You're Looking for God in the Wrong Places - Sayed Mohammed Hassan Alsheraa

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[0:03]Ramadan.

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[19:01]Salam allayikum.

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[23:10]Our speaker tonight began his Islamic studies under his father Masher and

[23:17]then continued his studies in the house of Kbalah in Iraq.

[23:22]In addition to his Islamic studies, he also holds a bachelor's degree

[23:25]in political science and a master's in religious studies.

[23:30]His primary research focuses on addressing misconceptions about Islam, particularly those surrounding

[23:34]the Holy Quran and the interpretation of its verses.

[23:39]Please join me in welcoming Muhammad Hassan with a loud Alhamdulillah.

[24:31]Sayham will Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in the holy Quran Please

[25:29]illuminate your hearts and bless this gathering with a very loud salawat.

[25:39]Respected scholars, brothers and dear sisters, >> many will look for God

[25:55]in miracles.

[25:53]Others will find God or try to find Allah in the massagid.

[26:01]People who seek a glimpse of the divine sparkle will go places

[26:07]that they typically associate with God.

[26:11]However, for those who are seeking God in areas where they commonly

[26:16]assume God is found, you might be looking in the wrong places.

[26:22]God is found in unorthodox circumstances.

[26:28]You may find it rather counterintuitive to assume that the best place

[26:35]to find God is the least likely expected place you would find

[26:41]allahel because discovering God is not confined to location rather it is

[26:51]intertwined with significance and epiphany a glimpse a light a near-death experience

[26:58]a type of nervous a or moment that makes you awake.

[27:01]Suddenly you discovered something and it makes your life turn around.

[27:06]And just look at stories of people who converted or even even

[27:11]those who've embraced a world of God in other religions as well.

[27:16]It's always a common theme.

[27:17]I had a neardeath experience and I could have died but suddenly

[27:24]I survived.

[27:23]And the doctor said that you had this sliver of chance of

[27:28]making it.

[27:27]Somehow you made it.

[27:29]You know what?

[27:31]Let me get my act together.

[27:31]I have to search for more meaning out there because it was

[27:34]done miraculously.

[27:36]People wait almost for near-death experiences until they embrace the holy rather.

[27:43]And some will assume that I need to approach men and women

[27:46]of God in order to find God or go places where God

[27:50]is praised and his glory is sung.

[27:53]churches, massages, so forth.

[27:54]The reality is when you come down to the holy Quran, you

[28:01]see a different type of direction that Allah is inviting you come

[28:05]discover me.

[28:06]But the thing is I will give you pointers.

[28:10]Among these pointers is he does not say come and find me

[28:14]in the massagid.

[28:18]Rather Allah says come and find me in my signs.

[28:21]We will show them our signs.

[28:24]And then if you look at the verses that talk about the

[28:26]signs of Allah, he then says that you will find my signs

[28:38]in the sea, in the sky, in creation, in the horizons.

[28:40]If you want to find God, it's kind of implying literally go

[28:45]out for a walk.

[28:46]You will find something that will bring you to allahel.

[28:51]And then he says, that if you just look into yourself, you

[28:54]will find Allahel.

[28:57]It's the most beautiful relationship that is kindled with experience and love,

[29:04]a drive that is not confined to I went through the typical

[29:07]protocol of let me go to a school, let me speak to

[29:12]a sheh, let me go to a religious-looking person and then maybe

[29:15]I can find God there.

[29:18]Not necessarily.

[29:17]Although that doesn't mean you cannot find Allah in such locations but

[29:21]Allah is saying no no no I'm not limited here I am

[29:26]everywhere is not attributed to the beautiful saying I don't see anything

[29:30]except that I see God before it after it and in it

[29:35]when I look at the creation of this world I just see

[29:36]the signs of Allah everywhere and in fact try to make this

[29:43]a goal that look into the unorthodox places you will see Allah

[29:46]what are you anymore more linked to the divine than Ibraim.

[29:51]Known as the friend and the of Allah.

[29:54]Yet he still says and this is Abraham.

[29:56]Ibraim the father of the monotheistic three Abrahamic religions.

[30:03]You can say he says and God has to ask him what

[30:11]you don't believe.

[30:12]But it doesn't hurt to say I want to have rather I'd

[30:19]love to have more tranquility of my certainty.

