When Allah’s Guidance Conflicts With What You Want

0:00 [SPEAKER_00]: You might really hate something, but in it there's something good for you. [SPEAKER_00]: Why I said to Hibbu Shah and you might love something, or who a shahr won't let them, but it's bad for you. [SPEAKER_00]: Allah, we alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu alamu al [SPEAKER_00]: At some point in their journey, whether when they were younger or new to practice or early in their development or later on, at some point in their lives, every believer reaches a position or an experience where a lost or panellatata's guidance, when he commands, may conflict with something internally, their nefs.

0:41 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe difficult to understand. [SPEAKER_00]: What is the wisdom behind this thing in Islam? [SPEAKER_00]: What is the wisdom behind this prohibition or this practice, this obligation? [SPEAKER_00]: And for many people, it could be a conflict between Allah's command and their personal desires, their relationships, their income, their lifestyles, their ambitions, [SPEAKER_00]: For many people, perhaps it's an illness or a closed door, a detour that they were not expecting in life or a do-ah, that's not being answered in the way that they want.

1:16 [SPEAKER_00]: And what's interesting about this topic in general is not just its universal application. [SPEAKER_00]: It's relevant to every one of us in a different way. [SPEAKER_00]: What's remarkable about it is that it brings us back to a central question every Muslim should know about. [SPEAKER_00]: and the real question that many people are asking without knowing that they're asking.

1:37 [SPEAKER_00]: Who truly defines what is good? [SPEAKER_00]: Who truly defines what is moral? [SPEAKER_00]: Who sees the entire picture? [SPEAKER_00]: And who gives command with wisdom? [SPEAKER_00]: And while it's easier said than done, we say, frequently, I submit to Allah. [SPEAKER_00]: I believe in Allah, I am a Muslim.

1:54 [SPEAKER_00]: When the guidance agrees and aligns with what we already find convenient. [SPEAKER_00]: is not always found in just agreement. [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, there is practice alhamdulillah, even if it's easy for you to pray, to fast to stay away from that particular major sin or minor sin. [SPEAKER_00]: But the tests, as we all know, starts to appear when revelation asks us to revise ourselves.

2:20 [SPEAKER_00]: to be challenged in some way, and in fact, one of the most cited ayat of the Qur'an about emotional situations and kadad is in fact about rulings as well, ahkan, a specific ruling, wa asa and takrahu shayyan wa wa khairun lakum. [SPEAKER_00]: You might really hate something, but in it there's something good for you.

2:40 [SPEAKER_00]: Wa asa and takrahu shayyan, you might love something. [SPEAKER_00]: but it's bad for you. [SPEAKER_00]: We'll love we Alamu wa Intunata Alamu. [SPEAKER_00]: Allah knows and you do not know. [SPEAKER_00]: When we cite this ayah, Allah Subhanat ala is not telling us, you do not feel anything.

2:56 [SPEAKER_00]: He's saying you do not truly know. [SPEAKER_00]: Our feelings and we remind our children as we raise them with this central truth, your feelings may be real but they don't possess the truth with a capital T. They don't define what is morally good. [SPEAKER_00]: Something can be painful, it can be very painful and uncomfortable but it's good for you or it may contain some good for you as well.

3:18 [SPEAKER_00]: Something may be perceived in society as liberating, less restricted, but in fact it can destroy us as we see in society all around us. [SPEAKER_00]: And when you look at these examples of what's restrictive and liberating, we find that ultimately, there has to be something that guides those emotions towards truth.

3:40 [SPEAKER_00]: towards what is good, rather than what do I just feel. [SPEAKER_00]: And that is a part of Islamic psychology when it comes to emotional regulation, but it's tied to one's worldview. [SPEAKER_00]: We see a very tiny pixel, if you will. [SPEAKER_00]: And Allah sees the entire picture and in fact he created it.

3:56 [SPEAKER_00]: We see a very tiny frame, and Allah sees the entire film, Allah created it, the experience of human beings in this temporary world, and we ask the Allah, Subhanallah, to grant us humility towards His wisdom, Allah the Amin. [SPEAKER_00]: A young man asked, does Islam ask us to turn off our minds and never ask questions?

