The Promise of Perfect Fairness - Al 'Adl (The Most Just)

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]Tonight inshallah we are going to live with the meaning of the attribute of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala which means the most just the most just and also with his name which means the most kind beyond justice. Al is not his name. It is the meaning of his action. That he is the most just and means beyond justice. And that is where the kindness comes in because not everything in life can be absolutely just when people uh or not everything in life people can completely do justice with it. So Allah also calls us toanan which means do more than what you think is justice just in case you are missing some of that justice. My brothers and sisters this lecture tonight will be split into two.

[00:01:00]I'm going to give the first part tonight and inshallah next week the other half.

[00:01:06]The two parts are number one. Tonight we're talking about the meaning of justice when we talk about Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and next week the second part the role of Allah's laws and religious system meaning the Sharia in applying justice how is Allah's shar just for us in this world when we talk about us as a creation of Allah and the there are two main aspects of the justice system of Allah on earth that I want to touch on next week. Number one, something called distributive justice, people's rights and interactions and between us and number two, retributive justice, crime and punishment and all that. That'll be next week because it's a very comprehensive and big topic and I'll only be touching the surface.

[00:02:00]Tonight inshallah as I said again we are talking about Allah who he is and his attribute Adel the most just.

[00:02:10]Let's begin with a very shallow meaning of the word justice. You know justice is a very complicated topic because everything that people argue about in this world is all about justice. My right, your right, that's not fair, this is fair. everything from politics to uh individuals at your home as family, married, not married, uh uh your business transactions, at school, um everywhere in the world, everybody argues for justice and everybody has their own definition. If I put a post on social media of nothing but a plain banana banana or I got a banana into this room and I held it in front of you and I ask you what this is explain it I will probably get about 10 different answers. People will argue over a banana over a blank screen over anything such as the human.

[00:03:08]So we need a standard. We always need to resort to authority who has wisdom and the greatest authority for us is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and also what Allah gave us our moral justice compass. But let's talk about a definition that everyone can agree on universally.

[00:03:27]So what is justice? Justice, brothers and sisters, is giving every rightful person and everything its due right without limitation or restraint.

[00:03:41]We all know this. How do we apply it is the golden question.

[00:03:47]And the reason for this is so that there is correct balance and harmony for everybody and in this world.

[00:03:55]And in the hereafter Allah will apply this.

[00:03:59]Sometimes justice is in the form of what we call equality but not always. Other times it's in the form of equitibility which means based on individual needs and circumstances.

[00:04:16]So justice is not always being fair by distributing everything to everybody in exactly the same way. Justice can also be when you consider people's ethnic background, culture, uh aesthetics, their advantage, disadvantages, their circumstances in life, male and female, all of that. So when it comes to justice, especially in Islam, it takes in into consideration the individual circumstances such as advantages and disadvantages, obligations and responsibilities. is what are your obligations, responsibility? Justice applies differently and customs and traditions, education and beliefs.

[00:04:59]So justice does not always mean what I said equality sometimes is equitability.

[00:05:07]And what corrupts justice are whims and desires.

[00:05:15]Whims and desires, brothers and sisters, are based on what I love and what I want or who I love or who I want. This is how I corrupt justice.

[00:05:29]If I love and want justice, I will be impartial and objective.

[00:05:36]I won't base it on my whims, desires, and emotions.

[00:05:39]Even if it is against myself, my own parents, my own children or my deepest and closest friends, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is not governed by whims, desires or emotions as we are. He is the source of justice and from him only justice can manifest in this world and in the hereafter. The meaning of justice ends with Allah. If he says something, it ends there.

[00:06:15]And the Muslim does not question Allah's justice once he has made a command or how he judges everyone on the day of judgment.

[00:06:28]Allah says in, "Oh my servants, I have forbidden injustice on myself and I made it forbidden among you.

[00:06:50]Don't take each other's rights.

[00:06:54]It is the central story surrounding Satan the outcast.

[00:07:00]Satan the outcast. What did he do? He disobeyed or he displayed himself as more just than Allah's decision and command.

[00:07:12]Allah says that's why Allah says he corrupted outside of the command of his lord which essentially means he chose corruption of his own whim based on his own whims desires and emotions and ego and considered Allah's decision and command unjust to believe in one command to believe that one command of Allah or one thing that he forbid to be unjust is to believe that Allah is unjust altogether.

[00:07:41]together. You either accept him all or it's out. You can't choose who what kind of a version of Allah you want. That's taking your desire as your god.

[00:07:58]Allah is the most just and will never wrong any being with even an atom's worth.

[00:08:04]And this will happen when on the day of judgment. right now he lets us free.

[00:08:12]Do what you want within your free will that I gave you. Allah says, "But I've given you guidance and parameters and I told you everything you need to know." Allah says in the Quran, "Everything is being recorded.

[00:08:29]Everything is being watched and everything is accountable."

[00:08:34]Right now you are in the examination room and with it comes free will.

[00:08:41]Allah does not will to set people on a set course with no choice.

