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Read the story carefully... it's a good one. I found it interesting. What about you? 😊
NO GOD OR KNOW GOD?
An atheist professor of philosophy speaks to his class on the problem science has with God, the Almighty. He asks one of his new students to stand and...
Prof: So, do you believe in God?
Student: Absolutely, sir.
Prof: Is God good?
Student: Sure.
Prof: Is God all-powerful?
Student: Yes.
Prof: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to God to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But God didn't. How is this God good then? Hmm? (Student is silent.)
Prof: You can't answer, can you? Let's start again, young fellow. Is God good?
Student: Yes.
Prof: Is Satan good?
Student: No.
Prof: Where does Satan come from?
Student: From... God...
Prof: That's right. Tell me, son, is there evil in this world?
Student: Yes.
Prof: Evil is everywhere, isn't it? And God did make everything. Correct?
Student: Yes.
Prof: So who created evil?
Student: (Student does not answer.)
Prof: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don't they?
Student: Yes, sir.
Prof: So, who created them?
(Student has no answer.)
Prof: Science says you have five senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son... Have you ever seen God?
Student: No, sir.
Prof: Tell us if you have ever heard your God?
Student: No, sir.
Prof: Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God, smelt your God? Have you ever had any sensory perception of God for that matter?
Student: No, sir. I'm afraid I haven't.
Prof: Yet you still believe in Him?
Student: Yes.
Prof: According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says your God doesn't exist. What do you say to that, son?
Student: Nothing. I only have my faith.
Prof: Yes. Faith. And that is the problem science has.
Student: Professor, is there such a thing as heat?
Prof: Yes.
Student: And is there such a thing as cold?
Prof: Yes.
Student: No sir. There isn't.
(The lecture theatre becomes very quiet with this turn of events.)
Student: Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat, or no heat. But we don't have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero, which is no heat, but we can't go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.
(There is pin-drop silence in the lecture theatre.)
Student: What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?
Prof: Yes. What is night if there isn't darkness?
Student: You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light... But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing, and it's called darkness, isn't it? In reality, darkness isn't. If it were, you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn't you?
Prof: So what is the point you are making, young man?
Student: Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.
Prof: Flawed? Can you explain how?
Student: Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and then there is death, a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, science can't even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life; just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?
Prof: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.
Student: Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?
(The Professor shakes his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument is going.)
Student: Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an ongoing endeavor, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher?
(The class is in an uproar.)
Student: Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor's brain?
(The class breaks out into laughter.)
Student: Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor's brain, felt it, touched, or smelt it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established rules of empirical, stable, demonstrable protocol, science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?
(The room is silent. The professor stares at the student, his face unfathomable.)
Prof: I guess you'll have to take them on faith, son.
Student: That is it, sir... The link between man & god is faith. That is all that keeps things moving & alive...
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Monika
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3Read the story carefully... it's a good one. I found it interesting. What about you? 😊
NO GOD OR KNOW GOD?
An atheist professor of philosophy speaks to his class on the problem science has with God, the Almighty. He asks one of his new students to stand and...
Prof: So, do you believe in God?
Student: Absolutely, sir.
Prof: Is God good?
Student: Sure.
Prof: Is God all-powerful?
Student: Yes.
Prof: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to God to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But God didn't. How is this God good then? Hmm? (Student is silent.)
Prof: You can't answer, can you? Let's start again, young fellow. Is God good?
Student: Yes.
Prof: Is Satan good?
Student: No.
Prof: Where does Satan come from?
Student: From... God...
Prof: That's right. Tell me, son, is there evil in this world?
Student: Yes.
Prof: Evil is everywhere, isn't it? And God did make everything. Correct?
Student: Yes.
Prof: So who created evil?
Student: (Student does not answer.)
Prof: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don't they?
Student: Yes, sir.
Prof: So, who created them?
(Student has no answer.)
Prof: Science says you have five senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son... Have you ever seen God?
Student: No, sir.
