Salvation And Sacrifice In Islam

			Bismillah Alhamdulillah Salam aleikum, greetings of peace. We're here with the president of ask a
Muslim. Because if you have any doubts you have any concerns, any fears, you should ask the Muslims
and I'm here with Dr. Marwan Salaam Alaikum. Peace be with you. It was de la Tanaka, you guys have
done, you're doing some great work. And you produce some of these videos that are asking some tough
questions and also cleared up the misconceptions. There's one video that you have taught about
salvation, right? And everybody at the end, smart people, they realize we're gonna die, we're gonna
leave this life, what's the purpose of life. And now the concept of salvation in Islam is pretty
		

			clear. In other religions, it might not be so clear, what is you know, this concept that's so strong
compared in contrast to what's out there being propagated and other face, and Islam have not
propagated any new concept of salvation. It's pretty much the concept of salvation, that, that God
has ordained to all of his prophets in the past. And through Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, in
which that there is a direct relationship between the servant and the Creator. And there is no
intermediary between them. If you want to ask for forgiveness, then you ask the Creator, as the
creator for forgiveness, and God is most merciful, Most Gracious, he could. He's all powerful. He
		

			could forgive if you ask for forgiveness. And that's the basic concept of salvation in Islam. I
mean, it's straightforward. It didn't take much explaining the one who created you, you ask him to
guide you, him if you make a mistake, is the one that you turn to, to forgive your mistakes. No
intermediaries. But if someone says, look, no, no, you you moslems, you got it wrong. God, He sent
His only begotten Son, to die for your sins. And if you don't believe that Jesus died for your sins,
he was the sacrifice sacrificial that you're going to hellfire. We respect that you got to respect
someone loves you. They're bringing this to you, but we can kindly object and how would you go ahead
		

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			answer this? Well, there is a simple concept in Islam and in what Allah subhanaw taala would say,
well it was written was that no one can bear the sins of another person, you know, that's the basic
concept in which that I cannot carry the sin of somebody else, you know, I'm only going to be
responsible for my own son, you know, this is something again, Islam did not really invent this,
this is something that you're gonna see, in the Old Testament, for instance, in the book of
Deuteronomy, and that chapter 16, six, you know, it talks about the fact that the Son cannot carry
the sins of the Father, and the Father does not carry the sense of the sun. So this is something
		

			that is pretty much the same exact verse almost, that is being that we could open the Old Testament,
or we could see that in which they, you know, that is, there's nothing in you, you know, anybody
could look at it, the deuteronomic 24, four, go look it up. It's, it's the same, same exact thing.
And, you know, so, therefore, if you know, if I have, if I am sending, you know,
		

			I am the weak person, I have, I have did something against what God has asked me to do, why should I
ask to go through some other loopholes, for me to gain to gain salvation, if I am weak, I go to the
most powerful, if, you know, I go to the, to the, to the one who's all hearing, who can answer my
calls, 24 seven, you know, so, that, that is this is the, the basic the basics that salvation and
Islam. Now,
		

			we, we, if you look at the any of you open the Webster dictionary now, and you see what is the
characteristics of God, you know, God is perfect, you know, God is all powerful, and anything beyond
that, it takes away from the character of God, you know, so, therefore, if God, you know,
		

			we say sacrifice, you know, the act of sacrifice, you know, is is, is meaning when you look at the
word sacrifice in the dictionary, meaning somebody have given something for something else in
return. So, the question that we asked, we asked ourselves, Does God need to give up something, in
return of something else? No, I mean, this is any anybody, whether you, no matter what religious
background you come from, you know, if you would deny this such a character to God, even before
that, who need to sacrifice for Oh, I mean, this is the question that we ask our fellow human beings
who needs to sacrifice for who, you know, we the one human beings should be sacrificing to God, you
		

			know, you know, I am, I am blessed for all the blessings that God have given me, you know, I am
blessed that God had given me eyes and have given me in a brain he has given me senses. So,
therefore, you know, to me to appreciate what God has given me, I have to sacrifice to God
		

			To get his pleasure, but, you know, God does not need to do the other way around in which that he is
sacrificing for me. He said, I'm saying, and so and this is the concept of the basic concept of, you
know, of sacrifice, you know, in Islam. What if someone says, look, in the old days, they used to
sacrifice animals, for God, but now that's abrogated. And when Jesus came, and he sacrificed
himself, actually, it gets confusing, because Okay, the people say, Jesus God, so God sacrificed
himself basically like committed suicide. Right? How would you answer this? Yeah, this is a very
easy question. Now, if for me, indeed, one of the ways to get closer to God is sacrifice. And by the
		

			way, who does most of the sacrifice nowadays worldwide toward God? Muslims, we sacrifice in the
Amazon, the pilgrimage, once a year, noted for us to be closer to God. But the question is, is that
the only way of salvation toward God? You know, that's an even that even mentioned in the, in the in
the Bible, in which that in the, in the, in the book of Hosea six, six, God says, I rather I would
need I am a God of mercy rather than sacrifice. So if you want to get closer to God, he rather to
forgive you, for you rather for you to sacrifice for him. So therefore, God, he wants to he wants to
be, he wants to forgive you, if you ask Him to forgive you for his forgiveness, he wants to forgive
		

			you, but he's not for every action, every action, you know, for you to sacrifice, we should be at
the end of the day, well being what God has asked us to do, you know, and even when we sacrifice
something, what is God is gonna gain from it, you know,
		

			you know, God Almighty says in the Quran, lay you're not alone.
		

