4- Nahjul Balagha - The Creation of the Universe - Sayed Mohammad Baqer Qazwini

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Nahjul Balagha 01, offered in 2018-2019, is now available to take online at Al-Hujjah Islamic Seminary. The first five classes are available to view as a demo to get an idea of how the course is instructed. To register for this class, see all class videos, and take the exams, visit hujjahseminary.com. For any questions, email us at [email protected] Nahjul Balagha, offered in 2018-2019, is now available to take online at Al-Hujjah Islamic Seminary. The first five classes are available to view as a demo to get an idea of how the course is instructed. To register for this class, see all class videos, and take the exams, visit hujjahseminary.com. For any questions, email us at [email protected]

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[0:00]audhu billahi min as-shaytan ar-rajim bismillah r-rahman r-rahim al-hamdu lillahi rabbil alameen

[0:08]wa sallahu allah sayidina muhammadin wa ala nabina Tajin lungs on the

[0:15]other we continue our examination of the first sermon in natural balada

[0:22]which is considered by many scholars and critics to be the most

[0:30]important sermon in natural Barada as the imam mahdi salaam encapsulate our

[0:36]belief system the attributes of allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala the creation of the

[0:43]universe the creation of the angels prophets and some branches of faith

[0:50]in this wonderful sermon on page 64 to 65 of the book

[0:58]the Imam Ali Salaam in describing the attributes of allah subhanaw taala

[1:00]mentions the following attribute canon LA and hadith what does cotton mean

[1:15]Allah subhana WA Ta'ala is existent he's a being he's existent but

[1:22]not an hadith not through the phenomenon of coming into existence not

[1:30]because God was non-existent then as a result of some occurrence allah

[1:37]subhanaw taala became existent so what differentiates allah subhanaw taala from all

[1:44]other creations is that every other creation came into existence whereas Allah

[1:50]subhana WA Ta'ala never came into existence now we discussed last week

[1:56]the intellectual law that stipulates this that when you analyze the universe

[2:00]and the creation of the universe the intellect will tell you you

[2:05]must reach a being whose not physical who's not in need who's

[2:09]the source of this universe and was not created was always existing

[2:13]who's above time and above space that is something that our intellect

[2:20]has already determined even though we cannot fully grasp it but we

[2:24]can intellectually understand it so allah subhanho wa taala car and rule

[2:28]and hadith don't think that when we say Allah is existing that

[2:34]means there was a point when he did not exist then he

[2:36]came into existence no allah subhanaw taala was always there mowjood on

[2:43]an atom allah subhanho wa taala is there but not from non-existence

[2:52]nah I couldn't leash a in la bemol Parana look at the

[2:58]beautiful wording of the Imam Allah is with everything the Quran says

[3:04]wa huwa Markham ænima kuntum allies with you wherever you are but

[3:09]the Imam says when you think of God being with you being

[3:16]everywhere do not think of it in physical terms Allah is with

[3:21]you but not in physical nearness and concomitant when we say a

[3:31]lesser penalty Allah is with us that means his knowledge is ever-present

[3:36]he is aware of all of our actions his power and knowledge

[3:41]are present he's got full authority and full control over us and

[3:46]he is aware of what we do otherwise physically Allah Spanish Allah

[3:52]is not present with us in physical terms so the Imam Mahdi's

[3:56]Salam States Allah is with everything but not in terms of physical

[4:01]nearness because Allah is not a physical entity but at the same

[4:07]time while they you know coalition a labem jose Allah Allah Subhan

[4:11]Allah Allah is also different from everything there's nothing like him but

[4:18]not in terms of physical separation see when you have two people

[4:22]let's say aliens eight they're different from each other Ali occupies this

[4:27]she has these physical characteristics Zaid occupies different space and he has

[4:32]these physical characteristics so they're different in terms of physical separation they're

[4:39]different they're physically separate from each other but when we think of

[4:44]allah subhana wa ta'ala he is different than us but don't think

[4:47]of that difference in terms of physical separation allah subhanaw taala is

[4:54]different than us because his attributes there's nothing like them there is

[5:01]no like no partner to allah subhanaw taala nothing in the universe

[5:05]resembles God that's how he's different from us so he is with

[5:09]us yet he's different from us it's an interesting you know paradox

[5:16]over here if you really think about it unless permit Allah is

[5:20]with us all the time but not in terms of physical nearness

[5:23]and he's different from us but not in terms of physical separation

[5:34]yes brother so so yes there are some who state that it's

[5:38]mentioned in the Bible that God created the human being in his

[5:40]image or in his form there are two ways of looking at

[5:46]this if what they mean by this is symbolic meaning God created

[5:51]the human beings from His infinite power that's what they mean by

[5:55]it yes this is something acceptable but if they mean in His

[5:58]image in his form that a la spada has a specific form

[6:04]or a specific image then this is concerned blasphemy because now we're

[6:08]limiting allah subhana wa ta'ala see even when we examine our attributes

[6:18]initially they might be similar to God Allah is generous and you

[6:24]have X person who is also generous Allah is the ultimate powerful

[6:26]one I have some power but really there is no comparison between

[6:30]our attributes and the attribute of God because the attributes of Allah

[6:34]are essential he independently has them whereas our attributes are an extension

[6:41]of his power so you cannot really compare between them so our

[6:47]attributes do not resemble God in fact knowing Allah subhana wa ta'ala

[6:51]means that you come to the realization that he's different than us

[6:58]the more you think of Allah as being different than you the

[7:03]more you know God yes there are gifts from God but in

[7:12]the end what about the image God created man in His image

[7:16]so yes if we symbolically take our attributes to be a gift

[7:21]from God that a last panel to Allah has given us these

[7:23]gifts that's fine but to literally take these attributes and compare them

[7:29]to God there is no comparison because let me give you a

[7:32]very brief example God has knowledge and we have some knowledge but

[7:35]is the nature of our knowledge like the knowledge of Allah no

[7:43]our knowledge means that we process information and we come to know

[7:48]things right it's a physical process gaining knowledge requires a physical process

