The Biggest Crime in Islam. (2017-10-23)

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In this video the biggest sin in Islam is discussed with some discussion as to the wisdoms of this sin.

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Summary of The Biggest Crime in Islam.

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in this video argues that the worst possible thing to do is to give rights to other than God, as this would make the human being insignificant in the universe. He goes on to say that, although Muslims are capable of doing this, it is not as bad as the person who gives rights to other than God.

00:00:00 In Islamic theology, killing one person is considered to be less severe than committing the sin of shirk, which is associating partners with God.

00:05:00 in this video argues that it is the worst possible thing to give rights to other than God, as this would essentially make the human being insignificant in the universe. He goes on to say that, even though Muslims are capable of doing this, it is not as bad as the person who gives rights to other than God.
00:10:00 argues that there is an entity that is independent and preexisting, and that this entity must have certain attributes in order to create the universe. He goes on to say that these attributes include knowledge, power, and seeing and hearing.
00:15:00 Muslims believe in a Creator who assigned purpose and value to human beings, and communicated using angels. Mohammed is the final prophet.

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0:00:00 and I'll explain it I want to see your 0:00:02 reaction okay from our perspective we 0:00:07 were talking about value and we talked 0:00:09 about more relativity and on atheism and 0:00:11 naturalism how actually everything is 0:00:12 relative and this is the this is the 0:00:14 prevailing philosophical position of 0:00:18 most post enlightenment post modernist 0:00:21 philosophers like Nietzsche and Bertrand 0:00:24 Russell and you know Jacques Derrida and 0:00:26 others yeah we'll come back a little bit 0:00:29 so in other words more relativity to 0:00:32 suggest that you make your morality 0:00:33 right you have you make your own purpose 0:00:35 you make your morality with morality 0:00:36 from an Islamic perspective we say that 0:00:40 obviously God you know the old knowing 0:00:42 feel powerful the all-wise he is the one 0:00:45 who sets the standards he's the one who 0:00:47 makes the morals for us the the most the 0:00:51 most the worst sin the worst thing to do 0:00:56 what's the murder wait what's going on 0:01:00 worse than murder is this thing called 0:01:04 __ and I'll tell you what it means 0:01:05 shirk is the association of partners 0:01:08 with God before I I want to say so I 0:01:11 wanna make you a controversial statement 0:01:12 first yeah I'm gonna make a 0:01:14 controversial statement a ridiculous 0:01:15 statement and then I'm gonna explain 0:01:17 this table let's suppose that this is on 0:01:21 Islamic theology yeah you come out from 0:01:23 planet earth and there was this 0:01:25 imaginary button yes but you're a Muslim 0:01:28 so you pretend you're a Muslim is the 0:01:30 imaginary button you press it the whole 0:01:32 earth blows up and destroyed 0:01:36 it's not a great button time right let's 0:01:39 pretend that button exists you go now 0:01:41 you're on the moon on Mars you go there 0:01:43 button crazy button press the button 0:01:46 everyone blows up you think that's the 0:01:49 worst thing you can do to human beings 0:01:52 and it is I mean from his own 0:01:53 perspective killing one person is like 0:01:55 killing the whole of humanity right it 0:01:57 says in the Quran chapter 5 verse 32 0:01:59 that killing one person's like killing 0:02:00 the whole of humanity so killing murder 0:02:02 is one of the high sins in Islam it's 0:02:04 not like we don't appreciate murder we 0:02:06 do appreciate it well the ridiculous 0:02:08 statement I wanted to make to you as as 0:02:10 follows do you know that button that you 0:02:13 press in the murderer and all that stuff 0:02:14 if someone had pressed that button and 0:02:17 killed everyone and he was a Muslim it's 0:02:20 less severe then doing this thing called 0:02:24 __ it's less severe very severe very 0:02:28 very severe no doubt but it's less 0:02:30 severe than doing this think oh [ __ ]0:02:31 what is __ then the question I mean 0:02:35 why should what is what is this thing 0:02:38 that you're so gay you press that button 0:02:40 what is it ok I'll tell you [ __ ]0:02:47 is when you give the rights we believe 0:02:49 in God