Muhammad West – Da’wah to the Other Religions of the World

			I was relying on a sheet on rajim Bismillah R Rahman Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa Salatu
was Salam o Allah should have been more saline CD now Muhammad, Allah Allah He also has remained my
beloved brothers and sisters I said Mr alaykum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh
		

			Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen always and we will begin with the praise of Allah Allah Allah Allah
Allah Allah will testify that there is none worthy of worship besides Allah subhanaw taala and we
send our love and our greetings salutations so beloved interview Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam to his pious in his pure family whose companions and all those who follow his sunnah until
the end of time, may Allah Subhana Allah bless us to be amongst them. Amin, amin and hamdulillah Al
Hamdulillah will always begin with the praise that we are muslims Alhamdulillah Allah subhanho wa
Taala has blessed us with Islam and with the blessing of Eman May we live upon that and die upon
		

			that and be resurrected upon that mean. Today shall is a very unique kind of Juma. We are part of a
series in Dawa and part of Dawa is you are you are propagating something you are like sales people
you're trying to sell a product. And last week we spoke a little bit about what is this product that
you're selling? And if you can't articulate Islam, what Islam is within five minutes, 10 minutes,
what does it mean to be a Muslim? Why am I Muslim? Why does Islam make sense? If your only reason If
someone asked you why you're a Muslim did well, I was born a Muslim, and it's convenient, then you
need to re evaluate this religion. So last week, we spoke about Islam what it means, what does Islam
		

			mean, and the theology and the fundamental and the purpose of life. And today, part of when you sell
the product, you need to understand your customer, you need to understand the people that you're
going to encounter. We're going to talk a little bit about comparative religion today. What do the
different major religions have? There are so many in the world? What are the major religions believe
our we can't do an entire lesson on each one. But in simplistic terms, you asked two questions. What
is your concept of God in your religion?
		

			When you say God, what do you understand? And what is the purpose of your religion? Your religion,
obviously is the to tell you to do something. Now all religions, and even non religious groups all
tell you to live a good life. Don't steal, don't kill people. That's gonna mean we're not talking
about that. We're talking about what is the theological purpose? What is the purpose of life and
death in your religion. As we said last week, from an Islamic perspective, our concept of God very
simple, the one who made the universe, who controls the universe, who is in charge of the universe,
He is separate from the universe, he has no partners, he has no children, he has no parents, he has
		

			no beginning and no end. That is our God. And he's aware of everything. And the purpose of life,
what is the purpose of life, each and every individual needs to worship Him, when I say worship,
worship actually means have a relationship with him, have a relationship with one on one without any
intermediaries, that is the purpose of Islam, and you live your life, depending on your
relationship, when you die, you return to Him. And if the relationship was good, you enter Jannah.
If the relationship was not good, then you are under his decree in terms of whether punishment or
forgiveness, that is Islam, everyone carries his own burden. Everyone is free to choose, and that is
		

			Islam. Simple. Make sense? Now, let's talk about some of the other religions in the world. What is
it that they propagate? To believe how, and then how do we give Dawa to them. And we'll see how much
of this lecture we can get through. So we start off with Judaism, which is not a very big religion,
only a tiny fraction of the people of the world subscribe to the Jewish faith. And however, it is,
of course, one of the dominant faiths in the world and has been there for a very long time.
Understand that Judaism
		

			by and it's important when I speak here, I'm not trying we don't offend anybody. And we don't say
about another group except what they say about themselves. We should not ascribe to a group
statements which they're not happy with. So this is taken from what they believe and what they say
that I mean, if you can go to a Jew and say, Do you believe this You should use I believe that. So
within the Jewish faith, it's an ethno religion, meaning it is associated with a group of people. It
is not a universal religion. Judaism is not meant for all of mankind, according to them. It is, it
is a special relationship between the creator and a certain tribe of people that they believe like
		

			we believe in a one creator who is no partner so the concept of Allah is very same to us. In fact,
Judaism and Islam concept of
		

