Atheism, Faith and The Purpose of Life (2020-05-17)

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discusses the idea that atheism and faith are not mutually exclusive, and that both have a purpose. argues that Islam is not only faith, but it is also proved faith.

00:00:00 Discusses the idea that everyone has faith to some degree, and goes on to discuss why this is important. It argues that, due to the scientific method and other reasons, it is necessary to have faith in some things in order to do them.

00:05:00 presents a summary of the Islamic belief that humans have a need for faith in order to understand and come to understand the purpose of life. The Quran teaches that faith is both a need and a proof of understanding.
00:10:00 Discusses the difference between atheism and faith, and how atheists must have faith in order to accept logic and evidence as proof of God's existence. also mentions that some people, such as scientists, may have faith in their work even though they don't believe in God.
00:15:00 Atheism does not presuppose a fixed purpose in life, as does Islam. The purpose of life for an atheist may be different from that of a Muslim. The purpose of life is a difficult question to answer, as it can be subjective and personal.
00:20:00 challenges the idea that the purpose of life is different for humans than it is for other creatures in creation, noting that the purpose of life for humans is the same as it is for everything else except for human beings, who have been given the choice to follow or not follow the same order and purpose as the rest of creation.
00:25:00 Discusses the similarities between atheism and faith, and how both have a purpose. He goes on to say that Islam is not only faith, but it is also proved faith.

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0:00:00 cinimala can work him to live over a 0:00:01 cattle it's good to be back here in 0:00:04 Canada I was just here two weeks ago saw 0:00:07 some familiar faces when I was coming in 0:00:10 and I want to jump straight into the 0:00:12 topic at hand because it's a very 0:00:14 important topic and one which strikes at 0:00:18 the heart of I would say new Orientalist 0:00:21 discourse which in the West many people 0:00:26 have been trying to promulgate and it's 0:00:28 the idea here that first of all is a 0:00:31 presupposition that Muslims all 0:00:35 religious people in general have faith 0:00:36 which is true we do have faith the Quran 0:00:40 says and Latina women were able invite 0:00:42 the ones who believe in the unseen so we 0:00:44 do have faith in the unseen for example 0:00:48 but something which is not emphasized 0:00:52 enough in my opinion but which is very 0:00:53 much known in philosophical traditions 0:00:56 is that everyone has faith absolutely 0:00:59 everyone has faith I mean you just need 0:01:01 to pick up a basic book on philosophy 0:01:03 like the problems of philosophy by 0:01:07 Bertrand Russell who was an atheist and 0:01:09 one of the biggest you know people who 0:01:13 criticize religious movements to realize 0:01:16 this point that faith is something which 0:01:18 can either be true or false it doesn't 0:01:20 mean that just because you have faith 0:01:22 that the idea or of having faith is 0:01:26 tantamount to for example having false 0:01:30 faith which is which is almost a 0:01:32 narrative that we are exposed to 0:01:33 nowadays especially as I say with the 0:01:38 your new Orientalist liberal kind of new 0:01:41 atheist mix that we're exposed to every 0:01:45 every day almost the reality is everyone 0:01:47 has faith in something even things which 0:01:50 are quite solid or at least we perceive 0:01:53 them to be quite solid are actually 0:01:57 based on axioms and theorems like for 0:01:59 example mathematics I mean we have a lot 0:02:02 of faith in mathematics now one could 0:02:03 argue on mathematics is something which 0:02:06 can be demonstrated but the reality is 0:02:08 this is that mathematics has axioms and 0:02:12 theorem 0:02:12 and that's well known axioms by 0:02:16 definition of things which cannot be 0:02:18 proven that's how you define an axiom a 0:02:21 theorem can be based on an axiom and an 0:02:24 axiom is something which is unproven 0:02:27 therefore in order for us to do 0:02:28 mathematics we need to have some faith 0:02:31 in axioms or mathematical