Need for Messengers - Argument from Fitrah | The Evidence Course | Session 4 / Part 1 (2021-09-15) ​

0:00:14 alhamdulillah you have stayed for
0:00:17 section four inshallah section four
0:00:19 we're now going to look at the question
0:00:21 about the need for messengers and we're
0:00:23 going to talk about this in two parts
0:00:25 the first one we're going to talk about
0:00:27 which is where we're going to focus
0:00:28 today is the argument from fitra
0:00:31 so in the first section or the second
0:00:33 section
0:00:34 and sections two or sessions two and
0:00:37 three
0:00:38 we explored the question of whether the
0:00:40 universe and all that it contained
0:00:43 including us
0:00:44 have a creator
0:00:46 we explored the various arguments for
0:00:49 the existence of allah
0:00:51 and even some of the popular contentions
0:00:53 against these arguments
0:00:55 inshallah hopefully we have concluded
0:00:58 that there are very strong
0:01:00 rational reasons for not only believing
0:01:03 that there is a necessary independent
0:01:05 unlimited creator
0:01:06 but also a creator who is one and unique
0:01:10 as well as having a will and thus chose
0:01:13 to create the universe
0:01:15 that the first question should now be
0:01:17 answered what was that first question if
0:01:18 you remember when we talked about the
0:01:20 person who wakes up on in a desert
0:01:23 how did i get here we wake up into
0:01:25 existence we went from non-existence to
0:01:27 existence we've answered that first
0:01:29 question how did i get here
0:01:32 ultimately without going into the
0:01:34 discussions of mechanic mechanistics or
0:01:36 the
0:01:37 mechanistics or mechanical aspects or
0:01:39 causations of the universe and its
0:01:41 creation we ultimately answered the
0:01:43 question by saying ultimately the
0:01:45 creator created us
0:01:47 and brought us into this life
0:01:50 but we also need to ask the next
0:01:52 question
0:01:53 okay we are created
0:01:55 but we we were we created by the creator
0:01:57 allah and told just to get on with life
0:02:00 in essence is there guidance from this
0:02:03 creator after we have been created
0:02:06 should we even look for the guidance or
0:02:08 should we just simply be satisfied that
0:02:10 allah exists our creator exists that's
0:02:13 it i'm happy with the answer
0:02:15 well there's a few ways to answer this
0:02:16 question
0:02:17 firstly if we cast our minds back
0:02:20 to the second video in the first section
0:02:23 or first session
0:02:24 we discussed that in order to understand
0:02:26 our purpose of life
0:02:28 you know when you wake up in that desert
0:02:30 in order to understand our purpose we
0:02:32 need to answer the question how did we
0:02:34 get here and also
0:02:36 what's going to happen to us after we
0:02:38 die
0:02:39 where are we going and it's only by
0:02:41 answering this question do we create a
0:02:43 unique moral and unique viewpoint on
0:02:47 life so we need to know we still need to
0:02:49 answer this question
0:02:51 is there guidance did the creator create
0:02:53 us and just simply leave us or did the
0:02:55 creator creators and actually give us a
0:02:57 guidance that we have to follow and tell
0:02:59 us what's going to happen to us after we
0:03:01 die
0:03:02 so clearly now
0:03:04 knowing that there is a creator who
0:03:06 chose to create the universe we'd
0:03:07 naturally ask the question whether there
0:03:10 was a reason for this creation and what
0:03:13 our role is within this universe within
0:03:15 this creation
0:03:17 that would necessitate
0:03:18 us
0:03:19 force us to go out and look for any
0:03:22 divine guidance
0:03:24 that point
0:03:25 is further emphasized by various people
0:03:28 claiming that they've received
0:03:30 communication from the creator so that
0:03:32 you go outside people are all constantly
0:03:34 claiming that there is a creator that
0:03:36 there is so that not only there is a
0:03:37 creator but they have
0:03:39 you know
0:03:40 revelation from this creator the
0:03:42 guidance to tell us how to live our life
0:03:44 what to believe in what's going to
0:03:46 happen to us after we die
0:03:48 so we'd naturally look at some of these
0:03:50 claims
0:03:51 that is something we'd discuss that's
0:03:53 something we'll discuss more in the next
0:03:54 session what is the evidences for these
0:03:56 claims and how to assess it
0:03:58 secondly by establishing that allah
0:04:01 exists who chose to create this
0:04:03 naturally implies there's a purpose
0:04:06 behind creation because we're not just
0:04:08 talking about a necessary being that
0:04:10 incidentally created the universe but
0:04:12 rather allah subhanallah a creator with
0:04:15 a will and therefore chose through his
0:04:18 knowledge and power to create the
0:04:21 universe that implies that there was a
0:04:23 reason behind this creation allah he
0:04:26 mentioned in the quran in translation
0:04:28 we created not the heavens and the earth
0:04:30 and all that is in between them for mere
0:04:32 play sort of
0:04:34 chapter 21 verse 16.
