Shadee Elmasry – Standard Atheist Riddle and Its Response
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So, let's take the first one right away, can Allah create an object
that cannot stop him? This is the same idea of kennela Create a rock
that he can't lift?
Can he create an object that he can stop, etc? Like that? And
these types of questions is also similar to a question like, kind
of like create a square circle, or a rectangular triangle. All right?
So what do we say about this question? The definition of Allah
subhanaw taala is he can create all things that definition of
Allah is that he can he's All Powerful Over All Things. So what
the person what this question which is a riddle, a type of
riddle that's taught in philosophy? 101, I remember my
philosophy class, I was told you're going to be shown this
question literally, it was philosophy 101 at Rutgers
University and the on the overhead back in the day, they had overhead
projectors before there were smart boards. Literally, that was the
first thing on the on the screen. All right, can God create a rock
that he can't lift? And the lady, the teacher, the professor, she
didn't even answer it, she just had it there. And she kept it
there all class long, she never addressed it. So she The idea is
to create this doubt in a person and deconstruct belief in God,
because the philosophy classes at universities, especially the
largest state run schools, they they know that they're gonna get a
lot of Christians. Now a lot of Muslims, right, and they need to
get this idea out of people's minds right away.
The so the question is asking, Can God not be God? That's really what
the question is. All right? Can God is if his attributes is all
powerful, and his attributes that he can create all things, right.
So can he create something that he doesn't have power over? You're
asking Can God effectively not be God, and likewise, so we call this
a rational impossibility. Likewise, there is no such thing
as a square circle. Okay, there's no such thing as a triangle with
four sides. So when we talk about things, the first thing, the
creation, we talk about, and the automa, Solusi and the ultimate of
RP that have all discussed this in their books and once a Kalamoon
that, when we talk about a thing, we're talking about a rationally
possible thing, all things are divided into three categories,
rationally, possible, rationally impossible and rationally
obligatory, like rationally required, okay?
So for example, what is a rationally impossible thing is two
mutually exclusive opposites coming together? opposites are of
two types mutually exclusive, and what they call the dead which is
the corollary. There are complementary opposites. That's
the term complementary opposites. And then when the key, okay, the
bid is complementary opposites, like black and white, you can have
black and white in the same garment, right? Black and white,
just because black exists doesn't mean white doesn't have to exist,
it can both exist in the same garment right. But you cannot have
pregnant and not pregnant in the same woman, right? You cannot have
existing and not existing in the same thing. So mutually exclusive
opposites, which are called Nokia. Okay, just like saying no Alcatel
will do the things that nullify, right? So the Nikita is that which
nullifies the other thing. So once you have a hot cup of tea, it
can't be cold at the same time, right? You can't say on something
that's hot, that's cold. So this question, I think that every high
schooler and I gave that thing to Muslim matters for a while back
that
there are certain things every high school should be studying. So
in this case, the idea and concept of rationally possible rationally
required and rationally impossible should be studied because when we
talk about The Quadra of Allah subhanaw taala, we're talking
about The Quadra on rationally possible things. Everything that
is not a Nucky Okay, so you don't bring a riddle like a square
circle or a triangle with four sides. Okay. Do all
of us