Shadee Elmasry – The UNIVERSE was CREATED and here is the PROOF
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The speakers discuss the concept of infinite Meanwhile and how it is impossible to arrive at the present moment. They use examples such as the birth of a child, the impossible of counting from zero to beyond the future, and the birth of a square circle as examples. They emphasize the importance of the second attribute, belief in existence beyond the physical world, and provide examples of how these arguments relate to existence beyond the physical world.
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We ask a question where did the world
come from and if you're a Muslim who
reads the Quran, we go to the next
slide and that will tell you.
Allah Ta'ala himself commands us to ponder
this question.
قُلْ سِيرُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ فَانظُرُوا كَيْفَ بَدَأْ الْخَلْقِ
Travel the earth and ask yourself the question,
ponder, how did this creation begin?
Because when you keep going back, you will
have to come to a conclusion that there
must be an origin that infinite regress is
impossible.
Infinite regress of creation is rationally inconceivable.
Remember though the point of a Muslim's pondering
is always to get to who brought us
here?
Now what does this creation ask of us?
So this question Allah Ta'ala is telling
us, if you ponder this, you will come
to the conclusion that there is a creator.
Option number one, where did the creation come
from?
It created itself, this is inconceivable, nothing can
ever create itself because that would require it
to exist and not exist simultaneously.
Nothing can ever create itself.
To create, you have to exist.
But what you're doing is putting yourself into
existence.
So this is two contradictory things.
Option number two is tasalsul, that the world
always existed.
And this is inconceivable because infinite regress is
inconceivable.
Why is infinite regress rationally inconceivable?
The first answer, A, infinite regress has no
starting point.
That's the first thing.
You would never arrive at the present moment.
To give an example, if a well had
no bottom, could you ever fill the well
to the top?
It has no bottom.
Now I want you to keep note, next
slide, that infinity and eternity are very different
things.
Infinity is no beginning, no end.
Eternity is something that has a beginning and
no end.
So akhirah is eternal, but it's not infinite.
Heaven is not infinite in the respect that
it has a beginning.
That's the difference.
It has a beginning and now we have
day zero, day one, day two, day three,
day four, and so on.
You have all these days that pass on
one day after another.
But infinity is what we're talking about, having
no beginning and no end.
When someone says, where did the world come
from?
You say, it's been around forever.
Appealing to the age of something does not
explain how it came into existence.
When you appeal to the age of something.
A man asks, where were you born?
Man, I'm a hundred years old, but you
didn't answer the question.
You gave me an interesting fact, but you
didn't answer the question.
You can't add anything to infinity, correct?
If I have infinity, infinity plus one is
nothing.
I can't add anything to infinity.
I cannot increase the timeline in any way,
shape, and form.
However, when we look around, we're adding a
day every day to the universe.
We're adding and subtracting constantly.
Someone's just born.
Someone dies.
We're adding a day.
We're expanding.
So we're constantly adding.
Therefore, this world that we live in, the
universe, cannot be infinite.
Actual infinities do not even exist.
Infinity is simply a mental exercise.
It has a mental existence only.
If infinity has existed, name me one thing
that's infinite, right?
Let's say you have an infinite number of
specks of sand on the earth.
So in order to demonstrate that you would
have to count them, right?
Maybe you tell me there are a million
marbles in a room.
I don't believe you until you count them
for me.
But in order to count an infinity, you
would have to live in infinity, which will
not happen.
We would have to—let's say we did, right?
We would never literally get to the end.
So infinity is something that is an imagination.
That's it.
If you can't count up to infinity, then
you definitely can't count down to infinity, right?
So if you claim that I can go
back in time and it's infinite, how do
I know it's not just bigger than—and you
never arrive.
Maybe it's just—maybe tomorrow you arrive.
Maybe next year you arrive.
So you definitely can't count down from an
infinity.
In the example, I want you to count
to 10, but you have to go to
negative infinity first and count from there.
You'll never count to 10.
You'll never arrive at whatever date we are,
October 8th, 2024.
You'll never get to this day if the
world was infinite in the past.
Conclusion, a collection formed by successive addition cannot
be an actual infinite.
That means world history is composed of adding
one day after another, plus one, plus one,
plus one, plus one, that can never be
infinite.
Anything that is formed by adding stuff to
it cannot be infinite.
Anything that involves adding must have began at
zero.
So the concept of infinity exists.
You can talk about it.
You can discuss it.
You could put it in formulas just like
Spider-Man.
You could talk about him.
You can create his rules, but he doesn't
exist.
It's in your imagination.
I can talk about a square circle.
I can say I have a square circle
in my hand.
I put it, but where is it?
You can't even draw it.
It's nothing other than words.
Option number three, it emerged out of nothing.
This is also inconceivable because something cannot emerge
out of nothing.
Option four is necessary.
The world was brought into existence by something
else.
This is necessary because everything that has a
beginning must have a cause.
And that's what you have to know right
there.
Everything that has a beginning must have a
cause.
So it is necessary to assume and to
deduce, not assume, to know.
Because it's a rational necessity that there is
a cause that brought, there is a source,
something brought this world into existence.
Now we're going to even get to the
point that we can even deduce some of
the attributes of this cause, or this source,
we should say.
The origins argument, the world could not have
created itself.
It could not have existed forever.
It could not have emerged out of nothing.
Therefore, it must have a maker.
The maker, we're going to now, by necessary
implication, it is rationally necessary to deduce now
that the maker must be transcendent beyond the
nature and laws of this creation.
Simple as that.
The maker must be transcendent beyond these things.
Next one.
Very similar, the cousin of this argument is
the cosmological argument, everything with a beginning has
a cause.
So taking the conclusion of the first one,
putting it here, the world has a beginning,
therefore the world has a cause.
Something brought this world into existence.
This world did not just come out of
nowhere.
These arguments prove the first rationally comprehensible attribute,
wujud, wujud al khalaq.
There must be a khalaq.
More specifically, it must be a necessary existence.
I exist, you exist, the creator exists, what's
the difference?
Two differences.
One, God, the creator of this world, exists
by necessity.
Because if he was just another subject of
cause and effect, he'd just be another part
of the world.
Just like that, Dawkins said that stupid statement
of his, he said, how do we know
that we weren't made up by some kind
of monster, trillions away from us, trillions of
light years away from us?
Well, then he'd just be part of the
creation.
The same question would be asked to him.
So most specifically, it exists by necessity.
We exist, we're ja'iz al wujud.
We may exist, we may not exist.
That's the difference.
The creator of this world has no beginning.
Because we said that if this world has
a maker, which we said is a rationally
necessary conclusion, it's not a rationally possible conclusion,
it's a rationally necessary conclusion.
Everything with a beginning must have a maker,
must have a cause.
So we must also conclude that the stuff
of this world, of the creation, that that
creator is transcendent beyond that.
He's transcendent beyond it.
That doesn't apply to him.
If it applies to him, he's just another
creation.
So that's what we're going to get to
next.
All right, so let's get into the next
rationally necessary attribute.
So far we only deduced wujud, existence.
Now let's get to the next one.
The next one is oneness.