Alhamdulillah, May Allah give us the ability to understand such things on a deep level. May He grant us the ability to understand by mind and heart. May He allow us to become one as families, communities and an ummah as one body, and apply His decisions accordingly upon the Muslims and their conditions to achieve the best outcomes for the Muslims. May Allah bring ease for the people of Palestine, and allow us to prioritise the unity of the muslims.
Anything befitting to his majesty is possible to him. Men we have to admit Allah is the one and only majestic power with no any relation to its creation.
‘Can’ shouldn’t even be used when we talk about God. It is disprespectful. Can implies ability and every ability has limitation. We shouldn’t say ‘God can’, rather God Has the Power or Owns the Power to do everything. And most importantly, God does what befits His Majesty.
God doesn’t need to lift anything to begin with since all he needs to say is “Be”. So maybe one can say that yes God can create a stone so heavy that it can’t be lifted by anyone from the creation(Angels, etc) but as for him he does things by saying “be”. So how can he say “be” to the rock being lifted in the air and it doesn’t come to fruition?
@@OuxsamaKadiri-fr6jw It depends on how you understand the word ‘Be’ which doesn’t necessarily involve the immediate existence of something out of nowhere with all its components. Everything exists through stages. God created the heavens and the earth and what is between them in six days. Everything is created with measurement and therefore everything needs stages before its completion.
@@aminahbergliotrolsdorph7557 You might find a Muslim questioning God’s Power but this because there is something wrong with their Faith. Regarding non- Muslims, what can you expect from, let’s say, Christians, who believe that God came to earth once and manifested in the flesh to die on the cross like criminals!! Which respect these people have for God? The same thing for other religions that associate partners with God.
Those paradoxes happen because people measures Allah SWT in human/creations' standard. Allah SWT is beyond our comprehension and there's no comparison to His creations.
Another criterion is that a problem statement on God's power must first be semantically valid. For instance, we can't ask God to make a circle fit a square.
I think type 1 should be called singleton contradiction/paradox since is singling out 1 attribute. type 2 should be additive contradiction/paradox because we're taking an attribute and adding it to another to get a contradiction. and type 3 should be relative contradiction/ paradox because we're relating an attribute to the creation and seemingly arriving at a paradox or contradiction.
The suspicion: Allah said he is all powerful over anything. Then can Allah creat a rock he can't lift🤨 The reply: Premise1: Allah said (That Allah has power over all things) Premise2: the impossible is not a thing. conclusion: there is no paradox in the statement (Allah has power over all things)
The word ''Shai' '' means 'Absolutely Contingent' . So the Verse mean '' God Hath Power to do every 'Absolutely Contingent'. This excludes Absolutely Impossibles and Absolutely Necessaries (God and Essential Divine Attributes).
Thank you, both, for this sharing session. To be able to ger this knowledge for free is astounding 😊 in our daily lives we get challenged often by our non-believing friends and this helps explain a lot.
The stone paradox is like asking God to lie or be evil There are things God can’t do like tell lies because lying would disqualify Him from being God in the first place
If God is above logic then no one can talk about him, but if his attributes are governed by logic then the questions like:"Can God create another God or can God kill himself?" are nonsensical.
God's knowledge of the future could be understood by analogy using quantum mechanics. A particle is in all possible states at the same time until an observation is made. The observation process collapses the possibilities into an actual observable reality. That is the analogy to our actions, in relation to God's knowledge about it, that is we observe our own actions, thus collapse it into an actual reality, and God already know about it, including all possibilites. In quantum mechanics, there is an interpretation that speculates that all possibilities branches into their own parallel universe. That is the many world interpretations. So, in light of that, it is possible to draw an analogy to understand God's attribute of omniscience. Wallahualam.
God is eternal so God can't cease to exist , that's just one example. God can do anything except if it's against His own nature & God will never do ungodly things.
Concerning the heavy stone: the problem is whether or not God in is omnipotence is capable of distancing himself from or giving up on some of his omnipotence if he is willing to do so.
20:06 It is also the fallacy of the question. The question attempts to create a negative feedback from a question by limiting the answer to a yes or no (i.e. a binary 1/0), so whatever answer is given, it gets negated via the question's negative feedback making both answers i.e. yes or no as an incorrect answer. God the creator of all physical laws doesn't interact with the unmovable stone like we do, so lifting the stone means nothing here. God just wills it and the unmovable Stone will lift itself.
I request the host to please check the background and the camera angle before recording the podcast. It is better to get some help from experts. InshaAllah, this will make watching more pleaseant.
Some thoughts after listening to this excellent discussion. In considering the topic of whether Allah can lie, we must investigate the nature of Allah's speech because lying is a matter of false speech. Now, Allah's speech is uncreated and hence outside the purview of Allah's power since Allah's power is related to things that are created. So since Allah's speech is uncreated, it follows that Allah's power does not attach to it, so Allah cannot lie. Another response is that Allah's speech is related to Allah's knowledge and not Allah's power. So Allah's speech enunciates Allah's knowledge, and Allah's knowledge is necessarily true. So, being a reflection of necessarily true knowledge, Allah's speech is necessarily true, so necessarily Allah cannot lie. BUT the reply cd b that this relates only to Allah's eternal uncreated speech. Yet there is a type of divine speech that is finite and created, being the created representation of Allah's uncreated speech. That is, that Allah's speech with himself is eternal amd uncreated but when Allah speaks to us with finite human words that have a beginning and an end then this speech is created and hence subject to Allah's power, so it is not impossible that Allah could not lie in this type of speech. The response wd b that for the second type of speech to be Allah's speech it must reflect Allah's eternal uncreated true speech faithfully and hence it is impossible that Allah make this speech a lie. BUT the reply wd b that whilst this is granted, yet it is not intrinsically impossible for Allah to create sounds or written words that express a faslehood such as writing on the face of the moon so that it is visible to all the proposition "2+2=5". Certainly it is within Allah's power to write the proposition "2+2=4" by moving the rocks on the moon's surface, so likewise it is within Allah's power to write the proposition "2+2=5" by moving the rocks on the moon's surface. And this wd b a lie even though it wd not technically b that created speech of Allah that is a truthful representation of Allah's eternal uncreated true speech. But it wd b a lie nevertheless as it wd b deliberately false communication. AND we know from the Quran that Allah decieves disbelievers. Deception is a form of lying and may be done by speach or by other means. So if we accept that Allah decieves disbelievers then we accept that Allah actually lies to them. So lying is in fact possible for Allah and actually occurs. BUT we then need a way to ensure that Allah necessarily does not lie to believers and does not lie in revelation because otherwise we can never be certain that Allah is not lying to believers and lying in revelation. We can never be certain that when in revelation Allah says he is always truthful that he is not in fact lying. Such a doubt renders religion impossible. We wd hv to show that it wd be necessarily impossible for Allah to lie to believers or to lie in revelation. We cd proceed by evoking Allah's nature as a perfect, and hence morally, perfect being. That lying to believers or lying in revelation wd vitiate Allah's moral perfeftion. A being that lies to those who worship him sincerely or lies in communication from himself is not morally perfect and hence is not Allah. So we do have a guarantee that Allah necessarily cannot lie to believers or lie in revelation, whilst he may decide to deceive disbelievers and hence lie to them. BUT this does not prevent the doubt that a demiurge or demon may pretend to be the one true Allah and produce a counterfiet revelation in which it lies to those who believe the revelation is actually from Allah. This is not an impossibility. So we are left with the doubt that any purported revelation is in fact not from Allah but a counterfeit one from a malevolent being like a demon. This doubt wd destroy trust in any purported revelation including Allah's authentic revelation as being the authentic revelation from the one true Allah. What is required then are criteria to differentiate between authentic and spurious revelation. That criteria wd b: - internal.consistency (inconsistencies and contradictions are faults that Allah wd not be the author of) - fitness to be divine revelation (a book of jokes, a book that lacks profundity, a book that does not address real human concerns, a book containing teachings antithetical to human moral sense are not fit to be divine revelation) - a quality indicating that it can only be the work of Allah (that which comes from Allah will necessarily be beyond human or non-divine capability) So: believers can be assured that if Allah wishes to send them revelation then such revelation will be recognisable by being internally consistent, fit to be divine revelation by the profundity and truth of its contents and be marked by a quality of inimitability indicating it is of divine origin. Note: it may be objected that Allah never decieves anyone, not even disbelievers. In which case the latter portion of the above is moot. However there are Quranic verses like 4:142 that on a plain reading suggest that Allah decieves the disbelievers. In verse 8.44 Allah says he made the believing forces appear as 'few' in the perception of the dosbelieving army. Is this a form of deception and a non-verbal lie? Note: one who believes it is impossible for moral perfections and norms to be discoverable without divine revelation have no basis by which to trust revelation does not contain a lie.
