WILL EX MUSLIM RETURNS BACK IN RAMADAN? - EMOTIONAL END
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Summary
In this episode, we are joined by a young man who left Islam. He shares his story of why he left the fold of Islam and why he decided to return to it. He also talks about the importance of fasting during Ramadan.
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I left Islam because I didn't like the rulings of it
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where it said you have to pray like five times a day.
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It's just like, I didn't take that seriously, you know?
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Just believing, telling people I believe in God.
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So, in a nutshell, look, this is what I'll say to you.
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Okay, so you said that, what was the main reason you left Islam?
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I just, you know, I like to believe in things that are like empirically,
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I don't like to believe in things that don't have empirical evidence
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and things that, you know, like God and all that and stuff like that,
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Just all those beliefs and rituals and cultures.
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I don't want people to know my real name, but it's Tamim.
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So you said that, obviously, before I start, I want to pray to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
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and I asked Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to make this a fruitful discussion
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and it means that you get closer to Allah, inshallah, in Ramadan
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and that you become a Muslim and that you fast Ramadan with us, inshallah.
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I wake up before Fajr and I still don't pray five times.
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Okay, so because you said you left Islam, in order for those actions to be accepted,
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So we want you to come back to Islam, that you do those actions as a Muslim, if I'm not
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Well, I mean, yeah, to myself, I haven't told family or anything.
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And like people, because I have some other families who are like stricter in Islam
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and then I have my own family who doesn't do Islam.
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So the family that takes Islam like more strictly, like I didn't tell them, you know,
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I still go pray with them and all that, but I don't, you know, take it seriously.
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And I just do it because everyone else is doing it.
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So internally, you don't believe anymore, but externally, you just want to be in union
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So you said that you only believe in stuff that you empirically verify.
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So this is, you know, obviously your five senses to see, touch, feel, taste and hear.
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So obviously, I would say to you, look, do you believe that love exists?
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No, I mean, I believe like people, you know, taking care of you, doing like your needs
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But like love itself is just like, I don't think that's a real thing, you know?
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So I want to obviously be a believer that you have conscious.
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I'm going to have the position that I'm in doubt.
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So can you empirically prove to me that you have a conscious so I can believe that now?
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Can you just quickly show me your consciousness so I can just verify and be like, you know
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I mean, the only way I can verify is like if I like hit myself and it hurts or something
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I don't want you to hit yourself, but I wouldn't feel that.
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Can you show me, allow me to taste, touch, feel, or hear your conscious?
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I don't think it's like possible to like prove it like, you know, other people, they say
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But I don't think you can't prove those things.
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So basically, then what that means is that empirical evidence that you want for God's
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existence, it's you can't do that for yourself in the sense where you can't even prove your
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own existence by showing me your consciousness, that you have a conscious.
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So what I'm saying is, if that's the case, then how can we have that yardstick to prove
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Because we believe God exists because of the things that we see.
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That we see that, for example, my eyes, I can see my eyes, my hand, my nails, my organs,
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But we know it exists because we see the reminisce and the effects of it.
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So what I'm saying is, brother, is to deny that God exists because you cannot see him
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It doesn't work because there's so many things.
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I don't think because I know there's like people who are blind and stuff, you know, they
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So not only that, for example, how could you explain to a blind person color?
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Now, just because he doesn't see, does it mean color doesn't exist?
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I mean, you could tell them that, but to them alone, it's just the worst.
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How could you explain the red color to a blind person?
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I just say it's something bright because blind people, you know, they're seeing like what
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So you sell him something bright, but what about blue and red and green and purple and orange?
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He needs to know what's the difference between a red color and a blue color and a purple
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So like red color, like nothing basically, like to the, to the blind person, you know,
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So a red color, you can never, ever explain the red concept, the red color, the blue color
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to a blind person, but this doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
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So therefore you, I need to understand that you can't say God doesn't exist because I
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I just, I do know, like this, you know, God is just like, like a theory when you think
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about it, because it's just us being scared of something watching over humanity, you know,
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There are people who make fake gods and like boogeyman and stuff like that, but there is
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For example, you know, for example, that the universe exists.
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The universe came from nothing because everything came from nothing, but God itself, right, is
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Just like how we say God comes from nothing without explanation.
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I mean, we never said God came, we never said God have a beginning or God came from nothing
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If you say God has not beginning, that means those.
