Effective Dawah Training
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The importance of acknowledging the need to address the "stress" of Muslims to rush, empty society is emphasized. Delusion, check-in, and del submits are essential for one's success in Islam. The importance of understanding the meaning of time in spiritual experiences is emphasized, and the importance of establishing a creed and identifying attributes is emphasized. The importance of affirming attributes and not interpreting information into another thing is emphasized, and the need for evidence to support one's claims is emphasized. The importance of understanding time is emphasized, and the time is measured in seconds.AI Generated Transcript ©
To talk about the subject
of that calling
people
to a slap.
And it is a responsibility
of this.
It's actually
a requirement,
which,
many times I have
articulated that
that especially Muslims who live in the West.
There is a question mark always
regarding
whether you should be here
in a non Muslim land,
risking your religion
or not.
But to,
come out of this equation,
so if you stay here
and you practice in Islam,
just hear this with
the word of God.
You completely come out of the
that ambiguous
gray area
Because there is a question mark whether we
we wanna address it or not
and how we address it.
So
we live in a society,
there is a fertile
land for dam.
People here
need Islam. They need
the message that you have.
Because
there is a vacuum in their lives.
You know,
Allah created us from
a body and a soul.
You can excel in nourishing this body.
You can eat the best food.
You can
wear the best clothes.
You can sleep in the best bed.
But you still have another component you have
to feed, which is the soul. That's
a necessity.
It's not
optional.
And the only
sound,
healthy
nutrition
for the soul
is Islam.
Yes. Satan
came up with
other substances
like drugs,
like alcohol,
spiritual drinks, they call it spiritual drinks.
But we know the impact
and the the devastating
consequences of such,
you know, addictions,
consuming such substances, it will lead to,
you know, the destruction of the person.
That is why
Islam
is the nourishment for the soul.
Also,
you need to understand this,
that
individuals
who do not
consume
the substance of submission,
they
will display this need
for
Islam.
I came across a study
that
one
of
every 10 Americans
they reported depression,
maybe
the year 2/17.
That's as far as I I know.
I don't know what's the issue now.
They reported that they are depressed.
They are unhappy.
How can you be unhappy
when you have all these
resources?
Yeah, you may go bankrupt and you may,
you know, be on debt.
But you have
all these resources,
and you're unhappy
because of that need
for,
Islam,
for that substance.
So, basically, what I'm trying to say here
is you live in a very
fertile
ground.
That is why I started
the book Know Your Load, which is really
a lot of the materials I'm presented. They
come from the USA.
Islam in the West is a very
easy
to market
commodity,
but it lacks a salesperson.
We need salespeople.
And
the issue with with being a salesperson
is, first of all,
yourself
have to be
a living model.
And that's the issue that we have.
I may
be very eloquent,
very intellectual
in convincing you,
but the minute the individual sees you doing
something that is not right,
you're done.
It's over.
All your lectures,
all your books
is for him is void.
That is the
first
area
where this
individual,
who is the salesperson,
have to
possess.
And this is the quality
Rasulullah had.
You know, before
he became the messenger of Allah, the disbelievers
themselves
attributed him with what?
Honesty
and trustworthiness.
They they called him that.
He never lied.
He never engaged in any of
their immoral lifestyles.
He kept his dominance.
That is why when he spoke of Islam
and just for you to,
recognize
the depth of this,
Abu Darrin Rifari
the companion, by the way,
he was living in,
a tribe called Ghifar, which is distant far
away from a little bit far away from
Mecca.
And he was one of the few in
the Arabian Peninsula
who really never
indulged or engaged in the worship of idols.
He actually,
was worshiping Allah
following the milah of Ismael and Ibrahim
alayhi Musa.
So
he heard
that there is someone in Mecca
who is calling people to a religion called
Islam.
For him, so far, that's what he heard.
It's a rumor.
The word got to him.
So he had a brother. His name is.
So he sent
in order
to check this man out
and come back and
submit,
you know, a reward or something.
So Wentz went to Mecca, and we lived
there for,
maybe 10 days in some narrations,
a week to 10 days.
Imagine he came back
to his brother
and his report was one sentence.
I saw
a man who's commanding good character.
He's telling people to have a good character.
That's what a non Muslim sees in you.
A
non Muslim
care less whether you pray to him that
night or not, whether you're fasting or not.
Although I'm I'm not belittling that,
this is actually
a a key to be patient and giving
down to actually
engage in rituals.
It helps you to maintain your demeanor and
your temper because sometimes they push you.
But, again,
you know,
and and we live in this materialistic
environment.
I'm gonna ask you this question. Have you
ever seen,
someone who buys a car in America without
test driving it?
You know, when you go and buy a
car, what is the first thing? Come on.
Take a deep.
Right.
You know, that's how they seem to live
up.
Exactly like you. If you're giving Dawah, you
can
Also,
you see, when we give an advice on
this particular seminar, I said the 3 elements.
When we talk about DAO,
you,
the person you're calling
to, and what you're calling them to. Those
are the 3 elements.
Focus on those 3.
Deal with you right now. You said the
first element is what? That you must have
is what? Yourself.
Good character.
A key.
A key
for for the work of God.
And, even in this book, know your lord,
I I quoted this,
you know,
example.
How many times you hear Muslims making that
statement,
I'd rather conduct my business with Jews and
Christians, but not with Muslims.
Do you hear that statement?
You hear that statement?
That's a very
dangerous statement.
Although, by the way, I'm not saying that
you shouldn't I mean,
did business transaction with the Muslims, with Jews
in Madinah.
There's nothing wrong with that. But
the essence of the statement is that
that here's a Muslim who possesses
the only
correct
belief system on the face of this earth.
His belief system was downplayed because of his
character.
And here is individuals
who possess
devious,
distorted
belief system.
But their belief system
upgraded because of what? Carter. Cat.
Because of their cat.
And and that's, you know, that's the danger
of
of,
not being able
to
conduct yourself as a Muslim.
Especially when it comes to the public area,
we all have our own,
you know, personal sense between us and Allah.
But I'm talking about, you know, like, you
smoking. You know? You can't be just smoking
and then go giving people dawah. It can't
be just drinking and giving people that.
It can be engaging in back buying and
giving people that.
Listen.
Hopefully, you're you're gonna you're gonna you do
not assume that I'm saying you have to
be perfect before you give dawah. There's no
such thing.
There is no such a thing. Nobody will
be giving lectures. Nobody we all have our
shortcomings. And Allah keep his concealment upon all
of us.
But the thing is what? Is when it
comes to a public, the government
in public, who are more public,
that's very important.
Now another,
substance or element which the person who calls
to Allah
calls others to Allah.
Must have
is must you must believe
in what you're calling people to.
And I mean
it. Not plastically believing it. Not pretending.
You must believe it.
Some of you, I call, may
not grasp this, but the the best way
to grasp this
is through the definition of iman. You must
have iman.
What What is the definition of iman? What
is the foundation of iman? That
you believe
beyond
any shadow of doubt that there is a
god.