axioms now 0:02:34 that situation is amplified and 0:02:38 exacerbated with the scientific method 0:02:40 you have to have faith in science 0:02:42 especially non observable science and 0:02:44 especially why I would call historical 0:02:46 science a theist make it seem as if for 0:02:51 example this theory of evolution is 0:02:53 something which is undisputed and 0:02:56 something which has to be believed in by 0:02:59 anyone who is intelligent now I would 0:03:01 say fine you have evidences you have DNA 0:03:04 you have RNA you have fossil records but 0:03:08 you also have to do some kind of 0:03:09 inference and that is something which 0:03:13 requires faith and there's no doubt 0:03:14 about that there's zero doubt about that 0:03:16 what story are you creating from the 0:03:19 fossils that you have and is that story 0:03:22 the only story that can be created from 0:03:25 the fossils that you have for example 0:03:28 and this is where we need to start 0:03:32 owning the conversation because nowadays 0:03:36 we're always put in the back foot you 0:03:38 Muslims base your life on faith and by 0:03:41 the way the same thing is being said 0:03:43 about Christians and we atheists for 0:03:45 example base our life on the evidence no 0:03:49 no no this is a caricatured 0:03:52 understanding and a false understanding 0:03:54 a philosophically fallacious 0:03:57 understanding of the reality of the 0:04:01 placement of faith in the grand scheme 0:04:04 of things it's not the case that Muslims 0:04:07 and Christians and Jews are the only 0:04:09 ones who have faith in fact all of us 0:04:11 have faith now the real question is what 0:04:15 do we base or what do we incur our faith 0:04:17 on that is the question you see now I'm 0:04:21 not advocating obviously is that we 0:04:23 should do away with mathematics 0:04:24 and do away with science we believe in 0:04:26 mathematics we believe in science we 0:04:28 believe in rationality we believe in 0:04:29 logic we take those leaps of faith every 0:04:33 day but it doesn't stop us from 0:04:36 realizing that there is a problem is the 0:04:38 reason for doing that most people act in 0:04:41 a way which shows certainty even on 0:04:45 things which on philosophical grounds 0:04:47 could be criticized or scrutinized and 0:04:52 the reason why is because simply the the 0:04:56 way of evidence when presented can be 0:05:01 accepted can be accepted so the point is 0:05:05 on a philosophical level 0:05:07 everyone has faith this is the kind of 0:05:09 conclusion of the first part of this so 0:05:11 everyone has some kind of faith 0:05:13 somewhere now the question is now this 0:05:16 is the question we need to assess for 0:05:18 ourselves and also get the wider society 0:05:22 to kind of assess as well is what kind 0:05:26 of faith is acceptable faith and what 0:05:29 kind of faith is unacceptable faith now 0:05:32 the Quran answers our question and it 0:05:34 does so in a beautiful way and it 0:05:37 actually does so emit more than one way 0:05:39 so I'm going to recite some verses from 0:05:41 the Quran translate those verses and 0:05:44 explain what I what why these verses are 0:05:48 relevant to this discussion so Allah 0:05:51 Subhanahu WA Ta'ala he says as soon as 0:05:53 we move we don't the end of chapter 23 0:05:55 and verses 115 onwards he says by the 0:06:00 older we learn him initiate on your 0:06:02 origin holophonor Kumar chameleon Allah 0:06:12 - Oh John Oh John Allen ha ha 0:06:20 in in Ramallah ocean Kareem let's take 0:06:26 this part and think about it 0:06:30 Allah says do we think or does human 0:06:36 being think or have they thought that 0:06:38 they were created a bathin purposeless 0:06:42 and that they will not come to us and 0:06:45 return to us but I'll allahu medical hub 0:06:48 glory be to allah the Malik who is the 0:06:52 king al Haq who is the truth la ilaha 0:06:55 illah who there is no God worthy of 0:06:57 worship except for him Abelard kareem 0:07:00 the one who is the lord of the generous 0:07:05 throne well may Allah heal and for all 0:07:11 airborne Ella who will be so in Rob be 0:07:18 in now hopefully honk if you walk will 0:07:26 not be on fear war hammer and a foreign 0:07:29 war he mean Allah says then and who was 0:07:33 it 0:07:34 offering it someone for a correct me I 0:07:37 might be wrong here the point is Allah 0:07:39 subhana