Firas Zahabi Talks Religion, Consciousness and Meaning of Life. (2018-03-30)

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A fascinating discussion with Firas Zahabi on key topics of huge importance.

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Firas Zahabi discusses how religious beliefs can help provide meaning in life, and how they can be used to navigate tough times. He argues that consciousness is metaphysical and beyond the scope of science or logic, and that Islamic philosophers were a of their time in exploring this idea. He also discusses different theories of existence and how they relate to the concept of the soul, as well as the idea of resurrection. Ultimately, he advises Muslims to behave well, be tolerant, and research the religion before discussing it.

00:00:00 Firas Zahabi discusses how his religious beliefs have helped him in his life, and how he tries to live by them even when tough times come.

00:05:00 , Firas Zahabi discusses the difference between materialism and consciousness. He points out that materialism only considers the physical aspect of a person, while consciousness includes the spiritual aspect. He also discusses the idea of intuition, which is a third way of knowing something beyond the empirical and deductive. Ultimately, he argues that consciousness is metaphysical and beyond the scope of science or logic.
00:10:00 Firas Zahabi discusses how, despite the fact that science cannot tell us definitively about the nature of consciousness, it is still something that we intuitively know. He goes on to say that this knowledge is not only greater than science, but it is what makes us human. He then discusses how Islamic philosophers were some of the first thinkers to explore this intuition further, and how they were a of their time.
00:15:00 Firas Zahabi discusses the different theories of existence, discussing how Islamic and Western thought differ in regards to the concept of the soul. He also touches on the concept of salvation, emphasizing that it is a personal religious experience.
00:20:00 Firas Zahabi discusses the idea of a 'soul' and how it can be interpreted in different ways. He also discusses the concept of resurrection, and how it relates to our current understanding of time.
00:25:00 Firas Zahabi discusses how Islam is about justice, fairness, and tolerance. He also discusses how the Prophet Solomon would be a great example for Muslims today. He advises Muslims to behave well, be tolerant, and research the religion before discussing it.
00:30:00 Firas Zahabi discusses the relationship between religion, consciousness, and meaning of life. He argues that civilizations go through cycles, with the last cycle being one of corruption and decadence. Zahabi believes that Islam and Christianity have been successful in keeping corruption at bay, while capitalism has resulted in increased depression and despair.
00:35:00 Writer Stephen Covey recommends building your life on principles, rather than on emotions, in order to maintain a strong foundation. He also discusses the importance of mind-body-soul connection. In the next episode, he will discuss visual techniques for maintaining a healthy mind-body-soul connection.

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him Russia heavy what we don't 0:01:57 know about France Abbey is that he's 0:01:58 actually very well grounded in 0:02:00 philosophy and it's becoming even more 0:02:02 grounded now in theology as well just 0:02:05 get a slide for us from what was your 0:02:08 kind of experience with theology you 0:02:10 were telling me something about your dad 0:02:12 when you yeah when I was young you know 0:02:14 my father he came mm-hmm from Lebanon 0:02:17 with not much of an education he was a 0:02:20 mechanic he really grew up in the 0:02:22 garages learning a trade you know in 0:02:24 that time you didn't really go to school 0:02:25 for long of course there was a civil war 0:02:27 in Lebanon so they the they were 0:02:30 refugees to Canada etc yeah well my 0:02:34 introduction is not the first time I 0:02:35 heard about Islam was my father preached 0:02:37 that I come to preach to his kids to 0:02:38 teach them that Dean we should have a 0:02:40 religion yeah and I remember those 0:02:42 lessons really well quite well and they 0:02:45 served me my entire life and I would say 0:02:47 gave me even an edge in life because all 0:02:50 my peers were not Muslim the 99%0:02:53 Christian or Jewish and and a lot of 0:02:57 seculars secular families and kids etc 0:03:01 and there was what there was some 0:03:03 lessons that really myself helped me out 0:03:05 through life and gave me a strong edge 0:03:07 because I found like especially in the 0:03:08 West people struggle very emotionally 0:03:10 they're very emotionally involved and 0:03:13 they have their ups and downs 0:03:14 emotionally but my emotions were always 0:03:16 very in check and it was one one thing 0:03:20 that he told me that I think if I feel 0:03:22 calm if a regular person were to hear it 0:03:24 they were taken at heart that would be 0:03:25 shocked and he was like he told me ask 0:03:27 me who do you love more your mother or 0:03:29 your God Oh is maybe eight or nine maybe 0:03:32 ten years old you ask me what's more 0:03:34 dear to your mother or not there's the 0:03:37 young kids and my mother 0:03:38 well I