Did the world come out of coincidence? | Sheikh Aous Asfar

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Did the world come out of coincidence? Sheikh Aous Asfar | Ramadan Night 19 at the Ahlul Bayt Center of Toledo | 2024

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[0:00]we were speaking about if you recall the Holy Bible right and

[0:07]the Torah as well as the Holy Quran and we started out

[0:14]the verse with the verse in which Allah subhana tala said that

[0:21]Allah subhana T is telling us what he's saying look I'm going

[0:26]to show you my signs in the horizons and within yourself until

[0:29]it becomes apparent and clear to you that I Allah am the

[0:38]truth right is it not enough for you Allah says that I

[0:41]bear witness over all things notice this part of the verse really

[0:47]is a statement of Allah being unlimited think about it if Allah

[0:51]Bears witness over all things what is Allah saying he's saying absolutely

[0:55]I see everything which means he's where everywhere right so then that

[1:02]means that once I realize this and remember logically brother Malik what

[1:07]did we do in the last couple of nights we proved not

[1:10]only does God exist but we proved that he is unlimited we

[1:12]said what a creator of something is greater than what they create

[1:17]therefore the creator of all of limitation must be greater than limitation

[1:20]and therefore he is unlimited Brothers what's your name again so that

[1:30]means means then that Allah subhana T we said is all perfect

[1:34]he's everywhere he's all purposeful he's all wise and he is all

[1:39]just and we said that our purpose truly first and foremost is

[1:42]since Allah created us he has a great right Upon Us greater

[1:47]than the rights that our parents have upon us why because even

[1:49]though they brought us to this world who brought them to this

[1:51]world Allah yes Allah brought their parents and their parents and their

[1:55]parents which means that everything that Allah gave me I should be

[2:02]thankful for it so how am I going to thank him right

[2:05]we said in two ways one I can see how Allah subhana

[2:07]tala treats his creations and I have to treat them the same

[2:11]he's tolerant of them so I must be tolerant right he's merciful

[2:14]towards them so I must be merciful he is the all perfect

[2:18]and he created them therefore they have great worth and value therefore

[2:22]I must treat them as such right even if they're not Muslim

[2:25]even if they're not Muslim also a Muslim becomes what and a

[2:30]human being really if he goes through this intellectual process what happens

[2:36]he becomes very eco-friendly as well right and I mentioned this because

[2:39]unfortunately in many households I find here in Michigan people don't recycle

[2:44]you know good Muslim recycles right we take care of our environment

[2:50]it's a blessing from Allah subhana tal that he gave us such

[2:53]an environment right so that means then what do I need to

[2:57]do I need to understand my purpose then is one emulate Allah's

[3:00]and his ethical system right and never judge anyone because Allah subhana

[3:06]T is the judge he is the ultimate judge right our goal

[3:12]first and foremost is to thank him through our actions a this

[3:19]way B the second way we said is how is to ask

[3:20]him oh Allah there's a necessity for communication right a logical necessity

