Omar Suleiman

And after we pass away, our soul continues onwards, either to reward or to punishment or to a mixture of both.

But it's a realm of accountability.

And hopefully it's a realm of reward.

should we exist in a way that he wants us to exist.

You know, there's a saying that I wanted to ask God about why he allows hunger and war and poverty, but I was afraid he might ask me the same question.

God has certainly given us enough food.

There's enough food in the world for everyone to have a 3,200-calorie diet a day.

God has certainly given us enough guidance for us to not inflict on each other the cruelty that we inflict.

When we look to the world around us, first and foremost, we have to have a sense of accountability.

We are accountable for our own actions.

We don't blame God for the evil of man.

That's one.

But at the same time, we understand that God and His wisdom allows for certain outcomes that we cannot encompass with our own.

And that to isolate these incidents,

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.