This is a very important video. But I think as usual I will not comprehend the topic which I tried multiple times because I think it is beyond the human reasoning capability and human comprehension capability. We can barely visualize in our brain the Einstein's fourth dimension concept.
@@doneracer5994 Your comment is ridiculous and completely false, you are clueless and duluded. False accusations will not proof your comment is correct.
The main problem with this question is that you venture into answering it. As you can see this is a loaded question. Loaded questions have intrinsically hidden assumptions, if some venture into answering them will inevitably have fallen into a trap from which most likely will not be able to come out. The assumption here is that God is a physical being and only physical things can potentially lift other physical things like a rock. Rocks are part of the universe and the universe all of it is material, physical, and composed by matter everything in it occupies space and is subjected to the passing of time. None of these things apply to God. He is not a physical being He is not composed of matter; He does not occupies a space in the universe, nor is He subjected to time. God is a necessary being for the existence of the universe, He has no need of anything and everything depends on Him. He is beginninglesly eternal, He possesses knowledge, will, and power, evidenced by the existence of the contingent universe. To say that He can or can’t lift a rock is absurd because lifting in a literal sense it’s simply impossible for God, rendering the whole question absurd to begin with. Takeaway point: Never answer a loaded question once you identify it. Wa Allah ta’ala ‘alam
As far as I can see, creating an object so heavy that it cannot be lifted is something logically *impossible*. Any physical object is necessarily moveable. Movement is ceasing to exist in a space and beginning to exist in another. A physical object can exist in any space. It's impossible to create an immoveable, moveable thing, that's contradictory. I think that's the mistake in the paradox.
another layman's example if i know in my heart that my wife is going to fail her driving test tomorrow and she fails the test. did my foreknowledge of her failure caused her failure? or my foreknowledge was due to me knowing her intimately which had nothing to do with her failure.
لِلَّهِ مُلۡكُ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلۡأَرۡضِ وَمَا فِيهِنَّۚ وَهُوَ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَىۡءٍ قَدِيرٌۢ English - Sahih International To Allāh belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth and whatever is within them. And He is over all things competent. (Al-Quran 5: 120)
Question to who ever can answer: Why would Allah allow a lie to be written and believed about by His creation i.e. the prophet Isa (to whom peace be upon) (Jesus) and what Christians belief about his "death" I must confess I used to believe what is currently known about the prophet Isa (pbuh) to the Christians ...honestly I was doubtful. Sadly when I listen to Muslim scholars they say their is no true gospel of Jesus? How can this be? The Messiah who Allah choose has No verifiable written works of his teachings or accounts on his life?
After creating such stone, a) God can increase His strength to lift the stone b) God can reduce or eliminate gravity & lift that stone c) God can give strength to an infant to lift that stone
What is impossible for God is that which is contradictory to the defintion of God's fundamental essense. For example, can God be evil? No, He cannot, because God is maximally Good. God is by definition Good and by definition not evil. A object cannot both be its own definition and its anti-definition. A table cannot both be a table and not a table. For example, can God be impotent? No, He cannot, because God is by definition, omnipotent. What being or object can make an omnipotent being, impotent? That is like asking, what number is greater than infinity? The question itself is intellectually disabled, infinity by definition, cannot have a number greater than it. For example, can God be decieved? No, He cannot, how can an omniscient being have knowledge withheld from Him? Who is there who can withhold knowledge from the One who sees all, hears all, knows all, both the created and non-existent. There is no such being or object that can decieve God. For example, can God suffer? No, He cannot. How can an All-mighty being be made to suffer? What can overcome the Might of God? Who is there who can challenge God? Who is there that can make an Omnipotent Being, impotent? There is none. What is impossible for God is when a fool asks a question that doesn't make any sense and is purely gibberish. Such as, is this rock alive or dead? A rock is neither alive nor dead, the question itself is foolish. Likewise, can God suffer? The question itself is foolish and flawed, an omnipotent being by definition cannot be impotent. Suffering requires impotence just as deception requires ignorance. Likewise, can an animal be sinless? No an animal cannot be sinless. To be sinless is to disobey and transgress the Law of God. If I start uttering random words and acting weird in public that does not constitute a sin, that's just me being weird. Sin is defined by lawlessness with regards to God's law, just as criminality is defined with regards to national law. God's law is not upon the animal to follow, a goat is not expected to keep Jewish mitzvot (shocking I know). A goat is neither sinful, nor sinless, just as a rock is neither alive nor dead. A person who disagrees with basic logic is a person who cannot be trusted with any other method he uses for reasoning. For by what means has he come to reason with?
My opinion is that he can make it just go away if he makes a stone that can not be lifted. What allah swt all can do is beyond our thinking. I was just thinking he can make it and he can make it dissappear, just as easy as he made it.
......To create a body \ stone so heavy and massive that God Himself hath not Power to move it , is Absolutely Impossible , since it is a question like 'Doeth God Hath Power to Create a Sharik Al Bari' , This question suppose that the Heaviness and Massiveness of the body (say stone) is more than the Divine Omnipotence. Infinity of a Body is Absolutely Impossible , hence out of Divine Power, It is just like the question , '' Doeth God Have Power to Make Himself Blind '' . It must be noted that any Act or Attribute that is Opposite (Didd) to Divine Essential Attribute is a Defect Upon God ( Divine Essence) and Every Defect is Absolutely Impossible Upon God. So such a Paradoxial Body is Absolutely Impossible just like the Absolute Impossibility of Sharik Al Bari and Nazir Al Bari. This is the reason we are in debate over two centuries with Silsilah Khairabadi who believe that Nazir of Holy Prophet is also Absolutely Impossible and we believe that Nazir of Prophet is Relatively Impossibe. SUMMARY : Nazir of God is 'Absolutely Impossible (Per Se Impossible ) and Nazir of Prophet is Relatively Impossible ( Per Alias Impossible). We also believe in two types of Implication 1) Absolute Implication ( Per Se Implication) and 2) Relative Implication (Per Alias Implication). Dear Paul please have a look on our Views . Thanks.
