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When you talk about the concepts of the hereafter

It's very difficult to actually have the imagery that is necessary to activate within us

What Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala calls us to

You hear about the day of judgment. You hear about life after death. You hear about

Heaven and hell and you hear about all of these lofty things and

All of these stations and this imagery and it gets really hard to connect and in fact, you know, if you think about it in general

In our generation in particular

You know, we're not a people who read books and derive imagery from books as much as we do watch movies that create images for us and

The effects have to become more and more advanced to derive the emotions that are necessary to bring something out of us

Right now, I remember you know seeing this image of a child and it set a child from you know

19 so and so and so and then another child from

2022

One of them is reading a book and so the imagery is coming out of the child's mind and the other one is looking at a screen and the

imagery is coming from the screen into the child's mind and

so especially now

You hear about heaven you hear about hell you hear about things that would have given the salaf that would have given the

Pious predecessors goose bumps or it would have increased them in a certain longing for paradise and

Your mind goes towards all of these special effects and sci-fi and and movies and things of that sort

So it's become it becomes really hard to connect with those things on top of that

you also

have this obsession

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