Does God Have a Personality? - Sayed Mohammad Baqer Qazwini

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Ramadan 2019 - Does God Have a Personality? - Sayed Mohammad Baqer Qazwini
Night 6 - Ramadan 2019 - 1440 at the Ahlul Bayt Center of Toledo

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[0:00]- shaytan ar-rajim bismillah ar-rahman ar-rahim I begin in the name of

[0:06]the Almighty God the compassionate the merciful the one who has created

[0:09]everything an utmost perfection and may the peace and blessings of the

[0:17]Almighty God be upon his pure and beloved messenger the peak of

[0:22]his creation the symbol of humanity the holy prophet muhammad sallallahu alayhi

[0:30]wa ali and his immaculate progeny of the al-bait peace be upon

[0:38]them respected brothers and sisters assalamu alaykum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh last night we

[0:46]examined rational proof and evidence for the existence of allah subhanahu wata'ala

[0:55]one question that many people ask about and oftentimes we do wonder

[1:04]about this as we are trying to figure out our relationship with

[1:07]allah subhanahu wata'ala as the following question does God have a personality

[1:14]and if he does what kind of personality does God have oftentimes

[1:20]we have our own imagination and conceptions of God and we wonder

[1:27]whether God has a personality when you are interested to know someone

[1:31]when you fall in love with someone the first thing that you

[1:34]want to do is to get to know their personality right explore

[1:40]what kind of traits they have what kind of personality they have

[1:42]many of us want to build a relationship with allah subhana wa

[1:46]ta'ala and too often we wonder does he really have a personality

[1:53]or no some people have a conception of god as being this

[1:56]powerful being who's always angry and he wants to seek vengeance some

[2:02]people historically have had the imagination of god being vengeful and being

[2:09]very jealous in fact you know the romans at the time of

[2:16]Prophet ISA Islam and even before that one reason why they hated

[2:20]the children of Israel the Jewish nation is because they accused their

[2:29]God of being jealous because the Romans said we have our own

[2:32]idols and we worship our idols but these Jews they say there's

[2:35]only one God and that God does not allow you to worship

[2:41]any other idol so that God must be a very jealous God

[2:45]and you see that this is their understanding of God they have

[2:49]this image of him having a jealous personality so does God have

[2:56]a personality or no before we examine this my dear brothers and

[3:00]sisters in our introductory point I would like to share with you

[3:04]something significant about allah subhanaw taala that has been mentioned in our

[3:10]narrations the religion of islam invites us to contemplate and think about

[3:15]everything look at the holy quran and invites human beings to contemplate

[3:20]to use the intellect that god has given them to think about

[3:24]everything in existence there is nothing that islam tells you you can't

[3:30]think about this this is a question you cannot ask no this

[3:33]does not exist exist in our faith and in our school of

[3:37]thought we are allowed to think about everything and also to ask

[3:42]about everything there's one exception now I need from the holy prophet

[3:45]sallallahu alayhi wa honor he states contemplate and think about everything except

[3:51]the essence of God the actual essence of God is something beyond

[3:58]your comprehension and this is only logical because Allah is unlimited we

[4:04]are limited the limited can never encompass the unlimited that's a logical

[4:08]impossibility so don't think about the essence of God yes think about

[4:16]the actions of God the creation of Allah spano to allah the

[4:19]attributes of god which point you to his greatness but about the

[4:23]essence of god some people think what is god composed of that's

[4:28]beyond your and alas not physical for him to be composed of

[4:32]anything but how does his knowledge work how does he know things

[4:35]how does he process information and data that's beyond our comprehension we

