Can I be a good human being without religion? | Sayed Muhammed Baqir Qazwini

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Can I be a good human being without religion? | Sayed Muhammed Baqir Qazwini at the Ahlul Bayt Center of Toledo | Ramadan [2022]

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[0:04]i begin in the name of the almighty god the compassionate the

[0:10]merciful the one who has created everything in utmost perfection and may

[0:14]the peace and blessings of the almighty god be upon his pure

[0:18]and beloved messenger the peak of his creation the symbol of humanity

[0:23]the holy prophet muhammad and his immaculate progeny of the bait peace

[0:35]be upon them especially the leader of our time the awaited savior

[0:41]al-imam al-mahdi allah may allah hasten his reappearance and make us all

[0:49]amongst the sincere and dedicated servants respected brothers and sisters assalamu alaikum

[0:55]warahmatullahi sincerely congratulate you all on the arrival of the month of

[1:05]ramadan the month of allah subhanahu wa ta'ala the month of mercy

[1:08]the month of compassion and generosity in which the gates of allah

[1:14]are wide open for all of us i ask allah to accept

[1:19]our deeds in this blessed month to give us the success to

[1:23]make the most of this month to make it spiritually uplifting for

[1:30]us and to protect you all and your families in this blessed

[1:33]month of ramadan allah subhanahu ta'ala states in the holy quran verse

[1:39]97 in this blessed verse states the one who does good whether

[2:03]male or female and they have iman that's the necessary condition they

[2:11]have belief they have faith they do good deeds but with faith

[2:16]what is the consequence here in this world before the achara we

[2:25]will grant them and revive them with a beautiful life a pleasant

[2:32]life a decent life and i and we will give them their

[2:38]full reward in these few minutes my dear brothers and sisters i

[2:43]would like to discuss with you a very important question that many

[2:47]people ask today one of the common questions about religion today is

[2:54]that we know many people out there who are decent they're good

[3:01]people they have good ethical standards they're humanitarian they contribute but they're

[3:08]not necessarily believers they can be atheists they don't follow a specific

[3:14]religion so why is it that i need religion to be a

[3:17]good person when we have good people in our society who are

[3:21]not religious yet they're good people this is a question that you

[3:26]will hear about frequently because we say that you need religion in

[3:30]order to be a good person a decent person so they will

[3:34]counter that and they will object to that by saying no i

[3:38]don't need to follow any religion i don't even need to believe

[3:43]in god to be a decent person i can be charitable there

[3:45]are atheists who donate there are atheists who have humanitarian projects they're

[3:52]very kind they're very gentle they're very humble we don't see them

[3:59]needing religion in order to be good people so do i really

[4:01]need religion to be a good decent human being or not this

[4:07]is the very important question and we will answer this question briefly

[4:12]in a few minutes to answer this question i will share with

[4:18]you why we need religion and why is religion so important tonight

[4:22]we are embracing the month of ramadan and it is during these

[4:25]nights that we truly strengthen our religion so it's really important to

[4:29]know the role of religion in our lives number one religion trains

[4:36]you and teaches you how to show gratitude to your creator that's

[4:41]not something an atheist can do only religion can show you how

[4:47]to show gratitude to your creator because if you don't show gratitude

[4:54]to your creator you cannot be a decent person i say this

[4:59]firmly i'll give you a few examples to make this concept closer

[5:03]to our minds imagine you have a very good person in the

[5:07]community he's very charitable he's very kind whenever you want him to

[5:12]help you he'll help you he's always there for you and he

[5:15]has a mother who's been good to him all his life since

[5:18]the day he was born she went through so much difficulty raising

[5:24]him feeding him raising him very well she sacrificed so much for

[5:28]him everyone knows in the community that she is the ideal mother

[5:31]now what does this guy do when he grows up when he

[5:34]grows up and it's time to pay his mother back and to

[5:40]show her gratitude he denies that his mother has any right over

[5:44]him he does not acknowledge anything that she did he does not

[5:48]recognize anything that she offered him if you know someone in the

[5:53]community like that honestly would you respect this person the person is

[5:57]otherwise very decent doesn't commit crimes he's very helpful he may donate

