Bilal Philips – Changing The Nation Through Education

Bilal Philips
Share Page

AI: Summary ©

The history and characteristics of Islam are discussed, including the importance of morality and the need for a way to determine one's good and evil status. The rise of liberalization and the use of pornography are also highlighted. The segment touches on the corruption of modern society where children are taught sexuality and their desire for gay language and language promotion is seen as a "good thing" and a need for education to change one's understanding of the world. The segment also touches on the current confusion surrounding gay language and its impact on society.

AI: Summary ©

00:00:02 --> 00:00:04
			alameen wa Salatu was
		
00:00:08 --> 00:00:09
			was hobby
		
00:00:12 --> 00:00:12
			he
		
00:00:14 --> 00:00:27
			operates due to a lot of Peace and blessings, last prophet Muhammad so long while he was sending
them, and all those who follow the path of righteousness until the last day.
		
00:00:29 --> 00:00:41
			The topic this evening, changing the nation through education is the motto of my university, the
Islamic online university.
		
00:00:43 --> 00:00:44
			It addresses
		
00:00:46 --> 00:00:49
			a current situation in the Muslim world today
		
00:00:51 --> 00:00:53
			where Muslims
		
00:00:55 --> 00:00:56
			have become
		
00:00:58 --> 00:01:00
			the doormat
		
00:01:02 --> 00:01:10
			the stepping stones of the first world nations
		
00:01:12 --> 00:01:16
			Muslims are looked down upon,
		
00:01:17 --> 00:01:20
			and Muslims look down upon themselves.
		
00:01:23 --> 00:01:23
			However,
		
00:01:25 --> 00:01:26
			if we look at the Koran,
		
00:01:28 --> 00:01:31
			we find there a loss of data
		
00:01:32 --> 00:01:34
			describing us in other terms,
		
00:01:36 --> 00:01:38
			say, Come to my
		
00:01:39 --> 00:01:39
			origin.
		
00:01:42 --> 00:01:42
			You
		
00:01:45 --> 00:01:46
			are the best
		
00:01:48 --> 00:01:49
			people.
		
00:01:50 --> 00:01:55
			A law has taken out of humankind for their benefit.
		
00:01:58 --> 00:01:59
			The best.
		
00:02:01 --> 00:02:06
			Though in the eyes of the world today, we are the worst.
		
00:02:07 --> 00:02:09
			And the eyes of ourselves.
		
00:02:11 --> 00:02:13
			We are the worst.
		
00:02:15 --> 00:02:18
			But Allah described us as the best.
		
00:02:21 --> 00:02:23
			So how do we get back?
		
00:02:24 --> 00:02:28
			How can we become the best again?
		
00:02:30 --> 00:02:44
			There was a time when we look back in history, we can all agree in the golden age of Islam, when we
were the best. When people came from all around the world to study at our feet.
		
00:02:45 --> 00:02:48
			In Andalus, in Baghdad,
		
00:02:50 --> 00:02:52
			we weren't the best.
		
00:02:53 --> 00:02:54
			But
		
00:02:55 --> 00:02:59
			times changed. And we ended up the worst
		
00:03:00 --> 00:03:04
			or in the sight of the world, the worst.
		
00:03:09 --> 00:03:10
			Last month Allah
		
00:03:12 --> 00:03:17
			explained the characteristics, which made us the best
		
00:03:19 --> 00:03:23
			because it is not simply a matter of birth.
		
00:03:25 --> 00:03:31
			The Western nations look at themselves as be the best
		
00:03:33 --> 00:03:38
			by birth by their birth, right. You're born and American,
		
00:03:39 --> 00:03:47
			Canadian, British, French, German, you are the best simply because
		
00:03:50 --> 00:03:51
			your birthright
		
00:03:53 --> 00:04:03
			explains for us why he referred to us as being the best. He went on to say
		
00:04:04 --> 00:04:05
			tamo Luna
		
00:04:06 --> 00:04:08
			was at home and then moved
		
00:04:09 --> 00:04:10
			to Minnesota.
		
00:04:12 --> 00:04:16
			Because you command the good
		
00:04:17 --> 00:04:22
			you prohibit the evil and you believe in a law.
		
00:04:24 --> 00:04:31
			These three vital principles you command the good
		
00:04:32 --> 00:04:37
			and the term which Allah uses for the good and Maroons.
		
00:04:38 --> 00:04:42
			It means that which is no good.
		
