2- Islamic Beliefs Crash Course - Proof of Tawhid - Sayed Saleh Qazwini

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[1:54]alhamdulillah respected brothers and sisters inshallah we are beginning the second course

[2:22]of a 10-week course talking about Islamic beliefs and a recap of

[2:31]last week's session so that will refresh our minds and then we'll

[2:34]go into what we're talking tonight so we began by talking about

[2:41]how the search for a higher power is something that is within

[2:49]our innate Consciousness it's within our fitra this is why you see

[2:53]people all over the world ever since the beginning of time people

[2:56]have been worshiping now whether they're worshiping the Sun the moon the

[3:02]stars whatever it is there have been worshiping and that is because

[3:06]they're driven by something the way we've been programmed we've been driven

[3:11]to find a higher power and the reason for that we mentioned

[3:15]there are two what Scholars point out they are to show thanks

[3:22]and appreciation for the blessings coming my way so I worship more

[3:27]and to remove any harm so people before they even know who

[3:33]God is they just know that they have a need a drive

[3:39]to worship for these two reasons thinking and removing any harm as

[3:43]a sense of protection so this is why people have been worshiping

[3:48]and then we mentioned that although you don't really need a proof

[3:53]to prove God but we mentioned three proofs and there are many

[4:00]that philosophers and Scholars point out the first we mentioned the intelligent

[4:03]design argument you look at the creation you look at the cosmos

[4:09]system from the smallest most minute of God's creation to the largest

[4:13]you see that everything has been created with sophistication with with their

[4:20]Precision very clear Precision if there is one thing that's off then

[4:25]the whole picture falls apart imagine a puzzle a puzzle that has

[4:32]a hundred thousand pieces if one piece is missing this puzzle is

[4:38]not going to match this puzzle is not going to work there

[4:41]are everything in this life it's all a puzzle your your DNA

[4:47]the way your eyes work the way the moon the Sun the

[4:52]Stars the solar system the nervous system the respiratory system all of

[4:57]these systems that Allah has created these are all systems that are

[5:01]very precise in the way that they have been made in the

[5:05]way that they have been created in the way that they have

[5:08]been engineered so today you find some people they say oh this

[5:12]just happened by chance you know that the likelihood mathematically the likelihood

[5:18]of this universe falling into place by chance is something that you

[5:24]can't even accept the the mind and the logic cannot accept imagine

[5:30]just imagine this imagine winning the lottery or imagine winning a yes

[5:38]imagine uh winning the lottery that has a trillion pieces a trillion

[5:44]numbers they all have to go in order and you have to

[5:48]win that Lottery a trillion times is that possible is that something

[5:51]that could happen now someone could say yes it is possible it

[5:56]could have happened but how much time would it require for it

[5:59]to happen they say Evolution every couple million years every millions of

[6:03]years there's a there's a switch there's there's a change so how

[6:08]long does the universe have to be for all of these changes

[6:13]to take place for all of these changes to happen and everything

[6:16]has to fall in order everything has to fall correctly all together

[6:21]so this is why this is why we we say that it

[6:28]is it's impossible the chances of everything happening in chance are very

[6:33]very minute and and it's very impossible because there's so many pieces

[6:38]that all have to go in correctly and it's not just one

[6:41]puzzle like imagine someone says I won the lottery what's the chance

[6:46]of you winning the lottery once in your life now imagine you

[6:49]have to win the lottery trillions of times all all in order

[6:54]right back to back right right after one another that's something that

[6:57]is you know the age of this universe they say it's not

[7:00]even long enough for all of that to happen so this is

[7:04]why when we look at the universe we look at the design

[7:09]we look at the structure of the universe we say someone has

[7:11]to have put it together just like you look at a watch

[7:14]you look at a car you look at anything you say someone

[7:16]has to have engineered it the same with this creation second we

[7:23]said the contingency argument the contingency argument meaning that everything has to

[7:28]have a cause everything is contingent upon something else okay I came

[7:33]some something that was mumkin and brought me my parents and someone

[7:37]brought them and brought them and brought them but eventually you have

[7:41]you can't have infinite regression you have to go to a point

[7:48]where there is where there is a beginning otherwise for how long

[7:51]are you going to go infinitely you can't keep going infinitely I

[7:56]came because my parents their parents their parents you can't go infinitely

[7:59]there has to be a starting point scientifically there has to be

[8:03]a starting point that starting point we say is God that starting

[8:09]point is and the third we said it's the Pascal's wager which

[8:12]is that it makes more sense to be ready makes more sense

[8:18]to be prepared because the if if let's say there was no

[8:23]God we're not going to lose anything we and those who say

[8:25]that there is no God we're all the same but if there

[8:29]was a god which there is a God we have so much

[8:32]to win and the one who says there's no God has so

[8:35]much to lose so it even makes more sense to believe and

[8:40]follow Allah so now does anyone have any questions regarding what was

[8:46]already covered from um from the previous session from the previous session