[7:55]you acquire information your brain and your neurons and brain cells process

[8:00]that and then you make sense of something unless above all that

[8:03]in fact we do not know what it means for a lot

[8:08]to be knowledgeable except for this much Allah is aware of everything

[8:12]he has no ignorant there's no ignorance in God that's as far

[8:16]as we can understand about the knowledge of God but what is

[8:20]the nature of the knowledge of God some philosophers have tried to

[8:25]examine what the nature of God's knowledge is but we don't know

[8:29]what the nature of God's some philosophers have given the following example

[8:34]there like we human beings our knowledge is acquired you have to

[8:39]acquire it whereas God's knowledge is ever-present let me give you an

[8:44]example if you touch something that's hot let's say you're even thinking

[8:49]of something your eyes are closed you're distracted then your hands touch

[8:54]something that's burning hot do you feel the heat what kind of

[9:01]knowledge is that that this is hot as this is echo is

[9:03]this acquired where you're processing information or the knowledge is present there

[9:08]that knowledge is present there right you just feel it some people

[9:17]some philosophers have stated that God's knowledge of the universe is like

[9:20]this type of knowledge he just feels the universe but many of

[9:24]our scholars have even rejected them they're like even that requires a

[9:29]physical process to feel something right analyze above any physical processes so

[9:34]in reality we know God is knowledgeable but we don't know what

[9:37]his knowledge really is what's the knowledge of Allah we don't know

[9:42]what's the nature of his power we don't know that's something that's

[9:46]beyond our comprehension so in that regard it's impossible to compare between

[9:52]our attributes and his attributes our enemy is completely different than his

[9:57]own there's no comparison there's no similarity because the nature of our

[10:01]knowledge is different than the nature of his knowledge so the imam

[10:08]ali salaam makes a very important point that allah subhana wa ta'ala

[10:12]is different than us why does the imam mention this you would

[10:17]think okay it's obvious that god is different from us no if

[10:20]you look at many many philosophers throughout history many even scholars even

[10:27]muslim scholars throughout history such as some sufi scholars they are of

[10:34]the opinion that there is nothing in existence other than god nothing

[10:39]exists other than god everything in universe is God and they take

[10:49]this literally and they tell you that even this physical world even

[10:54]your bodies for instance you human beings you are a dimension of

[10:59]God and this is the example that they gave imagine imagine just

[11:05]for the sake of argument to kind of bring their idea closer

[11:08]to our mind imagine God is like an ocean what are we

[11:14]in that ocean were the waves the wave is something distinct from

[11:19]the ocean like you could visibly discern it right but what is

[11:24]the wave other than the same ocean is it something else let

[11:29]me ask you what is a wave you have an ocean which

[11:31]is a body of water and then you have a wave what's

[11:35]the difference between the two there's no difference the wave is the

[11:39]ocean but it has taken a different form what is the ocean

[11:43]is it something other than the ocean did we add something to

[11:47]it no the same thing that makes up the ocean makes up

[11:52]the wave with drops of water same drops of water but you

[11:55]give it a distinct shape and it becomes a wave these Sufi

[11:59]philosophers believe that God is like this ocean and we the human

[12:08]beings this physical universe that we see is like that wave so

[12:12]literally we're part of God and they literally believe that God settles

[12:18]in everything he's literally present everywhere every little thing in the universe

[12:23]every atom is a part of God even until today there aren't

[12:26]philosophers who believe in this and this is one type of pantheism

[12:33]by the way that everything is God in stating that a last

[12:35]panel to allow hey you know clearly shape the Imam makes this

[12:39]very clear hey you know could you say he's different than everything

[12:43]the Amman Hani Salaam is rejecting this idea that everything is gone

[12:49]no not everything is God the creation of God is different than

[12:53]God it's his creation there was a point when it was not

[13:00]even there then a last panel Tirana gave life to it alas

[13:04]parrillada created it so the creation of God is different than God

[13:07]but don't think of this difference as like physical separation because Allah

[13:12]has no physical entity so it's difficult to grasp but you get

[13:18]the idea so the amount on each atom actually rejects these Sufi

[13:22]ideas that God has settled in a body or in this physical

[13:26]world this is unacceptable allah subhanallah does above that in fact you

[13:31]know what some of them say some of them were big top

[13:34]Sufi scholars by the way some of them even say that the

[13:39]idol worshipers in reality are worshipping who God because there's nothing else

[13:43]other than God so any think your worship is gonna be God

[13:48]in fact you know they even take it a step further and

[13:53]they say if you believe that the creation of God is different

[13:56]than God then you're almost like because now you've added something other

[14:00]than God you've put something next to God which is his creation

[14:07]and they have these fallacies and the Imam artisan on beautifully Nanjing

[14:10]but Allah says well hey you know cliche make no mistake God

[14:13]is different than his creation don't say that God literally is his

[14:17]creation and there's nothing but God no yes if we symbolically state

[14:24]that everything in the universe is owned by God and nothing happens

[14:27]except with the permission of Allah therefore he is everywhere in everything

[14:32]yes symbolically we do accept that but don't take that literally me

[14:36]mymadison i'm draws a very red line over here a big red

[14:38]line well hey you're o couldn t shade don't mix God with

[14:44]his creation Allah is the creator how can you bring the creator

[14:47]down to its creation that's an insult to the status of allah

[14:49]subhanaw taala now this theory over here that they have some of

[14:56]these Sufi scholars is called an Arabic word a Telugu Judy one

[15:03]mowjood don't confuse two theories there's why the two no dude that's

[15:08]different it's very philosophical we won't get into have different opinions about