WA Ta'ala says well may yet alma 0:07:43 allahi allah and f4 a lab aloha lob this 0:07:46 is very important and this is very 0:07:48 powerful because this goes to the 0:07:50 question of proof ok 0:07:52 and by the way this shows you that Islam 0:07:54 yes it's a religion of faith but it's 0:07:56 also a religion of proof 0:07:58 just like mathematics in many ways is a 0:08:03 field of knowledge which is concerned 0:08:05 with truth at the same time you didn't 0:08:08 have to have faithful maths listen to 0:08:11 this he says Romania down my allahi 0:08:14 allah in the quran whoever calls with 0:08:17 Allah another God LeBaron Allah will be 0:08:23 that he has no proof for this is very 0:08:26 important for in a mahasabha wine 0:08:29 therapy so his his AB or his reckoning 0:08:32 will be with his rule 0:08:34 in the whole area of LaHood careful on 0:08:36 that certainly they're careful on that 0:08:39 disbelievers in regards to this will not 0:08:42 be successful now this is a very 0:08:46 hard-hitting and powerful area and I 0:08:48 want to explain why allah subhanhu wa 0:08:51 tada he says and the key the share head 0:08:55 here or the key point to underline is 0:08:57 whoever worships besides Allah a God 0:09:01 where there's no proof for the point is 0:09:05 this is that proof is required in order 0:09:10 for us to come to faith and proof is 0:09:14 required for other people to call us to 0:09:17 their respective faiths and that's why 0:09:19 the Quran says what a cool head to 0:09:20 burhanakum in Quinton's are the pin 0:09:22 bring your evidence if you are truthful 0:09:24 truth and evidence is at the heart of 0:09:27 Islamic inquiry and that's why in the 0:09:30 same surah allah subhanaw taala him it 0:09:33 gives a logical argument for why God is 0:09:35 one this is very powerful and well like 0:09:37 I've done a lot of research on this 0:09:39 matter this is the best argument for why 0:09:41 God is one a lots of analysis by the all 0:09:44 the blemishes regime Gunilla 0:09:54 is in Allah 0:10:00 ba-ba-ba-ba-bom so vahana law he am 0:10:04 elseif hoon al-amin ye be was share data 0:10:10 Fattah usually kun Allah says Allah has 0:10:15 not taken a son and he hasn't taken 0:10:19 another God besides him as a God why 0:10:22 even let they have a cool Louella him be 0:10:25 Mahalo each of if that was the case if 0:10:27 there was more than one ultimate creator 0:10:30 each of those creators would have taken 0:10:33 that was she created in other words if 0:10:37 you have if the definition of God is 0:10:39 that he's the ultimate creator and there 0:10:41 was more than one such ultimate creator 0:10:42 then there would be what you would call 0:10:45 ten a Tsar 0:10:46 there would be a conflict in regards to 0:10:48 the to the things are in creation who 0:10:51 owns the Dominion would be the question 0:10:53 and the answer would not have one clear 0:10:56 answer 0:10:56 there'd be Oh many different entities do 0:10:59 well in that case there is no one true 0:11:03 [Music]0:11:04 Oh creator there's no one ultimate 0:11:07 creator but the definition of God has to 0:11:09 be that there is an ultimate creator but 0:11:11 you can't have two ultimate creators 0:11:13 because you have two ultimate creators 0:11:14 la la ba Malabar then each of those 0:11:18 ultimate creators would have to try to 0:11:21 outstrip one another for power you can't 0:11:27 have more than one ultimate creator and 0:11:28 you can't have more than one ultimate 0:11:30 power because by definition that would 0:11:32 contradict the fact that you have one 0:11:34 all-powerful one all able and one or 0:11:39 willful creator let me give you an 0:11:41 example for example let's choose an easy 0:11:45 example someone driving a car right if 0:11:48 you had two steering wheels and both 0:11:51 drivers had different wheels the the car 0:11:56 would not be going in one specific 0:11:57 direction it would be it would be kind 0:12:01 of stagnant from that perspective the 0:12:03 car could not drive properly and in the 0:12:05 same way if there was two steers of the 0:12:09 Dominion or organizers of the Dominion 0:12:12 from a teleological perspective then we 0:12:14 would not have organization and that's 0:12:18 why the Quran says the offensive attack 0:12:20 the heavens on earth would have been 0:12:22 destroyed therefore we can proof we can 