Godless Delusion

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it's good to be here in Islamabad.

Beautiful place, excellent country with great people. And today we're going to be speaking shortly because we want to interact with you about the issue of atheism.

The issue of atheism

and I've interacted with many atheists in my day. And I have read effectively all their major works.

And I want to put to you just one argument for God's existence, just one. It is a simple argument for God's existence.

And actually, it's not even an argument. It's more of a question.

Okay.

See

you one more.

Okay.

It's very easy, very easy.

Excellent, thank you.

You see,

the universe that we live in,

it is regular, it is stable, and it is uniform. Is that better?

Does regular

it is stable, and it is uniform. It is regular and stable and uniform, to the extent to which it allows life to exist within it. Now, this is an incontrovertible fact. No one can say this is not the case. Even the most staunch atheist cannot say

the US universe is not their number one, and the universe does not exhibit uniformity, regularity and stability.

When we look at the universe, we see the harmony, the complexity of moving parts, from the smallest atom to the largest celestial spheres.

Now the question is, what is the best explanation for that? Is it intelligence? Or is it lack of intelligence? Now, effectively, the argument ends there? Because it's not really an argument. It's a question.

This is how easy it is.

The question is,

what best explains

the uniformity, the regularity and the stability of the universe? Is it intelligence? Or is it lack of intelligence? Now if someone says this lack of intelligence

together, because frankly, this is, in my view, an unreasonable position to take.

And people in the past people like William Paley,

he made the very famous watchmakers analogy said that if you see a watch, you see, you see a watch.

And you see a rock, the rock does not have any intrinsic design, whereas the watch does have the intrinsic design. The rock

is not designed, but the what you would infer is,

so many arguments have been made from this if you'd like design arguments.

The point I'm making is

it is a natural inference to suggest that it has come about from intelligence.

Now, what are the arguments against this? Because someone will say, okay, that's the theistic position. But what's the argument against this? So Richard Dawkins wrote a book called The Blind Watchmaker.

Because it's not just anyone making your watches a blind man making your watch.

But if it's a watchmaker, still, by the way, someone with agency it just to let you know, yeah, and you could feel it. If you can smell it, could do some few things with it.

The fact that he's called it a watchmaker in the first place, indicates that he's going to agency but putting that to the side.

He says, Look, so before in the past,

we used to say because I was God that used to do all of these things. And now, actually, we have Darwinian evolution.

That's what we have, we have Darwinian evolution, and that is the

mechanism by which and through which we understand the complexity of life.

No problem. So for the sake of argument, Darwinian evolution, no problem sounds like a fantastic theory. Excellent, great evidence, no problem, we'll take it on board.

But John Lennox said to him, in his debate with him, he said, there's a difference between mechanism and agency. Just because you're able to show that

things develop in a certain way. It doesn't mean that you're showing what or who developed it. For example, if there is a train that goes from Karachi to Lahore or something like this,

if you're telling me how the train moves and everything, you're not telling me who is driving the train,

but putting that to the side, even

the Quran states, the Hulk cusabo, it will add Akbar Roman Hulk Enos, well, I can axon nasionale clue that the creation of the heavens and the earth is greater than the creation of the human beings.

Because evolution, if we take it as a serious contender only affects biological entities. It doesn't affect the stars, it doesn't affect the moon, it doesn't affect all the things we've started off by talking about.

So in his book, The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins, he said, Look, we need to develop a theory of evolution for physics. That's what we need to do. That's the next step we need to because he has no answers to this question.

We need to develop a theory of evolution for physics.

He realizes the temptation he calls it,

to ascribe design to the universe. So by invoking Darwinian evolution, you're not solving any problem. The second point is to say, well, this happened from chance.

This is what to say.

Chance and randomness is what happened.

For example, if I were to do the lottery, I don't know if in Pakistan, you have the lottery, hopefully you don't have it.

What's the kind of gambling you see with the numbers and stuff? Maybe you've seen them?

Maybe the chance of winning the lottery is 0.01%, but there is still a chance. So some of them will say look, even though the chance is very slender, there still remains a chance this is what they will say.

I will say no problem, but you tell me now, what does the word chance mean?

What do you mean by it? They will say randomness. Something which happens without causality. Something was just spontaneously happens without explanation. It's inexplicable, this is chance. I say what you are talking about does not exist.

So now I become the atheist.

But the atheist have the idea of chance. I say, look, I disbelieve in chance. I don't believe in such a thing as just I say to the atheist, which most of them are materialists and empiricist. I say, if chance exists, please.

Let's go to the laboratory together.

And let's get chance. And let us put it under the microscope to see what its physical properties look like. They will say it doesn't have any physical properties. They will say you cannot smell chance. You cannot taste chance. You cannot feel chance. You cannot hear chance.

