Omar Suleiman

So when you're trying to treat an incident of this world in isolation, you're going to fail.

And when you try to treat existence in this world and of this world in isolation, you're also going to fail.

And so the emphasis is the belief in God.

a God that is not limited like you are, and a belief in the hereafter that is not limited like this life.

And so everything continues onwards and there's divine recourse for everything, each and everything.

You know, the prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, mentions that,

On the day of judgment, a person who lived the most difficult of lives will be dipped into paradise one time and will be told, have you ever seen any sadness, any hardship?

Now, when you think about the most difficult life, some of the commentators in Islam, they said that this is perhaps referring to the prophet Job, Ayub, peace be upon him, because Job lived obviously a life of great difficulty.

but that a person who lived a very hard life would be dipped into paradise one time.

And just with a dip be asked, have you ever seen any hardship?

Have you ever seen any misery?

And that person would say, what is sadness?

What is hardship?

What is misery?

Now, if you don't believe in the hereafter, if you don't believe in anything beyond this life, then the recourse has to happen in this life.

And because we see so many people pass through this life,

without recourse of cruelty, without recourse of suffering, then we're forced to try to make sense of it.

And if you are someone who believes that this entire world came into existence through randomness, that we're just an existence of random atoms that collide with each other and that all of this comes together out of nothing, then how can you put your trust in anything that is greater?

So you asked me as a child of a parent who suffered,

I believe that every moment that my mother suffered, that she will be rewarded, that she will be elevated, that all of that