Tom Facchine – Is Belief In God A Cognitive Issue
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hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa salatu salam, ala Ashraf, an MBA
or mousseline, Avena Kadota, Muhammad Ali he after a Salah was
good to Salim, Aloha Melinda Mahon fontanella, and fat and Abby
Martin and to know as in money out of Atlanta mean. So we're in
Sorrento and I'm and we're getting close to the end of this thing.
The 120/5 verse is where we left off. You know, the main idea of
this surah is talking about our faith, our belief, and also sort
of clarifying for us the different sneaky ways in which kofler works,
the different sneaky ways that shit quirks. And the most recent
one that I last found out I had been talking about right where we
left off, was the type of person that likes to call the shots. And
they want to call the shots so much that they want to call the
shots even with Allah subhanaw taala. And you had a lot of
different people that were like this at the time because the Quran
was coming down. Prophet Muhammad Allah He started to Salam was
among the people. And yet, you have people saying, well, I'm not
going to believe unless this happens. I'm not going to believe
unless you make me and my homies prophets, I'm not going to believe
unless you give us a physical book, like sent down, like in
paper, and all these sorts of things. You got to show us a sign.
How come an angel didn't come? Right? They thought that they knew
better. And what do we say, for somebody who knows everything? You
can't teach them anything? Right? And somebody who knows nothing,
you can teach them everything. And so that was the split, you had
certain people in Mecca that you know, you can't tell them
anything. They think they got it all figured out. They think that
well, if a prophet work to come, it would be want me and one of my
boys were the chiefs. Were the nobleman were the movers and
shakers of the community. And then this other this prophet comes from
somebody, they didn't expect to say it. Oh, no, no, no, no, it
can't be him. It's not who we approve of, actually a lot quoted
in the Quran. He said, If this were the truth, we would have been
the first to believe it. Right? Look at the attitude. Do we have
people like that? Still today? Oh, yes, we do. Yes, we do inside the
Muslim community and app. That that's for something for the
hookah. So Alas, found out I had just left off on this note, the it
just dealt with this group of people we won't believe unless one
of us were given the message. And so Allah was showing how all
shidduch which is invented tradition, not real tradition,
right? It's superstition. It's stuff that that Allah didn't tell
anybody to do. Why are you worshiping the statute? Why are
you believed that being born in April means that you're a nice
guy, you're gonna get married and whatever, right? So DIAC, signs,
crystals, all those stuff that we have today? Who told you that this
stuff works, that Allah ever tell you that this stuff works? Now he
didn't know he didn't? So by what authority? Do you make this claim?
By what authority? Do you try to claim that this stuff actually
matters? And what it is all the way down underneath is people
trying to reassert control. People trying to reassert control over
the process of religion, because if it's just what Allah said, in
this book, it's outside of me entirely, I have to submit, I have
nothing else. It's like a third party audit. Right? People come
in, they don't know you, they don't care who you are, where you
come from, they're looking at your books, and they better be
straight. And if they're not straight, you're gonna go to jail,
you're gonna get a fine or you're going to be not in compliance.
That's the third party audit. What the people have shooter quant.
They want
the friend on the inside. They want the insider to come in and
give them the audit. Oh, well, you know, me and your father went to
school together, we're from the same tribe. You know, I'll take it
easy on you guys. That's what they want. They want to get it easy.
And so they they are trying to reassert control if we can invent
these things, these guys, these statues, these zodiac signs, these
crystals, guess what? They're not real gods. They can't speak for
themselves. Somebody is going to have to speak for him.
Who gets to decide what the idol wants? Who gets to decide what the
idle makes the idle happy or not? Who gets to decide what makes the
idle angry or not? Then I get to put myself up in this position. I
say, Well, yeah, I'm the one who's able to interpret what the idle
wants. And then you see how that works. So true. Faith is cutting
through all of this truth. Faith is completely out of our hands.
It's 100% submission to something that is completely out of our
hands. And so Allah subhanaw taala calls out the kudos for this. He
said, listen, all this nonsense that you guys are coming up with.
You're just trying to keep control over something that really has to
be completely out of your hands. If you don't have nothing to hide.