[15:13]it but we have worked to new Judy well mowjood the unity

[15:16]of existence and everything that exists there's one unity there's one existence

[15:22]there's one thing in the universe and that's God there's nothing else

[15:25]this is something that the Imam Ali said I mean Angela a

[15:30]girl rejects outright what I you know clearly she is very clear

[15:32]that Allah is different than his creation don't mix between the two

[15:48]any questions on that yes who says Buhari says that Allah and

[15:55]the day of judgments will not be visible Allah be high symptom

[16:00]but it doesn't mean we're going to see him the angels will

[16:02]do that on behalf of God so on the day of judgement

[16:08]make no mistake about this no one will see God Buhari does

[16:10]say that on the day of judgment you'll see God like you

[16:14]see how many of you saw the full moon tonight when you

[16:15]were driving the bihari says just like you see the full moon

[16:20]how visible and clear it is you'll see God on the day

[16:24]of judgment the Imams of enolates outright reject that not to the

[16:27]Imam the Quran LA to do recall observe the Quran is very

[16:30]clear that the eyes shall never meet Allah la to do recoil

[16:35]of Sun and when Musa asked a la semana to Allah to

[16:40]show his people when they asked Musa let's see God Allah tells

[16:43]Musa land tehrani land in Arabic it means never you'll never be

[16:47]able to see me not in this dunya and the arkarow so

[16:51]on the day of judgment will never see God we we talked

[17:05]about this two weeks ago when one of the sisters asked this

[17:08]question or one of the brothers asked if your child is at

[17:15]I would recommend if you find that their capacity is still not

[17:19]enough for them to grasp these higher ideas just distract them and

[17:26]say something like that say yeah tell them just like light you

[17:29]know is is everywhere and you can't pinpoint where it is for

[17:34]instance allah subhana wa ta'ala is the light that fills the universe

[17:37]just give them examples like that know the quran just say Allah

[17:43]Allah Allah Allah is the light of the heavens and the earth

[17:46]so give them easy words like that to understand but tell them

[17:49]God doesn't have a body he's like light everywhere or these days

[17:54]for example you can give them these ideas tell them don't you

[17:58]see for instance we have signals Wi-Fi signals waves that we can't

[18:03]see with the eyes ask your child there's a wave have a

[18:08]physical form it does of course scientifically but for for the sake

[18:13]of your child's understanding but see that Wi-Fi how much knowledge it

[18:17]gives you right within a touch of a planet could send you

[18:20]megabytes and megabytes of information just give them ideals like that see

[18:24]Allah is not physical and he can give us power and give

[18:29]us knowledge so just give them examples like that after saying this

[18:34]the imam ali in salah mentioned something very interesting and miraculous about

[18:39]the creation of God before the Imam examines how the universe was

[18:44]created the Imam talks about how Allah created this universe he makes

[18:50]a very important observation he says when God created the universe bill

[18:54]are we attend a jalaja unlike us human beings when we want

[19:03]to create something yes sister no that's okay directly with God so

[19:27]the great prophets and the Imams of enovate and the righteous ones

[19:31]when we hear about some stories of them talking to God or

[19:38]God revealing to them now the most common way was through an

[19:42]angel right but sometimes Allah would directly talk to his prophets example

[19:47]prophets messiahs Allah when Allah Spano Ta'ala spoke to him now when

[19:50]allah subhanaw taala speaks to a profit the profit is not seeing

[19:57]God and the Prophet is not literally hearing the voice of God

[20:00]because the last panel - Allah does not have a voice Allah

[20:03]creates a medium so for instance when prophets Musa spoke to God

[20:10]in Mount Sinai around that tree Allah generated a voice and he

[20:15]spoke to Musa God created a sound sound waves and he spoke

[20:22]to Musa but remember those sand waves are not the direct voice

[20:25]of God they're just a creation of God God generating sound waves

[20:29]so when we say the Imams and the prophets they would speak

[20:34]to Allah they would experience the greatness of God for example the

[20:39]Prophet on his journey to the Mirage the Ascension he experienced the

[20:42]glory of God but he never saw Allah subhana WA Ta'ala because

[20:47]Allah cannot be seen and when they would communicate to God either

[20:52]God would directly reveal in their heart something they directly feel it

[20:56]in their hearts and Allah would communicate with them or God would

[21:00]create a voice as sound God would generate that sound that sound

[21:04]carries the message from God to them but they never physically experienced

[21:09]God they never physically heard God or saw Allah because Allah spano

[21:13]to Allah does not have a voice alas Muhammad Allah does not

[21:18]have a physical appearance does that answer the course you're welcome yes

[21:25]brother so he became very close to the glory of God now

[21:33]what that glory is that's beyond our comprehension but it's not physical

[21:37]it's not physical no it's definitely not physical yes there are some

[21:43]hadiths and some deviant Muslim books which do give you that image

[21:46]some other schools of thought they say the profit on the Mirage

[21:49]he saw God in the image of a young boy of a

[21:55]teenager you know who still does not have a beard yet Shaab

[21:59]I mean yes there are some sources that state that unfortunately even

[22:04]until today they have survived in some books this is category with

[22:09]categorically rejected by the anime - peace be upon them Allah has

[22:13]no physical form yes and Allah said land tehrani Allah said no

[22:18]Allah said Gold the mountain if you've seen the mountain stable and

[22:21]fixed in its position you'll see me what happened to the mountain

[22:26]it exploded and it was raised on top of their heads those

[22:29]seventy people whom he chosen they demanded to see allah so allah

[22:36]subhanaw taala cannot be seen but yes his glory and a dimension

[22:40]of his power can be felt by the righteous ones now when

[22:46]it comes to creation we human beings when we want to manufacture

[22:49]something when we want to do something we normally talk to contemplate

[22:53]think plan it out then we execute it the amount on each

[22:58]setup States when Allah created the universe bail out are we at

[23:01]San Aegina God did not need to contemplate and to do his

[23:04]calculations no because Allah is knowledge as infinite he knows everything he

