escape the endless scroll with a one Islam TV app your Halal entertainment Solution on all platforms one God one message one purpose of life subscribe now before I share with you the subject matter of Surah Pama I need to have some preliminary discussions with you so this this is not part of the Surah discussion but I believe it's necessary for you to appreciate the power of the Surah and the the reason I'll tell you the reason from the beginning why I believe this discussion is necessary the reason it is necessary is that there are two
things Allah put together in the beginning of the Surah the beginnings are very important like any course any course that you take any book that you read the opening is key to the rest of the subject matter like the fa is the key to the Quran but in a sense every Surah has its own fa has its own opening and the opening of this Surah is two statements from Allah two Oaths no I swear by the day of Resurrection no I swear by the guilty self the guilty conscience okay so the day of resur thank
you so much I will open up my own store okay very good um I swear by the day of resurrection and the guilty conscience now the day of Resurrection you guys know this is the day when the skies and the Earth will you know will will collapse the Stars will start falling apart animals will be hurted oceans are going to boil over this is the most chaotic event in the entire lifespan of the universe that's the day of judgment so it's a huge event the day of resurrection and followed by that huge image Allah mentioned
and I also swear by the guilty conscience now the guilty conscience is something you feel inside you and if you're sitting here feeling guilty right now the person next to you doesn't know and if somebody put you under a CT scan machine they wouldn't be able to find any traces of your guilt they wouldn't be able to measure it in any kind of scale it is the most unnoticed invisible personal minuscule feeling it's a feeling isn't it the guilty conscience is a feeling so the grandest of events is compared or put right next to the
most microscopic feeling two polar opposite ends of reality and think of it another way Resurrection Day is actually something where physical changes are going to happen isn't it physical change the the Sun and the Moon as will be described in the Surah the sun and the moon will crash into each other the sky is going to tear open the Earth is going to tear open these are physical events aren't they but the guilty conscience is that a physical phenomenon or is that a spiritual phenomenon that's a spiritual Phenom that's an emotional phenomenon it's a psychological
phenomenon it's in the world of the abstract it's not in the physical world so Allah puts something the greatest physical event and he put it right next to this tiny little spiritual or emotional event that happens inside your conscience and my conscience all the time Allah is making a connection between these two things Allah himself has drawn a connection between these two things and this is not small and to to just to wrap my head around this I had to do a lot of homework I have to do quite a bit of homework so I'm
going to try to lay all of that out on you and I'm not going to give you a break until I'm done sorry okay cuz I I really need you to have this coherently in your heads so I'm going to give you a choice right now should I give you a five minute break and then start this or should I start this right away should okay that one child said hi we break and nobody care start right away okay sorry child enjoy your sleep okay now human beings have ideals but where do they come from
let's begin here human beings have what ideals well somebody's ideal is they want to make a lot of money that's what that's my goal that's my ideal I just want to make money I want to get rich like that guy I want to have that car that's their ideal somebody's ideal becomes their sports team man we're going to win the championship I'm going to paint my face and my team's colors the they the finals day is for them right this is this is this is this is right like they're do they're closer to Allah as
the seconds countdown in The Penalty Box they're they're Mak more Dua to Allah that time than any other time in their life somebody else their ideal in their life is if I just marry him my life will be so happy Ya Allah I just want him just give me him okay somebody else's ideal is they just want their their child to become a certain way that's their this is what's on their mind their ideal somebody else's ideal is power somebody else's ideal is proving themselves somebody else's ideal is I don't know animal rights somebody else's
ideal is the lgbtq movement somebody else El's ideal is just I want to look like that influencer I want to get more followers I want to have more influence than that influencer I want to influence that influencer it's true human beings have ideals don't they some ideals are pretty pretty low they're kind of petty kind of pathetic even and some ideals are very high like somebody's ideal is they want to join the Olympics higher somebody else's ideals they want to save the whales gets higher somebody else wants to save the ozone layer that's an ideal
they have a cause they have an ideal somebody wants social justice somebody wants to battle racism somebody wants to battle police brutality somebody else wants to battle corruption in government somebody else wants to their ideals and from the lowest level to the highest but one thing is for sure every human being has what ideals whether they're pathetic or they're remarkable they have them this much we agree you guys agree okay now let's go for forward Freud I know there are children here but this you you grow up okay Freud answers the question where do these