4:16 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's a very bizarre question because anyone who knows, knows the reality. [SPEAKER_00]: Of course, Islam does not ask you to switch off your rational thinking. [SPEAKER_00]: Allah SWT gave us a lot of the reasoning and told us to use it. [SPEAKER_00]: Give us the ability to ask questions so we can learn.

4:33 [SPEAKER_00]: But when we ask questions, we're not just accepting everything as well. [SPEAKER_00]: We're not asking with arrogance and pride and being condescending and having already a conclusion that we're looking for. [SPEAKER_00]: We also don't ask and expect a harsh response or culture to replace the religion as well.

4:52 [SPEAKER_00]: So in fact, it is a part of Islam when you submit to a loss of Hanutala to ask the right questions and not to be ashamed and not to be afraid. [SPEAKER_00]: And to ask in the right ways and the right places so you can distinguish revelation from everything else. [SPEAKER_00]: So you can distinguish what is true.

5:10 [SPEAKER_00]: Compared to what does my culture say? [SPEAKER_00]: What about this particular practice, even if it's passed down from one's own parents? [SPEAKER_00]: If Rahimadi, his son-in-law, when he asked Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'ala, Allah be Arinee Kaifatuhi al-Mata. [SPEAKER_00]: Show me O Allah how you bring life to that which is dead.

5:28 [SPEAKER_00]: Qala wa l-am-tutmin. [SPEAKER_00]: Allah asked them in Allah's al-Alim. [SPEAKER_00]: He already knows, do you not already believe? [SPEAKER_00]: Qala bana wa l-aqinni atma innaqalvi. [SPEAKER_00]: So I do believe. [SPEAKER_00]: Al-Brahim al-Islam Khalil Rahman, the friend of Allah in the 7th heaven during Al-Israq, when a Raj, the one who sacrificed so much and went through so many trials.

5:47 [SPEAKER_00]: Of course, he believes. [SPEAKER_00]: And he said, for the reassurance of my heart, and there's a tough seed for this. [SPEAKER_00]: The scholars have explored amongst them to use this proof, the empirical proof, as he continues to call people to the truth, as he continues to face people like a Nimrod.

6:04 [SPEAKER_00]: And so Ibrahim Ali Selam, is he asking with arrogance absolutely not? [SPEAKER_00]: There's a difference between the one who asks a question for guidance and the one who asks, so they can neglect guidance, the one who asks, so they're fed to a shopping, the one who asks, so they can find some kind of excuse or justification for what they're doing.

6:26 [SPEAKER_00]: but a reminder for all of us, and especially our youth, you not ever do not ever be ashamed to ask a sincere question, and especially if you're asking the right place and the right time, you should feel proud that you're doing the right thing to learn what is correct, because a passing thought that someone has, it's not conviction.

6:47 [SPEAKER_00]: a passing doubt as well is not rebellion. [SPEAKER_00]: It may be just confusing. [SPEAKER_00]: Confusion about what is right and wrong. [SPEAKER_00]: Confusion about a particular misconception that people may be talking about in society or non-Muslims are attacking Muslims with. [SPEAKER_00]: And it's usually a pseudo-intellectual issue.

7:03 [SPEAKER_00]: There is no logical problem. [SPEAKER_00]: We don't have a response to Alhamdulillah. [SPEAKER_00]: And you look at the Sahabah, may Allah be pleased with them. [SPEAKER_00]: The companions came to the Prophet, Sallallahu alaihi wa-sallam, according to an authentic Hadith. [SPEAKER_00]: Sahih Muslim.

7:16 [SPEAKER_00]: And they said, the ala-sallahu alaihi wa-sallam, we have some thoughts, sometimes that are bad. [SPEAKER_00]: And we don't speak them. [SPEAKER_00]: We don't dare to say them out loud. [SPEAKER_00]: So their wondering is the Muslim also judged about their thoughts. [SPEAKER_00]: So they're saying we have some thoughts that are bad and were worried.

7:30 [SPEAKER_00]: The fact that we have these thoughts, but we don't act upon them. [SPEAKER_00]: We don't talk about them. [SPEAKER_00]: And the Prophet, Sallallahu alaihi wa-sallam said, [SPEAKER_00]: which means as the Prophet peace be upon him is emphasizing, that's a clear sign of faith. [SPEAKER_00]: You had a negative thought, you controlled it, you're gonna act upon it.