Because if you don't do that, if you
engage in
a conversation with an un Muslim, with an
atheist, then he's smart enough
to intellectually
address you,
you actually may end up to be what?
His fault.
So this day of calling him, he will
what?
He will call
you. I wanna tell you something.
Did you know that one of the names
of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala
is
Isn't that one of the names of Allah?
Allah is what? And
Mu'min.
That's a lot of coffee? No. Tea. Tea.
Oh,
you really wanna drop
me
The
believer.
Allah believes that he is the only God.
He believes that.
You you're getting that.
And there is a verse
in Surah Al Aiman
So Allah believes that
that there is no God beside him.
That's why he's
so that's why I submit to him now.
Did you know that for Rasulullah salallahu alaihi
wa sallam to be a Muslim,
he has to say
He has to he has to believe that.
He has to believe that.
That's what you what you what you call
about.
No doubt.
No doubt whatsoever.
Because the moment
that you begin questioning or doubting
what you believe
in? If you fall into the wrong hands
of someone that you're calling to Islam,
you will be his object.
He will call you.
That is why we always
advise
brothers and sisters who
are really,
longing to do this work. Hold on.
Establish yourself first
and then call others to it.
Build up your faith first,
your knowledge first,
and call others with.
Don't just go there and, you know, be
confused and
they're gonna confuse you further.
Extremely important.
Extremely important.
What
is a? What is a? When when I
say iman, what is iman?
Can we define iman?
What is the definition of imam? If I
ask you as a Muslim, what is the
definition of faith?
I'm not asking what you believe in. We
know the 6 articles. We know that. I'm
talking about the reality
of faith. What is faith?
Faith is is something that you believe and
you
and you
will stick
Okay. I'm asking you a connection to to
to See? Connection to Allah.
Okay.
Any other suggestions?
Period.
Four words.
If you are in the front page.
What is for words?
Faith is
statement,
action,
and it increases and
decreases.
What do you mean by statement? First of
all, statement of the heart. What is a
statement of the heart?
What we call
at this station.
At this station. What is the sleep?
That
you believe
without
any shadow of doubt that there is a
law.
And he is
an equivalent, unique,
once it comes to his names and attributes.
No one is like him.
No one is like him.
He has angels,
Jim.
He revealed books?
You believe that? Have you seen Allah? Have
you seen the books?
Can you see the angels?
This is what we call what?
What do we call?
Right.
Right.
Believe in these elements of the unseen things
that you do not see with your senses,
but you believe and I say, but but
believe here what? That you don't question.
You don't doubt.
Now,
listen. The scholars said that that there are
3 levels. The below your,
which
actually, the word that we should use is
certainty.
Certainty,
that you're certain.
There are 3 levels behind
below. I'm sorry.
Three below levels. And I mentioned this all
this in the book. If you read this
book, you're gonna enjoy it.
The first level, which they call
what? With an m.
Which you call it delusion.
Don't you sometimes say this person is delusional?
What is that? Delusional? What do you what
is that? Crazy.
Crazy. I wouldn't say crazy, but he is
what? He's
a confused He's confused.
You tell him,
do you think there is God? Never will
he would mumble. He would not even
talk about the subject.
So that's you don't wanna be that person.
What is the next verse what is the
next level up? We call it check.
Check. What is check-in our an image?
Doubt.
Check
that you believe 50
and you disbelieve 50. 5050.
5050.
Doubt.
There is any doubt about or not.
So that you are you can't also be
that.
You cannot be that.
But look at this next level
up. That you believe
99%
0.99999999.
Still booked? No. No. This is not 1%.
That's not even 1%. That's 0
You cannot have that.
You can't.
If you have that, that's a problem.
Right? You
must have
certainty.
But now with this
there are 3 levels up. That
where your iman goes what?
Up and down.
You're allowed to do that.
But below that level and by the way,
I'm not the the attention here. I'm not
talking about occasional
suspicion.
That 3rd level, by the way, is called
what? I I forgot to name it in
in in Arabic. It's called what?
Which we call suspicion in English.
So first, what are the 3 levels that
we shouldn't be in that domain at all?
Delusion,
what
what is next?
Check that out. What is next? 1. 1.
You can't have those traits.
But again, be attention here. I'm not talking
about occasional thoughts. Some people are driven by
what? They
have insinuation of shaitan that sometimes is what
his mind may
swim
them.
Some people have that. No. I'm talking about
individuals who actually
develop these doubts,
develop these suspicions,
and they go and talk about
it. And they may actually go and
promote it.
But individuals who may have occasional
questioning
and they give it to themselves,
This is a human thing and this is
one of the interest Shaitan has
into us.
And by the way, this is something
which the prophet which happened at the time
of the prophet that
We
we cannot articulate
it. Shaitan comes and he plays with their
heads that they picture Allah in a certain
way and they say, what? I cannot say
it. The prophet said to them, what?
This is pure faith.
So where is the purity of faith here?
In them,
think in this way or what? In my
No.
The purity of faith, they don't say it.
They're not they're not saying it. They are
not gonna say it.
And he will ask you this question.
Who created the heavens and the earth?
Allah.
Actually, Shaikan is gonna help you. Say Allah.
Allah. Then you're gonna say Allah.
Then Shaitan is gonna ask you another question.
Who created you? Who created you? Shaitan is
gonna help you
because he's taking you to another area. Look
at the third question. Who created Allah?
Nobody. He freed himself. You see, that's where
Shaitan is taking you.
The prophet actually said that,
I believe in Allah His message, get out
of you.
Tell
him Get out of
Indeed, the true believers are those who believe
in Allah, his messenger,
and never doubt.
Never question.
Look at this, beautiful verse,
When it was said to them in the
road that there is a day of judgment,
and there is Jannah and Hill, they would
say, well,
we're really not sure about this stuff, man.
It's like, I We're having some suspicions about
it.
You can't
have that. You cannot have that. But, again,
if I want
brothers who are, you know, lying here, a
lot of the brothers when we when I
address this issue,
many times right away, they come up with
the that occasional
insinuation of. We're not talking about that. We're
talking about individuals
who turn this into
what? Into an ideology.
That they go and you know what? I
don't think what do you think? I'm doubting,
but, you know, he actually begins what? Mumbling
about it.
Plainly.
As for iman goes up and down
There's another way
to word this Islam.
What's
I would not
encourage anyone who's at the entry level to
give down.
You have to have at least the second
level,
which is Eman.
What what is the entry level?
That you believe
that that somehow you said the words
and you pray 5 times.
You're with the Muslims.
You
have the basic knowledge.
But
this
has not has not engaged the hearts yet.
The heart is not engaged yet.
And there is a verse that says
The bigwounds,
the group of bigwounds came to the prophet
and
they said to him,
we believe.
So Allah instructed
the prophet
to inform you,
No, you're not.
But so far, the
and when a man penetrates your heart, then
you can say that.
But that's the 3rd level of Islam.
