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In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, and all praise is due to God, the Lord of the worlds.
And peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, the Messenger of God, Muhammad, and the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon all of his family and friends.
Tassliman kathiran kathira.
I am in this place called Sarpan Palli Lake, and in Umar’s Jimny. It’s one of the most versatile vehicles that I have known and we are actually literally in the belly of the lake and that’s what I want to show you. We have these amazing number of birds, all kinds of birds, those are river terns and And behind them are giant egrets, the painted storks. There is a gray heron sitting on one of those rocks. If you can see it, there is another painted stork. There’s the gray heron on that rock. Amazing variety. And they all seem to be obviously enough food for them.
And Khudrat of Allahﷻ, how Allahﷻ وَرَزَّاقُتُ الْقُوَةِ الْمَتِينِ gives rizq to all his creatures. And Allah said مَا مِنْ دَابَّةٍ فِي الْأَرْضِ إِلَّا أَلَى اللَّهِ رِزْقُهَا. And Allah said that every moving creature on the earth, there is no moving creature on the earth except that its sustenance is with Allah. And Allah is the one who provides sustenance to all his creatures.
I remember myself I knew that Allah created us and created this entire universe and didn’t just create it and leave it. He is the one who created and He is the one who then takes care of His creation in every every possible way, and provides for that creation every single thing that it needs. Things that they know and things that they don’t know, but Allah knows. So He provides before we even know what we need, Allah prepares it before we even know what we need. Just as we see here with all these birds, those are the flying birds, the river terns and then different species which are wading.
So Allah created this world and Allah then gave us this beautiful deen of Islam and showed showed us how to lead our lives in a way which is productive, which is beneficial, not only for us but for everyone who lives on the face of the earth. That is the purpose of the believer that he or she should create goodness all around them. For everyone who is in the purview of the space that they live in, create goodness for everyone. Allah said كُنْتُمْ خَيْرَ أُمَّةٍ وَخُرِجَتْ لِلنَّاسِ “you are the best of people and you have been extracted for the people,” لِلنَّاسِ and then Allah said what is the nature of this benefit? It. Allah said that you enjoy good and you forbid evil.
I remind myself I knew that today we live in a world where virtue and sin seem to have become redundant. We don’t have that that in our language. We don’t talk about that. We have normalized and permitted many things which are sinful, which are harmful, which create evil, things which destroy society. Society. If you look at it, if you take things like infidelity, drugs, all forms of addictions, we have normalized that. For example, in America, we have permitted what we call recreational recreational use of marijuana. Now, what is recreational use? Recreational use is addiction because what else can you do with marijuana? You smoke it and it alters your mind, it alters your perception, and you call that enjoyment. And there was a time when people went to jail jail for this. You know the hippies must be rolling in their graves because the number of them went literally hundreds of them probably thousands went to jail for exactly the same thing which is a recreational use of marijuana. I mean what’s a pot party but now we have legalized it and we said oh this is normal this is perfectly okay nothing wrong with with that. And it’s not because of some great scientific discovery. This is just that it became so common that it’s not worth penalizing it.
Now, if virtue and sin depends on what is popular and what is not popular, then it’s no longer virtue and sin. It’s something else. Because then you cannot have a law because anything that people like will become permissible. That’s exactly what’s happened, for example, with human relations because you’ve just normalized what used to be called adultery and fornication. This is now normalized. You don’t call it that that anymore. This is okay. This is called living with a partner. We give it a name that sounds decent. So something which was bad, which is still bad, just think about that. I mean, somebody whose marriage gets destroyed because one of the partners decides to have an affair with someone, how is this good? I don’t care what name you call it, how is it good? But we have said, no, no, it’s okay, you know, it’s a choice, a lifestyle choice, freedom of choice, no matter who it hurts in the process.
Now this is what Islam says, there’s no, Islam says what is good is good, what is evil is is evil and it’s good for a reason it’s evil for a reason it’s not people’s likes and dislikes it is because of visible effects that are there and because of that something which is good is good something which evil is evil and that’s the reason why we have to understand this and say Alhamdulillah Allah Ta’ala gave us a beautiful religion for us to follow so So let us follow it.