Ali Dawah - December 30, 2024
ATHEIST ENTERS MOSQUE QUESTIONING ISLAM - PART 1
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Jummah Kutbahayyah: A Muslim's perspective on thermodynamics and the first level of thermodynamics, and why Allah is the only true creator of the universe and all things that depend on it.
Transcript
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What's the main reason you left Islam? I don't think it's a logical reason though.
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No, no, why did you leave Islam? Like, what's the main...
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No, it's not a logical reason. It's not. It was a process of slowly.
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What was it? There has to be some, because I don't think it's logical.
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I chose... No, I don't choose to believe it, I believe it.
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I'm a dependent being, yes? I need food to survive.
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No, but what do you mean you need food to survive?
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No, no, me, I die. No, no, me, I'm talking about flesh.
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No, but your flesh will evaporate into gas, into...
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No, no, no, you're talking about the first level of thermodynamics.
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Energy cannot be created or destroyed. I'm not talking about it.
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You're talking about, if I set this on fire, it disappears.
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we have a set amount of energy within our universe.
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That there is a set amount of energy within our universe.
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Now, if there is a set amount of energy within our universe,
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what does the universe and all this energy depend on?
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meaning there has to be a point that everything stops.
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So then I think it will make more sense to you,
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and it's hard to fully accept in front of camera right now,
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I'm working with one of my brothers and sisters,
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and just made me remember those people who are in need.
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Shores, today you're going to be short of Islam,
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inshallah, if you are convinced with our answer,
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We'll learn from you and learn from each other.
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All right, so I'll just give you a little introduction, inshallah.
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Are you saying it's going good or just it's going good?
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Alhamdulillah, we're doing the Salah Plus project.
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We're opening Salah Hubs and we're giving the Salah mats here.
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We had this brother who wanted to ask a question and is that your friend?
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When he said that, we said we better ask the question otherwise we're not going to make
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So, tell us a bit about yourself because you said you was a Muslim.
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So, during Corona, I think a little bit earlier, I started binge watching a lot of
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videos like I think many of you have about Ali Dawah, Mohamed Hijab as well and a lot
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They, it was very interesting and it helped me convert.
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That happened very slowly, just like the converting part was also very slowly.
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For those that are interested, I think the thing that converted me the most, or that...
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That was the, I think, for me, the miracles of the Qur'an and the, for spelling it from
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I started making more friends that are not Muslim and we had talks, like everybody has.
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And I can't say a distinct point that made me lose Islam.
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But what are the main things that made you to lose Islam?
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So the punishment is one, you said free will is another.
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Yeah, but those have connections to each other.
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Within that, there are specific reasons I have.
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What we'll do is we'll try to answer the two and then the other ones that you think of.
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So the first one you said was the punishment of the hereafter.
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Yeah, I would like to begin with free will, I think.
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God decides that my free will is different from your free will.
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You know you said your free will is different to my free will.
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Uh, what I mean by that is, um, the, our lives that we both have.
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Uh, and I assume that the only thing that distincts our, uh, punishment will be how we use our free will.
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And we use our free will in reaction to external factors.
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So, my father hits me, I respond to that and with my free will.
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But it's not my fault my father hits me or that I, how do I say this?
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You're saying that, for example, there's different consequences that have different reaction and cause and effect.
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So, so what I would say is this, yeah, like, when it comes to free will, we all have the same free will.
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In the sense, what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has given us a free will to make decisions.
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So, it's, it's, and of course Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has created the action and all those other factors.
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But, we have free will and at the same time, I think the question is, if Allah knows, then he knows everything, he knows where I'm going to go, then how does free will work?
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So, your question is not that if Allah knows where I'm going, that's not your issue, right?
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No, it's my issue about, I don't see a way where, where our free will is all the same, but our punishment is very different.
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But isn't that based on, like, these that we do, like, for example, argument, let's suppose you, you have an opportunity.
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Let's say we both have 200 pounds in our account, you decide to spend half of that on orphans, I decide to spend it on drinking alcohol.
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Um, don't you think that the free will that you had and you acted on doing a good deed and the free will I had and acted on doing an evil deed and the end result should not be the same?
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Because you've done a good deed and you should be rewarded for that. I've done a bad deed, I should not be rewarded for that.
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No, because I think the free will that I have and the free will that you have, that we all share, I think, because you chose, sorry, in your story you chose the correct option, right?
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Like the good option, you chose the bad option.
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No, you did the good option, I did the bad option.
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Yeah, I believe that I chose the bad option because I was raised and I experimented life in a certain way to make me make that choice.
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You know the brother wanted to say basically that our free will as well is based on our experiences as well, meaning that we do things according to our experiences.
