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Peace be upon you.
We saw in the previous episode that among the methods of the followers of the myth of evolution is the mixing of facts with myths. For this mix to pass by you, it needs some "spices" of dazzle; dazzle with the men of the myth of evolution.
Therefore, when you hear from some of the myth's magicians from our own people who glorify the evolutionary scientists: Darwin was and was! So-and-so is a great scientist! The other is a very, very great scientist! He wrote a book on this phenomenon of 600 pages! He researched that phenomenon for 20 years! So-and-so won the Nobel Prize! The other won the title of Sir in science! So and so by the hundred of natural scientists believe in the theory of evolution.
When you hear such statements, they are often attempts to ask you to rent your mind to them. As if he is saying to you: they know more than you, they are smarter, they understand more than you, prepare yourself, you will hear strange talk, but you must be convinced of it; because those who say it are these great ones!
If their speech contradicts your mind, do not accuse their truth or the correctness of their conclusions, but accuse your mind! Do not try to verify by looking at the experiments from which they reached their conclusions; because you will not understand. What do you mean? Do you want me to erase my mind and follow them blindly?! Do you want me to imitate them in their conclusions - no matter how foolish - for the sake of their knowledge and titles?!
Do you know, my brothers, that renting the mind is a crime, even if you practice it with someone who is more knowledgeable than you in religion; it is required of you to follow the scholars, yes, but not what they speak of as knowledge, nor do they gain sanctity that corrects their speech without this condition.
Have you not seen how Allah - exalted be He - condemned the People of the Book when He said: {They have taken their rabbis and their monks as lords besides Allah} [At-Tawbah:31]. These rabbis and monks were more knowledgeable about religion, no doubt, but when they made the forbidden permissible and the permissible forbidden and contradicted the known necessities of the clear texts of revelation to every rational person, it was a crime for the common people to rent their minds to them and follow them in their falsehood.
{They have taken their rabbis and their monks as lords besides Allah and the Messiah, the son of Mary, and they were not commanded except to worship one God. There is no god except Him. Glory be to Him above what they associate} [At-Tawbah:37].
The men of the church used to say to the people: do not read the Holy Book alone, because you will not understand it and you will go astray. Then came the priests of false science to say to the people: do not read the universe alone; because you will not understand it and you will go astray, so they transferred them from one renter of their minds to another.
The Arab revolutions came, then the counter-revolutions, and in one way or another, the falsity of some of those claiming to be scientists and callers became apparent, so the youth disbelieved in them, regretted the day they trusted them, and expelled them from their minds and hearts, and thought that they had thereby liberated them.
But instead of searching for sincere role models and exerting effort in seeking the truth as if their minds were accustomed to laziness, and their hearts were accustomed to clinging to people rather than principles, they searched for another landlord for them, so they rented them to the priests of false science, and what a bad alternative! They thought they had liberated their minds, but it was only a change of landlord!
Natural scientists are more knowledgeable about the facts of their sciences: true. As for benefiting from these facts: it is a blessing and guidance, and it requires the purity of the heart, and good intention like religious knowledge; just as there are people who memorize the Quran and the Sunnah and the sayings of the scholars; and do not benefit from them, but rather employ their knowledge in misleading the people, so there are natural scientists who do not benefit from their sciences, but rather employ them in misleading the people.
What is the reason? Is it fear of the Darwinian lobby? Is it because the alternative for them is a distorted religion that is not convincing? Is it due to psychological complexes that afflicted them from the behavior of the church in the Middle Ages? Is it a concern for academic positions? Is it profit, gain, and ascent on the back of the myth? Are they pretending -lying- that they are convinced of the myth? Or did they follow their desires; so their insights were blinded until they were actually convinced of the myth? Why do they show faith in the myth of evolution?!
This is not our current topic, although we will address the reasons later - by the permission of Allah - but - whatever the reason - do not ask me to rent my mind to them. That these people have great knowledge, and yet they are veiled from the greatest and clearest truths, they speak skillfully and dazzlingly about the facts, then when they come to the conclusion they contradict the obvious truths of the mind, all of this is not evidence that the creation of creatures by intention and will is a matter that allows for disagreement; but the obscuring of their insight with their intelligence is an aspect of the power of Allah as He veils the followers of desire from the truth.
Contemplate with me this meaning in the verse that shakes the hearts: {Have you then seen him who has taken his desire as his god, and Allah has sent him astray knowingly, and sealed his hearing and his heart, and set a cover on his sight? Then who will guide him after Allah? Will you not then remember?} [Al-Jathiyah:23].
Therefore, when the myth's magicians say to you: (Darwin) remained composing his book (The Origin of Species) for 20 years! Instead of being amazed, say: "O Allah, I seek refuge in You from knowledge that does not benefit."
If there is no help from Allah for the youth The first thing his effort will spend is
{Their deeds have become vain in this world and the Hereafter} [Al-Baqarah:217]. {Like a mirage in a lowland which the thirsty one thinks is water, until when he comes to it he finds it to be nothing} [An-Nur:39].
Therefore, my brothers and sisters, our work in these episodes is not to list for you the names of scholars who reject the myth of evolution and their statements about it. I will not tell you: "Do not rent your mind to Richard Dawkins and come rent it to Michael Denton because he is more knowledgeable, or his research is more extensive; for they are men, and we are men. It is astonishing that those who use this phrase with the imams of Islam do not use it with Richard, Sam, and John, but they want us to rent our minds to them!
It is astonishing that those who belittle the consensus in creed and interpretation allow that the scholars of the ummah for 14 centuries may have erred in understanding! On the pretext that they are men and we are men, then he is a child who is submissive and dependent on the scholars of the West, renting his mind to them, and calling others to rent their minds to them as well!
Our work in these episodes is not to list names for you. We will not be like our friend - whom we spoke about in the previous episode - who dazzled his friend with his correct information about the Netherlands as if he were hypnotizing him magnetically; to then pass on his myth about the "vitamin" of success.
Our work in these episodes is to simplify the scientific concepts that are mentioned when discussing evolution in a way that makes them accessible to the general public, and to restore reason its consideration to judge away from deception. We are happier with reason, and our cause with it is winning; because we believe in a reason that Allah created with knowledge and perfection, to distinguish truths with it, not a reason that came from the accumulation of random chances, so there is no guarantee that it knows the truth or is guided.
Attempting to prove that so-and-so and so-and-so among the scholars say evolution is called in the science of logical fallacies: "Appeal to Authority"; meaning famous personalities in the field (in English). Similarly, rallying the numbers of those who confirm the myth of evolution and giving them percentage rates among natural scientists is called "Appeal to Majority."
We leave logical fallacies to those who rent and lease minds. As for us, do not expect - ever - that we will respond to a research that supports the myth with research that opposes it, or to a statement of a scientist with a statement of another thus without scrutiny. The matter is not: "We have as many as you have, and let's count the 'jouls'." We will not be selective; we choose from the research what serves our creed, and we ignore what contradicts it, and we glorify those who say what we want, and we belittle those who oppose us thus with mood. For this is an unmethodical way that the supporters of the myth master, and we will leave it to them.
As for us, we will see what reason indicates first, then we will see the research and observations supporting and opposing what reason indicates and analyze; where is the flaw? Our evidence is based on this. We may mention after that statements of natural scientists not as a means of argument but as additional reassurance that the understanding we mention is not something strange.
Therefore, my brothers, the first two methods used by the supporters of the myth to promote their falsehood: the method of confusing the myth with facts, and the method of dazzling to convince you to rent your mind. In the upcoming episodes: we will - with God's permission - speak about other methods, so follow us... and peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah.