'Show us God' | Banu Isra'il and us, Ep. 3 | Dr. Hassan Lachheb

Banu Israʾil asked Prophet Musa (ʿalayhi al-salam) to show them God in a material way. Even after all the miracles Allah showed them, it was not enough. What renders faith this weak? Their questioning was not simply curiosity. It was a form of rebellion. They wanted God to conform to what they wanted. But human beings can only understand what they sense, and our senses are limited. “What remains of faith if it is only about what you can touch, see, and feel? That would not be faith. It would be science.” Only faith in the ghayb gives us the tools to endure calamity, rebuild after destruction, and make sense of suffering. Faith based in the unseen gives us a vast analytical toolshed to live our lives with meaning and resilience, to sail through calamity and pick up our pieces after devastation. Rather than through our senses, we must look for Allah within our hearts through dhikr, the Qur’an, and love of the Prophet ﷺ.