[Slideshare] lesson # 2(c)tauheed-course-(batch-january-2014)-12-february-2014

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LESSON

#2c

“ INTRODUCTION TO STUDY
OF
TAU H EED – (AQA’ID) ”

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Updated 12 February 2014

PREVIOUS LESSONS


“When a person possesses deep thought,
Then by everything is a lesson taught.”

-Imam Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali (Rahimahullah)


1. Pick up the paper and fall in the dustbin.
2. Both of you stand together separately.
3. Why are you looking at the monkey outside when I am
inside.
4. Will you hang the calendar or else, I will hang myself.
5. I have 2 daughters, both are girls.
6. Give me a blue pen of any colour.
7. The principal is revolving in the corridor.
8. All of you stand in a straight circle.
9. Open the window let the air-force come in.


TO CONTINUE


RI N )
TAM CISE
R
EXE
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1.

Get into your groupings (5 to group).

2.

From the given statement, discuss – apply what
you have learnt and give your group’s response.

3.

Identify and categorize – whether truth,
surmise, conjecture, common impossibility,
rational impossibility (antithesis), etc. – with the
explanation.

4.

“Emm... Let us discuss..
... What do you think?”
and more
importantly,“..
... Why is that so?”

Others may be allowed to comment on each
others responses.

You are given not more than 5 minutes to discuss each
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THE THESIS, STATEMENT OR CONTENTION

WHICH KIND OF CATEGORY

Common
impossibility

“And he threw down his wooden rod
(staff), and it changed into a serpent
which then devoured all the other
snakes conjured by the sorcerers”

#1

or
Rational
Impossibility
or
Surmise
or
true


They said: "O Moses! wilt thou throw (first), or shall
we have the (first) throw?" Said Moses: "Throw ye
(first)." So when they threw, they bewitched the eyes
of the people and struck terror into them: and they
showed a great (feat of) magic. We put it into Moses's
mind by inspiration: "throw (now) thy rod": and
behold! it swallows up straightway all the falsehoods
which they fake! Thus truth was confirmed and all
that they did was made of no effect.”
(Qur’an: A’raf: 7: 115-118)




Common
impossibility

“There was a man from the island of
Crete who said:

or

‘All the men from this, my island Crete,
are liars and will always lie’.
And I believe what this man said is the
truth ” – St. Paul in the New Testament.

#2


Rational
Impossibility
or
Surmise
or
true



“He made a fantastic claim to having
witnessed with his own eyes, to his

Common
impossibility
or

own biological parents making the
matrimonial vow to solemnize their

Rational
Impossibility

marriage .... (i.e. His being physically

or

present at their wedding day) ?”
#3

Surmise
or
true



Common
impossibility

“I saw an amazing thing, a snake that
began to swallow its own tail and body.

Rational
Impossibility

It went on eating voraciously until it
totally consumed itself and *blink*

or

disappeared..!”
#4


or

Surmise
or
true



Common
impossibility

A man then said “I am able to bring the
throne before a wink of an eye”

Rational
Impossibility

And, lo in a split of a second, the
beautiful throne appeared in their

or

presence ...”
#5


or

Surmise
or
true

Said an Ifrit of the Jinns: "I will bring it to thee before thou
rise from thy Council: indeed I have full strength for the
purpose, and may be trusted." Said one who had
knowledge of the Book: "I will bring it to thee within the
twinkling of an eye!" Then when (Solomon) saw it placed
firmly before him, he said: "This is by the grace of my Lord!
― to test me whether I am grateful, or ungrateful! And if
any is grateful truly his gratitude is (a gain) for his own soul;
but if any is ungrateful, truly my Lord is Free of All Needs,
Supreme in Honour!"
(Qur’an: Naml: 27: 39-40)



Common
impossibility
or

“He was able to see and

Rational
Impossibility

communicate instantaneously, with
his friend who is on the other side of

or

the world (globe) ...”
#6


Surmise
or
true



Common
impossibility

“... An anchovy appeared, it opened its
mouth wide and swallowed a whole
whale ....! ”
#7

or
Rational
Impossibility
or
Surmise
or
true




Common
impossibility

“... Light, in fact, does not travel in a
straight line..! ”

or
#8

Rational
Impossibility
or
Surmise
or
true




Common
impossibility

“... Light, in fact, does not travel in a
straight line..! ”

or
#8

“He threw the ball up into the sky and it
remained there, static ...!”


#9

Rational
Impossibility
or
Surmise
or
true



Common
impossibility
or

“A horse begets another horse.

Rational
Impossibility

Likewise, if Jesus is the son of God,
then he must also be God...!”

or
# 10


Surmise
or
true



Common
impossibility

“God is the Uncreated creator of

or

everything. Yet He is all-powerful that
He can create another uncreated like
Himself .... !”

or
# 11


Rational
Impossibility

Surmise
or
true



“Everything is relative. All statement
can either be regarded as right or

or

wrong.

