Suhaib Webb – The Masses Creed 14 God in Islam (Part Three)
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The speaker discusses the 20 qualities of Islam, including obligations to deny, opposites of Islam, and the concept of God. They explain the logical proof for Allah's existence, including the concept of his existence and the impact of his actions on one's behavior. The speaker also discusses the importance of knowing the fruit of Islam's positive impact on one's life and how it can be a strategic vision for one's life.
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So let's get started with line 6. Now
talking about the 20
obligations due to Allah what are called
or the 20 qualities.
It's important to know that for you to
know that even though the sheikh is going
to mention 20 qualities,
the opposite of these qualities are also obligations,
obligations to deny. So he mentions 20
obligations which are
in related to the mind and the sacred.
Right?
And then what's inferred from those, the opposites
of those
are 20 also, which we have to deny
intellectually
as well as based on Sharia. So let's
start here with line 6.
Here we go again. He says,
so that's one quality.
It's another quality.
That's another quality.
So the total number of
qualities,
concepts, if you will, maybe is a better
word that he mentions about God in this
line, line 6 r 4.
So he says, and here's the translation,
Allah exists.
It's the first thing. It's called
that. I want you to remember that. It's
called sifat that or nafsiyyah,
meaning Allah
exists.
Second he has no beginning which
is
no
ending.
Means to be in opposition,
right. Right in fiqh.
That he is completely in opposition to his
creation.
So let's talk about the first
obligation. We're going to do this really in
3 ways. We'll talk about the logical evidence,
we'll talk about the Sharia evidence,
then we'll talk about how understanding this should
impact our lives because that's the goal of
faith, right, is that it has a positive
impact in our lives.
So the first evidence for Allah's
right.
He says.
In fact, most of our scholars say, in
fact,
meaning that Allah's existence is an obligation.
What's the logical proof for this? Our scholars
used a causation theory. There was a number
of theories, but one of the rational evidences
they say is that everything around us has
a cause. Right?
Everything around us was brought into existence.
So if there is no creator,
sorry,
there's no creator, then there's no creation.
Simple argument.
There's a really interesting book out there on
this, I'll try to mention in the lecture
coming soon written
by a Christian scholar who found that, you
know really Islam's approach towards proving God was
far more
rich than anyone else.
What is
the proof for this? Allah says in the
20,
surataha,
20th chapter of the Quran,
and Allah. I am God. Right? He admits
his existence.
And then
Allah's existence,
how should that impact our life? What's the
fruit
of that?
One thing I used to say to my
students is,
you may like this. I'll say it in
Arabic. I hope this pen doesn't mess up
on us. But,
you know, knowing
The fruit
of
the fruit of knowing that Allah exists,
and I would make it rhyme.
Leaving
And the reason I write in slang and
Arabic is if I actually put the dots,
the, the slide changes, guys.
So
So so knowing that Allah exists and believing
that Allah exists not only
helps give us purpose in life,
right? Gives us direction in life,
gives us a
strategic vision to live by, but it also
reminds us that we're not alone and that
we'll leave sin.
You know, one time a man he came
to Ibrahim Ib'addham and he said, I can't
leave sin.
And he said, you know, what would you
say about someone who you couldn't hide from
them?
And he said to him, actually go try
to hide somewhere.
Find some place that you can do the
sin and Allah won't see you. He said
that's impossible. Then he said how could you
disobey the one that is
constantly observing you.
So if I've really believed that Allah exists,
I'm going to be leaving sin. I'm going
to be rushing to do good deeds. I'm
going to have excellence in my worship.
That's the outcome of.
So there's the cognitive
aspect,
there's the religious aspect,
and then there's the impact of
on my behavior. As one of my teachers
in Eshar used to say, there's a difference
between and
studying creed and cultivating creed. We'll continue next
time
with the other obligations. But today we took
which is called
Right? We'll take the rest next time.