Rahman rahim in the name of Allah the
beneficent the most merciful. We'd like
to welcome you dear viewers to our
program contemporary issues in which we
like to examine some of the new issues
which are in people's minds in their
thoughts in the newspapers etc. you know
um uh
today what do we do as Muslims or what
is the Islamic position on this or does
Islam have a position and as we've
pointed out in many programs Islam has a
position it's from God there's guidance
in it regarding everything human beings
cannot bring anything into this world
wherein there is not some guidance from
Islam addressing it the issues we're
going to look at first today is that of
euthanasia. Following that we will also
look at the issues of the
aliens. Euthanasia which really is a
Greek word uh which means literally a
good death. A good
death and it has been defined as the act
of killing a person for reasons of
mercy. Now because of that they call it
also mercy killing.
your
uh relative, your husband or your wife,
they're suffering in some disease or
whatever, put them out of their
suffering. You know, just like we have
animals, when a horse breaks it leg, its
leg or whatever, you know, some animal
hurts itself such a way, they put it out
of its misery. Just kill
it. So similarly, you know, your wife,
your son, your whatever relative, your
good friend, they're suffering. there
doesn't seem to be an end to their
suffering.
Okay, inject something, kill them or
withhold water from them or food or
whatever, let them starve and die. So
the mercy killing can be either active
or passive. Active meaning you inject
something in them, you actually do
something to kill them, shoot them or
whatever. or you
uh you do it passively that is you don't
they need such and such to continue to
survive and you don't provide it for
them. Now those the supporters of
euthanasia basically argue that it gives
relief from pain and suffering.
Furthermore, it
emerges from the human right to control
their own lives and then die with
dignity. They also argue that by ending
the life of a hopeless case, another's
life in need of an organ could be saved.
Sounds
good. That sounds good.
But it is the product of the secular
view of life that if you can't live life
without pain, no point in living really.
Uh the there's no purpose beyond
enjoyment. The purpose of life here is
just to
enjoy to do enjoyable things to live a
life which is pleasant etc. So if you
can't live that pleasant life which is
all your purpose is then why live? This
is the kind of rationale behind this
approach to euthanasia. Whereas from the
Islamic point of view life has a
purpose. The purpose is to worship God
to live a life which is in the worship
of God. It may involve pain. It may
involve suffering. It may involve good
times. both aspects we continue to
worship God. So
basically we are not allowed to take a
life to take that life is
murder. The so-called mercy killing is
just plain
killing. From the Islamic perspective
when a person suffers in pain if they're
patient with it prophetam said it
purifies them of sin. And for those who
Allah loves, he will put certain trials
on them at the end of their lives etc.
So much so that they emerge from this
life pure from sins from their sins.
Their past sins have been eradicated by
the
suffering. It's a general principle.
Prophet wasallam said that the
believer if he is only pricricked by a
thorn, he's walking on the road and
stuck a thorn sticks in his foot. If
he's patient with that so simple thing,
it removes from him
sins. This is the nature of suffering
from the Islamic perspective. If one is
patient with
it, one is rewarded by the purification
of sin. So therefore the idea of a
person suffering in the end of their
life to go just finish them off put them
out of their misery. No there you're
denying the person the chance to purify
themselves before leaving this world. So
from the Islamic perspective, we
encourage them to be patient, to hang in
there, remember Allah and it is good for
them, right? Even wishing for death,
prophetam forbade it. They don't wish
for death. Not allowed. If if you really
feel, you know, in such dire straits,
you need to express something of this
nature. The only thing you're allowed to
say is, "Oh
Allah, if living is better for me, let
me live. But if dying is better for me,
then let me
die." That's all. You're still leaving
the affair to Allah. But to say, "Allah,
let me die. I can't stand this life
anymore. This this is forbidden, not
allowed in
Islam."
Now, the other topic which I mentioned
was that of aliens. Of course, this has
become, you know, very very uh popular
today, whether it's in the X-Files or in
the various other programs that have
developed, you know, talking about alien
life. You know, you have the Star Trek
series and all these different things,
all focusing on human beings living in a
universe loaded with other
beings that are their equivalents and
sometimes greater than them, you know,
because they believe life could have
evolved elsewhere. So you have millions
and millions of dollars spent spent on
the SETI program which is the search for
extraterrestrial intelligence where
they've set up these huge you know
electronic microscope uh telescopes in
islands in the Pacific and in islands in
the West Indies etc listening pointing
to the heavens listening in you know and
more and more are being set up they want
to hear they want they're waiting for
some alien being to finally make contact
they've been doing it for years millions
have been spent spend time, hour, energy
and all this kind of stuff which could
have been used to benefit human beings
here on the earth. But instead, no, they
are driven by this desire to make this
contact. So much so they couldn't do it.
They made a movie called contact, you
know, which is about one of these um uh
programs, these SETI programs where
people are listening in. Finally, they
heard it and they got some, you know,
plans for some spacecraft which will
take them out to the universe. Set of
nonsense. Anyway, the point is
that that's the only place that's going
to happen in the movies. We are not
going to make contact with any more
intelligent life. Right now, the big
thing is we have seen these new there's
so many millions of stars out there,
millions and billions of stars, millions
of billions of billions of stars,
trillions of stars out
there, so many of them like the Earth.
