Abdullah Hakim Quick – New Muslim Corner – The Miracle Of The Prophet Muhammad
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The speakers discuss the history and origins of the Bible's understanding of Muhammad and the holy spirit. They emphasize the importance of understanding the creator's life and background, as well as the historical and scientific accomplishments of the Bible. The speakers also discuss various interpretations of the Bible and its potential for expansion through technology and knowledge. They stress the importance of praying and not lying on one's back, as it is a general thing that is not evil. The discussion ends with a mention of a class and a discussion of the importance of learning the holy Bible.AI: Transcript ©
All praise are due to Allah, our Lord
of the worlds,
and peace and blessings be constantly showered upon
our beloved prophet Muhammad, the master of the
first and the last,
his family, his companions, and all those who
call to his way and establish his sunnah
to the day of judgment.
As to what fell as to what follows,
my beloved brothers and sisters,
to our friends and viewers, assalamu alaikum,
Alhamdulillah,
this is a continuation
of our new Muslim Corner.
And the intention of this gathering
is to be a place where people who
have recently embraced Islam,
can come
and ask questions and feel at home,
and make this transition.
Because Islam is a way of life. This
is not
just a theoretical
change, but it is a way of life.
And because Muslims come from so many parts
of the world,
speak so many languages,
There are a lot of different cultures,
Muslim cultures.
So sometimes we meet Muslims, and
we are caught up within their culture.
And we don't realize that there's a difference
between their culture and Islam.
And it's usually not a negative thing. Most
of the Muslim
peoples,
their cultures are 80 to 90% Islamic.
But sometimes there are things that are different.
When I embraced Islam many years ago,
I, you know, was fortunate to meet
really nice brothers and sisters.
And when we would eat,
you know, and they would share the food,
and I realized that I was told about
halal food,
permissible
food. And after a while, I thought that,
halal food,
had all all of it had pepper in
it
because every time I ate it had was
hot.
But then I met some Muslims from Bosnia
and Syria and other places and they don't
like,
spices.
So I realized there's a difference between,
Bosnian food
and, East,
South Indian food.
There's a difference. That's a cultural difference,
but halal is the way you sacrifice the
meat, and in the name of God, That's
what makes it halal. It's not the pepper.
So one is Islam and one is culture,
but sometimes the 2 get mixed up. And
so the intent of this class
is to really, clear up
misunderstandings
and also to help the new Muslims to
to get a strong foundation,
in their faith.
And,
we have been looking at over the past
year,
we've been looking at the kalima, what is
called the kalima,
the shahada,
the basic
sentence that puts you into Islam and that
is La ilaha illallah
Muhammadur Rasool Allah sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu
sallallahu sallallahu. There is no God but Allah
and Muhammad is his messenger, peace be upon
him. That is the beginning of the road.
So when a person says this
with sincerity,
they have entered into Islam.
And it is hope it is the prayer
and hope of all Muslims that that would
also be the last word they say.
So this is an important
understanding. It's the beginning of the road,
and hopefully, it's the end of the road.
So we need to understand
properly
what that is.
We looked at the oneness of Allah in
the different dimensions.
Not in this theoretical sense, but really
that Allah is the Lord,
the Sustainer of all there is nothing similar
to Allah.
So we looked at that in detail
and
that is something for most people in most
cultures is easy to get across.
Because with a little bit of understanding we
can see
that there is a creator.
That there are things in the universe beyond
our control.
Also, there is death.
Life and death is constantly happening.
Where do we come from, and where do
we go to?
So these are questions that all human beings
ask.
And so the understanding of the creator
is something which is
natural
for people.
And
we looked at that
for a number of sessions.
The second part of the kalimah,
Mohammed Arasool Allah, that
Mohammed ibn Abdullah
who lived 1400 years ago that he is
the messenger of Allah,
that one is a little more difficult for
people.
Because in many cultures,
people are not aware
of who,
Muhammad is.
And it's not anybody's fault, it is how
the cultures are set up. Today we have
propaganda, and we also have control of information.
We have distortion of information.
And so it's it's it's not the fault
of anybody that they don't understand this.
And so
it's important
in the beginning,
even before a person accepts Islam, they should
have
some understanding of who,
the prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, is.
And the more we understand who he is
and what he brought,
actually is the stronger our faith,
will be.
So
we want to look
at certain aspects of his life,
And we are going through his life, the
background
in the Arabian Peninsula.
This is 1400 years ago plus.
The great empires of Persia and Rome
and Ethiopia.
The world was different than it is today.
And so within that understanding, within that world,
we looked at
Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him, who was
a descendant of Abraham,
as we understood,
from the side of his wife, Hajjah.
Now again, this is a formula
that many people are not aware of.
And I stress it because it's a shock,
for many of the people of the book,
the Christians and the Jews. And that is
that Abraham, we say Ibrahim alaihi salam,
who came from Iraq, Tigris, Euphrates,
and his wife's name was Sarah.
And they
left
their land.
Ibrahim was a monotheist.
His father was an idol maker.
So he was forced to leave, and he
left with Sarah, and they ended up in
Egypt.
And there, he was given,
a servant
by the ruling class who had actually
come from Iraq as well.
They had recently taken over the country, the
Hyksos.
But he received,
a servant woman
whose name was Hajar.
May Allah be pleased with her. And some
say she was an Egyptian princess
because the Egyptians were African people living on
the Nile.
And so
as we had learned,
when Sarah
was not bearing children,
she said to Ibrahim,
take
Hajar
Bible in Genesis,
I believe it was 16/16.
I can get you the exact verse. But
in Genesis,
that is found
that,
Ibrahim took her as a wife,
not a concubine or a slave,
but as a wife. And she conceived,
Ishmael.