[3:24]we realized this you gave us the ability to realize this and

[3:27]therefore you must communicate with us so where's the message Snapchat I

[3:32]am uh you know uh send me a message on my Instagram

[3:39]right you got to send me some message old school Facebook right

[3:43]send me something right so Discord these days right that's a new

[3:51]thing so so Allah what does he do he's got to send

[3:52]me a message so what did we say we said all right

[3:54]so I have to prove that a message is from Allah and

[3:58]I said the best way to do that is to look at

[4:01]his most important characteristic of being un unlimited and being all per

[4:07]perfect and therefore based on that I can do what I can

[4:10]try to figure out which message is truly from Allah but first

[4:15]I have to look outside of my circle and see who are

[4:17]claiming that they have the message of God and we determine that

[4:21]we have the the Jews and the Christians and the Muslims right

[4:23]the Jews have the Torah the Christians have the Bible and the

[4:26]Muslims have what the Holy Quran now we covered the first two

[4:31]criteria we said that the book has to be constant and unchanged

[4:35]because the Creator is constant and unchanged we covered that one agreed

[4:39]if you agree say I agree we also covered the second Criterion

[4:41]and that is that it must have no contradictions or errors in

[4:46]it right and we covered that yesterday as well agreed right we

[4:50]found that for both of the first and second criteria that the

[4:56]Bible and the Torah don't meet the first two criteria agreed right

[5:00]and we said why because the original Torah doesn't exist today and

[5:04]we found contradictions in the Old Testament you know not only within

[5:09]itself but it contradicts the New Testament as well right and we

[5:16]we cited um the gospel of Genesis the very first Gospel of

[5:19]the Bible in the Old Testament in chapter 7:1 it contradicting chapter

[5:23]9: 20 to 2 right in which Noah is accused of being

[5:29]drunk God forbid right and of course we then looked into Proverbs

[5:33]in the Old Testament and we found that according to the to

[5:40]Proverbs Allah subhana T prohibits us right and wine is a mocker

[5:43]and whomsoever um is deceived is unwise right and do not be

[5:46]amongst wine bibbers riotous Eaters of Flesh right don't even be among

[5:50]them don't be even be around them if you see them avoid

[5:52]them so how is he going to allow us to even drink

[5:56]does that make sense right and then of course it biteth like

[5:59]a serpent and and it stingeth like an Adder we said it

[6:02]takes a hold of you suffocates the life out of you and

[6:07]it poisons you right that's toxic and our wonderful doctors will tell

[6:10]you that it's toxic to the liver and toxic to the brain

[6:12]right so then I told you okay so then we know that

[6:18]there are contradictions then and we mentioned also in Luke that it

[6:22]mentions about Prophet y that he was great in the sight of

[6:27]his Lord and that he neither drank wine nor strong drink right

[6:29]so so that's a quick review of what we took and we

[6:33]said that this applies then to all prophets that they neither drink

[6:35]wine nor strong drink and we said strong drink is what is

[6:41]any alcoholic beverage right okay mamam I told you today that we'd

[6:50]speak about coincidence right and Chaos Theory and in order to speak

[6:54]about coincidence and Chaos Theory we have to understand first and foremost

[6:57]the terms that we're using right so the term chaos itself the

[7:02]way that it's used in layman's terms as we would use it

[7:04]in everyday life or how the media would use it right is

[7:09]to say that something is disorganized agreed if you agree say I

[7:13]agree right so say you enter your child's room or your mom

[7:17]enters your room she sees everything's all over the place she says

[7:20]this is so chaotic right and you know automatically it means that

[7:24]it's disorganized right so that's the Layman's use use of the word

[7:27]chaos now that means then and in media of course of course

[7:31]that the way that it's taught to us is that chaos is

[7:36]just disorganization right now when we go to um uh to uh

[7:39]you know to to what they try to do they try to

[7:43]tie chaos with coincidence okay now let's understand coincidence and the term

[7:46]coincidence all right the word coincidence what does it really mean it

[7:50]means that an event coincided with another agreed for those of us

[7:58]who know English well right right so an event coincided with another

[8:02]either in time or in space yes all right all right so

[8:08]is there really Randomness in coincidence if we think of it this

[8:12]way that it's two coinci that it's two events that coincided right

[8:15]let me give you an example let's say for example um I'm

[8:18]MJ's neighbor okay and both of us decide to leave our houses

[8:24]at the same time on the same day right same time same

[8:30]day except you go left and I go right okay and then

[8:32]we bump into each other was that random but it was a

[8:38]coincidence right why was it a coincidence because the two events coincided

[8:41]in time and in space agreed if you agree say I agree

[8:47]but this coincidence was a result of what of human Choice agreed

[8:52]right so in reality is it random it's not random at all

[8:57]right I made a conscious choice mjed made a conscious choice right

[9:03]we left at the same time we he decided to go left

[9:07]I decided to go right so then coincidence is not Randomness is

[9:10]that clear and the two should not be mixed up even if

[9:15]they try to mix it up in our minds make sense if

[9:16]it makes sense say it makes sense this is a very important

[9:21]concept for us to think about and understand so next we look

[9:24]at coincidence let's say uh chaos as a term or actually no

[9:31]let's continue with coincidence and I'll finish with this and continue tomorrow

[9:34]with with chaos sounds good if it sounds good say it sounds

[9:37]good good all right so I'll give you a story this is

[9:41]a very very simple story rudimentary story but it's a great story

[9:44]and you'll remember it inshallah so there was this professor in Sydney

[9:48]okay and he was supposed to give a keynote speech at a

[9:53]conference so that morning he gets up he gets dressed he's all

[9:56]ready to go to the conference but he decides to walk to

[9:59]the conference conference now his colleagues in the conference waited for him