Surely there must be planets around
them. And if there were plants around
them, then the chances for life to occur
on the Earth must have occurred there.
So they're busy now trying to find
planets around stars. And they found
them. 70 odd planets. The latest count I
read in the papers a few days ago. 73 or
something stars. They found stars which
have planets around them. Of course,
they can't see the planets. It's too far
away. But you know from the effects the
movement of the uh the star itself you
know they detect this kind of wobble in
its movement which is the product of
having bodies around it and they can
sort of detect like the shadow of the
planet as opposed to the actual planet
itself. So from this now they've
identified so they say oh we found 73
and there's many more. So the chances
for life this they're they're obsessed
with this going to Mars you know trying
to find life on Mars somewhere you know
I mean why why why is this obsession
because they have denied God they've
denied God's existence and they said we
are here by accident and what is the
nature of an accident that it can be
repeated that's the nature of the
accident happened one time it shouldn't
be able to happen again is the
idea we're here by accident
accident somewhere somewhere else in the
universe must be producing other beings
got to that's their you know
enthusiasm but you know at the bottom of
it they're
scared we are in fact alone in this
universe there's nobody communicating
with us there's no other life which is
involved anywhere else or if we do
manage to find it will only be some
microbes will not find other beings
which come here to You
know because then it's very scary thing
to be all alone in this universe and
there be no
God. What then is the point of
life? They say this it's this situation
which causes them to be so obsessed with
finding life externally. And why the
whole alien issue pops up you know pops
up when basically in the in the 40s the
50s. This is when the atheist
view is started to really pick up in the
in western civilization whether it is in
communist Russia, China or in
America. Atheist views became very
strong, very prominent. People were
speaking it openly. You know, programs
developed for the television, Carl Sean
and you know and
others carrying on the atheist
tradition.
So parallel to this was people since you
know people searching for
extraterrestrial life. Oh people have
found it. Space flying saucers have been
coming to the earth flying around the
earth picking up human beings
experimenting on them and all these kind
of things. The people have seen them
little green men you know slit eyes and
big heads walking around stem bodies and
these type of things. You know this is a
common phenomena.
Well, if there is a reality to it to the
UFOs because much of the sightings and
all these kind of things can be
explained away. Natural phenomena,
fakery, all kinds of things. But there
is an element which there really doesn't
seem to be any explanation for. Okay,
we'll say that some people actually
saw what appeared to them to be alien
beings. What was it? What did they see?
Really? Is it really alien life? No,
it's not alien life. If anything, this
is from the world of the
jin. The parallel beings that have a
choice just like human beings that live
along with us in this
world. These beings have been called a
variety of different names in different
societies. They have appeared amongst
the people and they've been referred to
as fairies,
leprechauns, demons, spirits. A variety
of different things have been names have
been given to them. But this other
parallel world to us is something which
all human societies recognize. But
they've given it a variety of different
names. In Islam is clearly defined.
They're referred to as the gin. Not the
genie in the lamp that we see from
um you know Aladdin.
rubbing the lamp and the genie pops up
and you have three wish wishes master
whatever this type of thing you know
this is a distortion of the idea of the
jin that they can take forms and those I
mean of course they interfere with our
world and it is the evil amongst them
who do so because among them are
believers and among them are
disbelievers the evil amongst them and
Satan is from that world the evil
amongst them seeks to draw human beings
into disbelief corruption
idol worship and a variety of other
things. So if there were in
fact if there were in fact uh real
sightings then it is from the world of
the jin because it confirms for people
their belief that they're not alone in
the
universe. You know super intelligent
beings have come here. Maybe they're
responsible for the inexplicable
developments in various societies
whether it's the building of the
pyramids or the or the Aztec temples in
Central America or variety of structures
around the world which they can't seem
to find explanation where did and how
these people did these things. You know
the alien theory is the easy
explanation and actually it has become a
sort of replacement for religion people.
The alien the idea of you know it gives
importance again to human beings. So the
idea of of beings coming from galaxies
traveling light years through the galaxy
to come to the earth to circle the earth
and to curious about the people on the
earth you know taking them up into their
spirit crafts and checking them out etc.
It gives us again a sense of importance
in the universe you know without which
once people denied God's existence then
we became nothing just a nothing having
no purpose no nothing you know that
vacuum that people then felt was filled
by the idea of the
aliens so many movies have been made
about them etc etc you know and this
thought is revolving in the minds of so
many people today But it is part of the
tricks of Satan. One some of the satanic
tricks to keep people away from
God. That's the bottom line. So from the
Islamic
perspective, the idea of life existing
beyond the
earth
is not acceptable. That is intelligent
life. meaning that they um have uh
chance to choose between good and evil
just as we do so and so and so. Why why
does Islam reject this idea? Because
Prophet Muhammad, may God peace and
bless be upon him as it states clearly
in the Quran and as he stated himself
was sent to all the
worlds. He gave us information to deal
with whatever was to come in this world.
