Mustafa Khattab – Knowing Allah 3

Mustafa Khattab
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The lack of visibility for Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is discussed, as it is impossible to see him. The importance of the creator's impact is emphasized, citing examples such as the rapid evolution of the universe and the "order from nothing" concept. The wonders of the creation of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala include the discovery of the perfect design of a computer and the need for a design to convince the world.
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We'll talk about one of the qualities of

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Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

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and,

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if Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala exists.

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Why is it that we cannot see him?

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Doesn't make sense. Because if he is there

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then we should be able to see Him.

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Right? Makes sense.

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So,

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I'll try to answer inshallah and if we

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have any question we can ask at the

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end. Because I get this question from a

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lot of people your age, my kids, they

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ask,

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okay, can we see Allah?

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And if He exists, can we see Him?

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Right?

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So,

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There are some certain things that exist,

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but we can't see them.

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Right?

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So, say for example,

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the the man who manufactured this microphone,

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or the cell phone, or the camera, most

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likely from China.

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The fact that you don't see this person

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who manufactured this camera,

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you don't know them, you don't see them,

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it doesn't mean that this person does not

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exist.

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They exist,

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but you don't know where they are and

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you don't know how they look like.

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So we are told in the Quran that

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will be able to see Allah Subhanahu Wa

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Ta'ala.

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Right? So we will be able to see

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Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala on There

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are so many other examples like,

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wireless Internet. Right?

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You see the impact,

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you see the result,

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but you don't see the wireless Internet itself.

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Like, we're sitting here, we have wireless connections

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in the Masjid,

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so I can connect my laptop from here,

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but you cannot see

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wireless Internet. But you see the impact, when

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you go to Google and search something, you

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see the result,

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but you don't see wireless Internet.

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Same thing for electricity.

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You got there right now. The light is

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the result of electricity. This is not electricity.

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This is light, but electricity itself, you cannot

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see it.

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You it is there, but we are not

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equipped to see it. You cannot see wireless,

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Internet, you cannot see electricity.

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You are there, you are not equipped to

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see them.

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So, now

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if we have twins,

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2 brothers or 2 sisters,

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they were born at the same time.

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So, they spend their whole lives together. So

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you have them there in front of your

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eyes

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and one of them dies, heart attack, he

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or she dies.

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So they're next to each other,

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they are identical, they look like

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similar in every aspect,

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what is the difference between

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the living twin and the the dead one?

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Yes.

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Yes. 1 is alive and one is dead.

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But what is the difference? Because

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technically if we weigh them,

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they will weigh the same, they look the

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same, same height,

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same measurements,

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everything is the same. What is the difference

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between the living and the dead?

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Anyone?

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Yes.

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The soul exactly, I said one of them

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has a soul

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the other one doesn't, right?

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Have you ever seen someone's

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someone's soul?

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We haven't.

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So the fact that if someone denies the

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existence of Allah because they don't see them,

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tell them you don't have a Ruach, you're

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dead.

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Why? Because yes, you have a soul, you

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have a Ruach, but we have not seen

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it.

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So technically you are dead based on what

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you said, right? So it doesn't make sense.

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And you don't have a mind either because

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we don't we didn't see your brain, right?

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So anyway,

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so the point is

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not everything that exists we're able to see

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at this point because it exists but we're

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not equipped to see it.

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But on Yamul Qiyama,

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different style of life, different way of life,

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the the quality of life is different,

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so we would be able to see Allah

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Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Even Musa Alaihi Salam in

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this dunya,

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in his human form, in this dunya, Balili

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form, he asked to see Allah

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on the mountain.

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You are not able to see me.

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But he was hearing Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

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but he couldn't see him. But

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do you think Musa Alaihi Salam would be

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able to see Allah?

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Of course, because he would be equipped. He

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would be able to see him.

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Many years ago, like a 100 years ago,

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if I told you you would be sitting

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in Mississauga

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and you will be able to watch a

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cricket game in Pakistan,

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you'll call me nuts, crazy.

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It's not possible. It will never happen.

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Or you will be able to watch a

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soccer game between Barcelona and Real Madrid in

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Spain.

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Right? Real time. Will never happen. Impossible.

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But now it is possible.

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Right?

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If you if I told you that one

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day I will pray, Salatul Fazr in

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Istanbul

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and pray Salatul

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Maghreb in Toronto

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a 100 years ago, you would think I

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lost my mind.

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But now this is the reality. It is

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right there, we see it, we know it

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hap it is it is possible.

