Adnan Rashid – Responding to Nabeel Qureshi’s – Why I Stopped Believing Islam

			Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim I'm a non Rashid I'm in quarantine self isolating. I thought I shouldn't
be responding to some of the misconceptions out there about Islam spread by Christian missionaries,
extremist atheists, islamophobes outright Islam haters, all sorts of people. I came across a video
made by Nabeel Qureshi, which has nearly a million hits. And it is clear that a lot of people are
watching this video and they are taking away misconceptions about Islam. Nabeel Qureshi has since
died. He was a Christian missionary, who had said a lot of things about Islam. I don't want to say
anything about him right now anything negative, to say the least because he has passed away. And I
		

			would like to address his
		

			misconceptions about Islam. Whether these are misconceptions or deliberate lies, or laziness on the
part of Nabeel Qureshi, or lack of willingness to do research. You You can decide all that. I will
respond to some of the points he has raised in these
		

			minutes, and you can see whether my responses are valid. So let's see what Nabeel Qureshi has to
say.
		

			Initially, when I encountered the violence in Islam, I said, Well, this can't be the true Islam. And
I for years would push back arguing No, this hadith here is unreliable. For example, Muhammad says
in Sahih Muslim that he has come to expel the Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsula and
will not leave any but Muslims. That doesn't sound like the Mohammed I knew. So I said, well, that
can't be a reliable tradition. Here Nabeel Qureshi is referring to a report from the Prophet where
he said that non believers cannot remain in the Arabian Peninsula, strictly speaking the land of
Hejaz, to this day that rule remains, non Muslims cannot enter Makkah, non Muslims cannot enter
		

			Medina because that is sacred space for Muslims. And that applies to many other religions. For
example, can people just walk into Vatican and start building mosques? Can any Muslim walk into a
temple a Hindu temple for that matter or a Buddhist temple and start building a mosque or start
praying in his own way? That would be disrespectful, right? And, of course, one has to look at the
rules and regulations of sacred spaces. Now the Prophet had defined the Hejaz region to be sacred
space for Muslims, therefore, non believers could not be there. And for that reason, the Jewish
communities of Arabia were relocated to Palestine, which is where they wanted to be, the Christians
		

			did not want the Jewish people to be in Palestine. This was made very clear by patriarchs or
fronius, when he struck a deal with Omar, the second Caliph of Islam, and he submitted the city to
him, the city of Jerusalem. And within the terms he requested that no Jews will be allowed to live
in the city of Jerusalem. And of course, that particular term was not practiced, the Jewish people
were relocated to Palestine, and they lived happily ever after. And we have so many books written on
this topic where the Jewish scholars have paid tributes to Muslims and the Muslim civilization. In
fact, some of the Jewish scholars believe that the the Jewish period in Spain when the Muslims are
		

			governing Spain, was the golden age of the house of Israel. This is where the best scholars of the
Jewish history were produced the best poets, the best commentators, the best philosophers, for that
matter. So when people like Neil Qureshi, and others claimed that this was a hostile act on the part
of the Prophet No, Hejaz was simply sacred space for the Muslims and the Prophet Simply stated, the
non believers cannot be in the sacred space or the Muslims. And that rule applies to this day. Saudi
Arabia does not allow non Muslims to go to Mecca and Medina. Why? Because this is sacred and Muslim
space. What is the what is the problem with that? Why cannot? Why can't our Christian missionary
		

			friends understand that? So it's a very simple fact, which Christian missionaries fail to understand
or deliberately
		

			do not want to understand. And then another tradition from Sahih Bukhari which says, I have been
ordered to fight people until they testify that there is no God but Allah, and only then will their
lives and their property be saved from me. And this is from the most reliable collection of idiots,
he Bahati and I said, Now, I can't be reliable either. And as you continue, you find Muhammad be. So
here, Nabeel mentions Another handy somebody and he ended up I don't know how he understands it, but
our orthodox scholars have explained that this had this is specifically talking about a group of
idolaters in the Arabian Peninsula. It will, Tamia made it very clear in his photo, and it will
		

			hydrolyze Kalani even raised the point about this, that if the Hadees is to be taken generally that
the Prophet has been commanded to fight all people, then how do we have peace treaties? How do we
have the means living with the Muslims for example, the Jews in the
		

