Adnan Rajeh – Jummah Prayer Contemporary Issues Atheism and Doubt.

			little bit. And and for those who are here, see, Muslims come from everywhere, every walk of life
and every every ethnicity and every color and every language and you name it, you have it here. And
there's a lot of the people who actually adopted Islam as as as their faith. You know, they were not
born Muslim I, myself I was born that way I didn't choose it did happen to be that way. But I think
it's a good opportunity for all of us actually, to renew our faith. So every time there's someone
and we probably have, once or twice a week, we have someone who, who adopts Islam and take it as
their faith. And it's a good opportunity for us, even those who are born to renew our faith because
		

			we need this right. It's as we know, we always talk our heart to heart, our hearts get to get
stained from from life and the material things that we have. And when your neuro faith, you're
polishing that heart that that piece of metal that we have, right, and you want it to be shiny, and
so so it reflects the light of Allah subhanaw taala of God. So so just a little brief introduction
about about Islam.
		

			So, Islam actually is, we believe that Islam, as a word means, linguistically means the total
submission, this is what the word means. But it became the name of this religion that we have. And
we believe that Islam is the religion of truth, that religion of all prophets of everyone. And we
believe that the first prophet that was sent to us is, as as Adam, we call him, Adam, right? And
He's the first man on earth. And he was also a prophet, and he was sent with this religion, which is
the unity of Allah, and the unity of God. This is what we believe, and all and Allah, our God has
been communicating with people through prophets, starting from Adam, going through all the if you're
		

			if you're coming from from from a Christian background, then you would know all the biblical
prophets named them, all of them, right, from Adam and Noah and Eunice and Joseph Youssef and
Joseph, and Moses, and Jesus, ending up with the Prophet Muhammad, we bless others and we believe
he's the last he's the seal of all prophets. There's no prophet after, and he was sent to all
mankind. So number one is the concept of God and Islam. We believe that Allah, that's his name,
that's his name, is unlike his creation. He's not a man. He's outside his creation. He's not inside
his creation. Allah has created this world with the physics and the laws and all that and it doesn't
		

			apply to him. Allah subhanaw taala doesn't have a beginning doesn't have an end. And he's
continuous, we cannot fathom because our brains are not created a new way to fathom the concept of
God is all knowing he's all he's all powerful. He can he merely Allah, Allah merely wills it and
happens, doesn't need doesn't need any any any, any intermediary between between him and his
creation. So as a concept of Allah, and he created us for a reason. He created us because we love He
loves us. So we can live with this live 60 7080 years be good. And then after that, we believe that
after you die, you meet him. And then when you meet him, he's going to judge you. And he's going to
		

			Okay, well, you've been connard been doing well, there's these are okay, you have a lot of good
deeds. Good. You go. You go to, to, to to heaven. Right. So that's the first article of faith that
you believe in Allah and God, that he's one. He's not three. He's not 10. He's not incarnate in
anything. He's just separate than than and unlike any of his creation. And that Allah God has been,
has been communicating with us through prophets, we have to believe it. All prophets turn from Adam
to the Prophet Muhammad, including Jesus, we believe Jesus is a man, we don't believe he's part of
God, we don't even don't believe he's son. He's part we don't believe he's God incarnate. We don't
		

			believe in that. Because Because we believe that Allah Subhana Allah doesn't need anyone to die for
anyone sins, you sin, you you are held responsible, right? We don't believe that I have to take
someone and crucified Him or kill him in order so someone else can can get get get redemption. We
don't believe that that we believe that Jesus was was one of the mightiest messengers of God. You
have to You're not Muslim, if you don't believe in the Prophet Jesus, right? And all prophets, so we
believe in them. In the Quran, in our book of faith, which will give you a copy sha Allah.
		

			There's 2425 24 mentioned by name, but Allah has told us that there's so many others that we didn't
mention their names. They're not there. They're not mentioned we believe in them. Allah sent them we
believe in them. And also less power to Allah has been has been revealing scriptures. Prophets have
been sent with messages and scriptures. And those prophets that were sent are sent with two things.
Number one, the Creed and the fate which is the same always the unity of Allah. Never Allah subhanaw
taala doesn't change his mind. He reveals to Moses one thing and to Jesus one thing and the Prophet
Muhammad want that. No, it's always the same. And the second thing, the shadow the law
		

			All the law could differ depending on the sicknesses of the people at that time. Right? At the time
of the Prophet Muhammad, they have certain sicknesses that they need that people need that that
needs to be treated. The Prophet Jesus that was that and Moses the same thing, every Prophet was
sent in time where they had their social sicknesses. There's certain issues, social issues that need
to be that need to be treated and decreed. Excuse me, the the laws could change according to that,
but the faith doesn't. So the Scriptures we believe that are that the book path that was revealed to
the Prophet Muhammad is the Quran, and we believe is preserved in the Start entirety. Not one dot
		

			not one word, not one, not one vowel sound is, has has been changed for 1400, while now almost
		

			1400 50, almost right. So ears. And also we believe that that the Injeel, in the Gospel of Jesus
that was given to the Prophet Isa, that's his name. And also the Torah that was revealed to to to to
Prophet Moses and all prophets had some sort of Scripture that was revealed. And even if it wasn't
preserved, we believe in the original that was sent. Now people change it over time, okay, we can
accept that. But we believe we believe in God, we believe in His Prophet and his scripture, and then
you believe that there's going to be a judgement day because you have to, we all have to be held
responsible and accountable for what we do. Right? You cannot live like that. There's no way that
		

			someone would, would would commit so many sins, I don't want to name names, but so many sins are
killed so many people, and they commit suicide, they get away with it, it just, it's not theirs.
That's not fair. We believe that at some point, they will be held responsible. On the Day of
Judgment, there's going to there's going to be your good days and bad days will will will be
weighed. And if you if your good deeds are heavier than your good, that's it, you did your best and
you're in this life.
		