ideals come from where did the ideal for justice or beauty or power anything where did it come from his idea is well we have UNR un unmet sexual desires and when human beings aren't able to meet their filthy desires they come up with ideals to compensate as a as a substitute for those met sexual desires and that's where religion politics morality Art and Science comes from this is aasa of Freud okay this is a summary of Freud okay that's he's saying that's where ideals come from okay what does what does uh and by the way
Freud also goes on to say the objective of ideals is to provide human beings a substitute for thwarted urges in religion politics morality and science Adler another key figure these figures I'm why am I mentioning these figures like why is there a cf's name on the screen in the Masjid let me tell you these people these people are pillars of the modern world education in universities entire policies in government political relations geopolitics economics there is not an aspect of life that hasn't been impacted by some of these thinkers so if you want to understand the
modern world as it is you need to understand some of its intellectual pioneers the ones who made an imprint on the world as it is today more than anyone else in recent times these are some of those people Adler says Instinct it's of self assertion meaning he's saying where do ideals come from when an individual is unable to satisfy a particular desire for power they create the desire for a suitable ideal and strive after it to compensate for their sense of inferiority let me put that to you in simple terms because that's my job somebody
really wanted to become powerful they wanted to rule the world they wanted to be the governor they wanted to be a what are you going to be I'm going to be an astronaut and they didn't get to do that when they didn't get to do that they shifted their ideal to their favorite sports team and that sports team became their religion and they and now everything they do their their hat is from their team their jerseys from their team their sneakers are from their team they got all the the tickets for the season they're watching
all the games they're always talking about it with their Barber whatever they're this is their religion this is their politics this is their world they're listening to the talk show on the radio about that why because there's something they wanted to accomplish they couldn't accomplish it so they substituted it to some other ideal right and now that became their ultimate ultimate ultimate objective you with me okay that's what Adler is saying Carl Marx we're going further back Carl marks is probably one of the people that shaped not only the world with his thought but also
many of the wars that have been fought Humanity almost came to an end because of Carl marks the the Cold War at the end of which the entire planet would have been a nuclear Wasteland the battle between capitalism and communism that some of you don't know about as much which was going on in the 50s and 60s right the world almost came to an end came from ideas as powerful as car and what's he saying about ideals he says something crazy he's say something crazy it's very relatable he's making sense he's saying ideals are rooted
in the economic urge and are no more than distorted reflections of one's economic condition what does he mean he means if you are rich you have a different set of morals if you're poor you have a different set of morals if you're living in Pakistan and everybody's taking bribes then you come up with your own morality and say you can't survive what are you supposed to do so you come up with a different set of ideals if you're living in a rich Nation you come up with a different set of ideals so your ideals change
depending on your economic situation they're a product of your economic situ that's what KL Marx is arguing by the way as an extension of KL Marx eventually what is communism suggesting communism is suggesting everybody gets paid the same everybody lives the same everybody dresses the same everybody's equal in every way you know what that means there is no economic up and down so the ideals will remain the same cuz ideals change because economics change so why not just make the economy stable so the ideals will become stable that that's kind of the logic okay where
do they all agree I mentioned Freud Adler I mentioned Carl Marx there are others I could have mentioned others but where do they all agree listen to this is really important it's coming back to I promise you ideals are not independent of human nature ideals are derived from one or more instincts in other words social reality economic reality gave you ideals your own in in in innate sexual desires gave you ideals your unmet psychology compensation gave you ideals in other words they are not they are from within human nature now why is this important let
me explain why this is important because this leads us to materialistic atheism and let me explain in simple language why I really want you to understand why materialistic atheism means there is no reality outside of this universe yes the only reality is this physical Universe okay if this is the only reality and we are in this universe then I am also only made up of this physical Universe which means my ideals were also developed just like I evolved just like my cells developed my ideals also developed in this physical universe they're a product of this
world we created them or they're a product of the biological process or the psychological process they don't come from outside they come from inside this is really important now ideals cannot be anything but a random accident as all of existence is a random accident this is the atheistic view in reality conscience itself is a figment of our minds by the way this Surah is going to talk about the guilty conscience right you cannot talk about the guilty conscience until you talk about the conscience itself so let's talk about the conscience for a moment here's where
