Asslam-o-alaikum to all brothers n sisters!
this is my first post as in topic or a subject n funnily it isn’t from me
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it’s just an e-mail i recieved n i was quite touched by it n i wanted to share it with u all. some or may be most of u might have heard or read it before. it’s kinda long but well worth reading.
Plz let me know ur opinions on it! shukriya!
LET ME EXPLAIN THE problem science has with God" The
atheist professor of philosophy pauses before his
class and then asks one of his new students to stand.“You’re a Muslim, aren’t you, son?”
“Yes, sir”
“So you believe in God?”
“Absolutely”
“Is God good?”
“Sure! God’s good”
“Is God all-powerful? Can God do anything?”
“Yes”The professor grins knowingly and considers for a
moment.
"Here’s one for you. Let’s say there’s a sick person
over here and you can cure him. You can do it. Would
you help them?
“Would you try?”
“Yes sir, I would”
“So you’re good…!”
“I wouldn’t say that”
"Why not say that? You would help a sick and maimed
person if you could …in fact most of us would if we
could… God doesn’t.
[No answer]
“He doesn’t, does he? My brother was a Muslim who died
of cancer even though he prayed to God to heal him.
How is this God good? Hmmm? Can you answer that one?”
[No answer]The elderly man is sympathetic. “No, you can’t, can
you?” He takes a sip of water from a glass on his desk
to give the student time to relax. In philosophy, you
have to go easy with the new ones.
“Let’s start again, young fella.”
“Is God good?”
“Er… Yes”
“Is Satan good?”
“No”
“Where does Satan come from?”
The student falters. “From… God…”
“That’s right. God made Satan, didn’t he?”
The elderly man runs his bony fingers through his
thinning hair and turns to the smirking student
audience. "I think we’re going to have a lot of fun
this semester, ladies and gentlemen. He turns back to
the Muslim.
“Tell me, son. Is there evil in this world?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Evil’s everywhere, isn’t it? Did God make
everything?”
“Yes.”
"Who created evil?
[No answer]
“Is there sickness in this world? Immorality? Hatred?
Ugliness? All the terrible things - do they exist in
this world?”
The student squirms on his feet. “Yes.”
"Who created them? "
[No answer]The professor suddenly shouts at his student. “WHO
CREATED THEM? TELL ME, PLEASE!” The professor closes
in for the kill and climbs into the Muslim’s face. In
a still small voice:
“God created all evil, didn’t He, son?”
[No answer] The student tries to hold the steady,
experienced gaze and fails. Suddenly the lecturer
breaks away to pace the front of the classroom like an
ageing panther. The class is mesmerised.
“Tell me,” he continues, “How is it that this God is
good if He created all evil throughout all time?” The
professor swishes his arms around to encompass the
wickedness of the world.
“All the hatred, the brutality, all the pain, all the
torture, all the death and ugliness and all the
suffering created by this good God is all over the
world, isn’t it, young man?”
[No answer]“Don’t you see it all over the place? Huh?” Pause
“Don’t you?” The professor leans into the student’s
face again and whispers:
“Is God good?”
[No answer]
“Do you believe in God, son?”
The student’s voice betrays him and cracks. “Yes,
professor. I do.”
The old man shakes his head sadly. "Science says you
have five senses you use to identify and observe the
world around you.
"You have never seen God, Have you? "
“No, sir. I’ve never seen Him.”
“Then tell us if you’ve ever heard your God?”
“No, sir. I have not.”
“Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God or smelt
your God…in fact, do you have any sensory perception
of your God whatsoever?”
[No answer]“Answer me, please.”
“No, sir, I’m afraid I haven’t.”
“You’re AFRAID… you haven’t?”
“No, sir.”
“Yet you still believe in him?”
“…yes…”“That takes FAITH!” The professor smiles sagely at the
underling. “According to the rules of empirical,
testable, demonstrable protocol, science says your God
doesn’t exist. What do you say to that, son? Where is
your God now?”
[The student doesn’t answer]
“Sit down, please.”
The Muslim sits…Defeated.Another Muslim raises his hand.
“Professor, may I address the class?”
The professor turns and smiles. “Ah, another Muslim in
the vanguard! Come, come, young man. Speak some proper
wisdom to the gathering.” The Muslim looks around the
room.
"Some interesting points you are making, sir. Now I’ve
got a question for you.
“Is there such thing as heat?”
“Yes,” the professor replies. “There’s heat.”
“Is there such a thing as cold?”
“Yes, son, there’s cold too.”“No, sir, there isn’t.” The professor’s grin freezes.
The room suddenly goes very cold. The second Muslim
continues. "You can have lots of heat, even more heat,
super-heat, 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, otherwise we would be able to go colder
than 458.You see, sir, cold is only a word we use to describe
the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat we
can measure in thermal units because heat is energy.
Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the
absence of it."
Silence. A pin drops somewhere in the classroom.
“Is there such a thing as darkness, professor?”
