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The Importance of Religion for Man (English) May 29, 2009 Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

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1 min 43 sec
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Colleague's businessman encounter reveals religious indifference
“First of all, I want to share an incident with you”
4 min 35 sec
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Full story: businessman's indifference reveals universal misunderstanding of religion
“First of all, I want to share an incident with you”
44 sec
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Businessman's excuse for not needing religion
“My health is very good”
32 sec
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Religion reduced to an unused appendix
“Religion is like an appendix in their life”
1 min 56 sec
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From appendix-religion to true divine guidance
“Religion is like an appendix in their life”
50 sec
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True religion is divine guidance, not superstition
“This kind of image is highly misleading”
5 min 48 sec
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Complete argument: divine support obligates gratitude, why we die
“I would like to say it's not a very simple thing”
2 min 15 sec
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Divine infrastructure sustains all human achievement
“You are living in a world created by God”
42 sec
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Acknowledging God as giver of all support
“All these things were given by God, the Creator”
28 sec
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Why must every human being die
“You have to think why, why I die”
17 sec
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Death defined as entry into life's next phase
“Death is not death, death is life after life”
4 min 5 sec
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Full afterlife argument: reward, punishment, and life's purpose
“Death is not death, death is life after life”
1 min 42 sec
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Vivid description of afterlife punishment on barren planets
“They are like intruders, like trespassers”
4 min 40 sec
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Life's purpose as a test, and the mission to spread the message
“We have to know the scheme of God”
1 min 39 sec
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Advice for a preacher on conquering stage fear
“How can a da'i conquer stage fear?”
39 sec
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Overcoming stage fright through practice alone
“Myself have faced this fear, but now I have no fear”
4 min 6 sec
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Full Q&A: study, de-conditioning, and choosing the right book
“After talking to them for an hour and a half”
1 min 30 sec
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Study and de-conditioning as path to truth
“I think a starting part is study”
50 sec
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Arabic proverb: whoever strives, finds
“There's a saying in Arabic: man jadda wajada”
49 sec
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Everything is both easy and difficult, glass-of-water analogy
“I don't think anything is difficult in this world”
27 sec
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Confusion caused by living in a jungle of thought
“Because you are living in jungle of thought”
1 min 30 sec
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Bertrand Russell's insincerity kept him from truth
“I can cite the example of Bertrand Russell”
2 min 48 sec
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How much to share with people you meet only once
“I meet people I know I won't meet again”