UDL: "Living Life Fully In The Reality That Allah Has Created"

“In Egyptian myth, religious myth, on the science of the dead and the living and hell, they too, believe that the sun came up out of the earth. They say the sun comes up and we see it, and then it goes down and passes through the darkness under the earth. And going through that darkness is the underworld. That's the underworld. It's the world of darkness and it's also the world of the suffering souls, the souls in torment. And it frees itself from that. So what keep it going is trials, difficulty, while suffering, all of that. It has to go through all of that to prepare it to rise again.

And isn't this a belief of man? Many philosophers, addressing the ups and downs of man's life, say that this bitterness in his life is necessary to prepare him to appreciate the sweetness, to move him on to make his appetite strong for the sweetness. So suffering makes him stronger in his appetite for the sweetness and the sweetness pretty soon wears off, like the setting of the sun, and puts him in trouble, again. He has to go through hell again and the bitterness again. One serves the other and the two regulate the whole, so that man's life is continuous.” Imam W. Deen Mohammed Ramadan Imams' Session Athens, Georgia, February 25, 1995