Hamzah Wald Maqbul – The Rational Necessity of the Existence of God, Masjid Zakariyy, Bolton, 01232017
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Ahmad.
I'd like to thank Moana Abdul Rahim,
our learned and pious elder,
for
an introduction
that is largely undeserved.
I would also like
to say that I'm not an expert in,
And I would also like to propose the
idea
that you don't need to have any sort
of high expertise. Rather, Allah
created in every
human being who is salim al fitra, who
has their aboriginal
and organic
humanity
intact, their original state inside of their heart
intact.
It is part of that
original
logic and reason Allah created every human being
with.
That common sense that seems to be very
uncommon nowadays
to to know that Allah
exists.
So the part about proving the existence of
god is not difficult.
The locus of the problem is not in
the mind.
The locus of the problem is where it's
in the heart.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says regarding those
All these
corporations
that are polluting the earth, stealing money, and
then getting angry at a poor person for
buying a Snickers bar with a welfare check.
Those people who steal
1,000,000,000
and and then and then cheap out on,
actual human beings for
pounds and cents.
Those those people, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala describes
them as a people who have a rust
that has
enveloped the heart.
The solution to removing that rust is something
that people like Moana,
Abdul Rahim Saab will be able to provide
you better. It is a solution of the
heart. Once the heart dies, the mind becomes
twisted, and things that are don't make sense
to it start to
sound reasonable even though they're not reasonable at
all. That's when a person wakes up in
the morning, looks in the mirror, am I
a man? Am I a woman?
You know, should does a man marry a
man or a woman or is, you know,
why is it that a man cannot marry
his sister or his brother? All these kind
of weird things. Right? It was read it
was read by the Hafizah.
Don't be like those people who forgot Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala for He caused them to
forget themselves.
And the age that we live in is
unfortunately
a a a a sometimes
comical
and more often than not sad tafsir of
this
ayah of the book of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
I would like you to consider a contention
made by Imam Ghazali
in his
that he says it's a type of stupidity
in a person
to think just because they don't understand something
that nobody understands it. It's possible for all
of us as individuals that there's something in
the world, it was explained to us or
it wasn't explained to us. We don't understand
it.
It's possible we don't understand it, but it
does make sense. Just because we fail to
understand it doesn't mean that it doesn't make
sense.
I would further propose,
to the people who are listening to this
lecture that the din makes sense.
There are certain things in the din that
are super rational, but there's nothing in the
deen that is irrational.
We read books of logic in in Madrasa.
At least we used to read books of
logic in the There are a number of
things that are irrational. For example, to say
that there's such a thing, a part of
it is bigger than the whole, obviously, it's
not rational. It's an irrational proposition.
It's irrational if someone says, 1 equals 3,
Isn't
it? 1 doesn't equal 3. 1 is 1.
3 is 3. There are different numbers to
say that both of them equal one another.
It's an irrational proposition.
There are entire groups of people in this
world. The bedrock of their is
what? It's irrationality.
For them,
faith in God is an irrational proposition.
Allah
He taught Adam
He taught Adam
the proper names for everything.
We give names to things, we give labels
to things, we give technical,
terminology to things, and sometimes we do naming
abuse.
So what certain people refer to as a
sacred mystery or a holy mystery,
it's not a sacred or holy mystery. What
is it? It's irrationality.
Because we live amongst them, it doesn't matter
how long your beard is or
how black your niqab and hijab is or
jilbaab is. It doesn't matter how double triple
HMC your meat is.
I love HMC
HMC for life, man.
But it doesn't those things don't matter if
inside your
your regarding,
your conception regarding the world around you is
wrong,
this is something I hear again and again.
How can you say someone says he's
a
Well, there's a group there's a
in in America.
Right? They say,
Muhammad and by,
they mean Allah is like
a rug merchant from the east, and Muhammad
is a gentleman by the name of Elijah
Pool from the south side of Chicago.
If that's what your
conception of
Muhammadu Rasool Allah is, then your deen is
not valid. Is it?
Right?
This is a this is a maximum, a
legal maximum in the Maliki school.
The the consideration is to give into reality
is not to the words.
Obviously, both of them are important.
But in the case of a person's
and the case of a person's belief, the
iman, the seed of which is in the
mind and in the heart,
It's not just enough to say the word
of iman, it's
important to understand it. In fact, it's critical
to understand it.
Now I propose the following,
which is that we live in a society
and amongst the people. Not just in Bolton
because we're in the UK
or because I'm in America,
But in the entire world,
the cultural
*,
the cultural
hegemony of the
civilization of the has
completely
covered over even
even the way people think about
things amongst the intelligentsia and the ruling classes
in the Arab world, in the Indian subcontinent,
in Africa, and all of these different places.