[8:50]we did not use Quran we did not use Hadith we don't

[8:54]need to use anything to prove that there is a higher power

[8:56]that has created us now today we move on to talk about

[9:04]the qualities of this higher power so wait first of all could

[9:08]there be more than one God so we prove that there's a

[9:12]Creator now what if there's more than one Creator what if there

[9:15]is an army of creators what if there's 20 what if there's

[9:21]30 second this Creator who is this Creator what are the qualities

[9:25]what are the safat of this Creator can it be the sun

[9:27]can it be the moon can it be a cow can it

[9:29]be the Stars we've just proved that there's a need to have

[9:33]a Creator Now we move on to go and talk about the

[9:36]qualities of this Creator and this is where we see the Quran

[9:41]and the Hadith and the words of the Prophet they come to

[9:43]explain the Quran as we mentioned last week it doesn't Focus so

[9:48]much attention on proving that there's a Creator because this is something

[9:53]that is this is something that is within your own Consciousness your

[9:56]mind your mind will come to the conclusion that something must there

[10:01]everything that has that happens there has to be a cause behind

[10:03]it and you keep going back to the cause until you go

[10:07]to the highest cause and that is Allah but where people confuse

[10:12]is how many creators and what are the signs and qualities and

[10:17]characteristics of this Creator and this is why we see the Quran

[10:19]it focuses on tohed for example or it focuses on describing Allah

[10:26]and Allah says in the Quran God has the beautiful names the

[10:34]qualities and characteristics so no God through those characteristics and we have

[10:41]Hadith Sunni Hadith that say that God has 99 names we know

[10:46]the 99 Names of Allah the Hadith says that the one who

[10:53]memorizes and truly comprehends and understands and has full marifa of these

[10:58]names this person goes to Paradise so when you study the names

[11:01]of God study what it means and then you will be closer

[11:05]to Allah you'll be able to understand Allah better so when we

[11:10]go to the fitra the when we go to monotheism the belief

[11:15]the one God first of all what does this mean and how

[11:20]do we prove that there is one God so inshallah this is

[11:22]what will we will be focusing on tonight in the previous session

[11:28]we proved that there's a Creator now we need to come and

[11:30]talk about the qualities and the safat of this Creator is it

[11:34]the sun is it the moon is it the stars is it

[11:38]a cow is it this or is it Allah and what are

[11:39]the qualities of Allah so one tohed it means that God is

[11:47]Not composed of Parts like the way you and I are composed

[11:50]of parts I have a head I have a body I have

[11:54]hands I have legs I have a heart I have lungs I

[11:57]have kidneys I have all of these things that make me who

[12:01]I am you put them together they make me who I am

[12:03]God is Not composed of parts because the moment you say God

[12:09]is composed of parts that means God is in need of his

[12:11]parts that means God is in need I need my help to

[12:14]survive I need my heart to survive if my heart fails I'm

[12:16]going to die so I'm in need of certain uh certain organs

[12:22]I'm in need of many things in life I'm in need of

[12:29]people Allah is not in need of anything and second God is

[12:32]Not composed of parts and God does not have a partner there's

[12:38]we can't believe we can't say that there are multiple gods in

[12:41]the universe uh what the polytheists say that means there's more than

[12:45]one God so how do we know that there is one God

[12:48]and not multiple one there are several proofs for this one is

[12:56]that the Creator the one who created remember we said there's there's

[13:01]the mumkin and then there is so everything in this universe that

[13:11]has been created is because one of the signs of mumkin meaning

[13:15]something that is possible to be and possible to not be what's

[13:18]something that's possible to be impossible to not be anything that's born

[13:22]anything that's born means that at one point it did not exist

[13:28]anything that dies because at one point you're not gonna be you're

[13:32]not gonna be around so when we say the Creator the Creator

[13:37]is the one whose existence has to always be the one who's

[13:43]always been around must exist at all times is not born and

[13:50]does not die and the qualities because if you say he died

[13:53]or if you say he was born then that means there must

[13:56]have been someone before him right and if you say he died

[14:01]then that means there's no God then that means where that means

[14:05]he is also so this who died needs to go back to

[14:12]something that brought it into existence so the way meaning the one

[14:16]that is necessary to be is the one that is that does

[14:20]not die and is not born he's the original one remember we

[14:23]talked about the contingency argument you said you keep going back until

[14:26]you reach the the original initial Creator who was not born and

[14:33]who does not die the the qualities and the signs of the

[14:43]one who created the one who's always been around has to have

[14:50]power and Authority in order to create right you have to have

[14:53]power in order to create and we're saying there must have been

[14:56]a creator that Creator who created everything that is contingent everything that

[15:01]goes and comes everything that is born and dies must have some

[15:07]sort of power right the one who created has to have power

[15:10]that word is omnipotent omnipotent means the one who has absolute power

[15:15]and absolute Authority in order to create the one who created the

[15:18]sun and the universe and the stars and everything has to have

[15:24]power this is one second the one who created has to have

[15:27]knowledge you go and you look at the creation you see subhanallah

[15:34]someone must be extremely sophisticated and knowledgeable in order to create this

[15:36]bird in order to create this egg in order to create me

[15:40]and you and life and everything all of these cycles and functions

[15:43]in the universe someone has to have knowledge in order to have

[15:48]created them and third this Creator is omnipresent so I'm omnipotent all-powerful

[15:55]omniscient all knowledgeable omnip present meaning always present and everywhere so when

[16:05]we believe in that when when we believe in that can you

[16:11]have more than one with absolute power the God is the one

[16:19]that has absolute power he's the one who has created if I

[16:21]say that there's another God that has absolute power then what does

[16:27]that mean that means that one of them does not have power

[16:30]because you're saying has absolute Authority the moment you say there's two

