Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Atheism New Year’s Eve 2015
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Allah commands
the believers
to call upon him.
Allah
commands the believers in many places in his
book to call upon him that he may
answer their prayers
and that he may forgive their sins and
he may provide for them anything and everything
that they want or that they wish.
The connection between the creation and the creator
is the most basic and fundamental
unit of identity and of life.
The previous speaker spoke about
gender identity and gender issues.
Says
in his book
Don't be like the people who forgot Allah
for he caused them to. Forget themselves.
Person waking up in the morning and not
able to tell what their gender is is
a special and unique type of curse. It's
a type of illness.
Some people have it. It's a tribulation from
Allah. It's an illness
and some people earn it on themselves as
a curse. We don't we don't pick on
people. Why? Because we don't know which one
is which. Someone may be getting tested. Somebody
may be their punishment. We don't know who
is who. And in general, it's a good
habit to make to remind yourself and for
me to remind myself that our job in
this universe is not to judge other people.
Our job is not to judge who's a
good person, who's a bad person.
That being said, it's a hadith of the
prophet
The happy person is the one who takes
a lesson from other people's misfortune.
So you don't have to look down on
anybody.
You don't have to say bad about anybody
to be able to learn a lesson from
this was their misfortune.
Someone was playing with matches and they burned
their house down.
It's enough. You don't have to make a
judgment to moral judgment about the person. Are
you a good person or a bad person
because you're playing matches?
To know that it's probably a dumb idea
for you to be playing with matches yourself.
That much is common sense for everybody. That
much is allowed and encouraged for every believer
to do.
So we talk about what? We talk about
this basic unit which is the life of
your physical body and it's the life of
your intellect and it's the life of your
heart which is the connection between you and
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And Allah
describes the intimacy of this connection
between himself and the slave
as
He is the one who created man, and
he is the one who knows even the
whisperings that a man has between him and
himself, and he is closer to the person
than their own jugular vein. Meaning what? The
the the evidence of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
the imminence of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and
the closeness of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in
his creation
is something there is nothing like it. There's
nothing like it. So for a person to
cut themselves off from Allah
is akin to them cutting themselves off from
themselves.
So now we live in a time and
an age where
atheism seems to have taken the upper hand
over all people.
Okay. Over every civilization in this world, atheism
has taken the upper hand
with very few exceptions.
With very few exceptions. And we talk about
not individuals. You may know very pious individuals.
You may yourself be a very pious individual.
You should make guava for me, masha'Allah. Look
how pious you are. Right? But we're talking
about what civilizations when people come together and
gather together,
even when the beard and bobby, even when
the the hijab and the iqab gets together
with with one another in the masjid,
what happens, we have this basic common understanding
with ourselves that talk practical.
Don't talk about don't talk about religion. Don't
talk about spiritual matters. Don't talk about any
of those things because it's impractical.
Something you should keep to yourself. It's impolite
to bring up religion and politics at the
dinner table as if there's any connection or
any sort of Umakala between them, any sort
of comparison between them. This is not how
it always was.
Forget about just for the Muslim Ummah. This
is not how it always was for most
people around the world. For most people around
the world, if you wanna talk about getting
together, religion and state were bound with one
another. They were inseparable with one another. And
still to this day, they're inseparable from one
another, even though we talk about the separation
of church and state. That's another discussion. I
don't have time to get into that discussion,
but there are certain religious,
religious
rituals that we have even as Americans.
They're they're really literally
have they're
build on the belief that there's some sort
of,
spiritual power in the bank,
regarding our country and the institutions of our
country that we have. So much so that
you have all these kind of nut job
people Glenn Beck and these type of people
that, you know, they have this theory that
God
inspired inside of the hearts of the founding
fathers of this country that they broke the
constitution a certain way and they, you know,
build this country that has its manifest destiny.
It's gonna expand from coast to coast and
it's gonna be something special the likes of
which the world has never seen before. Now,
obviously, we're all Americans here and we love
our country, but we don't love our country
to the point that we we turn it
into this,
this kind of sacred and this kind of
mystical and holy thing. It's a human endeavor.
The constitution is a relatively well written document.
That's why the country has been running as
successfully as it has until this day. Don't
tell me that a group of people who
got together
and wrote an amendment saying that a black
person is 3 5ths of a human being
for voting purposes
Had any any inspiration for Allah
or if you're ready? Morally pure source.
It was hit and miss. Some of the
things were really bad news and slightly. Example
that was quoted. K.
Religion and gathering together and civilization,
they go hand in hand. If you study
any of the empires of the past,
which America is not an exception, it's rather
part of the rule. It's not an exception
to the rule. It's part of the pattern.
Right? The empire that of the of the
Persians, of the Romans, of the Egyptians, etcetera.
America's in the empire like those empires are.
That's why when you go to the capital
building of any state or indeed that the
capital building of the United States of America
in
DC, or you go to the White House,
or you go to the Supreme Court. All
of them are built in the grand style
of the Roman Empire,
which is the empire in the image of
which every
Western Empire tries to,
re
make itself reborn in its image again and
again. In fact, the capital building, oftentimes, when
you see the shot of it on c
span, they cut it off. But on top
of the capital building, there's a statue of
Athena.
There's a statue of Athena the the the
in the form of freedom or something like
that. The
the Greek goddess.
Why? Because this civilization is a attempt at
rebirth for that civilization
again and again. And these are very religious
symbols. They're very potent religious symbols.
Now what do I come down to? I
come down to the the the the time
in this the the the age that we
live in that's a little bit different than
the time before. And it's different in the
sense that we live in a time and
place again where you're not allowed to or
you're not supposed to bring up religion. You're
not allowed to or you're not supposed to
bring up God. You're not supposed to bring
up, any of the traditional manifestations of a
belief
in anything other than that which is material.
This is because of a philosophy,
or a set of philosophies that come in
a package known as modernism.
Okay. What does modernism mean? Does modernism mean
that you use technology? You love technology?
No. Because I'm a very anti modern person,
but I also have the nicest
phone. I also came here on an airplane.
In fact, I fly on an airplane quite
often. I go to Hajj, which is a
very anti modern act, and I do that
in an airplane.
And I do that. I check-in online, and
I print out my boarding pass. And I
you know, they have scanners and biometric, all
the stuff to get into the country. All
of these things. It's not modernism doesn't mean
what? Living in 2015.
That's not what modernism mean. That's not what
it means to be modern. Okay? Modernism is
a set of philosophies.
Okay? And they come as a package.
One of those philosophies is the belief that
what? That you have to cut yourself off
from the past. That the future is going
to be better than the past. Now tell
me something. Okay. We believe that that who
is the best of Allah's creation?
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And we
believe that the best of people after the
and then after them the
wounded. And then after them the tabireen and
then after them the tabireen.
And we believe that not a generation will
come afterward
except for it will see more evil than
the generation before it came. And then, ultimately,
what will happen to this world will be
destroyed. It will go away. Okay.