			So, these are these are the things and also we believe in, in the unseen. So part of the creed of us
that we believe the unseen Allah soprano is not only created the scene, which we only see well, you
only proceed proceed with our, with our vision, and we hear with our ears, no, but Allah has created
other things that we don't see the angels and and all these worlds and, and and the unseen. We call
them Arabic leap. Right? Something we don't see. But you believe in it. If God said He created it,
yes, we believe in it.
		

			So this, these are the articles of faith to has someone explained this to you in this way. Okay, so
you're so so and then after you have you have accepted this, and this is Iman, which called Faith,
this is the art this is what you believe, if you understand that, you know, roughly understand now
now now we I started this by saying well, we don't we believe in God, we know his attributes, we
know his names. Now, can you fathom 100%? No. And you're not required to? You're not required to
because you're not creating than what you just believe in him. And then and then and then when you
meet him, you'll know what Allah subhanaw taala. Like, Allah subhanaw taala kept that beautiful
		

			thing. Not here. Because otherwise, if we all see him that we all become believers, right? If you
see it, you believe it. But that's the beauty of it. That's called, you know, we say leap of faith,
this is it. This is it, the shift that we're seeing the earlier this, this hopper that there's no
scientific proof of, of God, yeah, there's no proof. But there's so many evidence that points
towards the Presence of Allah and His creation. And Allah did this on purpose. Because you you need
to
		

			this is Faith otherwise would have been just clear knowledge. You see the sun, No one denies the
presence of the sun because everyone can see it. Right? But Allah has kept himself hidden from us.
So so so so so when you believe you believe it's a faith, it's not only observation, and so these
are the things so so if you're okay with that, and you're have under you understand your heart is
comfortable, and you accept that this by heart, then the next step is to actually to embrace it is
to, is to declare your shahada, the word shahada and his testimony of faith. Now you can do it by
yourself. You don't have to do it in front of a congregation, but you do it in front of them. That
		

			is customary to do it in front of a congregation so people can know. Because there's other things
that could could be, you know, built on that. And then we can go over that in the future. Do you
have any questions about this? Okay, so if so, now that you were to I will say it in Arabic, and I
don't know how much knowledge in Arabic you have. I'm not going to try to hypnotize you with it.
Don't worry about it. I'll translate what it is in English right away. So the word the testimony of
faith, which we will all say with him, sha Allah so we can renew our faith is, do
		

			Allah ilaha
		

			IL Allah, that in the translation of this is I bear witness that,
		

			that there's no deity
		

			worthy of worship, or the abortion except Allah except Allah, what I shall do
		

			and now Mohammedan
		

			And then and then and Muhammadan rasul Allah.
		

			And I bear witness that, that Muhammad I've ever witnessed that Muhammad is his prophet and
messenger is the Prophet.
		

			And that's it. Welcome to this big font allawah. So this is one of his, and I always say this this
is
		

			you might feel it or not, I don't know. But this is the best day of your life. This is it. Because
because the profit our profit, there's a lot of narrations of the Prophet Muhammad. And one at one
of the Hadith one of the narrations, he says Islam we are Jubal Maka Blau that embracing Islam will
erase everything before that. So now you're like a baby Clean Slate though so now we now we you're
better than us actually. Because now you're you're clean Sol Sol Sol and I pray Allah subhanaw taala
for you to solidify your faith and to keep you keep you solid in it. And the first thing that one of
the most important things and embracing this lamp is knowledge you have to learn you have to and we
		

			have here a lot of activities. There's a lot of
		

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			classes between you know certain times of prayer and all that do you have friends or yeah so we'll
we'll talk to them to teach you how to do prayer inshallah.
		

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			to eat lunch just clear.
		

			That's even better. It gives you even a better deal. That couldn't be yes, of course. Of course. If
		

			you're right, you're right. You're right. You're absolutely right. You're absolutely right. Yes.
		

			Yeah.
		

			Yes, you're right. You're right. So so so what they're trying to say is that sometimes even even
your bad deeds will turn into good deeds. But the point being is that you're you have a new start,
you have fresh start and this is an advantage, a big advantage now the first shot. And then and then
Islam is not only by the way, it's not only an
		

			act of worship, it's also
		

			it's also a lifestyle and there's a lot of
		

			and it's not only your relationship with Allah with God, but also your relationship with people it
reflects who you are and what we're all about. So I think I think we'll stop here won't we want to
do a hot that because I don't want to get too much of people's time. But this is a great
opportunity. It was very, it was my honor really to do this. Thank you very much. Was the Lulla Have
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