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    A conversation with my atheist friend
    A conversation with my atheist friend
    A conversation with my atheist friend
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    A conversation with my atheist friend

    By Mustafa A.B

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    "Conversation with My Atheist Friend" is a thought-provoking and insightful narrative that delves into the intricate world of religious beliefs and their absence. Through the heartfelt exchanges between two individuals, one a staunch believer and the other a non-believer, the book explores the complexities of faith and its impact on our lives. As they share their perspectives, the characters reveal their personal journeys, challenging each other's viewpoints and fostering a deeper understanding of the human experience. This engaging and enlightening book offers readers a unique opportunity to reflect on their own beliefs and values, ultimately promoting empathy and open-mindedness in a world that often finds itself divided by faith and skepticism.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMustafa A.B
    Release dateApr 9, 2024
    ISBN9798223074656
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      A conversation with my atheist friend - Mustafa A.B

      Chapter One: He didnot give birth and was not born

      My friend is a man who loves to argue and loves to talk... and he believes that we are - we are Gullible believers - we feed on illusions and laugh at ourselves in heaven

      And the beautiful virgins make us miss the pleasures of this world and its charms... and my friend is with this

      On the occasion, he graduated in France and obtained a doctorate...and he lived with...

      The hippies started to deny everything.

      ––––––––

      He said to me sarcastically:

      You say: God exists... and the basis of your proofs is a law

      Causality which states that every craft has a maker...and every creation has a creator

      .. And every existence has an origin.. Weaving indicates the weaver.. and drawing indicates

      On the painter... and the engraving indicates the engraver... and the universe according to this logic

      The most eloquent proof of the Almighty God who created him.. We believed and believed in this Creator.. Don’t we have the right to ask with the same logic..

      And who created the Creator.. Who created the God you are talking about? Doesn’t it lead us? The same inferences you made to this...and according to the same law of causality...what

      What do you think about this bump, please?

      ––––––––

      We say to him: Your question is invalid... and there is no pitfall or need, so you are welcome

      That God is the Creator and then you say who created Him?! So you make him a creator and a creature in me

      The same sentence is a contradiction.

      The other side of the corruption of the question is that you imagine that the Creator is subject to laws His creatures...causation is our law, we are the children of time and space. The God

      who created time and space is necessarily above time and space

      It is not right for us to imagine it restricted by time and place... nor by the laws of time

      And the place.

      And God is the one who created the law of causality... so it is not permissible for us to imagine Him being submissive

      To the law of causality that He created.

      With this sophistry, you are like puppets that move with your dumbbells... and you imagine that the person who made them must also move with your dumbbells... so if we told her, "Rather,

      he moves of his own accord"... she said: It is impossible for that Something moves on its own... I see everything in my world

      He moves with your dumbbells. Likewise, you do not imagine that God exists in Himself without a being... just because you are

      You see everything around you in need of an inspiration. And you are safe to think that God needs a parachute to descend upon humans

      He needs a fast bus to reach his prophets... Glory be to Him

      Dr. Mustafa Mahmoud

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      A conversation with my atheist friend

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      Far above these descriptions...

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      And Immanuel Kant, the German philosopher, in his book Critique of Reason. The Pure One realized that the mind cannot comprehend the nature of things and that...

      incapable He is naturally prepared to perceive only details and phenomena...while he is

      About realizing abstract essences such as divine existence...but we know God

      By conscience and not by reason...our longing for justice is our evidence of the existence of...

      Just... our thirst for water is our proof of the existence of water...

      ––––––––

      As for Aristotle, he continued in the sequence of causes, saying: The chair From wood and wood from the tree... and the tree from the seed... and the seed

      From the sower.. and I had to say that this is a serial digression In infinite time we must end in the first beginning with a cause

      Without need for a reason...a first cause or first mover without need

      To the one who directs it... a Creator without needing a Creator... and He is the same

      We say it about God..

      ––––––––

      As for Ibn Arabi, his response to this question was, The question of who was created? The Creator. It is a question that can only be answered by a corrupt mind. God is the One

      It proves existence, and it is not correct for us to take existence as proof of God... just as

      we say that light proves day... and we would reverse the verse if we said w

      God says in a holy hadith: (I am the one who can be cited as evidence.. I am not the one who

      can be evidenced)... God is the guide who does not need evidence.. because he is the clear, true God.

      By Himself...and He is the proof for everything...God is manifest in order and precision Beauty and precision... in the leaf of the tree... in the feather of the peacock... in the

      wing of the bed... in the perfume of the rose... in the blossom of the nightingale... in the interconnectedness Stars and skies... in this symphonic poem called

      The

      universe... If we said that this happened by chance... we would be safe to imagine that throwing letters A press in the air can cause it to spontaneously assemble into a shape

      A poem by Shakespeare without a poet and without an author.