What is the second level? Level that's when
what? When your heart is engaged,
that you actually believe.
Believe that.
And and this is what we call what
I'm the reality that you wanna see.
And,
if you really wanna grasp this,
why Musa
asked to see Allah?
You wanna tell me that Musa didn't believe
Allah exist?
Nope. He had the knowledge of what that
leads him to what?
To certainty.
But he wanted to upgrade.
Right?
Another example, and a lot of Muslims misquote
this, misunderstand, misinterpret these words.
When Ibrahim alayhi salam and Surah al Baqarah
requested to see how Allah will
when Khale Ibrahim Rabi,
See? You wanna see it?
He's asking Allah, can you show me how
do you raise the dead?
Anybody who when you when you read that
verse of Rahim did not believe that no.
No. No. No.
The Rahim wanted what?
To move up
to the next level. Musa.
Musa, he said Ibrahim.
Well, both. Uh-huh.
There is another situation. Ibrahim
asked Allah, can you show me how to
raise the dead? How do you raise the
dead?
2 situations.
I I wanna tell you,
that
the companions were very careful about this year.
Can you imagine one day,
one of the companions, his name is
Allah
used to be one of the scribes of.
He used to write the.
And he would talk to us about Jannah
and Hill as if what? We see
it. So the iman will go up from
what? The knowledge, the pure knowledge
to what?
That you actually the brother is talking to
about Jenna and you're sitting in front of
him and guiding himself to be weird.
In gender, man, this is a lot of
fun. Gender is you get to do whatever
you want in gender.
That's iman. That's faith.
But what happened now, when we go back
home,
we
start talking about dunya things.
Your wife asked you, did you buy the
kid diapers? Did you take the trash out?
It's like you're
what's going on? You you begin what?
You you you start waking up, you know.
Oh, I'm still in this world. Okay?
You know? So he's actually accusing himself
that he went down from the
second to
the first level.
So he's accusing himself of hypocrisy because of
that.
He wasn't there.
Okay. So
Abu Bakr said to him,
man, I feel the same way, so I
must be a hypocrite like you.
Let's go and ask the prophet
about this.
So they went and asked the prophet about
this.
You know what he said to them? By
Allah, if you keep staying with me,
angels will shake your hands.
So you're gonna go from what?
0.
To the final level which is that
you're actually living me.
But this is not what is meant to
be. This world was meant to be a
test. Sarah
was
you have
to have
certainty.
At least
certainty
that
you don't question, you don't doubt. Because the
moment that you question and you doubt, that's
an issue.
So this is the second component, you. We're
talking about you now. We said there are
3 elements of doubt. What is element number
1?
Come on. I'm not gonna secure talk for
free.
What is element number 1? Pay me.
That's how you pay me. What is element
number 1 of the law? We said there
are 3 elements of the law.
Element number 1, the person who makes the
the
Muslim. What is element number 2?
The person you're calling him to Islam, what
is element number 3?
The substance.
What are you calling him to?
Three elements.
The subject,
the daddy, the caller, the cold, the subject.
3 of them. Let's call them this.
So what are the 3 elements of dawah?
The first one is
The caller.
The caller. The one who calls people to
Islam.
To
The one you're calling him,
the individual who's being called Al Madru. Al
Madru. Number 3 The substance. The substance. What
are you telling them?
What are you telling them?
So far, we addressed
what you must have
as a.
We addressed
elements
or,
substance that you must have if you want
to engage in the work of dawah. What
was number 1?
Good character.
What is number 2?
What is number 2?
Number 2. Firm
belief
that you don't doubt your own faith.
Extremely important.
Number 3,
knowing the person
you're calling
him
and knowing what his beliefs are.
And that takes us to the next
element of doubt.
You see, it's a big mistake
to call somebody to Islam without knowing what
they believe
Because
the approach
will be different. The substance will be different.
Like for example a lot of Muslims
when they engage in
in giving dua to Christian and Jews,
they waste their time in
proving that Allah exist.
Allah exist already for them. They believe that
there is a God.
Jews and Christians, they believe that there is
a God.
That's not their issue.
You could do this with atheists,
with individuals who do not believe that there
is a God.
But
the people that you are calling to Islam,
Jews and Christians or Hindus, the people who
we call polytheists,
they they are bushlings.
That they believe that there is a god,
but somehow this god is not sufficient for
them.
He must have what?
Some associates,
some
to get to him, you have to go
through some
some channels,
through
some sales.
I don't know.
Whatever it is. So they believe there is
a God,
but at the same time,
they associate
another deity, another force with him. You name.
Me.
So those are the 3 elements
main elements. Yeah. I'm sure there are other
stuff that we could, you know, talk about,
but
those are the three elements that you must
have.
Number 1, good character.
This is a key.
Number 2,
firm
belief. What is number 3?
The knowledge of the people you're calling them.
Who they are? Are they Christians?
Also, by the way, be careful. He could
be a Christian, raised up as a Christian,
but he's an atheist.
Many of them are like that, by the
way, because
their parents were not Muslims. You have Muslims
who whose kids end up to do what?
Because they never talk to them about the
way.
But in any rate, you have to know
the person you're calling him to.
Now, let's just divide this into
2 main categories for the sake of time.
If you're dealing with an atheist,
what should be your approach?
And if you're dealing with a mushrik, apotheist,
what should be your approach?
What substance will you be?
We'll make this simple for you.
Me. Let's deal with the atheist.
First of all, who's an atheist?
People who don't believe God is real. They
think the earth was born by 1 big
bank.
Well, I do not think They believe that
there is no God. Or they believe that
there's nothing?
But
There is another term out there that's called
agnostic. Who's an agnostic?
They believe there's a higher power, but they're
not sure what So they believe there is
a higher power, but what sometimes you ask
them what do you believe? I'm an agnostic.
So you should know these terms.
Agnostic is someone who's what? To believe in
a higher power. There's a higher power, but
he doesn't want any harm. He doesn't wanna
give it to me.
He doesn't wanna give it to me. He
wanna be liberal. That's a nazi.
So let's deal with the atheist.
How do you address
someone who doesn't believe that Allah exists?
And by the way, I wanna tell you
something.
And this is the beauty,
of the Quran.
Although
the people
who initially
received the Quran,
and I mean the Arabs in the Arabian
Peninsula,
they have never denied the existence of Allah.
They never denied that.
They never denied that. But despite that, there
is so much emphasis
in the Quran about
Allah being the creator.
Because this is how you're gonna hunt down
the atheist
through the Haitian.
And by the way, stay away from philosophy
and a lot of the brothers think that
they have to use philosophy and intellectual.
They have to be,
you know, use Quran.
Use Quran.
There is one verse in the Quran
that addresses the issue.
With it, you can address any atheist.
What is the verse in
Were you created out of nothing, or did
you create yourself?
Well, listen.
You see creation. Right?
Right?
Now who created this?
Allah. No. He doesn't believe it is aqat.
You see? He
so you
you see, look look at the Quran. Look
at the Quran
argue.