Prof: Tell us if you have ever heard your God?
Student: No, sir.
Prof: Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God, smelt your God? Have you ever had any sensory perception of God for that matter?
Student: No, sir. I'm afraid I haven't.
Prof: Yet you still believe in Him?
Student: Yes.
Prof: According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says your God doesn't exist. What do you say to that, son?
Student: Nothing. I only have my faith.
Prof: Yes. Faith. And that is the problem science has.
Student: Professor, is there such a thing as heat?
Prof: Yes.
Student: And is there such a thing as cold?
Prof: Yes.
Student: No sir. There isn't.
(The lecture theatre becomes very quiet with this turn of events.)
Student: Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat, or no heat. But we don't have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero, which is no heat, but we can't go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.
(There is pin-drop silence in the lecture theatre.)
Student: What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?
Prof: Yes. What is night if there isn't darkness?
Student: You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light... But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing, and it's called darkness, isn't it? In reality, darkness isn't. If it were, you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn't you?
Prof: So what is the point you are making, young man?
Student: Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.
Prof: Flawed? Can you explain how?
Student: Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and then there is death, a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, science can't even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life; just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?
Prof: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.
Student: Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?
(The Professor shakes his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument is going.)
Student: Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an ongoing endeavor, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher?
(The class is in an uproar.)
Student: Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor's brain?
(The class breaks out into laughter.)
Student: Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor's brain, felt it, touched, or smelt it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established rules of empirical, stable, demonstrable protocol, science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?
(The room is silent. The professor stares at the student, his face unfathomable.)
Prof: I guess you'll have to take them on faith, son.
Student: That is it, sir... The link between man & god is faith. That is all that keeps things moving & alive...
Regards,
Monika
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Another one like this......
BELIEF in God is as natural as any instinct can be. An atheist asked Imam Ja’far as-Sadiq
how could he convince him about the existence of God. Coming to know that the man had
gone several times on sea voyages, Imam asked him “Have you ever been caught in a
fierce storm in middle of nowhere, your rudder gone, your sails torn away, trying
desperately to keep your boat afloat?” The answer was `Yes’. Then Imam asked: “And
sometimes perhaps even that leaking boat went down leaving you exhausted and helpless
on the mercy of raging waves?” The answer was again `Yes’.
Then Imam asked: “Was not there, in all that black despair, a glimmer of hope in your
heart that some unnamed and unknown power could still save you?” When he agreed,
Imam said: “That power is God.”
That atheist was intelligent. He knew the truth when he saw it.
Ref: http://moralsandethics.wordpress.com/tag/god-tauheed/
Above mentioned story is also available
See the Amazing series of ppt of creation of GOD!!!.
Really worth seeing...
http://moralsandethics.wordpress.com...of-god-part-4/
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BELIEF in God is as natural as any instinct can be. An atheist asked Imam Ja’far as-Sadiq
how could he convince him about the existence of God. Coming to know that the man had
gone several times on sea voyages, Imam asked him “Have you ever been caught in a
fierce storm in middle of nowhere, your rudder gone, your sails torn away, trying
desperately to keep your boat afloat?” The answer was `Yes’. Then Imam asked: “And
sometimes perhaps even that leaking boat went down leaving you exhausted and helpless
on the mercy of raging waves?” The answer was again `Yes’.
Then Imam asked: “Was not there, in all that black despair, a glimmer of hope in your
heart that some unnamed and unknown power could still save you?” When he agreed,
Imam said: “That power is God.”
That atheist was intelligent. He knew the truth when he saw it.
Ref: http://moralsandethics.wordpress.com/tag/god-tauheed/
Above mentioned story is also available
See the Amazing series of ppt of creation of GOD!!!.
Really worth seeing...
http://moralsandethics.wordpress.com...of-god-part-4/
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Hi, that was a nice counterargument from the student's point of view. But hold on, when a student asks the class whether you all can see, taste, or smell the professor's brain, they can't, isn't it? However, the professor can prove the existence of his brain by taking an X-ray. But how about in the student's case, can he take an X-ray of his known God?