			You know, there is a God, when we sacrifice animals, what is God is going to gain is he I mean, God
says, He will not he will not, the meat is not going to reach God, nor that blood is going to reach
God. But what is going to reach God is our fear of God, our our self righteousness, that you know,
how much we feel God, that's what's going to, you know, that's what God is going to take from us,
you know, so, US sacrificing things. It's, it's, it's indeed one form, but we should not put all
everything, the only way for it to toward God is through sacrifice, and what forgot to sacrifice his
own son, who is also considered God, it seems to us it's the kind of contradictions, so it's through
		

			piety, through righteousness, to humbleness to doing these things that God told us to do, obeying
Him, and seeking His pleasure, doing the good deeds that he's told us, he don't need it, we need it.
But this this shows our faith in action. And it makes sense and you make a mistake, and you turn to
God alone. You don't need anybody. Nor did Jesus have you found anywhere where Jesus said explicitly
Listen, or Moses or those that came before him saying that, listen, Jesus is coming, God is coming
in the form of a man. And then when Jesus came, he should have made this clear that look, you have
to believe that I sacrifice my life for you, because this is salvation. This is your eternity
		

			paradise. How do we find that happening? The previous prophets, mentioning Jesus coming, that God is
coming as a human being, or Jesus Himself saying, look, I, for you to gain eternal paradise, you
have to believe that I died for your sins that was never mentioned. And actually, it was the
opposite throughout the Old Testament, and we because then we as Muslims, we believe in the Bible,
the original Bible, the Gospels, you know, we believe we believe in the original pitching Moses, we
believe the original pitching of abusers based upon them. So we have the right to read the
scriptures and see what's what what goes along our belief and what contradicts our belief. So
		

			therefore, if you look at the Old Testament, you will not see the concept of salvation, through you
know, a sacrifice of one man does not even exist, is nothing, you know, yes, one of the ways for
instance, you will see, you know, Abraham tries to sacrifice his own his son, that's fine. But
that's, that's not the only the only way toward toward getting salvation. But a new test, even a New
Testament actually, the quite opposite. I mean, even when God wanted to, according to the, to the,
		

			to the book of Matthew, when, when Jesus was about to be put on a cross, he was not even willing to
be crucified. And he's, and according to, according to the book of Matthew said, you know, Lord,
Lord, while you have forsaken Me, so he was not even willing, you know, to be back to me, and that's
the way it sounds in Aramaic, you know, so he was telling God, why are you doing this to me? Don't
let this cup pass in another verse, you know, so he was not really willing to be to be sacrificed.
And you know, and that's actually goes along with what the Christian Muslim thing have happened to
Jesus in which that
		

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			People want it to kill Jesus. And God has you know, and God Jesus have plead to God to be saved and
God has saved us based upon
		

			amazing when you look into it that Islam makes it clear and you mentioned the previous books what
was given to Moses in its original tutorial we accept we believe it was given to Jesus to NGO and
it's original, we believe, but these books been changed, they've been altered. You guys have a
bumper sticker that says the Quran never changed, never altered so people can find these facts not
fiction. In first part not third party God is speaking direct in the Quran compiled over 23 years,
like no other book, can you speak about it unchanged on altered. And this is one of the miracles of
the of the operands is that it was preserved since day one. God has said, you know, and that in the
		

			Quran that this book was not preserved in on books, it was preserved within the chest of men. And
that, you know, you'll see millions of people who have memorized the book from from cover to cover
every single letter, even though it sounds you know, how much we elongate some of the letters, it's
it's miracle in itself, how the Quran was preserved until nowadays, you're not going to see two
different copies. If you go all the way from Indonesia, Allah to Morocco, you're going to see one
version of the Quran. That's amazing. And if you have any other questions, you can go ahead and ask
a Muslim, you guys have a telephone number setup and the website, you know, go to our website on
		

			which we have. It's asking some.com at the bottom of the page, we have live chat. If you have any
questions, just go in there. And somebody is going to be asking your questions, any fears, any
misconceptions, come to the Muslims. And a Muslim is simply one who has chosen to submit to the
creator alone, just like Jesus did. He was a Muslim. You guys actually did a billboard said Jesus is
a Muslim? Yes, we did. This is one of our famous billboards was when we started this organization.
And this is again, we're not trying to insult anybody. But this is part of our core belief in which
that we believe that Jesus submitted himself to the will of God. And that's what the word Muslim is,
		

			just like all of us the prophets, Moses, Abraham, Noah, Ishmael, Joseph, all of them have submitted
himself to the to the will of God. And that's what we believe as Muslims. And if you look at
nowadays, he there is no one who tried to be like Jesus more than the Muslims to go outside who
dressed like the mother of Jesus, Muslims who have beards like Jesus, Muslims who pray like Jesus
Muslims, who who believed in Jesus, you know, or, or they even dressed like him, you know, one piece
of clothing, you know, Muslims. So the thing is, we have tried to follow his steps because we love
him. He's, he's very close to our hearts, deep. I mean, it just makes sense. It makes sense. Don't
		

			don't get spooked now, by the Arabic, Jesus broke Aramaic, you follow me it was a Semitic language.
But in English when is defined to you, it just makes sense. All the messengers of God be submitted,
not to Jesus, or to the creation, but to the Creator. And that's what a Muslim is. If you have any
questions, ask a Muslim, and we'll see you next time. Until then Peace be with you. Islamic