Prove that God Exists, with Sh. Hamza Karamali | DoubleTake, a Yaqeen Podcast

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No matter which religion a person is born into, we all eventually face the same question: “Do I really believe in God?” The Qur’an tells us that the signs of His existence are spread all over the world around us, yet today, more than ever before, people are saying it’s not enough.
Is it possible to prove God’s existence? What is the strongest argument for His existence, and do we have evidence for it in our tradition? Beyond proving God’s existence, how do we know that He is worthy of worship?
In the Season 4 premiere of DoubleTake, host Mohamad Zaoud talks to Sh. Hamza Karamali, founder of Basira Education, about proving the existence of God.
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[@anwarsaleem7283]

Alhamdullilah, I did not exist and Allah swt brought me into being. In addition, he gave me the abilities to distinguish between right and wrong and understand the purpose of life.

[@BloggingTheology]

Exciting!

[@SamirSiraj8542]

Assalamualaikum

[@SamirSiraj8542]

@@peaceful_warrior7627 walaikum salam. You take care too

[@chrisschumacher2939]

السلام عليكم The questions and follow-up questions by the interviewer really pull out great points by the guest.

[@daasguy99]

I think for us to understand things we need to ask for it to be understood. Like how non believers believe they ask Allah ( creator ) for guidance. Therefore, for someone to understand something they need to be open to it. Not approach with a closed mind. For my fellow brother's in Islam who are struggling with belief.

[@Peace-88843]

Yeah the podcast is back Alhamdulilah!

[@StudentOfKnowldge]

So happy for this podcast channel

[@olanosseir3611]

I am thrilled that your podcast has started again as I find it very well done and very informative

[@olanosseir3611]

Such an excellent and beneficial explanation. Jazakallah Khairan

[@dark_attack7896]

السَّلاَمُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ اللهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ USTADZ... From..Indonesia. BARAKALLAHU...FEEKUM.

[@shezzyomer5562]

Really needed this podcast thank you so much for this May Allah reward you ameen

[@watchmyplaylisttoopenyoureyes]

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[@TPO_onYT]

MashaAllah! Great start to this season!

[@mpramd]

very good episode! QnA apart from islamic atribute, reasonable, locally make sense, truly beats the doubtful over secularism era

[@iiddrrii6051]

Yeah, slam dunk on those ungrateful lying atheists

[@noorjahanbegum-hw3tn]

Salam. Really enjoyed listening to this, thank you for that. What is the name of that book about ‘Muslims discovered America before Columbus’ please? Also, is this book in english?

[@Saa42808]

Explanation of the lecture: Basically the contingency argument provides a blueprint of God by which one can construct the true “Image” of God and only Allah fits into that image like a glove and the remains fall short. Once the belief in Allah is established then the Quran comes forward and solidifies the existence of Allah helped by the Seerah of Prophet Mohammad PBUH which is of course compiled on historical accounts not fairy tales. It also invalidates all the sources (waseela) that people use to seek Allah’s help but Allah has no partner, He listens directly and that is embedded in the argument where people are leaning to each other but at the end only God (Allah) is holding everything in the line (existence) and no one is holding Him. I personally don’t see any flaws in the contingency argument. Brother Hamza nailed it down. Allahu Akbar.

[@iiddrrii6051]

The contingency argument is philosophical and not based on empirical evidence; it's unfalsifiable. There are robust philosophical rebuttals for the contingency argument (by actual philosophers not me :) The contingency argument is deeply philosophical and seems to take us to the deep unknown rather than revealing an agent. The contingency argument pushes the argument for a non-contingent element or agent into the deepest and darkest corners of the universe. Unfortunately, Mr. Karamali failed to steel-man the arguments against the contingency argument for God. Perhaps the singularity/big bang existed forever. Perhaps it's meaningless to ask what caused the "big bang" in the same way it's meaningless to ask what caused God. Some things are inherently meaningless, like the direction of North when you're standing on the North Pole. A mistake this talk makes is expecting human intuition to be a reliable way of finding truth. Nothing can be further from the truth when investigating the origins of the universe, QM, black holes/singularities, General Relativity, etc. I think it's reasonable to note that if God exists and wants to be known, there are many opportunities for him to have shown signs for himself. For example, instead of all the evidence for evolution, if each species had their own set of completely different genetic code, then the naturalistic world view would be confounding. Instead, we see overwhelming evidence for common descent. Or, a young earth would make the mechanisms for evolution impossible, instead we see a 4 Billion year old earth where there exists sufficient time for evolution to accommodate the diversity and complexity of life. Why would God say Adam had no mother or father while making our coding DNA ~99% similar to a chimpanzee? Why would human and chimps share so many endogenous retroviral sequences in the exact same locations? We find that it is statistically impossible to be by chance. Muslim apologists like Mr. Karamali seem to honestly believe in their position but fail to accommodate the difficult problems with Islam and theism in general: Divine hiddenness, that non resistive non-belief exists, the problem of evil, free-will and the morality of hell, evolution, that faith and geography are highly correlated, etc. Ultimately religion is based on faith, not evidence, people are mostly emotional rather than rational without realizing it. I'm open to the possibility of there being a God, but I have not seen anything convincing. Instead, I see apologists who have presupposed God and struggle to accommodate and defend their belief.

