Omar Suleiman

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Lex Fridman Podcast · #352 – Omar Suleiman: Islam · 17 Jan 2023 podcast

And to try to make sense of them is no different than a baby in the womb that doesn't understand the world that it's coming into and trying to explain to that baby that hasn't yet developed its own senses and its own perception of this world what is happening to it.

I often think of the example of a child and having been at this point now through the experience of parenthood, I'm still learning.

I'm just going into having a teenager with three kids and being a softie for my kids when you have to tell your child that they can't have something that they really, really want.

And that child thinks you hate them at some point, you know, because why are you stopping me from putting this toy in my mouth and choking myself?

They don't get it, right?

But at the same time, you prevent them out of love.

They're not in a position to understand that you're preventing them out of love.

And to isolate these incidents with God and to say, the wisdom, what's the wisdom?

You're trying to make sense of a pixel when you can't see the bigger picture.

Your mind is not at a place where you can make sense of the bigger picture.

You haven't seen the bigger picture.

And so for him to even explain to us every incident would completely defeat the purpose of putting your trust in him.

So we believe in a God that is all encompassing in his knowledge and wisdom.

that gives us, and Islam is very specific by the way that there is what God tells us to do, and there's what God allows to happen.

So what God tells us to do in terms of the roadmap towards good and then what God allows to happen in his divine wisdom, that no outcome can escape him.

But at the same time, we are accountable for our own actions and our own deeds.

So when you come to someone and say, you know, why did God allow this to happen to this person?

I can't rationalize that for you because my understanding is relegated to the immediate experience in front of me.

But if I know God and if I learn about God, then I don't have to make sense of the plan, but I can tell you that I trust the planner.

And I think that that's where peace is found.

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