Firas Zahabi on Islam, Spirituality, Philosophy and Afterlife | #93 

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Excellent topic and discussion

as a non muslim, firas making hella sense

Brother Firas Zahabi is a hidden gem in the dawah. I hope he will make more appearances in the dawah scene.

His point about God vs Nihilism is so true. I was born muslim but turned atheist. I really thought there is no need for a god in order to live right and subhanallah i was brought to my knees realizing what nihilism brought into my life. It got to the point where i wanted to commit suicide because i really thought none of this had any meaning so why should i keep suffering. Alhamdulilah Allah listened to my cries at my lowest point asking for a sign of Him and now its been almost one year since i reverted back and like Firas said, my faith is unshakeable because of knowing there is a fitrah.

Halfway through and this man said many things gave me goosebumps... damn

Been watching this podcast over and over for 3 days. Just eating rice and working out. Wish i had a mosque i could go to. Thanks for sharing so much great information.

Whenever Firas speaks, it is always pure gold. Also this is only 1 of 3!! Alhamdulillah

Asalamwalaikum. The Fajr story in the beginning always gets me. I’ll never forget the evening of my shahada. The tears flowed from one side of the city to the next. Islam is a beautiful!🕋

سلام عليكم.. I love This conversation.. Listening from Egypt and I am a Grandmother... So.. You Are my Sons in Islam.. Then the human aspects of being a part of the Ummah.. Our Messenger* Saw* Say.. Our Ummah is like One Body.. When one part hurt or wounded Ness All The Body Hurts.. And we know.. Also aspects of our Creed and Fiq issues some which is clear and simple. Fard Al Ayn and Fard Qifaya.. Some of us doing obligations and giving Rights of Human hood.. For us all.. May Allah Protect Us All and Guide us Through Seeking His Pleasure.. Thanks and keep Safe.. 🌏 Ghazalli.. Tazkia inspirations 💜

Was literally waiting for this episode to drop as soon as it was announced! Love listening to Coach Firas talking about philosophy & religion. JazakAllah Khair to you brothers for all your efforts.

firas's podcasts are like therapies for soul to me

SubhanAllah, his way of teaching is one of the best I've experienced. I'm not gonna lie, I've been struggling with my imaan a lot lately, but this episode really helped clear my doubts.

The end of this Episode was a pure gem. Especially with Philosophy and Free Thinking. Why would God/Allah give us a brain if he didn’t want us to think or question? MashaAllah. 🤲🏽 📝 ✍🏽

Guys I really appreciate enormously that you let firas talk this much without interrupting. May Allah bless you.

Subhanallah, what a podcast. Brother Firas has such a good way of teaching, probably why he is so successful in training and teaching his athletes as well. Can't wait for the next episode on masculinity, it's such an important topic!

Brother Firas, Allahumma barik for being here with us! #theMuslimAlchemist #patreongang

Loved this discussion. Love every minute here , with great appreciation- two week old subscriber.

mashaAllah what an episode man. This episode blew my mind. JazakAllahu khair brothers.

SUBHANALLAH ❤️🤍❤️ _Listening to the conversation was like stepping in a Mental Gym._

One of the best videos you’ve done. Firas is a gem. Rewind and rewatch!

Thank you very much for this amazing Podcast. Firas Zahabi is the main reason I was able to reconnect to my believe to allah and made the decision to revert to Islam only a few weeks ago. I have never been so happy and confident in my life! It is a spiritual awakening for sure. AllahuAkbar

Firas Zahabi is one of my favorite Muslim thinkers in the world! Masha Allah As a philosophy learner and lover myself, let me add on to this conversation. When we are young and developing and we look at the various things in the world, let's say a red coffee mug. In order to fully understand what I see infront of me I will have to have the concept of colors and the concept of a coffee mug. I learn these concepts from a source outside of myself, such as my parents. In the absence of either concept, my experience of seeing that red coffee mug is incomplete. Now if this is with regards to perceptual knowledge and beliefs, what about the concepts I hear about, such as morality, that I cannot directly observe through my eyes but I can hear about them from other people and also feel some understanding of the concept inside of me i.e. moral intuition. Our belief (or potential to believe/inclination to believe) in Allah is ingrained inside of us through our fitrah and this fitrah is completed by understanding the true concept of God through Divine Revelation, thereby seeing the world through a complete picture.

