Ali Dawah - August 25, 2019


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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00:00:00.000 What's your name?
00:00:01.000 Fahad.
00:00:02.000 Fahad.
00:00:03.000 Fahad.
00:00:04.000 Fahad.
00:00:05.000 Where are you from Fahad?
00:00:06.000 Birmingham, from.
00:00:07.000 Originally?
00:00:08.000 Afghanistan.
00:00:09.000 Oh is it?
00:00:10.000 Yeah.
00:00:11.000 So we are going to come here today and you just wanted to come and ask a question.
00:00:26.000 And obviously you guys know, we do an invitation that's for non-Muslims and we have preservation. 0.98
00:00:31.000 So preservation is for our Muslim youngsters, our youth, who have adults or something that 1.00
00:00:36.000 they're just curious about.
00:00:37.000 So what was your question?
00:00:38.000 I didn't really think the question threw properly in it but it was something along the lines
00:00:41.000 of free will basically.
00:00:42.000 I didn't really quite understand it.
00:00:43.000 Yeah.
00:00:44.000 Basically, say if God makes you, how is it your fault that you're like...
00:00:49.000 For hell.
00:00:50.000 No, no.
00:00:51.000 Say for example if you do something bad, God's made you, so how is it your fault that you
00:00:55.000 did that bad thing?
00:00:56.000 Because I didn't ask God to make me in a certain way to make me do a bad thing.
00:00:58.000 Okay.
00:00:59.000 Yeah, because like...
00:01:00.000 Because I don't understand how it works, the free will concept like...
00:01:02.000 Like, what makes someone do something bad?
00:01:04.000 You know what I'm saying?
00:01:05.000 Like, if God made us, then he's made us maybe do something...
00:01:09.000 You know what I'm saying?
00:01:10.000 You know what I'm saying?
00:01:11.000 I can't plan to explain it.
00:01:12.000 So basically, if God made us, then he knows we're going to do the evil, wherever evil
00:01:18.000 it may be, yeah?
00:01:19.000 Because he's...
00:01:20.000 What's that?
00:01:21.000 Yeomilvabe or something, he knows it.
00:01:22.000 He knows that unseen.
00:01:23.000 Or knowing, yeah?
00:01:24.000 Yeah, so before he made us, he knew that we were going to do this before making us, right?
00:01:28.000 Yeah, so why did he create us?
00:01:29.000 In that way, which we're going to...
00:01:30.000 Knowing he's going to make the mistake.
00:01:32.000 Why didn't he make me in a different way where I'm not going to make that mistake?
00:01:35.000 Okay.
00:01:36.000 Yep.
00:01:37.000 Okay.
00:01:38.000 I've heard this argument and I don't understand it as well.
00:01:40.000 I've heard it, I've heard it.
00:01:41.000 Okay, so basically what it is is...
00:01:42.000 Yeah.
00:01:43.000 Look, let me answer you in a different way, okay?
00:01:44.000 Now, in Islam, there's a lot of logical answers to a lot of stuff, yeah?
00:01:51.000 Yeah, yeah.
00:01:52.000 Islam is not a religion which says to you, close your eyes and believe. 0.87
00:01:54.000 Yeah, on faith.
00:01:55.000 It's not based on faith, basically.
00:01:56.000 It is faith, but it's not just based on faith.
00:01:58.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:01:59.000 So now, there's, we know, I know Allah exists.
00:02:02.000 Yeah, of course.
00:02:03.000 There's a rational argument for Allah's existence.
00:02:05.000 Of course, of course.
00:02:06.000 You know, I know the Qur'an is from Allah.
00:02:07.000 Yeah.
00:02:08.000 There's a lot of arguments for the Qur'an for being from Allah.
00:02:10.000 Yeah.
00:02:11.000 I know the Qur'an is a final messenger, there's evidence towards it.
00:02:13.000 Exactly, yeah.
00:02:14.000 Now, there's going to be things that you and I cannot understand.
00:02:16.000 Exactly, that's what I'm...
00:02:17.000 And we cannot grasp, yeah?