[30:22]I believe but it's nice to see signs here and there.

[30:24]I inshallah want to explore among you all today some of these

[30:28]practical signs that you may not have necessarily considered at first but

[30:36]can be the biggest ayat of Allahawajel.

[30:37]In my personal experience, I grew up really loving space and astrophysics

[30:44]and all these things.

[30:44]And so come online and I'm looking at videos about space, what's

[30:48]inside a black hole, you know, just the teenager research.

[30:52]You find that there are astrophysicists out there that I really like

[30:56]to listen to.

[30:58]The thing is some of these guys are ardent atheists.

[30:59]So there was always a clash.

[31:01]Do I listen?

[31:02]Do I not?

[31:03]Yah.

[31:03]If he starts talking about science, he's not going to plant his

[31:06]agenda in me.

[31:07]And so there's this uh scientist, you might know him, he's well

[31:11]known, Neil Degrasse Tyson I remember watching, he very much advocates against

[31:16]God.

[31:17]He likes to say I look for empirical scientific evidence and that's

[31:20]my belief.

[31:22]This stuff is just made by people.

[31:24]Watching a couple videos from his ironically got me more confident in

[31:28]allahel as a young boy.

[31:31]I remember I'm like subhan Allah an atheist brought me closer to

[31:35]Allah.

[31:36]like how he described and this is something that worked with me.

[31:38]He's like if you ever go out on a lake, this might,

[31:42]by the way, work with me.

[31:42]Maybe not with you, but maybe with her, but maybe with him.

[31:45]Everyone sees God in interesting places.

[31:47]Go out to a lake here in Michigan.

[31:49]Oh my god, we got lakes and we got frozen lakes specifically.

[31:53]So if you go to a frozen lake, have you ever pondered

[31:56]and reflected?

[31:57]He wants to talk about buoyancy of water and ice.

[32:01]But if you just pause and reflect, Allah's signs are everywhere.

[32:05]He says, "Why is it the case that when water freezes, it's

[32:08]only the surface of the lake that freezes and it stays there

[32:13]and it doesn't sink?" Because you know what would happen if it

[32:17]sunk?

[32:17]that sheet of ice, the bottom of the lake would freeze and

[32:20]then it would freeze from bottom up because each sheet of ice

[32:24]sinks and then goes up like this and then basically the whole

[32:27]lake becomes one big block of ice killing all the ecosystem, killing

[32:33]all collapsing those who depend on the animals and the fish and

[32:37]then the animals that eat those everything.

[32:40]He's like that small margin of difference of why ice floats is

[32:43]the reason why we're all alive today.

[32:45]Let's do the math on that.

[32:46]The math on that.

[32:47]Okay.

[32:48]So, you could tell I did my research.

[32:50]Just give me just bear with me.

[32:52]Just bear with me.

[32:51]Water floats.

[32:54]It's considered the constant base.

[32:58]One cm squared.

[33:00]Okay.

[33:01]1 cm squared.

[33:03]Ice.

[33:04]Subhan Allah.

[33:04]Usually things that turn solid or heavier.

[33:07]But when water freezes, ice is less dense because there's air particles

[33:13]inside of it, making it less dense than water.

[33:17]It's measured at Okay, bear with me.

[33:23]0.92 cubic cm.

[33:25]Yes, cubic centimeters.

[33:28]Okay.

[33:27]What's the difference between 1 and 0.92?

[33:32]92 cubic centimeters.

[33:37]0.08 08 cubic centimeters.

[33:38]If it was just eight more 0.08 more cubic centimeters buoyant as

[33:46]dense as water, it would float.

[33:50]0.08 is the difference between the fine margin line of why water

[33:57]and ice are the way they are and why ice floats.

[34:02]If it was just heavier, it would sink.

[34:04]But that small difference was enough to allow that the water on

[34:10]top freezes and not the rest.

[34:12]Insulating the small fish, the small hermit crab, the small whatever organisms

[34:17]live inside it to protect it from that winter, to shield it

[34:21]from those atmospheres, to save it such that when it melts, the

[34:26]animals can now eat from that.

[34:27]And those that eat those animals can live and survive creating the

[34:31]harmony of the ecosystem that we know.

