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Yasir Qadhi

How Do You Know God Exists

Yasir Qadhi

Muslim Central

Islam, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2015

⏱️ 7 minutes

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What proof is there that God exists? What do we respond to a person who questions God’s existence? What is the ruling on this from an Islamic perspective and paradigm? Wouldn’t it be nonsensical to enumerate the uncountable proofs all around us that show us the same? What is Fitrah or the spiritual DNA of ... Read more

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A s'am al-Aqam raham al-a-tulahi.

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A lot of times young Muslims come to me and they say that either they themselves or their colleagues and acquaintances have come to them

0:14.5

and ask them some very, very deep and profound questions.

0:17.6

How do you know God exists?

0:19.2

How do you know that there really is a creator out there?

0:21.6

And they will come and they will say,

0:22.8

prove to me, give me some scientific proof that there is some creator out there.

0:28.0

Now, this is a, of course, a very deep and philosophical question goes back millennia from the very beginning of times and of

0:34.9

course in a three minute YouTube clip there's only so much that we can talk about.

0:38.8

Nonetheless from an Islamic perspective we can flip the question around and say that in fact what type of proof do you need other than each and every proof out there.

0:49.6

So from the Islamic perspective and paradigm, the proofs for the existence of a Creator are so numerous

0:56.5

that to begin to enumerate them is in fact nonsensical. And this

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leads us to a very interesting point and that is that the same information can be

1:05.8

digested and understood differently depending on the paradigm depending on the

1:10.4

lenses that you wear depending on the tools and utensils that you have.

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So the one who sees will look at things in a manner that the one who cannot see cannot look at.

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Because he has the benefit of eyesight.

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So there's something called the fitra, there's something

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called the purity of the soul, the conscience, there's something called

1:28.0

basically the spiritual DNA that Allah created each and every human being upon. When that Fittra is pure, when the person is sincere,

1:37.5

then the fact of the matter is that Fittra is like a faculty that is more powerful than hearing and seeing and thinking combined.

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