[23:11]doesn't need to experiment what I said Julia Burton is the father

[23:16]Allah did not experiment a lot directly created the universe without any

[23:21]contemplation because Allah doesn't contemplate he doesn't need to contemplate it doesn't

[23:26]even make any sense to say God contemplates his knowledge is ever

[23:30]present when he wants to do something just happen and Alaska Panama

[23:36]tada did not experiment that's very important what's different about us human

[23:42]beings and what we create because some people sometimes become arrogant and

[23:46]they think you know God creating will we could create - we

[23:48]just need better science and more technology to do what God did

[23:52]some people are arrogant and think that way remember everything we create

[23:58]the human beings first of all we're not creating out of nothing

[24:00]we're just rearranging I'll where as a last planet Allah created the

[24:07]universe out of nothing that's number one number two we observe nature

[24:11]and we copy that's what we do every achievement the human being

[24:16]has done is by observing nature rearranging it whereas allah subhanho wa

[24:21]taala when there was nothing he didn't copy from anything that's the

[24:27]miracle of God's creation he put something into existence without a previous

[24:33]example and number three we human beings we keep experimenting experimenting until

[24:38]we get it right whereas with God there was one time and

[24:42]he created the universe he did not need to experiment and experiment

[24:46]and experiment so always remember this about the miraculous nature of a

[24:54]last creation now there's one objection here that Massa modern atheists are

[25:01]stating the first part has to do with the evolution the second

[25:04]part has to do with the nature of the galaxies this is

[25:11]very important they say that when you look at the history of

[25:16]evolution and human-like species that were evolving I remember even one of

[25:22]them I was in one class and he straight out said this

[25:26]he's like if there is this God who created it looks like

[25:30]this God is experimenting because he created so many species many of

[25:38]them became extinct some of them made it those who had certain

[25:43]qualities they were fittest they survived and then many others became extinct

[25:47]then he gave an example he drew this tree on a board

[25:52]see we've got these human-like figures millions of years ago because they

[25:56]lacked this feature and quality they became extinct and that species became

[26:01]extinct whereas some species who had this quality they survived for instance

[26:07]it is believed by evolutionary scientists that one factor that allowed those

[26:16]early human-like figures to survive was the ability to walk upright to

[26:23]stand because when you stand now you have a better view of

[26:31]your horizon so if there is a predator if there is danger

[26:33]lurking out there you can see it better when you're standing upright

[26:37]whereas if you're walking on forth on two feet and two hands

[26:43]right and this makes many scientists believe that one reason why that

[26:48]species of human-like figures made it and survived is because they were

[26:53]better able to protect themselves from danger because when you can stand

[26:57]upright especially in those Prairie areas you can better see you have

[27:00]a better view so the idea that they're stating is this even

[27:05]if there's this creator it looks like his experimenting he doesn't know

[27:08]what he's doing if he wants to create the human being okay

[27:11]create him from day one why are you experimenting so many species

[27:15]go extinct some of them survive and then they evolve and then

[27:19]you have a functional species so how do we address that and

[27:24]then they have the following objection many of them say look at

[27:31]this universe today look at other planets what's the point of these

[27:36]planets look at for instance Jupiter some of them talk about Jupiter

[27:40]and they say if you look at all these planets the only

[27:44]planet that has all the right ingredients for life as Earth Jupiter

[27:52]is very similar to Earth it has a magnetic field it has

[27:56]gravity it rotates around the Sun but it lacks some basic for

[28:01]life so they're like this God whoever he is when he was

[28:08]creating this universe and he created all these planets he was experimenting

[28:12]he tried Jupiter Nath that didn't work for life he tried Saturn

[28:17]it didn't work Neptune didn't work Mars didn't work and then other

[28:20]galaxies you know we don't know if there's life there or not

[28:26]yet but other galaxies he tried ah then he landed at the

[28:29]right formula with planet Earth so they're saying their objection is these

[28:34]are all indications that you have a Creator who doesn't know what

[28:39]he's doing he doesn't know what the right ingredients are for life

[28:43]so he's testing and all of those planets failed finally he got

[28:47]the right ingredients so how does the amount on his said I'm

[28:52]saying that Jim Baraka when Allah created he didn't experiment he just

[28:57]created it directly knowing exactly what he was doing yes well they're

[29:02]saying if we admit that there is a creator then this crater

[29:06]doesn't know what he's doing he's experimenting and when you look at

[29:12]the vastness of the universe we see he's tried so many combinations

[29:15]so many different types of magnetic field so many types of gravity

[29:20]formulas so many different types of temperatures so many different types of

