Ali Dawah - October 20, 2021


MESSAGE TO IAMLUCID

Topics
Islam and monotheism
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Ali Dawah
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The Holy Spirit Surah Al-Fatiha Justin Barrett Hinduism Wallahi Hasana Islam
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In this podcast, I talk about a video that was released by a Muslim YouTuber about God and why he believes in Him. I also talk about the importance of looking within yourself to find the answer to the question, "Where did I come from?"

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00:00:30.000 Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh, brothers and sisters and dear friends, hope you guys are well inshaAllah.
00:00:39.880 So I was sent this video from somebody who sent it and this is from a YouTuber called IamLucid or something like that.
00:00:46.260 He's somebody, apparently he lives some kind of a Muslim lifestyle.
00:00:50.520 He released this video about God Almighty and I find it very interesting and I thought let me listen to it because it seems very sincere.
00:00:55.140 And let's see what advice we can give to him inshaAllah.
00:00:56.800 So here we go.
00:00:57.260 I believe in God. Now that statement itself is considered controversial in the year 2021.
00:01:03.240 For some reason, me telling you that I believe that there's a higher power above all human beings that have created us and fashioned us so perfectly.
00:01:10.740 And I genuinely believe that exists.
00:01:12.960 It's somehow going to get somebody on the other side of this screen, maybe even across the world, really triggered, upset, and so mad to the point where they might unsubscribe and that's okay.
00:01:21.960 The reason that I made this channel was so that I can keep it real with you.
00:01:24.280 I can tell you exactly what I feel and so that you can watch it.
00:01:27.700 People like him are sincere.
00:01:30.400 And for him to not care about what people think or someone's going to subscribe shows to me his sincerity.
00:01:34.980 That his priorities lie in not people that follow him, but rather his priorities lies in the one true God that he wants to follow.
00:01:42.580 If I was going to put on a show for everybody, I would not be doing YouTube right now.
00:01:45.780 I'm going to tell you exactly what I believe about God.
00:01:48.020 Now, I've been on a mental roller coaster for these last three or four years trying to figure out why I was put here on Earth.
00:01:56.520 Why all human beings even exist.
00:01:58.260 I look at myself and my temporary body and I think, what's the point?
00:02:01.460 Why am I here?
00:02:02.300 What's the answer?
00:02:02.960 And over years of thinking, I went through routes of atheism.
00:02:07.460 I went through routes of believing that I'm stardust trying to explore itself, which still does kind of make sense in a sense.
00:02:14.160 But then the Big Bang Theory and then looking at the different religions that I just, I never really understood what the point of it was.
00:02:21.900 I never understood where we came from.
00:02:23.940 What's the source?
00:02:24.720 What's the absolute beginning?
00:02:26.260 Because if I pull out a book and I show you this book was written by author A.
00:02:30.920 And then you can tell that this book was written by a human being, right?
00:02:34.720 Because there was a form of intelligence that was written down on this piece of paper.
00:02:37.820 And you can tell that another human being wrote this.
00:02:41.040 And then if I give you a sample of DNA and you see all of the amazing, wondrous things that happen inside of our own bodies that we can't even fully comprehend,
00:02:49.760 that it takes years and years of schooling to kind of even get a grasp at,
00:02:53.620 we look at all of the mechanisms in our body that help fight diseases, that help fight cancer,
00:02:57.920 and we think that there was no intelligence that made us.
00:03:02.360 This guy is very intelligent.
00:03:04.160 Not only that, he's really using his brain.
00:03:05.620 And it reminds me of Surah Al-Imran, verse 190, where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
00:03:10.780 Indeed, in the creation of the heavens and the earth, and in the alternation of the night and day,
00:03:25.060 there are signs for those of intellect.
00:03:28.520 This guy is exactly who Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is talking about. 0.77
00:03:31.180 He's pondering, he's looking, he's thinking,
00:03:32.760 Bob, how can I believe this came from nothing?
00:03:36.200 We can play a video game on our computer and say, yeah, you know, a team wrote the code for the game and I'm just playing the game.
00:03:43.520 Yeah, like a human being wrote that.