			Christians who have lived throughout the Muslim civilization, from Morocco to all the way up to
China. So how did the Muslim civilization facilitate well being, and the existence or even the
coexistence of Jews and Christians with the Muslims? How did that happen? So obviously, maybe
		

			around read the Hadees, with a hostile lens, without sympathy without even taking time to read the
Orthodox scholars of Islam on this matter, so he didn't want to understand because there are variant
versions of this very Hadees. How do we understand how these literature as Muslims as orthodox
Muslims, we read the Hadith literature holistically, we do not take statements of the prophet in
isolation because different people heard
		

			these statements from the Prophet sallahu wa Salaam, and they conveyed these ideas in their own
words. So what we do is we read all the reports on that particular matter, and we take them all into
consideration, and we look at the matter holistically, instead of taking one report in isolation. So
what the bill seems to have done, he read this a decent Buhari, and he thought that is the only
studies on the matter, but when we go to other versions of that, very Hudis, it's specifically
mentioned the word mushrikeen, omerta and okra, Talal mushrikeen that I have been commanded to fight
the idolaters and idolaters the Prophet was fighting we're in the Arabian Peninsula. This is why it
		

			multimedia in his Fatah, he made it very clear that this had these is talking about those hostile
idolaters who were fighting the Muslims, they were attacking the Muslims. Likewise, Roger also
mentioned that this Hadees cannot be taken generally. Because how do you fight people you have
agreements with? Okay, how do you fight with Alabama for example, the Jews and Christians living in
the domain of Islam, you do not fight them, you cannot fight them, in fact, the Quran commands to be
kind to them and I will come to that, in due course.
		

			Adding multiple hundreds of men at the same time. You see him, distributing those men's wives and
children into slavery. You see him torturing people for money, you see him
		

			all these atrocities within Muhammad's life, and not always in defensive battles by any means.
Offensively as well. And okay, here in a Bill mentioned few incidents, for example, he's talking
about the execution of an operator to give you the exact reference which is mentioned in Bukhari, by
the way bonagura, was not executed by the prophet Muhammad Sallallahu sallam. He did not issue that
decree rather banal Qaeda themselves chose a man called Saad bin Muhammad, who was an ally of Bano
Qaeda in the past, there is a huge history behind it. Many articles have been written, explaining
this history, Christian missionaries, for some reason, fail to understand it, or do not want to
		

			understand it, or if they understand it, they do not want to convey to them as they deliberately
deceive the masses into thinking that Mohammed was some sort of bloodthirsty
		

			Savage, outdo Bella somehow to Bella, who wanted to kill people across the board. But if that was
the case, what was the binocular era doing in Medina in the first place? Who were the bond operator?
Who was the sub tribe of the Jewish people living in Medina, side by side with Muslims? What were
they doing in the what what were they doing in this situation in the first place? How many other
Jewish tries a day? Did this policy apply to them? Of course not. So the background to give you a
very quick summary is that the devil many Jewish tribes and sub tribes who lived around Medina when
the Prophet was the sole ruler of the city, and the Jews went into treaties with the Muslims, they
		

			signed treaties with the Muslims, and they agreed that there will be no hostility from the Jewish
side against the Muslims. And if anyone breaches the terms of the treaties, then of course, they
forfeit their protection. Right. So Bhanu coryza, was one of those tribes that rebelled against the
Muslims joined ranks with the idolaters who are attacking the Muslims in Medina, and this happened
in year five of Hijri. During the Battle of the ditch, if you want to read the details, go to any
basic book of the biography of the Prophet peace be upon him, and you will see the details there
that Bono kureta among many of the Jewish tribes was one of those tribes that broke the treaty with
		

			the Prophet deliberately despite being warned. To the contrary, they broke the treaty, and they
wanted to inline it annihilate the Muslims
		

			joining the idolaters in this particular battle, and after the battle was over, of course, the
idolaters they lifted the camp and they left and bonagura was left without
		

			Any support from the idolaters? So the Prophet went to Bono Cora, asking them questions. So Bono
Cora refused to accept the arbitration of Prophet Muhammad. They said we will only accept the
arbitration aside in March, who had known Bono Cora, in the past before the Prophet had migrated to
Medina, they requested that we will accept any decree coming from Serbia have any decree so I've
been was, was a companion of the prophet who lived in Medina, who had allied with bunker Ada in the
past, who was an ally of pinacoteca. In the past before the Prophet came to Medina, so they trusted
Savi mods, because they had a good relationship with Him. And they assumed that zarbin mas will be
		

			very merciful towards them, when it comes to arbitration. So the Prophet peace be upon him accepted.
		