00:04:44 --> 00:04:46
			They didn't say tabula rasa.
		
00:04:48 --> 00:04:51
			He said move around, build models.
		
00:04:53 --> 00:04:59
			That which is known good throughout the world. Not just good
		
00:05:00 --> 00:05:04
			In the eyes of Muslims, but good in the eyes of the whole world
		
00:05:07 --> 00:05:09
			what how long can
		
00:05:11 --> 00:05:12
			you prohibit?
		
00:05:13 --> 00:05:23
			What is rejected? What is rejected by the whole of humankind as evil, as bad as not good?
		
00:05:29 --> 00:05:30
			What do we know?
		
00:05:31 --> 00:05:39
			And you believe in Allah, these are the three characteristics. The first two,
		
00:05:40 --> 00:05:42
			we can say,
		
00:05:43 --> 00:05:46
			addresses morality,
		
00:05:49 --> 00:05:50
			what is good,
		
00:05:51 --> 00:05:52
			what is evil?
		
00:05:54 --> 00:05:57
			This has to do with morality.
		
00:05:59 --> 00:06:02
			And you know, Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi Salaam
		
00:06:04 --> 00:06:07
			had summed up all of Islam,
		
00:06:10 --> 00:06:18
			all of the teachings of Islam, he summed it up, saying, in Mr. Moore as to the hotel,
		
00:06:21 --> 00:06:29
			I was only sent to perfect for you, the highest of moral character.
		
00:06:32 --> 00:06:36
			He summed up Islam as morality.
		
00:06:38 --> 00:06:39
			Everything that we do in Islam,
		
00:06:41 --> 00:06:45
			it has a moral object,
		
00:06:46 --> 00:06:50
			a moral goal and it seeks
		
00:06:51 --> 00:06:55
			whether it is prayer, a law says about prayer what
		
00:07:00 --> 00:07:01
			what does the law say about prayer?
		
00:07:08 --> 00:07:10
			Exactly in a salatu
		
00:07:13 --> 00:07:15
			salam prohibits
		
00:07:19 --> 00:07:22
			evil speech and evil deeds.
		
00:07:24 --> 00:07:28
			So, that is the essential goal of the salon
		
00:07:32 --> 00:07:36
			and hatch zakka.
		
00:07:37 --> 00:07:42
			So, all of the other Pillars of Islam, any man
		
00:07:46 --> 00:07:48
			whether it is Believe it
		
00:07:50 --> 00:07:51
			or it's a belief,
		
00:07:54 --> 00:08:09
			or its belief in the angels, all of it is connected to morality, to create a morally sound
individual, a morally sound human being.
		
00:08:11 --> 00:08:13
			And if we were to look
		
00:08:15 --> 00:08:22
			at the time of Prophet Muhammad salam, Adios, if we look at that time,
		
00:08:26 --> 00:08:26
			and
		
00:08:27 --> 00:08:31
			we compare the Muslims of Arabia
		
00:08:33 --> 00:08:36
			with the rest of the world,
		
00:08:38 --> 00:08:41
			people living in Egypt,
		
00:08:43 --> 00:08:45
			in Persia, in Rome,
		
00:08:47 --> 00:08:51
			technologically, Muslims were inferior.
		
00:08:52 --> 00:08:55
			The technology of Rome, Persia.
		
00:08:57 --> 00:08:58
			The Pharaohs
		
00:08:59 --> 00:09:01
			was superior.
		
00:09:03 --> 00:09:08
			But what did Muslims have? They had morality.
		
00:09:10 --> 00:09:12
			This is what made them great.
		
00:09:13 --> 00:09:19
			It was the moral principles behind the faith.
		
00:09:20 --> 00:09:22
			This is what made Muslims great.
		
00:09:26 --> 00:09:30
			And as long as Muslims hold on to those principles,
		
00:09:32 --> 00:09:34
			they will remain great.
		
00:09:36 --> 00:09:43
			Even if they are not great technologically, materially
		
00:09:44 --> 00:09:47
			as the world is today
		
00:09:51 --> 00:09:52
			what do we do
		
00:09:55 --> 00:09:57
			and believe in a law
		
00:10:00 --> 00:10:08
			That was the essence of Islam believe in Allah.
		
00:10:10 --> 00:10:12
			If we look at the West today,
		
00:10:15 --> 00:10:21
			they have rejected, believe in Allah.
		
00:10:23 --> 00:10:25
			That is secularism.
		