God the creator of the University 0:02:51 their heavens and earth everything em 0:02:53 they maintain at the sustaining cetera 0:02:56 shift is when you give the rights of God 0:02:59 to other god that's basically what are 0:03:02 the rights of God the rights of God from 0:03:04 the Islamic perspective are as follows 0:03:07 first and foremost the attributes of God 0:03:09 is as we know is all powerful all strong 0:03:12 all-knowing etc I'll come to that I'll 0:03:19 come to that can we can we put that into 0:03:21 a locker a footnote yeah all right 0:03:23 how can how is a good question I'll put 0:03:25 that so footnote please remind me of it 0:03:28 but let's presuppose he is all these 0:03:30 things he's all-knowing all-powerful all 0:03:33 everything yeah well powerful all loving 0:03:35 all merciful most merciful except rap 0:03:38 not what everything yes sir we have an 0:03:41 exaggeration one of those things that 0:03:42 just said most merciful most powerful 0:03:45 most wise etc yeah now yeah omnipotent 0:03:50 is all-powerful really yeah I'm Liberty 0:03:52 means all-powerful okay omni-benevolent 0:03:55 whatever okay the question would be this 0:03:59 and I want you to remember that question 0:04:02 I asked you before what makes the 0:04:04 difference between a tree and a human 0:04:06 being so why is it that if I cut down 0:04:07 the tree now most of humanity would say 0:04:09 that that's less of a crime than cutting 0:04:11 a human being into two the reason why 0:04:14 your subjective reasoning which I didn't 0:04:15 disagree with yeah I agreed with it 0:04:17 completely was that the tree has the 0:04:19 intrinsic values yeah that that tree has 0:04:23 are less superior than the intrinsic 0:04:26 value that the human being has the human 0:04:28 being has a higher level of attributes 0:04:32 or the character and the character of 0:04:33 the human being are superior to the tree 0:04:36 therefore the human being has been 0:04:37 allotted assigned more value by other 0:04:41 human beings and is therefore more 0:04:42 important than the tree okay we say the 0:04:46 following 0:04:49 what of what of an entity that has a 0:04:53 value that cannot have a value higher 0:04:57 than it let me say that one more time 0:05:00 what off what of an entity that has a 0:05:04 value that basically I'm not going to 0:05:08 use the word unlimited or an infinite 0:05:10 but can they cannot be a higher value 0:05:12 than it yeah I say the only possible 0:05:18 relationship and this is the Islamic 0:05:20 thesis the only possible relationship 0:05:23 you can have with that particular entity 0:05:25 is one of ultimate obedience ultimate 0:05:29 love ultimate love and ultimate fear let 0:05:35 me say that one more time 0:05:39 nothing is exactly exactly not only 0:05:46 power we said knowledge and wisdom so 0:05:48 all of your attributes that you have as 0:05:51 I'm sure you are I knew as well very 0:05:53 intelligent people right very clever 0:05:55 people etc all of those all those 0:05:59 characteristics that you have now 0:06:01 basically imagine that those 0:06:02 characteristics were that you can't get 0:06:05 higher than them basically that you are 0:06:06 the most powerful there's no one can 0:06:07 touch you no one can beat you no one can 0:06:09 no one knows more than you you know if 0:06:11 you bring all of human beings not forget 0:06:13 about this because sorry I'm going to 0:06:14 throw it at all of human beings forget 0:06:16 us we can score all of the human beings 0:06:18 in the whole world we put them together 0:06:19 and we have some kind of apparatus we 0:06:21 have some kind of mechanism we have some 0:06:23 kind of way of putting all those human 0:06:24 beings intelligence together and 0:06:27 aggregating all those are intelligent 0:06:29 into one thumb yeah we all of those 0:06:33 human beings would yet know would be 0:06:35 closer to knowing nothing and then there 0:06:37 would be no to knowing everything can 0:06:39 you imagine the level of ignorance we 0:06:40 have can you imagine the level of 0:06:43 ignorance we have we are ignorant there 0:06:45 are there's too much going on the 0:06:46 universe they're literally 2/3 of the 0:06:48 undersea that we have not explored yeah 0:06:52 and this is planet Earth imagine the 0:06:54 universe right that's human being I 0:06:58 imagine an entity that has all knowledge 0:07:00 he can hear all he's all seeing that is 0:07:04 an entity we're saying is untouchable in 0:07:07 that sense and that figurative sense of 0:07:09 course yeah we're saying is that the 0:07:12 only possible relationship you can have 