[00:08:51]He gave us free will. You can question anything. You can say what you want. You can argue from now to the end of your life.

[00:09:00]You can fight or you can make peace. You can obey or disobey. Right now, Allah does not interfere.

[00:09:08]He only gives you warnings, guidance, understanding, directions. He teaches you through his Quran. He sent all his messengers, everything you need. And he gave you an intelligence which makes you higher than any other life form except the angels. But he gave you desires and temptations which completes you.

[00:09:29]Complete human being in every sense of honor.

[00:09:33]But on the day of judgment, it is no longer an examination.

[00:09:38]Allah will bring out the records and every atom's worth of act you did in secret or in public.

[00:09:46]Small as tiny as an antworth or a mustard seed or as big as mountains, Allah will bring it up. That day is the day of justice. That day is the day when everything will be rewarded or punished according to Allah's justice.

[00:10:06]Wall Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will settle all the rights and wrongs on the day of judgment between all his creation even between two ants.

[00:10:18]Two ants that bumped into each other on a tree trunk in the middle of some forest or jungle or Amazon forest, whatever they bumped into each other. He will raise those ants to settle their affairs.

[00:10:38]My brothers and sisters, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala didn't just leave us like that to wonder about and to guess what justice is.

[00:10:49]About the majority of justice, you can feel it right from the moment you're a little child or a baby.

[00:10:58]You know, a baby, you give him a dummy.

[00:11:04]And if the baby hasn't had enough of the dummy and you take it out, the baby cries. He wants its dummy back because that's justice. It's his dummy. It's It's her dummy. What gave you the right to take it out?

[00:11:18]You gave your little baby a lollipop.

[00:11:22]Another baby comes along and snatches it away. The one that got a snatch cries.

[00:11:27]The one who is sucking on the lollipop.

[00:11:31]The that baby knows that it's made it's done something wrong.

[00:11:37]A cat knows that it's done injustice. If he snatches the food away as opposed to when you put the food for it. Even a dog, you tell it you did something wrong, it puts its head down.

[00:11:53]Allah has given us intuitive moral compasses.

[00:11:58]Majority of justice, we already feel it and know it.

[00:12:03]But when our desires come in, we forget about other people's rights and sometimes we only focus on ours and we want more.

[00:12:12]So we have intuitive within our natural makeup.

[00:12:17]Additionally, he gave us some laws which he set for us and commanded us to follow as a standard in our interaction with each other which is what we're going to talk about next week inshallah. His sharia, his guidance through many prophets and messengers even from Jesus to Moses to Abraham peace be upon them all to Noah all of them. We make no distinction between any of his prophets and messengers.

[00:12:45]So right now Allah does not interfere.

[00:12:49]Meaning he doesn't reward you or punish you right now in this world except when he wills. But he sets parameters with our free will to choose right and wrong. And he will judge us on a day of reckoning after death down to the justice or injustice we knowingly did. As I said in secret or open even a mustard seed. A third way that Allah subhana wa ta'ala manifests his justice is in in this life is he set balanced natural laws in the universe such as those that govern the laws of physics in space laws of motion, general relativity, universal gravitation, thermodynamics, quantum mechanics, electromagnetism, time, space, the 12 particles of matter, the four uh uh forces of nature and so on. All of these are forces which Allah put in place and you cannot change them.

[00:13:54]They are Allah's justice and balance in the universe. Also, he put justice and balance in that which governs the earth's natural laws, the ecological and biological laws such as the universe uh s such as the laws of conversation conservation, the ecosystem, natural selection, the food chain, carrying capacity of its resources, symbiosis, photosyn photosynthesis and so on. All of these Allah subhana wa ta'ala put it so that life can be in harmony and balance in a just cause balanced.

[00:14:30]Thirdly, those that govern the metaphysical laws such as everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere.

[00:14:43]The cause and effect. Don't you see it around you?

[00:14:50]All these my brothers and sisters are divine laws Allah placed in the universe and within ourselves to maintain balance and independence.

[00:15:00]Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has comprehensively and eloquently summed up everything I said in a surah. one chapter of the Quran surah surahman the most merciful in the first verses I'll recite them and let's have a look at them inshallah to understand and know your lord the creator the most just to know who he is so that you know how your relationship with him should be the more you know him the less questions about doubts in life you have and the more certainty You have Allah says Quran.

[00:16:14]What's Fore! Foreign! Foreign!

[00:17:12]I'll give the interpretations of these up to here and then the next ones.

[00:17:17]Allah says the merciful one has taught the Quran has created man and has taught him articulate speech.

[00:17:34]The sun and the moon follow a reckoning.

[00:17:39]Meaning the sun and the moon adhere to an unalterable system of precise computation and astronomical calculations. They run their course perfectly in balance.

[00:17:55]And the stars and the trees all prostrate themselves.

[00:18:00]Meaning the celestial planets and the trees and vegetation, they all adhere to Allah's set laws and motion. They all follow a balance of justice.