[6:03]he may help you whenever you want but every single day he

[6:08]wakes up in the morning he says my mother has no right

[6:09]over me i don't need to thank my mother i don't acknowledge

[6:13]her i don't recognize her do you have respect for such a

[6:21]person here's a second example imagine if you want to pursue your

[6:28]academic career your academic education and there is a university that fully

[6:31]sponsors you they give you a full scholarship you get a full

[6:35]ride with this university they even give you accommodations they give you

[6:42]the best accommodations for free it's all on them so now you

[6:46]have free education you have free accommodations right they give you free

[6:53]university lodging they even pay for your food and they put you

[6:56]on the best academic path now in return what do you do

[7:01]every single day you deny that the university has a right over

[7:06]you and every single day you violate the rules of the university

[7:10]every single day that's your habit every single day like i don't

[7:13]believe in these rules i don't believe that the policies and the

[7:16]rules of the university apply to me i don't even think they

[7:20]have a right over me honestly do you think this person is

[7:24]a decent person this is a very important point to consider when

[7:29]you think about religion religion shows you how to thank your creator

[7:33]without religion you're unable to thank your creator you're unable to show

[7:40]him gratitude you deny his rights without religion that is a very

[7:45]important role for religion to recognize that you have a creator and

[7:49]that your creator has laws that you must observe in our society

[7:54]americans today they're not really tolerant of people who are not patriotic

[7:59]right have you seen that the average american i will give you

[8:04]the example of two neighbors here you tell me which one the

[8:08]average american will respect more neighbor one to your right very decent

[8:16]person he doesn't cause any problems for anyone he's very helpful he

[8:21]doesn't break laws but every single day he comes out of his

[8:25]house and he steps on the american flag and he says i

[8:30]don't recognize that this country has any rights over me i don't

[8:32]even believe in the police force i don't believe in the senate

[8:36]i don't believe in congress that they have any legislative powers i

[8:42]don't believe in any court i deny all of that but the

[8:44]person is very decent he doesn't bother anyone but every single day

[8:49]he burns the flag he steps on the flag and he says

[8:52]i don't recognize that anyone here has any authority over me this

[8:55]is your first neighbor the second neighbor the second neighbor says no

[9:01]i'm very patriotic i love this country i'm thankful to all the

[9:06]institutions of this country and i know that my country has a

[9:10]right over me but this person slips sometimes maybe occasionally they'll pass

[9:14]a stop sign a red light they'll do something here and there

[9:19]right the average american has respect for which one more honestly what

[9:23]do you think the average joe out there will have more respect

[9:26]for neighbor a who's not patriotic at all who denies that his

[9:31]country has any rights over him or neighbor b what do you

[9:38]say neighbor b right do you all agree with that why even

[9:41]though neighbor a behaves better than neighbor b but why is it

[9:49]that society respects neighbor b more because they'll tell you neighbor b

[9:54]acknowledges that this country has a right over him at least he

[9:56]respects in theory the rights of the country whereas the other one

[10:01]is insulting the country he's stepping on the flag every day he's

[10:04]burning the flag every day we don't tolerate that my dear brothers

[10:08]and sisters the one who rejects religion and rejects allah subhanahu wa

[10:14]ta'ala is far worse than the one who rejects his land than

[10:17]the one who rejects his country because allah subhanahu ta'ala is the

[10:21]one who created everything every cell in your body is created by

[10:26]allah subhanahu wa that's a very important aspect of religion so that's

[10:30]the first point religion allows you and shows you how to show

[10:35]gratitude to your lord and that's extremely important you cannot achieve that

[10:40]without religion the second point my dear brothers and sisters over here

[10:44]as we are discussing why religion is important and can i figure

[10:50]out everything without religion or not as we're discussing this point the

[10:56]second response to that is that religion prepares you for the hereafter

[11:01]which other institution out there prepares you for the achara all the

[11:06]institutions they prepare you for this life college prepares you for this

[11:14]life your job prepares you to make a living in this life

[11:17]religion is the only entity reality out there that prepares you for

[11:24]the achara for the hereafter we're all going to the hereafter are

[11:27]we prepared for that or no religion shows you what to do

[11:33]to be successful on the day of judgment to be successful in

[11:37]your grave religion tells you what to expect on the day of

[11:40]judgment and how to prepare for that that's not something you can

[11:43]achieve without religion you cannot be prepared for the akhara without religion

