Omar Suleiman

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.

You know, a lot of times you look for the light at the end of the tunnel.

What's the light at the end of the tunnel?

In Islam, there's emphasis on God and the hereafter because to try to make sense of divine decree and why certain things happen in this world

without the existence of a God or without the existence of a hereafter will always fail you.

So the existence of a God that is all-knowing what we don't know, I know what you don't know, that understands what we don't understand, the existence of a God who is not subject to our constrictions,

And the existence of a hereafter where all things find recourse, where there's divine recourse, allows for this world to be situated within the existence of something greater and not treated in isolation.