[00:18:13]And he has raised up the heaven, meaning celestial universe in space above us, so that you may not transgress in the balance. You look around you and you see Allah's creation and justice. He wants you to also learn from it. And you apply justice in your interactions towards yourself, towards your family, towards in business, towards people around you, to your neighbor, to animals, to this universe.

[00:18:47]But weigh things equitably and fairly, and skimp not in the balance. Meaning, likewise, do not be deceitful in your dealings and transactions.

[00:18:59]Do not use Allah's verses, hadiths, and religion only in the way that benefits you at the expense of others.

[00:19:12]Allah says, "And he has set up the earth for all beings. Therein are fruit and palm trees with their dates in sheets and a variety of corn with both husk and grain. Which of the bounties of your lord will you two beings you humans and gins will then deny?

[00:19:33]In other words, people's different attitudes in respect to Allah's blessings, manifestations of his might, his praiseworthy attributes. Meaning, how can he be so ungrateful to the creator of all of this?

[00:19:49]He has created man from dry rotten clay like the potter.

[00:19:54]So it's the order of the initial stages of creation of the first human being Adamisam and then reproduction all in balance. And has created the jin from the flame of fire which of the wonders of your lord of your lord's power will you two beings human beings and jin deny.

[00:20:14]Lord of the two easts and of the two wests is he. Meaning the sunrise and sunsets of the shortest days of winter and the sunrise and sunsets of the longest days of summer. These are the two east and the two wests. He has created them in an orbit in a in a way where the the the moon and the sun and the earth orbit in such a way that there are there is winter the extremes and summer and extreme and then there are extreme two different sunsets in different locations and sunrises. Which of the powers of your lord will you two beings you men and jin then deny?

[00:20:54]Allah says Fore!

[00:21:10]Foreign! Foreign!

[00:21:19]for the Memphis.

[00:22:14]He unleashed the two seas.

[00:22:18]so that they merge together.

[00:22:21]In other words, sometimes two salty seas or oceans and sometimes fresh water and salty seas can meet and mix and merge.

[00:22:35]And yet there is a barrier between them which they may not overstep.

[00:22:40]meaning they're called oceanic fronts in science or uh uh hello clines. Contrary to popular interpretations among a lot of Muslims who I heard, they go online and they show a YouTube clip and they show a barrier of two C's and they start playing the Quran and they're saying, "Subhan Allah, look at that. This is what the Quran says." Be careful, brothers and sisters, when you interpret verses of the Quran. And it's important for us to learn the facts and science when we are interpreting certain verses of the Quran because Allah when he speaks is not speaking scientifically. He's speaking in a way that makes you reflect. So it's not a book of science. So please what it means is it doesn't mean that they never eventually mix. Salt and fresh water do mix eventually, but they do. But because their properties are so severe in density, they take time and that's why they show a temporary barrier like the videos that you have seen. They do not overstep.

[00:23:51]They don't transgress means they can only mix following natural laws and forces and this again Allah is illustrating the balance and justice in life how this world is balanced with his laws that's what it means so temporarily you see them they have a barrier eventually they do mix but they don't transgress meaning they don't hurry up on their own they are governed within justice and balance of Allah's laws. Since you see that, then you also be just in your life.

[00:24:28]Which of the wonders of your Lord will you two beings, men and jin, then deny?

[00:24:33]From these seas come forth pearls and coral.

[00:24:37]Again, people will say to you, your Quran says that pearls that sorry, coral comes out of fresh water. And this is not true because Allah mentioned fresh water and salty water. So why would Allah say pearls and coral when coral only comes out of salty water? Learn brothers and sisters and investigate and research. Be well informed.

[00:25:03]It means that pearls they come out of both seas freshwater and salty water. In fact now they do them in labs through fresh water pearls. So they come from both seas. As for coral it only comes out of salty water. But Allah used the jewel so that you know how to differentiate because he mentioned pearl and coral. He said from them both.

[00:25:25]Pearls are from salty. Coral pearls are from salty and fresh and coral is from salty water.

[00:25:32]And maybe in future people can discover a way to create or to invent coral in fresh water in labs. Which of the wonders of your Lord's power will you two beings, you men and jin, then deny?

[00:25:45]His Allah's are the ships towering in the sea like mountains.

[00:25:51]Which of the favors of your lord will you two men and men and jin deny?

[00:25:56]Meaning why deny the laws he placed so you can have ships and Allah put law so you can have ships and you're able to have transportation buoyancy laws.

[00:26:08]Everything is in balance. All that is on earth will perish. Only the person of your Lord full of majesty and splendor will endure. So which of the wonders of your Lord will you two beings deny?

[00:26:25]Meaning don't you see there is life and death? Don't you see that you don't live eternally?

[00:26:32]Don't you see that those who die don't come back?

[00:26:35]Don't you see that everything is running a course and nothing ever lasts the way it is?

[00:26:42]You are not eternal. So who is controlling this cycle? It is Allah the one who endures beyond all that.

[00:26:50]All in the heavens and the earth in treat him. They worship him for their needs or they call upon him for their needs. Every day there are people making dua. Oh Lord, oh God, give me, give me.