0:04:36 so after knowing that the creator
0:04:38 decided to create us
0:04:40 it would be natural to ask the question
0:04:42 why did the creator create us and what
0:04:44 com you know what guidance is given to
0:04:47 us therefore we're looking for
0:04:48 communication
0:04:50 third reason why we would look for a
0:04:52 guidance
0:04:53 is that humans have been created with a
0:04:55 particular nature
0:04:57 as we call this the fitra
0:05:00 which means the innate or as many
0:05:02 scholars in olympus have said it refers
0:05:05 to the innate desire or the innate drive
0:05:08 within human beings to seek worship
0:05:10 and i want to spend some time explaining
0:05:12 the fitra of the human being what it
0:05:15 means and whether it can be rationally
0:05:18 established that humans have this fitrah
0:05:21 either this innate desire to worship or
0:05:24 this instinct to worship allah or the
0:05:26 creator
0:05:28 and also or whether this is something
0:05:30 just simply established from the quran
0:05:32 and we just assume it and accept it
0:05:35 this will also add to the other
0:05:37 evidences that we mentioned why we need
0:05:40 to
0:05:40 seek
0:05:42 a messenger or a message from the
0:05:44 creator
0:05:45 i'm going to give you a quick example of
0:05:46 this is an example from the time of the
0:05:49 salaf from one of the scholars of the
0:05:51 son of jafra sadiq
0:05:54 and it was reported that he had a debate
0:05:56 or a discussion with an atheist
0:05:59 and in this debate he was trying to
0:06:01 explain to the atheist that there is a
0:06:03 natural innate desire in all human
0:06:05 beings including him as an atheist to
0:06:08 believe in a creator and a one god
0:06:11 and so jafar sadiq he he mentioned this
0:06:14 point about being on a boat and the boat
0:06:17 being caught in the storm and the
0:06:18 atheist said you know what that happened
0:06:20 to me i was on a boat and we were caught
0:06:23 in a storm
0:06:25 and he said when you were caught in a
0:06:26 storm
0:06:28 did you
0:06:29 lose hope or did you maintain hope and
0:06:31 he said i maintained hope i had hope in
0:06:32 the ship and the crew to save me from
0:06:35 this storm
0:06:36 so then he said well what else happened
0:06:38 so then the atheist said well then what
0:06:40 happened was that the ship overturned
0:06:43 and all the crew fell out and they they
0:06:45 were into the sea
0:06:46 and so there was no crew for me to
0:06:48 depend upon and so jefferson said did
0:06:51 you
0:06:53 lose hope or did you maintain hope he
0:06:54 said i still maintained hope that the
0:06:56 physical body of the ship would remain
0:06:58 intact
0:06:59 but then what happened was that the ship
0:07:01 began to be destroyed and torn apart and
0:07:03 so i'm now floating in the middle of the
0:07:06 ocean holding on to a plank of wood in
0:07:09 order to stay afloat
0:07:10 and again japheth sadik said did you
0:07:13 lose hope or did you maintain hope and
0:07:15 he said i still had hope that this this
0:07:18 plank of wood would keep me afloat
0:07:21 and then he said the atheist he said
0:07:23 then suddenly the plank of wood
0:07:25 you know went from beneath me and i was
0:07:28 no longer supported by the plank of wood
0:07:30 in the middle of the ocean but i was
0:07:32 still able to float
0:07:33 and then jafar sadiq said did you lose
0:07:36 hope or did you still have hope and he
0:07:38 said i still had hope and then he said
0:07:40 upon whom did you place your hope
0:07:43 because initially it was the crew then
0:07:45 the ship then the plank of wood and the
0:07:47 atheist had to admit that his hope was
0:07:50 placed upon the creator allah
0:07:55 and so this alludes to the nature within
0:07:57 a human being this this conversation
