ladies gentlemen now this earlier was
the introduction without the shield now
is the introduction with the ship
alhamdulillah and as I was saying
earlier in fact with the ship himself
that the last time we were together in
fact in Abu Dhabi as the guests of the
Foreign Minister there and al merini
Mikasa Teja enamel Armellini at
masha'Allah who are in a molecule in
Ramona was so every action is by
intention and every man and woman will
get what he or she intended so I was
just wanting she hands us lake so to
speak when I met use it last few months
so you must come to Malaysia and do
something actually alhamdulillah ladies
and gentlemen he is here so without
further ado we indeed this night of
Leyla to Jamaa mallum Jamaat so we have
this intellectual seeker tonight
hamdulillah to replace our spiritual
decay they're Christians Salam alaikum
warahmatullahi wabarakatu
Sarah matpat hang up a:hover
I that's the extent of my Malay although
I will say bismillah ar-rahman rahim
we took a malay word from you via the
English in America when people go crazy
they say he ran amok so I Marcus yeah a
MOOC which is from a mock Arabic
alhamdulillah wa salatu was-salam ala
rasulina muhammadin wa rida re wasabi
was said unto Simon Kira what I heard
about the water level and honey and our
theme
Allah Allah in Marana aluminum tonight
in the current era anamur Hakim along
aluminum I am fair enough and I limped
and I was in there in my also deal of my
Odyssey then I'm mohamed anwar i that
annual cyber you said i'm Tasneem and
get here
what I hold up or what they never had a
lien of him at home did I want to talk
in China about just a few things one of
them is the purpose of human beings
which is a metaphysical question and
then I also want to talk about the how
we're doing as human beings and then
finally I want to talk about what
perhaps we should be doing as human
beings the first question is what is the
purpose of human beings unfortunately
for the first time in human history
there are civilizations that do not
really have any answer whatsoever to
this question this is actually unique in
human history because human beings have
always had some reason for existence
whereas the current dominant model in
the Western civilization is really
untenable metaphysically because the
argument that you will find amongst
Western people is essentially what they
would call in their term an
existentialist problem in other words
that each person has to work out what
the meaning of his life is for him or
herself that nobody's going to tell you
what your life means you simply have to
work it out for yourself and this is why
suicide is actually a very serious
option in that culture we recently had
in our in my country I'm from we had a
very famous person commit suicide and
there were actually articles arguing
that this was his choice and people
should be allowed to have this choice
and and you can't refute that argument
unless you have a metaphysical argument
to counter that argument Camus is a good
example in the West
he was a French Algerian philosopher
he's famous for a book called the plague
the myth of sisyphus also but he also
eventually committed suicide and
so in essence the the philosophy the
dominant philosophy that is is in many
many parts of the world is actually a
philosophy of kneel ISM it's a
philosophy of what the Arabs would term
Adhamiya that there's really no purpose
to existence if we look at our tradition
most people if you ask them why why are
we here
most Muslims would say Omaha dr. Jana
wouldn't say Allah yeah Badoon we only
created humans and the spirit world -
for ebody and they would actually
believe that this was essentially the
purpose of our existence is Avada but
there are other reasons that our
scholars gave from the quran for human
existence because if somebody was not a
conscious worshipper then that would
mean essentially that their purpose
would be null and void and this would
mean that people outside of the faith
whatever the true faith would be at the
time at one time it was the way of Moses
at another time the way of Jesus at
another time perhaps the way of Buddha
if he was a prophet as some have argued
we have no absolute evidence but there
are some that have made that argument in
the past as far aleni is one of them but
if the the final way the prophetic way
is the way of the Prophet Muhammad then
his way actually describes different
reasons for the creation of human beings
in the Quran one of them is step-mom
that Allah created us from the earth and
then a stock motor confit had that he
gave you is step Mar in the earth and
what that means is he asks that you do
Imran that you actually build and
cultivate the earth this is called Imran
and the prophets aligning Saddam he came
as a prophet of the city first and
foremost he's a prophet also of the
Bedouin he's a prophet of
the farmers but first and foremost he is
a prophet of an medina the city and the
reason for that is because the last
phase of human existence would be a an
urban phase that people all over the
world have increasingly flocked to
cities and the city is it's an ancient
concept but the modern city is a very