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Jag
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Jag
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X-ray can show you the image of the brain, not the actual intellect. Here, the brain refers to the intellect. You cannot see the brain, which means the intellect, which we can't see at all!! 😱
Apart from them, there are so many things which we can't see but believe in, like pain - we can't see it but believe in it. 😊
TRs
Aliasgar P
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Apart from them, there are so many things which we can't see but believe in, like pain - we can't see it but believe in it. 😊
TRs
Aliasgar P
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Hi dude, Hope you know what is IQ factor? It measures the intelligence of a person. SO we can even measure how intellect you are???? Cool.... Regards, Jag!!
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hi Monika its really mind blowing good keep posting such goodkind of stuff. regards jonita
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Good job Monika. Infact this is the topic on which I have an argument quite often with my friend. Its seems now I can give him the appropriate answer. That too with an suitable explanation
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Hi Disha, What you are trying to say that No God or Know God...I have given a reply to alaisgarp that there is NO god...
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Argument was about seeing . Can you see the Intelligence :?:
The whole idea about argument was to prove the existence of GOD.
If can't see or measure than that this doesn't exist..
Also science is infant. It always is in learning & development mode. Till the time they can't see/measure they will say this is not present but after some decade someone will emerge & find the way prove that...
:shock:
My dear friend; IQ test is just an assessment of an individual’s problem solving ability rather than gauging a general intelligence. :lol:
See the below fact about what actually the IQ is ....
IQ is the acronym for intelligent quotient, and refers to a score given for several standardized intelligence tests. The first of these was developed by French psychologist Alfred Binet in 1905. He constructed the IQ test, as it would later be called, to determine which children might need additional help in scholarly pursuits. Today, the IQ test is commonly based on some model of the Stanford Binet Intelligence scale.
Not all intelligence can be measured by an IQ test. In fact, primarily, an IQ test measures mathematical and spatial reasoning, logical ability, and language understanding. Thus a person who is speaking English as a second language might score poorly on the language comprehension aspects of a test, and an IQ test would not be an adequate measurement of intelligence.
Further an IQ test does not measure things like life experience, wisdom, or personal qualities like being a good friend or a devoted spouse. So it is not a predictor of a person’s quality or worth, though it has occasionally been used as such.
Some things can negatively impact IQ score. These include malnutrition in children who are tested, and fetal alcohol syndrome, or maternal addiction. Mental retardation or conditions that deteriorate the brain’s capacity to remember like Alzheimer’s disease also causes IQ scores to be lower. IQ may also be impacted by lack of appropriate education, often due to disparity in educational funding. If these disparities are corrected, then IQ scores normally increase.
People can also train to take IQ tests, which can increase scoring. However, it is not known whether a person who scores higher because of training or repeated testing is actually more intelligent. It is verifiable that the trained person does better on the IQ test than the person who is not trained.
There have been some studies on brain size and development and IQ scores. Specifically the frontal lobe of the brain seems to be the most indicative method for prediction of IQ scores. Larger frontal lobes tend to result in larger IQs.
Men and women seem to score approximately the same on IQ testing, though men exhibit a greater variance in testing, and have more very high and very low scores than do women. The American Psychological Association conducted studies on IQs and came up with the following conclusions:
:arrow: IQ score was a fairly good predictor for school performance.
:arrow: IQ score may also predict fairly well the degree to which a person may be successful in occupations.
:arrow: IQ scores tend to exhibit some racial bias.
:arrow: Test scores may be influenced by personal genetic history.
There is much contentious debate in evaluating the IQ test, as to whether nature or nurture most influences IQ scores. As well, debate exists as to how much IQ scores should be used as a predictor of behavior. Some are concerned that IQ scores might negatively affect the perception of colleges, private schools or employers if used to determine employability or acceptance into schools.
