(Hashim) Dr. Sabeel, with regards to the atheists,
what are the most common questions you come across from them?
Because I know you do classes and you teach the du'at mashaallāh.
And I'm sure the brothers in IERA as well do that, alhamdulillah.
Inshaallāh, we'll be sharing the links
of both Dr. Sabeel, the IERA sessions.
And I think they have lots of free books and PDFs as well.
So, inshaallāh we'll be putting them in the description later on.
So yes Dr. Sabeel, if you can just lighten us
with regards to the common questions that we or—
not—which we have not already dealt with
that you come across from the atheist and the agnostic people
who actually have a dialogue with you.
(Dr. Sabeel) Alhamdulillah.
So there are many questions atheists maybe asking.
Obviously, the first and foremost question would be that,
"How do you know there is a Creator?"
I mean, we don't see the Creator.
We cannot test the Creator
No scientific experiment can prove the existence of a Creator.
How can you know?
How can you be sure that there is a Creator?
So that can be one question.
Inshaallāh, we can address it if we have time today.
(Hashim) Yeah, please go ahead yeah.
(Dr. Sabeel) Yeah, you have a lot of time inshaallāh.
(Hashim) Yeah, alhamdulillāh.
(Dr. Sabeel) Second question that they may be asking
and this is even to the same level
and many of the believers they become atheist
and a prime example would be Bart Ehrman.
The reason he became an agnostic is
not because he found contradictions in the Bible
or the many versions of the Bible
or how the Bible got changed.
He was not able to reconcile the fact that
how can there be a loving Creator
and how can there be suffering in the world.
If God is in control, how come babies are dying?
How come there is famine?
How come there is chronic illnesses?
He cannot reconcile that fact.
Inshaallāh if you have time,
we can also address that topic.
(Hashim) Yeah, inshallāh.
The third important thing, and I will end with this;
the third important question that they have is
So, I had an encounter with this lady
We have a telephone line, 866-ISLAM [4752]
and this is a nationwide line.
Any non-Muslim can pick up the call
pick up the telephone and give us the call.
This is the da"wah line.
So, a lady, non-Muslim lady she gave us a call
and I was the one to respond to her.
and she said,
"I'm an atheist and I want to meet with you."
I said, "Fine."
So, since she was calling from Chicago line area
and since she's a lady, I said, you know,
"Fine I will come there to the public library,
and I will also bring my wife with me."
So my wife and I, we went to the public library
and we sat down in one of the rooms.
So her very first question was,
"I mean, how can you prove—how can you show that there is a Creator?"
What is the best evidence that you can offer?
So I gave her a few evidences from the
existence of the Creator using Qur'ān, using science and whatnot.
Then her second and most important question
according to her was, "Okay, fine.
Even if I accept that there is a Creator,
how can you show that Islam is the only right faith?
There are so many isms, there are so many ideologies,
there are so many religions.
Why would you say that Islam is the only right faith?"
So then, in the second sitting, alhamdulillāh,
my wife and I, we sat down with her in
the second sitting to address that question.
How can you show that Islam is the only right faith?
Alhamdulillāh br. Eddie, so this was the Skokie Public Library.
In the second sitting, shedding tears,
this non-Muslim lady, atheist lady,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala guided her
In the public library, she recited
There is no god but Allah, Muhammad is the messenger of Allah
Not because of me or my wife.
The knowledge, experience Allah has guided her.
But these are some of the common questions
that the atheists they have on their mind.