[34:33]The difference between life and death from everything collapsing was 0.08 cubic

[34:41]cm.

[34:42]The man mentions this and I'm like, "Subhan Allah, Subhan Allah, Allah,

[34:46]you're so amazing, amazing, amazing." But it took some science to bring

[34:52]that to my attention.

[34:52]you know a little teenager here and there and I'm like wow

[34:54]that is something interesting where else could I see that and suddenly

[35:01]when you just reflect a bit more you find signs everywhere my

[35:06]father once mentioned that his teacher a well-known sheh from Lebanon Muhammad

[35:13]he visited France he had a meeting with many people there of

[35:17]officials and on his way he's at the airport a French painter

[35:21]came and asked French painters, by the way, are some of the

[35:24]best, apparently.

[35:25]So, he saw the sheh and he says, "She, you look very

[35:28]nice.

[35:28]You look amazing.

[35:30]Can I paint you?" He says, "I have to catch a flight."

[35:32]It appears that I guess he was waiting at his gate.

[35:35]He's like, "I have a flight to catch.

[35:36]How long is this paint going to take you?" He's like, "I

[35:38]can paint you in 10 minutes." He's like, "10 minutes?" Says, "Yeah,

[35:43]dog.

[35:44]Go ahead." So, he painted the being a sheh, right?

[35:45]He has to try to invite him to the path of Islam.

[35:49]And so he says to him, "Do you believe in anything out

[35:51]there?" He's like, "Not really." He says, "Okay, I have just a

[35:57]quick question.

[35:55]If your hair, now unorthodox place to find God, hair can bring

[36:01]someone to Islam or at least at the very least believe in

[36:06]Allah.

[36:06]If the hair, this may not apply for sisters, but on the

[36:10]front of your hand.

[36:12]Okay, some of us have a lot was on the palm right

[36:16]here on the inside, not the front.

[36:18]The hair is here.

[36:21]Could you grab your brush and use that brush and paint with

[36:23]that brush and make those paintings that you love to make?

[36:28]He's like, if I had hair here but not here, probably not.

[36:31]It would be hard to grab.

[36:34]There's no grip if there's hair, right?

[36:35]He's like, the difference between you creating these beautiful paintings.

[36:39]Look at the creativity of bringing the point to more relative relevant

[36:43]manner.

[36:44]If the difference was just hair being flipped, you would not have

[36:49]created this.

[36:50]How interesting is it?

[36:51]How beneficial is it that you're designed with your hair on the

[36:55]front of your hand, not on the palm of your hand.

[36:57]He's like, "That is quite interesting.

[36:58]Thank God that that's the case." He's like, "I caught you.

[37:02]Thank God that that's the case.

[37:04]These are unique observations.

[37:05]I remember hearing another story.

[37:07]Now, these are just story after story, but they are meant to

[37:13]bring the point clearer that it doesn't take me needing to although

[37:16]we love when you do meet with a a scholar, a speaker,

[37:19]visit the say or the sheh or go to the masjid and

[37:22]say, "Now, I want you to prove it to me." Sometimes it's

[37:25]as easy as looking at the hair on the back of your

[37:27]hand for goodness sake or the or looking at a lake.

[37:32]Just ponder for a minute.

[37:32]That's why Islam emphasizes that one hour of just reflection is greater

[37:42]than 70 years of worship.

[37:45]Why?

[37:44]Because you took an hour and you started to ponder and reflect

[37:50]about meaning, purpose, drive, vision, why you're created, why Allah placed signs

[37:56]out there.

[37:55]Where are the signs instead of just roaming on autopilot every single

[37:58]day?

[37:59]Allah loves that.

[38:02]Ibraim demands that.

[38:02]Show me how you revive the dead.

[38:04]What you don't believe?

[38:06]I do, but it's just to have more tranquility.

[38:10]There's a guy, he's a horseback rider and he was initially non-Muslim.

[38:15]I heard the story from once again my father when he met

[38:21]this person and he was originally from a Hindu background.

[38:24]He said, you know, we always love to hear stories about why

[38:29]people embrace Islam.

[38:29]They're very motivational.

[38:30]They're very inspirational.

[38:32]Oftent times, and this is something just to keep in mind, these

[38:35]can be very personal stories.