So is this is this idea that the
future somehow holds something
wonderful for us? Is this a a a
an idea that's in line with our archive,
with our beliefs? No.
It's not.
Okay?
Despite that fact despite that fact, we still
have an Islamic practice in America
and oftentimes, it is from America,
we export our ideologies to the entire world
and Islam is no different than that. Whatever
happens it is a 5th night in America
will become the 5th night of the Darul
Islam just after a couple of weeks.
It's not it's there's no I mean, that's
not there that's no different than everything else
that comes from America and proliferates in the
world because the power America exerts culturally over
the rest of the world. It's a power
we, you know, should use for good things
and we do use for some good things,
unfortunately, not for everything good.
Now what is the ideology? What is the
ideology that we have in America?
I'll be very frank. Many people haven't thought
about these things consciously, but it's there, like,
every masjid, and it's there amongst many people.
Maybe not the,
people who come to Mohammed the masjid, but
if you go and spread out to all
the other masjid in the city, this will
be the unspoken diar, you know, the unspoken,
dominant,
atmosphere that you'll find in gatherings,
of Muslims including masajid, including conferences, including,
large institutions.
The idea is what? Somehow, we're smarter. We're
more intelligent, and we're more able to figure
out what what we need in order to
be successful
than people who came before us. The people
who came before us or the countries that
we come from are backwards.
The are backwards. The is backwards. Institutions
are backwards.
The the 4 and
the
and the way of teaching, and
holding us back. And all we need to
do is come forward and, change things up
and we can have this new bring new
world in which Islam is again
successful. Okay.
This is the assumption that many institutions run
on. Okay. This assumption is
completely
and
purely diametrically
opposed to what? The teachings of our aqidah,
our beliefs that are based on the Kitab,
the book of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And this is a type of what? It's
a type of arrogance. It's a type of
hubris. Okay? Arrogance is what? Takabur. It's that
sin about which the messenger of Allah sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam said, no one will enter
Jannah who has even a mustard seed worth
of arrogance inside of their heart.
Okay? This is something, hadith that goes in
one ear and out the other for people
like us. But for people who actually are
serious about their deen, like the sahaba and
like those poor and wretched and and and
and and ignorant backward Muslims that live in
the Muslim world that we Tamar knows that
and we look down on and simply have
a different passport than you. I'm somehow better
than you. Those people understand that they take
it very seriously. Even though people like you
and me don't. May Allah forgive us and
give us guidance.
Okay?
This idea that you're somehow gonna fix things
that the people from before did it because
you have something special,
being of a later generation than the previous
generation.
This idea is total nonsense.
Well, that's not completely true. Why? Because we
have technology that other people don't have. K?
This is the second this is the second,
one of the second pieces or of the
of the modernism package. The idea that technology
will solve human problems. K? We have amazing
technology right now. Okay? We can blast the
wing off of a fly on the moon
with a laser right now. Or if we
can't, it's gonna be something that will come
out in, like, 2 weeks, and you can
probably beta test the app on your Android
or iPhone. Right? We have all kind of
ridiculous technology that can do all kind of
bizarre things. The way that we do business
is completely different now. The way that we
travel is completely different now. The way they're
at the largest the largest,
taxi service in the world doesn't own one
car, and one of the largest hotel operators
in the in the in the world doesn't
own one hotel room. All these things have
changed because of technology. We have so much
technology. So how much technology we have. Okay.
We've had
the technology that goes with modernism for a
century now. People have been flying in planes.
People have been using electronics. They've been talking
to people
thousands of miles away through phones
for for for almost a century now. People
have been driving cars. People have been doing
all of these things. Okay? How much how
close are we to eradicating world poverty?
Not not even not even how close are
we to eradicating racism?
Not not even close. Right?
How close are we to housing the homeless?
Forget about whatever countries that we look down
on and we think that we're better than
them. Even in this country, we have homeless
people roaming around. We're not able to provide
for them. I mean, we're very able to
provide for them, but we're not providing for
them. Why? Because the technology doesn't solve the
problems. The technology might be a piece of
the solution, but the technology doesn't solve the
problems. There are places in the world that
centuries ago, they solved all of these issues.
Alright. There are places in the Muslim world
where they used to have free health care
before there was any sort of modern medicine.
There are places forget about just the Muslim
world. There are places in the world where
people used to take care of the poor.
They used to do all of these things.
Technology is not the solution. We believe that
what? Technology is the solution. Just give it
a little time. We'll develop something. It'll take
care of everything. Well, guess what? We've been
giving it a little bit of time, and
nothing's happened yet. Nothing's happened yet. Don't hold
your breath. Nothing is gonna happen.
What's the the flip box? What is the
the the the other side of the coin?
Technology has helped us to do worse things
than we're ever able to do in the
past. The wars that we fought in this
last 100 years have destroyed and killed people
in numbers that, in the old days, no
one would have ever been able to kill.
Okay? So the one of the most savage,
like, military
occupations and military conquests
of the pre modern world was the,
occupation conquest that the Mughal the Mongols did
on,
on the the central lands of the Muslim
world. Okay? There's a,
Muhammed, his name is Ibn Athir. Not Ibn
Kathir, Ibn Athir. Right? Ibn Athir is a
great Muhammed, and he's renowned for his work,
in the field of hadith,
amongst the works that he he's written is
about the gharayib, the the difficult words that
come in hadith text that are irregular, that
are not to be found in normal dictionaries
or not found in normal speech.
Also wrote a world history and something like
15 volumes that was
considered to be a classic, a masterpiece.
He also wrote biographies of the hadith narrators,
etcetera, etcetera.
He lived and saw
the the Mongol conquest of Baghdad. Baghdad was
a city of civilization. It was a city
of splendor.
Before the Mongols conquered it. Okay? There's now
a second Mongol conquest that happened in Baghdad,
and Baghdad has been destroyed again. And now
we think of Baghdad as what? As roadside
bombs and IEDs and all of these things.
And forgive us and have mercy of the
on the age that we live in because
it used to be center of civilization for
which great things used to come. The Vikings
used to come to train with Baghdad. People
used to come from the entire world.
Written histories of parts of the world that
had no reading and writing are preserved through.
What visitors who came to visit Iraq in
the old days? Iraq was destroyed so thoroughly
that the Mongols, when they came through, there
was a contingent of Armenian Armenian soldiers. Armenia
is a, a country in the Caucasus
that that, for some reason, fosters and harbors
in general, not individuals but as a civilization
in general, they've fostered in a har harbored
a lot of hatred for Muslims. Some of
that may have been actually properly earned by
bad conduct
from Muslims,
we admit. So,
Armenians, they see the Armenian contingent that entered
in with the Mambo army with into Baghdad.