didn't think much about the odd 0:03:40 or whatnot and he said to me no he said 0:03:42 think about it we questioned me very 0:03:44 gently very nicely said who gave you 0:03:46 your mother who gave you everything you 0:03:47 have you have to trace back everything 0:03:49 thank you guys 0:03:50 I need something look maybe one day your 0:03:52 mother she gets sick and dies and you're 0:03:55 alone you can't base your life on one 0:03:57 person you can't be selected on money or 0:04:01 fame or fortune because all these things 0:04:03 can be gone it can be taken off from 0:04:04 underneath you 0:04:05 and told me you always have to depend on 0:04:08 God firstly for us above all and this 0:04:12 gave me a very very strong mental 0:04:16 grounding yeah because anything that 0:04:18 happened to me in life anything about it 0:04:20 happened to me in life in your season 0:04:21 someone there's nothing that's gonna 0:04:23 come your way and I have God never sent 0:04:26 to an officer going yes 0:04:28 you cannot hand that home so when 0:04:30 something would come my way I'd be 0:04:31 nervous I'd be scared and it gave me a 0:04:34 strong courage and it made me very very 0:04:38 know how to say but maybe very good with 0:04:41 the relationships because I would never 0:04:44 try to behave in a way to make you like 0:04:48 me because I was never on my I was never 0:04:51 like a suck up to people yeah because I 0:04:53 would never see somebody else mean 0:04:55 everybody was there was God and then 0:04:58 there was everybody else so you never I 0:05:00 never put people up on a pedestal so to 0:05:02 speak I think that helped me 0:05:04 tremendously because when I would see my 0:05:06 competitors or I would see somebody 0:05:07 intimidating obstacle I would as always 0:05:10 remind myself don't look at them so hot 0:05:14 in so many big moments in sports 0:05:16 terrible 0:05:17 now as for myself this is nothing but 0:05:19 big of a deal 0:05:22 and always lowered things are used to 0:05:24 create intimidation resonate for a lot 0:05:34 of people by early 90s and obviously a 0:05:36 lot people in the West don't believe in 0:05:39 business how would you reason to say it 0:05:43 atheist or someone else doesn't believe 0:05:45 in God the existence of God would you 0:05:48 say well you see there are three ways of 0:05:51 knowing something primarily let's just 0:05:53 keep it really basic ok this 0:05:54 philosophies it's a notion the primary 0:05:58 way you can have something to your 0:05:59 senses where you touch smell taste we're 0:06:02 here empiricism then we have deduction 0:06:05 mathematics one two three four 0:06:08 things are in order one plus one equals 0:06:10 two yeah I think we have a third a third 0:06:12 way of knowing something it's called 0:06:13 intuition 0:06:15 now intuition nobody can debate your 0:06:19 intuition so you can tell me the 0:06:23 temperature of that team we can measure 0:06:25 it its objective we can tell you the 0:06:29 number of people on the ship confident 0:06:31 about it however the tastes of the team 0:06:34 or what it's like to be you is all 0:06:36 intuitive and you have something to us 0:06:40 we call consciousness we are self-aware 0:06:43 this self-awareness is something 0:06:47 metaphysical it is beyond physics we 0:06:49 cannot put it in a test there's a part 0:06:51 of us we could not put in a test so it 0:06:53 reminds me of a little example I like to 0:06:57 give a little question like basketball 0:06:59 because you know I often often try to 0:07:02 teach people about self-reflection and 0:07:05 consciousness and in today the the West 0:07:07 so dominated by materialism yeah it 0:07:10 seems to be that for those who don't 0:07:12 know what is it what is materialism 0:07:14 that's such a great question that's why 0:07:15 this little anecdote is something that I 0:07:17 think really helps people learn the 0:07:20 difference between the great questions 0:07:24 on substance philosophy so basic 0:07:26 question your basic basic thought 0:07:28 experiment 0:07:29 I'm building a robot yeah okay and we 0:07:31 talked about this video for the audience 0:07:44 for spotting I take some of his lines 0:07:57 yes I like tell people okay let's say 0:07:59 we're building a robot trying to learn 0:08:01 that deep philosophical question and 0:08:04 trying to learn it through a fun 0:08:05 experience more easy than the 0:08:06 long-winded explanation yeah we're 0:08:08 building a robot okay so the robot 0:08:10 instead of skinny has sheet metal 0:08:12 instead of bones yes steel steel steel 0:08:15 bones instead of blood he has oil 0:08:18 instead of a heart he has a pump instead 0:08:21 of an eye he has a camera instead of 0:08:23 this he has everything is machine he 0:08:27 talks like you acts like he has a 0:08:28 program we programmed him to talk like 0:08:31 you 0:08:31 we programmed him to think like you to 0:08:33 learn like you he has your IQ if I pinch 0:08:35 it he says ow 0:08:36 if I tell him a joke he laughs but I 0:08:39 programmed him to do this 0:08:41 then one he's exactly like me the only 0:08:44 thing we know the difference between you 0:08:45 and him is he's made of steel when we 0:08:47 touch him your flesh and bone he's still 0:08:49 and then one day I come and I destroy 0:08:53 this comedy jack 2.0 0:08:55 now the question AB there's no wrong 