The whole point of Islam is that the God created a world based on physical laws and created three (Angels, Jinn, Mankind) or more beings that have moral code, and put two of them (Jinn and Mankind) on a test as to how they apply the moral code. God explains it in Quran that it is not his custom (Sunnah) to judge based on his knowledge, but instead God wants us to actually live out a life and make those moral choices in practice. Neural mechanisms of perceptual decision making seems to suggest it is non-deterministic. It also depends on how the brain is viewed; if "nafs" aka "seat of consciousness" is viewed as the prefrontal area and the rest of the brain viewed as semi-autonomous processing units then choice becomes even more a matter of consciousness and/or deliberate decisions, and less deterministic.
There is no creation story at all in. Islam. The story does not have a beginning. Quran opens In the middle of a story. Quran needs a prequel. Name the story before it?
@@ninaaden8338 speak about quran corruption muslim. the quran is more obviously the product of human revision than torah or gospel. besides allah never says directly what went wrong with the previous holy scriptures. it is something muslims infer because muhammad says they killed prophets and angered god. but even that reasoning is questionable because islam allows almost anyone to be a prophet if they bring a message from god like the false prophet muhammad. based on torah the almighty never told adam or noah to preach any message he gave. the only prophet that was killed by disbelievers is jesus. and quran says jesus didn't actually die. so zero prophets died. so nobody corrupted torah and gospel.
Islam came with Adam (pbuh). And it is not about creation story, even though there are plenty of references in Quran about it, with Chapter 55 being probably pretty comprehensive in this regard, but it is about the afterlife. How to succeed in the next life.@@Jack-xy2pz
And whose words are better than someone who calls others' to Allah, does good, and says, "I am truly one of those who submit."? ثبتكم الله علي الحق يا اخوان ونصركم الله في دعوتكم لدين الله وَمَنْ أَحْسَنُ قَوْلًا مِّمَّن دَعَآ إِلَى ٱللَّهِ وَعَمِلَ صَـٰلِحًا وَقَالَ إِنَّنِى مِنَ ٱلْمُسْلِمِينَ
"Inability" is our attribute not God's due to our inherent limits and limitations our languages reflect those limits and limitations hence the confusion which breeds numerous paradoxes like these. We men and women are unable to perceive/experience absolute, infinite, unlimited etc therefore we formulate such nonsensical premises. We unknowingly project our limitations upon God. We make things which we cannot lift that's our limitation and inability not God's For a layman like me God can make an infinitely large stone and has infinite power to lift it inability is our attribute not God's
Very simply/mkre directly; the question inserts the contradiction, then ex falso quodlibet sequitur. E.g. the existence of a stone Allah couldn't lift is a contradiction between the defined characteristics of stones and the relevant drfined charachteristics of Allah.
God always have positive attribute, hence asmaul husna. Creating a stone that cannot be lifted is not a positive attribut, therefore couldnt be attributed to Him. Hell, can create stone that he cannot lift, or removing a power from himself is a negative attribute. Therefore, he will not have it. Didnt have negative attribute is fundamental of god as of his greatness. Have something negative, is contrary, not a prove that he is omnipotence, but the opposite.
Of course. Allah can do anything beyond human’s logic. If he says let it be, be it. Everything is his control but human’s brain and knowledge can’t get that level yet until he open the knowledge for us.
Another layman's example can a truthful man/woman lie yes he/she can but he/she doesn't Only God limits God(himself). Remember desire and its analogues stem from incompleteness and a sense of unfulfillment which is a human attribute and God is above and beyond such inabilities
I have not watched the blog but these kind of questions always amuse me. Can God pick something heavier than Himself? These are pretty absurd statements. In this case first we need define the possible then we can look at the impossible! Funny and like I said absurd.
I think Paradox number one, the question itself contains contradiction, and therefore the question is false. "If God is omnipotent, then God can create stone that it cannot be lifted?" Of course He won't. The word "omnipotent" necessarily implied that nothing can not do by God. The question insert "the stone that it cannot be lifted" whereas it violate "the omnipotent" itself, the word "He can not lift the stone" is contradiction.
There is nothing impossible for God. Don’t underestimate God.What it will be will be.No one can by pass God. We are born and we die. We come and go..May God guide us.❤✌🏽🙏
What is impossible for God is that which is contradictory to the defintion of God's fundamental essense. For example, can God be evil? No, He cannot, because God is maximally Good. For example, can God be impotent? No, He cannot, because God is by definition, omnipotent. What being or object can make an omnipotent being, impotent? That is like asking, what number is greater than infinity? The question itself is intellectually disabled, infinity by definition, cannot have a number greater than it. For example, can God be decieved? No, He cannot, how can an omniscient being have knowledge withheld from Him? Who is there who can withhold knowledge from the One who sees all, hears all, knows all, both the created and non-existent. There is no such being or object that can decieve God. For example, can God suffer? No, He cannot. How can an All-mighty being be made to suffer? What can overcome the Might of God? Who is there who can challenge God? Who is there that can make an Omnipotent Being, impotent? There is none. Your answer is technically correct. What is impossible for God is when a fool asks a question that doesn't make any sense and is purely gibberish. Such as, is this rock alive or dead? A rock is neither alive nor dead, the question itself is foolish. Likewise, can God suffer? The question itself is foolish and flawed, an omnipotent being by definition cannot be impotent. Suffering requires impotence just as deception requires ignorance.
I think atheists really just don’t understand a theist’s conception of God or they understand the concept, they just categorically reject it from the get go. It seems they want to place the same limitations on God that we humans experience in our world. Things like gravity, linear time, morality and even logic. These are all things that place limits on what we can and cannot do in our world. So they’ll say things like God can’t be perfect in His goodness because He allows evil to exist in the world. Or, they’ll use logic (a delimiting device if there ever was one) by proposing such conundrums as “ If God is omnipotent, could He create a stone so heavy that even He could not lift it?” Their mistake is in effect, conflating human agency with divine agency. When we say God is omnipotent, that’s what we mean. so the answer to the conundrum stated above is yes, God can create a stone that is so heavy that even He cannot lift it. But remember we’re talking omnipotent. So what God does, as the atheist watches, is he creates an entire universe in the blink of an eye in which everything is just as it is now except that he cannot lift that stone that he just created no matter how hard he tries. And then, within the blink of an eye, he creates another universe, having destroyed the first in which everything is the same, except that that same stone he created in the other universe remains, and he lifts it quite easily. And he looks at the atheist, winks and then giggles. Divine humor.
Its not real contradiction. Because we put human limit and atributes to Allah who are limitles. Like ppl want to proof that infinity its not true infinite. With matemathics for example. Imagine a mere creation like us can think this way. Thats why i always say Alhamdulillah.
The most powerful being is not a creator at all, because it already has everything. Creators (like Allah) have nothing & so have to create in order to have those things.