[16:35]gods that means one of them is either either they're both the

[16:40]same either they're both they have the highest power and this is

[16:45]the argument either they're both the same which which means that one

[16:49]is limiting the other one is limiting the other or they're both

[16:55]weak that means they're both they're both not God so then you

[16:58]have to conclude that one has to have more power than the

[17:02]other and the moment you say one has more power than the

[17:04]other the one that has the more power is the God and

[17:07]the one that does not have power is not God because God

[17:11]by definition is the all-powerful all present always around always uh the

[17:18]one who has all the knowledge and this is one of the

[17:23]arguments that Imam used and of course we will we will discuss

[17:25]several others but I just wanted to mention this Hadith this man

[17:30]this atheist he comes we mentioned him last week who we mentioned

[17:39]he ended up believing in the Imam he ended up believing in

[17:44]God he kept until the rest of his life he did not

[17:46]believe he was the one who who the Imam used the Pascal's

[17:52]wager argument with this man he comes to him and he tells

[17:57]him and Allah he tells the Imam don't you say that God

[18:01]created everything yes so he comes and he says I also create

[18:09]so the Imam tells him how do you create he says I

[18:15]go and I defecate somewhere the feces I leave it for a

[18:20]while and then you see there's going to be worms in it

[18:22]and there's going to be bacteria growing on it and worms he

[18:27]said this is what I did this is this is this is

[18:28]a byproduct of me he tells him he tells him that Allah

[18:39]is doesn't the creator of something know about his creation if you

[18:48]created something you must have full knowledge of it right so he

[18:53]said yes the creator has to have knowledge then the Imam tells

[18:56]him do you know when you see worms do you know the

[19:02]difference between the male and the female and the worms and do

[19:06]you know their ages the man stayed quiet because he doesn't know

[19:09]so he is not the Creator there are people they think they

[19:15]have some sort of power and then they come and they assume

[19:18]that they have authority but Allah is the absolute creator so God

[19:23]is not limited God is not limited by space God is not

[19:29]limited by time God's knowledge is not limited God's power is not

[19:32]limited the moment you say there is another deity there's another God

[19:36]then that means you're limiting you're limiting God that's like saying there's

[19:40]two presidents at the same time of one country you can't because

[19:46]one's Authority is going to overstep the authority of the other and

[19:50]this is something that if we say God's Authority and power is

[19:55]limited then he would not be God anymore this is what second

[20:00]how do we know that there is one creator so the first

[20:05]the first argument is that one if there's two then the authority

[20:10]of one and power of one will limit the power of the

[20:13]other and God is not limited by definition a second way to

[20:17]know that there is one Creator is by looking at the creation

[20:20]looking at the marks of a creation right now when you see

[20:26]for example phone's operating system you look at an Apple phone right

[20:32]away what do you say you say this is made by Apple

[20:34]you look at Android right away you're going to say this was

[20:39]made by Android you know who is the maker of that which

[20:43]was made that creation that object that you look at you're going

[20:46]to know who made it when you see it now when we

[20:51]look at the creation when we look at the universe you might

[20:56]see isolated Parts you might see for example things that are on

[20:59]their own different parts but if you look at it from a

[21:06]holistic perspective if you look at the overall picture you see that

[21:09]everything is connected with one another right now for example someone could

[21:15]come and say we look at the respiratory system in a body

[21:18]then we come and we look at the for example the vascular

[21:21]system we look at the lungs we look at the we look

[21:24]at all these systems that a person has but then later on

[21:30]you come you see that they're all interconnected they're all intertwined you

[21:33]look at the Moon you look at the stars you look at

[21:38]the sun the sun has a correlation with the Earth and the

[21:40]Earth has a correlation with the moon and the moon with the

[21:44]Stars and everything is connected the way the ocean works the way

[21:47]the everything is connected you might look at things and you say

[21:50]that this is on its own but it has an impact on

[21:55]something around it everything is synchronized everything is one system when you

[21:59]look at creation you see that it's all system it's not different

[22:02]parts you look at the rain the clouds the Earth the grass

[22:07]the plantation photosynthesis the way plants grow they need air they need

[22:12]the sun they need the Earth they need all of these things

[22:15]in order to function so when you see there's all one system

[22:18]it's not multiple systems creating to get living together there it's all

[22:26]one system functioning all together so when you look at one system

[22:29]what do you conclude what do you conclude you see one system

[22:36]you conclude that there is one creator that we don't see multiple

[22:41]systems in front of us if you see multiple systems right now

[22:45]a doctor they in medical school they come and they study the

[22:49]body the anatomy of the body then they come and they apply

[22:54]what they've learned on hundreds and thousands of bodies because it's all

[22:59]one system the the body that you're looking at right now that

[23:02]you're studying right now it's been created by the same Creator it's

[23:05]all one system and therefore that is the one Creator and Imam

[23:11]he says he says when we look at creation we see everything

[23:19]is synchronized everything is organized find me something on earth that is

[23:26]a creation that is not that is not connected to something else

[23:29]something that is absolutely on its own everything is connected to something

[23:35]else and that thing is connected to something else all of it

[23:39]is one system everything is connected so the moment we see the

[23:46]creation it's all muntavam it's all organized and when we look at

[23:52]the solar system we look at the moon the stars the function

[23:54]of the Earth the way that the way the Earth revolves around

[23:59]itself the moon revolves around the earth the Earth revolves around the

[24:02]Sun all of that you come in you see there's a function

[24:05]there's a plan and it's being executed there's a plan in play

[24:11]with and you see that there is one organization the night and

[24:18]the day and the Sun and the Moon when you see it

[24:30]it's all synchronized it's all organized they're all functions correctly you come

[24:34]and you say there's one Creator because if there's two operating systems

[24:39]if there's two operating systems there's going to be a clash they're

[24:44]not going to function the way that they do function but when

[24:46]we look at the creation we see everything is in order everything

[24:51]is working together therefore we say there's one operating system and there