Rational
Impossibility

We must reject those who are
Absolutists. We stand by the believe
that there is nothing that can be
regarded as Absolute.”

Common
impossibility

# 12

or
Surmise
or
true



Common
impossibility

“We are not like you Muslims... We

or

believe that there is nothing that our
God cannot do. He can, if He wants to,
create a stone so big that He himself
cannot carry!”


Rational
Impossibility
or

# 13

Surmise
or
true



Common
impossibility

“He promised to come at exactly a

or

quarter to five minutes ...!”
# 14

Rational
Impossibility
or
Surmise
or
true




Common
impossibility

“What a great artist ... He can even

or

draw a circle which is at the same

Rational
Impossibility

time, also a square ...!”
# 15

or
Surmise
or
true




Common
impossibility

“He claim that his share of one-third is
more than all that the other two
shareholders received...!”

or
Rational
Impossibility

# 16

or
Surmise
or
true



Common
impossibility
or

“He has done an impossible thing!”
# 17

Rational
Impossibility
or
Surmise
or
true




Common
impossibility

“God (Who is the ever-living) came to
die for the sins of man..!”

# 18

or
Rational
Impossibility
or
Surmise
or
true




Common
impossibility

“On that day, all who has been dead,
although scattered as dust, will be

or
Rational
Impossibility

summoned and resurrected to life
again as new creations ...!”
# 19

or
Surmise
or
true


“ Were they created of nothing, or were they themselves
the creators? Or did they create the heavens and the earth?
Nay, they have no firm belief.”
(Qur’an: Tur: 52: 35-36)
THIS REQUIRES US TO REFLECT …

1.

MAN CREATED HIMSELF?


IMPOSSIBLE

2.

MAN AND THE UNIVERSE
COME OUT OF NOTHING?


IMPOSSIBLE

3.

WHEN THE PREVIOUS TWO THESIS
CANNOT BE POSSIBLE, THEN
THERE MUST BE THE A CREATOR,
SOURCE OF THIS EXISTENCE WHO
ALONE WAS NOT CREATED.
(THE BEING WE REFER TO AS ‘GOD’ –
the Divine, the Uncreated Creator)


THIS IS THE ONLY
POSSIBILITY.
FOR THE VERY
WORD ‘CREATION’
IMPLIES NEED FOR A
‘CREATOR’.
WITHOUT WHICH,
THE
QUESTION AS TO
OUR
EXISTENCE, HOW
CREATIONS BEGUN
DOES NOT MAKE
ANY SENSE –

‘Law’ of probability – between “will”
and “chance”


The method

By unwavering mathematical law we can prove that our universe was
designed and executed by a great engineering Intelligence.

Suppose you put ten coins, marked from one to ten, into your pocket
and give them a good shuffle. Now try to take them out in sequence
from one to ten, putting back the coin each time and shaking them all
again.


Mathematically we know that your chance of first drawing number one
is one in ten; of drawing one and two in succession, one in 100; of
drawing one, two and three in succession, one in a thousand, and so on;
your chance of drawing them all, from one to number ten in succession,
would reach the unbelievable figure of one chance in ten thousand
million.


‘Law’ of probability – between “will”

The method

and “chance”
Consider the probability for life on
earth.


The proof

By the same reasoning, so many exacting conditions are necessary for life
on earth that they could not possibly exist in proper relationship by
chance.

The earth rotates on its axis at one thousand miles an hour; if it turned at
one hundred miles an hour, our days and nights would be ten times as
long as now, and the hot sun would then burn up our vegetation during
each long day while in the long night any surviving, sprout would freeze.

Again, the sun, source of our life, has a surface temperature of 12,000
degrees Fahrenheit, and our earth is just far enough away so that this
"eternal fire" warms us just enough and not too much! If the sun gave
off only one-half its present radiation, we would freeze, and if it gave
half as much more, we would roast.


The slant of the earth, tilted at an angle of 23 degrees, gives us our
seasons; if it had not been so tilted, vapours from the ocean would
move north and south, piling up for us continents of ice.


If our moon was, say, only 50 thousand miles away instead of its actual
distance our tides would be so enormous that twice a day all continents
would be submerged; even the mountains would soon be eroded away.


If the crust of the earth had been only ten feet thicker, there would be no
oxygen without which animal life must die. Had the ocean been a few
feet deeper, carbon dioxide and oxygen would have been absorbed and
no vegetable life could exist.


Or if our atmosphere had been thinner, some of the meteors, now burned in
space by the million every day, would be striking all parts of the earth,
starting fires everywhere.

Because of these, and host of other examples, there is not one chance in
millions that life on our planet is an accident!


‘Law’ of probability – between
“will” and “chance”
1: 10
⁼ 0.10
1: 10³ ⁼ 0. 001
1: 10 ¹⁰ ⁼ 0.0000000001
“The greater the odds means,
It is most unlikely i.e. It is
too remote for it to occur
merely by chance ......”


