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The transcript discusses the history and cultural differences between the Greek and Latin American divisions of the Atlantic Union, as well as the use of Arabic language in writing and writing systems. The segment provides insight into the structure of Arabic language, the use of Arabic language in writing systems, and the importance of finding water in the desert to survive. The transcript also discusses the historical significance of the Bible and its teaching, as well as the belief in one god for all different societies. The segment concludes with a discussion of the Bible's teaching and its teaching.Transcript ©
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Alhamdulillah.
This is the continuation
of our new Muslim Corner.
The foundations of Islam and also to open
up
so, And the intention is, and has been
for over the past year or so, and
even in the in the years,
previously,
that is to separate Islam from culture.
So you can know what Islam actually is,
and you can separate that from the culture
of Muslims
because sometimes the culture of Muslims,
is Islamic, and I would say the majority
is. But then there are aspects of different
cultures that are not Islamic.
And and and and and and sometimes
we get confused
with the the the the the the separation
between
the principles of Islam,
you know, and,
the the the what Islam actually is. I
will be teaching the class, and I'll I'll
give a chance for questions.
And
so,
this corner
is set up,
in a relaxed way without going into too
many details,
to give you an idea
about the basic principles of Islam.
And we have been studying,
the Kalima,
Muhammad or Rasulullah.
And that is that there is no god
but Allah, and Muhammad is his messenger, peace
be upon him. And,
understanding that there is
no God but the creator.
That is something which is
natural for most people.
And but it still is important, and we
found out that there's a lot of misunderstandings
even in the concept of god.
So that's gotta be straight.
But the second part of the Calima,
that is something
that for people who are living in the
west,
is something new to them.
To know actually who is prophet Muhammad, peace
be upon him.
It's not something that's taught in schools.
It's not something that you're gonna get necessarily
on television,
in the movies. And, unfortunately,
what has been happening over the past
40 years, even more than that, is whenever
Islam
or Muslims come up in the movies, it's
usually
a distortion.
It's what we call Islamophobia.
So you will get the wrong image and
the wrong understanding. So this class really is
to
break through the barriers of misunderstanding
and to give you a basic idea,
of where we are coming from.
And so,
getting to know prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings
be upon him,
we need to go back to the Arabian
Peninsula itself.
And,
this is a basic map,
which is sort of based upon the year
6 25 AD.
And that the Arabian Peninsula people today,
they think Saudi Arabia or they think
the different Palestine,
Syria, all
these countries that presently there are political,
entities. Lines were drawn.
In the past,
this area, this peninsula
right? And the peninsula is,
you know, a body of land surrounded in
three sides, you know, by water.
So they called it Jazira Tal Arab.
And the word Jazira
does mean an island,
but they they they called it Jazira because
on three sides, there is water, but on
the northern side,
it's sand. It's a desert.
So it's like an ocean of sand.
So literally,
the Arabian Peninsula,
is an island,
if you consider the sand
to be a barrier.
And so culturally,
politically,
it was
separated
from much of the world.
But what we want to do is to
break down the barriers,
you know, so that we can understand,
what,
you know, this area is and who prophet
Mohammed was.
So you can see on on the right
side, you know, of your map is
the Persian Empire.
So this was the great Sassanid dynasty at
the time, which was one of the world
powers, 4 powers in the world
at that time, great powers.
Then on the other side, in the north,
you see Byzantine Empire.
So that again is the Roman,
Eastern Roman Empire.
Okay? Byzantine Empire.
And then,
in the south,
it says Abyssinia.
So this was Al Habashah, they say in
Arabic,
or Aksum,
the Aksumite Empire.
And this was a great African empire,
and it was considered to be one of
the 4
greatest powers on the face of the known
earth.
The 4th power was the 3 kingdoms in
China.
So this is how the great,
philosophers looked at the world, the middle world,
itself.
And so,
the Arabian Peninsula,
and we're using.
So who are Arabs?
Okay. And this is a question because, again,
it's very political thing,
today, and
a lot of things are going on, with
the kefaya of the Palestinians
and whatnot. There's a whole thing surrounding that,
and there's a lot of confusion even surrounding,
symbols itself.
And this is where people get confused. But
for a new Muslim,
for people who are seeking truth, it's important
to go back to the root,
of the terminologies.
Okay? So the the Arabs could be divided
into 3 pots.
1 is Al Arab Al Ba'ida,
and this is the perished Arabs.
So this is the ancient,
Arabian people living in the peninsula there.
And those of you who are who are
Muslim already, you run into some of the
and tamud.
These are the great,
empires,
the civilizations
that were there in ancient times. We're talking
BC.
Okay. But for the most part,
the early forms of Arabic and Arab culture
perished.
And you will not find
traces now today. You can go to certain
places, and you will see,
the remnants, the ruins,
of civilizations.
There's a famous one in Jordan, Petra.
So you will see even,
like a castle, palace is built of stone,
and there were actually empires living there in
the Arabian Peninsula.
The only thing left
from the from the the the,
Arabel Bahida,
from their languages,
that I've heard of is a language spoken
in Oman. And Oman
is by the UAE, you know, it's it's
right at the tip. Right? Oman.
And there is a language,
Jibaliyah,
that's it's a Semitic language.
Okay? But it's not Arabic.
And when they start speaking it, those who
can speak it, you don't know what they're
what they're saying, even though you can speak
Arabic.
Okay. But that language is a dying language.
And shortly,
when the younger generation takes on Arabic and
then English and other languages,
it'll probably die,
like the rest of the languages. So this
is.
So that's the first group. The second group
is.
This is the pure Arabs,
and like the tribe of Khatan.
And, this is, you know, there's some difference
that I put, but the majority of of
scholars believe that the present day Arabic that
we have,
it it came out of Yemen.
So this is in Southern Arabia. Right? So
it goes right across. You have Yemen on
one side, Hadar Amout,
in the middle and right across. And it
is from there
that it spread. They brought to Islam.
