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00:00and what we feel is that the that the Quran then actually ties you into the
00:08reality of that creator because then he explains to you the nature of things why
00:13you exist in the first place why did Allah create you what's your purpose of
00:18life and what to expect after you die basically and that you find in the
00:24explanation in the Quran basically do you guys have like a science background or
00:30anything like that or because when I was talking about the infinite regress I
00:37felt that you were nodding I think maybe you've encountered that argument before
00:42or whatever or is that true or is that perhaps the first time you've heard it
00:46or okay but does that is that does that make logical sense to you though or would
00:52you have contentions with that with that argument of infinite regress basically
01:02I've heard it before I think it's a reasonable concept
01:05right
01:06that's something I find reason in it for sure but I'm not yeah that's probably what I'll do it
01:13yeah yeah and I think to be fair that's how I pose the argument as well I don't
01:19say look that's empirical analytical evidence that a God exists what I say to
01:24people is look it's a reasonable option to consider and it's it's also reasonable
01:31to look at other options like a material cause and either accept it on bait on the
01:38on on on the basis of a deductive argument or reject it or rejecting it
01:43right and a material cause for me I would say subjectively seems
01:49un- un- plausible because of that problems of infinite regress because if it requires an
01:56explanation of its existence you can't have an infinite series of explanations and
02:02ultimately even whether you know in science you may well have obviously
02:06encountered a cyclic universe and everything else but it all points to you
02:10you still have to have a beginning because even the complete circuit of cyclic
02:16universe is dependent because it requires hydrogen or helium or iron or
02:21whatever all the components that are necessary for it to to exist in the first
02:25place and it's of course relied upon laws the laws of physics right which
02:30function in a very mathematical in a very predictable way right yeah I asked do you
02:37want to add anything have I what do you feel about what I've said I mean feel
02:44relaxed if you if you have a contention it's a relaxed conversation it's not
02:48about judging anybody I don't feel any contention I'm honestly just willing to
02:52listen and hear but one question I did show is something I find interesting kind of
02:57be maybe in more of like a middle ground of faith and stuff like that is it seems
03:01like to me there's a lot of commonalities and things like that yes yes yes do you
03:08think there's people that would not consider themselves that are actually
03:11following the doctrine of your faith or do you think there's if there's really
03:16kind of a moment of conforming so I think there are a lot of people out there
03:22generally I generally I think people are good people and I think the general
03:26consensus is that I think for most people if you look at a global society
03:30rather than pockets people believe in a higher power of some sort it's it seems
03:35a reasonable or plausible and they lead very good lives very moral lives but you
03:42see ultimately for us as Muslims the conforming to a particular system is
03:52important because the one who is telling you to conform we see as the
03:58creator of the heavens and the earth who's created everything including you
04:01and me and so the very breath that we breathe the very eyes that we see by we
04:06feel that those are and we're told in fact that those are blessings given to you
04:10by God Almighty and in return Allah expects you to worship Him alone and lead a
04:17good and a moral and a decent life right and so we we feel that just as a father
04:23would have a right over his child to behave in a certain way or do things in a
04:29certain way what about the rights of the Creator on you who created everything
04:33including your father your mother your children and everything else and so for
04:39us in the Quran for example in the second chapter Allah says that I created the
04:44human beings and their spirits the jinn for no other reason but to worship me so
04:51it now tells you what you were created for however people sometimes misunderstand
04:57what worship is so in Islam me smiling at you is also a form of worship it's a it's
05:04a it's a it's a charity it's a Sadaka why because now we learn of course that
05:10person who smiles at somebody they actually have a release in their own
05:15brain often making them smile reducing their stress and actually it makes
05:21relationships a lot more comfortable and nicer people who actually have a better
05:25well-being when they are happy and they see other people that are happy now of
05:28course in the seventh century you might not have known that but this is a this is
05:33also seen as a charity if I were to walk on the street and I saw a stone and I
05:38moved it out of the way because somebody might trip the Prophet peace be upon who
05:42said this is a charity you'll be rewarded for this so this is also a form of
05:46worship but for us the ultimate form of worship is the prostration in our prayer
05:51which we believe that all of the prophets did so we believe from Adam to the
05:57Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him all of the prophets actually we believe prayed in
06:01that way so it's interesting that in the Bible in the Garden of
06:05Gethsemane Jesus when he starts to pray to the father it says that he throws his
06:10face onto the ground and he worships his Lord on the mountain when Moses and his
06:15son goes to pray they put their knees in fact before that they say they wash
06:19themselves they do ablution which is what we do before we pray washing our
06:23faces our arms wiping our hair and we'll wash our feet and then it says that they
06:29put their knees and their hands and their faces onto the ground and they
