LIGHTHOUSE LIVE SESSIONS (2022-10-14) #

0:00:00 foreign
0:00:12 I've logged in
0:00:14 to stream yard
0:00:17 but it's given me a different account so
0:00:19 we've got the weird
0:00:20 little duck logo but it shouldn't be
0:00:23 there
0:00:24 and I don't have access to the call
0:00:28 intro videos
0:00:30 so I don't know what's happened there
0:00:31 we've had a bit of a
0:00:33 a flop but yeah I hope you're all well
0:00:35 um we'll just make do with this one for
0:00:37 the time being and uh assalamu alaikum
0:00:39 all so today
0:00:40 uh we're going to be doing another
0:00:42 Little Lighthouse live session inshallah
0:00:44 and the whole aim of these is basically
0:00:47 to do
0:00:48 similar to what we do on
0:00:52 our own basically so
0:00:53 for those of you who are not aware we
0:00:55 have a project
0:00:57 currently underway through safety
0:00:59 Institute called The Lighthouse project
0:01:02 and the lighthouse project aims to help
0:01:05 people with their doubts I'll tell you
0:01:07 I'll pull up the website
0:01:10 take you through it inshallah
0:01:14 right
0:01:15 present share screen
0:01:21 sapiens Institutes
0:01:23 yeah
0:01:24 okay so yeah if you go to
0:01:27 sapienceinstitute.org
0:01:29 you see at the top you've got request
0:01:32 request mentoring oh there's a little
0:01:34 button there that says Lighthouse
0:01:35 mentoring as well
0:01:37 so clicking that it should take you to
0:01:40 this page
0:01:41 and the service it says here that
0:01:43 basically it's for ex-muslims for people
0:01:45 that have left his name because of
0:01:47 intellectual spiritual or emotive doubts
0:01:49 uh students University college students
0:01:52 who are trying to reconcile an Islamic
0:01:55 identity with the vicitude of college
0:01:57 life uh non-muslims people who are
0:02:00 interested in Islam
0:02:01 uh leaders so it's not just dealing with
0:02:04 doubts or questions people may have but
0:02:05 if someone is wanting to actively get
0:02:08 engaged in dawa
0:02:10 and they're not quite sure where to
0:02:12 begin
0:02:14 um we've helped people sort of build
0:02:16 strategies or to think about it in a
0:02:18 more comprehensive way how to like how
0:02:21 to get started like from Step One
0:02:23 basically some people
0:02:25 um they they have no connections to any
0:02:27 of our community whatsoever in their
0:02:29 area or no one in their Community is
0:02:31 giving that and they want to know how
0:02:33 how do we get started with that so we
0:02:35 can help people with that
0:02:36 uh duart's preachers activists
0:02:39 ottawats engaged in the work of sharing
0:02:41 Islam model so even if you're already
0:02:42 doing that and you're thinking of how to
0:02:44 expand or you're coming across certain
0:02:45 problems or questions and you're
0:02:47 thinking of ways of how to best respond
0:02:49 to them
0:02:51 I can also help you
0:02:52 with that and it goes a bit further I've
0:02:55 helped people as well
0:02:58 they're in uni and they're trying to
0:03:01 um there's not just any random
0:03:03 degree but things specifically engaged
0:03:05 in stuff related to Islam and giving
0:03:08 dawah or basically the sapience mission
0:03:10 and people have come and booked a
0:03:12 meeting and we've discussed
0:03:14 um strategies on how to establish their
0:03:17 essay plans and things like that for
0:03:19 their dissertation related to things
0:03:21 like dealing with scientism being one
0:03:24 example
0:03:25 among other things so the whole service
0:03:27 is free so it's not one that's charged
0:03:31 um you could book a private and it's as
0:03:33 well it's not they're not made public
0:03:35 and they are kept completely private
0:03:37 one-to-ones uh with one of our mentors
0:03:40 which would either be myself or the
0:03:42 Hamza doctor of man Fahad uh
0:03:47 Celine uh who's currently joined us
0:03:51 um there's also uh but he's on enough
0:03:55 and brother Jake used to as well
0:04:00 at some point in the future possibly
0:04:04 um and other than that we're also
0:04:07 getting a few new members
0:04:09 um so we're getting brother Abbas and Dr
0:04:12 uh Imran from EF Tower to join us as
0:04:15 well inshallah
0:04:16 um and there's another brother who I'm
0:04:18 currently in the process of
0:04:21 um sort of trying to train up
0:04:23 uh which all of which is currently
0:04:27 uh underway and yeah so you'll have an
0:04:29 opportunity to speak to either of these
0:04:31 brothers or myself
0:04:32 um privately
0:04:34 but the regards for either doubts or
0:04:36 leadership in Dao Etc you can book one
0:04:38 of these meetings you pick from the
0:04:40 available times
0:04:41 and you pick one of the time slots
0:04:44 whichever day that happens to be
0:04:47 and then you fill it in and then once
0:04:49 you've filled it in that will basically
0:04:52 send it through to admin it'll either be
0:04:54 approved if when you're filling it in by
0:04:56 the way so the Box
0:04:58 it tells you
0:05:00 um
0:05:00 like give us information make sure you
0:05:03 read things because people have a
0:05:04 tendency to book these and not read
0:05:06 anything
0:05:07 um which is not what you should be doing
0:05:09 you should be making sure you read so
0:05:11 here
0:05:13 it says uh what questions do you have
0:05:16 what doubts or topics do you wish to
0:05:18 discuss be specific
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0:05:27 and people have so one person built in
0:05:31 saying no so I was that was one way of
0:05:35 and some people don't feel anything or
0:05:37 they'll just say I have doubts I said
0:05:39 yeah we know you have doubts you've
0:05:41 picked the help with doubts like what is
0:05:44 it that you wish to engage with is it a
0:05:46 particular topic is it to do with
0:05:47 morality is it to do with proofs of God
0:05:49 is it to do with Quran or Kira at or
0:05:51 whatever it is like just give us some
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0:05:57 if they need to prepare it all they're
0:05:59 able to do so
0:06:01 um make sure to obviously read these
0:06:03 some people do this and they've not read
0:06:06 them unfortunately the service does have
0:06:08 to be uh you need to be 18 or over for
0:06:10 legal reasons
0:06:12 um we can provide the service to people
0:06:13 under the age of 18 at the moment but
0:06:15 inshallah we are trying to look into
0:06:18 that and expand on that
0:06:19 um and make sure to read the the
0:06:21 lighthouse mentoring terms and
0:06:22 conditions which you can do so there but
0:06:24 yeah it's a free service it's private
0:06:26 it's one-to-one it's done through Zoom
0:06:29 um you have a whole hour to discuss
0:06:30 whatever you wish sometimes it gets
0:06:32 finished earlier
0:06:34 um sometimes it doesn't
0:06:36 and yeah and you just have an
0:06:38 opportunity to just talk with one of the
0:06:39 mentors about whatever it is that you
0:06:41 wish to do so today inshallah there's 13
0:06:44 of you salam alaikum to those 13.
0:06:47 um
0:06:51 hbh
0:06:53 786 and uh Muhammad Latif
0:06:58 ah
0:06:59 brother from Kashmir is joining the team
0:07:03 in the future insha Allah
0:07:06 um I've not actually asked him but I
0:07:08 could reach out to and see if he would
0:07:10 be interested
0:07:12 for the suggestion
0:07:16 um maybe he will maybe he won't Allah
0:07:19 um but always worth asking your brother
0:07:23 but uh
0:07:25 so I guess if any of you have got any
0:07:27 questions or anything in particular you
0:07:29 would like to discuss on the subjects
0:07:31 that we cover with Lighthouse
0:07:34 um don't ask 50 questions so I'm not
0:07:36 sure
0:07:37 I can't give fat words
0:07:39 and it's not really the purpose of this
0:07:42 um stream
0:07:43 to answer fit questions and stuff like
0:07:46 that if you're struggling with certain
0:07:48 doubts ask away
0:07:50 and I'll try my best to answer them
0:07:53 and we could discuss certain things if
0:07:55 no one has any particular questions I
0:07:58 guess I'll just pick something random to
0:08:00 talk about
0:08:04 to help you both well
0:08:09 um
0:08:13 um do you have a video disproving or
0:08:18 deconstructing solipsism
0:08:22 um I don't personally but I guess if you
0:08:24 want to ask
0:08:26 like make an argument for Solace so I
0:08:29 guess what I'll do I'll begin
0:08:31 by telling people how they should engage
0:08:33 with these things because they're not I
0:08:34 know it's a common trend
0:08:36 like let's say you're in the position of
0:08:39 belief like I am in a position of belief
0:08:41 I I got here through a number of things
0:08:45 um took a long time started looking into
0:08:46 Islam when I was about 17 didn't take
0:08:48 shahada until I was about 24. um a lot
0:08:51 of that was talking to Muslims engaging
0:08:53 in a dialogue with them asking them
0:08:55 questions them asking me questions
0:08:57 and putting forward positions they would
0:08:58 put forward one I would put forward one
0:09:00 I would push back against this they
0:09:01 would push back against mine
0:09:03 now if someone just comes to me and just
0:09:06 says Ah but solipsism
0:09:09 I'm gonna go
0:09:11 all right you could just say any random
0:09:13 word to me like I'm not that fussed
0:09:15 about these terms
0:09:17 um and I'm not
0:09:19 in the process of trying to prove things
0:09:21 for people
0:09:23 um without them giving me an argument
0:09:25 now there's many ways to argue for
0:09:27 different positions like whether it's
0:09:29 solipsism moral relativism
0:09:31 utilitarianism people take different
0:09:33 paths to each of these
0:09:35 positions
0:09:37 um solipsism in particular may have
0:09:40 many arguments that get people there and
0:09:42 people may differ in in regards to wider
0:09:44 solipsists
0:09:46 um so what I would do is I would ask the
0:09:49 question well
0:09:50 why are you a solar system what is a
0:09:52 solipsist for you as well in particular
0:09:54 because people differ in terms
0:09:57 you might talk to two people who
0:09:59 identify as a radical skeptic
0:10:02 um and you know you might find that they
0:10:05 actually are not that oh crap radically
0:10:08 skeptical about certain things
0:10:10 um so it's always worth just asking
0:10:12 questions and getting them to present a
0:10:15 position
0:10:16 now if if there's a particular argument
0:10:19 that's got you in a rut on this in
0:10:23 particular then give me the argument and
0:10:25 I can analyze it with you or we can talk