So the first son
of Ibrahim
was Ishmael. We would say Ishmael
alaihi salam.
Later on, Sarah,
on the other side,
she had children. She had Isaac,
Ishak.
And from Ishak came Jacob,
in Arabic, Yaqoob.
His nickname was, Israel.
You say Israel. That's where the name Israel
comes from. That's so controversial
today.
But Israel is the one who wrestled with
God. The children of Israel were the 12
sons of Jacob.
So they make up the children of Israel.
Okay. And from their lineage
came Moses
and then Jesus.
So on that side of the family,
it's well known in the Western world.
The other side
is not so well known.
And according to our traditions and even what
is mentioned in in Psalms
that Ibrahim and Ishmael and Hajar, they went
to a desolate valley. Psalms. I can go
back, since there's some people who are new,
and to try to, even let you see
the exact verses.
But they,
yeah. So this is in Psalms
84
6.
So
the first verse, Genesis,
where Sarah said take
Hajar as your wife, that's Genesis 16:3.
So for those who come out to Christian
tradition
Some people say, well, where does this understanding
of Muhammad and where does it come from?
This is the Bible, right?
Having the son
is Genesis 16:16.
And later on,
Ibrahim and,
his son and his wife, they went to
a desolate valley called Becca,
the valley of Becca.
And that is mentioned in the Quran as
well using the name Becca too,
which later became pronounced as Mecca.
So they went to this valley which was,
became famous because of the springs, the water
that was coming out of it. Even the
Bible mentions there's a lot of water springs
flowing in there in Becca.
And
so looking at this chart again,
which is very important chart, you know, to
look at,
according to the DNA
of
Moses,
Jesus,
and Muhammad,
they're cousins.
They have the same DNA flowing in their
body.
And this is a shock for a lot
of people
who look at the polarization
of,
so called Christians and you know Muslims and
whatever and Jews,
it's a shock.
But they're actually from the same family.
And if you look at the teachings of
the oneness of god,
we see that they're the same as well.
So
this individual this is an important point, Because
the
because the first question is who is Muhammad?
How am I gonna accept this person as
the messenger of God?
They may have accepted before
Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Jesus.
How can I accept him? Number 1, in
terms of lineage,
in terms of family,
it's coming from the same
root.
And in terms of teaching,
as we will see,
there is also similarity.
So we are looking at the life,
of, prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him.
And we reached
his 40th year.
And at 40,
he
was known to be a person who was
Al Amin,
truthful and trustworthy.
And even though he was not
openly a Muslim at the time, not a
prophet,
but he was known to be a truthful
and trustworthy person.
And at 40 years, which is a key
point,
and we are taught in our traditions that
the prophets,
basically
get their revelation,
And so it was at 40
that,
prophet Mohammed used to go out and
meditate.
So this meditation,
he wanted to get away from the city.
Because in the city, there's a lot of
hustle and bustle and all kinds of things
happen in cities.
So he wanted to get spirituality
to understand
his relationship with the creator.
So he went outside of Mecca,
very desolate,
place.
And there he climbed, the mountain of light,
which is called,
and he he would
rest in a cave,
Var Hira. So this is an actual picture
of what is left of the cave.
If you get a chance to go to
Mecca
and you still have a hiking spirit,
you're a mountain climber,
or you have that zeal, you can climb
here and you can go in the cave.
So you can see this is what caves
are not like. Caves are not nicely shaped,
places that you go inside like it's a
hotel.
No. This is a cave.
So you have to crawl inside of here.
And literally when you get inside,
you will be claustrophobic
if you're a person who's not used to
being in tight spaces.
So this is where he would be and
come out to the on the ledge.
And when he's on the ledge, you're looking
at the panorama.
The sky is there
and it's usually clear because it's not so
cloudy.
In the desert region, the stars are there
at night.
Okay, you're outside the city.
And
he would meditate.
And
in Mecca at the time, there were other
people who were also meditating and pondering
the oneness of God. So these people are
called Hanif.
So the word Hanif means they were pure,
people, pure believers in one God.
Okay? The Hoonafa.
And
amongst them,
we'll hear about him later, Warakah bin Nofa,
was a famous person who believed in 1
God.
There was another person that obeyed the law
as well.
1 named Earthman, not Earthman,
but another Earthman, and
and one named Zayd
who was also
known as a sincere believer. So these were
some of the people who were known. Generally
speaking,
the the the Hanif people had to hide
their identity.
Because
the pagans in Mecca
were actually extremely violent
people,
violently protecting,
you know, their belief and protecting their way
of life.
So but this is what comes to us
in the traditions.
So, it was,
in the 27th
night
in the month of Ramadan,
that,
the prophet was there at the time he
wasn't a prophet, just a person who's meditating.
And
a force came to him,
and he was
grabbed. He felt something holding him and sort
of smothering him.
And it said to him, Iqra.
It said, read.
And so the prophet said to him, Ma'ana
biqadi.
I am not one who reads.
So at that time,
the culture,
it was an oral culture.
So they transmit their their their knowledge to
Arabs at that time, generally through poetry, and
it's it's an oral culture. And oral
oral literature is accepted
today
as a valid,
source of knowledge.
Okay? So it was an oral culture, but
there were some people who could write and
writing was coming in
into the
Semitic language
of Arabic.
And remember the Semitic languages included
Hebrew, Amharic, and Ethiopia, Aramaic.
There's a number of Semitic languages.
And Arabic was,
one of the most powerful,
of the Semitic languages.
And
Created man from a single clot of blood
and
taught man with the pen, taught him what
he did he did not know.