7:47 [SPEAKER_00]: You didn't also give it more power. [SPEAKER_00]: Just the thought, that's a sign of sure faith. [SPEAKER_00]: The fact that you wonder, is this something that I'm going to be judged about, but you resisted it, and their distress is a positive sign that their e-man is very much alive. [SPEAKER_00]: And on the other hand, for those who receive questions, whether it's parents or family members or friends or community members or anyone else, don't humiliate the people who are asking sincerely.

8:12 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't make people feel ashamed. [SPEAKER_00]: for asking so they can learn. [SPEAKER_00]: In fact, this is so important when it comes to parents who are facing taboo controversial topics from the children and the parents in their culture might not think this is something that should be discussed.

8:27 [SPEAKER_00]: So they think if I ignore it or I tell them don't ask about things like this that will disappear. [SPEAKER_00]: Shamed questions don't disappear. [SPEAKER_00]: Shamed questions never disappear. [SPEAKER_00]: From the young and the old. [SPEAKER_00]: And in fact, for many people who are young, these questions may end up surfacing somewhere on social media.

8:43 [SPEAKER_00]: They're answered by people online, sometimes in the worst of ways, damaging of ways to one's image. [SPEAKER_00]: And if we ignore this reality, instead of having them receive a good answer, a good resource, recommendation, a scholar, whatever it may be, [SPEAKER_00]: They may end up finding something problematic as a response that takes them further away from Allah, Subhanawatad, so gentleness in receiving questions, in addressing sensitive issues before they're at that age because usually parents, especially in 2026.

9:13 [SPEAKER_00]: are underestimating how much their children know or how much they're exposed to in the world. [SPEAKER_00]: This is a reality we all know. [SPEAKER_00]: Anyone who doesn't realize this is simply ignoring the uncomfortable reality, for their sons and their daughters and the people attend them a sadjid full-time.

9:29 [SPEAKER_00]: This is a reality. [SPEAKER_00]: And the Prophet peace be upon him, Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, teaches us that gentleness is a beautiful thing. [SPEAKER_00]: And, in fact, in the rifkalei akunu fisegin illazana, gentleness is not found in something like your interaction with others. [SPEAKER_00]: except that it beautifies it.

9:46 [SPEAKER_00]: It makes it more appealing. [SPEAKER_00]: What I use our Mincey in Ilashana, and if it's removed from something, then it makes it ugly. [SPEAKER_00]: You might say the same exact thing as the person next to you, but your approach because it wasn't wise for the individual, the recipient.

10:03 [SPEAKER_00]: There wasn't gentleness or mercy in it that it may cause that person to reject it. [SPEAKER_00]: The point is not I'm speaking the truth, but hopefully the point at times is this the way that this person will receive it in terms of the packaging, with a disclaimer. [SPEAKER_00]: Gentleness does not mean we're sugar coating the truth.

10:22 [SPEAKER_00]: Gentleness never means we're going to change revelation and surrender what is true to every feeling because I want it to be pleasing to them. [SPEAKER_00]: Rather, with them in the language, gentleness and the empathy, the compassion as we're speaking and conversing about these issues, because ultimately all of our feelings, no matter who we are, all of our feelings in some way we find them to be types of witnesses that it matters.

10:45 [SPEAKER_00]: This is important, but they're not infallible judges. [SPEAKER_00]: They're not an infallible conclusion that this is what I should do. [SPEAKER_00]: Imagine if you will. [SPEAKER_00]: In 2026, with all the access to information that we have, someone saying I will only accept medical advice that already agrees with how I feel.

11:05 [SPEAKER_00]: And although this example would have sounded bizarre 2030, 40 years ago, it is the practice of many people. [SPEAKER_00]: Refusing to accept what is maybe agreed upon. [SPEAKER_00]: What is very clear, a student imagine on campus or at school taking a math class and saying I'm only going to accept a mathematical conclusion that matches my intuition, my feelings.

11:26 [SPEAKER_00]: This is math. [SPEAKER_00]: There's nothing to debate here. [SPEAKER_00]: Unless again, it's a field in which there's some subjectivity. [SPEAKER_00]: Why then would we assume that our moral intuitions, what I think, my feelings, my desires, my subjectivity, my moral intuitions, [SPEAKER_00]: are the only part of the human being that can never be corrected.

