Shadee Elmasry – Belief in the Unseen

I believe in the unseen, obviously, a lot of people used to

believe in the unseen. But once science really took off, and

rationalism took off, at that point, belief in the unseen became

taboo, it became not in fashion. And you got these basic people

like Deepak Chopra going around. And he is a very blunt rejecter of

the unseen, he says, belief is for the weak,

it's for the weak, they cannot handle their problems on their

own. Belief is for the weak, we have to emphasize our belief in

the unseen. And recently, Deepak Chopra had this debate with a

young

Christian preacher. So he says, At the end of the day, you're putting

your red, you're putting your faith in something you don't see.

Okay, that a book that was written 3000 years ago, by people you

don't know.

And the man said, this young preacher, but he, he really

understands religion in general, he gave him a great response. He

said,

it might be true, that I didn't see the people who wrote those

books. Okay, I didn't see that.

I don't know who transmitted it, who brought it down to me. But at

the end of the day, at the very least, when I do good,

I'll attribute it back to a source and it won't be a source of pride

for me. And when I do RAW and when I do wrong, I'll have a source of

guidance for me. And when I am in trouble, I'll have someone to go

back to Okay, so this guy he gave a very good answer to believe in

the unseen really, if you remove it from us, we lose so much. And

it's something that you have to not be ashamed.

Okay.

That wasn't him it was maybe it's something I've seen

so this is something that people have to

when you explain your deen

your word a place you're always explaining your deen if you're

live interacted with non Muslims a lot of times, your explanation

simply is,

is this is something I haven't seen, but we believe in it is we

do believe in the unseen and that's the basis for my action.