0:08:58 answer right now it's not see we're not 0:08:59 trying to see a right or wrong answer 0:09:00 I'm asking then I commit murder or did I 0:09:03 destroy a property I destroy a property 0:09:06 yeah so somebody who says I committed a 0:09:09 murder he would say look I'm a 0:09:11 materialist meaning the only thing that 0:09:13 exists and there are people many people 0:09:15 are there who are materialist they 0:09:17 believe that the only thing that exists 0:09:19 is a material substance they would say 0:09:21 look that how much each app 2.0 is 0:09:23 exactly like he should have his rights 0:09:25 like you he's 100% and human because 0:09:30 there's nothing more to you than 0:09:32 substance material material substance 0:09:35 now the people who say no no you just 0:09:37 damage property we gotta ask them okay 0:09:40 what was missing what was the difference 0:09:43 what's the difference 0:09:45 Perry's not too bad what is the answer 0:09:48 to that question 0:09:50 then they're going to the primal 0:09:52 consciousness there's a problem of 0:09:54 course how do you know consciousness do 0:09:56 you know it deductively mathematics or 0:09:58 do you not in pearson empirically 0:09:59 through your senses but either we know 0:10:03 it intuitively now because we know 0:10:07 something intuitively that shows us that 0:10:10 science is not absolute I love science I 0:10:12 could sit here great science for one 0:10:14 hour if you like but I'm gonna save you 0:10:16 one out I can't take my word for it I'm 0:10:18 intrigued by science I'll read up on 0:10:21 science I believe in science I think 0:10:23 it's one way to know something yeah 0:10:25 however does it tell me the truth with a 0:10:27 capital T as I like to say man not true 0:10:29 everyday too comfortable to it yeah 0:10:31 where I can have to leave me here yeah 0:10:33 no I'm talking about the true 0:10:35 philosophers interested in the truth 0:10:37 that capital P yeah that's I can't 0:10:40 science gave me in the capital T true 0:10:42 the answer is no because it couldn't 0:10:47 tell me even about my own consciousness 0:10:49 so like this one of the great thinkers 0:10:51 that I'm very passionately well he said 0:10:54 look think about it this way if I were 0:10:56 really tiny thought experiment and I was 0:10:59 walking around in your brain I would see 0:11:02 neurons firing I would see blood flowing 0:11:04 I would see a brain a physical brain I 0:11:06 would see all sorts of things but I 0:11:07 wouldn't see life I wouldn't see your 0:11:10 thoughts you know what if you're the 0:11:12 song you're playing you and your head 0:11:14 that you're saying that you hear in your 0:11:15 mind I want to hear it all I would see 0:11:17 was the information yeah now this 0:11:19 information is being transformed 0:11:20 somewhere somehow through an experience 0:11:23 but this experience is outside the test 0:11:26 tube as I like so I can't put it in the 0:11:28 testing it's what we call in philosophy 0:11:30 metaphysical 0:11:31 it is not physical so if I'm gonna adopt 0:11:35 a dogmatic scientific method 0:11:38 meaningless science or nothing I'm 0:11:41 denying the thing that makes me most 0:11:43 unit the thing that's in my face 24 0:11:47 hours a day that cannot divide and you 0:11:49 know this is a lot of philosophy in a 0:11:52 few minutes you know we have the capito 0:11:53 I think therefore I am which proves 0:11:55 intuition is above all first it's the 0:11:58 first thing that you know it's actually 0:11:59 the only thing that we know now we were 0:12:03 talking earlier today what is the 0:12:04 difference between believing something 0:12:06 and knowing something for those who 0:12:07 don't know some beautiful 0:12:09 Carlito's something that they card said 0:12:11 that many people misunderstand I said 0:12:12 look I think therefore I have people 0:12:15 that worry you got finally figured out 0:12:16 if he exists hahahaha 0:12:19 it's not that he figured out he exists 0:12:21 he knew that before when he figured out 0:12:24 is that I now know something I don't 0:12:28 believe something because everything is 0:12:29 bullied save people to that point he 0:12:34 said look let me cross examine 0:12:36 everything I believe and he found out 0:12:39 that everything he believed he could 0:12:40 down his dog was so extreme we call it 0:12:44 Cartesian doubt modern philosophy most 0:12:48 philosophers will agree most scholars 0:12:49 will agree it started with bacon because 0:12:52 he did something so different that the 0:12:54 Greeks didn't do it was always said he's 0:13:00 quite a copy of God 0:13:02 again I just started to touch I said 0:13:05 it's work and when I read out so amazed 0:13:07 how similar or less you go they catch 0:13:09 word and it comes over a hundred years 0:13:11 before yeah it's incredible how the 0:13:17 Islamic philosophers were so fascinating 0:13:19 and you know at the senior touches on a 0:13:22 very interesting experiment it calls at 0:13:24 the floating man experiments a muslim 0:13:26 phosphorus caller said look imagine you 0:13:28 are floating man i'm still looking in 0:13:33 today 0:13:36 the floating man experiment says ok 0:13:38 imagine we take away your pinky where 0:13:41 you here take away your face you're 0:13:43 floating in the air ok we take away that 0:13:45 dunya everything's gone you take