So actually Allah designed this life to constantly go through changes.

So those of you that got uprooted from your home and you're in a different place and you say,

I miss my village, I miss my home, why can't I just go back, why can't I do this, why can I have that old job back,

why did I have to do that, you know, why did we have to move to this neighborhood?

Why did I have to, there's why, why, why, why I hate change, I hate change.

Allah says you made life full of change.

You can't keep anything the same.

Anything that Allah's command came into, like the water that came into a fruit.

If you look at that fruit, what's happening slowly?

It's losing its water and it's getting dry and it's eventually going to die.

Allah says, wadrib l'h mitha'u'a'iatid dunya.

Give them the example of worldly life.

And this translation of al-Hayatudu'nia is worldly life is very common,

but the word adunia is actually the feminine form of aftanutaflil

in the muannath form of an adenah.

And then adana inic means the lowest and so actually

literally what's being said is the lowest life and that's Allah's way of saying that life has higher and

higher stages and we're actually at the lowest stage there's better and better coming in our future

so there's an optimism that's suggested. As tough as life may be,

it's not going to get worse than this, it's only going to get better. It's actually, especially

for a believer, that's what it's meant. Somebody might say, but what about hellfire? What about

the punishment of Allah? Actually, Allah doesn't even consider hellfire life. He says about

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