Right. Now remember,
Semitic languages,
it did it's a it's a lot. Again,
everybody's saying like anti Semite and anti Semitism,
whatnot. This is a big word. Semites are
not just Hebrews.
Arabs in the in the time of Jesus,
there was a language Aramaic.
They were speaking there's also Syriac,
languages,
which was spoken in the area of Syria
and other languages in Iraq,
that are semi based. There's there's a language
in Ethiopia,
Amharic.
And Amharic is one of the big languages
in Ethiopia
that
Amharic, the Amharic people, they're Semites. So if
you trace their DNA, it goes back to
the same root,
you know, of the Semites. So but for
Arabic language, which many people believe
is the root of all the Semitic languages
is Arabic itself.
Because when you go back in terms of
time
and in terms of the structure, linguists look
at the structure of Semitic languages.
And they find that Arabic is the strongest.
And the the the the the Jewish people,
because they were scattered in the land,
and Hebrew became only the language of,
their rabbis and scholars.
And so they had to, like, make a
language, the language many of them speakers call
Yiddish,
which is German and other things, you know,
mixed up with some Hebrew in it. So
they are reconstructing Hebrew
to try to make it, a spoken language.
That's part of their building of their society
today.
And and quiet as it's kept, they're using
Arabic
as the basis for the grammar
to rebuild Hebrew, because they don't have anything
like that. They only have, an old dead
language that's only in certain scrolls,
not a spoken language. So they have to
actually build it. You can hear it though,
when we say,
a a a salaamu alaykum.
Right? And they say, shalom alaykum.
So you see how close the 2 is.
Right?
Salaam Shalom.
Peace. So so peace be upon you.
You see, so that this is Semitic languages.
So Arabic,
the the the progenitors of Arabic, the originators
are from Yemen, the Kallan,
the Himyadi people.
Of course, if you speak to an Arab,
they would disagree because Egyptians think they have
the best Arabic.
Syrians think they have the best. Moroccans think
they have the best.
Right? Saudis think the cost, they Saudis think
they have the best.
But when you really look at Arabic, and
I learned Arabic for and listen to all
the dialects.
And the closest
one
to the the us or the base is
the Yemeni Arabic.
Or it could be Southern Saudi Arabia too,
down by the border of Yemen and Yemen.
The only problem is, like I mentioned last
week,
Yemenis talk too fast. Right?
So if you learn Arabic, they they talk
fast. You gotta slow them down. Right? But
if you can slow them down,
it's very similar to what we call
or classical Arabic, because they are.
The third group
is called Al Arab Al Mustariba.
So these are Arabized
Arabs.
Now what do I mean by
that? From Yemen,
Arabic then spread
to different places. And when Islam spread,
Arabic language spread with it. And so the
Egyptian people,
and that's they probably have the largest
Arabic speaking population in the Middle East is
in is in Egypt,
but Egyptians are not originally Arabs.
They they have a Coptic language.
Okay. Lebanese were
Phoenicians.
Phoenicians
is a they they came out the Mediterranean.
Syrian people, Syriac, Iraq,
they have a Semitic closeness, but it's not
originally Arabic. And you'll see that
with most of the thing that I found
out because if you have a Moroccan person
who is speaking
to a Syrian person,
in Arabic,
they can hardly understand each other. Mhmm. Because
of dialect, right? There's different dialects.
In the same way, like we said in
English,
if a person if if a Scottish person
is speaking English to you,
you know, to a person from Trinidad,
Right? They they probably would hardly be able
to understand. I went to Scotland
and,
I could not and the strangest thing to
me was what Pakistani
brothers who speak Scottish. That's the strangest thing
I've ever seen in my life.
Because they grew up in Scotland. Right? So
they have pure Scottish,
but they're Pakistanis,
right? So when they're speaking Scottish, then I'm
saying, okay, wait a minute, man, speak to
me in English, right?
It is English.
But Scottish people have their own original language.
Right? So that influences and it's a dialect.
Of course. So it's only a dialect. So
there's nothing wrong
with that. So Arab aside, so Lebanese, Syrians,
Moroccans, you know, most of the Arabs around
from different places, they are, you know, technically
speaking, Al Arab and Mustariba.
But we don't use this term Mustariba today.
The Arab league,
you know, includes all of them in the
Arab league. And the Somalia is part of
the Arab league too. And also the Comoros
Islands.
This is an island down in East Africa.
Called the Comoros, they're Arabic speaking too. So
they're they're in the Arab League, as well.
But this is just to give you an
idea. Like, what is an Arab even the
tongue promise of the prophet Muhammad, peace be
upon him, said,
an Arab is somebody who speaks Arabic.
That's what an Arab is. It is not
a particular racial group.
That's a misunderstanding.
So there's certain features that have been stereotyped
to be Arab features,
but that's a mistake.
Because amongst Arabic speaking people, you have blonde
hair, blue eyes, you have dark skin, you'll
have middle range colors, you have all types,
who within this particular group. Okay? And I'll
be showing you, you know, how this actually
comes to play. And, and, and, and probably
the best individual,
you know, to show prophet Abraham
Ibrahim Alayhisra.
K. So Ibrahim,
he came from what is now known as
Iraq.
In those days, it wasn't Iraq that we
know today because you have the ancient Chaldeans,
you have Mesopotamia,
Babylonians,
it's Tigris, Euphrates region. Right?
Okay. So he came from I'll I'll use
the word Iraq. He came from this region.
And as a young man, he was very
curious,
intelligent person.
And his father was an idol maker.
You know, they had forgotten the message and
they were basically worshiping idols. And so Ibrahim
alaihis salaam,
he questioned. And and these are actually idols.
I took a picture, that's the tall one.
That's sort of like how their idols looked
in Iraq,
in the ancient times.