			The request and sobbing was was requested to come an arbitrator. So before Saad decided on the
matter, or before he
		

			issued his decree, he stood up, and he asked all parties to accept whatever he decides, he looked at
the profit specifically, and he asked him to agree, if you decide something, it will be followed,
the prophet gave his word that it will be followed by an operator also agreed that whatever he
decides, will be followed and accepted. Then he decreed that all the fighting men who were ready to
fight and kill the Muslims, not very long ago with the idolatrous are to be executed as a result,
because they broke the treaty, they forfeit their protection and security. And the women and
children ought to be taken into captivity. So this is exactly what happened at the time of an opera.
		

			And this decree by the way, was decided according to the biblical text with the Jewish people
themselves believed in the book of Deuteronomy, the Book of Leviticus, is full of laws. Regarding
book the book of Numbers, also the Pentateuch, for example, the Torah is full of laws regarding how
you deal with enemies or captives. So that very same law of the Bible which Nabeel shouldn't have a
problem, it was applied on the Jewish people. So the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him had nothing
to do with this decree. He had already given his word that he will accept whatever saw the MAS
decrease, because there were two other sub tribes who had done similar things in the Prophet bundle,
		

			pain, Oka, and banana zeal. They were not executed. They were simply exiled because they broke the
terms of the treaties. There were other Jewish tribes around Medina who did not break the treaties
and treaties with them were confirmed. They were not touched. They were not pushed around. They were
not harmed in any way rather, the relationship, the peaceful, cordial relationship with them
continued. So Nabeel Qureshi deliberately hides all of that. And not only Nabeel Qureshi does that
all Christian missionaries have come across unfortunately, all I have to say all. I haven't seen one
so far, who has given the entire picture to the Christian audiences, we have to do it. All Christian
		

			missionaries, without an exception, deliberately hide these important facts, these important details
for people to understand the circumstances of why the Prophet peace be upon him sola Salaam, agreed
with that harsh decree of sobbing mouth. And as a result binaries are executed. So always Christian
missionaries who say Mohammed executed the Mohammed x. Actually they executed themselves, they chose
a man who decreed that they should be executed the fighting men By the way, only the fighting men
who were ready to fight and kill Muslims not long ago. So this is the background knowledge of the
incident of an operator. Another incident Nabeel referred to was that Muhammad, tortured people to
		

			extract money from them. This is absurd. This is absolute shamelessness. Because this report, I
think he's referring to a report in Eben is hoc and it is a fabrication and outright fabrication. It
is like me, quoting from the Gospel of Judah, the gospel of Mary Magdalene, of the Gospel of Thomas
or other apocryphal literature with the Christians do not accept today, as a source of information
for the Christians, it would be an absolute
		

			absolutely disingenuous thing to do. And this is exactly what Neville seems to have done. So what
Christian missionaries used to do and do to this day is they're mixed false with some truth, and
even the truth has been manipulated, or basic, important facts have been completely taken away from
the truth. So the people have a very bad image of the Prophet. So people think of Muhammad peace be
upon him as some sort of bloodthirsty savage barbarian who wanted to kill people across the world.
That wasn't the case. We see the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Sallam in a different light because we
see with we study his life holistically, moving on without indulging too much into that
		

			So, after trying to dismiss many of these traditions, I said, Well, let me let me piece together
what's going on here because if I dismiss all of these violent traditions, then I am basically
dismissing the foundations of Islam. This is where I get my picture of Muhammad from. So it is clear
Nabeel Qureshi had a picture of Islam based upon these sources. It is also clear, either he did not
read the circumstances around the sources or the meaning of the sources, or the greater the larger
context of these sources, or he did not want to know the truth, or he knew the truth and didn't want
to talk about it or didn't want to accept it. It was one of those things because the way he's
		

			putting these sources forward, and the way he's understanding them is clearly wrong is clearly
completely misplaced. So looking just at the sources, what is the story? How do I reconstruct what
Muhammad's life is like and what you find when you do that? Because there certainly are peaceful
passages in the Quran. We can't ignore that. Like chapter two, verse 256 of the Quran, which says,
There's no compulsion in religion. Those are often the ones that are quoted and are often the ones
so you have people chapter 109, which says, you know, those of you who disbelieve, believe whatever
you want, and let us believe what we want and fairly peaceful. One of the ones that's just I can't
		

			say this without laughing a bit, but so abused is chapter five, verse 32, of the Quran, which says,
If you kill one person, it says if you kill all of mankind, and if you say if you save a life, it
says if you save all of mankind, when you start understanding the context, though, you realize that
this is not the ultimate message of Islam, for example, that one verse, chapter five, verse 32, of
the Quran, says, the first part of that verse is, it was told to the Jews, if you kill one person,
it's as if you kill all mankind, I save life, as if you save all mankind. And we do we find that in
tractate Sanhedrin of the Babylonian Talmud, it's not in the Quran. It's not a teaching for Muslims.
		