So that the the ruling and the enfranchised
elites in those places,
they also
they also have the taint of the color
of this
this
that the belief in God is based on
some sort of irrational,
matter. It's based on some of quote unquote
holy mystery, and you have to take it
on faith. Don't try to make sense of
it because it's not gonna make sense. This
is utterly ridiculous, completely wrong. This is rejected,
dead on arrival, returned to sender. This maybe
somebody else's Aqidah. They have the right to
have that Aqidah under the law.
This is not our Aqidah, this is not
what Allah
salallahu alaihi wa sallam sat down in the
wahi that that that came in the Quran
and the sunnah of Rasool Allah salallahu alaihi
wa sallam. Knows it what is transmitted by
the
The is not some
Abu something or another who's in the masjid
down the street. I'm talking about the and
the
The deen makes complete sense.
The deen is completely rational. The proof of
the existence of God is completely rational. It's
a very rational proof.
It's something that you can teach a small
child. I said in the beginning, I'm not
an expert on. I'm not a
I'm not an expert on.
It's just that this is something that makes
sense to me, so I shared with people
out of the hope that the Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala that watches over all of us.
Maybe if I say something good about him
and spread some good word about him in
front of his other slaves, maybe inshallah he'll
be happy with me. Maybe if you spread
that word to somebody else, he'll be happy
with you. Also, by Allah say,
amen. Amen.
So what is it? Right? We live in
a world of what they call asbaab, causes
and effect. Okay?
One of the mistakes that the ancient Greeks
made, that the ancient Romans made, and
that mistake was assumed by Banu Israel by
the Jews, the yahood, and it was assumed
by the Christians because of the cultural hegemony
of the Greco Roman civilization.
One of the mistakes that they made was
to believe
that they're gods. Right? Because what is the
gods of the Greeks and the Romans? It's
like Zeus, Jupiter.
Right? It's it's what? It's, you know, all
of this, like, Athena and and Hades and
all the different gods that they had, they
were essentially they're not they're not what we
consider to be Allah
They're like essentially like Marvel
comic superheroes,
like souped up versions of human beings.
So they have a body like we have
a body. Maybe it's a little bit bigger.
They fly in the air and throw thunderbolts
at stuff and, you know,
transform into different animals and whatever. But essentially,
it's like a souped up human being.
That human being lives within time and lives
within space. That human being is subjected not
only to physical constraints,
spatial constraints, temporal constraints,
but also to ethical, moral and rational constraints.
Meaning what? If Zeus should take somebody and
and and shoot a lightning bolt at him
for no reason, people will say what? Zeus
did something that's unjust.
Zeus did something that's unjust. 1 of the
gods did something unjust. The other god will
take revenge from them. The people will stop
worshiping them, etcetera, etcetera.
What is it? It's this idea that
the gods are really powerful human beings, but
there's a reality that exists over even them.
Which is what? Time,
space
and also
You know, think
realities of meaning, philosophical realities like justice, like
whatever. Okay?
This is the reason, you know, the
we have
the Right? This is it's a difference of
opinion amongst the ulema as to which of
the sons of Sinai Ibrahim was
sacrificed.
The rajid opinion according to our,
our texts and according to the the opinions
of our ulema is that it was Saidna
Ismail alaihis salam. But there is an opinion
that comes as narrated from the sahaba
that it's Saidna Ishaq.
I propose for the purpose of learning the
lesson from the story,
it's irrelevant which one it is by and
large. It's not totally irrelevant, but by and
large, it's irrelevant.
So the the story of the binding of,
said in Ibrahim and his son, whichever one
it was, the,
They don't even accept the possibility that it
was Sam Ismail. That story is an important
story in
the,
Jewish tradition as well.
They call it in Hebrew the.
In Arabic means to tie something up. Right?
They call that the means binding, the binding
of, of of of Ibrahim
of his son in order to sacrifice him
because sacrifices were bound.
So it is an opinion it is an
opinion and a respected and valid opinion of
the rabbis.
That said that Ibrahim, by slaughtering his son,
he failed the test.
It is a an opinion that the rabbis
is not the only opinion that they have,
but it is an opinion that they respect
as a valid point of view that by
sacrificing his son when Allah asked him to,
Ibrahim failed the test.
Aside from the issues regarding that
what's the point of sending a if he's
not going to be able to carry out
your commandments. Right? That itself is an irrationality.
Aside from that issue, the idea is what?
They said that God commanded something unjust to,
Ibrahim. He should have not listened to him.
The purpose for sending the mb alaihussaan in
the world was to take the creation and
the creator and and the link that was
broken between them to mend it and make
it whole again.