What was the first thing they did? They
went for the libraries. They they they threw
all the libraries and the books into the
into the, into the river. Right? We have
books that are written and dictated directly from
Imam al Hanifa and from the shaykh from
the salah. Almost all of them were destroyed
at that time. Okay? What happened was there's
a problem. The Mongols have this, policy, you
know. If you if you give up right
away, they'll let you live. They'll probably enslave
you and take your stuff, but they'll let
you live. If you fight against them, they
kill everybody. Men, women, children, they kill everybody.
Their idea, obviously, they're not people who believed
in Allah, his Rasool Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
until later when they accepted Islam. But at
that time, their idea was what? If we
let people live, they're just gonna give us
a hard a hard time. If we kill
everybody who resists us, it's a deterrent. It'll
make us not have to fight so much
in the future. Right? So what happens is
they have this problem. There's all these people
in Baghdad. It's like the city of 1,000,000,000
of people. So they enter in. Every Mongol
soldier has to kill, like, 50, 60 people.
Right? So what do they do? They just
tell people stand in a line or stab
everyone 1 at a time. Even that theory
writes about this. I was in a line
like this. The the soldiers tried killing. Killing
someone is not easy. It takes a lot
of energy to wax them with a sword.
You may not hit them the first time
and they may, like, struggle or, like, flinch
or whatever, not behave predictably and it's difficult.
Right? So he's in line with this guy
killing people 1 at a time and he
looks at the guy next to him in
line and he's like, what if we just
ran away? Like, what do you think would
happen? And the guy's like, I don't know.
We tried. And so they're they're like, okay.
So they ran away. Right? This is Bambu's
killing. She's like, what? He's like, what? I'm
gonna chase after these guys. I have, like,
48 other people to kill her.
And then the other Bambu guy's like, 50
people to kill.
That's it's a problem. Right? Aulobila, technology has
solved all these problems for us. Things like
the Holocaust, it wouldn't have been possible without
technology.
It's not funny. You're laughing because you don't
know how to react to it. It's not
funny at all. It's actually very gruesome. If
you think the holocaust was bad, much of
that same ability, same technology was and is
still
being used to try to depopulate,
Muslims from parts of the world right now.
People who may even be our relatives.
Maybe it'd be our blood relatives people in
this room have. They they know people that
this is being used to do what? It's
to do that. All this technology is being
used to what?
For taxes,
weird transaction fees,
weird, methodologies
for trading,
commodities. Right? Food prices are so inflated in
this world. It's not because farmers are getting
rich because they're not. What is it? In
our in our sharia, it's haram to
sell any food until you've taken possession of
it
Until you've taken possession of it.
What happens you have these technologies, like, these
super
high speed, fiber optic,
connections between these different markets.
A ton of grain, it will be bought
and sold 40 times in a second sometimes.
Every time there's a little cut being made,
it's the price is going a little higher
a little bit higher. And so you have
ridiculous,
situations where the markets are filled with filled
with food stocks that sit in storehouses
while entire nations of the world starve to
death. Okay. This is not something that's like
making anything better for you. This is not
something helping you. The technology is there but
it's gonna only be useful as what as
the people who are using that technology.
What's another one of the subsidiary,
philosophies of modernism?
It's a reductionism. It's a reductionism, a radical
reductionism of science and a radical reductionism of
knowledge and a radical reductionism of the entire
world. It's reducing everything into what? Those things
that you see, taste, smell, touch. Those things
that you can find some sort of physical
or empirical evidence for its existence.
Okay? Now this is a part of modernism
that is completely nonsense. As a Muslim, you
should be like, wait. Hold on. Hold on
a second. You're telling me now that angels
don't exist. You're telling me that Wahi doesn't
exist. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, his messenger says
that the most beloved,
places to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala are what?
The masajid.
Okay? So somebody in modernist is gonna say,
hey, man.
What's the best place in New York? The
Masjid. Why? Because Allah loves it. Well, how
are you gonna measure that? Is there an
app on your phone that you tell what
does Allah love? What does he not love?
What's the problem? Right. Is there is there
is there is there something is there a
thermometer
or
is there some
spectrophotometer
or is there nuclear magnetic resonance imaging or
there's something you can show me some sort
of empirical,
reason that this place is better than the
next. No. Then shut up. Then you have
no proof.
Okay? This is essentially the way these arguments
go. And if you think it's funny and
if you think it's irrelevant whether the Masjid
is better than say the parking lot across
the street or the BP across the street,
This is the same argument that goes for,
you know, what's the difference between marriage and
between committing?
What's the difference between earning a living and
stealing from somebody? What's the difference between, you
know, killing somebody, not these arguments can go
they can go to a very long,
very long and a very deep extreme,
of depravity.
Right? Which is what the idea that the
only thing that exists in the world is
something you see, taste, smell and touch. This
is ridiculous. This is ridiculous.
One of the one of one of the
wonderful gifts that
the Muslims gave to Europe is what?
0. 0 and the the Arab what they
call the Arabic numerals the counting system
Arabic numerals and specifically a 0. Okay. How
do you write 1 in in in in
Roman numerals?
Put like a tally. How do you write
5? It's a v. Right? How do you
write 10? It's an x. How do you
write, you know, a 100? It's an m.
Right? How do you write 0 in in
in in Roman numerals?
You can't. You just don't write anything. It
doesn't exist. Right?
0 writing 0 down and having it represent
nothing.
This is a philosophical concept. It's not a
mathematical concept. It's a philosophical concept. Okay? Right?
So show me a bottle of water. Here
it is. Show me 0 bottles of water.
You can't do it.
You say, well,
that's not 0 bottles of water it's not
anything
you understand it's a philosophical concept philosophically you
have to stretch into the idea that 0
exists.
Now, this is a very simple exercise
regarding why this empiricism. Right? The modernism's
lack of ability or refusal to accept that
anything that's not physical doesn't exist.
0 doesn't exist, but it's necessary for all
of our calculations.
Anyone here take,
thermal thermodynamics,
like, through physical chemistry or through physics?
Anyone to feel the problem? Nobody?
Oh my goodness.
Alright.
So what's the what's the
the the third law of thermodynamics
it can be
expressed in a number of different ways but
one of the ways that it's expressed is
that the 0 entropic state is that of
a perfect crystalline structure at absolute 0.
Right? Absolute zero being what?
An absence of heat.
Right? 0 what the 0 Celsius that we
have for that's for the freezing point. Actually,
there's 270
273 degrees 278 degrees below that, actually.
Right? Until you get to no heat at
all.
Can you, in a lab, make absolute 0?
No. But we need absolute 0 in order
to,
have certain baseline values for thermodynamic
calculations that we do for very real things
around us. There's a number of things that
that that
don't exist, strictly speaking,
empirically. You cannot see, taste, smell, or touch
it, but it has a reality and it
has an existence And this is just things
in the physical world. Okay. Now, for example,
we have this, like, very nice saying that
I, you know, Isaac Newton talks about every
action has an equal and opposite reaction.
Right. In the physical world.
Why is it only in the physical world?
