Is Life Fair? What is the Reason to Live? - Sh Omar Suleiman | 877-Why-Islam

growls mom hymon home i didn't hear o'brien amin salato saddam our anniversary carrie miranda was happy she stayed so chefs art we were together in malaysia two days ago and ham gorilla and now we're here i have to go back baltimore i'm not going to say which one it's better but Hamdulillah, you know, and he was just wondering if he took part of my theme and he took a lot of my theme actually, but at the same time I think about this whole concept of justice and it's good because I actually have a conference this tonight inshallah to add about why God does certain things and therefore I don't have to address that part of the lecture right now and it will be the topic right now but I think if we approach it purely from a perspective from Seattle, which means studying the biography of Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, then we learn a lot about the concept of justice and how the Prophet, peace be upon him, and the Companions around him, viewed justice. justice is objective or subjective is it on an objective term is it or is it a subjective term for those of you who don't know

what

that means could everyone here agree on

what

fair

ness is?

Could you agree that there are not, in fact, two people? they could get together and agree on a

fair

wage for everyone in the world and what would be fair to every single person in the world is an extremely subjective term which makes it a very difficult subject to address and what we realize when we study the subject of equity as a whole is that not only is this its goal, but it really is a way of thinking, it's completely a way of thinking and for many people it's a way of thinking of entitlement, which means that

life

is not fair because I didn't understand this and I didn't.

I don't understand that and because this didn't happen to me and that didn't happen to me and unfortunately you know that many times he says that it says a lot about our priorities in

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and what we think because many times you don't have your crisis of faith don't start to think When you say life isn't fair because of starving children in Africa or Syria or whatever, you start to think life isn't fair when you didn't go to medical school or when you didn't you married the person I wanted to marry, right? That's when you start questioning God and that's when you start questioning the fairness of life.

That is a bigger crisis for you than the other things that were happening in the world and you started using the other things in the world because now you are depressed and now life was not fair to you and you complain and while you complain you come to a point at which you accuse God himself Allah himself of being unfair, which is the discussion tonight that I'm not going. touch but it shows you it's a concept or it's a rights mentality and somehow you know a lot when you really study it you know any man identifies you know it allah to allah said something very powerful he said people who accuse everyone ah not having added that they are not fair and that life is not fair to them, it is not that they want light, it is not that they want life to be fair, it is that they want life to be unfair in their favor, I thought that this was very powerful subhanAllah when i read that he said you know you know and i think about it is that you don't really need text to justify that statement you know you want to be rich you're not complaining that life is unfair when things are going well for you it's ok when you have your house , when you have your car, when you have your career, when you have your education, when you have your money, it doesn't matter that life is unfair, you can, indeed, you can very easily quote the verse of the Quran about patience and that kind of thing. sas and say yes you know it's a loss to care for them and there's a greater purpose for them at home he did it we all should say he cornered it we should all be happy no it's no problem when it's unfair in your favor it's a problem when you feel that you are having the bad ending you know again its so subjective i will share with all of you a personal experience.

I had someone in my office on my message three years ago and I try not to give too many. details because thanks to YouTube I've gotten into a lot of trouble over the past few years of telling stories without saying names and then that person sees it on YouTube and I get in trouble so I'll try not to be too detailed and what do I say but one of the things you know that happened so hi during six years of being an Imam in New Orleans is that I was exposed or was exposed to the real issues we have as a community and also how shallow and shallow. we're like people and you know i had this brother in my office and he's crying and i was wondering why he is he. talking about he is saying you know life has been hard recently he

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s in a very nice house mashallah big car very rich very rich he has several children he says life has been hard recently you know and you know things are getting very difficult and he said but I don't know, you know sometimes I question many times I said, oh, you know, the rescue, what's going on, he starts to tell me, he says, you know, every year I take my children to Europe on vacation, he said this year, I don't have enough money to take my kids to europe for a summer vacation what am i supposed to tell my kids when they come to me and say dad why aren't we going anywhere this summer that was his crisis of faith for him that was life being unfair and im sitting there looking at him and what else happened but to him that is life being unfair and what does that show you again its a mindset there is a very powerful hadith very the hadith is in sahih muslim tonight i did it for Abdul of Naaman too the Aloha and who if my memory does not fail me I believe it is from our beloved nominal house, so I hate the licenses of Muslim prophets, but an Islamic Hammond defect, in truth, has succeeded who has submitted, sure that I spoke about the aslam part he submitted himself is a prerequisite for everything that comes next in the hadith but a defect Hammond as Lama used Rosita kathan and was given enough means katha to receive enough and listen to the last part of the hadith walk now Allah who is Mata and Allah subhana WA Ta'ala convinced him or satisfied him with what he gave him so what does he do? to show you that these two things just mentioned do not always come together, they may give you enough, but you are not convinced with what you have and you are not satisfied with what you have, so the Prophet cut me off I said that The one who is really successful in life and the one who is really happy in life is the one who has submitted, the one who has achieved that peace through Islam has been given enough and may Allah satisfy him with what he is given. gave Alla.