0:07:14 with such an entity is one whereby 0:07:16 you're submissive to that entity you 0:07:18 cannot have another that is the most 0:07:20 that is the most appropriate in terms of 0:07:22 a pro proceed that is the most 0:07:23 appropriate relationship you can have 0:07:25 with an entity in the same way as you 0:07:29 would find killing that child an 0:07:33 egregious transgression of the human 0:07:38 rights of that child the case because of 0:07:43 the intrinsic characteristics of that 0:07:45 child 0:07:46 we say is the same reason why should 0:07:49 association of partners of God is the 0:07:53 most egregious transgression or crime 0:07:57 that anyone can make on anything in 0:08:00 other words just like the child has 0:08:01 rights the Creator the Creator has 0:08:03 rights yeah so once someone realigns the 0:08:10 appropriate relationship they should be 0:08:11 having with the creator and they realign 0:08:14 it to the creation we say that that is 0:08:16 the worst possible realignment 0:08:23 billions and billions of years time we 0:08:25 have literally seen everything done 0:08:27 everything whatsoever there's no illness 0:08:30 there's no human beings are perfect we 0:08:33 know everything let's see that 0:08:36 what happens that we have all the 0:08:38 knowledge in this why should we strive 0:08:41 to get there what I'm saying to you is 0:08:44 this that entity if we presupposes its 0:08:48 existence is a it doesn't have an end 0:08:50 right continues and we're saying that 0:08:53 human being will never reach a point 0:08:55 where knows everything by virtue of its 0:08:57 insignificance on the universe this 0:09:00 placement on the universal insignificant 0:09:02 placement we will never be able to 0:09:04 encompass all that which is around us 0:09:06 for that reason we say that look when 0:09:11 we're talking about that appropriate 0:09:13 relationship now we'll go back to our 0:09:15 analogy the ridiculous thing that we 0:09:17 said that I know in secular the secular 0:09:18 is it sounds like the most ridiculous 0:09:20 thing you can ever say not killing one 0:09:23 child killing all the children not 0:09:24 killing one human killing all the humans 0:09:26 press a button you litter on Mars press 0:09:28 one button every human being blows up 0:09:30 the whole planet Earth is is blown to 0:09:32 smithereens yet we're saying for Muslims 0:09:36 to do that it's one of the worst things 0:09:38 you can possibly do right you know go to 0:09:40 hell you know how dare you yeah well 0:09:44 that is not as bad as the person giving 0:09:47 the rights of God to other than good why 0:09:51 now you might say what the hell are you 0:09:53 talking about my friend what the hell 0:09:54 are you saying the reason why is because 0:09:58 the aggregate value of all of those 0:10:02 human beings on that planet earth as we 0:10:04 talked about value assignment this was a 0:10:06 big theme of what we were talking myself 0:10:07 the aggregate value of all those human 0:10:09 beings combined on that planet Earth 0:10:11 doesn't even amount to a drop in the 0:10:14 ocean compared to the value of God 0:10:15 therefore when we talk about God's value 0:10:19 in a pro proceeded when it comes to the 0:10:21 rights of God has a more severe 0:10:24 implication as a deeper consequence has 0:10:29 a higher ramification for that reason we 0:10:31 say this 0:10:34 we say that the most appropriate 0:10:37 relationship to have with an entity that 0:10:39 is all-powerful all-knowing we're 0:10:41 hearing etc is that relationship of 0:10:43 submission that's what Islam actually 0:10:45 means Aslam is submission to one God and 0:10:49 the biggest crime of humankind is to 0:10:52 misappropriate that relationship and to 0:10:55 assign the rights of God to other than 0:10:58 God that's the biggest crime that's from 0:11:00 my perspective the clearest thing I can 0:11:03 say about the Islamic thesis did you get 0:11:06 that now let's bring out the footnote 0:11:08 you were saying how do we know that God 0:11:09 is all-powerful or knowing or here in 0:11:11 the essential how do we know that I say 0:11:13 this let's go back to the dependency 0:11:15 because we were talking about and their 0:11:17 baby on the incubator 0:11:18 we're talking about as well you've been 0:11:20 being on a life machine right one theme 0:11:24 that will always come back to when we're 0:11:27 talking about these issues is 0:11:28 contingency is dependency contingency is 0:11:30 the penances right I say the following 0:11:35 in the realm that we live in 0:11:37 everything is contingent everything is 0:11:41 dependent