And so this happened,
3 times.
And finally,
the force
left.
We
recognize it was an angel, and we learned
before that angels are created from light.
So they're not
made from clay like human beings,
but created from light. So
the prophet at that time, you know, he
was
upset.
Because these words
that was said to him,
it was like imprinted in his in his
chest, in his heart.
He couldn't forget these words.
And he wasn't sure
actually what had happened to him.
So this is what is called the beginning
of revelation.
Again,
the question is who is this man?
Who is the person that you're accepting to
be the messenger of God?
That's not an easy thing.
This is somebody who would be receiving revelation.
Somebody in a tradition of the great prophets
of the past.
Somebody who is living the lifestyle, the basis
of your lifestyle.
Who is this individual and what actually happened
to him
so long ago?
So the revelation or the wahi,
it
would come to him in different ways.
And this revelation that we now call,
Al Quran,
this
came over 23 year
period. Now again,
we believe that this the books,
the revelation in a what we could call
a book form,
with there was the Torah
given to Moses, the Psalms
given to David.
Okay. The injeel of the Gospels given to
Jesus
and and the Quran,
given to Muhammad, peace be upon him. There's
also some trace that there was, Asahifa
scrolls
given to Ibrahim,
alayhis salaam. Okay. So this final form of
the revelation
This is the contact.
We're talking about the Creator of the heavens
and the earth
who existed
when there was nothing else.
Now making contact.
And the contact
doesn't come directly from the creator who is
above, we believe, 7 heavens,
but through the power force, the angel.
And Jibril, the angel Gabriel, was the same
one that came to Moses and Jesus
and all of the prophets.
So the revelation would come
as
true visions,
would come in his sleep sometimes.
Sometimes it was cast into his heart,
meaning his inner conscious
consciousness.
Sometime the angel would actually come in human
form,
and take the shape of a human being.
Okay? And then transmit the information.
Sometimes
it was described by the prophet as like
the tolling of bells.
Like, these bells are coming, and he really
starts sweating heavily.
There's something heavily coming to him, and then
he gets calm,
and he reads.
Okay? He reads what's coming to him.
Right?
And sometimes the angel took his his actual
form, which we're not
sure what it is, but he actually took
his his his natural form. Okay?
And,
later on we'll see that there was a
night when the prophet went on a
night journey above
the 7 heavens and there was revelation
revelation would come.
And so this is
knowledge.
This is Kalam Ullah. It's the words of
Allah
that is coming through
this angel
and it is expressed through the Arabic language.
And it's interesting because animals
have
different type of senses, different than human beings.
And you'll see that,
all of the prophets were shepherds as we
learned.
And you'll see that animals have different understanding.
They can sense certain things that people can't
sense.
It was said that in Southeast Asia,
at the time of the tsunami,
remember the big tsunami that hit?
There, this wall of water that hit.
At first at the beginning of the tsunami,
the water went out.
So then it goes out like a half
a mile or a mile out and you
see fish jumping around and whatever. And everybody
wants to get a selfie,
and they're all there taking pictures.
And suddenly, you turn around, and there's a
wall of water coming at you.
So it sort of went out,
and then it came in. When it started
to go out, all of the animals
started to go up.
The animals ran up. This is actually a
description of what happened in some of the
islands.
So they reached the highest point on the
island. And the shepherds,
people in touch with the animals, they went
up there with the animals too.
Right? And it turned out that they reached
the point where the water didn't touch them.
But people didn't have that sense.
So animals have a lot of sense.
Horses, camels,
you get to know your your your animals.
You'll see the sense that they actually have.
And it is said
on one occasion
when the revelation came,
his the camel
and and camels are known to to carry
heavy loads.
But when it when the load is too
heavy,
the camel will then kneel down.
It goes on its knees. It's not going
to move.
So now the person knows, Okay, I have
to
lighten this.
Okay? So when the revelation came and it's
only Muhammad on the camel,
the camel started kneeling down.
Because something heavy
was coming on him.
Right? An animal sensed
how heavy this thing is.
And the more you know about this revelation,
the Quran is that you'll realize what this
actually is.
Because when we say,
Muhammad Ar Rasulullah,
that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.
A messenger
is somebody who delivers like a mailman.
So the messenger is delivering you,
the mail.
They didn't create the mail
in the same way that that Muhammad himself
he did not create the Quran itself.
Although there are accusations
saying that he did.
And that maybe when he
went heard these ringing bells, he's like a
madman. Right?
And he comes up with this poetry.
Okay? So maybe that's what he did. And
so the more you understand
what the revelation was,
then you realize
this could not be
something that an Arab 1400 years ago
could actually
produce.
And
we need to,
understand this because
a miracle
in Arabic
is called Morjaza.
It's a Morjaza.
So this is one definition is a marvelous
event
that occurred during
due to supernatural
forces,
Right? It's not related to magic or witchcraft
or deception.
So it's something supernatural.
This is the Morjiza,
and the Morjiza comes,
to the prophets.
Another one is the acting, doing performance and
formation of a matter
beyond the scope of man's abilities
and his way of understanding. Like this is
like
Ara's conception of remember Moses?
Musa
came to the water. Pharaoh was chasing him.
Okay? And the water opens up.
This is Marjaza
beyond
human beings. There's another thing called karama.
Karama can happen to any human being.
That's a miraculous thing. And you'll see sometimes
the
baby is, you know, underneath the car and
the mother just picks the car up.
Like things happen, you know, and people cannot
explain what it is. That would be called
karama, but it's not morejiza.
The Morjiza is what comes to the Anbi'a,
to the prophets.
