Instilling Yaqeen – Lesson #6 – The Beauty and Uniqueness of Islam

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The importance of finding out which religion is true and false is highlighted in the discussion of Islam. The beauty of Islam is in the way it takes into consideration everything and is holistic and comprehensive. worship in the heart and love of Islam is also emphasized. The church's teachings and practical examples are discussed, as well as the challenges of reforming people and achieving a practical example to show the value of reform. evidence is also emphasized as a tool for proving the legitimacy of Islam.

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hamdu Lillah

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wa Salatu was Salam ala to monolock milania Holla Holla Holla Holla Holla marine.

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While early he was so happy woman today we have Dr.

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Stan Abby Sunita he elomi Deen unbarred salaam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.

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After going through some of the

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proofs for the truth of Islam, looking at

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the proofs for Allah subhanho, wa Taala,

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the prophethood

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the Quran,

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it's important to emphasize on

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another very, very

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important topic that further instills yaqeen in the Muslim concerning

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concerning Islam, and his belief in Islam as being the truth.

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And that is

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emphasizing on those aspects that make Islam unique,

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and different from all other religions,

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and systems, and philosophies and ideologies that are out there.

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And so this is because some people think that

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all religions are the same.

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And it doesn't matter which one you follow.

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And so they say that, you know, all of these religions, they

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teach good.

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They tell us to do good, they tell us to stay away from evil. So why should we say that?

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Islam is the only true religion that we have to follow.

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And so to answer that, firstly, it is illogical to claim

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that all religions are the same, and that they're all equal. Because they all in the end of the day, they all contradict one another.

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There are no two religions

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that claim to be the same.

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Rather, each and every single religion claims to be the truth.

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And so they cannot all be true in the same and equal all at once. Because the truth

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is one.

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The truth is one

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and cannot be multiple.

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And so if one belief system has components that are proven to be true, than all other competing belief systems,

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are proven to be false.

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If one belief system has been proven to be the truth, then all competing belief systems which have contrary claims to them, they have to be false.

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For example, if you were to say,

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between three religions,

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concerning IE, Saudi Salah

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where you have one religion, who considered him to be a son of Allah,

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another, claiming that he was a false prophet.

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And another who said, He's simply a messenger, a human being sent by Allah,

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how can all three be the same?

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Only one can be true.

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And once we arrive at the conclusion that one is true based on their evidence, as we look at the evidence using compare, we see that one is true, therefore automatically, the two other

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religions are false.

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And this is what Allah subhanho wa Taala mentions when Allah mentioned that when Islam came,

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the truth came

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and it destroyed everything else.

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And how cool

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was that Huckleberry

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in

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the hoopla say, that the truth has come, and falsehood has vanished. Indeed, falsehood is bound to vanish.

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So when the truth has come, it has annihilated and basically refuted everything else which is false. Secondly, after proving that Islam is a truth, based on our previous discussions, all the previous classes where we looked at the existence of a law

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The Prophethood

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the Quran.

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After proving that Islam is the truth, based on all of that,

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there are additional points which we can mention, that shows us how Islam is unique and different from all other religions. And all of this proves what it proves that this is the only religion from Allah subhanho wa Taala. That

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has been kept preserved until today.

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And so, the following points that we're going to discuss today are basically looking at

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the beauty of Islam.

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And its uniqueness

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how it is unique in so many different ways,

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compared when we compare them when we compare Islam to, to all the other religions are out there. Now when it comes to

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looking at the beauty and the uniqueness of Islam. Many scholars of Islam have written books on this, but we find that everyone looked at a particular angle,

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or a particular area,

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and only discussed that area for example, some scholars looked at the legislation's of Islam.

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You know how Islam is unique in that aspect and the beauty of the legislations of Islam.

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Others looked at it from a different angle,

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we're not going to get into the details of the various aspects of how sound is beautiful, because that would be a very, very long discussion. Instead, we're going to look at

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a few points that

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are general

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or general. And a lot of different examples can be mentioned under these under these few points.

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And so the very first point that we have, is

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looking at men and existence holistically. What do we mean by this? Basically, one of the ways of seeing the beauty of Islam is by looking at how Islam takes into consideration everything in a holistic and comprehensive fashion.

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Because many times those who object to Islam, or some of its legislations, they don't take this fact into consideration. And so instead, they look at Islam from a neuro perspective.

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They look at certain aspects of Islam

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from their own personal interests.

