When Everything Becomes Bad with You | Alireza Panahian

When Everything Becomes Bad with You

This world is alive. We are living in this world, which is alive and full of fixed rules. When we become a bad person, everything becomes bad with us! When we don’t go towards God, when we aren’t struggling to go towards God, and we are not moving towards God amorously, everything becomes our enemy. Everything becomes bad with us!

When we don’t recite the Qur’an, we become dark; because, everything is reciting it. “All that is in the heavens and earth exalt Him.” (Qur’an, 59:24) Everything is exalting Him, in love with Him, and moving towards Him.

When you are inattentive, they look at you. They are all alive. Your shirt becomes bad with you. Your body becomes bad with you. The wall of your house becomes bad with you. The roof of your house becomes bad with you. The food that you eat becomes bad with you. When you become good, all these particles become good with you. When you say God’s names and try to go towards God, you will see that all of these become good with you. Your clothes become good with you. The water that you drink becomes good with you. You will see the kindness of the universe towards yourself! Everything in the house you live in becomes good with you. The feelings of loneliness and fear will go away. You won’t feel sad or lonely.

This world is alive! God has repeatedly talked about this world being alive. God forbid, God doesn’t say anything meaningless. These rocks are exalting him. “God, You’re saying something very strange! What are they doing? How do they exalt You?” They really are doing it. We are living in this world, which is alive and full of fixed rules. When we become a bad person, everything becomes bad with us!

God says in the Holy Qur’an, “We grant them respite.” (Qur’an, 3:178) If a person becomes bad, the world wants to destroy him. “I (God) don’t let this happen. I say, ‘Let him live for ten more years.’” The informal way of saying this is, “Hey, don’t do anything to him. Cancer don’t go to him for now.”

“He has become a bad person. Let us break him up and destroy him with the first bite of food.” The food and water say these themselves. God says, “No, wait. Why are you making so much noise? If it is like this, everyone will come to Me.” God lengthens his time in this situation. Wait. Wait. Wait. He keeps it that way.

Your creation was very strange among the creatures in the universe. He has created a creature whom exalts God if he wants. “Is it possible?!” The angels were fussing. “Is it possible?! What if they don’t exalt God? They will destroy themselves and others.” “But, if they do exalt Him, it will be very beautiful. Wait. Let one person come towards Me with his own will.”

“All that is in the heavens and earth exalt Him.” (Qur’an, 59:24) Everything is exalting Him, in love with Him, and moving towards Him. They are all alive. When you become good, all these particles become good with you. When you say God’s names and try to go towards God, you will see that all of these become good with you. You will see the kindness of the universe with yourself. This world is alive!

[From the series of speeches under the topic of, “How should we believe in God’s Kindness?” Session no. 2]