Such a healthy discussion Lex, I appreciate this podcast episode so much, thank you for doing this and yes we are patient with you and can understand that in order to make sense of everything, you will make some mistakes along the way and will also learn from it and I am sure we all will come out of this with more knowledge, love, compassion, tolerance and understanding after you are done with talking on these challenging topic with people from all positions and walks of life and along with you, we all will learn so much from your exploration journey into this and I really hope! you get the chance to talk to soldiers, victims, preachers, and scholars etc about these topics that, we otherwise, hesitant to discuss and thus this lack of healthy communication creates differences and distances between us. <br><br>Just to add more on why God allows suffering in the world and Imam Omar reply was brilliant touching on it beautifully by saying that if we ask God why He allows suffering, diseases, wars and famines in this world then we will probably get the same question in a reply from God in return saying that why we allow that to happen? And it's very deep as in God has given free will to us so that we don't question later on why we weren't given a choice to decide what's good and what's wrong and now by doing so (giving us free will) God has proven that he is not controlling and that he prefers us to explore and experience by our own to reach Him in true sense but by doing so everyone have an equal and complete control in this world now to do whatever they want and however they want to shape it. Now, in Quran God says that he has created mountains as a nail in the land to keep the earth stable and in place but if we humans out of our greed and desires, decide to destroy these mountains so that we get more space to create cool buildings and resort or we mine and take out all the resources from the land leaving it an empty shell without it's filling then of coarse it will become shaky, unstable and weak and chances are we will have more earthquakes or let's touch on another one, by cutting the trees for building new stuff will also result in floods and climate changes and I think that it would be harsh to blame God for those decisions or when these happens, if there is wars going on then we can't blame God for  humans who are blinded with power and wants to conquer and rule every land, now this person has fell in the abyss of madness of power and has dig his own grave (every action has it's reaction every order when it's disturbed brings about chaos) thus God has nothing to do with how we took those decisions to reach where we are now similarly, if someone smokes and keep smoking despite warnings and even cautions on the cigarette pack labels and yet they are still smoking it to eventually develop lung cancer then for those decisions blaming God is unfair. It's just our own humane ignorance that we make these mistakes and find ourselves in difficult situations due to our greed, anger, hunger for power etc and then blame God for it. It's all because of ignorance of humans in the end and God will let us do it because 1) So that Humans don't claim and demand why they weren't given free will to decide what's wrong and good on the day of judgement 2) So God can measure through this process of filtering and failing who is capable enough to go ahead in the realms that's only most deserving of us would be able to access and pass through, just like how education institutes arrange exams to find out who will pass and will be promoted to higher education that's why teacher doesn't stop us from failing and allow us to fail during we are taking the exams so they can filter and measure and I like these educational institutes examination process for this example better because it gives a similarity to the question why God allow suffering, diseases and wars in the world and indeed on the day of judgement God will ask us this same question too why we allowed the suffering, wars and diseases on the earth to happen and didn't protested against it and we can't have an escape from it by saying I was controlled and wasn't given free will so I did as you wanted me to do because the argument is out of the window once God gave us free will to shape how we want our life to become by the series of choices we made through out life and we can't say we were ignorant either because indeed if we are at the time but let's face it ultimately, we were given brains to think and reach the truth and we chose not to do so and denied all the help that came through out the beginning of time in shape of holy scriptures, books, commandments along with the teachers to teach us about it in case we didn't understand but instead we humans tried to cancel those Prophets and chose to remain Ignorant and in the state of denial and I just fear when God will ask this same question... I don't know how we possibly will be able to justify it and give an answer to it.,(reply>), @Kai S son of Mut'ah is a child born from prostitution. Mut'ah  marriage you pay a woman for dingy dingy for a specific time period.  Are you a son of Mut'ah marriage ? <br>Mut'ah is part of Quran and Quran is not a history book but an eternal book to follow. Mut'ah marriage was abrogated by Ahadeeth for Sunni. But even Sunni today do the Mut'ah even in Saudi.<br>Mut'ah is stil Halal for Shia bc they do not follow the Sunni Ahadeeth.  