the atheist is stuck The Atheist says all of the world is physics particles that's all we are it's all particles okay that means my entire body is also made up only of what particles and my brain is also made up of particles and the particles are governed by physics so everything happening in my brain is also governed by physics which means I have nothing to do with it it's the laws of physics so when I decide to do something I think it's me who decided but actually it was the laws of physics that decided because
just like I don't control the electrons and I don't control the neutrons and I don't control the protons or the quarks and I don't control the molecules if I don't control the subatomic particles how can I control the collection of them I have no control physics is in control which actually means there is no such thing is Free Will it's just a figment of our imagination Free Will is uh imaginary it's not real that's where the atheist is right now and as a result of that by the way if Free Will is imaginary that means
I am not responsible for my actions who's responsible physical phys seriously it's all physics and if it's all physics then there is no right and wrong it's only physics because if there's no conscience then there's no morality it's only science so just do what the particles do just go with the go with the part particular flow okay this is the atheistic world view now the quran's view let contrast human beings possess the urge to pursue the ideals of beauty and Perfection I will add even more Beauty Perfection Justice gratitude patience virtue generosity those are higher
ideals right human beings possess these ideals independent of nature these ideals did not come from the physical Universe they came from something higher that is beyond the physical Universe we call it the we call it Allah the r was blown into this body the body is from the physical Universe isn't it it's made of clay but the r is it from the physical Universe no and our morals our ideals did not come from the physical Universe They Came From Beyond the physical Universe okay now this urge isn't a product of the physical Universe it is
from Beyond the physical and it even listen to this it even has the power to dominate and subserve instincts in other words my body is just a more advanced version of a cow or a dog or any other animal and all those animals have instincts they have sexual instincts they have appetite instincts they have preservation instincts don't they they have her instincts do I have those instincts too do you have those instincts too yeah we do now what the Quran is actually showing us is that this spiritual thing that was put in us is more
powerful than the instincts that I have so even if I have animal instincts this R can control them it can it can dominate them now this is the quran's view now why does this matter I'm going to give I'm actually I've decided to give you a break but I'm going to give you a break after these 10 I don't have the answers to these 10 questions in this series but I want you to know the questions okay here are the questions if ideals determine all of our Behavior what determines the ideals isn't that an important
question cuz when a person sets the ideals that decides all of their behavior that's the question KL Marx is trying to answer that's the question Freud is trying to answer that's what Adler is trying to answer that's what your therapist is trying to answer why do you feel that way who did this to you I'm sure it was your mother let's talk about your mom a little bit you know what that is it's Freudian psychology and Freudian psychology all human beings are broken and you're going to have to spend the rest of your life Unbreaking
that's it you're you're imperfect and you're broken to begin with we're going to talk about that when we get to I 2 one day if if Natural Instincts have the purpose of preserving life and the species right instincts are there to preserve life and the species then what is the purpose of ideals if God put ideals if he put an instinct in the in the lion to perge before it attacks he put an instinct in the bacteria to move the way it does he put an instinct in the amoeba to procreate the way that it
does and to get nutrition the way that it does he put an instinct in the in the in the flow to go for photosynthesis he put instincts in them for their survival but if he put in me a higher instinct which is ideals they must have a purpose too what's their purpose how do these how do these ideals impact the world how can the urge for ideals be properly satisfied this is an important question you know why because somebody came along and said the ultimate ideal for Humanity is Christianity and Christian doctrine and the world
huge parts of the world consumed it but they couldn't digest it it created too much chaos so they rebelled against it and they said no we need liberalism we need Liberation from Christianity and so the Europeans re SP and then came you know secular humanism and now secular humanism came and when it came it came with its own set of problems and then they they started seeing a class Society emerge and then communism said there's too much class Society we need something that sets everybody equal and so communism came a new ideal and when it