[4:40]know God knows how does he know that's beyond our comprehension because

[4:44]there in the knowledge of allah subhanaw taala is his essence the

[4:51]beauty of believing in the one god is that allah subhana wa

[4:54]ta'ala is not divisible we don't believe that God is an essence

[5:00]and a part of it is knowledge a part of it is

[5:06]power a part of it is wisdom no us human beings yes

[5:07]that's how we operate I as a human being knowledge is supplemental

[5:14]it's added to me I don't have knowledge than I acquire knowledge

[5:16]but that's not how it works with Allah Subhanahu WA Ta'ala Allah

[5:19]Himself is knowledge himself is power that's the meaning of his essence

[5:24]but this is difficult for us to grasp because we're limited beings

[5:29]you know oftentimes when we're arrogant and we think we know everything

[5:34]just look at your senses my dear brothers and sisters can you

[5:37]explain your senses to someone who doesn't have them if someone is

[5:44]born blind they don't know what colors are they don't know what

[5:47]light is can you explain to them what vision means what it

[5:50]means to see you try can you what words can you use

[5:57]so that person understands what seeing is that's how weak we human

[6:01]beings are we can't even grasp our senses yes we can experience

[6:05]them because we see we hear but if someone's born deaf and

[6:10]they don't know what sound is and they've never heard in their

[6:14]lives can you explain to them what sound is what voice means

[6:17]can you what different Tunes and melodies mean no you can't what

[6:22]words can describe that that's how weak we are now you want

[6:27]to grasp the essence of allah subhanho wa taala so the hadith

[6:29]of a little bit peace be upon them are very clear that

[6:34]when it comes to the core essence of God that's not an

[6:36]area where you contemplate and think because you will get confused you

[6:40]might even deviate from the oneness of allah subhanahu wata'ala in fact

[6:46]that's one of the meanings of the name Allah have you ever

[6:50]wondered what Allah means in Arabic there are a number of definitions

[6:58]one is V God Vienna which is Allah the only God to

[7:02]be worshipped another meaning comes from the word Allah her Anna Hal

[7:09]Santa Ana refer to basically one meaning of Allah is that the

[7:14]more you think of the essence of God the more you realize

[7:20]how much you don't know and that it's impossible for you to

[7:23]grasp the essence of God and those who really know allah subhana

[7:29]wa ta'ala are those people who know very well that they can

[7:33]never reach the essence of God and they are in awe and

[7:38]in wonder of the essence of God that's one way of knowing

[7:41]allah subhana wa ta'ala is to know that you can never grasp

[7:45]him you cannot imagine in him you cannot imagine him don't subject

[7:48]him to the limits of your imagination oftentimes we do imagine God

[7:52]and we limit him in our imagination having said that let's address

[8:01]the point of our discussion this evening do we have a personal

[8:05]God or known historically religions have debated this point and we find

[8:11]that you have two groups amongst world religions the first group they

[8:17]say that God is completely impersonal you will find many Hindus believing

[8:24]in this many branches of Hinduism believe that God is impersonal now

[8:30]what do they mean by impersonal they also have a number of

[8:36]definitions one definition is that God is this power in the universe

[8:39]which is the source of life the source of existence however God

[8:44]isn't a being that makes decisions has an intention answers your prayer

[8:53]hears you know God is this power it's impersonal power to give

[8:58]you just a quick example think of gravity or fire gravity is

[9:03]this power right the power of gravity it has the power of

[9:10]pulling objects now this is an impersonal cause it's an impersonal power

[9:14]it just takes its course gravity is not something that's conscious and

[9:21]knows what it's doing and makes decisions right same with fire for

[9:27]instance there are some philosophers who say God when he creates he

[9:32]is like fire fire has the capacity to burn does fire choose

[9:38]to burn or it naturally burns it naturally burns I don't think

[9:40]you have a fire that says ok you know I'm gonna burn

[9:45]today today I'm not gonna burn I'm going to make that choice

[9:47]that's not how it works some philosophers unfortunately they ascribe this idea