[38:36]So, if someone doesn't feel that they want to share it, don't

[38:40]push them.

[38:39]It's perfectly fine.

[38:41]But if they do want to share it, pay close attention because

[38:44]they're very incredible.

[38:46]Some of the best stories ever are those that come from our

[38:49]revert brothers and sisters.

[38:50]Amazing, awe inspiring, jawdropping stories and honestly mindoping because here comes a

[38:57]man.

[38:58]He says, "I was Hindu, but I converted to Islam because of

[39:03]horses." Wow.

[39:02]Horses.

[39:02]See, now we have a painter because of hair.

[39:06]And we have a frozen lake, okay, inspiring a teenager who's now

[39:14]talking to you, I guess.

[39:15]Then you have a person who was a former Hindu, okay, with

[39:18]respect to those who are from other religions, but embraces because of

[39:22]horses.

[39:23]What did a horse do?

[39:26]Did it preach da'wah?

[39:26]No.

[39:27]Was it on speaker's corner yelling and arguing and debating and screaming

[39:31]and fighting and on the comment section of YouTube and slandering?

[39:34]No.

[39:35]So what happened?

[39:37]He says, "Listen, I love horseback riding.

[39:38]All it took for me was noticing, wait a minute, if the

[39:42]reins of the horse, they call them where it's basically the steering

[39:46]wheel.

[39:47]Who rides horses?

[39:49]I don't know.

[39:48]But if you put the res on the horse and you want

[39:53]to steer the horse, the res are placed inside the horse's mouth.

[39:56]And if you ever look at them, they're usually like chain metal."

[40:00]Okay?

[40:00]Have you ever thought that things that's in its mouth?

[40:05]This has teeth.

[40:07]It has to be gripping on it and it's biting onto that

[40:09]chain links of metal and you're pulling here and nagging here.

[40:13]Is that not going to cause the excruciating pain?

[40:14]He says the anatomy I just observed.

[40:17]This was just a thought, an epiphany as if it's like divine

[40:20]inspiration.

[40:22]Just ponder for a moment.

[40:24]Yeah, that wait that does make sense.

[40:26]And I looked into the mouth of my horse.

[40:28]I'm like, open up.

[40:28]I need to see something.

[40:31]And I noticed that it has rows of teeth except in the

[40:34]back.

[40:34]A perfect snug spot where it's just hard gum.

[40:38]If you look at the skeleton anatomy of a horse, so your

[40:41]search history is going to be quite interesting.

[40:44]Hair palm, frozen leg, horse skull.

[40:47]But if you look at it, it's teeth and then a dip

[40:52]with no tooth and then just back to teeth again.

[40:56]A perfect place to place a rain as if designed.

[41:00]As if.

[40:58]Subhan Allah.

[41:00]designed and I say as if for pmical purposes we know Allah

[41:05]is an intellectual designer here to have it be written evolutionarily speaking

[41:10]for purposes as such like that was enough to say for me

[41:12]you know what that's it there was some intelligence behind this creation

[41:16]that made me enjoy this kind of habit this horseback riding and

[41:23]this pleasure that I seek on a daily basis you know and

[41:26]this is perhaps one of the reasons why Allah through have encouraged

[41:32]us to do extracurricular activities such as teach your children.

[41:42]Often times they have a utilitarian purposes.

[41:45]Teach your children archery, swimming, horseback riding because naturally maybe these are

[41:51]useful.

[41:52]But maybe there's also a deeper reason behind how comes Allah interests

[41:58]the human being with these hobbies so that you can ponder and

[42:01]reflect here and there time to time.

[42:03]We notice in the Quran in fact some of the most unorthodox

[42:07]ways people have entered and embraced Islam.

[42:10]I would like to share with you one that often times does

[42:15]not get the attention it deserves in the story.

[42:17]You've heard of the famous bil otherwise known as in the Bible

[42:24]queen of Sheba.

[42:22]This was a lady who in the time of prophetam she ruled

[42:30]the land of Yemen.

[42:33]She was a queen.

[42:32]She was in charge.

[42:35]She was an authorative figure and Yemen was under her disposal and

[42:39]she called the shots.