You shouldn't be afraid, but they know that they have stuff to hide
and so they don't want to become come under the audit of divine
guidance. After that Allah is bound to Allah says something
amazing
And he says, For me you already love who a dear who yes, rock
solid, a hole Islam, Allahu Akbar. He says whoever Allah wants to
guide, he's going to open or expand his chest or his heart to
Islam. That tells us a couple of things. One thing, it tells us
what we just talked about in the hippo this Friday, that belief is
not about how smart you are. It's about how sincere you are. Belief
is not a cognitive triumph. It's not a cognitive issue. It's a
moral issue. Because if it were a cognitive issue, if belief were
just about how smart you were, then every smart person would be
in Jannah. And every stupid person would be in jahannam. That's not
how it works. That's not how it works. You got people who are
PhDs, multiple PhDs, award winning this award winning that and they
are arrogant. And so they'll go in they'll hellfire, all that
knowledge, it's not even neutral, it's against them. They had all
that knowledge, all that intelligence, and yet they still
couldn't believe, because something inside their heart
prevented them. And then you've got somebody homeless on the
street, nothing, no opportunities, no, doesn't even have a high
school education, but his heart is pure. And so he feels the truth
and he believes in it.
And that person is going to go into paradise. Not only that the
prophesy said I'm Let me blow your mind. The prophesy said, I've said
something amazing. He's had the poor person is going to beat the
rich person into agenda by 500 years. By 500 years.
How does that work?
Why does the poor person gets a VA agenda 500 years before the rich
person.
He's got less things to be asked about. That's right. Because what
it allows people to have a say in sort of the cathode, well, let
alone Naomi the 99. You will be asked on that day law, tell peed,
he says, you know, emphasis, you are surely definitely going to be
asked on that day about every blessing.
That means what gates a paradise angels are there.
The person comes in, didn't have a home, didn't have a car, didn't
have a family, didn't have bills, didn't have responsibilities like
that. But he had a pure heart. He did what he could. He has his
mistakes. We all have our mistakes. Angels are gonna step
right aside and say you know what, you go right on in.
And the person who had the house and had the car and had the
degrees and had the company and had this and had that and doesn't
say hold up?
How did you use this? That car that you had? Were you always
driving to something Hello. Or sometimes you drive into some of
the house all that money you had? Were you always spending it on
something halal, or sometimes you were spending it on something
haram and so on and so forth, till he goes through the person's
spouse and the person's children in the personal clothes and the
person's games and their toys and everything that they had their
vacations and everything. Then once it gets to the end of the
list, all right. You can even go in 500 years
500 years later Subhanallah
so Allah subhanaw taala says that this is not about how smart you
are. Faith. It's about how pure your heart is. And whoever Allah
wants to guide he is going to open up his chest, his heart to Islam.
And on the flip side, well may already well may you read a little
who Yeah, John Sadara hola econ Harold Janka and Mr. Yasser
Adolphe sama. He said and whoever Allah wants to misguide, then
Allah subhanaw taala makes his chest tight, constricted, as if he
says, he's ascending through the sky.
And have you guys ever been mountain climbing?
Or you've Okay, let's be okay. What do you have to do on a plane?
Anybody ever flew on a plane?
What do they have to do on a plane? They have to pressurize the
cabin, right? Why do they have to pressurize the cabin? Because
you're changing elevation so quickly. If you didn't have a
pressurized cabin, everybody was be able to they wouldn't be able
to breathe.
Right? The quality of the air it gets thin people know this for you
know, some marathon runners that are up in the mountains. They
train up in the mountains because the air is thinner up there,
meaning there's less oxygen in the air. So if you can train and run
in the mountains, then when you get down into the valley close to
sea level, you're it's like resistance training. You're
awesome. Because your your heart and your lungs are used to working
so efficiently. You're using that air that's got very little oxygen.
Usually people are used to it. If you live up higher, you're always
living in a pile. You're living down low. You're used to it. But
what if you change all the sudden you take us We're down here in
Mohawk Valley. You put us on the top of Mount Everest. We're going
to be a
We're not going to be able to read, right as what Allah subhanaw
taala saying here, but he's not talking about breathing oxygen.
He's talking about breathing faith. He's talking about
guidance. He says whoever Allah wants, he's going to constrict his
heart, just like that. Just like that person who is ascending
through the heavens, and they're not going to be able to find the
right way. Now the question is, if Allah is bound to Allah is Al
Hakim, then why does he say that he is the one to misguide people.
He wants to guide people and he wants to misguide people. How does
that work? How is that fair?
They chose them in the sky.