11:45 [SPEAKER_00]: Why would we ever fall for such a trap? [SPEAKER_00]: We all could experience, for example, the feeling of fear. [SPEAKER_00]: And at times, the expression or feeling of fear may warn us, something dangerous. [SPEAKER_00]: At the same time, fear could exaggerate something that's not really harmful because of an old trauma, because of an old experience or wound.

12:07 [SPEAKER_00]: We all could experience anger in different ways. [SPEAKER_00]: Me, a lot of protect us and a lot of everyone's. [SPEAKER_00]: Anger may expose injustice in the rest of the U.S. around the world, so the anger is there for a very valid reason. [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes a person is angry to defend their ego.

12:24 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't point out my flaws, don't correct me or judge me or tell me I'm doing something wrong. [SPEAKER_00]: We understand this reality, desires, shahu'at. [SPEAKER_00]: They may express a very legitimate need or they may persuade someone into thinking that every single boundary in Islam or in life is oppression, that these are rules in a negative sense.

12:43 [SPEAKER_00]: A lot of panoatilas is not commandous and in Islam it's not a command to hate our emotions, but rather make sure your emotions are educated with truth. [SPEAKER_00]: They're guided by revelation from a lot of panoatilas. [SPEAKER_00]: If someone challenges your on-campus at work online in society, challenges you with something in Islam that seems to trouble you, I don't understand this moral issue.

13:05 [SPEAKER_00]: Whether it's Hadoo or Apasta, or something else that's been answered thousands of times in the most profound intellectual ways, but if somebody asks you something and it challenges you in some way, [SPEAKER_00]: Discipline faith to have discipline submission to a loss of panotana is to first ask, first of all, is this authentic?

13:26 [SPEAKER_00]: Is this even true what they're saying about us? [SPEAKER_00]: The attacks on Islam are only going to increase. [SPEAKER_00]: We'll love Adam. [SPEAKER_00]: In this country, there is a great, great political agenda right now to distract people and give them something else to hate their focused on our community, their focused on Muslims, their focused on taking young Muslims away from Islam, tricking them, deceiving them in any way whatsoever, their focus on causing Muslims to have fear, or to be cowardly in some way.

13:55 [SPEAKER_00]: We should ask, is this statement even authentic? [SPEAKER_00]: Have I understood it correctly? [SPEAKER_00]: Is there more context to it? [SPEAKER_00]: A person who came up at one of the MSAs in the university, here in this country, saying, like, this is my first event in three years. [SPEAKER_00]: I've drifted away from Islam.

14:11 [SPEAKER_00]: I had a problem nobody could answer, an intellectual issue, and it's just so embarrassing. [SPEAKER_00]: And I said, it's good you're here. [SPEAKER_00]: That's a good sign. [SPEAKER_00]: What's your question? [SPEAKER_00]: He asked to talk. [SPEAKER_00]: What's your question? [SPEAKER_00]: He opens up about a moral issue.

14:25 [SPEAKER_00]: Morality, as a reminder, is a secondary branch. [SPEAKER_00]: It's very difficult to argue with other people about moral issues. [SPEAKER_00]: Because the foundation of what defines morality is not agreed upon, of course you don't agree with us on x, y and z. [SPEAKER_00]: Because you don't agree about the foundation of what is true, what informs you, if you say my feeling, society, the recent movements, then you're the one who's inconsistent.

14:49 [SPEAKER_00]: We have intellectual proof that there's divine timeless morality from God. [SPEAKER_00]: What do you have? [SPEAKER_00]: A society that's constantly changing, watering down what is good, contradicting the last generations that try to convince people that racial segregation was moral, that slavery was okay.

15:07 [SPEAKER_00]: What society is that? [SPEAKER_00]: Confusing people about women's rights and men's rights and gender roles and gender realities, and now you're going to point the finger at a Muslim or a woman who decide to cover up a submission to God and ask her why she's doing this and try to ask in a condescending way.

15:26 [SPEAKER_00]: We have intellectual responses to all of these issues, but ultimately explaining the wisdoms of a moral issue. [SPEAKER_00]: 90% of those arguments and debates don't matter, philosophically, because they don't agree about the source. [SPEAKER_00]: They don't agree about the question of how do you know what is right to and rock.