0:10:27 about it
0:10:28 um
0:10:29 and discuss it I've just built my groove
0:10:34 towel
0:10:37 yeah I wouldn't I find I don't I don't
0:10:39 know because you can't really tell much
0:10:41 from a tiny little comment like this
0:10:43 um so I can put the link out
0:10:46 maybe you can jump on and we can talk
0:10:49 you want to jump on the Stream
0:10:51 you will need to put your camera on for
0:10:53 a brief moment just so I can check
0:10:55 you're not a troll and do something that
0:10:57 I command you to do like
0:10:58 wave or hold up a certain amount of
0:11:00 fingers
0:11:01 this one
0:11:04 as we have many dramas on live streams
0:11:06 in past with other channels
0:11:09 that I wish to avoid but yeah so feel
0:11:11 free to act like
0:11:13 give me more information like what is it
0:11:15 about solipsism for example
0:11:19 do you want me to deal with like why
0:11:20 should we take it seriously
0:11:23 like what what is it what are the
0:11:25 reasons given
0:11:27 that make you think solipsism is
0:11:29 something that needs dealing with
0:11:31 in particular
0:11:34 this one
0:11:37 is that that's basically how I would
0:11:39 deal with these things
0:11:41 like I'm not fond of just someone says a
0:11:45 particular thing
0:11:47 a word a catchphrase a term
0:11:49 and then I'm supposed to deal with that
0:11:51 because that like what always happens
0:11:53 then is I might then approach one
0:11:55 particular argument and then someone
0:11:56 goes ah no but that's not a good
0:11:58 argument uh there's these other
0:11:59 arguments so you've strawmanned it or
0:12:01 that's not the position because they
0:12:02 hold the diff they've taken a different
0:12:04 path or a different route to that
0:12:05 position
0:12:08 uh
0:12:12 what is solipsism so solipsism
0:12:16 in particular
0:12:17 is a belief that uh
0:12:22 you can't really know anything beyond
0:12:24 maybe even maybe your own existence
0:12:28 let's have a look at what
0:12:30 rather than just going off the top of my
0:12:32 head
0:12:33 so solipsism is the philosophical idea
0:12:36 that only one's mind is sure to exist
0:12:39 an epistemological position solipsism
0:12:42 holds that knowledge of anything outside
0:12:44 one's own mind is unsure
0:12:47 there's a so there's a really good way
0:12:49 I guess if someone is stuck in that it
0:12:52 simply put us out
0:12:54 um
0:12:55 Maybe
0:12:57 get yourself a little candle
0:12:59 and a little lighter
0:13:02 light the candle
0:13:04 and you don't even need the candle you
0:13:05 probably just do it with the lighter but
0:13:07 just get them so hover their hand
0:13:10 over the candle for as long as they
0:13:12 possibly can getting it as close as they
0:13:14 possibly can
0:13:16 and eventually
0:13:18 I think they'll realize the candle
0:13:20 exists
0:13:23 eventually they'll get burnt
0:13:26 and yeah maybe they could still be
0:13:28 um
0:13:29 [Music]
0:13:31 skeptical but at the night like
0:13:35 I just find it to be a really
0:13:38 it's I find it to be a silly position
0:13:39 for a number of reasons number one
0:13:41 I don't think like I guess it depends on
0:13:44 why the person is a solipsistic I think
0:13:46 a lot of the time people become
0:13:47 solipsists because they try to do
0:13:49 something like they try to prove the
0:13:52 external world with deductive argument
0:13:54 and every time they try to do it
0:13:56 um they fail and or they like they find
0:13:58 it difficult to do so and so they end up
0:14:01 moving from this idea that well if I
0:14:03 can't deductively prove it then I can't
0:14:05 believe it exists as if everything
0:14:08 needs a deductive argument in order for
0:14:11 you to be justified and believing in its
0:14:12 existence now I think that's absurd I
0:14:15 don't think that that is reasonably
0:14:17 something you can expect off every
0:14:19 person on the planet
0:14:21 to be able to
0:14:22 give deductive Arguments for belief in
0:14:27 things which pretty much everyone
0:14:30 takes for granted apart from these odd
0:14:33 uh individuals that get stuck in this
0:14:36 sort of philosophy rabbit hole
0:14:41 um
0:14:42 and like for me
0:14:45 belief in the external world is
0:14:47 something I would just call a basic
0:14:49 belief or something that you don't need
0:14:50 a rational argument for because it if
0:14:53 you if you're going to be saying that
0:14:54 you need a deductive argument or
0:14:56 everything needs some sort of deduction
0:14:58 argument in order to be justified in
0:15:00 believing it then you need to provide a
0:15:02 deductive argument for that proposition
0:15:04 you need to give me a deductive argument
0:15:07 that shows absolutely that every
0:15:10 argument
0:15:11 needs a detoxive argument because if you
0:15:13 can't provide an argument for that
0:15:14 particular claim that everything that in
0:15:15 order to be justified in believing it
0:15:17 needs a rational argument
0:15:19 you can't make that claim without giving
0:15:22 me a rational argument for it
0:15:24 and you just you you end up going either
0:15:26 like you go brain dead and you just go
0:15:30 oh well apart from that one thing or
0:15:34 uh you you take this like infinite route
0:15:38 where you try to give some sort of
0:15:40 argument and then each premise in that
0:15:41 also needs an argument and then each
0:15:43 premise in that argument needs an
0:15:45 argument and you just end up going on
0:15:46 forever you don't really get anywhere
0:15:48 and uh so yeah it the whole thing I
0:15:52 think is uh
0:15:53 built around this idea that everything
0:15:55 needs a rational argument I don't think
0:15:56 the external world does this matter
0:15:59 deductive reasoning
0:16:02 um is not something you're born good at
0:16:04 no one is born
0:16:07 rational or reasonable in the same way
0:16:09 that no one is born strong like if you
0:16:11 want to become fit you want to become
0:16:12 healthy you want to become the world's
0:16:14 strongest man
0:16:15 you don't do that from birth you've got
0:16:17 to train you've got to work you've got
0:16:18 to put in effort and energy in
0:16:20 particular practices to be able to
0:16:22 become good at it and it's the same with
0:16:23 rationality or reasoning
0:16:25 um and just not everyone has access to
0:16:28 the
0:16:29 to that kind of education
0:16:31 um like you know the the farmer the
0:16:33 cleaner you know your random Joe are
0:16:37 they really expected to be able to give
0:16:41 a deductive syllogism
0:16:45 sound
0:16:47 and completely unflawed and then go
0:16:49 through the process of Defending it
0:16:50 rigorously against some PhD in order to
0:16:54 be justified in believing that the
0:16:56 external World exists and then engaging
0:16:59 with it
0:17:00 as if it does
0:17:02 I think this is just something you could
0:17:04 take for granted the external World
0:17:05 exists you know if you put your hand in
0:17:07 the fire
0:17:08 uh you're not going to be a solipsist
0:17:10 while you're screaming in pain
0:17:14 or if you're kidnapped
0:17:17 and someone is um
0:17:19 you know
0:17:21 taking away your freedom
0:17:24 from you and limiting you and you're not
0:17:27 able to do whatever you want you're
0:17:29 going to come to a point where you have
0:17:31 to admit that there are things external
0:17:33 to you that act upon you that you don't
0:17:35 have control over that the external
0:17:37 world does have some sort of existence
0:17:38 doesn't mean you have to know everything
0:17:39 about it
0:17:41 um or know it in some sort of complete
0:17:44 manner
0:17:45 um
0:17:46 yeah I don't know
0:17:49 what else being said
0:17:57 we've got 17 people so for those of you
0:18:00 who have just joined we're gonna do like
0:18:01 a little Lighthouse live session
0:18:03 um if you've not
0:18:06 heard of Lighthouse it's a service that
0:18:08 Savings Institute offers for free uh
0:18:11 where you can go to our website and you
0:18:13 can book a meeting with us or me or one
0:18:15 of the other mentors
0:18:18 um completely free and it's completely
0:18:19 private so they're not they're not like
0:18:21 this this is just to advertise the
0:18:23 service
0:18:25 um it's not going to be something to put
0:18:26 on the internet uh it is kept completely
0:18:29 confidential
0:18:30 and something you don't need to worry
0:18:32 about sharing with people or people
0:18:34 being uh exposed to whatever it is that
0:18:37 you've
0:18:37 uh that that's worrying you
0:18:40 uh what's
0:18:41 I'm trying to find the top again so you
0:18:43 can go to the website here um there's a
0:18:45 little button here that says Lighthouse
0:18:46 mentoring
0:18:47 uh yeah it's free private one to one
0:18:50 thumb through Zoom
0:18:51 um and you get an hour where you can
0:18:54 talk to one of our mentors and discuss
0:18:56 whatever it is that you're having
0:18:58 trouble with with doubts or questions
0:19:00 um if you're wanting to engage in dawa
0:19:02 if you're not sure where to begin or if
0:19:05 you're already engaging with our or
0:19:06 you're you're trying to give down to
0:19:08 someone and you're not too sure how to
0:19:09 approach it are the best ways of
0:19:10 approaching it all of these discussions
0:19:13 um we can have here
0:19:15 for free so the doubts or leadership
0:19:19 and you can do that by just going to
0:19:21 sapience Institute
0:19:23 here
0:19:30 sapienceinstitute.org
0:19:32 or with Slash
0:19:34 Lighthouse so it should be in the live
0:19:38 chat now and it will also insha Allah be
0:19:41 in the description to this video
0:19:43 uh so feel free to book a private one if
0:19:45 you would rather talk privately or if um
0:19:48 you don't mind feel free to
0:19:53 post your question in the chat or jump
0:19:55 on the Stream
0:20:00 all right what's the fact that's what
0:20:03 I'm saying according to the contingency
0:20:05 argument the existence of the universe
0:20:07 can or cannot be
0:20:10 it's not according
0:20:13 just to the contingency argument
0:20:16 this is I would guess
0:20:18 something you could say whether or not
0:20:21 you're making a contingency argument
0:20:24 um
0:20:24 you would look at the universe you say
0:20:26 oh well the universe
0:20:28 and you know this everything has a
0:20:30 beginning they even say that the
0:20:32 universe will come to an end at some
0:20:33 point it'll die a heat death or it'll
0:20:36 dissipate into nothingness as well
0:20:40 so things have Beginnings things like
0:20:42 ends