0:12:24 prove not only that God exists through 0:12:27 logical argumentation but we can prove 0:12:30 that he's won the Quran says I'm holding 0:12:34 home in a very shame and who will follow 0:12:36 kun I'm haiku similar to a lot ballet 0:12:38 appeared on where they created from 0:12:39 nothing 0:12:40 were they the creators of themselves 0:12:43 giving a logical argument you couldn't 0:12:46 have been here and not here at the same 0:12:47 time as Hamza sources says 0:12:52 Hamza sources the CEO of IRA says it's 0:12:56 like a mother giving birth to herself 0:12:58 how can a mother give birth to herself 0:13:00 it's like you know how how can you how 0:13:02 could the universe create itself that's 0:13:05 the non option what's the other option 0:13:06 that the universe came from nothing 0:13:08 that's a non option because it's 0:13:10 illogical it's not acceptable therefore 0:13:13 there must have been some creator so we 0:13:16 can prove God exists we can prove that 0:13:18 God is one our faith is based on proof 0:13:23 an atheist can't do anything all day 0:13:26 this can say and this is called negative 0:13:28 atheism you just say look I'm not 0:13:31 satisfied with the evidences why not 0:13:34 well because it requires a leap leap of 0:13:37 faith well so does mathematics and so 0:13:39 the science and so does all these all 0:13:40 these other things right so why have you 0:13:42 accepted those leaps of faith and not 0:13:44 this one both of them are based on some 0:13:46 kind of deduction right an inference at 0:13:50 the end of the day when you're operating 0:13:52 on a daily basis you're basing your life 0:13:55 on inference making it's called 0:13:57 inference to the best explanation so 0:13:59 you're coming home if I put a dog if I 0:14:01 put food if you have a dog at home and I 0:14:03 put you know food in the dog bowl I come 0:14:09 back and the dog bowl is empty the 0:14:13 inference to the best explanation for me 0:14:14 will be the dog ate the food right not 0:14:20 my wife ate the food or my dad ate the 0:14:21 food you know and this is a basic thing 0:14:23 but I could be an ultra skeptic on this 0:14:25 point and say hold on now is it 0:14:28 conceivable that my mom ate the food yes 0:14:31 it could be because you know she could 0:14:33 or could it be this but the thing is we 0:14:36 make those inferences on a daily basis 0:14:38 now those inferences are not buying 0:14:40 plaid inferences I mean they're subject 0:14:44 to criticism and if you wanted to be 0:14:45 hyper skeptical about them we could be 0:14:48 the point is this is that number one yes 0:14:52 we do have faith and we admit that we 0:14:54 have faith and it's sophisticated 0:14:56 philosopher atheists we'll have to admit 0:14:58 that he has faith as well the lack 0:15:00 thereof with God by faith and other 0:15:03 things in his existence which you can't 0:15:06 prove demonstratively by the way you 0:15:08 can't prove your own existence 0:15:09 it's impossible cuz its first person you 0:15:11 can't really prove it it's very 0:15:12 difficult to prove the best we've got in 0:15:15 philosophies I think therefore I am 0:15:16 which is the cachito which has been 0:15:18 actually attacked by Nietzsche that's a 0:15:20 different thing by the way but the point 0:15:21 is even that can be attacked your own 0:15:23 existence can be a tackler you have 0:15:25 faith in your own existence because you 0:15:27 experience your own existence and so 0:15:29 from that perspective 0:15:30 anything can be doubted well not 0:15:32 everything should be and this is the key 0:15:34 principle the key principle is that 0:15:37 anything can be doubted but that not 0:15:40 everything should be doubted and if you 0:15:43 employ the hyper skeptical approach to 0:15:46 all of these other things that you do in 0:15:48 life which I can definitely from a 0:15:50 philosophical perspective cast aspersion 0:15:52 on then in that case it's not much to be 0:15:56 said about religion that's different 0:15:59 from those things that you do on a daily 0:16:01 basis because when you say it's Islam or 0:16:05 Christianity wherever maybe your 0:16:07 Christianity has been disproven by that 0:16:09 verse by the way because we said 0:16:10 Christianity but trinitarianism it's 0:16:13 problematic because they do actually 0:16:14 postulate that you have three 0:16:15 