00:02:18.000 Yeah.
00:02:19.000 Now, just because we cannot grasp it, does not mean there is no wisdom behind it.
00:02:23.000 Yeah, of course.
00:02:24.000 So, for example, we may agree that right now, a tree fell in the Amazon.
00:02:28.000 Yeah.
00:02:29.000 Did you hear it?
00:02:30.000 No.
00:02:31.000 Did you see it?
00:02:32.000 No.
00:02:33.000 Did you touch it?
00:02:34.000 No.
00:02:35.000 No.
00:02:36.000 Just because we don't grasp it, doesn't mean there's no wisdom behind it.
00:02:39.000 Yeah, yeah.
00:02:40.000 So, imagine your child is running to the fire.
00:02:43.000 Yeah.
00:02:44.000 At that moment in time, you reflex and go bang.
00:02:46.000 Yeah.
00:02:47.000 You kick your child, yeah? 0.97
00:02:48.000 Your child flies. 0.97
00:02:49.000 Yeah.
00:02:50.000 And they start crying.
00:02:51.000 Okay.
00:02:52.000 They say, Daddy kicked me.
00:02:53.000 Okay.
00:02:54.000 But what do they not understand?
00:02:55.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:02:56.000 You don't understand that they were running to the fire, you actually saved their life.
00:02:59.000 Yeah, yeah.
00:03:00.000 But because of their limited understanding, they're seeing Daddy as evil.
00:03:03.000 Yeah.
00:03:04.000 Exactly.
00:03:05.000 Now, when it comes to the matter of Qadr, nobody can give an answer. 0.69
00:03:09.000 Yeah.
00:03:10.000 There is no answer analogy that I can give to this, yeah?
00:03:12.000 Yeah.
00:03:13.000 But let me break it down for you, yeah?
00:03:14.000 Alright, go on.
00:03:15.000 Okay.
00:03:16.000 Now, we know Allah is the most just.
00:03:18.000 Yeah, yeah.
00:03:19.000 We know Allah is the unknowing, yeah? 0.92
00:03:20.000 Yeah.
00:03:21.000 Okay.
00:03:22.000 Allah will never put us in hell fire.
00:03:25.000 Yeah.
00:03:26.000 Unjusting.
00:03:27.000 Because if Allah knows that I'm going to end up in the fire.
00:03:31.000 Yeah.
00:03:32.000 And He's crazy with me.
00:03:33.000 Yeah.
00:03:34.000 Then how is that just?
00:03:35.000 So, therefore, being unjust goes against Allah's nature.
00:03:40.000 Yeah.
00:03:41.000 Yeah.
00:03:42.000 Yeah.
00:03:43.000 So, let me ask you a question, yeah?
00:03:44.000 Yeah.
00:03:45.000 You know Alan Sugar?
00:03:46.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:03:47.000 He's a multi-billionaire, yeah?
00:03:48.000 Yeah.
00:03:49.000 You know Bill Gates?
00:03:50.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:03:51.000 You know Bill Gates?
00:03:52.000 Yeah, yeah.
00:03:53.000 You go to Bill Gates.
00:03:54.000 You say to him, I want to set up a business.
00:03:55.000 I want to be rich like you.
00:03:56.000 Mm-hmm.
00:03:57.000 He says to you, go to Oxford Street, yeah?
00:04:01.000 And sell banana skins.
00:04:02.000 Okay.
00:04:03.000 Would you do it?
00:04:04.000 If Bill Gates told me to, yeah?
00:04:06.000 Say that again?
00:04:07.000 If Bill Gates told me to, yeah.
00:04:08.000 Okay, listen carefully.
00:04:09.000 If Bill Gates told me to, I will do it.
00:04:11.000 Yeah.
00:04:12.000 Because of who he is.
00:04:13.000 Bill Gates told you to.
00:04:14.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:04:15.000 But what he's telling you to do, does it make sense?
00:04:16.000 No.
00:04:17.000 Okay.
00:04:18.000 Yeah, no, no.
00:04:19.000 I've heard this one as well.