			The next verse is the teaching for Muslims, which says, If anyone creates mischief in the land or
strives against a lot or His Messenger, Crucify Him, or kill him, right, exactly. Okay, so you start
getting the context and what you find is, in the first 13 years of Muhammad's prophetic career, he
lives a peaceful life. He has about 100 followers by the end of that time, not that many. So before
we get to the first 13 years of the life of the Prophet peace be upon him. Let's quickly address
some of the verses Neville has mentioned. He clearly acknowledges that there are peaceful versus
peaceful verses in the Quran.
		

			And he seems to find a contradiction in them and other violent verses of the Quran. For example, one
one of the verses he mentions is to Surah to 256. Law a graphic been out of alignment chatango
regime law a graphic de facto by Universal domina, right. Okay. That verse clearly states that there
is no compulsion in religion and truth stands clear from false it. So in other words, do not force
people to accept the Accept your religion, right. And that particular verse was definitely revealed
about the Jews and the Christians because the context when we read it, that verse was revealed
about,
		

			you know,
		

			the prophet, and the Quran or a law preventing Muslims from forcing anyone to accept Islam. It's
clear, then he mentions another verse, which is talking about the Jewish people that they were told
that if you kill one innocent person, it is like killing the whole of humanity. So why is God giving
that example to Muslims? Is the question how do the Muslims understand that verse? How do we apply
it in our lives? What do the Muslim commentators have to say? What did the commentary say about
this? First, the application is for the Muslims. The reason why God is telling the believers why the
Jews were told x, y, and Zed is to give them a lesson that they were told this, this also applies
		

			when you so they were given a standard, which is a moral standard. We are telling you this standard
again, so that you can also apply this in your life. So do not kill innocent people. Because killing
an innocent person is like killing the all of humanity. And then he jumps straight to the next
verse, which which is talking about criminals, amazingly, without shedding light on that particular
incident, which is mentioned in the verse later, that as for those who commit crimes against a line
is messenger. Now Islam has been a political faith from the very start, okay?
		

			The Medina, society or the society in Medina was governed by the law of Islam. Right? Prophet was
the head of state, right? So there was a law to follow, you cannot murder. So that particular verse,
which prescribes very harsh punishment for criminals, who are these criminals, the context of the
verses, and we read in the commentaries, that there were people who came to the prophet of Islam,
and they accepted Islam with him.
		

			They were desert bedwin. They were Arabs, they came to the Prophet, they accepted Islam, and they
became ill. They were unwell. So the Prophet prescribed for them to go to his camels. Okay? And stay
in that environment. And mix camel milk with urine, Campbell urine, he prescribed this as a cultural
as a traditional remedy for whatever condition they had.
		

			So this cultural traditional remedy was prescribed by the prophet for those specific people for
those specific conditions in those specific circumstances. They went to the camels. So after
becoming fit, and well, spending time, out there in the desert with the camels or the profit, they
killed the caretaker of the camels. Now remember, these people had already embraced Islam with the
Prophet, they pretended to be Muslims with the Prophet clearly. And when they became well, in fit,
they realized there are many camels and they simply can't, they can simply make away with the
camels. So they killed the caretaker, they tortured him to death, okay, they chopped his limbs off
		

			from opposite sides, and then blinded him, they blind these people, these very people blinded him.
So they killed this caretaker of the Prophet very, very savagely. And they're made away with the
candles. So the when, when so when the Prophet realized what had happened, he sent people to a
restaurant to catch them, they were caught, and they were killed. In the like fashion. The limbs
from the opposite sides are chopped off, just like they killed the caretaker of the Prophet, because
Islam follows the law, an eye for an eye, a hand for a hand, a leg for a leg. So this was the law
that was applied by the prophet on these very criminals. And this is when this verse was revealed to
		

			confirm what the prophet had done, that those who fight against God and His Prophet, this is the
punishment prescribed for them. So this punishment, or this harsh penalty, this very harsh penalty
is for highway robbers, for murderers for rapists. This is the penalty in Islam for people who do
such crimes. Okay, this is what the verse is talking about. The verse is not talking about
disbelievers just as Nabeel Qureshi attempted to insinuate, right, it has nothing to do with
disbelievers. Because the verse before clarifies you cannot kill innocent people, under any
circumstances. The prophetic tradition clarifies that amply.
		

