Destroying Doubts – Does God really exist?

Imagine this…

One day, you wake up on a boat, in the middle of the ocean having no memory of how you got there at all. Quite an extreme circumstance right? Assuming all survival needs have been met, what are the first thoughts and questions that might run across your mind?

    Like many, you might be asking these 3 foundational questions 🤔

    How did I get here ❓

    Where am I going ❓

    What am I doing here ❓

    Now those are very fair and important questions to ask in this context, right?

    Well, this analogy is actually no different to mine and your existence in this world. Let me explain a little more…

    How did we get here ❔

    Well just like you would ask how is it that you just woke into existence in the middle of the ocean on a boat one day? Similarly, human kind and all other existing things came into existence in a similar manner. However, we don’t deem it important to question the foundational original of these things.

    Things, including ourselves have come into existence but we don’t think how did it get here? What was the initial cause which caused all of this?

    Where am I going ❔

    Well, now that I’m existing in this boat all of a sudden, where is it taking me? What is my destination? Can you guess what the similarity is here?

    Well, now that I’m existing in this world all of a sudden, where will I go? What is my destination?

    What am I doing here ❔

    Now we have the most important of the 3 questions. What am I doing here? It would be almost absurd to not ask this foundational question in this scenario right? Well, just as we woke up on this boat, we came into consciousness in this world. While we would ask this question in the scenario, it seems in the modern secular context, this question garners very little attention.

    We live in a world where virtually any argument for any form of reasoning is put on an open platform for everyone to see. This has caused doubts to creep into the psyche of many Muslims and non-Muslims alike. One of the major doubts that has gained momentum in contemporary discourse is the doubt in God’s existence. 

    In this episode of Destroying Doubts, we sit with Sheikh Haroon Kanj to discuss the possibilities of what caused our existence. Through the Quran and the intellect, we can arrive at the conclusion that there is only one rational plausible conclusion that makes the most sense.

    Take a deeper dive into The Case for Allah’s Existence by this research paper done by Yaqeen Institute.