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Like for example, they did an experiment, they put a wallet with money on the floor and then they saw some people, they walked by, they didn't do nothing about it.
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Some people, they came, they took it, they looked at them, they took it and put it in their pocket and they ran away with it.
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Some people, they picked it up and they were looking for a police officer to hand it to them.
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So those people, they worked according to their free will, am I right?
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Well, I don't believe in free will, but so that's another problem.
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Then based on what they have done, the one who choose to steal it and the one who choose to give it back to the owner.
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Now here, is there one force dealing with them or multiple forces?
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Dealing with how they choose, everything that they have experienced in life.
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That's the meaning of the free will, to choose to do something.
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The meaning of the free will, to choose yourself to do something.
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Now here, the person who has, who, for example, the one who choose to hand it out, to hand it back to the owner, yeah?
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He choose to do this, not necessarily, there are some people who are actually, who are brought up in a, in a bad, from, in a bad situation.
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Maybe it could be in a bad family, it could be this, but they have this kind of morality.
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They have this kind of, a good morality to say, you know what, this thing doesn't belong to me, I need to retain it.
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That's the, what do you think, where does this come from, if it's not from the influence of the people?
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Well, if it's from the influence of the people, it's, it's, you cannot be judged upon that, because it's from the people, right?
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If it's not from the influence of the people, then from where?
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That inner morality, it is from the influence of the people.
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No, I'm saying, there are some people, I'm saying, I'm saying to you, and examples, who literally people who lived in a, in a, in a, in a, in a, amongst gangsters.
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They lived there, but they choose not to do things.
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They have, they didn't accept the things that's happening.
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Now those ones, where this, where this came from?
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Well, there's always an, you never know with what the influence is.
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I'll give myself as an example, like, in Jahiliya, I used to chill with actual, like, full blown gangsters.
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I was not one of them, like, I was just, I was like someone, like, I would have a different Jahiliya, but they would sell drugs, class A drugs.
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I used to be around them, and I would never go near it.
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I would, I would say, look, I don't want to be involved, I don't want to touch it, not because of things, it's just, I just thought to myself, morally it's not correct.
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They did not have an impact, an influence on me.
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A lot of people fought for influence, like when you were young, I didn't.
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And I just said, you know what, I don't want to, do you get it?
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So the sheikh is saying that, if that's the case, from what we understood from your question, that influence should be there, should influence him to get involved.
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So how would you, what would you say to that, because I should have been influenced.
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I would say to that, that even if it's the free will from Allah that influenced it, the free will that he gave you, you used.
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Yeah, because I would use my free will again to say yes to it.
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But the free will that he gave you, maybe someone in another scenario, he doesn't respond to it because his, because he didn't use his free will.
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So it's not based on the influence, but based on the decision he makes on his free will.
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Yeah, but the decision, but the decision he makes on his free will is based on all his past experiences that influences it.
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The hard determinist is basically, but you see the problem with hard determinism is because it's very interesting because atheists come to us and say, you've got the issue of Qadr, Qadr, God wield everything.
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When you say, well, atheists, you have hard determinism.
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If today, for example, if today somebody comes and starts in front of a judge and he's a hard determinist,
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he says, the judge said, you killed four people.
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The judge cannot persecute him because he will say, external factors influence me to do that.
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Okay, so then if I come and say, I'm going to kill you today and it's not my fault.
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Can I walk out of the store for today by killing you and saying, I'm a hard determinist and I believe factors in my life play the role in me doing that
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and I should not be blamed, then I should walk free.
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Because if we don't lock you up, then other people will see that they can do that as well.
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But we have to, in society, we have to create some security and that we do it, even though it's not your fault.
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Okay, but if you say that, a rapist, a killer, a Hitler, Mao Zedong, Stalin that killed millions of people will come and say,
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there's hard determinism, we believe all these facts play wrong, I'm not in control.
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So then we say, you're going to have to lock up everybody and anybody, because what happens is,
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all of them are going to say, I'm sorry, all of these other factors, he done it, we got encouraged.
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But not if we lock people up, but then they don't do it.
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Even though if they know self-determinism, they're really determinist.
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And that's all life is, to me at least, right now.
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If it was just pure determinism, then what happens is, bro, every action, like today,
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like for example, if I was to hit you, I would say, sorry, but I didn't do it.
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It was just a reaction of, it's just hard determinism and things were willed in that way.
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No, but if you, if you will do it on purpose, then it's...
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No, no, no, because I do believe you can think about something and change your actions.
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So, it's not free will because everything that happened in your life leads up to a moment
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You think about it, maybe you change your actions.
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But just because you think about something doesn't mean it's your free will.
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It means that something has caused you to think about it.