all-powerful which is impossible and one 0:16:17 at the same time but having said that if 0:16:19 you say and this is the discourse we're 0:16:24 hearing you require a leap of faith in 0:16:26 order to be a believer and therefore 0:16:29 it's not as it's not as appropriate it's 0:16:33 not as it's not as scientific whatever 0:16:37 maybe it's not as rational vote for me 0:16:40 to be a religious person as it is for 0:16:42 example to be a secularist or an atheist 0:16:48 right so if that is if that is what is 0:16:51 being said then in that case one is 0:16:55 being disingenuous with themselves I'm 0:16:58 ok good this I should say good one but 0:17:03 you know the point is that so now this 0:17:05 now one the problems with talking about 0:17:09 faith and doubt as if it's an exclusive 0:17:11 Enterprise of religion then we talked 0:17:13 about how actually faith and face 0:17:17 and certainty or faith and proof are not 0:17:22 are not jewel isms or dichotomous in 0:17:25 other words they're not two separate 0:17:27 things which cannot be reconciled they 0:17:29 can be contradictory they don't have to 0:17:31 necessarily be contradictory they're not 0:17:33 contradictions in terms now the third 0:17:35 thing is the import important questions 0:17:38 which relate to existence and I'm going 0:17:40 to finish with this because I know that 0:17:41 the time is running short and this is 0:17:44 very important 0:17:45 now the all-important questions which 0:17:47 relate to existence now the question is 0:17:51 is there a purpose of life and this is 0:17:54 the one of most powerful questions that 0:17:57 you can ask it is the most I believe 0:18:00 it's the most powerful question that you 0:18:01 can ask actually I'm going to talk on 0:18:04 this question if the purpose of life 0:18:06 someone give too much away here but the 0:18:08 point is this the point is when we ask 0:18:10 this fundamental ultimate question 0:18:12 we're not asking have you got a purpose 0:18:15 of life these are two different 0:18:16 questions if you say have you got a 0:18:17 purpose of life that appeals to a 0:18:19 subjective purpose which means this can 0:18:22 be subject to individualization 0:18:25 personalization so in other words me I 0:18:27 have my purpose and you you have your 0:18:28 purpose that's why if you go to the 0:18:30 streets of Toronto which I have done now 0:18:33 many times and actually ask people what 0:18:35 the purpose of life is you're likely to 0:18:38 find that you have a varied response so 0:18:40 for example someone will say to you the 0:18:42 purpose of life for me is to be to be in 0:18:46 love and to give love for something I 0:18:48 ought to make money or to be happy or to 0:18:50 spread happiness or to spread peace 0:18:52 whatever may be and these are refer to 0:18:56 as positive think catalyst purposes of 0:18:59 life but you can envisage negative ones 0:19:01 as well you can think of someone saying 0:19:02 or negative ones being a serial killer 0:19:06 being a pedophile or guys now under the 0:19:10 overarching point of subjective purpose 0:19:13 everyone has an individualized or 0:19:15 personalized purpose of life the 0:19:17 question is not how you guide purpose of 0:19:19 life therefore the question is is there 0:19:21 any purpose of life is they 0:19:23 fixed purpose is there one fixed purpose 0:19:28 or not now an atheist can't actually 0:19:30 answer that question meaningfully at all 0:19:31 for example because an atheist has no 0:19:34 fixed purpose that they can substantiate 0:19:36 through any mechanism we as Muslims have 0:19:40 a fixed purpose and the Quran is very 0:19:42 powerful in this regard a lost parrot 0:19:45 ila for example it says in the Quran so 0:19:46 to carry says but I will initiate on 0:19:50 your origin I have several lives and we 0:19:53 today guess who the Rockets with so I 0:20:04 can i holla bottoms holy Apophis of 0:20:08 fragile amino chain is a Corolla 0:20:16 literally can be ordered in Allah 0:20:20 he lost paralysis does the human being 0:20:24 think that he has been left aimless 0:20:28 because think about this Allah is very 0:20:31 very very convincing and is the most 0:20:33 convincing if you just think about the 0:20:35 ayat of Allah Subhanahu WA Thailand and 0:20:37 especially in reference to Huck and 0:20:39 Barton well like the Quranic arguments I 0:20:42 can