Immoral decisions are self-destructive

This video is gonna be a little bit different than my usual content, but I think it's not entirely out of place because it is Ramadan. Most of the time when we have a moral decision to make, we usually know what the right decision is, what the moral decision is. And when you weigh the pros and cons of a moral decision, usually, there's the moral argument and then there's a bunch of counter arguments, the cons, that have nothing to do with morality. Usually, you're not going to find a moral argument and a moral counterargument for the same decision. More often than not, the counterarguments against making the decision that you know is the moral decision, most often the counterarguments are practical and selfish arguments.

Like, if I do the right thing, if I make the moral choice, maybe it's gonna make my life harder. Maybe I'll damage a relationship. Maybe I'll lose some money. Or anyway, I may suffer some form of loss or punishment or difficulty or hardship, what have you. So these are not moral counter arguments against making the moral choice, but we consider them anyway.

And all too often, unfortunately, I think we accept the non moral arguments instead of doing what we know is the moral right thing to do. So I just want to say that never works out and I mean never. Wallahi, the most blessed people are those who when there is a moral decision to make, they just automatically do the moral thing. They don't try to map out all the angles. They don't have the counter arguments.

They don't do the pros and cons. It's just, well, that's the moral thing, and I do it. Those are the people who can really have peace of mind. Because when you don't do the moral thing, when you don't make the moral choice, yeah, you may get away with it. You may avoid all of the obvious difficulties that making the moral choice might have imposed upon you.

And seemingly you can carry on with your life without any consequences, but it's not true. Your life becomes mangled immediately, and then you descend into a sort of wilderness in which doing the moral thing becomes less and less persuasive. Because you've set a precedence for yourself now of prioritizing something other than morality. So then morality is just superseded by default whenever you have a choice to make. But the thing is conscience never dies.

You can't suffocate it. When you suppress it, your conscience will toxify in your mind and in your heart, and it will become corrosive eating away at you. And then all of those things that you thought you saved by not doing the moral thing, by not making the moral choice, all of those things you thought you saved become malignant and spoil because you cannot actually preserve anything that matters to you by making it more important to you than your morality. Whatever you have in your life that is important to you. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave it to you, and all of those things will become a punishment in the dunya if you make those things more important to you than the one who gave them to you.

All of the good and wonderful things that we have in this dunya, all of the things that we love in this dunya are basically just a test to see whether or not our love for those things will replace our love for our creator. And if you do that, if you replace your love for Allah with your love for the things that he provided you in this dunya, you will either lose everything or you will decay beyond recognition while trying to keep them. And if you do not choose morally on anything, before you know it, you will have to undo so many immoral decisions just to go back and try to correct the original mistake. It's too daunting for most people. Most people can't face that, and they just carry on down the spiral.

They've dug themselves into a hole so deep they can't even bother trying to get out. And yes, I am speaking from experience and from observing the experiences of others, and I can attest to the fact that Allah eventually will seize you and seize you suddenly. And when that happens, you will realize in that moment that all this time that you thought you were surviving, all this time that you thought you were successfully navigating the minefield of immorality, all of that avoidance of consequences turns out to just have been one big circle all the way back to the consequences you thought you escaped. So I'm just saying, when you have a moral decision to make, the moment you start weighing the pros and cons of that is from Shaitan. Just do the moral thing and carry on regardless of what the consequences are.

Because the consequences of doing the right thing are always going to be less and always going to be better for you than the consequences of not doing the right thing.