0:20:43 that existence can be turned on that
0:20:45 existence can be turned off
0:20:48 so that's what it means to be contingent
0:20:51 um
0:20:52 and it can be in any different way
0:20:55 so it is contingent
0:20:58 you don't have to even make mention of
0:20:59 the fact of that it could be different
0:21:01 um
0:21:02 in terms of its variation you could just
0:21:04 focus on the fact that its existence
0:21:05 could be turned on or off
0:21:08 um but yeah some do go down the roof
0:21:10 different ways so it is continued my
0:21:11 question is how can I think of a
0:21:15 non-existent universe
0:21:19 uh
0:21:20 isn't it's contradictory why are you
0:21:23 trying to think of a non-existent
0:21:24 universe
0:21:26 because a non-existent universe
0:21:29 I got I guess it depends what you mean
0:21:31 by that
0:21:32 so by a non-existent universe do you
0:21:36 think are you thinking like a
0:21:37 hypothetical universe
0:21:39 that doesn't exist
0:21:42 but could do
0:21:44 or are you talking about
0:21:46 nothing and then adding the term
0:21:48 Universe to the nothingness where
0:21:50 there's there is no thing
0:21:53 what which of the two are you talking
0:21:55 about
0:21:56 um isn't it contradictory I mean the
0:21:57 mind would argue that thinking of a
0:21:59 non-existent universe
0:22:01 well it depends
0:22:03 what you mean by a non-existent universe
0:22:05 so like if you're talking about
0:22:07 nothingness like absolutely nothing I
0:22:09 just would not apply the word Universe
0:22:11 to that
0:22:13 at all I'll just refer to it as nothing
0:22:17 um
0:22:18 but if you're talking about a universe
0:22:20 that could potentially exist but doesn't
0:22:22 at the moment and you're just talking
0:22:24 about it hypothetically
0:22:26 um then there's nothing contradictory in
0:22:27 that because
0:22:30 you're talking about what could be like
0:22:31 for example like if I'm talking about a
0:22:34 car that could exist and that this car
0:22:37 it's non-existent at the moment
0:22:40 um
0:22:41 but you know if it did exist you know it
0:22:43 would have these big curly wings that
0:22:47 went
0:22:48 and the the wings would uh be this color
0:22:54 um
0:22:55 that grades very very gradually
0:22:59 uh from polar opposite colors also I
0:23:03 don't know like just a list of
0:23:05 attributes that are random of a thing
0:23:06 that doesn't exist yet yeah you go back
0:23:09 in time
0:23:12 and you've got some little little
0:23:15 medieval people sat around and they're
0:23:16 talking about this thing that's going to
0:23:18 be metal and it you know it doesn't
0:23:20 exist yet
0:23:21 like there's nothing completely
0:23:24 inconceivable or contradictory about
0:23:26 them
0:23:27 talking about these things oh look at
0:23:30 this
0:23:32 how are you doing alhamdulillah good how
0:23:35 are you alhamdul very well
0:23:37 so yeah for joining us yeah we're just
0:23:40 doing a little Lighthouse live it's not
0:23:42 gonna be for long
0:23:43 um it's just for another 35 minutes
0:23:45 we'll finish at 8 p.m inshallah brother
0:23:49 Imran is uh it's kindly offered his
0:23:51 services for the lighthouse projects as
0:23:53 well so nice
0:23:55 it's excellent work mashallah very much
0:23:57 needed
0:23:59 um I I haven't seen any of the streams
0:24:01 so far so I've literally got the message
0:24:03 and I thought I'd just jump on inshallah
0:24:04 yeah there's not much going on yet uh I
0:24:06 have posted the the link I'm just trying
0:24:09 to address this question so someone's
0:24:11 asking about uh according to the
0:24:14 continuity argument the existence of the
0:24:16 universe can or cannot be
0:24:18 and it can be in a different way and
0:24:19 that's why it's contingent the question
0:24:20 is is can I think of a non-existent
0:24:22 universe isn't it contradictory so I'm
0:24:24 just trying to explain that
0:24:26 it depends what you mean like if you're
0:24:28 talking about nothingness and trying to
0:24:29 call that a universe yeah then you're
0:24:33 adding this thing to something which is
0:24:36 a knob thing and then that becomes a
0:24:38 contradiction you're trying to give a
0:24:39 property to a non-existent thing yeah
0:24:41 but if it's just talking about something
0:24:43 that could potentially exist like a
0:24:46 universe where me and you uh on opposite
0:24:49 sides
0:24:51 or I'm in your house and you're in my
0:24:53 office yeah you're welcome anytime by
0:24:56 the way yeah new to mine as well lovely
0:24:58 couch it's all a bit background blurred
0:25:01 but but yeah so that I wouldn't say that
0:25:03 would be contradictory even though it
0:25:05 doesn't exist
0:25:07 because it's not the possibility isn't
0:25:09 it yeah yeah yeah yeah
0:25:11 okay so this is your field so I'm sure
0:25:14 that you're uh
0:25:16 yeah I think he's just sort of uh
0:25:19 he's got himself mixed I don't know his
0:25:23 question is not very clear so I don't
0:25:24 really know
0:25:25 uh what he means in particular but
0:25:28 like so just going on into it moisters I
0:25:30 mean that the the mind would argue that
0:25:32 thinking of a non-existent universe is a
0:25:34 contradiction because thinking of a
0:25:35 non-existent universe would require
0:25:38 a thinking entity
0:25:40 for example can I imagine holding a ball
0:25:42 in my hand while Simon saying instantly
0:25:44 imagining that I don't exist
0:25:45 well no you wouldn't be able to
0:25:48 but thinking about a non-existent
0:25:50 universe doesn't require you to think
0:25:53 the
0:25:54 I don't know I think you're over
0:25:56 complicated yeah
0:25:57 is the uh maybe I don't understand the
0:26:00 question is the question about uh
0:26:02 another universe that um has
0:26:05 is like this universe but different
0:26:07 somehow but doesn't actually exist yeah
0:26:09 or is it actually the question about
0:26:11 existing thinking of something that
0:26:13 doesn't exist and calling that our
0:26:14 universe there are two different things
0:26:15 aren't they what was the what's up I'll
0:26:18 put the link in so you're welcome to
0:26:20 jump on or maybe we can like talk
0:26:22 through it and the question is as well I
0:26:23 guess why is this bothering you or is it
0:26:25 bothering you is it something like as if
0:26:28 it's just like a question
0:26:30 then fair enough it's not that big a
0:26:32 deal but if this is something that's
0:26:33 like keeping you up at night
0:26:35 um
0:26:38 then obviously like I think the brothers
0:26:40 made a comment there
0:26:43 I understood Amex nothingness with you
0:26:45 okay okay yeah so like if you're mixing
0:26:48 two terms together that are
0:26:50 contradictory then it would become
0:26:52 contradictory
0:26:53 um
0:26:55 but just like I don't see how like
0:26:58 hypothesizing for example
0:27:00 about a potential universe that could
0:27:02 exist even though it doesn't would be in
0:27:05 the same way that I could talk about
0:27:06 that car that I mentioned like you know
0:27:09 it's got curly wings and it has uh like
0:27:13 these big ribbons that come out of the
0:27:15 windows like it might not well they're
0:27:17 saying that that kind of car probably
0:27:18 exists these days but
0:27:20 um like just pointing at something that
0:27:23 doesn't exist yet isn't enough to say
0:27:25 that it's a contradiction because you're
0:27:26 not saying that it does exist the
0:27:28 contradiction is is when you're
0:27:29 asserting two properties of the thing
0:27:31 simultaneously
0:27:33 in the same way
0:27:34 about the same thing
0:27:37 in the same in the same everything so
0:27:40 one example is the married Bachelor you
0:27:43 say like if I say brother Imran here
0:27:46 masha'allah he's uh he's a married
0:27:48 Bachelor
0:27:49 you can say well no that that's
0:27:51 contradictory because you're saying that
0:27:53 he is married and simultaneously in the
0:27:56 same way at the same time he's not
0:27:58 married
0:27:59 but you can't make both of those claims
0:28:01 about the same thing you're not saying
0:28:03 anything like that when you're talking
0:28:04 about
0:28:05 and a non-existent universe that you're
0:28:07 hypothesizing about
0:28:09 because you're not claiming that it does
0:28:10 exist
0:28:11 if you said that this non-existent
0:28:13 universe does exist
0:28:15 that would be the contradiction
0:28:17 that's when you're just going to be
0:28:20 careful with the language and I think
0:28:21 this is the biggest problem with
0:28:22 philosophy
0:28:24 is sometimes language is the weirdest
0:28:27 thing like even simple words sometimes I
0:28:29 say like you know I like porridge in the
0:28:33 morning and I put banana in my porridge
0:28:35 but the word banana sometimes just
0:28:38 doesn't look like a word to me
0:28:40 you know what I mean oh Flamingo is
0:28:42 another aubergine there's some words you
0:28:44 say them enough
0:28:45 and they just stop
0:28:47 seeming like Words is that is that like
0:28:49 a northern thing or something
0:28:51 I don't know I thought it was again am I
0:28:53 the only one
0:28:55 um are you looking at a word and it
0:28:57 stops looking like a word or who have
0:28:58 you never looked at who and thought why
0:29:00 is that said who a
0:29:05 yeah so in uh so we get lots of words
0:29:07 like uh pneumonia the piece that's
0:29:10 another one and then we have lots of
0:29:11 these phone
0:29:13 uh but if you give it to a child they'll
0:29:16 they'll try and say the P initially and
0:29:18 then that's intuitive yeah those lots of
0:29:21 those types of things
0:29:22 um yeah you know with English you can
0:29:24 spell fish uh as this
0:29:28 uh isn't this the pH
0:29:31 uh
0:29:33 I'd say it's only one t I'll spell it
0:29:35 with two T's uh
0:29:37 there we go this
0:29:39 let's fish
0:29:41 in English yeah
0:29:43 okay
0:29:44 I should come here more often I learned
0:29:46 something else you want to know why it's
0:29:48 fish I can tell you why it's fish is
0:29:50 that like a Gaelic dialect or something
0:29:52 no no no no no no you say it's the GH
0:29:54 from enough
0:29:57 oh I see yes you got the fur it's a GH
0:30:00 from enough
0:30:01 and then you've got the the O from women
0:30:08 and then you've got the ti
0:30:11 from potions here from West from westery
0:30:14 potion potion okay yeah yeah so GH is
0:30:19 the fur from enough fur the O is the the
0:30:23 if from women
0:30:24 and the ti is the uh
0:30:27 firm potion
0:30:29 so
0:30:30 fish
0:30:32 but it's just because English is a weird