I convinced him literally he can be convinced it's not Riddler it's not necessarily contentment or contentment it's literally looking at yourself and saying he hummed it but you know this is good it's great and when you look at the Prophet peace be with him The Prophet, peace be upon him, went through many stages in his life and that is why I say that we can justify this through a seeding perspective that a magnet man in particular should be in. Mahalo says that the Prophet peace be upon him was tested in every phase of life he was tested with wealth with Lena he was rich Salalah Hardy he wa sallam was rich after he married Khadijah Johan huh until the time he received his revelation he was a rich man he became a rich man and he passed the wealth test that's what he said ok axonify Lena passed Lena's test how he passed how he passed her test Lena because when he was rich what did he freed slaves cared for orphans no he became arrogant as a result Due to his wealth, his personality did not change at all, the Prophet, peace be upon him, did not change as a result of being rich and indeed those were the words that hadith on the permission and has shared with the Prophet, peace be upon him. when he lowered his head, all good logic Allah whoever Allah will never humiliate you because look at all the great things you do you know you do well with orphans and your guests and your neighbors and your family you do well with the people you do what you are supposed to do and Khadija has been rich longer than the Prophet peace be upon him she knows most rich people are snobs they don't do those things he passed that test and then the amount of quota which is said to have been taken away by Allah. he of everything and he tested it with poverty with absolute poverty the Prophet peace be upon him experienced poverty in its worst form not only did he experience poverty from a financial perspective but he tastes really like a Sheikh Zayed mentioned everything was taken from him everything was taken from him his wife his uncle his protection all his support from his tribe his land his home i mean everything was taken from him and he said the Prophet peace be upon him passed the poverty accent test if he he Salah why didn't he listen he passed that test why because he showed a beautiful patience he truly demonstrated sub-1 Zameen a beautiful patience he was not only patient because he had to be patient he showed a satisfaction with God a contentment with God and the only thing that mattered to him in those moments of poverty it was that God was not displeased with him it was that poverty was not a manifestation of a loss disgust because sometimes you question yourself in poverty and that is an error of mentality that is a mistake.

In the way we think the prosperity doctrine is sometimes called, almost every religion in the world has some form of the prosperity doctrine, be it the Eastern religions and Hi. nduism the caste system or even in today's evangelical or christian christianity that when God loves you or any divine presence loves you then you are fine and when God doesn't love you then you don't do very well but Islam preaches exactly otherwise. just when allah loves you he tests you when allah loves you the prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam said that allah withholds water he withholds the world from you the same way one of you would withhold water from someone who has a fever , which means that someone who is sick in that particular disease thinks that you know or want that water you know if you know well I mean if you have seen a woman in labor right sisters who went through childbirth and brothers those of you who saw women giving birth and we were terrified and you thought your wife would kill you well at that time you know every time a woman really wants to drink water and you know i remember being put in that situation i don't want to go too far on a detail , right but my wife really wanted water and the nurse said no and my wife looked at me like you hear the nurse like that it's quite an awkward situation for me right now she really wants that water right now ent you really know when you are sick and the prophets lie son he said let me hold dunya for you in the same way you would hold water from your from your subtheme from your from your person who is sick who has that fever at that time means which comes back to addictions, don't wait too long to feed your dunya addictions and it is for your own good, so the believer recognizes even in his poverty that when allah gives you something greater than what he gives you. held back and that is exactly what happened to the Prophet peace be upon him then he said that the Prophet peace be upon him was put in a state of lcff HFF means having enough literally enough to survive and the Prophet SAW said on his calf enough to survive would have been considered poverty by any of us what the Prophet

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d through salallahu alaihe wasalam would have been considered poverty by any of us he never had two meals a day would we not consider that? poverty stands alone unless he said we never had two meals a day except one of them was dates and water which means it wasn't really a meal we only ate a few dates and the months of water would be released without smoke. the prophet's house slices which means he didn't have a cooked meal never enjoyed good bread a good loaf of bread that's poverty to us prophets leave home his she joe you know schedule rods the apartments the prophets lie son lived they were so small that when he did sujood when he prostrated, he would tap ISA on the legs so that she could move her legs up so that he could have enough room to do his.