      ––––––––

      The Qur’an saves us from these arguments in a few eloquent words, saying:

      Clearly, categorically and without philosophizing:

      {Say: there is no god but Allah . God is eternal. didin't born and didin't have children . And he had no regrets

      Uhud} Surat Al-Ikhlas 1:

      ––––––––

      Our friend asks us sarcastically: Why do you say that God is one? why not

      ––––––––

      There are multiple gods..? Do they distribute their specialties among them?

      ––––––––

      We will respond to him with the logic that he recognizes... with science, not with the Qur’an

      ..

      We will tell him that the Creator is one, because the universe is a machine built of material One and the same plan.. From hydrogen, the two elements were composed

      The ninety in Mendeleev's table are in the same way... by fusion and the release of atomic energy with which the stars ignite and the suns ignite.

      In the space of the

      universe. As all life is built from carbon deposits, all types of life

      It is charred by burning." And according to one anatomical plan... anatomy

      , rabbit, dove, crocodile, giraffe, whale,

      It reveals a single anatomical plan, the same arteries and veins

      ––––––––

      Frog

      And the chambers of the heart, and the same bones, every bone has its counterpart...the wing In the dove it is the arm in the frog...the same bones with mutation

      Slight...and the giraffe's neck has the same vertebrae along its length

      The seven that you find in the neck of the hedgehog...and the nervous system is in The whole consists of a brain, spinal cord, sensory nerves, and nerves

      Movement...and the digestive system consisting of the stomach, duodenum, and small intestine The large intestine and the reproductive system are the same as the ovaries, uterus, and testicles And its ducts... and the urinary system - the kidneys, the ureters, and the urinary vesicle... then

      The anatomical unit in everyone is the cell... and in plants it is also the same

      In animals, as in humans, with the same specifications, they breathe and reproduce

      And you die and are born in the same

      way... So what is it strange after this to say that the Creator is one? ..Doesn't that indicate that?

      Methods unit. Why is there so much completeness? Is there a deficiency in it that requires someone to complete it? ..But

      the deficient are numerous. If

      there were multiple gods, they would differ, and every god would take away what He created, and it would be corrupte

      The heavens and the earth, and to God belongs pride and power, and these are not attributes

      The company tolerates...

      ––––––––

      Our friend mocks the meaning of divinity as we understand it... and says, Isn’t it? It is strange that the Lord intervenes in families, small and large, and takes a corner

      The animal, and He inspires the bees to make homes in the mountains, and not to fall

      There is not a leaf that he does not know, and there is no fruit that emerges from its sleeves that he does not count And no female conceives or gives birth except with his knowledge. And if she stumbles, he gives birthIftoame

      fly lands in food, then he is the one who stumbled upon it

      He dropped it.. and if the temperature broke in a phone, he is the one who broke it.. and so

      If the rain abstains, then he is the one who prevented it, and if it falls, then he is the one who caused it.. except

      You preoccupy your God with many trivial matters with this understanding.

      I do not understand whether, in the eyes of the questioner, God would be more worthy of divinity if he were exempted

      He freed himself from these responsibilities, took a vacation, and turned his back on the universe

      He created him and saw them eating each other! Is the worthy Lord, in his view, an idle and unconscious Lord who does not listen or listen?

      He sees but does not respond and does not care for his creatures? ..Then where does the questioner come from?

      Knowing that one topic is trivial and does not deserve God’s intervention, and another topic

      Important and dangerous?

      A fly that seems insignificant to the questioner does not matter to him Whether it falls into food or not, this fly can change history

      With her trivial fall, she could transmit cholera to an army

      A battle is won for another party, after which the balance of history changes.

      Didn't Alexander the Great kill a mosquito? The most trivial introductions can lead to the most serious and dangerous results

      Introductions can end in nothing.. and the world of the unseen alone is

      Who knows the value of everything. Did the questioner imagine himself as a guardian of God who determines his powers?

      May God sanctify and distance himself from this naive perception. But the God worthy of divinity here is the God who has knowledge of everything

      .. Not an atom's weight escapes Him on earth or in heaven. The All-Hearing,

      Answering God, Who cares for His creatures. w

      Chapter II

      If God has determined my actions, why should He hold me accountable?

      ––––––––

      My friend said gloatingly, imagining that he had grabbed me by the neck and that he had not

      An escape for me this time: You say that God performs everything in His kingdom according to destiny, even though...

      actions for us, so if this is my situation, and my actions are God’sGwoidll has determined our

      It is appreciated by him, so why should he hold me accountable for it?

      Don't tell me to bring you back.. I have a choice.. There is no greater lie than this

      Libel And let me ask you: Did I have a choice about my birth, my gender, my height, my width, my color, and my country?

      ?

      Do I choose to make the sun rise and the moon set?

      Is it by my choice that judgment descends on me and death surprises me and I fall into...

      Tragedy, I find no way out except crime.. Why does God force me to do something and then punish me for it?

      And if you say that you are free, and that you have a will that is alongside the will of God, then you should not associate polytheism

      With these words, do you fall into the statement of the multiplicity of

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