0:30:34 language
0:30:36 the bottom of it it's a mishmash of many
0:30:38 different places because we're just
0:30:40 getting invaded
0:30:41 from every angle constantly yes so you
0:30:45 must be indigenous from everywhere
0:30:46 martial law yeah yeah yeah
0:30:48 um you know you know the the sessions
0:30:50 that you do the lighthouse sessions
0:30:52 mashallah
0:30:54 um when you do these events like that
0:30:56 you're talking now you're doing this
0:30:57 live stream what was the was the purpose
0:30:58 to answer questions or are you talking
0:31:00 about the lighthouse
0:31:01 yeah no so answer questions as well so
0:31:03 basically what the point of these
0:31:06 kind of you know I was meaning to speak
0:31:08 to you about this as well it's kind of
0:31:09 like the doubt Busters
0:31:11 I need to advertise the service because
0:31:13 it's a private one some people get
0:31:14 anxious about asking questions publicly
0:31:16 or going online and of course
0:31:18 um there's a certain character type that
0:31:21 inclines towards jumping on a live
0:31:23 stream and there's obviously the
0:31:24 introverts struggle with that
0:31:26 um so this service is here I guess to
0:31:29 make up for that lack in the market
0:31:31 because we've got lots of live streams
0:31:32 going on everywhere and people can yeah
0:31:36 um you know their hands is then there's
0:31:37 millions of them
0:31:39 um when you can jump on you can have
0:31:41 these conversations publicly but not
0:31:43 everyone can do that so these are
0:31:44 private free one-to-one we don't want to
0:31:46 put any barriers in people's way
0:31:48 um the information that you provide is
0:31:50 not made public
0:31:51 um it's kept private and you can chat to
0:31:54 either myself or to put a Hamza or
0:31:56 inshallah not to fire the future but
0:31:59 Imran and Abbas inshallah is joining as
0:32:02 well
0:32:02 and we've got a few other brothers
0:32:04 um who are engaged in the
0:32:06 the mentoring um so you could just have
0:32:08 this nice conversation and the majority
0:32:10 of them go really well
0:32:11 I have had so many nice conversations
0:32:14 with people that are just panicking over
0:32:16 something and you talk them through it
0:32:18 and then the Hat just settles and they
0:32:20 go oh I feel silly now
0:32:22 but sometimes people just need that
0:32:24 discussion and I think one of the
0:32:26 biggest problems at the moment is many
0:32:28 mosques are not really equipped to
0:32:30 answer some of the weird questions like
0:32:31 like actually Islam
0:32:35 it's not I want to say weird I don't
0:32:36 mean like you're weird like I mean it is
0:32:39 a these questions can get a bit abstract
0:32:42 in a bit out there
0:32:44 um and I think for the average person
0:32:46 that maybe attends the mosque they've
0:32:49 maybe probably not even thought in that
0:32:51 much detail about these type of things
0:32:52 so when they hear these kind of
0:32:54 questions it just goes over the head or
0:32:55 they don't know how to respond or they
0:32:56 panic
0:32:58 and they react badly and um yeah it's a
0:33:01 shame so this I mean we get lots of lots
0:33:03 of emails you personally as well as to
0:33:06 to EF Tower and I'm sure everyone is the
0:33:08 same of people just sort of you know can
0:33:11 you help me with this sort of specific
0:33:12 question or something and it's and it's
0:33:15 often that they have they're not able to
0:33:17 come onto a live stream or they they
0:33:18 don't want to so I think this is a
0:33:20 really essential service I think the
0:33:22 other for me the other thing that is
0:33:23 really useful about this is that you get
0:33:26 time you get time to talk to somebody
0:33:28 one to one and that's really missing in
0:33:30 another four or another another sort of
0:33:33 um platform so you can't really do that
0:33:34 so those two things combined if you have
0:33:37 something that you you think is you know
0:33:39 I don't really want to talk about this
0:33:40 openly
0:33:41 um and also I need a bit of time to
0:33:43 explain what's happened and what I'm
0:33:45 thinking and then this is sort of it's
0:33:47 open to that and I think that gives
0:33:48 people a bit of reassurance that it's
0:33:50 private it's available that you can book
0:33:53 it at your own uh you know your
0:33:54 convenience and it's not rushed as well
0:33:56 like sometimes with the live streams
0:33:58 it's like right you've got one point you
0:33:59 can make you're going through that and
0:34:01 then we've got to push you off and get
0:34:02 the next person on and it's not
0:34:04 necessarily done with bad intent it's
0:34:06 just if you've like for example you've
0:34:08 got these live streams sometimes you
0:34:09 have like 50 people waiting in the back
0:34:10 yeah absolutely and like you don't want
0:34:12 to like just give one person five hours
0:34:14 of time
0:34:16 and then everyone sat down in the back
0:34:18 waiting for their turn and they don't
0:34:19 get an opportunity and the stream ends
0:34:21 um whereas with this like you book a
0:34:23 service if you get through everything in
0:34:25 one session alhamdulillah if you don't
0:34:26 you can go you can book another session
0:34:28 you can book in the same day at the same
0:34:30 time and get you know um get through to
0:34:32 the same person uh or you can book it on
0:34:34 another day and inshallah maybe get
0:34:36 through to someone else but yeah it's
0:34:38 there for as often as you need it and
0:34:41 you can keep coming back obviously the
0:34:43 whole point of the service is to sort of
0:34:45 equip you to be able to deal with these
0:34:46 things yourself
0:34:47 well we wanted the whole you know the
0:34:50 saying that we generally give is we want
0:34:51 to teach you how to fish not just be the
0:34:53 person that gives you fish every time
0:34:55 you're hungry
0:34:56 um and the whole point of the
0:34:57 conversations is we're not just trying
0:34:58 to answer the question but we're trying
0:35:00 to get you to think in such a way where
0:35:02 you can go away and deal with them
0:35:04 yourself because like like me for
0:35:06 example I do
0:35:07 about 50 of the sessions
0:35:09 um that we're doing at the moment and
0:35:12 I get a lot of questions and a lot of
0:35:14 them I just don't know the answer to
0:35:15 sometimes it's just like
0:35:17 good question I don't know and like I
0:35:20 don't go into a state of panic
0:35:22 and so people do like they come across a
0:35:24 question it's very very common like I
0:35:26 literally had like like one session
0:35:28 after the other where it was just like
0:35:29 one brother suffering from the very same
0:35:32 thing as the next not necessarily the
0:35:33 same topic but in the same way like they
0:35:36 come across something and the way he
0:35:39 presented it was like uh he was having a
0:35:41 discussion he was giving dollar to
0:35:42 someone and they
0:35:44 um they they put him on the spot and he
0:35:46 was like and then I didn't and like I
0:35:47 don't know how to answer it and then you
0:35:49 know I'm like am I a cafe
0:35:53 they go into a state of panic where they
0:35:55 can't sleep they get into a state of
0:35:57 depression and then they ring me and I'm
0:35:59 like why do you think that makes your
0:36:01 Cafe like just simply because you don't
0:36:03 know the answer to a question that's
0:36:05 like saying I'm a caviar if I'm not the
0:36:08 all-knowing like that's not how it works
0:36:11 you're you are finite there are going to
0:36:14 be things you don't know the answer to
0:36:16 and that's completely normal and you
0:36:18 need to be able to like
0:36:19 come across certain things
0:36:22 and go oh that's an interesting question
0:36:24 I don't know the answer to that I will
0:36:27 look into it or like inshallah Allah
0:36:30 will give me the answer at some point
0:36:31 because there's some questions as well
0:36:33 that like you get the answers to
0:36:36 straight away like you go on a Google
0:36:37 search or you reach out to a friend or
0:36:40 something you get the answer like that
0:36:41 there's some that take ages there's some
0:36:45 like that you might never get because
0:36:47 it's not incomprehensible that there are
0:36:49 some things you're just not going to get
0:36:49 the answers to yeah yeah lots of things
0:36:52 like that but a lot of the time it's
0:36:53 just trying to instill these virtues in
0:36:55 people you know virtues of things like
0:36:56 patience Etc
0:36:58 um getting people to you know there's a
0:37:00 there's a sort of because there's a
0:37:03 couple of reasons because this is sort
0:37:04 of an indicative of something more
0:37:06 fundamental
0:37:07 so either
0:37:09 um depending on who the person is either
0:37:10 you haven't really
0:37:12 built the foundations for yourself very
0:37:15 strongly so that when things do come
0:37:17 along they affect you quite a lot and it
0:37:19 upturns you your worldview is affected
0:37:22 quite strongly
0:37:23 and sometimes it can be because if
0:37:25 you're uh if you've been if you're you
0:37:28 know born into Islam you've been
0:37:29 complacent about the the learning or
0:37:31 you've come into Islam uh very
0:37:34 intellectually and you haven't really
0:37:36 laid your foundations yet
0:37:38 um something else comes along and it
0:37:39 kind of rock you quite strongly and
0:37:41 that's probably the indication that you
0:37:42 know let that sit down and work out why
0:37:46 you believe what you believe and where
0:37:47 you've established sort of your
0:37:48 foundations from and and get sort of
0:37:50 learning get yourself spiritually strong
0:37:52 and then you can move into these areas
0:37:53 of looking at things
0:37:56 um the other thing that might be a
0:37:57 personality thing so I I mean lots of
0:37:59 people are very anxious and little
0:38:01 things can sort of make you suddenly
0:38:03 um you know it can make you very anxious
0:38:06 about everything so a small anxiety
0:38:08 becomes a big anxiety sort of it's sort
0:38:10 of a ripple effect starts affecting
0:38:12 other things
0:38:13 and so I suppose it depends on who you
0:38:15 come across but it sometimes it can
0:38:17 declare things that need to be dealt
0:38:19 with um and this is a nice way to find
0:38:20 out you don't want to find yeah live
0:38:22 stream having a nice chat with someone
0:38:24 who cares is probably the nice way to do
0:38:26 it mashallah and uh this is the thing as