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And that external thing causes you to then make a move.
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If that is the case right now, what is stopping me from killing you?
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I'm just saying, what is stopping me right now?
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What's stopping me is that my religion tells me that I should not kill innocent souls.
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And if I was not religious, I would still say, this guy's done nothing for me.
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So, what I'm saying is, those are things that have been taught to me.
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So, now, if I decide to say, you know what, I'm just going to kill him.
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So, what I'm saying is, I have a free will to say, should I?
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If you have free will, then you're a compatibilist.
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But I think we miss, I don't think we agree upon the same free will.
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But, it's still, the free will, it's still, the free will that you may, that you use.
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The free will that you use is still based upon external factors that happened earlier in your life.
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But, I believe you cannot say that someone can be, let's say, eternally punished for something they do out of an external reason.
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There are a few things which is adding to this.
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Firstly, we are not neglecting that there will be influence about certain things.
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And factors that could influence the person to do whatever they were doing.
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And we have a story that the Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he mentioned about a man who killed 99 people.
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This due to his upbringing, due to the people around him.
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And he came to someone who was a pious person and he said to him, is there a way that I could repent?
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Here, he's feeling, he's feeling guilt, the guilt feeling, made him to go to this person to ask him if there is repentance.
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He said, if you kill 99 people, there is no way you could repent.
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But still, the feeling of guilt is still in him.
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And then the scholar, he looked at his situation.
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He said, you live amongst people who are people of evil, people of killing.
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So, leave them and move to another area where the people are pious and worship Allah with them until you die.
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Here, the angel of punishment, they were in dispute.
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And the angel of mercy, they said, should they take his soul?
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The angel of mercy, they said, actually, he was, he repented.
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Then Allah said, if he was closer to the land where the people, the pious ones, then the angel of mercy will take him.
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From this, Allah has moved his body to be closer to the land where the people of the pious ones and the angel of mercy took his soul.
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We learn sometimes, yes, could be the factors, the things around us could influence us, our behavior, our actions.
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But at the end of the day, the point when the people, when the person is taking that decision, at that point, yeah, to do and not to do.
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They quit all the background and all of these things.
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That point, here, it is his free will to choose to do it.
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Now, there is no one can say, and we are born in our nature, in our innate, we are, we, Allah says in the Quran,
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that Allah showed him the God, that's either the person grateful or ungrateful.
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So, in our nature, we are inclined to worship Allah.
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But our community and our society and the things around us will influence us to do different things.
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The only thing we say here, which is that's why which is missing in you, which you say,
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the point of the taking that decision, here, there where you are, when you take that decision,
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either you are blameworthy for the things, if it's wrong, or you are praiseworthy if you did something right.
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At the point where you are taking the decision, we are not neglecting the factors around you.
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We are not neglecting that everything happens in this universe under the Qadr of Allah, Azzawajal.
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Nothing happens in his kingdom without his permission, without him allowing it, and part of the Qadr of Allah.
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Including people killing each other, by the way.
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At the same time here, the point of taking the decision, that point, the person either praiseworthy or blameworthy.
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And you know, and I know, the point when you said you want to drop the phone, at this point, you know, and I know, at this point, when you are dropping this phone, you know, that point, it is your free will did it.
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I'm saying to you, now here, if you don't have the ability to hold the phone, that means that free will is not there even.
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Meaning, all the experiences and everything influence you to think about, and you know, for example, while holding the phone, before I dropped it, I know the consequence.
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I know, we're going to throw it here, it's going to be on the carpet, it's not a solid floor.
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I know my phone is protected, and all of this is in my mind, before I'm doing it.
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If the phone doesn't have a protector, if the floor is solid, I may not do it, because I'm going to break my phone.
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So these are factors, previous factors to do it.
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I'm saying this, but still at the point of taking that decision, at that point, here, you have a choice.
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Well, what do you mean with a choice? Because you don't throw it on the rocks, because it will break.
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So you have a choice, but your choice has consequences, which you will listen to.
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Just as, you know, he said, if he knows the fact of that, if you throw it into the fire, it will burn.
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Just the way we don't do bad deeds, because we know there's a fire.
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No, no, no, but if it exists, so what we're saying is the same principle applies.
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Like, I'm not going to throw my phone into the fire, because if I know the consequences.
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Okay, if I throw in the fire, I'm going to lose my phone, and I'm going to be, you know, losing money.
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I'm not going to do a bad deed, because if I do a bad deed, I know that there's a consequence.
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But you said, for example, before we continue, you said that...
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Do you believe then that free will is only there when you have a religion?
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Because everyone has free will, you have free will, you're not Muslim.
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You're bound by the consequences of your actions.
