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Atheism is the same in every age; in the past they claimed that the universe is eternal without a beginning and without an end. Though this claim never evidenced, and, deplorably, cast many people to the hands of the Satan, it has never stood the test of reasoning.WHETHER it’s tafseer of Surat Al-Rahman, fundamentals of classical Arabic course, or ‘Story Night,’ it’s always the same — hundreds of men, women and children line up to listen to Nouman Ali Khan. His eloquence and humor as a Qur’an and Arabic teacher motivate and inspire people to learn the Book of Allah.
Khan hopes to bring a basic understanding of the Qur’an to every Muslim household. His lectures and speeches, often witty and wise, have garnered attention from YouTubers across the world. The father of six relates well to youth, discussing important but often under-addressed topics like gender relations, peer pressure, partying and losing interest in religion.
Khan is the CEO and founder of the immensely popular Bayyinah Institute for Arabic and Qur’anic Studies. Spread over 11,000 square feet in Irving Texas, Bayyinah is the first brick-and-mortar Islamic institute that does not rely on ‘fund raisers.’ Khan is confident that his school is good enough to sustain itself. “I want top notch,” he says. He pays his fulltime instructors salaries at par with those in Harvard, NYU or Columbia. Khan believes that if a program is good enough people will pay for it and it will continue to improve. The Bayyinah Institute also offers Bayyinah TV, an online repository of videos and notes for self-study.
Knowing the importance of teaching Islam to children when they’re young, Khan will soon add a carefully crafted children’s curriculum to the website as well. The Bayyinah TV already has over 4,000 subscribers and has been dubbed by some as ‘Netflix for the Mu’mins.’
Talking to Arab News, Khan recalled the time when he would live with his family in Riyadh. His father worked for the Pakistan Embassy, and Khan attended the Pakistan Embassy school from grades 2 to 8.
“I have predominantly good memories. It was a very innocent society for children. A fairly sheltered lifestyle. I don’t think the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is anything like that anymore.
The media and Web explosion has affected every society including Saudi Arabia,” he said. Khan commented on an increasingly common phenomenon: Children of religiously committed parents become sneaky, often taking off their hijabs and dating in secret.
The Bayyinah chief pointed out, “Islam is not a set of rules. It’s a way of seeing life and the world.” He finds that people do not incorporate this concept into their children’s education. Children memorize ‘duaas,’ ‘surahs’ and learn what’s ‘fardh’ and what’s ‘haraam.’ This distant and uninvolved relationship with Allah is not enough. “We must transform their personalities. The way we introduce Islam to our families needs a fundamental change. We must teach them morality, courtesy, responsibility. We are not empowering our children with these principles. Doesn’t matter whether you are living in Saudi Arabia or America; the opportunity to do the wrong thing is there, but so is the opportunity to teach the right thing. We really need to start talking to our children about stuff that was considered taboo. If parents don’t talk to their children about controversial stuff, they will get their education somewhere else. We have to have complete transparent communication between parents and children,” said Khan.
The CEO of Bayyinah Institute understands the struggles of the young because he has been there. At one point in his life, Nouman Khan was an atheist. When his father was transferred from Pakistan Embassy in Riyadh to New York, he was in teens. As a typical teenager living in the Big Apple, he lost all interest in Islam. But Allah is the ultimate planner. He had big plans for this once-an-atheist guy! First came the ‘lift.’ A fellow Muslim student at the college offered Khan a ride in his car, but he stopped to pray. Out of embarrassment and gratitude to the driver, Khan decided to pray too. It was then he felt bad for not having prayed in years.
After that incident came Ramadan, the month in which even Muslims who do not pray regularly line up for taraweeh prayers. Khan decided to do the same. Little did he know that Ramadan would become the turning point in his life. After taraweeh prayer each night, Khan decided to stay at the masjid to attend a Qur’an translation lecture about the verses that had been recited in prayer. The visiting Pakistani speaker, Dr. Abdus Samee, deeply moved Khan. He fell in love with the Qur’an, and wished to learn classical Arabic to understand the words himself. Khan soon achieved his goal, with teachers and self-study.
The more Khan studied, the more he realized the beauty and miracle of the Qur’an. He realized that so much is lost in translation. A person reading a translation could get the message, but not the miracle. Khan wanted every Muslim to undergo the transition that he did. He wanted to scream Qur’an from the rooftops. He left his Information Technology job to pursue his dream of making people understand the Qur’an first hand.
The Bayyinah Institute is helping Khan achieve his goals, and helping every person know his/her ‘Rabb.’
“After diving into the Arabic language, the Qur’an started becoming very clear to me, so I wanted that clarity for as many Muslims as possible,” Khan said.
That’s why he chose the name Bayyinah, since “It is an adjective which means something which in itself is very clear.”
For more information on Khan, his mission and activities, visit www.bayyinah.com
The latest discoveries of modern science produced strong evidences to not only the existence of God but also to His Mighty hand. Among these discoveries are the studies and information disseminated everywhere concerning the first moments in the creation of the universe.