[42:40]You know the famous story in surah n in this context he's

[42:45]inviting an assembly of all the creation prophetam and he sees that

[42:51]one of the creations the bird the hood hood was late and

[42:56]he inquires and it appears to be the case that it was

[42:58]late due to its astonishment of the fact that there was a

[43:04]group of people in Yemen that worship the sun and not Allah

[43:07]and their leader is this woman by the name of Bilis or

[43:13]Sheba, the Queen of Sheba.

[43:13]And that's why I was like I was just so so shocked.

[43:17]I had to take a double take.

[43:18]I had to really look.

[43:20]Is this really the case?

[43:21]That's why I'm late.

[43:21]Yasan, don't be angry for my tardiness.

[43:23]He's like, "Okay, let's verify this information and invite her to the

[43:28]path of God." I mean, at the end of the day, Suran

[43:31]is both prophet and king.

[43:32]So, he has authority and say, but at the same time, he's

[43:36]a king who has a role.

[43:37]prophet.

[43:37]He has to preach and in this context he dispatches a letter

[43:43]to her and he invites her and he says to her do

[43:45]not be authorative upon me don't think do not think you're more

[43:52]significant than I am he's speaking to her in diplomatic king terms

[43:55]you're a queen I'm a king and come to me submitting to

[43:58]allahel speaking to her in that manner in that tone she then

[44:04]seeks the counsel of her adviserss they say listen just send him

[44:07]gifts He's just like another king and that's all that is needed

[44:11]to be done.

[44:10]He receives these gifts and he thinks to himself, is this what

[44:16]is going to take to make me not invite her to the

[44:17]way of God?

[44:18]Not at least share with her the message that's not that's not

[44:23]enough for me.

[44:22]Why is he so infactuated on one lady embracing Islam?

[44:27]Because typically, you know what they say that the way of people

[44:34]is basically who's in charge?

[44:35]the one in charge dictating, calling the shots.

[44:39]People emulate them.

[44:39]People will follow their lead.

[44:40]If you want to know what a group of people believe in,

[44:44]just ask, hey, who are their leaders?

[44:46]Who represents them?

[44:46]That's all you need to see.

[44:49]They are a reflection of those who are in charge.

[44:50]And that's honestly the case.

[44:53]And I I detour for a moment.

[44:54]If you look at the main literature from many of the non-Shia

[44:58]worldviews, all of them, in fact, I want to say most, but

[45:04]pretty much all of them were written under a government eye that

[45:08]supervised the publishing, the manufacturing, the editing, and the disseminating of that

[45:13]literature.

[45:14]So for example, for example, for example, the one in charge tells

[45:20]the supreme elite of the religious faction, you are only allowed to

[45:23]narrate a hadith praising my forefathers and a hadith that praise their

[45:27]enemies, you do not narrate.

[45:28]If you look at the mat of Malikna, Malikna was a very

[45:35]very profound scholar of the non-shia worldview.

[45:38]But at the same time, he was a scholar and he was

[45:40]administered by the judge Abu Jaffs famously known as the the Khalifa

[45:50]that poisoned imam.

[45:52]Abu Jafariki he wants to establish a constitution to the Muslim caliphate

[45:59]and so he wants it to be very religious very firm on

[46:04]and Islamic law he's like this is will be our constitution he

[46:07]seeks the council of the most knowledgeable scholar and it was Malik

[46:12]and he says yeah Malik you're the chief judge of the Muslim

[46:18]world write to us a piece of literature that will serve as

[46:20]the constitution for our land Now, now wait a minute.

[46:25]You have a book was written make it easy for people to

[46:31]comprehend.

[46:29]And he wrote the of Malik.

[46:34]But he says on two conditions, you stay away from the easy

[46:38]aith of Ib Abbas, one of the famous figures of the time

[46:44]of the messenger of God.

[46:45]He narrates a hadith.

[46:45]He says, "Avoid his hadith.

[46:52]Meaning avoid any narration of imbal in your constitution in your magnum

[47:02]opus in your book of main literature.

[47:04]Not one single narration of Imam Ali is in there today.

[47:08]Now the Maliki school of thought is a respected Sunni school that's

[47:11]among the four primary schools of thought out there.

[47:15]The main canonized text does not have a single hadith by imam.

[47:17]Not one and it has thousands by the way.

