Forces of Evil (4 CDs)

This profound presentation discusses evil in our world — from its origin, how it affects us at present, and what could result from it in the future.

People who believe in God turn away from that belief. How? When personal tragedy strikes, people try to find reason and rhyme in their suffering, and often end up rejecting God altogether. Do you know someone who has made this mistake?

The Correction It Makes About Iblis

It is commonly misunderstood that Satan became a disbeliever because of his disobedience — because he refused to prostrate.

That is not what the Quran says, and the distinction matters enormously. Understanding what actually put him outside belief tells a Muslim something important about his own position: disobedience alone does not do it, and something else does.

That single point is worth the four discs, because it is the difference between a sinner and a disbeliever, and a great many people confuse the two — about themselves and about others.

Why Suffering Turns People Away

The problem of evil is the oldest objection to belief in God and the one that operates emotionally rather than intellectually. Nobody stops believing because of an argument; they stop after a death.

Addressing it before the tragedy is considerably more useful than afterward, which is the case for listening to this while things are fine.