Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
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How to Find Truth | August 8, 2007

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1 min
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Truth concerns every human being
“Truth is a concern of every human being”
6 min 8 sec
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Truth as universal concern and seeking spirit
“Truth is a concern of every human being”
1 min 2 sec
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Seeking spirit from intellectual discontentment
“Seeking spirit is the result of pursuit”
2 min 2 sec
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Seeking spirit as intellectual discontentment
“Seeking spirit is intellectual discontentment”
1 min 1 sec
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No justice in our world
“There is no justice in our world”
3 min 4 sec
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No justice and unfulfilled desires
“There is no justice and desires remain unfulfilled”
2 min 38 sec
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Two categories of truth seekers
“Two categories of people - those who compromise and those who continue seeking”
1 min
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Seeking spirit and intellectual discontentment
“Seeking spirit and intellectual discontentment are one and the same”
3 min 8 sec
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Prophet Muhammad as a true seeker
“Prophet Muhammad was a true seeker, intellectual discontentment”
5 min 43 sec
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Prophet Muhammad's journey as a true seeker
“Prophet Muhammad was a true seeker before prophethood”
1 min
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Sincerity is a comprehensive word
“Sincerity is a very comprehensive word”
3 min 2 sec
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Sincerity includes objectivity and unbiased thinking
“Sincerity is a very comprehensive word”
2 min 40 sec
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Example of scholar believing in karma
“He was a great believer in karma theory”
1 min 3 sec
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Readiness to surrender before reason
“The third condition is readiness to surrender before reason”
2 min 35 sec
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Third condition and meeting atheist philosopher
“The third condition is readiness to surrender before reason”
4 min 7 sec
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Meeting atheist philosopher and the one-line answer
“In 1965, I met a philosopher who was an atheist”
1 min 3 sec
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Same criterion to prove anything
“I said the same criterion you have to prove anything else”
3 min 1 sec
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Shift from direct to inferential argument
“In pre-Einstein period, knowledge was confined to micro world”
3 min 31 sec
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Inferential argument now as valid as direct
“Inferential argument is as valid as direct argument”
6 min 2 sec
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Inferential argument for God and science
“Inferential argument is as valid as direct argument”
2 min 31 sec
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Proof of God via inferential argument
“You prove existence of God by inferential argument same as electrons”
1 min
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Three requirements to find truth
“These three things are required: seeking spirit, sincerity, and readiness to surrender before reason”