Summary: Asssalamulaikaum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. I am not complaining, I am just saying that the microphone system here is very shorty so, the harder you talk the harder it becomes for me to hear myself even. So try to, Insha Allah.<br> Usually I have a very good attention span that I can talk over voices given that I have a lot of children and a lot of students so I am used to that but this subject matter requires an extra deal of concentration and organization of thought so I am requesting that you, thank you so much.<br> Alhamdulillahirabbil 'Alamin (Arabic dua for opening speech) I will try to keep my talk to about 25 minutes or so, so if it is getting to that time just raise your hand so that I know that I got to stop Insha Allah.<br> Basically I was asked to talk a little about Atheism, theism and the proof of God’s existence, why should I believe in god anyway. All of which are very legitimate questions and very deep questions. None of these questions can be addressed in a one liner. My wife has a very one liner of it. I will share it with you first. She says "God exist whether you like it or not and if you do not believe it well fine He will get you anyway" (Audience laughing)<br> So, that could have been my talk and I will start after my wife I will start with something that the ancient Bedouin Arab used to say, like sometimes there would be people from other civilizations like the Persians or Romans they would do trade before Islam. They would do trades sometimes or pass through Arabia and they would see these Arabs and even though they had shifted, they still believe in God, they still believe in one Supreme Being. So somebody asked the Bedouin Arab,<br> "How do you know that God exists?”<br> “How do you come to faith?”<br> “How did faith come to you?"<br> And you know these Arabs they spend most of their time in the dessert. So he says something really interesting. He pointed at his camel's "Droppings" you know “Doody”. He pointed and he goes,<br> "You know because of that I know that my camel exists".<br> That's all he said. And what did he mean by that? He meant that, you know when I see that in the dessert, when you see something, it is a sign of something else. When you see like you know, a path or footprint you know somebody walked by here. When you see a fire that has been put out but there are still ashes there, you know that some people were camping and they left. There are trace of you. He looks at all the creations as traces of God. Just like that small feces just in front of him are a trace of his camel that his camel is there. So in his mind there is no doubt. That is as straight forward as linear the thinking is. That is not even a question.<br> Now I want to come to actually the Quran’s reasoning. Well this is a simple way of looking at things. But I want to see if the Quran deals with this subject. And you should know that it explicitly the Quran does not ask the question or answer the question “Does God exists”. That is not the question in the Quran. That question doesn’t exist. The Quran is Allah speaking himself. And He is in conversation with his creatures, with you and me. He is in direct conversation with us. The only question He asks is<br> “Do you really believe it is Me talking? Do you really believe that these words are my own?”<br> You are not hearing Allah’s words; you are hearing the voice of Muhammad (peace is upon him). And these words are being given to him so that’s the question the Quran asks “Is this God’s words or not?” He asked other questions related to God<br> “Are there other God that you should be worshipping besides Myself?”<br> “Do you think that you are going to worship yourselves and not Me?”<br> “Do you think that you are going to thank others other that Myself?”<br> These are the kinds of questions that the Quran asks. It never asked the question “Does God exist or not?” But then another question rises out of all questio...
