Does God really care whether I have a beard?

Hamza Abdul Malik. Who's Hamza Abdul Malik? [snorts] [laughter] Not sure I got that one. Uh, hula hoops.

Hula loops. That's it. [laughter] Imagine on judgment day Allah says, "Okay, we're going to begin with the beards. [laughter] All these haramies, bring them here. [laughter] We're like, oops, guys. I think we kind of got that one wrong.

[laughter] But you have to seriously think the God of the cosmos, you know, so unfathomably intelligent and transcendently compassionate and just amazing, majestically amazing.

Why would that god be obsessed with our facial hair or with these kind of little silly rulings that people run around with? Seriously, does that because the basis of the Sharia was preservation of life. This was the basis and then to allow for the prosperity of life which included things like preservation of reason so ideas could be cultivated, progeny could be allowed to grow and you know you could have children who would take over and develop and and in order to do that

you would need provisions so preservation of wealth for them for the society. So obviously the five main things this is what the dean was in essence the preservation and to establish order that's all it was so human beings could could get on and and be successful in life. People have turned it into a weird kind of uh God is this this kind of they infantilize God.

He's this kind of this angry kind of child who gets uh angry so quickly throws tantrums. He wants to, you know, punish everyone for, you know, oh, you trimmed a bit of your cheek hair. Punish that person. [laughter] It's like, what the hell is going on here? [laughter] No.

God, if God hated, you know, the the [laughter] Well, seriously, what why would God hate, you know, particular Oh my god, you've done your hair in that particular style. Let's let's torture you by burning your skin until for for an infinity. [laughter] It's like what? Wait, wait. What have I done?

[laughter] You used the blade razor. [laughter] This So this is not, you know, if that's what you think of God, fine. That's not God. But okay, you're entitled to your world view. So, but that is not God. You see, we need to start thinking, you know, Allah says in the Quran, that verse fits here that they did not truly

capture God's majesty. They didn't. They've just pictured some little child throwing a tantrum because he can't get what he wants and he throws his and they've projected that onto God or some angry um you know like some angry warlord who is occasionally kind.

This is the image they project onto God. But these are man-made images they're projecting backwards. I wouldn't you know it's let me tell you something you know let me share with you this uh this uh allegory or which which I came across one so amazing said imagine you came across a termite [laughter] little termite useless thing and you could have a conversation with it.

So you have a conversation with this termite and you ask it what you seem to be busy what are you doing like you know what are you doing what are you up to so the termite says to you this this termite I want you to picture this yeah little termite it says to you oh I'm just mapping out the cosmos [laughter]

says I'm mapping out the cosmos. Now, what a absurdly ridiculous yet humorous statement that is. This termite is mapping out the cosmos. Now, hold that thought and slightly zoom out into the cosmos.

We ain't different at all from that termite to the cosmos. We are in essence we might think we're so big compared to this termite, you know, but we are but nothing. You have this infinitely, you know, great cosmos out there.

How infinitely majestic do you think the transcendent divine is who created it? So us the way this termite is is you know we see that as such a laughable matter that's how we are to God just laughable [laughter] you know that's that's the truth right uh few super chats let me just All right there goes one I've just missed it

[laughter] your thoughts on the hadith uh from Bkari. Fatima is a part of my body and what I hate she hate she hates to see and what hurts Fatima hurts me. Ali could not take a second wife. You see, I I don't think that to be honest with you, I don't think the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam would have uh stopped Ali from taking a second wife.