[00:27:08]A new mighty task engages him each day.

[00:27:12]Every day Allah is producing and responding to dua. Which of your Lord's attributes will you deny? Oh you two beings who are a burden on the earth, we shall attend to you and call you to account.

[00:27:31]We shall then see Allah says which of the favors of your lord will you two beings then deny. In other words, humans and gins are being called burden on the earth in this context which implies that their presence, our presence carries weighty responsibilities and moral obligations as they must uphold justice, morality and stewardship of this earth. It also means those who corrupted are nasty burdens on the earth and those who upheld the right and justice are a significant creature with a heart weight with a heart that is weighty and you are valuable.

[00:28:23]So this is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's work of justice and balance in this first life. We see it all around us and it's all speaking to us.

[00:28:35]Nobody can deny it. Nobody can say I didn't know. Nobody can say but but.

[00:28:42]Allah says I gave you a lifetime to explore and see. But you chose to ignore and deny. And those others who chose to follow, they will be rewarded. Allah is fair and just.

[00:28:59]So Allah lets us be here for a short time in an exam, a designated time period which will expire. Then his work of judgment to equate and settle the rights and wrongs in his perfect justice and sentencing on the day of judgment which is the second life, the resurrection, the day of reckoning.

[00:29:26]Allah called it yom does not literally mean 24 hours. This is the yom that you call you and I say 24 hours because from our experience is what we've accustomed to. I mean we've now discovered other planets which have one day there equal to a whole year of ours. For example, when Allah says y it means a time frame where there is no night in it just one day. And Allah says in the Quran, a day equal to 50,000 years. They said it's such a long time. He said for a believer who did well in this world and was righteous, it will feel to him or her like a common prayer he prayed on earth.

[00:30:17]But the people will argue, they will debate. Allah will allow them such a long time that people will argue and debate. May Allah make it a day of ease for us. Allah says, Surah 3:2.

[00:30:51]How then will they fair? What will they do when we shall gather them all together to witness the day about the coming of which there is no doubt?

[00:31:04]And when every human being shall be repaid in full for what they have done and none shall be wronged with no injustice to any of them. This is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala who will be doing this. One of the predecessors and I think it was Im Hassan Albasi and Allah knows best or maybe another one said a profound statement once.

[00:31:30]He was asked, "Would you prefer your mother to be your judger on the day of judgment? Your judge or Allah?"

[00:31:41]And he said, "Wallah, I would prefer Allah to be my judge than my own mother.

[00:31:46]For Allah will be more merciful and fair to me than my own mother."

[00:31:52]Allah knows what will happen on that day. What happens to human beings? You know some human beings they think and we sometimes we think we are so good, we are so merciful. Sometimes we make statements to people. We say wah if I was there I would do this. If I was there I would sacrifice my life for you.

[00:32:13]If if if. But when it comes down to the crunch, how many people have we witnessed that fail and wimp away?

[00:32:20]How many people never stand up to what they really said? There are people who thought that they can be all that, but when they were tested and the hard and the uh hard tests come to them, they crumble.

[00:32:42]How many people who thought they loved you or you loved them when it came down to the crunch it was me myself and I me my lord.

[00:32:56]How many people said and promised and so on. How many people thought they will never become corrupt yet they did? You know a human being can resort to becoming a cannibal.

[00:33:09]You've seen it. You've heard about it.

[00:33:12]You've read about it. A human being can resort to eating dry blood off the floor.

[00:33:21]A human being can be do very inde obscene things. The human being can be the lowest of the low when you thought they could never be that. Or a human being can rise even above the angels.

[00:33:40]It's the surah in the Quran which we always recite and Allah says and this person and the way we have created and fashioned them they have the capacity and the potential to go polar this way or polar that way.

[00:33:56]Whoever restrains themselves and raises it and holds it and disciplines it has succeeded and whoever obeys it will fail.

[00:34:08]Allah says, Surah 40 verse number 16. The day when they will emerge and nothing of them shall be hidden from Allah. On that day they will be asked whose is the kingdom today? The whole world will cry out it is Allah's the one the overpowering. It will then be said today shall everyone be fully recompassed for their deeds.

[00:35:11]None shall be wrong today. Surely Allah is swift in his reckoning. Swift meaning that he does not get distracted nor confused by one case while he's looking after another. Even if they were infinite numbers or if they they were infinite, he can do them all simultaneously and nothing can delay him.

[00:35:37]Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala applies his justice in so many different ways. Here are a few. Number one, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has written upon himself and told us in the Quran which everybody can recite that no person carries the sin of another person.

[00:36:00]Every individual is responsible for their own.

[00:36:04]Allah says No person will carry the sin or wrongdoing of another.

[00:36:23]And we will never punish anyone until we have sent them messengers.

[00:36:30]That is part Allah's justice.

[00:36:33]Another way Allah applies justice, he returns the rights to everybody sooner or later. Now if you only believe in this life and you don't believe in Allah or the hereafter, nothing will make sense.

[00:36:53]In fact, people like that will probably won't even want to hear the term or the name of Allah.

[00:37:00]May Allah save us from being among them.

[00:37:02]But those who have read the Quran and those whom Allah has guided and they wanted the guidance and they open their hearts and they come to believe in Allah and his judgment day and hereafter everything falls into place. Even your purpose of life, everything you question has an answer.

[00:37:19]Some people know it, some people don't.

[00:37:21]Some people never ask. Some people live this life indifferent. They don't care.

[00:37:25]They're not even seeking any knowledge.

[00:37:27]And then they say nothing makes sense because they didn't inquire or they inquired in the wrong places or they let their own brains try to decide with overthinking and questions after questions with never, you know, appealing to anything outside of it.

[00:37:38]Some people follow their desires. Some people look at Allah's words and his laws and if it makes sense to them, then they will agree with it. Not the other way around. They let they don't let the Quran speak to them. They don't let themselves recite the Quran with an open heart with no preconceived notions.

[00:37:55]some people because of their experiences.

[00:37:59]However, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala returns all the rights. If it's not in this world, mark my words, it will be after death.

[00:38:11]And there are consequences in this world too. Allah has created laws that he put in place. We said he doesn't reward or punish now but what he has put in place is a system of reward and punishment that everybody is subjected to. As for the reward and punishment of whether you worshiped or didn't or follow the right or not of going to paradise or hellfire that happens on the day of judgment but right now there's consequences which are in this world. And Allah reminds us in the Quran, he says, "And if you think that if you suffer from consequences now here, Allah says, if you want to live a life of immorality, a life of indecency, a life of uh, you know, sin, a life of drugs and alcohol, a life of violence, a life of extortion, a life of whatever it is that Allah subhana wa ta'ala has forbidden, a life of oppression and wronging others, Allah says, "And you suffer uffer from it.

[00:39:08]You you end up in jail. You keep facing the law. You you suffer mentally. You suffer in your body. People start moving away from you. All of that stuff. This is this is hardship. This is torture.

[00:39:20]Allah says, "If you don't desist soon, the well then the consequences in the hereafter are going to be even worse.

[00:39:30]And if you endure and enjoy a life of righteousness here, and you prevent your enoughs from its whims and desires as much as you can and you repent to Allah. Allah doesn't ask you to be perfect but you work towards it and you want Allah's favor then if you think that the paradise you will feel in this world and the joy and peace inside of you and the love that Allahh may show you in this world if you love your family and you love what's coming to you and you love coming to you in goodness you love that Allahh blesses you in this world Allah says and the hereafter is even far better and more everlasting.

[00:40:08]The prophet peace be upon him said the hadith Muslim he said you shall be given the rights you shall be given the rights that are owed to you and the rights of others you will be made to give back.

[00:40:27]Even if a hornless sheep is headbutted by a horned sheep, Allah will raise them and settle their affairs.

[00:40:40]The prophet peace be upon him was once walking with a companion of his Abu when he saw two horned goats headbutting each other.

[00:40:55]The prophet peace be upon him turned to Abu D and said yeah Abu do you know why these goats are fighting Abu Dh said I don't know Allah he said well Allah knows and he will judge between them also if that's animals what about humans my dear brothers and sisters your spouses, your children, your parents, your neighbors, your friends, your relatives, the people around you, Muslim and non-Muslim, even the non-Muslim, if you take their right, Allah will not abandon you. You watch this hadith here which also talks about it.

[00:41:41]The prophet peace be upon him said in Bkari, this was before he died sallallahu alaihi wasallam by a few days. He stood up in the masid and he said, "Whoever has a grievance or right they've taken against his brother or taken from their brother should seek to absolve it from now.

[00:42:00]For there is no dinar or dirham. There is no more payments in this matter on the day of judgment before his brother is compensated from his good deeds." Meaning on a day there's no payments of material.

[00:42:18]They will take from your from your good deeds.

[00:42:22]And if you have wronged them, you will take from their bad deeds. That is the currency on the day of judgment which you need that will decide paradise or hellfire.

[00:42:31]Then some of his brother's wrongdoings will be taken and placed upon him.

[00:42:39]Allah also shows his justice by teaching his prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam to tell us who a really bankrupt person is. A bankrupt person he said the prophet peace be upon him faced his companions once and he said do you know who the truly bankrupt person is? They saidoolah is the one who loses all his business and his wealth and everything.

[00:43:03]He said, "No, that's just here. A truly bankrupt person is the one who arrives on the day of judgment and he or she has good deeds as far as the eye could see. Mountains of good deeds. Mountains of good deeds.

[00:43:22]Do all the omra you like. Do all the Hajj you like. Do all the salat you like. Do all the fasting you please and all the sodaka you want."

[00:43:31]Listen to this. He said and he used to insult this and that person and he would have taken the wealth and property of this person that person in doesn't have to be stealing. Stealing is obvious. That's the worst. But even worse than that is when they extort someone, blackmail someone, they manipulate someone, when they do it two-faced, when they trick people. This is even worse.

