Content Outline:
0:0:10 Du’a/Asalaamu Alaikum (Faraz Khan)
0:01:01 What Texts are Being Used For the Class
0:04:09 The Level of Today’s Discussion and Difficulty
0:06:08 Review: Attributes of Allah
0:10:20 The Blessing of Existence
0:14:14 Charity For the Needy
0:18:16 Absolute Existence
0:20:20 The Negating Attributes in Relation to Absolute Existence (I)
0:23:55 The Negating Attributes in Relation to Absolute Existence (II)
0:27:49 Assigning Human Qualities to Allah
0:30:14 How Earlier Theologians Interpret Scripture
0:33:26 How Later Theologians Interpret Scripture
0:36:16 The Approach of the Early Muslims
0:39:55 Finishing Absolute Existence
0:42:20 Allah Has No Motives
0:46:53 Divine Wisdom
0:48:18 Allah is Self Sufficient
0:53:17 True Self Sufficiency is For Allah
0:56:51 Anxiety and Depression
01:01:36 Giving Over to Allah
01:04:50 The Strong Believer and the Weak Believer
01:06:50 Laysa kamithlihi shay (Allah is Unlike Anything)
01:10:01 Relating to Allah
Comments, Questions and Answers
01:11:01 Question 1: What’s the difference between motives and having reason to do something? For example, The Quran states that Allah created man to worship Him.
01:11:47 Question 2: Inaudible (Something regarding the names and attributes of Allah)
01:12:16 Question 3: It seems it’s the opposite where we can resemble Allah’s Attributes but not the other way around. Is it simply just a way for us to understand?
01:14:58 Question 4: In the Quran there are ayaat that mention Allah’s actions in the plural like “we send down…” can you rectify this next to the idea of tawhid?
01:16:44 Question 5: To reconcile the idea that Allah SWT doesn’t change with the verse that says everyday Allah is bringing about a matter?
01:20:05 Question 6: Regarding what you said about anxiety and depression, that was very profound and it speaks to what is very real in contemporary society. Can you speak a little bit more about how to deal with those types of problems and matters?
01:25:30 Question 7: Regarding expecting from Allah, how much would this lead to people expecting so much that they demand good from Allah? How does one maintain the balance?
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