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The whole idea about argument was to prove the existence of GOD.
If can't see or measure than that this doesn't exist..
Also science is infant. It always is in learning & development mode. Till the time they can't see/measure they will say this is not present but after some decade someone will emerge & find the way prove that...
:shock:
My dear friend; IQ test is just an assessment of an individual’s problem solving ability rather than gauging a general intelligence. :lol:
See the below fact about what actually the IQ is ....
IQ is the acronym for intelligent quotient, and refers to a score given for several standardized intelligence tests. The first of these was developed by French psychologist Alfred Binet in 1905. He constructed the IQ test, as it would later be called, to determine which children might need additional help in scholarly pursuits. Today, the IQ test is commonly based on some model of the Stanford Binet Intelligence scale.
Not all intelligence can be measured by an IQ test. In fact, primarily, an IQ test measures mathematical and spatial reasoning, logical ability, and language understanding. Thus a person who is speaking English as a second language might score poorly on the language comprehension aspects of a test, and an IQ test would not be an adequate measurement of intelligence.
Further an IQ test does not measure things like life experience, wisdom, or personal qualities like being a good friend or a devoted spouse. So it is not a predictor of a person’s quality or worth, though it has occasionally been used as such.
Some things can negatively impact IQ score. These include malnutrition in children who are tested, and fetal alcohol syndrome, or maternal addiction. Mental retardation or conditions that deteriorate the brain’s capacity to remember like Alzheimer’s disease also causes IQ scores to be lower. IQ may also be impacted by lack of appropriate education, often due to disparity in educational funding. If these disparities are corrected, then IQ scores normally increase.
People can also train to take IQ tests, which can increase scoring. However, it is not known whether a person who scores higher because of training or repeated testing is actually more intelligent. It is verifiable that the trained person does better on the IQ test than the person who is not trained.
There have been some studies on brain size and development and IQ scores. Specifically the frontal lobe of the brain seems to be the most indicative method for prediction of IQ scores. Larger frontal lobes tend to result in larger IQs.
Men and women seem to score approximately the same on IQ testing, though men exhibit a greater variance in testing, and have more very high and very low scores than do women. The American Psychological Association conducted studies on IQs and came up with the following conclusions:
:arrow: IQ score was a fairly good predictor for school performance.
:arrow: IQ score may also predict fairly well the degree to which a person may be successful in occupations.
:arrow: IQ scores tend to exhibit some racial bias.
:arrow: Test scores may be influenced by personal genetic history.
There is much contentious debate in evaluating the IQ test, as to whether nature or nurture most influences IQ scores. As well, debate exists as to how much IQ scores should be used as a predictor of behavior. Some are concerned that IQ scores might negatively affect the perception of colleges, private schools or employers if used to determine employability or acceptance into schools.
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Hi friend,
Go back to your 1st line... "the argument is about seeing"... so unless all human beings can even see their own brain if they can spend on a scan and X-ray... That's it. It's as simple as that. You gave a reply to your question...
Cool
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Go back to your 1st line... "the argument is about seeing"... so unless all human beings can even see their own brain if they can spend on a scan and X-ray... That's it. It's as simple as that. You gave a reply to your question...
Cool
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Hi Monika,
Good food for thought from you.
There was an atheist who had put a board in his house which read "God is nowhere", thinking his message would reach everyone. His school-going daughter comes home one day and reads it as "God is now here". Seeing that God was present even in his message, he changed and became religious.
Prasad
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Good food for thought from you.
There was an atheist who had put a board in his house which read "God is nowhere", thinking his message would reach everyone. His school-going daughter comes home one day and reads it as "God is now here". Seeing that God was present even in his message, he changed and became religious.
Prasad
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Dear friend here are simple aruments about the existence of GOD.
:) :)
The most simple arguments of ancients on this topics are still valid, in spite of all the complexity of the modern science.
An old woman was spinning yarn. Someone asked her why she did believe in God.