[10:03]half an hour 1 Hour 2 hours 3 hours pass finally he

[10:05]shows up where have you been where have you been right so

[10:14]what does he say he says well to be honest with you

[10:16]I decided to walk today and as I was walking to the

[10:20]conference center I got to the side of a river so I

[10:24]sat at the River Bank I waited and waited right until a

[10:26]bunch of Twigs came together coincidentally randomly right to form a raft

[10:30]as soon as that happened I got on it crossed the river

[10:34]and here I am now it only took 3 hours so of

[10:38]course you can imagine they ridiculed him they made fun of him

[10:41]okay they made they totally made fun of him right so he

[10:46]says really okay so why are you making fun of me um

[10:50]you find that me suggesting that a raft would come together out

[10:54]of coincidence out of Twigs randomly right is an impossibility right for

[10:59]you and that's why you ridicule me right they said yes of

[11:03]course that's ludicrous so he said well that's interesting and yet you

[11:08]want us to believe that this entire universe with all of its

[11:13]intricate details with all of the laws of nature which science has

[11:16]proven that even the slightest change would cause the universe to collapse

[11:20]onto itself you want us to believe that all of that the

[11:25]RNA the DNA right all of these intricate details the quarks the

[11:28]atoms that these are all out of coincidence and yet right mamam

[11:42]you want us to believe that all of this it's coincidence who

[11:48]should ridicule whom what you're suggesting is more ridiculous than what I'm

[11:56]suggesting right muham muham Myan is a bit early it's 2 minutes

[12:04]early right doc yeah okay so you know was of course an

[12:14]individual who was unlike any other individual was a thinker right he

[12:24]was chosen by Allah he was purified by Allah subhana wa tala

[12:26]and we'll learn about that as we move along inshallah how to

[12:28]prove that as well but is no different than us he goes

[12:34]through trials and tribulations as well remember we said the best of

[12:39]Allah's Creations in the Arabic lecture right they have to go through

[12:43]the greatest of calamities and tragedies and he went through many in

[12:48]his life and the last one that he would go through would

[12:50]be on this very Eve the eve of the 19th the eve

[12:55]of the Lesser night of the BL Eve of it is said

[13:03]brothers and [Music] sisters in this night he would break his fast

[13:12]in the house of his [Music] daughter [Music] every night the IM

[13:42]would spend one night inar with one of his kids that night

[13:46]was the night of [Music] so his daughter brought him a plate

[14:08]that had two types of food in it he looked at her

[14:09]and said no my dear daughter do you want me to spend

[14:12]a long time on the day of judgment in front of Allah

[14:15]take one of these plates take one of these plates and leave

[14:21]it aside she took the yogurt and she put it aside and

[14:23]he kept barley bre to eat [Music] they would say that on

[14:45]this night he would walk back and forth and he would say

[14:47]I swear by Allah this is the [Music] night this is the

[15:03]night that my beard will be drenched in its own blood this

[15:07]is the night that the holy prophet had promised me this is

[15:11]the night of my martyrdom they say as the time of f

[15:15][Music] approach after doing his and his he would do his W

[15:26]and he would prepare to go to m [Music] when he went

[15:43]to the mosque of Kua he found some people sleeping on the

[15:47]ground he went up to them he said surely it is abhor

[15:48]by Allah for you to sleep in the Masjid one of these

[15:53]men [Music] was he was hiding his sword that was laced with

[16:00]poison right under his belly so that would not see his sword

[16:07]they say that went up to his he did thean he called

[16:14]people to pray after that everyone would congregate behind [Music] him after

[16:40]performing the he would start the prayer with a he would recite

[16:46]then go into R and after that he would go into and

[16:52]before he would come out [Music] of [Music] and as was raising

[17:11]his head behind him directly was with his sword raised up in

[17:18]the sky and before could raise his head he would be struck

[17:24]by the sword of his head would start bleeding and his face

[17:29]would hit the ground Imam Hassan Imam Hussein would gather around him

[17:35]Imam Hassan would hold his father in his arms the Angels would

[17:41]be heard saying [Music] they were next to their father holding him

[18:14]caressing him and crying over him as he bled profusely drenching his

[18:25][Music] beard [Music] surely we are from Allah and to he we

[18:38]shall return and surely those who oppress the holy household of Allah

[18:54]will know what a grave punishment they shall receive P oh Allah

[19:01]we ask you and beseech you that you accept what little we

[19:05]offered in this night that you allow us to be of those

[19:07]who will be the Servants of IM and surely it pleases him

[19:13]to see us commemorating the martyrdom of his grandfather oh Allah allow

[19:19]us allow us on this night to do all of the Deeds

[19:21]that you ask of us to change our upcoming future to make

[19:26]the Dua for our brothers and our sisters to release the pressure

[19:29]and oppression upon those who are all oppressed In This World by

[19:34]all of the dictators and all of the oppressive governments andn and

[19:40]Afghanistan and Pakistan and every single country that there is out there

[19:44]in which there are that are oppressed

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