I can't remember the fifth

it's such I think I said they already

see it and you cannot see chance cannot see this as a thing. I can't see what you're talking about. I don't believe in this chance.

This is your new God actually, you've called him chance.

But as the adage goes, libre to Bill mineI, law Lama Benny, even if you want to call God chance, it's just names you're putting on to the agency, which which designed the universe, you're just using the word chance. Now, Mother Nature, Mother Nature is the one who done this chance is the one who done this, the universe I'm speaking to the positive forces of the universe.

This is what they say.

I say why do you have to say in that manner.

So you see, chance is not an explanation

for the design and the complexity and the uniformity and the regularity and the stability of the universe. Because chance doesn't exist as an active force.

There is no such thing as chance

I don't say the similitude of the universe coming into existence by chance is the similitude of someone getting the lottery ticket? Correct? I say the champions of the universe coming to existence from chances zero because there's no such thing as chance. This is the truth. So if it's not chance, what other explanations Do you have?

What kind of explanations Do you

honestly for the uniformity, the regularity and the stability of the universe? So they will move on to necessity?

necessity, and they will say the universe just is like that.

I see no problem. I agree the universe just is like that. But the question is how that it comes to be like this.

There was an accept this in any other feature of life, if I was having a conversation with one of them, and he said, the universe just is like that. I say, Okay, I slap one of them in their face like that.

And he says,

Why do you do this? I just slapped you in the face like that. No explanation required. Why do I need to explain what's wrong with you?

Go for another one, my friend, huh?

You deserve it. Especially if you're a Pakistani atheist, you deserve this one.

Because we all know that you're not doing it because you came to some rational discovery. We all know you came to this conclusion due to the gold complex.

Due to the fact that the Britishers were here, and they put you under the royal boot. And now that they've left your volunteering,

you want to grovel on the hands and knees to the colonial West. This is the reason why you're an atheist Pakistan.

There's no other reason for you to adopt this worldview.

Oh, I've read The God Delusion.

The God Delusion dedicates eight pages to the arguments for God's existence, like the cosmological arguments. The rest of it is a political and moral commentary.

So what made you convert to atheism, if not the white man's control and manipulation and your need to impress him?

To be like Him,

to copy him

to

grovel to him? To be subordinate to him?

I don't see this.

But let's put that to the side. And while I'm sure we will discuss this in the questions and answers,

but necessity is not a contradictory explanation to the explanation of God.

Because if you say the universe is by determinism, we say well what determined it

you say nothing determined. So how is it possible that nothing can how can nothing do anything? Nothing is like chance it doesn't exist, doesn't have an active force.

Like the Quran states, I'm fully human via the CHE and I'm humbled Harlequin, where they created from nothing, or were they themselves the creators of them, nothing doesn't exist.

So necessity,

the fact that the universe is by there by determinism and necessity, it doesn't contradict the idea of God. In fact, we would ask the question, what determined it they would say, an uninterrupted causal chain, this is what they will say.

We will say where does it end? They will say it goes on forever, I say hell

and then we can have a discussion about infinite regress all they like, but the point I am making is

necessity does not contradict the necessary being in fact, it's a necessary component of the necessary

so, number one, we said if they say it is chance, we say can you prove chance exists? Number two, if they say it is necessity,

we will say,

what determined the universe to be the way it is, if they say nothing determined that we will say this is a problem to think this, if they say something,

but then it goes back into an infinite regress, we would ask them to explain how this is logically possible.

So, they are stuck.

They are stuck.

There are no experts, which better fit, the uniformity and the necessity and the regularity of the universe better than the intelligent does

Zeina explanation.

This was understood by almost all the philosophers before this wretched new atheist movement, which now is almost finished anyway, they are finished.

So, once you take them through these options,

you will be able to suss out if they are sincere, or they are not sincere, if after this discussion they say they say to you, I am not convinced I say I don't care to be honest with you.

Because nowadays, secularists and liberals and atheists in Pakistan, and in the Muslim world, especially in the elite classes, they can make you feel as if they're the arbiter and they are the judge, and you are the defendant, as a religious person, you must prove yourself and this is the biggest issue at hand. It is a psychological issue, not an intellectual one.

As if they are the Gordon Ramsay, we have a chef called Gordon Ramsay, and he sits and he eats the food and he says very good, and the people very happy when he's very good, very nice.

But then when he eats the food that he throws it, splits on the floor, then it's it's like a nightmare for them.

As a religious person, you cannot approach the liberal atheists, secularists, feminists wherever

they have sacrificed the Islamic values for the values of traditional Islam.