away 0:13:46 one thing out a final you're just 0:13:48 floating even we take away your seat 0:13:51 your spatial orientation is there still 0:13:55 something an answer if you think about 0:13:57 it yes there's a consciousness what do 0:14:00 you conscious of nothing really but you 0:14:02 still there's a consciousness and he 0:14:05 says you see he took it a different 0:14:06 trajectory but he found something that 0:14:09 you cannot put in a test that's beyond 0:14:12 yet it's beyond physical problems you 0:14:15 know see dick are assuming that 0:14:17 Aristotle 0:14:20 he made a lot of Socrates's lessons very 0:14:23 easy to understand so Socrates would 0:14:26 tell you okay look at this knife see 0:14:29 this knife if I show you a knife in 0:14:32 metal and I show you a knife in plastic 0:14:34 and I'll show you a knife made of wood 0:14:36 and then I show you a drawing of a knife 0:14:39 you're gonna tell me that's the nine 0:14:40 dots and I've got some they're all lives 0:14:42 and you're gonna tell me they're all 0:14:45 knives because they all have something 0:14:46 in common 0:14:47 this thing they have in common we call 0:14:51 it the essence so this table has the 0:14:55 same property as all other tables in the 0:14:58 history of the world every one of me did 0:15:00 they all shared in something we call 0:15:02 table miss the essence if you change the 0:15:05 essence you change the thing it's a 0:15:08 fight thickness table and I make it make 0:15:09 to check out of this unit likes no 0:15:11 longer a table it's not too thick I 0:15:13 changed the essence yeah so comedy job 0:15:17 after the age of seven every single cell 0:15:20 in his body has been changed according 0:15:22 to modern eyes 0:15:24 every single cell in your body is done 0:15:27 properly place it's been replaced by a 0:15:30 new material now how can we say you're 0:15:34 the same comedy chat we do say this is 0:15:38 known as the fellowship of thesis so 0:15:40 thesis was a Greek ship the ship had 99 0:15:44 parts every month one part was changed 0:15:48 put in the garage somewhere as the part 0:15:51 would get old 0:15:52 so after ninety nine months a paraphrase 0:15:56 the ship was brand new parts so the ship 0:16:00 of thesis we're still riding on it seem 0:16:02 license people see it that's a sister 0:16:05 ship 0:16:06 what were you today I was on this is 0:16:07 your ship we refer to this thesis is 0:16:09 ship but then we take all the old parts 0:16:12 we've been putting in the garage and we 0:16:13 reassemble them which one is thesis is 0:16:17 ship this is the ship it's not out there 0:16:22 in the world in here so we're getting a 0:16:25 deep philosophy we're talking about 0:16:27 ideal as it may be it's too much of a 0:16:28 topic for today yeah but the idea is 0:16:30 there are things that are known by the 0:16:32 mind so Socrates class stood in two 0:16:35 categories you have things that are 0:16:37 known by the senses the dunya the world 0:16:40 that's all this all this glass thousand 0:16:45 years from now is my gonna be I know 0:16:47 what VR the senses it belongs to a 0:16:49 category of things and is also very the 0:16:51 Buddhist religion Islamic religion in 0:16:53 Socratic thought we cross with the 0:16:56 Sailor this thing is going to dissolve 0:16:58 it's a category of things that dissolve 0:17:00 the things known by the mind never 0:17:04 dissolve it is the number one ever get 0:17:07 dissolve never how do we know Mohammed 0:17:10 Isha you know him by the mind his body 0:17:12 will dissolve his body's already been 0:17:14 changed several times in the flame 0:17:16 however how we know how much occasion is 0:17:19 through the mind and this is what we 0:17:21 call the soul this is one way we know 0:17:25 the soul the soul is long via the mind 0:17:26 so sorry said a soulless class of things 0:17:30 like Halloween oh god oh god the other 0:17:31 might know God via intuition not 0:17:34 mathematics or empiricism I should rule 0:17:37 the fifth law which is what we caught 0:17:39 that's why I'm studying today earlier I 0:17:41 studied philosophy for so many years 0:17:43 before I raced delved into Islam I only 0:17:45 been really studying is not for 0:17:46 seventeen years which is not a long time 0:17:48 people know as long it's not even close 0:17:50 to one percent how much there is to know 0:17:52 but I realized that all the lessons I 0:17:54 learned on Western philosophy and in 0:17:56 Buddhist or and all and all the great 0:17:57 thinkers know very fascinated I guess 0:18:00 it's all at Islam in a very deep and 0:18:05 profound level that I think would be to 0:18:08 one and 0:18:09 and drawn out for one village I guess a 0:18:12 but one thing we know it's the soul but 0:18:16 we know it directly it's actually you 0:18:19 know the soul more than you know this 0:18:21 table or physical world about the soul 0:18:24 is more immediate it's not intuitively 0:18:25 are you saying that now we have a 0:18:27 first-person subjective experience and 0:18:29 as much as that first-person subjective 0:18:32 experience direct substitutions are all 0:18:34 existence the reality round were also 0:18:37 the existence of a higher metaphysical 0:18:39 force which brought rise to all Nexus 0:18:42 now tell me the story of Adam please 0:18:45 police enough what happened in a 0:18:50 nutshell your tradition