The Big Bang was the beginning of the mental sufferings of atheists
When the scientific revolution broke out, unfolding secrets that remained unknown, atheists brazenly disseminated that science has given the answer to what remained in the hands of the polemicists of theism but It wasn't long before they continued preaching their dark call, that science leveled at their beliefs a fatal blow when, and for the first time, science stumbled over the secret of Creation; it was the Big Bang that revealed that the universe began to be formed after a huge explosion in one mass( scientifically known as the singularity). This means the claim of the eternity of the universe is nothing but a big hoax. However further studies and observations were conducted on the creation of the universe, especially the first moment of creation, these not only have proven that the universe can't have come into being by chance but also proven that is fine-tuned, well tailored. Here are the latest findings by scientists concerning the first moments in the creation of the universe:
Fine Tuning Parameters for the Universe
1.strong nuclear force constant
if larger: no hydrogen would form; atomic nuclei for most life-essential elements would be unstable; thus, no life chemistry
if smaller: no elements heavier than hydrogen would form: again, no life chemistry
2.weak nuclear force constant
if larger: too much hydrogen would convert to helium in big bang; hence, stars would convert too much matter into heavy elements making life chemistry impossible
if smaller: too little helium would be produced from big bang; hence, stars would convert too little matter into heavy elements making life chemistry impossible
3.gravitational force constant
if larger: stars would be too hot and would burn too rapidly and too unevenly for life chemistry
if smaller: stars would be too cool to ignite nuclear fusion; thus, many of the elements needed for life chemistry would never form
4.electromagnetic force constant
if greater: chemical bonding would be disrupted; elements more massive than boron would be unstable to fission
if lesser: chemical bonding would be insufficient for life chemistry
5.ratio of electromagnetic force constant to gravitational force constant
if larger: all stars would be at least 40% more massive than the sun; hence, stellar burning would be too brief and too uneven for life support
if smaller: all stars would be at least 20% less massive than the sun, thus incapable of producing heavy elements
6.ratio of electron to proton mass
if larger: chemical bonding would be insufficient for life chemistry
if smaller: same as above
7.ratio of number of protons to number of electrons
if larger: electromagnetism would dominate gravity, preventing galaxy, star, and planet formation
if smaller: same as above
8.expansion rate of the universe
if larger: no galaxies would form
if smaller: universe would collapse, even before stars formed
9.entropy level of the universe
if larger: stars would not form within proto-galaxies
if smaller: no proto-galaxies would form
10.mass density of the universe
if larger: overabundance of deuterium from big bang would cause stars to burn rapidly, too rapidly for life to form
if smaller: insufficient helium from big bang would result in a shortage of heavy elements
11.velocity of light
if faster: stars would be too luminous for life support if slower: stars would be insufficiently luminous for life support
12.age of the universe
if older: no solar-type stars in a stable burning phase would exist in the right (for life) part of the galaxy
if younger: solar-type stars in a stable burning phase would not yet have formed
13.initial uniformity of radiation
if more uniform: stars, star clusters, and galaxies would not have formed
if less uniform: universe by now would be mostly black holes and empty space
14.average distance between galaxies
if larger: star formation late enough in the history of the universe would be hampered by lack of material
if smaller: gravitational tug-of-wars would destabilize the sun's orbit
15.density of galaxy cluster
if denser: galaxy collisions and mergers would disrupt the sun's orbit
if less dense: star formation late enough in the history of the universe would be hampered by lack of material
16.average distance between stars
if larger: heavy element density would be too sparse for rocky planets to form
if smaller: planetary orbits would be too unstable for life
17.fine structure constant (describing the fine-structure splitting of spectral lines) if larger: all stars would be at least 30% less massive than the sun
if larger than 0.06: matter would be unstable in large magnetic fields
if smaller: all stars would be at least 80% more massive than the sun
18.decay rate of protons
if greater: life would be exterminated by the release of radiation
if smaller: universe would contain insufficient matter for life
19.12C to 16O nuclear energy level ratio
if larger: universe would contain insufficient oxygen for life
if smaller: universe would contain insufficient carbon for life
20.ground state energy level for 4He
if larger: universe would contain insufficient carbon and oxygen for life
if smaller: same as above
21.decay rate of 8Be
if slower: heavy element fusion would generate catastrophic explosions in all the stars
if faster: no element heavier than beryllium would form; thus, no life chemistry
22.ratio of neutron mass to proton mass
if higher: neutron decay would yield too few neutrons for the formation of many life-essential elements
if lower: neutron decay would produce so many neutrons as to collapse all stars into neutron stars or black holes
23.initial excess of nucleons over anti-nucleons
if greater: radiation would prohibit planet formation
if lesser: matter would be insufficient for galaxy or star formation
24.polarity of the water molecule
if greater: heat of fusion and vaporization would be too high for life
if smaller: heat of fusion and vaporization would be too low for life; liquid water would not work as a solvent for life chemistry; ice would not float, and a runaway freeze-up would result
25.supernovae eruptions
if too close, too frequent, or too late: radiation would exterminate life on the planet
if too distant, too infrequent, or too soon: heavy elements would be too sparse for rocky planets to form
26.white dwarf binaries
if too few: insufficient fluorine would exist for life chemistry
if too many: planetary orbits would be too unstable for life
if formed too soon: insufficient fluorine production
if formed too late: fluorine would arrive too late for life chemistry
27.ratio of exotic matter mass to ordinary matter mass
if larger: universe would collapse before solar-type stars could form
if smaller: no galaxies would form
28.number of effective dimensions in the early universe
if larger: quantum mechanics, gravity, and relativity could not coexist; thus, life would be impossible
if smaller: same result
29.number of effective dimensions in the present universe
if smaller: electron, planet, and star orbits would become unstable
if larger: same result
30.mass of the neutrino
if smaller: galaxy clusters, galaxies, and stars would not form
if larger: galaxy clusters and galaxies would be too dense
31.big bang ripples
if smaller: galaxies would not form; universe would expand too rapidly
if larger: galaxies/galaxy clusters would be too dense for life; black holes would dominate; universe would collapse before life-site could form
32.size of the relativistic dilation factor
if smaller: certain life-essential chemical reactions will not function properly
if larger: same result
33.uncertainty magnitude in the Heisenberg uncertainty principle
if smaller: oxygen transport to body cells would be too small and certain life-essential elements would be unstable
if larger: oxygen transport to body cells would be too great and certain life-essential elements would be unstabl