Allah is asking them.
Ask them this question,
will this creation
come came into existence,
were this creation
didn't exist and it came into existence
from nothing
or did the creation create
itself?
What is the answer to these two questions?
What do you mean Allahu alaikum? God. You
don't believe there's a God anyways? No. He
like either
God, like, because they asked it or like
Okay. Does it make sense to you to
say
that this phone
was made out of nothing?
No? No. Okay. That's all what I wanna
know. No.
Okay.
This phone created itself.
No. No.
So there must be what?
Can I make it? That's what you wanna
reach. That's what you wanna get to. So
there must be what? Someone made it.
Someone must have
Buddhism.
That's what you wanna do with with with
the Navy. You see, he's gonna go around
and serve I can't schedule events in the
past.
He's gonna go around and serve.
You focus on this.
I've never know what I'm talking about. When
you talk up to them about that, they'll
start running away.
Do I know? No. Bring them back, miss.
Okay.
This thing here,
did it create itself
or it came by accident? That's why they
have this you who who mentioned the being,
being blah blah blah thing?
They they they The accidental
thing? Which is like They try to be
what it is is there's a a story,
famous story of Ali Hanifa, Rahim Allah, when
an atheist came to him and, you know,
he's trying to debate with him.
So our Hanifa kinda ignored him for a
couple of minutes and he asked him, why
are you ignoring me?
And then right away, he started,
you know,
letting him know that, I'm sorry. I was
thinking about the question that I was asked
earlier,
and I'm trying to figure out an answer.
So the the atheist
maybe I can help you. What's the question?
So is it when someone asked me about
a boat
that sails as no
captain?
It sails.
And in every port,
it stops
and stuff gets
uploaded
and
and there is by itself.
So the 8th September,
this guy is crazy. This guy asked me
the question is crazy.
He said, it's crazy. I said, you are
the crazy one. You wanna tell me the
sun, the moon,
all this system around
and and nobody manages that?
Come on, man. Give give give me a
break.
Whatever you what you almost find out in
the
And they have to tell you because this
subject is really interesting.
You need to understand this,
That the last
element Allah created
was us.
You're aware of that or not? Yes. Allah
created the heavens and the earth in how
many days? 3. 3.
6
days.
Oh. 60s.
The last day was what?
Friday.
Allah created
us Friday when Friday
after us.
So already the heavens and the earth already
what?
And a day with Allah is not like
our days. A day with Allah is what?
A 1000 years. So we're talking about 6000
years.
So the heavens and the earth, the animals,
the trees already what?
Existed.
I did not make you see me creating
the heavens and the earth.
So how in the world do you come
and say nobody created them?
Them.
That is why I asked for the point
I was trying to make, although the Arab
at the time of the revelation
never denied
that Allah is the creator.
In many verses,
if you ask them who created the heavens
and the earth, they will say who? Allah.
They will say Allah.
So what is the issue with them? They
just believe that for them to get to
Allah, they have to go through some
Something. Idols.
So it's something like Some individuals
for the business, for the money. Oh, like,
some state, like, they could find easily then
they do it easily. Just for the money.
So you bring Korban into the left. We'll
also so we make money.
Then maybe turn Like the, you know, the,
the about the.
It's all business. You know the priestesses? Like
I said,
donation box at the end of the.
You long this amount of money.
Business.
Now if you're gonna go and tell them
it's and all that stuff, they're not gonna
like it.
That's
that's our business.
It's like a priest. For a shared of
the important thing is with an atheist,
Your central
point is a hub.
Don't move away from this area.
You see,
and and by the way, when
just just go into some deep theology
here, deep
religious stuff, artida
stuff. When I say,
creation,
pay attention to me.
Creation is the result of 4.
3 comes before it.
And this is what we call the levels
of Al Qadr.
We believe in Al Qadr. Right? You believe
in Al Qadr. Right?
You believe in. Right?
What are the 4 levels of
that you have to believe in? What is
number 1?
Knowledge.
Allah knew what he created.
2,
writing. Allah wrote it.
What it will?
3,
Allah willed for it to happen.
Then he cleared it.
So when you say creation, you have to
approve what?
There is a a very interesting story, and
this is a real story. I I think
I mentioned in the book.
I think 2 students from Saudi Arabia, from
Medina,
they came to study engineering here or somewhere.
So they ended up in this university where
there are these
atheist
professors, and that's the danger of, you know,
education here in in America.
So he knew that he has some Muslims
in his class.
So he wanted them to question to doubt.
See, he broke a jar,
and he put inside,
what do you call tin?
What's tin very much?
What? Tree.
Mud. Mud and some
and he locked it really well.
And he put it in his classroom like
this in the shelf
for 3, 4 days.
Then after that, he came and he opened
it. What happened to that thing?
It
was small food. Worms.
Worms?
That's when meat
like us, you know, when we when they
bury us, what do we turn into? Right?
They meet with the with the mouth. What
happened?
No. We turn into worms. Worms will be
walking into this body,
eating this body.
So he
said so if you look at the a
black bee eats from what?
So much. Through nothing, but you created that's
an easy one. But look at these students.
Those are students who know they're not paid
the will.
So the the student
asked him, professor,
how many worms are there?
How many of them are males and how
many of them are females?
How many are there without looking in the
car? What is their names?
How long will they live?
How big What will they eat?
All of this is knowledge before Allah creates.
Before Allah creates you,
Allah mentioned your name before you were born.
Imagine
that. Allah mentioned your name.
Is your name is gonna be this. It's
gonna be birthday. He knows it.
All of that. So when you say creation,
you're not just saying what? Random what?
And
something when it does, you know, when you
buy a car,
don't sometimes the car factory
do something called recall?
Yeah. What is recall?
Something was bad about it. It was wrong.
So something was wrong with the creation of
what? The car.
Have ever Allah, he called the sun because
to fix it? No. No.
The moon?
No. He made it perfect.
Perfect.
That's the perfect
perfect picture.
Not just any case.
Now
when you get him
to this level,
he agrees to that.
Now,
he may
turn into the other front, which is actually
say, okay, it is it's called it's mother
nature. You wanna put what? Mother nature. Mother
nature. Okay. What is mother nature, ma'am? Let's
talk about it. What do you mean by
mother nature? You mean god? You mean Allah?
Mother nature? They mean, like, they were born
by nature. They mean, like, they were born
by nature. They were born by nature. They
were born by nature. They were born by
nature. They were born by nature. They were
born by nature
You mean Allah, mother nature? They mean, like,
they were born by nature.
And that's the the danger of living in,
and I talked about this this morning till,
in in my talk,
that sometimes
things are repeated in front of you. You
mean they don't mean anything?
Like, when you have a storm, snowstorm,
what is the, the the the the the
news out there? The other channels say,
Oh, mother nature.
Isn't that what you hear? Yeah.
Mother nature did not did mother nature
did mother nature caused that storm to come?
He he doesn't wanna say who?
