Ali Dawah - August 09, 2021


3 LADS GET REMINDED OF THE CREATOR - ALI DAWAH


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In this episode, we talk to a TikTok creator and an atheist about what it means to be an atheist and why it's important to have a purpose in life. We also talk about the difference between believing in God and not believing in Him.

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00:00:00.360 I believe, I believe something did create this earth, but I don't know whether there still is a God.
00:00:05.440 And you are a TikTok creator, yeah?
00:00:06.920 Imagine someone watches your stuff, yeah?
00:00:09.600 And let's suppose...
00:00:11.000 Not only does it encourage you to read, it tells you how many verses you've read, how many pages you've read,
00:00:17.640 how long you've been on it, and best of all, the Hasana counter.
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00:00:25.740 Alright, assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh, brothers and sisters.
00:00:28.140 We're here at Tottenham Court Road Station, we're here with famous TikTokers, yeah? 1.00
00:00:32.740 What's your name?
00:00:33.400 Jake.
00:00:34.000 Jake.
00:00:34.520 Joe.
00:00:35.800 Max.
00:00:36.380 Max.
00:00:36.780 Max?
00:00:37.440 Yeah.
00:00:37.900 As known as Big Boss, yeah? Be careful to this guy.
00:00:39.920 Okay, so today we're going to be talking about who's an atheist and who believes in God?
00:00:43.960 Well, I was baptised, but I don't believe in God.
00:00:45.680 Okay.
00:00:46.300 I sort of believe in God, sort of. It's like mixed, it's mixed.
00:00:49.200 So you're agnostic, you're atheist. What about you?
00:00:52.080 I don't believe in God.
00:00:53.000 I don't believe in God.
00:00:53.500 Sometimes I deep it and I'm like, yeah, just thinking about it, but...
00:00:57.080 I don't think about it too much.
00:00:59.280 Okay, so, okay, let me ask you a question, yeah? Okay.
00:01:02.180 Do you ever wonder your purpose? Like, why am I here? Like, who put me here? Where am I going?
00:01:06.580 Yeah, sometimes. Sometimes, yeah.
00:01:08.880 But not a lot.
00:01:09.760 Not a lot, yeah?
00:01:10.280 Yeah.
00:01:10.780 So what makes you, you know you said sometimes you deep it, like, what makes you, like, hold on a second, actually,
00:01:14.700 maybe there's more to this life.
00:01:16.340 What's the moments that you have in life that makes you think, like, you know what, hold on a second,
00:01:19.820 is there something bigger than this?
00:01:21.500 No, I sort of just think, like, yeah, where did I come from and how was I made from, like, before?
00:01:26.540 My parents and stuff. Like, that's, like, the first human beings, how were they, like, put on earth?
00:01:31.200 That's what I think about.
00:01:32.240 Okay, interesting.
00:01:33.100 Go on then.
00:01:33.640 The aim of life is just, like, to earn money and then we'll die eventually.
00:01:36.940 So every clothes and all this we buy, it's not really ours, because at the end of the day, everyone's going to die eventually.
00:01:41.520 So the aim is just to make money and enjoy.
00:01:43.160 That's a good point. You know you showed me a trainer. Show them again.
00:01:45.240 You know why? Let me tell you guys, yeah?
00:01:46.880 Guess how much you paid for these trainers?
00:01:48.600 Watch this. What are they called?
00:01:49.300 Jordan Dunks.
00:01:51.020 Jordan Dunks, yeah? Okay. Like, Dunks Donuts. No, I'm joking.
00:01:54.660 Guess how much these were? Show them to the camera.
00:01:57.000 £250, yeah?
00:01:58.340 So, now, let me tell you something, yeah?
00:02:00.160 Do you think these trainers are going to make you happy?
00:02:02.700 No, they won't make me happy at all.
00:02:04.920 Okay, so what was the reason you bought them?
00:02:07.180 To show them off.
00:02:08.260 Okay, to show them off, yeah? Okay.