And
as we discussed,
Prophet Ibrahim
when he,
confessed his belief
in 1 God
and he,
confronted the idol worship is he was thrown
in a fire.
Okay? And Allah made the fire cool and
a source of peace for Ibrahim.
Okay?
And that's the Quran for those you're looking
up in chapter 21,
68-seventy.
In the time of Moses
Musa
the pharaoh magicians
could make this,
deception
throw their staffs and become snakes.
Okay? They were powerful magicians
at that time. And,
Musa threw his staff,
and it became a snake and ate up
the other snakes.
So this this is one of the miracles
that came.
Prophet Jesus, Esa
at a time when magic
was when medicine was at its height,
Esa Jesus could,
by the power of Allah, cure leprosy.
It's a terrible disease.
He could cure leprosy.
He could heal the blind so blind could
see.
He would raise the dead.
That's mourjisan,
right? So these are miracles.
So what is it in terms of,
Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him?
What is his miracle?
Okay.
The miracle
is the Quran itself.
Although other things
have happened to him
There's other miracles that happened
Something similar to the other prophets in terms
of curing people and,
feeding,
large amounts of people like Jesus.
There's a number of things, but the real
miracle is the Quran itself.
So how is this possible?
The first thing is that the miracle of
the Quran
is
in the Arabic language.
So if you got a translation,
you might have varying translations,
but it's actually through Arabic
that you would actually see the linguistic
miracle
of the Quran itself,
because the Arabs were masters of their language
at the time.
It was the greatest thing that they had.
And Arabic is one of the most expressive
languages on Earth.
And they were masters.
They knew their language.
And so people would
listen to the Quran being read
And they would accept Islam
after they heard just one verse or one
chapter.
We have some good speakers. You can think
of some great,
speeches made by famous people,
Or you have some singers or people who
are good poets.
But we don't have things that when you
just listen to it,
it is going to change your whole life.
Like, this is something different.
Because the Arabs were so much into their
language
that they knew
when it was poetry,
it had certain rhythm.
That's poetry.
And it was prose
that was telling a story.
Right? And the Quran came in rhymed
prose.
So it's telling a story
in perfect rhythm.
That was not possible in their language.
And in the Quran itself
Okay, in the second chapter, the Hef or
the cow
Verse 23 it says, If you are in
doubt of what we have revealed to our
messenger,
then produce 1 chapter like it. Call upon
all your helpers.
Besides Allah, if you are truthful.
This is a challenge.
If you doubt this book,
bring them!
And up until now nobody's been able to
do it!
Another
chapter and this is,
chapter 52 verse 3334.
Or do they say he, prophet Muhammad, has
forged it? Meaning the Quran?
Nay, they believe not. Let them produce a
recitation
like it
if they are truthful.
This is a challenge.
And, of course, they tried.
They tried to bring poetry like it.
It couldn't make sense.
It's the same thing today as we were
talking the rappers,
you know, the hip hop.
So the rap is rap.
And I even heard rapping in Urdu and
the rapping in Pharisee and Arabic,
Spanish, Spanish rappers.
Everybody's trying to talk in rhythm, right?
But when you talk in rhythm
and try to tell a story,
it doesn't make after a while, it doesn't
make sense
because you can't keep the rhythm. Right?
It sounds good, though. The hip hop has
got beat. Right?
So you're moving to the beat. But half
of what he's saying is foolishness.
Oh, he's repeating the words over and over
and over again. Right?
Because human mind cannot
continue to make perfect rhythm.
For instance, the story of Joseph,
Yusuf
the whole story of Joseph.
It's in perfect rhythm.
That's not possible.
And nobody's been able to do it up
until today.
So this is what is called
the linguistic
or the literary
miracle of the Quran.
And there's a whole study
that I did if any of
you want to go into it. IIT, we
have a bank
of some of the classes
and there is miracles of the Quran. You
could, you know, get into the IIT and
then get this whole
set of classes that I did
there
because there's so many forms of literary,
you know, expression.
And the Quran has got all of these
different
things.
This is a person now
who is supposed to be illiterate.
We would say unleaded.
So he wasn't reading books.
He was not reading
the Bible. He was not reading the Torah.
He was not reading,
writings of ancient Egyptians or ancient Persians.
No.
The only thing he knew
was Arabic
and what he had learned orally. Right?
The second point
is the scientific
perspective.
You know, and
that, okay, that this is the scientific perspective,
and then there's another perspective, historical
perspective.
Right? There's the mathematical perspective
And there's predictions
of the future.
This is just some of the miracles coming
in this book.
So this is over a 23 year period.
It's coming according to circumstances at different points
in time. And after his death, they had
memorized
the whole thing.
There were many people memorized it. Then they
put it into a book form,
and we still have originals.
Okay. So these are some of the miracles
there in terms of the linguistic and not
to go too deep into this.
But,
humanity could not replicate
the literary form
or the unique linguistic nature.
Okay. Select and arrange words like the Quran.
Humanity could not
select and arrange similar grammatical particles. This is
getting a little bit deep into,
linguistics.
Okay?
The
superior eloquence and the sound
The eloquence and the sound
there. And you will see people who don't
speak Arabic,
but they'll listen to the Quran and it
will reach them
because of the eloquence that's there.
Okay? Also, the frequency
of rhetorical devices. This is something this is
a deep study in language.
Okay? There are certain things in rhetoric
how rhetoric is used.
Okay?
This has this. The level of content. In
other words, the information and the meaning coming
in
and also the Quran's
conciseness
and flexibility.
Okay. This is just some points from the
linguistic one.
Okay. And in the Quran, it is saying,
we will show
them
We will show them our signs in the
universe
and in their own selves
until it becomes manifest
to them that
this,
meaning the Quran, is the truth.