15:44 [SPEAKER_00]: What informs you and what informs me? [SPEAKER_00]: And that means the Muslim should know. [SPEAKER_00]: What informs us? [SPEAKER_00]: We should know why Islam is true. [SPEAKER_00]: We should have at least a general idea that can be explained in a few minutes to unlock non-Muslim classmate or relative or colleague or someone who [SPEAKER_00]: As we expect them to somewhat understand us, we should feel pride in knowing that we have an intellectual logical foundation.

16:10 [SPEAKER_00]: But it's combined with sincerity. [SPEAKER_00]: It's combined with accepting evidences when they're clear. [SPEAKER_00]: And al-Al-Al-Suphanatada commands us, Fesadu Ehna Diklin, Kuntumnatada, I won't ask the people of, remember it's a people of knowledge if you do not know. [SPEAKER_00]: in any field.

16:25 [SPEAKER_00]: Ask the people who are proficient in that field. [SPEAKER_00]: And for many people today and especially the young generation, seeking information in the wrong places is what destroys people. [SPEAKER_00]: Phone to Instagram and TikTok and like forums and so on and so forth. [SPEAKER_00]: That's not the right place to ask certain types of questions and we know this.

16:43 [SPEAKER_00]: That's a place where you can talk about how you feel and they feel and maybe both people are messed up in their understanding and methodology [SPEAKER_00]: go to the right sources, the right people, the right places. [SPEAKER_00]: We're living in a world in which there's outrage on social media, there's context that's missing from any issues.

17:02 [SPEAKER_00]: So it's easy to create doubt in the hearts of a young child, 30-second reels at a time, but give them depth, give them environments that will protect them and help them, and navigate the issues that exist all around us. [SPEAKER_00]: We also live in a society that's morally inconsistent, more than ever before.

17:18 [SPEAKER_00]: Shouting and screaming issues of morality and human rights while the genocide and the husses are still happening. [SPEAKER_00]: The genocide is still happening, the occupation is still there, settler colonials and is still taking place. [SPEAKER_00]: And when we see this reality, it should remind us just because the person speaking sounds profound, or they're using the terms of human rights and morality does not mean they're speaking any truth.

17:38 [SPEAKER_00]: Look at their stances. [SPEAKER_00]: Just because politicians are talking about as they campaign, of course, certain issues sometimes just to get into office ensure that their track record is consistent, this person actually cares about equity. [SPEAKER_00]: This person actually cares about rights.

17:55 [SPEAKER_00]: This person is consistent with what they're calling for. [SPEAKER_00]: This person is not supported by funded by corporations and politicians and foreign interests and reporting to them. [SPEAKER_00]: Rather, they are actually serving their people. [SPEAKER_00]: And when we say, we should ask the people of knowledge and we should learn, we're not dismissing the fact that there is criticism of Muslims and Muslim practices.

18:20 [SPEAKER_00]: We're distinguishing between Islam and Muslims. [SPEAKER_00]: One time I was told about a young woman. [SPEAKER_00]: They said, we think she left Islam or not sure she doesn't want to talk to anyone. [SPEAKER_00]: What happened? [SPEAKER_00]: They said she has probably intellectual doubts.

18:32 [SPEAKER_00]: Questions, we're not sure. [SPEAKER_00]: And she wanted to me and talk with a relative of hers. [SPEAKER_00]: And so I joined that meeting. [SPEAKER_00]: What are the intellectual issues? [SPEAKER_00]: What are your experiences? [SPEAKER_00]: What's happening? [SPEAKER_00]: She said, I have no problems at all with Islam.

18:46 [SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely not. [SPEAKER_00]: I have a lot of problems with abuse from family members, from parents, but I can distinguish between Islam and Muslims, and not many people pass that test by the way, so that I can distinguish that what they did does not represent Islam but obviously it's emotionally painful.

19:02 [SPEAKER_00]: The easier thing for Shepan to do and for someone to fall into a trap is simply to say, well, you know what? [SPEAKER_00]: These are Muslims and therefore I don't want to be part of this. [SPEAKER_00]: And that's a very illogical thing to do. [SPEAKER_00]: It's very emotional. [SPEAKER_00]: And in fact, in that moment of being vulnerable, because of very valid grievances and abuse, that person may fall down for the trap of Shepan into a second wrong.