0:08:00 that took place
0:08:01 and this this nature of the human being
0:08:03 is also alluded to within the quran
0:08:05 itself
0:08:06 allah he says
0:08:08 in the verse uh sort of unes verse 22 he
0:08:12 it is who enables you to travel through
0:08:14 the land and sea to when you are in
0:08:16 ships and they sail with them with a
0:08:19 favorable favorable wind and they are
0:08:21 glad therein and then comes a stormy
0:08:24 wind and the waves come to them from all
0:08:27 sides and they think that they are
0:08:29 encircled therein they invoke allah
0:08:32 making their faith pure for him alone
0:08:35 saying if you allah delivers us from
0:08:37 this we shall be truly grateful
0:08:40 so allah mentions people upon a ship
0:08:43 facing a stormy sea and naturally they
0:08:46 start to invoke upon allah
0:08:52 and there's a famous saying
0:08:54 that is mentioned that there are no
0:08:56 atheists
0:08:57 on a sinking boat it's a famous saying
0:08:59 in the uk maybe elsewhere as well but
0:09:01 there are no atheists on a sinking boat
0:09:04 and so what we can see is mentioned by
0:09:06 jafar assad's conversation with the
0:09:08 atheist or mentioned in the quran itself
0:09:10 or the saying there are no atheists on a
0:09:12 sinking boat is that there is a nature
0:09:15 in a human being
0:09:16 that when they feel fear they're in a
0:09:19 difficult situation
0:09:21 then their natural reaction is to seek
0:09:24 worship or to seek and needs to sanctify
0:09:27 to glorify or to connect with the
0:09:29 creator
0:09:30 in essence what's happening when a
0:09:32 person is facing a difficult situation a
0:09:35 you know facing fear is that they're
0:09:37 facing a situation in which they feel
0:09:39 weak limited and needy
0:09:42 and being feeling this weak limited
0:09:44 needy nature makes the person realize
0:09:47 that they don't have control
0:09:49 over the affairs you know normally we
0:09:51 have this assumption that you know we're
0:09:53 in control of what's happening of up
0:09:56 until something happens that takes away
0:09:58 that illusion and we realized actually
0:10:00 the control that we thought we had the
0:10:02 power that we thought we had easily goes
0:10:05 away from us maybe we're on a car we're
0:10:07 driving on the motorway or the highway
0:10:09 we're thinking we're fine we're safe and
0:10:11 suddenly we hit a bump and we skid or
0:10:14 our tire blows out and we're unable to
0:10:16 maintain control and our heart starts
0:10:18 pumping
0:10:19 and maybe after some expletive words you
0:10:22 start saying you know you start reciting
0:10:24 the kalima or whatever you know in order
0:10:25 to uh reconnect it's that natural
0:10:28 reaction that fear that pushes us
0:10:31 that lack of control that pushes us to
0:10:33 want to sanctify
0:10:35 so we begin to see uh
0:10:38 so we begin to see that whenever there
0:10:40 is a situation of you know deep anxiety
0:10:43 deep problems lack of control that we
0:10:46 seek out and we call upon allah and i'm
0:10:48 just going to give a couple of other
0:10:50 examples of this there's a famous
0:10:51 footballer or you know he's not that
0:10:53 famous but he was a footballer his name
0:10:55 was ander herrera
0:10:56 and ander herrera before he used to go
0:10:58 on the football pitch he always used to
0:11:00 put on his shin pads and the shin pads
0:11:03 was
0:11:04 from when he was 13 years of age because
0:11:07 for him he believed that something
0:11:08 within the shin pads was able to make
0:11:11 him play as a better footballer
0:11:13 so what's going on in his mind it's the
0:11:15 same thing regardless of the person on
0:11:16 the sinking ship he's in a situation
0:11:19 where which he recognizes he lacks
0:11:21 control
