Tom Facchine – There Is No Morality Without Belief In The Afterlife

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Speaker 1 discusses the importance of belief in the afterlife and the need for a adequate understanding of God's potential. They also mention the negative imagery of being ateen year old and the importance of balance between hope and fear. The conversation then transitions to discussing the need for an inspections and hedging of one's behavior to balance out fear and hope.

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			In Surah Al Muzammil,
		
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			one of the main points is that there
		
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			is no morality without belief in the afterlife.
		
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			And Allah brings this up a lot, especially
		
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			in the Meccan Surah, because this is something
		
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			that's even it could be argued is even
		
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			primary in the sense that
		
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			maybe somebody doesn't have everything figured out when
		
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			it comes to belief in God or belief
		
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			in Allah. But if somebody fears the afterlife,
		
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			if somebody believes that there is an an
		
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			unseen
		
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			out there, then it will provide them the
		
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			urgency and the motivation to try to figure
		
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			those things out, which is why Allah
		
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			describes the first characteristic of a righteous person
		
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			in Surat Al Baqarah, just the second page
		
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			of the Quran, yutminunabil ghayb is that the
		
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			ones that they believe in the unseen.
		
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			Very very interesting. Why didn't Allah say the
		
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			ones who believe in Allah? That would be
		
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			like really clear cut. Right? No. No. No.
		
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			The first thing he says is that they're
		
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			the people who believe in the unseen
		
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			because if you believe in the unseen and
		
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			included in that is the after life and
		
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			what's going to happen after you die and
		
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			the possibility of resurrection and eternal life, that
		
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			will give you the motivation and the urgency
		
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			to figure all this stuff out. You know,
		
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			who is God? What does he want from
		
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			you?
		
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			Right? If you don't believe in afterlife, you
		
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			don't care. Maybe you even believe in God,
		
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			but you don't care. Right? It's just like,
		
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			you know, believing that someone said was gonna
		
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			win the Super Bowl or the World Cup.
		
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			It's just like it's completely excessive to you.
		
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			It's not an essential part of who you
		
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			are. But if you believe in the afterlife,
		
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			all of a sudden, there's stakes.
		
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			All of a sudden, there's consequences.
		
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			And so this is
		
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			a major thing to believe in the afterlife.
		
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			And so Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, He says,
		
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			He says, how could you possibly become righteous
		
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			if you deny the day
		
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			that will turn children into old men?
		
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			And this is an, this is very, very
		
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			scary when it comes to the imagery that
		
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			Allah
		
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			uses about children, shayba, like, they're becoming, like,
		
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			white haired
		
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			because of the trials, because of how scary,
		
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			because of how
		
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			final everything is.
		
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			But the first part of the ayah is
		
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			is also extremely significant.
		
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			How can you fa'keifa tat takun, how are
		
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			you going to become pious?
		
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			How are you going to become righteous if
		
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			you are not afraid of this day?
		
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			It's not possible.
		
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			And, yes, and it's well known. Everybody knows
		
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			you have the balance between hope and fear.
		
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			And some of us are crushed by fear,
		
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			and so we need to have an inoculation
		
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			of hope. You guys need to to go
		
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			overdose on some hope for a while until
		
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			you balance out. But the opposite extreme is
		
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			also not good. Right? There are some people
		
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			that
		
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			they need to be shaken awake.
		
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			And so Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says, listen.
		
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			You are not gonna be able to become
		
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			a righteous person if you're not afraid of
		
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			this day.
		
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			So
		
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			know that it's true and get ready for
		
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			it.