00:04:20.000 Okay, okay.
00:04:21.000 No, this is quite unique to me.
00:04:22.000 I don't know where you've heard it.
00:04:23.000 No, no.
00:04:24.000 The doctor's like a Nike said this before.
00:04:25.000 Has he?
00:04:26.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:04:27.000 He's probably took it on me.
00:04:28.000 It'll be okay.
00:04:29.000 Yeah.
00:04:30.000 So what I'm trying to say is this, yeah?
00:04:31.000 Yeah.
00:04:32.000 Bill Gates is telling you to do something that does not make sense to you.
00:04:34.000 Yep.
00:04:35.000 But the reason you're doing it is because of who he is.
00:04:37.000 Yes.
00:04:38.000 Exactly.
00:04:39.000 Because you have tawakkul, trust me. 0.95
00:04:40.000 Yeah.
00:04:41.000 Okay.
00:04:42.000 Allah is telling you to do a lot of things that make a lot of sense.
00:04:44.000 Yeah.
00:04:45.000 If it's a matter of qadr, it doesn't make sense to you.
00:04:47.000 Exactly.
00:04:48.000 Because Allah knows, but I also have to be with you.
00:04:50.000 Yeah, and some things we don't understand, I know.
00:04:51.000 Okay.
00:04:52.000 But I was asking you for this like a logical explanation.
00:04:53.000 Exactly, exactly.
00:04:54.000 But Allah says in the Quran that what will I get, I'll punish you again.
00:04:57.000 Yeah.
00:04:58.000 So Allah is saying why would I punish you?
00:04:59.000 Yeah, exactly.
00:05:00.000 Allah is saying he's the most just.
00:05:02.000 Every single chapter in the Quran except one says Allah, the most merciful, the very merciful.
00:05:06.000 Yeah.
00:05:07.000 So with this matter, what you need to do is the following, yeah?
00:05:12.000 I don't know where you're going to go, I don't know where I'm going to go.
00:05:15.000 Yeah.
00:05:16.000 I have two options.
00:05:17.000 Either I'm going to say one, this, I'm not doing nothing, I'm not praying, I'm probably
00:05:21.000 going hell. 0.59
00:05:22.000 Yeah.
00:05:23.000 Yeah?
00:05:24.000 I can say this.
00:05:25.000 Or, I can have a second option, yeah?
00:05:27.000 I don't know where I'm going.
00:05:28.000 Yeah?
00:05:29.000 So there will be one person who will say, I don't know where I'm going, therefore I'm
00:05:31.000 not going to do any righteous deeds, it doesn't matter, God knows where I'm going.
00:05:34.000 If I'm going to heaven, I'm going anywhere.
00:05:36.000 Yeah, yeah.
00:05:37.000 If I'm not going, I'm going hell, yeah?
00:05:38.000 Yeah.
00:05:39.000 Another person will say, I don't know where I'm going, but I know God has created this
00:05:44.000 and given me everything.
00:05:45.000 Yeah.
00:05:46.000 I'm going to be grateful.
00:05:47.000 So like how Aisha said to the Prophet, you know you're going heaven. 0.84
00:05:50.000 Yeah.
00:05:51.000 Why are you praying?
00:05:52.000 Inshallah, Inshallah.
00:05:53.000 Yeah, Inshallah, to the Prophet . 0.93
00:05:54.000 Oh, okay.
00:05:55.000 His wife, Aisha said to the Prophet, you're going to go heaven.
00:05:58.000 Yeah.
00:05:59.000 Why are you praying till your legs swell?
00:06:00.000 Yeah.
00:06:01.000 But the Prophet said, shall I not be grateful to my Lord, yeah?
00:06:04.000 So a person with that mentality, you believe somebody who's going to strive, pray, do you
00:06:09.000 all of that and Allah is going to put you in hell?
00:06:11.000 No.
00:06:12.000 And let me give you a hadith of the Prophet .
00:06:14.000 He told us that on the day of judgment, a man will come and he will tell Allah,
00:06:19.000 Oh Allah, I want to go Jannah with my good deeds.