And,
so Ibrahim questioned his father,
you know, about these objects, why are you
worshiping them? And it didn't make sense to
him. And it it's a long story, but
but the basis is that Ibrahim,
refused to accept the idols. And he broke
the big idol and put his, you know,
stick in its hand
and broke all the other idols who kept
the big one.
And then when they came back,
you know, he then they said, what happened?
And he said, ask your idol.
Now, if this is logic now, that's your
God.
Okay? Couldn't it couldn't a God protect itself?
Okay. I'll explain to you. So they realized
what he was doing, and they lit a
huge bonfire.
Right? And they threw him inside of it
now to burn him to death.
A serious way to die. Right?
And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala then inside the
fire, a huge fire,
the angels came
and they created a type of,
safe space within there.
And then, you know, Allah said then, you
know, be cool and be a source of
peace for Ibrahim. So he was inside and
the fire now
finally subsided.
They expected to see ashes
that was there, but Ibrahim was alive.
And this shocked the people.
And then, you know, he left. He was
able to escape,
and but still they plotted to kill him.
And so he eventually left.
Many people say that the king at that
time was Nimrod,
you know, who was a known king in
ancient times.
Ibrahim alaihis salaam married a woman,
named Sarah.
K? So Sarah
is also from Iraq.
Now this is heavy
because there's a lot of people misusing terminologies.
Right?
Ask a Jewish person about Sarah. Right?
Ask about Ibrahim. They'll say they're Jewish,
but they're not Jewish.
They believed in one god,
and they were people coming out of the
Tigris, Euphrates
region.
And so they traveled
through,
Iraq, Syria, down into Palestine,
down into Egypt.
And when they reach Egypt,
they ran into a group called the Hyksos
who had conquered Egypt. They were from the
same area from Iraq. They had conquered the
Egyptians. Egyptians were Africans.
And so these Hyksos had something in common
with Khabur Rahim. It's a long story.
But they eventually
befriended him,
and they gave him a servant, woman,
whose name was Hajar.
In English, they would say Hagar. Okay? And,
Sarah could not have
children
at that time. She wasn't
able to have children.
And so,
Ibadarheem,
and I'm gonna show you some details about
this.
He married Hajar.
I'm gonna qualify this for you.
But from our understanding
and understanding of Christians and honest Jews,
he married
Hadjar.
Okay, so that would have been his second
wife,
Sarah on one side and Hadjar
on the other side. And Hajjah had a
son
whose name was Ishmael
or Ishmael Alaihi Salam.
Okay? I'm gonna go to this and I'm
gonna show you a graph
so you can actually, you know, see the
details.
K? So Ibrahim,
with his wife, Sarah
and Hajar, they left Egypt and went back
into the area of,
Canaan, Canaan, Palestine,
you know, into that area.
And he he he established a base there.
He was commanded by God to go south.
So he went south with his son, Ishmael.
And they went into a valley,
which was known at that time as Becca.
Becca.
And Becca actually appears
in
the Bible.
Okay. And I'm gonna show you where it
actually appears
in the Bible.
And Becca,
which later became pronounced as Mecca.
Okay? Because the ba and the mim was
very close.
So eventually it became pronounced as Mecca. But
the Quran itself, when it when it talks
about Mecca, it says Becca.
In the Quran itself,
Becca to Mubarak. So,
to give you a summary of the story,
they went
down into the area of Mecca,
and, they established a base.
Ibrahim was then commanded by God to go
back north.
So he left,
Hajar
and Ishmael
in this valley.
Okay? Because Mecca at the time is a
is a a desolate is a valley,
k, with hills surrounding it. And she became
thirsty, and she ran in between 2 mountains,
Safa and Marwa.
And she was searching for water,
and the boy began to dug and dig
in the ground. An angel, you know, came,
assisted,
and water came out.
And that well
is known as the well of Zamzam,
and the water is flowing up until today.
This is a miracle. This is miraculous.
Lake underneath
or like a, you know, like an ocean
or something under under the ground. It's miraculous,
But the water is still void. Now the
the Bedouin Arabs this is some Bedouins, not
from back then, but that's the closest I
could get to them.
This the Bedouin Arabs who are traveling from
the south from Yemen remember your map.
They would travel from the south. They had,
a substance called frankincense,
and frankincense is like incense. Right? It's like
we have maple syrup
that comes off the maple the trees.
Right? And then we cut it, and we
make nice syrup for our pancakes.
Right?
In Oman,
that syrup, when it gets tough,
it it it it forms a substance.
There's a hard one and a gummy one.
So the hard one, if you burn it,
it releases a smell,
and that smell is miraculous.
It kills odors in your rooms.
And it also has almost like a
mystical type of feel to the smell.
And so this smell became known, and so
everybody wanted the
smell. Jewish, Christian, Buddhist, Hindu,
all of the religious people wanted to burn
this in their temples.
The wealthy people
also wanted to burn incense in their homes
to clear the air.
The gummy form,
they would put it and they would chew
it because it clears
bad breath.
And that was the first chewing gum before
your Ripley's and Juicy Fruit
and the things you chew. That was the
first chewing gum
was there.
So just imagine what they had. This is
a substance.
It's tough. You can you can go a
1000 miles with this in your bag,
and it's still the same.
So they would travel from the south
up the coast, the Red Sea coast,
and they would go to the Mediterranean
to the base. And one of the places
they would sell is Gaza.
So Gaza is a very important place. Right?
Gaza was where the Greeks and the Romans
would come and and meet the Arabs
on a coast there.
And so they would bring
leather goods,
metal, weapons, different things they would bring.
The Arabs would have frankincense and myrrh.
Later on,
the Arabs also,
from Ethiopia,
they started to to grow, coffee.
So coffee was coming out of there.
They also had
other nice smelling,
perfumes.
So they would carry that and bring it
up, and then they would get their things.
That's a trade that was going. Halfway
along
as you're going,
you need some water, and so that's where
Mecca was.