[29:26]atmospheric composition until he got the right one with earth this is

[29:29]the idea that they're posing and this is the objection that they're

[29:32]making how do we respond to that when it comes to their

[29:40]second argument about the universe first of all these guys are assuming

[29:45]that the world revolves around what around us and earth and they're

[29:50]assuming that everything out there must have physical life who told you

[29:56]what the goal of that creator is why did God create Jupiter

[30:00]we don't know maybe it serves a purpose that we're not aware

[30:03]maybe there are creations in Jupiter we don't know allah subhanaw taala

[30:08]the most thing he created his angels maybe the Angels fill this

[30:11]universe why are we as assuming that God created this universe just

[30:17]for humans and that anywhere in which there is no life that

[30:23]means the ingredient didn't work that in itself is arrogant to assume

[30:28]yes brother so secondly let's assume that is the case that Allah

[30:33]created this universe for the human being of course for the complete

[30:37]human being who are the prophets and the Imams of value-based peace

[30:42]be upon them right assuming that is the case scientists are finding

[30:49]evidence day after day that everything we see in the solar system

[30:54]and outside the solar system helps sustain life on earth so they

[31:00]gave the example of Jupiter recently they've discovered if it weren't for

[31:06]Jupiter earth couldn't exist why for instance Jupiter is so massive it's

[31:11]I don't know thousand three hundred times bigger than Earth the volume

[31:15]of it you could fit one thousand earths in Jupiter because of

[31:19]its sheer size it has a powerful gravitational force which actually acts

[31:27]as a protector and guardian for planet Earth so many meteors and

[31:34]big comets and asteroids would have collided with planet Earth if it

[31:40]were not for Jupiter sucking them in that in itself is protecting

[31:46]us Allah has Jupiter protecting planet Earth and sucking all those dangers

[31:52]in the solar system towards it secondly big planets like Saturn and

[31:56]Jupiter they help stabilize the solar system if you eliminate them or

[32:01]would not orbit the way it would orbit tuning so even if

[32:05]we assume we're at the center of this creation Allah created everything

[32:08]for us scientists today are acknowledging that without the current arrangement of

[32:15]the planets of the Sun of other nearby galaxies planet Earth couldn't

[32:19]survive even black holes how many of you have heard of black

[32:24]holes even black holes scientists are now starting to believe that black

[32:30]holes due to the amazing gravitational energy that they have they help

[32:35]stabilize the entire universe if it were not for these black holes

[32:41]because many scientists believe these black holes were just for nothing what

[32:45]purpose do they serve right there just whoever created them created them

[32:48]in vain if there was a creator who made them he did

[32:50]so in vain well now scientists are discovering even these black holes

[32:55]which we don't fully understand we know they're stabilizing the universe without

[33:00]the presence of these black holes the universe couldn't exist as we

[33:04]know it today the beautiful structure that you have the galaxies and

[33:07]their gravitational force and their orbit would not be stabilized without the

[33:12]black holes so everything in existence we could argue one day science

[33:17]might discover this is actually a recipe for life on Earth look

[33:24]at the greatness of the creation of a last final time even

[33:27]distant planets that scientists once thought what kind of impact would they

[33:31]have on earth they do have an impact so no there's no

[33:35]evidence there that we have this creator who's experimenting Allah put the

[33:41]right conditions there even if we assume that it was for life

[33:44]it doesn't make sense and there is more and more evidence for

[33:46]that same goes with the species that our last planet Allah created

[33:53]those species which our last planet Allah created before Adam because we

[33:58]do have references in the Quran and explicit hadith that before this

[34:03]Adam Allah created many atoms many human-like figures who resembled us but

[34:09]they had smaller brains lower intellect there was a reason why last

[34:13]panel Tata has created them sometimes the narrations refer to them sometimes

[34:16]we don't know it's not that Allah is experimenting and some of

[34:19]them just you know randomly went extinct no Allah created those creations

[34:26]they served a purpose during that time even dinosaurs for instance what

[34:29]Allah created them they serve the purpose Allah created them for a

[34:33]reason that worm right now that's in the Pacific Ocean eleven kilometers

[34:38]below sea level what purpose is that serving do we have to

[34:44]know everything we may not know Allah knows Allah created everything and

[34:47]if they do serve a purpose you can't say that God is

[34:50]experimenting there's no evidence for that Allah spano Tata has a plan

[34:59]from day one and if we don't understand why a certain species

[35:02]existed then when extinct that doesn't mean that a las montañas experimenting

[35:06]one day we might find out let's say science one day we'll

[35:09]discover that every species in the history of the planet even the

[35:18]dinosaurs even those microorganisms were necessary to sustain life for the human

[35:23]being to exist what if one day scientists come up with that

[35:26]discovery so would be unfair on their behalf on their part to

[35:31]come and say God is just experimenting here was there a question

[35:57]yes humans are walking on for interesting in the school of anal

[36:18]bait it is our opinion that the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa

[36:22]ala and the Imams of elevates they are leaders for all the

[36:28]creations of God and in fact the first thing that Allah ever

[36:31]created was their essence in their light and they are a source

[36:37]of guidance for all the creations of God so all the galaxies

[36:40]all the universes everything we have in existence it comes under the

[36:46]blessings of the a hundredweight peace be upon them yes that is

[36:51]our firm belief and if you're wondering if there are other creations

[36:55]in other planets there are hadeeth that might refer to that for

[37:00]instance there's one hadith now scholars have to research the chain to

[37:04]see if it's an authentic chain some have accepted it some have

[37:07]not rejected it but they just don't know if it's authentic or

[37:09]not but there is one hadith that states when Imam al-mahdi I'm

[37:12]general of Dada for a joke a Sharif will reappear he will

[37:18]travel with his companions to the stars and he will meet other

[37:22]creations there's a hadith like that so there could be life somewhere

[37:27]out there and the Imam at Islam will be given that technology

[37:31]by a last panel Tata to do something like that assuming that

[37:34]the hadith is an authentic hadith next the Imam Ali said I'm

[37:40]on page 65 talks about the creation of the universe how did

[37:44]the creation come into existence this is a very important focal point

[37:51]in science today scientists are trying to figure out how was the

[37:57]universe formed the Big Bang or that fast expansion how did that

[38:01]happen some of them believe it was an explosion some of them

[38:05]believed there was a very rapid expansion but how did that happen

[38:09]how did the universe come into creation and in fact space you

[38:17]know we have time and space space time where did that come

[38:21]from is that limited is that infinite and before space existed then

[38:31]suddenly it existed where did it exist what are the edges of

[38:34]that space a lot of people wonder about the edges of the

[38:37]universe right if you reach theoretically the edge of the universe what's

[38:41]on the other side is there like a brick wall that ends

[38:45]and then what's what's on the other side there's no space how

[38:47]do you see that no space how do you touch that no

[38:51]space right a lot of people have these questions in fact the

[38:55]universe itself is that finite or is it infinite scientists are divided

[38:58]into two groups one group of scientists they believe the universe must

[39:02]be finite we've got to be limited because if I had a

[39:06]birth if I had a starting point thirty thirteen billion years ago

[39:09]and it's dawn to expand that means it's limited it's very big

[39:12]but it's limited in the end but some scientists today are saying

[39:19]the universe is infinite it's difficult to grasp that but they're saying

[39:24]it's infinite no matter how much you go and go and go

[39:27]into space we'll never end it's just like a sphere that keeps

[39:31]going you know you keep revolving around it now is it spherical

[39:35]is that flat they have their theories scientists but here's one thing

[39:41]for sure scientists don't know exactly what happened what are the edges

[39:46]of the universe does it even have edges or no they don't

[39:50]know it's all speculation you know sometimes when we read these theories

[39:53]my dear brothers and sisters we take them as like facts we

[39:57]don't know we don't know exactly what happened 13 billion years ago

[40:03]these are theories so when we read something from the imam ali

[40:11]salam and initially it might not you know be validating exactly what

[40:15]scientists tell us let's not throw it out the window quickly trying

[40:18]to change their minds every few decades and they come up with

[40:21]new theories many many of them would state the universe was limited

[40:28]find out now some of them were saying no no no it's

[40:29]infinite and then the Big Bang when it happened we consider that

[40:35]the birth of the universe right before that there was nothing now

[40:38]they've they're modifying their theories no no this infinitely is happening the

[40:43]Big Bang you've got black holes they suck up the entire universe

[40:46]then they explode and this has been happening infinitely in time and

[40:50]every few decades they've got a new a new theory the project

[40:55]for what to see ya to try to replicate what would have

[41:10]happened in the Big Bang so see this is a work in

[41:16]progress a scientists cannot tell you I know exactly how the universe

[41:19]was created what space what time was that there was it not

[41:24]there these are things scientists cannot answer now at least with the

[41:28]technology that we have so what does Imam Ali bin Abi Talib

[41:30]an economist team when it comes to the creation of the universe

[41:34]the imam ali salam says thumb and subhanahu fertile egg wha it

[41:42]seems from the hotma of the imam that the first thing allah

[41:47]subhanaw taala created was space what we understand from this hadith is

[41:56]that space was not infinitely present there was a time when there

[42:03]was no space and Allah created space the first thing in existence

[42:08]in the physical existence is space Allah and Sheppard and Shia fat

[42:13]can add wong-fat in Arabic means to open split something open a

[42:18]last panel to add a split space out of nowhere that in

[42:23]itself is miraculous you can't even think about it think about it

[42:26]can you imagine where this space popped out of you can't it's

[42:31]beyond our imagination subhanAllah look at the human being how weak he

[42:36]is you know the senses that we have these very basic senses

[42:43]that we have what's miraculous about God's creation is that he invented

[42:50]these senses you the human being if you want to describe these

[42:54]senses to someone who lacks them you cannot imagine someone born blind

[42:58]can you describe to them what colors are try what are you

[43:04]gonna tell them but even the basic colors if someone was born

[43:14]blind them they've never seen can you explain to them what vision

[43:19]is you can't if someone was born deaf and they don't know

[43:21]what sounds are can you explain to them what is what sound

[43:25]is when you listen to a voice how that is you can't

[43:27]subhanAllah look at the creation of God these basic things we experienced

[43:36]them but we can't even describe their reality the sense of taste

[43:40]try to explain it to someone who lacks it impossible can you

[43:44]think of a sixth sense really a sixth sense can you what

[43:50]would it look like look at the human being with all of

[43:54]our advancements we can't come up with a sixth sense can you

[43:59]imagine a sixth sense other than hearing seeing smelling tasting can you

[44:03]can you come up with a sixth one what would it be

[44:06]like you can't I know scientists talk about sometimes having you know

[44:13]a different dimension somewhere but really a sixth sense that's how weak

[44:17]we are and that's the creation of God Allah created these senses

[44:21]out of nothing nothing no example before no experimentation he just created

[44:28]those senses we the human being we can't add a sixth sense

[44:34]and without the existence of allah subhanho time where did these senses

[44:40]come from what evolution what's evolution to create senses for you subhanAllah

[44:46]so the amount of Saddam States thumb and share Subhanahu feta can

[44:51]add you are a last panel to honor opened space out of

[44:54]nothing dan in itself is miraculous then the Imam in the following

[45:03]passage goes into amazing detail about how the universe was formed the

[45:08]Imam talks about space number one the next thing I will summarize

[45:13]this because it's very very detailed the next thing that the allah

[45:17]subhana wa ta'ala created according to the sermon of the imam after

[45:22]creating space the first thing that God created and the universe was

[45:29]water yes Allah created the first thing water now scholars have different

[45:36]views about what this water is what water is the Imam talking

[45:39]about is he talking about this liquid water that we're familiar with

[45:43]something that looks like water something liquid in nature scholars have different

[45:49]views one group of scholars believe when the Imam says water he

[45:53]doesn't literally mean this water he means something which resembles a liquid

[46:00]and this fits in with the big bang theory because when you

[46:07]had that explosion right or that rapid expansion basically the entire universe