0:11:22 that there are things that are outside
0:11:24 of his own factor
0:11:25 that his own capacity to able to
0:11:28 determine so as a result he's looking
0:11:31 for something more than material to
0:11:33 appease something
0:11:34 in the same way when you have people
0:11:36 going into their exams you find people
0:11:38 will go in there with their lucky charms
0:11:40 lucky mascots a lucky pen or whatever it
0:11:43 is that they they're bringing them in
0:11:46 now the reality is that these things
0:11:47 don't have any intrinsic materialistic
0:11:50 value to the exam itself but it's
0:11:52 because they feel that fear the anxiety
0:11:56 the lack of control the feeling of being
0:11:58 weak limited and needy that pushes them
0:12:02 to look for something more than material
0:12:04 to appease something that's more than
0:12:06 material
0:12:07 and also as a brief example of this
0:12:11 uh or to extend the point i remember
0:12:14 also when i was doing my exams or
0:12:16 with other people students who were
0:12:18 doing their exams the night before the
0:12:20 exam the point where you think you know
0:12:22 what
0:12:24 you know there's no much more revision i
0:12:26 can do people become very philosophical
0:12:28 at that moment in time they start asking
0:12:30 questions about purpose of life meaning
0:12:32 isn't there more to life
0:12:34 it's basically that innate nature nature
0:12:36 that fitter that's kicking in
0:12:41 so
0:12:43 this seems very basic examples
0:12:45 but this addresses this underlying
0:12:48 psychology that exists in all human
0:12:50 beings that human beings have an innate
0:12:52 desire to seek something more than just
0:12:55 what we see around us more than the
0:12:56 physical universe
0:12:58 and that this manifests mostly or
0:13:01 becomes most manifest so it's always
0:13:03 with us we always feel this weak limited
0:13:05 niche and needy nature but it becomes
0:13:08 more manifest when we're in situations
0:13:10 of hardship and difficulty situations
0:13:12 which are beyond or outside of our
0:13:14 control this pushes us to seek a higher
0:13:16 power
0:13:17 beyond the existence of nature this is
0:13:20 what we call the sanctification instinct
0:13:23 the spiritual instinct or what would
0:13:25 also term as the fitra
0:13:27 ultimately then the fitra drives us to
0:13:30 seek out and worship this higher power
0:13:33 beyond the physical universe
0:13:35 if this is a major part of the human
0:13:37 nature to have this
0:13:39 desire to worship the higher power
0:13:42 then we'd see this across all cultures
0:13:44 so if if it actually what we're saying
0:13:46 exists everybody has this desire to
0:13:49 worship then it shouldn't just be some
0:13:52 individuals rather we should see across
0:13:55 all civilizations all cultures and
0:13:58 across all times
0:14:01 and guess what we actually do see this
0:14:03 we actually observe that every time
0:14:06 every for every time and for any
0:14:08 civilization that we have studied we
0:14:11 observe that there's always something
0:14:13 that's worshiped some sort of deity or
0:14:16 even deities that are
0:14:18 that are worshipped
0:14:19 you know for example you had the ancient
0:14:21 egyptians and they would sacrifice
0:14:24 virgin girls to the nile in order to
0:14:26 appease the god or gods in order to make
0:14:28 the now flow
0:14:30 or some civilizations living next to a
0:14:33 volcano
0:14:34 may may have sought to sacrifice or
0:14:37 appease the gods or or uh direfied the
0:14:39 volcano in order to prevent the
0:14:41 eruptions you know for example there's
0:14:44 examples of you know again
0:14:47 children being sacrificed on the the
0:14:49 base of a volcano in order to appease
0:14:51 the volcano the volcano is a material