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So not everything

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is possible yet,

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but at some point when the right time

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comes, when you are equipped, you are ready,

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it will happen.

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So

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now, another thing that maybe we touch on

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some other time,

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when people are not able to see Allah

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Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. For us Muslims,

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when you look at the creation of Allah

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Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala you see His impact

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and you know that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

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exists.

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When you see

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the

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beauty of the creation of Allah Subhanahu Wa

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Ta'ala The sun, the moon, the stars, the

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trees, the flowers, the butterflies,

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all the beautiful creation of Allah Subhanahu Wa

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Ta'ala. You know that something like this has

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to have a creator. Some someone must have

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created this.

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But in atheism, for example, when people think

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that all of this came about by

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coincidence, by chance, there is no master creator

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who was behind everything like this,

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it doesn't make any sense because

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even in Physics, if they believe in Physics,

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you don't get something out of nothing, because

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they get everything came out out from nothing.

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You don't get something from nothing.

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And you don't get order from this order,

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because they say everything came together,

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and they formed this universe,

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and everything here,

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and and and this is the

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underlying

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essence of the theory of evolution, for example,

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Darwinism.

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There is no God, everything came together,

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the fish turned into a chicken by itself.

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This is how everything came about.

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There is no master designer,

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master creator who put everything together. This is

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what Darwinism is all about. That things

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evolve from other things.

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Like, according to that belief, we as human

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beings, we evolved from monkeys

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and chicken came from fish and so on

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and so forth.

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This is total nonsense.

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Right?

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There's nothing wrong with,

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development.

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Evolution in that sense that we came from

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monkeys and so on and so, it doesn't

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make any sense. And there's no proof. This

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is what they say. There's no proof. But

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development

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that a human being will develop inside the

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mother,

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this is acceptable. We're young, we develop into

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grown ups, and so on and so forth,

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and the baby came from the egg and

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the sperm. This is development, and this is

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totally acceptable, no problem.

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And when you look at the,

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the little frogs,

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when they're swimming, they look like fish, but

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when they grow older, the tail is gone,

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the feet are gone, it becomes a frog.

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No. The feet are there, but the tail

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is gone. Right? It looks more like a

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frog,

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than a fish. Right? So this is called

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development and this is totally accepted. But you

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say that a species turned into another species,

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this is a totally different thing. So the

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point is, there is a Creator.

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If you want

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to to to realize the Existence

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of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala just open your

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eyes and look around.

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This is what Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

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says. Allah is asking people in Surat Tur,

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were you created by nothing or from nothing,

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or is there a creator, or did they

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create themselves?

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No one ever claimed

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to create themselves.

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Even Haftafiraoun,

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pharaoh,

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who said,

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I'm your Lord the Most High.

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He never claimed to create anything

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because he himself was created

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and we are actually we're probably the last

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edition of the creation of Allah. When we

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came to this world, everything was there.

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You know, the lizards, the worms, the fish,

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the birds, the flies,

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the squirrels, everything was there. We came

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probably last.

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So we are basically

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the babies of the universe. So we cannot

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claim

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to have created everything before we were selves

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came here. Right?

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So the last point, I know this is

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a kind of academic and your heads will

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explode, but this will give you a perspective

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of what is going on.

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The laws of physics

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okay, I'm getting technical here. They try to

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explain

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the marvels of the creation of Allah Subhanahu

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Wa Ta'ala in the universe.

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The law of gravity,

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relativity, all these different things.

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So,

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they try to explain the wonders the wonders

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of the creation of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

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And they say, they all agree

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that there is a perfect design in the

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world.

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So if there's a perfect design

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and the scholars, they try hard to explain

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this perfect design,

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it means

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there is a designer.

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Right? It's very simple.

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You try to explain

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the perfect design of a designer. So it

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means there is someone who created this. Cannot

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say that the sun comes out in the

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morning by itself. No one designed this. The

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human eye, we mentioned before, that the human

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eye which is more sophisticated than any Sony

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camera, it's millions of times more sophisticated,

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cannot convince me that this came about by

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chance?

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If I tell you that there was a

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tornado in the desert,

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and the sand came together

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with

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some other elements from the Earth and formed

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an iPhone 8

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by itself. You call me crazy.

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But if I told you that this perfect

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human eye which is more sophisticated, millions of

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times more sophisticated than any Sony camera came

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about by chance,

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I don't know.

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We'll talk tomorrow, Insha Allah.

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