She stopped her hand and the spindle stopped. She said: “You see, a simple spindle needs a hand to make it revolve. Can you think that this sun, this moon, these stars, all this world moves without any guiding hand?”
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Hadhrat Imam `Ali ibn Abi Talib (a.s) was asked for a proof of the existence of the Almighty Designer.
He replied: “The faeces of camel and of donkey lead one to conclude that such animals have passed that way. The traces of human feet indicate a man’s trek. Do not this magnificent universe, with all its sublimity and this lowly point (the earth) with all its solidity point to the existence of the Almighty Allah, the Sublime and the Omniscient?”
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Once Abu Shakir ad-Dayasani (an atheist) came to Imam Ja’far as-Sadiq (a.s.) and asked him to guide him to the recognition of “my Supreme Lord.”
The Imam asked him to take his seat. There arrived a small child with an egg in his hand. The Imam, taking the egg from him, addressed Abu
Shakir ad-Dayasani:
“Here is a mysterious fortress enclosed within a hard shell, underneath which is a fine wrapping which covers molten silver (the albumen of the egg) and some molten gold (the yellow yolk). The molten gold does not get alloyed with the molten silver, nor does the molten silver get mixed with the molten gold. (Yet both are semifluid and they should have mixed together on jerking.) They retain their separate states. No artist comes out of it to say that he has made any changes therein, nor does any vitiating agent enter it to tell of any vitiation therein. Nor is it known whether it is designed to produce a male or a female.
Pea-birds of florid colouration issue therefrom. Do you think it has a Designer (the Omniscient Creator)? Who has painted all this inside it? And how did the chick come about? Who designed all these variegated hues, the feathers, the limbs, the paintings, the feet, the beak, the wings, the eyes, the ears, the nose, the bowels, the crop, the joints, etc., etc. seeing that no one entered it? “
Abu Shakir, according to the narration, was absorbed in his thoughts for sometime with his head downcast and then suddenly proclaimed, “I bear witness that there is no god but Allah, the one without peer, and I bear witness that Muhammad (s.a.w.w) is His servant and prophet, and that you are Imam and Proof of Allah for His creation, and I turn away from my erstwhile attitude.”
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:) :)
The most simple arguments of ancients on this topics are still valid, in spite of all the complexity of the modern science.
An old woman was spinning yarn. Someone asked her why she did believe in God.
She stopped her hand and the spindle stopped. She said: “You see, a simple spindle needs a hand to make it revolve. Can you think that this sun, this moon, these stars, all this world moves without any guiding hand?”
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Hadhrat Imam `Ali ibn Abi Talib (a.s) was asked for a proof of the existence of the Almighty Designer.
He replied: “The faeces of camel and of donkey lead one to conclude that such animals have passed that way. The traces of human feet indicate a man’s trek. Do not this magnificent universe, with all its sublimity and this lowly point (the earth) with all its solidity point to the existence of the Almighty Allah, the Sublime and the Omniscient?”
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Once Abu Shakir ad-Dayasani (an atheist) came to Imam Ja’far as-Sadiq (a.s.) and asked him to guide him to the recognition of “my Supreme Lord.”
The Imam asked him to take his seat. There arrived a small child with an egg in his hand. The Imam, taking the egg from him, addressed Abu
Shakir ad-Dayasani:
“Here is a mysterious fortress enclosed within a hard shell, underneath which is a fine wrapping which covers molten silver (the albumen of the egg) and some molten gold (the yellow yolk). The molten gold does not get alloyed with the molten silver, nor does the molten silver get mixed with the molten gold. (Yet both are semifluid and they should have mixed together on jerking.) They retain their separate states. No artist comes out of it to say that he has made any changes therein, nor does any vitiating agent enter it to tell of any vitiation therein. Nor is it known whether it is designed to produce a male or a female.