[24:53]is one Command Center and that is Allah and this is what

[25:01]Allah says in Surah verse 22 Allah says Allah if there were

[25:09]more than one Allah if there was more than one deity then

[25:14]you would see everything would collapse you would see everything would crumble

[25:20]does anyone have any questions I'm going to pause yes doctor if

[25:25]you're on Zoom if you have questions also feel free to ask

[25:31]yes dot X okay like for example a cow a idol or

[26:01]whatever an idol whatever okay okay if I don't have access to

[26:15]the Quran that describes to me Allah I wouldn't be ourselves believing

[26:21]in everything you said you said button no because what we said

[26:25]we we said that the khaler has to be the all-powerful has

[26:31]to not be born and not die everything everything you look at

[26:39]the sun the people who worship the sun Stars they come to

[26:42]life and they die Stars die so if you're worshiping the sun

[26:46]and the Sun dies if you're worshiping the moon and the moon

[26:50]this is the argument of Ibrahim he saw the sun and then

[26:56]he saw the stars and then he saw kokab he said my

[27:00]Lord is a lord logic cannot accept that a Lord has weakness

[27:03]or limit so the moment you say that my Lord is whatever

[27:10]anything else that people worship other than God that is limited God

[27:15]by definition is the power that is unlimited the power that is

[27:23]the power that did not come to be born but rather brought

[27:26]everything but we don't we do the Quran helps us understand this

[27:33]but your logic and your mind will accept this argument meaning just

[27:39]like someone might not know a mathematical equation but you come and

[27:42]you explain it to them you'll come and you explain it to

[27:48]them it will make sense to them that's probably the only resource

[27:54]that tells me this higher power that I believe exists and have

[27:59]all these capabilities it is Allah but if someone don't have access

[28:02]to Quran how would they they know they'll they'll know but I

[28:04]mean yes right now we are blessed that we have the Quran

[28:08]to guide us and show us the way but the the Quran

[28:11]if someone for example does not want to use the Quran and

[28:17]they just want to use logical arguments you can use logical arguments

[28:21]to conclude that there's a Creator we use in the last session

[28:23]we used all logical arguments to conclude that there is a Creator

[28:26]right you you agree with me on that okay so now we

[28:31]also said that this creator has to be powerful this creator has

[28:36]to be Unlimited the moment you come and you say that my

[28:41]this Creator is something that has been born like a people that

[28:48]worship right now or something that has been born or an idol

[28:51]that they make is that either limited or unlimited let them think

[28:56]about it it's limited don't use the Quran is that Idol limited

[29:00]or not limited it's limited is that cow limited or not limited

[29:03]it's limited is the sun limited or not limited it's limited so

[29:06]your logic is going to guide you yes you might not know

[29:13]God is all of these details this is why the job of

[29:17]the prophets says God sent prophets to bring out what is already

[29:26]engraved within us what is already hidden buried within your intellect but

[29:31]sometimes we just need something to come and show us the way

[29:33]and the Quran does not invent these Concepts the Quran remind them

[29:40]show them the way guide them so our mind comes and says

[29:45]there has to be a Creator this Creator cannot be limited everything

[29:49]out here is limited this means that everything that my I see

[29:52]everything that is born everything that dies this is limited I can't

[29:58]worship that I have to worship something that a power that is

[30:00]higher than that is that clear or is there more okay anyone

[30:05]else yes sister just second there's someone on Zoom go ahead yes

[30:25]do they worship the cow itself or they worship the characteristics of

[30:31]that car do they worship the sifat or the power behind them

[30:38]I'm not sure what they exactly worship um maybe we need a

[30:44]Hindu crash course but um he asked me what do they worship

[30:46]the people who worship cows but um no let me let me

[30:51]just finish because with me so I joke with him too we

[30:55]have this friendship so um they say they say they believe even

[31:00]the idol worshipers during the time of the Prophet they they worship

[31:08]God but they say these items these Idols this cow whatever it

[31:12]is we worship them because they bring us closer to God right

[31:21]yes okay okay so he said they worship Brahma who is the

[31:35]supreme power and everything else is like the attributes of God so

[31:39]God is loving caring they come and they see that this cow

[31:41]it is giving them food it is giving them milk it's giving

[31:45]them all that it it falls in place so anyways sister yes

[31:55]the Trinity we're going to explain it right now we're going to

[31:59]explain how we cannot accept the Trinity and that also doesn't make

[32:02]sense yes Ali excellent question we're going to go over some of

[32:12]these how are Christians monotheists when they when they say that there's

[32:15]it's three in one and you can't and the Quran says the

[32:21]one the ones who said God is the three in one this

[32:26]is a type of kufur now yes their their level of monotheism

[32:32]is higher is better than the polytheists but it's because even the

[32:37]polytheists even the mushrikeen of courage during the time of the Prophet

[32:39]they used to say we believe in Allah but they say these

[32:43]Idols bring us closer to Allah we worship them because they bring

[32:51]us closer to God so we're trying to say logic tells us

[32:54]that you cannot you cannot accept more than one God we mentioned

[33:01]we mentioned the first argument is that they're going to be limiting

[33:05]one another if this one is limiting this one then they're not

[33:07]going to be God anymore and the second one you look at

[33:12]the creation you look at the operating system you say this is

[33:15]Microsoft you say this is Apple this is Windows when you look

[33:17]at it right away you're going to know it we're trying to

[33:21]say that this whole universe everything everything in existence has the traits