[46:12]was in a gaseous state you had these plumes of gas everywhere

[46:17]and under that immense pressure if you put gas under immense pressure

[46:24]it represent as a liquid looks like a liquid so maybe the

[46:27]Imam when he says the first thing God created his water he's

[46:30]referring to this stage in the Big Bang when everything was gaseous

[46:36]when you had that rapid you know expansion of the universe and

[46:41]it resembled a liquid that's one group of scholars another group of

[46:46]scholars say no water thus water that we know was the first

[46:52]thing God created now scientists given their technology cannot verify this however

[46:55]what's interesting about what scientists can verify what are the most two

[47:04]common elements in the universe the first one is one hydrogen right

[47:09]what's the second one oxygen and what what two elements form water

[47:15]so when the imam mahdi salam says the first thing allah created

[47:23]was water essentially we can take it to mean that the first

[47:26]thing God created was hydrogen and oxygen and the entire universe is

[47:31]formed from hydrogen and oxygen mainly hydrogen maybe that's what the Imam

[47:36]Ali Saddam is referring to that this is the source of this

[47:41]physical universe hydrogen and oxygen and by the way the second most

[47:46]common substance in the universe is water in the form of water

[47:49]vapor and gas in this universe that we see today water is

[47:55]the second most common substance so this is possibly a reference to

[48:00]that that the amount of a said I was telling us this

[48:03]water look at the composition of it Allah created this universe from

[48:07]the composition of water and subhanAllah when you read those verses and

[48:12]Hadees that say Allah created everything out of water every living thing

[48:17]out of water go back all the way to the beginning of

[48:23]the universe when the source of this universe was water subhanAllah look

[48:27]at the vastness of this universe what are the building blocks of

[48:30]this universe hydrogen oxygen what is hydrogen and oxygen two simple elements

[48:35]right but Allah says look at this grand universe that's expanding faster

[48:41]than you can even conceive the building blocks are hydrogen and oxygen

[48:46]the Imam calls that water isn't that amazing look at the creation

[48:53]of allah subhanho wa taala so that's a second opinion that scholars

[48:57]have a third opinion about what this water means there's one hadith

[49:02]from an imam in baccarat it's an immoral imam sadiq ali salam

[49:05]in which he was asked about this verse there is a verse

[49:10]in the holy quran which states allah created the heavens and the

[49:15]earth what can our Eshoo who allan ma and his throne was

[49:23]on water this is now quran this is not hadith what does

[49:26]this verse me and the throne of God was on water what

[49:31]does that mean now if you look at some schools of thought

[49:33]other than the a debates they've taken this physically that there's literally

[49:37]like a chair a throne floating on water and God sitting on

[49:44]it yeah unfortunately they do conceptualize God in physical terms in fact

[49:49]they have a hadith in their books States on the day of

[49:53]judgment God will sit on the arch or the curtsy on that

[49:55]chair and then to his right side there will be an empty

[50:01]space of four fingers a little bit of space who's gonna sit

[50:06]next to him the prophets or Allah Allah Allah they believe in

[50:09]them and they say when God sits on the throne he's so

[50:15]heavy you've seen new furniture it makes that squeaking voice the first

[50:18]few times when you sit on it the throne of God will

[50:19]make that voice level up little Cathy thora yes this is in

[50:28]their books so some of them have conceptualized this verse literally that

[50:32]there's a body of water there's a chair floating on it and

[50:38]God sits on it I don't know what kind of chair this

[50:39]is that God could sit on you know this must be more

[50:43]powerful than God if you could carry God's got to be more

[50:44]powerful than God they should start worshiping the chair not God it's

[50:51]more powerful isn't it so I mean when you sit on a

[50:53]chair the chair has to be stronger than you to carry your

[50:57]weight right subhanAllah the Imam on Islam when he was asked about

[51:02]this verse the ax man becomes very agitated when he hears these

[51:08]tough seals he musters is blasphemy how can God sit on a

[51:11]chair so that's not what it means the Irish that we find

[51:20]in the Holy Quran is a symbol that represents the power of

[51:25]God according to an opinion of scholars the knowledge of God according

[51:31]to the second opinion the third opinion of scholars when it comes

[51:34]to the arch of Allah Spano to Allah it's the center of

[51:37]the universe where the commands of God are issued so why does

[51:43]God use the word throne historically when Kings would issue commands where

[51:50]were they sitting on a throne the Quran uses symbolism to talk

[51:54]to the human being so in reality the arch of Allah is

[51:59]that center of the universe where the commands of God are issued

[52:02]to the angels and the extra the commands of God that's the

[52:09]arch of allah subhanho wa taala now that ash was on water

[52:12]that is to be symbolically taken that means when God executed those

[52:17]first commands in the universe the first ingredient that was available was

