Shadee Elmasry – Standard Atheist Riddle and Its Response

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

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