Aqaaid

Your Efforts Matter!

(I wrote this poem as part of a class assignment back in 2022. The topic was how the knowledge itself that “God judges us based on our efforts” can result in many different kinds of effects. I liked the poem so I decided to post it here.)

The scholar stood up for his speech
And gazed at those he’d come to teach.
From every walk of life they came,
But the words they’d hear would be the same.
How could one message cater all,
The rich, the poor, the big, the small?
He paused, and chose his words with care, 
Addressing those assembled there.
Would he, when preaching their belief,
Be long and flowy, or keep it brief?
Judiciously, he chose the latter,
And spoke three words:

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The Cosmological Argument Using Math

The cosmological argument to prove the existence of God has been my favourite proof of its kind since the first time it was presented to me. It was simple enough to understand, it felt rigorous enough to be convincing, and it left a lot of room open to extract implications and corollaries that were interesting and useful.

Still, the fact that the argument was presented in natural language, rather than the language of symbolic logic, always left me with an unsettled feeling: shouldn’t this proof, like all others that are watertight and irrefutable, be possible to express in mathematical terms? I made some shallow attempts to codify it myself, but I never managed to do it in a way that left me satisfied.

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