Personal relationship with God | Mufti Abu Layth

somebody said look when standing at graves othman radi allahu and would weep until his beard was wet doesn't this signify that punishment in the afterlife is not merely a threat but a reality you see I want to I want to say something here look everybody's relationship with God is different secondly nobody can say whether your relationship with God is better or worse as in right or wrong compared to somebody else's so some people may have

a relationship with God based on a lot of fear and it may be very right for them to do that I'm not in not saying in any way secondly sorry thirdly I want to say that just because somebody is crying you don't need to associate tears with fear that is I think that's a judgement you're making right so and lastly we don't even know if that report is accurate but let's just go with this report for now you see we all have a

connection I feel I even feel I'm sure atheists do as well although they all deny but we have some connection with a being greater than us now at times we must all get kind of very emotional now Inc including me I'll be honest that they look there's times when I will when I'm on my own obviously there'll be times sometimes where we will all get kind of like let's

say tearful maybe you know like you I'm not saying you'll be crying like bawling your head off like that but you get tearful but and if I look back at the past myself there were times many years ago many as when I was a student that even then I suppose I would get tearful over certain things but maybe it was a different there were times when it would be more out of fear in the past a very like many Muslims as you study as you do things it was a very kind of like a frightful and and you would have that

and I I would be like that maybe you know maybe two decades ago a decade and a half ago things like that I would say that now if you were to ask me I would say there are still times that when I get into a certain state that I may become I will become at times like tearful over certain things but it's not now maybe it's not now over fear like then I would probably say it was but now with me I'm just giving an interest an introspection its perspective here like

looking within it's maybe more so over a kind of a mixture of things I guess maybe an existential angst maybe a kind of a sense of unlike a unground and not being grateful and ungratified that you realize that you know what you have and and these kind of things might make you tearful at times they just life itself can you know like pondering over it just reflecting can have that effect on you

it doesn't have to be fear I'm just saying just thinking about life can make one emotional and hence tearful but it doesn't mean that it's over it can be about fear but it doesn't mean it has to be about fear if that makes sense