			The prophetic tradition clarifies that very,
		

			very much how, because we have reported Buhari for example, the prophet specifically told his
companions, that when in conflict,
		

			when in conflict Do not kill women and children specifically, in the book of jihad in Sahih. Al
Bukhari the Prophet specifically told his companions, even in conflict, do not kill women and
children, because the Prophet had come across a dead body of a woman on the battlefield on one of
the battlefields. So these pieces of information are deliberately hidden by our Christian missionary
		

			opponents and interlocutors, in this case in the bill Qureshi clearly does not understand the
context of these texts in Islam, or doesn't want to understand them, or if he understands them
didn't want to tell people the bigger picture certainly doesn't have a fighting force. Most of these
people are of humble means. And he doesn't fight during that time. But then he's given rule over a
city, an entire city gives him the right to be arbiter. From that moment until his death
approximately nine to 10 years. He personally participates in or deputizes 86 battles, right, so
that's an average of nine plus battles a year. And they culminate in intensity until the moment he
		

			dies. Chapter nine of the Quran is the last major chapter of the clicker. So before we get to
chapter nine, here, Nabeel Qureshi talks about the first 13 years of the Prophet when he was
peaceful, right. And then after he migrated to Medina, he became violent somehow, and they were at
expeditions in those 10 years. What he doesn't tell people is that in the first 13 years, the
Prophet and his companions was severely tortured, persecuted, abused, pushed around, beaten,
strangled, thrown around boycotted all those things. Nabeel deliberately hides all this important
information. He does not tell people what was happening to the prophet in the first 30 years. His
		

			companions were tortured to death. They were sold into slavery. They were pushed around or spat at.
They were killed the Prophet his wife was lost.
		

			Prophet lost his wife due to a very severe boycott imposed against the Prophet and his family. So
after the Prophet migrated to Medina, where the people had invited him to come and be an arbitrator
in their phase, these skirmishes and idolaters around the Arabian Peninsula, they started to attack
the profit. They did not let the they did not let him live in peace. They did not let him have
peace. And to defend his community. The Prophet had to launch military campaigns to defend this
community. So he fought Arabian tribes. He fought Romans, he was threatened by the Persians, he was
threatened by all sorts of people, his small little community, okay became a garrison community.
		

			They had to, they had to dig
		

			ditches around Medina to defend themselves. They had to fight defensive battles. Now go and see the
battles of the Prophet. The bill was talking about the bill was talking about at campaigns, if you
calculate the numbers
		

			of people who died in these campaigns, it's not more than 2000 people, because all of these people
99% of these battles were defensive, in nature, 99% of them, okay. And those that were not
defensive, they were pre emptive they were pre emptive prophet had to lead his community, he had to
defend his vulnerable community, a very small number of people were threatened repeatedly, again and
again by the Qureshi by Bernhard Fon, by Bhanu hanifa. For example, other for example, a coalition
of Jewish tribes in favor, they were threatening, threatening the Prophet peace be upon him and his
companions. So these were mostly defensive battles that were fought in the defense of the the
		

			Prophet and his community. But what would Nabeel say about someone like Musa Moses, who fought
offensive battles over attacking territories without any provocation, as such, okay? If you go and
read the book of Numbers, for example, okay, and other books, in the Old Testament, you will see
massacres being committed, you will see massacres, indiscriminate massacres, being committed. The
Book of Second Samuel, chapter 15, verse three, clearly states that Moses commanded the Israelites
to kill men, women and children, unbelievable cruelty. And we do not believe that Moses could have
commanded something like that. This is not from Moses, we do not believe that's the word of God, we
		

			will never accept that, that a prophet of God can ever command to kill innocent people. That is in
the Bible. For some reason, people like Nabeel, and
		

			others who want to attack Islam from the Christian background. They do not read the Bible, they do
not see the Old Testament, the Old Testament still stands as a moral tradition for the Christians to
follow. Although Christians do not follow the teachings of the Old Testament where they still follow
the moral values of it. This is what Paul said, in second, similar as the book a second Timothy,
chapter three, verse 16, that all scripture all scripture means all of it from from the book of
Genesis to the book of Revelation. Okay? Although Paul was talking about the the Old Testament, in
particular, All scripture is God breathed, and it is good for correction for righteousness, and
		

			training and morality. If that's the case, then the Old Testament is applicable to Christians to
this day to learn morality. And if that's the case, then Moses could not have possibly done anything
immoral. How do people like to justify the actions of Moses in the Old Testament?
		