Why is this podcast too short! We need more of Brother Firas, Subhanallah my mind just exploded listening to the level of understanding of reality that Allah SWT has given to Brother Firas. It made me speechless and my heart trembles when he talked about the reality of salah and the question of if we would still be a Muslim if everyone has become disbelievers in this world. Lailahaillallah. Allahuakbar. Alhamdulillah. Subhanallah.

The coach is in the building!!

Maan! Whenever brother Firas talks.....I just feel like, he should do nothing else but talk for the rest of his life! Zajhakumullahu khairan brothers. My heartiest Du'as for all of you.

MashAllah! I wish that Firas could hold a speach at Zaytuna collage. Love to see him together with Hamza Yusuf. I think there are people on youtube who speaks a lot about islam, and some maybe do it just for the sake of arguing or attention.. but I feel Firas really understands islam at its core. He does present islam in a way that our new generation can comprehend.. its really amazing. Many of us would pray all our life and not come to the core essence of our religion.. even though its so simple really, but we make it so hard.. not only for our selves but also for others who den turn away from it. “Verily, the religion is easy and no one burdens himself in religion but that it overwhelms him..."

Man I can listen to Bro Firas all day without boring me!! ✌️ MashaAllah ☝🏼

I learned a lot from this, Jazakullah Khair brothers for letting the guest say what he needs to without interrupting them

Firas Zahabi is a living library so much knowledge and wisdom. Thank you so much for this insightful interview,💯

Mashallah, brother Zahabi, beautiful insight into Ghazali's teachings

This blew my mind, firas is a unique specimen Mashallah

YES! i already know this one is gonna be so good

Liked the video before even watching, knowing Firas Zahabi is going to speak some major soul enriching content. Man always has me reflecting deeply, he is so well articulate, Masha Allah. Big ups to you brothers for bringing him through for the rest of us. May Allah reward your efforts.

MashaAllah very fruitful conversation.JazakaAllah guys

This is a great conversation. Thank you

What a delightful conversation! Perfect weekend treat👌

You guys need to bring back the timestamps inshAllah!

Keep Firas Zahabi away from the mma talk, he is way better at philosophizing 😂 … amazing discussion boys

20 minutes in and I've gained some life changing knowledge from this video. This was an excellent discussion.

Best episode yet mashallah

Most expected one 🔥🥳🤩

1. Brother Firas promotes and practices what he preaches which makes him genuine 2. He speaks words of wisdom and truth which makes him a wise teacher 3. He teaches discipline determination dedication in order to foster the drive for actualization of the dream which makes him a leader

Amazing episode !!!! Mashallah

Amazing episode.

I can sit and listen to Firas Zahabi talk about islam for hours. He is so knowledgeable machallah. May God grant him Janna

Enjoyed this podcast very much. Jazakumullahu khayr

Top podcast of all time , this episode was elite mashallah thanks for the great content brothers!!! ❤️

great discussion ! thank you

It’s no wonder why Gsp is the goat. He has a bunch of awakened savages behind him coaching him. What a wise human

great episode habibis

On my second listen . Great stuff

When Firas mentioned about the dream and it feels like a lifetime. It actually feels like that!! When I was dreaming recently I was a professor teaching in the dream and it seemed like I have been doing this for years!!!! So true.

I can listen to Firas Zahabi for hours. Excellent episode 👌. Please do bring him back.

Jazak Allahu khayr

i love this episode !

Masha'Allah

I would live to see you guys do a live reaction to Mohammed Hijab’s podcast with Jordan Peterson (as Hijab is good friends with Zahabi). I still find it hard to comprehend that he was on Joe Rogan’s podcast.

