Week 4: What are some ways people find purpose and fulfillment other than religion? How would these contrast with the fulfillment achieved through religion? by Lighthouse

azs61714 — 2025-02-22 03:28:26 UTC

One angle at this might be seen through the lens of popular media. Shows, movies, and games usually depict life-altering stakes in order to create a sense of purpose. I have always wondered if there is such noble energy in saving the world; what exists of nobility after the world is saved - an epilogue at most? This is something rarely seen in entertainment, and we see this in the lack of satisfaction in our current younger generation, where people constantly switch majors/careers because they deem what they are doing is not making an "impact."

ibraheemadeelali2007 — 2025-02-26 01:04:33 UTC

I've observed that people who are "spiritual, but not religious" follow a system of morality that combines John Stuart Mill's harm principle with Benthemite logic + hedonism - but "happiness" comes in two forms: Soft and hard, I would call them. Soft happiness is what people say when they mean being happy, and hard happiness is just what releases dopamine, i.e having fun and experiencing pleasure. People try to "live life to the fullest" but that just means hedonism when you come down to it.

fx5m6gckkz — 2025-02-26 01:19:38 UTC

A conscious or fitrah guides us to right and away from wrong. How can we understand those people we know with strong conscious who excel at good deeds, but don’t follow Islam but rather other religions?

2025-02-26 01:24:08 UTC

If you're a person who's heart feels 'blocked' and you are struggling to pray and feel the connection with Allah yet you still believe, how exactly do you fix that or spark faith in your heart and continue on that path?

ibraheemadeelali2007 — 2025-02-26 01:26:47 UTC

Assalamualaikum Sheikh,

Jazakhallah for the lecture. In this session, you spoke about how the conscience is given reason by Islam and is a manifestation of the fitrah.

Does this equate to concurrence of the moral argument for God? As in,

Premise 1: Morality exists

Premise 2: Morality cannot exist without God

Therefore, God exists.

ibraheemadeelali2007 — 2025-02-26 01:29:38 UTC

Wouldn't evolutionary biologists say that conscience/altruism exists because it's beneficial for the survival of the species?

Also, my fitra is making me confess that I'm in highschool not college, should I keep coming

2025-02-26 01:33:08 UTC

If everyone has the same fitrah, how were the prophets fitrah so much purer? For example, the Prophet saw was also raised in a pagan society without a monotheistic upbringing. So how was he not affected while other were if they indeed start the same and had the same influences?

2025-02-26 01:33:40 UTC

Might be open ended but how does Islam explain personality? If the Fitrah is something embedded in the soul and defines a person, where does personality come from?

2025-02-26 01:35:17 UTC

How does someone deal with their fitrah being tarnished by their upbringing or parents. If you are born on the pure Fitrah and your parents destroy this fitrah with their idealogies you never have a chance to have true inclination to the truth.

fahimahmed6543 — 2025-02-26 01:39:21 UTC

Can someone be Muslim and still have a weak or nonexistent fitrah? How do you know you’ve reached this state and work to fix it?

2025-02-26 01:39:53 UTC

When we see that the opinions and fatwas of scholars such as Ibn Hazm reflect their upbringings and backgrounds, how can we know that a lot of fatwas that we get (on the non-objective subjects) are not just the product of the scholars background and biases?

ramyalnesr1 — 2025-02-26 01:41:30 UTC

How is a psychopath, ie. a child born with the inclination to kill and not feel any guilt explained in accordance to the Fitrah?

2025-02-26 01:41:32 UTC

What can someone do when their fitrah suddenly doesn’t feel satisfied with religion and is feeling distracted by other thoughts and feelings especially leading up to Ramadan

2025-02-26 01:41:36 UTC

Will you be also giving a talk after Taraweeh this Ramadan?

azs61714 — 2025-02-26 01:41:48 UTC

What are some practical tips to purify the fitrah especially in the context of Ramadan?

2025-02-26 01:42:19 UTC

What is the exact difference betweeen the nafs and fitrah and does the nafs also naturally yeild towards religousity?

2025-02-26 01:42:39 UTC

The first response somebody will have to the existence of conscience through fitrah will be the existence of clinically diagnosed psychopaths.

Can it be said that psychopaths have been granted equal fitrah as everybody else, just not within their conscience? How would we reconcile these in this case?

2025-02-26 01:45:30 UTC

If Allah blessed our souls to automatically yearn for good and want to stay away from the bad, how does that not conflict with the Nafs and our desires for things that often are not good for ourselves.

For example many of us inherently might not have known that backbiting is an evil sin, we had to be taught that but our hearts might have yearned for gossip and still may do.

2025-02-26 01:45:33 UTC

In a debate with Dr Mustafa Akyol you seemed to have opposed his assertion that Fitrah comes before religion. In today's talk, you seem to oppose that we get Fitrah from religion.

2025-02-26 01:47:44 UTC

Why do some individuals do not show a sense of pure fitra or any guilty conscience upon their actions?

2025-02-26 01:48:25 UTC

there have been some discussion on homosexuality being a manifestation of a person whose been pulled away from their fitra bc of something in early childhood - any thoughts on this?

2025-02-26 01:50:38 UTC

isn’t conscious the same thing as nafs?

2025-02-26 01:52:04 UTC

Ramadan program schedule???

2025-02-26 01:53:04 UTC

If everyone has the same fitrah, then how do the Prophets have much purer fitrah than the rest of mankind. For example, the Prophet saw was raised in a pagan society without significant monotheistic influences. So if he started the same and had the same influences, how did he remain so much purer than us?

2025-02-26 01:54:16 UTC

What can we do if we know someone who has great fitrah and is a truly good person in general with potential to become Muslim, but has trouble with the logical aspect of believing in God. They’re very intelligent but they have trouble reconciling that, how can we help?

fahimahmed6543 — 2025-02-26 01:54:54 UTC

Might be a rookie question, but what checks are in place to ensure that sheikhs aren’t issuing fatwas gung ho and thus straying too close to moral relativity? One thing that comes to mind is madhkalis

2025-02-26 02:33:46 UTC

Music, Art, Meditation, Giving back/Charity, "Legacy", Generational Wealth for the benfit of family.

hamzajadallah94 — 2025-02-26 05:31:05 UTC

سلام عليكم ورحمة الله شيخ ياسر.

هل شعب الايمان تشمل كل الاسلام؟

branches of faith include all of Islam؟