00:10:26 --> 00:10:33
			secularism is the rejection of belief in all,
		
00:10:34 --> 00:10:36
			and leading
		
00:10:38 --> 00:10:39
			countries of the West
		
00:10:40 --> 00:10:46
			openly declare themselves to be secular democratic.
		
00:10:49 --> 00:10:54
			secular being more important even than democratic.
		
00:10:56 --> 00:10:59
			That is the key, secularism,
		
00:11:00 --> 00:11:06
			removing God, from the equation of human life,
		
00:11:08 --> 00:11:12
			human society, it's only a private thing.
		
00:11:14 --> 00:11:20
			You can believe what you feel it doesn't matter. Because God isn't real anyway.
		
00:11:21 --> 00:11:26
			God is only a figment of human imagination
		
00:11:30 --> 00:11:31
			in one way or another.
		
00:11:33 --> 00:11:39
			And of course, one to take God a loss out of the equation,
		
00:11:40 --> 00:11:43
			then what happens to the society?
		
00:11:44 --> 00:11:48
			They become lost in immortality.
		
00:11:50 --> 00:12:05
			They become lost in morality, because they don't have a moral compass. To determine what is really
good, and what is really evil.
		
00:12:08 --> 00:12:10
			Then compass is what?
		
00:12:12 --> 00:12:20
			How does the West determine what is morally good? And what is morally evil?
		
00:12:34 --> 00:12:34
			I want to answer
		
00:12:37 --> 00:12:45
			based on their needs, okay, to some degree, yes, is based on needs. But they have a means
		
00:12:46 --> 00:12:50
			by which they determine good and evil,
		
00:12:53 --> 00:13:01
			which is across all of the nations that means is what they call democracies.
		
00:13:03 --> 00:13:06
			The rule of the majority,
		
00:13:07 --> 00:13:12
			as long as the majority of the people hold that this thing is good,
		
00:13:13 --> 00:13:14
			then it's good.
		
00:13:15 --> 00:13:26
			If the majority of all that it is bad, that it's bad. And if yesterday they held it was good. And
today, they felt it was bad, it becomes bad.
		
00:13:28 --> 00:13:31
			And if tomorrow they feel it was good again, then we can become good again.
		
00:13:33 --> 00:13:36
			There's no moral foundation.
		
00:13:38 --> 00:13:44
			That is the reality of Western civilization today.
		
00:13:45 --> 00:13:50
			And we see it in a variety of different forms.
		
00:13:51 --> 00:13:53
			Among the forums, for example,
		
00:13:55 --> 00:13:57
			when I went to school in Canada,
		
00:14:00 --> 00:14:03
			in the 70s, in high school,
		
00:14:06 --> 00:14:10
			there is a book which became
		
00:14:12 --> 00:14:22
			compulsory reading interest on the compulsory reading list. It was called The Catcher in the Rye,
		
00:14:23 --> 00:14:25
			The Catcher in the Rye.
		
00:14:27 --> 00:14:41
			This is 1979 1950 20 years before when the book was first published, it was banned as *
		
00:14:45 --> 00:14:51
			one two years before it was considered so vile, so corrupt,
		
00:14:52 --> 00:14:56
			so evil that they banned itself.
		
00:15:00 --> 00:15:06
			But 20 years later, it became required reading for every high school student in Canada.
		
00:15:12 --> 00:15:13
			What happened?
		
00:15:15 --> 00:15:28
			The way of thinking of the nation had changed. So what was evil 20 years before became? Good, great,
good. So good is this compulsory, you have to read it.
		
00:15:33 --> 00:15:34
			Similarly,
		
00:15:37 --> 00:15:38
			pictures
		
00:15:39 --> 00:15:44
			of naked women in magazines, newspapers
		
00:15:45 --> 00:15:53
			before the 70s, back in the 60s in the 50s, this was called *. These are images now.
		
00:15:54 --> 00:15:55
			*,
		
00:15:56 --> 00:16:01
			they used to sell magazines, under the table onto the counter.
		
00:16:03 --> 00:16:08
			It was illegal, these magazines, * and these kinds of things.
		
00:16:09 --> 00:16:13
			But in the 70s, in 1974,
		
00:16:16 --> 00:16:29
			page three, that is when you open up a newspaper, first page is page one. second page is page two.
The next page is page three.
		
00:16:30 --> 00:16:33
			on page three, in the UK,
		
00:16:35 --> 00:16:38
			there is a picture of a naked woman.
		