Pea-birds of florid colouration issue therefrom. Do you think it has a Designer (the Omniscient Creator)? Who has painted all this inside it? And how did the chick come about? Who designed all these variegated hues, the feathers, the limbs, the paintings, the feet, the beak, the wings, the eyes, the ears, the nose, the bowels, the crop, the joints, etc., etc. seeing that no one entered it? “
Abu Shakir, according to the narration, was absorbed in his thoughts for sometime with his head downcast and then suddenly proclaimed, “I bear witness that there is no god but Allah, the one without peer, and I bear witness that Muhammad (s.a.w.w) is His servant and prophet, and that you are Imam and Proof of Allah for His creation, and I turn away from my erstwhile attitude.”
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Hey Jag!
The moral of the story is that it's all about faith, right?
So, for people who have faith in God, they believe that God exists. Others don't. It was an example that the brain, thing, and any other...
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Monika
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The moral of the story is that it's all about faith, right?
So, for people who have faith in God, they believe that God exists. Others don't. It was an example that the brain, thing, and any other...
Regards,
Monika
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Hi, I have one more simple one to explain.
There was a young man who went overseas to study for quite a long time. When he returned, he asked his parents to find him a religious scholar or any expert who could answer his 3 questions. Finally, his parents were able to find a Monk.
Young Man: Who are you? Can you answer my questions?
Monk: I am one of the Lord's messengers, and God willing, I will be able to answer your questions.
Young Man: Are you sure? A lot of professors and experts were not able to answer my questions.
Monk: I will try my best with the help of Almighty.
Young Man: I have 3 questions:
1. Does God exist? If so, show me what is his shape?
2. What is fate, why do the same creations of God suffer or enjoy life differently?
Suddenly, the monk slapped the young man's face very hard.
Young Man (feeling pain): Why did you get angry with me?
Monk: I am not angry. The slap is my answer to your 3 questions.
Young Man: I REALLY DON'T UNDERSTAND.
Monk: How do you feel after I slapped you?
Young Man: Of course, I felt the pain.
Monk: So do you believe that pain exists?
Young Man: Yes.
Monk: Show me the shape of the pain!
Young Man: I CANNOT.
Monk: That is my answer for your first 2 questions. All of us feel God's existence without being able to see his shape.
Monk: Last night, did you dream that you will be slapped by me?
Young Man: No.
Monk: Did you ever think that you will get a slap from me today?
Young Man: No.
Monk: That is Fate. My hand that I used to slap you, what is it created from?
Young Man: It is created from flesh.
Monk: How about your face, what is it created from?
Young Man: Flesh.
Monk: How did you feel after I slapped you?
Young Man: In pain.
Monk: Even though the rich and the poor were created from the same flesh, if God wants, both the flesh can lead different lifestyles and feelings.
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Guru
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There was a young man who went overseas to study for quite a long time. When he returned, he asked his parents to find him a religious scholar or any expert who could answer his 3 questions. Finally, his parents were able to find a Monk.
Young Man: Who are you? Can you answer my questions?
Monk: I am one of the Lord's messengers, and God willing, I will be able to answer your questions.
Young Man: Are you sure? A lot of professors and experts were not able to answer my questions.
Monk: I will try my best with the help of Almighty.
Young Man: I have 3 questions:
1. Does God exist? If so, show me what is his shape?
2. What is fate, why do the same creations of God suffer or enjoy life differently?
Suddenly, the monk slapped the young man's face very hard.
Young Man (feeling pain): Why did you get angry with me?
Monk: I am not angry. The slap is my answer to your 3 questions.
Young Man: I REALLY DON'T UNDERSTAND.
Monk: How do you feel after I slapped you?
Young Man: Of course, I felt the pain.
Monk: So do you believe that pain exists?
Young Man: Yes.
Monk: Show me the shape of the pain!
Young Man: I CANNOT.
Monk: That is my answer for your first 2 questions. All of us feel God's existence without being able to see his shape.
Monk: Last night, did you dream that you will be slapped by me?
Young Man: No.