19:24 [SPEAKER_00]: They were wrong. [SPEAKER_00]: Don't also be wrong. [SPEAKER_00]: What they did is not justified in Islam. [SPEAKER_00]: There's accountability for this on the day of judgment. [SPEAKER_00]: There's accountability we should seek in this world, defending those who are oppressed and abused in any way.

19:36 [SPEAKER_00]: But distinguish between what Allah says and what Muslims do. [SPEAKER_00]: Because sometimes, unfortunately, we fall short. [SPEAKER_00]: And once something is generally established, as a command of Allah, we accept it as the authority above all things. [SPEAKER_00]: We accept it as the authority above all things.

19:55 [SPEAKER_00]: Wa m'acana li'mukminin wa l'am-mukminatin i'd'a ka'd'o mahu wa rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau'rau' [SPEAKER_00]: and not ideology or ethnicity or nation state or anything else, not social media and the assumptions of our times and the movements that are coming and going in society.

20:27 [SPEAKER_00]: And this hotel has not directed at young Muslims alone. [SPEAKER_00]: This hotel has not directed at high school and university students who might be dealing with doubts. [SPEAKER_00]: We might be in a situation where we speak about traditional understanding of Islam correctly, but we refuse to apologize to family members when we make mistakes.

20:45 [SPEAKER_00]: We might be submitting to the truth in certain areas where we're talking about obedience to Allah, but we're cheating when it comes to work. [SPEAKER_00]: We're cheating in our schools. [SPEAKER_00]: We're cheating in some kind of business transaction. [SPEAKER_00]: We're cheating our employees.

20:57 [SPEAKER_00]: We can speak about the values of truth and the values of Islam for hours and hours. [SPEAKER_00]: But where is that when someone is abusing behind closed doors? [SPEAKER_00]: They're spouse and humiliating their children and pushing people away from a loss of Hanohatada? [SPEAKER_00]: So again, the question for us that we should ask, which command becomes complicated?

21:18 [SPEAKER_00]: Which command becomes difficult for us? [SPEAKER_00]: When it reaches something we love. [SPEAKER_00]: When it reaches a desire that's resisting that truth. [SPEAKER_00]: Once again, verify, verify many times we're talking about culture and not Islam, a rumor and not the truth. [SPEAKER_00]: Secondly, always diagnose is my problem.

21:35 [SPEAKER_00]: My necks is there a problem because of peer pressure? [SPEAKER_00]: Is there a problem because of my previous trauma or fear or the cost of obeying God and looking different at work or school? [SPEAKER_00]: What is my actual diagnosis? [SPEAKER_00]: Third, ask a person of knowledge. [SPEAKER_00]: Go to trust where these sources don't go to the wrong places.

21:53 [SPEAKER_00]: A person who will understand the culture and the feel. [SPEAKER_00]: Understand the language of advice. [SPEAKER_00]: Understand the context of the situation, with gentleness and wisdom. [SPEAKER_00]: Number four, bring it to your door. [SPEAKER_00]: You have a struggle or a doubt. [SPEAKER_00]: A lack of clarity, bring it to a loss of habitat.

22:10 [SPEAKER_00]: With sincerity and ask Allah for clarity, ask Allah to help you with any distortion on what is true. [SPEAKER_00]: And lastly, take action. [SPEAKER_00]: If you know you're supposed to apologize for that mistake of apologize, if there's a problematic business transaction ended, a law will replace it with better.

22:27 [SPEAKER_00]: If you're supposed to establish your five prayers and you're not, establish your prayer. [SPEAKER_00]: If you're missing something with your character or the rights of other people or a boundary in a relationship or serious study in what is true, then take action while you can. [SPEAKER_00]: Alas Subhanat Ali gives us commands and we know his perfection and our weaknesses so we always turn to him and trust in him.

22:47 [SPEAKER_00]: And we ask Alas Subhanat Ali to forgive us and our loved ones for our shortcomings and to make us a means of truth and steadfastness and guidance and society and to aid our brothers and sisters seek forgiveness from Allah. [SPEAKER_00]: He is the oft forgiving. [SPEAKER_00]: They ever merciful, ahul yukawari hada wa astaghfirullah adi wa lakon festafiru innahu wa lakafiru raih.