came it was spreading in the world like wildfire man young people were fired up against the bis because of because it was the new ideal but then it started collapsing because it was denying some parts of human instincts human nature was being denied and then new ideals emerged a merger between capitalism and socialism and democracy and and now we're like we finally got it this is perfect we should export this to Iraq we should export this to Afghanistan this is per this is great if people have this is going to be awesome right because it
works so well for us right and now human beings are starting to realize this isn't working either and then the feminism came cuz women are oppressed so feminism came this is the new ideal and then radical feminism came no no no you're not feminist enough we need a radical change and then somebody else came and said what do you mean feminine I'm offended by the word you're being you're you're judging my fluidity I'm I'm another you know and so a new ideology came and then a new IDE and you know what happens every time a
new ideology comes every ideology is a reaction to something that wasn't being satisfied in the previous one you see that but every ideology is imperfect and it has the germs that will destroy it inside it and so it starts collapsing on itself when people ask me that what do you say about the LGBT I say wait that's all I say wait why why because it's against F right and guess what happens with anything that's against f it dies it cannibalizes just relax chill just watch the show just watch the watching watch it rise and then
watch it what fall because when communism was Rising guess what Muslims were saying what are we going to do about communism what are we say about and guess what happened to Communism rice and it fell ideals do not satisfy the human soul we seem to all this time we seem to have not found the ultimate ideal that can finally satisfy Humanity it's not a team it's not the therapist it's not we can't find it but it seems in Allah's grand plan there was a time that will that is coming where all ideology IES will collapse
and only the IDE the ideology that fits human nature perfectly that balances between the animal and the spiritual as we will see later perfectly only that ideology will survive in the end to me I'm actually fully convinced the world on its own as it goes from one crazy ideology to another to another is actually naturally taking a course towards Islam it's like sometimes you have a teenage kid who was going really crazy and the Imam just says just wait and the kid gets really stupid and then he feels really bad and he comes back and
says I was really messed up now I'm memorizing Quran and I'm taking care of my mother and I a her feet every day and I can't believe I was that stupid does that happen yep it happens it happen the world is a stupid teenager it's it's going as it's going through its phases and then it's gonna okay do ideals change over time in a person's life in society across history if they keep changing what is their ultimate destination why well why are there so many opposing ideals and ideologies while our instincts the animal instincts are
all the same at this as is the relationship between ideals and animal instincts we do seem to carry both we have animal instincts and we have ideals and they seem to go against each other how come how do ideals impact politics ethics law art education science philosophy and religion by the way do people's ideals impact these things yeah yeah look at the war over school textbooks right now isn't that a war over opposing ideals right do ideals tell us anything about the purpose of all creation of evolution of a greater reality Beyond creation can understanding
ideals and their origin impact our understanding of physics biology psychology personal and social the unconscious mind reason intuition profood history culture civilization War revolutions my God our understanding of reality itself is based on ideals is based on ideals I know this is very philosophical I know but it's important I I could just give you an inspirational like muy m style talk I love him uh I'm going to send him a WhatsApp that I trolled you today S Voice now well anyway so but I need something is happening the world is getting stupider and smarter at
the same time I figured this out when I went to Pakistan the dumbest questions I've ever heard in my life came from bakan and the smartest people and the smartest questions I've ever heard in my life came from Pakistan and I realized this is Tik Tok Tik Tok will either make you dumber than you've ever been I'll make you smarter than you've ever I met 12 year olds that are smarter than me that when I was 12 I was an amoeba compared to them like they're they're really smart and then I've met 40 year-olds that
are like did you stop growing at the age of three what happened to you who did this to you all right but anyway I'm going to keep moving the pursuit of new ideals actually we already talked about this it will break and make for a new ideal okay so thus far if you're not asleep already let's do this psychology and scientific atheism is arguing that Consciousness comes from within physical nature it is not from anywhere beyond the measure of physical reality but after the theory of relativity something happened and Muslims didn't pay enough attention except
very few people let me I know this is crazy you guys need to hear this though you every Muslim should hear and I'll give you a book at the end of this that everybody should read every especially every college student needs to read this book I'm going to give you a homework assignment not to not today you read it but make sure you read it this month sometime actually it's on my mind now so I'll tell you now it's called the ideology of the future the ideology of the future by Professor Muhammad rafin the ideology