0:38:29 well like you like I I can't even count
0:38:32 how many people I've spoke to privately
0:38:34 but you start to see certain patterns
0:38:36 and it like you you recognize that there
0:38:38 is this intimate relationship between
0:38:40 the heart and the mind like there isn't
0:38:42 this big wall between them like people
0:38:44 try to make out
0:38:46 um it's you know they are connected and
0:38:48 that when your heart is affected that
0:38:51 does affect your ability to reason and
0:38:53 we know this because uh when people are
0:38:56 heartbroken for example they do very
0:38:58 very stupid things thinking that they're
0:39:00 completely rational mashallah we've got
0:39:02 brother in the back
0:39:03 he's giving us a little wave just give
0:39:05 us um I'll tell you what I'll just
0:39:07 bringing salam alaikum Bella
0:39:09 yeah
0:39:12 brother Yusuf brother Imran how are you
0:39:16 good how are you
0:39:19 alhamdulillah I was I I like it it
0:39:22 really picks my interest uh the the
0:39:25 point you were uh trying to explain to
0:39:27 the brother in the chat
0:39:29 uh about all the existence and the
0:39:31 non-existence and uh and uh it brought
0:39:35 me to think about uh about this verse in
0:39:39 the Quran
0:39:40 where uh uh Allah
0:39:43 uh says that uh uh let me read it in
0:39:48 English because I don't memorize it in
0:39:49 English so it says we did we did indeed
0:39:53 offer the trust to the heavens and the
0:39:55 earth and the mountains but they refused
0:39:57 to undertake it being afraid thereof
0:40:01 but men undertook it he was indeed
0:40:04 unjust and foolish
0:40:07 so when we look at this verse when we
0:40:10 talk about the other reality uh because
0:40:14 in the Quran God says that that uh
0:40:21 that means after we die it's like a
0:40:24 cover gets a veil from our eyes and our
0:40:26 vision becomes so strong we get to see
0:40:28 some things that that that we couldn't
0:40:32 see or we could we saw blurry when we
0:40:34 were alive yeah and uh so so what I
0:40:38 meant uh by uh uh uh uh mentioned in the
0:40:42 first verse is that everything that God
0:40:44 created
0:40:46 worships him with no condition with no
0:40:49 choice
0:40:50 and God gave us that trust to where we
0:40:55 will have a choice in life when we say
0:40:58 insane is
0:41:01 given a choice to actually uh make our
0:41:06 own decision
0:41:07 for for a brief period of time in this
0:41:10 life
0:41:11 are we going to worship God or not and
0:41:14 we said that we will because God uh
0:41:17 explicitly explained to us that we have
0:41:20 made this choice we have decided to
0:41:22 undertake this uh this this this
0:41:25 challenge because a lot of the atheists
0:41:28 keep saying why is God unjust what would
0:41:31 he punish us for a test that that he
0:41:33 know we're gonna fail
0:41:35 and uh and it's not true because God is
0:41:38 telling us that we chose this test and
0:41:40 he tells us that we were transgressors
0:41:42 and unjust and foolish for choosing to
0:41:45 take this test and the reward from this
0:41:48 test is so great we we're going to be
0:41:50 raised to uh to such a high position
0:41:54 from passing this test and now that we
0:41:58 are at this moment in life we are
0:42:00 already in the test we can't see anymore
0:42:03 like the way I try to describe it to
0:42:05 some friends when I talk about this
0:42:06 topic
0:42:07 if you're familiar Brothers with the
0:42:09 with the virtual reality when you put on
0:42:12 those goggles and you can see all these
0:42:13 things around you
0:42:15 yeah I tell them I tell them imagine
0:42:17 that you put on the reality goggles
0:42:20 virtual reality goggles and then there
0:42:22 are all these uh electrodes that are
0:42:25 attached to your uh to your skull and uh
0:42:28 so you can feel everything around you to
0:42:31 the point where it's like so real you
0:42:33 can feel things you can taste things you
0:42:34 can
0:42:35 and right before you put the goggles on
0:42:38 you're told that this is a tough test
0:42:41 that once you're immersed in that in
0:42:43 that uh virtual reality
0:42:46 you will forget everything that's around
0:42:48 you on the outside world like people
0:42:50 standing around the new around you
0:42:51 watching
0:42:56 oh did we lose you
0:42:59 brother are you still there
0:43:02 oh oh I'm sorry brother oh I'm sorry
0:43:06 sorry I I realized what happened so I
0:43:08 said once you're in that once you have
0:43:10 the goggles on you will be so immersed
0:43:12 in that reality that you would not know
0:43:15 or see or feel what's going on outside
0:43:18 of you like there are people standing in
0:43:19 front of you watching on the screen what
0:43:22 you're doing and what you're what you're
0:43:24 saying and everything
0:43:25 and but you have no contact with that
0:43:28 and you don't realize what you what are
0:43:30 you doing until you remove the goggles
0:43:32 so what are you doing the test people
0:43:34 are standing around and you're around
0:43:35 you are looking at the screen and say oh
0:43:37 my God I can't believe you just stole
0:43:38 something
0:43:39 oh my God he just he just took that that
0:43:42 uh Haram meet and put in his mouth and
0:43:45 part of the test is that poor kid he
0:43:47 can't eat pork it's it's just part of
0:43:50 the test it's not because because God is
0:43:52 unable to make us eat pork it's part
0:43:54 parts of the test like don't eat pork
0:43:56 once you have the gargle these are the
0:43:57 rules don't do these things do these
0:43:59 things and we find out that within when
0:44:02 we have the goggles on all these things
0:44:04 that are supposedly Haram for us and
0:44:06 Haram for a reason within that test not
0:44:09 within the the greater reality within
0:44:12 that test like they harm us when we do
0:44:15 when we do all these harambics they
0:44:18 could even just simply be because of um
0:44:19 a test of obedience
0:44:22 because exactly I'm I'm doing a video at
0:44:26 the moment for yesterday and I think
0:44:28 it's your recent one
0:44:29 um the non-believer believes in the
0:44:31 fitra
0:44:32 part one and
0:44:34 um there's a moment where
0:44:37 you're discussing something with him
0:44:40 and it's about the Apple I think
0:44:43 and like the Abbas is talking about that
0:44:46 like the apples in and off itself is
0:44:48 like this arbitrary object yeah I
0:44:51 remember it's like you know like who
0:44:53 cares about apples like what what is it
0:44:55 about this apple it's nothing about the
0:44:57 Apple in and off itself
0:44:58 but there's there's this whole notion of
0:45:01 like no you're being commanded to do
0:45:02 something
0:45:04 um like are you going to like be humble
0:45:07 and understand the position that you're
0:45:08 in in relation to the one that's
0:45:09 commanded you
0:45:11 um that you're ignorant you're finite
0:45:12 your leave and he is all knowing he is
0:45:15 wise and he's uh that not finite he's
0:45:19 infinite and you know there's obviously
0:45:23 a humbleness in that and there can be a
0:45:24 you know we refer to it as a Slip but
0:45:27 this forgetfulness and it's sort of
0:45:28 linking it to what you were saying as
0:45:30 well you know the virtual reality
0:45:31 goggles
0:45:32 and the the veil now it's funny because
0:45:35 like inshallah I can't take the veil off
0:45:38 you completely
0:45:39 but
0:45:41 there is a way of like peeking behind
0:45:45 certain layers and you can do it right
0:45:46 now yeah because we this happens all the
0:45:48 time we become very forgetful
0:45:50 and we become very soaked in to things
0:45:54 outside of us or to a particular task
0:45:57 and it's it can be quite remedial maybe
0:45:58 it's the stream
0:46:00 um maybe it's you're doing the dishes or
0:46:01 whatever but like life just sort of
0:46:03 captures you sometimes and you get stuck
0:46:05 in it and you just sort of go from one
0:46:07 thing to the next mindlessly almost
0:46:10 and it doesn't have to be like that like
0:46:12 right this very second yeah we can look
0:46:16 at how weird the universe is like it's
0:46:20 really really strange and you know like
0:46:22 people we mentioned in the virtual
0:46:24 reality goggles when they first came out
0:46:27 we were putting them on and we were
0:46:28 getting Shivers yeah we were like whoa
0:46:30 look at this this is weird like watching
0:46:32 like floating above Earth and things
0:46:34 like that and we like we'd be so amazed
0:46:37 by it and then we take them off and like
0:46:40 all we could think about was our
0:46:42 experience inside that virtual reality
0:46:43 goggles and we're looking at something
0:46:45 that is like more than 8K 50 billion K
0:46:49 like everything you see in reality
0:46:51 it isn't reducible to just a certain
0:46:54 number of pixels that you can do on a
0:46:55 screen yeah because that's all the
0:46:57 screen is it's just a number of pixels
0:46:59 and it's limited to however many well we
0:47:01 can get 8K now like a big what like the
0:47:04 universe can be broken down into a tiny
0:47:07 tiny particles so this is like
0:47:10 if it's a k anything it's a big big
0:47:13 number yeah there's so much detail in
0:47:16 the universe that it is completely
0:47:18 incomprehensible like every like even
0:47:21 like something simple like a maggot yeah
0:47:24 pretty arbitrary little
0:47:26 stupid little thing just Wiggles about
0:47:28 eats stuff and cocoons itself like in
0:47:31 that there is so much complexity and
0:47:34 weirdness there's so much like to just
0:47:37 sit and be in awe of but we just we get
0:47:40 soaked into day-to-day stuff so much
0:47:43 should we be combined to it like the
0:47:44 like the things that you have in your
0:47:46 house your washing machine these lights
0:47:48 these computers like I'm talking to you
0:47:50 I'm in a room we're not with each other
0:47:52 I'm not sat next to you I don't know
0:47:54 where you are I don't know but it runs
0:47:56 in London somewhere I don't even know
0:47:58 where in London but like all of these
0:48:00 ads are coming together
0:48:02 through through what through internet
0:48:04 waves whatever that is there's signals
0:48:06 information flying through the sky and
0:48:09 like we're all having this mad
0:48:10 conversation
0:48:11 and half of the time like the the
0:48:15 craziness of reality just completely
0:48:16 passes Us by but all it takes is just to
0:48:18 sit there and look at it and think about
