Shadee Elmasry – How Allah is known intellect
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So what is what are some of the ways in which Allah has made
himself known? Firstly, is that our very existence indicates
ability, that there's a creator with ability, our very existence
indicates that there must have been something because there is no
After Effects except that it had a previous effect. In other words, I
mean, you can't have a sound system except someone put the
sound system here, right, you can't have a universe and a world,
perfectly proportioned except that something had power. So as soon as
the human being touches ground on Earth, and starts and opens his
eyes, and thinks he realizes there's a lot going on in this
universe, there are birds, there's an ecosystem, right there soil,
there's plants, there's wild animals, there's domesticated
animals, there's sun, then there's darkness, so that we could rest,
then there's moon, so we could see a little bit in the in the dark.
Okay, so there's so much going on, that there must be ability, and we
call this ability Quadra. This attribute of Allah is called
Qudra. So this is the first attribute, no human being, if you
if you think about this, whoever rejects that there was something
more powerful than us before us. It's really insanity. It's an
unacceptable position, untenable position, undefined, indefensible
position. Secondly,
when you look around and you realize this world is not
simplistic, it's very complicated. And complex, actually should say
complex. Okay, it's finely tuned, it possesses the attribute of
complexity, which is that a thing requires so much to come together
at once. All right, so much has to come together at once, that in
order to fulfill this function, okay, so what we talked about
earlier with some of the essence, 100 students.
That complexity is the idea that so many things have to come
together all at once in order to fulfill this function. So what
does that indicate to us that mean indicates to us that this force
that has ability also has knowledge, it possesses a great
deal of wisdom. And we think of zebras, the Zebra is one of my
favorite examples. If as we're told that everything randomly
popped together, and then just survival of the fittest caused the
various mutations, isn't that what were preached? They preach to us?
So then tell me exactly why is it that the lion is the color of the
sand and the zebra stands out? Right? It's like a sore thumb. The
Zebra is black and white, right? So as an individual zebra black
and white standing against a brown Savanna sticks out like a sore
thumb. Whereas the lion has no need to delve in or to to match
with the savanna but he does. Who is trying to survive here. The
zebra or the lion, the lion can be pink, it doesn't matter. He's
eating either way, and no one's eating him. And the Zebra is the
one that needs to be brown. But no, we find the zebras black and
white. So what's the wisdom there? Right. Firstly, it's it sort of
negates the idea of survival of the fittest, but we as muscles,
were gonna say, Okay, what was Allah's wisdom in this? Will you
realize that as we know now, and if you anyone who's observed this
phenomenon, okay, knows that cats is eyesight is very bad, their
eyesight is no good. So the best way to be protected and you need
to exist in a herd is through stripes that together completely
make this lion dizzy, is why a whole herd of zebras can stay
together, right? And a lion, he will not he all he's going to see
is a dizzy thing, a huge mass of black and white, he can't see
clearly, the only way that he can eat is when one goes astray from
the pack. So now you're telling me that the creation of the zebra and
the eyes of the lion are taken into account, right? are taken
into account in this creation, right? The very eyes of the lion
and the stripes of the zebra, or why this works, and the zebra can
exist peacefully with his whole family. As long as he doesn't go
straight by himself. Yeah, and in this culture, this creation, the
more you look at it, the brilliance of it. And the reason
people love have love is three reasons beauty jimat excellence
in a product and you produce something excellent SN and then
both of them combined come out. And in this one example, you see
the genius, the brilliance of the idea, right? The idea that this
animal just is not enough that it has to be protected from the lion
he needs to stay in his group and why not be beautiful at the same
time, right? And none of the zebras Now this leads us to
another thing so we said Quadra ability now
Knowledge are hidden. Let's look at the next thing. None of the
zebra stripes ever resemble one another. There's no two zebra
stripes that have the same image. Every single one is different.
There are no two irises, right human eye, that have the same
pattern. There are no two thumb prints with the same pattern. So
what does this tell us? This tells us that this creator until now, we
know nothing about him. Okay? Except that he has ability, okay?
He has knowledge, but also he's creating on purpose, as opposed to
a mere factory, some force of nature that's spitting out
churning out creations. If it's churning out creations, why do
they all look different? Every snowflake is different. What Allah
is telling us he's saying I had creating on purpose. This is
called irata volition, or willfulness that he has a will,
that this creator has a will. This creator is not just spitting
things out and stuff will Allah like a machine? Right? Like a
factory machine factories, human factories, what do we produce?
When we have a machine a factory? We produce exactly the same item,
right? The same thing, but no, every creation of Allah to Allah
is unique in itself. So this tells us just by thinking about it, that
he possesses something called Get on. Okay, now something cannot
possess. Ability, Quadra knowledge, volition Iraida, and be
dead. Right? So he must be alive, high yet he must have life. Okay?
So he must be alive, he,
he must be alive. We're not worshiping something dead. And if
he's alive, then the very definition of life is the ability
to recognize to recognize so now we have anything that exists you
have three options. It could be either hearing, or deaf, seeing or
blinds, communicates or it's mute. Right? It's gonna be one of these
three. And if he had any of these three, then how would he have
created? Okay? And these would have been defects. Okay, and how
can you create sight if you yourself possess no sight? Right?
How can you create colors without sight? How can you create sounds
without having the faculty of hearing? And how can he
communicate? Okay, how can he be if he was mute that he'd be
defective, then we'd be superior, we can communicate and he can. So
plants can communicate, so he possesses Kadem speech, the
ability to speak. So by our own intellect, these basic attributes
come to us that the Creator has made himself therefore us. So this
is the first thing. Now what about the second thing?
Allah Allah describes himself in the Quran as a very well about
them. What does it mean that he is outwardly manifest, but inwardly
hidden, it means that outwardly manifests, so to what though,
outwardly manifest relative to what. So relative to the
intellect, these 13 attributes, we only listed like five or six,
these 13 attributes
are apparent to our intellect just by thinking about them.
The rest is Balton is hidden from our intellect. For example, you
can't think hard enough to know his name. Thinking will not tell
you what his name is, thinking will not tell you what he wants
from me, thinking will not tell tell us where we came from
thinking will not tell us where we're going. In life thinking will
not solve our moral problems. So all of that is bubbling relative
to the intellect. But from the perspective of Revelation, now
revelation comes and prophets are sent to us and then they tell us
his name is Allah. He was and never had a beginning never had an
end, He created you from nothing, and he wants from you worship and
he has the capacity to love and be loved.
Okay, and to be not to know and to be known, and the capacity to give
and the willingness to forgive, and all of these other attributes
that we learned solely from prophethood. Okay, so from that
angle, all of those things become via manifests through prophethood