Abdul Wahab Saleem – What was the True Religion of Prophet Abraham? – Introducing Quran #17

Abdul Wahab Saleem
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The segment discusses the acceptance of different religion groups and the history of the confusion surrounding its implications. It also touches on the importance of believing in the same way as the Prophet Muhammad sallavi alayhi wa sallam as a prophet. The segment emphasizes the importance of praying five times a day to ensure everyone is praying for Islam and the holy spirit. The segment also touches on the history of Islam in America, including the use of words like "has been" and "has been called" in the Bible to indicate when events occur.
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Sooner hamdu lillah wa salatu salam ala Rasulillah Hamdu lillahi Hamden you are feeling a whole you can feel omega or SallAllahu ala Sayidina Muhammad in while early he or Sahibi huge marine Allahumma alumina and pharaoh now one foreigner Bhima alum Tina was in our element yeah Karim Allah Masha Allah sorry, my silly embryo Henry aka Melissa Annie of coho coli or visit near ailment or visit near ailment or visit near Allah. Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah majra Alto Salah antigen Husna, either sheeter salah, welcome everyone to another class on the Tafseer of Surah Al Baqarah. Introducing Quran and we are today officially on the last page of the first use of the Quran.

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Allah subhanaw taala says, we'll call you Kuno, who then Ellner Surah data do?

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Again, the discussion that's taking place is still with the Christians and the Jews together. So the surah started off, it's all pretty much addressed to Benoit Rai, right? I mean, in the beginning of the Surah, just to have a mind map in the beginning of the CRO Surah, Allah subhanaw. Taala is talking about all the different groups in humanity, there's a dress made to them, when I 15, to the Muslims to the Jews and the Christians and the machine again, as well. Everybody is sort of accommodated, then slowly, the theme shifts over to the Christian, the Jews specifically. And then obviously, the extension to the Jews then is the Christian. So that also gets accommodated every

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hair and now. And again, this is referring to both the Jews and the Christians. They're both saying each group is saying according to what they believe, one group is saying Kulu who then become Jews, another group is saying I will not Zara or become Christians, either this or that will call you Kuno who then I will not Zara, they said either become Jews, or become Christians that they do and if you do that you will be guided to do that will be guidance that you become a Jew, or you've become a Christian. Now this is obviously

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each group is calling to their religion. The Jews are saying if you become Jew,

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you will become guided

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than Assad. Other Christians are saying if you become a Christian, you will become guided as well.

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And earlier Allah subhanaw taala said that they were making a similar claim, but even a more deeper claim at that time. What are you laying out the whole agenda the ilium and Ghana who then own Asara that they said that no one will enter Jannah except for a person who is either a Jew or a Christian didn't get a mani you whom all her to Rihanna come in contact Jana.

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This is what their hopes in quantum saw the thing, this is just their hopes, say bring

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the proof if you are truthful about what you're saying. They've got a man whom this is just their hopes and desires that if you are a Jew, or you're a Christian, you're going to go to Jannah this is simply their desires, this is not the reality. And Allah subhanaw taala goes after this claim in more than one place in the Quran. Right after that. Allah says, the lamb and Islam are what you Hola. See, he says nay the person who submits his face for Allah subhanaw taala. Well, who I'm working on, and he's a person of the sun as well. furler Who are you who are under a B? That is the person who will truly be given the reward and won't be the juice. It will not be the Christians,

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rather those who accept Islam. Now, the whole discussion stems from Ibrahim Ali Salam. But Allah told us in Surah Al Imran that Ibrahim Ali Salam was neither a Jew nor was he a Christian. Allah told us and he said that maca Anna Ibrahim hooyah who the yen wala Anna serrania Abraham Ibrahim Ali Salam was not a Jew. He was not a Christian when I can kinda Hanifa and Muslim but rather he was a person of monotheism. And he was a Muslim woman Afghan Amina Lucia keen. And just to add the machinic in there as well, I'm not gonna meet him when she came, because the Jews are claiming rights to Ibrahim Ali Salam. The Christians are claiming rights also to Ibrahim Ali Salam. And then

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we should he keen the pagans of Arabia, they are also claiming rights to Ibrahim Ali Salam.