			Like an example I just gave you from the book of Second Samuel? How do people like Abele reconcile
that with the moral values today? So the prophet of Islam was fighting defensive, defensive battles,
he did not do anything like Moses, Joshua, or other Israelite prophets are doing in the Old
Testament, although we don't believe those passages are actually truly revealed by God. We believe
those were put down by historians to inflate the, the, the, how can I put it the masculinity of
Israelite prophets against the enemy's Quran to have been composed, and it is the most expansively
violent This is the one that starts off by saying this is a disavow of all the treaties we have with
		

			polytheists chapter nine, verse five, slay the infidels wherever you find them, lay siege to them,
take them captive, chapter nine, verse 29. Fight the Jews and Christians until they pay you the poll
tax and they feel subdued. Why? chapter nine, verse 33, Islam has been made to prevail over every
religion. So I mean, chapter nine is the most violent, it's the culmination of the Islamic message.
It's what the marching orders that Mohammed leaves Muslims with, which is why when he dies, Muslims
conquer one third of the known world within 150 years. So here an idealist
		

			About chapter nine of the Quran he believes that this is the culmination of the message of Islam.
This is the peak of it right? This is when Islam reached its maturity, because this particular
chapter of the Quran Chapter nine, Soto Toba was revealed near the end of the prophets life. So
therefore it has to be the final say. And he mentioned certain
		

			violent verses the verses of war from this particular chapter, what he again fails to realize or
fails to convey if he knows the facts that these verses were revealed in particular contexts. For
example, chapter nine, verse five was revealed for those policies, who had broken the treaties with
the Prophet, despite the fact that they had treaties of peace, the polytheist was still attacking
the Prophet and his companions. And God had revealed the this verse, He revealed this verse, to tell
the profit. Now you need to defend yourself, go and fight back. Okay, do not hold back because these
policies will not respect any treaty, therefore fight back. And if they submit amazingly, what the
		

			bill does not do is, quote versus before, and versus after, amazingly versus after clarify that if
they demand peace, if they request peace, then cease hostilities, because God love peace, and let
them have peace. Let them have peace, simply read verse number six, verse number seven of chapter
nine, and you will see how our dear friends Christian missionaries deliberately hide these basic
facts. Likewise, he quoted 929, from the same chapter, insinuating that here is a command to fight
all the Jews and Christians in the world, because they do not believe in Islam. Again, this is a
very, very bad interpretation of this verse. And it doesn't exist, that particular interpretation
		

			does not exist. Why? Because if that was the case, there would be no Jews living with the Muslims
throughout the Muslim civilization. For over 1000 years, there would be no Christians living under
Islam. They would all be Muslims, they would be forced into Islam. Right? There would be no treaties
between the immediate successor or successors of the Prophet of Islam, people like Abubakar Omar of
man and Ali, Amaya, none of these people would have had treaties with non Muslim states. They are
treaties. They signed treaties of peace, right. So here in this verse 929, chapter nine of the Quran
verse 29, is telling the Prophet and his companions that those
		

			non Muslims who are attacking you, you must fight them back and defend yourself, which is common
sense, which is a basic human right. If you are being attacked, you defend yourself, you don't sit
idle and let people abuse you and push you around. And this is exactly what was happening to the
prophet in his community. They were under attack, non stop. For the last 10 years of the prophets
life. He was under attack, non stop every single day of his life he was being attacked, for
worshiping one God for worshiping one god idolaters. Some of the Jewish tribes around Medina and
some
		

			Roman allies were repeatedly threatening the prophet of Islam. In fact, 929 was revealed in the
context of the Romans threatening to invade Arabia. This was clearly stated in a hadith of Bokhari
whereby once honorable Qatar was approached by one of his companions, to give him the news that the
Prophet might have divorced his daughter, when he opened the door. The first question Omar asked,
Have the Romans arrived, because the man who knocked his door was very desperate to get almost
attention. So Omar, when you open the door, the first question he asked how the Romans arrived. In
other words, the Muslims are living in fear of the Romans attacking Arabia. So these verses are
		

			revealed in that context. Now, what Nabeel fails to do throughout this short video, which I'm
responding to, is to quote the most important verse that deals with the Muslim attitude towards the
non Muslims. The most important verse of the Quran in this regard, and what that verse is, is going
to be as follows chapter 60 of the Quran, verse eight, I repeat chapter album, Davina, ciao chapter
60 of the Quran, verse eight, which states that God does not forbid you from being kind to those non
believers who do not fight you for your religion and do not drive you out of your homes. God loves
the just right. In this verse, God is simply telling the believers This is your general attitude
		

