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It is quite astonishing how there's still people out there who will share heretical ideas by the early falaasifah which Imam Al-Ghazali thoroughly refuted.
With all due respect to Ibn Sina, but these ideas are complete non-sense and kufr, and here's how:
... https://twitter.com/IslamScienceNet/status/1247802299663003650
With all due respect to Ibn Sina, but these ideas are complete non-sense and kufr, and here's how:
... https://twitter.com/IslamScienceNet/status/1247802299663003650
There is a hidden assumption here that laws of nature are some kind of entities to be violated.
Laws of nature are simply mathematical descriptions of reality, they're not actual powers or forces in the world.
The power to manifest these belongs to God
https://twitter.com/IslamScienceNet/status/1247802365534564354
Laws of nature are simply mathematical descriptions of reality, they're not actual powers or forces in the world.
The power to manifest these belongs to God
https://twitter.com/IslamScienceNet/status/1247802365534564354
To prove that only God can cause things into existence
I'll simply say this.
For a thing to be possible, its possibility to exist cannot become existent. Its possibility to exist is beginningless. I.e the power to create the thing has to be beginningless.
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I'll simply say this.
For a thing to be possible, its possibility to exist cannot become existent. Its possibility to exist is beginningless. I.e the power to create the thing has to be beginningless.
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If one was to say that the possibility of X began to exist, then one would be saying that X was not possible prior to becoming possible, i.e it was impossible.
This is an absurdity since a thing being impossible means it cannot exist at all.
If one was to say that the possibility of X began to exist, then one would be saying that X was not possible prior to becoming possible, i.e it was impossible.
This is an absurdity since a thing being impossible means it cannot exist at all.
So the power by which all possible things can be created has to be beginningless. And we know that God is the only beginningless being since He is not in time and as Muslims we don't disagree on the fact of only one necessary/timeless being existing, so there's no need for me...
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Since laws of nature are contingent and began to exist (were created) this means they cannot have the power to cause existence. Only God is able to cause things into existence, to create things.
And so any phenomena which you see, it is...
Since laws of nature are contingent and began to exist (were created) this means they cannot have the power to cause existence. Only God is able to cause things into existence, to create things.
And so any phenomena which you see, it is...
... directly created by God in every moment.
When things change, all this means is God is either creating new things in that moment or new accidents in the essences of things or He's annihilating certain things or certain accidents.
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When things change, all this means is God is either creating new things in that moment or new accidents in the essences of things or He's annihilating certain things or certain accidents.
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Following from what I said, this means that there's nothing that can stop God from creating miracles.
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https://twitter.com/IslamScienceNet/status/1247802420781912066
Following from what I said, this means that there's nothing that can stop God from creating miracles.
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https://twitter.com/IslamScienceNet/status/1247802420781912066
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Much of the miracles of the Prophet Muhammad s.a.w.s are mass transmitted (they have tawatur) and for you to negate them means that you have to negate a way of knowledge (reports/akhbaar) which is absurd.
And no, theology was not used to gain clout..
https://twitter.com/IslamScienceNet/status/1247802490508021760
Much of the miracles of the Prophet Muhammad s.a.w.s are mass transmitted (they have tawatur) and for you to negate them means that you have to negate a way of knowledge (reports/akhbaar) which is absurd.
And no, theology was not used to gain clout..
https://twitter.com/IslamScienceNet/status/1247802490508021760
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Theology was used to root the religion into reason. Transmission of miracles existed already within the tradition since the beginning. Otherwise how do you explain the numerous hadiths about miracles in the muwatta', in bukhari and in so many pre-11th century works???
Theology was used to root the religion into reason. Transmission of miracles existed already within the tradition since the beginning. Otherwise how do you explain the numerous hadiths about miracles in the muwatta', in bukhari and in so many pre-11th century works???
I see no reason to say fire cannot burn forever in time towards the future.
If God is able to create fire and the accident of burning in a single moment without effort, then why would it be impossible for Him to replicate these realities in the next...
https://twitter.com/IslamScienceNet/status/1247802577057509382
If God is able to create fire and the accident of burning in a single moment without effort, then why would it be impossible for Him to replicate these realities in the next...
https://twitter.com/IslamScienceNet/status/1247802577057509382
... moment and then the moment after that and the one after that ad infinitum?
Finally:
The torture of hellfire and the joys of paradise are described as realities of pain and pleasure which can be physical.
The Qur'an gives us information that the...
https://twitter.com/IslamScienceNet/status/1247802745639198727
Finally:
The torture of hellfire and the joys of paradise are described as realities of pain and pleasure which can be physical.
The Qur'an gives us information that the...
https://twitter.com/IslamScienceNet/status/1247802745639198727
... inhabitants of hell will choke and that they will eat poison, that their skins will burn off and regenerate.
The inhabitants of paradise will eat, drink, walk, run, do whatever they wish in paradise.
Where is the evidence that this is not physical? The Prophet s.a.w.s...
The inhabitants of paradise will eat, drink, walk, run, do whatever they wish in paradise.
Where is the evidence that this is not physical? The Prophet s.a.w.s...
... called both the fire and the garden realities (haqq) so how can one compare this experience to that of dreams?
https://sunnah.com/bukhari/19/1
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https://sunnah.com/bukhari/19/1
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To finish off I'll just say this.
Stop forcing the naturalistic ontological framework on the Muslims when it doesn't fit with either reality or theology or revelation.
Salam.
Stop forcing the naturalistic ontological framework on the Muslims when it doesn't fit with either reality or theology or revelation.
Salam.