And the Arabs realized following birds
following birds because when you're in the desert,
you have to know how to survive. And
if you want water,
the best thing to do is to follow
animals.
That is the best thing to do if
you want water.
Okay? And so they followed the birds,
and the birds led them to the valley
of Mecca because Zamzam was there.
So this valley became a settled
valley.
So
the Arab al Arabah,
that's your pure Arabs. Right?
They are settled there
along with Hajar
and Ishmael,
and then prophet Ibrahim,
peace be upon them all, he he came
back. And with Ishmael, he built a house
of worship.
And that house of worship on the foundations
of the original house of worship of Adam
alaihis salaam,
he built the Kaaba.
Okay? And that's now what we know as
that cubicle.
Okay? So now this is an old picture
of Zamzam,
what it might have looked like, but this
is still, like, 20th century.
So So that's it was just so well.
Okay. Now, of course, you have ZamZam bottles
and ZamZam, all kinds of things, faucets,
whatever, but that's something how it looked,
before the the well of Zamzam.
And this is an artist conception of what
Mecca may have might have looked back in
those ancient times.
Very simple,
place,
that house of worship built by, Abraham
and his son became the focal point,
of the worship of 1 God,
and then later,
they started to worship idols. This, of course,
is present day Kaaba.
Okay. So that's the base,
you know, of that area,
there.
Now
I wanna just go back to this point
again with Ibrahim,
alaihis salaam.
Look at this chart
because the question is, who is Mohammed?
That's the question.
If you go to the average university student,
of course, there's all kinds of propaganda around
and all kind of things. But if you
go to the average so called educated person
in the west,
and even in other part, say, who is
Mohammed?
They could not explain to you properly
who we actually they might give you some
propaganda
or some
wild story that they heard, but, actually,
people who consider themselves educated,
They should know who this is.
And, you know, books have been written. Some
scholars,
a professor Hart, you know, said, who is
the, you know, 100 most, you know, influential
people on earth? And he looked at all
the great leaders.
He looked at Genghis Khan. He looked at
Moses. Looked Julius Caesar,
whatever, who influenced people's, you know, societies,
and the teachings continue.
And he put us number 1. He put
prophet Muhammad as number 1.
And he's not he's not a religious person,
but he's just talking about influence
that this person has.
Okay? This is the shock.
It's very simple. It's it's it's it's truth
hidden in plain sight,
And it's important for you, to understand this
as everybody should actually
should know this because it's so simple, but
it's so profound.
Remember your chart. Right?
Ibrahim Sarah,
who came from Tigris, Euphrates, Iraq,
Hajah, who was an African woman, by the
way, African. Right?
Some say she was a princess
from the Nile.
Okay? They were she they were captured. She
was captured by the Hyksos who were Iraqis.
Okay. So an African woman,
Ibrahim is from Tigris, Euphrates.
His wife is African,
and she has a son. Now
look at this.
Genesis.
This is the Bible.
Old Testament.
Genesis
16:3,
and Sarah,
Abraham's wife, took Hagar, her maid, the Egyptian,
after Abraham had dwelt 10 years in the
land of Canaan
and gave her to her husband, Abraham, to
be his wife,
not concubine.
His wife that's in the Bible.
That's hidden in plain sight.
99% of Christians don't know this. Right? Because
they don't read all of the Bible. Best
of the old testament.
Okay?
So that's his wife. That's Genesis 16/60.
Now
look at this.
Genesis 16/16.
And Abraham was 4 score in 6 years
when Hagar, Beah,
Ishmael
to Abraham.
So he was about 86 years old,
and his wife was also up in the
eighties.
They had different age groups then, not like
us. Right?
Right? But she
bore the child
Ishmael.
I'm not I'm not out of the book
yet. Right? I'm in the Bible.
Okay?
So the first son,
genealogically,
is Ismail alaihis salaam.
He's the first son.
Now
in Psalms
846,
Showed us to a Christian if you have
any Christian friends.
Psalms 846.
What does it say? It's talking about Abraham
who passing through the valley of Becca.
There it is.
Because people say, where's Mohammed in the book?
Where's Mecca? It's not in the Bible.
There it is.
That's the same word used in the Quran.
It's to Mubaraka.
Now look what it says.
Make it a well. The rain also filleth
the pools. When it talks about,
it's talking about water. Right?
That's a description of Mecca.
That is the most unique thing about Mecca
at the time,
and it's testified
by the Bible itself.
Now
later on,
Abraham,
he's still going,
man. He's drinking goat milk,
like, whatever his secret was.
He's still going.
Abraham was a 100 years old,
and his wife must have been at least
in her nineties.
Right? And she finally,
Alhamdulillah,
she had a child,
Isaac.
Alright? Now this side of the family
is what we know about in the western
world.
Because from Isaac
comes Jacob,
Yaqub.
And
Yaqub,
quiet as it's kept,
his name
was Israel,
Israel.
Israel means the one who, like, wrestled with
God and, you know, debated with God or
whatever. This is a name. So the 12
tribes of Israel
are actually the 12 sons of Jacob.
Now look at this logically now
because
that means that the tribe of Levi, you
know, your Levi's pants,
and yahoodah and all the basic 12 tribes,
It comes underneath here. So
anything above that, which is Isaac, Sarah,
Abraham,
they are not from the Jewish tribes.
To show you how they've twisted history around.
Right?
The average person does not does not know
this. You think that all of these people
are actually Jewish. That's not true. And the
Quran
says clearly
that,
Abraham was not
Jewish. He was not Christian,
but he was Hanif,
pure.
He was a Muslim,
meaning one who submits to God,
and he did not
worship idols.
K? Now let's take it a step further.
From the 12 tribes
came
Moses,
Musa Alaihi Salam.
Right?
And also from
these tribes
came
Jesus, Esa Alaihi Salam.