Why cannot why cannot be that a person
can do something
evil in this world and something evil happened
back to him in the next?
Why is that? Is there not symmetry in
in in in the things of the universe?
Because
the reason is what? The reason that you
can believe it for physical things, but you
don't really for moral things is because you
think physical things are real, but moral things
don't exist.
If moral things don't exist, there's no such
thing as sin or crime anymore, is there?
And that's why modernism, modernity gives us another
gift which is people like Hitler and Stalin
and all of these kind of crazy type
people. They're psychopaths. They have no morals whatsoever.
The difference between them and the psychopaths of
the ancient world is the psychopaths of the
ancient world where people were mentally ill but
the people around them weren't ill.
So they have to behave as if they
actually have some morals.
Whereas, the people in modernity have, like, cohorts
of people behind them who has a philosophy
also believe morality doesn't exist.
You understand? These these things are all problematic.
These things are very highly problematic. K. So
if you believe that something that's not physically
there
doesn't have it doesn't have a, a reality
to it, then
for you to not believe God exists, Okay.
It's something that will be,
you'll be very easily tempted by this
by this line of reasoning. Okay. But there's
so many experiences that you have. Every person
has to get angry and they fall in
love. They do all these things that don't
may not be something you register on a
meter, but they're very real. Oftentimes, they're even
more real than physical
things that that that exist around us. And
to deny those things, to deny your own
humanity.
That's right?
Right? The Allah they forgot Allah so Allah
made them forget themselves. This is something that
is real and happens with people. Now, if
you want to talk about God, generally speaking,
the atheist will say,
you know, God doesn't exist. Show me God.
Can I see, taste, tell, smell, touch? And
his answer is no. That's not god doesn't
exist and this is the end of the
proof. Okay? And we said what? We just
established that there are things that exist that
are not physically tangible in that sense.
Okay? That are not physically tangible in that
sense, but they exist.
They exist. Shazma Shahid, one of our,
the great olema of our past and one
of the great of our past to which
we owe a lot of good in terms
of the deen that comes to us because
he's the
gave an example if someone asks you, where
is God? Right? He said to close your
eyes. Imagine imagine something go ahead. Close your
eyes. Right? Imagine there's a a street. Right?
In your in your head. And in that
street, there's a house. And inside of that
house, there's, like, a man sitting at the
table. He's eating dinner.
Okay. If someone were inside that dream to
ask that man where do you exist?
What are you gonna tell him?
You're inside the brain what he's not you're
not he's not really inside your brain is
he
now right there's a there's a type of
existential barrier between what you're imagining
and and the physical thing that makes you
up. Okay?
Does it mean that out of the 2
parties neither doesn't exist?
No. It just explains why there's there's an
existential barrier between the 2 of you by
which his physical reality and your physical reality
cannot be readily explained to
to you one another as 2 beings that
exist.
Existed for a minute in your head, didn't
you? Right?
Is it something that never that nobody ever
imagined? That's an even lower level of existence
than something that someone would imagine. Right?
The idea is this is that this is
a type of, like, simple mindedness. The idea
that if something is not physically there, it
doesn't exist. This is a type of simple
mindedness and ultimately, is it philosophical,
stupidity.
It's a type of weakness of philosophy. This
is one of the other problems with with
modernity is modernity has failed. Modernism has failed
to,
produce any robust philosophers. Why? Because they have
reduced
they have reduced existence into only physical things
and when you reduce the existence into physical
things, you have no longer the ability to
abstract the to make tesamroof. Right? To to
transact in abstract and transact in the theoretical
because those things don't exist anymore for you.
Right? This is one of the reasons are.
In the past, they're geniuses. There are so
many things they figured out without the aid
of technology that ended up actually being the
way that they thought that they were. Whereas
modern people are not able to do that.
They're not able to do that because they
don't transact in logic. They don't transact in
philosophy. They're not able to transact in the
theoretical. Most medicine that we have nowadays I
apologize if you're a doctor because I you
will find me perhaps saying things that may
be a bit offensive to your,
to your,
profession.
I
posit in my defense that if I'm sick,
I'll probably come to you so then you
can get me back then. 2nd of all,
I also posit in my defense that there
are many people from your,
trade. Obviously, not you, but there are many
people from your trade who have also said
annoying things,
to me and people from my trade as
well. So, yeah, it's kind of a war
of attrition. Just take it that way. Don't
take it don't take it personally. Okay?
Even medicine.
Even medicine. Right? There's so many medicines that
we use nowadays. They have no idea how
they work or
or or if they work or any of
these things. Right? What's the most successful medicine?
All of you kids, Michelle, wanna become doctors.
You know you do. Right? What what what
is the most successful medicine ever,
ever made that's proven by trial again and
again,
to be an effective cure for every single
disease under the sun?
It's the it's the placebo.
Right? There's so many there's so many medicines
that are being prescribed
right now. The placebo
is just slightly less efficacious than the than
the actual medicine is itself. You understand that
the placebo is a down the line type.
Right? So one person you give them the
medicine, and the other person you give the
sugar pill, nobody knows which one is which,
just so you establish a baseline. There's, like,
a great number of people that they just
take the placebo and they get better anyway.
There's there's a number of medicines.
They prescribed them. Why?
Because they gave this medicine to someone who
had a headache and that person's headache went
away and they said this is evidence
based medicine. This is evidence based medicine. It's
empirical
practice of medicine. Okay. It's a little bit
better than the placebo or maybe a lot
better than the placebo the results that you
get. Right? Whereas the the the
the the doctors of the old age.
Right? Medicine was a philosophical
it was a philosophical art. They used to
try to understand what the root of the
disease is, what the cause of the disease
is. And I'm not saying that that doesn't
happen anymore, but it's not a priority anymore.
It's not just because you haven't figured out
what's actually going on inside of the body,
doesn't stop people from prescribing everything and anything
under the sun just because you get some
sort of benefit out of it. Right? I'll
take it to a ridiculous extreme, which if
someone has a headache, I guarantee you if
you run double blind empirical,
test in order to have evidence based medicine.
If I take a sword and whack his
head off, his headache is gonna go away
100% of the time. What what did you
treat any of the underlying sickness? Not at
all.
In fact, you made it worse. And if
you think it's funny and it's a joke.
There's a lot of medicine being practiced like
that right now.
Even if a person is completely ruthless and
not prescribing the the medicines because of how
much money they're gonna get. It's some sort
of kickback on pharmaceutical company or some other
scam that's going on like that regarding insurance
and billing and all of these things. There
are Muslims, by the way, that get Forgive
us. Right? Everybody goes to medical school because
they wanna help people and then afterward you
catch you read Muslim names in the newspaper
regarding billing scams, people
giving chemotherapy
one after the other for people's cancers already
get gone away. You guys are making
$10,000 a track for these therapies
and.
Right?
