Does Reason Leads us Away from God? -Mufti Abu Layth

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MOBOTIX questions a really good question about people have said this and they posted on my thing saying look you always speak about reason then how come Neil deGrasse Tyson hasn't become a Muslim isn't he like amongst the voices of reason how come Richard Dawkins who tries to champion the voice of reason isn't a Muslim how come you know old so this is the point that all these people with reason their reason is letter to go far and you're saying reason is but that's the nature of the search that is the nature of the

search look I think let's be honest we have to want to fold one the nature of the search to the secondly the fact that our environment religion is massively problematic in our day in age it is like let's just be honest like if you if you were born a non-muslim you wouldn't see much interest in religion not God but religion because religion is seen more about control God is different but religion so you could say well how come Neil deGrasse Tyson all these people

don't speak about God then why don't they Richard Dawkins and these people they do say that look in his own interviews he says oh if I put her on a grade from one to seven seven being certainty there is no God he said I'll mark myself a six I won't say I'm a seven but the point is why doesn't he argue saying that look maybe there is maybe there could be a God because the belief of a God is not counted reason because look we understand this universe came from some way it retracts to something was it for example a multiple universe was they a whatever it was was it a God they would

argue is unnecessary but not counter reason what do you mean what do you base that on I see I show I mean you could argue that but I don't see how the belief like the construct the concept of God is counter

reason it's not counter reason you could not all the leading leading atheists that you can find will will clearly state this beginning front with people like Freud and all these you know the forefathers of atheism they will write that this is not something just God I'm speaking about just God not organized and institutionalized religion just the concept of it God is not counter reason you could say there's no evidence for it that's true you could say that look but does that negate the existence of a God or does it make the concept and absurd concept it doesn't make it an absurd concept in my understanding by any

measure now why do these people not argue for this then sometimes because from the point why would they because they just fed up with people of religion so if they argued this it would just lend to their argument it's like somebody asked me earlier on about thick and they said well you know and I said well why don't those ol Imam mention the diversity because they know the moment you support even hypothetically another argument people will go to it and they just fed up with it like those people don't what let's say I've got a view they don't want to share my view so they won't highlight anything that leads to that even if they see some sense in it

so it's not that these scientists don't see any reason or they find that the concept of God is absurd they don't find like so Stephen Hawking didn't write about it being an absurd concept he didn't say he just felt that the universe could answer itself without the need for a god that's all so I think that's you're right people could like I think people are fed up with religion not so much with God but there's a distinction because they then say like a lot of these a TSA okay they could be a God but how do you get from that God to the God of the Old Testament who is telling you to butcher people this is

the problem that they have with religion kind of the way it's presented so that and yes people could go to Kufa we're using reason but if that's their search that's their search if Allah

wants you to reason it's the natural no I think I think that's very well said Mustafar that look it's like any tool that you could use it in any way it could be used to go against God although

I don't personally believe that the concept of a God is counter reason for institutionalized religion yes you can find many arguments to reason against them but the concept of a god I don't believe is and I don't believe personally Islam is counter reason I feel that people are presenting Islam in an unreasonable way and my whole point is to show that look that Allah and His Messenger are not unreasonable and that is personally that's like my whole mission to kind of like to show that that Islam does stunts it does stand the test of reason it does stand the test of

any of these arguments being put against it but in order to do that sometimes you have to clear away some cobwebs that have kind of built up over the centuries through culture all through other understanding so I think yeah I think that was what was you were saying about