FUAD QUESTIONS DESTINY - SPEAKERS CORNER
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In this episode, we talk about the concept of free will and how it relates to our understanding of the universe. We have a guest, Fahad, who has a question about this and we try to answer it.
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So we are going to come here today and you just wanted to come and ask a question.
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And obviously you guys know, we do an invitation that's for non-Muslims and we have preservation.
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So preservation is for our Muslim youngsters, our youth, who have adults or something that
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I didn't really think the question threw properly in it but it was something along the lines
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Basically, say if God makes you, how is it your fault that you're like...
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Say for example if you do something bad, God's made you, so how is it your fault that you
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Because I didn't ask God to make me in a certain way to make me do a bad thing.
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Because I don't understand how it works, the free will concept like...
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Like, if God made us, then he's made us maybe do something...
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So basically, if God made us, then he knows we're going to do the evil, wherever evil
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Yeah, so before he made us, he knew that we were going to do this before making us, right?
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Why didn't he make me in a different way where I'm not going to make that mistake?
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I've heard this argument and I don't understand it as well.
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Look, let me answer you in a different way, okay?
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Now, in Islam, there's a lot of logical answers to a lot of stuff, yeah?
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Islam is not a religion which says to you, close your eyes and believe.
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There's a rational argument for Allah's existence.
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There's a lot of arguments for the Qur'an for being from Allah.
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I know the Qur'an is a final messenger, there's evidence towards it.
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Now, there's going to be things that you and I cannot understand.
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Now, just because we cannot grasp it, does not mean there is no wisdom behind it.
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So, for example, we may agree that right now, a tree fell in the Amazon.
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Just because we don't grasp it, doesn't mean there's no wisdom behind it.
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At that moment in time, you reflex and go bang.
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You don't understand that they were running to the fire, you actually saved their life.
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But because of their limited understanding, they're seeing Daddy as evil.
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Now, when it comes to the matter of Qadr, nobody can give an answer.
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There is no answer analogy that I can give to this, yeah?
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Because if Allah knows that I'm going to end up in the fire.
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So, therefore, being unjust goes against Allah's nature.
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But what he's telling you to do, does it make sense?
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Bill Gates is telling you to do something that does not make sense to you.
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But the reason you're doing it is because of who he is.
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Allah is telling you to do a lot of things that make a lot of sense.
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If it's a matter of qadr, it doesn't make sense to you.
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Because Allah knows, but I also have to be with you.
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Yeah, and some things we don't understand, I know.
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But I was asking you for this like a logical explanation.
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But Allah says in the Quran that what will I get, I'll punish you again.
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Every single chapter in the Quran except one says Allah, the most merciful, the very merciful.
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So with this matter, what you need to do is the following, yeah?
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I don't know where you're going to go, I don't know where I'm going to go.
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Either I'm going to say one, this, I'm not doing nothing, I'm not praying, I'm probably
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So there will be one person who will say, I don't know where I'm going, therefore I'm
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not going to do any righteous deeds, it doesn't matter, God knows where I'm going.
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Another person will say, I don't know where I'm going, but I know God has created this
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So like how Aisha said to the Prophet, you know you're going heaven.
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His wife, Aisha said to the Prophet, you're going to go heaven.
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But the Prophet said, shall I not be grateful to my Lord, yeah?
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So a person with that mentality, you believe somebody who's going to strive, pray, do you
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all of that and Allah is going to put you in hell?
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He told us that on the day of judgment, a man will come and he will tell Allah,
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Oh Allah, I want to go Jannah with my good deeds.
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So God may have made some of us like mentally a bit like off, yeah?
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So say for example, like some people who follow the extremes of Islam.
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No, but even if it wasn't, but they're just misinformed and they believe it.
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Because Allah makes it clear in the Quran and the Sunnah.
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So when he says no, they kill our brothers and sisters.
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He was so righteous that he was, he came to the level of the angels.
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So, and so it shows you that he was a very righteous, righteous person.
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His action of not bowing down did not cause him to be down to hell.
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Allah said to him, oh Iblis, why did you not bow?
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In that moment of time, he could have said, oh Allah, repent.
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He's saying, oh Allah, you are wrong because I am better than him and you're making me do something that I believe is wrong.
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He could have said the same bunch of arguments.
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Oh Allah, you knew I was going to eat from the tree.
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So now the hadith that I was telling you about of the man who came on the day of judgment.
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And on the day of judgment, he said to Allah, oh Allah put me to Jannah based on my good deeds.
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Allah said, I want to put you based on my mercy.
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He said, no Allah, I've done a lot of good deeds.
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It shows that that man at that moment was destined to hell.
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So the matter of Qadr is that you have a free will.
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Say if I'm a creator like a machine or something.
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I create it with like a certain function to, like I know what it's going to do.
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And Allah made that creation and we make a knife.
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Because Allah caused enemies to make the knife.
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With this issue, it comes to a matter of tawakta.
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You have to say, Allah says, I am to my servant how he thinks of.
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Because there's a lot of people that might have the same doubt.
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It seems like a contradiction because our minds can't grasp that.
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He's going to go back to his tribe and say, I went to the UK and I saw a stone.
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So his tribe is going to say, okay, if the stone is talking, it must have a tongue.
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If it has a body, it should have a immune system.
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So what they do is, because of their limited mind, they're ascribing things to something
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The matter of tawakkul, the matter of tawakkul is that you have trust in Allah.
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Allah says, I am to my servant how he thinks of me.
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Inna al-mushlimin wa al-muslimat wa al-mu'minina wa al-mu'minat wa al-al-muhinat wa al-qaritin wa al-qaritin wa al-al-qaritin wa al-al-qaritin wa al-kharitin wa al-
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The ones who believe, the ones who do righteousness, the ones who are false, et cetera.
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So in a nutshell, aki, you know Allah is not unjust.
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Do your actions, and you're going to see the fruits.
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It's not, oh, Allah is destined, I'm going to go.
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I was just thinking, like, if there's a way to, like,
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I think Dr. Zakin actually said Bill Gates exactly as all that guy.
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like, if Bill Gates gave you £100 or something,
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you thank the money, not the one who gives it to you.
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I don't know, I can't remember if I had any of it,