goes okay he 0:18:54 created Adam from the other one he did 0:18:58 some material substance material such 0:19:00 when he did so he breathed so now what 0:19:04 you did so in doing this sauce say they 0:19:15 ask you about the soul saying that the 0:19:18 soul is from the man I know you won't 0:19:23 know much about it so in other words 0:19:25 frankly for from our perspective not 0:19:29 much to be given some information well 0:19:31 we know this like expensive once again 0:19:33 is that number one the soul is something 0:19:35 which I must 0:19:36 Oh God Almighty implantable in salt 0:19:40 added with making viable through it and 0:19:44 afterwards all of human beings had the 0:19:47 same feature because the hadith is a 0:19:50 hadith in our tradition of which very 0:19:52 well-known it's like in the song anyway 0:19:54 today says that the human being is 0:19:57 created 40 days as long 0:20:01 in one formula for deserts why's that 0:20:03 and they said at the end of it then the 0:20:06 Angels breathes it to the universal so 0:20:09 the soul is a feature of everything 0:20:11 would be that can ask you a question are 0:20:12 we made of one soul of many ways we ever 0:20:15 even being has one soul but are we made 0:20:18 up once or is it is there is it as it 0:20:20 doesn't make any comment on if we're 0:20:22 made by one soul original soul what that 0:20:26 each human being has we share in the 0:20:29 same soul or is it individual soul every 0:20:33 individual has a specific souls out 0:20:35 there but this is the metaphysical 0:20:37 property so we have a story in the Quran 0:20:39 that says look there's this material 0:20:41 substance okay we can test it 0:20:42 scientifically but then there's an 0:20:43 ingredient we don't know much about yeah 0:20:46 but this ingredient you experience it 0:20:49 directly yes as a matter of fact it 0:20:51 flies in your face of science when you 0:20:54 ask a materialist philosopher who 0:20:56 science has mattress to clear some 0:20:58 positions so we'll about it that's all 0:21:00 we ask 0:21:01 a NASA scientist yeah how come I'm 0:21:03 conscious that's what we don't know 0:21:04 mystery they will never know we have a 0:21:10 verse we have a paradox about the 0:21:12 Chinese room sorry I thought experience 0:21:14 not a fair enough it's called the 0:21:16 Chinese room okay so the Chinese room is 0:21:18 you're in a room and I'm outside the 0:21:20 room and i slided a Chinese character 0:21:22 the Chinese character says hello and I 0:21:26 slide it in the room and you slide back 0:21:28 to me hello do you do and I slide you an 0:21:31 old saying how are you and you read 0:21:33 slide me back very good and you and 0:21:35 we're having this Chinese conversation 0:21:37 and then I open the door and I see you 0:21:41 said you speak Chinese you're like nah 0:21:43 don't speak Chinese 0:21:44 but we're having a conversation said 0:21:46 every time you slide me a character I 0:21:48 look in the book this character when you 0:21:51 get it send off this response 0:21:54 this is how a robot works the robot 0:21:58 doesn't understand the essence of words 0:22:01 he's just following an algorithm they 0:22:05 can get so sophisticated that they give 0:22:06 you the impression that they're human 0:22:08 yeah like one time the site is were 0:22:13 trying to mock Descartes and they made a 0:22:15 computer type I think therefore you 0:22:19 would print that out I'm sorry to say 0:22:22 look even the computer thinks it's 0:22:23 conscious but it's not and they were 0:22:24 putting butter at take up but really 0:22:28 what they were doing it was their 0:22:29 product they have contracts because that 0:22:32 is just an extension of you if you 0:22:33 really think about it somebody has to 0:22:35 have consciousness to say I think 0:22:36 therefore I am 0:22:37 long story short is people when you see 0:22:42 a robot a very sophisticated robot 0:22:44 people think on one day they'll have 0:22:45 consciousness you know they'll give 0:22:48 their parents the appearance of 0:22:49 consciousness they'll be very 0:22:50 sophisticated talking but we saw that 0:22:52 the Mohammed a job robot that we're 0:22:54 building 0:22:54 it's a destruction of property if you 0:22:59 ever see the movie castaway Tom Hanks 0:23:10 Wilson Wilson Wilson have a mind but he 0:23:18 projected his own mind onto Wilson one 0:23:21 day we're gonna have robots now we're 0:23:23 gonna protect our own mind that you can 0:23:25 project your money some people talk to 0:23:27 their imaginary friend the mind can be 0:23:32 projected it could do so many mess and 0:23:35 that's a situation the info 0:23:36 or for a robot right people are gonna be 0:23:39 like oh no robots cannot consciousness 0:23:41 one day no you cannot think about the 0:23:43 Pinocchio story I want to be a real boy 0:23:46 I wonder what how did they make him a 0:23:47 real boy you have to bring in some kind 0:23:50 of metaphysical element we're living 0:23:55 proof of metaphysics we're living proof 0:23:57 of me I don't need Richard Dawkins to 0:24:00 tell me if I'm going to live again or 0:24:01 what not that I know the part of me 0:24:04 belongs to the class of the mind it's 0:24:06 only known by the mind mathematics will 0:24:09 never get old and rust and died the 0:24:11 things known by the mind are never are 0:24:14 not subject