			towards non believers who do not fight you for your religion. They do not push you around. They do
not
		

			abuse you they do not take your land from you. They do not do not invade your lands, they do not
attack you. They don't do anything to you. You will be kind to them. You live in kindness with them.
This is exactly what our Holy Scripture the Quran tells us Nabeel Qureshi for some reason, in this
very important video where he's talking about these hostile versus against hostile people. These
verses were revealed in responses to things hostile people were doing to Muslims. So God was giving
them instructions. The Quran is a book of law. It is a book of instructions. It is a constitution
for the Muslims. So the Quran gives them options. What do you do when you pray? What do you do when
		

			you divorce? What do you do when you're married? What do you do when you give charity to orphans?
What do you do when you make ablution? Or when you wash yourselves? What do you do when you are
dealing with your parents? For example, what do you do when you deal with your neighbors? What do
you do when you deal with orphans? What do you do when you deal with your community at large with
your leaders? For example, the Quran has details on all these things I mentioned. Right? And the
Quran has instructions on how to engage people you are you are attacked by or people who are
attacking you people who are who are hostile to you, how do you engage them. So Quran is a book of
		

			instructions on all these different matters. And amazingly, Nabeel Qureshi
		

			deliberately fails to mention this very important verse, which gives the general attitude of the
Muslims, okay, which is to be held across the board throughout the Muslim civilization, kindness,
generosity, compassion. This is exactly what the Koran prescribes. In chapter 16, verse eight, for
disbelievers of all sought also idolaters Jews, Christians, and the Muslim civilization bears
testimony to that fact that Jews lived with the Muslims for over 1000 years under the protection of
Islam. Okay, there were Jewish scholars who confirmed that there are scholars like Bernard Lewis,
who states that the Jews are more protected and treated far better under Islam for over 1000 years
		

			than they were in the Christian lines. Mark Cohan, and other American Jewish scholar who confirm
this fact that the Jews were treated far better and far more peacefully than the Muslim in the
Muslim lands than they were in the Christian lands. And I can go on and on and on, and give you many
examples from the history of Islam and the Muslim civilization as to how the Jews and Christians
coexisted with the Muslims for over 1000 years in peace, in peace and under justice of Islam. Now,
he mentioned also that because of these verses, Muslims went out, and they ended up conquering vast
chunks of land. Of course, they did that, because they were fighting hostile powers. They did this
		

			for two reason. They did this for two reasons to defend themselves, number one against Roman
aggression. Okay, number two, the other reason was to take the Justice and the beauty of Islam to
the people not to force them into Islam, no doubt, because the Muslims, they were taking the justice
to the people of the land of Syria, to the people of the land of Egypt. This is exactly how they saw
it. And this is clearly mentioned in Muslim Chronicles, that the only reason Muslims are going into
these lands was because these people were heavily oppressed. Do you know who supported the Muslims
in Syria, when Muslims went into Syria to fight the Romans, who was backing the Muslims, the
		

			Christians of Syria, the Christians of Syria, they opened the doors for the Muslims to support the
Muslims, who supported the Muslims in Egypt against the Romans, the Coptic Christians, the Orthodox
Coptic Christians of Egypt, they opened the doors of Egypt for the Muslims. This is clearly
testified to the local by the local Chronicle as for example, john of nickeil, was a Coptic
Christian writing in the seventh century in Egypt. He stated that when Muslims came to Egypt, the
Coptic Christians, they backed the Muslims against the Romans who followed a different version of
Christianity, which they were forcing upon the Orthodox masses. They were doing the same thing in
		

			Syria, the Romans are forcing their version of Christianity upon the Orthodox masses of Syria, and
they did not like it. They hated the Romans for it. And one of the the the outcome was them backing
the Muslims and Muslims went to Syria and Egypt. This is why scholars like Thomas Arnold they
believe this is how the Muslims took all this land so rapidly because the masses are supporting
them. So Muslims went out there to deliver deliver justice, these are the things Christian
missionaries will not tell you. They will never tell you about these things. They were simply
mentioned.
		

			things they have read, it's it's it's complex. Once again, they would tell places if you do not
convert, then you have the option to pay a tax and if
		

			If you don't pay that tax, then we will get you the jizya. Exactly. Yeah. So it was it was expanding
into territory. The first option people were given was conversion. The second option was paying a
tax. And if that didn't happen, then it was then it was by the sword.
		