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Of every action, and for sure, if I'm not religious, because then it's just the worldly consequences.
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So, what we're saying is that everyone has free will.
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Me, as a religious person, I am bound by the Sharia that's given by God Almighty.
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The only difference is, I follow God's law, you follow my main law.
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Okay, and, yeah, but the, okay, wait, so you are bound by the consequences of Sharia and of the hellfire, right?
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Yeah, and you are bound by the laws that you follow, the liberal, like the country's government.
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Yeah, and sometimes, but sometimes, sometimes I don't listen.
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No, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay, but what I'm just saying is that we're both under the Sharia of Allah.
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For example, Allah has two, like we actually learned with Sheikh Mohammed this, yeah?
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There's one law that Allah has, it's for everybody, the Muslims and the non-Muslims, yeah?
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And there's one that Allah has, it's the Sharia that Allah loves for us.
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And, and the, the, the, the one that Allah, God Almighty loves for us.
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So what I'm seeing is the difference between us and Iraq.
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You know, some people, atheists come to me and say, oh, you religious people, you believe.
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I go, okay, no, who created the heavens and the mother nature?
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I go, the only difference is, you can eat wherever you like.
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The only difference is, you worship a false, the false God, which says mother nature, big bang.
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You come and say, I can have sex before marriage.
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You follow a legislation, and even some of them might say, you even have a prophet.
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We have the same thing with the prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him.
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Yeah, but you have, in your worldview, you have been given the correct set of rules.
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Yeah, but you have been given religion that allows you to make the correct decisions with the free will that you believe to have, right?
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That's why we're saying you should be a Muslim, because then we have correct, more objective.
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Because what happens is, when you take God out of the picture, you are, like for example, your brain is a byproduct of evolution, let's see.
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I can't even say to you, I mean, how can you even trust what you're saying?
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Like for example, if I was to throw this in the fire and throw a human being in the fire, what's the difference?
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That's why Hitler and people who are communist, atheists, they killed millions of people.
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Meaning, these people, it's just an evolutionary process.
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When these guys, or when I throw this in the fire, it's the same thing.
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In Islam, when you have objective morality, we say, no, this is a human being.
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But in the atheist perspective, you're just a byproduct of, like for example, that's why
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So what happens is, when you have objective morality from God Almighty, everything.
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So you know when you said, if we have hard determinism, hard determinism means the following.
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If today I was to kill four people, you cannot come and say, that's byproduct.
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I'll say, no, because I believe in hard determinism.
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What do you mean, locked up as in, as a punishment for, as in, no, no, but you see
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a punishment as, as the way that Allah punishes people.
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But whatever action an evil person does, he says, I didn't do it.
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That's what, when you write a book, when you write a book, you can't say, I wrote it.
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But, so you said, you believe in this hard determinism, yeah?
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Which means everyone has to be the same understanding, correct?
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Everyone has to have the same understanding, like you, hard determinism.
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So, if someone go and kill 10 people, believing in hard, because this, I'm forced to do that,
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So, the other one, they shouldn't be judging him, because they are hard determinism.
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I study psychology, and we, the vision is fully about what causes people to do something.
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No, it means that we have to still punish them.
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Because if they don't, then they're going to do it again.
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Because the action of murder, you can collectively, as a society, say it's bad.
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If there is no fault, that means there is no punishment.
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You know you said, based on the action, they did.
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They were caused to do it by other factors, but they still did it.
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Like, if I write a book, I can't say it wrote by Ali Dawah.
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So, he knows the next time I'm not going to do it.
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And so, as friends, no, I'm not going to do it ever.
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But it's different from the punishment from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
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Because that means you are going against the principles of hard determinism
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Because if we go in that belief, there's chaos.
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Because you said, if we punish him, because we have to.
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So, that means you are not accepting this hard-determined worldview.
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Because if we don't lock you up, there's going to be chaos.
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Because what you're doing is you're stepping out and saying,
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if someone comes and says, sorry guys, external factors or whatever,
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But if everyone follows that, there will be chaos.
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So, now you're going out of your principles to apply law.
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Because that causes him to think about his actions and do something else.
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What if your experience, motives, influence that you went through,
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makes you decide that you shouldn't be locked up?
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If you decide to say, no, actually, actually, no, it's not his fault.
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Well, if we all collectively decide that as a society, if we all...
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He could say, he could say, the criminal could say,
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it's actually you, the punishers, you made me to do that.
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Which means they have to punish themselves before him.
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If we collectively say that that's true, then that's true.
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I'm talking about your view of hard determinism.
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we talked to you about all the dependent things.
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so do you accept that there's an independent being?
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We cannot have an infinite regress of dependent things.
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He's the independent being that created everything.