0:14:53 thing but it's the assumption
0:14:55 that i somehow got something more than
0:14:57 material that needs to be appeased needs
0:15:00 to be worshipped needs to be sanctified
0:15:02 in order to prevent this explosion from
0:15:05 taking place or the volcano from
0:15:07 exploding
0:15:08 so we see that
0:15:10 across all civilizations and cultures
0:15:13 religious practices have always been
0:15:15 seen
0:15:16 from europe to africa north and south
0:15:19 america from the far east australasia
0:15:22 regions
0:15:23 all of them have had civilizations and
0:15:26 still have civilizations that continue
0:15:28 to hold religious practices
0:15:31 even those civilizations that claim to
0:15:33 deny the existence of god and existence
0:15:36 of religions
0:15:37 have not been able to wipe away the
0:15:39 spiritual desire within the people for
0:15:42 example
0:15:43 soviet union when it was around was
0:15:46 predicated explicitly on an atheist
0:15:48 ideology of communism
0:15:50 and it also tried to ban religious
0:15:53 practices so it's built upon communism
0:15:55 and it believed religion was the opium
0:15:57 of the masses so even in muslim majority
0:16:00 regions like of soviet union like
0:16:02 uzbekistan and kyrgyzstan today they
0:16:04 attempted to ban the quran under
0:16:07 communist russia
0:16:08 communi communism they closed the
0:16:10 massages down and would even check on
0:16:13 whether people were waking up in the
0:16:15 middle of the night you know during the
0:16:17 before fajr time during ramadan to see
0:16:19 if they have taken their pre-dawn meal
0:16:21 the sahur
0:16:23 yet with this attempt to ban religion
0:16:26 within these countries and its
0:16:27 expressions muslims still practiced
0:16:30 their belief there were still
0:16:31 underground practices of islam in fact
0:16:34 even in russia when they tried to ban
0:16:36 the orthodox christian church it was
0:16:38 impossible and soviet union reinstated
0:16:42 the orthodox church even though they
0:16:44 were a communist country back within
0:16:46 russia
0:16:47 so even those ideologies like communism
0:16:50 that seek to deny the nature and even
0:16:53 those people maybe even consider
0:16:54 themselves ideologues can never get away
0:16:57 from the fact that they still believe
0:16:59 they still desire to satisfy or to seek
0:17:03 that sanctification
0:17:04 of their religious instinct or
0:17:06 religiosity that aspect of their fitter
0:17:09 so for example in soviet union they
0:17:12 preserved the body of lenin
0:17:14 why would you preserve the body of lenin
0:17:17 for communism
0:17:18 lenin's dead body is equivalent to a
0:17:20 rock it's just material why would they
0:17:23 seek to preserve it more than this they
0:17:26 would go and visit lenin's body and out
0:17:28 of respect they would make
0:17:31 circum you know tawaf around it they
0:17:33 would go around it like the muslims go
0:17:35 to make torah around the kaaba they
0:17:37 would make torah around lenin's body
0:17:40 so they're doing actions of what worship
0:17:43 sanctification
0:17:44 similarly in north korea
0:17:46 where religious practices are in
0:17:48 practice or impractically forbidden they
0:17:51 preserved the body of their former north
0:17:53 korean leader kim il-sung i know that
0:17:56 they embalmed his body
0:17:58 and they put his body in a clear
0:18:00 sarcophagus sarcophagus was what they
0:18:02 used to bury people in the in junior
0:18:04 egyptian society etc and they used to
0:18:07 bury them because of religious sentiment
0:18:10 and religious practices and his former
0:18:13 residents the former leader of north
0:18:14 korea his former residence was termed a
0:18:17 mausoleum
0:18:19 and he is also referred to as the
0:18:21 eternal leader