00:02:09.800 So do you sometimes think that we give ourselves a purpose by living for others?
00:02:13.900 Look, I came to Islam about eight years ago. I wasn't born a Muslim, yeah?
00:02:16.680 So I used to live a lifestyle of wanting to show off as well.
00:02:19.780 Like, I'll go to the gym, yeah?
00:02:21.220 I want to drive certain cars.
00:02:23.060 And all of this was because I wanted to show off to the girls or show off to my family members, whoever it might be.
00:02:28.500 Do you get it?
00:02:28.920 But what I realized is that that doesn't bring me happiness, yeah?
00:02:31.800 So I had to ask myself a big question, okay?
00:02:33.800 Because once you live the life of, you know, having the money and the cars and all this kind of stuff, you ask yourself, what next?
00:02:39.420 Because you're going to come to a point where you're going to hit a wall and be like, okay, is this it?
00:02:42.580 So when we were talking about, for example, money and cars, etc., these are not your ultimate purpose, yeah?
00:02:48.320 Because if you think about it, our trainers, the chain that you wear, to the jumper that you wear, to the bag that you have, they all have a purpose.
00:02:55.160 Somebody made them with a purpose and a design.
00:02:57.460 They've given it a design.
00:02:58.380 Do you get what I'm trying to say?
00:02:58.920 Yeah.
00:02:59.380 So you said you're agnostic, yeah?
00:03:01.380 Do you believe that all of this was created by nothing?
00:03:04.580 No, I think, like, it's created by people building it.
00:03:08.040 Okay.
00:03:08.320 But then, yeah, when I say, like, a deeper, I think, like, how was the material made and stuff going back from now?
00:03:14.440 Yeah, exactly.
00:03:15.260 So the universe, we know there was a big bang, yeah?
00:03:18.100 Yeah.
00:03:18.480 That's where it began from.
00:03:20.080 So did the big bang come from nothing?
00:03:22.920 Can it come from nothing?
00:03:24.140 No.
00:03:24.760 Big bang from a meteor that has come and hit the earth, which has come from far away, obviously.
00:03:28.580 Okay, where did that come from?
00:03:29.880 The universe.
00:03:30.740 Somewhere in space.
00:03:31.960 Okay, what caused that to hit our, whatever, the big bang?
00:03:35.880 It's gone the wrong way.
00:03:36.700 No problem, but what made it go that way?
00:03:38.860 Because it can't be random events.
00:03:40.600 There's millions of meteors going all around the world, obviously, and some are going to hit and some aren't going to hit.
00:03:45.040 Okay, but the point is, that's like saying, for example, what's the chance of someone winning the lottery compared to what's the chance of you winning the lottery, yeah?
00:03:52.560 There's a whole different probability on that, yeah?
00:03:54.200 What's the chance of someone winning?
00:03:55.480 Well, definitely someone's going to win it.
00:03:56.840 But what's the chances of you winning it?
00:03:58.400 So the thing is, the fact that, for example, our universe is the only planet that there's life in it, and for example, to the oxygen that we have, to the water, to, for example, the way we function, it's impossible for us to think that random events, random things, yeah?
00:04:13.060 Like, we're all made out of DNA, yeah?
00:04:14.480 Atoms, yeah?
00:04:15.040 Atoms, yeah.
00:04:15.920 These random blind beings, yeah? 1.00
00:04:18.040 Things that have no purpose, how can they give rise to us?
00:04:20.900 We have a consciousness, we think.
00:04:22.520 Do you get what I'm trying to say?
00:04:23.280 Yeah.
00:04:23.460 So do you not think that there must be a creator or something that brought us to be?
00:04:29.120 Yeah, but, like, I can't really think about that.
00:04:32.280 I don't really understand it enough to think about how my consciousness was even, like, put here.
00:04:37.460 I believe something did create this earth, but I don't know whether there still is a God.
00:04:41.940 And you are a TikTok creator, yeah?