So that's what it's saying.
So people had a chance to really go
into this thing If the average person
had a chance, if it was translated into
their language,
or if they could learn Arabic,
right? Then they will begin to see what
this is that he carried.
Because remember, we want to know who is
this man? Why would we accept him as
the messenger of Allah? It's not just him
as a human being because he was a
human being.
But it's the message.
It's the message that he's carrying,
which is the key thing.
Now remember the scientific part,
miracles.
Okay. In the chapter called Surat Al Anbiya,
the prophets verse 30,
part of it is saying
It says:
And we created
every living
thing from water.
Will they still not believe?
1400 plus years ago,
it's saying that every living thing is created
from water.
This is a saying of the First Nations'
indigenous people
here that water is life.
And scientists
found out only within the
last few 100 years or so even 100
years or whatever it is
they realized scientifically
that every living thing it's H2O
is the basis
of every living thing! How could he have
known this? You
see?
This is a madman just babbling things like
a rapper.
How could he have
known
that every living thing is created from water?
Think about
that!
Also
the creation of
mountains.
There's a chapter, Surah, to Nebah,
where it is saying,
have we not made the earth
as a bed
and the mountains
as pegs?
So the Quran is saying that we made
the earth as a bed,
okay, and then the mountain as pegs, ohtad.
That was the pegs when you have a
tent.
And then you put the pegs in,
the side of the tent
to hold it down, right? Now only recently,
here's a scientific drawing
that when you look at a mountain, right,
most of the mountain is under the ground.
It's under the ground. It's like a peg.
And the mountain chains are literally holding
the surface of the earth.
It's holding it on because, you know, underneath
is lava. Right?
Volcanic lava.
So literally, the mountains are holding,
the crust,
protecting us.
How does he know this?
What scientific way
was he able to penetrate the Earth
and to know the basis of the mountains?
Think about this.
This is not possible.
Okay? And there are so many
different scientific,
miracles.
There's also the historical perspective.
There's a chapter called,
the chapter of Rome,
Suratul Rum. And it begins by saying.
It says Rome.
I remember this is now
around 6
610
AD.
And at that time,
Rome and Persia were 2 of the great
empires of the world.
And Rome had been defeated by the Persian
Empire,
decisively
defeated.
And nobody thought the Romans would ever come
back again.
But the verse is saying
that
Rome has been defeated
in the lowest point of the earth,
and they will come back
and be victorious.
And later on during the prophet's life,
this came true!
The Romans
defeated the Persians back!
How did he know this
is gonna happen? And you know what they
found out? It was interesting too?
It said that they were defeated in the
lowest point on earth and that was what
is now called the Dead Sea.
And the Dead Sea
there in
the Palestine, you know, Jordan area, this Dead
Sea,
because of what happened, brims, fire, and brimstones,
it is the lowest point on earth
in terms of the depth
where it goes down.
It's the lowest point.
How does he know
that Romans
will be defeated
in the lowest point of the earth? How
do you know this?
You see?
This is not possible!
And this is what
the study of the court ends.
In in this book, remember, over a 23
year period,
there's 3,000
approximately 3,000,
302,000
15 letters
in this book.
77,449
words.
So if you're Hafiz,
you memorize, you've got a lot of words
in your head.
The verses
there's more than 6,000,
okay?
Varying opinions
but more than 6,000 verses.
There's a 114
chapters.
Okay? And this is according to Hafiz ibn
Qasiyyah
who was one of the great scholars.
Okay. So this is
numbers now
because, you know, many people today are very
impressed by numbers.
And it's based upon the culture that you're
in. Different people I remember I was living
in Bahrain and we would,
we set up a discover Islam because Bahrain
had a lot of boats, these love boats
coming in.
And the boats would go come and then
when you go in Bahrain, you know, in
the in the gulf, right, the gulf area.
So when you go to Bahrain,
they have the Formula 1 race cars, but
that's only a certain time of the year.
Most of the time, if you go to
the city in Bahrain, what are you going
to visit?
What is there to visit?
One of the most important things was,
the big,
masjid, you know, there in Bahrain.
And so we would,
we set up tour groups
to take the tourists
around the mosque.
And different people, Germans came, French came, Japanese
came, Americans came.
You know, different people like different things. Right?
Some like the doors. Some like
the geometrical things. And I noticed, though,
the Japanese,
you know what they really liked? We had
the 5 times prayers.
And they had the times of the prayers
for every single day.
And they really liked these numbers, right?
That you people are organized!
All of your prayers!
They were fascinated
by this thing because
they're really organized people, right? So they were
fascinated by numbers!
So some people are fascinated by numbers, especially
in the age that we live in
today.
Okay, so now
let's look at the numerical
miracles of the Quran itself.
Remember,
this is a book
over 23
years.
Think about this.
It's 23 years. He lived in Mecca for
13 years, and then he and then he
had to, flee to Medina,
10 years.
So at different intervals during that time,
sections of the book is revealed.
Okay?
And then at the end, it's all put
together.
And before he died,
you know, they they had memorized the whole
book. They would read the whole book in
the month of Ramadan.
So
in terms of the numbers, this is not
like a book
where you can sit down and you got
the book and then you can review it
and you can change and, you know, add
and subtract and delete and do all these
things. No.
It's over 23 year period. So just think
about that when you're thinking about the book.
Now
in the age of computer science,
people are able to now do amazing things
with these computers. Right?
And and what
some people did, they were financed
to put the computer
onto the Quran. Take
all the words,
synthesize them,
and come out with formulas.
The computers could do this.
