there are 2.3 billion Christians 2 billion Muslims 1.1 billion Hindus 500 million Buddhists and 15 million Jews in the world and there are a total of 4,300 religions like this when that is the case some people may ask why should I follow Islam out of dis many religions how do we know Islam is the right religion can we rationally prove it we will answer this with a very interesting technique developed by philosopher dayart it's called cartisian skepticism to summarize he says imagine that you have a b baset full of apples you put your hand in
the basket then pull out a good apple when you put your hand in again and you get a roten apple this time do not continue to take the apples out one by one to throw the rotten ones away don't bother checking which one is good and which one is rotten instead empty the whole basket and then put back in the basket the apples that are good let's apply this technique to this issue I mean can we look at 4300 religions one by one I don't think so then let's look at the clues in the universe
using reason and logic let's determine DET the conditions that should exist in a True Religion through these let these Clues give us the direct answer to the question why Islam now when constructing a building first you lay the foundation right there are stages to go through for this issue we need to make stage-by-stage eliminations starting from the foundation therefore our filters will be these is there a god is there a need for religion and if there's a need for religion should there be a holy book and a prophet first of all let's look at the
foundation of the building that is the question of whether there is a God or not you may be thinking of many different methods of proving this but today let's make our search for the answer to this question through the universe that we all witness now listen carefully to understand the example I'm going to explain according to physics if there is work that has been done then there must be a force in place that is able to do that work meaning whatever I see as the doer of an act must have enough power for that work
for example if I saw a baby pulling a plane I would immediately look for another do of that act since the baby would never be able to to do that work I would either say there's a mechanical system that moves the plane Etc even if my eyes say that it's the baby that is pulling the plane my mind will step in immediately and say the baby doesn't have enough power to pull the plane I would start looking for the actual capable doorer behind that baby and that's what makes sense right just like in this example
when we look at the universe for example we see the cow as the doer of the act of producing Milk The Cow doesn't know the amino acids in the milk it makes nor does it know the needs of the people's bodies who will drink but it produces exactly the milk that they need moreover it produces it by consuming something that seems the most irrelevant grass when we look at the other side we see the poisonous bee as the doer of the work of making the sweetest honey the bee doesn't know the minerals in it when
producing it or the bee's body it cells do not know the needs of people's bodies who will eat this honey but it produces honey that can even be a means of healing for them we turn our heads to another side and we see the tree as the doer of the work of making juicy sweet colorful fruits from a dry tasteless dark soil but the seed of this tree doesn't know the taste I will enjoy it doesn't know the smell that my nose will like it doesn't know what my eyes enjoy seeing it doesn't know the
needs of my body while it was just a simple seed with no taste or smell hundreds of fruits come out of it with a taste that is suitable for my tongue with a smell that is suitable for my nose with the beauty that appeals to my eyes and with many benefits for my body right at this moment my mind immediately kicks in and tells me that these doers who seem to be doing all of this don't have the necessary skills for these works I mean it's very interesting some things are giving someone else something that
they don't have but normally that's impossible let's think with an example like this suppose this cloth in my hand is a curtain and you don't see me this curtain takes a pen and writes poem here draws pictures everyone would say that this pen is apparently being moved by this cloth but the logical thing to do is to think that there's a force behind that cloth behind that appar parent cause just like in this example all these works we explained show a Creator who controls all of them behind the scenes if we are able to fully
understand these examples then we can see with the eyes of our minds that there's a Creator someone who knows us who acts behind the curtains and makes all these things happen according to our needs now if the first filter is clear religions such as Buddhism jism and philosophical beliefs like atheism agnosticism naturalism and skepticism are eliminated because there has has to be a Creator whatever you may call him now let's move on to our second filter here we will use the comparison method from the science of logic let me put it this way when we
look around us the following rule is constant anytime anywhere if there is a work a product in front of us the person who made it knows it best also when anyone is going to talk about it the first person who has a say in it is the one who made it for example when I buy a phone it comes with a user manual right by putting that in a way the manufacturing company says to me we made this fault then logically we know it best down to the smallest detail and by putting this manual we
demonstrate this fact even simple products have this then our mind asks the question when there are user manuals even in simple works is it possible that the creator of the universe who created Mankind and sent them to the world did not send a user manual that could guide them throughout history all Humanity has been asking the following questions who am I where did I come from where am I going to what is my purpose in this life is is it possible for the Creator to give me a mind so that I can ask these questions
but not give me a message containing their answers of course he will not leave us stray uninformed he will communicate inform us of his wants and send a guide book that shows the way then we understand that the religion we are looking for must be based on a book it must have a guide a manual and with the second filter we eliminate religions like Shintoism or beliefs like aism pantheism and nihilism so if I ask you a question like do you think the book alone is enough we are given books in schools but is that
sufficient don't we also need a teacher to teach that book in fact we need a teacher who doesn't only teach the book but also gathers the students in a classroom and draws their attention to that book even if there are students who don't want to listen more or less you must have understood what I mean by this analogy just like a teacher who explains the book by giving examples and narratives who establishes order in the classroom the religion we are looking for also needs an instructive leader a messenger we can also think like this in
every field there's theoretical knowledge and there's a practical application of it the text written in the book is the theoretical knowledge so there's a need for someone to show how it can be turned into action applied in real life situations when a person asks how can I live in accordance with the purpose of my life in accordance with the manual of my life he needs to follow a role model who shows how it should be done so that he can do it himself too so if we return to our teacher example it is not enough