The purpose was not to teach people to
second guess Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
I consider with, I
I I I put forth to you with
all due respect to our,
neighbors of the Jewish religion and our friends
and our colleagues of the Jewish religion who
live amongst us and have lived amongst us
in peace for centuries,
that this is utterly in the in the
in the realm of the intellectual. This is
utterly nonsense. It's a complete fail. It's a
fail of iman. It's a complete failure of
faith to even acknowledge this has any sort
of moral or intellectual or spiritual worth in
it.
Why?
Because what you did is you were supposed
to worship Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
as the supreme being.
And what did you do? You took your
justice and you imposed it on top of
him. So Allah is not Allah. The justice
on top of him has is of a
higher rank than Allah. There's an external thing
called justice, and you made Allah into this
superhero character just like the Greeks and the
Romans did.
Our friends and our neighbors that we live
amongst
peacefully
and happily coexist with for centuries,
They did the same they did the same,
mistake and they did it even worse.
It's okay. We disagree with them. They disagree
with us. No no offense. You know, I'm
not saying this to, you know, like, pump
up sentiment
against different religions, but we have these discussions.
We have our point of view, and that's
okay. They have their point of view. We
think they're wrong. They think we're wrong. We
get along with each other, because we're stuck
in this life. That's something we all agree
about. Alright? We're stuck in this life together.
We may as well get along.
What did they do? They said, God is
just.
This justice is external. It's over Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. It poses its will on Allah
even though Allah
is
the
one.
Right? Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's will this is
our akhida that it it overwhelms all other
wills. This is justice imposed this will on
us Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that the creation
sins
and god is just, so he has to
punish them. He can't forgive them. Why? Because
justice is forcing him to not punish them
supposedly. Right? Or not forgive them supposedly.
So in order to forgive, he has to
take out that justice on somebody.
So god is just because it's justice, he
can't forgive. He has to take out that
punishment
created world in the form of a human
being, and then he puts all the punishment
on himself
who came as a sinless and a blameless
and a masum, a
an infallible,
and sinless,
human being.
And, through that, his justice is served. Now
if you're a rational person, you see, like,
there's, like, a couple of things that are
very wrong just off the bat, which is
what
Allah created the entire universe.
How can he become a part of it
then?
How can he become part of it? Didn't
we say that the it's rationally impossible for
the Jews to be bigger than the? It
doesn't make any sense from that point of
view. What else does make any sense? The
justice is imposing itself on him from ex
from an external, from above, which means he's
not Allah. The justice is Allah because the
justice has the upper hand over him as
well. And I know Allah ta'ala is the
one who has the upper hand over all
of his all of his subjects.
What else is wrong? Right? What else is
wrong?
If his justice doesn't allow him to forgive,
how does his justice allow him to punish
somebody who didn't do anything wrong in first
place? That's even more unjust.
Right? Iman has its logic. Kufr has its
logic.
It's quote unquote logic. Right? We we use
one and one like Istighfafan or Istighizaan.
Iman has logic. Kufr has its own line
of reasoning that appeals to it.
So I propose all of this is what
this is all something that doesn't make sense.
It's irrational.
I propose what? I propose that we have
a rational definition of Allah
Time,
space,
and
philosophical ideals like justice, all of them are
created by Allah
Isn't it the hadith of Rasool Allah
that du'a of his is related in the
the Sahihab ibnuhibban.
That he said, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, to
Allah
My def My The thing that will come
to pass is whatever you order. The thing
that will come to pass over me is
whatever you order. My definition of justice is
whatever your decree is.
Our definition of justice comes down Allah sends
it down. Not something that's over Allah Subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
Time and space, Allah created it. This is
the reason why the
traditionally considered the question of where is Allah
to be a wrong question.
Why?
Because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala created everything.
He created time and he created space.
We say,
That his his beginning
his his his primordial
eternity has no beginning.
And his,
his baqa, his existence forever has no end.
But the the reason that is is not
because what he's inside of time always. The
reason is time itself is a creation of
his.
All points in time, space, they're all equal.
We cannot sympathize or understand what the that
of Allah is or how Allah's essential existence
is. Why?
There's nothing like anything like unto
him.
There's nobody who has any parity with him
But there are certain things that he did
that help us to relate to something,
something regarding what he's not. So doesn't it
come in the hadith of the prophet
that the first thing created is the pen
and the tablet. And then he commanded the
pen to write everything that was, everything that
is, and everything that will ever be.
To show us what in his
the past, present, future, it's all the same.
Why? Because time is like a speck that
he created. All of it is in front
of him. Completely uncovered, not not a mystery
at all. All of it is equally in
front of him. He doesn't change. He is
who he is now, and this is saying
Allah who he was, and this is saying
who Allah who he we will he will
be. We experience time as what?
We experience time as a sequence of events,
a linear sequence of events that's moving in
one direction.