Can you make an argument so heavy that is it indigestible.. haha IMO I would think many would not know why logic analysis is important in philosophy, that might be needed for the "appetizer" Second thing that I can conclude, from the analysis (until midway, there is a heck of a lot of advert ie every 3 mins) is that.. if a thing does not exist, the claim for the argument does not exist/apply God is the creator of everything, and all things created dependent on God's power, nothing is beyond His grasp IOW any stone which exists cannot escape God's power, because all things created cannot escape His grasp (of power) Therefore the said argument does not apply at all to God, because a stone that can escape His grasp does not exist
Simple answer, can god create a big stone that it cannot be lifted? Yes, look up at galactic level, they are everywhere. Very big stones are floating, flying all over the outer space.
Why do you have to say that God doesn’t “lie” based on moral principles? Does’t the Quran say in some places that God is the best of schemers/deceivers… like 3:54? Also, Allah guides who he wills and misleads (into disbelief) who he wills. (Ex, 16:93, 35:8) If God hides any knowledge from us humans, then he is already “deceiving” us, or lying by omission. We’re not all-knowing, so God deceives… I think this is the same as the problem of evil. You’d have to say that God permits or wills the “evil” or the “deception” because it is for the greater good of the creation. It’s a Platonic idea that God cannot do any bad, only good, but this consequently makes God not omnipotent.
The problem about human talking about god is the context. Human context is not the same. So to equate these two contexts are great injustice or simply wrong and stupid. Does a very big stone that is impossible to lift exist? Not talking about god, but talk about the stone. Yes it does exists. But the stone has to obey god. You may wonder, really? Yes. Because this is out of normal human context. If a stone that is so big, it will be bigger than (what?), bigger than human. So that will be planet size for example. So it will have gravity on its own. To the human perspective it is then impossible to lift a big stone like the earth. The word "lift" is a relative term. Meaning that if you tries to apply it as absolute it would not be meaningful. If you want to lift something you need a reference. You are standing on the floor, or on the earth which act as a reference. So you can lift something from the ground up say one meter. So are we trying to assume god need to stand on something to lift that very big stone? If there is nothing to stand because the stone is too big, even the stone is sufficiently big to have it own gravity, then it is impossible to lift. So what do we have here? both possible and impossible exist. And that doesn't in any slightest degree tarnish the greatness of god.
God can do anything and everything, the impossible is literally not a thing, a non-existent i.e. nothing. So its irrelevant to God's power and ability.
Manusia hanya boleh berfikir tentang apa yang di indranya seperti : alam semester, manusia dan kehidupan, soal Zat Allah Ta'ala manusia dilarang berfikir sebab tidak akan sanggup, quran surah Al-Baqarah ayat : 255.
Brothers, PLEASE REFRAIN FROM ALL WHITE WALLPAPERS. It's visually jarring and monotonous, esp on intricate lectures such as this. Use a darker color in the brown/orange/peach/grey color spectrum.
If god can do, it is not impossible. So asking can god do something impossible, is absurd. But we know there are impossible situations for example, god cannot have a son.
@@donaldmcronald8989 Your false arguments are irrelevant. For a Muslim the Holy Quran is the Absolute Truth, and all the previous Divinely Revelations the Evangel/ Injeel, the Torah, the Spalms, in their uncorrupted from. A Muslim belief in Allah Almighty, in all the Holy Prophets, all the Divinely Revelations , all the Angels.
At the beginning i didnt even wanna watch the video The proposition is obviously absurd Its like asking a calculator to divide by 0 The idea is simply nonsensical Like "*what does dividing by zero even mean?*" and it doesnt mean anything, its just an assortment of symbols
"Brothers and sisters," do not pay any money to so-called religious foundations if you do not know them very well. Do not believe in the people who sell Cannah.
i don't really like the philosophical logical approach to things pertaining allahs attributes. This is what made the asharis and mutazila deny attributes of allah for example. Applying logic to god is in a way basically saying that he is limited by the laws of logic. Thats a scary statement to make.
God is not relating to the impossible things such as one plus one equals to three is impossible and it is stupidity to ask God to create things which are impossible to exist.The power of God is not related to things which are not exist.It doesnt mean God is weak.To ask God to create another God is also impossible cause the second God is not God but a creation
This question is or came from a non believer. You are limiting the power of God. The creator of heavens and earth 🌎 and all that between can do whatever He The Most Merciful wants to do. It's not befitting that kind of question someone who is a believer to say . Period.
Can God do the impossible is the same word with Can God dies?. No He does not die, He is impossible to die. That is only words play, the weakness of human language. Something that God does not do is something that never exists. God do not do that.
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May Almighty Allah Bless Both of You and Reward Both of You in this Life and in the Hereafter.
Dr. Safaruk is truly next level. I hope you will invite him frequently.
Alhamdulillah, May Allah give us the ability to understand such things on a deep level. May He grant us the ability to understand by mind and heart.
May He allow us to become one as families, communities and an ummah as one body, and apply His decisions accordingly upon the Muslims and their conditions to achieve the best outcomes for the Muslims.
May Allah bring ease for the people of Palestine, and allow us to prioritise the unity of the muslims.
Please edit your message where you use the words “him” and “his” to “Him” and “His”.
Anything befitting to his majesty is possible to him. Men we have to admit Allah is the one and only majestic power with no any relation to its creation.
The whole universe is a miracle of Allah.
‘Can’ shouldn’t even be used when we talk about God. It is disprespectful. Can implies ability and every ability has limitation. We shouldn’t say ‘God can’, rather God Has the Power or Owns the Power to do everything. And most importantly, God does what befits His Majesty.
God doesn’t need to lift anything to begin with since all he needs to say is “Be”. So maybe one can say that yes God can create a stone so heavy that it can’t be lifted by anyone from the creation(Angels, etc) but as for him he does things by saying “be”. So how can he say “be” to the rock being lifted in the air and it doesn’t come to fruition?
@@OuxsamaKadiri-fr6jw It depends on how you understand the word ‘Be’ which doesn’t necessarily involve the immediate existence of something out of nowhere with all its components. Everything exists through stages. God created the heavens and the earth and what is between them in six days. Everything is created with measurement and therefore everything needs stages before its completion.
Yes ❣️
However..
Many non Muslims may question His Power..
As Muslims we doesn't..
الحمد الله
@@aminahbergliotrolsdorph7557 You might find a Muslim questioning God’s Power but this because there is something wrong with their Faith.
Regarding non- Muslims, what can you expect from, let’s say, Christians, who believe that God came to earth once and manifested in the flesh to die on the cross like criminals!! Which respect these people have for God? The same thing for other religions that associate partners with God.
Those paradoxes happen because people measures Allah SWT in human/creations' standard. Allah SWT is beyond our comprehension and there's no comparison to His creations.
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Another criterion is that a problem statement on God's power must first be semantically valid. For instance, we can't ask God to make a circle fit a square.
GOD CAN DO EVERYTHING BUT A SQUARED CIRCLE ISN'T A THING.
I think type 1 should be called singleton contradiction/paradox since is singling out 1 attribute. type 2 should be additive contradiction/paradox because we're taking an attribute and adding it to another to get a contradiction. and type 3 should be relative contradiction/ paradox because we're relating an attribute to the creation and seemingly arriving at a paradox or contradiction.
