Shadee Elmasry – How Allah is known intellect

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