K? So they found out
that within all of these verses over 23
years,
that the word al hayat
appears
in the Quran
145 times.
And the word almoth
145
times
See this?
Al Malaika, angels,
it
comes 88
times and al shayateen, the devils, 88 times.
Arrajal,
man,
24.
Al Mar'a,
woman,
24 times.
So this is all the verses from Mecca,
Medina, all this 23 year period.
How could somebody review
the work that he was doing? Think about
Now try to think about this.
Even if you are a really talented writer,
just write an essay
and try to make something like this happen.
Try to make men and women,
you know,
equal
in an essay.
It's almost impossible to do.
Righteous deeds, 167.
Evil deeds,
167.
This world,
115 times.
Meaning the hereafter,
115
times.
This is unbelievable what they found.
Al Usur
36.
Difficulty
12.
Al Abra,
the righteous, 6 times. Al Fujah,
wicked, 3 times.
Al Jaha saying something loud,
16. Al Alaniyah in public,
16.
People,
Anas,
50.
Anbiya,
prophets, 50.
Al Mahaba,
83. Ata'a,
obedience, 83.
Alhudah,
79.
Rahma,
mercy,
79.
Assalam,
50
ataybet50
ashiddah102
Asabar,
patience,
102 times.
It's unbelievable.
Al Musiba,
75 times.
And Ashukar,
giving showing gratitude,
75.
Iblis
11 times.
Istihadabilah
seeking refuge from the devil
11 times.
11
times 117
times
Al Maghfirah
234
times.
Now
117
times 2
is 234.
Ashaha. Now look at this one here.
Month. Right? The word month.
Twelve times.
Do an essay
and try to make the word month
appear 12 12 times. Try it.
Yom,
meaning day,
365 times.
Okay?
Al Baha
32.
Now this one requires a mathematical mind, which
I don't have, but I'll try to explain
it to you.
Albaha
32 times
albar
which is land,
13.
So you have the sea, right?
And land, 13.
If you add up the total of the
words of both sea and land,
it equals
45.
It would be like the surface of the
earth. Right?
45.
Now if you do a calculation,
32,
which is the c
times
32,
45
times a 100%,
it comes to
71.11.
13,
right,
over 45 13 over 45
times a 100%, it comes to 28.888.
K?
So that would mean for the ocean,
71.11
and the land, 28.88.
Okay?
That is the scientific
percentage of water and land.
Look at this. It is the percentage of
water and land
on earth.
This is in this book.
You see?
How could he have known this?
Even if he knew,
how can you actually do this?
Unless you have,
scientific understanding, how do you even know it's
only recently,
you know, it's only in what
Magellan and some people. They say he went
around the the world and,
it's only recently in the past 5, 600
years. This probably before,
but for what we know now in the,
European period,
it's only in the past 600 years or
so, 500 years, people have gone around the
earth
and mapped the earth.
Look at this.
K? So these
are some of the miracles.
There are miracles,
linguistic
miracles.
There are historical
miracles,
okay,
there are scientific,
mathematical,
and this is the tip of the iceberg.
You could even go online
and look up Miracles of the Quran.
You can go online. There's books written about
this.
We have Muslim scientists have have gone into
this thing.
And it's unbelievable.
So what we're saying is
to, you know, to accept this man
that what came through him is the word
of God.
You see, the more you get to know
the Koran itself,
Okay? So I wanna I wanna open up
the floor
for any questions that anybody, you know, may
have.
Floor is open.
Look online also. Excuse my voice. I had
to give the foot on Tarek today and
I lost my voice.
Okay.
Look online and see if there's any questions.
Flo Flo is on. I know this is
a shock, so just sorta, like, calm down
and, you know, whatever questions you have. Floor
is open for any questions.
So what this is showing now
is this revelation
coming to this man.
It starts slowly,
and then it starts to build.
And when different incidents happen to him in
his life
or at different points sections of the book
come.
But when you put it all together,
this
okay? And there's a challenge inside of it
that is saying, if you do not believe
this is from God,
then do something like this.
Try.
Bring all your scientists, your poets, bring everybody
together.
You will not be able to produce a
book such as this.
There's never been a book like that.
Think about all the books we have, sisters,
there are librarians.
Think about the books. What is the books?
The toad of Moses is we can't even
find it now.
The gospels, we can't even we just have
the Dead Sea Scrolls. What is the book?
Shakespeare's book,
Nostradamus
has this book called The Prophecies of Nostradamus.
It's famous.
That's a famous book. But has anybody memorized
word for word all of the prophecies of
Nostradamus?
No.
You just have the book. Right?
Think about different books that are famous. What
book in history
has millions of people up until today
have memorized the whole book cover to cover.
And some of them are not Arabic speaking.
You see? This is miraculous.
And the more we understand this
is the more we can accept
the second part of the kalima.
It becomes as clear as the first part
that Mohammed is the messenger of Allah.
He's delivering a message from
the creator of the heavens and the earth.
Okay?
Floor is open for any general questions,
anybody has? Please mention the best translation.
There's a lot of different translations, but right
now,
the clear Quran
of most of a khatta.
So so that is the one that we're
using now,
because he's done an you know, his team
has done an excellent job.
There's some that are here the clear Quran.
And we have also worked upon,
an audio version of it. Oh, yeah. So
there's an audio version of this now,
which is coming out as well.
K? Question.
So in the beginning, you said prophet Muhammad,
peace be upon him. He had visions at
first,
and then,
Angel Jibril,
came to him and spoke to him. Is
the Quran just Angel Jibril speaking to him?
Yeah. So the Quran came in different ways.
The first time was not just visions.
The first time is is the angel actually
coming.