I wanted Zahabi to talk more about Ibn Sina and Al-Ghazali's disagreement. I couldn't find much online about the dispute. Please, someone who knows philosophy, explain it to me. I really like philosophy.

May Allah give you long life Amazing 🤩 ❤️❤️❤️❤️

There are a lot of people who are Muslims and look very religious yet are horrible humans and there are Muslims who aren’t as religious but are the most nicest and kindest humans

More Firas Zahabi with more Philosophical topics in relation to islam plz.

For those who don't know, Firas is one of the greatest MMA coaches in ufc history. He trained GSP and many other greats.

Most of you guys are younger than me, but I really benefit from you guys. May Allah make it easy for you guys and increase you in the dunya and akhirah

May Allah (SWT) guide everybody to the straight path of Islam. Thank you brothers.

jazkaAllah Khair 🥰

Firas speaks. I listen.

This was great.

very insightful

I’m 16 mins in and my minds blown. Wow.

Brother Firas = The MMA Alchemist

These islamophobes are so desperate to mislead and feed doubts, while watching this video there was an ad about "ex-Muslim" it's unreal the effort they put in spreading hate and misinformation. My dua is that we all stay steadfast on deen and be the best Muslims we can be each passing day IA. Thanks for the post! I think we need a collab with brother Firas, blogging philosophy!

3muslims inshallah you guys really need to keep bringing people on here to explain the “fitrah” to non Muslims and to dismantle the new age/spiritualism movement, it is becoming huge in the west and they believe God or the power is the universe and all humans are gods. We need to really break it down and show them the truth of islam and how the fitrah is the natural state and how that is Islam. We need a very good video that completely debunks new age and this anything goes spirituality religion. I honestly believe if we explained “THE FITRAH” probably many new age people will come to islam in droves by Allahs will..

1:03:00 Firas Zahabi mentioned Blogging Theology

SubhanAllah. I got a headache trying to grasp what Firas said.

Salaam only one God and it's Allah SWT love here from South Africa Johannesburg pray 5 time a day

At 1:09:25 the brother starts to talk about those lucid moments of awareness of your existence! I wish he could’ve carried on with that conversation as I’ve had this experiences myself and want to understand it’s significance

@ 45:22 the prophet says "die before you die". I think he is talking about "ego death"

Subhanallah

Al-hamdu lillahi Rabb il-'alamin.

Great Podcast guys, can't wait for the next episodes! Also, why don't you guys cut out the parts when he has to call his family? Seems private.

Brother Anghel needs a chair for this one.

brother firas always blows my mind .... When he shares what he has been reading inspires me. We consume so much junk whereas he is obviously picking up some real gems. MashaAllah the only thing I would say that he said rocks and trees don't have awareness... I would disagree as the mount uhud would shake when the prophet saw would be upon it...similarly there are other hadiths... Allah swt says too that everything submits to Allah but we just don't witness it. But still that's just a side point his... Main discussion was brilliant.

Spectacular episode with Firas. The man is a genius! I would however like to correct him here 1:16:18 It's *not reformer* , but *reviver* !

1:09:30 this moment, which can be described as the moment you realize that you are concious, is the reason i 100% believe in Allah. I can not logically explain the link between the two things, as i am not fully aware of it, but when i first had this sudden realization of conciousness (when i was like 11-12 years old) it was all the proof for me to believe in Allah.

MashaAllah Brother Firas is talking about Brother Paul aka Blogging Theology 😇

Great podcast. Firas is an MMA legend. He trained George St Pierre 🐐 I remember him on Joe Rogan talking about Philosophy is I couldn’t understand 70% of it. Super smart guy. Im a new revert and hearing him talking about philosophy with the context of Islam makes a lot of sense and for some reason I understand most of it. Hopefully you guys him on again. Inshallah.