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Or, for example, they they focus on objecting to Islam based on our existence in this dunya only,

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without taking into consideration that there is something called lifetime life after death

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without taking into consideration that

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many of the legislations of Islam

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or

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beyond self interest,

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but many times therefore, protecting an entire society.

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And so when Allah subhanho wa Taala legislated

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the five daily Salawat for example,

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or

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staying away from food and drink and Ramadan

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or giving to the poor

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or performing hajj and so on and so forth.

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Allah subhanho wa Taala did not legislate these obligations simply as tasks, responsibilities that we must complete, like robots.

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But rather when Allah subhanho wa Taala

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made these legislations for us. He made them for our own benefit.

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And this benefit is going back to us in this life and the next.

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Yes, of course we do these because Allah has commanded us to do them.

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Whether we know the wisdom behind the commands of Allah or not, but that doesn't mean that the legislations of Allah

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And his obligations are meaningless.

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Or that we won't get anything out of them.

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And so a lot of people when they object to Islam, they look at some of the obligations.

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And they think that these are burdensome.

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And they're difficult.

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Because they're looking at it from that angle that

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there's no benefit in this for me.

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Rather, I'm simply like a slave

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who,

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you know, I have to obey

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my master.

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And there's no benefit in me for that.

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And so all of the legislations of Islam, every single one of them.

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They connect us back to a law one way or the other.

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And so this is something very, very important to understand. The older legislations of Islam,

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one way or the other, they connect us back to Allah subhanho wa Taala. And so for example, look at Allah. Allah says, in any and Allahu La Ilaha Illa NSR Bodine. What aqui masala tellicherry

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Allah says,

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It is truly me, I am Allah, there is none worthy of worship except me. So worship Me alone and establish Salah for my remembrance.

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And so we pray in order to remember Allah

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and we pray because we want to connect with Allah.

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Also, regarding fasting, Allah says Yo, are you Hello Lena Ehrman? Kuta Bali chemistry on camera cootie Valentina. makaveli Camila Allah come to Taku Are you believe fasting has become prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those before you. For what purpose? What's the ultimate objective of fasting

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lagoon tycoon, so that perhaps attain taqwa.

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Again, connecting the servant back to Allah.

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Look at Al Hajj. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, the last around the cab

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running between Safa and Marwa and stoning the pillars

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have only been made to establish the decree of Allah. That's the only purpose behind these rituals,

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not rituals that we blindly follow. And we do that have no meaning. But rather all of that

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is for the remembrance of Allah.

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Because by doing these things, we're remembering a lot either by our hearts or by our tongues.

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And so the point is that Islam connects all of its legislations back to Allah subhanho wa Taala, one way or the other.

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And all of the various details concerning the legislations of Islam, whether it be telling us how to worship Allah, or whether it be how to deal with one another as human beings,

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in our business, in our trades, in our social dealings with one another,

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whether it be an hour o'clock, whether it be how to govern a nation, regardless of what the legislation is, all of them are interconnected.

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They're all interconnected.

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And this shows us the comprehensive nature of Islam, and how Islam takes into consideration

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the human being

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and his existence and how it's not only for his dunya, but also for his accuracy. And so this is something unique with regards to Islam that you will find in any other religion.

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Moving on to the second point,

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understanding the reality of worshipping Islam,

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understanding the reality of worship in Islam.

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And so the essence of worship in Islam is the total submission

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of one's will to Allah subhanahu wa Tada.

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And so worship in Islam is not just a bunch of rituals, and practices that we do that are empty of any meaning,

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or that are simply outward actions.

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Without anything happening internally.

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A lot of people when they think of worship, they think of certain rituals, whether it be prayer, whether it be something else.

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And they think these are outward physical actions.

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And they don't have any internal meaning to them.

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And so Islam teaches us that worship, it stems

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from the heart.

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And it stems from what is known as the Tao of Allah,

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the veneration of Allah.

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And also the love of Allah subhanho wa Taala. This is where worship a bad it stems from.

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And

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we also have to realize that

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in Islam worship is not only

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is not only out of love for Allah subhanho wa Taala.

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And so, a believer worship is worships of loss of Hannah who was the head, out of love for him, yes,

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but also hoping for his reward.

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And also, he worships Him out of fear out of all, of who he is.

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And so what this means is

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that the one who recognizes Allah subhanho wa Taala, and he recognizes who Allah subhanho wa Taala is, only he will be able to enjoy his a bad

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only he will be able to

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taste the sweetness and the pleasure of worship.