[33:26]and the qualities of God has the marks of a Creator on

[33:29]it just like you look at a car you see the Mercedes

[33:33]sign on it you say this was made by Mercedes so everything

[33:36]in the universe has the prince of a Creator and that is

[33:43]the same Creator so that is how we go to one Allah

[33:45]the Third the um the third we we were mentioning whatever people

[33:54]worship other than God does not have the true qualities of God

[33:57]another point so for example you come and you say Jesus you

[34:02]come and you say an idol whatever it is that people are

[34:06]worshiping other than Allah does this have the fat and the qualities

[34:12]of the omnipotent omniscient omnipresent it doesn't Jesus was born Jesus is

[34:21]going to die if Jesus was born who was the god before

[34:24]Jesus if an idol is put together it's made and people are

[34:30]worshiping it now then where was God when this was made by

[34:34]a human being so everything out there that is in need cannot

[34:39]be God anymore God by definition is the one not born not

[34:47]dies and nothing resembles Allah uh in a debate with a polytheist

[34:55]Imam he tells him we say that there's a lord who is

[34:57]the creator and everything else is beneath this Lord so God is

[35:04]the creator so even right now when like if you were to

[35:10]talk to a Hindu you say how can Gods be at different

[35:13]level we would say the highest one the Creator that is the

[35:17]real God everything else is not the real God everything else has

[35:20]been created by that if they were both to be if they

[35:24]were both to be God then they're going to be limited excuse

[35:26]me yes go ahead brother was someone if you're you have a

[35:35]question go ahead okay please mute yourself if you don't have a

[35:44]question so here this is this is a one point another point

[35:50]is all prophets and Messengers now we we use the logical argument

[35:54]now we come to the prophets and The Messengers all the prophets

[35:56]and Messengers since the time of Adam until the time of rasulullah

[36:03]Musa Ibrahim Suleiman all of the prophets they called people to worship

[36:09]on God God sent prophets and Messengers the prophets their messages were

[36:19]synchronized their messages did not contradict one another foreign he says if

[36:41]there was another God then that God would have sent to prophets

[36:44]and Messengers to guide you as well right just like Allah sent

[36:51]Adam Ibrahim all of these prophets so if there was another God

[37:12]we would have heard about the other God we would have known

[37:14]the sign someone would have came and told us hey guys don't

[37:17]just worship Allah worship there is another God we don't hear that

[37:21]there's no real prophets and messenger that has come with real hajja

[37:25]and proof and later on we're going to once we reach the

[37:27]prophets we're going to talk about what are the signs of a

[37:31]prophet the prophet not anyone who comes and says I'm a prophet

[37:34]or anyone who comes and says worship this is a real Prophet

[37:38]yes Ali Jesus no Jesus he's going to be Bari Jesus he's

[37:48]going to say there's a there's an eye on the Quran Allah

[37:53]tells Jesus did you tell people to worship me Jesus said no

[37:58]I had nothing to do with this once you raised me then

[38:00]they started doing things that I have nothing to do with so

[38:04]and even even Christians right now when you study Christianity the real

[38:08]Christianity you're going to see that during the time of Jesus Jesus

[38:13]was worshiping God Jesus used to pray and he taught people to

[38:15]pray and he used to pray like us he used to do

[38:20]sujood he used to worship Allah it was about a couple hundred

[38:22]years after or a while later there was a conference that they

[38:26]had and that's when they declared that Jesus is God many years

[38:31]after Jesus they came and they said Jesus as God and the

[38:33]whole Trinity concept Okay so we mentioned that it is so so

[38:42]believing in one God it is also for three yes later on

[38:44]the Quran comes and reminds us but it is also the fitra

[38:49]that says there has to be a Creator and this creator has

[38:50]to be all-powerful all present all knowledgeable then there has to be

[38:56]one because you can't have two that are all powerful you can't

[38:58]have two that are always present yeah you can't have two that

[39:02]are all knowledgeable therefore there has to be one okay now when

[39:06]we say when we say God is one what do we mean

[39:12]we mean that God is one there's no other God there's no

[39:18]other deity but we also mean that God is Not composed of

[39:23]parts and this is where the Christianity comes into play this is

[39:27]where some Muslims today right now you go to bukhari you go

[39:29]to some Muslims they'll come and they'll tell you God has a

[39:33]body has hands and face and legs and all of these things

[39:38]so even some Muslims they have this kind of shirk there's levels

[39:42]of shirk so here we say that Allah not only is there

[39:49]no other deity not only is there's no other God there's no

[39:52]other power there's no one that has authority over creation other than

[40:02]Allah and this is there's there's something called The Hidden shirk right

[40:07]now when I get sick I come and I say this doctor

[40:11]is the best doctor he's the doctor that will cure me what

[40:16]is this this is a type of shirk because I've put all

[40:19]my hopes I put all my eggs in one basket I came

[40:23]and I said this doctor is going to cure me when who

[40:26]is it the one who truly cures me there is Allah we

[40:30]come and we put all our hopes and people and things that

[40:35]is a type of shook even though we believe in God but

[40:37]sometimes we live our life as if other people have authority over

[40:43]us or sometimes some people they come and they say you know

[40:47]something this person cast a spell on me this person did Magic

[40:52]this person jinxed me this person gave me the evil eye and

[40:55]you believe that that only that has an impact on you then

[41:00]that is also Haram because you're you're disqualifying Allah subhanahu ta'ala from