As if they are a food taster. As if they are Gordon Ramsay, they're coming to you, you put the ideology.

I'm not satisfied. Excuse me, who are you?

Bots

are not the arbiter for what is good food and what is bad food.

In fact, we should stop speaking about them.

So can you please

prove to me that liberalism, classical liberalism, which is probably what they believe, because most atheists are classical liberals, according to John Gray, I was reading his book yesterday, the seven types of atheism, many people say the same thing. So prove to me that classical atheism is true.

Prove to me that second wave feminism that you believe in is true, for example,

the proposition that

despite the anatomical and biological and psychological differences between human being, and men and women, that despite that there should be absolute equality in all spheres, that's a philosophical position, What's the proof that you have for it,

and they will come and they will stutter. And they will do this? And they will do that, and they'll stammer. And once they're doing that, you say, why are you stuttering?

Oh, this is like, holy, and holy way to think about it. So the point is, our religion is a religion of evidence.

Paul had to hand in quantum saw the pin Quran says, Bring evidences if you're truthful.

But a real discussion and debate, whether it be society or any other society, must start with the assumption that I must bring the evidence, and you must bring the evidence, and we must criticize each other's evidence. But this unequal assumption of liberal neutrality, that the liberal is already neutral in the feminist theory, and we have to now appease this. This is where we fall short. And this is where we fail in the discussions.

And this is the reason why people reject religion.

They say, What about inheritance laws? And what about this and women can marry for whites?

So what's the problem with all of that?

What's the problem with the married man for wives?

Association?

I had the doubt as well. I said, Why is it not five or six?

Anyway, this is a different story.

What I'm saying to you is, the assumption is that there should be absolute equality in all cases. Now, if you say, oh, it's because of this and is only this and the woman gets ill and sick and she can't have a baby and all that.

You're playing to their tune, you're on the backfoot, you're defensive. This is the truth. We have to question the assumptions

of those people, because atheists themselves don't have a worldview.

And this is the second point, atheists do not have a worldview, then you can be an atheist Nazi.

This is possible. You can be ACS Zionist, as I'm sure we've seen many of them, like Netanyahu and others.

This

you can be this and that you can you can be an atheist. Socialist you can be an atheist a liberal. Now the most common trend in the West is atheist liberal or agnostic liberal forms a religious liberal.

Just because the West is following this, it doesn't mean the rest should do that. Because white does not mean Right.

And West does not mean best. With that, I will conclude and ask questions and answers. Inshallah.

Should we get the we want the sisters to get involved as well. We don't want to keep restore some balance here. So let's get the microphone to the sisters. We'll have one question from the brothers one question from the sisters. And we'll keep alternating for some time. Okay.

The brothers, there's one brother here, the good looking brother in the front here. Mashallah. Yes, given the microphone, please.

Yes, good looking.

In the microphone.

You can have this cute No, I said the good looking Brother, please. Yeah.

So we do have a panel discussion. q&a will also be done. We'll have like 10 to 15 minutes. Okay, then after that, we'll do Yeah, so we're gonna have another q&a with the panel discussion. But this is just like 1015 minute q&a. We'll have like two questions from each side. Something like that. And then we'll do another one afterwards. Is that okay? Yes, please.

Salam, this is a good looking. Yes. Are you trying to tell the sister something?

When you said this, are you were you pointing this way to be?

Go ahead, please.

Well, that's of course the truth. But go ahead.

That's the objective truth.

That no atheists can deny. Go ahead,

please.

solution to the core complex. The solution to the Gora complex number one, like any other solution of any other psychological impediment, or pathology that someone may have is number one, the acknowledgment of it.

So someone must acknowledge Okay, I have the Gora complex I just like you know, the AAA meetings for the drunkards and the in toxic, sophisticated people. The first thing they teach you is okay, let's all admit we have a problem. Now, obviously, not all aspects of portions, I would say the vast majority of Muslims in Pakistan, you don't have that humble if you go to the village, they don't care about this. And that the other maybe it's to some extent, but it's nothing major.

But for those elites at the top and the secular world of Pakistani society.

If they really feel honest with themselves about this, the first thing they have to say is, look, we have a problem. We can we believe this in that, and what we believe is irrational. And that's stage number two, to realize that your belief is irrational.

Your belief is irrational the reason why it's irrational, because it doesn't follow that the more money you have, the more right you are. I know that sounds like a very basic thing to say. But it's the truth. Just because in the streets, you have clean streets and tall buildings. And by the way, you have clean streets in tall buildings him in Islamabad, mashallah compared, especially compared to the other parts of Pakistan, and a large part of the Muslim world. But just because the West have clean streets and tall buildings, it doesn't mean that their ideologies are correct. So once you realize these two things, okay.