The
method
WHEN E SAY “ODDS”?
WHAT DO WE REALLY
MEAN BY THIS ... ?

THEREFORE IT MUST BE FROM
THE OUTCOME OF A “WILL”
AND UNLIKELY A COINCIDENCE

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legal r
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A basi

E incum probatio qui dicit, non qui negat.
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bit
“The burden of the proof lies upon him
who affirms, not he who denies.”

“(I ask You) O Allah! Guide my people for they do not know.”


"And do not follow (pursue) anything of which thou hast no
knowledge: verily (thy) hearing and sight and heart - all of
them - will be called to account for it (on Judgement Day)."
(Qur’an: Bani Israil : 17 :36)


“Invite (call them all) to the way of your Lord with
wisdom and good instruction, and argue with them
in a way that is best.”
(Qur’an: Nahlu: 16: 125)


"In (with) the Name of Allah, the Most
Compassionate, the Most Merciful."
(Qur'an: Al-Fatiha: 1: 1)


"QUL – HU-WALLAA - HU- AHAD,
ALLAA-HUS – SwO - MAD,
LAM-YA-LID – WA –LAM – YUU - LAD,
WA-LAM – YAKUN – LA - HUU
KU-FU-AN - AHAD"


"He it is Who has sent down to thee the Book: in it are
verses basic or fundamental (“muhkamat” - of established
meaning); they are the foundation of the Book: others are
not of well-established meaning.
But those in whose hearts is perversity follow the part
thereof that is allegorical (not of well-established
meaning). Seeking discord and searching for its
interpretation, but no one knows its true meanings except
Allah... ;”
(Qur’an: Aali’Imran: 3: 7)

"No vision can encompass Him, whereas He encompasses all
vision: for He alone is the unfathomable (latif) *, all-aware."

(Qur’an: An'am: 6: 103)


* The term 'latif ' in )

) denotes something that is extremely

subtle in quality, and therefore “intangible and unfathomable.”

Whenever this term occurs in the Qur'an with reference to God in
conjunction with the adjective 'kha-biir ' (

) "all aware”, it is

invariably used to express the idea of His inaccessibility to human
perception, imagination or comprehension, as contrasted with His Own
all-awareness.


"There is nothing like unto Him, and yet He (Allah)
alone is all-hearing, all-seeing."*

(Qur’an: As-Shura 42 : 11)


* The Oneness and Absolute Uniqueness of God is stressed here. In
the phrase "there is nothing like unto Him” (

)

implies that He (Allah) is fundamentally - not merely in His attributes "different" from anything that exists or could exist, or anything that
man can conceive or imagine or define.

SUB-HAA-NALLAAH!


"Say: if there had been (other) gods with Him― as they
say, behold, they would certainly have sought out a way
to the Lord of the Throne!
Glory to him! He is high above all that they say! Exalted
and Great (beyond measure)*!"
(Qur’an: Isra’: 17: 42-43)

For the concept of God or the “Divine Being” must refer to that which
is “Infinite” or encompasses all else without being limited. Let us
reflect and understand the term “ Infinite and infinity “.

“Parallel lines are two lines, when
extended to infinity, they will not
meet nor will their distance between
them changes.”.
Extend to infinity

NOTE: *God is the infinite being.
So by “infinite” it means, “limitless,
unending, without end, boundless,
beyond measure, etc.”

∞

SUPPOSE: If you are to conceptually expand
this box to infinity, can there be another box
outside or besides it?



IF YOU SAY “YES! THERE CAN
BE ANOTHER BOX”, THIS MEANS
THAT YOU HAVE NOT REALLY
EXPANDED IT TO THE INFINITY
THAT IS THEORETICALLY POSSIBLE


SO CONCEPTUALLY, WHEN WE
REFER TO GOD AS THE
“INFINITE”, THERE CANNOT BE
MORE THAN ONE INFINITE BEING.

"And there is nothing that could be compared to Him“
(Qur’an: Al- Ikhlas: 112: 4)


The term “kufu” (

) refers to any attempt at trying to do

a comparison by association with any other. This is utterly futile
since Allah is Unique.
Thus, even the "how" of His being "different" from everything else is
beyond the categories of human thought.


Therefore, the concern in Islamic theology is not in trying to
discern His Essence (Dzat), which is an impossibility due to
human imperfection and limitation.
But we are to know Him by way of His attributes (sifaat), names
(asma’) and other Signs (Aayat). Yet we qualify and must admit
to the imperfection of all our knowledge regarding Allah, (High
and Exalted is He from every defects and imperfection).


"(To know Allah) Think (and reflect) upon Allah's creation
(i.e. what He has created) and do not try to think in Allah
(His Essence: Dzat), for you will most certainly not be able
to comprehend it.“
(Al-Hadith)

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