00:06:22.000 Okay, but how about this?
00:06:24.000 Say for example, someone...
00:06:26.000 God made us, yeah?
00:06:27.000 Yes.
00:06:28.000 So God may have made some of us like mentally a bit like off, yeah?
00:06:31.000 Okay.
00:06:32.000 So say for example, like some people who follow the extremes of Islam. 0.77
00:06:33.000 Yes.
00:06:34.000 But they actually believe it.
00:06:35.000 Yes.
00:06:36.000 Then they go heaven.
00:06:37.000 Okay, one second.
00:06:38.000 Is it according to the Quran and the Sunnah?
00:06:40.000 No, but even if it wasn't, but they're just misinformed and they believe it.
00:06:43.000 Okay, okay, okay.
00:06:44.000 This comes back to, they didn't.
00:06:46.000 Because Allah makes it clear in the Quran and the Sunnah.
00:06:48.000 Yeah.
00:06:49.000 They're innocent people.
00:06:50.000 Yeah.
00:06:51.000 So when he says no, they kill our brothers and sisters. 1.00
00:06:53.000 I'm going to go and kill them. 1.00
00:06:54.000 Yeah. 0.99
00:06:55.000 Is this from the Quran and the Sunnah?
00:06:56.000 No.
00:06:57.000 Yeah.
00:06:58.000 So this is from his own self.
00:06:59.000 Because he cannot blame God.
00:07:00.000 This is what Shaitan did.
00:07:01.000 Shaitan blamed Allah.
00:07:02.000 Yeah.
00:07:03.000 Allah said to Shaitan, why did you know that?
00:07:07.000 He said, because you misguided me.
00:07:09.000 Yeah.
00:07:10.000 So look at two things.
00:07:11.000 Look at this, yeah?
00:07:12.000 You have Adam.
00:07:13.000 Yeah.
00:07:14.000 You have Shaitan.
00:07:15.000 Yeah.
00:07:16.000 Adam committed his sin.
00:07:17.000 Yep.
00:07:18.000 One is no.
00:07:19.000 Okay.
00:07:20.000 What's different between them two?
00:07:21.000 Number one, look.
00:07:22.000 Yeah.
00:07:23.000 Shaitan was a righteous person.
00:07:25.000 Okay.
00:07:26.000 He was so righteous that he was, he came to the level of the angels.
00:07:30.000 Yeah, yeah, I know, I know.
00:07:31.000 So, and so it shows you that he was a very righteous, righteous person.
00:07:37.000 Yeah.
00:07:38.000 So God, Allah asked him to bow down to Adam.
00:07:40.000 Yeah?
00:07:41.000 Yeah.
00:07:42.000 His action of not bowing down did not cause him to be down to hell.
00:07:47.000 To become a Catholic.
00:07:48.000 Yeah.
00:07:49.000 Allah said to him, oh Iblis, why did you not bow? 1.00
00:07:52.000 Yeah.
00:07:53.000 In that moment of time, he could have said, oh Allah, repent.
00:07:57.000 Yeah.
00:07:58.000 What did he do that made him disbelieved?
00:08:00.000 He said, I am better than him.
00:08:03.000 Yeah.
00:08:04.000 So he's ascribing a mistake to Allah.
00:08:05.000 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.
00:08:13.000 So he's trying to say to Allah, you are wrong.
00:08:15.000 Yeah.
00:08:16.000 That's what made him disbelieve.
00:08:17.000 Adam, Allah told him to abstain from the tree.
00:08:20.000 He ate from the tree.
00:08:22.000 Yeah.
00:08:23.000 But what did he do?
00:08:24.000 Did he say Allah?
00:08:25.000 He could have said the same thing.
00:08:26.000 He could have said the same bunch of arguments.
00:08:27.000 Yeah.
00:08:28.000 Allah, you created me.
00:08:29.000 You knew that I'm going to eat from the tree.
00:08:31.000 Yeah.
00:08:32.000 He asked for repentance.
00:08:33.000 Yeah.
00:08:34.000 So look at this.