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So Allah says he was neither a Jew,

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nor was he a Christian, but rather he was a Muslim. And just to add to that, and to finish off the discussion, he wasn't also a polytheist as well. Rather, Allah's Prophet Ibrahim Ali salaam was

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A person of Islam and that's why Allah subhanaw taala says to the Prophet will you build me a letter Ibrahim Hanifa but rather go and follow the mill of Ibrahim go and follow the religion of Ibrahim go and follow the direction and way of Ibrahim one I can I mean I wish you the king and he was not from the people of Schick. He was not a person who was a Masha

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Allah subhanaw taala continues and he says, oh no say oh Mohamed, say Oh Muslims in general, who do all of you say I'm gonna say we have believed in Allah azza wa jal

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will not onesie la Elena, and we've believed in whatever was revealed to us as well. Well not onesie, la isla Ibrahim, and we have believed in what was revealed to Ibrahim Ali Salam, what is married, and we believed in whatever was revealed to His Marine, Elissa RAM, and his help and Yaqoob all of that were believing in we've also believed in whatever was revealed to the children of Yaqoob, then who is right into the bath, when that booty or Musa and we believe in whatever was granted to Musa alayhis salam where ISA and also what was granted to Jesus, while my OT and Vu and Mr. Ravi him we believe in everything that all of the prophets had been given as well learn over

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Kobina had him you know, we do not try to divide and differentiate between any of them except, in fact, we accept everything. We accept everything that all of the prophets brought one new level Muslim on, but at the end of it all, we're still Muslims. This is the important part. Why? Because we believe that they were all Muslims, all the prophets of God, were Muslims. Because Allah subhanaw taala had sent a book with the same message, the same essential message to all of the prophets. When it comes to the belief, the Creed, it was always the same. All of the prophets were calling to Allah azza wa jal, they weren't calling to themselves, and saying that I am the Son of God, they weren't

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calling to anything else, except for

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the religion of Allah azza wa jal, which is Al Islam. And here there's something very important, and that is that all of the prophets of God, all of the messengers of God, they are given books, all of them, they come with books, and Allah told us of this in the Quran in more than one places. Allah subhanaw taala he said that in Surah, to Hadith Allah said locket or sunnah, Rasul and Bill begging it or insulinoma, Muhammad Kitab we sent Our Messengers with the signs, and we gave them the book as well while Mazon and also we gave them the scale. So give each messenger a different book. And Allah subhanaw taala says, also, that, what are our Kula messenger Sofia

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Kulu Ahmet into the Illa Kitabi helium, every nation you will see there will be kneeling before Allah azza wa jal, and every nation will be called to their book. That means every nation has been given a book.

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And that shows you that every prophet that came, he brought a book for that nation, all of them had a book and we believe in all the books, technically we do believe that some of what's in the Gospel till today is the truth, some of what is in the Old and the New Testament is still the truth. But these books have now become tainted. They've been distorted. They've been changed. They've been edited. And they've continued to go through editorial processes, again and again. And they've been changed from one language to another to another. And, and all of this has led to fragments of that original way to be there still, but not the entire original way. Revelation. So that's why we

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believe in whatever was originally revealed by Allah azza wa jal, but what's in these books today, we cannot affirm everything in there because there are things that have been changed. And there are things that have been altered. Allah subhanaw taala. He continues, and he says, For in Moreno now they're being told to believe, right? So Allah says if they end up believing for inamoto The Muslim men to be if they end up believing in the same thing that you believed in

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Thapa datadir, what were they saying earlier on?

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Who know who then own Asara data do if use become either Jews or Christians, you're gonna become guided, that will be your way to guidance, but Allah says actually, you know,

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if they believe in the same thing that you've been given the Quran, if they believe in all of the prophets in the same way you believe in all of the prophets, that's when they will be guided, if they don't differentiate between the prophets of God

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God, this is when they will be, in fact guided. Now, believe it or not, there are actually certain sects of Christianity that accept the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam as a prophet. Okay, they will actually accept him and they'll say, Okay, it's, it doesn't go against the Christian theology for us to believe that the Quran is a revealed book from God, and that Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is a prophet, but we still consider Jesus supreme.

