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Man and Paradise August 18, 2013

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Quran 96:1 · Al-Alaq
Quran 96:1 · Al-Alaq
Quran 2:219 · Al-Baqarah
Quran 96:5 · Al-Alaq
Sunan Al-Tirmidhi, Hadith No. 3130
Quran 95:6 · At-Tin
Quran 13:28 · Ar-Ra'd
Musnad Ahmad, Hadith No. 12757
Quran 18:31 · Al-Kahf
Quran 18:31 · Al-Kahf
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4 min 47 sec
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Discovering truth begins with realizing your own helplessness
“Today's topic: Man and Paradise”
2 min 10 sec
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Why so many people never find life's true ideology
“Countless people lived and died without ever finding truth”
52 sec
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Knowledge only comes after admitting you don't know
“You gain knowledge only once you realize you don't know”
49 sec
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Tongue-under-tooth story shows human helplessness
“My own tongue got caught under my own tooth”
5 min 54 sec
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Atatürk mocked the Qur'an, then died young from stress and drink
“Kemal Atatürk read the Qur'an and mocked Surah At-Tin”
2 min 14 sec
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Modern man has everything yet still isn't happy
“What does 'cast down to the lowest of the low' mean?”
37 sec
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Bertrand Russell: happiness is unachievable in this world
“Bertrand Russell's book Happiness says happiness is unattainable”
24 sec
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No great person in history died happy
“Every great person's life ends in frustration, not joy”
36 sec
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Tragedy is always more popular than comedy, and why
“No comedy is ever as popular as tragedy”
3 min 27 sec
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Man is a perfection-seeking creature trapped in an imperfect world
“Man was made to seek perfection, but the world is imperfect”
4 min 18 sec
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Paradise explained as man's true habitat, like water for a fish
“A fish's habitat is water — what's man's habitat?”
39 sec
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Fish out of water as a metaphor for restlessness
“Take a fish out of water and it suffers”
29 sec
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Qur'an: in Paradise you get everything you desire
“In Paradise you'll find everything your soul desires”
2 min 22 sec
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Why this world can never be man's true home
“Put a fish anywhere but water and it can't rest”
2 min 39 sec
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Maulana's own five years as a truth-seeking skeptic
“For five years of my life, I was a skeptic”
1 min 53 sec
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Islam's idea of freedom is peace, not unlimited liberty
“An Egyptian protester said she had everything but no freedom”
1 min 31 sec
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Nationalism and democracy are not shirk in Islam
“Is nationalism considered shirk in Islam?”
36 sec
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Living in 'your own glory' is really arrogance
“Living in your own glory is really just arrogance”
1 min 52 sec
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Everyone must question the culture they were born into
“Every person lives inside a cultural conditioning”
2 min 16 sec
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Kindness to parents means meeting their real needs, not more
“Does Islam command obeying parents or just being kind to them?”
50 sec
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A surgeon's dilemma: honesty with insurance companies
“I don't lie to insurance companies about a patient's illness”
3 min 37 sec
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What a fatwa really is, and why fatwa activism is un-Islamic
“Issuing fatwas the way it's done today has nothing to do with Islam”
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A fatwa literally just means 'an opinion'
“Fatwa literally just means opinion”
2 min 20 sec
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Doubt after finding truth is fuel for growth, not failure
“Does frustration after finding truth mean the discovery was incomplete?”