But to Allah
all of it is equally in front of
him
just like that all spaces equally in front
of him. So when someone asks with the
the question where is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
what do we say? We say, he's everywhere
in his knowledge.
People say he's everywhere to little kids to
kinda shut him up, but that's not a
really correct answer. The correct answer is what?
He's everywhere in his knowledge.
But to answer the question where is Allah
to say that he's in a certain point
in time and space,
Imam explicitly says he's not contained within the
directions, up, down, left, right, front, back. He's
not contained in those six directions. Right?
That that he's not contained in those six
directions. We say his knowledge pervades all all
things,
but to think that within the space that
he created that he's in any one point
misses the point that he's bigger than space.
To think that he exists in time, he's
bigger than time. Time and space are creations
of his. It's like a cage, a prison
that you and I are imprisoned in.
But he's not imprisoned in it. He is
Allah
So
to to you know, this is all a
very big setup for what will possibly be
almost disappointingly simple.
When somebody asks, does God exist or not?
Right? Your university
professor, he says, does God exist? You cannot
prove to me God exists.
You can't prove to me God exists.
Show me God.
Touch God. Let me hear him.
Let me see Him. Right? Let me smell
Him. Let me taste Him. Let me sense
Him somehow.
And then I'll believe that He exists. But
if you can't show Him to me, then
this is your imaginary friend pie in the
sky in July,
spaghetti monster in the air. Why are you
bothering me with this? This is completely irrational
just like the dean of the Yahud and
Nasara.
We say what? As a muqaddima as a
muqaddima, our own holy books says what?
The eyesights will never be able to see
him
even though he sees all of the eyesights.
And I propose that one of the meanings
of this ayah is
not just
it's not just it's not just, what you
call,
limited to the eyesight. Rather, the eyesight is
the. It's the most noble of all of
the senses that a human being has.
It's the most powerful of all the senses
a human being has.
And a person is more debilitated by losing
their eyesight than they are by losing their
sense of smell, for example.
It includes all of the senses.
There's nothing like unto him. We said from
the beginning, you will not through your senses
be
able to
understand him through his senses. In fact, our
say that to think that you your senses
or your mind can understand Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala. This in and
of itself is a type of shift.
Rather, what we can do is think about
anything you can think of, whatever you can
think of, whatever you can understand that's a
dulil. The fact that you can think of
it or understand it is this is a
dulil or you can see it. It's a
dalil. It's not him. It's a dalil. It's
not him. So for somebody to ask us,
make mubalil about dalil of his existence.
For somebody to ask us to say, show
me God.
Let me touch god. And if you can't
do so, he doesn't exist. This in and
of itself from the very beginning, this is
an argument against who? Against the
because they're the ones who
who who consider God to be bound by
time and space. And consider God to be
like a
that he's a physical being that is contained
within the 6 directions. Maybe he can, like
he has some, like, superpowers and things like
that. He's essentially just like a souped up
human being in their existence.
That god, we also disbelieve in him.
There are many Muslims that never sit in
the
or the of of of learning the ill
of deen
because they even some of them have beards,
some of them pray 5 times a day,
But because of the, because we went to,
you know,
kindergarten through high school, bachelor's degree, medical school,
law school, master's degree, PhD,
in that in that
in that environment.
So they start to get the of those
people. And then when they grow up and
say, you know what? I don't believe in
God anymore.
The God you disbelieve, that God, we also
disbelieve in that God.
There are many
Christians and Jews that that that apostate. They're
no longer Christians. They're no longer Jews anymore.
They say we don't believe in god. The
reason they don't believe Allah ta'ala is what?
Is because they're souped up like Marvel superhero
thing. They disbelieve in. We disbelieve in it
also. That there's a Santa Claus sitting in
a chair in the sky.
We don't believe that. We don't believe it.
We never believed it. We consider it kufr,
whoever amongst us says that God has a
body, we consider it to be kufr.
What? The 6 directions cannot contain him. The
6 He doesn't have limbs and and things
like that. He doesn't have a body. He
doesn't have flesh. We don't believe in any
of that. Rather, he's
There is no exception to this rule
that there's nothing like unto
him Any place in the Quran any place
in the Quran where a person might get
the idea that Allah
resembles his creation in any way, shape or
form, there's also methodology in the Quran of
how to explain that. Right? That some of
the ayat of the Quran are muqkum out,
they're very clear.
Someone steals,
cut their hand off. Not a whole lot
of, you know, super,
type people needed to understand what that means.
Okay. Fine. There are some conditions that has
to be within the confines of a sovereign
polity. The government has to do it. The
theft has to, you know, be of a
certain amount. It cannot be someone trying to,
you know, steal food, because they're starving, etcetera.
