Who Fooled You About Your Generous Lord?

Who Fooled You About Your Generous Lord?

Allah says يَا أَيُّهَا الْإِنسَانُ — he doesn't say all people, he says all human being. It's like he's taken you alone to talk to you, just by yourself.

مَا غَرَّكَ بِرَبِّكَ الْكَرِيمِ — and he asks a question to every human being who hears this, Muslim, non-Muslim: what deceived you? who fooled you about your generous Lord? Who made you think that Allah was not generous? Who made you think that Allah was not merciful? Who made you think that Allah was oppressive?

All the movements we have today in the world — yesterday I was on the phone with a Muslim woman, a Muslim girl who wanted to leave Islam. And I'm telling you this: I have these phone calls every week. You don't know these people.

The Weight of a Misunderstood Ruling

Why does she want to leave Islam? Somebody told her that if she misses one salah she is a disbeliever. And somebody told her that Allah will not accept her repentance unless she is sincere — and she doesn't know whether she is sincere or not. She stopped praying salah. She missed one salah and she said, "Finish — I'm a disbeliever. I have to say my shahada again."

This fringe opinion, which was not held by the vast majority of scholars throughout Islamic history, was pushed on her. She was guilted into feeling she's not a Muslim anymore because she missed one salah — she slept through one salah. She says, "Now I'm finished. What's the point? Why would I believe in a Lord who creates such a difficult religion to follow and then wants to torture me for it?" This is what she said.

The Verse That Made Her Cry

And I just recited this verse for her — and she began to cry. Allah says: O human being, who fooled you, deceived you, lied to you, that Allah was not generous? He is al-Kareem — the Most Generous. He is the Most Giving, the Most Merciful, the Most Forgiving. You come to him sincerely, he will accept you.

What made you go so far from Allah that you thought there was no going back to him?

The Man Who Killed 99 — Then 100

That man who killed 99 people — why did he kill the 100th person? He met a scholar who told him, "Allah is not going to forgive you." So he went and killed the 100th as well — because, why not?