of the future by Professor Muhammad rafin rarely have I ever read something that profound much of what I'm sharing with you is a summary from from his first few chapters Muhammad okay listen to some of the so so what is what is the theory of uh relativity the future the ideology of the okay what is the theory of relativity basically Newtonian physics said matter can neither be created finish the sentence matter can neither be created nor destroyed which means matter is eternal so for physicists since the time of Newton the only thing that is for
forever was the physical Universe those was the phys and so God was replaced with the universe then came eonian physics and eventually made paved the way for quantum physics where matter can actually be converted into what energy and energy itself can disappear which means matter can eventually become nothing matter can become nothing and when that happened this was an existential crisis for scientists and physicists around the world especially in Europe This Theory actually caused a great deal of depression listen to some of the things these people said this is in the 30s 40s and 50s
okay after the theory of relativity professor roier in the book philosophy and new physics writes nothing is created and nothing is lost that's Newtonian right one must now substitute the contrary principle nothing is created everything is lost he was so depressed the world marches towards final bankruptcy he wrote Humanity's heading towards bankruptcy he didn't even know and he wrote that like he was writing ayat of Quran without knowing he's writing about ayat of Quran do Dr Harry Schmidt his book reality and the universe space and time sank into Shadows motion itself became meaningless the shade
the shape of bodies a matter of viewpoint the world there was banished forever then he wrote a poem wo whoo thou has destroyed the beautiful world with violent blow now we sweep the wrecks into nothingness fondly we Weep the beauty that has gone this world is nothing just a play it's flimsy it's gone Allah says this in the Quran and now they're like oh my God this dun is nothing this D is nothing they're having the spiritual crisis without knowing Professor plank the propound of the Quant quum Theory remarked in an interview with jwn Sullivan
which appeared in The Observer on January 26th 1931 listen to this this is my favorite one I regard Consciousness as fundamental this is a physicist saying what what is fundamental Consciousness is fundamental I regard matter as a derivative of Consciousness for Allah consciously says is consciousness Allah's Allah's conscious decision to create became creation this physicist who developed quantum theory says I regard Consciousness as fundamental I regard matter as a derivative from Consciousness we cannot get behind Consciousness check this out we can get behind physics we can get behind matter behind matter is energy behind energy
is nothing but behind that nothing is consciousness and we cannot get behind that this is you know and this is this is like you know is beyond the Beyond you can't get behind Allah right so now check this out he goes on we cannot get behind Consciousness everything that we talk about everything that we postulate as existing requires Consciousness everything requires it requires it this is all going to come back toy I promise before the day of judgment it's that's coming okay sir sir Oliver Lodge the universe is ruled by mind they can't say Allah
right so they're going to say what mind and whether it be the mind of a mathematician or of an artist or of a poet or of all of them and more it is like whether he has the you know so he says one of his Asma must be his mathemat he's right and he's and he's an artist right he's aren't these Allah's names right and then he says uh and of all of them and more it is the one reality which gives meaning to existence Allah himself is and he created enriches our daily task encourages
our hope energizes us with faith where wherever knowledge fails and illuminates the whole universe with immortal love this is a physicist talking a physicist nowadays days when you think of scientists you immediately think atheist there has been a suppression of the community of scientists that developed incredible spiritual insights because of quantum physics and let me tell you why that happened because quantum physics for the first time says there's more to reality than matter right which means for the first time we had to acknowledge the the the Unseen became part of the scientific discourse this is
unprecedented in human history right there's more there's more I know I know you're not bored because I believe in myself okay sir sir James jeans the Mysterious Universe he writes 30 years ago we thought or assumed that we were heading towards an ultimate reality of a mechanical nature today there is wide measurement of agreement measure of agreement uh which on the physical side of science approaches in almost almost to unanimity meaning there's of the of science that the stream of knowledge is healing towards a non- mechanical reality meaning the world is not running itself it's
not just mechanics the universe begins to look like a great thought rather than a great machine than like a great wow wow mind no longer appears as an accidental Intruder into the realm of matter in other words they this was the problem for the scientist how can we have a mind how can we have a freethinking mind this must be an accident of nature because nature itself doesn't have a mind it's just physics so for them the fact that we have a conscious will we have a mind was an accident right now look at what