Those details are fine. Once those are once
those are all worked out, there's something called
theft. If it happens, someone has something called
a hand, you cut it off. You know,
the government cuts it off. That's it. That's
that's very straightforward. Right?
And there are other of the Quran, they're
allegorical. They're not to be interpreted at face
value. Anyone who says you're supposed to interpret
the Quran
completely,
in a in a completely at face value,
completely
literally, that person is a moron. There was
a school of people who used to do
that. They're called
the. They died out long ago. The ulema
nowadays quote their opinions in the books kind
of like as an inside joke, not really
to to to be taken seriously.
The idea that, okay, Allah says, you and
the ones that you worship other than Allah
will be the grabber of jahannam.
And that
that they will be the grabber of jahannam.
Do people worship Sayna Isa alaihis salam other
than Allah? Yes. If someone says that based
on this ayah,
I I say that Isa Alaihi Salam
is going to be the grabber of Jahannam
Musa. This person is a cash flow. This
person is disbelieved in Allah and his Rasool
But I was just interpreting the Quran literally.
We don't interpret the Quran literally in every
single place. It's not appropriate to do so.
Because human speech is not always literate. What
if you said imam Saab, give me a
hand? He's like, alright. Grabs a meat cleaver.
Cuts his hand off. Here you go, Moana.
He said, this guy needs go to the
mental hospital. Okay? That's not that's not that's
not something that's
a mentally
sound thing to do. Okay? So what do
we say?
Our ulema say that the proof of the
existence of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is
The need for every
created thing or the need for everything which
exists within the world of causes and effects
to have a cause to make it happen.
Okay? So what if said,
look that way, He turns around and looks
the other way, and I throw my phone
at him. And then he turns around and
looks at me again, and I'll be like,
it just happened. Is it are you gonna
believe me? Of course, you're not gonna believe
me. It's ridiculous to think that stuff happens
without
something making it happen. That happened from my
direction.
Therefore, it's a very
reasonable a very reasonable conclusion for him to
make that I'm the one who threw it
at him.
They used to be and we've shared this
example in the, in the, in the course
that we had in Huddersfield over the weekend.
There used to be a theory
amongst medieval
medieval is dark ages. It was dark ages
in Europe, not in the Muslim lands.
Medieval dark ages European
philosophers
called the theory of spontaneous generation.
It's a theory that and anyone here taken,
like, biology or gone to medical school or
dental school or whatever. Yeah. There you go.
Right? So they mentioned it in biology books.
Right? Like, they they used to believe that
you could take, a a a a,
like, a piece of rancid meat and wrap
it up in a damp rag and throw
it in a dark cellar, and it will
spontaneously turn into a rat. Right?
And then, like, people are like, you know
what? Let's let's, like, keep watching that rag
and we wanna see it happen. So after,
like, observing for a while, they see the
rat comes from the outside. It doesn't turn
into a rat anyway. But they mentioned this,
like, in a little, like, a little box
in the biology books, as if to say,
how stupid were they? They thought this stupid
thing. They're dumb people. Right? They're laughing at
them. They're laughing at their forefathers.
Now tell me something,
what's more stupid?
We're talking about stupid. So, well, I'm so
stupid in the mustard. My mother will hit
me if she sees the
if she sees that thing in the hot
tubs. You have to say it. Right?
What's more stupid, to think that a piece
of meat in a damp rag can turn
into a rat or to think that this
entire universe can come from nothing. The
the rancid meat in a damp rag is
surely, it's smaller than the entire universe.
And surely, the rat is larger than,
the it's sorry.
The the the rat is larger than the
entire universe. What's more unreasonable?
To believe that a piece of meat,
a rancid meat and a damp rag can
turn into a rat? Or to think that
every that nothing
in and of itself without any sort of
intervention can turn into everything.
Do you understand what I'm saying? Is this
rational or irrational? Is this a sacred or
holy mystery or is this completely rational at
this point? It's completely it's a very simple
it's a simple,
observation.
A completely rational observation.
A logical observation.
Now,
the ancient atheists were actually
better schooled in philosophy than modern atheists are.
Dawkins and,
what's this,
what what's this other guy's name? Sam Harris
and Bill Maher. These these people are lightweight
people. I mean, really, they're not super intelligent
people. Philosophically, they're not trained well.
The ancient the ancient,
atheists that used to, like, argue with Imam
Abu Hanifa type atheists from, like, back in
the day, those guys were they had a
very robust philosophical training. They understood
that it would be ridiculous to say that
everything came from nothing.
So what they used to say is what?
That the the material universe existed forever,
and it will exist forever, and it just
goes through cycles. It doesn't need a creator
because it just
exists. Now what do we as Muslims say?
