 Assalamu alaikum. Welcome to the beliefs of Islam with me Hassan Hadi. In today's episode, we are going to talk about the existence of God from the perspective of the ontological argument. Another argument for the existence of God, which is particularly popular among its philosophers and theologians, which is sadly somewhat restricted in its popularity due to requiring a rigorous background in philosophy, and minimally logic is known as the ontological argument for the existence of God. The argument, like most other theistic arguments, has a long history of usage in Muslim, Christian, and even deist circles for establishing the existence of a deity, but it particularly has become revised and more popular in 20th century Western philosophy circles where it's recognized among its proponents that the arguments are philosophically airtightened sound. Now arguably, due to the elitism of the argument, it has not become overly popular in popular late-person circles, it due to the necessary preliminary philosophical training required to demonstrate their premises of the argument are actually considered sound and valid. Nevertheless, due to the excellence of the argument, even if it's the case that such is lost to many viewers and the popularity in scholarly circles, it would be an injustice to not cover such crucial philosophical proof. Now the argument admittedly has certain primitive forms, found in philosophers such as Augustine, but came to take on its more completed form under Ansem, a European Christian theologian. Now the form which we will present is possibly the most sophisticated not rationally sound formulation crafted by the philosopher Alvin Plantingen, it gives us fellows. Now we are going to consider a list of premises in order to better illuminate the ontological argument. Now premise one, it's possible that a maximally great being exists. Premise two, if it's possible that a maximally great being exists, then a maximally great being exists in some possible world. Premise three, if a maximally great being exists in some possible world, then it exists in every possible world. Premise four, if a maximally great being exists in the actual world, then a maximally great being exists. Therefore, a maximally great being exists. Now, premises 2 and 5 of this argument are relatively uncontroversial. Most philosophers would agree that if God's existence is even possible, then he must exist. The principal issue to be settled with respect to Plantingan's ontological argument is what warrant exists for thinking the key premise, it's possible that a maximally great being exists to be true. The idea of a maximally great being is intuitively a coherent idea, and so is seem plausible that such a being could exist. In order for the ontological argument to fail, the concept of a maximally great being must be incoherent, like the concept of a merit-bachelor or a sequer circle, but the concept of a maximally great being doesn't seem even remotely incoherent, this provides some good warrant for thinking that it's possible that a maximally great being exists. This is for today, until we meet next episode. Thank you very much indeed, and assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.