[11:50]my dear brothers and sisters it shows you how to prepare for

[11:56]all of that otherwise you will not be successful here in this

[12:04]world even if you're a very decent person you have the kindest

[12:07]heart if you don't pass that bar exam you will not be

[12:10]a licensed attorney can you go to the bar association and tell

[12:14]them look i'm really a decent person ask my neighbors i'm so

[12:18]helpful i take out their trash for them i donate i'm charitable

[12:22]is that going to fly it's not going to fly you don't

[12:26]pass the bar exam you're not going to be a fully licensed

[12:28]attorney if you don't if you don't pass the mcat you're not

[12:33]going to be a doctor even if you're a decent person even

[12:37]if you're kind-hearted simply being decent and kind-hearted does not mean you're

[12:43]going to be successful in the akra if you reject religion and

[12:46]you reject the existence of god religion prepares you for the achara

[12:51]this is the second very most important benefit that religion gives you

[12:59]that you cannot get anywhere out there number three my dear brothers

[13:03]and sisters we understand the significance of religion by knowing that religion

[13:13]gives us effect a fixed standard moral standard to go by without

[13:17]religion we don't have a fixed standard who makes up moral standards

[13:24]in society today society itself right today society tells you that this

[13:30]is wrong it's wrong this is right it's right 50 years ago

[13:35]here in america society said homosexuality was bad it was a disorder

[13:39]society said okay it's bad now society is changing its mind many

[13:45]people are saying no it's okay it's actually perfectly fine to be

[13:50]a homosexual and then in 20 years what's going to happen right

[13:53]you cannot trust something that's not fixed i cannot take my moral

[14:00]values from my society because i don't have a fixed foundation to

[14:06]build my life on and that means i'll have a crisis i'll

[14:09]have a crisis mentally i'll have a crisis psychologically i'll have a

[14:15]crisis socially i'll have an identity crisis what's my identity today ask

[14:19]the average teenager right who has to deal with all these confusing

[14:24]elements with all these different pronouns all these different genders all these

[14:29]different challenges what's your identity the average teenager says i don't even

[14:33]know what my identity is i'm lost in the sea of confusion

[14:38]in this ocean of chaos religion gives you that strong identity you're

[14:43]the servant of allah subhanahu ta'ala and you have a fixed moral

[14:46]standard that you uphold this is only something that can be taken

[14:52]from religion and only religion nothing else can give you that fixed

[14:57]moral standard this is another very significant important aspect of religion my

[15:03]dear brothers and sisters the fourth benefit that we see from religion

[15:07]is that religion has figured out many things for us everything in

[15:14]fact nothing has been spared out there my dear brothers and sisters

[15:23]everything that you need for worldly success for spiritual success has been

[15:28]figured out by religion many of these things you cannot figure them

[15:31]out on your own you need centuries sometimes to discover the wisdom

[15:36]behind islamic laws i would like to share with you a few

[15:38]examples the first example is our dietary system what's halal and what's

[15:44]haram today scientists are spending billions and doing so much research and

[15:52]they're discovering why some foods are harmful why some drinks are harmful

[15:56]why some are beneficial just recently you will find studies that have

[16:03]been published that tell you no amount of wine or alcohol is

[16:09]healthy for decades these these very masha allah intelligent doctors they maintained