[47:20]Not one as if Imm Ali did not exist.

[47:22]Why do I mention this?

[47:25]It's not for I guess sectarian reasons.

[47:28]It's basic history first of all and it demonstrates to you that

[47:32]if you are at the helm of decision making for your people,

[47:36]your opinion becomes religion at the same time.

[47:39]So if you are a irreligious person, if you're someone that doesn't

[47:43]believe in Allah, you're not going to tolerate literature coming out praising

[47:47]Islam.

[47:48]I remember and just to wrap up this point I heard the

[47:53]story guess from who?

[47:55]My father that in the time of Saddam the they would have

[48:01]to every now and then many of us here would know actually

[48:08]every now and then the police of that dictatorship would come and

[48:11]just storm your home just to see if you are conspiring.

[48:15]It's it was common especially if you were unapologetically Shia homes.

[48:18]So they would really storm scholarly houses, people who were vocal against

[48:23]the administration or the regime at the time.

[48:25]And so out of fear that they would come and storm the

[48:30]home, they would hide certain books that they owned.

[48:34]They meaning literally actually personally speaking my father and some of his

[48:36]people and friends and scholars in the nef seminary at the time.

[48:42]They said we had a book by one of them.

[48:45]It was his book of Islamic law.

[48:51]It's like that book it's just Islamic law.

[49:02]is someone who is very vocal and critical about the tyrannical decisions

[49:06]of Saddam.

[49:08]You are it is merit for arrest if you have that book.

[49:14]They say they would in order to read a mess a Islamic

[49:16]ruling they would first bury the book in the backyard and if

[49:21]they wanted any answer they would dig it up just to look

[49:23]at the ruling and then put it back.

[49:25]Today, alhamdulillah, we have it so easy.

[49:28]I say, "Subhan Allah, you don't have to imagine in order to

[49:33]find the ruling on a certain issue that you have to dig

[49:35]with a shovel in your backyard, the book, and just pull it

[49:39]out and put it back in." Why?

[49:40]Out of fear that that might happen.

[49:42]Now, imagine the time of the ruled and worldview and they would

[49:48]literally just say no narrations from that's it.

[49:52]That's the case.

[49:54]So the interest of people like Allah from trying to guide her

[49:58]it's like I want you is because you will then shift the

[50:02]entire paradigm of all those that are under your establishment worshiping the

[50:06]son while a prophet of allahel he's in philistine and she's in

[50:12]Yemen is around to him Allah will question him did you at

[50:14]least not invite her so he has to fulfill his obligation that's

[50:18]why he's fixated on this point here because I remember this is

[50:22]an issue that some might say why is he so firm on

[50:26]this issue was because once you just shape the opinion of one

[50:29]the rest follow through the way of life is with those who

[50:36]are victorious at the end of the day she decides to come

[50:38]and pay him a visit as she comes this is one of

[50:42]the most honest to God unorthodox ways someone finds Allah he doesn't

[50:46]preach to her he doesn't show her a miracle although a miracle

[50:49]would be very nice by the way some of us like I

[50:52]need to see a miracle miracle.

[50:52]Ya Allah, hold on.

[50:54]There are just look at the lake.

[50:55]Did we just not say the lake?

[50:56]Allah, there are chapters of the Quran called the spider for a

[50:58]reason.

[50:59]Just inviting you.

[51:01]Go look in here.

[51:01]Go look here.

[51:02]Go look here.

[51:04]But she comes.

[51:04]As she comes, the Quran captures for us this moment in the

[51:08]most, you could even say this bizarre way possible.

[51:13]It is said to her, "Enter the palace." She is right about

[51:21]to enter the palace of a kingdom beautiful massive that and when

[51:36]she saw it she presumed it water and then she began to

[51:44]expose her heel shin I think shin Heal, heal, heal.

[51:51]Right, Shin.

[51:50]I forgot my body parts.

[51:55]Shin.

[51:53]She begins to lift up her dress.

[51:56]And then she thought it was water.

[52:01]And then she was told, "No, no, no.

[52:03]It has fine glass." And what's the ayah talking about?

[52:07]If you just read it on face value, you're like, "What is

[52:10]going on here?" But if you ponder for a moment, she's told

[52:15]to enter this massive, beautiful, luxurious palace.

