough to create them both right? But then there's other
levels of love that need to be earned that require action that require commitment that require
		

			gratitude that require faith, right and then so those people are going to have more of a lost love
or be entitled to or deserve more love from the Creator then then other people, right, so So this is
how this is how it breaks down that it's not so simple that a law just doesn't love is that allows
love is more complicated than maybe people give a lot credit for