The suspicion: Allah said he is all powerful over anything. Then can Allah creat a rock he can't lift🤨
The reply:
Premise1: Allah said (That Allah has power over all things)
Premise2: the impossible is not a thing.
conclusion: there is no paradox in the statement (Allah has power over all things)
These paradoxes stems from our imperfections and our inability to appreciate absolute perfection
Hmmmm? A perfectionist...
ان الله على كل شيء قدير.
That means that God Almighty is capable to do anything.
The word ''Shai' '' means 'Absolutely Contingent' . So the Verse mean '' God Hath Power to do every 'Absolutely Contingent'. This excludes Absolutely Impossibles and Absolutely Necessaries (God and Essential Divine Attributes).
Thank you, both, for this sharing session. To be able to ger this knowledge for free is astounding 😊 in our daily lives we get challenged often by our non-believing friends and this helps explain a lot.
Do you guys do the same: Like videos of this channel before watching?
When it’s a video like this, absolutely.
The stone paradox is like asking God to lie or be evil
There are things God can’t do like tell lies because lying would disqualify Him from being God in the first place
Thank you brothers for the very informative video presentation, May Allah bless and reward you and all those involved for all your effort,
God created what's "possible" and what is "impossible" he can do anything. Its beyond our human ability to comprehend all of that...
If God is above logic then no one can talk about him, but if his attributes are governed by logic then the questions like:"Can God create another God or can God kill himself?" are nonsensical.
Allah the most powerful all wise ❤ designed us with limits. He is the one and only without limits
The almighty does the impossible every moment everyday. Anyone who doesn't think so just isn't looking hard enough.
God's knowledge of the future could be understood by analogy using quantum mechanics. A particle is in all possible states at the same time until an observation is made. The observation process collapses the possibilities into an actual observable reality. That is the analogy to our actions, in relation to God's knowledge about it, that is we observe our own actions, thus collapse it into an actual reality, and God already know about it, including all possibilites. In quantum mechanics, there is an interpretation that speculates that all possibilities branches into their own parallel universe. That is the many world interpretations. So, in light of that, it is possible to draw an analogy to understand God's attribute of omniscience. Wallahualam.
God is eternal so God can't cease to exist , that's just one example.
God can do anything except if it's against His own nature & God will never do ungodly things.
@@donaldjuan4934 you are an arrogant ignorant.
Concerning the heavy stone: the problem is whether or not God in is omnipotence is capable of distancing himself from or giving up on some of his omnipotence if he is willing to do so.
20:06 It is also the fallacy of the question. The question attempts to create a negative feedback from a question by limiting the answer to a yes or no (i.e. a binary 1/0), so whatever answer is given, it gets negated via the question's negative feedback making both answers i.e. yes or no as an incorrect answer. God the creator of all physical laws doesn't interact with the unmovable stone like we do, so lifting the stone means nothing here. God just wills it and the unmovable Stone will lift itself.
I request the host to please check the background and the camera angle before recording the podcast. It is better to get some help from experts. InshaAllah, this will make watching more pleaseant.
Some thoughts after listening to this excellent discussion.
In considering the topic of whether Allah can lie, we must investigate the nature of Allah's speech because lying is a matter of false speech. Now, Allah's speech is uncreated and hence outside the purview of Allah's power since Allah's power is related to things that are created. So since Allah's speech is uncreated, it follows that Allah's power does not attach to it, so Allah cannot lie.
Another response is that Allah's speech is related to Allah's knowledge and not Allah's power. So Allah's speech enunciates Allah's knowledge, and Allah's knowledge is necessarily true. So, being a reflection of necessarily true knowledge, Allah's speech is necessarily true, so necessarily Allah cannot lie.
BUT the reply cd b that this relates only to Allah's eternal uncreated speech. Yet there is a type of divine speech that is finite and created, being the created representation of Allah's uncreated speech. That is, that Allah's speech with himself is eternal amd uncreated but when Allah speaks to us with finite human words that have a beginning and an end then this speech is created and hence subject to Allah's power, so it is not impossible that Allah could not lie in this type of speech.
The response wd b that for the second type of speech to be Allah's speech it must reflect Allah's eternal uncreated true speech faithfully and hence it is impossible that Allah make this speech a lie.
BUT the reply wd b that whilst this is granted, yet it is not intrinsically impossible for Allah to create sounds or written words that express a faslehood such as writing on the face of the moon so that it is visible to all the proposition "2+2=5". Certainly it is within Allah's power to write the proposition "2+2=4" by moving the rocks on the moon's surface, so likewise it is within Allah's power to write the proposition "2+2=5" by moving the rocks on the moon's surface. And this wd b a lie even though it wd not technically b that created speech of Allah that is a truthful representation of Allah's eternal uncreated true speech. But it wd b a lie nevertheless as it wd b deliberately false communication.
AND we know from the Quran that Allah decieves disbelievers. Deception is a form of lying and may be done by speach or by other means. So if we accept that Allah decieves disbelievers then we accept that Allah actually lies to them. So lying is in fact possible for Allah and actually occurs.
BUT we then need a way to ensure that Allah necessarily does not lie to believers and does not lie in revelation because otherwise we can never be certain that Allah is not lying to believers and lying in revelation. We can never be certain that when in revelation Allah says he is always truthful that he is not in fact lying. Such a doubt renders religion impossible.
We wd hv to show that it wd be necessarily impossible for Allah to lie to believers or to lie in revelation.
We cd proceed by evoking Allah's nature as a perfect, and hence morally, perfect being. That lying to believers or lying in revelation wd vitiate Allah's moral perfeftion. A being that lies to those who worship him sincerely or lies in communication from himself is not morally perfect and hence is not Allah.
So we do have a guarantee that Allah necessarily cannot lie to believers or lie in revelation, whilst he may decide to deceive disbelievers and hence lie to them.
BUT this does not prevent the doubt that a demiurge or demon may pretend to be the one true Allah and produce a counterfiet revelation in which it lies to those who believe the revelation is actually from Allah. This is not an impossibility. So we are left with the doubt that any purported revelation is in fact not from Allah but a counterfeit one from a malevolent being like a demon. This doubt wd destroy trust in any purported revelation including Allah's authentic revelation as being the authentic revelation from the one true Allah.
What is required then are criteria to differentiate between authentic and spurious revelation.
That criteria wd b:
- internal.consistency (inconsistencies and contradictions are faults that Allah wd not be the author of)
- fitness to be divine revelation (a book of jokes, a book that lacks profundity, a book that does not address real human concerns, a book containing teachings antithetical to human moral sense are not fit to be divine revelation)
- a quality indicating that it can only be the work of Allah (that which comes from Allah will necessarily be beyond human or non-divine capability)
So: believers can be assured that if Allah wishes to send them revelation then such revelation will be recognisable by being internally consistent, fit to be divine revelation by the profundity and truth of its contents and be marked by a quality of inimitability indicating it is of divine origin.
Note: it may be objected that Allah never decieves anyone, not even disbelievers. In which case the latter portion of the above is moot. However there are Quranic verses like 4:142 that on a plain reading suggest that Allah decieves the disbelievers. In verse 8.44 Allah says he made the believing forces appear as 'few' in the perception of the dosbelieving army. Is this a form of deception and a non-verbal lie?