new concept the idea of a monopolist
this massive city which allows for
anonymity it allows for people to do
things that they would not normally do
if they were in a small village where
everybody knows who they are so if you
look now the Prophet Elias Adam came to
a city and Medina and he taught people
how to live and behave within that
context and then he also taught the
Bedouin how to live in behavin for that
reason one of the unique aspects of our
thick the jurisprudence of Islam is that
it actually deals with people in
isolation
it teaches you how to be even if you're
one person living on a mountain you can
be a Muslim that Robinson Crusoe can be
a Muslim whether or not Friday jumera
comes to the island so this is one of
the interesting aspects of our religion
but primarily Islam as a collective
religion it's a religion of a group of
people an aggregate of people that are
bound together in a milla or a Gemara
and yet the Lama angioma Allah loves the
group he loves unity Allah Himself is
one and he loves unity he loves unity
through diversity just as his attributes
are diverse he is rockman but he's also
moontak him he's the merciful but he's
also the Avenger of wrongs and these are
contradictory they're diverse attributes
but he is one and in the same way the
Muslim civilization is diverse but is
essentially one so if you go to Malaysia
there's a
certain flavor to Islam here your women
wear colorful dresses well some women
have done that in the past you go to
other places and and the Muslim women
wear very plain dresses if you go to
Nigeria the women wear very colorful
dresses so this is but the essence of
the modesty is there whether it's
colorful or whether it's black and white
it's the essence is there and this is
the beauty of the Islamic tradition is
that it has this diversity so one of the
reasons is is that mom is actually to
cultivate the earth through Omron which
is the term that even Halden in his
great work and mocha dima uses for
civilization one of the signs of the end
of time as the prophet sallahu said I'm
said there would be horrible Imran Imran
al Haram the destruction of civilization
and the civilization of destruction the
civilization of destruction in other
words a nihilistic civilization that
tears down to build up this is called
the Hegelian dialectic that'd merely
tamia destroy and tear down to rebuild
to build up and this is one of the
phenomenon that we see around the world
wars come in they destroy everything and
then people make a lot of money
rebuilding those places the real Imran
is cultivation the Prophet SAW I said
was not a revolutionary in that sense of
the word that he turned everything
upside down
in fact the Quran says in Minooka that
the whole kharitonov Sidhu ha which I
adore is it the idea of Allah the Saba
the queen of peace says that that kings
when they enter into cities they turn
everything upside down they make the
high people low they make the low people
high and allah confirms that what
cathartica me if i don't like that they
do so Allah actually confirm what this
woman said in the Quran the Prophet when
he went into Mecca he said man Tejada
bata Abu Sufian canna
Amina he took the disease of the Quraish
and he held him in that position when he
took the keys of the Kaaba and Abdur
family been robbed are these were the
the abdul door people and paul ha even
American
to him and asked for the keys Allah
commanded him and to Edwin Amana ta da
le ha give the keys back to the people
who have the the sacred trust and he
gave the keys back to pal ha and he said
no one will take these keys until the
end of time this is how the man became
Muslim so the Prophet did not turn
everything upside down in Mecca he
purified he made to heave
he said innama bu'ithtu you tell me mama
karemera Halep I was sent to restore to
complete the good character of the Arabs
the Arabs had good character they word
Islam did not come into an ethical
vacuum it actually came into a society
that had very very high qualities and
this is very important to remember that
Islam cannot function in an ethical
vacuum in the same way that it cannot
function where there's mercy is absent
in the hearts of people when the Prophet
kissed one of his grandchildren
one of the Bedouin desert Arabs said
atop Abdul Allah do you kiss children he
said I have ten children and I've never
kissed one of them the prophet sal i
said i'm said do I have anything in my
religion for somebody who has no mercy
in his heart in other words if you're a
cruel person this religion has nothing
for you it has nothing for you because
it's a it's a religion based on Rama
it's a religion based on muhabba and and
those things are the things that unite
people the prophets of Allah I said I'm
told us that Allah chakra is more rama
is some around men is mcmanus me iraq
man that he derived the womb from his
name
the Rahman and this is why kinship bonds
bind us first and foremost as Ben Oh
Adam Kula cumin Adam Mahalo
could you come in Adam were adamant to
rob if all of you are from Adam and Adam
is from Torah he's from death
so outwardly we are all the same
there's no superiority of one group over
another group I'll get to that so this