00:16:40 --> 00:16:45
			They call her the sun girl, the Sun newspaper, in 74.
		
00:16:46 --> 00:16:53
			showed in every edition, a naked woman on the second third page.
		
00:16:54 --> 00:16:55
			How?
		
00:16:57 --> 00:16:59
			They said no this is artistic expression.
		
00:17:01 --> 00:17:03
			What was *?
		
00:17:04 --> 00:17:08
			All those years before became artistic expression.
		
00:17:14 --> 00:17:17
			It is nothing less than corruption
		
00:17:19 --> 00:17:21
			in the 60s,
		
00:17:22 --> 00:17:29
			if you ask the average western North American, Brit, etc.
		
00:17:30 --> 00:17:34
			What are your views on homosexuality?
		
00:17:36 --> 00:17:39
			The average North American would say
		
00:17:40 --> 00:17:46
			it's filthy. It's not. It's evil. It's bad.
		
00:17:47 --> 00:17:57
			And if they're already religious, they will quote from the Bible saying it is an abomination unto
the Lord. As mentioned in the Bible, great evil.
		
00:17:59 --> 00:18:12
			And back then in the 60s, psychiatrists had it listed in the list of sight psychological problems,
		
00:18:14 --> 00:18:31
			sicknesses, illnesses, and they had treatment special treatment for it, as well treatments, electric
treatments, in a way they will connect electrodes to the head of the person send shocks into the
brain, all kinds of things to try to correct this
		
00:18:32 --> 00:18:33
			inclination.
		
00:18:35 --> 00:18:38
			By the 70s, mid 70s.
		
00:18:40 --> 00:18:41
			It was removed
		
00:18:43 --> 00:18:44
			from the psychologists Bible.
		
00:18:45 --> 00:18:56
			If you ask the average North American Westerner, what do you think about homosexuality? They were
saying now it's an alternative lifestyle.
		
00:18:59 --> 00:19:01
			different strokes for different folks
		
00:19:04 --> 00:19:06
			to complete upside down.
		
00:19:08 --> 00:19:10
			And they replaced
		
00:19:11 --> 00:19:18
			the sickness of homosexuality with what they call homophobia.
		
00:19:19 --> 00:19:27
			What is a phobia? It is a dislike for homosexuals.
		
00:19:29 --> 00:19:41
			So those who dislike the despise of a sexual now they were declared to be sick, who needed to go to
the psychiatrist and get reprogrammed.
		
00:19:45 --> 00:19:47
			Whereas moron continued on.
		
00:19:49 --> 00:19:54
			And this is the most obvious corruption that is promoted on the biggest scale
		
00:19:55 --> 00:19:58
			in Canada just last year.
		
00:19:59 --> 00:19:59
			They passed
		
00:20:00 --> 00:20:00
			It bill,
		
00:20:02 --> 00:20:04
			the Parliament passed a bill
		
00:20:05 --> 00:20:10
			allowing the teaching of homosexuality in kindergarten.
		
00:20:12 --> 00:20:13
			from kindergarten,
		
00:20:17 --> 00:20:18
			what is going to
		
00:20:20 --> 00:20:27
			be the product of that society? You're teaching children in kindergarten about homosexuality?
		
00:20:28 --> 00:20:35
			Of course, the way they do it. You might wonder how are you going to teach a little kid about
homosexuality?
		
00:20:36 --> 00:20:40
			Well, they have specialized
		
00:20:42 --> 00:20:53
			developing books, which will teach them subtly. So what they do they have a book called my two dads.
		
00:20:56 --> 00:20:59
			Everybody knows that one mom.
		
00:21:00 --> 00:21:04
			The book is called my two dads.
		
00:21:06 --> 00:21:10
			So the book talks about Johnny, who has a dad and a mom.
		
00:21:12 --> 00:21:15
			And Tommy who has two dads.
		
00:21:17 --> 00:21:32
			And they will talk about Tommy's two dads about how great they are, how they take him to the park
and take him to the to the beach and the ticket football games and then taking care of their kids.
Oh, wonderful time, it is true that
		
00:21:34 --> 00:21:36
			Johnny has an okay time with his dad, mom
		
00:21:38 --> 00:21:41
			taught me a great time with his two dads.
		
00:21:43 --> 00:21:46
			They didn't say the word homosexuality in there.
		
00:21:47 --> 00:21:54
			But they have put it in the mind of the child, that it is okay to have two dads.
		
00:21:56 --> 00:21:57
			That's how they do it.
		