0:48:19 how weird everything is
0:48:21 and all of a sudden that veil's gone for
0:48:24 a moment just just for a second like how
0:48:27 strange is everything how like how many
0:48:29 things are there that I should be like
0:48:30 in or off and be grateful for like you
0:48:33 know the go-to one is usually eyesight
0:48:35 like yeah like you when you've got your
0:48:38 eyesight and you're just using it you
0:48:40 take it for granted you're not like
0:48:42 I can see you're not like crying every
0:48:44 day because of the beauty of color I
0:48:47 gotta you know on a bright summer's day
0:48:48 when it the Sun comes out and the sky is
0:48:50 blue and all the vegetation is green and
0:48:53 the light just hits it perfectly and
0:48:55 it's like wow look at that like how
0:48:57 often like you should be constantly in
0:48:59 tears because if that was when like when
0:49:02 you get something in your eye and or
0:49:04 like you know something hurts or
0:49:06 whatever like when that's taken away
0:49:07 from you
0:49:09 all of a sudden you're like oh I wish I
0:49:11 had it I wish I had just appreciated it
0:49:13 when I had it oh you know same with good
0:49:15 health when we're in good health we just
0:49:17 take it for granted and then all of a
0:49:19 sudden we feel sick and then we're like
0:49:21 oh I've only if only I could get good
0:49:23 health again and then you get it again
0:49:24 it's like Allah Allah says in the Quran
0:49:26 you're like uh mankind screams for help
0:49:29 when he's on a sinking ship and then
0:49:30 when he gets what he wants and he he
0:49:32 gets dry land
0:49:34 it's like he never had any problem like
0:49:36 he never called to Allah at all and he
0:49:38 just calls about his day because mankind
0:49:40 is forgetful mankind
0:49:42 you know just get sucked into the
0:49:43 day-to-day and like as much as I can
0:49:45 maybe draw attention to the weirdness
0:49:47 you know
0:49:49 you know brother I'm sorry the point you
0:49:51 made is like uh it's so good it actually
0:49:54 it reminds me of of this uh this idea
0:49:58 that I get and and God forbid I mean to
0:50:01 uh to say that this is how creation was
0:50:05 uh uh by no means but let's just pretend
0:50:09 of sake of pretending and this virtual
0:50:12 reality what you're gonna put on the
0:50:13 goggles but you will be judged for what
0:50:16 you did while you had the goggles and
0:50:18 the the those electrodes and uh and uh
0:50:21 your memory was wiped off from the real
0:50:23 reality where you only witness and
0:50:26 experience things within that virtual
0:50:28 reality but before you put on the
0:50:30 goggles
0:50:31 you're told that once you enter that
0:50:34 reality there will be some things that
0:50:37 will work for you and some things that
0:50:39 will work against you for example for
0:50:41 example if you're a man and you're
0:50:43 extremely handsome it would be a
0:50:44 Temptation in that world and it will
0:50:46 cause you maybe to to attract uh uh
0:50:49 other women and uh and and cause you to
0:50:52 sin and maybe if you are very rich then
0:50:55 that money will be a Temptation and you
0:50:58 will be doing all things that will cause
0:51:00 you to sin and and uh if you're very
0:51:03 strong you're gonna have the the duty to
0:51:06 protect the weak and stand for what is
0:51:08 right and what is just and what is all
0:51:10 these things we're going to be judged on
0:51:12 and after the game is over
0:51:15 so now if you're selecting your uh your
0:51:19 tools for the game
0:51:21 and you're wise you're probably gonna
0:51:23 say you know what I don't want to be
0:51:24 very rich I don't want to be very
0:51:26 handsome I don't want to be very strong
0:51:29 I don't want to be very deaf because
0:51:31 you're trying to limit that Temptation
0:51:34 that might cause you to lose the game
0:51:35 but then once you decide all that and
0:51:38 you put on the goggles then all of a
0:51:40 sudden you're complaining you were like
0:51:41 you're like I wish I was I was I was a
0:51:44 very handsome man I was I wish I was
0:51:46 very strong I wish I was very rich this
0:51:49 is not fair God is not fair wisely or
0:51:51 the the the game Lord is not fair why
0:51:54 isn't he why is he giving this guy a
0:51:55 villa and a boat and this and uh and uh
0:51:59 uh private jet and like I'm struggling
0:52:02 to pay my rent and
0:52:04 so yeah people sometimes as well we we
0:52:07 get sucks into the problems that we have
0:52:10 you can't and then you draw a line
0:52:12 around that problem
0:52:13 and say I cannot see why this would
0:52:16 happen to me
0:52:17 and half of the time like a bit of time
0:52:21 makes that line that you've drawn around
0:52:22 the problem dissolve like when I was
0:52:25 younger certain things happened to me
0:52:27 when they were happening I was like oh
0:52:28 you know how could it be and you put a
0:52:31 bit of distance between you and it
0:52:33 and it has less of an impact on you and
0:52:36 that line can be drawn a bit further you
0:52:38 go okay maybe I can see why that could
0:52:41 have happened to me or what consequences
0:52:43 came from that that may have been good
0:52:45 or what consequences were taken away
0:52:47 from me because of that thing
0:52:49 um whatever it is like there's so many
0:52:51 things that you can conceive of if you
0:52:52 just give yourself a chance to sit down
0:52:54 and think about these things because
0:52:56 this is the thing like the biggest links
0:52:59 to like the problem of evil and people
0:53:00 are complaining about the evil that has
0:53:02 befallen them they say I think it is
0:53:04 gratuitous I think there is no good
0:53:07 reason why this happened but it's like
0:53:09 do you know that do you know that for
0:53:12 sure because in order to say that you
0:53:13 have to have all the facts you need to
0:53:15 know how this event interplays into
0:53:19 everything around you yeah not just you
0:53:23 in that particular moment but you as an
0:53:26 individual throughout an entire life you
0:53:28 as an individual who has interactions
0:53:30 with your environment and the people
0:53:31 around you and how it impacts and
0:53:33 affects them
0:53:34 and can you say that you know
0:53:37 without a shadow of a doubt that there
0:53:40 is no wisdom behind it and the answer to
0:53:42 that question is no you do not know
0:53:44 without a shadow of a doubt and it's the
0:53:46 same lesson is taught in uh sort of calf
0:53:49 with Musa when he's with uh
0:53:54 I don't know if I'm repeating myself to
0:53:56 the same people or if this is a
0:53:58 different circumstance but
0:54:00 um yeah what happens is he has these
0:54:03 natural reactions you know he thought it
0:54:06 does something and he's like
0:54:08 why are you doing that and he's like the
0:54:11 intuition is this is an unjustice why
0:54:13 would you do this and he says I told you
0:54:14 you couldn't be patient with me and he's
0:54:17 like ah yes and he humbles himself and
0:54:19 he realizes I'm jumping to conclusions
0:54:20 maybe I am ignorant of some facts that
0:54:23 would make me understand what is going
0:54:25 on here and in the end that's exactly
0:54:27 what happens that circle around the
0:54:29 immediate environment is what's
0:54:31 happening when he he damages the boat
0:54:33 most of Allah's reaction is I am putting
0:54:35 a circle around this moment around this
0:54:38 event with me and you in this boat and
0:54:41 I'm not thinking beyond that
0:54:42 and in that Circle within this limited
0:54:45 context that I've artificially forced
0:54:48 upon the moment
0:54:49 that is an injustice it's like well hold
0:54:52 on a second
0:54:53 comes along and draws a bigger circle is
0:54:55 a Big King coming about
0:54:58 he's gonna be taking everyone's boats
0:54:59 and he's not going to take this ball if
0:55:01 there's a little hole in it and that's
0:55:02 going to save this family and that might
0:55:04 have a huge impact God knows on how many
0:55:06 generations that came after that
0:55:09 The Butterfly Effects you know a little
0:55:11 butterfly can flap its wings one minute
0:55:13 and that can have huge implications
0:55:15 thousands of years down the line and you
0:55:18 look at not Ali salami one family and we
0:55:20 all come from him
0:55:22 so you know these things can have huge
0:55:25 impacts the little things insignificant
0:55:27 things you're complaining about things
0:55:28 that are
0:55:29 um really important to you in that
0:55:30 moment
0:55:31 but there could be a tiny thing like
0:55:32 maybe you put the glass in there instead
0:55:35 of there or you know you you drank this
0:55:37 tea instead of that tea or you put too
0:55:40 many sugars or not or nothing like all
0:55:42 of these things have God knows how many
0:55:43 count
0:55:44 um
0:55:47 consequences
0:55:48 and you we cannot go ahead and talk
0:55:51 about these things as if we we know that
0:55:53 they're gratuitous because we just
0:55:55 simply don't but um I'm gonna have to
0:55:57 leave it there brother so I'm gonna have
0:55:58 to
0:56:17 prompt you to that question about the um
0:56:20 teenager yeah was that the one you're
0:56:22 gonna ask yeah so can you help a
0:56:23 confused teenager so if she's 18 and
0:56:27 over she can use a service if she's not
0:56:29 someone that she knows who is 18 or over
0:56:32 can use a service and we can talk to
0:56:34 them and then they can relay the
0:56:35 information or try to help so this is it
0:56:38 the way we work is we're not just
0:56:40 helping individuals that are suffering
0:56:41 through the problems themselves we're
0:56:43 trying to equip people who know
0:56:45 individuals who are suffering through
0:56:47 problems to help them to deal with it so
0:56:50 basically to help equip you do the job
0:56:52 that I do or the doctor Imran here like
0:56:55 and it's not impossible like we I wasn't
0:56:59 even a Muslim Once Upon a Time
0:57:01 um so you know if I can do it you most
0:57:03 certainly can
0:57:05 um and half of the time it's just you
0:57:07 know trying to get through certain
0:57:10 assumptions that people make like the
0:57:12 amount of times that someone's come in
0:57:14 with an argument and you're like well
0:57:16 hold on like
0:57:18 in order to say that with so much
0:57:20 the conviction
0:57:23 with so much confidence you've got to
0:57:25 say you know about XYZ and I guarantee
0:57:27 you don't think you know about XYZ at
0:57:29 all and um so yeah so but then he says