to corrosion so to speak and 0:24:19 I really always loved the profound 0:24:21 question that asks you know I have again 0:24:24 micronus very weakly I know that there's 0:24:26 a part where they ask yes you know what 0:24:29 will be resurrected what brought you 0:24:30 here the first time see Socrates has a 0:24:34 very interesting dialogue he has in it 0:24:36 the fatal says look if you grew taller 0:24:40 you were first shorter you can't grow 0:24:43 taller if you were not first shorter 0:24:45 than possible they generate one another 0:24:48 so if I fell asleep first I was awake 0:24:51 and if I wake up first I was asleep and 0:24:54 you can do this with all the opposites 0:24:57 if I was cold first I was warming 0:24:59 I became warm brown for some sport 0:25:00 there's no escape they're tied together 0:25:04 voila he can examine it for thousands of 0:25:06 years then they have the greatest minds 0:25:08 have example and we cannot say that one 0:25:10 doesn't generate the other when was your 0:25:13 birthday okay where were you a year 0:25:16 before the fish is overthrown 0:25:18 you were not living oh yeah you were not 0:25:21 alive 0:25:21 you came to life yeah what does a time 0:25:24 and moment and space whatever the date 0:25:25 was exactly 0:25:26 you came to life what were you before 0:25:28 you came to life Socrates would tell you 0:25:32 and I would tell I would agree 0:25:33 some people have an emotional attachment 0:25:35 to answer this question the truth is you 0:25:37 were not living you are dead but you 0:25:39 came to life already happened 0:25:41 and if you were to go with the 0:25:45 scientific method today science would 0:25:46 tell you you're never gonna come to life 0:25:48 if you find you signs before I came to 0:25:50 life the times of it's impossible the 0:25:51 world you're talking about 0:25:52 is impossible if this world is possible 0:25:55 if this was a contingent remember we're 0:25:57 talking about like this this world is a 0:25:59 contingent meaning it could have been 0:26:01 another way if this world exists it's 0:26:04 very possible there are other worlds 0:26:05 that exists why not what's what is if 0:26:10 you understand cause and effect you 0:26:13 would know that if this world is 0:26:14 possible and the world is possible as a 0:26:16 matter of fact if you follow 0:26:18 regeneration but what Socrates says it 0:26:20 says look if everything went from life 0:26:22 to death and never reciprocated again 0:26:25 everything would be dead by now 0:26:28 everything would be dead if time is 0:26:31 infinite the cycle would have been done 0:26:34 if it was a one-time thing this is 0:26:37 complicated thinking it is it's very 0:26:39 advanced abduction very bad but the 0:26:41 truth no matter is like while learning 0:26:43 these things I really found them are 0:26:44 often the Quran in abundance and it's 0:26:48 fascinating that's really interesting 0:26:51 information and I think it's one of the 0:26:54 things that we don't stress enough with 0:26:56 the consciousness the consciousness is a 0:26:59 very unique argument it does require 0:27:00 your brain juices like hard thinking 0:27:04 you fool yeah but it's definitely 0:27:07 something that's good to put out there 0:27:09 we want to another issue now I just want 0:27:12 to kind of put our 0:27:13 some kind of thing social things 0:27:14 obviously we live in the West where 0:27:16 Muslims are all these things and we're 0:27:19 oftentimes fused okay well most of you 0:27:21 generally speaking why the right way I 0:27:23 will show how is it can I keep behind 0:27:25 the red door yes 30 minutes that's I 0:27:32 don't know how it is in Canada but here 0:27:35 in the UK accusations extremism and 0:27:49 these kind of things so have you found 0:27:51 that yourself and how how would you 0:27:53 advise Muslims to respond to that really 0:27:56 well I think the best thing is behave 0:27:59 well be a just person 0:28:01 yeah just person if you have information 0:28:03 share it if you don't know research it 0:28:05 and learn it the worst thing you can do 0:28:07 is talk about of ignorant surrender your 0:28:10 station but reading other so a good at 0:28:13 the and what's the slum about Islam is 0:28:15 about many central thin themes but one 0:28:17 central theme is justice yes 0:28:20 fairness me I rather suffer the 0:28:25 consequence that be on the face of it I 0:28:27 rather lose a hundred dollars and be 0:28:28 unfairly keep my to develop my because I 0:28:32 find justice to be beautiful and I find 0:28:34 that one of the central themes of Islam 0:28:35 is justice that's why I find Islam 0:28:38 beautiful even the Arabs at the time of 0:28:40 the Prophet SAW and Senate he funded 0:28:42 that the camel having rights was absurd 0:28:44 he was too progressive for them now 0:28:47 Islam for me I see it as a direction the 0:28:50 prophet saw the name suddenly took the 0:28:51 herbs one step at a time towards a 0:28:53 direction more and more lenient 0:28:55 more forgiving more and more tolerant 0:28:57 more and more loving more and more 0:28:59 caring and we have to continue this 0:29:01 trend today if the Prophet Solomon son 0:29:03 was alive today he would be the most 0:29:05 merciful the most renowned the most kind 0:29:07 the most generous I believe that because 0:29:09 George Bernard Shaw after reading