06:33worship their Lord the Muslim prayer is the same prayer in fact the Prophet
06:37Muhammad peace be upon us to pray in exactly the same way and this is what I
06:41was trying to say to you that we don't feel Islam is a new religion but just a
06:45completion of all of the messages that the messengers that they came down with
06:50the message and it and the Quran says Allah says in the Quran today I have
06:55perfected your religion for you and chosen Islam as your religion so it's the
06:59perfection of the message that was that came throughout history basically so in
07:05that sense we even though often you might find people that we they will say
07:10well religions they fight one another or they're always a battle look we have
07:14our disagreements there's no doubt about that but there's a very high level of
07:20respect as given to Moses Jesus and all of the other prophets that came before as
07:25well and if you were to read some of the references to Jesus for example it really
07:31elevates him to a very high status a very high level of respect so it's not
07:36about disrespecting and one of the reasons why we don't generally hang
07:41around in that part of the of the park and we're here is that we want to be
07:45respectful and we want to try to explain things in a nice way because we feel
07:48that this is actually the best way to give you know the message of Islam to
07:53people in a calm considerate and a well-mannered way basically and this is
07:58also part of our religion so yeah you were going to ask something as well or I
08:04talk a lot but I do like it when people sort of come back as well I have a bad
08:09habit of like going on and on but do you have any question at all or is there
08:13anything about Islam that you've perhaps seen or witnessed or heard that maybe you
08:18know you thought well is this part of their religion or what's going on there is
08:22there is there anything like that that perhaps you've discovered or seen you
08:26must have seen a lot of things come on
08:31so in Islam in the Quran Allah says tell the believing man to lower his gaze so
08:39the first hijab or veil is placed on the man don't feast your eyes on women and as
08:47a man you know you know when a man is looking at a woman automatically that
08:52some of the things that perhaps going through his head not necessarily very
08:55respectful in fact many of our thoughts we would struggle to tell our mothers or
09:00our sisters or our daughters or our wives because that's how that's the nature of
09:04man that's how we're wired okay so the first hijab the first you know a sense of
09:11modesty is placed upon the man and Allah links believing in other words if you
09:17are a true believer lower your gaze don't gulp don't stare don't feast your
09:23eyes and think things that are inappropriate basically and tell the
09:27believing woman to dress modestly so there's a responsibility placed upon both
09:32now throughout all of human history you find that women actually covered their hair
09:38you go to if you watch a video of England even if a person was not
09:44particularly religious they'd always have a scarf that was just seen as modesty it
09:50was seen as a modest way it was the norm throughout all of human history it's
09:54actually a very modern phenomena which has become fashionable because of you know
10:00pop culture and media and everything else we're actually now it seemed
10:05perfectly modest not to have your hair covered and perhaps even dress in
10:09clothes that perhaps most of us wouldn't want our daughters to dress in let's put
10:13it that way right and it seemed perfect perfectly okay but in Islam this
10:18responsibility is placed upon both the man and the woman by the way the man has
10:23modest dressed as well so he shouldn't wear very figure hugging clothes he
10:29shouldn't be showing his aura which is from his navel to his knees that should
10:32always remain covered especially in public so there are there are controls on
10:39both but the woman's hair ultimately is seen as a very let's say it's a sign of
10:46beauty that's why women spend many hundreds if not thousands of dollars on
10:51hair treatments and things like you know to make her hair look really really
10:55nice because it's a feature to attract people by and in Islam we say that a
11:00woman's value is not in the way she looks it's not in her beauty but in her
11:08taqwa her closeness to God and her etiquettes her manners her decorum her
11:13intelligence you know her capacity to reason and to to do things that is of
11:19value the the looks the outwardly looks are not what she should be judged by but
11:25today we basically have thrown that right over a woman now is valued more on how
11:33she looks and often could be more successful even in the workplace because
11:40of her beauty rather than her ability and in Islam we say that's wrong it should
11:46be what's inside that matters the substance the very substance the very core of that
11:51individual their values not what's on the outside and it's very difficult you see
11:56to in heart to have that as a principle and as a rule if basically the women are
12:03be addressed in a way and I'm not just talking about the hair of course in a way
12:08that would clearly let's say not encourage men to treat that person with the
12:14respect and the dignity that they should be affording them now I'm not saying that a
12:19woman deserves to be disrespected if she's not dressed appropriately I'm not
12:23saying that because in Islam that would be forbidden because you're told to lower
12:27your gaze you're not supposed to be looking at her in the first place anyway but you
12:33know we have a six second rule right we are told that a person will basically
12:39judge somebody within six or eight seconds what are they basing that on appearance right
12:45and we're told no don't do that now one of the other reasons that we're given in
12:52the Quran that so the woman will not be harassed she will not be molested or
12:57harassed now there are actually studies done where a woman dressed