Alahamdulilah

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Alghamdullila

Y’all should do time stamps

A thought remembered from a dream The manifestation of matter is not all that it seems If the Divine Light should ever go out Then darkness would rule without a doubt Do what's right in the light Do what's right especially at night Do what's right even at your own cost Do what's right even unto the lost

Mā shāʾ Allāh, this was a very insightful podcast. Although, I have one question for @Tristan Gym. When you give the example of how everyone who can speak of God has necessarily experienced God, and draw the analogy of a blind man’s inability to experience the color red; could the following not be a reasonable enough way to explain it?: A blind man can never know how red looks like (i.e. its ‘how-ness’); however, he can still talk about the fact that something appears red when visible light is of a certain wavelength (even though he can never see it). Similarly, maybe the reason we can talk about God is that we understand how God is defined (i.e. All-Knowing, All-Powerful, The Most Wise, etc.), and not because of experiencing Him. Because, again, we can never know the ‘how-ness’ of God (i.e. how God is), but we can still talk about it in terms of its defining qualities as mentioned above. Please help me see if I am misunderstanding the argument in any way. Jazāk Allāhu Khayran, and thank you to @The3Muslims for bringing brother Firas Zahabi on here!

"Nihilism is not a negation of God, but a protest against his absence, as with Beckett, a protest against the absence of man"...- Alija Ali Izetbegovic (Islam Between East and West). So often is "atheism". An atheist often questions, "If there's a God, then why doesn't He solve all the problems/ all sufferings" etc etc, always refusing to ask the same question about his own responsibility, "If you are a man, why don't you remove some of the sufferings that you can?"

Please, don't waste time with talk about MMA and fitness when Firas has his own video channel for this. Please brothers. This type of content and all the videos when Firas talks about philosophy really improves my imaan. If you want to know about MMA and fitness, go to his channel. Seek the reward of Allah by this type of discussion! Thank you!

Anywhere to find their intro music in a longer form?

Allahu akbar

All I want is to make money with the least effort and time. Make a big library at home and read my guts off. Knowledge is the best entertainer. Say ameen people

I agree with Brother Firas 1. We don't become one with God(that is shirk) 2. There is nothing but God LA ILAHA IL ALLAH 3. Everywhere you look you the face of God Quran Shariff al Karim Surah Al Baqarah 2:115 "And to Allah belongs the east and the west. So wherever you [might] turn, there is the Face of Allah. Indeed, Allah is all-Encompassing and Knowing." 4. So in order to see that you need to not exist(the true death or Fana annihilation) and by doing so you only recognize the existence of The One True God Allah Hu Haqq. (Indirectely and inversely as you don't really exist except as a metaphor of light and shadow play that AlGhazali and IbnArabi mention.) 5. The closer we get to Subhan Allah wa Tala the less you exist and the more The One exists. 6. Just like the Al Ghayb is unseen by definition, the face of God is also unseen, until you become unseen, or non existent in the empirical and corporeal sense of existence only not in Ruh or spirit. Without Allah's Ruh we don't exist we are only clay or material. 7. In other words Fana or annihilation only then can you become Baqa or truly created. 8. Not only were we created to only worship Allah s.w.t. but until you dont exist in matter time and space can you appreciate that the face of Allah can be seen through energy. 9. Allah s.w.t. has no form in the material definition yet all that exists reflects His Face. 10. If you cleanse your heart of its stains or sins then and only the can the heart be polished to reflect the Divine Nur of Allah. 11. But the closest we can get is that mirror. 12. However a mirror simply reflects the image presented and is never the image itself and there is no image except the face of Allah s.w.t. 13. The truth is that only Allah is the Haqq or truth, nothing else. 14. I said we can try to emulate the Divine attributes of the Divine names but never fully materialize them all as they are known solely to The One. 15. This is the sirr al asrar or the secret of secrets. The truth finds those who seek it.

Alhamdulillah this brother destroys nihilism by just describing it. SubhanAllah I don't think brother Firas himself realized he dismantled the ideology by just trying to describe it. Guided by the Kind of the everything