[9:53]to God they says God he naturally creates he naturally gives existence

[9:58]to other beings it's not that he makes an active willful decision

[10:06]to create this is an impersonal God so he doesn't hear you

[10:09]the way we understand it he doesn't do miracles he doesn't intervene

[10:13]no the world just running its course now one reason why these

[10:18]people came up with this idea of an impersonal God is because

[10:22]they struggled with the idea of evil there's evil bad things happen

[10:27]in this world if God really has awareness and he sees what's

[10:32]happening and he knows what's happening why does he allow for evil

[10:36]to exist one reason that caused them to believe in an impersonal

[10:39]God is because they had trouble explaining evil so that's one view

[10:46]historically the other view is the view of the Abrahamic faiths that

[10:53]God is a personal God but let's define this word what does

[10:56]it mean that God is a personal God if you look at

[11:00]the Holy Scriptures the Bible the Old Testament the New Testament the

[11:04]Holy Quran it's very clear that God speaks in the first person

[11:06]wanna taro to confess lamahieu ha Allah Spano - auditors Musa al-salaam

[11:14]and I chose you so listen to what I have to reveal

[11:19]to you see it's a personal God in that sense that allah

[11:22]spirit allah is referring to himself as someone who's aware who's talking

[11:28]who can see and these scriptures are also very clear that a

[11:31]lot can hear us allah subhanaw taala can see our actions he

[11:34]has knowledge of us Allah can intervene you at you you ask

[11:40]Allah subhana WA Ta'ala you make a prayer Allah Subhan Allah Allah

[11:44]responds that's what it means when we say a personal God now

[11:49]let's see where Islam fits in over here when you talk about

[11:55]this personal God though sometimes you find these other religions including many

[12:02]Christians they make God too personal and they ascribe human qualities literally

[12:09]to God see the Bible the Holy Scriptures even the Quran but

[12:14]we'll talk about that states that God expresses emotions God gets angry

[12:20]the God of the Bible states that he gets angry he seeks

[12:26]vengeance he becomes happy he becomes satisfied and many Christians do actually

[12:32]believe God has these feelings and emotions not all of them but

[12:36]a lot of them do Thomas Aquinas yes the Christian figure he

[12:43]said that God is not a body he's not corporal he doesn't

[12:45]have emotions but many Christians today believe God does have emotions because

[12:49]he says so yes he doesn't necessarily have to have a body

[12:52]but he does have emotions God really feels offended when you sin

[12:59]God's can affect God gets offended he feels this indignation he gets

[13:04]angry he feels violated and they believe that God has emotions what

[13:08]is the perspective of the religion of Islam because someone could come

[13:13]and tell you the Quran says the same thing doesn't all the

[13:17]Quran in a number of verses state that God gets angry right

[13:21]allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala seeks vengeance aliment up damian tap him this is

[13:28]mentioned in the holy quran god becomes happy he becomes satisfied God

[13:33]loves and Allahabad muta peen in the lie Abu Taha beam and

[13:39]the lie on Matata hélène so many verses in the holy quran

[13:42]clearly states that a last panel - Allah loves people with certain

[13:48]qualities so then does God have emotions or no in the school

[13:51]of Anna Bates my dear brothers and sisters and that's the beauty

[13:56]of following the a debate they give you the pure source of

[13:59]knowledge and the school of Allen bait allah subhanaw taala doesn't experience

[14:05]feelings or emotions all of these references in the holy quran are

[14:10]not to be taken literally these are symbolic metaphorical references because if

[14:17]you say God experiences emotions and feelings than you limit him then

[14:23]that means allah subhana wa ta'ala is subject to changes in his

[14:27]own essence and that God experiences reactions look at the human being

[14:33]what does emotions mean when you feel angry what's happening reactions certain

[14:40]chemical reactions occur in your brain and you experience that anger your

[14:44]brain communicates that to the soul you feel it it's a reaction

[14:50]love is a reaction fear is a reaction hate is a reaction

[14:54]all these are reactions and they indicate that you have a physical

[14:58]presence a physical body in which these reactions happen but allah subhanaw

[15:04]taala is not a physical entity allah subhana wa ta'ala does not

[15:11]experience these emotions through feelings because that means there are changes in