			And do you basically see this as effectively the modus operandi of groups like ISIS today? Well,
this has been the clear, you see a classic example of Christian missionaries, quoting verses in the
Quran out of context, it is clear in this video out of context, okay? They don't want to understand
the facts around these verses. And these reports from the Prophet completely out of out of context,
they quote these verses out of context, and then they jump straight to ISIS. So they understanding
the Christian missionary understanding of Islam is exactly the same as the ISIS understanding of
Islam. So in this, I believe in this in this, they are both the same Christian missionaries, the
		

			think alike, and and the people of ISIS think alike, right. They think like each other. They both
have the same understanding of Islam for some reason. And the vast majority of Muslim scholarship,
the vast majority of the Muslims around the world, the entire history of Islam, and the Muslim
civilization, stands testimony against ISIS, what ISIS is doing, and what Christian missionaries
want people to believe. This is the travesty. This is the level of disingenuous it. This is the
level of deception we are facing on the part of the Christian missionaries. So they quote these
texts out of context, they put their own spins on them, and then they jump straight to ISIS, or see
		

			what we are saying or how we understand Islamic texts. ISIS is doing exactly the same. We agree with
you. Absolutely. You and ISIS are in agreement in understanding Islam that way. And amazingly,
thankfully, all the major authority of Islam have rejected ISIS, and all the Muslims on the planet.
When I say All I am saying 99.9% of the Muslims on the planet have rejected ISIS. And I'm pretty
sure you're quite disappointed about that biological understanding of Islam up until the fall of the
Ottoman Empire, no Muslim really ever had qualms with it. It's, it's what it was. And this is the
mess the means through which Allah had given Muslims dominance around the world. And it wasn't until
		

			Muslims had had to as culture, flipped the script and start playing the defensive the victim card
which they hadn't done before. So for example, the crusades, many Muslims will point to the Crusades
now and say this is another example of Christian sort of superiority complex and trying to keep us
down and oppressing us. The Crusades were never even discussed in Islamic literature. There was no
Muslim or Arabic word for crusades until Christians came up with one in the 19th century. This is
absolutely inaccurate. Nabeel doesn't know the history of crusades, Muslim scholars amply discuss
the Crusaders and the Crusades. Okay. In the histories, I can name Muslim sources from the time from
		

			the 12th century, when the Crusades were happening. There is a book written by Osama bin mancave. It
is called kitamura. Tovar, he described the Crusaders in length and what they believed in what they
did, how they live their culture, actually mocked it. They he mocked the culture of the Crusaders,
right. And there was bow Dini buncha dad who wrote on the Crusades and the Crusaders and even
praised some of the qualities of the Crusaders. So Muslims called us they discussed the Crusaders in
detail. Perhaps Nabeel Qureshi is not aware of the history of the crusades, I will ask him to pick
up a basic history of the Crusades. Now he has passed away, he's not alive, I would have told him if
		

			he was alive to read a basic history of the Crusades so that he can understand these things.
		

			It just wasn't a part of the Islamic mentality until the Ottoman Empire fell, the Islamic world
started losing its power. And then these discussions started happening. And that's why you don't
hear the phrase Islam is a religion of peace until the 20th century. This phrase that Islam is a
religion of peace has been put out from the very beginning of Islam. The Quran mentioned that Rama
or sanaka in naramata lalala mean the Quran states in chapter 21, verse 107, that Prophet Muhammad
was not saint sent except to the mercy for the words and chapter 60 of the Quran, verse eight, where
Quran says God commands you to be kind, okay? And it is a religion of peace. It is clearly stated in
		

			many, many Hadith of the Prophet, I do not have the time to go through all those reports at this
stage.
		

			That simply wasn't a phrase it was never said it was never thought that wasn't the way Muslims had
thought up until that time. Okay, the video ends my brothers and sisters, I do apologize if I went
on for too long. Some of these things have to be clarified. And now it is clear that Christian
missionaries
		

			in most cases will not tell you to
		

			truth they will lie on Islam. They will misrepresent Islam. They will misrepresent our sources. So
please do not accept anything from missionaries in particular, a lot of them I'm not saying all of
them most of them. Unfortunately we are debating Muslims who are engaging Muslims on the largest
scale on the global scale. They will not tell you the truth of Islam and its sources. I hope you
liked the video. If you did, please share it and make dinner for us. More will be coming inshallah
salaam aleikum wa Taala