That's a prostration if any of us saw that. we'd say it's poverty for him that was enough and you know what's amazing is that the prophet sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam was satisfied with what he had but you know what some of the Companions thought hey that's not fair so i'm going to be the total Futaba ah i know when he walks into the house of the prophet's leave and sees the son of the prophet's life getting up from his bed and his bed is just some branches stuffed with leather and you know and see the marks on the back of the prophet license and he starts to cry and the prophet license says why are you crying and what he almost says says i have seen the palaces of kiss lon i have seen the palaces of kiss LA and Persia and of Caesar in Rome I have seen how other kings live and you deserve better than that, what is Alma saying to the Prophet?

So I prepared it. This is not fair, right. You shouldn't live like this. Life is not fair to you. You should and have to live like this. You are the best man in the world you are the prophet, sallallaahu, he was established and all of us would agree that we would like him to live a better life in this world,true we wish he had more ease and it's really interesting because put yourself in the prophets why some shoes at that time the prophet saw some didn't say so um great yeah you guys should probably do something about it right now he's upset so why don't you guys go build me a house or something the prophets like I said um tells Alma and a total block you're not satisfied an Elohim with dunya what theorem they have the dunya have this materialistic world and we have the afterlife with total conviction look at the prophet's article it's saying everything mom don't think life has been unfair to me you're worried about me I'm fine I'm happy and, in fact, the prophets authorized it.

I used to order this. I used to not ask for much from Allah subhana WA Ta'ala. I used to say Allah Masha Allah muhammadun. give Muhammad why Salim and his family enough used to k Allah by lcff you know many times when we talk about Robina athena the dunya has no speed no has peanut i will burst your bubble i have to have to burst your bubble because this this ayah will uses in my humble opinion sometimes in an inappropriate context that asks Allah for the dunya Rubin an Athena because the dunya has no fin Aphrodite has no key nothing but not because Allah certainly answered those who do not ask for anything from this world, they only think that we only want to hear after an hour hours of asceticism ode in this religion is not one that requires poverty or torture on our part, so what Allah taught is to ask for the good of this world and the good of the hereafter and protect us from the punishment of hell fire but here's the thing what is husana in dunya is husana in dunya an unbelievably big house an unbelievably big house is hasma in dunya that perf you know that the spouse e attractiveness the one you always wanted is what it does not have in dunya it is not imam Hasan al Basri Rahim hopefully he told the husana fado nia le munafa what is of paya I bet the goodness in this world is what the prophets like some taught us to ask every morning in every evening early manaphy our beneficial knowledge this is from this dunya true this is good this is good for you in this world also beneficial knowledge what is fun don't miss Cathy Allah pure Hannah sustenance that is good that is satisfying that has blessings within him that sustains us that cares for us that does not imply anything forbidden why man what is a cappella and accepted acts then two of the things of two of the three things that even fall within a third of the equation of what you're asking Allah are still based on al-qaeda, they're still based on the right of the afterlife, so asking Allah enough to be in a state of katha to be in a state in the one you're satisfied with having that mindset I'm not constantly looking around and if there was anyone who could claim they didn't get their fair share in life it was the Prophet's cut, I mean he buried six out of seven kids, well, i can't even imagine the pain of burying one of my children may Allah protect us and protect our families Ilana I mean I can't comprehend that pain I can comprehend a lot of pain I can't comprehend that pain I really can't and can't comprehend the Prophet like that that I, Selim, have to go to the Genesis of six of the seven children and bury them himself. that's harsh, but he didn't claim that life wasn't fair to him and he didn't want his peers to see life as unfair to him, but he changed the mindset, he changed the priorities of the peers, so it's interesting. that even the companions who complained that life was unfa If they did not complain that life is unfair in the dunya, we feel that they complained that life is unfair in the Acula sense. they didn't tell the prophet muhammad peace be upon him it's not fair we pray like they pray or they pray like we pray they fast like we fast we do everything they do but they can live in these nice houses what were they complaining about? about they get all the good deeds why because they have money to give charity it's unbelievable like it didn't occur to them and the couch you don't see once the people who lived in the back of the muslim who were really poor no you see them coming to the Prophet, cut them off and saying, "Hey, I am Abu Hurairah, as good as a great fellow like me." even Roby rybnik arab and