Okay, very good. Michelle, I can't get anything by you guys. Because
it's in response to what's in their heart. It's in response to
what's in their heart, if they are sincere, and they want to be
guided Allah's pantile is going to open their chest to guidance as a
consequence of their orientation. Right? And if the person doesn't
want to be told he doesn't want to, except then the last point I
was gonna make that person's chest tight, out of consequence of what
he already put forth, and I lost pounds. The audit puts everything
in his life and lets us live our lives in order to demonstrate in
an obvious way, what he already knows, is hiding deep down inside
of us. That Iike the hedgehog Allahu register Allah La Nina la
Yamuna and in that way, Allah Spano Tata brings filth upon the
people who don't believe
we'll have a Serato Rob become most Akima This is the straight
path of your Lord, or the fossil fuel economy and the Karuna ALLAH
SubhanA. Allah as you said already fossil, he spelled out everything
separated every sign every eye, every lesson is right there for
you to see. It's not something hidden in some sort of secret
philosophical treatise somewhere in some dusty library. It's out in
the open for absolutely everybody to see. Obvious hiding in plain
sight, but only for a certain type of person. Only a certain type of
person is going to benefit from those obvious signs. For people
who Yeah, that karoun They remember, they tried to think they
tried to remember what's going to be theirs, what's going to be the
consequence of that orientation that they have at home dad was
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and Robbie him. They're going to have the abode of peace. Allah
Spano Tata uses a play on words here because he just said that
he's going to open their chests towards Islam. Now he says in the
afterlife, he's going to give them dogs with Cena is going to give
them the abode of peace. Because Jana, for us is about internal and
external peace. Every single type of worry that you have we all got
it. We're all right here today. We're all men, you got bills to
pay. You got relationships, you try to fix stuffs going on all the
time. Sometimes it feels like you're at war with the world.
Sometimes it feels like everything's crashing down around
you. Sometimes your backs up against the wall. Can you imagine
being a situation where you don't have a single worry? That's Gen
darsena. Allah spawn to otter keeps on throwing these things.
That's why the Companions used to be afraid of life was too easy.
Because they knew that this was how it was supposed to work. This
work is fighting, fighting, fighting, there's always something
that's happening. But then once the angel takes your soul,
that's when your releases, and Allah promised you. That's why the
people who got close to they actually saw it on the
battlefield. They saw people like, you know, back at the time of the
Prophet I set out to Sudan, they saw jihad, they saw a martyrdom
they saw people that die with smiles on their faces, and they
said sadaqa rasool Allah, I said that what the prophesy said I'm
promised this was true.
Once you cross over to the other side, Allah promised the people of
faith daughter Sudan, the abode of peace, internal and external,
every need you want fulfilled every pleasure that you deny
yourself for the dunya Yeah, sure, go ahead. In the afterlife,
and every single worry and setback and negative emotion that you had
in this life, it's all gone. It's all gone.
Well, Hua li Johan de mercado, Yama Loon, Allah has found out I
was going to reward them and follow up in consequence because
of what they used to do.
While my Yashoda home Jimmy ah, and on the day when Allah subhanaw
taala gathers them all together, talking about the Day of
Resurrection. Yeah, masha Allah Ginni is talking to the Jin bada
stack. Felton means you really have gone out of your way. You
guys really did go the extra mile to try to mislead these human
beings. Allah was talking to the jinn.
We'll call her OLIO hormonal NC and the people who were deceived
by those Gen. Remember the Gen Xers job was to whisper these
suggestions to us.
But I bet I stem to about on Abby Bell
It's kind of like people are making excuses. He's like, look,
you know, they're to blame and we're to blame. Like we were both
kind of in it together. It wasn't all us. Right? It wasn't just our
fault.
Well, the Lagna Jelena la vie a gel tell Anna and we have finally
reached the time period the expiration date that you have set
for us
last fall to auto say or it will be set to them called a narrow
math work home, Holly Deena fie. Illa, masha Allah, that the fire
is going to be your resting place forever to be inside of it, except
for who Allah wills. And Allah says that because Allah has the
power to bring people out of the Hellfire, there will be people who
they believed and they had a towhead. And despite all their
sin, they will be put into the Hellfire for a time and then
there'll be removed the last people to enter agenda, the last
people to enter Jannah people who believed but were so covered in
sin that they had to go to the Hellfire first. And then through
the Shiva of the Prophet alayhi salatu salam through the
intercession of the Prophet Muhammad Ali, so that's Saddam,
they will be removed from the hellfire and there'll be dipped in
a river of paradise when they come out of the Hellfire. They're
charred like you've over burnt your toast
but they're going to be dipped into a river of paradise and come
out sparkling shiny and then Allah is found to Allah will ask them a
question Have you ever experienced every every hardship in your whole
life? They're gonna say no.