Monk: Did you ever think that you will get a slap from me today?
Young Man: No.
Monk: That is Fate. My hand that I used to slap you, what is it created from?
Young Man: It is created from flesh.
Monk: How about your face, what is it created from?
Young Man: Flesh.
Monk: How did you feel after I slapped you?
Young Man: In pain.
Monk: Even though the rich and the poor were created from the same flesh, if God wants, both the flesh can lead different lifestyles and feelings.
Regards,
Guru
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The professor and the student are real incidents. The student is one famous scientist, a missile man, and a President - Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam.
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A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut as always. He started to have a good conversation
with the barber who attended him. They talked about so many things on various subjects.
Suddenly, they touched the subject of God. The barber said: “Look man, I don’t believe that God exists as you say so.”
“Why do you say that?” asked the client.
Well, it’s so easy; you just have to go out in the street to realize that God does not exist. Oh, tell me, if God existed, would there be so many sick people? Would there be abandoned children? If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain.
“I can’t think of a God who permits all of these things.”
The client stopped for a moment thinking but he didn’t want to respond so as to prevent an argument.
The barber finished his job and the client went out of the shop. Just after he left the barbershop, he saw a man in the street with a long hair and beard (it seems that it had been a long time since he had his cut and he looked so untidy). Then the client again entered the barbershop and he said to the barber: know what? “Barbers do not exist.”
“How come they don’t exist?” asked the barber. “Well I am here and I am a barber.”
“No!” The client exclaimed! “They don’t exist because if they did there would be no people with long hair and beard like that man who walks in the street.”
“Ah, barbers do exist, what happens is that people do not go to them.”
“Exactly!” Affirmed the client.
“That’s the point. God does exist, what happens is people don’t go to Him and do not look for Him that’s why there’s so much pain and suffering in the world.”
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Aliasgar P
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with the barber who attended him. They talked about so many things on various subjects.
Suddenly, they touched the subject of God. The barber said: “Look man, I don’t believe that God exists as you say so.”
“Why do you say that?” asked the client.
Well, it’s so easy; you just have to go out in the street to realize that God does not exist. Oh, tell me, if God existed, would there be so many sick people? Would there be abandoned children? If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain.
“I can’t think of a God who permits all of these things.”
The client stopped for a moment thinking but he didn’t want to respond so as to prevent an argument.
The barber finished his job and the client went out of the shop. Just after he left the barbershop, he saw a man in the street with a long hair and beard (it seems that it had been a long time since he had his cut and he looked so untidy). Then the client again entered the barbershop and he said to the barber: know what? “Barbers do not exist.”
“How come they don’t exist?” asked the barber. “Well I am here and I am a barber.”
“No!” The client exclaimed! “They don’t exist because if they did there would be no people with long hair and beard like that man who walks in the street.”
“Ah, barbers do exist, what happens is that people do not go to them.”
“Exactly!” Affirmed the client.
“That’s the point. God does exist, what happens is people don’t go to Him and do not look for Him that’s why there’s so much pain and suffering in the world.”
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Aliasgar P
From India, Madras
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One day a man asked Imam Ali son of Abu Talib (pbuh): Is there a God?
Imam Ali (pbuh): Of course there is.
Man: How do I know?
Imam Ali (pbuh) pointed towards the footprints of a camel
on the sand and asked the man, “What do these footprints
tell you?”
Man: That a camel has gone past from here.
Imam: But did you see the camel passing by?
Man: No, but the footprints are good enough to indicate the passing of the camel from here.
Imam: So when you see the sun, moon, stars, trees, animals, etc. doesn’t your mind tell you that
since all these things are there, there must be someone who has created them all? And that is
your Creator, God
From India, Madras
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Imam Ali (pbuh): Of course there is.
Man: How do I know?
Imam Ali (pbuh) pointed towards the footprints of a camel
on the sand and asked the man, “What do these footprints
tell you?”
Man: That a camel has gone past from here.
