WEBVTT 00:00:00.180 --> 00:00:08.740 A summary of the concepts held by the Ahl al-Sunnah. 00:00:08.740 --> 00:00:11.740 The nature of cosmic and human existence. 00:00:11.740 --> 00:00:16.280 Philosophers of both East and West have wandered aimlessly. 00:00:16.280 --> 00:00:21.280 They spent decades, indeed centuries, searching for the truth of the universe and humanity. 00:00:21.280 --> 00:00:25.280 Its origin, its end, and its ultimate destiny. 00:00:25.280 --> 00:00:28.280 Yet they only increased in misguidance and confusion. 00:00:28.280 --> 00:00:33.280 Meanwhile, Allah guided the believers to the clarification of these great truths. 00:00:33.280 --> 00:00:36.280 In a few verses of His Noble Book. 00:00:36.280 --> 00:00:39.280 Because the Creator of the universe and humanity, 00:00:39.280 --> 00:00:41.280 And the Revealer of the Qur'an, 00:00:41.280 --> 00:00:44.280 Is Allah alone, with no partner. 00:00:44.280 --> 00:00:48.310 “Should He not know what He created? And He is the Subtile, the Aware.” (67:14) 00:00:48.310 --> 00:00:51.439 He informed us in His Mighty Book, 00:00:51.439 --> 00:00:55.439 That the entire universe is the creation of Allah the Exalted. 00:00:55.439 --> 00:00:58.439 And that He is its Owner and its Disposer. 00:00:58.439 --> 00:01:02.439 Allah the Almighty willed it to be, and it was. 00:01:02.439 --> 00:01:07.439 He, glory be to Him, instilled within it the laws and principles by which it operates. 00:01:07.439 --> 00:01:12.439 Through which the movement of its parts remains in harmony. 00:01:12.439 --> 00:01:15.439 So they do not collide or conflict. 00:01:15.439 --> 00:01:21.500 And they do not cease their orderly motion until Allah the Exalted wills. 00:01:21.500 --> 00:01:25.500 He informed us that this universe, both its heavens and its earth, 00:01:25.500 --> 00:01:30.500 Was created by Allah the Almighty only in truth and for an appointed term. 00:01:30.500 --> 00:01:37.500 And that it is submissive to its Lord, to the will that governs it, and to the decree that moves it. 00:01:37.500 --> 00:01:42.500 All of this is by the knowledge of Allah the Exalted and His recording of it. 00:01:42.500 --> 00:01:45.500 By His will for it and His creation of it. 00:01:45.500 --> 00:01:50.500 And that all of this is for a great wisdom and a momentous purpose. 00:01:50.500 --> 00:01:55.500 He, glory be to Him, did not create this universe in vain or for mere caprice. 00:01:55.500 --> 00:02:02.500 He, glory be to Him, said: "And We did not create the heaven and the earth and that between them in play." 00:02:02.500 --> 00:02:10.500 And He, the Almighty, said: "And We did not create the heavens and the earth and that between them except in truth." 00:02:10.500 --> 00:02:16.599 “We created not the heavens and the earth and all that is between them save with truth, and lo! the Hour is surely coming. So forgive, (O Muhammad), with a gracious forgiveness.” (15:85) 00:02:16.599 --> 00:02:21.599 As for human existence, the Creator of the universe has clarified for us, 00:02:21.599 --> 00:02:25.599 That He created jinn and mankind for a great purpose. 00:02:25.599 --> 00:02:28.599 Which is to worship Him alone, with no partner. 00:02:28.599 --> 00:02:35.599 He, the Almighty, said: "And I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship Me." 00:02:35.599 --> 00:02:41.599 He clarified for us in His Noble Book that He created man from clay. 00:02:41.599 --> 00:02:44.599 Then He made his offspring from a despised fluid. 00:02:44.599 --> 00:02:47.599 And that he shall return to Allah the Almighty. 00:02:47.599 --> 00:02:50.599 And be resurrected after his death on the Last Day. 00:02:50.599 --> 00:02:54.599 “And unto Allah belongeth whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth, that He may reward those who do evil with that which they have done, and reward those who do good with goodness.” (53:31) 00:02:54.599 --> 00:02:58.599 “And unto Allah belongeth whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth, that He may reward those who do evil with that which they have done, and reward those who do good with goodness.” (53:31) 00:02:58.599 --> 00:03:03.599 So praise be to Allah for the blessing of Islam and the light of the Qur'an. 00:03:03.599 --> 00:03:08.270 A summary of the concepts held by the Ahl al-Sunnah.