[00:44:03]And he would have hit this person and done that to this person unrightfully when they didn't have a right to taken the rights of others. Then they are called him her and their victim Muslim or non-Muslim wah even an animal and from their good deeds they are taken and placed on their for and given to their victim.

[00:44:29]If they run out of good deeds, they say what if he runs out of good deeds?

[00:44:37]How does the victim get compensated?

[00:44:38]Says the victim's bad deeds are taken off them and placed on the perpetrator.

[00:44:47]Yes, there will be people whom Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala knows they mistaken and they repented. And Allah has which means he will do more than justice and he has mercy. Sometimes Allahh may say good in two people who have reformed, returned the rights, settled the matters here and he will please them both in some way for both of them to enter paradise. But in general, this is how the justice system will work on the day of judgment. Number five, Allah rewards or punishes, but he will not reward or punish until all the wrongs are done right. Listen to this in Ahmed Ahmed 16042 and alim 3638 and others and it is which means it's authentic based on the other hadith which support it.

[00:45:41]The prophet peace be upon him said Allah the exalted will say on the day of judgment I am the king I am the judge.

[00:45:51]No one from the people of paradise will enter paradise if any of the people of hell has a grievance against him.

[00:46:01]people of hell.

[00:46:04]And no one from the people of hell will enter hellfire if any of the people of paradise has a grievance against them until settlement is made. Even for a slap.

[00:46:21]Even for a what? A slap.

[00:46:28]We asked how is that oh messenger of Allah while we come to Allah the exalted uh uh naked and uncircumcised the way you were born from your mothers and fathers you got nothing to offer the prophet peace be upon him replied through your good deeds and bad deeds that is the most valuable currency on that day which determines your eternity nobody wants to give up even an atom's worth another way Allah shows is justice no one enters hell until completely convinced and satisfied and admits that they deserve it.

[00:47:06]He'll keep going with it on a day of judgment argument back and forth witnessing w on and so on and so forth until the person gives in and says I really do deserve it. Allah for example says in the Quran those who keep denying Allah says today we shall seal their mouths and their hands will speak to us and their feet will bear witness.

[00:47:30]Another one says and their skin will speak and the person will say why did you witness against us? They say to him what is wrong with you? The one who made everything speak made us speak. Who you trying to fool? But Allah will not let anyone enter hellfire until they know they deserve it. And Allah says they will admit to their crimes.

[00:47:52]And Allah won't give them exactly what they deserve. He'll give them less even in hellfire. And some Allah will take out after a while. This is in Allah's justice. This is out of our arena, out of our realm. We don't know Allah's justice the way that he does. Number seven, you will be shown all your records one by one and you will be allowed to argue your case. Nobody will be wronged.

[00:48:22]My final things that I want to talk about is just about three or four misconceptions or things that may cause you confusion about Allah's justice.

[00:48:29]Question number one, these are just common questions that I get asked and I see distributed around and shared on social media and other places.

[00:48:38]Question number one, how is Allah's justice explained when it comes to free will and destiny?

[00:48:47]If Allah had written everything and destined you to whatever is going to happen, you had no control and it is written. Then how is it that Allah gave us free will? How does that make sense?

[00:48:57]Where is the justice in that? And the simple answer, brothers and sisters, if destiny means that what is written will happen to us and what we will do whether or not we have a choice in it.

[00:49:18]Then what is the concept of free will?

[00:49:20]It seems unjust.

[00:49:24]My brothers and sisters, while this is a very complex phenomena, we are not required to know every aspect about it as it is the knowledge of Allah's infinite knowledge and wisdom and justice.

[00:49:39]However, Allah has given us a clear understanding of what we are required to know about it. And what is sufficient is the following. Number one, not everything is free will. Some things we have no choice in the matter. For example, the sunset and sunrise, the weather, whether you're born into the family you're born into, your ethnicity, your color, your race, the time span that you have, so on. All of this, or whether a person becomes sick and ill outside of their control, or a person was born deformities or uh mental distortions or so on and so forth. These things which we had no control over, yes they are not free will and Allah had written them out of his choice. But to be fair and just to us, all these Allah does not hold us accountable for. Whatever we do in those situations, whatever happens to us is not our accountability.

[00:50:39]And quite frankly, Allah will reward you for your patience. And it is a form of making you closer to paradise. if the sun is too hot or if it's too cold or you have disadvantages in life. If you were born into a poor family or a country that is you know um very bad or into war war torn countries or you were born into the circumstances you were born into within those Allah will reward you tremendously for your patience and perseverance and what you did but he will not hold you accountable for example if a person is mentally insane and Allah says pray five times a day and you don't or you pray them without knowledge or without knowing what you're doing Allah does not hold you accountable I I know some people who have grown old and they got Alzheimer's disease for example they used to pray all their life and never cut a single prayer and their family asks me do we tell them to pray do we remind them do we pressure them what if they get sins we said subhan allah Allahh is the most just and fair the pen is lifted of a person who has lost their mind who cannot remember the pen is lifted from a person who forgets the person who was asleep until they wake up of course unless they a neglectful the person who is gone into insanity a child before they reach puberty all these Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala a person who didn't know Allahhaala does not judge them number two in relation to our free will they are only about the obligations that Allah commanded you to do that's the formula if you have an obligation then you have free will in that obligation Allah does not interfere with you. So if you ask me what is written, what choice do I have? I'll give you an example.