Miriam
was from,
these these families,
a protected woman,
and we believe that she bore Jesus without
a father.
That's a Muslim belief.
Everybody or most people in the western world
know about this side of it. What they
don't know is the other side,
and this is where it's hidden in plain
sight.
Because when you go to the other side,
you will see Ishmael.
And from Ishmael, I'll go back up. Ishmael,
remember, Hagar,
Hajar, and Ishmael? They're in Mecca. Right? The
Arab tribes are there.
And one of the famous tribe called Jurhum.
Of the Jurhum tribe, Arabel Araba,
Ishmael
married a woman from Jurhum,
and their son
their son's son down, you know, right down
the line.
Okay? Their great great great great great great
grandson
is
Mohammed.
You know what this means?
Genealogically
DNA. We're into the age of DNA. Right?
You wanna find your roots, go on the,
DNA ancestry.com.
So if you go ancestry.com,
Moses,
Jesus, and Mohammed
are cousins.
This is a mindblower.
Look at the world today, how Arab versus
Israeli and whatever. Right?
Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed
are cousins.
They are literally
from the same family. Their DNA
would meet back with Abraham.
And the teachings of Muhammad,
peace be upon him, are the same teachings
of Abraham.
Believe in one God.
Be upright.
Live a good life.
Same teachings.
Same teachings of Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Jesus.
When you go back to the root of
all of these great prophets,
you will find that their teachings are the
same.
So for the average person who needs to
know,
you need to look at this chart
because someone will say, who's Mohammed?
I don't even know who he is.
Is he a Saudi with
a red thing on and a
no.
Not a Saudi.
There was no Saudi Arabia.
Okay? He was
in the Arabian Peninsula.
He was from the tribe that they call
Quraish,
and I will give you some description of
Quresh.
Okay?
What his his his his genealogy,
his teachings
is the same as the other prophets.
And that's
something that if a person is coming out
of Christianity or Judaism
and and you get familiar, you take off
the propaganda,
and you look at the teachings of Islam,
you will see in essence,
it is the
same.
The only difference with Christianity,
of course, is the trinity and other things
that came along
after the Council of Nicaea and the changes
that Christianity went through. K? So this is
your genealogical
chart
for prophet Muhammad. That's where he is on
the map.
That's where he stands. And and even,
when you go in the Bible, you'll see
other references, which we don't have time to
to to go into the details,
you know, now, but this is where he
stands on the chart. So I wanna open
up the floor for any questions anybody has
now,
concerning so far, you know, as we go
along. Question. I'd just like to say, SubhanAllah,
everything that you've shared,
is is all I I'm aware of already.
And since that, if there's any true original,
it's the Yemeni people, and they are the
ones who brought,
Islam to the Horn of Africa, mainly Somalia,
West Somalia in comparison to, let's say,
an African country all across the other side
of the continent is, like, 99.28%
Muslim. Okay. So the question okay. What it
is? Ask the question? Yes. Because because we're
online. I'm sorry. We're online. My question is,
as it says in the Quran
Mhmm. That the children of Israel will become
very arrogant and cause corruption in the land
twice. I believe and or I'm asking if
you believe, do you think well, for one
we know it was the Nakba, the 19
48 Nakba, which is the area for the
catastrophe when the Israelis,
you know, attacked the and kicked all the
Palestinians out of their villages and sent them
on death marches. And now it's happening
since October 7th, like, since they've do you
my question is, do you and now with
Saudi Arabia's beginning to sell liquor liquor stores,
do you not think that judgment day, the
day of resurrection,
and Issa's return, peace be upon him, it
it is imminent in our lifetime. Do you
think it's very Okay. That is a that
is a question that that is a a
good question. The only all who know But
this class
is for new Muslims. Okay. Because some of
the people here, even in the room here,
are not even Muslims. Okay. Okay. So we're
not dealing with political questions. Far. At this
point, it's it's political. Far down the road.
I have a class on Tuesday nights Okay.
At 7 o'clock. That's more for Okay. That's
where you you'd have a chance to go
into Okay. The the details about that. Okay?
Any other general questions concerning these things? Yeah.
So,
Yeah. So I have to I just wanna
clarify a couple of things first. Yeah. The
people who prosecuted
Ibrahimal Islam,
No. They they were people who live they
were idol worshipers living in Tigris, Euphrates region.
So they were like Mesopotamian
Babylonians. Right?
Not Jewish. Remember, Jewish does not come to
way down the line,
with Jacob. Right? There's no Jewish people.
So the the question here then is,
what is the disconnect,
and where is it between the people then
and Jewish people now where they just believe
that everyone in that lineage is Jewish?
Yeah. Again, you you see, it's it's it's
a misunderstanding
of,
terminologies.
Plus, to be honest,
some of their scholars,
took a harsh position.
Number 1, they refused to accept Jesus.
Right? And and they said that Jesus was
his mother was, committed adultery.
So he's illegitimate.
And you go in their teachings, and you
find they they that he's a illegitimate
child Christianity is illegitimate religion.
So they refuse to accept it. Okay? And
then in order to rewrite
the text, and they have rewritten it in
what they call a Talmud.
Right? To rewrite it,
You see?
Because according to the sacrifice because they believe
that Abraham sacrificed. That's part of his the
story.
When he was asked to sacrifice his son,
they think it's Isaac.
Right?
But genealogically,
in ancient times, the sacrificial child would be
the first son,
and the first son was Ishmael.
So everything points, but then they say he's
illegitimate
because Hagar was a concubine.
But Genesis itself
is saying
Sarah couldn't have children. She said, Mary
Haggard.
And it says it in the Bible, the
old testament.
This is his wife.
And we believe
it's it's his legitimate wife. He would not
do he's a legitimate wife
and child.
