Tom Facchine – They Believe In Allah But This Dunya Is Too Sweet For Them

			Allah azza wa jal calls us to the home of everlasting peace, through Tao feed, through the core and
through the thick of through the shed era. This is the way to peace. But some people are hesitant.
Some people are holding out, they're not convinced they believe in Allah. But this dunya is to
sweets for them.
		

			The parties, the substances, life in the fast lane, as we say, they've got a sweet tooth for it.
		

			For such a person, prayer and piety, the restraint, makes them feel like they're missing out.
		

			They would prefer if at all possible, to get to how to the house of eternal peace but
		

			by living any way that they want to, as we say they want to have their cake and eat it too. Allah
subhanaw taala addresses these people in excellent solar units and because Allah subhanho wa Taala
is R Rahman r Rahim as I do then Karim he does not condemn them. He tries to reason with them who
may have Zupa comida sama he went out and yum Nico seminar of Asana were made up to a higher minimum
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como, se who provides for you from heaven and from the earth? Or who controls hearing and sight? And
who brings the living out from the dead and brings the dead out from the living? And who arranges
		

			every single issue? They will say Allah, so say to them, then why don't you fear them? Why don't you
fear Allah, Allah azza wa jal brings us back to our indebtedness to him, which we freely admit, who
provides for you, from the heaven and from the earth, all the food you've ever eaten in your life
would never exist. If it weren't for sunshine, rain, and soil who made those
		

			who allowed us to benefit from it. Of course, it can only be a law.
		

			Now we're no longer a nation of farmers. So that example might feel a little distant. Let's talk
about our truckers and our taxi drivers are Uber and Lyft. Drivers. If Allah subhanahu Azada wanted,
he could make the roads impassable boom, you're out of work.
		

			Just this week, we received six inches of snow. in Utica, every time a snow storm blows through the
meteorologists, they gather and they get paid over time for all the work that they do. Making models
and maps and predictions and forecasts are color coded every few hours that predictions changed.
First, we're in the dark blue, then we're in the light blue, all of a sudden we're pink on the map,
then the snow actually comes down and Allah's Will is done. And sometimes it's more or less like
they predict it. And sometimes it's completely different. We joke about this all the time, all our
technology, all our knowledge and we still don't really know how much snow is going to fall until it
		

			actually happens. Allah subhana is in control. That 22 inches of snowfall, ALLAH SubhanA hota Allah
decides whether it comes down on you and puts you out of work, or if it comes down from somewhere
else.
		

			In the era of COVID We should get this lesson right away how many jobs have been lost, made remotes
or fundamentally changed because of the pandemic Allah subhanho wa Taala is in control. He allows
entire industries to rise and thrive.
		

			And he can bring them to a screeching halt. In an instance, it's all from Allah.
		

			Some of us own gas stations. Gasoline is now about 350 a gallon. What happens when it becomes so
expensive that someone invents a mode of transportation that doesn't need gasoline anymore? Or what
will happen when the gasoline runs out? Who decides
		

			is when the invention will happen, who decides when the gasoline runs out, and you have to find a
new way to make a living?
		

			Allah knows.
		

			Then Allah subhana wa Taala approaches the issue from another angle who controls hearing and sight.
		

			These are automatic things that make life possible. That give us a sense of independence. We take
them for granted until they're gone. Who controls them? Only Allah azza wa jal, when my mother in
law was a little girl, she mysteriously went blind for several days. This is true. She was admitted
into a hospital. Her parents were worried sick, all sorts of doctors came and visited her. They ran
every test they could think to run, no one could figure out why her vision had suddenly and
completely left her.
		

			They were terrified. They thought she was going to be blind for the rest of her life.
		

			Then one day, as suddenly as her vision had left, it came back. No one could figure out why. Allah
subhanahu Itza other is in control, he decides.
		

			Allah Allah asks, Who Controls death?
		

			Our doctors know this better than anyone. Statistics are statistics. But sometimes you will find
someone who has the least healthy lifestyle. They smoke, they drink, they eat garbage, junk food,
and yet they end up living longer than anybody imagined longer even then some people who exercise
and lead a healthy lifestyle who's keeping them alive?
		

			Genetics, okay, maybe Allah. Of course, Allah subhanho wa Taala decides when we die, He is in
control.
		

			Who can bring the living from the dead, who can take a dry, barren field and bring rain and turn it
into lush greenery. Who can take space dust, and form it into planets? Who can take carbon and turn
it into a conscious human being? Only Allah subhanaw taala. And if he couldn't do that, how easy is
it for him to take the people the inhabitants of their graves and resurrect them for judgment?
		

			Notice the progression of examples Allah gives here. Allah starts with something that's very close,
very immediate to our worldly life, our livelihood, our hearing our vision.
		

			And then he ends up talking about the soul.
		

			The lesson is simple. Who's Who's in control?
		

			Everyone knows the answer. It's Allah. Allah controls all of this. But Allah's purpose in bringing
this up is not theoretical. It's not about belief, in the Western or English sense of the word where
belief is a sense, or a set of propositions that we think are true. That's not Amen. That's not
belief. In Islam. That's not belief in the Arabic language. Belief in Islam is about action. Letting
the decisions that you make and the lifestyle that you lead, prove the things that you profess with
your tongue. Actions, as we say, speak louder than words.