00:03:44.700 But we look at our body and we don't say, who wrote the code for us?
00:03:47.820 There's so much going on inside of our own body.
00:03:50.700 Looking into a mirror, you can find the answer right there.
00:03:53.440 You don't even have to go look anywhere else.
00:03:55.360 Looking at yourself in the mirror, that's all the answer that you need.
00:03:57.980 That's all the proof that you need.
00:03:59.240 That's very interesting because I can recall an ayah of the Quran, which I'll probably put it here while I'm editing.
00:04:07.960 Where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says that within yourself, there is evidence of Allah's creation.
00:04:16.720 Within yourself, you don't need to look far.
00:04:18.580 Look within yourself and you will see it.
00:04:20.360 And I realized that I was looking for all of these answers, all these things external in this world.
00:04:24.960 And I just had to look in the mirror and I found the exact masterpiece that God created.
00:04:29.100 And we all could as well.
00:04:30.720 And that's what made the most sense to me.
00:04:33.040 But somebody says, can God create a rock so heavy that he himself cannot lift?
00:04:37.800 I love the question because it really stumped me for a long time.
00:04:42.460 Can God create a rock so heavy that he himself can't lift because it's so heavy?
00:04:46.920 The question itself is flawed because you're asking the question as if God's a human being, as if God's immortal, as if God has a weight limit.
00:04:55.320 Exactly.
00:04:55.800 It's like me saying, can God cease to exist?
00:04:59.000 It's not a valid question.
00:05:00.220 Not every question is valid.
00:05:02.580 And people just ask this question like it's a valid question. 1.00
00:05:05.140 It's a stupid question. 1.00
00:05:06.460 And then I ask the question to myself over and over again. 1.00
00:05:08.720 Yeah, but where is God?
00:05:10.220 Like what?
00:05:10.840 I'm a human being.
00:05:12.240 What is my relationship to the source, to the creator?
00:05:14.800 How does that make any sense?
00:05:15.840 And I thought, you know, maybe God's here?
00:05:19.900 Well, no, God can't just be only here because if you can point at God, then he's probably not God, right?
00:05:25.060 Like if God's a certain piece of mess or God's like right here, then why isn't God over there?
00:05:32.020 This guy, if I just listen to him, I would say this guy is a Muslim. 0.53
00:05:36.980 Hands down, I would say this guy is a Muslim.
00:05:39.240 Wallahi, he's speaking.
00:05:44.460 I'm lost for words.
00:05:45.280 This guy is a Muslim.
00:05:46.080 So then he's limited.
00:05:48.460 So that's not true.
00:05:50.260 But then if God is everything, which I thought for a long time, multiple years, but that still means that I can point at God, which is already an understatement to what it is.
00:06:00.140 Because if I can point at God and I'm this 3D temporary living object, then that can't be right, because that's an understatement to something that is totally infinite.
00:06:10.480 So these questions that I was asking this entire time, they were all flawed questions.
00:06:15.360 God isn't comprehensible by our temporary mind.
00:06:19.880 He's not conceivable.
00:06:20.740 You can't point at him.
00:06:21.800 You can't look at him.
00:06:24.620 He's not a certain piece of mess.
00:06:26.540 That's not how it works.
00:06:28.840 And after years and years of thinking about this question, of spinning around in my own mind, I eventually came to the conclusion that there is a God.
00:06:38.660 There's no way that we're living in this temporary body this entire time for no reason.
00:06:42.900 There's no way that the sun is the exact distance from the earth.
00:06:46.720 And it hasn't burned up the earth yet.
00:06:48.540 And it hasn't froze it off because it's too far away.
00:06:50.440 There's no way that all of these things, everywhere from the ant kingdom to the human kingdom, that everything is working in perfect balance.
00:06:59.140 Also, one more thing that someone pointed out to me is when the moon eclipses, for example, with the sun, when that happens, if you notice, the moon fully covers the sun.
00:07:12.060 That means the distance between the moon and the sun is in such a calculation because otherwise the sun would have outshined the moon if it was like that.