tell you this from experience and 0:20:43 reading tons of books from the 0:20:45 Hellenistic period up until the 0:20:47 Enlightenment period there is no 0:20:49 argument that can be found relating to 0:20:51 God's existence and the purpose of life 0:20:53 which can supersede the Quranic argument 0:20:55 while lying just okay with a critic why 0:20:58 an open mind you'll find that it's very 0:21:01 powerful Allah says yes that will insane 0:21:05 I you Turkish Allah because the human 0:21:07 beings think that he can be left aimless 0:21:09 Allah meeya could not for many young man 0:21:12 was he not a sperm-drop emitted so 0:21:17 Makenna Allah cotton for hollow office 0:21:18 hour then he became a clot and then he 0:21:21 created from that I in the human being 0:21:23 and he proportioned that now 0:21:26 he Allah is making reference to the 0:21:28 Till's meaning to that which Allah did 0:21:31 through nature for the use of let's say 0:21:34 for instance humankind 0:21:36 idea that there was some kind of guided 0:21:39 process through nature and I've been 0:21:43 thinking about these verses for a very 0:21:45 long time 0:21:46 Allah equates the guided process that he 0:21:49 facilitates through nature with the 0:21:52 purpose of human life so in other words 0:21:54 the cosmos has been guided through 0:21:57 precision through proportionality that a 0:22:01 lot of pain or Tyla precisely chose if 0:22:05 you like the frequency of the universe 0:22:08 how everything should be operating and 0:22:11 in a nutshell without going too much 0:22:14 details on fine-tuning or whatever Allah 0:22:16 basically organized he organized the 0:22:21 universe and he organized it in such a 0:22:23 way as now we can say these are the laws 0:22:26 of for instance physics and just in the 0:22:29 same way as that we have laws of nature 0:22:31 though we can call the laws of physics 0:22:33 if you want as well which are a series 0:22:35 of plans that we observe of the 0:22:38 cosmological environment in that same 0:22:39 way that everything is submitting to the 0:22:43 laws the purpose of human life does not 0:22:48 differ to not perspective from that 0:22:49 Quranic perspective from the purpose of 0:22:52 every other thing in creation 0:22:56 it doesn't differ so in other words what 0:22:59 is the purpose of life for human beings 0:23:00 is the same purpose of life for 0:23:03 everything other than human everything 0:23:06 in the universe everything is submissive 0:23:09 to the will or everything is submissive 0:23:12 to the laws right and so and that's why 0:23:19 a lot of analysis wallow in Tara 0:23:23 Hartwell FSA that is similar to albumen 0:23:28 Fein ballotine 0:23:35 Allah says if the heavens and the earth 0:23:39 had been following their desires they 0:23:42 help the whole heavens and earth would 0:23:43 have been destroyed that we sent them 0:23:46 with the truth by let's say now we 0:23:51 decree him works or company the other 0:23:56 day I was booking the correct Mia get 0:23:58 the verse up come on with a father to 0:24:00 answer why is it the decree him 0:24:06 romantically morazán by letting you know 0:24:09 physically Amanda cream on your own 0:24:13 the last part thank you so much that yes 0:24:16 I challenge this year he came three 0:24:19 minutes me the point is this is that a 0:24:21 loss of Hannah Hart island 0:24:23 yes he is saying that if this is very 0:24:29 powerful had the universe and its 0:24:33 organization been subject to a chaotic 0:24:36 order like the desires of men then there 0:24:39 would be no organization of the universe 0:24:41 in the same way now the universe has to 0:24:45 follow a certain order 0:24:46 but now the human being has to follow 0:24:48 the same that same order as well the 0:24:50 only difference between human beings in 0:24:51 Jin on one hand and the rest of creation 0:24:53 is that were given the choice but the 0:24:55 same thing applies what's the purpose of 0:24:57 life the purpose of life for us and 0:25:00 Jinna is the same purpose of life as for 0:25:02 everything else around us the stars the 0:25:05 Milky Way's the universe and so on and 0:25:08 so forth which is submissive 0:25:10 submissiveness to the law and in this 0:25:12 case the law of Allah the law Allah the 0:25:16 lawmaker the lawmaker so from this 0:25:19 perspective our purpose is not 0:25:21 inconsistent