Then you start training yourself

to realize, okay, I'm falling into the trap here.

And so it's a two stage process effectively, but it's requires training for you to say, Okay, well, look, let's look at the history of Islam, for example, for 95% of Islamic history, the Muslim empires have been either the superpower, or one of the superpowers. So if the proposition was true, which is not anyway, that more money means more more truth than for the majority of our history.

We've had more truth.

And they've been on the falsehood. It doesn't even make sense like this. But I'm just saying. And it turns out that we had more prosperity going for us anyway, when we were closer to the religion, ironically.

And the second point to ask this Pakistani secularists is what contribution Have you made? Because the thing is, a lot of the attack is okay, we need to be more advanced and progressive, okay? We need to stop being like the West because they look at them in science and technology. And it's true to say, you know, in science and technology, the West is doing very well for itself, due to myriad factors, including colonialism, and other things, taking the spices of the Indians and the Pakistanis and putting it in Manchester, and stuff like this, but let's put that to the side. No problem.

Now there is reverse colonialism. MashAllah Manchester is full of the Pakistanis. They're taking the spices back.

But the point I'm making is this is

the point I'm making is that if it is the case, for 95% of our history, we have been when we were closer to religion, we actually had good prosperity going for us. But I'm not saying therefore that's the cause for it. And Allah says, in Quran, we're typical, as that will happen in this. These are the days which we alternate between the people, sometimes you'll have material success, and sometimes you'll have material success. It's not an evidence of truth. So once you instill these notions in your mind, then you can get over the Gora complexes have another question from the sisters. I'm not going to make the same joke with the sisters because that would be totally

inappropriate. And I can't see anyone anywhere.

So good to see you here. Well, thank you very much.

So I have a good question. Yes. Just like you're talking about God Delusion. Yeah.

What if somebody in a Christian family or in a theists family, and I'm gonna die like that? Because actually, it's Prometheus asked me that question. And I didn't have any answer, unfortunately. So I really need an explanatory answer. So what if they die like that? And what is their fault? Because what he said at Alavi then born him, why is speaking so brother sister? Hmm. Well, he said, I'm only kidding, keep going. Yeah, I was actually an amazing and I'm

sure, sure, I'm

only kidding.

born in a Christian family, or maybe in an atheist family, and if the Muslims are naturally more when it comes to their family, so that's something to be it's not something big, and it's about so

and what do they die like that? What do they do exactly, to find the right religion because even if you haven't, we don't really know. Maybe villages that are that are existing in this world. So they don't know.

If they don't know the religion of Islam, and they die as atheist or polytheist, then we cannot say that they're going to hell. Because of the verse in the Quran verses from I couldn't be in Atlanta. batha Rasul Allah, we will not going to punish people until we send them the messenger. So the scholars of Islam almost by consensus, they said that you will not be punished, even if you die as a Hindu. Okay, if you die as like, you know, you believe in Ganesh is your God or one of those gods, you believe that.

But you've never actually had the message of Islam, that you we cannot see you will go to hell.

We will say that the majority of scholars say that there'll be an independent test for you on the Day of Judgment that will allow will do tahan has and that is also not the word, right? Yes. It has also into it. Oh, beautiful. So you all

Han has, okay, there will be very special tests for you, as

you know, a Hindu or whatever you atheist or something. However,

if you did hear the message of Islam, in its purity and uncorrupted form, and you rejected it, this is where we were talking about the disbelievers that will go to hell and etc. So to answer him, we say no, we don't believe that all non Muslims will go to hellfire. It's not we believe, we believe that these believers will go to the hellfire and the disbelievers are the ones who have been subjected to the evidence is exposed to them. And then they have rejected those evidences after that. And there's difference of opinion among the scholars. To what extent must they be exposed to the evidence? And that ranges is another conversation? Do they have to be exposed to the evidences

to the must see that? Or was it just to hear the Quran for example, there's all kinds of opinions there. And the bottom line is we wouldn't say all non Muslims that they upon non Muslim beliefs would go to the hellfire.

Let's have one more from the brothers and then one final from the sisters. I'll come back and we will do a QA panel q&a afterwards realism or some aspects of second wave feminism. You may think that's common sense. You may think that it makes sense to believe that there should be absolute equality in all cases and this and domestic and all that you may think this is absolutely fine is no problem. The evidence against the fact that this is the case is that 200 years ago

and we have a legend Masha Allah. Yes, I will attend to you in my own time.

This is a man who Pakistan is very honored to have as one of his own. We're talking about a man who has mashallah debated the big, the big figures of atheism and Christianity and Shia Islam and recently how Dion ism

where he has annihilated and this completely decimated the opponents in a manner which is comical entertaining and informative. We're talking about none other than Adnan Rashid, please give him a round of applause.