Note: one who believes it is impossible for moral perfections and norms to be discoverable without divine revelation have no basis by which to trust revelation does not contain a lie.
This is a very important video. But I think as usual I will not comprehend the topic which I tried multiple times because I think it is beyond the human reasoning capability and human comprehension capability. We can barely visualize in our brain the Einstein's fourth dimension concept.
What a concept, what a distraction from reality. Take care of yourself and people in need. Be a good force in the world. All will be well.
Nothing is impossible to God The Almighty ❤
Yes, if you're talk about the Christian GOD.
As for the muslim one, he's called "Allah" and is Satan.
@@doneracer5994 Your comment is ridiculous and completely false, you are clueless and duluded.
False accusations will not proof your comment is correct.
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Gosh. The management must not have liked it. They made it go away.
So much for free speech under Islam.
God himself is amazingly impossible for us to imagine, thus, is there anyting that is impossible anymore?
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The main problem with this question is that you venture into answering it. As you can see this is a loaded question. Loaded questions have intrinsically hidden assumptions, if some venture into answering them will inevitably have fallen into a trap from which most likely will not be able to come out. The assumption here is that God is a physical being and only physical things can potentially lift other physical things like a rock. Rocks are part of the universe and the universe all of it is material, physical, and composed by matter everything in it occupies space and is subjected to the passing of time. None of these things apply to God. He is not a physical being He is not composed of matter; He does not occupies a space in the universe, nor is He subjected to time. God is a necessary being for the existence of the universe, He has no need of anything and everything depends on Him. He is beginninglesly eternal, He possesses knowledge, will, and power, evidenced by the existence of the contingent universe. To say that He can or can’t lift a rock is absurd because lifting in a literal sense it’s simply impossible for God, rendering the whole question absurd to begin with. Takeaway point: Never answer a loaded question once you identify it. Wa Allah ta’ala ‘alam
As far as I can see, creating an object so heavy that it cannot be lifted is something logically *impossible*. Any physical object is necessarily moveable. Movement is ceasing to exist in a space and beginning to exist in another. A physical object can exist in any space. It's impossible to create an immoveable, moveable thing, that's contradictory. I think that's the mistake in the paradox.
another layman's example if i know in my heart that my wife is going to fail her driving test tomorrow and she fails the test. did my foreknowledge of her failure caused her failure? or my foreknowledge was due to me knowing her intimately which had nothing to do with her failure.
Buttt i do admit Islam is the religion that makes the most sense, so i gotta hand it to prophet Muhammad
لِلَّهِ مُلۡكُ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلۡأَرۡضِ وَمَا فِيهِنَّۚ وَهُوَ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَىۡءٍ قَدِيرٌۢ
English - Sahih International
To Allāh belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth and whatever is within them. And He is over all things competent.
(Al-Quran 5: 120)
Question to who ever can answer:
Why would Allah allow a lie to be written and believed about by His creation i.e. the prophet Isa (to whom peace be upon) (Jesus) and what Christians belief about his "death"
I must confess I used to believe what is currently known about the prophet Isa (pbuh) to the Christians ...honestly I was doubtful.
Sadly when I listen to Muslim scholars they say their is no true gospel of Jesus? How can this be? The Messiah who Allah choose has No verifiable written works of his teachings or accounts on his life?
After creating such stone,
a) God can increase His strength to lift the stone
b) God can reduce or eliminate gravity & lift that stone
c) God can give strength to an infant to lift that stone
Astargfirullah.
If God created a stone heavier than Himself then He wouldnt be God anymore
God does not operate in illogical realms cuz they do not exist
What is impossible for God is that which is contradictory to the defintion of God's fundamental essense.
For example, can God be evil? No, He cannot, because God is maximally Good. God is by definition Good and by definition not evil. A object cannot both be its own definition and its anti-definition. A table cannot both be a table and not a table.
For example, can God be impotent? No, He cannot, because God is by definition, omnipotent. What being or object can make an omnipotent being, impotent? That is like asking, what number is greater than infinity? The question itself is intellectually disabled, infinity by definition, cannot have a number greater than it.
For example, can God be decieved? No, He cannot, how can an omniscient being have knowledge withheld from Him? Who is there who can withhold knowledge from the One who sees all, hears all, knows all, both the created and non-existent. There is no such being or object that can decieve God.
For example, can God suffer? No, He cannot. How can an All-mighty being be made to suffer? What can overcome the Might of God? Who is there who can challenge God? Who is there that can make an Omnipotent Being, impotent? There is none.
What is impossible for God is when a fool asks a question that doesn't make any sense and is purely gibberish. Such as, is this rock alive or dead? A rock is neither alive nor dead, the question itself is foolish. Likewise, can God suffer? The question itself is foolish and flawed, an omnipotent being by definition cannot be impotent. Suffering requires impotence just as deception requires ignorance. Likewise, can an animal be sinless? No an animal cannot be sinless. To be sinless is to disobey and transgress the Law of God. If I start uttering random words and acting weird in public that does not constitute a sin, that's just me being weird. Sin is defined by lawlessness with regards to God's law, just as criminality is defined with regards to national law. God's law is not upon the animal to follow, a goat is not expected to keep Jewish mitzvot (shocking I know). A goat is neither sinful, nor sinless, just as a rock is neither alive nor dead. A person who disagrees with basic logic is a person who cannot be trusted with any other method he uses for reasoning. For by what means has he come to reason with?
My opinion is that he can make it just go away if he makes a stone that can not be lifted. What allah swt all can do is beyond our thinking. I was just thinking he can make it and he can make it dissappear, just as easy as he made it.
......To create a body \ stone so heavy and massive that God Himself hath not Power to move it , is Absolutely Impossible , since it is a question like 'Doeth God Hath Power to Create a Sharik Al Bari' , This question suppose that the Heaviness and Massiveness of the body (say stone) is more than the Divine Omnipotence. Infinity of a Body is Absolutely Impossible , hence out of Divine Power, It is just like the question , '' Doeth God Have Power to Make Himself Blind '' . It must be noted that any Act or Attribute that is Opposite (Didd) to Divine Essential Attribute is a Defect Upon God ( Divine Essence) and Every Defect is Absolutely Impossible Upon God. So such a Paradoxial Body is Absolutely Impossible just like the Absolute Impossibility of Sharik Al Bari and Nazir Al Bari. This is the reason we are in debate over two centuries with Silsilah Khairabadi who believe that Nazir of Holy Prophet is also Absolutely Impossible and we believe that Nazir of Prophet is Relatively Impossibe. SUMMARY : Nazir of God is 'Absolutely Impossible (Per Se Impossible ) and Nazir of Prophet is Relatively Impossible ( Per Alias Impossible). We also believe in two types of Implication 1) Absolute Implication ( Per Se Implication) and 2) Relative Implication (Per Alias Implication). Dear Paul please have a look on our Views . Thanks.
Continuted from first part.
No once was enough.
The earth.
From now on downhill.