23:05 [SPEAKER_00]: Hamdulillah wa salat al-Salamu ala Rasulillah wa ala aleyhi wa sahbihi wa minwala. [SPEAKER_00]: A young man asked, why does God permit such and such? [SPEAKER_00]: Why did God do such and such? [SPEAKER_00]: Why is this such and such? [SPEAKER_00]: What happened? [SPEAKER_00]: Strong Muslim, great parents raised right, goes to university, faces a lot of questions.

23:24 [SPEAKER_00]: He didn't know how to answer. [SPEAKER_00]: And he didn't go to any good sources. [SPEAKER_00]: They asked this question just recently after a lecture that I had. [SPEAKER_00]: And I said, but who is Allah? [SPEAKER_00]: You're talking about a different being when you're asking about something negative.

23:37 [SPEAKER_00]: That's not God. [SPEAKER_00]: That's not Allah Subhanahu Wa'Tada. [SPEAKER_00]: And over the years with thousands of questions and you'll find this in a lot of studies, one of the main reasons a Muslim may drift away from practice and good assumptions of Allah is in fact the wrong concept of God is in their minds and they start to distance themselves from that concept.

23:56 [SPEAKER_00]: And so remind yourself with the facts, when you trust Allah SWT, remind yourself, who is Allah? [SPEAKER_00]: If you know Allah is Allah, the all-knowing, then you know there's no information that's missing. [SPEAKER_00]: In the al-Alamu al-Alamu al-Alamu al-Alamu al-Alamu al-Alamu al-Alamu al-Alamu al-Alamu al-Alamu al-Alamu al-Alamu al-Alamu al-Alamu al-Alamu al-Alamu al-Alamu al-Alamu al-Alamu al-Alamu al-Alamu al-Alamu al-Alamu al-Alamu al-Alamu al-Alamu al-Alamu al-Alamu al-Alamu al-Alamu al-Alamu al-Alamu al-Alamu al-Alamu al [SPEAKER_00]: If you know that Allah Subhanahu Ata'ala is al-Adi, the perfectly just, the perfectly just, then you know that Allah never rangs His creation.

24:29 [SPEAKER_00]: When I yelled in Arabic, ahadah, if you know that Allah is Arabic man, Arabic, they entirely merciful. [SPEAKER_00]: They know that guidance is not born from cruelty. [SPEAKER_00]: Our minds are finite limited. [SPEAKER_00]: And the finite mind does not become irrational when it submits and trusts infinite wisdom and guidance.

24:48 [SPEAKER_00]: And in fact, it becomes irrational when it starts to demand the infinite wisdom of God and infinite knowledge of God that it has to fit completely in the mind of the limited human being. [SPEAKER_00]: That is irrational. [SPEAKER_00]: We understand enough in revelation and have enough clarity and truth to know that we cannot understand everything.

25:09 [SPEAKER_00]: But that we trust in the perfection of Allah, Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, and if we see injustices in our homes, our organizations and society at large, that we know we are all responsible to do our best. [SPEAKER_00]: to eliminate and reduce as much harm as possible. [SPEAKER_00]: And that might mean starting with yourself and your practice and your family, but also that means being engaged with policies that will remove and alleviate some of the hardships that exist for people in this state and around the country and around the world.

25:39 [SPEAKER_00]: That means being more involved in what's happening politically especially in a year like this. [SPEAKER_00]: That means knowing we are all responsible within our capacity to take action. [SPEAKER_00]: This is a crucial time and a crucial year. [SPEAKER_00]: And a lot is happening at once, as I said in the previous Qutma.

25:54 [SPEAKER_00]: So take action as much as you can for those who struggle around you, and those who struggle around the country and around the world affected by domestic and foreign policy, take action. [SPEAKER_00]: That is what it means to submit to what is true that benefits other people and not just ourselves.

26:07 [SPEAKER_00]: And we ask a lot to allow us to see the truth, as truth and to follow it, and to see falsehood, as falsehood and to refrain from it. [SPEAKER_00]: And to forgive us for our moments of weaknesses and doubts that cause us to become distant from him.