He is undoubtedly

a mentor of mine. And someone we all look up to in the Dow, someone who is a pillar of Pakistani society, and also of British society, and a crossroads between the two, a man that everyone should be proud of. And I think he's from Islamabad, himself or somewhere like this. So he's, you know, I don't know. But if he's not, it would be a great shame for Islamabad, because this man is doing some absolutely. Excellent work. But going back to the point about fitrah, the fitrah, you don't know for a fact whether something is the case

of your fitrah is telling you this is right and wrong morality or is because it been to me, I mentioned that, for example, in the tabernacle himself. He had lots of work about the filter, but he said you don't know for a fact you cannot tell you what is right and wrong about these issues. So you need the list from God as John Mackey said the atheist, he's right. You need especially now we have transhumanism. Forget about transgenderism.

We're talking about transhumanism

where there's like a Robocop individual human being Terminator. And he's human is real. And they are talking about given robots rights.

And things like that. We need we are the most important time in history where we need to be told this is right. And this is wrong. According to the higher authority. Let's have the last question from the sisters. And then we'll come back and shut line we will have a question and answer session. Again.

I've had this question for a while now. And I've been wanting to ask, we, as a practicing Muslim, I see that there are multiple religions in the world, right? And everybody has their own thing to believe in. Every God was large to believe in. So everyone has their own evidences of their own god, right. So I wanted to have like, I wanted to know, what makes our religion that religion like the the religion, because I've asked this question to multiple people. And they've all just said, Oh, this miracle, but I've never had an answer that could actually satisfy that question. So if you could please.

That's fine.

I understand your point.

But if we were talking about complex mathematics, or scientific theorem, or historical fact,

many people might have many interpretations of one specific fact it doesn't mean all of them are the same. For example, there's a man called John JFK who was shot, there are many competing explanations as who killed him who shot him, Malcolm X, many competing explanations who shot him and killed him. It doesn't mean because there are many quarks planation all of them have the evidences and we must know one of them is true and the rest of them are false. And religion has the same parameters and we should deal with it in the same way.

I will say to you that in logic in propositional logic L one logic there is a concept referred to as the necessary and sufficient conditions. Let me tell you what this means. For example, if I wanted to get the good looking man here,

married because I have a mission say for example, I want to get married today. Is my Are you married already? Yes, no problem.

Someone of his looks and his Absolutely. You should be married to at least three women to is not enough to is not enough. But say I want to get him married. So I said sort of fine. What are the necessary conditions? So there must be a man and there must be a woman. Now some people from the LGBT will say already we've you've lost us.

I will say we never had you in the first place. This is something else. What if I got this good looking man here today in this green chair

and one of the sisters care and I said okay, I'm now putting

Answer your husband. And it wasn't what because there's not the sufficient conditions you see. So the necessary conditions for a marriage to take place in Islam is that you must have a man. And you must have a woman. But it's not the it's not the sufficient conditions, because you need two witnesses.

And then you need Mahara. And then Pakistani culture, you need so many more things as well. Looks at see and this one and that one,

say I don't believe in this culture, anyway.

It's not the sufficient conditions required for marriage. So religion works in a similar way, and everything else works in a similar way, right? There are things which religion must have to be true, and things that they need to have to be sufficiently true. Let me give you an example. So necessary conditions of religion, is that religion cannot have contradictions, cannot have contradictions, because if it has contradictions, then it's not from God.

By when we open the Bible, the very first page of the Bible, it tells us that the heavens and the earth are created. And the first day God created the night in the day, and the fourth day, he created the sun, and the luminaries. But how can you have night and day without the sun?

And on the third day, you had the vegetable, vegetation and plantation, but how can you have the plantation without the sun. But then when you go to chapter two, verse five, which is the next page Exactly.

It tells you no prop, no plant had sprung up yet. But I thought it said already that the plants had sprung up and day three. So there is like five contradictions in two pages. And they happen to be the first two pages of the Bible, which means that this version of Christianity, and by the way, Judaism as well, is disqualified at the first hurdle.

Because the books contain within them contradictions, Islam of these religions of these ancient religions are the only religion is the only religion, which even offers a test of falsifiability says, if this was from other than God, there would have been many contradictions in logic to the left and Kathira, there would have been many contradictions inside of it. So these are necessary conditions.

And necessary condition is like, for example, you mentioned people believe in many gods, but the idea that there are many gods is itself a contradiction, for example, because you can have two all powerful beings. But if there's two all powerful beings, how is this possible? For example, if all powerful being one wanted this microphone to go this way, and all powerful being to wanted the microphone to go this way.