[15:16]the essence of God one second allows angry one second he's not

[15:19]you have a change now in his essence and this makes him

[15:21]limited this puts limitations on God and that means Allah Spano Tata

[15:27]has parts and the annual debates made it very clear who Allahu

[15:31]Ahad not only is Allah won but he has no parts as

[15:35]well even these types of parts a la Spano Terada is above

[15:38]them and by the way one interesting thing about those people who

[15:42]think God has emotions if God really had emotions and feelings and

[15:49]he would feel anger feel love feel hate feel offense that would

[15:53]be a really miserable God to be honest with you because every

[15:59]little second somebody is offending God somebody is making God angry you

[16:03]know what kind of existence does God have where every little second

[16:07]people are making him miserable through these emotions and feelings and snap

[16:12]says no this isn't an inappropriate don't think that allah subhanho Tata

[16:16]has these emotions and feelings who are we to offend the Almighty

[16:23]God and make him feel offended who are mine Who am I

[16:26]I as the small little speck in a speck in this universe

[16:32]have you seen the planet Earth from space sometimes you've seen those

[16:36]videos it starts zooming out you can't see earth anymore you can't

[16:41]see the galaxy anymore you can't even see our Sun were this

[16:47]small I can actually make God angry I can actually upset God

[16:50]and have him go through these feelings this is preposterous this is

[16:55]impossible so we believe that allah subhanaw taala does not have emotions

[16:59]okay so how do we explain these verses in the quran then

[17:01]when allah speaks of anger or satisfaction in the holy quran or

[17:10]any other emotion in reality allah subhanaw taala is talking about the

[17:16]consequence of that emotion when you become angry what do you do

[17:21]if you're violated if you're the lawmaker and you make the police

[17:25]angry right by speeding what happens what's the consequence you get a

[17:30]ticket you get fined the anger of allah subhanaw taala means loss

[17:37]you lose blessings or you might get punished that's the meaning of

[17:42]God's anger otherwise Allah doesn't have emotions when we say Allah loves

[17:46]you it doesn't mean Ally experiences the feeling of love it means

[17:49]allah subhanahu wata'ala will bless you because when you love someone you

[17:55]give them your generous with them you give them a special status

[17:58]you help them you serve them allah subhanho to allah when he

[18:01]loves someone allah blesses them he gives them a reward he gives

[18:06]them blessings in their lives allah protects that person gives them a

[18:09]high status on the day of judgment that's the meaning of a

[18:12]less planet Allah loving you all these emotions in the Holy Quran

[18:16]some people picture God as this angry being always wanting to take

[18:24]vengeance absolutely not Allah does not experience any of this but Allah

[18:29]uses language my dear brothers and sisters that we can understand we

[18:32]human beings connect with emotions when you say God will be angry

[18:36]at you then that motivates you to stay away from those sins

[18:44]from those crimes from those evil acts unless basically just borrowing our

[18:49]own language because he's speaking in our mentality otherwise he doesn't have

[18:54]emotions by the way over here some people object that every page

[18:58]in the Holy Quran or two pages that you open God is

[19:03]threatening us signing us with punishment the day of judgment Hellfire why

[19:07]does God threaten us some people really think God is an angry

[19:14]god he's always training his people my dear brothers and sisters Allah

[19:18]created us and he knows as well we are the product and

[19:21]Allah Spano to Allah is the manufacturer Allah knows what works and

[19:25]what doesn't work we human beings at our core what motivates us

[19:32]what mean what keeps us in check as the reward is the

[19:35]system of rewards and punishments that's the reality most people even adults

[19:43]at their core they act childish if there is no fear of

[19:47]punishment or fines or repercussions and negative consequences we don't behave psychologists

[19:56]Kohlberg he talks about moral development it's very interesting he says why

[20:00]do people act the way they do and he divides the stages

[20:05]of moral development into three stages he says the first stage is

[20:11]the preconventional level basically a lot of people they do things either

[20:15]because they want to avoid a punishment a fine or they want

[20:20]to benefit a reward just like kids right if you want to

[20:23]get a child to do something how do you get them to

[20:27]do something reward them give them a reward that might encourage them

[20:30]if that doesn't work you threaten them I'll ground you I'll discipline

[20:34]you it works for most kids that works most people operate at

[20:38]that level and in fact even believers worship Allah Spanos Allah based

[20:44]on this principle that's why I might've never thought about it and

[20:47]I'm in that beautiful hadith he says o Allah I don't worship

[20:49]you because I'm scared of hell or I want to go to

[20:53]heaven no I find you higher than that that's the first stage

[20:55]of moral development the second stage of moral development is the conventional