0:57:33 uh she is a woman if she's already age
0:57:36 18 she's more than welcome to use the
0:57:37 service you can send this link
0:57:39 um to her I'll put it in the chat just
0:57:41 forward it and she's more than welcome
0:57:43 to make use of that
0:57:47 um but yeah so are you going to add to
0:57:48 that as well brother no I was just going
0:57:50 to add to the really I think the thing
0:57:53 the thing that's really important for me
0:57:55 as because we all suffer in our lives is
0:57:57 sort of just part of living yeah and the
0:58:00 thing to remember well the thing that I
0:58:01 try to remember is actually you know
0:58:03 for every individual is important to
0:58:05 Allah nothing is insignificant and
0:58:07 nothing happens to us without some
0:58:09 meaning in it it's meaningful it's
0:58:11 important and it has some value
0:58:14 and we trust in Allah we believe that
0:58:16 there is some good outcome in anything
0:58:18 that we go through so
0:58:21 um I think for me that's always held me
0:58:23 because and what I've looked back on
0:58:25 difficulties that I've had
0:58:27 I've always learned actually you know
0:58:28 from this I learned these things
0:58:31 yeah and uh I don't I don't think I
0:58:34 would have learned them otherwise well
0:58:36 actually I was heading down a darker
0:58:37 path
0:58:38 and maybe maybe in a path that I
0:58:40 wouldn't have liked myself if I had gone
0:58:42 down that path and this event that
0:58:44 happened that stopped me and made me go
0:58:46 another way actually when I look back
0:58:49 I'm grateful for that yeah during the
0:58:51 time I was going through that it was it
0:58:52 was a nightmare yeah yeah
0:58:55 so there's always a there's always a
0:58:58 hikmah that maybe we don't know and this
0:58:59 is the this is the moral underneath the
0:59:01 story of the of Islam that we we don't
0:59:03 know we don't know
0:59:05 and so we can't make Hasty judgments
0:59:08 yeah exactly and sometimes it is just
0:59:11 like putting a bit of effort in or
0:59:14 having patience because sometimes like
0:59:16 because I've had conversations with
0:59:17 people and they're so annoyed about
0:59:20 something
0:59:21 and it's like oh like the gratuitous
0:59:23 evil again yeah so
0:59:25 like so they say why do bad things
0:59:27 happen to animals it's like can you not
0:59:30 think of a single reason why like I'll
0:59:32 give you a random thing and I want you
0:59:34 to try and tell me why you think this
0:59:37 event might have happened or what
0:59:39 potential reasons you might not get the
0:59:41 right answer but if you can think of at
0:59:42 least one yeah
0:59:44 and you can always think of more than
0:59:45 one but if you can think of at least one
0:59:47 you have at least a potential reason or
0:59:49 a wisdom behind that so the the example
0:59:52 I gave was um
0:59:54 the
0:59:55 a baby deer burning in a forest
0:59:58 it's like you know get the baby violin
1:00:00 out it pulls on the heartstrings poor
1:00:03 little deer why did it burn to death in
1:00:05 the forest and it's like okay yeah no
1:00:08 that does that sounds terrible doesn't
1:00:10 it like why would a baby deer just die
1:00:12 in the forest so think about it can you
1:00:15 think of any potential reason at all as
1:00:18 to why could have died maybe it was
1:00:20 having a disease
1:00:22 that had it been allowed to continue to
1:00:24 live might have spread and killed x
1:00:26 amount of people that may have been good
1:00:27 and there may have been great benefit in
1:00:29 them
1:00:30 um it could have been uh heading
1:00:32 straight towards a road
1:00:33 at some point in its life ran in front
1:00:36 of a car and killed a family of
1:00:37 beautiful people you know it could have
1:00:39 done X it could have done like there
1:00:41 could have been any number of reasons as
1:00:44 to why it happened
1:00:45 yeah and all of a sudden it's not
1:00:47 gratuitous now if I can give these
1:00:49 reasons
1:00:50 like you could of course you can object
1:00:52 to them if you want to but there are
1:00:54 still reasons there and the objection is
1:00:56 only again going to take you so far
1:00:58 because you you know you're limited in
1:00:59 your knowledge you don't they could that
1:01:01 could play the whole butterfly wing
1:01:03 thing there could be massive
1:01:05 consequences with letting this
1:01:07 particular thing happen or not happening
1:01:08 and it's just
1:01:10 just putting that effort in like just to
1:01:12 think and say okay
1:01:14 I will make an attempt here to try and
1:01:16 see if there is a reason in it and
1:01:19 looking for it is enough sometimes just
1:01:20 to reveal it to you and I've heard a
1:01:22 beautiful Dua I can't remember who told
1:01:24 me
1:01:25 um
1:01:26 I don't know if it's like a proper Dua
1:01:28 that we we get from the religion or
1:01:29 something but I heard someone say it and
1:01:32 it was um oh Allah don't give me an easy
1:01:35 life give me the strength to overcome
1:01:38 a difficult one or it may they may have
1:01:41 taken it from something else and
1:01:42 combined it with something but like
1:01:44 because within is the Islamic religion
1:01:47 as well we have this notion of this
1:01:48 concept that that pain isn't a bad thing
1:01:52 that like Allah says that he will test
1:01:55 the ones he loves over and over and over
1:01:57 and over again until they walk along the
1:01:59 Earth without sin yeah every no matter
1:02:01 what it is that you go through anxiety
1:02:03 hardship even the pricking of a thorn
1:02:05 that Allah will expiate your sins
1:02:07 because of it and on the day of judgment
1:02:09 you'll sit there and you'll see these
1:02:11 sins falling off your pile
1:02:13 and and you'll be told this is because
1:02:15 you suffered this with patience this is
1:02:17 because you suffered this with patients
1:02:18 and you'll be sitting there wishing
1:02:20 you'd suffered more
1:02:22 wishing you suffered more and the the
1:02:24 other Hadith about the the person who
1:02:26 had suffered has taken and he's not even
1:02:28 in Paradise he's just dipped in it like
1:02:31 a part of his body for a brief moment is
1:02:32 in there and he's asked did you ever
1:02:34 suffer and he said no this isn't
1:02:36 inconceivable because you see this
1:02:37 happening on earth when people
1:02:39 experience Joy they forget whatever pain
1:02:41 they've gone through someone wins the
1:02:43 lottery all of a sudden ask a mother
1:02:45 who's just delivered yeah like the
1:02:48 amount of like emotions they go through
1:02:50 the joy all of this like everything else
1:02:52 just drifts you forget about it no
1:02:54 matter what you've suffered like I've
1:02:55 got scars on my face I don't know if you
1:02:58 can even see
1:02:58 from when I fell down the stairs when I
1:03:00 was one I can't even remember that pain
1:03:02 yeah I like I have no I I only know
1:03:06 about it because I've got a scar there
1:03:07 that reminds me that that must have hurt
1:03:09 but and there's things that I do
1:03:10 remember happening like I've got scars
1:03:12 here I remember putting my arm through a
1:03:14 window
1:03:15 I know that hurt but I don't remember
1:03:17 the pain
1:03:18 like my arm doesn't hurt anymore it's
1:03:20 just
1:03:21 it's just a scar
1:03:23 you know it's just a memory it's
1:03:25 something that floats away it's like
1:03:27 looking at it through a fog and you know
1:03:29 if this can happen in the Dunya
1:03:32 with little trifling pieces of pleasure
1:03:35 and joy that you can forget everything
1:03:37 all of a sudden imagine like Allah is
1:03:40 describing there's a book that I'm
1:03:41 reading at the moment
1:03:55 I can't remember I'll put it
1:03:57 it's uh here it is
1:03:59 a concise description of Jannah and
1:04:01 Janam come on
1:04:03 and
1:04:05 basically it's you know it does what it
1:04:07 says on the tenant gives you a concise
1:04:09 description of Jannah and Johanna and
1:04:12 Jannah is described
1:04:14 in such a way yeah that
1:04:17 like it's it's inconceivable like the
1:04:20 the type of joy that you're going to
1:04:22 experience the type of bliss that you'll
1:04:24 have when you get to Jannah yeah if the
1:04:28 lottery can make you forget what you've
1:04:29 gone through the lottery is like
1:04:32 absolutely nothing in compared to this
1:04:35 infinite Bliss infinite Joy forever no
1:04:38 boredom no tiredness no uh you know like
1:04:42 like in the on the earth if I play a
1:04:44 game too much I get bored of it ah we've
1:04:46 got to move like no like in general
1:04:48 there's no lower diminishing return like
1:04:50 every time you've returned to something
1:04:51 the next experience conceivably could be
1:04:54 better than the last time you did it so
1:04:55 and that could just just keep doing that
1:04:57 forever like every time you go back to
1:04:59 the game you're like wow that's good
1:05:01 it's even better than the last time like
1:05:03 you know all these laws could be
1:05:05 completely inversed where people like
1:05:07 people say oh won't you get bored in
1:05:08 heaven for an infinite amount of time no
1:05:10 we only get bored on Earth because we're
1:05:12 wired to get bored
1:05:14 but isn't it's not you know
1:05:16 inconceivable that that wiring could be
1:05:18 completely changed so that that boredom
1:05:20 just doesn't ever hit you in fact the
1:05:22 opposite you get more and more like and
1:05:25 you you think you've hit a peak you're
1:05:26 like how on Earth can it get any better
1:05:27 than this imagine drama me and you yeah
1:05:30 roaming around playing real life Call of
1:05:33 Duty or Battlefield or something like
1:05:35 you shoot me when I die I respawn and
1:05:38 then like we're all running about
1:05:40 killing me we get to do what we want
1:05:42 like subhanallah
1:05:44 whatever you're going through whatever
1:05:46 it is you're going through you're gonna
1:05:47 forget
1:05:50 those in shoulder I mean I mean but
1:05:52 we'll leave it there do you want to give
1:05:56 a little closing statement before we we
1:05:57 end the stream
1:05:58 um I think I would just say that take
1:06:01 advantage of the uh of the service
1:06:03 that's being offered at the Lighthouse
1:06:04 uh project I think it's an excellent
1:06:06 thing inshallah
1:06:07 um and uh it may accept everyone's
1:06:09 efforts in sort of organizing it and
1:06:11 making it happen inshallah take my leave
1:06:14 now inshallah brothers