0:18:23 how you know it's amazing not only you
0:18:25 know are they preserving his body
0:18:28 showing his body off you know calling
0:18:30 the place of his uh you know where he's
0:18:33 buried the mausoleum but they're also
0:18:35 referring to him as the eternal leader
0:18:38 this is north korea under communism
0:18:40 so what is very you know what's very
0:18:43 clear
0:18:44 is that even in societies that seeks to
0:18:47 ban religious expression and religion
0:18:50 and claims to be predicated upon atheism
0:18:53 cannot
0:18:54 and do not actually remove that natural
0:18:57 instinct their natural fitra within the
0:18:59 human beings
0:19:01 so
0:19:02 not only do we see across all
0:19:04 civilizations across the planet in all
0:19:06 various times that demonstrate that
0:19:09 people are born with the innate desire
0:19:10 to worship
0:19:12 but also we have academics that have
0:19:14 determined that actually this desire to
0:19:17 worship is something that has been
0:19:20 empirically observed within human beings
0:19:22 you know through studies and
0:19:23 psychological studies and
0:19:25 anthropological studies
0:19:26 for example
0:19:29 professor roger trigg
0:19:31 who's from the university of oxford said
0:19:33 and he's talking about the research he
0:19:35 did about religion across different
0:19:36 civilizations and culture is it acquired
0:19:39 from the society or was it innate and he
0:19:42 said religion was not just something for
0:19:44 a peculiar few to do on sundays instead
0:19:47 of playing golf
0:19:49 we have gathered a body of evidence that
0:19:51 suggests that religion is a common fact
0:19:54 of human nature across different
0:19:57 societies
0:19:58 this suggests that attempts to suppress
0:20:01 religion are likely to be short-lived as
0:20:04 human thought seems to be rooted to
0:20:06 religious concepts such as existence of
0:20:09 supernatural aid and agents or gods or
0:20:12 god
0:20:13 and the possibility of an afterlife or
0:20:16 pre-life
0:20:17 and another
0:20:19 individual writer graeme lawton who
0:20:22 himself is an atheist and a writer the
0:20:24 new scientist he said
0:20:26 about some various studies that have
0:20:28 taken place he said they point to they
0:20:31 point to studies
0:20:32 showing for example that even people
0:20:34 claim to and he saw
0:20:36 before i mentioned the quote he's
0:20:38 talking about a study that says that
0:20:40 even atheists are not really atheists
0:20:43 yeah the atheists themselves implicitly
0:20:46 still hold on to religious beliefs and
0:20:48 so he said they point to studies showing
0:20:52 for example that even people who claim
0:20:54 to be committed atheists
0:20:56 tacitly hold religious beliefs such as
0:20:59 the existence of an immortal soul as an
0:21:01 example it's like this is implicit
0:21:04 another academic dr justin barrett a
0:21:07 senior researcher at the university of
0:21:09 oxford center for anthropology and the
0:21:11 mind
0:21:13 claims that young people have a
0:21:15 predisposition to believe in a supreme
0:21:17 being
0:21:18 because they assume that everything in
0:21:20 the world is created with a purpose
0:21:22 like we said it's intuitive to look for
0:21:25 certain questions of why certain things
0:21:27 exist and it's intuitive to assume that
0:21:30 actually the universe was created with a
0:21:32 purpose with certain laws and therefore
0:21:35 there must be a law giver who's given it
0:21:37 laws and therefore a particular purpose
0:21:40 he states this is dr justin barrett
0:21:43 the preponderance of scientific evidence
0:21:45 for the past 10 years or so has shown
0:21:48 that a lot more seems to be built on
0:21:51 into the natural development of
0:21:52 children's minds than we once thought
0:21:55 including a