[21:01]level where you do things not necessarily because of punishment or because

[21:07]of rewards but because you want to be seen as a good

[21:11]citizen I do this because I want to be a good boy

[21:15]a good girl a good citizen the third level which Kohlberg calls

[21:20]the post conventional level of moral development people do things now because

[21:26]they're scared of a punishment because they want a reward because they

[21:29]want others to say we're good citizens but because they do that

[21:32]which they believe is right they have moral principles I do this

[21:39]because it's justice and it's good to do it imam ali ali

[21:41]salam says the real believers worship god not because they're afraid of

[21:47]hell that's the worship of slaves not because of their desire for

[21:52]heaven it's okay but iman ideas above that that's the worship of

[21:56]merchants and businessmen he says i worship god because it's the right

[22:02]thing to do because he's worthy of being worshipped why shouldn't i

[22:06]worship him when he has created me he's blessed me and he's

[22:09]given me everything so if a lie uses this language in the

[22:14]holy quran because allah knows the danger that the human being can

[22:19]fall into if you see a child who's right by fire what

[22:22]do you do what do you do yes you try to convince

[22:27]the fire in the child not to go to the fire but

[22:31]if you see the child running towards the fire do you sit

[22:33]with the child and say hey baby let's talk some philosophy here

[22:36]let's talk about the elements on fire and does it work when

[22:40]you see the child running towards the fire most people are falling

[22:43]into the fire here in this world through their sins through their

[22:47]acts of destruction through their jealousy through their hatred through their violation

[22:52]of each other's rights the violation of God's laws in that case

[22:58]yes Allah threatens and all the Quran to keep us in check

[23:01]not because he's an angry Lord Allah doesn't have emotions so that's

[23:05]one perspective about the Holy Quran when it comes to emotions Allah

[23:10]isn't this being that has emotions all these verses in the Holy

[23:15]Quran are figurative the second point is a marvelous fascinating point which

[23:21]the a debates have explained one hadith States the emotions that we

[23:28]read in the Quran are in fact the emotions exhibited by the

[23:33]representatives of God when Allah says in the Holy Quran that Allah

[23:37]becomes angry Allah has no emotions it means his representatives become angry

[23:42]when people are violated when there's an act of injustice and they

[23:48]are the prophets and the Imams of a debate because they are

[23:52]the representatives of Allah on the earth on behalf of Allah subhana

[23:56]wa ta'ala they show those emotions when you do good Allah soon

[24:00]allah salla allahu allahu allah loves you and becomes happy and he

[24:06]represents allah subhana WA Ta'ala and so when Allah says I am

[24:09]happy it means the Prophet will experience that joy of you believing

[24:13]in the right path and being an upright human being and we

[24:19]do believe that human beings on earth my dear brothers and sisters

[24:23]we talked about evolution a couple of nights ago we're not some

[24:28]evolutionary accident we are the representatives of God on earth when Allah

[24:33]created Adam and his salaam he made it clear to the Angels

[24:37]in nija I don't feel Arabic and Eva what does Khalifa mean

[24:40]they act on my behalf think of this fundamental point on this

[24:45]earth my dear brothers and sisters when you act would you live

[24:51]when you make deals remember you're here acting on behalf of allah

[24:56]subhanaw taala he put you here we're not some accident over here

[25:00]yes we can accept evolution impacting our biology the bodies yes we

[25:07]talked about that in detail there's a lot of evidence that living

[25:12]organisms are impacted by their surroundings that's fine but Allah created the