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And this concept of worship in Islam is not something theoretical.

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It's not something that we only read

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in the books.

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And that's it.

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Rather, it's something practical meaning that you will never understand these concepts of you know, the love for Allah veneration for Allah.

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And how, you know, this leads to the worship of Allah, you'll never understand that

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until you actually experience it yourself.

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And so

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this is why no one

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this is why no one who properly worships Allah subhanho wa Taala and tastes the pleasure of that worship would ever want to forsake

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Islam for anything else.

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A person who has tasted the sweetness of a man

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and the pleasure of a bed

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where he connects with the loss of Hannah, who would Tyler in the Nevada

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when he experiences that

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there is no way that he would ever want to give up this Diem for anything else. And that's why we always say that

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you can teach a person

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all you want

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and you could try to brainwash him all you want, by throwing information at him.

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But this will never develop your theme in his heart, certainty and conviction in his heart that this is the truth, until

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he tastes it for himself.

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Until he tastes the essence of very bad for himself.

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And that's why

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some of the set of things to say that we find a certain pleasure and a certain bliss, a certain happiness in worship,

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that if the kings and the sons of kings were to know and to work to realize what we're in, of bliss, while we're in our data,

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if they were to realize what we're in,

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then they would fight us for it with their swords.

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Because this is a true happiness

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that Allah grants

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to his obedient servants. true happiness is not found in material things.

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But

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Rather, it is something internal.

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And that's why there are many people who accepted Islam

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as a result of trying something of a bad

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there are people who have accepted Islam, just simply try and go and activate data.

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Sometimes it's not information that convinces a person but rather

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try and get out for himself.

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And so sometimes you would tell someone,

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go into sujood.

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And connect with Allah subhanahu wa tada ask Allah to guide you.

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And they find this connection. And they immediately embraced Islam.

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Why, because

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that is a true essence of Ayurveda. And once again,

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this is something that is unique with Islam,

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that you won't find

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anywhere else.

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Moving on to the third point,

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the unique nature of the proofs of Islam,

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the unique nature of the proofs of Islam.

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And so when compared

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to the proofs, and the arguments presented by

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other religions and other ideologies, we find

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that the proofs and the arguments of Islam

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on all of its fundamental aspects,

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the proofs and the arguments that Islam puts forward for all of its foundational matters, such as the concept of a law tawheed,

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life after death, the resurrection,

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and so on and so forth.

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And being the truth, etc. You find

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the proofs of Islam

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are strong.

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They are convincing.

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They are coherent.

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They are bulletproof.

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And then if you were to look at all the other religions out there,

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all the other philosophies, all the other ideologies, what do you find? You find

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that their arguments can easily

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come crashing down.

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There are arguments are feeble,

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they're incoherent, many times they're illogical.

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Take the example of proving the authenticity of the Quran. And this is something that we covered last week.

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And so the scholars of Islam have put forward proof after proof, argument upon argument proving how the Quran is divine

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and how it is a true Word of Allah subhanho wa Taala. You have entire volumes of books

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that the scholars have written on this one subject alone, sometimes they would go on

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entire books talking about only one proof, such as the Bulava of the Quran

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is the eloquence of the Quran.

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And looking at all the various aspects of how the Quran is eloquent, and how this eloquence proves that it could not be the word of any human being.

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Now let's look at the other most famous religious scripture today. And that is the Bible. And what do you find?

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Look at the proofs. And the arguments that Christian scholars put forward to try to convince us that the Bible

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is from Allah subhana wa Tada.

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And this is why it's important to remember that it's not evidence

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that would convince a Muslim to leave Islam for Christianity.

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It's not evidence

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compared the evidence is for the Quran versus the evidence is for the Bible. But rather you find that when people embrace when they leave Islam, and embrace Christianity, it's always due to other factors. It's never because of evidence and how convincing the evidence was. But rather it's other emotional things or for example,

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pressuring them

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To leave Islam or criticizing Islam, attacking Islam, it's never tried to establish the validity

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of our beliefs or the validity of the Bible.

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And so that's because Islam raises the bar

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on verifying the historical authenticity of

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the Koran, and also the sooner

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Islam raises the bar, while Christians they're comfortable taking from scriptures who sources are not accurately verified.

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Islam raises the bar on the preservation of the Quran, and also the preservation of the pseudonym. While Christians are comfortable with admitting that

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they don't have to settle for 100% accuracy of the Bible.