He prophesied the ending of the world,
the signs of the last day, all these
different things.
Where did he get that information from?
We don't believe that he made this stuff
up. Came out of his own head. This is
revealed to him by God through the
agency of the angel Gabriel. And all the
detail detailed information of the
ending of the world and the signs etc
that he gave. Surely if human beings
were going to run into aliens, aliens
coming and dealing with them etc. you
know who never came in contact with the
religion of God etc. then or if they had
their own revelation or whatever then
the prophet would have given us may God
peace and bless be upon him information
information of this this world you know
and what would happen and this type of
things and how to deal with this
situation. So for
Muslims this is
uh
unacceptable that there may be some
other form of microbial life you know on
the mic level of microbes you know cells
and so on so it's quite possible plant
life these kind of things but other
intelligent human beings
no this is
unacceptable so the whole alien Ian
theory, alien beliefs which are based on
denial of God. Islam rejects totally in
its place. God's well our system is
focused on God is based on God believe
they believe that there is a God that we
are created here with a purpose. Yes,
there are quote unquote alien beings
that do exist in this world along with
us. This is the world of the jin.
Invisible to us for most parts but
sometimes some elements among them do
become visible visible in different
forms in our world. They do interfere.
They appear as visions etc. They might
even enter into the idols of the idol
worshippers. You know the f the
phenomena which happened here about
three years ago and all in different
parts of the world in India etc where
the elephant head god of the Hindus
Ganesh you know started to drink milk
appeared to be drinking milk all over
the place. What was happening here? How
did that happen? You know, scientists
tried to explain it as capillary action
and all this kind of stuff in the storm.
But you know, this was rejected no
explanation for it. For the Hindus, that
was confirmation that they what they
believe in is really true. Gananish
really is a god. But for Muslims, it's
just confirmation that you know this is
the the the jin will possess objects and
uh cause certain phenomena to take place
which will give the impression to those
people that these are in fact uh true
objects of worship. Just as in the case
in the time of prophet Moses when he
went up to receive the commandments and
he left behind his people and an
individual among them made this golden
calf from their gold jewelry and he
claimed to have cast in the mix a dust
from the footprints of an angel. People
didn't bow to that calf until the calf
loaded till the calf said
moo
communicated made a sound the sounds
that calves do. You know this is what
led them to the worship of the
calf. Where did that come from? Was it
the calf mooing? Of course not. We
believe it was the calf. This golden
calf was possessed by a jin. The jin
went into it and gave that sound to give
that impression to the people and led to
their worship of that calf golden calf.
So this kind of phenomena has happened
in different parts of the world. You
know all of the various religions which
involved idolatry, worship of statues
and and humans etc. You know, you will
find different phenomena taking place in
their worlds, stories which they hand
down or things which may even happen
today which tend to reinforce their
beliefs and their practices because this
is what the jin the evil amongst them
want. You know, as they're involved in
disbelief in God and and worshiping
others besides God, you know, and evil
and corruption, they want others to
share in the mischief of that world
affects our world. And unfortunately
people have fallen into the trap you
know believing or thinking that this is
in fact uh true and and that their
beliefs and their practices are in fact
true and as such it becomes much more
difficult for them to find the real
truth. The real truth of Islam. This is
where the truth lies.
all of the
answers, the method of dealing with the
things of this life, whether ancient or
modern, things to come, the answers lie
here in Islam. Islam the religion of God
which encompasses all things because it
is ultimately from God is a religion of
reason where the human intellect is not
negated and cancelled asked to believe
in things which are unbelievable like
God being three yet being
one. You know this is nonsense. This is
confusion. This is not the religion of
God. The religion of God is that God is
one God. This is the religion that he
taught Adam. All of the prophets taught
the same religion. There is only one
God. And that one God is the only one
who should be
worshiped. Worship without any
intermediaries. Anyone between oneself
and God. And all the explanations people
give for why we should have some between
ourselves and God, these are all
unacceptable. They all make God like
human beings. For example, people argue,
well, you know, if you want to see the
president or the king or the head of the
country, you cannot go to him directly.
You must go to somebody who's close to
him and then he will carry your request
to the leader.
Similarly, you want to go to God, you
are a sinner. Better you go through
somebody who's closer to God, one of the
righteous people. So, it becomes an
intermediary. This way, we have
intermediaries between human beings and
God. And the jin will support this
intermediiacy by putting phenomenas
phenomenon on you know the hands of
these some of these people where they
may do certain things which make people
convinced that oh they have powers
divine powers etc.
But all of that is
misguidance. There is only one God.
Human beings were created to worship
that God. They are alone in that sense
in this
universe. The other world, the world of
the jin which is parallel to them has
also human beings which are able or have
free will. That is the alien beings.
Though these are the true alien beings.
all of the others that people are
expecting from other planets etc etc
this is all
false with that dear viewers we like to
thank you for being with us in this
segment of our program contemporary
issues in which we've looked at the
issues of the aliens very popular today
as well as the issue of euthanasia the
idea of mercy killing Dr. to
death. Both of which are
unacceptable. With that, dear viewers,
we like to bid you farewell now and we
hope to see you in our coming programs.