[@ceyhunsadigov6566]

This sounds like Ibn Sina philosophy

[@freeyourmind7538]

14:54 i feel like the first cause is the same as contingency argument, they both rely on a primary causer. How are they different?

[@boyfanplaceswift1886]

1. God concept : material thing of God . Surah Al ikhlas. 2. Definition of God

[@zfarole]

Thank you for this. Very informative, indeed. I understand and accept everything from a Muslim perspective, but how do you counter the question, if God created everyone and everything, who created him?

[@dinomar7818]

God just is. God simply always exists. The Creator must be eternal. If He was created, then He is not the creator. If every thing needs a creator, no thing can ever be. There must be an eternal existence that is the originator of all other contingent things.

[@petraravn5421]

@@dinomar7818 We don't know whether the cosmos is contingent or not. It could easily be eternal.

[@dinomar7818]

@@petraravn5421 We argue that every physical thing is necessarily contingent, metaphysically and empirically.

[@h20taku60]

Yes the contingency argument, or argument from dependency is the best and easiest way to describe to someone why an uncreated creator must exist in order to explain the existence of the universe. Even a multiverse wouldn't escape this argument. Anyone who argues with this is just being stubborn and denying simple logic

[@iiddrrii6051]

Exactly, everyone else is dumb

[@shayidahzainab1508]

IMPRESSIVE! Assalamualaikum w.b.t. Sir Mohamad, please send my Salam to your lovely wife, kids and in-law. Thank You for serving us an Intellectual Discussion! Assalamualaikum w.b.t. Sheikh Hamza, please send my Salam to your wife, children and in-law. Thank You for helping me solving my thoughts about Big Bang Theory! Thank You So Much for introducing your selected books of references. Muslims are communities of bookworms. Thank You for every single intellectual insights and reflections shared here!

[@aboeAimen]

Wa 3aljkum asalam wa rahmatu Allah wa barakatuhoe. Zjzaak Allah gijran. It's sunnah better fard to leave the beard and play whit the mousthaz. In sha Allah ☝️. Akhi als it's a way of revealing your sin..

[@mickqQ]

What is God? A God can be anything you need or want it to be… You are limited only by what you can imagine. What do you imagine a God is?

[@NK-mp5xp]

God is a powerful being that caused this universe

[@mickqQ]

@@NK-mp5xp That’s what you imagine a God is.

[@NK-mp5xp]

@@mickqQ No this isn't my imagination. Being powerful is a necessary attribute of God which without it the universe couldn't come into existence.

[@mickqQ]

@@NK-mp5xp What other attributes do you imagine a God needs

[@NK-mp5xp]

@@mickqQ It's not imagine it's being Rational. The Universe began to exist therfore it has a cause this cause must be eternal, independent and powerful If any of these qualities are missing it will lead to absurdities. And this is not imagination but rational and critical thinking.

[@amks...9423]

show your solidarity for women education in Afghanistan bcz that's unislamic & islam gives right to education not regardless of gender but religion too plz

[@freeyourmind7538]

Just in Afghanistan or india and france too??? In india, they've banned women from attending educational centres and France too. If you mean france, india, Afghanistan and everywhere else where women are barred from education, then i, as a Muslim, show solidarity

[@SamirSiraj8542]

What about india, france? Never saw anyone making comment like this about Muslim women there. And you talked about afghani woman, what about Muslim women in India, Iraq, France?

[@maaziy_ghaziyIYI]

Western troll spotted

[@falak9050]

@AMKS shut up

[@LoveLove-ev1cm]

Stats indicate that when you being leftist secular education into the east women are more likely to divorce . It leads to high depression and broken families in the end ..

[@charlievaughan1308]

SINCE GOD IS SPACELESS , TIMELESS, IMMATERIAL, NONDETACTSBLE. THEREFORE WE CANNOT.USE HUMAN LOGIC TO PROVE GOD.EXISTS AND THAT INCLUDES THE C9NTINGENCY ARGUMENT. BTW, I AM NOT AN ATHEIST I AM AGNOSTIC.