But these are the different ways, you know,
that it that it came in different forms,
that it came.
So he'd have this vision in it.
There's some verses in the Quran come. And
then he said whenever it would come, it
would be like it's imprinted on it, his
chest.
And then he would read it to his
followers
and they would all memorize it.
Right. And then they would repeat it over
and over again during their prayers.
And it continued to continue to continue for
23 years
until they had the whole of the book.
And the angel, according to our teachings, would
come
down in the month of Ramadan and review
the whole thing with him.
And the chapters are set up according to,
what he got from the angel himself.
Any other general questions?
So now we want to open up the
floor.
We have a few moments for any general
questions about Islam
that we have. This is a new Muslim
corner.
And,
so if you have any general questions even
outside of the topic,
itself, the floor is open.
We do reserve the fact that, this is
not a political gathering.
If anybody has burning political questions, this is
not the right,
gathering. This is a new Muslim corner,
but floor is open for any questions.
What do what should Muslims do when they
have a pet that dies? Like, how do
they deal with body and yeah.
Yeah.
Basically,
it is basically disposed of,
and, it's not necessarily has to be, you
know, some people just,
emotionally, you know, bury,
you know, the animal. There's nothing wrong with
doing that. But it's not required, to do
that. But if if the animal is very
close, you know, to the person, they they
might want to bury the animal,
like that. But but it's not it's not
required. It's basically disposed of however
you would dispose of. So there's no, like,
Islamic? No. There's no specific.
How about giving food to pets? Like, I
had a hard time
for my cat reading all the ingredients,
Make sure there's
okay.
So is it applicable for cats and dogs?
Yeah. I mean, the the there's no halal
food for dogs and cats. Right? Right. It
doesn't say halal. The halal is not like
the same for us. Although,
we believe that halal is something good.
And if you love your cat, especially your
cat,
then you would wanna give it something good,
but you don't have to follow the strict
thing. They say, okay, You know, gelatin or,
you know, whatever. You know, you don't have
to follow the halal,
standards like that, you know, for, you know,
cats. But we naturally
want to give good things.
So you would naturally give good things, you
know, to, you know, to animals, but they
don't have the same
Halal standards, you know, as human beings.
You don't have to follow that.
Yeah.
Yeah. When people make du'a,
they hold their hands out. Right. Like, this
is on the corner of their faces and
their wives after du'a. Why is that? Okay.
Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon
him, would,
the basic prayer
you do begins with takbir. You start your
prayer like this in the takbir,
and you end in the sitting position with
with taslim.
That is when you say Islam alaikum, you
know, Islam. That's the end of the prayer.
So your formal prayer is over.
Now what you do after the prayer,
you can get up and walk away.
Generally speaking, you know, people who have
understanding don't just run away from the prayer.
They will stay, and there are certain,
remembrances
that the prophet used to say after the
prayers.
So people would you know, people read these
things, you know, like that.
But if you have to go right away,
you can go right away.
What has developed also at certain points, at
certain times,
he raised his hands.
In the most serious situations,
it is reported that he raised his hands.
And especially in Isthiskal, which is for prayer
for rain, he even raised it like this.
Okay? But he did not raise it
every single prayer.
Like, if you what is developed culturally,
it's a culture.
It's not even the schools of thought. It's
not the imams.
It's not like Abu Hanifa said after every
prayer you do this. No.
It developed culturally
that in some cultures,
they end the prayer immediately.
You know this? And then they they do
that and some even go like that. That
is more of a cultural thing.
Okay? It's not actually,
you know, from the prophet. And if somebody
does it
with good intention,
it's not considered by the scholars to be
something evil.
Okay? However, if the person does it thinking
it's part of the prayer
and your prayer is not complete without it,
then that would be what is called bidah.
That would be an innovation.
But if somebody does it, it's not
an evil thing. What has happened today, people
split hairs, and they get into this thing,
you know, whatever. But, you know, it's it's
it's a good intention. You're praying to Allah.
Right?
You're you're you're asking, so there's nothing wrong
with it. But you don't have to do
that. You can make dua without raising your
hand.
So I know I don't know what verse
is, but in the front, it says, like,
remember Allah. I'm not gonna translations
I've
seen,
it
says
laying
on
your
side.
So is there a specific, like, ruling against,
like, lying on your back?
And you're supposed to be on your side
or lying on your stomach.
No. It's just a general thing that that
you can remember Allah at different
in different positions
because you may be sitting down and, you
know, sometimes some people can't stand up,
so you can still remember Allah.
Some people can't even sit up,
so you can still. But if a person
is in the condition where they're on their
back and some people are and they can't
even go on the side,
then you can still remember Allah.
Even you can remember Allah and some people
have this condition where they're totally paralyzed and
they can only move their eyes.
You can remember Allah only with your eyes.
So there's no ruling about
being on the back. That's just a general,
you know, picture of in other words, in
any position you can remember on that.
Some people wear pendants
of gold or Allahu Yeah. Than idol cuisine.
Right.
Is it permissible?
Yes. We sort of covered this in this
class in the first, you know, part of
the year.
The prophet, peace be upon him, you know,
he used to take the Arabs used to
put, this amulets around their neck,
and they would put it on their animals.
Okay. It was like,
a superstitious amulet to ward off evil.
Okay? And they used to give power to
this thing,
and they would put different they would write
different things.
And so he used to go around and
tear it off.
And he said, whoever hangs this thing, that
will become your lord.
So don't do this.
So later on, out of culture,
some people,
hang certain things.
And, you know, basically,
you know, if a person has a pendant
or
a ring or something with the name of
Allah or, you know, something odd. There's nothing
wrong with that.