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And we still consider him to be God. And we still consider him to supersede everything else. But the idea over here is, if you believe, and this is a call to those groups, of Christians who are starting to make this claim, and they're there they exist, this is a call to them. Think about it. If you really, really believe that this is in fact a revelation from Allah azza wa jal, you can read this verse right over here. Allah is saying to Muhammad, and he's saying to the followers of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam as well. And he's saying, For in Armano, if they believe we miss Lima and to be if they believe just like you believe

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Theca data that it will be in this case that they will be guided, were intelligent, low for inner mountain fishing. However, if they choose to walk away and go another direction, then they are in dissension and discord, they are not in belief, they're in disbelief, for say, a fika, whom Allah, Allah said, Allah will be sufficient. Allah will suffice. You have them Oh Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa salam. Why? Because obviously if there's a discord and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is bringing this message to the people and still Islam happens to be a minority as a religion. There is a fear that these people are going to try to harm the Prophet which they did try

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to do, but Allah subhanaw taala says forsake fika, whom Allah, Allah will suffice you, O Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa salam, Allah will protect you, O Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam from them. Well, who was Sammy or Aleem, and he is the ever hearing, and he's the ever annoying as well. And this is a call to everyone who calls to Allah azza wa jal as well. That sometimes when you're calling to Allah, there are going to be difficulties that you're faced by. But at the end of the day, per se a Kike, whom Allah Allah will suffice you, Allah will protect you, Allah is enough for you. Allah protected the prophets, Allah Allahu Allah wa salam, and even if you get harmed, at the

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end of the day, you're getting harmed in the way of Allah azza wa jal, you're getting harmed in the path of Allah.

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You're getting harmed in the way of Allah subhanaw taala. And there's reward in being harmed in the way of Allah subhanho wa taala. When you're doing something for Allah, and harm comes your way and your patient on that harm. That's one of the strong, that's one of the most difficult things to do. This is the mission of the prophets of God. And we know that Risman are the Allahu Allah and as it's reported in a number of reports, with man, even I found or the Allahu Allah and

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when he died, he was reading the most Huff. And as he was reading the most half,

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and this is a very famous story from Amara, that she said that as he was reading the must have, and when they attacked with mandibular iPhone or the Allah and they killed him, the first drop of blood, it spilled on top of this fire, right here, where Allah says, festa, yet fika Allah, Allah Subhana Allah, Allah will suffice, you have them. So this is almost like a glad tidings for Earth man that they harmed you within this world, but there's a day of judgment, and they will have to repay for the harm that they've caused to you, oh, man.

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And there's something else that's also important over here. Some people they believe, and we've already come across that verse, verse number 62, from Surah Baqarah. Allah says that, in the levena Amen, all those people who believe we're letting her do who and those who have become Jews, what NESARA and also Christians was sabe, in in the Sabians, as well, men Armineh Billa, he will yo women, Earth anyone AMITA Saudi, however, believes from all of these groups, they believe in Allah and they believe in the hereafter as well, and they do righteous deeds, fellow whom, to whom and that'll be him, they will be granted their award by Allah azza wa jal, why not hold on it. And there

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is no fear upon them, and there's no reason for them to have grief as well. So some people, they distort this verse And they say, See, all you have to do is be a good person. All of this is acceptable. You just have to be a good person, but they skip a very crucial point in the verse. Allah says min Armineh Billa he will Yeoman who

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ever believes in Allah, and hereafter as well. So we believe that the true way of believing in Allah is the way Allah describes himself in the Quran. And this verse, it clarifies that and the way to understand the Quran always, is that you don't go for verses that can give you that that are ambiguous and you try to get what you're looking for. But you take the ambiguous verses, and you look for more clear verses, because it's not like Allah can clarify everything at every single moment.

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These are words of God, yes. But Allah wants you to read the whole book, he doesn't want you to just take one verse out of context, cut it out and say, This is what God is saying. You have to read that verse in the context of everything else, that Allah subhanaw taala said. So Now here Allah is saying, the Jews and the Christians, the very people that others claim if they end up believing in the in Allah and the final day, Hollis, they're going to Janna just be a good person, that's all. Allah says. Actually, no, for in Amman or it's only when they believe just like you believed.

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That's when they will be guided, but if they don't, they're in dissension in discord.

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And really this type of distortion of the Quran, it's very surprising because the Quran is so clear about these beliefs. If you read the Quran, and you regularly do so, there is no way you can come out with other ideas. It's very difficult to bring other theories out of the Quran. Allah says in the Quran, clearly laquered Catherine livina Carlo in Allah valleys who said I said those people who say that Allah is one of three have disbelieved? Who are the ones who say Allah is one of three. Just ask yourself these questions.

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Those people who say that Allah,

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Allah has a son whose neighbors are saying they have disbelieved as well.