Obviously, this immorality and this this, you know,
these things will go hand in hand because
there's no deen, there's no religion, there's no
logic, there's no philosophy, there's no understanding that
goes into this practice. But coming back to
the the the issue, the issue is that
if something is not physical, it doesn't exist.
It's ridiculous. It's not it's not it's not
a way of it's not a way of
being. It's not a way of figuring things
out. It's not a way of understanding the
world around you. It's not a way of
understanding the universe around you. It's a bad
way to understand this physical universe. How is
it gonna ever understand what's beyond it?
How is it gonna ever understand what happens
in your grave? How is it gonna ever
understand what happens on the day of judgment?
How is it gonna ever understand who is
Allah
which is the greatest understanding of understandings that
could possibly
exist? Okay. So until now, you made me
say this guy's talking about modernism. Why didn't
you just say his talk is about modernism?
It's not about atheism.
And I posit to you that intellectually
speaking, the reason people get hung up on
does God exist or not is because of
this
set of ideas known as modernism,
which you should study even further.
Right? What happens in modernism is
a a type of academic takakor.
The type of academic arrogance which cause people
to cut themselves off from what's behind them
and cut themselves off from the things that
are not close to them in terms of
their realm of perception.
And most Western philosophers gave up on modernism
a long time ago, and they're in something
called postmodernism, which is even dumber than modernism,
which is like, modernism is like everyone else
was stupid except for me, then postmodernism is
like, even I'm stupid, so everything is stupid.
Right? Obviously, someone is doing PhD in philosophy.
Well, it's a little bit more complex than
that, but perhaps, somebody may agree that this
is not so far of a a definition
either. Okay? The funny thing is most Muslims
are Muslims that haven't studied the philosophy of
our deen. Right? They are themselves so backwards
that they haven't gotten to postmodernism yet. They
still think modernism is somehow gonna help them.
So they say silly things like, well, I'm
not gonna follow the 4 mehmes because I
have all the hadith in front of me.
Maybe even and you put my man, I
didn't understand the hadith from before. So I'm
gonna figure something else out new myself,
which is what? Right? The idea that the
hand is in the future. It's not in
the past.
These these ideas, they still roll around in
the heads of Muslims because they're philosophically backwards.
They have never they failed to appreciate western
philosophy or Muslim philosophy at all in the
first place. I build all this stuff up
to say what? To say that atheism is
one of the kind of stupid side effects
of modernism. It's not really a legitimate
intellectual problem.
Okay? It's not really a legitimate intellectual problem.
By the way, modernism.
Okay? What's the what's the first modern state
that completely,
divorces itself from the, from from from even
acknowledging that that anything
in the vague or unseen or divine or
religious exists at all? Does anyone know?
Who here read history?
Raise your hand. You
can say something to me. What is it?
No. Let's
go back before Soviet Union. There is a
country of people, the Soviets were the Russians
were infatuated with. The Russians were infatuated with
and in their language they made their second
language. They used to import tutors wholesale from
a different country. Why? Because they admired how
advanced that country was. Which country is it?
It's not Turkey, my friends. Otherwise, the Russians
would have been Muslims now.
Not China.
China got on the bandwagon relatively late. Yes?
The Yugoslavia?
Come on, man. Yugoslavia didn't even exist until
I you
guys need to go back to school, man.
Yeah? France.
Who said France?
Why?
French. The French revolution.
When did the French revolution happen? In 19
19. Like, in the 1700,
man. That was a long time ago.
Okay? So when people are like, oh, we're
modern, You're you're
regurgitating
a stupid philosophy from the 17 1700.
Okay?
They're like, okay. Secular
Republic and blah blah blah and liberty, equality,
fraternity, all this nonsense except for if you're
from Morocco or Algeria. Right? This is all
this is all this is all nonsense is
being regurgitated
from when? From the time of the French
Revolution. It was a long time ago. So
modernism in that sense is not very modern
by the way. Okay. French the French Revolution
didn't come up with it. The French Revolution
is only an occasion,
a very rare occasion in the history of
the world where enough stupid people bought into
this
this time of thinking. Right? Which usually people
philosophers in the ancient world thought that this
was nonsense. Right? This is the the the
the philosophy of the sophists
of people who just used to, you know,
argue for a living, you know. Literally, that's
what Sophists are. Right?
So usually, people used to consider this to
be these types of things to be the
philosophy of the Sophists. Now, you have in
the French Revolution, a gathering of these people
that are armed and start killing people and
start killing,
if you read the the the history of
the French Revolution, it's *. They kill rich
people, they kill poor people, they kill,
religious people, they kill people in the church,
they seize all the church lambs that are
all that are legally endowed,
in the name of the church. They seize
all of these things and they eat them
for breakfast. Right? Maximilien Robespierre,
who came to power on a wave of
killing people by the guillotine and then guess
how he died?
He got his head cut off by the
guillotine. Right? This is all this is all
modernism. This whole issue about about not understanding
god exists. If you're gonna get get past
the hiccup that
the only things that I can see, taste,
smell, touch exist.
Right. Then you can understand a very simple
proof for the existence of God. And it's
something written by
our and written by our in the books
of Kalam centuries ago. It's like one of
the first,
lessons of aqidah that you should learn. It's
not a complex problem. People made it into
a complex problem. What was the issue of
faith? Well, yeah, kind of, but it's not
really that complex of a problem. Right? They
describe the reason for the the existence of
God is
Right? Everything that happens in this world. If
I got up and I threw this, you
know, I threw this, like, box of tissue
at a dealer. Right? Okay. What it only
flew over there because I threw it. Right?
Every cause in this universe or every effect
in this universe has some power. What if
what if I threw it at a deal
and then said, well, it happened on its
own. You'd be like, stop stop me, man.
That's not you threw it. Okay?
Why this stuff doesn't happen on its own?
Right? So all of you, Masha,
are going to medical school.
Right? You all when you read biology,
right, there's there's a theory that they used
to hold in the mid middle ages in
Europe called spontaneous generation.
Spontaneous generation is that the idea that life
just starts on its own
just as spontaneous process
So if you, like, took a piece of
meat and you wrap it up in a
rag and threw it in a damp cellar,
that piece of meat will one day turn
into a rat.
Then later on, they kind of, like, observe,
like, okay. Let's just make sure okay. We
assume this is happening. Let's, like, watch the
piece of piece of meat in the rag
and see what's going on. Then they say,
okay. Actually, the rag is coming in from
the outside. The piece of meat is not
turning into anything. It's rotting, but it's not
turning into anything.
So they write this in the biology books
that undoubtedly all of you read, which is
like,
stupid people in the past used to believe
such stupid things. Now we know. And Louis
Pasteur and he blew up broth and he
made the tube crooked and all this other
nonsense. And now we know that, you know,
nothing happens on its own. There's microbes and
blah blah blah. And they say, oh, look
at how stupid the old people were. Right?