in the realm that we live in 0:11:44 everything is dependent in the universe 0:11:47 everything is dependent something is 0:11:49 dependent upon something else 0:11:51 give me an example of something other 0:11:52 than that give me an example of one into 0:11:54 the independent entity that lives within 0:11:57 the universe and is with us now that we 0:11:59 can point the finger at empirically 0:12:01 Cianci there's nothing right everything 0:12:04 in the universe is dependent upon 0:12:05 something else the universe therefore 0:12:08 and before I'm accused by some atheist 0:12:13 of or someone of committing the value of 0:12:17 composition because there is a fallacy 0:12:19 called the valley of composition this is 0:12:20 not this is not reasoning by composition 0:12:23 this is an inductive type argument 0:12:26 actually if you think about I'm looking 0:12:27 at things that I can empirically see so 0:12:29 this inductive reasoning I'm saying that 0:12:31 here 0:12:33 the universe itself must be dependent 0:12:36 especially if you presuppose a beginning 0:12:37 to the universe which is the prevailing 0:12:39 theory in science okay if that is the 0:12:42 case what is it dependent on that's the 0:12:46 question and you continue going 0:12:47 backwards so it's depended upon 0:12:49 something else which is dependent it 0:12:51 needs and it needs it requires a 0:12:54 independent entity to say all of it 0:12:57 that's what it requires forget about the 0:13:04 world Allah Allah Arabic just means yeah 0:13:06 just means that good 0:13:07 that's what literally Allah just means 0:13:09 that God it's just an Arabic word we 0:13:11 Christians cool God Allah in Arabic 0:13:14 Christian Arabs they cook God Allah Eli 0:13:17 is very close to Allah Eli Eli Lema 0:13:19 sabachthani my father's in the Bible you 0:13:22 know God God why have you forsaken me 0:13:23 Eli I let myself in aramaic eli the our 0:13:26 make eli is very similar to the word 0:13:28 allah now the point is this we're saying 0:13:34 that there's an entity that came before 0:13:36 the universe which is independent we 0:13:40 asked ourselves what other attributes 0:13:41 must this entity have had in order to 0:13:45 bring rise to the universe to cause the 0:13:46 universe unless someone says i don't 0:13:49 believe in causation which is something 0:13:51 some people say they throw all of the 0:13:53 laws of logic out the window I'm beloved 0:13:54 code that you find even if you don't 0:13:56 believe in causation what must this 0:13:58 entity have had in order to allow 0:14:00 foreign for another entity which that is 0:14:03 dependent upon this entity to exist they 0:14:07 must have had knowledge no when you look 0:14:09 at the fine-tuning of the universe and 0:14:12 you look at all of the constants being 0:14:14 completely finely tuned all of these 0:14:16 things must require knowledge it must 0:14:20 have had power no it must have high 0:14:22 power because within our power 0:14:24 it couldn't be interdependent it 0:14:26 couldn't be independent or 0:14:27 it must have had a seeing ability and 0:14:30 hearing ability no because how could it 0:14:32 visualize how could it sketch the plan 0:14:34 as it were and bring it to existence so 0:14:37 the things that we would were talking 0:14:39 about the attributes of God are actually 0:14:41 logically reasoned they're not illogical 0:14:44 they are logically reasoned let me tell 0:14:46 you something let me tell you something 0:14:48 let me ask you something imagine now we 0:14:54 walk in speaker's corner I'm being a 0:14:55 hundred percent serious I'll be the 0:14:56 hundred percent serious we're walking in 0:14:59 a speaker's corner and we see a bowl 0:15:03 hey Manawa what do we see we see a bowl 0:15:06 a large bowl hovering okay hovering is 0:15:11 in the middle here of speakers gone up 0:15:12 with it a ball hovering would I say 0:15:18 where did that ball come from what are 0:15:20 you gonna say no idea is fine it's good 0:15:24 fair enough 0:15:26 what are you gonna say you know that 0:15:30 ball came from nothing would you say 0:15:34 that that ball came from nothing you 0:15:36 never say that because we know that 0:15:38 something cannot come from nothing okay 0:15:42 good 0:15:43 are we going to say that there are an 0:15:45 infinite amount of balls and this is 0:15:47 just one of them then that sound like a 0:15:50 reasonable conclusion there's an 0:15:52 infinite amount of balls and it's just 0:15:53 one of them maybe you say no you know if 0:15:58 I said listen the ball created itself 0:16:03 you're gonna say it's not possible 0:16:04 because