just to know the mathematical theories it is also necessary to see and learn how they are used and applied don't you think it makes more sense to have a prophet in a leadership position in fact there are examples of this even in the animal kingdom for example when you look at a beehive you see a colony that lives as a community and serves a common purpose a queen bee has been appointed as the leader of that Society or if you visit an ant colony that serves a common purpose you will see a queen ant as
the leader is it possible for Allah who does not leave these groups without a leader a guide to leave man mankind without such a guide we are talking about Humanity the most valuable living beings far beyond ants and bees Allah has created hundreds of flavors for man's tiny tongue is it possible for him to leave Humanity wandering aimlessly without a purpose is it possible for him to not guide them by sending a messenger if we have understood this example thoroughly too with this third filter we have eliminated religions such as Hinduism Chism the Jews Faith
which do not believe in any Prophet let me also o point out that the religion we are looking for needs to mention the Miracles of the prophets too we said in the beginning that there are 4,300 religions in the world when we apply these three criteria and filter all the religions and philosophical beliefs the roots of which we can access we are only left with three religions Christianity Judaism and Islam they all have the concept of a Creator a book and prophethood now I want you to notice this the fact that these three religions have
passed through all these filters shows that their foundations are based on the truth when we look at Judaism we see that the main figure is Moses and in Christianity the main figure is Jesus PE people on the mo although the teachings of these two great prophets are now corrupted in these two religions what they initially brought was the truth the common feature of these two religions is that they both don't accept Prophet Muhammad Alat wasam as a true Messenger but Islam says that Prophet Muhammad Alat wasam is the final messenger of Allah and that Jesus
and Moses were also messengers of him based on this reality we we can conclude that if we prove that Prophet Muhammad Alat wasam is a real messenger then Islam will be proven to be the only true religion and that Moses and Jesus came to deliver the same common message from Allah yes it is at this point that many proofs of this come to our minds one of the most important proofs is his life itself imagine he lived among his people for 40 years before his prophethood for 23 years in his prophetic life he has been
at the Forefront among the same people again and every one of his moves was being watched we're going to look at if such a person was a liar or not logically we know that people are close to each other in rank and position can imitate each other but the lower a person's position is from the other the harder it becomes to imitate him for example think of iina also known as aisna in the west a medical genius whose books have been taught in universities throughout the world for centuries how well do you think an ignorant
person can imitate can pretend to be aisna if he goes to a city and says I'm aisna how how many people will believe him after a while people who spend time with him will realize that he's a liar from his attitude and actions right a fraud and poor person cannot imitate the Sultan in a short time everything about him will scream that he's an imposter let's say he was able to imitate him but how long can he continue to deceive people after a while his lie will come out one way or another shall we take
this logical comparison and apply it to Prophet Muhammad the religion he brought says the following about him he's a person whom Allah has made a prophet from among countless people the final messenger of Allah Asel that has been sent to All Humanity the most Superior and the most moral of people now there are two possibilities here either that's really the case or Allah he's a liar but we must remember that the person who declares him a liar cannot accept him as an ordinary liar he must accept him as the biggest liar in history because he
lied about being in such a high position he should accept him as someone who doesn't accept God doesn't fear that he may punish him and tells lies in the name of Allah let's say he did can he keep it up for 23 years there may be those who think that the prophet Alam was in contact with Fe people but this is not the case at all during his prophetic life those around him thousands of people have observed every aspect of him one by one we know which hand he eats food with which food he puts
in first when entering a place down to the order in which he cuts his nails I mean they examined him in such detail that there is no other person in history who has been examined in such depth do you think if they had seen any inconsistencies any flaws in him they would have stood by him and endured all these difficulties of course not besides those who observe him were not only the Believers those who deny his prophethood observed him as well he was among them before becoming a messenger not only after it he was born
and raised among them he was not an outsider they knew everything about him they trusted him so much that before he became a prophet they gave him the nickname al- Amin which means the trustworthy everyone agreed that he would never lie Li and knew how moral he was they were so sure of this that even those who became enemies to him after his prophethood still entrusted their belongings to him they couldn't find a flaw in him either before or after prophethood the only thing they came up with as a flaw is to slander him by
calling him a wizard a magician nothing more a person who's going to lie has to get a worldly benefit from it right but there was nothing to benefit himself in what he does on the contrary there were things that made things very difficult for him he fasts for days sometimes he fasts without because of poverty says sometimes there will be no food being cooked in his house for two months he eats things like dates he prays makes Salah for hours at night what is the tud prayer isn't it to wake up from sleep in the
last third of the night and pray for Muslims this prayer is Sunnah optional but for the prophet Alat wasam it was far mandatory why would he push himself so hard at the time of the night when no one sees him for the sake of a lie he follows the religion he has brought for 23 years better than anyone worships more than anyone is careful about not committing sins more than anyone can the world's best liar have even a little bit of these characteristics where's the benefit in all of this is he doing this for status
for money for women these were all offered from the opposing side and the answer he gave was always the same if you put the sun in my right hand and the mo in my left hand I would not abandon this cause so he says my struggle is is not about any worldly benefit if you were to give me not only those things but the whole world even the moon and the sun I would not give up he received death threats all his life he was repeatedly targeted by failed assassination attempts none of them succeeded and
he died in his bedat why would he face all this for the sake of a lie why did he put up with being stoned being subjected to curses and insults many things can be counted as proof of his profood but most fundamentally his own life the way he carried himself is more than enough to prove his prophethood as we said in the beginning he was either telling the truth or Allah he was a liar if we were asked is such a person a liar or is the one who calls this person a liar is the
actual liar do you think there would be any need to answer this question when we analyze all these things we reach the truth we have been looking for all our lives that is the creator we are looking for is Allah subhana wa tala the book we are looking for is the Holy Quran and the prophet we are looking for is Prophet Muhammad remember what we asked in the beginning why Islam out of 4300 religions this is [Music] why