he says with that background mind no longer appears as an accidental Intruder into the realm of matter we are beginning to suspect that we ought rather to hail it as the Creator or the governor of the realm of [Music] matter Al Alik is what they're writing about yeah sometimes you read this stuff and you read you know Allah says in the Quran he says we will show them our signs in the horizons and inside of themselves until it becomes abundantly clear to them that it is the Ultimate Reality and then you see read these scientists
like wow Allah what Allah said is true they're living examples of that Ayah the new knowledge compels us to revise our Hasty first impression that we had stumbled into a universe which either did not concern itself with life or was actively hostile to life meaning life is an accident the old dualism between mind and matter which was mainly responsible for the supposed hostility seems likely to disappear we discover that the Universe shows evidence of a designing and controlling power that has something in common with our own individual Minds Allah says he wants he wrote on
himself and what does he say about it about right Allah has certain qualities he's right he's Al and he wants us to have he's he wants us to have right Subhan Allah okay almost done here my okay now let's look at what what the Quran says why why did I bring all of this up to you let me tell you now you're almost ready for your break scientists believe that the Universe has no conscience yes then at the Advent of quantum mechanics many scientists began to realize there's a conscious designer behind all of the physical
Universe which means all of the universe is acting consciously because it's being driven by a conscious mind we call him Allah they don't say Allah they say the Mind Consciousness but it's driven by Consciousness now as a result actually many scientists even purported the idea that the Universe every atom has some level of consci ious electrons are consciously moving the way they're moving atoms are functioning the way they're functioning because they have a programming they have a conscious mind okay what does Allah say from the very beginning of creation Allah told the earth and the
skies surrender willingly or unwillingly and they said we surrender willingly does that not demonstrate a conscious attributed to the skies and the Earth Allah says when people say took a sun the sky is about to tear open the Earth wants to rip itself open crack open and the the the mountains wish to collapse when the sky wants to rip open and the Earth wants to tear open does that not demonstrate the unwillingness of the skies and the Earth to even listen to a word of shik isn't that a conscious mind that creation itself has listen
to this Allah says is there not there's not a single thing that he's created except that it does his t with by doing ham of Allah however you cannot understand their T Allah even mentioned ham and ham is an act of the heart everything has its own heart as doing h of Allah and my favorite one didn't you see that everything in the sky and the Earth does for the sake of Allah and the birds with their wings spread [Music] out every one of them truly knows their own prayer and their own t every bird
knows how to make their own t you know sometimes you go at M you're stuck in traffic you're M at a traffic light and you see all these birds perched up on the the the the the the cables right the power lines just that's how they do it did the Quran describe that the universe itself has a conscience yes yes let's take that a step further if every particle has conscience the rock this bottle this this cloth has conscience it has conscience then when the bacteria came on this planet it had a higher level of
conscience because it's working against gravity it's working against the other matters of physics it's Fighting For Life the amiba higher level of Consciousness the monkey even higher level of Consciousness the the whale the elephant higher and higher levels of consciousness and at the top of all of them them is who the human being and he was given the r the highest level of Consciousness evolutionary biologist say oh you people of Faith you believe that you're the only one who has conscience no monkeys have self-awareness too we're like no idiot We Believe even a rock has
Consciousness well we just we we've just been given the highest level of it the highest level of it but now understand the point this is the point where I'm going to give you the did all this story to get you to this point if Allah gave an animal instincts part of its conscience instincts so the lion goes under the tall grass so it can blend before it attacks yes that's a conscious act yes or no right okay the bird is building a nest a conscious act yes or no it's protecting its eggs conscious act yes
or no so life engages in these conscious acts these instincts and the purpose clearly seems to be survival the purpose of those instincts seems to be survival and if you take a step back if you look at non-living things like rocks and trees and birds then they have physical qualities physical properties or even energy like fire it seems to have a physical functional purpose metal has a certain functional purpose wood has its own functional purpose fire as a phenomenon has its own functional purpose etc etc etc so at a low lower level it's functional purposes
at a higher level for living beings it's the purpose of preservation of life then you come to the human beings human beings have been given something nobody else has been given what's that the r and the r is full of much higher ideals isn't it so if everything else has a purpose have you checked out the one Islam TV app yet well if you haven't here is some feedback from those who have absolutely worth it and an excellent service to provide with so many videos to choose from and all add free it's awesome that I
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