0:21:56 predisposition to see the natural world
0:21:59 as designed and purposeful and that some
0:22:03 kind of intelligent being is behind that
0:22:06 purpose
0:22:08 now there have been various hypotheses
0:22:10 put forward in an attempt to explain why
0:22:12 religious beliefs are innate within
0:22:14 human beings for example you had dean
0:22:17 hamer who's claimed that there are genes
0:22:19 that can code for spirituality and we
0:22:22 have others that claim that religiosity
0:22:24 developed as an evolutionary trait in
0:22:27 order to help with survival
0:22:29 the point here is this if that the
0:22:31 creator is the ultimate creator and
0:22:33 sustainer as well
0:22:35 of all that exists including then human
0:22:38 beings then ultimately
0:22:41 allah created us no matter what the
0:22:44 mechanism is created us with the innate
0:22:47 instinct to seek to worship
0:22:50 therefore the instinct created by allah
0:22:52 or god in order to push us and drive us
0:22:54 to worship inevitably means we've
0:22:57 ultimately been pre-programmed
0:22:59 with this desire to seek out and worship
0:23:01 our creator
0:23:02 seeking out and worship to a higher
0:23:04 being would inevitably inevitably entail
0:23:07 a desire to worship the one true creator
0:23:10 why the one true creator because this is
0:23:13 a fact that we've established through an
0:23:14 intellectual process so our mind comes
0:23:17 to the conclusion that there's one
0:23:19 creator independent unlimited being
0:23:23 and therefore we have within ourselves
0:23:25 this desire to want to worship
0:23:27 so it naturally fits handing glove that
0:23:30 the one that we should be worshipping is
0:23:32 the one true creator who has control
0:23:34 over all things
0:23:37 but our question becomes well how do we
0:23:38 satisfy this worship do we just worship
0:23:41 the way we want do we submit in any way
0:23:44 we want and seek the pleasure in the
0:23:46 creator pleasure for the of the creator
0:23:49 in what we think that allah wants from
0:23:51 us
0:23:53 well no obviously not
0:23:55 firstly it makes no sense if we have
0:23:58 this desire to worship in other words a
0:24:00 desire to submit to the creator to
0:24:03 sanctify the creator
0:24:05 then how can we submit
0:24:08 to the creator's will if we are deciding
0:24:11 how to submit
0:24:13 by definition you're not submitting if
0:24:14 you're making the choice to submit
0:24:17 so that's naturally submission
0:24:19 submitting
0:24:20 secondly how come our minds which are
0:24:23 limited finite that can't comprehend the
0:24:26 unlimited and the infinite and beyond
0:24:28 the universe we cannot comprehend the
0:24:30 nature of the creator know what will
0:24:32 please the creator
0:24:34 so both of these arguments
0:24:37 necessitate that there must be a
0:24:40 communication from the creator we are
0:24:42 created by allah with a desire to
0:24:45 worship and submit this is the fitter of
0:24:47 the human being and we've gone through
0:24:49 various evidences and proofs to
0:24:50 demonstrate that it's a rational
0:24:52 observation of the human condition that
0:24:54 we can prove this so we have this desire
0:24:56 to worship and submit we can't work out
0:25:00 how to submit we can't work out how to
0:25:03 please the creator we don't know what
0:25:04 pleases the creator what pleases our
0:25:06 lord allah hence we will have to seek
0:25:10 out a guidance from the creator it makes
0:25:12 logical and rational sense that there
0:25:15 would be a communication therefore that
0:25:17 we should seek out in order to
0:25:19 understand how to worship the creator
0:25:22 and therefore how to fulfill our nature
0:25:24 the fitra which is the religious
0:25:26 instinct or the desire to worship