Imam: But did you see the camel passing by?
Man: No, but the footprints are good enough to indicate the passing of the camel from here.
Imam: So when you see the sun, moon, stars, trees, animals, etc. doesn’t your mind tell you that
since all these things are there, there must be someone who has created them all? And that is
your Creator, God
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If we see a beautiful picture painted on a good canvas, do we not think that an artist produced it?
If we see an automatic machine regularly manufacturing articles, are we not led to think that there is an engineer who made, designed, and invented its system?
If we see a book written in any scientific field, surely we are aware that an author wrote it?
Surely, the picture could not have been created without an artist!
Surely, the machine could not work without an engineer!
Surely, the book could not be written without an author!
Is it possible to say that this book in your hand was written by chance?
Would you believe it if someone told you that it happened that the paper was scattered by the wind, and ink was spilt on it, and thus the book was written?
Basic human sense does not believe such a supposition but rather makes fun of it. Thus, everything needs a maker or a creator; nothing can come into existence without there being an originator: the creator.
Look at the sky and do you not wonder how the bright and beautiful sun sends down its light and heat to the people on earth? Look at the land upon which we live and ask how do plants grow on it?
Look at the water we drink, the air we breathe; the sun when it sets and the night when it comes; then, look at the beautiful stars which are impossible to count, and the light of the moon.
Look, and then think how these wonders were created and who then created them? Are they created by themselves or do they have a creator who made them?
They are as in need of a maker or a creator, as a house which needs a builder to be built; or a chair, on which we sit, needs a carpenter to be made; or a picture needs an artist in order to be painted, or a book needs an author to be written. And certainly, Allah is their Creator and Maker Who created everything.
Let us ponder about ourselves and our bodies and ask: Who created us in this unique way? Who gave us two eyes with which to see? And the tongue with which we talk? And two hands with which we work? And two legs with which we walk? And two ears with which we hear? Who created the food we eat and the water we drink?
Not the farmer who cultivated the crops or the plumber who connected the pipes. Without food and water, one will surely die.
Who gave us the air which we breathe? Without air, surely we will suffocate and die.
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Aliasgar P
From India, Madras
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If we see an automatic machine regularly manufacturing articles, are we not led to think that there is an engineer who made, designed, and invented its system?
If we see a book written in any scientific field, surely we are aware that an author wrote it?
Surely, the picture could not have been created without an artist!
Surely, the machine could not work without an engineer!
Surely, the book could not be written without an author!
Is it possible to say that this book in your hand was written by chance?
Would you believe it if someone told you that it happened that the paper was scattered by the wind, and ink was spilt on it, and thus the book was written?
Basic human sense does not believe such a supposition but rather makes fun of it. Thus, everything needs a maker or a creator; nothing can come into existence without there being an originator: the creator.
Look at the sky and do you not wonder how the bright and beautiful sun sends down its light and heat to the people on earth? Look at the land upon which we live and ask how do plants grow on it?
Look at the water we drink, the air we breathe; the sun when it sets and the night when it comes; then, look at the beautiful stars which are impossible to count, and the light of the moon.
Look, and then think how these wonders were created and who then created them? Are they created by themselves or do they have a creator who made them?
They are as in need of a maker or a creator, as a house which needs a builder to be built; or a chair, on which we sit, needs a carpenter to be made; or a picture needs an artist in order to be painted, or a book needs an author to be written. And certainly, Allah is their Creator and Maker Who created everything.
Let us ponder about ourselves and our bodies and ask: Who created us in this unique way? Who gave us two eyes with which to see? And the tongue with which we talk? And two hands with which we work? And two legs with which we walk? And two ears with which we hear? Who created the food we eat and the water we drink?
Not the farmer who cultivated the crops or the plumber who connected the pipes. Without food and water, one will surely die.
Who gave us the air which we breathe? Without air, surely we will suffocate and die.
TRs
Aliasgar P
From India, Madras
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