Which is what? Modernism. The idea that you
have to radically divorce yourself from the past
and the potatoes in the future. Right? So
what so what did they what what what
what did they do? They make fun of
people who think that a piece of meat
in a rat can turn into a rat.
Right? Okay. What's more stupid? What's the what's
the more stupid party? The person might probably
gets upset when I say stupid like I
didn't win bad but really, this what is
this? Is there a better way
of describing,
describing people who believe these things? What's more
stupid? The person who believes that a piece
of meat in Iraq will turn into a
rat or a person who believes that nothing,
vacuum of nothing which by the way can't
exist but right nothing,
okay,
turns into
everything that's stupid
Okay. That's really stupid.
Now
now we're starting to actually be able to
come closer to what the real debate is
between atheists in between people who believe in
God. Okay.
What is atheism? Okay. Atheism is not believing
in God. That's not what atheism is. It's
what atheism
isn't.
Okay. What atheism is and this is any
any classical atheist I'm talking about from 1000
of years before
from the first,
the first debates of philosophers with one another.
The debates between people who believed in a
creator and people who didn't believe in a
creator.
The first debate is what? Do you believe
that the universe, the material universe
existed forever or do you believe that it
came out of that it came into creation?
If it came into creation, it obviously means
a creator because there's nothing in the physical
universe that
happens without something causing it to happen.
If you believe if you don't believe that
it has a creator, you have to believe
that it existed forever in cycles.
They would say that, okay. If it existed
forever and it had no creator, that makes
no sense. Well, maybe
the the material universe,
it exists in cycles that just repeat themselves
again and again, which is very some very
close to the,
cosmology of of Indian religions, Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism.
Right? That the universe, it just kind of
cycles back and forth through these cycles pointlessly.
Who started Alano's best? Who's gonna end it?
There's no end to it. It just kind
of happened. Okay.
This is in in in logic, in the
study of Aristotelian logic. This is known as
in Arabic as.
It's known in English as infinite regress.
This is considered to be a type of
logical fallacy. Okay. It's the logical or philosophical
equivalent of trying to divide by 0.
You understand what I'm saying? What came first?
The chicken or the egg? Right. Well, maybe
the chicken and egg will constantly be born
one from the other since the beginning of
time. No. There's actually an answer to the
question. What it what it is Alano's best,
but there's actually an answer to the question.
Why? Because things don't have bounce back and
forth like that forever
all the time. So someone says, okay. Well,
you know, I don't believe in the I
don't believe that the physical right? Because the
physical universe, if you believe it existed forever,
then you're ascribe ascribing to the physical universe
one of the attributes of Allah, which has
been a pre eternal, primordial
eternity of existence
that it was never created. It was always
there and it will never be destroyed. It
will always be there Al Baqa. Right? That
it will never be destroyed. These are 2
very important attributes that,
belong to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So to
answer the question from before which is what
do atheists believe in if they don't believe
in God? It's that they're materialists.
They ascribe certain basic and fundamental
attributes of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Not to Allah Ta'ala because they don't believe
in him. But to what? To this material
world. Okay. And who are the people of
belief in in Allah
Who are the people who, of belief in
God? Those are the people who believe that
no. All of this stuff needed to start
from somewhere.
All of this stuff needed to start from
somewhere. Now, the atheist atheist counter with a
very simple and very silly,
argument. They said, well, if everything needs something
created and the universe is created by God,
then who created God?
Okay.
What do we say?
We say that the need of every created
thing for someone to have made it. Right?
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, why is it that
in the Quran again and again?
There was no one like unto him.
There's no one like unto him.
The the vision cannot see him, but he
sees the vision.
The idea is this is that Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala does not exist within
the universe of cause and effect within the
cage or the prison of time and space.
He's not limited or bounded by it. Rather,
his existences
is is such that it's unlimited.
Right. Time and space are not something he
exists inside. Rather, they are creation from his
creations.
His existence,
right, his existence is something that's completely unlimited
and unimaginable.
In the same way, there is a a
barrier, an existential barrier between us and between
his existence
that is infinite and not even comparable to
the existential barrier between your guy and your
head that you imagine and you.
You're he won't understand you. Even more than
that, you'll infinitely more than that, you'll never
understand Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Infinitely more that the carpenter understands the table
that he built and the table will never
understand the carpenter.
Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala's existence supersedes your existence.
This is a basic part of what we
believe in Allah,
Allah
This is why the Christians can believe that
Jesus is the Son of God because they
don't understand that Allah
They think he also lives in time and
space like we do.
That yesterday was yesterday and today is today
and tomorrow is tomorrow for for Allah
Whereas we believe what? All of it is
equal for
Allah He never changes. He's always the same.
He's been who he is and he is
who he is and you'll be who he
is. We're the ones experiencing all of this
stuff through time and through time and
space. Right? Like a movie reel. If you
watch a movie reel from the beginning to
end, right, for those of you who were
born in, like, 1997 or whatever. Right? They're
used to, before DVDs, watch movies on a
reel, which is a reel of pictures. They
flip one after the other, 30 frames per
second. So when you watch from reel to
reel the entire movie in, like, 90 minutes
or whatever,
they're just pictures one after the other that
you're watching. Okay. What if someone had the
back of the screen and they just flash
the entire movie up on it? They're experiencing
the entire movie at the same time. It's
a different experience of time and space. We
have a very limited experience of time and
space because we're caged in it. We're bound
in it. Allah
Time and space are like a creation of
his. He's the rub of time and space
just as powerless as you are in front
of a hurricane or in front of a
volcano that's spewing on molten lava even even
even more powerless as time and space in
front of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala existence
into that. Even higher of a level compared
to compared to
that. This is something you have to understand
that this entire system that we live in
that we're bound in causes and effects, etcetera.
Within it, we know how things work
to a certain degree that we know that,
you know, if I throw the box sorry.
I do for throwing the box at you,
by the way. I was trying to demonstrate
a point here.
It's not like I resent you for anything
or whatever. Right?
We have, you know, just like we know
that the boxes apply itself within the system,
we know pretty well how these things work.
Right? Outside of the system, there's an existence
that is so much greater
that that we're unable to understand the reality
of that existence. That existence is Allah
Okay? That existence is who? Allah
Now we believe, obviously, this is going into,
like, you know, can I ever gonna be
able to teach the entire aqidah about 9
minutes before my hour is up?
We believe that that Allah
has existed just like physically his existence is
unimaginable
unimaginably
superior to ours?
Just like that spiritually, morally, intellectually, it's better
than ours. Right? There are people who believe
in what? They believe believe they say we
believe in God like the clockmaker. He just
wound up everything and he just lets things
go. Or we believe in, God like as
in natural laws. We don't believe in a
personal God. Why is it? Right? Something that's
not a person. Right? A doorknob is not
a person. Right? If you call this person
a doorknob, is that a compliment?