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If you were to ask any Christian scholar do it do admit that there are inaccuracies.

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And we can prove 100% accuracy of of the Bible.

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Also, Islam raises the bar on the clarity of

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the fundamental doctrines. And this is what we're going to get into next. The next point we're going to talk about is this. And so for example, we have the five pillars of Islam.

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We have the six pillars of EMA. We have the concept of tofield. Yet, Christians, they need to struggle really hard to try to demonstrate that their Bible teaches the most fundamental aspects of their belief,

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such as the Trinity.

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Imagine if we Muslims had to produce

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hundreds of books,

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and 10s of 1000s of articles just to prove

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that the five pillars of Islam are the foundation of Islam.

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Or that Islam teaches the Shahada, for example.

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So Islam raises the bar on everything,

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especially on accuracy, and verifying our beliefs.

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And so

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when Muslims are used to such a high standard,

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why would they want to leave Islam

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for something like Christianity?

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And so when you look at the unique nature of the proofs of Islam, you find

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that it's something unique, no other religion on the face of this earth has such strong, convincing, coherence, coherent, bullet proof arguments,

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proving

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the fundamentals of its religion.

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Moving on to the point number four,

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the clarity of Islam concerning belief in the Creator,

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the clarity

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of Islam concerning belief in the Creator.

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And so there is no religious scripture

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of any religion today.

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That venerates the Creator, Allah subhanho wa Taala

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or negates any deficiencies from Allah subhanho wa Taala, mentioning what God is supposed to be like,

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and what he is not supposed to be like.

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You don't have any such scripture, like the Quran.

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The Quran gives us a concise, clear concept concerning who Allah is, and what attributes he should have, and what attributes he should have. simple, clear, logical.

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And so Islam is different from all other religions, in its clarity of who Allah is, and who Allah is not from the angle of a loss perfection

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from the perspective

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of the fact that the Creator is perfect, from every angle from every perspective, and so, the creator has no deficiencies whatsoever

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and this is something clear

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throughout the Quran.

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And this is not something difficult to find. It's not something difficult to prove.

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Islam is clarity concerning

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the Creator.

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Open the Quran, every single surah talks about it

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one way or the other,

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either talking about who Allah is or affirming certain perfect attributes for Allah or negating certain deficient attributes from Allah.

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Look at the greatest surah in the Quran Surah Fatiha

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it starts by talking about praising Allah subhana wa Tada, Lord of the worlds

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talking about laws of mercy,

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talking about a lot owning and being the Master of the Day of Judgment, and then talking about how we should worship Allah alone. And so on and so forth.

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Go to the greatest area in the Quran.

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I took kursi from the very beginning until the very end, talking about the perfection of Allah negating

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deficient attributes from Allah, not that Hulu Sina to Well, no, no

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no sleep, nor any drowsiness touches Allah not even drowsiness.

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Talking about the greatness of Allah subhanho wa Taala talking about how a lot is that every living

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and how you consume the independent not depending on anything of his creation.

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Look at the sooner that the prophets are seldom said represents a third of the Quran.

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Whoo hoo. Allahu Ahad.

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And so this is not something difficult to prove. On the other hand,

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look at what other religions teach about Allah subhana wa.

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And just open their books and their scriptures.

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And so Al Kitab

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are those who had scriptures that were originally from Allah, and then they became distorted.

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So if there is any

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books besides the Qur'an, that should talk about a lot in a positive way. It should be the books that they have, even after its distortion.

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But yet, what do you find? If if we see these deficiencies in their books, then forget about all the other religions that had no

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attribution to Allah subhanho wa Taala

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such as Hinduism, Buddhism.

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And so what do you find?

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In the Jewish scriptures, we find that Allah subhanho wa Taala is described as having regretted some of his actions.

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We find that they mentioned that Allah subhanahu wa taala got into a fight with the aku Valley center.

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They mentioned how, when Adam alayhis salam ate from the tree,

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he then hid.

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And a lot didn't know where he was.

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These are only a few examples. There are many worse examples in this.

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Look at how

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the Bible mentions that Allah has had to take rest on the seventh day after creating the heavens and the earth in six days.

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And Allah mentions this in sutra

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that he created the heavens and the earth in six days. And then Allah says, woman has sent me a loop.

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And no fatigue touched us refuting that Christian concept that Allah had to rest Allah is not in interest.