[41:05]the equation you're saying God has no impact on my life you

[41:09]have to always believe there's nothing that has an impact on my

[41:14]life other than Allah so now when we say God is one

[41:21]we mean that there's no other gods and then we also mean

[41:26]that God is one like right now me I'm one I'm one

[41:31]person but I'm not one in the sense that I'm composed of

[41:34]Parts billions and billions and trillions of parts and cells make me

[41:37]who I am that means I'm composed of parts I have hands

[41:42]legs a body head all of that I'm composed of Parts Allah

[41:45]Allah is not composed of any parts a beautiful Hadith and then

[41:51]we'll open it up to questions yes sister go ahead go ahead

[41:54]go ahead like you don't intentionally think like that like let's say

[42:00]you do think it is a Haram so you have to always

[42:03]try to cleanse yourself there's a Hadith that says the Shirk it

[42:09]is like a black ant on a the Shirk is hidden in

[42:15]the heart of an individual like the way a black ant is

[42:18]walking on a black rock in the middle of the night can

[42:23]you see that black ant so that means we all have some

[42:29]type of Circle Cafe in us and this is why we have

[42:31]to always try to purify purify our hearts you have to always

[42:36]this is why we always say Allahu Akbar what does Allahu Akbar

[42:39]mean it means God is greater than anything nothing else has has

[42:48]Authority has power Allah Akbar doesn't mean God is great because someone

[42:52]could say okay this is great that's great that's great God is

[42:55]greater than anything that my mind anything that I could imagine I

[43:02]have to always remind myself of that because sometimes we have that

[43:07]sure kill Cafe in us so this is mentioned he a man

[43:16]and the Battle of Jamal was one of the battles fought during

[43:29]his Khalifa there were three battles the Battle of Jamel the Battle

[43:32]of sophene and the battle of narawan in the middle of the

[43:38]battle a man he comes and he tells him you say God

[43:45]is one everyone they said what's wrong with you right now in

[43:51]the middle of the battle you come and you ask Imam Ali

[43:55]this question God is one and this is this is many years

[44:00]after the establishment of Islam this is in the Years 30 you

[44:04]know 30 or 29 after Hijra because or excuse me more than

[44:10]that this is close was killed in the year 40.

[44:14]so say he ruled for five years the first year months into

[44:16]the into his power the Battle of Jamal took place so they're

[44:22]all Muslim but this guy has question he says they tell him

[44:33]don't you see how Imam Ali is busy he's in the middle

[44:37]of he's in the middle of a barrel he's he's so occupied

[44:39]and you're asking him this question said leave him what do you

[44:49]have against him leave him foreign he says what this man is

[44:58]asking is why we are fighting them they say God they were

[45:03]Muslims there was the first Civil War they say God is one

[45:05]but they don't understand what God is one is and today many

[45:09]Muslims don't understand what God is on us when you go and

[45:11]you read bukhari and you go and you read what what this

[45:14]narration say the wahhabis for example they come and they say God

[45:17]has a physical body God sits on an arsh the way I'm

[45:22]sitting on this chair this is this it comes and it takes

[45:24]away from the torid then he tells him when you say God

[45:37]is one this could be divided into four categories two of them

[45:47]you can't say them for God this is Haram to say God

[45:51]is one having that in your mind and we will explain what

[45:54]it is and two yes they are okay to say so not

[45:59]everyone for as for the two that you cannot say about God

[46:12]what are they Allah when you say God is one in numbers

[46:22]meaning this is one this is one this is one this is

[46:28]one these are to say to in in numbers or or I'm

[46:33]worshiping God the one there's a second there's a third there's a

[46:35]fourth when whenever there's one there's always a second to it as

[46:38]well so that you cannot say about Allah because God is not

[46:50]one as in a numerical number meaning he's the first and then

[46:53]there's a second and then there's a third and there's a fourth

[46:57]like right now I say I was the first person who came

[46:59]here there's a second in person there's a third person there's a

[47:03]fourth person when we say God is one that's not what we

[47:07]mean so is that clear God is one as in a number

[47:14]he says don't you see that those who said God is one

[47:22]of three or the third of the three this is because they

[47:25]came and they said the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit

[47:30]they came and they they put God in a category of numbers

[47:33]this is one that you cannot say s and another that you

[47:47]cannot say about God is to say God is a type meaning

[47:51]we have the god of the son we have the god of

[47:52]the rain we have the god of the Moon we have the

[47:55]god like apples and oranges we have one apple okay we have

[47:59]one apple we have one orange we have one banana we have

[48:00]all you can't come and say God as in there's other types

[48:04]so in number you can't say and you can't say in the

[48:11]jinns and then he says because if you say there's this God

[48:21]and then there's another God that resembles then this is tashmi meaning

[48:26]that God resembles something and this is something that we cannot accept

[48:33]meaning nothing resembles Allah today and some not all some of the

[48:43]Sunni um Scholars and understanding of God they say that God is

[48:47]in the image of Adam God created Adam in his own image

[48:50]so they imagine God to look like a human being except he's

[48:56]more powerful this is why when when the Quran says or God

[49:00]will place his foot in the Hellfire they come and they say

[49:06]God has a physical body just like us it's just a different

[49:09]type no because the moment you come and you give God a

[49:15]resemblance then that is this is something that you can't come and

[49:19]add to Allah because you'll be limiting God you'll be limiting Allah

[49:29]however as for the two that you can say about God when

[49:34]you say Allah what do you mean his unique God is unique

[49:45]nothing looks like God nothing resembles Allah he is the one the

[49:51]unique one and be here and then he says as for the

[50:08]one meaning that he is the one meaning the one is a

[50:09]whole number can you break up a whole number you can't you

[50:14]you can't come and say for example God is composed of parts

[50:20]he is one that's it he is one he's not composed of

[50:23]parts and inshallah if next time when we come and say even

[50:27]please stop playing with the bottles when we say when we say

[50:31]God is one we mean that Allah is not composed of parts

[50:33]he cannot be he's not made up of any parts that's it

[50:39]right now I'm made up of Parts Allah is not made up

[50:45]of any parts any questions regarding this yes God does not have

[51:02]a physical appearance God is the light of the heavens and the

[51:05]Earth with a moment you come and you say God has a

[51:09]body God has a physical appearance then what are you doing you're

[51:13]limiting God right now I have a body can I be in

[51:18]China at the same time as I'm here I can't I have

[51:23]a physical appearance that means I I'm confined in one thing I'm

[51:29]confined in one place this is something it's not that we say

[51:31]God does not have a body it's something that La yomkin you

[51:36]can't you can't imagine it because the moment you imagine God has

[51:38]a physical body then you're going to imagine God in one particular

[51:42]place can you imagine God in one particular place if you limit

[51:52]God you say God has hands then that means he's in one

[51:56]place that means he's composed of parts that means he's in one

[51:59]particular location and this is something that you cannot attribute to Allah

[52:03]because the moment you say God is in one place then you're

[52:08]taking away his omnipotent you're taking away his knowledge you're taking you're

[52:12]taking away his power the power to be in another place you're

[52:15]taking away his knowledge the knowledge to see what other people are

[52:18]doing if God is here in the room with us then he

[52:21]won't be in in a physical sense and he has a body

[52:24]then he won't be in the room with other people somewhere on

[52:25]the other side of the world we say God is everywhere God

[52:30]is a power that we cannot imagine how today some people they

[52:34]come and they say okay if everything was born who created God

[52:39]or when was God these are all Concepts we mentioned last week

[52:43]the the concept of place the concept of time these are all

[52:49]Concepts that are a creation of Allah God created the concept of

[52:55]time he is the khalik of time so can I confine God

[53:00]to a concept that he created no God cannot be confined in

[53:07]a concept that he created Place objects matter something mattered that you

[53:11]could feel that you could touch that you could see this is

[53:13]created by God can I confine God to something that he created

[53:21]I can't yes we have narrations that say don't think too much

[53:25]of the essence of Allah because we are limited imagine trying to

[53:32]explain for example to an ant the concept of the internet Bitcoins

[53:35]trying to explain it to an end humans don't understand it let

[53:39]alone an ant so same with us our minds our capacity is

[53:42]very limited a man he comes to whom he comes to the

[53:46]Imam and he tells him I want to see God why can't

[53:49]we see God the Imam tells him look at the sun he

[53:52]looks up and then right away he brings his eyes down he

[53:55]tells him you can't see one of the small creation of God

[53:59]how do you expect to see God you can't even we can't

[54:04]even see the creation of Allah how do we expect to see

[54:08]God so Allah it's not that like it's an issue of we

[54:14]are limited and we can't see him God cannot be seen because

[54:19]the moment you see God then that means you're in one particular

[54:22]location and God cannot be in one particular location yes brother the

[54:39]throne and Kursi and the arsh these are all we believe that

[54:46]this is not this is not a throne that God sits on

[54:51]the throne symbolizes something right now when we say for the Quran

[54:55]comes with a lot of metaphors the Quran is full of metaphors

[54:59]when Allah says the hand of God is above their hand some

[55:05]people they come to take it literally meaning God has a hand

[55:11]but when I say hand what do I mean I mean power

[55:13]I'm in the authority of Allah is above their Authority when I

[55:19]say is a hobby person will come and look at this verse

[55:27]and say on the day of judgment and there's a Hadith bukhari

[55:30]mentions he says one day he told the Muslims you see this

[55:35]full moon this is how you will see the face of God

[55:36]on the day of judgment s the day the faces will be

[55:46]looking they will be looking to their lord we say from Imam

[55:49]Ali from Imam from the imams they come and they tell us

[55:56]no you can't look at God God is Not confined in one

[55:57]place what are they looking at then they're looking towards the mercy

[56:03]of Allah they're looking towards the compassion of God that's what people

[56:06]want otherwise you can't look at God Allah tells Prophet Musa you're

[56:12]never going to see me because Prophet Musa he had people with

[56:14]him he saved the miracle after Miracle after Miracle once they were

[56:17]saved they said we want to see God yes sister um so

[56:22]how do we cleanse ourselves from uh from the sin of shirk

[56:27]okay so this is also this question was asked online how do

[56:30]we stop ourselves from envisioning God so two separate questions um cleanse

[56:36]ourselves from shirk is we have to always remind ourselves there is

[56:44]nothing that has an impact on my life other than Allah today

[56:51]there are some people they they have they're always oh they're looking

[56:54]at me they're doing this this one cast a spell on me

[56:56]this is It's Haram to believe in these things to believe in

[57:01]magic someone oh they put a spell on me why because the

[57:03]moment I start believing in it then that means I'm believing that

[57:08]they are equivalent to God God has an impact on me and

[57:10]they also are going to destroy my life so we have to

[57:14]always believe that Allah has power and authority over everything you have

[57:18]Duos from swimming for against protection from all of these things and

[57:22]yes we ask God to protect us we ask Allah to protect

[57:28]us now sometimes someone can harm me someone could come take a

[57:34]gun and shoot me someone could harm me I'm I'm supposed to

[57:38]protect myself but I'm supposed to at the end in the back

[57:43]of my mind have faith that it is Allah Subhan that my

[57:45]life is in the hands of Allah my matters and life are

[57:49]in the hands of Allah surrendering to God that doesn't mean we

[57:52]don't fulfill our duties and responsibilities to protect ourselves but we have

