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Inshallah we are here to have a discussion and a talk show, to talk about difficulties

and pressure that people can feel and have.

And we are here honored to have in this discussion two very notable speakers.

We have Dr. Yasir Kadi and we have Sheikh Mikhail Smith who are going to be in this discussion.

So I want to begin by asking the question to our respected ulaba and I want to pose the

following question.

Why do bad things happen to good people?

Why would Allah SWT who is our rabbi and he has been taking care of us for our whole lives?

Why would that same Allah allow us to suffer?

What could be the wisdom or value of this?

What are we supposed to understand from it?

Can you guys hear me?

So our Ustad and Sheikh Asadu Zaman asks a question that goes back to the most ancient of

all philosophies and deals with one of the most contentious issues in human existence.

It is a question that every philosopher and every theologian and every person who believes

in God and even those who don't believe in God have attempted to answer.

It is a question that many many hundreds of volumes have been written about.

In fact an entire discipline of philosophy exists called theodicy and this discipline

tries to deal with the very question that our Sheikh has asked us on a panel expecting

us to answer it in five minutes despite the fact that five thousand years of human history

is still struggling with the answer.

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