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This is

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an attribute of deficiency.

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Not only that, but look at Christianity

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and how obscure

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and how ambiguous their beliefs are concerning Allah.

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And how they have to go through so much

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how they have to go through great lengths

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in trying to prove

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the foundation of their belief, which is the Trinity.

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This is the foundation of their belief. What did we What did we say concerning Islam, that the foundation of our belief is the Shahada.

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And it's something clear throughout the Quran

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For the Christians there, the foundation of their belief is the Trinity.

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And what do we find? We find

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that

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they have to go through so much to try to prove that this is something mentioned in the Bible.

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They have to go through so much difficulty in trying to prove

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their aqidah logically.

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And so it's enough of an insult, it's easy enough of an insult for them to say concerning a lot

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that Allah came to this world and entered the the womb of a human being,

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and then was born

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and then

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was crucified.

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And then not only that,

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but you have to call out for help.

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After they crucified Him,

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that in and of itself,

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is enough of an insult to Allah subhana wa Tada.

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And so it's due to this clarity concerning the concept of Allah Subhana, who attalla

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in Islam, that we have such a clear concept of Allah.

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It's because of that, that the enemies of Islam,

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you'll find that they never try

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to poke holes

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in this concept.

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This is the foundation of our belief.

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If you want to bring down our Dean,

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then do it by targeting the very foundation. If you're successful in that, then you bring down the entire structure.

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But what do you find?

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They can't poke any holes

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in the concept of tawheed in Islam, so what do they do?

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They resort to,

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you know, attacking the other aspects of Islam,

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such as what Allah has legislated

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the various legislations in Islam.

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And that's because the concept of Allied Islam is so clear, so coherent, so logical

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that they can't,

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they can't criticize it.

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Can't poke holes at it.

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The next point, point number five

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is

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the existence of a practical example,

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for theoretical teachings.

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And so among the beauties of Islam is that it combined between theory and practice

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where a law centers a book,

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but didn't just leave it at that.

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The Lord did not just send us a book and, and tell us to follow

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what he has commanded what He has sent us in this book.

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If I had done that,

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then this book would have been open to interpretation.

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And a lot of people would have found it difficult to implement his teachings.

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And so a lot did not just give us a set of beliefs,

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practices and rules in the Quran, and just command us to submit

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without sending us a practical, living example,

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to follow his teachings

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and that we find in the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And so he was that example of a person who

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perfectly adhere

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to those beliefs, to those practices to those rules that Allah has mentioned in the Quran, like no one else. And that's why I showed all the Allahu Allah when she was asked about

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the character of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, what did she say?

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She said, kind of Hulu Al Quran. The his character was the Horan.

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So he was a living example

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of what Allah has sent in the Quran.

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The presence of this practical living example to follow

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what's the benefit of it?

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The benefit of it is that it makes it easy for us now to adhere

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to the teachings of the Quran

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as opposed to

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philosophical teachings, that philosophers they write about.

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They're just ideas

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that in many cases are imaginary.

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And you don't have anyone who could

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actually be considered a living example of those teachings.

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And so this is why one of the wisdoms behind a law sending us a human role model

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is

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so that adhering to the teachings of Islam,

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becomes easy for us.

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And so imagine if the messenger was some other creature, not a human being.

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It would have been justification for people to say, Well,

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he can follow the teachings perfectly adhere to them, because he's not one of us.

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Allah gave him certain qualities that made it easy for him to, to follow the teachings.

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But now when Allah has sent us a messenger from ourselves, as Allah says,

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that he sent us a messenger from ourselves meaning a human like us.

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Now, we can argue in that way, and that's why the,

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the mushy Kuhn

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This is something that they tried to argue with.

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And so Allah says, well, man, man, I mean it. Who will who that Illa and corlew that's a long verschuren Rasulullah

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Allah says nothing has prevented people from believing when guidance has come to them. Except that they protest has Allah sent a human as a messenger

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and then Allah says, pretty low can feel all the Malacca

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Allah refutes this claim.

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And so Allah says, say, had there been angels walking on earth

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instead of humans.

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Had there been angels walking on earth well settled, we would have surely sent down to them an angel from the heavens as a messenger

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showing us that the messenger had to be a human like us. And this, therefore makes it easy for us now to follow the teachings that Allah has centers.

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Also, Allah subhanho wa Taala made

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the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam to go through many trials, many difficulties, many challenges, to show the people that he was merely a human being.