[52:17]Nebi has a a very interesting taste in interior exterior design of

[52:25]the palace whereby he placed you have to envision this carefully.

[52:29]He had the way inside leading the palace to tell you dips.

[52:34]Okay, these dips had water inside them ever so slightly, not too

[52:41]deep.

[52:39]ever so slightly water, but they had fine glass covering it.

[52:44]So fine that you can't tell there's glass.

[52:48]As she's walking around this geometric beautiful design, she assumes it's just

[52:54]water.

[52:54]And so she begins to lift her dress, exposing her shin.

[52:57]As she expos it, she doesn't want her dress to get wet.

[53:02]She is told, "Wait, hold on.

[53:03]You don't have to do all that.

[53:07]It is encased in fine glass, but it's so fine you can't

[53:12]see it.

[53:13]You could just see the water.

[53:13]She says out of astonishment.

[53:15]It's not that she was preached to.

[53:18]It's not that she was watching a lecture by about Islam, although

[53:22]that would immediately invite people to the way of path.

[53:24]It's not that she was meeting with a friend who told her

[53:29]about the Quran.

[53:29]It's not that she listened to programs of Shah Ramadan.

[53:33]It's not that she did any of that.

[53:35]It's that she saw water.

[53:35]She thought it was exposed.

[53:40]She lifted her shin her dress and exposed her shin and all

[53:42]of a sudden she is told it's not the case.

[53:46]She said, "What's what she say?" No.

[53:59]That she said, "Oh my Lord, I've oppressed myself this whole entire

[54:06]time and I've decided to embrace with Allah, Lord of the worlds."

[54:12]The hadith expand on us here and it says that she said

[54:14]if the palace subhan Allah of the prophet can deceive the queen

[54:24]of Sheba then what about the lord of then if it's the

[54:27]palace that made me deceived how about the god of the one

[54:35]behind this palace what have I been doing this whole time She

[54:44]became Muslim because she exposed her shin thinking it was water and

[54:51]she didn't want her dress to get wet.

[54:52]So she lifted it and she was told, "No, you're not.

[54:54]That's not the case.

[54:54]You can chill with that.

[54:57]Bring it down.

[54:56]It's fine glass." She found God in the most unorthodox way ever.

[55:02]We can find God in the most unorthodox way ever, too.

[55:04]You can look.

[55:06]Just pause and ponder.

[55:07]Allah says, "My signs are literally everywhere." Don't go so far.

[55:11]Don't ask necessarily for miracles.

[55:16]A miracle comes at the end.

[55:17]Don't worry.

[55:17]But the miracles that are happening on a daily basis, why are

[55:22]those neglected?

[55:21]Look at child birth.

[55:24]How miraculous that is.

[55:25]Remember the lake issue that the speaker had to look at the

[55:30]math for goodness sake 0.08 centimeters to just demonstrate that the small

[55:34]margin.

[55:35]I remember one person saying that.

[55:37]Okay, hold on.

[55:39]Why is it the case that this universe was not discussed in

[55:42]the Holy Quran?

[55:44]That would have been enough of a miracle.

[55:46]It so very much is.

[55:46]And the last two minutes, I'd like to cover it with you.

[55:53]Allah says, and he invites you that have those who disbelieved that

[56:09]have those who've not believed.

[56:13]Not consider just consider just consider that the skies and the earth

[56:20]were all one joined entity and we expanded it and we created

[56:23]from water all living things.

[56:26]Every time I remember, every time I see this ayah, I always

[56:30]think and it might be interesting that I think this way.

[56:31]But because Allah says that we created from life or water, all

[56:39]life and you know when you capture the moment of fab in

[56:41]the river, he has pretty much water in his hands.

[56:45]But because God calls life water in this context and he puts

[56:50]it together, we created from water all living things Abbas discards that

[56:55]water.

[56:53]It's as if he discarded life for the sake of a life

[56:59]that is not worth living without Imam Hussein Alisam.

[57:02]The beautiful connotation in relationship with the family of the holy prophet

[57:07]of Islam is amazing.

[57:07]Continuing the ayah, Allah invites us to think and ponder even more.

[57:19]And Allah continues and created the ceiling the sky as a protective

[57:27]ceiling.

