Pleasure and Joy

[Harris]

We have senses of pain and pleasure yet we don’t know exactly what they are. We don’t like pain and we like pleasure that’s all we know. Science is so feeble that it can’t even give explanation to our different feelings like what is love and what is hate. Although every one of us experiencing in our daily lives the pleasure of love yet there is no tool that can prove scientifically what is love. If you say, “I love you” and your listener response “prove it” that makes you hang in the middle of air as you don’t know what to do next because you are a believer of science and science has no tools to help you out in this case.

I'm completely fed up with this childish kark that love is some mysterious, undefinable something.

Love is the subjective condition that exists when another person's happiness is essential to your own. This definition is not original with me (bonus points and an onion milkshake for the first person to source it correctly), but it seems unarguable. If you are indifferent to someone else's happiness, you can't claim to 'love' them, I think. Similarly, it seems perverse in the extreme to claim that you don't love someone when their happiness is a vital component of your own.

Boru

There is no person in the world who is living without some kind of faith. Every person believes in something. Faith is all about human understanding. Now this human understanding gets its shapes through influences of personal interests. It would not be an exaggeration if I say our point of interests moulds our understandings. It is specifically the case with phenomenal concepts, which are inside our minds and bodies, but we can’t explain them scientifically.

We know there is universe as we have physical sense of it but we don’t know what is the cause of this universe and why it is running so systematically like a Swiss wristwatch. It is an illogical idea that universe is controlling its own self. Do we think universe is controlling our lives on earth and it is the universe, which regulates the time of our lives?

As for your critique on blind faith, I can say that in Quran there is no commandment to scarify own children. Quran commands everything in compliance with nature whereas sacrificing own children is not a natural concept. So far, I have not seen any commandment in Quran to be un-natural.