The whole point of Islam is that the God created a world based on physical laws and created three (Angels, Jinn, Mankind) or more beings that have moral code, and put two of them (Jinn and Mankind) on a test as to how they apply the moral code. God explains it in Quran that it is not his custom (Sunnah) to judge based on his knowledge, but instead God wants us to actually live out a life and make those moral choices in practice. Neural mechanisms of perceptual decision making seems to suggest it is non-deterministic. It also depends on how the brain is viewed; if "nafs" aka "seat of consciousness" is viewed as the prefrontal area and the rest of the brain viewed as semi-autonomous processing units then choice becomes even more a matter of consciousness and/or deliberate decisions, and less deterministic.
There is no creation story at all in.
Islam. The story does not have a beginning. Quran opens In the middle of a story. Quran needs a prequel.
Name the story before it?
@@Jack-xy2pzThe story before it has already been polluted and contorted by the hands of man. Hence, the Quran.
@@ninaaden8338 speak about quran corruption muslim. the quran is more obviously the product of human revision than torah or gospel. besides allah never says directly what went wrong with the previous holy scriptures. it is something muslims infer because muhammad says they killed prophets and angered god. but even that reasoning is questionable because islam allows almost anyone to be a prophet if they bring a message from god like the false prophet muhammad. based on torah the almighty never told adam or noah to preach any message he gave. the only prophet that was killed by disbelievers is jesus. and quran says jesus didn't actually die. so zero prophets died. so nobody corrupted torah and gospel.
Islam came with Adam (pbuh). And it is not about creation story, even though there are plenty of references in Quran about it, with Chapter 55 being probably pretty comprehensive in this regard, but it is about the afterlife. How to succeed in the next life.@@Jack-xy2pz
the impossible only applies to living not to the creator.
he the almighty already answered the question in the book.
Beshak❤
God made anything everything possible and impossible is for creations to be cteated at its own.
And whose words are better than someone who calls others' to Allah, does good, and says, "I am truly one of those who submit."?
ثبتكم الله علي الحق يا اخوان ونصركم الله في دعوتكم لدين الله
وَمَنْ أَحْسَنُ قَوْلًا مِّمَّن دَعَآ إِلَى ٱللَّهِ وَعَمِلَ صَـٰلِحًا وَقَالَ إِنَّنِى مِنَ ٱلْمُسْلِمِينَ
Ассаламу Алайкум ВарахматуЛлахи вабаракатуху. Из Москва.
ALL possiblity is REALITY.
Impossibility is as absurd as nothingness
So, can an uncreated and omnipotent creator God uncreate Himself?
@@anastasiya256what. He was never created in the first place so the question is invalid no?
"Inability" is our attribute not God's due to our inherent limits and limitations our languages reflect those limits and limitations hence the confusion which breeds numerous paradoxes like these. We men and women are unable to perceive/experience absolute, infinite, unlimited etc therefore we formulate such nonsensical premises. We unknowingly project our limitations upon God. We make things which we cannot lift that's our limitation and inability not God's
For a layman like me God can make an infinitely large stone and has infinite power to lift it inability is our attribute not God's
اے برتر از خیال وقیاس وگمان ووہم
وزہر چہ گفتہ ایم وشنیدیم وخواندہ ایم
دفترتمام گشت و بپایاں رسید عمر
ما ہم چناں در اول وصف تو ماندہ ایم ۔
Very simply/mkre directly; the question inserts the contradiction, then ex falso quodlibet sequitur.
E.g. the existence of a stone Allah couldn't lift is a contradiction between the defined characteristics of stones and the relevant drfined charachteristics of Allah.
God always have positive attribute, hence asmaul husna.
Creating a stone that cannot be lifted is not a positive attribut, therefore couldnt be attributed to Him.
Hell, can create stone that he cannot lift, or removing a power from himself is a negative attribute. Therefore, he will not have it. Didnt have negative attribute is fundamental of god as of his greatness.
Have something negative, is contrary, not a prove that he is omnipotence, but the opposite.
God says. Be and it is
Of course. Allah can do anything beyond human’s logic. If he says let it be, be it. Everything is his control but human’s brain and knowledge can’t get that level yet until he open the knowledge for us.
Please give TLDR at the beginning so that people don't need to spend so much time watching.
Nothing - is impossible. Get it?😊
Another layman's example can a truthful man/woman lie yes he/she can but he/she doesn't Only God limits God(himself). Remember desire and its analogues stem from incompleteness and a sense of unfulfillment which is a human attribute and God is above and beyond such inabilities
NOT "he is not".....but "HE WOULD NOT BE" ( a mistake in modality)
I have not watched the blog but these kind of questions always amuse me. Can God pick something heavier than Himself? These are pretty absurd statements. In this case first we need define the possible then we can look at the impossible! Funny and like I said absurd.
The impossible is only impossible till someone does it
For a layman like me God can make an infinitely large stone and has infinite power to lift it.Inability is our attribute not God's.
I think Paradox number one, the question itself contains contradiction, and therefore the question is false.
"If God is omnipotent, then God can create stone that it cannot be lifted?"
Of course He won't. The word "omnipotent" necessarily implied that nothing can not do by God. The question insert "the stone that it cannot be lifted" whereas it violate "the omnipotent" itself, the word "He can not lift the stone" is contradiction.
Can Elohim create a rock too big for Him to lift? Silly question Elohim is a Spirit and putting silly constraints on Him is impossible.
There is nothing impossible for God. Don’t underestimate God.What it will be will be.No one can by pass God. We are born and we die. We come and go..May God guide us.❤✌🏽🙏
What is impossible for God is that which is contradictory to the defintion of God's fundamental essense.
For example, can God be evil? No, He cannot, because God is maximally Good.
For example, can God be impotent? No, He cannot, because God is by definition, omnipotent. What being or object can make an omnipotent being, impotent? That is like asking, what number is greater than infinity? The question itself is intellectually disabled, infinity by definition, cannot have a number greater than it.
For example, can God be decieved? No, He cannot, how can an omniscient being have knowledge withheld from Him? Who is there who can withhold knowledge from the One who sees all, hears all, knows all, both the created and non-existent. There is no such being or object that can decieve God.
For example, can God suffer? No, He cannot. How can an All-mighty being be made to suffer? What can overcome the Might of God? Who is there who can challenge God? Who is there that can make an Omnipotent Being, impotent? There is none.
Your answer is technically correct. What is impossible for God is when a fool asks a question that doesn't make any sense and is purely gibberish. Such as, is this rock alive or dead? A rock is neither alive nor dead, the question itself is foolish. Likewise, can God suffer? The question itself is foolish and flawed, an omnipotent being by definition cannot be impotent. Suffering requires impotence just as deception requires ignorance.
God can't cease to exist , that's just one example.
God can do anything except if it's against His own nature & God will never do ungodly things.
I think atheists really just don’t understand a theist’s conception of God or they understand the concept, they just categorically reject it from the get go. It seems they want to place the same limitations on God that we humans experience in our world. Things like gravity, linear time, morality and even logic. These are all things that place limits on what we can and cannot do in our world. So they’ll say things like God can’t be perfect in His goodness because He allows evil to exist in the world. Or, they’ll use logic (a delimiting device if there ever was one) by proposing such conundrums as “ If God is omnipotent, could He create a stone so heavy that even He could not lift it?” Their mistake is in effect, conflating human agency with divine agency. When we say God is omnipotent, that’s what we mean. so the answer to the conundrum stated above is yes, God can create a stone that is so heavy that even He cannot lift it. But remember we’re talking omnipotent. So what God does, as the atheist watches, is he creates an entire universe in the blink of an eye in which everything is just as it is now except that he cannot lift that stone that he just created no matter how hard he tries. And then, within the blink of an eye, he creates another universe, having destroyed the first in which everything is the same, except that that same stone he created in the other universe remains, and he lifts it quite easily. And he looks at the atheist, winks and then giggles. Divine humor.