00:08:35.000 Iblis committed a sin. 0.99
00:08:36.000 Okay.
00:08:37.000 Blamed Allah. 0.82
00:08:38.000 Adam created a sin.
00:08:39.000 And logically he couldn't see the same thing.
00:08:40.000 Oh Allah, you knew I was going to eat from the tree.
00:08:41.000 Yeah.
00:08:42.000 It's your fault.
00:08:43.000 Yeah.
00:08:44.000 Why do you treat me this way?
00:08:45.000 He didn't do that.
00:08:46.000 Yeah.
00:08:47.000 He didn't do that.
00:08:48.000 So it shows you free will.
00:08:49.000 Allah knew everything.
00:08:50.000 But it shows free will.
00:08:51.000 Yeah.
00:08:52.000 And he said, oh Allah forgive me.
00:08:53.000 Yeah.
00:08:54.000 And Allah forgave him.
00:08:55.000 Yeah.
00:08:56.000 So now the hadith that I was telling you about of the man who came on the day of judgment.
00:09:06.000 Yeah.
00:09:07.000 And on the day of judgment, he said to Allah, oh Allah put me to Jannah based on my good deeds.
00:09:11.000 Yeah.
00:09:12.000 Allah said, I want to put you based on my mercy.
00:09:15.000 He said, no Allah, I've done a lot of good deeds.
00:09:17.000 He said, no problem.
00:09:18.000 He got the scales.
00:09:20.000 He put his eye on the left side.
00:09:22.000 And put all his good deeds on the right.
00:09:24.000 He tipped.
00:09:25.000 He tipped.
00:09:26.000 Yeah. 0.97
00:09:27.000 So Allah said, now you're going to go hell. 0.88
00:09:28.000 Yeah.
00:09:29.000 So what does that show you?
00:09:30.000 It shows that that man at that moment was destined to hell.
00:09:33.000 Can you?
00:09:34.000 Yeah.
00:09:35.000 But Allah's mercy, he said, no Allah please.
00:09:36.000 Okay.
00:09:37.000 I want to go for your mercy.
00:09:38.000 Yeah.
00:09:39.000 So the matter of Qadr is that you have a free will.
00:09:44.000 You make that choice.
00:09:45.000 However, Allah knows anything about Qadr.
00:09:48.000 What are you going to do?
00:09:49.000 I know.
00:09:50.000 It was hard to explain it.
00:09:51.000 No, no, no.
00:09:52.000 You're thinking it.
00:09:53.000 Yes.
00:09:54.000 It's like, say if I'm a creator.
00:09:55.000 Yes.
00:09:56.000 Say if I'm a creator like a machine or something.
00:09:57.000 Yeah.
00:09:58.000 I create it with like a certain function to, like I know what it's going to do.
00:10:01.000 Yes.
00:10:02.000 You know what I'm saying?
00:10:03.000 Yes.
00:10:04.000 Because the way we think is hard.
00:10:05.000 I just try to find an analogy for it.
00:10:06.000 For example, we have a knife.
00:10:07.000 Yeah.
00:10:08.000 Yeah.
00:10:09.000 That's a creation from Allah as well. 0.68
00:10:10.000 A knife.
00:10:11.000 A knife.
00:10:12.000 Yeah.
00:10:13.000 And Allah made that creation and we make a knife. 1.00
00:10:14.000 Yeah. 0.97
00:10:15.000 One chooses to kill somebody with a knife. 0.58
00:10:16.000 One chooses to cook food.
00:10:17.000 Yeah.
00:10:18.000 Yeah.
00:10:19.000 Now, we can't say, oh, that's Allah's work. 0.56
00:10:20.000 Because Allah caused enemies to make the knife. 1.00
00:10:22.000 Yeah.
00:10:23.000 Yeah.
00:10:24.000 With this issue, it comes to a matter of tawakta.
00:10:26.000 You have to have trust in Allah.
00:10:28.000 Yeah.
00:10:29.000 You have to say, Allah says, I am to my servant how he thinks of.
00:10:31.000 Yeah.
00:10:32.000 I know.
