Do You Actually Believe in Allah?

Yasir QadhiSeptember 22, 202626 min0 comments

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Reason and Revelation Knowledge & Scholarship Aqeedah Spirituality Classical Islamic Scholarship Quran Tafsir Islamic Philosophy

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In this opening lecture of a multi-part series titled "How the Quran Wants Us to Think," Sheikh Yasir Qadhi introduces the age-old question of reconciling reason and revelation — a topic addressed by scholars from Al-Ghazali and Ibn Taymiyyah to Descartes and Kant. The lecture focuses on seven key Quranic terms for thinking and reflection — *nazara*, *aql*, *tafaqquh*, *tathakkur*, *tafakkur*, *tadabbur*, and *ibra* — unpacking the distinct meaning and usage of each. The session ends by posing the central tension the series will explore: how the Quran can simultaneously command rigorous intellectual inquiry and unconditional submission to revelation.

Shaykh Dr. Yasir Qadhi is one of the most influential Islamic scholars and intellectuals in the Western world. Born in Houston to Pakistani parents, he earned a degree in chemical engineering before studying for ten years at the Islamic University of Madinah, where he completed degrees in hadith and Islamic theology, and later earned a PhD in Religious Studies from Yale University. He served for years as Dean of Academic Affairs at AlMaghrib Institute, taught at Rhodes College in Memphis, and now serves as Dean of the Islamic Seminary of America and resident scholar of the East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC) in Texas. His lecture series on the seerah, "Lives of the Sahaba," and Islamic theology are among the most comprehensive in the English language.

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