The,
wajibulwujud
Right? Wajubulwujud
and and and al baqa
and al,
al al aliyah. Right? Having existed forever
and existing forever and necessarily existing in and
of itself. These three sifaat, what do we
give these 3 sifaat to?
To who?
Allah ta'ala.
And the old atheist philosophers gave those sifa
to who? To what? To the material world.
We have our iman. You have your iman.
Our iman isn't the one who created us
from nothing. Our iman is the one who
gave us life. Our iman is the one
who gave us air to breathe and water
to drink, food to eat. Our iman is
the one who sent us
Their iman is in what?
Dead matter.
Stupid matter.
Their iman is in you say, well, it's
in good things too, like gold and silver
and a nice car. Yes. But also, by
extension, it's in feces and urine and other
disgusting things. That's what your iman is. All
the stuff existed forever, and it will exist
forever. And it's wajibulwujud.
It's something that has to exist necessarily.
It doesn't need a reason to exist. Now
I want you to think about this for
a second.
Who is who has iman now?
They have iman in this ridiculous thing. So
what you're saying is, and so what they
say, okay. Well, we think of time not
as being linear, but as being cyclical.
This is a hadith of the prophet
by the way.
All of kufr is 1. We don't say
that this kafir is better than that one.
Whoever disbelieves
in any part of the message is like
having disbelieved in the entire thing. So look
at this. Isn't this funny? Right? What do
the what do the,
Christians believe? They say God that that God
came in flesh and blood
from this earth.
What do the the the the Hindus believe
also? They believe what? That time goes in
these cycles.
Right? Meaning that the earth also had a
tiddim. The earth also has,
baka. The earth also is wajibulwujub.
You see how the 2 are the same?
They're saying a piece of this flesh can
be something that exists forever and existed forever
and has power over all things. And the
Hindus are saying the same thing.
It's really it's the same philosophically, if you
undress all of okay. Someone speaks Latin and
the other person speaks Sanskrit, which are 2
sister languages, by the way. But if you
undress all the outer the outer,
trimmings, if you go to the core of
the they're the same.
All of
is what? It's the same. And it is
not a mistake
nor is it a coincidence
that these people who thought that God can
be made from this physical Earth and from
this physical creation
have ushered forth for all of mankind
what is hands down the most materialistic
civilization
ever known to the history of man.
It's
is
important.
If you don't know what your is, it
just it it means that you're ignorant of
it. It doesn't mean that you don't have
one.
That's why when they say stop talking all
this in the sky spiritual stuff. Let's talk
about
bottom line, it's all about the money. Why?
Because that's your is all about the money.
Our forefathers they say, stop talking all this
nonsense, dunya stuff. It's all gonna disappear one
day. Tell me about what is this between
me and my Allah
So what did we what what did what
do we say? We say
The need, the necessity
that every
every created thing, everything within the world of
causes and effects has
for a cause to make it happen.
Now, the atheist suffered a setback.
The atheist suffered a setback. Through material sciences,
do we know we know something about the
nature of the material world. Did the material
world exist forever or did it have a
a a finite start date?
And Had a start date. Right? What is
that start date called?
The big bang. Right? I'm really glad my
mother is not watching this because what I'm
about to say is somewhat embarrassing, but it's
the. Okay?
Now we know the universe didn't exist forever.
It did actually have some sort of cause
that made it exist, and that cause is
called the big bang.
Tell me something. You guys are mostly
native speakers of the English language. Right?
Okay. On street. And I'm not talking about,
like, in, in the Webster dictionary, but on
the street, you know?
The the verb to bang something or someone,
is this a good meaning or a bad
meaning? Is it a good meaning or is
it a bad meaning? Now why is it
that this one event
that Muslim
and Kafir can agree on is a really
important event?
All of our wujud comes from this event.
We agree about that. Right? The same,
the same material that becomes the Kaaba, the
same material that becomes Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa
sallam in Madina and Makkan and Bukutsa Sharif,
And that becomes the beard of Moana Abdul
Rahim. That same material all comes from that
one place. We have reverence for it. It's
a great event in the in the in
the cosmic history of creation. And for them
as well, they don't believe in the but
the duniya that they love so much, all
of it starts from there. Why do they
name it so disrespectfully?
Why? Because the the act of finding out
that the universe didn't exist forever, it doesn't
have the of Allah was very frustrating for
them.
The name in and of itself betrays this
fact. It was very frustrating for them to
realize
that that that that our our, like,
philosophical
foundation
for trying to push God out of the
out of the equation,
it just got the rug pulled out from
underneath it. Now so what happens is, like,
you know, decades later, the atheist, they, like,
you know because people that for
they they try to look for some argument
or some way that they can
justify the still justify God not needing to
exist. They say, maybe the Big Bang happened
cyclically. It'll expand and then it'll collapse and
it'll expand and collapse. Say, where's your proof?