If it goes this way, then all powerful being two is not the true God. If it goes this way, then all powerful eight is not the true God, if it stays the same, both of them are not the true God.

This is called de la Temen are

very well known thing. So policy ism, is a contradictory theological explanation. So when you have contradiction, which even in mathematics, they have proof by contradiction, you were able to cut out all of the false religions. And already, just by doing this exercise, you will be surprised as your results, because almost all if not all of the religions can be cut out like that. But then what about the sufficient conditions, because we set the necessary conditions, necessary condition. One is, for example, there cannot be contradictions, necessary condition two is that the books must be preserved. Because if it's a book from God, I have to have access to the same guidance, as the

initial audience had.

But we already know and Adnan Rashi, will tell you even in greater detail of the corruption of the Scriptures.

He knows about this, he's debated people about this, he showed evidence, manuscripts and all this kind of thing. So you have one of your own is one of the great ones you tell you. So this is the necessary conditions.

Number two, the sufficient conditions, the sufficient conditions now, I'll give you one and there are many things I can tell you. And if you want more information, go to my website, Muhammad hijab.com. And I have a small PDF free of charge. And it's the proofs why Islam is the truth. Yes, but I will just give you one example. And I'll give this example many times. It's the example of the Romans and the Persians. The Quran says Holy butter room fee Admiral Abdullah human body hollaby himself, baboon, Phoebe Icynene de la Hill and Roman couple Roman babble yummy, then you have to hunt me down. The Romans had been defeated in a nearby low land, but afterwards they will defeat the

Persians. That to Allah belongs the situation from the beginning and to the end.

But look how Allah says word Allah, Allah, Allah wa Tao. This is certainly the promise of God, let me tell you something, if I, his son

was going to beat India and the cricket match

in the semifinals of the World Cup of the cricket

and they will beat them with this score. And it will be Baba Azim

who who is the deciding man in this situation? Yes, and I am getting all of this information from God

and God does not go against his word and this is the promise of God faster this. Now if I say

and now everybody is waiting to see

and then Pakistan get humiliated and Baba Azzam as an injury

then my credibility is gone as somebody who claims to be speaking about the future. Now, this happened in many of the religions, for example, called the aneurysm

even dealing with them.

This guy could hola Muhammad, which in Arabic means Boy.

Boy.

The boy says I will get married to a woman called Mohammadi Begum. This is what he said. He said, If I don't get married to her, I'm not a true prophet. This is what he said. Can you imagine he was so over her. He loved her so much. He actually had the audacity to say this.

It's like if this good looking man here, he becomes overconfident. And he says, You know what, any woman here get married no problem, because I've got the got the confidence from Muhammad hijab. And then he goes in all of them rejecting

Hola, um,

he did not get married to Muhammadi Begum.

This itself is enough of a proof that he's a false prophet. He's not a true prophet. This is I don't want to hear the rest.

I don't know how he died on the toilet. So what he was doing on the toilet. Maybe he was defecating or masturbating or whatever he was doing.

I don't care how he died.

And they say this is a sign he's not it doesn't matter.

Hola Muhammad is not a true prophet. Likewise, the Bible itself has something called the Olivet Discourse, which is mentioned that in one generation, everything will be finished. There'll be the Day of Judgment happen.

CS Lewis. He said about this. He's one of the great scholars. He said, This is the most embarrassing verse in the Bible. Because it didn't happen, the opposite happened.

So when you have a prophecy and it goes wrong, this falsifies your claim to prophethood there is no prophecy in Islam, which goes wrong.

And this prophecy about the Romans beating the Persians is time specific. It says in three to nine years, and happened in eight years, and by the evidence of even primary source historical information

by non Muslim sources,

and there is a book called The Forbidden prophecies Bible Zakariya, which goes into more detail about that. But the point I'm making is just this idea of prophecies, because no one knows the future

is itself a proof that Islam is the truth. So just to summarize, you have necessary and sufficient conditions, what are some of the necessary conditions, number one, that there cannot be any

contradictions, and that the book must be preserved, and that disqualifies majority of the religions? If you want some sufficient conditions? Now we have one that there are prophecies. And we've just given one example of prophecies and the other religions, which have false prophecies, which show that it's not the true religion.

With that, we will conclude and we'll come back for questions and answers was salam aleikum wa rahmatullah yes, that Pakistan

is the strongest Muslim country in the world.

And if Pakistan changes, the entire Muslim world can change, which requires a cultural revolution, just as it requires,

notice anything else actually.

But it requires the Cultural Revolution. I think that's more important than anything else. So

because of this, I've come to Pakistan.

