Suhaib Webb – The Masses Creed 14 God in Islam (Part Three)

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.