you can't exist and not exist at 0:16:06 the same time so you'd say about the 0:16:10 board at the poll hello creator of some 0:16:11 source an intelligent creator of some 0:16:14 sorts does that sound like the most 0:16:16 reasonable conclusion it does doesn't it 0:16:19 let me tell you something today that 0:16:22 board is the universe the universe that 0:16:24 we live in is literally an expanding 0:16:26 ball in space can you imagine the 0:16:30 universe we live in now is an expanding 0:16:32 ball in space the same options apply the 0:16:37 same exact the same exact options apply 0:16:41 so we say the ball of the universe which 0:16:44 is expanding must have had a creator 0:16:48 must have had an intelligent force 0:16:50 behind it we call that intelligent force 0:16:52 Allah we do yeah we don't say it's 0:16:55 three-in-one entity we call it just is 0:16:56 one entity that created that does that 0:16:58 make sense 0:16:59 okay now the creator of that ball 0:17:04 assigned purpose for everything inside 0:17:06 of that ball all right and human beings 0:17:09 which he also created the assigned 0:17:11 purpose and gave them value and he also 0:17:15 gave the human being an ability to 0:17:17 recognize the ball to recognize him so 0:17:20 another world yeah an ability to 0:17:23 recognize him 0:17:26 then he reminded the human being he 0:17:30 reminded the human being using human 0:17:32 beings other human beings sending a 0:17:34 medium which we call an angel 0:17:37 wait a minute it's in this fairy tale 0:17:38 this mythology talking about angels now 0:17:41 my friend no no hold on yes it's a 0:17:45 metaphysical reality and angels a 0:17:47 metaphysical reality I believe is a 0:17:48 metaphysical construct religious 0:17:49 construct which we can't see your touch 0:17:51 over here but just because you can't see 0:17:53 something secular is once again when 0:17:55 they hear the words angel I know how it 0:17:57 feels 0:17:57 yeah when you hear the word angels or 0:17:59 Devils or sometimes I don't believe in 0:18:00 that angels no man we've already 0:18:02 dispelled all of those kind of things in 0:18:05 there in the Enlightenment period don't 0:18:07 bring me back to these angels and devils 0:18:09 hold on I know I know I know you've 0:18:12 heard this before call them what you 0:18:15 call them they're angels yeah 0:18:17 these angels these mediums communicated 0:18:22 who have selected human beings are for 0:18:24 time we believe that connected with many 0:18:28 human beings all of which told the 0:18:31 people the same message which was to 0:18:34 basically submit to the intelligence 0:18:37 behind the creating of the board for the 0:18:39 reason we talked about before it's the 0:18:41 most appropriate relationship we can 0:18:42 have with that creator is to to submit 0:18:45 to them that crater that's the only 0:18:47 relationship and only then will you find 0:18:49 peace and tranquility yeah you will not 0:18:51 find peace and tranquillity doing your 0:18:53 own thing or trying to find your own 0:18:54 purpose that is the message of the 0:18:58 prophets all of them so we believe in 0:19:00 Jesus so we believe in Abraham we 0:19:01 believe in Moses the final prophet we 0:19:04 believe is Mohammed yeah who came to the 0:19:06 Arabs but also to all of human kidney or 0:19:07 human beings yep 0:19:11 now does that make sense okay so that's 0:19:14 the best that's what we believe in 0:19:17 that's why we're Muslims yeah but it's 0:19:20 not just that it's not just the fact 0:19:22 that we believe in that we believe in 0:19:25 that all of the prophets that came to 0:19:28 their respective people's came with two 0:19:30 things a message which was the same 0:19:32 message of the soul journal and some 0:19:34 kind of evidence base and the evidence 0:19:37 base is different depending on the 0:19:39 prophet and depending on the customs of 0:19:41 the people so for example Moses he split 0:19:44 the sea we believe in this yeah we 0:19:46 believe that Moses split the sea Jesus 0:19:48 killed the day erased 0:19:49 Roza debt with God's permission he cured 0:19:51 the blind with God's permission we 0:19:52 believe in are those things we don't 0:19:54 disbelieve in those things 0:19:55 we don't believe that he was going on 0:19:56 the Son of God we don't believe that 0:19:57 yeah but we believe that he was the 0:19:59 Messiah and

The Biggest Crime in Islam. (2017-10-23) ​

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The Biggest Crime in Islam. (2017-10-23)

Summary of The Biggest Crime in Islam.

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