Living with purpose
- There are two types of people, those who decide and those who react.
- The one’s who decide are the leaders, and the reactors are the followers.
- Insecurity is perceived as a danger.
- You need to be so confident that you don’t show strength all the time.
- Be confident enough to show your human side, with control.
- Tension creates attention. Whoever controls attention, controls the interaction.
- Don’t answer every question instantly.
- Don’t laugh every time others do.
- What narrative are you projecting by your presence?
- Whoever builds a narrative consistence with their presence, doesn’t need to explain themselves.
- You don’t need to be liked, you need to generate a clear impression.
- That impression must be built with intention.
Take care of your mind, your balance, your purpose
- Protecting your center
- Nurturing your mind
- Feeding your values
- Discarding what doesn’t add up
- Filtering what enters your head
The immaterial neccesary being
God runs the world directly
If the world had a beginning, then someone must have made it exist.
That which made it exist is not composed of mass energy, time and space.
Not “The Big Bang”
“The beginning of the universe”
The premise that we have to do science
The universe is finite in space and time
Before the Big Bang, they believe in infinite time and space.
Paradoxes
If it is infinite in size and an infinite numbers of stars in the sky. Your line of sight should strike a star somewhere. The night sky would have been as light as day.
The star should have had enough time to burn out, then all stars would have burnt out, including the sun.
The universe is expanding, which means that their must have been a big bang.
Outside of space-time.
The Big Bang is really signficant
The scientific evidence is overwhelming.
Everybody accepts the big bang, all scientists
Cosmic background microwave radiation is everywhere. It is a remnant of the heat of the big bang’s.
Must be outside of space time.
Bible and big bang are incompatible.
God was part of our scientific understanding for a long time.
God was the
Aristotle
Thomas Aquainas
Christians are not fully commited to being rational.
Deism
Metholodogical Naturalism – Do science as though God does not exist.
We become programmed into doing science without God.
There is not verse in the Quran, that condemns people for not using their minds.
The originator
Contingency
The universe is needy and dependent.
The process of science is the process of discovery contingencies
Contigent beings can only exist with the existence of a necessary uncontigent being.
The more contigencies you discover, the more need their is a need for a necessary being.
Laws of nature describe relationships between contingent things
They don’t describe the causal relationships.
We have an instinctive tendancy to ascribe contingency to those things that are regularly associated.
We also have a mind, we can discern that all of these contingent things are being made the way that they are, by a necessary being.
Why don’t intelligent people believe in God?
Lack of knowledge
Lack of confidence
All defeats are psychological except death
Luxury breeds complacency and individualism.
The shared struggles are forgotten.
Sharp distinct identity – The source of their strength, begins to wane. So too does their grip of power.
A new group hardened by their experiences.
Progress is not linear, success is not guaranteed.
Your soul has the ability to be supported by the energy of angels.
The life energy of Allah was given to the human species.
Energy fills the life forms of this world. All are eating something to maintain energy.
The machines we create also have an energy source. The minerals of this earth.
Inner peace happens when you don’t allow other people and events to change your emotions.
We are so weak, that we constantly.
Human beings have to separate their identity with their competitors.
Why do we see them as competitors instead of cooperators?
Constructive instead of destructive criticism.
TAKFIR
The understanding of Wala and Baraah was unpresendented in Islamic history.
Politicized takfir. If you side with the political enemy against me
Wala and Baraah – Adab
Politicising – Checking whose right and whose wrong.
Monitor the changes in the feelings in your heart.
The 4 Golden Rules of correct thinking
Cause and Effect
Differences of everything in the universe.
Freedom of Choice
Good and bad things happen in the world because of these three principles.
Safeguard your religion and beliefs.
Qadar and Qadr
Measurements of space, length, weight, melting point, boiling point and the nature of the physical world. Qadar and Qadar is based on the following 3 philosophies:
Allah’s power made this possible, but I have used Allah’s.
If Allah did not give me the ability to choose, I would not been able to do it.
Allah has given me the power to choose the material into a shape.
Every Khutbah. Everything is God’s will. No such thing.
Night of Qadr – Not the night that God will decide for you.
This year I want to be successful in my business.
Allah will make a favour to me, but not to you. You didn’t cry.
The night of Qadr is the night of values and measurement.
There is more possibility of dua
Your action can be 100 times more valuable and you dua may be accepted on condition that all of the 16 conditions of dua to be accepted, are fulfilled.
Just because you cried throughout the night and made so many salawaat, Allah must forget all of your sins and oppression.
Message from Gaza. Don’t pray for us, we don’t need your prayers, we need your action.
Use the power of Allah.
Allahs attributes are all positive.
We helping our Palestinian brothers with prayers.
Some African nations have a life expentancy of 45 years.
The Japanese have a life expectancy of 95 years.
Not because Allah loves them more.
If you put an African person in Japan, they will also have a 95 year life expectancy.
When Hadrat Ali RA moved away from a wall that was falling, someone said, “You are running away from Allah’s Qada and Qadar? ” If I was staying there and now that I ran away, it is also .
If the measurement says that the water will boil at 100 Degrees, no one can stop it.
When the measurement of the accident is too much, you will die.
The killer of people is disease and people’s choice, etc. Not Allah.
Not Allah’s choice. Allah has given me the choice.
Possible by Allah’s power and Allah’s decision.
Enjoining good and forbidding evil requires worldly judgement.