00:04:43.280 Yeah.
00:04:43.540 Imagine someone watches your stuff, yeah?
00:04:46.100 And let's suppose that you never show your face, and someone says, oh, this person, it's random, random things are making this.
00:04:52.280 You, as a content creator, and I'm a content creator as well, you would feel offended that people benefit from your stuff, they watch your stuff, they share your stuff, but they deny you.
00:05:01.140 Yeah, I would feel offended, 100%.
00:05:02.900 So how do you think it is for God?
00:05:04.580 Now, we're not saying God has feelings, the thing is this, it's a disrespect.
00:05:07.820 Do you get it?
00:05:08.240 Yeah, no, it is a disrespect completely.
00:05:10.240 If you're just saying, like, that's not them or whatever, it's just, they would feel bad on their part.
00:05:15.460 Exactly.
00:05:15.840 So imagine everything that God's given us on this earth.
00:05:17.680 I'm not going to keep you guys going, I know you guys need to go, yeah?
00:05:20.260 Imagine everything that you have.
00:05:21.380 You enjoy the food that he gives, the oxygen that you breathe, the sleep that you have.
00:05:25.080 You enjoy all of that, and you totally disregard him.
00:05:27.280 Yeah.
00:05:27.760 Like, he doesn't exist.
00:05:28.420 Do you get what I'm saying?
00:05:28.980 Yeah, now you say it like that, I sort of put it into perspective.
00:05:32.200 Like, yeah, you get all these things from what?
00:05:36.280 Like, there must be something that put it there for you to enjoy and have.
00:05:40.180 And like you just said to Joe, like, his TikTok page and stuff, like, it's got all of this.
00:05:45.300 People benefit from it, they like it, but they don't believe he's real.
00:05:48.520 And like, for the smallest, like, bit of respect you could give him, that is to believe that he is a real person.
00:05:54.040 Exactly.
00:05:54.300 So, like, you've got to give respect to God or whoever put this here.
00:05:57.440 Now, check this out, Jake.
00:05:58.120 To believe he's real.
00:05:58.420 Check this out, Jake.
00:05:59.000 I'm not going to hold you guys long.
00:05:59.820 I know you guys need to go, yeah?
00:06:01.140 Imagine as a content creator, I take your stuff and people start thanking me.
00:06:04.800 Yeah, I would hate that.
00:06:05.920 You'd hate that.
00:06:06.880 That's why people were like gods.
00:06:08.680 He put, like, the materials or put the people here.
00:06:10.780 And we don't believe in him.
00:06:11.700 Yeah.
00:06:12.100 No, I think that you don't believe in him.
00:06:13.180 You ascribe it to someone.
00:06:14.540 If you say, you know what?
00:06:15.260 I believe, for example, this, I thank, you know these people who go and thank statues?
00:06:19.540 Or people that say Jesus is God and stuff like that.
00:06:21.420 As Christians say that, yeah? 0.81
00:06:22.700 We believe that is the biggest form of blasphemy.
00:06:24.640 Because what you're doing is, the credit that God deserves, you're thanking things that
00:06:28.480 are in the creation.
00:06:29.040 Do you get it?
00:06:29.560 I'm going to end on this note, guys, yeah?
00:06:30.740 I'm going to open the Quran.
00:06:32.380 I'm going to read one verse.
00:06:33.480 I'm going to open it randomly, yeah?
00:06:34.480 And I believe, I'm going to, this is a message from, because we believe God Almighty, this
00:06:39.280 is from God Almighty, yeah?
00:06:40.160 Okay?
00:06:40.720 And I believe this is a message to all of us.
00:06:42.800 Okay, you ready?
00:06:43.400 I'm going to, do you want to open it in a random place?
00:06:45.200 Just open it in a random place and point at a verse.
00:06:49.420 Any verse?
00:06:49.960 Okay, let's read that verse, yeah?
00:06:51.880 Okay, so this is Surah Zumar.
00:06:55.460 It says...