Yes sure
Its not real contradiction. Because we put human limit and atributes to Allah who are limitles. Like ppl want to proof that infinity its not true infinite. With matemathics for example.
Imagine a mere creation like us can think this way.
Thats why i always say Alhamdulillah.
The answer is no.. everything God created.
Automatically submits unto Him..
Allah is the most powerful and the most wise
The most powerful being is not a creator at all, because it already has everything.
Creators (like Allah) have nothing & so have to create in order to have those things.
@@donaldmcronald8989 your comment is ridiculous and completely false, you are clueless and duluded..
Can you make an argument so heavy that is it indigestible.. haha
IMO I would think many would not know why logic analysis is important in philosophy, that might be needed for the "appetizer"
Second thing that I can conclude, from the analysis (until midway, there is a heck of a lot of advert ie every 3 mins) is that.. if a thing does not exist, the claim for the argument does not exist/apply
God is the creator of everything, and all things created dependent on God's power, nothing is beyond His grasp
IOW any stone which exists cannot escape God's power, because all things created cannot escape His grasp (of power)
Therefore the said argument does not apply at all to God, because a stone that can escape His grasp does not exist
Its simple logic,,, What is Impossible for Allah Is to have the Impossibility.
We don't use Philosophy and Someone Theory about Allah,, just Logic
Really poor audio quality
The impossible is impossible.
Simple answer, can god create a big stone that it cannot be lifted? Yes, look up at galactic level, they are everywhere. Very big stones are floating, flying all over the outer space.
Why do you have to say that God doesn’t “lie” based on moral principles? Does’t the Quran say in some places that God is the best of schemers/deceivers… like 3:54? Also, Allah guides who he wills and misleads (into disbelief) who he wills. (Ex, 16:93, 35:8) If God hides any knowledge from us humans, then he is already “deceiving” us, or lying by omission. We’re not all-knowing, so God deceives…
I think this is the same as the problem of evil. You’d have to say that God permits or wills the “evil” or the “deception” because it is for the greater good of the creation.
It’s a Platonic idea that God cannot do any bad, only good, but this consequently makes God not omnipotent.
Doing Immoral and Injustice is impossible for GOD.
*Something* created *dependant*
*Cannot fulfil the* task of something
*Independent*
God cannot be Surprised or
Over come
The problem about human talking about god is the context. Human context is not the same. So to equate these two contexts are great injustice or simply wrong and stupid.
Does a very big stone that is impossible to lift exist? Not talking about god, but talk about the stone.
Yes it does exists. But the stone has to obey god. You may wonder, really? Yes. Because this is out of normal human context.
If a stone that is so big, it will be bigger than (what?), bigger than human. So that will be planet size for example. So it will have gravity on its own. To the human perspective it is then impossible to lift a big stone like the earth.
The word "lift" is a relative term. Meaning that if you tries to apply it as absolute it would not be meaningful. If you want to lift something you need a reference. You are standing on the floor, or on the earth which act as a reference. So you can lift something from the ground up say one meter.
So are we trying to assume god need to stand on something to lift that very big stone? If there is nothing to stand because the stone is too big, even the stone is sufficiently big to have it own gravity, then it is impossible to lift.
So what do we have here? both possible and impossible exist. And that doesn't in any slightest degree tarnish the greatness of god.
A paradox by definition are impossible to exist, so asking about paradox is foolish to begin with
Finally someone gets it
Maybe itd be better to use "Does God" instead of "Can God"...
Amine
God can do anything and everything, the impossible is literally not a thing, a non-existent i.e. nothing. So its irrelevant to God's power and ability.
Manusia hanya boleh berfikir tentang apa yang di indranya seperti : alam semester, manusia dan kehidupan, soal Zat Allah Ta'ala manusia dilarang berfikir sebab tidak akan sanggup, quran surah Al-Baqarah ayat : 255.
What happened to Allah??
40:00 Aristotelian
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Brothers, PLEASE REFRAIN FROM ALL WHITE WALLPAPERS. It's visually jarring and monotonous, esp on intricate lectures such as this. Use a darker color in the brown/orange/peach/grey color spectrum.
If god can do, it is not impossible. So asking can god do something impossible, is absurd.
But we know there are impossible situations for example, god cannot have a son.
Why do people follow Islam? Can someone explain please?
It's a sort of Calvinism where everything is already taken care of. God has planned it all out perfectly. Cope.
@@donaldmcronald8989 Your false arguments are irrelevant.
For a Muslim the Holy Quran is the Absolute Truth, and all the previous Divinely Revelations the Evangel/ Injeel, the Torah, the Spalms, in their uncorrupted from.
A Muslim belief in Allah Almighty, in all the Holy Prophets, all the Divinely Revelations , all the Angels.
@@MuhammadAli-vp7qt lol. Allah's plan is not a false argument. Astagfirullah.
At the beginning i didnt even wanna watch the video
The proposition is obviously absurd
Its like asking a calculator to divide by 0
The idea is simply nonsensical
Like "*what does dividing by zero even mean?*" and it doesnt mean anything, its just an assortment of symbols
Allah is beyond our comprehension. Sounds that we challenging The Almighty. If we delft too deep - we might get lost
I tried 😂 I really tried 😂 . But I was lost at 23mins lol but at least i got to 23mins lol
"Brothers and sisters," do not pay any money to so-called religious foundations if you do not know them very well. Do not believe in the people who sell Cannah.
i don't really like the philosophical logical approach to things pertaining allahs attributes. This is what made the asharis and mutazila deny attributes of allah for example. Applying logic to god is in a way basically saying that he is limited by the laws of logic. Thats a scary statement to make.
If God couldnt lift the stone He wouldnt be God anymore
God doesnt operate in illogical realms because they don’t exist
This is way too much talk for such a simple topic.
"I don't accept that premise" doesn't need an hour
God is not relating to the impossible things such as one plus one equals to three is impossible and it is stupidity to ask God to create things which are impossible to exist.The power of God is not related to things which are not exist.It doesnt mean God is weak.To ask God to create another God is also impossible cause the second God is not God but a creation
This question is or came from a non believer. You are limiting the power of God.
The creator of heavens and earth 🌎 and all that between can do whatever He The Most Merciful wants to do.
It's not befitting that kind of question someone who is a believer to say
. Period.
It's like saying can Allah create a man so honest that he always lies 😂
This is equal to " is God stronger then God ?" Are you very clever?
Allah is only as big as His attributes will permit Him to be
But He permits and does what he wills.
@@donaldmcronald8989 are you on drugs or whatever.
@@user-jc8cp6iz1r Compatibilism or randomness
@@user-jc8cp6iz1r You make it sound as though there are things in His way. He does not permit anything.
Can God do the impossible is the same word with Can God dies?. No He does not die, He is impossible to die. That is only words play, the weakness of human language. Something that God does not do is something that never exists. God do not do that.