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And there are so many verses that we've already discussed in Surah Baqarah, as well in terms of the Jews. So there is no way you can take from the Quran the idea that other religions are acceptable in terms of salvation on the Day of Judgment, Allah has secured and made salvation for those people who believe in Allah, in the last day in all of the prophets of God, in the hereafter. They believe in all of these concepts, these are the people that will be in Jannah This is the central point of the entire tea of the Quran. Just try reading it fast. Start from the beginning of the Quran and read till the end, see what feeling you get at the end of it. If you get anything else, then come back to

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me and explain to me how you figured that out because I haven't been able to see that. Allah says in the Quran and he continues, he says Cebu that Allah, the color of Allah, woman accent, Amina Allah, he'll say Baba, and who is more beautiful than Allah in coloring.

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Now, this verse has been translated in a host of different ways. I translated it like that, but let me get a little bit deeper. Okay.

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This verse is coming to us right after this discussion with who? The Christians and the Jews, right, it's right after that discussion with the Christians and the Jews. So this means that this is somehow related to the Christians and the Jews. And it is, in fact, the case, if not a basketball, the Allahu to Allah. And he told us of this. And that's why I believe that most of the translations, including the one I just gave you right now, do not accurately capture what this particular verse is saying, the closest translator that I saw was use of Ali on this particular idea. Why? Because the symbol of Allah azza wa jal that Allah is talking about is in response to the Christians and

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baptism,

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if not a basket of the Allah, Allah, and he explained to us that the Christians whenever they have a child on the seventh day, now, whatever I'm about to say,

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you if you tally it with modern Christianity, it may be different. Why? Because religions developed over time, practices developed over time. And that's number one. Number two, there are so many different sects as well. So what ignore Abbas is saying right here, I looked through many different sects of Christianity a few years ago, and I tried to see if there's any sect which falls, hook, line and sinker with what Mr. Bass is saying. And I found one specific sect that does in fact, do that. So this what he's saying over here, he's saying this from knowledge because he must have seen something like this. And then he's reporting

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Get on Word. So whatever he's saying, may not be applicable to all sects of Christianity, but it is something that he must have come across saw learn from someone else. And so he's reporting it and this practice that he's describing with all of these fine details, it does still exist in certain sects of Christianity, right? I did verify this late so if my boss he says that the Christians whenever

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whenever someone is born to them, and when the seventh day comes, Now, not all of them do this on the seventh day, they take the child and the dip them inside of the water, which is baptism, right? And he says they dip them in yellow water, not everybody, not all Christians use yellow water. Some of them do yellow ish green water, if you look it up, you'll also come to that realization. And then he says you call hula hula moody that water is known as baptism water, okay? And then they cover him up in this water. And this is how they purify their children instead of circumcision on the seventh day. Okay.

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And when they do that, now they say, Okay, this child has been inaugurated or he has been baptized. Right?

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And if not, Abbas says, so Allah is making reference to this practice in this IRA. And that's why I said most of the translators they missed this point, the only one who got this was Yusuf Ali.

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And Allah says Sybil that Allah, the color of Allah or the coloring of Allah or the baptized nation of Allah azza wa jal, meaning that baptizing essentially basically just means inauguration. Okay? So the inauguration of Allah meaning through the practices that Allah has given to Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam are placed within our religion. That is better. He's talking to the Christians over here, woman SN will mean Allah he'll Simcha and who can be more beautiful than Allah azza wa jal and perfected and Allah in color in the ways that Allah has placed to inaugurate a child. When a hula hoop I'll be doing and we are true worshippers of Allah azza wa jal. So this is Muslims being told

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to say to the Christians that say but Allah the true coloring of Allah azza wa jal is in the religion of Allah, the practice of the religion of Allah, and who is better than Allah azza wa jal in that coloring, and we are worshipers of Allah azza wa jal, and there is no doubt that between

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most religions, I would say most, especially those religions that take root in some revelation, there's no doubt that Muslims have the most

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practice and rites and rituals when that new level will be done. So this concept is being invoked. No, none of the religions they have prayers, five days, five, five times a day, none of the religions they have all these practices, literally that continue to remind you of Allah azza wa jal throughout the year, they have Yes, once a week, they some of them a little bit more than that a little bit less but that every single person is obliged to ensure that they're praying five times a day.

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This this is one of the challenges that a lot of not new non Muslims who want to come into Islam they face, they say to themselves, I'll have to literally pray five times a day you guys actually do it. You wake up in the early morning and you pray, does this really happen? And then for you, you sit you're smiling, you're like, Yeah, I've been doing it all my life. And hamdulillah so Allah says, say to them when I know that who are we doing? And we are worshiping Allah can you not see we're consistently connecting ourselves to God will add to her Juna Fila he will who are buena Do you debate with us about Allah azza wa jal Hua Hua Rabona and he's our Lord, what Bucco man he's

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also your Lord as well. Well, Nana, Luna and we have our practices and our rites and rituals. Welcome, Malcolm. And you have your practices and your rites and rituals. When a hula hoop clothes on, and we have made our worship sincerely for him alone. We don't associate anyone with Allah azza wa jal, we've made our worship completely for Allah.

