 Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh My beloved brothers and sisters, I have here with me, Kitab Madali Jussalikin, Bina Manazili Iyaka Na'budu Wa Iyaka Nasta'een, written by Shamsuddin Abiyabdillahi Muhammad Ibn Al-Qayyim Al-Jawzi, Rahimahullah, who many of you should know. This book I have is the publication which is Dar al-Taybah and it is the first volume. So I was preparing and I was putting together a very detailed refutation on the atheists. So insha'Allah ta'ala I'm going to share a benefit in this book with you all insha'Allah ta'ala. Ibn Al-Qayyim says, as you can see from the brackets insha'Allah ta'ala, which is up to there as well, he says, Ibn Al-Qayyim, I'm going to read it insha'Allah ta'ala and then I'm going to translate it. Ibn Al-Qayyim, he says, wa sami'itu shaykh al-Islam taqiyya d-deen ibn Utaymiyata qadda sallahu ruhahu. He said, I have had shaykh al-Islam ibn Utaymiyya, may Allah ta'ala ta'ala I'm his soul. Yaqulu sayyih, so Ibn Al-Qayyim is saying, I had my teacher shaykh al-Islam ibn Utaymiyya sayyih, may Allah ta'ala ta'ala I'm his soul. What is it that he said? He said, kaifayyutrabu al-dalilu ala manhu al-dalilun ala kulli shay'in wa kana kathiran ma yata-methalu bihada al-bayti. So Ibn Utaymiyya said, how can you inquire proof and evidence from the one who is self-evident? He doesn't need no require to be demonstrated or explained, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And then he says, wa kana kathiran, and he was allot Ibn Utaymiyya, kana kathiran ma yata-methalu bihada al-bayti. And allot did Ibn Utaymiyya express himself with this line of poetry, which is, waleisa yasuhur fi al-adhani shay'un ila hataja n'aharu ila dalilun. It is, Ibn Utaymiyya says. Waleisa yasuhur fi al-adhani shay'un. It is a logical absurdity ila hataja n'aharu ila dalilun if the day time, the day requires evidence from you. If the day requires evidence from you, the day, the sun, if that requires evidence from you, that is a logical absurdity. And then he goes on to say, wa ma aloomun, what is known, al-wujud al-Rabbi, the existence of Allah is more apparent, more clear, rationally al-wujud al-Rabbi, it is more rationally apparent and clear, and in the innate disposition also it is more clear, al-Llā tabārikūta al-A'la's existence, than min-wujud al-Nāhāri, than the existence of the day, the existence of the sun. Wa malam yaraa, thālika fi'aqlihi wa fi'ṭalatihi fa liyattahimhumā. And anyone who doesn't find that in themselves, that Allah existence is not more apparent to you rationally, and it is also not naturally, innately more apparent to you, than suspect your rationality and your natural disposition. So what you find a lot of people do is, they try to spend so much time proving Allah tabārikūta al-A'la's existence. Trying to prove Allah tabārikūta al-A'la's existence is actually weakening the existence of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, than Allah tabārikūta al-A'la, He placed inside us the natural disposition that allows us to know His existence. That's the benefit that I wanted to share with you from this great book, anything which I have said that was wrong, is from Allah and His Messenger, anything I have said that was wrong, is from me and Shayṭān, that Allah's Messenger are free from it. Subhāna khallāhumma biḥ-ḥamdik, ash-shādu al-lā ilāha illā Llāh, astaghfiru kām, wa-atūb ilayh.