He doesn't wanna say god. He just he
just do it.
He doesn't wanna say god.
He wanna
walk out this.
So
you take them back to that.
That creator is Allah.
Please,
can you give them a break or you
want?
Yeah. I'm gonna
as you see,
And then
So
we
established
with an atheist.
We we we basically encircled him
that he has to
admit
that there must be a creed.
Now we move to the next
level,
which is
establishing
the intellectual
principle
that
the attributes
of the created
cannot be equal
to the attributes of the creator.
You're all safe.
Because
if you go and entertain some
Greek philosophy, some intellectual
ideas,
then you're gonna be dragged into another domain.
Because these intellectual ideas are,
abstracts
of,
messy stuff. It may serve you.
It may serve your argument.
But
you're agreeing to use this? Okay. Let's go
there now and
use it in another area. That he if
this person is well versed with philosophy and
and
logic and all that stuff,
he will take you to the same area
and.
That is why you almost established when you
give dawah a useful.
Were were this creation
created out of nothing or did it create
itself? That's number 1.
Number 2,
you got him to
establish that there is a creator.
Now we move to the next level.
Okay. If there is a creator, so this
creator
must be much better
than what he created.
Is that logically accepted or no? Yes.
Guys,
I created this phone. You know? For me
as well. I need this form.
Obviously,
so now,
this is gonna take you to the other
domain
that the people who commit shirk.
What they are doing?
They are making the created
equal to what?
The creator.
And that's an issue.
That's a big issue. Intellectually, you cannot accept
it.
That is why one of even when you
debate with them regarding Jesus.
Of course, now they believe Jesus is what?
Yes. Is God.
Okay.
Simple question. Was Jesus born?
Yes.
Yes. That means he's created.
No. We're we're fixed. He had a birthday.
He had a beginning.
He has an end.
Not only that, he needs he needs to
eat and drink. How is he god? In
order to survive,
to stay alive,
and so forth.
Indeed. The
the attributes
of Allah
is not like that.
Now,
you're gonna move to other which we wanted
to address in the time we
still have, is the subject of the names
and the attributes of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And this is weird.
A lot of Muslims find it difficult
to give dua to Jews and Christians.
This area.
Because like I said,
Jews and Christians, they believe there is a
god.
Not only that,
they believe
that he is minor.
He's greater than anyone else.
But now when you check the details, that
is not true.
And how do you check the details?
A field in Islam, we call it the
names and the attributes of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala.
And if you want to master that work
the Christian and
Jews and being productive,
that's where you hit them.
Unfortunately,
a lot of Muslims in this area, they
have issues.
This is, by the way, one of the
areas
that, you know, sometimes may come across some,
Muslim scholars who tell you, don't talk about
it because it's gonna divide what?
We're talking about the who's Allah.
How do you perceive
Allah? Subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
So let's establish the the following just to
make this easy for you.
What does it mean
that
you establish
when it comes to the names and the
attributes of Allah.
What does it mean?
That you established a heed. You single out
Allah in
through his names and attributes. What does it
mean?
By memorizing and 9 names.
Memorizing the 99 names.
That's a good thing but
how do you perceive Allah?
Throughout his attributes.
Yeah. But how do you perceive these attributes?
How do you think of them?
This is the area
where we have
issues as Muslims.
Big issues.
But inshallah, I will make it simple for
you.
Here are some rules.
The first,
I do not
give Allah
a name
or an attribute
without an evidence.
That's all number 1 is understood.
Without what?
An evidence.
I have a debate
online. I think it's available online with a
Christian priest.
And the subject of the debate was
was Jesus divine.
We have one verse in the Quran which
refutes this
principle, this concept, this claim.
It kills it.
What does it say?
Food.
That kills you.
The fact that you need to eat, that
means what?
You're only God.
You can be God. Because you need your
need of something. You see,
one one of the attributes of Allah is
the
Ibrahim, when he was debating with the people
who worship the stars.
What did we do for him?
When the night came,
they saw what oh,
this is I'm gonna worship this guy. By
the way, don't assume that Ibrahim worship the
stars. It's a big mistake to say that
Ibrahim worship the stars. He's trying to fight.
Ibrahim was what? Showing them. He's playing the
game. Sarcastic.
I wouldn't say sarcastic. He's I think he
he was just trying to
Show them. To to play. Okay. Let me
hold you.
Then when the sun came out in the
morning, what happened to the star? The ghost.
Oh, where where is my god? What happened?
Okay.
Then the next night, download.
This is it.
Then
the sun
then disappears.
I wanna ask you an honest question here.
What is the argument that Rahim was making?
To show them that Allah never sleep. Allah
is always there.
That's not the argument, isn't it?
You can never see Allah until
Jannah?
You you That's not an argument.
I
you
there's no cycle to
it. Cycle?
What cycle?
It's like it's Omar, think about what you're
saying. There's no cycle. Come on, man. Think
about what you're saying about this.
You know what the Abraham is making?
God
cannot defend
other entities for him to exist and disappear.
You see, for Allah to appear,
the night has to what?
Disappear. Come. Come.
But for the star to show, you have
to have what? Night. So God is not
independent. God is what? Devended.
God is not like that.
Everything
dependable who?
Not the other way around.
You see that?
That's extremely important, everyone.
Extremely
extremely
important
that you cannot,
you know. Likewise, if Jesus is this guy,
then what happened to the food? If he
doesn't have food, what is gonna happen?
What happens to the?
He's gonna die. God is gonna die.
Right?
That's that is not an attribute to.
That doesn't
Question?
Later. Good question. Later, we'll open the the
question.
So the first rule,
so we go back to that debate.
So, you know, when you when you debate
with with those people, sometimes you may throw
stuff there that, you know,
it's blessed for us to say that.
And, you know, when I was debating with
him, I said, you know what? Jesus
had to eat. And what do you do
after you eat as a human?
What do you need to do after you
eat? You
know,
you wanna tell me god that? Come on,
man.
Each for no reason. This is blessed.
So the priest came. We used to have,
like, I think each one of us would
have rebuttal, like, a minute or 2. So
he came back and he said, well, well,
Imam Karim that's what he said actually. Imam
Karim has an issue that
what he said for me is
that will take a Muslim out of the
fold of Islam, if he says that.
That he has an issue with God taking
a leak.
Look at this now. What's wrong with God
taking a leak?
So I came back to him, and I
said, you know, that's the difference between us
and you.
You run your mouth, but
we don't.
Man chooses to have a son, will will
will I object that? I will worship, but
he needs to tell me.
He needs to tell me through revelation.
Where is the revelation?
That
we as Muslims, when we talk about Allah,
subhanahu wa ta'ala,
we must have what?
Evidence.
Evidence.
And and pay attention here.
Here's a point that a lot of Muslims
will pay attention to.
Evidence to say Allah is this
and evidence to say Allah is not this.
What we call what?
Affirmation
and
negation.
You can't say Allah is not. Allah is
not. Allah is not
without evidence. Like in the
in the they they the Aqidah is of
that type.
