Does life seem unreal?

Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center

https://youtu.be/LZKqEtxtbLY ---*This transcript was automatically generated by AI and may contain errors. *--- In the name of Allah, the most gracious, the most merciful. So Omar asked me another question. Does it seem, has it ever seemed to you that life is unreal? He said it seems to me sometimes life is unreal. Like what we are doing now, you walk here and it doesn't seem real, it seems unreal. It's one of these, really think about it. It's absolutely clean, pure air. The phone can't capture it, capture it. Just now what I'm seeing flights of geese and duck. I know they are my lads because I've seen them before. If you can catch them, I'll show you to them, show them to you. No, they are gone. Okay. So there are lots of them up in the distance there. Geese, ducks, and as I said they are mallrads. I know that because I've seen them before. And if you look through there, there's a picture. Can't be very good with this distance, but all those dots that you're seeing, lots of dots. These are all ducks and geese. So, very beautiful. This water is clean and pure. This is actually drinking water for the city of Holyoke. So it's clean, clean, pure water. Unpolluted, unpolluted air. When we are getting information about the pollution index in Delhi, for example, which I don't even know how anyone in Delhi does not have respiratory problems. Most likely they have. And then somebody sent me something from Pakistan that's more than double that. Which is in the sense because of farm fires, they burn the stubble of the crop. So they plant wheat and after harvesting the dry stalks and crop are there. So they set it on fire to clean the fields. And that creates this huge phenomenal amount of smog and smoke in the air, which is the killer. So none of that. Here we are walking through this park, which is four lakes surrounded by forest and different kinds of trees in the forest. You saw my, I did remind us my khatiras from before, which showed the same forest in fall. All those colors, of course, are gone now. We just have the greens and browns and of course the dry trees. I'm coming up here to some mallards, which I will show you closer about Pinchada. So does it look unreal? Of course it looks unreal. And so my response to Omar was, yes, it looks unreal. And what if you look at it from not so much philosophy, but from the lens of Islam, the religion, the Quran. The Quran tells us that this life is unreal. Because Allah swt said, And that's it. Weirdly, the life of this world is nothing but deception. It is deceiving, it's deception. What looks positive is not positive. What looks negative is not negative. The one who looks strong is not strong. The one who looks weak is not weak. The one who looks as if he or she is immensely successful and powerful, they are not. They are hugely unsuccessful. They are just waiting to be punished, to get to the place where they will be punished. And there is no doubt that this punishment will come, because that is the promise of Allah. Allah does not leave anybody unrewarded for what they do, whether that reward is good or bad, depends on the individual. And so it is deceptive, very deceptive. And this is what deceives us. This is the whole reason why. I'm just thinking Allah, I'm saying that, for example, why would a Muslim, who knows that Allah swt has declared war on the one who deals with interests, any form of interest, why would a Muslim still take an interest-based loan? Why would a Muslim not just take an interest-based loan, but try to justify it for himself and for others by giving all kinds of ridiculous explanations and arguments about it and saying how it was prohibited then, it's not prohibited now, and how these times are different, those times are different, as if Allah swt is subject to any of this stuff that we talk about. Why would you do that? Because you are deceived. Because you are deceived. Why would we say, look at somebody, I don't know how to take names,