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Allah continues, and he says under coluna in Ibrahima Sama, Isla was harkaway over Willis bath. Jana who didn't own Asana, do you say that Ibrahim

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is my eel is Ha, yah hoo. Who?

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About anybody in Ghana who didn't own Asara? Do you say that they were either Christians or Jews? Is that what your claim is that they're Christians or they happen to be Jews? Allah says, and this is a very key verses verse, my brother. Why? Because this verse is the answer to a new concept that is arising within the world. And that is that there's a new religion that

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and people are trying to found and apparently

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the moderate clerics, the moderate clerics,

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right? Because anyone who doesn't believe in this way, they're not not moderate. They're extremist. They're calling to division. Why? I mean, people have been divided over all sorts of concepts. Why can't people be divided over religion? Why does it all have to be everybody believes one way and that's the end of that.

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People are divided about Elon Musk, and Tesla.

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People are divided over everything.

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Right? People are divided over Samsung and Apple, why can't people be divided also in the way they believe?

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So long as you don't harm anybody. You can have your belief and

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they can have their belief that's exactly what ALLAH SubhanA wants to Annecy. You want to debate with us about our religion. He's your Lord and our Lord, You have your practice, and we have ours, most of them will facility in this. And this means you have your religion, and we have ours. And so we have seen, let's just call, you know, let's just say that we both have our own ways.

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I don't have to accept your way if you'd like you can accept mine. But there's no compulsion there as well. So we don't have to all believe in one way. But there are a group of people from every one of the major religions, they're coming together, and they're trying to create a new religion called Abrahamian.

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Abrahamian. What's Abrahamian Abrahamian combines the practices from all three of the major religions from Islam, from Christianity and from Judaism.

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That let's try to unify people in this way.

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Why? Because everybody's making claims to Ibrahim Ali Salam Allah subhanaw taala says, do you say Ibrahim Ismail is hot? Yeah, oh, see all of them are gone. About the children of Iacob which includes use of la sera Musa gyno who then there were Christians or Jews.

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Allah says, Allah Mohammed Allah, say, O Muhammad, do you know more? Or Allah azza wa jal knows more. It doesn't get any better than that.

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Lm Allah say, Do you know better or Allah azza wa jal knows better.

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Woman of the lemma women get them a shahada, the woman Allah,

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who is more transgressive than the person who hides a witness that he has.

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That Allah has given him min Allah He tries to hide it from Allah azza wa jal woman of the moment Katha Masha heard that and in the home in Allah, when Allah Who behalf it in a matter, I'm alone, and Allah is not heedless of your attempt to hide what you have. Because Christians, especially scholars of Christianity, when they look deeper into Christianity, many of them come to the recognition that, in fact, Muhammad is a prophet of God. And that's why I told you there is in fact, today, one sect of Christianity, which is starting to make the claim that it's okay Muhammad is also a prophet of God. And the Quran is also a book from God. But still, Jesus happens to be supreme, he

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is still the Son of God, he is still guard God in some way, shape, or form, etc. He's still one of three. But okay, we could let Muhammad in as well.

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But those who are sincere, they except how many scholars of Islam? Have you ever seen seen who left Islam? scholars who are well established in their Deen

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in their practice in their knowledge? How many of such people have you ever seen who have left the faith to one of the other fates?

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In my lifetime, I haven't come across a single person.

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I haven't.

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How many people who went to divinity school? When they look deeper and deeper? They say to themselves, actually, you know what?

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I think I was wrong all along.

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And they begin to accept Islam. There's loads of people like this. There's loads of people. There's one gentleman from Sri Lanka.

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And I was in touch with this man once.

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And this gentleman was sent as a missionary.

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And he was a person who had a lot of knowledge of the Bible. He was sent as a missionary to Saudi Arabia. He went there and he started working in Saudi Arabia. And he tried to

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You work really hard to

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infiltrate and so he can affect anyone he could possibly affect within Saudi Arabia into Christianity. He tried really hard.

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And as he tried, he came across the Quran while he's in Saudi Arabia.

