Even though extremely cold weather concerned organizers regarding attendance of audiences, NEICC held its traditional monthly social family gathering on Feb 1st, at Turkish Cultural Center, Clifton, NJ with a great turn out.
As usual, program started with night prayer (isha) and then followed by delicious potluck dinner. Following dinner, a beautiful Quran recitation was given by brother Yildirim Hodja with his heartwarming voice. Subsequently, guest speaker, Mr Hasan Erkan, PhD, gave a speech about “Three Universal things”. This was about three great teachers who teaches human-beings about existence of our creator – Allah. Those are; Universe, Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), and Holy Qur’an.
He then focused more on Universe as a teacher. Stating, all beauties surroundings human beings are giving humans a message that they cannot be random or created by themselves. Even a simple needle requires a maker. Main message that he was carrying was “If you see a beautiful craft, that requires an existence of a craftsman who built that craft”. Then, he asked why human thinks of this beautiful and extremely complex universe can exist without a maker (creator), while a simple needle requires a maker?
He then mentioned about Newton’s (the most influential scientists of all time) interaction with his atheist friend which can be found in detail here; http://apologeticspress.org/apcontent.aspx?category=9&article=877.
Uthman bin Affan reported: The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “The best of you are those who learn the Quran and teach it.”
Source: Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 4739
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