Tom Facchine – What Is The Nature of Disbelief

			One of the main themes of Surah Al Anon is the nature of Cofer is the nature of the opposite of
Eman, the nature of belief and Allah Spano. Tata makes it crystal clear through various different
types and various different examples that the nature of Kufa is arrogance, and not ignorance,
arrogance, not ignorance. And those are two very different things. Somebody who is ignorant simply
doesn't know they're uninformed, somebody who is arrogant, they don't want to know. And that might
be through a very, very deliberate act, or it might be through some sort of neglect. We even
recognize these differences within American law, there's something that's called criminal neglect,
		

			okay, if you have a child at home, right, a young child, they can't take care of themselves, they
can't feed themselves, they can't change themselves or clean themselves. It's not necessarily only
illegal to actively do something bad to the child. If you endanger the child, that is a crime, yes,
but it's also a crime to neglect that child in a criminal way, right? There is such a thing as
criminal neglect, where our hearts are a similar thing. There is a level of interaction with our
hearts or cultivation with our hearts where we know exactly what's true. And we're going to just
strive against it, strive to undermine it, fight against it and make it look bad at every single
		

			turn. This is some of the people who are living at the time of the Prophet Mohammed Salah Saddam and
some of the people that still live today. They know Islam is 100% True, they know that the Quran is
Allah's words, and yet, they are going to attempt to undermine it misrepresents it. And then there's
other people who are not guilty of that level of COFRA get guilty of a sort of criminal neglect that
Allah subhanaw taala gave them the tools to submit, he gave them a heart and it started clean. And
he gave them reason and a mind to think and he gave them signs throughout the creation. But due to
various reasons, diseases of the heart, such as arrogance, such as laziness, such as to attach too
		

			strong of an attachment to this world, people can allow their muscle of belief and their muscle of
faith to weaken and weaken, and we can neglect it and neglect it and neglect it until there's
nothing left to be able to submit. There's nothing left to be able to register the science and that
is a type of criminal neglect. And so Eliza gel in a court and especially right here in sort of an
arm, he's going to go through these different types, he started out the soil by reminding us that
Allah subhanaw taala created everything and that he knows everything. And yet there are people who
will reject that and are not grateful. And then he started by talking about Gopher, he started
		

			talking about denial, and he gave different sort of thought experiments or different sorts of
situations. The first thing he had said, and this is everything we went over last time, no matter
how many signs they are given, they are not going to believe this is one of the most distinctive
things about Cofer again, arrogance, not ignorance. It's not a problem what they simply haven't
gotten enough proof. If we're able to find some sort of scientific miracle or some sort of way to
convince them, then they will agree no, Cofer, the nature of Cofer is an issue of arrogance rather
than ignorance. The second thing that Allah subhanaw taala brought up he brings up a historical
		

			argument, he says, look at the other nations around you, those who have gone before you they used to
be more powerful than you they were widespread on Earth. And yet they met their demise. Don't you
think you're headed the same direction, especially the ones specifically that were punished for
rejecting a prophet? Because this is the situation with the court he were in now they've been sent a
prophet. He's like, Who are you kidding? You think you're going to be able to escape some sort of
fate by rejecting your prophet, look at literally every single other community that was given a
prophet before you, if you don't accept, then the same is going to happen to you. And it is
		

			significant that Allah is bound to other does not refer to this argument first, because it is
somewhat threatening, right? He's saying basically, if you don't do it, then you're in for a lot of
trouble. It's a threat, more of a promise. But yeah, you could call it a threat. But that's not the
first argument that allows power to either use as he first tries to talk to them through their sense
of indebtedness, and calling them to gratitude. But once they've rejected that sense of
indebtedness, and they refuse to be grateful, then he moves on to state the plain facts about the
danger that they are heading towards. Then I lost my thought I had said even if they were given a
		

			book directly, we're talking papers with ink on it, they would claim that this thing was magic in
how the lsfo been, they would not accept it. So similar to the other sorts of signs that are lost
one of the other shows, even if they were given direct revelation in a book handed down, they would
still have rejected it again. We're talking about arrogance, not ignorance. And then finally, where
we left off, was there demand to see an angel we'll call it Lola on Zillow, Allah hematic. If only
there had been an angel sent to him, they're talking about the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
lost power to otter responds, wallow and Zelda American law called the El Amro from Leon Barun. He
		

			says, If I had sent an angel at that point, everything would be decided everything would be over.
There would be no opportunity to have true faith be
		

			Because the choice to believe or not to believe it wouldn't really be a choice anymore. Basically,
the day of judgment would have been already established, and they would have come face to face with
the consequences of their beliefs. This is something that's extremely significant to us today. And
we touched on it last week when it comes to the intersection or the relationship between Islam and
science. Some people demand to know, where's the scientific proof for faith? Where's the scientific
proof for God? And that's an absurd question. There's no such thing as scientific proof for God in
the absolute sense that people mean it, right? Because the definition of faith is having to believe
		

			in something that's beyond the material world, it's having to trust in something and not just trust
it in a sense, where we're, you know, maybe foolish enough to do it or naive enough to do it. But we
have to be virtuous enough and sincere enough to trust it, even though we don't have 100% physical
proof. That's the whole game. That's the whole test. The people who are sincere, who want to do
well, they're going to decide to believe they're going to be guided to faith because they want to do
the right thing, even if it's not sure. No, it's not 100% Sure, but their sense of virtue is going
to compel them towards belief or as a person who is wickedness in their heart. They have arrogance
		

			in their heart. They really want to get away with what they can write. If there's any little
possibility that it's not true, they're going to act as if it's not true.