No. You feel superior to it because it's
not able to think. It's not able to
do anything for itself. How is it that
what created the heavens and the earth? You're
saying that he's impersonal and he has no
personality whatsoever. You refer all of you prefer
all of the good and the good characteristics
for yourself.
Right? Alright.
Talks about this in the Quran. Why do
people underestimate Allah
They hate to have daughters, but then they
say, Allah has daughters. They hate this and
hate that. But Allah ta'ala for him, this
is the way it is. Doesn't work like
that. Okay. So what is the what is
the the the common sense
proof that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala exists?
That there is a being who
super exists the heavens and the earth and
the realm of cause and effect and have
to initiate externally.
Initiate initiated
having to happen.
Right. This is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala who
had to initiate all of these things because
to think things happen on their own is
ridiculous.
To think things happen on their own is
ridiculous. Now, there's a couple of small points
I want to mention before closing. Okay.
One is this is the same stuff our
olema have been telling us for centuries.
You have probably heard every single argument I've
talked about
right now in this talk in Urdu or
in Arabic some, you know, like from some
very simple moloni stock or some simple shave
or something like a simple style or whatever,
before maybe 20, 30 times, a 100 times.
You never took it seriously. Why? Because the
person is doesn't speak English and we know
how people don't speak English are are like
animals and not human beings Are there people
who are from a different country? You know
how those people are worthless people and we
would never marry 1 and we'd never, like,
wanna go back to our countries and oh
my god. They're all horrible. Right? It's because
of our own It's because of our our
own arrogance that we don't accept these things.
Otherwise,
forget about the you can go on 3
days
to believe. And they'll probably tell you about
80% of what I told you right now,
but in such a simple and humble fashion
that that we're never gonna listen to them
because we think humility is stupid, whereas
is beautiful.
Whereas is the one who's the one who
humbles himself for the sake of will raise
him. Right? And that the idea is what?
There's a
also that the person who makes himself arrogant
Allah will break them into pieces.
And There's some people they get broken in
this world. We feel so sad for them.
The one we should feel sad for is
the one who's broken into pieces in the
fire. And
it will happen to certain people. Right? Nobody
who says, lie lie, Allah will go to
jahanam
forever. Some of them will be made inside
the fire and why would you want to
do that? I love to have protect us
from such an end. I love to have
protect us from such an end. The second
thing I wanted I wanted to bring up
really quickly before our time is
about to go away is what? It's like
for example if you commit blasphemy in
in the Muslim world, you do something like
disrespectful to the book of Allah Ta'ala or
say something disrespectful about the
prophet they'll probably like beat you up or
kill you or do something crazy. Right? Why?
Because
not going through the whole discussion but one
of the very simple reasons is what? You
did something that that their heart could not
accept
seeing or watching.
Okay? Now if we believe we worship Allah
and we revere the prophet and
we consider the book of Allah
a that
that divine attributes of Allah divine speech of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and we get upset
when somebody doesn't,
you know doesn't treat it well right how
do you think a materialist
how do you think a materialist feels when
you uh-uh you know don't go to job
at the job for overtime in order to
study
or when you don't, you know, when you
turned on money or you turned on something
of the dunya in order to improve yourself
spiritually.
To them, it's an act of blasphemy.
They'll never accept it from you. They'll always
curse you and say whatever names they can
to you. In certain cases, they'll also physically
punish you for doing something like that. That's
something I want you to think about because
our ajida is very functional and our ajida
guides and and dictates choices we make every
day
every hour of every day and I want
you to think about which which what your
ajida is and let it inform the choices
that you make every day
day by day Okay. I want you to
understand that. I want you to think about
that. And the final idea I want to
give to you before leaving the last 5
minutes is what?
Is that
most people
my my feeling is and I think many
people will also agree with me. Most people's
issue or problem with the existence of
Allah or the truthfulness of the Nabi
is not an intellectual problem.
Okay.
Intellectually,
there are very simple
simple,
ways of proving that these things are not
only possible that they are. They make more
sense than any of the other,
possibilities.
Intellectually, it's very easy to,
you know, take the air out of the
tires or the arguments of someone who says,
god doesn't exist. Because,
again, that means you're claiming that the universe
existed forever or that something is happening that
has no cause for it to happen or
all of this stuff. Right?
That's intellectually, it's easy to deal with. There
are certain people who are intellectually not the
most,
not the sharpest tools in the shed.
They don't follow these arguments very easily. The
following, you know, like, I you know, you
lose them in the arguments. Right? If someone
had lost you, I'm not calling you stupid
right now. The good news is what? You
can read and study. Sometimes, some people get
things like that. I didn't get it just
like that. I didn't even study. Right? But
I do this for a living so it
becomes natural for me to think about these
things after a while. If you don't if
you don't get it right away, you can
study. You can work on it. You understand
it. And Mount Ghazali said that this is
a fallacy. This is a time of stupidity
to think that just because
you didn't understand something
that nobody understood it. Right? This is something
that's understandable if you think about it, read
about it, reflect over it, it will become
very very, it will make a lot of
sense to you. It will become a very
sensible thing for you. So you can address
that problem. I'm not worried about how we
are going to address that problem.
Okay? What I'm worried about is what? The
problem of the heart. Right? The The heart
is a spiritual issue. It's not an intellectual
issue. The heart is a part of a
person's root which
drives which decisions they make, which path they
want to take in life. Okay? And the
heart also gets affected by these aqdida issues.
Right? The iman is like a tide. It's
either coming up or going in but it's
never staying the same. Okay. The iman is
like a tie by your atma. If you
do something that's the, you know, disobedience of
Allah or the heedlessness of Allah. Maybe even
permissible, but in it is involved what? Right?
Not remembering Allah. Allah says in his book,
he says he says
Right? In humility,
when fear from Allah about Allah
And without having to say anything on your
tongue, remember Allah
in your heart.
Never and never be one of the people
who forgets Allah
Never. In no instant. Even if you're committing
a sin,
right, should you allow your heart to forget
Allah which is the iman of our forefathers.
Okay? Never be amongst the people who forget
Allah
The fear I have is what? That people
are doing so many Haram things. We're watching
so many Haram things. We're listening to so
many Haram things. We've watched so many Haram
things. We we eat and drink so many
haram things. This is why I heart people
about about halal. Even though I hate being
that halal, right?
Because the thing the fact of the matter
is if you keep eating that stuff, it'll
kill your heart to the point one day
the mind will understand the law and
the heart will be like, yo, man. I'm
just not feeling it, man. I'm just not
feeling it. Of course, you're not feeling it.
You're eating haram. You're looking at haram. You
have
you're consuming intoxicants. You're watching TV more than
you read the Quran and read your prayers.
You're you're the thing you love more than
anything in life is to buy a freaking
car and a house. Come on.
What kind of loser are you? You're gonna
go into your grave. You need to touch
the lights and go with
you? You're more important than when some guy
can throw a ball in a loop.