[52:22]water that's the first thing that was issued by the command of

[52:27]Allah subhana WA Ta'ala what the nature of that water is that's

[52:30]unknown to us maybe I lost maybe the scientists will discover that

[52:34]one day but there's one interesting hadith from an imam and Baccarat

[52:38]listen i'm in explaining this verse wakana archivo alma the imam says

[52:42]the water that allah spano to Allah is talking about is the

[52:50]following Allah gave water the capacity to carry knowledge and faith so

[52:57]he's not defining water in physical terms at something symbolic water has

[53:05]the capacity to carry knowledge and faith that's what water is now

[53:11]how do we understand that scholars have a number of theories of

[53:16]course and opinions some of them states that look at the prophets

[53:19]and the Imams right they carry the knowledge of God well every

[53:22]human being what's the source of their creation according to the Quran

[53:30]water warren clay so allah Spano taught I gave water that capacity

[53:33]in order to mould the bodies of prophets and Imams and then

[53:37]they carry the knowledge that's one way of understanding it another way

[53:42]of understanding it is to take this strictly symbolic we're not talking

[53:45]about a physical body of water what we're talking about the essence

[53:52]of the first creation of God which is the light of a

[53:55]debate peace be upon them this hadith calls it water because water

[54:03]when we think of water we think of life we think of

[54:07]something real and water carries right like you've seen those youth ships

[54:12]being carried by the water it has that symbolism in it so

[54:16]think of the added bait peace be upon them you know as

[54:20]this water that carries the knowledge of Allah subhana wa tada so

[54:24]there are many many ways of understanding this but it's a very

[54:29]complex sermon when you examine the phrases that the Imam Ali Saddam

[54:36]uses it's very very complex now what you'll find very interesting and

[54:40]we'll conclude that the Imam Hani Salaam says when Allah created that

[54:45]water he caused a very he generated a very violent wind to

[54:50]first protect that water and then to turn that water into big

[54:58]waves from the foam of these waves Allah created the universe when

[55:03]scholars are examining this wind the way the Imam describes it he's

[55:08]giving us an exact description of gravity subhanAllah remember back then fourteen

[55:14]centuries ago they mi watch to describe all the scientific you know

[55:23]events the Arabic language at the time according to the mentality of

[55:27]the time they don't have any terms for gravity for some of

[55:29]the things that the imam ali salam was explaining so the imam

[55:35]hani salaam uses a word like wind the imam says this wind

[55:38]has a powerful force of attraction which kept the water intact then

[55:46]after that it had a powerful force of repulsion where it generated

[55:50]big waves and as a result you had this foam from this

[55:57]forum Allah created the planets and the stars that in itself is

[56:00]gravity because in the universe look at what we have today right

[56:03]after the Big Bang what did we have we had huge gravitational

[56:08]force that caused the expansion of the universe and then what's causing

[56:12]now the expansion dark matter that's pushing everything away that's a wind

[56:17]that's pushing everything away so the wind according to most of our

[56:21]own AMA in the words of Imam Ali is an exact description

[56:25]of gravity and in the end of that paragraph the Imam says

[56:27]look at this universe it's standing without pillars well does that mean

[56:33]it's standing without pillars gravity there's something that's holding it there mom

[56:38]uses the word wind so the amount money Sam says the final

[56:42]stage so first we had space god created space then you had

[56:47]this water then Allah Spano Allah through gravity caused this water to

[56:52]condense and condense and condense then it expanded rapidly and the universe

[56:57]was created the Imam says then the seven heavens will end with

[57:02]this Allah created the seven heavens the earth and the seven heavens

[57:09]you've heard Asamoah - sub what are these seven heavens what what

[57:16]dimensions in order to get an idea of what these seven heavens

[57:23]are according to what we understand from the Quran and the hadith

[57:27]and this is something that could baffle the scientists you know when

[57:32]we think of some that somehow watch we kind of think of

[57:34]them vertically right like there is seven layers on top of each

[57:41]other right is that how the universe is what we understand from

[57:45]the hadith about a Samata sub is that we have this entire

[57:49]physical universe imagine you have a circle here this is the universe

[58:00]everything that we can see in the observable universe our galaxy the

[58:06]Stars other galaxies this is all summer at dunya this is all

[58:14]the first heaven so anything that our eye can see our you

[58:19]know scientific equipment can observe into space is only which some are

[58:25]the first one then after the first sky or sama we have

[58:33]the second one which fully encompasses the first one that's the second

[58:38]heaven when we say the seven heavens this is the second heaven

[58:42]now what that is that's something beyond us human it's something that

[58:49]envelops this physical universe and then we have the third one here

[58:55]that fully engulfs the second one and then we have the fourth

[58:59]one here which profit is in the fourth heaven now Ehsan is

[59:05]said I'm or a Driss he saw was not crucified he did

[59:10]not die Allah elevated him the hadith states to which heaven the

[59:13]fourth one and the Prophet on his journey to the Mirage he

[59:18]stopped at this fourth one and he led all the prophets in

[59:21]surah to Jamaa and some a hadith indicate that the actual Masjid

[59:27]al-aqsa is there the farthest mosque when the Quran says the actual

[59:34]Masjid al-aqsa the earthly one is in Jerusalem but the actual message

[59:37]it in aqsa is in that fourth heaven and then we have

[59:44]the fifth one the fifth heaven and then the six and then

[59:48]the seventh you see how small we are this whole universe that's

[59:57]I don't know 96 billion light-years across is this part here what's

[60:06]around the seventh heaven Irish the throne of God that we talked

[60:13]about envelopes the seven heavens and the small little universe so what

[60:21]you have that's surrounding everything in existence as the arch of Allah

[60:27]subhana WA time this is something beyond us the prophet salallahu alaihe

[60:36]in his migrated in his ascension to the mirage he penetrated all

[60:41]these heavens and he even was able to reach a point outside

[60:45]this when he experienced the full glory of God a point where

[60:51]jabrai said I can't go past that anymore now by the way

[60:57]I'll end with this statement in Zia of an amendment force a

[61:03]nanny salon these are the days of their mine the authentic Sierra

[61:05]you know the Imam has a number of Sierra Sierra tuara this'

[61:09]like the sixth or seventh one in moffat e Algernon but the

[61:12]most authentic Zr of element are seen is the first zr zr

[61:18]and una and mock lapa there's a phrase in that sierra that

[61:21]says oh a bob de la when your blood was spilled it

[61:32]caused everything under the ash to cry everything contained within the arch

[61:43]of Allah subhana WA Ta'ala reacted to the martyrdom of an imam

[61:46]al-hussein on itself now what that means that in itself is a

[61:50]very detailed discussion but realize what happened when imam hussain ali sanam

[61:55]was killed everything in existence reacted to the blood of imam hussain

[62:00]on himself oh Allah Allah Muhammad Ali had by him

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