[57:28]If you just pause on any of these, they are literally merit

[57:32]to get to the state of pandemonium from how incredibly light years

[57:38]ahead the ayat of the Quran are.

[57:39]But each one takes its time and toll.

[57:41]The last bit is what I want to focus on and then

[57:45]inshallah not take any more time from your blessed day.

[57:50]Allah says, "Why is he bringing so many things that are earthbound,

[58:00]spacebound?" He's not saying, "You want to find me?

[58:04]Come to the messenger for a moment.

[58:06]Come to his successor for a moment." He says, "Just look.

[58:08]Have you not considered the sky?

[58:11]Is it not a protective ceiling?" The sky being a ceiling sounds

[58:16]like it's an oxymoron because a ceiling protects you from the sky.

[58:20]Allah says, "No, no, the sky is a ceiling." How is that

[58:23]the case?

[58:22]It's protecting you.

[58:24]What's a ceiling here protecting us from?

[58:25]If you now dig a bit deeper, Islam's inviting you to go

[58:27]learn, to go study, perhaps UV rays.

[58:31]Perhaps it's a layer, an a magnetic layer, but it's a ceiling

[58:37]protecting.

[58:38]And he is the one who created night and day the moon

[58:45]and the sun all of which in an orbit swimming.

[58:51]He even used the term orbiting means to orbit as such that

[58:58]the skies the day the planetary space bodies and the sun and

[59:01]the moon they're orbiting swimming.

[59:02]Why does he say swimming?

[59:06]I remember I saw um Richard Dawing say the prophet didn't know

[59:08]too much on this context.

[59:09]He thought they're in water, hence he said the term swimming.

[59:14]Allah says swimming because it's the best term to describe what's going

[59:18]on in space.

[59:18]Very briefly, oh my god, we started off by saying I loved

[59:22]space when I was little and now I still love it.

[59:24]Anyways, in this context, if you have space mass, brothers and sisters,

[59:31]and you have something very heavy, it will affect the other piece

[59:36]of mass near it.

[59:36]In what way?

[59:38]The that's why they call it the fabric of space.

[59:43]Heavy mass affects the mass near it.

[59:45]If it's lighter, it'll tug on it.

[59:48]There is a rippling effect.

[59:48]It's as if imagine you have a ball floating on a lake

[59:54]and you throw something near it.

[59:57]The ripple effect will shift and it will move whatever was there

[60:01]present.

[60:02]Why?

[60:03]How is something here affecting something distant from it based on its

[60:07]mass and proportion relative to it?

[60:10]It's called gravitational waves.

[60:12]And that's why Allah uses a term similar in nature that it's

[60:18]swimming.

[60:19]Why?

[60:17]Because what these planetary space bodies are doing is that one affects

[60:24]the other without even being physically in touch.

[60:26]That's why it's called waving waves.

[60:29]They are all in an orbit swimming.

[60:32]If you just considered Allah says, "Here's an argument from science." May

[60:40]not look at verses of the Quran and say, "Mashallah, I have

[60:46]now embraced allahel or dua or this and that." As beautiful and

[60:49]relevant as they are.

[60:49]Sometimes the answer is one that addresses a scientific barrier.

[60:55]Give me science and that's all I will need.

[60:57]Okay?

[60:58]because an atheist, a non-believer or someone who believes but like Ibraim

[61:02]says I want more in my heart.

[61:07]Let's address that by finding the nature of the barrier and addressing

[61:11]it by seeing what Allah has placed as signs.

[61:15]these signs, brothers and sisters, whether they are looking at the anatomy

[61:20]of a horse's mouth or looking at a paintbrush and why you're

[61:23]able to hold it or the planetary bodies in space or the

[61:30]frozen lake.

[61:28]I encourage all of you to now go home and do the

[61:33]exact same thing.

[61:35]Notice how if it was just not for this margin of difference,

[61:38]we wouldn't even be around.

[61:41]Just look at the small minute.

[61:43]You will find his signs and even in yourself.

[61:50]And the best place to start is inside yourself.

[61:54]Allah subhana t's signs begin with you.

[61:57]For he or she who knows themselves will know their Lord.

[62:06]Quran.

[62:32]Alhamdulillah.

[62:46]Muhammad bunch

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