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And when he looked at the Quran, he started reading the Quran. And he started looking deeper. He realized that this is in fact, the right faith. He was sent as a dahlia as a color to Christianity trained specialist accepted Islam, Bismillahi, masha Allah, and then he went back to Sri Lanka, stayed in also in Saudi Arabia for a long time. He learned the religion, he learned Arabic, he learned much about Islam. And he wrote a very, very extensive encyclopedia upon how to give that away to Islam. This is the most encyclopedic work on how to give that right to Islam.

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It's something like 20 volumes or something very big. I even thought to myself, how do you write 20 volumes of such a subject? Right? But it's there. He showed me the book.

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It's there it exists. I thought it was a mist. So when I went to certain lengths, I started asking everybody, have you ever heard of this man? Nobody knew him because he was just hiding by himself, writing.

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I'd heard about this man. And I searched it out. I'm talking to people who knew that we're in Sir Lanka.

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But he was just by himself until one day SubhanAllah. Out of the blue, he sent me a message.

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I'm not sure how this happened. But out of the blues, I just got a text message. And I looked at his face, he looks through Lincoln. And I said, are you that person?

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He said, Yes, this is me. I said, SubhanAllah. I've been looking for you for years,

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alone when I can. But the idea is that Allah guides whom He wills, where he wills and how he was that story that I shared about insulin Komeito. This is centuries ago, he read the Bible, he memorized a very, very large portion of the Bible. After he memorized the Bible, he came across the word fight at length, and he went to his priest and chef, and he talked to him about it and what happened, he accepted Islam.

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And just like that, Gerald Dirks, he was a scholar of divinity. He went to divinity, Harvard Divinity School, very learned man, he passed away Allah. And after that, he ended up accepting Islam. And then he spent the rest of his life writing on Islam. And he has so many very, very useful books. Especially there's one book he's written on Islam in America. So he talks about the early comers of Islam and Muslims within America, and all of the signs that show that there was a pre Columbus existence of Islam in America.

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So these are all people who are what? They're Christians, and they're scholars of Christianity. There's just some examples. And I have more, and there are more as well. But the opposite doesn't usually happen. Why? Because when you look deeper into these books, you realize that there's signs and there are pointers and there's things pointing to Islam. And that's why Allah subhana wa Taala says woman other than there are some people who no, open up your heart and accept Islam. Allah says woman of the love who is more transgressive and oppressive than the person who's hiding a witness that he has, from Allah azza wa jal, who are you hiding from? Well, Mala who will be whorfin in a

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minute, that minute, and Allah azza wa jal is not heedless of what you do.

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But remember Allah azza wa jal has this practice of going really hard. And then he slows down. This is always happens in the Quran. So just like that, in the last page, at the end of the page, after Allah was working really hard, he slowed down and press the brakes a little bit right here as well. Allah does exact same thing and the exact same verses Well, Allah says still cometan cut harlot

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la hamaca Saba to Allah comarca septum Allah to Luna American. This is an OMA that's already gone. Ibrahim is married is heartless both yeah, hope all of them are already gone. They're finished. Let's not debate about what they happen to be where they are Muslims, Christians, Jews, they will have whatever reward for whatever they earned, and you're going to get rewarded for whatever you've earned. Now you have to decide you've got a scripture which claims that it is from God, are you willing to accept it? What Aluna americano Yeah, Malone, you're not going to be asked about what they used to do, whether they were this way or that way. You're going to be asked about what you did

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for yourselves.

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So this is a call to anyone who is sincere. that the Quran is not meant for Muslims alone or

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On is a book that calls people.

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And for you people over here who have Christians and Jews and neighbors that are Mushnik, that are all different religions, your duty is to call to Allah. And I know that calling to Allah sometimes can become very complicated, someone's going to bring all sorts of, you know, doubts to you, and you get confused even more. So, don't do much of that. Just take the Quran and hand it over. The guy has questions, bring them to me. He asked questions, bring them to some other shape, who can answer the questions, you might get confused, I understand that. So don't take all of that burden on yourself. Because maybe he's more well versed in religions in general than yourself. But at least the bare

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minimum you can do as you can give this book to people and say, Well, I this is what I believe in. I just want you to know what this says. Take a look at it because Allah oz book calls people to Islam. This is actively calling as you can see, throughout the Quran to Islam, there is nothing to hide about the fact that Allah in the Quran calls humanity to Islam. And so do we ask Allah subhanaw taala to allow us to live live and die on Islam or something? Allahu Allah. So you didn't I'm hammered him or Allah early. He was so happy he married

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