Shakiel Humayun – 30Second Response to Atheism Tarawih Talk #6

Allah subhanahu wa'amala said in surah early in

Iran,

and they reflect on the creation of the

heavens and the earth.

This reflection

brings about

a conclusion.

And the conclusion

brings about 3 important points about the reality

of existence.

And Allah mentions that in the next

words,

The result of these reflections

is 3 points, number 1,

we have a lord who has created

everything. Number 2,

that this world has a purpose.

Oh, our lord,

You did not

create

this without a purpose.

And the third point,

we have a creator.

We have a purpose. And the third point,

there's accountability.

And so save us from the hellfire. The

fire shows that there's accountability.

So we have a purpose in this life.

And so if

an atheist

asks

you and says prove to me

God exists,

now I know there's ways to debate

an atheist, there's ways to go into philosophy,

but tonight I want to give you a

quick and fast and short way to answer

an atheist and just circumvent

those hours of discussion.

So if an atheist says prove to me

God exists,

all you have to say is prove to

me

this conversation

is real.

How do I know?

We're not dreaming right now.

How do I know this is not a

hallucination? How do I know you're not

in my imagination?

Prove to me that this conversation is real.

And there is no way

that the atheist can prove that the conversation

that we're having is real.

He can't prove that it's real.

Nor can he prove that there's no alien

drawing our strings and everything is just,

a drama and a play. He can't prove

it.

And by chance,

if an atheist does come with some proof,

then your follow-up should be,

prove to me

that the proof you used is proof.

How do we know what is proof?

What qualifies that to be proof?

And some of you may have seen this,

understood this by now,

for him to prove what is proof, you

need to define what proof is first, but

you can't do that because you need proof

to define proof.

So there's no way an atheist

can answer this question.

And this stems this

stems from the verse of Allah Subhanahu where

he said,

Is there any doubt about Allah?

The creator of the heavens and the earth.

And so such a person,

if they doubt the existence of Allah, if

they doubt Allah,

then they must

doubt

reality. There's no way

to explain and prove that this world is

real, that you and I are not cartoon

characters stuck

in a computer.

There's no way to prove that.

If we're going to doubt the existence of

Allah, we're going to doubt our own reality

and our own existence.

The only way to lift

the doubt

about our reality and our existence,

is to lift the doubt about Allah, our

creator.

Once we

have recognized a creator, now we have an

objective source who has defined for us that

we are real, we are living, there are

standards,

And this is found in Surah Al Imran,

because if you remember, we talked about that

this Surah begins with a formula for interpretation

with the,

with the definite

verses

and the multiple

meaning verses,

versus the polysemic.

And so

there's multiple meanings to our existence

that's open for everyone to interpret. Maybe it's

a dream. Maybe it's an imagination. Maybe,

this is all fake. We don't know. So

there's multiple

meanings. And the only way these multiple meanings

can be sorted out,

if we go to an objective source,

and that is the Quran,

and that is why Allah says,

this is a book whose verses are made

objective,

definite, and clear. So

this life is, can be full of theories

and multiple interpretations.

The only way to narrow it down and

figure out which one is right is to

go to an objective,

verifiable,

credible source, which is the book of Allah,

which then defines for us our existence.

Otherwise, no one can explain

or prove

that we exist. So doubt in the creator

makes a person doubt reality,

and there's no way to prove

that that conversation

is real. If the person says, well, it's

a no brainer,

it's a real conversation that we're having,

then the follow-up is, exactly, it's a no

brainer

that Allah exists.

And this is why in the Quran, Allah

does not

discuss atheism too much, because it's a no

brainer.

And this is why in that ayah, when

Allah says,

there's a word missing.

And they reflect on the creation of the

heavens and the earth,

the word that's supposed to be next

is

and they say,

why our lord, you have not created this

without purpose.

And they say, because it's a no brainer,

that the reflection, there is a direct link

between the reflections

and the result. There is no interruption,

not even the words

because it's so clear, it's such a no

brainer. May Allah,

give us the tawfiq,

to understand.