“That’s a dumb question, son. What is night if it
isn’t darkness? What are you getting at…?”
“So you say there is such a thing as darkness?”
“Yes…”“You’re wrong again, sir. Darkness is not something,
it 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? That’s the meaning we
use to define the word. In reality, Darkness isn’t. If
it were, you would be able to make darkness darker and
give me a jar of it Can you…give me a jar of darker
darkness, professor?”Despite himself, the professor smiles at the young
effrontery before him. This will indeed be a good
semester. “Would you mind telling us what your point
is, young man?”
“Yes, professor. My point is, your philosophical
premise is flawed to start with and so your conclusion
must be in error…”
The professor goes toxic. “Flawed…? How dare
you…!”
“Sir, may I explain what I mean?” The class is all
ears.“Explain… oh, explain…” The professor makes an
admirable effort to regain control. Suddenly he is
affability itself. He waves his hand to silence the
class, for the student to continue.“You are working on the premise of duality,” the
Muslim explains. "That for example there is life and
then there’s death; a good God and a bad God. You are
viewing the concept of God as something finite,
something we can measure. Sir, science cannot even
explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism
but has never seen, much less fully understood them.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,
merely the absence of it." The young man holds up a
newspaper he takes from the desk of a neighbour who
has been reading it.
“Here is one of the most disgusting tabloids this
country hosts, professor. Is there such a thing as
immorality?”
“Of course there is, now look…”
“Wrong again, sir. You see, immorality is merely the
absence of morality. Is there such thing as injustice?
No. Injustice is the absence of justice. Is there such
a thing as evil?” The Muslim pauses.“Isn’t evil the absence of good?”
The professor’s face has turned an alarming colour. He
is so angry he is temporarily speechless.
The Muslim continues. “If there is evil in the world,
professor, and we all agree there is, then God, if he
exists, must be accomplishing a work through the
agency of evil. What is that work, God is
accomplishing? Islam tells us it is to see if each one
of us will, choose good over evil.”The professor bridles. “As a philosophical scientist,
I don’t vie this matter as having anything to do with
any choice; as a realist, I absolutely do not
recognise the concept of God or any other theological
factor as being part of the world equation because God
is not observable.” “I would have thought that the
absence of God’s moral code in this world is probably
one of the most observable phenomena going,”The Muslim replies. “Newspapers make billions of
dollars reporting it every week! Tell me, professor.
Do you teach your students that they evolved from a
monkey?”
“If you are referring to the natural evolutionary
process, young man, yes, of course I do.”
“Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes,
sir?” The professor makes a sucking sound with his
teeth and gives his student a silent, stony stare.
“Professor. Since no-one has ever observed the process
of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this
process is an on-going endeavour, are you not teaching
your opinion, sir? Are you now not a scientist, but a
priest?”“I will overlook your impudence in the light of our
philosophical discussion. Now, have you quite
finished?” The professor hisses. “So you don’t accept
God’s moral code to do what is righteous?” “I believe
in what is - that’s science!”
“Ahh! SCIENCE!” the student’s face splits into a grin.
Sir, you rightly state that science is the study of
observed phenomena. Science too is a premise which is
flawed…"
“SCIENCE IS FLAWED..?” the professor splutters. The
class is in uproar. The Muslim remains standing until
the commotion has subsided.
“To continue the point you were making earlier to the
other student, may I give you an example of what I
mean?”
The professor wisely keeps silent. The Muslim looks
around the room.“Is there any one in the class who has ever seen air,
Oxygen, molecules, atoms, the professor’s brain?” The
class breaks out in laughter. The Muslim points
towards his elderly, crumbling tutor. “Is there anyone
here who has ever heard the professor’s brain… felt
the professor’s brain, touched or smelt the
professor’s brain?”
No one appears to have done so. The Muslim shakes his
head sadly.“It appears no-one here has had any sensory perception
of the professor’s brain whatsoever. Well, according
to the rules of empirical, stable, demonstrable
protocol, science, I DECLARE that the professor has no
brain.” Now it is everyone’s chance to learn more
about Islam, about God, about the purpose of
existence, creation & life, about the prophets of god,
& about his holy books, especially the holy qur’aan,
then it is your choice to become a Muslim, or not.Allaah says in the holy Qur’aan: "there is no
compulsion in religion; truly the right way has become
clearly distinct from error; And he who rejects false
deities and believes in Allah (The God) has grasped a
firm handhold which will never break. And Allah is
ALL-Hearing, All-Knowing (256) Allah is the Protecting
Guardian of those who believe. He brings them out of
the darkness into the light; As for those who
disbelieve, their guardians are false deities. They
bring them out of light into
darkness…(257)"AL-QUR’AAN (CHAPTER # 2, VERSES #
256-257)
Khudi ko ker buland itna key her taqdeer say phelay Khuda bunday say khud poochay bata teri raza kya hai? “Alama Iqbal”