So so this is really dishonesty
amongst
so called scholars,
you know, to confuse people in order to,
control them. That's what it is. And it
and then again but but when honest people
can sit down,
and I have had this I have put
this chart in front of
big crowds of non Muslim Christians
and Jews, and they were all in shock
because they never understood this, especially when they
when they see Genesis. Right? If I'm quoting
the Quran, they say, well, you Muslims.
Right? But when I'm quoting Genesis,
they have nothing to talk about. That's their
book. Right?
You see?
So now
just to complete, is is there anything online?
No.
Okay. Any other general questions anybody has? So
we'll go on. Now
remember,
the third
point,
who are the Arabs? Right?
Remember, Al Arab al Mustariba.
These are Arabized
Arabs, people who are not originally Arabic,
but they took on Arabic as their language.
Right? Like, a good example is Lebanese people.
I use that because that they were clearly
Phoenicians
and Moroccan people. They were Amazigh.
They were Berbers, Amazigh. Right? They had their
own language. Berbers is And now
Arabic is,
you know, one of the big languages. Amazigh
language is still there in in Morocco.
Okay? But k. No problem. I'll be back.
Arabic size Arabs.
Now look at this. This is an interesting
point.
So Ismael alaihi salaam. Remember your chart?
You have Abraham,
married African woman. The son is Ismael.
So he's half Iraqi,
and he's half
African.
And he comes down into the Arabian Peninsula,
and he
learns Arabic.
They did not originally speak Arabic,
so he learned Arabic,
and then he married a woman who was
from the pure Arabic tribes.
So, therefore,
their children
who are considered to be the most noble
people in Mecca,
That is the tribe of Quresh.
I'm gonna show you where the name Quresh
comes from.
Okay? That's the noble tribe. If you actually
go into their lineage,
the Quresh apart
Iraqis,
meaning which is part Babylonians,
and they're part Africans
because their great great grandmother was an African
woman.
Okay? That's the most noble tribe
amongst the Arabs,
and that's really the reality. It's it's a
because Islam is supposed to break down nationalism.
Right?
It's not saying one place is better than
the other place.
But sometimes we have to bring this out
because
sometimes the truth is is right in front
of your eyes.
Right? If you if you if if people
had the eyes to see. So the Quraish
have that, blood.
And, again, this is the your your Arabian
Peninsula now, and you can see on the
map,
you see where Mecca lies.
Right? So you see Yemen in the south,
and then Mecca sort of in the middle,
and then you go north,
to the Mediterranean.
K. So that's your
so the people in Mecca,
because of the trade position,
economics,
also because of the religious position, Abraham's
house
became the center of 1 god.
And, eventually, after a couple generations, they lost
the belief in 1 god. It became the
center of idol worship.
So all of the idol worshiping people from
around Arabia
would bring their idols to and put it
in the Kaaba.
Okay? So it became a religious center.
So Mecca became the most famous important city
on the Arabian Peninsula
because of these reasons.
K? Now but the Arabs at that time,
like I said,
you know, they
they lost the Kaaba was originally the belief
in one god. It was Abraham.
Right? But they lost it,
and they set up idols.
Okay?
And, you know, in idolatry,
it it it's it's a strange,
you know, way to relate to rocks and
stones and, you know, whatever,
is what we call shirk,
right, which is polytheism.
But the Arabian society itself,
it had good qualities as well,
and it had qualities
of kadam,
generosity.
They had certain amount of ethics that they
had as well.
They had,
nobility. They were proud of themselves
even though they didn't have much.
So there were good qualities about Arabian society
as well. But in terms of material things,
they did not have much in the material
world.
K?
And
there were no,
universal laws in in the Arabian Peninsula.
It was a tribal society.
So depending upon which section of Arabia you
came from and which tribe you were in,
This is how other people would relate to
you. So you're dealing with a tribal society.
Yemen in the south, because of the frankincense
and because of the trade,
Yemen actually
was built up as well in the south.
It wasn't as strong as Mecca because Mecca
is sort of in the middle and had
the Kaaba.
But outside of Mecca, Yemen had
the most organized societies in the Arabian Peninsula.
And as we discussed,
last week,
many great kings that they had, one was
called Dunuas,
and,
he was
he hated idol worship.
And he hated it so much that he
accepted Judaism.
Judaism.
And Christians started to come from Ethiopia because
Ethiopians had accepted Christianity from the Nile Valley.
It came from the north, teachings of Mark,
one of the disciples, and it went up
to Nile South.
It went up, and it reached Ethiopia until
you had a form of Christianity there in
Ethiopia,
and they spread across into Yemen.
Dhul Nuwas
punish these people.
Because remember, they refuse to accept Jesus.
And,
for those of you who might be advanced
in your teachings, if you go to a
chapter in the Quran called Suratul Buruj,
then you'll see the story of the boy
and the king
and Dunuas.
He eventually,
killed 20,000
Christians.
He built a huge fire.
He built a fire, and he threw them
in the fire.
This is the story behind Surat al Buruj.
You should read the Tafsir.
20,000 people he burnt.
Okay? And they stayed on their belief in
in, you know, in in in in in
in God.
And because of this, these are Christians. Remember,
he's a Jewish king,
Christians.
So when the word got back up to
the Romans with Byzantine Romans,
they contacted Ethiopia.
Because remember, they're all Christian in the Christian
world.
They contacted them and they said,
attack
Dunhuas.
Attack him.
Because they knew
that this is one of the great powers
of the world. Remember the powers of the
world, Romans,
Aksumite, Ethiopians,
Persians, and Chinese.
So this is one world power speaking to
another world power, and they said they have
punished our
fellow
Christians attack, and the Ethiopians crossed into Yemen.
Ethiopian army had elephants,
which at that time made it one of
the strongest armies in the world.
And they and they crushed Dunuos,
and he rode his horse right into the
ocean.
Nobody ever found his body,
and they colonized. They took over Yemen.
Okay? And they built,
they they they they they sought they built
a a cathedral in Yemen, which is called.