Allah in a place without a place and
he is in a place where a place
of.
Where do you get that from?
That doesn't make sense.
For you
to negate,
you must have an evidence.
Because quite frankly, sometimes you may
tempting.
Thing.
You may negate imperfections. And in a way,
you're insulting.
Like, for example, Omar, please forgive me.
Omar doesn't smoke.
Omar doesn't go to the night clubs.
Omar doesn't have
in essence, I'm really insulting Omar.
I'm insulting him. Why would I say that
about him?
Likewise,
we
cannot say Allah doesn't like, for example,
can I say Allah doesn't die?
Can I say that? Yes, I can. What
is the evidence?
What, what? You must have an evidence. There
is no because here. You must tell Allah.
Evidence means what? That's
what the evidence is.
But can I say Allah doesn't sleep?
Yes.
Yes or no? Yes. Say it like it.
Yes.
Okay. Can can I say Allah best?
You know,
who said that?
They run their mouth to activate the heavens
and the earth in 6 days, and he
did what on the 7th day? The rest
of it. That's running them out. I can
say that.
Listen, if yes,
show me evidence.
No evidence for
it. Jesus.
You see,
evidence meaning a word. What is the evidence?
You see, evidence meaning a word.
What
is the
evidence?
For you to say Allah is not deaf,
you have to have an evidence, actual material
evidence that he is not deaf.
Like you say Allah is the healer, you
have to say Allah is not deaf. You
must have an evidence.
And the companions used to say what? Allah.
He was
The prophet said to take it easy.
You're not calling upon a deaf
god.
So you can say that. He's not what?
But other than that, no.
So that's the first rule. You must have
what?
Evidence.
Here's another rule that a lot of Muslims
fall in trouble when they debate with Christians.
You must have a material
evidence to say
Allah has this name.
So for me to say Allah is a
you must have an evidence.
Like that.
Now,
the mistake
that a lot of non Muslims
fall into and Muslims find it very difficult
to defend that
is when they derive
a name from the attribute.
Okay.
Mercy is a name or an attribute?
An attribute. Attribute.
What is the name?
Rahma.
Rahma. Rahma.
Rahma.
Is the attribute. Which is mercy? What is
the name? Arraim.
Name. What is the attribute?
Hearing.
Right?
Hearing.
Right?
So you may derive
attributes from the name.
Al Tawid,
the strong,
the mighty
is a name or an attribute?
Name. Name.
You could derive an attribute from it, which
is what?
Power.
Can you derive
names from attributes?
No.
Why this is important? Because sometimes in the
Quran, Allah says
They blot
and Allah plots. Now a Christian will come
to you. You're worshiping a blotter. I said,
sorry. We don't derive names from who?
From the attribute. This is an attribute.
Aliyosifah, what I said is, I don't mean
that.
Can you
imagine that the the the creation blood doesn't
know the blood? What is bloody, anyways? What
is bloody? Let's define bloody. What is bloody?
Something. Ideas. That you do something no. You
do something in secret.
That you plan something that your enemy, what?
Doesn't know. Doesn't know about it. You wanna
tell me now that that created, the people,
they block against Allah, and Allah doesn't know
their blood.
No. Allah blots by spoiling their blood.
So when somebody a 78
is
confront
confrontational
attribute. Because if you say Allah doesn't have
that, that means he's weaker than what? A
Christian.
The creation, that's an issue.
Like like the Christians, they, you know, they
they always debate Allah to be what the
merciful, the loving, and they dismiss completely the
attributes of what?
Of punishment, of strength.
That when there is an earthquake,
they call it natural disasters or collective disasters.
They become what? Corners. What happened here?
Who caused this to happen?
No. For them, it's a loving
completely.
So now you wanna tell me that this
happened beyond his control?
That's an issue.
That's an issue.
Big issue.
The,
again, we go back to the first rule.
What is the first rule?
That you affirm,
you negate, you must have what?
Evidence.
What about stuff
that
there is no evidence
to affirm
or to negate?
They bring you stuff.
Like, you know,
which direction wise.
We have that actually, that debate is
I'm sorry.
Allah is above the creation. That's all I
know.
No.
No. No. So how can you talk about
someone you have not seen
or
seen his likeness?
You can't you can't Then you're what? Then
you're what?
Delusional. Delusional. There you go. Let's use delusional.
Yeah.
That's very important.
When
we affirm an attribute,
we must affirm them
following these rules.
Number 1,
without
interpretation.
2,
without
resemblance.
3,
without
seeking
how
can Philemon
and Negishi. I'm sorry. I forgot the negishi
first. You must affirm.
But the affirmation happened with these 3.
The attention to these 3. Without what? What
is the first one?
Interpretation. Interpretation.
What is interpretation?
They call it that we.
And this is, yeah, this is one of
the issues I love, Sheikh
and Shaula. One of the people who really
need the love has drawn. I I have
knew this. But, unfortunately, if you look at
his man has man has tell me,
you you are worse.
What does that mean? What does that mean?
You don't wanna accept that Allah has a
hand.
Allah mentioned in the Quran that he has
what?
A hand.
Now
when I mentioned the hand to you, you
don't like it. Why you don't like it?
I don't think. Because when I tell you
a hand, what is the first
picture that will come out of your head?
Spring up. Human hand.
People have an issue with that.
But we tell them what? We believe that
he has a hand in a way that
what?
Fits his majesty. Suits his majesty. Fits him.
And this is the line that is called
what?
And it's permissible to do that.
The dog has a hand.
The camel has a hand.
The cat has a hand.
The bird has a hand. Mhmm.
And I can't go on. Are they
equal? No.
Why?
Because they're all different. Different creations.
Why? No. Because the essence is different.
The body of the cat is different to
the body of the
So when somebody
brings this to you, asking this question,
is Allah's essence like our essence?
First of all, let's discuss the issue of
the essence. What do we mean by essence?
What do you mean by the essence?
Debt.
You see that?
That's my essence.
Death. But this is a human essence
that needs to eat,
need to sleep,
and it will die one day and it
will be valid.
Even when it's resurrected, it's gonna be different
essence. You know, when we will resurrect, we're
gonna have a different body.
That essences will no longer exist.
Now, is the human essence equal to the
divine essence of Allah?
Well, Allah has an essence.
Allah has a divine essence.
That's why we say Allah is above what?
The throne.
Now
what is the danger
of this question?
And I know I'm I'm I'm I'm
I'm going right and left, but I almost
go back to the
If if you're lost, I bring you back
to the world.
The $1,000,000 questions, I don't have any of
that.
Where is Allah?
We don't know. How you don't know what
is Allah? He's above the head. He's above
the head. He's above my head. He's above
my head. He's above my head.
Everybody.
Everywhere.
What do you think about this answer?
That's a dangerous answer. Yeah. Dangerous. Very dangerous.
Very dangerous. Although, by the way,
think positive of those people.