the 0:29:11 CETA he said if this man was alive today 0:29:13 he would solve many of the world's 0:29:15 problems because what we're talking 0:29:16 earlier today about William definitely 0:29:18 definitely a German philosopher he says 0:29:20 look we're all made of the same internal 0:29:22 stuff this thing we have inside you 0:29:25 we've just been talking about your 0:29:26 consciousness the stuff you share with 0:29:28 every human being 0:29:29 so you transport yourself in their shoes 0:29:31 if you really put your mind in their 0:29:33 place and their time and then if you 0:29:37 don't look at it from your perspective 0:29:38 if you're a really open mind if you 0:29:40 would be to put yourself in their shoes 0:29:41 literally mentally speaking and see the 0:29:45 world the way they see it they were the 0:29:48 most lenient progressive and forgiving 0:29:50 and obviously that's how I see it and we 0:29:54 have to continue this trip we have to 0:29:56 continue this trip because the truth of 0:29:59 the matter is this is what was aslam 0:30:01 most seen us slaves were Muslim the 0:30:04 first Muslim was a woman and so on and 0:30:06 so on and so on 0:30:07 these were seen as crazy ideas 0:30:11 Bobby Denis Eady black cami we started a 0:30:14 show to come back Joe Rogan haven't been 0:30:16 high regard for you I mean you mentioned 0:30:18 you as over 100 100 of years and so the 0:30:22 civilizations they went through 0:30:23 different cycles the last cycle is when 0:30:25 they become corrupt decadence they start 0:30:28 cheating fighting killing one another 0:30:29 they're in fighting a lot of infighting 0:30:31 and these infighting causes the suicide 0:30:34 of a nation 0:30:35 so stations are not murder to commit 0:30:37 suicide why're you become corrupt more 0:30:40 corruption the more chances than being 0:30:42 overtaken by competing nation Islam and 0:30:45 Christianity kept corruption at bay now 0:30:47 of course there was corruption equipped 0:30:48 in every single typo you know we we know 0:30:52 that okay we have Isis the Christians 0:30:54 they have their kicker Cain among other 0:30:56 problems in the killer Catholicism the 0:30:58 free society yes but these are people 0:31:02 who did bad things but this is not a 0:31:04 religious not a creep it's not the Queen 0:31:06 so for instance if the secular American 0:31:08 does something wrong I don't say hey 0:31:09 that's the Constitution that's what you 0:31:11 get that's not what I say I say that 0:31:13 individual he decided to do something 0:31:15 bad and there's so much to read up 0:31:21 because the media loves to blame groups 0:31:25 to become Plato asked the very question 0:31:33 does God say something is good or bad 0:31:35 because its nature is good or bad or is 0:31:40 it good or bad because Allah said so 0:31:42 because God sent a fire therefore 0:31:44 whatever you sense about is bad guy by 0:31:46 him saying or is it its nature but is it 0:31:50 hot by nature then he said look if you 0:31:53 believe me God if Allah says something's 0:31:57 hot bad it's bad it only cost me more 0:31:59 because God is not questionable if you 0:32:03 don't believe in God 0:32:05 it's all aesthetics do you find it to be 0:32:09 ha 0:32:09 or hello is it ugly if you find me you 0:32:12 think it's bad if you find it to be 0:32:15 beautiful you find it to be good so if 0:32:18 there if you don't believe in a God good 0:32:22 and bad becomes beautiful and gonna be 0:32:24 fine beautiful as good whatever you find 0:32:25 ugly is bad if you think about it if you 0:32:28 think about it this is really what it is 0:32:30 and that's why when I was reading in the 0:32:32 Quran amazed they say follow your lusts 0:32:35 yeah well you follow your lust that's it 0:32:40 that's what ethics both know when 0:32:42 somebody tells me I hate is not what I 0:32:43 think I hear he doesn't want he defines 0:32:45 Islam to be why cuz he wasn't racist 0:32:49 with now there's a lot of beauty in 0:32:52 Islam you have to study it to know but 0:32:55 this president didn't study there's a 0:32:57 lot of beauty Christianity is about what 0:32:58 really integrity in Judaism as well but 0:33:01 you have to go beyond the rumors that 0:33:03 you hear because there are deep and 0:33:05 profound lessons in all the traditions 0:33:08 and people just live a superficial life 0:33:14 in the West generally speaking not 0:33:15 everybody I don't want to generalize you 0:33:17 know but the the recent trend is to be 0:33:19 superficial 0:33:21 capitalism is go buy more yes there's 0:33:24 pork in it or what not but go buy more 0:33:26 consume more buy more you more happy the 0:33:29 truth no matter is you won't be you can 0:33:31 have plenty of material goods proof of 0:33:33 that is where is the most depression of 0:33:35 the world 0:33:38 because if there wasn't study that was 0:33:40 done I was quite interested in seeing 0:33:42 that we're focused magazine and I think 0:33:44 in Toledo because they looked at 0:33:46 depression in in countries and they said 0:33:49 that their top 20 was basically was the 0:33:51 country with the exception of I think 0:33:52 Nigeria well they have a real problem 0:33:54 number one with the USA and they take 0:33:57 the most depressing time yes 0:33:59 the most bills for cycle psychological 0:34:02 illness but the number of psychological 