That's what they called it. And one of
the Arabs from the north defiled
the,
and so the leader of the Ethiopians called
Abraha,
he decided to attack Mecca.
K? You Arabs
would defile our church.
We will defile your Kaaba.
So he took a huge
mechanized army with elephants north,
and
they went to attack. The Arabs had no
way to protect themselves,
and
Allah
sent birds.
It's in the chapter 105 of the Quran
where it speaks about
that birds
took baked clay
and went to
heights,
dropped it.
Now you know if you dropped, you know,
a coin from the CN Tower,
you drop something down there,
like, because of gravity and whatnot,
it it it becomes
weight. Right?
So these birds went way up. It's like
bombs they're dropping on them.
So they literally dropped it. The Arabs had
no defense.
And the army of Abraha then broke up
and fled south.
Some,
people of of of Tafsir say that they
got viruses too. They got sick,
and their army was decimated.
And this year
was called
the year of the elephants,
Amal Fil.
In the Christian calendar, it's 5 70
AD. Crucial date.
5 70 AD.
Crucial because
that was the year not only of the
elephants,
but that was the year prophet Muhammad, peace
be upon him, was born.
That's when he was born. K? So we
say, who is Muhammad?
This now you can see now. Right?
What's the scenario that he's living in? What
is he coming in?
And who is the prophet himself?
Okay? And his lineage
basically
and,
this goes into a lot of technicalities,
but for those of you who might be
interested, this is like his family tree. So
his name is Mohammed. Ibn means son of.
Right?
Mohammed ibn Abdullah. His father's name is Abdullah.
Ibn Abdul Muttalib,
ibn Hashim.
Right?
Ibn Abdul Manaf,
ibn Khusay,
ibn Khilab, ibn Murrah, ibn Kaab,
Khab, ibn Khalib,
ibn Fihah. Now Fihah,
his nickname was Quresh.
So that's where the name Quresh actually comes
from.
It's Fih's nickname.
Ibn Malik, ibn Nadar, ibn Kinana, ibn Khuzaima,
ibn Mudrika, ibn Elias,
Right? That's the clear chain. And from Adnan,
they connected all scholars agree that Adnan connects
directly. That's the connection to Ismail.
K? So this is the lineage,
of prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him. That's
how his family
looks,
and
he was born in 5 70,
8 AD,
the year of the elephants.
Okay. So this gives you more of an
idea
of who he actually was.
K?
Floor is open now for any questions,
you know, that we have concern about.
So many of the societies that you discussed,
I've noticed that there's a lot of presence
of idol worship. Presence of idol worshiping.
So I'm just curious. What is it about
areas or times where any Abrahamic religion was
not present
that humans just resort to worshiping idols? Like,
what what is that? You know, for for
from our traditions, there is a tradition
that speaks about
how idol worship actually comes about.
And they tell the story of a person
who believed he was a great teacher,
and he believed in one god. And he
taught his people this,
and then he died.
Okay? And so after he died,
people wanted to know, tell us more about
him. So the next generation, because they knew
what he looked like, they would give the
teachings and everything. The the next generation
said, okay.
Can you draw a picture of him?
So they would draw a picture of him,
and then they would start telling the stories
and, you know, whatever. But generations are coming
getting weaker.
Finally, somebody said, can you actually make a
statue of him
so we can have more of his physical
presence?
And so they a statue comes. And so
instead of worshiping god,
people have so much reverence for their teacher
that they go to god through the teacher.
They still believe in god,
but they go to god through the teacher.
The original teacher was not saying that,
but they don't have the original teacher and
human beings in weakness
then resorted to the statue.
And that's how
that that's one example of how idol worship,
you know, comes about.
The prophets
where when there's a lack of, like, you
know,
Abrahamic religions? Is this a template that keeps
repeating?
Well, you know, this is the weakness of
human beings.
Because human beings,
you know, we,
judge things many times by our senses. What
you can
see, what you hear, what you smell, what
you taste.
And so that's why most the the biggest
form of worship is actually sun worship
because the sun is the biggest thing around.
Right?
So people if you live by a river,
some people start worship in the river.
So so so that's the weakness of human
beings to worship things stronger than them that
they can actually see
and not the creator of all of the
things that are around them. So it it's
a human weakness and it has happened,
you know, historically.
It's it's the struggle
of being a human.
And that's the reason why Allah sent us
messages,
you know, and, you know, and gave us
living examples, you know, to teach us the
way up. Was there somebody back there for
us who had a question?
Okay. Question.
Yeah. Go ahead. Actually, just to stay real,
make it as brief as possible. But just
for the newcomers and and
doing my duty as a Muslim to spread
Islam and then to spread, you know,
during the times of Judea, when Jesus
walked, the word for God in Aramaic was
Allah.
And as you know, there's many Arab Christians.
They also say
They call god Allah. So if it is
in fact a different god, to anyone
here
to anyone you're questioning, maybe you're coming from
Christianity and curious about Islam,
I I hope that gives you some revelation
to why us Muslims, you know, we
affirm and believe
that Christianity
and Judaism and Islam are one and the
same, although Jews and Christians may not necessarily
agree with us. Okay. Good point. This is
a good point. So and, you know, and
because that's what we're saying.
Because some people try to say Judaism, Christianity,
Islam, 3 great
no. Islam, we believe, is the religion of
Adam,
the first man, first human. Fridays. So all
of Islam only means submission to the will
of God.
So, therefore, if a person, for instance, I,
you know, I went to the Amazon
area. There are people in the Amazon in
South America,
you know, who have not been exposed to
Jesus, Moses, Mohammed, you know, Donald Trump. Nobody.
They're in the Amazon.
Okay? And if somebody believes in god
sincerely
and lives a good life, that person could
be described as Muslim.
Because Muslim only means
one who submits to God.
This is an important definition to keep that
in your mind. Right? It does not mean
one who speaks Arabic.
It means one who submits to god, and
you will find the belief in one god
in all different societies.