Can I see the proof that you have?
Can I see it, taste it, smell it,
touch it? Or is your cyclical big bang
just your imaginary friend out in space? Who's
the one who has blind faith in a
holy and sacred mystery now? Tell me.
This is ridiculous.
Rather, every child
intuitively
knows that anything that comes into existence, anything
that happens within the world of causes and
effects, it requires a cause in order for
it to happen. Right? That's why we call
Allah
Okay. The atheist will if everything requires a
cause to make it happen, then who caused
God to happen? But did we say everything
within the realm of causes and effects. Is
not in in the realm of causes and
effects.
Created the realm of causes, effects, and effects.
Created time. If he created time, that means
to ask the question when is just as
silly as asking the question where with regards
to Allah because
all points in time are equal in front
of him. Otherwise, how is he going to
command the pen to write on the tablet
everything that was, everything that is, everything that
will ever be if he hasn't experienced it
yet?
Do you understand what I'm trying to say?
So this is something this is very real.
This is very real. If someone said, well,
you know, the universe just existed. What happened
before yesterday, the day before? What happened before
that, the day before? It's like an infinite
infinite regress. You're just keeping going back further
and further and further. There's no way you
can materially prove that time goes infinitely into
the past. And I propose it doesn't. Time
has a 0 a 0 point, a start
in which it happens,
and that's what we ex what we experience.
That's what we experience.
And this is the,
the the meaning of many expressions in the
book of Allah
that show, you know, the relationship to time
as we're experiencing it with regards to time
as it's going to be experienced in the
heavens, etcetera, etcetera. All of these things are
relative. They're all creations of Allah Subhanahu wa
ta'ala. Creations that he's not bound and tied
into. He's not bound up into, he's not
tied into. So this is something very real.
Now to step back from the rational or
the aqidah discussion,
I would like to propose the idea that
although you guys are all, much of a
wonderful and intelligent people, the things that I
said today don't require any sort of mental
gymnastics or, like, super training in order to
know or to understand.
These are all all statements and arguments that
will easily
and naturally appeal to the human mind
that's in fitra.
The reason that people
the reason that people want to believe that
God doesn't exist and will want to frantically
search for all of these other alternative weird
explanations like the universe existed forever and blah
blah blah.
You know, the reason people want to believe
that there's a system in this universe that
came from nothing on its own without any
cause, all of this type of stuff, is
what? Because they want to avoid the moral
accountability to Allah ta'ala. They wanna be the
big one in the creation. They don't wanna
have someone's head over or someone over their
head. They want to be like, Iblis,
don't tell me what to do. Don't tell
me where to make sajdah. I'm I know
what's up. Don't tell me don't tell me
any of this stuff. I'm not trying to
hear any of this stuff. I'm not trying
to hear any of this stuff. This is
a sickness. The location of the sickness is
not in the mic. The location of the
sickness is in the heart.
If the heart is straight,
if the heart is doing well,
then the mind will be put to good
use.
If the heart is sick, then the mind
will use the heart for sick purposes.
This is why it's important
to be careful not to look at the
haram.
You know, Allah
He knows. Okay. We have beard. We're looking
real pious in Zakaria Masjid right now. He
knows when we leave, what we're looking at,
what we're not looking at.
Nope. Nobody else is innocent. Everyone anyone who
claims he's innocent, he's the most guilty of
everybody. Okay?
The right? You have to be careful, though.
You can't you can't you can't be looking
at haram things like we're looking at. We
can't we can't do that. We have to
we have to be very careful, lest what
happens is that through the eyes, the heart
gets poisoned. Right? You have to be careful
what you eat. Right? I made kind of
a light comment about HMC or whatever. This
is one thing. Actually, the first time I
met Moana Abdul Rahim was not at the
Detroit retreat, but when I came with Halal
Advocates with Mufti Abdul Anana in 2010.
We met in the dawalul in Bari.
Why is it I have, like, a degree
from university, and I went all these countries
to study. Really, do I is it like
my whole goal in life to be a
meat inspector when I came back?
Why am I why am I why am
I involved with this effort?
Really to me, I don't mind eating sushi
for the rest of my life. I'm not
I'm not the guys like. I really don't
that's not my thing. Right? I don't mind
eating vegetarian the rest of my life. I
know in the Indian subcontinent, that's like a
real thing. I'm not a Hindu. How come
I don't make me eat vegetarian? I don't
mind. I don't mind eating vegetarian. We're Punjabi.
We eat vegetables. We we're farmers. We grow
stuff and we eat what we grow. Right?