00:10:33.000 Of course, I fully believe in it.
00:10:34.000 I just wanted an analogy.
00:10:35.000 Because there's a lot of people that might have the same doubt.
00:10:36.000 Yeah.
00:10:37.000 The problem is this.
00:10:38.000 Allah's knowing everything and free will.
00:10:40.000 Yeah.
00:10:41.000 It seems like a contradiction because our minds can't grasp that.
00:10:44.000 Yeah.
00:10:45.000 That's our voice for as well.
00:10:46.000 Let me give you another example.
00:10:47.000 Yeah.
00:10:48.000 If there's shaitan.
00:10:49.000 Yeah.
00:10:50.000 If we get a man, may Allah silence your voice. 1.00
00:10:56.000 If we get a man in an island. 0.85
00:10:58.000 Yeah.
00:10:59.000 If we bring him to the United Kingdom.
00:11:00.000 Yeah.
00:11:01.000 And he sees me talking on my phone.
00:11:03.000 Yeah.
00:11:04.000 And he hears somebody's voices coming out.
00:11:06.000 Yeah.
00:11:07.000 He's going to go back to his tribe and say, I went to the UK and I saw a stone. 0.95
00:11:12.000 Yeah.
00:11:13.000 And he was talking.
00:11:14.000 Yeah.
00:11:15.000 So his tribe is going to say, okay, if the stone is talking, it must have a tongue.
00:11:19.000 Yeah.
00:11:20.000 If it has a tongue, it must have a teeth.
00:11:21.000 Yeah.
00:11:22.000 If it has a teeth, it should have a brain. 0.91
00:11:23.000 If it has a brain, it should have a body.
00:11:24.000 If it has a body, it should have a immune system.
00:11:25.000 Yeah.
00:11:26.000 Yeah.
00:11:27.000 So what they do is, because of their limited mind, they're ascribing things to something
00:11:31.000 they don't understand.
00:11:32.000 Yeah.
00:11:33.000 The matter of tawakkul, the matter of tawakkul is that you have trust in Allah.
00:11:38.000 Yeah.
00:11:39.000 Something that you don't understand.
00:11:40.000 Allah says, I am to my servant how he thinks of me.
00:11:43.000 So I know Allah is not unjust.
00:11:45.000 Yeah.
00:11:46.000 So if I do good works, no way.
00:11:48.000 And that's what Allah says in the Quran.
00:11:49.000 Yeah.
00:11:50.000 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-
00:11:54.580 al-qaritin wa al-al-qaritin wa al-di.
00:11:55.580 The ones who believe, the ones who do righteousness, the ones who are false, et cetera.
00:11:58.000 Yeah.
00:11:59.000 So in a nutshell, aki, you know Allah is not unjust.
00:12:00.000 Yeah.
00:12:01.000 Do your actions, and you're going to see the fruits.
00:12:02.000 Yeah.
00:12:03.000 and you're going to see the fruits.
00:12:05.160 It's not, oh, Allah is destined, I'm going to go.
00:12:07.080 I was just thinking, like, if there's a way to, like,
00:12:09.120 maybe an analogy that you could give.
00:12:10.640 The best thing to do is to Bill Gates.
00:12:12.360 Yeah, just why...
00:12:13.140 Something that you don't understand,
00:12:14.280 but you still have trust in Bill Gates.
00:12:15.460 So why don't we have trust in Allah?
00:12:17.260 I think Dr. Zakin actually said Bill Gates exactly as all that guy.
00:12:19.940 I think he used it in a different context.
00:12:21.420 I think he did.
00:12:22.160 No, no, the Giza goes to him,
00:12:23.540 he goes, it's because Bill Gates gave you,
00:12:26.200 like, if Bill Gates gave you £100 or something,
00:12:28.720 he said something about money.
00:12:29.840 Oh, yeah, so basically he said,
00:12:30.780 you thank the money, not the one who gives it to you.
00:12:34.580 I don't know, I can't remember if I had any of it,
00:12:36.060 but anyway, yeah, yeah, is that it?
00:12:37.740 Is that it?