That's a stupid human trick, man. I know
it's an entertaining I also get everything, but
ultimately,
it's not important. I'm sorry about the cool
shit that's gonna be tweeting about, like,
the the game was awesome and so and
so, you know, so and so that Knicks
made a touchdown and home
I don't care about those things, man. I
don't have time to care about those things.
You guys
so it's not. Okay. It's not. But why
you make it more important in your life
than things that are gonna actually, like, affect
your life forever and ever. Then the people
that you love, your mother, your father, your
family, your children, then your community.
Then the Nabi said to Muhammad every night
at the Hajj that he used to pray
for this. He went to Hajj. All of
his duas for this.
Says that every let me got a here.
He makes his duas whatever you want. I'll
give it to you. He said, I saved
that duas for my.
Is for the sinners of this. Everything you
don't even you don't even think about him
in the day. You don't even you because
why? Because you're busy, like, you know, with
NFL and NBA and NHL and God knows
what other weird stupidest I'll definitely point these
things. Right? You went to Star Wars movie
or whatever.
Right? Really, honestly, I don't care anymore. I'm
sorry. Maybe I'm not in cool shape now.
You can, like, delete me or unfollow me
or, like, not call me again. Call someone
more relevant. We'll talk about this stuff. Right?
I've watched I've watched Star Wars when I
was a kid. I just don't care anymore.
Why?
Maybe maybe I'll see it one day. Maybe
I'll be sitting in a plane and it
will be playing or whatever, and I'll just
see it or whatever. I just don't care
anymore.
Why? Because they're not, ultimately, they're not important
things. The fear I have for for the
people not believing in Allah Ta'ala is they're
gonna say, yo, I don't feel it anymore.
And the reason they don't feel it anymore
is
Indeed. Those people, the the evil things that
they were doing, they formed a rest, a
rest around their heart until the heart died.
And you can I'm not talking about the
physical heart. The physical heart, you can always
have doctor Khan go and, like, operate on
you as a thing and put a stent
and and bypass and all this other nonsense,
you'll be fine. Right? There are even people,
they throw their heart out and put like
a wing screw that causes the blood to
flow through the person. You'll be fine. You'll
be okay. What's the worst case scenario? You'll
die. Right? You're Muslim man. You say,
You're just gonna go back,
aren't you? That's not such a bad proposition.
Is it?
It's not so bad. You think one of
your guy, Allah Ta'ala, is gonna send a
snake in your grave to eat you if
you've been praying 5 times a day and
that you've made tawba for your sins? The
angels will treat you nicely. Why? Because you're
important to Allah Ta'ala. They'll command them to
respect and they'll treat you nicely.
Right? The preachers, they scared the
the the the the smack out of people
for no reason sometimes.
It's just so that you don't go down
the path of evil but InshaAllah, if you
go down the path of righteousness,
Allah has prepared
for you. Right? Allah has prepared love and
for
you. Don't let that that that that haram
and don't let that heedlessness.
Haram is the thing Allah says you can't
do and heedlessness is the thing that he
said that you can do, but you pursued
so much that you
forget about what you're supposed to remember.
Don't let that catch up with you. Tell
you say dude I don't feel it anymore.
Of course you're not gonna feel it anymore.
You're feeling your girlfriend right now.
That's why you're not gonna feel it anymore.
Some people don't even have a girlfriend but
she's still enchanting them by day and by
night.
Right? That's the worst thing. Even you're a
loser and you got the ill effects of
of sin even though you didn't have enough
game to even get it on.
It's not funny. This is describing most of
you. Don't laugh about it. Just cry about
it. Cry about it.
It's describing most of us.
This is our how.
This is the how that we're in. We
think about these things when we're not we're
not made to think about these things. You
think that being being pious is a drag?
The
had 4 wives and had 20 slave I
remember I had a I had a
a friend, you know,
and I learned from Turkey. Right? If you
anyone here been to before Istanbul?
Nobody? Right? You see you see have you
seen the the clothing that the the sultan
used to wear? Some of them are, like,
really kind of weird. They're, like, big purple
with flowers and all this other stuff on
it. You're, like, I never wore that. It's
purple and pink flowers and things like that.
Right? So she's both kind of like, yo,
man. What's wrong with you Turkish people, man?
The Ottoman Empire, the the sultans used to
wear these, like, weird
clothing and things like that. He says he's
very serious person.
People spent you had a 10 years of
their life on horseback. You had feasibility lap
and had more slave women than you'll ever
be able to imagine. I don't think they
need to prove their masculinity to anyone.
Those are the people who used to make
bicker. Those are the people who used to
make sala. The people used to remember Allah
by day and night. Right? The most powerful
person in the sultans in the sultans, premium
council was the shayef of Islam. Right? Those
are people those are people who I'd like,
you know, those are people of serious commitment
to the Deen. Not just I'm gonna be
a doctor and cut a check on, like,
on the fundraiser night and, like, just go
to Tarabe in the year. Those are people
who have real serious commitment to the Deen.
The thing I fear with regards and forgive
me for whatever offensive things I say, even
if I say them big dua for me
and forgive me, I apologize. That's not the
reason I came here, to offend people. The
reason this is something very serious, remember it.
If you get to that point where I
go, oh, shit. I'm not feeling it no
more. Okay. You need to clean your heart
out.
It's not gonna happen in 1 night. It's
gonna take a long time it'll take a
week it'll take 40 days it'll take 4
months 4 years 40 years god knows what
it'll take a long time if you reflect
over the lives of the people of the
forest, people struggle with themselves by day night,
denying themselves the things that they wanted, the
things that their nafs wanted only in order
for them to make kufr in the duniya
so that your iman and halal will grow
powerful because
the balance between them is like that. If
your iman is in Allah strong, your kufr
in the dunya is strong.
If your iman in the dunya is is
strong, then your iman in Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala cannot be strong. It's impossible for it
to be that way. This is something that
is a advice that I heard from my
masha'aikh and from my teachers. You have people
that you can help, you know, have them
help you take you through this path. You
can have people, you know, you can teach
and learn what is the the way that
you bring the heart back to life and
what are the things to watch out for
that will kill the heart. Right? A very
simple book is the rial salahi. I'm no
one who wrote it. It's only I asked
them the book of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
and Read
it with an read it with a scholar
so that it it can explain to you
the beginning of this this journey, this path
of how a person
can bring the heart back to life and
protect it from death. May Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala thank you for all of us so
much dawfiq. I apologize it was 6 minutes
over. Please forgive me and forgive me for
like, 10 other things other than that. Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala make this in which people's
destinies and their fates change for their better
and their lives change for the better and
my life and your life changes for the
better. May Allah make our Majma Insha'Allah are
gathering again one day in in his Jannah
and his without
with his forgiveness and without being punished by
by by the Baraka of anyone here that
he accepts from. And by the Baraka of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, and by
the Baraka of Ummah that was better than
us that came before us that deliver this
message to us. Allah to give all of
us so much stuff you can accept from
us.