Allah has created a natural check inside human beings. This check does allow them to live in peace after performing a wrong act. This natural check is called guilt. In order to have inner peace human beings must perform the right deeds. Only these deeds can make him get rid of guilt. Depression, fear, drugs and alchol are all artificial and temporary ways of getting rid of guilt, but in these lectures Bilal Philips has taught the natural way to get rid of guilt and have inner peace.

Dr. Philips was born January 7, 1947 in Jamaica, but grew up in Canada, where he converted to Islam in 1972. He received his B.A. degree from the Islamic University of Medina and his M.A. in Aqeedah (Islamic Theology) from the King Saud University in Riyadh, then to the University of Wales, UK, where he completed a PhD in Islamic Theology in the early 90s. Philips comes from a family of educators, as both his parents were teachers and his grandfather was a Christian minister and Bible scholar. The Islamic Online University (IOU) is the brainchild of Dr. Bilal Philips.