[57:57]to believe that it is God that will ultimately protect us so

[58:02]you have tawakulan Allah but you still have to do your job

[58:04]it doesn't they don't go again they're not mutually exclusive how do

[58:08]we stop ourselves from envisioning God or if a good if a

[58:12]kid asks us what does God look like what should we say

[58:14]we tell them that God is something that we are too limited

[58:21]to imagine we cannot understand Allah we're a creation of Allah but

[58:25]the way Allah describes himself is God is the Noor God is

[58:32]the light God is the life that gives life to everything else

[58:36]a power something that we don't see it gives power and authority

[58:41]to everything else yes yes sister okay so how does Allah allow

[58:55]for example people that are Idol worshipers to continue to receive sustenance

[59:00]and for example they live happy and good things happen to them

[59:02]while they're committing a sin so there's two types of rahma there

[59:08]is so Allah created and yesterday we mentioned this in Surah let

[59:19]me let me um Allah created everything with his what's the difference

[59:31]between these two Rahman is the mercy that encompasses everything meaning everyone

[59:38]receives that Mercy the men the non-muckman the believer this is the

[59:43]mercy that makes the glue of creation meaning everything Allah created with

[59:49]this mercy and Allah says in the Quran meaning that God created

[60:00]God has authority over the throne God has full authority over all

[60:05]of his creation through his mercy so Allah created us to be

[60:10]tested in this life so he's not going to punish everyone right

[60:13]away that they do wrong there is some sort of Mercy that

[60:18]goes to everyone that's it this is automatically written down for everyone

[60:22]however that is the specific Mercy that is for the Believers that

[60:32]you will see that Mercy most of it 99 of it you

[60:36]will see it in the afterlife not in this life so in

[60:38]this life Allah is not going to punish someone who sins right

[60:43]away because the purpose of this life is it's a test imagine

[60:45]your teacher he sees you doing something wrong in the test and

[60:50]he comes and he punches you or he comes and he or

[60:52]he comes and corrects you it's a test it doesn't make sense

[60:56]so let let the test finish and then Allah will give me

[61:02]yes brother among all the languages second letter it will be Allahu

[61:21]and then if you remove the third letter it will be who

[61:24]so it's like whatever you do it's still pointing pointing to Allah

[61:29]yes and Allah inshallah in the next session we're going to talk

[61:33]a little bit yes brother the soul the soul is also something

[61:42]a spirit from Allah God gave us something our scientifically you can't

[61:49]understand the soul it's not something that is sensed so it's something

[61:53]that is metaphysical out of our senses and it comes from Allah

[61:56]we don't really know yes by the command of Allah so and

[62:11]then our knowledge is limited we can't comprehend what that is yes

[62:17]doctor um I'm I'm finishing up I don't have anything else yes

[62:23]um Okay so yes and then we as a Muslims believe that

[62:39]Allah won't be the case for someone um who live in a

[62:51]Arctic or in China okay I believe in this higher power and

[62:59]doesn't even heard about Islam um [Music] right in our belief that

[63:12]Muslims he's maybe mushri right you know he's not following Allah he's

[63:17]following something else so what what would be the case for that

[63:21]person you guys okay so Allah inshallah next week we're going to

[63:33]talk about some of the qualities of God Allah Allah Allah is

[63:39]just and when we say God is just it means Allah does

[63:47]not oppress no oppression whatsoever because he has knowledge therefore he doesn't

[63:53]oppress he knows everything so he you can't oppress when you have

[63:56]full knowledge so Allah does not oppress and Allah we believe he

[64:00]sent prophets and Messengers for all people a hundred and twenty four

[64:03]thousand prophets and Messengers so different people they received Revelation but now

[64:08]let's say there's a group of people first of all we don't

[64:11]know if they received the Revelation or not maybe they did receive

[64:15]a revelation we just have limited knowledge of that that's one second

[64:19]we believe that Allah will hold people accountable for what they know

[64:24]and for what level of knowledge they have so Allah is not

[64:28]going to judge for example a muttman who's read the Quran and

[64:34]read all the Hadith the same way with someone who was not

[64:37]was was did not receive that type of knowledge now there's two

[64:42]types of people there's one group of people they did not pursue

[64:45]the knowledge was available meaning sometimes sometimes you did not receive it

[64:53]the knowledge you did not have access to it sometimes no you

[64:57]did have access to it but you chose not to do it

[64:59]there's two differences but there's there's a difference between that let's say

[65:02]there's a group of people who did not have access and they

[65:06]did not have any shortcomings whatsoever and they tried to pursue the

[65:10]knowledge as best as they could Allah will judge them based on

[65:13]based on how what kind of a person they were at the

[65:17]end of the day the same fitra that tells you to worship

[65:20]God and find the truth we all have that we're all programmed

[65:24]with that to find the truth that same Allah is also going

[65:26]to judge them by their deeds did this person lied this person

[65:31]cheat did this person steal did this person oppress these are Concepts

[65:34]that we are born with you don't need to teach someone stealing

[65:36]is wrong you don't need to teach someone that abusing and hurting

[65:41]other people is wrong this is a universal concept that we have

[65:44]been programmed with so if a person is a good person Allah

[65:48]will know that and Allah will be able to judge them in

[65:51]in the correct way yes yes sister we have to believe that

[66:08]God is higher than all of them I seek refuge in Allah

[66:15]from everything every harmful thing in life so God is higher power

[66:19]God is a higher power than all powers out there so maybe

[66:22]someone's going to hurt me but God is higher than that if

[66:26]I believe God is higher than that then I'm not doing should

[66:27]but if I believe that this person will impact me and God

[66:31]cannot protect me then I'm done I'm doing shirk foreign

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