Allah Will Curse You If You Do These Things Dr Omar Suleiman

Dear brothers and sisters, if you do something wrong to someone else and something immediately happens to you in the same category of that wrongdoing, what do you say? Where does your mind go? Many people would use the word karma. They would say it's payback. You do something and it is done to you. You do good deed and they call it pay it forward. Some good deed will come to you in return. You commit bad deed or you do something wrong and then somehow you'll taste the consequence of that wrongdoing as whole. So was asked this question last week as gave where the prophet sallallah.aii wasallam spoke about young man who committed sin and as soon as he turned away from that sin he hit his head on wall and the prophet sallallah.aii alaihi wasallam mentioned to him that this is sign of Allah wanting good for you that allahel hastened the punishment for servant for whom he wants good because it's chance to turn back to Allah subhana wa ta'ala someone asked me the question does Islam believe in karma and of course karma as religious philosophy comes from mixture of the Hindu and Buddhist philosophies and it's the idea of consequence quence happening in an almost mechanical way. It assumes that there is leveling playing field that exists in the inherent creation that if you do something at some point in your existence something's going to come back to you in the exact same way. Now when people say that Muslims believe in concept like that many times we're not thinking about the religious philosophy. We're not thinking about how to unravel all of that or any layers or trying to problematize it. We're just saying that Muslims also believe for example that correction or rectification comes within the same domain. You do something good, we have this idea of Allah subhana paying you back with something good. You do something bad, we have this idea of you being paid back by something bad. As you do will be done to you. These are concepts that exist in our terminology as well. So what's the problem? And don't want us to necessarily think about problematizing. want us to think about broadening. For one, we don't believe in this robotic mechanical payback clause that everything exists in this perfect order, in this pattern to where you do something bad and it's going to come back to you. you do something good and it's going to come back to you in this mechanical fashion. We don't believe in mechanical consequence. That's the first thing. The second thing is we don't believe that there's some sort of energy or the universe gives or the universe takes or time gives or time takes. Right? And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam in fact problematized that idea when you start to speak about time and place as things that actually give or do to you. Howith man curses time, right? He curses time. And Allah says, am time." Why? Because have in my hands night and day. am the one who is controlling time. So don't speak of time as an independent doer. Time does nothing for you. It does nothing against you. Time is one of the things that Allah controls. The earth doesn't give you anything. The universe doesn't give you anything. Allahel is the one who owns the earth and he owns the universe. So it's important to not speak about these things as forces as autonomous forces that have any actual doing. They don't. Allahel is the divine legislator, the divine creator, the one who ordains through this. So that's something that we have to establish that number one, it's not mechanical. The idea of consequence and reward is not some mechanical pattern. Number two, don't speak about time or place as doing anything. They don't do anything. Allahel is the one who does. Number three, very important that our existence is not relegated in this time bound fashion in this dunya in this world. So our conception of consequence and reward is not confined to this dy. It expands far beyond this. And in fact, allahel does not speak about this world as the place of consequence and reward. Sometimes allahel gives you little bit of consequence. So they can taste little bit of what they did. Sometimes Allah subhana allows for some reward to come to you for something good you did to incentivize you to do more. But this is not this is not the place of reward or consequence. That is actually the hereafter by default.