I don't mind any of that. But what
it's not a solution for the ummah. The
reason our Muqtab kids are like, I don't
believe in God anymore is because the heart
crooked. It's sterile because they've been watching TV
their whole life. The parents don't pray. People
have been eating haram in the home. Nobody
cares. The machine the chicken is slaughtered by
a machine. The thing becomes haram. It's a
poison for the heart. It's poison for the
body as well, but more importantly and more
more perilously, more dangerous, more scary is what?
It's a poison for for the heart. Gotta
be careful. What are we watching?
What are we eating? What do our private
parts do? What do our hands and our
feet do? What are we listening to?
Are we listening to the haram? Because what
is it? It poisons the heart. Once the
heart is poisoned and dead, these types of,
like, silly,
fallacious,
incoherent lines of thinking start to make sense.
Why? Because the the the the heart is
is is the one gripping the chariot. Right?
The mind is a horse that does work
for the heart. If the heart has an
evil the heart is not it's not the
physical heart. I don't know about the physical
heart. You can go to a card card,
a cardiologist to learn about that. Okay? I
know from the,
you know, contracts, lub dub, and
atria and ventricles and all this nonsense. That's
that's not that's whatever. I have some basic
understanding of it, but it's not what I'm
talking about. I'm talking about
just like the human physical body has different
tissues and organs.
Right? The spiritual body that a person has,
the spiritual apparatus that a person has, what
they call the ruh,
it has different subsidiary organs and parts also.
And the heart is a part of this
ruh of a person, and it's a place
where intentions are made. And if it goes
wrong, then it will cause everything else to
go wrong afterward with it. So we're commanded
to prevent it, preserve it, protect it from
going wrong so that it doesn't use the
mind to do all of this silly and
horrible things. The same mathematics, the same algebra.
Right?
Salusi is a famous
Right? He wrote a book on algebra. The
same Salusi wrote a book on the same
algebra the same algebra that the Farangi,
teaches math calculus that the Farangi teaches it
teaches. Salusi uses algebra in order to find
the and in order to divide inheritance questions.
Right? The Falangi used algebra in order to
make atomic weapons. Now we have so much
atomic weapons, so many atomic bombs between Russia,
America, England, France, all of these knucklehead countries.
Right? The people are wonderful. The governments are
knuckleheads.
Right? So much now tell me, they're like,
oh, Shay, if you're talking about the government
right now look,
we have so much atomic weaponry in these
countries. By the way, not you know, we're
not talking about Muslim countries. Okay. Pakistan has
a couple of, like, nuclear bombs. I'm not
actually I'm not proud of that. As a
Pakistani
American, I'm not proud of that, by the
way. All of the my countrymen were, we
have nuclear bombs.
Why?
You What are you gonna use it on?
Children?
You gonna use it on women and children?
Old people? You can what are you gonna
use it on?
What's what's there to be happy about that?
That's disgusting.
We have enough nuclear weapons in the world
that we can wipe out, like, 99% of
human population in less time it takes to
do than it takes to deliver a pizza.
Is that is that, like, something to use
your mind for? Is that something to learn
math for? Is that to learn some reasonable
science? That's a type of sickness. Right? The
heart when it's sick, it will use the
mind for sick purposes.
So when a person they're, like, you know,
like dying, their iman is dying, you call
him and call him and he'll explain the
whole,
you know,
etcetera etcetera. Just to like, you know, the
defibrillator
clear
you like shock that dead person to bring
them back. Ultimately, what is the solution?
The solution is people have to have some
sort of,
some sort of, you know, regimen routine to
protect the heart from all these things that
are killing it, from all this rain and
all this rust that's that's that's encrusting it,
and that's making it dead and impervious to
logic and reason and to, you know, impervious
to anything that's good. That we don't be
those
people.
Don't be like those people who Allah Ta'ala
says, don't be like those who forgot Allah,
so he made them forget themselves that they
have to wake up in the morning, look
in the mirror, and wonder if I'm a
man or a woman. This type of, like,
death that happens once the heart is dead.
Allah
give all of us so much.
Allah
make us people who have
correct belief and correct,
conception regarding belief.
Correct heart, correct mind, correct actions.
The correct mind can't happen except for on
the the the the
the platform of a correct heart, and the
correct actions can't happen except for on the
platform of correct mind and a correct correct
heart. If the mind and the heart are
correct, the body will be dragged by force.
The same body that likes to, you know,
commit zina and sleep through fajr and,
eat during the Ramadan, it will it will
have no choice but to comply
if the heart and mind are are are
correct.
And that body that doesn't wanna go and
burn
in If the mind and the heart are
are are messed up,
that body that doesn't want to burn in
jahannam, that body will
follow the mind and heart all the way
to the depths of the fire. Allah be
our protection.