That's how alas pantalla gives the data center
the abode of peace when you cross over, everybody you know, you
remember growing up you saw men and black or they got those little
things that wipe your memory. That's what it is. As Jenna Can
you imagine right? You just went through * you literally went
through * scorching and burning in flames. Right torture you don't
know whether you're going to come out and then all of a sudden
you're taken out you dipped in boom gone. Dora Silla you've
crossed over
Mel Omega some people from an agenda and not make us have to go
through the fire first. In the Rebecca, how ki-moon alim and
Allah is found Allah knows best who those people are lost found to
Allah often ends that is the verses of the Quran. When he talks
about something that, you know involves punishment. He often ends
it with his name's Hakima and Aileen. He's keen because he knows
what he's doing. He's wise. He knows better than you, Alim and he
knows everything. So we can't go through life and say yeah, see
this guy over here? He looks like he's going to fire look out. Or
this guy over here. Yeah, man. He's good. He's good. He doesn't
have to worry about a thing. We have no idea. I lost found out I
was had chemo gnarly.
Look at that ICA No, only about a volley mean about ba ba ma
Khanewal. eXe Woon. And in that way, I lost found out of saying
here, he allows some of the transgressors he's talked about.
He was just talking to the jinn and the people who deceived the
deceivers and the ones who allowed themselves to be deceived. He
says, in this way, we allow some of them to influence others and
reap what they sowed. Yeah, I'm not sure Elgin Allah says Again,
well, it's Oh, you grew up you gathering of gin and human beings.
Hola me up te como salamin, calm. Didn't there come to you a
Messenger from among you. Allah Spano. Allah says elsewhere, he
only sends a messenger from among that group of people. Right? He
doesn't export the job, he doesn't outsource. All right, every
company now you call up customer service, right? It's some call
center out in the Philippines or something like that. Or India, why
do they do that?
To save money, right? Because if they had a call center here in the
United States that had to pay minimum wage and have to do this,
right, they're trying to save money. So they outsource that
thing. last panel data does not outsource profits, is not
outsource messengers. He sends people, a messenger from their
own, because they already know him. They know His character. They
know that he's trustworthy. The Prophet alayhi salatu salam in the
Quran uses this as a proof against his own people the Quran he says
You already knew me from young age. I grew up among you. You guys
know me what and you know what I'm about? If Allah subhanaw taala
brought someone in from outside people would have an excuse as
who's as who's this guy? He just showed up today. We don't know
him. We don't know what he wants. Right? Allah doesn't give room for
that sort of excuse. He says that he sends, he says and he's asking
a rhetorical question here. Lm Yeti calm lucidum income. Hasn't
there come to you? A Messenger from among you. Jaco suna Alikum
at telling you my signs explaining my signs will you only Rona come
and explain and warning ulica Iommi come Heather and warning you
guys about this day. Didn't you have fair warning? Wasn't it true
that somebody told you Oh, Lucia hit
Another unforeseen, they bear witness against themselves. So
yeah, yeah, yeah, that's true. It happened
was automall Hayato dunya? Allah subhanaw taala explains, okay, you
were warned, why didn't you do anything? Why were you asleep at
the wheel? He said, Well, the rotten will hire to dunya because
the life of this world had deceived them. The life of this
world had deceived them, what shall he do Allah and forcing him
in the home can okay if he didn't, and so they bear witness upon
themselves that they used to deny. That's the thing that Allah has
found to Allah wants us to understand is that if we get too
attached to this world, we're going to deny the message when it
comes to us. And that can be like capital M message, like, for
example, the people if they have a prophet sent to them, okay? If
you're too attached to the dunya, how are you going to react when a
prophet is sent to you? Are you going to accept him? No, you're
going to reject Him. So what happened with bendy straw eaters
what happened to the Masada, here comes a new prophet, they had
built their entire identity on what what God's chosen people,
then there came another prophet outside of them, ruin that whole
thing, that whole narrative. And so they because they were too
attached to this thing, and that dunya they were prevented from
following the message. And it can happen in smaller ways for us,
okay, you're attached to your business, you're attached to a
certain romantic interest, you're attached to this, you're attached
to that. And what if Allah subhanaw taala sends you a sign
sends you a wake up call?
