When an atheist billboard declaring “God probably doesn’t exist — stop worrying and enjoy life” catches your eye, it forces a question that every honest mind must eventually confront: is this life truly purposeless, and if so, why does something deep within every human being resist that conclusion? In this episode of The Deen Show, Sheikh Muft from Zimbabwe dismantles the case for godlessness — not with anger or hollow platitudes, but with the three pillars Islam has always used to establish the reality of the Creator: instinct, tangible evidence, and divine revelation. For anyone who has wrestled with faith, doubt, or the search for purpose and spirituality, this conversation is an invitation to think, not merely to believe.
Three Undeniable Proofs That a Creator Exists
Islamic scholarship has long held that evidence for Allah’s existence operates on three distinct levels. The first is fitrah — the innate, God-given nature with which every human being is born. Every person, no matter their background, feels instinctively that they have a Lord and Creator; in moments of crisis, the hands, eyes, and heart all turn upward without instruction. The second level is tangible, observable evidence: the trees, the seas, the heavens, the perfectly engineered camel built to survive conditions no other creature can — none of it arose spontaneously, none of it sustains itself, and the only logically consistent explanation is a Creator Who designed each thing for the purpose it serves. As the Quran states with surgical precision:
“Were they created by nothing? Or were they themselves the creators? Or did they create the heavens and the earth? Nay, but they have no firm belief.” — Quran 52:35–36
- Fitrah (instinct): The natural human inclination toward a Creator is the most powerful of all proofs — only active deception by shaytaan suppresses it.
- Tangible evidence: The universe’s order, purpose, and sustenance point decisively to a Designer; random or self-creation are both logically impossible.
- Shar’i (revelatory) evidence: Every divinely revealed law testifies to a Lawgiver of perfect knowledge, wisdom, and mercy.
- The wager of reason: A person who lives righteously — believing in Allah and obeying His commands — risks nothing if the skeptic is right, but stands to gain everything if he is. The skeptic, however, risks losing the entire life after death, which is incomparably longer than this brief worldly existence.
- Purpose over pleasure: The mere fact that humans are given approximately 70 years — then age, weaken, and die — proves this life was never designed purely for enjoyment; there is clearly a test, a plan, and an accountable end.
The Distinctiveness of Islam: A Direct Line to Your Maker
What separates Islam from every other system of belief is not merely its theology — it is the uncompromising directness of the relationship it establishes between the human being and the one who made them. Islam calls exclusively to the worship of the Creator, never the creation — not the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, not Jesus (peace be upon him), not any saint or imam. A child once trapped in floodwaters, surrounded by crocodiles, cried out instinctively: “O God, I need Your help — and don’t send your son, because this is not child’s play.” That child, raised on the Trinity, bypassed doctrine in a moment of pure fear and called directly upon the one Maker — proof that fitrah knows the truth even when the mind has been taught otherwise. This is precisely why converts to Islam so consistently cite the same reason for their acceptance: “I can talk to my maker directly. I don’t need to confess my sins to anyone but Him.” In Islam, forgiveness is not mediated through a priest or an imam — it flows directly from Al-Ghafoor (the Most Forgiving) and Al-Raheem (the Most Merciful), to every soul that turns to Him sincerely, in any darkest corner of the night.
“You alone we worship, and You alone we ask for help.” — Surah Al-Fatihah (1:5), recited in every unit of the five daily prayers
- Tawheed — pure monotheism: Every prophet from Adam to Muhammad ﷺ called to the same core belief: worship the Maker alone, with no intermediary and no partner.
- No middleman for forgiveness: Sincere repentance direct to Allah wipes out sin completely — no confession booth, no priestly absolution required.
- Islam as the original religion: The pillars of belief — in Allah, the prophets, the Last Day, divine decree — were identical across all messengers; only the practical laws evolved with changing times and peoples.
- Advice vs. judgment: Correcting a fellow Muslim about their deeds is not a judgment of their person — Islam commands us to separate the action from the actor, and sincere counsel is an act of love, not condemnation.
- Being first is a blessing: If you are the first in your community to practice something pleasing to Allah — wearing hijab, praying on time, eating halal — every person who follows your example earns you reward, even after your death.
The billboard’s invitation to “stop worrying and enjoy life” assumes that a life without God is a life without cost — but as this episode makes clear, the mathematics of that assumption are devastating upon examination. This life is not a destination; it is a corridor, and how we walk it determines everything that follows. Islam does not ask us to abandon enjoyment — it asks us to build our lives on something that will not crumble when youth fades, beauty passes, and the moment of return arrives. The guidance of Islam, rooted in the fitrah Allah placed in every soul, in the unmistakable signs He has spread across creation, and in the mercy He extends directly to every heart that turns to Him, is not a burden. It is the most honest answer to the oldest question: why are we here? We are here to know our Maker, to worship Him alone, and to return to Him — and in that purpose lies every peace this life is capable of offering.