[16:13]that a glass of wine is healthy it's good for your heart

[16:17]drink it in moderation yeah don't be obsessive about it don't get

[16:23]addicted to it but if you drink a glass of wine it's

[16:27]fine that's actually good for your heart for many years doctors advocated

[16:32]for this i have myself spoken to american doctors who would say

[16:34]this with full confidence no our research shows that drinking wine is

[16:40]actually good for the heart now they discovered they were wrong now

[16:45]they're admitting that no amount of alcohol no amount of wine is

[16:51]actually good for you it does damage to your heart it does

[16:54]damage to your digestive system it affects your liver even if it's

[16:59]half a glass a day it's harmful for you see after a

[17:03]thousand four hundred years now they discover it islam religion tells you

[17:06]this 14 centuries ago no amount of alcohol is okay it's a

[17:10]major sin getting drunk leads to so many people dying innocently every

[17:18]year in america 90 000 americans die because of drinking 90 000

[17:26]americans islam has figured out this for you you don't need to

[17:30]wait 14 centuries for research and medicine and technology to tell you

[17:35]that it's bad allah already told you it's bad 14 centuries ago

[17:38]even if it has some benefits the harms outweigh the benefits even

[17:46]if we assume it has some benefits the quran recognizes that there

[17:49]are benefits the quran states that there are evil consequences when speaking

[17:58]about wine and gambling their evil consequences are more than their benefits

[18:04]they might have some financial benefits you'll make a lot of money

[18:09]but what budweiser makes a lot of money sure that's a financial

[18:14]incentive for them but the danger is greater the overall harm is

[18:18]greater you see how religion figures that out for you without religion

[18:22]you don't easily arrive at these conclusions you need all that research

[18:27]for them to finally admit islam religion gives you these beautiful answers

[18:33]when at a time when people didn't even have access to technology

[18:39]and medicine to figure all this out you cannot be truly decent

[18:45]and successful without religion you cannot figure out everything those people say

[18:48]i have my life figured out i don't need religion that's not

[18:52]true what do you have figured out what you don't know is

[18:54]a lot more than what you know what do you think you

[18:58]figured out a few things that's it every single day you run

[19:03]into millions of factors you've got them all figured out all of

[19:06]them based on studies and you know exactly what the answer is

[19:11]only religion has everything figured out for you and that's just one

[19:15]simple example our diet the second example is mental health religion protects

[19:23]your mental health if you follow religion properly the chances of you

[19:29]falling into depression anxiety is much less allah may still try you

[19:34]with that believers may go through episodes of depression but it's much

[19:38]less than people who are not religious there are official studies official

[19:44]research in fact i was once reading research published by the gallup

[19:53]polls it showed that americans who were very religious were the least

[19:56]to be affected by depression the least category of people to be

[20:00]affected by depression religion protects your mental health one study by harvard

[20:08]revealed that students in college who were religious they were more successful

[20:15]than those who were not religious in terms of their mental health

[20:21]they had less episodes of depression those who prayed more their mental

[20:24]health was better this is something religion figured out 14 centuries ago

[20:31]this blessed verse that we started with surah nah verse 97 if

[20:40]you do good you have to do good to be truly successful

[20:46]but you have iman you have belief what's the result what gift

[20:52]does allah give you we shall grant this person a decent life

[21:00]a wonderful life a blessed life a life in which your heart

[21:07]is at peace that's something only religion can give you nothing out

[21:11]there in the universe can give you this hyatt this life in

[21:17]which your heart is at peace other than religion you can be

[21:21]a kind person you could be a helpful neighbor but without god

[21:25]without religion you don't have that peace in your heart at the

[21:28]end of the day and this is backed by official studies here

[21:30]in this country this is another example my dear brothers and sisters

[21:36]the mental health aspect is a very important aspect and anything that

[21:41]impacts the mental health today today our society still insists that singing

[21:47]and music is good ask any doctor yeah what's the problem with

[21:51]singing and music just avoid maybe some songs that have some bad

[21:56]lyrics otherwise it's okay you'll find so much singing in fact in

[21:59]many religious institutions these days right go to a temple go to

[22:05]a church they worship through singing and music islam is the only

[22:08]religion that has a problem with music by the way some people

[22:11]say this in a negative way what's this problem islam has with

[22:16]music and singing right honestly today go and inspect 4 000 religions

[22:22]there are more than 4 000 religious out there the only religion

[22:24]pretty much that has a problem with singing and music is islam

[22:28]now look at the research they don't want to admit it but

[22:32]look at the research research is showing you that the long-term effects

[22:36]of music and singing is depression suicidal thoughts and anxiety it increases