[00:52:28]The way Allah writes what you're going to do and what will happen to you. But at the same time, you have free will in it doesn't mean that he is forcing you or making you do it. What it means is this. Imagine you jumped into a time machine with a book in which you're going to write what you see and experience in the future. So you go into the future and you write all the details and you come back with this record and this record is accurate.

[00:52:59]Now whatever now starts to happen you look at the book and guess what?

[00:53:07]It's written in the book. Whatever does not happen will not be written in the book. The question, did you who went into the future and just merely witnessed and wrote what you saw make the future happen or you just merely recorded what you saw will happen.

[00:53:26]You recorded what you saw will happen.

[00:53:29]You did not interfere with people's choices.

[00:53:33]with that example. Now you can kind of understand that when Allah has written something in something that he's obliged you to do, he will not contradict himself. All it means is Allah's knowledge of the future and what you will do. He wrote it. Why did he write it? He knows something about writing and the angels carrying out what's written and so on.

[00:53:55]The point is it's written out of his knowledge not because you are not allowed to do anything outside of it.

[00:54:02]And that is why what is written is there. And that's why we said last week which people misunderstood whatever hit was never going to miss and whatever missed was never going to hit does not mean that Allah subhana wa ta'ala is unjust to people. No, it means that Allah has given you free will but he's also done things around you don't have control but things have come in a way that they have to be. But they also include your free will. Some things are your own fault, but Allah does not interfere.

[00:54:31]If I want to do crime, Allah wrote it.

[00:54:34]Yes, they're going to commit crime. I'm not going to stop in their way.

[00:54:37]But who is the one that is responsible for it? Me. The Quran, my brothers and sisters, addresses this. The people of the prophets before, they used to say, "Well, why didn't God just make everybody righteous? He's going to punish us just because there are unrighteous people among us. These are prophets before like nowhere in that.

[00:54:57]Because the the prophets used to say to them, if corruption increases and most of you become unrighteous, be aware of Allah's consequences and punishment coming upon you. They say, well, why didn't God just make everybody righteous and everybody's nice and happy? Allah responds. He said, "Oh, no. But part of the purpose of your creation is your free will. I gave you free will and I honored honored you with it. Allah does not make you do things. He does not make you do and set on a certain course that Allah forces you to do. He gave you free will. He gave you power for yourself. He did not make you robots or slaves in that sense.

[00:55:35]He drew the pathways to good and bad, paradise and hell and lets you decide.

[00:55:40]And Allahhana ta wants to be just to us.

[00:55:42]Allah holds us accountable for only the things he commanded us to do within our capacity.

[00:55:49]Allah does not hold any accountability for any person except what is in within their capacity.

[00:55:57]Obey and worship Allah as much as you can. What you can't you don't have to do.

[00:56:04]A sick person there is no uh blame upon them.

[00:56:09]A person who is limping there is no blame upon them if they can't stand in prayer and so on.

[00:56:14]The second question, how is the justice explained? God's justice explained when he has created an infinite punishment for a finite crime.

[00:56:27]Like people, they do a crime, let's say all their life, let's say 100 years. Why would they end up in hellfire forever?

[00:56:35]How is that fair? Justice, my dear brothers and sisters, is not based on numbers or calculations. It is based on the value of something. So for example, even we as human beings, if somebody murders a life, they murdered a life.

[00:56:56]Why is the punishment longer for them?

[00:56:59]Like let's say they imprison them for life or they have the cap capital punishment. Why is it a life for a life or or life imprisonment?

[00:57:07]It only took them maybe 5 minutes to take a life. 5 minutes turns into a lifetime of imprisonment or death penalty.

[00:57:16]Obviously, you understand that it's not about the time, but it is what they did and what it is worth.

[00:57:24]A person may do something that is for a very long time, but it's minor. The punishment is less because it's minor.

[00:57:33]It's the value of it. Secondly, these people who disbelieved in Allah and kufur, not everybody goes to hellfire forever. But a person disbelieved and rejected Allah knowingly after the message had come to them and it was clear and they deliberately knowingly rejected it. They don't want God. There are people today even swear at Allah.

[00:57:52]They don't want him and they say I want him to put me in hellfire. I even heard now there are posts on social media where people are saying I want to go to hellfire.

[00:58:03]Allah says they witness against themselves. May Allah guide them.

[00:58:05]Someone swearing at Allah and saying I love shaitan. I want to be with Satan wherever he goes. They made the decision. If they did it knowingly, it means they made an infinite choice. If they die that way, they died with an infinite choice. An infinite choice requires an infinite punishment.