[25:19]human being in full form to represent the Almighty God this is

[25:23]the in son Allah has given honor and dignity to the human

[25:25]being animals don't just come via human beings over night that doesn't

[25:29]happen Allah created the human being with that humanity this is a

[25:38]gift Allah has given us and therefore these emotions that the Holy

[25:44]Quran talks about are those which are exhibited by the representatives of

[25:49]God don't we read an hour to as my dear brothers and

[25:55]sisters about the Imam of our time who represents Allah on earth

[26:01]ie nieuwe jalaja leve la here - what John olia where is

[26:05]the face of God this is not literal its to be taken

[26:08]metaphorically the prophets the Imams the Annan bait they represent the Almighty

[26:15]Allah Subhanahu WA Ta'ala because they show us the path to the

[26:18]Almighty God so when we think my dear brothers and sisters of

[26:20]God God doesn't have a personality in the sense that he has

[26:26]emotions keep that in mind that's the first thing to know about

[26:28]Allah now to better understand allah subhanho to allah we examine his

[26:33]attributes allah has 99 names right we study these names because all

[26:41]these beautiful names they real one aspect of the attributes of Allah

[26:48]a last two main attributes are power and knowledge all these 99

[26:55]names really if you analyze them they go back to power and

[26:58]knowledge for instance we say Allah subhana WA Ta'ala is Semyon Basile

[27:03]Allah hears Allah sees what does that mean that means he knows

[27:10]ila moonbin much more art ala moana bill mob salat Allah knows

[27:13]what you speak he doesn't have an ear to hear it Allah

[27:17]Spano to Allah sees what you do he knows of it it

[27:21]doesn't mean he literally sees it it goes back to his knowledge

[27:23]and then when we talk about Allah being Raheem Rahman Oh oof

[27:30]Allah being compassionate Allah being merciful what does that mean that means

[27:35]Allah Spano to Allah uses his power to benefit you that's Rama

[27:42]analyze Rahman what does not mean when Allah uses his power to

[27:45]benefit you the human being so you can benefit from the power

[27:49]of God what does justice mean justice or hekima wisdom means God

[27:58]uses his power in the appropriate place he uses it appropriately that's

[28:03]the meaning of hickman so all these names of Allah spano to

[28:06]Allah when you study them you are in awe how many dimensions

[28:11]does the knowledge of Allah have how many dimensions does the power

[28:14]of a last panel two and a half when you say a

[28:18]last panel two eyes and one taught him he seeks revenge he's

[28:21]vengeful what does that mean that means he uses his power to

[28:26]stop the evil ones that's what it means it goes back to

[28:28]the power of allah subhanho wa taala this is how we can

[28:32]come to know the almighty god when we stand before allah we

[28:36]are connecting ourself ourselves to the source of all knowledge and all

[28:41]power and the universe see the beauty in that my dear brothers

[28:47]and sisters and finally I'll conclude with one point as we speak

[28:50]about knowing God and if we wonder in the in our discussion

[28:56]whether God has a personality how to eye come to know Allah

[28:59]subhana WA Ta'ala one hadith states if you want to know God

[29:03]start with yourself man our F&F sir fuc Adara Fariba when you

[29:13]know yourself and you come to know yourself then you can come

[29:17]to know the almighty God how do we understand this hadith two

[29:25]quick points number one as one hadith from prophet Dawood Ali said

[29:30]i'm sheds light when you study yourself you realize you are weak

[29:35]you are created you'd you were ignorant then you acquired knowledge you

[29:39]were weak then you gained strength you know allah subhana wa ta'ala

[29:47]is the exact opposite I'm in need he's not I am physical

[29:49]he's not I am ignorant in my essence I was born ignorant

[29:58]he's not I am weak at my core he's not that's one

[30:01]way to come to know Allah spano tada examine yourself when you

[30:07]see yourself limited you know you have a creator who's unlimited that's

[30:11]one way of coming to know allah subhana wa ta'ala a second

[30:14]way of knowing allah subhana wa ta'ala and this is really interesting

[30:20]and its philosophical examine yourselves my dear brothers and sisters when you

[30:26]examine yourself that soul in you that me and me maybe one

[30:28]night we can talk about the soul is there any evidence for

[30:33]the soul some atheists may deny that we have a soul when

[30:36]you examine yourself and your soul you notice something interesting your soul