0:34:05 elements is on the rise how come the 0:34:06 pills that the cures are on the rise and 0:34:08 the helmets on the rise it's become an 0:34:10 epidemic and that's why I felt like I 0:34:12 had an edge growing up like I said 0:34:13 earlier because me I just believe the 0:34:17 guts that was coming a lot take 0:34:20 something from you strong mentally I go 0:34:35 through about times like everybody else 0:34:37 yeah but I love what comes that you 0:34:38 subset and said hopelessness is a bit up 0:34:41 you want to be I suppose they argue 0:34:44 about the gun you wanna bid up 0:34:47 hopelessness that's a bit could never 0:34:51 have hopelessness of course if anybody 0:34:53 was familiar with the serie no there's 0:34:55 never hope it doesn't exist again these 0:34:59 are these are like what one famous 0:35:00 writer is stephen r.covey there read a 0:35:03 lot of books every from every corner of 0:35:05 business 17 steps 7 Habits of Highly 0:35:08 planners he says look if you believe he 0:35:11 says look you got a build your are very 0:35:12 similar to Islamic came to me said you 0:35:14 have to build your life on a foundation 0:35:15 it's something under shakable if you 0:35:19 build your life that was a woman if you 0:35:22 build your life on your house yes maybe 0:35:24 your spouse lead you on in your whole 0:35:26 life will come crumble yes if you're its 0:35:30 fists you're building is built on a 0:35:31 stone that's shaky 0:35:33 you're always be insecure 0:35:35 so maybe you build it on your well 0:35:37 you're not gonna take it from me 0:35:38 maybe you build it on your health your 0:35:40 your users that's gonna be taking 0:35:42 everything in they're doing everything 0:35:43 in the world can be picking for you so 0:35:45 even if you have a firm grasp you always 0:35:47 have a deep sense of insecurity so he 0:35:50 says look if you believe in God but God 0:35:53 obviously first yeah and if you believe 0:35:57 you don't believe in God says at least 0:35:59 put your principles meaning I'm gonna be 0:36:03 honest respectful who are you really and 0:36:05 never compromised but the problem I 0:36:08 found the principle argument to get 0:36:09 second best because even yourself you 0:36:13 can be tempted I'm always gonna be weak 0:36:16 I can maybe be tempted or have a have a 0:36:20 have a book to a phase in my life that I 0:36:23 might betray my own principles it's not 0:36:25 sure I'm not sure yeah I think the 0:36:33 healthiest most technological might be 0:36:35 the reasons I accept this nature I have 0:36:37 this part of me that's miraculously 0:36:38 unique that science cannot even the 0:36:41 comment on so I will meet the permission 0:36:43 for this I don't need to bow down to 0:36:45 them and the awestruck you know I was 0:36:48 asking you earlier one of your favorite 0:36:49 pet needs it's a very advanced advice 0:36:58 but what have you then you tell me its 0:37:00 authenticity is supposedly what I was 0:37:03 told the Prophet taught some kids are 0:37:05 chasing a shadow guys won't eat why not 0:37:09 a shadow 0:37:14 yeah so I was told I was young so I 0:37:24 chasing the dunya maybe was paraphrasing 0:37:31 she's her shadow well you couldn't catch 0:37:33 it you can catch it 0:37:34 Jesus son and when they came back chase 0:37:39 no dunya it's like you're chasing your 0:37:41 shadows me never attention with the 0:37:44 denier exactly that was a very profound 0:37:47 you know so I never I never brought with 0:37:50 me growing up and I thought they got a 0:37:52 respect for my peers had a strong I 0:37:55 don't know how to say but have strong 0:37:57 backbone and I never believed something 0:37:59 was impossible when I started learning 0:38:01 to sit so any learning to teach me no 0:38:02 way laughs no puppy that you brought us 0:38:04 evolutions in the time that we yes a 0:38:07 while want to do an amazing so it even 0:38:09 if it's gonna be a short episode you 0:38:12 want to talk about because this is your 0:38:14 area especially here now there is 0:38:20 basically like keep it healthy 0:38:22 keep it strong because no place right 0:38:27 and this is quite a sophisticated way I 0:38:29 think is quite an effective one how does 0:38:31 our mind body and soul connection those 0:38:33 three things to some extent you know 0:38:36 satiated have to be a stimulation so I 0:38:40 want to talk to you about about that in 0:38:42 the next episode but you did like this 0:38:45 episode I try and see the other side of 0:38:47 trust zabi 0:38:49 which is a very deeply critical 0:38:52 scientific well we read side and aside 0:38:55 we don't get to see here you are both 0:38:59 you know more willing to say visually 0:39:02 exact things but in the next episode we 0:39:05 are gonna be talking about those visual 0:39:06 exciting things and how to take care of 0:39:09 yourself maybe on a physical level make 0:39:12 sure you subscribe to the page and you 0:39:14 subscribe to our therapies page as well 0:39:18 it's got really good panel 0:39:20 instructionals on different flight 0:39:22 techniques and he is the goodness Joe 0:39:24 Rogan even you know what one of the best 0:39:27 if not the best in the world so you're 0:39:29 gonna check that out in the description 0:39:32 box and I'll see you in the next video 0:39:35 Slavonic

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