[00:58:25]This is the way Allahh looks at it.

[00:58:30]Allah says no. They will say this merely because the truth which they had concealed will become obvious to them.

[00:58:38]The people of hellfire they'll say we believe now God. We believe now God we repent. Allah says no they're only saying it because now everything's obvious. It's only because they are caught and after everything is revealed where it is impossible for even the staunchiest of disbelievers uh to deny it. There's no change of heart or reasoning or judgment. Allah says or else if they were to be sent back. So the people of hellfire will say, "Oh our Lord, send us back and we will be different to what we did. We will believe. We'll do this. We'll do that."

[00:59:06]Allah says, "But even if you were to be sent back, I will return you to the same state that you were. Otherwise, it's unfair that you now saw everything and you while the believers who believed in me and took the Quran, how is this fair?

[00:59:19]How is this just you will return back?"

[00:59:21]Allah says they would still revert to what was forbidden to them. So this plea of theirs would be a lie too. Well, they are just liars. Allah says they would return back to the same way. They're not they made that decision infinite. It's over.

[00:59:38]Would it make sense for example to let someone out of prison if they're going to continually commit the crime forever?

[00:59:49]No.

[00:59:51]And at any state, Allahhana wa ta'ala says there are five types of people will be accountable or not accountable on the day of judgment. The child who died before puberty will not be accountable on the day of judgment. Number two, a person who was insane or mentally ill and could not tell right from wrong will not automatically be accountable on the day of judgment.

[01:00:10]A person who was forced to do the wrong will not be accountable.

[01:00:17]A person who never received the message from Allah will not be accountable. And scholars also said a person who received the wrong message about Islam and they didn't have the opportunity to see the right message, they will not be held accountable. What happens to them? Only Allah knows. But we know that Allah is just. One statement comes from Kafir, the commentator of the Quran. He says, "We believe and think that on the day of judgment, Allah will give them a different trial that is befitting for that day." And they will be ordered to do something that is appropriate for that day. If they pass it, they pass it.

[01:00:52]If not, then they have willed to be doomed. Finally, brothers and sisters, my last question. How is it justice from Allah that he created us and put obligations upon us when we didn't ask for it?

[01:01:12]This is the most profound existential question that many people constantly ask and think about and it's been explored by Muslim scholars and philosophers and lots of people who have highlighted Allah's justice and wisdom in very simple terms.

[01:01:30]I will say it for time for time sake.

[01:01:35]Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala his creation of us is not an obligation.

[01:01:42]It is a divine favor. Allah did not create you because he needs you or it's an obligation or to hurt you. He created you as a divine favor. The fact that he put you on this earth and gave you life and intelligence and gave you free choice and a being was actually meant for you as a favor.

[01:02:05]is to value you.

[01:02:08]Secondly, he created us not out of need nor because he wants us to worship him, but so that you can receive and feel his mercy, his blessings, the happiness and joy of it, and receive his rewards. Number three, he created us to bestow his blessings and guide us towards his mercy. Our relationship with Allah is one of servitude where he is not required to seek permission for his creation.

[01:02:49]Life's tests serve to elevate us towards perfection and accountability reflects his justice as he does not demand the impossible.

[01:03:01]And he considers individual hardships.

[01:03:05]He considers your hardships. Ultimately, creation reflects a balance between Allah's justice and his grace.

[01:03:14]Where punishment is due to justice and blessings arise from his generosity.

[01:03:21]There is a longer version that I can answer that. But I will leave you with that fundamental.

[01:03:27]If you are seeking an even deeper answer, then you are asking me to have the knowledge of God and Allah and I am not Allah. I am a humble servant like you who was created in this world and I have chosen to read Allah's words and let them enter my heart and I have seen what Allah has to offer me and who he is. That in itself saves you from all these doubts and you start to connect yourself and become grateful and being full of love as if you are living in paradise in this world. Woe to those and I feel very sorry for those who have never had this taste of guidance and blessings.

[01:04:08]May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make us among the just and the equitable. May Allah not only make us among the just.

[01:04:14]May we be among the we're the ones who act in kindness above just the justice.

[01:04:19]You know, Allah doesn't want us just to act with each other just what's your right. No, Allah wants us to be even better. Give more. You owe someone something. Give him a little bit more just in case. Say to yourself in case because we can never know perfectly if we have done justice to others. I'd rather be on the day of judgment with nothing against me than for me. As used to say, I'd rather raise to Allah if I was given the option between this one or that one to have nothing for me but nothing against me. People owing me rather than me owing them. So brothers and sisters, if you want Allah's justice, then you be just. And next week inshallah we will talk about Allah's laws and his guidance in Sharia in how he put the laws of justice for us in our lives. It'll be a very good lesson.

[01:05:16]There'll be some questions that I'll be touching on that are controversial today, but we want to clarify them. And by the will of Allah, you will see and your heart will be at ease that Allah never has ever put any law or command unless it was so fair and just and equitable and it is best for you.

[01:05:35]Inshallah.

[01:05:39]means.