China, India,
Europe,
the Americas,
Africa,
all you will find the belief in one
god.
Online questions.
If it's the case that the prophet Abraham
became a monotheist by Fitarah, then is it
possible that there are certain historical figures within
the region that could have been believers?
Yes. So so Fitr means that
is it is it true that,
that Abraham,
Ibrahim,
you know,
he became a believer through his his natural
self, could have been teach could could there
have been teachers, you know, in that area.
Yes, monotheism
from the time of Adam
is is spread all around the earth.
So but Ibrahim was a natural
you know, he had this sense. Allah
guided him especially.
So he had this sense to be able
to figure it out and to feel it
and then to stand for the belief in
one god. And that's why he is special.
He's considered to be Hanif,
and he is considered to be Khalilullah,
which means the friend of Allah,
a special quality that Abraham had. Yeah. There's
a continuation to that question. Pharaoh
Ankanahatah,
this is it's actually okay. So some people
believe there was a pharaoh in ancient Egypt
whose name was Akhenaten.
His wife was Nefert,
Nefertiti.
You've probably seen pictures of Nefertiti before.
Akhenaten
refused to accept idols in Egypt. He united
the belief into one god, and he has
a psalms called the Psalms of Akhenaten.
And if you read it, you know, it
it reads like, you know, the the the
Quran itself,
is a beautiful thing. And many scholars say
that he didn't actually worship the sun.
And and he says in his Psalms, it's
the power behind the sun.
Okay?
But remember, the Quran
says, prophets and messengers were sent to every
nation and every tribe
that they worship 1 god and stay away
from false deities. So prophets came to China.
Prophets came to India.
Prophets came to Africa.
Prophets came to Europe.
So that means that an ancient Egypt,
many of the ancient Egyptians
because the civilization goes back, like, 5000 years.
Right?
Many of the ancient Egyptians were monotheists.
I ran into some teachings. I went to
Egypt and went down in the pyramids.
And there's a teacher called Ptahhotep,
And this is in in the in the
in the ancient they call the old kingdom
of Egypt.
Pure belief in one god.
So this concept of pharaoh,
all the pharaohs are worshipers of of themselves.
That's not true. Pharaoh was only a title,
like king. Right?
Pharoah's a title. The the pharaohs had names,
and they had different beliefs.
There's a whole there's there's hundreds of them.
So many of them. So and some of
them were monotheists
as well. So,
this is not to say that he's the
first teacher. No.
We go back beyond Akhenaten. We're saying that
the first monotheist
prophet was Adam.
So when human life began,
he's believing in one god.
God. So that's long before Akhenaten,
or the ancient
people who lived in Mesopotamia.
K? Any other general questions? That's the only
one online. Yeah. Question. If I understand correctly,
the the Christians believe that there were supposed
to be another prophet to arrive after Jesus.
Is that right?
The Christians that taught him might look at
that a little bit next week.
But
Jesus and John,
he spoke of a comforter.
So he used the word, he said, I
have to leave
because the comforter will come. And I'll I'll
I'll try to I'll show you this next
weekend, Shah. And the word in Greek is
like Paracletos.
So the Paracletos, the the comforter
so so so who is the comforter?
If you ask the Christians today, because it's
in their bible. Right?
They say it's the holy ghost.
They're making their
but some scholars have looked at the word
paracletus, and one of the meanings
of is the praised one
is the praised one.
And the praised one actually means Ahmed
or Mohammed. That's what Mohammed means, the praised
one.
So you can reinterpret that particular verse. He's
actually saying, I have to leave
because Ahmed is coming.
He actually predicted
that prophet the prophet would actually come. He
put and there's another verse. I'll show I'll
show you these verses.
Okay. But the word is
and this is the comforter,
and they try to say it's the holy
where's the holy ghost?
It's not even original teachings of Jesus. He
was Jewish.
They didn't have Trinity.
You see? So so so
again, it's, you know, truth hidden in plain
sight.
It's just a matter of going into the
actual roots of the word.
Yeah. Any other general questions?
Yeah. I'm sorry. I have another question about
the idol worshiping. Yeah.
Like many of the stories of the prophets,
they begin with, like, the prophet has arrived
when the society has already descended to idol
worshiping. How
Yeah. Like, based on, like, the promise that
I've come, how long does it usually take
for a society
to descend into idol worship?
And where is our society in advance?
Yeah. I mean, that that there's no set
time
in terms of a formula.
But you could see generations,
you know, usually it would take a couple
but it depends upon the people themselves,
how serious they were right from the beginning.
It depends upon them because when Moses went
up into the mountain, Musa Alaihi
to get, you know, the script he came
down. They were worshiping a golden cow,
man. Like, he couldn't even come back down
from the mountain yet,
And they were already worshiping the calf.
You see? So they they have weakness inside
of them.
So some people, even if they get the
message, they have their week,
You know, and
things are complicated. If you talk to a
Hindu, Hinduism's a complicated
religion, you know.
There's some people Hindu Hinduism who say they
believe in one god.
And if you ask a Hindu, they'll say,
I believe in god, but I'm going through
the idols to get to god.
You talk to the Sikhs, they have their
own understanding too.
So I'm saying, you know, this is where
the guidance comes.
That's where the revelation comes and the prophets
come. That's why, you know, we follow the
guidance because
people get confused,
you know, with complicated
distortions and misunderstandings.
So we will be,
breaking up the class now
because,
prayer comes in, our evening prayer comes, and
this is when we give you a chance
to, you know, get ready for a prayer.
And
next week, we will continue.
We're going through this, you know, life of
prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, you know,
in a in a way that we can
discuss it.
Because the idea is.
That's second part of the kalima.
That is the part that many people,
do not understand properly.
And we need to understand that that path,
you know, to really have the full belief,
you know, in,
Islam.
Okay. So I leave you with these these
thoughts
me and you.
me and you.