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ic who is the Prophet so i said i was told of him ask me you have a blank check can you imagine if the Prophet slicin was in front of you and you know the prophets why some is not a fictional blue genius he he is the prophet of Allah and he says suddenly ask me anything and Ribeira is a single young vagabond thinks about it and says Loretha Kotik your company in paradise that is all the prophets lie some say anything else so it is a fact you know you are my buddy you know i love you clearly i love you and for matt it meant no depth we already know it's an established concept in our religion you are with the person you love you will be okay with that in that sense anything else you know you sure you don't want put a wife in there or a house anything else Robbie I said that's all that's all I want so the poor fellows when they came to the Prophet cut them off and complained d e the rich companions where they were complaining about their worldly situation were upset because they thought they have more money than us which they did and they give more because they have more to give then Prophet slicin told them what they know let me teach you something with that they can give sadaqa and say subhanAllah hamdulillah illogical than the memories we make after the prayer then the poor companions got excited they had something then they went back where the Prophet cut them off and they complained again because the rich companions found out about that and now they were doing that too and they still had the child. they still had the charity leverage of giving charity and that's when the profit part and i'm sad, Lika fought Lola yo teehee my Asha that's the bounty of Allah Subhan Allah to Anna and he gives it to whoever he wants, I mean what if they're so rich and that's what still motivates them they're the exception they're not the norm because you know what most people in paradise are who are poor it's a fact the slice of profit e and I'm not rich wealth is not discouraged in our religion it is not there are rich companions about beckett or the law and who is a rich man you know the greatest of Companions but the prophets lie some said most of the paradise people are poor people for what because most people when they get rich become arrogant and proud as a result of that and that is why wealth is a greater test than poverty wealth is a greater test than poverty because we understand things in the absolute sense of our understanding of fairness and justice is not limited to the years we have on earth wealth is a greater test than poverty and on the day of judgment it is a greater test than poverty and the prophets lie sometimes they say that even the rich who enter Jenna are would enter Jannah and this is also an essay here that they would enter paradise five hundred years after the poor cathetus souad because they have more questions to answer, they have more to be he ld responsible for what that the fact of the matter is that Naboo can be subtly Heidi with Heidi was shadow Allah spreads I will test you with ease and with difficulty fitna and that is a means of testing for you so yeah life might not seem to be fair but Allah it is fair allah is fair life might not be fair god is always fair and that is why allah tells a lie you can browse allahu nafsan illa wa salla allah does not burden you more than you can handle allah does not give you more than you you can handle Allah does not carry a soul beyond his reach Prophet SAW Elam could handle six out of seven children in janazah we cannot we cannot it is alright Allah tests you according to your circumstances and carries you only according to his reach and let us be honestly, there are people in this world who have overcome enormous challenges of poverty, medical challenges, and economic challenges, people who have overcome enormous challenges to do amazing things in this world because they didn't wait for life to be fair and that's just that's the harsh reality is that life won't wait for you to adjust your mindset it's ok for you to have a self esteem boost it's going to come to you when it comes to you you have to be ready for it and you have to adjust your mindset and the more time you waste talking well, my parents were like that and my environment was like that and in this country we have this, you know that financially I didn't have this or that so they're going to be in trouble.

I'll leave you with a story. It's a very interesting story because I was reading it in a way. Nola access is reading it yesterday. I didn't plan to share my talk but i think relevant I was reading a biography of an imam who has been hazama the mulatto auda even haslam was a very wealthy scholar. I mean, the Hazama scholar from Angeles was a very rich man and he used to get into a lot of debates, that's one of his flaws as a man was that he got into a lot of debates and sometimes he became pr He is very harsh in his debates, but we take the good, obviously, as Muslims, when we study the biographies of people from the past, we take their good and overlook their flaws because of the enormous good they present, so it's been fun for me to participate. in many debates, so in one of these debates he was debating with a scholar of humbler origins and if he didn't win the debate well because if he couldn't remember a text that the other man couldn't remember, then the other man throws a cheap shot he even has it here's what it says and i'm trying to translate the instant translation in my head but he said ben has it maybe i didn't see that because my candle oil ran out you guys see what he got He is saying how look I don't have the lights that you have in your house mashallah I only had this candle that I was reading and I was studying for the debate so maybe the oil ran out and that's why I overlooked that text that you could remember a and when the debate with and he still hasn't said yes and it was hard for me to see him also under the golden chandeliers in my house that I was telling him I was telling him that just as you are distracted by your poverty and he literally didn't have gold chandeliers, he said that wealth a is usually a distraction to people of knowledge so his candle is a distraction my sandal ears are also a distraction no excuses so he won the debate again so we ask Allah subhana WA Ta' ala let us be among those who are satisfied with what we have been given and we ask Allah subhana WA Ta'ala to please us with him both in the legislation he has given us in religion and in the legislation of events that will take place in our lives and we ask Allah subhana WA Ta'ala to make us among those who are finally pleased with Jenna with paradise Ilana I mean I will cover the other side of this topic which is whether or not God is just then inshallah Tada tonight in the discussion which I think is very late at night so if they are awake than Shalit I see Jews are famous by law in America.