Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
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God Particle July 8, 2012

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References in this lecture 13
Quran 4:82 · An-Nisa
Quran 10:92 · Yunus
Quran 21:30 · Al-Anbiya
Quran 41:53 · Fussilat
Sahih al-Bukhari, Hadith no. 3062
Al-Bayhaqi in Shu‘ab al-Iman ,Hadith no. 1660
Quran 35:27 · Fatir
Quran 44:3 · Ad-Dukhan
Musnad Ahmad,Hadith no. 23962
Quran 5:82 · Al-Ma'idah
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4 min 44 sec
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Debunking the 'God Particle' name as media hype, not science
“Today's subject is the God Particle”
2 min 8 sec
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How a publisher's edit turned it into 'God Particle'
“One scientist wrote a book called by Leon Lederman”
39 sec
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Why 'God Particle' was originally 'God Damn Particle'
“He titled his book 'God Damn Particle'”
2 min 30 sec
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The mass problem: why the universe needed the Higgs Boson
“Then a huge question arose”
2 min 50 sec
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Peter Higgs and the global hunt that named the boson
“This theory was written about in many articles and books”
38 sec
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Biggest research project in history: hunting the Higgs Boson
“Perhaps this big a research project never happened in history”
4 min 8 sec
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Quran's 1400-year-old claim that no discovery will ever contradict it
“There's a very strange verse in the Quran, Surah An-Nisa 4:82”
3 min 47 sec
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Pharaoh's mummified body preserved exactly as the Quran foretold
“Consider Pharaoh, the contemporary king of Prophet Moses”
5 min 5 sec
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Quran's 'joined then split apart' verse parallels the Big Bang
“The heavens and the earth were joined together, then We split them apart”
36 sec
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The unanswered question: who created the Higgs Boson itself?
“But the question is — who created the Higgs Boson?”
4 min 30 sec
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Nature doesn't explain itself — it still needs a creator
“I wrote in my book 'God Arises' about Newton's era”
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Without God, the question of the universe's origin stays open
“So how did that miraculous particle itself come into being?”
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Einstein's answer: 'I am agnostic, not atheist'
“Einstein was once asked — are you an atheist?”
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Scientists are agnostic, not atheist, about God
“Some people think scientists are atheists, enemies of the truth”
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Why people become enemies of what they don't understand
“There's an Arabic saying: people become enemies of what they don't know”
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Living without confusion by sorting things out clearly
“We should not live in confusion”
5 min 33 sec
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Jewish and Christian scholars' discoveries debunk 'only two enemies of Islam'
“They've done such great work — Jewish scholars, Christian scholars”
1 min 26 sec
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Staying focused on positivity through 'intellectual exercise'
“This is an intellectual exercise, like physical exercise for the body”
1 min 10 sec
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A politician's answer reveals the value of having time to think
“A journalist asked the Chief Minister — what did you lose?”
1 min 58 sec
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Mughal rulers ignored the spring watch, unlike curious Europeans
“I didn't use the word 'friend' — I used what's in the hadith”
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Hadith: gratitude to people reflects gratitude to God
“Whoever does not thank people does not thank God”