The only thing is if it's in Arabic,
the name of Allah, you can't wear it
into the toilet.
You
have to take it off.
You cannot enter into the washroom area,
you know, with that on. And, also, if
the person in other words, they do it
out of beautification.
So just as a nice piece of jewelry,
then there's nothing wrong with that. But if
the person feels that this thing is protecting
them,
right,
then that's that's what's wrong. It has to
be bad. Yeah. That would be actually a
form of shirk,
polytheism,
because you're giving power to this thing. And
people have these bangles and
these things that they wear,
you know, and,
they they
and I remember in the Jami mas days
and, you know, I even brought this out
to the people and I said the prophet
said, you know, get rid of these things.
I said to the people,
you know, so get rid of them. 1
brother, you know, stood up and said, you
know, I wear this thing all the time.
Yeah. In the shower, I wear it.
You know, like, he believes in this thing.
Right?
Okay. And he said, you know, we wear
this thing even some of us wear it
and the bullets bounce off.
So I said, what happened to you in
the colonial period, man?
The French, you know, colonized you.
Didn't work. Right?
What is this?
Not possible.
So it's it's based on intentions,
you know, that the person has. Thank you.
Yeah.
In terms of making voodoo, I know some
people make blue over their socks
special, like, leather sock or something to be
able to do that. What's the actual,
like, the Yeah. I mean, this this is
getting a little bit deep. I mean, this
is not an everyday fit class. Right? I
know. I thought you just opened it up.
Right. Right. Yeah. You but now you're opening
it right.
Basically, you know, we make wudu on our
skin. However, it was permissible.
They used to wear a leather, you know,
sock. And, you know, it is permissible. There
were some occasions where they had a type
of,
you know, heavy a sock,
you know, a a thick sock where water
not see through type of sock, and they
did rub over the sock.
So it is made permissible by some of
the scholars.
They permit that.
But it shouldn't be nylon see through
type of thing. It would have to be
something that is fairly
solid
of a sock
to wipe over.
And that really makes sense for us here
in Canada because when you're outside and
you gotta make wudu and it's minus 10
degrees,
you know,
it is, you know, better to be able
to wipe over your thick sock.
If you take off your, you know, your
your socks and put water on it, you
know, you might die
in some countries. Right? So Some sisters, they
don't listen.
I told so many sisters,
they are still taking off the socks and,
you know, make a mess.
So they said, no. Who told you?
Right.
Again, it's different opinion, but people get fanatic
based on their school of thought. Like, you
know, they get a little bit fanatic sometimes.
Yeah.
Any other, general questions in here? So Fudger
pre tour cuts, they're here for us,
sir, 4, mother 3, Isha, 4.
So, like, what's the significance of the differences
in their cuts? And then also for Joomla,
why are we going to pray to Yeah.
I mean, it's it's all based upon the
angel, you know, Gabriel, what he he taught
the prophet how to pray
And, you know, the amounts and the timings,
it's based upon the angel.
So that's where we get it from, directly
from the prophet.
And the the 2 And and the same
thing for Jumuah. We we learned that directly
from the prophet himself.
How to do the Jumuah. Is it possible
to combine
the salah like,
or
isha or Asir? Like, if I'm going to
the meeting,
and I know I will miss my salah.
I won't be able to pray on time.
Yeah. So I combine,
and Asir. Is it okay? Oh. I feel
guilty.
But Yeah. I mean, you know, combining your
combining prayers
was done in the time of the prophet
when you are traveling.
No. I'm not traveling. It's just I I
am No. I mean, what the the yeah.
There is one hadith
in Sahih Muslim, which is, which is a
a a, you know, set of hadiths. They
say it's the least
used hadith.
And it is that one of the great
companions, I think it was Abdulaziz Mas'ura,
One of them that he, he combined
Doha
and Assa,
you know, and it wasn't,
heavy rain because it's allowed to combine if
it's heavy rainstorm or snowstorm.
It's also allowed to combine if if there's
war, there's fighting or something.
And it wasn't there was no war, there
was no rain, and he combined.
So it is possible on occasion, you could
combine
the Horonassa
and Maghre B'nisha on occasion
Yeah.
If you're really in trouble,
but you shouldn't make a habit out of
it.
No. If you make a habit out of
it, that is wrong.
Sometimes people are stuck, especially when the times
change
and you're on the 401 and this place
is like a parking lot now.
And and and and you can't
get
home in time to make us.
So in some cases, you can, you know,
combine,
you know, you know, your your prayers. But
it shouldn't be done like a regular. Only
when you're traveling or when
there's a terrible storm or in a case
of war.
Any questions online, anybody have?
What
is your opinion on the study of the
Quran
and also holy Quran by Noor
Foundation.
That particular book,
the study of the Quran, I'm not sure
about that book.
I I couldn't
couldn't.
Is there any particular perspective
relative to the different form of recitation
recitation?
Yeah. So, I mean, there's there's different ways,
you know, that it was read according
to tongues, you know, of the Arabs,
you know, whatnot at that time, and it's
a science.
So there's nothing wrong with the different
ways of reading. There there are some codified,
well known ways of reading. The Quran itself
doesn't really change the, you know, the meaning
massively,
but some some slight pronunciations of the all
of them are correct, you know, those who
are well known schools of reading. There's nothing
wrong.
K. So alhamdulillah,
we will continue on, next week,
with our class, Insha'Allah, and we will look
at,
once the revelation came, who were the believers?
Who were those who believed,
and what happened to them,
when the message came. Again, understanding,
this man that we should know prophet Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. The more you get
to know him is the more you would
accept him as a messenger of Allah. So
I leave you with these thoughts.
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