And

I want to be able to influence the elites. When we talk about elites here we're talking about people

to influence Pakistani society, therefore, in the future, because we need these people to stay

Hear us in the correct political direction?

I don't know about the second question, whether we're going to open up something Sapiens Institute here in, in Pakistan.

But that's not my decision. That's the decision of Hamza sources who's the CEO of the Sapiens Institute, we do have courses which are free of charge, we have an entire learning platform,

which is free of charge, which you can go and find in Sapiens institute.com, the old sorry.

And you will be able to sign up, get free books free material.

Also, we have the YouTube channel with more in detailed kind of in depth courses.

And the third part of the question was, again,

democracy, you see, Pakistan has an advantage with all of the other Muslim countries. Pakistan is one of those countries because when it was founded as a man and others will be able to tell you in more detail in 1947, by Muhammad Jinnah

and others when it was sounded it the constitution of this country actually does state that the laws must be subservient to the Quran and Sunnah or something like that, which you will not find in most of the countries of the Muslim world. And I'm not saying that the amalgamation of Parliamentarians ism, and Islamic values that exists in Pakistan is the ideal amalgamation from an Islamic perspective. But what I am saying it is better than most countries in the Muslim world, if not, I'm not gonna say all of them, because there are some countries with the same kind of constitutional clauses actually, in the Muslim world, most countries in the Muslim world. And it's a country that

was effectively started on the basis that these are Muslims, and they are to be divided from the Hindus. And so Islam is the the defining identity in Pakistan. Without Islam, you have no Pakistan.

Pakistan doesn't even make sense without Islam.

And so as such, you already have an advantage.

And we have seen that if you have political authority, and leadership, which has more Islamic, if you like, belief systems, that the whole country will follow in that direction,

only a few things need to be changed. But in terms of using democracy as an instrument, the scholars of Islam have different the majority of view is it can be used as an instrument. But it should not be used as some kind of an objective truth. For example, if I think that I ask a group of people, whether or not such on such thing is correct, relating to homosexuality or otherwise, and that whatever the majority say is objectively true, then this is a kind of confidential, actually, this is a kind of disbelief in Islam, because you believe that the collective understanding of people is objectively true. However, if you're using democracy as a means to an end, which happens to be

Islamic, the majority of scholars of Islam through all schools of thought accept this. So okay, maybe you can do this.

And so, democracy

is something especially representative democracy,

which can self implode? Because, theoretically, if you had the referendum, and someone asked, Should we have no democracy? And the Democratic majority said, Yes, theoretically, there should be no democracy, because the majority of people do not want democracy. So since democracy or representative democracy has the propensity of self implosion,

it can be used, the majority would say, as an instrument, or a means to a further end. And I think probably it's your best bet. In Pakistan, unfortunately, not with recent elections. But that's a different discussion for a different day.

But in terms of in principle, I see nothing wrong with it.

And Allahu Allah, about this one or that one. So to be honest with you,

I don't know about all of that. And

I would say that it's probably best when it comes to Muslim people not to mention their names. Why? Because if it's Muslims, especially in the Dawa, these kinds of clips can be taken out of context, and it leads to division within the Muslims. And right now, I think we don't want divisions within the Muslim because it's like as Muhammad Gina said, you know, he said Eman

He said, What if you had a reason number one is Tanzeem. Right? That's what we need to focus on. Now, we don't need to Africa and division. So this is we have to be careful about that.

When when people say, well, for example, Japanese people are happy, or Scandinavian people are happy and stuff like that, the kind of things they usually refer to is something called the happy index, which is an economic

kind of aggregate economic indicator, where they put together things like HDI which is Human Development Index, GDP, per capita, life expectancy, etc. And they say, as a result of all these things, when you add it together, these are this is the list of countries which are happiest. And then they'll put like, I don't know, Norway, or Denmark, or something is number one, and that kind of thing. This is not actually a psychological investigation. And this is the happy index is used.

equivocating, really, it's not actually showing you who's happy and who's not just showing you who's got more money, and he's got less money. So the question then remains, who has where's the evidence on who's happy and who's not happy? So there's two studies in particular that I'm going to cite, and then I'm going to move it over to AMRAAM. Because he has some more information on the matter. One of them is pew research, study 2019, okay, where they looked at the difference between religious people, and non religious people in general. And they concluded, and Pew Research is considered to be the gold standard of sociological investigation, they concluded that religious people actually

have more satisfaction in their lives than non religious people. So that's the first study, I'm with the site.

The second study thou sites is actually something specific to Muslims.

And it is the only study that I've come across with this, these parameters. And funnily enough, I actually did discuss the matter with Jordan Peterson, because as unifies both, and he's a psychologist, but But you know, he's recently come out and, you know, going astray with his comments on Netanyahu, by just discuss this matter with him. Because this was a study that was published in 2020. Yes. And it was a study that was done the University of Mannheim, in Germany.

