and you find that you we listen to
number of people like this that
mathematician you have here what's his
name um crippled the Hawkins right if
you listen to him you know when he wrote
this book about the history of time and
so on so it was denying God complete
atheists at that point earlier he was
believing in God you know it was quite
intelligent etc but then he hit around
late teens early 20s whatever and he had
this debilitating disease affecting a
spinal cord he just became crippled to
the point where he couldn't speak and
for him he went they took him two trips
to India you know he gave talks there
through the voice created by computer
and service traveled around India for
him you see there is this anguish that
he had why me why me me with this huge
brain genius and look what happened to
my body and in India you have all these
people useless in his consecutive just
living these lives and dying like
animals you know contributing nothing to
to human you know knowledge and towards
own so when they're living healthy
physical lives why once you you can't
explain life you know why then why not
you why don't you have the good body
that makes you you know pleasurable life
etc you have that brain so much to offer
why you have to go through all of this
eventually he fell in love with his
nurse and divorced his wife and married
her so he found love in his life and
then God came back in his life his later
writings you hear him talking more about
God etc so this was this was
the you know as I said an example of
atheism coming from tragedy personal
tragedy it's what you find for most
people you look at their lives or
atheists they will go back to some
personal tragedy so you need to get to
where they have things are falling apart
for them and try to help them to
understand that though it might seem to
you to be evil there's ultimately good
in it and the previous session we looked
at doua to atheists basically clarifying
that the Dawa to believe in Allah is one
which is logical it's reasonable and
that it is atheism the call to atheism
which is irrational and illogical and we
looked at the various arguments to
support it and we also looked at the
arguments of the atheists for atheism
there is one of the argument which is
used by them which we need to look at
and which is also used by some
Christians to justify Christianity and
that is the argument which Christian
philosophers who were leaning to atheism
through against the Christian scholars
during the Renaissance the question was
if God is able to do all things right in
the law ala kulli shayin oh dear can he
create a stone which is too heavy for
him to lift
hi can he create a stone which is too
heavy for him to lift it's good to know
this one because somebody is likely to
throw it at you sometime someplace right
because it seems that you are caught and
what we call catch-22 if you say yes
he's able because able to do all things
to create a store which is too heavy for
him to lift then you are saying that
there will be things or they can be
things which is greater than God if you
say no then you are nullifying the
concept that God is able to do all
things so what is it so the answer from
Islamic perspective is that when we
speak about God being able to do all
things we are not referring to things
which contradict him being god this is
not included
when Allah talks about not having a son
and he also adds to that and it is not
befitting for him to have a son it's not
befitting because to have a son is to
make him no longer God to have the
characteristics of his creatures so when
we talk about God being able to do all
things it doesn't include things which
contradict his divinity meaning if we
define God as having no beginning and
then somebody asks you can God be born
at this contradictory you've already
defined God as having no beginning so to
ask can he be born is absurd because
it's an absurdity always say God is one
who has no end this is part of the
definition of God to then ask him God
died that is an absurdity can the one
who has no end died no can the one who
has no beginning be born no because if
he was born he would not be the one
without beginning if he died he would be
not be the one without end so it
contradicts him being gods or anything
any question which contradicts God being
God we don't include this in in the law
ala kulli shayin adhere so we say the
idea of God creating a stone which is
too heavy for emptiness lift is absurd
because Allah Akbar Allah is greater
than all things to create something
which is greater than himself then he
was no longer be greater than all things
he would no longer be a la so you're
asking really can Allah not be a la
that's really what you're asking yeah
since he's able to do all things can God
no longer be God well yes if it was no
longer God he would not be God anymore
so it's an absurdity so we end that
discussion by putting a ting in the
general category of absurdities which
you don't attribute to God in the
general statement that God is able to do
all things I mentioned it's why because
Ford our to Christians they may bring
this at you isn't God able to do all
things well can't you have a son let's
see you get caught in that argument but
will you lump it together and you say
okay you want to ask and God have a son
can you create something which is too
heavy for him to lift you know take it
back to them no they won't accept this
because it is absurd goes against God
being God similarly having a son goes
against God being God
you