How Did Reason Lead You To Choose Islam Over Atheism? | Mufti Abu Layth

how did reason lead you to choose Islam over atheism much love for the super chat um how did reason lead you to choose Islam over atheism well you see well there's many um right sorry I was just reading another right so naughty naughty a few of the comments yeah so hmm well there's a bunch of things to really say about that [Music] um

see well atheism is a bit of a uh I don't know I think it's a bit of a hard sell in the sense depends on where depends on how it's being sold and who it's being sold to so okay to me now because this question is being directed to me so I can only answer from my perspective the world is incredibly profound existence or being with a capital B is incredibly profound

and the the kind of the path to the transcendent for me is is clearly directed by consciousness so Consciousness is I mean it's you know it's just a wrecking ball for conceptually for atheism like atheism the concept of the being known Divine transcendent

being is for me very weak in light of consciousness that is the most powerful argument it beats the teleological beats the cosmological beats the ontological it beats for me Consciousness is the most profound kind of marker which points to the transcendent so

okay so that said then next there is the concept of the intelligibility of being with a capital B this intelligibility of being itself that being that it that anything is intelligible this this is like well it cannot to me that juxtaposed with

the random coherence of everything you know it obliterates every single time it wins you know hands down every single time so it does like I can't you see if okay so the random coherence of matter and and therefore by extension coherence of meaning so meaning is is simply just randomized

um synchronization it's not it's nothing like meaning is nothing it is just arbitrary randomized cohesion of whatever it is that is meaning that that could never be meaning meaning is much more powerful than that and the fact that meaning with the capital M this this is like how can how can that be arbitrary randomized cohesion of of phenomenon

translate to coherent you know meaning with such power that we begin to Fathom the cosmos those two can't translate so yeah I mean I get it that people can say that like I get it that people can act as if they don't believe in a god or they can pretend to act as if they don't believe in a god

I believe everybody believes kind of in a god so they may not call it God they may kind of defer it to a value of some kind but whatever it is the what's at the Apex of this hierarchical structure whatever it is so but they all believe in it that and it is greater than them and it is not arbitrary you see so

it's impossible honestly I I feel that yeah take life itself you take life does it have a sanctity would you say yes why does it have a sanctity why say well it's precious why is it precious

so we'll why like what makes life precious you say well you know because we're incredibly unique says who say we're unique from our perspective our perspective is arbitrary are we unique from the tardigrades perspective tardigrades have survived you know much more substantially than we have they can even survive in space so what's I mean what makes human just taking life

itself especially human life why is it special there's nothing special about it if it's just arbitrary I think there's an they would be somewhat of a consensus amongst people that they cannot deny the sanctity of human life but why can't they deny it and just to give it some utilitarian value is not the truth to say well because human beings can do things like make schools or make countries and so what what does that mean it doesn't mean

anything you know who says human beings are precious so what we say well that's exactly my point defeats the point it's arbitrary it's arbitrary it doesn't mean anything so but then that defies the reality in which we live the reality in which we live we seem to intuitively know that no that is wrong because human life is valuable but why is it valuable you say but we just seem to know it

because you see now this is it now you start to go deeper within and there are values that transcend those values you can't even if you can't prove them even if you can't entirely rationalize them but you or accurately rationalize them you know them to be true whatever that means and it's not a empiricist's claim it's not it seems to be an intuitive claim but it is for a

hierarchical value that is above just randomization or above these things and it's inexplicable in and of itself you can't explain it you see it's all these so everyone everybody fundamentally obeys the sacred but they Just Disagree between themselves on what that sacred is on I don't mean on all of them they they

would all agree pretty much on human life but between them what else can they parameterize with that sacred they disagree so but that doesn't you know there's there's the elephant in the room those why is anything sacred so yeah I hope that helps