And you had a woman called Laura Marie, and few other

you know, investigators or researchers in that study, and the name of the study is the effect of oneness belief on life satisfaction, literally everything you want, right? So the study is the effect of oneness belief of life satisfaction, it's a 13 page study, you have to pay money to buy to buy it, but you can get the you know, the the conclusions of it pretty easily. Interestingly, the study, it looked at different things, including relationships and empathy, different psychological means to test life satisfaction.

And they came to the conclusion that the most satisfied people were Muslims.

This is what they this is the conclusion they came to this is not Muslim people doing this study. This is not, you know, funded in Saudi Arabia, or something, or Pakistan? Oh, you know, of course, they're gonna say that this is done in Germany, okay with non Muslim researchers, and they said, they literally wrote the word Muslim. And then the thesis that they brought forward is when you have oneness beliefs,

when you believe in one thing, so we as Muslims believe, one God worthy of worship,

it makes you focus on one thing, which reduces anxiety. And this was, I mean, I had the discussion and it's public, you can watch it anyway, with PSN, what he actually said, he said, it makes sense that Muslim people have less depression and anxiety. He said, Because when your focus is not multiplicity, thus, and he always does this with his fingers,

give them hell Netanyahu give them hell.

Anyway, it was when the focus is not multiplicity, this one is only like, one focus, which essentially we have one focus is to worship Allah,

then you are able to have more satisfaction in your life. So it reduces anxiety. And so this is a very interesting study. You see, this is a very interesting study, and actually dispels the notion that the more money you have, the more satisfied you are in life. The Quran says Allah basically laid out in the loop, that certainly with the remembrance of God, do hearts find rest. Now, research is showing us how and why that is the case.

Now research is showing us that the reason why case is because when you focus on one thing, then you become less distracted in life less anxious in life

and it will

riddles live down to a manageable portion. Because life if you had to focus on everything, you'd become very disturbed. But effectively if everything goes back to the worship of Allah, then you don't become disturbed in that manner. And on the flip side you have in the Quran, woman ah, rather than victory for in de la homage and Duncan, well actually we are looking at an AMA, whoever swerves away from my remembrance will have a depressed life, and we will make him on the Day of Judgment blind. So as I say, there's evidence of this. Now, another interesting study, which is the last one I mentioned before I passed micron is one that was done at the University of Harvard, a very famous

waco Longitudinal Study, which spanned over 30 or 40 years, and they wanted to know what it is that produces satisfaction for people,

and good quality of life and contentment.

And they came to the conclusion that actually it is relationships.

So, for example, people that had bad relationships with their parents were more likely to have bad lives effectively.

People that had bad relationships with their family members with their there were more likely to it doesn't matter what money they had, they could be very rich people. There were many rich people in that study. But if they had bad relationships, they were shown to be

very depressed or having a less or subpar quality of life compared to the colleagues who did have the relationships, we would say, the best relationship to have as a relationship with Allah

after that, then your relationship with your, your mother and your father, your spouse is extremely important. That's why when you if you're married, and you have a bad time with your husband or wife, it can affect your entire life.

As they say Happy wife happy life.

I don't know how why they assume happy wife.

Why not happy wife happy life.

But that is a different story for a different day.

I've been here in Pakistan for a very long time by myself. This is why I keep making the jokes about women and this and that.

You see, but anyway, the point I'm making to you is

Allah says in the Quran, Mahara Buka, Allah taboo, Allah Yeah, well, Bill, well, it any exon he puts in that hierarchy, number one thing to worship Allah. And number two thing to be good to your parents. This is how Allah puts it. If you follow the guidelines of Allah and the messenger, you will be you will have a content and satisfied life. And there is a difference between having a satisfied life as compared to having a happy life. Happiness is different to satisfaction. Happiness is I mean, the highest forms of happiness or ecstasy and euphoria. And even from a biological or physiological perspective, it's not good to always be in that state. Because usually when you're in

that state, then you crash afterwards. For example, there are many drugs you can take that can make you euphoric.

Hopefully, no one has tried them

in Pakistan, but if you take ecstasy or some of these, you know, mushrooms or whatever it may be, you know, then you can get ecstatic. But then the next day you get crushed. Forget about that. I mean, if many of you have ADHD, yes, you can take Ritalin or Adderall or one of these ones and increases your dopamine by times 20 Something like that crazy thing, and it gives you a bit of ecstasy but afterwards it crashes and you will feel worse afterwards. So happiness is not the state you always want to be in. satisfaction and contentment is the state that you want to be in