He's really trying to tell you what Allah
what? Sees the question. He sees he sees
everything and he watches everything and that's the
only way for me to comprehend that is
he has to be what? In every place.
No. I tell him no. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry. You see, if you see Allah
everywhere, you have turned Allah from a divine
essence
To a priest. To a spirit,
To spiritual. Because everywhere that means what?
He goes through what? Right?
The creation. Allah is not like that.
They're actually one of the meanings of the
name of Allah's samaal. You know, one of
the name
You know what the samaal means? Samal means.
You know what? What are the meaning of
a summit? Self sufficient.
Beside, there is another meaning. Nothing goes through
him.
Summit?
Yeah. Nothing goes through him.
Summit. Like a period.
Nothing.
That's why he's above the creation.
You're
getting that. That's what the summit the meaning
of the summon.
You know,
when Allah created the human being,
great Adam,
and he had him laying down there for
a while.
Satan wanted to do a feasibility study,
so he
kept encircling him.
Then he noticed
that you have emptiness here.
At what? How?
He said this creation is weak
because
if you have a hollow here, that means
you need to fill it.
That means you need it. That's where I'm
gonna play.
This is
What you will do me.
You see, there is a hollow inside of
laws to find out that means what? I
wouldn't have been there.
No.
No.
But
first of all, one of the arguments that
people normally will bring that question up,
where is the law?
A lot of the people, because they don't
wanna deal with the issue, right away, they
tell you what what kind of question is
that?
Right? Isn't that what you hear sometimes?
Mhmm.
They become actually offensive defensive. They become
Yeah. Debatable.
Debatable.
Should you ask this question?
Should you?
Should you ask people where is Allah?
Yes or no? Yes.
Yes. But what is the evidence?
A famous hadith,
A companion by the name of Moawir Hakam
Shulani.
Yeah. I did in this story. We had
a a teenage
slave girl
who used to shepherd for him.
So one day, she was shepherding his flock.
A wolf came and grabbed 1 of the
sheep. So
he slapped her in the face. So
he came to the prophet, asked him what
should I do?
You know, beating a slave is a big
thing in Islam.
What should I do?
Bring her to me.
The prophet asked her the same question I'm
asking, where is Allah?
She said
what?
Who am I?
And tell us who?
You're the messenger of Allah. What did the
prophet say to them?
Free her. She is a believer.
Right?
So you can ask the question. And the
answer to the question is what? And by
the way, when I say if it's Samat,
Allah is Samat, I'm not saying Allah is
beneath the head, will I believe the head?
No. No. You know what I'm trying to
say is Allah is above his creation.
You see, I don't mean this. And and
that's what makes the difference between you and
the Christians in particular.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is not part of
his creation in any form or shade
at all. What what what is the Christian,
ideology? What what's the Christian ideology?
What is it?
Jesus is part God and part Yeah.
God the spirit came into what? Jesus the
flesh.
And the what?
And and we have, by the way, we
have extreme Sufism. I don't know if you
guys are aware of that or not. We
have actually Sufism in Islam. The the
a principle, a crazy principle, which is called
You know what
is?
The unity of what?
Existence. Existence. Everything is God. You Anna, I
have God isn't me.
That's a crazy thing. Everybody can be God.
That's why when, you know, there is
there is a sect of them that is
called the Hashashin.
You know, you can relate the name.
There's a set in Sufis.
Allah, this is true. Just read the book
of the of Tabaqat.
Who's it Hashashim?
It's a ritual
to smoke hashish before you engage into
the remembrance of Allah because this is how
you're gonna end up
Having this what?
Maybe you become high, these are amazing.
Crazy stuff. You know?
That is why they call their gathering what
they call it.
Why do you call it?
Why do you call it?
Because Allah would come.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well,
it can be a a prophet, by the
way. It can be the prophet.
Yeah. That's another.
And their message,
there's a sect in Islam. I don't wanna
name them. Yeah. They're ruling. Yeah. They
have a place for the prophets.
It's empty.
And after they do the thing, Allah, Allah,
all of their dancing, hook the block.
Who tells me that story?
You guys familiar with the brother of.
Right? Mhmm. You know? You know? Mhmm. You
know? He told me that story that he
would became a Muslim. I was, I'm sorry.
You know, I I should ask you to
tell that story, but you told it to
me, so I'm gonna tell it.
So he said, he's a friction slip. So
he went to Medina to apply for the
university or something.
So some people got heaven to these places.
So he entered and and, you know, enjoyed
movies.
So he sat down, you know, watching this
crazy kid who just done, Allah, Allah, who,
who, who, who, you know, how they do
this practice.
You you don't do that, you know, with
with that's a big that's an an ideology
of what?
Of idol worship.
How did the, the the the the Arabs
at the time the prophet justified worshiping the
idols? They said, look. We don't worship these
idols, but we worship what? God who comes
what?
You see, God comes inside this
object.
You understand that? That's that's a very dangerous
ideology.
And and you don't want that.
What so that's why
we come out of this and say what?
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is aware
above his throne.
But with this, you have to say what?
His highness does not negate his nearness.
His highness does not what?
Negate his nearness.
A female companion coming to complain about her
husband.
She said when she arrived,
Rasulullah salaam knows her name.
And
to some extent, you know, I felt that
this is like a personal kind of complaint,
so I took the side.
You know, when you see 2 individuals talking
about personal matter,
you should withdraw.
So Aisha did this. And and one of
their names were what?
Very very small.
And if you really wanna find out how,
Rasulullah, when he would break the Hajj in
the room of Aisha,
for him to make sujood, sometimes he would
have to
move her feet to make sujud. It's very
small.
So imagine she took the side of the
room. Now we can imagine. You know, a
room like this, if you take the side,
you probably won't hear anything. But in that
room,
she said, I heard bits and pieces of
it.
Upon completing
presenting her case to the prophet
Jibril comes
down. Allah has heard
the entire conversation. Look what Aisha commented by
saying what did she say?
Glorified and exalted the one whose hearing encompass
anything everything.
Here I am next to them,
and I didn't understand.
And he's above the throne and he heard
you.
The thing with with us sometimes
is we want to understand the attributes of
Allah in a human context.
You don't do that.
Like, you're you're you're a sunnier. You're the
hearer. Don't you hear like Allah Allah hears.
Right?
And you hear. Right? But what's the difference
between your hearing and Allah's name? You hear
you can hear everything so you can hear
what's around you. You can only hear the
people here.
But Allah can hear the people in the
parking lot at the same time.
The people in New York, the people in
India,
the people in Jaba at the same time.
Look at this hadith. If the first of
you and the last of your Israeli Arab
Islam
will stand in one place.
One place.
And each one of you will make a
request.
At the same time,
we make dua.
You want a car? You want a house?
You want a wife?
Everybody has his own what?
Allah
will hear each one of us at the
same time, and he will give each one
of us what we ask for at the
same time.
Can you do that? No. So why do
you contextualize? Why do you humanize?
Allah's attributes.
You shouldn't do that.