1:06:16 so it's a pleasure
1:06:22 and yes brothers and sisters so I'm
1:06:25 going to put the link on the screen I'm
1:06:26 just going to type it out so you can
1:06:28 institute.org forward slash lighthouse
1:06:31 and so just to reiterate uh as we end
1:06:34 this now this is a completely free
1:06:36 service there's no hidden charges it's
1:06:38 not all you've booked now uh with you
1:06:42 know you always 700 pounds in a sneaky
1:06:44 letter we sent you three weeks later no
1:06:46 it's free yeah there's no no charge
1:06:49 no pennies you just use the service as
1:06:52 and when you need it related to these
1:06:54 subject matters uh so you go to the link
1:06:56 that's running along the bottom of the
1:06:59 screen here
1:07:01 this one
1:07:02 go to that link it should be in the
1:07:04 description so if you're watching this
1:07:05 not live
1:07:06 check it out in the description if
1:07:08 you're watching it live it is in the
1:07:11 chat
1:07:12 as well in the live chat so click that
1:07:14 link and book a meeting and the meeting
1:07:17 uh is for people who are you know
1:07:21 ex-muslims or current Muslims who are on
1:07:24 the brink of leaving or
1:07:26 there's certain things that chewing your
1:07:28 head out and you're not too sure how to
1:07:30 deal with them or how to answer them or
1:07:31 like how to reconcile certain things
1:07:34 you're in University you're at you know
1:07:36 whatever it is like you just
1:07:39 tune your brains out you don't really
1:07:40 feel like there is anyone around you
1:07:41 that you can talk about these things too
1:07:43 we're here for you inshallah so book a
1:07:45 meeting it's completely private we don't
1:07:47 record these sessions and then make them
1:07:49 public they are recorded for legal
1:07:51 reasons
1:07:52 um but that's just because if something
1:07:54 goes wrong or something
1:07:55 um and something has to go to court
1:07:58 um my life a bit then obviously those
1:08:01 recordings are there because we are a
1:08:02 charity
1:08:03 and so let's get there for training and
1:08:05 quality purposes and that kind of thing
1:08:07 um but it's not put onto YouTube it's
1:08:09 not made public it's not sent to anyone
1:08:11 um you know these things are kept
1:08:13 completely confidential and private
1:08:15 um and it's there for you to use and if
1:08:17 you have one meeting and you've got 20
1:08:19 questions and you only get through one
1:08:20 or half of one you can book another
1:08:22 meeting then you can use the service for
1:08:24 yourself for people you know you can
1:08:26 pass it on use it please this is what
1:08:29 it's here for
1:08:30 um and I want you to book if you feel
1:08:32 like you need it don't if you're if
1:08:34 you're sat there like ah no I feel like
1:08:36 I need it but you know I don't want to
1:08:38 take the the time away from other people
1:08:40 don't think like that if you feel like
1:08:42 you do need it book a meeting go on find
1:08:45 the meeting that is suitable for you
1:08:47 make sure you set calendar reminders
1:08:50 in your phone when you do book the
1:08:52 meeting so you don't forget about the
1:08:53 meeting we do send a Google Calendar
1:08:55 invites as well so make sure to accept
1:08:58 them
1:08:59 um when you get them in your email
1:09:01 and and show up have a conversation with
1:09:03 either myself
1:09:04 um or one of the other mentors like I
1:09:06 say it's completely free completely
1:09:07 private one to one you get a whole hour
1:09:10 of our time so just discuss through
1:09:12 these problems at your own pace
1:09:15 um and insha Allah
1:09:16 benefit from it so it's there for you it
1:09:20 is a Service sapience Institute is
1:09:21 providing for free we want you to make
1:09:23 use of it or to at least pass it to
1:09:25 others so that they may take use of that
1:09:28 as well so I just want to address these
1:09:29 last comments before I go that's the
1:09:31 thing semantic satiation foreign
1:09:38 causes a word or phrase temporary loses
1:09:41 its meaning that is what I've suffered
1:09:43 through
1:09:45 um
1:09:46 to everyone who said salaam uh our test
1:09:51 in the Dunya is from Allah subhanahu wa
1:09:54 ta'ala
1:09:55 I lost my hair at a young age and it
1:09:57 bothered me as an older man I realized
1:09:59 it was to protect me from my vanity
1:10:01 alhamdulillah everything is good for the
1:10:03 believer
1:10:04 everything is good for the believer if
1:10:06 something good befalls him he is
1:10:08 thankful he says alhamdulillah and so it
1:10:11 is good for him it is something if
1:10:12 hardship hits him if he struggles he's
1:10:15 patient
1:10:16 and so it is good for him
1:10:18 Handler for everything
1:10:20 uh let's have a look
1:10:24 uh with regards to requests for Mohammed
1:10:27 hijab your best to just forward them to
1:10:29 his email
1:10:30 yeah you can find that on his YouTube
1:10:31 channel Insha'Allah and if he has the
1:10:34 opportunity to I'm sure he will
1:10:36 um
1:10:39 foreign
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1:10:44 being insincere when like you said we
1:10:47 can take the external world for granted
1:10:49 for the other Creator's existence yeah
1:10:51 if it's especially if it's a basic
1:10:53 belief like for example Allah says in
1:10:55 the Quran that we are made to testify at
1:10:57 the existence of the Lord before we are
1:10:59 placed into our bodies now belief is a
1:11:03 uh it's natural
1:11:05 it has to be and there's articles on
1:11:07 this you can search uh religion is
1:11:09 natural
1:11:10 by Paul Bloom he's an atheist he's an
1:11:13 atheist psychologist and you'll notice
1:11:15 the article isn't atheism is natural
1:11:18 uh it is specifically
1:11:21 theism is natural or religion is natural
1:11:24 people have certain beliefs and they
1:11:26 have them as a basic belief and this is
1:11:28 why you have this cross-cultry wherever
1:11:30 you go there is a belief in the
1:11:32 Transcendent there is belief in life
1:11:33 after death there is belief in the body
1:11:35 and the soul
1:11:36 yeah there is belief in all of these
1:11:39 things and they according and this I
1:11:41 quote from um Paul Bloom they come for
1:11:44 free they are not learned so these
1:11:46 beliefs where do they come from
1:11:48 they try to obviously explain them via
1:11:50 naturalistic means but like I just see
1:11:54 absolute failure in their attempts to do
1:11:57 that and the belief in a higher power
1:12:00 belief in meaning belief in life after
1:12:02 death all of this makes complete sense
1:12:04 especially within an Islamic framework
1:12:05 Allah we've met Allah we've testified
1:12:08 that we believe in him and we're placed
1:12:10 in a body and we know that there is
1:12:12 going to be a Judgment Day
1:12:13 and why do think why do you think kids
1:12:16 believe in life after death without
1:12:17 having to be taught it this is the case
1:12:20 so it's a cross-cultural study that's
1:12:21 done all over the planet
1:12:23 um and this is the case even if the
1:12:24 parents uh atheists children believe
1:12:27 more readily in a secular environment
1:12:29 than adults do
1:12:36 and it is their parents that lead them
1:12:38 astray
1:12:40 of the society
1:12:41 but yeah we'll leave it there guys
1:12:44 um
1:12:47 so yeah the meetings are online on Zoom
1:12:51 um I am
1:12:53 open to so I have an office here in
1:12:55 Bolton if you happen to live in Bolton
1:12:58 um you book a meeting and you live
1:13:00 nearby or you're willing to make it uh
1:13:02 the journey I'm happy to do a one-to-one
1:13:05 here
1:13:06 um you just need to mention that in the
1:13:09 application
1:13:11 um as you could say I live in Bolton or
1:13:13 I live nearby or I can travel to Bolton
1:13:15 um and we can meet up and we can have a
1:13:16 one-to-one in face that's completely
1:13:19 optional it's only me that is available
1:13:21 to do the face-to-face one-to-one
1:13:24 um so make sure if you're doing that
1:13:26 make the request with myself the days I
1:13:29 work uh Monday mornings this is the UK
1:13:31 time Monday morning from
1:13:34 um
1:13:35 9am to 12 p.m and the same time on
1:13:37 Friday mornings 9 A.M to 12 p.m and
1:13:39 Wednesday afternoons
1:13:41 um so if you book either of them times
1:13:43 you'll get through to me
1:13:46 and they can be personally
1:13:48 um or you can do on Zoom uh you cannot
1:13:52 spectate so they're private so there's
1:13:54 uh the only people that are available
1:13:55 are allowed to join the meeting
1:13:58 um
1:13:59 other people that have booked the
1:14:00 meeting uh sometimes I've had dual
1:14:02 meetings so I've had it where a brother
1:14:04 and a sister have come to the meeting
1:14:05 together
1:14:07 um
1:14:07 but yeah and but that that's with the
1:14:10 consent of the person that's booked the
1:14:12 meeting or whoever the meeting is for
1:14:14 um but you can't just spectate to the
1:14:17 random meetings unfortunately
1:14:19 um okay but we'll leave it there uh we
1:14:22 went a little bit longer than usual
1:14:25 um but I enjoyed it it was a nice
1:14:28 conversation may Allah bless you all may
1:14:30 he grant you all victory in this world
1:14:32 and in the next and like I said make use
1:14:35 of the service pass it on to whoever you
1:14:37 think
1:14:38 may need it
1:14:39 um it is there for the ummah
1:14:41 uh so
1:14:43 milk it get every bit of use out of it
1:14:46 you can but until next time
1:14:49 oh
1:14:50 there's a retreat I'm going on number
1:14:53 three to Turkey
1:14:55 um if you subscribe to the channel you
1:14:58 probably send advertise we've been
1:14:59 advertising it like crazy there may be
1:15:01 some spaces left so if you have the
1:15:02 ability do join us but I'll be going
1:15:05 there from I'll be in Turkey from the
1:15:07 19th to the 29th
1:15:10 um I'll be getting involved in some
1:15:12 capacity I'm not 100 sure like in what
1:15:16 capacity yet but I I am going to be
1:15:17 there and getting involved
1:15:19 um and I'll be there for the whole time
1:15:21 so if any of you are coming I'll see you
1:15:23 there Insha'Allah and I'm also going to
1:15:25 try to Vlog the whole thing as well
1:15:27 um so keep your eye out for that as well
1:15:29 brothers and sisters but
1:15:31 I know I said goodbye a lot as we'll say
1:15:34 it again but other than that thanks for
1:15:35 watching guys and I'll bless you Allah
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