1 00:00:00,180 --> 00:00:08,580 A summary of the concepts held by the Ahl al-Sunnah. 2 00:00:08,580 --> 00:00:16,570 The divergence between those who believe in the Last Day and those who do not, or are heedless of it. 3 00:00:16,570 --> 00:00:18,570 Allah, the Almighty and Majestic, says: 4 00:00:18,570 --> 00:00:25,570 “They know only some appearance of the life of the world, and are heedless of the Hereafter.” (30:7) 5 00:00:25,570 --> 00:00:26,570 Consequently, 6 00:00:26,570 --> 00:00:31,570 A person who believes in the Hereafter and prepares for it can never align 7 00:00:31,570 --> 00:00:36,570 With another who lives only for this world and expects nothing beyond it. 8 00:00:36,570 --> 00:00:42,570 These two can never agree on the assessment of a single matter in this life, 9 00:00:42,570 --> 00:00:46,570 Nor on a single one of its many values. 10 00:00:46,570 --> 00:00:53,570 Nor can they agree on a single judgment regarding an incident, a situation, or any affair. 11 00:00:53,570 --> 00:00:55,570 For each of them has a different scale, 12 00:00:55,570 --> 00:00:58,570 Each has a different perspective, 13 00:00:58,570 --> 00:01:05,569 And each has a different light by which they view things, events, values, and circumstances. 14 00:01:05,569 --> 00:01:08,569 The former sees only the outward appearance of worldly life, 15 00:01:08,569 --> 00:01:12,569 While the latter perceives the connections and brilliance that lie beyond the surface, 16 00:01:12,569 --> 00:01:16,569 And the laws that encompass both the manifest and the hidden, 17 00:01:16,569 --> 00:01:20,569 The unseen and the witnessed, the worldly life and the Hereafter, 18 00:01:20,569 --> 00:01:22,569 Death and life, 19 00:01:22,569 --> 00:01:25,569 The past, the present, and the future, 20 00:01:25,569 --> 00:01:28,569 And the world of humanity and the greater universe, 21 00:01:28,569 --> 00:01:32,569 Which includes both the living and the non-living.