or incongruent with the 0:25:24 rest of the creation around us our 0:25:26 purpose can be in fact actually the 0:25:32 question on purpose can be inferred it's 0:25:34 a question which is like this we can ask 0:25:37 is our purpose any more any less 0:25:39 different from the purpose of everything 0:25:42 around us by the way the Atheist 0:25:44 actually found quite frankly 0:25:46 interestingly right the Atheist 0:25:48 materialists and the Muslim has the same 0:25:50 exact answer to the same question if you 0:25:52 think it from that perspective because 0:25:53 there 0:25:54 see release will say we are carbon 0:25:56 everything around us is carbon we're 0:25:58 made from atoms everything around is 0:25:59 atoms and therefore we're not any 0:26:01 different from everything around us 0:26:03 right and so anything happens to me the 0:26:06 rearrangement of atoms that's there on 0:26:08 so we're saying yes we are the same as 0:26:10 everything around us and so much as we 0:26:13 also agree that there we are the same 0:26:15 everything around us but in so much as 0:26:16 well as we're both subject to the same 0:26:19 rules and regulations well we could 0:26:21 decide to subject ourselves to those 0:26:23 rules of regulations or not - that's the 0:26:26 main point of demarcation between us and 0:26:28 the hub or the inanimate Hulk the Quran 0:26:31 says that Allah has caused human beings 0:26:33 has caused everything around us to be 0:26:37 submissive willingly to are now Quran 0:26:40 willingly or unwillingly 0:26:42 but as for the human being has been 0:26:44 given a choice so from every point of 0:26:49 tawheed from a logical and rational 0:26:51 perspective we can actually prove 0:26:54 demonstrate that this makes sense from 0:26:57 every perspective it makes sense that 0:27:00 God exists because we couldn't come from 0:27:03 nothing and the universe and we as 0:27:06 individuals couldn't create ourselves it 0:27:09 makes sense God is one because they 0:27:10 can't be more than one powerful one all 0:27:14 ultimate creator otherwise there be 0:27:16 conflict between such ultimate credits 0:27:18 and such conflict would indicate 0:27:19 weakness in at least one of them which 0:27:23 means both of them are not the ultimate 0:27:25 creators or at least one of them isn't 0:27:26 and if one of them isn't than the other 0:27:27 one is and therefore is only one so one 0:27:30 God the third thing is what is the 0:27:35 purpose of life and you have two options 0:27:36 there is a purpose and objective fixed 0:27:38 anchored purpose there isn't a purpose 0:27:41 and we're saying there is a purpose and 0:27:44 it does not differ from the purpose of 0:27:45 everything else around us considering 0:27:47 the fact that there's a rule maker 0:27:49 there's a row maker and as a law and the 0:27:51 point of 0:27:53 human existence is to follow the law and 0:27:55 by extension we're submitting ourselves 0:27:57 to those those laws and to the lawmaker 0:27:59 and therefore the purpose of life is to 0:28:03 submit our will to God however doing 0:28:06 that there was someone because they will 0:28:09 have doubts in x y&z but when you get 0:28:12 those foundations solidified in your 0:28:15 mind they're really everything else can 0:28:17 be quite easy because the truth is if 0:28:20 the if the roots are strong usually the 0:28:23 tree can be quite healthy right 0:28:25 you can't build castles on thin air and 0:28:29 so the first thing that if you if you 0:28:32 find to answer the question that you're 0:28:34 having doubts in the religion of Islam 0:28:36 instead of trying to deal with 0:28:38 individual things which are sometimes 0:28:40 important we have to go to the core to 0:28:42 the fundamentals to the foundations and 0:28:44 we will find that everything is 0:28:46 answerable not only that but everything 0:28:48 is logical and more so than everything 0:28:51 else that has been presented of options 0:28:53 from atheists policies pantheous and 0:28:56 every other East and that's why we say 0:28:59 Islam is not only faith but a certain 0:29:01 faith and there's no contradiction 0:29:02 between the two it's not only faith but 0:29:05 proved faith and there's no 0:29:06 contradiction between the two and with 0:29:09 that desire blow higher on Salam aleykum 0:29:11 to lie you

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