You shouldn't do that. But the the second
rule
that when you affirm an attribute,
you don't interpret it into another thing. You
have to understand it the way it is.
And this is the approach of Al Asha,
the which they say the mainstream Muslims now.
I mean, I wouldn't say that, but they
are.
The majority of them, this is the man
that is being taught in in
in most of the universities
that
okay. Don't say Allah has a hand, but
you interpret this.
The hand means power.
So the power of Allah is above what?
Their power.
Because he doesn't want to say what?
The hand.
Because he's afraid that when you say the
hand,
your mind is gonna think of what?
But we tell them no. We tell them
no. Allah has a hand in a way
that what?
Fits his essence.
Because his essence is like is not like
my
essence.
You're getting that here.
Like for example,
a lot of the people have the issue
with what? With the hadith that when the
3rd night the last 3rd of the night
is here, Allah what?
They
don't say Allah descends. Don't say that.
But what descends?
His mercy.
His mercy descends.
He doesn't want to believe that Allah descends.
Tell them Allah descends in a way that
what?
Fits him and leads him.
The other area where
I think a lot of Muslims are not
paying attention to that You're not supposed
to think of Allah
in a certain way.
This is what we call what.
How? How he descends?
Allah did not ask you to figure this
out.
How he hears? Allah did not ask you
to figure this out.
And we have the ideal
situations with Imam Malik.
A man came asking him, how does Allah
rises upon the throne?
He's asking how. What did Imam Malik say
to him?
Listen, rising above the throne is no from
the language.
Allah,
he went up and he stuck up.
Allah said hand. Allah said
eyes.
If Allah wanna say mercy, He would have
said mercy. If Rasulullah wanna say mercy, descending
is mercy, hands is power, why not use
that?
Now
asking about it,
asking how
is
the doubt.
You shouldn't.
Because
whether you
ask or try to figure this out,
let's say that your brain reduces something.
Is that in reality Allah?
Anything that your intellect
produces of an image
or a description
of who Allah is, Allah is about that.
And
by the way,
we are not supposed
to picture
Allah
to imagine Allah
to
basically characterize
Allah in a certain way.
You're not.
But at the same time,
you believe that the attribute functions Allah sees.
And
that
you give up knowing how.
But Allah does. Allah has that attitude. Allah
has a hand.
But how it is?
We don't know, and I'm not supposed to
know.
And Allah did not ask you to know.
You're supposed to just what?
He sees in a way that's with you
guys.
Leave it. Leave it to the Imam Ahmed
said it. You know what
he
said?
Leave it.
Let it pass.
Have you ever come across,
an authentic,
tradition where a companion
came to the prophet? How he does that?
They understood.
There is no how without that.
You don't do that. And, there's a hadith
out there which I, you know, I'd love
to to share in this context.
That actually the prophet, salallahu alaihi wa sallam,
encouraged you.
The wording of the hadith is this, harif
imorim qadari.
A beautiful hadith.
Reflect upon what
Allah created but do not reflect upon Allah.
Do not reflect upon the essence and the
attributes
of Allah trying to visualize it. What does
it mean to reflect upon Allah? What does
it mean?
Take for example the throne.
If
you wanna know Allah,
take for example the throne.
One of the components of the throne is
what?
What is it? How do you translate it?
Stool. Foodstool.
Foodstool.
The hadith that
the hellfire will keep complaining, I want more.
Allah will do what?
Will place his feet in it.
Evidence?
Look at Aqaraq, why not best? If you
convey
the heavens and the earth
with the foodstool.
Is like a ring, your throne is it?
Which one is the ring and which one
is the
the the the the the
desert?
The heavens and the earth is the ring.
The ring.
The is what? Desert.
Actually, the prophet did not say a desert.
You know what he used?
Imagine this. This is a component
of the throne. What about the throne?
What about the one who's above the throne?
You're getting that.
I was given a permission
to describe for
me. 1 of the angels
who bear the throne. How many angels bear
bear the throne of Allah?
Familiar. Familiar?
8.
I was given a permission to describe just
one of them for you.
His feet in the 7th Earth.
Do we believe that there are 7 Earth
or no?
Not Canton's Earth. 7 layers.
What is the evidence that we have 7
layers? A layer. A layer.
His head in the 7th heaven.
The distance
that his between his ear loop
this is the ear loop. We're talking about
the angel loop, And his shoulder would take
a birth 700 years to come.
This is an angel who bears well.
So that gives you an idea who Allah
is now. Alright?
Stay out.
I'm speaking.
Stay out.
That is why
and and this is, by the way, is
passed on to us even yeah. We need
Khalif in Musso.
That
a Jewish rabbi
or a group of Jewish rabbis came to
the prophet
the earth in another finger, the trees in
another finger,
the creation, the earth in another finger, and
he will shake them
and he will say,
this is in the door. I am the
king. Where are the kings of this earth?
The prophet
actually smile that you could see what?
Smaller. The smaller teeth.
And he recited the birds and
eyes.
But when we affirm an attribute
for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, we don't try
to interpret. We don't say it means that.
We don't try to resemble it to the
creation.
We don't try to resemble it to the
creation.
And finally, we don't try to seek
how.
For that,
There's a line out there
that says,
You have to cut
off any hope
that you can actually reach the reality,
the modality
of Allah's essence,
names, attributes,
actions.
Whether with your heart and what is meant
by the heart here as well?
Or
how
that you describe Allah
with your tongue
or
you make an image,
you draw something.
Everything, Allah is what? Say what? Allah is
what? Above that.
Which means what? Anything
that you think, anything that you say, anything
that you are, Allah is above.
But this is how
we're gonna
approach a Christian al Hajdu.
Human context. He created the heavens and the
earth in 6 days, then he rests. He
said, listen.
That's where you feel this.
If you master this area, you're gonna be
able to get down to those people.
Because that will allow, I think, has opened
the floor for any questions that you have.
Other than that,
we talked about
the person who gives the. He must have
good quality,
good character.
He must
have firm
belief.
Number 3, he must become aware of the
individual.
He's calling to Islam.
As for the person who you're calling to
Islam, make an assessment. Is he an atheist?
Then the approach is different.
You focus on the area of creation.
Prove that
there must be a creator.
Now if you manage to do that, then
go ahead and establish that the creator
is much better
in attributes
than what he created.
Now
the second domain or second area is dealing
with people who
With this, inshallah, I conclude my presentation.
And all of this, by the way, in
a book I wrote,
called Noyor Road.
All that stuff is there in my website.
Again, I'm not selling books. It's it's if
you wanna buy it, buy it. But, you
can get a PDF from my website.
I sent you a receipt. Maybe you can
post it to the brothers of mine.
Kareemobzid.com.
Know your Lord. Just know your Lord. It's
it's it's a very interesting
book.
Took me 3, 4 years.
And, I came up with a a 7,
steps on how can,
actually,
stay away from negating,
stay away from resembling Allah's names and attributes.
I call it the 7 step query,
And
And