You have two options. You can get the message. Or you can deny the
message you can get right? You can get straight, or you can keep on
doing what you're doing.
And if you don't, maybe Allah is going to ask you the same question
here. Didn't the messenger come to you? Didn't I send you a message?
Then you're gonna say yeah, yeah, actually you did. And Allah says
was automall Hayato dunya the work the life of this world deceived
them at trick them. What shall he do Allah and force him and on
candle caffeine, and they bear witness on that day against
themselves that they denied.
Allah says something amazing as we turn the page to the next page,
dat ICA LM Yakko Rob Okemo Haleakala, Cora, B rune, wha hoo,
ha, ha Fionn. Allah is bound to Allah does not punish or destroy a
Quran a people, a nation, a town, oppressively, we don't mean what
the * are you doing? Allah doesn't punish people arbitrarily.
Allah doesn't punish people until he sends them a warner. Allah
doesn't punish people for being ignorant. Remember the first thing
we said it's not about ignorance. It's about arrogance. Allah
subhanaw taala punishes people after they've rejected after
they've denied not just because they don't know he says it right
here will have off you know, and we're not going to punish the
people just because they didn't know any better. We're only going
to punish people after they were shown the message they were given
a messenger and they rejected and then they denied while he Colin,
that idea to me man, I mean, and there are ranks that are ranks to
this to both belief and to denial. There's some people that are way
way way down on the bottom there's some people that are way way way
up at the top and there's levels in between well amount of
vocabulary for the and I'm maybe I'm alone and Allah has found
Allah is not ignorant of what they used to do. What our vocabulary
although Rama and Allah is bound to Allah is free from need. The
one who possesses mercy iya Shut up the hippo calm we are stuck
with Min daddy calm.
Many Usher will come out and in Chicago Menlo Realty calm in
Korean Mindo Realty calm in a hurry, if Allah subhanaw taala
wants, then he can replace you. He can get rid of you. And he can
bring about instead of you, other people, other people, whoever he
wants.
Come and share a common reality calm in a hurry and just as He
brought you forth from another people, okay, we think that we
have these sort of like, you know, our ethnic identities, for
example, they're like, actually, they go back and definitely no
they don't. What does it mean to be Bosnia? What does it mean to be
Somalia? Somali Bantu? What does it mean to be Italian or American
or whatever, you go back far enough. It started from someplace.
And that wasn't even a thing. Right? We all come from Adam. Then
from Adam, his sons and then his sons and then his sons. And then
at some point, here came the Somali been tubes. And from some
point, here come the Italians. From some point here come the
Bosnians right if you go back, back, back, back back, Allah
started every group of people somewhere. So he's saying, just
like we brought your people out of nothingness out of a different
people, we can get rid of you and bring out a
other people from among you
that Allah says in the matter who I do, and
certainly that which you have been promised is coming, while Matt and
Tom be more edgy zine
and you are not going to be able to stop it earlier call me at
Mailloux Allah. Allah McKenna TiECon in ni IML. So say to your
people, a says say, oh, people work for your station, we just
said that it's the Rajat it's different levels. Right? Heaven
has levels, * has levels work for your spot, work for your spot.
And then the prophesy said, I was instructed to say I'm working to
write, I don't have it all taken care of in knee, I mean, I'm also
working for sofa towel and Moon. For sofa town, I'm gonna mentor
Cornella, who aren't able to data you're gonna find out in the end,
who gets to inherit paradise, who gets eternal bliss. But you're not
going to figure that out. Now. You're going to figure it out
later, in the whole livelihood volume on the oppressors are not
going to serve, they're not going to triumph that might seem like
they do right now. But the oppressors are not going to be
happy on that day. Well, generally law he may may, or may know how to
see what well an army now see even the body, then Allah is found the
other and actually, I think we're going to end a little bit early
today. We'll end it here at last one of the other transitions from
talking about these general issues of belief and disbelief and
rejection and Paradise. And he gets back to some of the taboos
that the Quraysh had established for themselves. Remember that we
said that they felt guilty, because they knew that they were
rejecting them. The truth from the Prophet Mohammed sigh said I'm in
from Allah azza wa jal. And so they had invented all of these
other taboos that Allah subhanaw taala never told them to
institute. It came to what to eat and what not to eat. And you can
do this and you can't do that. And Allah is found to Allah is going
to go through those to take us pretty much to the end of the
surah and talk about some of the other superstitions at the core I
used to have and invalidate them and make them seem as foolish as
they are.