Living Links: The Precious Pearl, 14 of 21

Content Outline:
0:0:14 Du’a/Asalaamu Alaikum (Faraz Khan)
0:01:18 Punishment and Grace
0:02:41 Allah’s Justice
0:05:24 What’s Best and What’s Good
0:07:04 Incumbency on Allah
0:11:05 Allah’s Qadr
0:14:42 No Incumbency on Allah
0:20:08 Dealing With Suffering
0:25:32 Keeping a Good Opinion of Allah
0:27:43 The Greatness of Allah’s Mercy
0:31:37 Nothing is Obligatory on Allah
0:34:00 Allah’s Divine Decree and Enactment of The Decree
0:38:51 Contentment With Allah’s Decree
0:41:39 Seeing Allah
0:45:47 Seeing in the Akhirah
0:50:11 The Messenger (SAW) Saw His Lord
0:54:15 The Logically Possible
0:58:00 The Believers Will See Allah
01:01:52 We Affirm the Sight of Allah

Comments, Questions and Answers

01:04:17 Question 1: Regarding seeing Allah, there is consensus yet A’isha RAA disagreed, how do we reconcile that?
01:08:27 Question 2: Can you explain the ulamaa’s reasoning for Allah assigning us 50 rakaat?
01:09:54 Comment 1: I was told by one of my teachers a possible reason for the Prophet SAW was sent back to Allah multiple times.
01:14:36 Question 3/4/5: With reference to sight, it implies that we shall have our same physicality, how is that so? (Q4) How do you reconcile the discussion about sight where the quran speaks of the heart having vision as well? (Q5) We were talking about good driving Allah’s actions, so with that, can we choose to see all of what Allah does as good and incumbent?
01:20:25 Question 6: Regarding Dua, how do we look at istikhara in light of dua?
01:24:46 Question 7: Can you do istikhara for multiple things?