00:07:22.220 But it's in such a distance that the moon fully closes off the sun, if that makes sense, which is something that I found profound as well.
00:07:31.920 And then people ask the question, so if God's good, then why is there evil in this world?
00:07:36.580 Why is there bad stuff like death and bad people?
00:07:40.540 Well, you have to understand God created evil because if there was no evil, then there would be no good.
00:07:46.220 The law of polarity states that there has to be an opposite for everything, especially for us to understand and comprehend it.
00:07:51.420 If there was no night time, there would be no day time.
00:07:54.640 If there was no white, there would be no black. 1.00
00:07:56.580 If there was no blue, there would be no red.
00:07:58.480 It's like saying, how could you know what beautiful is if you've never seen ugly?
00:08:01.520 Good wouldn't exist because what can you compare it to?
00:08:04.420 That's how we experience.
00:08:05.740 That's how we're tested as human beings, whether you believe that this life is a test or not.
00:08:09.300 It's because we have the option of the same spectrum to choose up, down, left or right.
00:08:15.000 And if we didn't have the choice, what's the point?
00:08:18.100 It makes no sense if it was any other way.
00:08:20.600 That's the kind of thinking that I've came to over the last four years of definitely going back and forth with myself in my own head about God's existence.
00:08:29.600 Me posting this video itself is going to rile some people up and this does not give anybody the okay to go fight about religious debates in the comments.
00:08:36.320 That's not why we're here.
00:08:37.640 I'm just explaining why I believe that there is a source to everything.
00:08:41.940 Now, I think he said more than enough.
00:08:44.060 I mean, there's nothing that I could add on to that, that this guy's an intelligent person.
00:08:47.180 So there's nothing really I can add on.
00:08:49.380 But one thing that I would say to this brother is I would like to meet him if he would like to come to Speaker's Corner and have a discussion with him or anywhere.
00:08:55.460 But I want to tell him why Islam is unique in monotheism compared to all religions.
00:08:59.880 There was a study done by Justin Barter, if I think that's his name, in Oxford University.
00:09:04.200 They found out that children who are not exposed to any kind of religion, they grow up worshipping one God.
00:09:10.560 Islam is the only religion that has come to negate, negate all kinds of worship other than except to God. 0.98
00:09:19.040 So Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity and many other religions and paganism, they all have some way of associating partners.
00:09:30.680 Be it going through Jesus.
00:09:32.060 Jesus is God.
00:09:32.980 The Father is God.
00:09:33.760 The Holy Spirit is God.
00:09:36.020 Islam says it has this unique way of worshipping God.
00:09:39.540 You single him out in his lordship and he's the one who has created heavens and earth and who provides and sustains us.
00:09:47.580 And a lot of people fell into associating partners in this second matter, which is Tawheed Al-Ulahiyah,
00:09:53.500 which is that they would associate partners by going through Jesus or going through a statue or going through this or that person, this idol.
00:10:00.600 Islam says you single him out in worship. 0.83
00:10:03.420 You worship him and him alone.
00:10:04.880 And when it comes to his names and attributes, we do not give those names and attributes to the human being.
00:10:09.120 Right?
00:10:09.760 And we don't give the attributes of a human to God Almighty.
00:10:14.860 So Islam is unique in that sense.
00:10:16.680 And I would urge you to read the Quran and I can send you some material.
00:10:19.440 Please get in contact with me because you're in the right course and the biggest form of injustice in this life is to associate partners to God Almighty.
00:10:27.720 After everything that you believe that he's created and all the things that he does for us, he is deserving of worship.
00:10:33.780 I'm not going to keep this video long.
00:10:35.000 Please get in contact with me.
00:10:35.860 You are definitely on the right track and you got all the characteristics of a Muslim. 1.00
00:10:40.220 Like it's crazy, you know, how you think.
00:10:43.020 And I would like to definitely meet you and give you some material.
00:10:46.000 And I'm honest with you, pray to God because you believe in him and ask him.
00:10:51.820 If Islam is the truth, guide me to it. 1.00
00:10:54.540 Till next time.
00:10:55.460 Please share this video with him, inshallah.
00:10:57.000 Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.