is is that mod is very important this is
why anybody that is cultivating the
earth that's doing something benefit
is fulfilling a divine function he has a
purpose in life whether he's worshiping
or not the second reason is is stiff
laugh now is Stefan laughs has a couple
of different meanings but one of them is
this is I'm taking this from the great
ethicist raava Buddhist fahan II he was
also a master of Quran one of the
teachers through books of Imam
al-ghazali relevance Mahan Ian Dury I am
mechana machete and says that the second
reason that Allah created human beings
was for istic laughs that they actually
are replacements for the previous
generation so as a new generation comes
they replaced the previous terrorism
when you look at your children you're
seeing your replacements they're going
to take your place one day because you
will die and they will take that fulfill
that function that you were fulfilling
before that's one of the meanings
another meaning is to act as a steward
in a genuine fit or the Haditha I'm
placing in the earth a Calif
so Allah gives us these tools he gives
us the means that we need to fulfill
this function to be ha'la'tha
in the earth and when Dawud was told
that he was being made a Calif he Allah
told him to to judge with justice and
not follow his Hawaa because this is
what will divert you from justice so
this is the second purpose that we are
created the third purpose that Allah
subhana WA Ta'ala created us is that we
are here to adore allah subhanho wa
taala to know Allah subhana WA Ta'ala to
know our Creator Allah super Hannah with
the other one he said that Maha doctor
in so an agenda will insa illa liya
boyhood I only created the sprites and
the the spirits and the humans to
worship even a basset via a typhoon in
order to know me
so the avada comes out of knowledge you
have to know Allah subhana WA Ta'ala now
the way that we know allah subhana wa
tada according to our anima is through
the optima it's actually through the
intellect it's not through nothing which
is revelation the way that we know allah
subhanhu
fanon a new hula Aida in Baba no have
they in that there is no god except
allah subhana wa ta'ala and the ulama
derived different proofs for this
Borana tamanna Veronica Juarez for
people that have studied some al Qaeda
they know these these proofs they have
looked at different proofs the intellect
can arrive at an understanding through
thought that you have to have a creator
nothing can come out of nothing you
cannot get something from nothing there
has to be a source behind this if which
my 15 year old was studying biology and
his teacher was an atheist and he came
and told me that he was he was studying
biology and he said that his teacher
said that we can explain life without
God and I said that that biologists
should not interfere with cosmology a
biologist should stay in biology and not
start talking about cosmology because
that's another science cosmology and it
reminded me of the the joke about the
biologist that meet God and God asked
them what they're up to and they said
well we've gotten rid of you and God
asked the biologist how did you get rid
of me and they said well we can explain
how we got here without you and he said
well how would you do that is it well
first we take some cosmic dust and God
says no no wait a second get your own
dust right you see because where where
did it all start where did we come from
even if evolution explained how we have
evolved as a species it doesn't explain
where the original material came from
man cannot bring anything into existence
from nothing he makes organs from
already existing cells the cloning comes
from already existing cells
he's now in stem cell research and doing
all of these things everything that he
makes has pre-existing materials we
cannot make anything out of out of
nothing it's impossible for humans to do
that because
nothing comes from nothing and this is
why my own teacher said ketab and
Muldoon
the Atheist are liars allowed to move
their ug that would non-existence cannot
bring existence L folder that Yuko in on
me ROM Anarchy or chaos cannot bring
order into existence and Jaggu Laird led
yet lie a leader in ignorance cannot
bring knowledge into existence and then
he said inna Mejia in takasu a Klingon
command MC Adara
see here what is love and hawa this is
the inversion this is an intellectual
inversion of reality like somebody who's
walking on his head and his feet are in
the air that this is something that
humans have never believed and and this
argument now of the modern atheists the
this is an ancient argument atheists
have always been around
in fact atheists were actually more
sophisticated a hundred years ago than
they are today and this is the truth
because 100 years ago they were well
versed in philology like Nietzsche they
were well versed in they were they were
profound philosophers even at the time
of Socrates there were atheists people
forget that Marx who was who was an
atheist he did his his PhD dissertation
was on the materialist of the Greek
materialist so he had studied
materialistic philosophy so this
argument this modern argument is not a
new argument it's it'