00:22:00 --> 00:22:02
			So this is corruption,
		
00:22:03 --> 00:22:10
			corruption that has reached a peak where it's going right down to the children and pouring it into
their brains.
		
00:22:11 --> 00:22:14
			This is a crumbling society.
		
00:22:17 --> 00:22:17
			I know.
		
00:22:19 --> 00:22:24
			Most young people like yourselves, studying gold is
		
00:22:25 --> 00:22:33
			getting your degrees and things you're thinking. As soon as I get my degree, my next thing is
		
00:22:36 --> 00:22:41
			first visa I can get to America, Canada, UK, God
		
00:22:42 --> 00:22:43
			gave me
		
00:22:45 --> 00:22:49
			Believe me, it will be a big mistake.
		
00:22:51 --> 00:23:00
			If you're going to get higher education and come back as one thing. But if you're going because you
think life is better there,
		
00:23:01 --> 00:23:06
			then you will find a big surprise.
		
00:23:07 --> 00:23:10
			And very big surprise, because you can imagine
		
00:23:12 --> 00:23:16
			if children are being taught that this whole thing is going on in that society.
		
00:23:19 --> 00:23:21
			So given this state,
		
00:23:23 --> 00:23:27
			this state where a slab
		
00:23:28 --> 00:23:41
			still retains its moral principles. What was wrong 1400 years ago, in the time of Rasulullah
sallallahu
		
00:23:43 --> 00:23:47
			remains wrong today and will remain around till the end of this world.
		
00:23:49 --> 00:24:05
			That is a solid foundation of morality, it will not change. The modernists say well know times have
changed the modern times now. And people look at life differently and we you know, have different
experiences that that
		
00:24:06 --> 00:24:09
			say, if God commanded us,
		
00:24:11 --> 00:24:15
			telling us that this thing is wrong, it is wrong forever.
		
00:24:18 --> 00:24:28
			That is what makes a society great. Its moral foundations are solid unshakable. But
		
00:24:29 --> 00:24:30
			the problem is
		
00:24:33 --> 00:24:35
			much of the Muslim world today
		
00:24:37 --> 00:24:38
			doesn't do it.
		
00:24:40 --> 00:24:43
			Muslims all over the world
		
00:24:44 --> 00:24:49
			are confused about what really is Islam.
		
00:24:52 --> 00:24:53
			We're confused.
		
00:24:55 --> 00:24:59
			So we might accept some of these things in Toronto.
		
00:25:00 --> 00:25:02
			They set up a homosexual mosque,
		
00:25:04 --> 00:25:06
			a mosque Masjid, for homosexuals.
		
00:25:09 --> 00:25:10
			These are confused.
		
00:25:14 --> 00:25:22
			In the Muslim world in general, we have this state of confusion we don't really know what Islam is.
		
00:25:24 --> 00:25:33
			So we're not solidly commanding the good and prohibiting the evil. And even our belief in the law is
shaken.
		
00:25:35 --> 00:25:36
			We have confusion.
		
00:25:39 --> 00:25:42
			Some of us call on Hamlet.
		
00:25:44 --> 00:25:46
			Some of us call on saints.
		
00:25:49 --> 00:25:54
			We have a whole group who call on the moms on Hasson to say,
		
00:25:57 --> 00:25:58
			this confusion
		
00:26:00 --> 00:26:04
			for many Muslims, we have lost sight of who is alone.
		
00:26:07 --> 00:26:09
			We know the name of Allah.
		
00:26:10 --> 00:26:20
			But to know who he is, we don't really know. And so we get involved in all kinds of deviations.
		
00:26:21 --> 00:26:27
			We wear charms and atomists, believing they will protect us.
		
00:26:29 --> 00:26:33
			So how can we change this situation?
		
00:26:36 --> 00:26:46
			We're talking about a situation of ignorance, where customs and traditions have superseded Islam,
		
00:26:47 --> 00:26:53
			where we're commonly unable to distinguish between what is Islam and what is custom.
		
00:26:57 --> 00:27:01
			How do we fix this situation? How do we correct it?
		
00:27:03 --> 00:27:04
			The only way
		
00:27:05 --> 00:27:06
			is by
		
00:27:08 --> 00:27:08
			education
		
00:27:12 --> 00:27:19
			where we change our own understandings and the last one that I'd said in the law
		
00:27:21 --> 00:27:22
			had
		
00:27:25 --> 00:27:25
			changed che