[22:43]those rates that is why the highest rates of depression and suicide

[22:47]and anxiety are amongst to musicians and singers is that a coincidence

[22:53]is that a coincidence that three out of four singers and musicians

[22:57]struggle with depression struggle with suicidal thoughts and anxiety three out of

[23:03]four can you imagine but they don't want to admit it no

[23:08]they still spend billions on it religion tells you the true religion

[23:10]of god tells you no that's not good for you not only

[23:14]is it a sin it will keep you away from your lord

[23:19]it will not give you that hayata these are beautiful examples my

[23:23]dear brothers and sisters that we have i cannot say i'll be

[23:27]a decent person why do i need religion i have science i

[23:29]can figure out everything you cannot figure out anything without religion science

[23:34]after all this effort may uncover some things for you religion has

[23:38]figured out everything for you the beautiful system of islam my dear

[23:42]brothers and sisters if you implement it if you take it as

[23:50]a comprehensive system you will truly have the most blessed life in

[23:53]dunya and on the day of judgment and these nights are the

[23:59]nights of the holy rama of the holy month of ramadan believe

[24:02]me no institution out there can give you the spirituality that religion

[24:08]gives you in these nights every single night when you gather as

[24:14]a community together breaking your fast together this is something that religion

[24:21]encourages you know how much this strengthens your brotherhood in society this

[24:25]allows you to de-stress believe me if you've had a trustful stressful

[24:30]day come to the mosque have iftar together you'll feel better i

[24:34]guarantee you try it you will de-stress that's the beauty of our

[24:41]religious rituals that we have allah has figured out everything for us

[24:44]and then after that you recite these beautiful supplications that we have

[24:58]gives you hope and patience oh allah i've been desperate to get

[25:04]this but it's been delayed but i know oh allah that the

[25:06]fact that it's delayed is because it's not good for me i

[25:10]know for that i trust your knowledge subhanallah see intellectually religion strengthens

[25:17]you spiritually it protects you and elevates you just read the duas

[25:21]of the month of ramadan and see how it gives you that

[25:27]dose of spirituality believe me nothing out there in the universe can

[25:31]give you the dose of spirituality mentioned in these du'as of the

[25:36]month of ramadan [Music] look at these beautiful duas brothers and sisters

[25:50]read them and interact with them don't just read them quickly ponder

[25:54]on them the askers those who are in need they're at your

[26:02]door these nights and the fakara the poor ones and everyone other

[26:06]other other than allah is poor and in need and the poor

[26:11]ones oh allah they're looking at your mercy they're awaiting your mercy

[26:20]allah [Music] and the ship of the masakeen we're all mesakin we're

[26:42]all destitutes before allah and our ship has now parked at the

[26:50]coast of your mercy we're having hopes to go on the other

[26:55]side look at these beautiful duas my dear brothers and sisters oh

[27:00]allah if in this month of ramadan you only accept from those

[27:04]good ones who who don't have sins then what about us sinful

[27:09]ones then who do we have oh allah if you're not going

[27:18]to have mercy on us see how much you create hope in

[27:21]your heart in the month of ramadan even if i'm sinful i've

[27:24]fallen short but i have not lost my hope in the mercy

[27:29]of allah subhanahu wa ta'ala we ask allah to open our hearts

[27:35]for guidance in this blends in this blessed month of ramadan we

[27:39]ask allah subhanahu ta'ala to accept our deeds and our fastings in

[27:42]this blessed month once again i congratulate you all on the arrival

[27:46]of the month of ramadan right now at the time of maghrib

[27:50]is when the month of ramadan officially starts for many for most

[27:56]people in the community for some it was last night but for

[27:58]most it is tonight this is the moment of dua my dear

[28:03]brothers and sisters we ask allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to forgive us

[28:06]our sins we ask allah to give us the tawfiq and the

[28:10]success to make the most out of the month of ramadan was

[28:14]muhammadin so

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