Allah is pedohile he allows sxx with prepubescent children - chapter 65 verse 4 - Tafsir Ibn Al Kathir<br>The Iddah of Those in Menopause and Those Who do not have Menses<br>Allah the Exalted clarifies the waiting period of the woman in menopause. And that is the one whose menstruation has stopped due to her older age. Her Iddah is three months instead of the three monthly cycles for those who menstruate, which is based upon the Ayah in (Surat) Al-Baqarah. 228 The same for the young, who have not reached the years of menstruation. Their Iddah is three months like those in menopause.....The same for the young, who have not reached the years of menstruation. ...not even dogs do that,(reply>), @Andy Miller BTW do you know according to a recent study, Western and European countries have more % of 13 to 16 year old girls giving birth to children compare to Muslim countries just a food for thought for you, it's better to handle your own chaos rather spreading lies and misrepresenting the sources with your own twisted addition like for example using "I.e. when they are young age" it isn't written like that no where you manipulative Troll!,(reply>), @Andy Miller Look a bastard child born without a marriage is talking about Mutah, what an irony! This is hilarious! Do you even know who your father is? Why are you so frustrated! Did he left you and your mom at young age without marrying her? That's even worse than Mutah so you of all people shouldn't be talking and pointing fingers lol now like I said ignorance is the root cause of hatred and destruction because of your ignorance you are saying this, had you researched and learned more about these topics, you wouldn't be barking here in comments at strangers but anyways let me educate you. The process of Mutah marriage used to take place in the times when we had lots of wars and when you are going to a battle there is a huge risk of martyrdom, now, our families systems are very beautiful, everyone lives in unity, our family systems aren't broken like yours therefore, parents of this person who is about to go to a war might have a wish and longed for seeing their son/daughter get marry in their lifetime, so in this case Mutah was used. The person  get to marry, fulfill their parent's wish and even if they were martyred in a battle, the last wish of his parents were still fulfilled or let's suppose a woman might have grown too old and never had anyone ask her hand for marriage in her lifetime, she has no family members but she is a very pious religious lady who also wishes to fulfill 1 of the 5 pillars of Islam and perform Hajj but since she has no husband and no one in her family, does that mean she can't perform Hajj? No, in this case mutah can be used and she can perform hajj. Mutah is just like normal marriage with dowry, ceremony, asking permission of girl and marrying on consent of both before marrying, it's the same just like the normal marriage but it was used for only special cases and is not practiced anymore in modern times. In the west, you have intercourse and have quick flicks with women and then leave them after using them and breaking their hearts and leaving your new born child and her as a single mom. My question is, do you think that is Normal compare to Mutah? Even though Mutah was used in unique and complicated cases, Allah gave a clean and legal halal solution to complicated situations rather what you guys do with shortcuts and ruining lives. <br><br>Your ignorance surprises me, serious question! Is your IQ low or have you not read about this before and stating this purely out of ignorance? Are you from Alabama by any chance? Anyways narrate the full ayah not half, anything that is half presented and half of the rest hidden for the purpose of spreading misconception is very dangerous and manipulative thing to do so first of all share this complete ayah rather than half version of it, and secondly, I would suggest you to hang out with women in case you are a virgin or study about how their anatomy works if you are too scared in their presence. Now here's the thing! Well in some cases, women can miss their cycles due to stress, depression, anxiety etc and when they are pregnant and when they grow old and reach certain age, they don't have these cycles so in these cases, the rest of ayah is narrated like what these women will do in that case, they are addressed here. Maybe you are a pedophile, that's why you took it in that sense the way how your mind works troll.,(reply>), @Kai S son of Mut'ah has no answer .Do you even know bla bla....Al-Tabari said regarding Quran 65:4<br>And those of your women as have passed the age of monthly courses, for them the 'Iddah (prescribed period), if you have doubt (about their periods), is three months; and for those who have no courses [(i.e. they are still immature) their 'Iddah (prescribed period) is three months likewise". He said: The same applies to the 'idaah for girls who do not menstruate because they are too young, if their husbands divorce them after consummating the marriage with them.)   not even dogs do that pedophile pagan cult,(reply>), @Andy Miller Do you even understand what this means like what these words actually means or are you just here to hate without understanding like a ignorant islamphobic that you are proving my point exactly how I said it about the ignorant and astray ones. If you are really are serious and curious to learn more on this then I can dissect and explain it to you but if you are here to just troll and hate without any reason then GTFO I am not interested in wasting my time with someone who just want to degrade out of pure ignorance and denial