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No, no, no, because if we say God has no beginning or end, that means there was never,
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Well, God itself, there never was a nothing like the existence of God, never been, but nothing
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No, we say, we say Allah has always been there because Allah is a necessary.
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Being, the creation, the universe, the universe began to exist.
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Do you accept that the universe began to exist?
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So if the universe began to exist, then it cannot come from nothing because at one point
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Before his universe and all that, it was just God.
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I know how like it made all that to heaven and stuff.
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I'm just, I'm just, I'm just confused how, why was God always there is like a big question.
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So we say, we say that God was, has to always be there because the one who created the universe
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It is necessary for God to exist because otherwise we would not be here.
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Everything that we have in our system, in, in, in the earth, it's laws.
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If there is order, there has to be an order setter.
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So what we're seeing is that if your doubt is about Allah's existence, I don't know if
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Just like agnostically, you know, I don't believe in doing any of the rituals, cultures.
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Because if you go to think before like the quarks, you know, the smallest thing in universe
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before the quarks, when there was nothing, it was only God.
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So, I mean, that's the only way it makes sense for me.
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I can't think of nothing other than quarks, you know?
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God is the one that made those, you know, to the atomic level, et cetera.
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Because, I mean, when you think about it, right, I don't know where in the Quran it says
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So, God already has put my place, whether or not I'm going to end up in heaven or hell,
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So, why should you do all the, you know, stuff that God tells us to do in the Quran and
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So, the question is, you're asking the question of Qadr, yeah?
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Now, before I do that, brother, just so I know, brother Tamim, I'm just going to
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do a, just because we're doing a fundraiser and this is going to be a long discussion.
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I'm just going to just remind the people about donating.
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Brother Tamim, do you know how to pray Salah, by the way?
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I'm going to, inshallah, myself, if you come back to Islam, I'm going to teach you how to
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But let's get back to our conversation, inshallah, yeah?
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So, brother Tamim, may Allah bless him, inshallah.
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Yes, he's looking extra dangerous, as you can see, yeah.
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So, brother Tamim, now let's go to the issue of Qadr.
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So, basically, it's that if Allah knows where I'm going, then how is it my fault?
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Look, I was in your situation about 13 years ago.
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Okay, I always believed in God, but I didn't believe in religion.
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What you need to understand is in Islam, we believe in compatibilism.
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We say that God knows everything, and He's predetermined everything, and He's created our action.
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But let me give you an example that would maybe make sense to you.
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So, Tamim, I'm going to give you as an example.
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Now, Tamim, let's suppose you believe that you are going hellfire.
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But, even though you think you're going hellfire, because you're like, Allah knows everything,
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You still have a bit of hope and say, you know what?
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Tamim, there's Tamim, and let's say there's Ali.
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Tamim believes he's going hellfire, but he still does good deeds.
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I believe Allah has written that I'm going Jannah.
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So, there's Tamim who thinks he's going hellfire, but he does good deeds and he obeys Allah.
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And there's Ali who thinks he's going Jannah, but he does bad deeds.
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Now, if they stand in front of Allah on the day of judgment and Tamim comes and says,
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Do you think Allah will send Tamim to hellfire or Jannah?
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I would believe Jannah because if we, you know, try to go there, yeah.
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It doesn't matter what Tamim thinks or where Tamim thinks he's going.
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Where he thinks going is irrelevant because you know why?
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So Allah is saying that they will enter Jannah.
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So how could it be that if Allah knows where we're going,
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But if you come with good deeds, my young brother,
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Does that make sense for what I'm saying to you?
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do not ever despair the mercy of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
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and I will forgive every single one except shirk.
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Do you know this is the month Allah frees the neck of
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thousands and millions of people from the hellfire?
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destined to hell for whatever you want to call it.
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قُلْ يَا إِبَادِيَ الَّذِينَ أَسْرَفُوا أَلَىٰ أَنفُسِهِمْ
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قُلْ يَا إِبَادِيَ الَّذِينَ أَسْرَفُوا أَلَىٰ أَنفُسِهِمْ
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O my servants who have transgressed against themselves
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indeed Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is the one who forgives all sins
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do not ever ever despair Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
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Allah is telling you his doors are always open for you
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do you have any other questions that you have doubts about Islam
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because I think I left the folds of Islam like 5-10 years ago