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And that nothing stopped him.

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After all of those challenges, after all those difficulties, nothing stopped him from being

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the most worshipping of Allah,

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the Most fearing of Allah subhanho wa Taala, the most righteous servants of Allah subhanahu wa Tada.

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And so, what this means is that, if he could have done it, with all of these challenges in front of him,

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then who are we to say that we can do it when the challenges that we are facing are much less.

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That's why the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said

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that those who are trying to the most will face the most calamities from all human beings, were the prophets and the messengers, and then those who follow them in righteousness.

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And so this is something unique to Islam where we have

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a living, practical example before us.

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Who could basically live those theoretical teachings that loss of Hannah who without a sentence

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moving on to the last point

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And that is

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the moderate and balanced reform,

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to moderate and balanced reform.

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And so when you look at any reform movement

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throughout history,

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no matter how tolerant they consider themselves to be, you will always find that it was extremely difficult for them

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to control their followers from going to extremes

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in their opposition.

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So basically, whenever we had reform movements throughout history, they were trying to reform the corruption of the people.

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And so,

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once they gained the upper hand,

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what did they do? They went into extremes.

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They went into extremes.

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And they even killed

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their opposition. And there are many examples of this.

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You have the French Revolution,

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and how they stood up against the church, then when they were successful, they killed anyone who had any

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representation of the church. And they, they turned all the churches into

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places

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of non religion and atheism.

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You have the example of Marxism

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and how when they revolted against

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the Russian Empire, what did they do?

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And how they went against

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religion and killed millions of people,

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and many other examples. So

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the point is that these movements, all claimed that they were reforming

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the corruption of the people before them.

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And so what that means is that you're going to bring something which is better.

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But you find in all of these cases,

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they would go to extremes in their reform.

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On the other hand, when you look at Islam, and how it came to reform the Arabs

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and change their backward ways of Jamelia.

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What do you find,

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replacing it with Islam? You find that Islam placed extreme importance on the concept of balance and moderation and not going to extremes.

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And so,

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we have many a hadith where the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.

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In fact, we have the Quran before before that Hadith.

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Allah subhanho wa Taala says, wakulla, wash robu Allah to eat and drink and don't go to extremes.

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And many other examples in the Quran. As for the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he warned us from going to extremes

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yaku

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beware of going to extremes. And he also said religion is very easy. And whoever overburdens overburdens himself in his religion, he won't be able to continue.

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Meaning if you overburden yourself, go to extremes in your deen what you have overburden yourself with, you won't be able to last that long.

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Which is why when some of those harbor

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they were impressed by what they had found in Islam.

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In this Dean that came to reform, the corruption

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that they had been living in.

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They were so impressed and they wanted to

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they wanted to really get into it.

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So they went into extremes.

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And so we have

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this famous Hadith in which three individuals.

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One said that he will never get married, he'll stay away from women.

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Because he wants to be so devoted to Allah subhanho wa Taala.

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And other said, He will never eat meat

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and a third said that he would never say

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Upon his bed.

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So, when the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam heard this, he called them and he said, Are you the ones who are saying this? So they said, Yes. And then he said, By Allah,

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I fear a lot more than you do.

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There's no way that you can be more fearful of Allah than me, more devote to Allah than me. And yet, I am also the most obedient and most beautiful among, among you. And yet, I observe.

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I fast and I also break my fast meaning, I don't stressed every single day of the year. Some days I've had some days, I don't fast, and I sleep at night.

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Meaning

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that

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I pray at night, and I also sleep at night.

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And I also have taken many wives.

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And then he sort of lucked out, he said, So whoever turns away from my son, that he does not belong to me.

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So once again, this shows us

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the emphasis that Islam placed on moderation and balance, when it came to reform the people, something that you won't find in any other reform movement in any other ideology that came to try to reform the people, or in any other religion. So these are some of the unique aspects of Islam, some of the beauties of Islam,

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that further proof

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that it is a truth from Allah subhanho wa Taala as compared to all other religions or ideologies that are out there.

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With that, we end today's lesson and shout Allahu taala. Next week, we'll move on to looking at the nature of evidence.

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And

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when we say that we have proofs, what does it mean? And when others say that they have proofs? Are their proofs acceptable?

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When it comes to deciding what the truth is concerning Islam or concerning Allah subhanho wa Taala. So that's what we'll look at we'll go into next week. Until then subhanak along will be Hamrick. Shed will learn sulfuryl where to go