[30:42]is connected to you it's a part of you but is it

[30:47]in your body physically and technically is your soul in your body

[30:51]you feel like something is in your body inside you know you

[30:57]feel connected your soul is here present but it's not like something

[31:00]that's in your body right but is it something that's separated from

[31:05]your body outside of your body no you manage yourself yourself that

[31:14]soul manages you it's not technically inside of you for it to

[31:17]be literally a part of you and it's not technically outside of

[31:20]you such that it's separated from you but it controls you subhanAllah

[31:26]think of Allah in this in these terms Allah who manages the

[31:31]universe sometimes you wonder is he here or he's not here is

[31:33]he physically and everything or he's away from everything Allah manages the

[31:38]universe but he's not technically inside the universe and he's not technically

[31:42]outside the universe look at yourself and you realize the greatness of

[31:47]allah subhanho wa taala that's one way of understanding the Almighty God

[31:51]and in this holy month my dear brothers and sisters the month

[31:57]of Ramadan is the month in which we come to discover the

[31:59]Almighty God the more you see the greatness of God the more

[32:05]you see the signs of God the more you see the attributes

[32:07]of the all-mighty God he's given us all these attributes my dear

[32:10]brothers and sisters but sometimes we don't see them out of arrogance

[32:16]and selfishness he's showed us all the signs I'll share with you

[32:20]and conclude with this short story an australian convert or revert his

[32:26]story is fascinating you could find it on youtube it's online he

[32:30]talks about his name is Ruben just go online on YouTube click

[32:37]Ruben the Australian Muslim and you'll see his story he says I

[32:41]struggled ours a Christian but there were many questions that I had

[32:44]no one could answer me no one could answer my questions I

[32:50]went to the church to the priest and then I gave up

[32:52]on religion until one day someone told me why don't you go

[32:56]and ask these Muslims maybe the Quran has answers to your questions

[32:59]maybe this religion can answer your questions he says initially I was

[33:06]reluctant these Muslims these Muslims having answers for me impossible my friend

[33:10]said just go what do you have to lose he says I

[33:14]went to a local mosque I started asking questions I found every

[33:18]answer that I had in the Holy Quran reader story it's very

[33:20]fascinating he says I became to struggle does God really exist does

[33:26]he not exist I want to sign he says one night I

[33:31]was alone in my room and I said God I'm this close

[33:33]to believing in you this close to believing in the Quran but

[33:38]I want a tangible sign show me a sign that I can

[33:40]feel it's like I expected something's gonna happen nothing happened I waited

[33:48]come on God this is your last chance prove yourself to me

[33:54]otherwise you're gonna lose me you know he says it in a

[33:55]funny way it's like I had this conversation with God show me

[34:00]your presence just anything maybe a lightning bolt something moving in my

[34:05]room just something it's like pitch silence nothing nothing happened it was

[34:10]like I kind of gave up I kind of lost hope that

[34:14]God exists I picked up the Quran I opened it I saw

[34:18]the verse in the Holy Quran in which God says do they

[34:20]not see the signs of Allah the Sun and the moon and

[34:24]the galaxies and the heavens and the earth and the winds that

[34:26]carry the rain and your creation and everything that's not enough for

[34:31]you the human being he's like when I saw that I said

[34:33]to myself Ruben you're so selfish God has given you millions of

[34:37]signs you want yet another one in your room look at everything

[34:40]around you the signs of Allah are evident don't be selfish when

[34:46]you ask for a personal sign you're being selfish oh god I

[34:49]want my own sign unless as you want more what more do

[34:54]you want I've given you millions of signs every cell in your

[34:56]body is a sign you want more than that there's seven trillion

[34:59]signs in your body you want more than that he says that

[35:03]led me to the belief in Allah Spano tiada and I embraced

[35:08]the religion of Islam sallou ala muhammadin wa ala muhammad we ask

[35:14]Allah subhana WA Ta'ala to bless us may Allah spano to Allah

[35:20]accept your mind my dear brothers and sisters

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