			of the Oneness of Allah is almost the same. And also they believe like we believe that that creator
communicates with his creation through prophets. So we are on the same page with the Jews. However,
the difference between us and them is, of course, the the understanding of the Nabisco Salam, and
which prophets they accepted, which prophets they have rejected. And the fact that they believe that
they were given a special covenant is a special agreement between the Jewish people and Allah, Allah
and then have a special relationship that is exclusive to all of mankind. And as time went along, it
is with this being born a Jew and being born in the tribe, you have the special relationship by
		

			default, irrespective of what you believe and do yes, there is within the faith groups that even
don't believe in Jana and jahannam. But for you, for them, the priority is we on ethnic group, and
how you engage with religiously, it's up to you. And so you have different different strands of
Judaism. You have your Orthodox Jews who are, you are very religious, they believe in following all
the rituals, they make the you know what we would say salah, and you buy that. And if you don't do
that, according to them, then you're a bad Jew, then you have to Reform Jews who are very liberal,
and they said, Look, religion, and most of the religious laws, even the kosher eating, it's not
		

			required or incumbent, they said, Well, that's what the olden days, doing. Being a Jew is more of an
ethnicity. It's more of being a tribe, being a people, not really about following a strict code of
conduct. It's like a family. Think about it like a family. So within the family, you can have
Muslims, Christians, Jews, we all want but we still have family, we still get together for Bri.
		

			And that's the understanding of what Judaism is, according to this reformed Jews, and then you have
conservative Jews are kind of in the middle, that they're not as observant as the Orthodox Jews, but
they also keep more of the rituals when the then the reformed Jews. And so in summary, what do Jews
believe? The concept of Allah, the Creator is very similar to us. The concept of prophets are very
similar to us. In fact, there are no religion, there no two religions that are as similar in terms
of theology, then Islam and Judaism were very much aligned in terms of our our belief system. And as
we said, from a purpose of life, well, it's a very insular, specific to them, them and the Jewish
		

			tribe and the creator have a special relationship, he gave them laws, and he ascribed him a way of
life for Sharia. And if they live by that Sharia, then they are gifted as for the rest of humanity,
different Jews believe different things. But it's without a doubt, the belief is that being a Jew
and being born a Jew, you're superior. And that's why you don't find us giving Dawa, you can convert
to Judaism, Italy, if you weren't born a Jew, converting to Judaism is very, very, very, very
difficult. You have to apply. And then many goes, like the only time you find people that really
convert to Judaism, is they want to marry somebody, and the rabbi's will give you a hard time to
		

			become a Jew. So for you, it's already a non option. And for them, the laws of Halal haram don't
apply to the rest of mankind. This is our laws. What you do and how you live your life is sub is
less, then you can come and go and not do as you please, you have basic morality don't kill one
another. But the special rules anybody is for us. That special relationship with Allah is just
asking Allah, you can't convert into it. And so this is what sets Judaism apart. Now let's move on
to Christianity. And, of course a lot to say about Judaism when we move on to Christianity.
Christianity is of course, the biggest religion nominally in the world, say nominally, because how
		

			do you define a religion? How many Solomos you make to be a Muslim? How many times you go to church,
but basically for the tick a box in Christianity would be the largest religion in the world. And
interestingly, Christianity, as you should know, is an offshoot is a sect of Judaism that became a
religion on its own. It started off as a Jewish sect. And like,
		

			as we believe Nabil Issa, was an OBE that was sent to Bani Israel. We believe that Allah had sent
many, many Ambia to the Jews, to bring them back to the worship of Allah to remind them of the
Sharia, some of the Gambia they rejected some of them they killed and they of course try to kill
they rejected and tried to kill nebi Salah Salaam. And so from that, a new split began and
Christianity developed in a very strange way from what we began. And so
		

			as we said, when Nabi Salih, salaam came with a new revelation, trying to call the people but
bunnies right back to the way of Allah subhanho wa Taala back to the Sharia of basically calling
them back to Islam. Islam is the fundamental religion of the universe, calling them back. They
rejected him and a small group, a very tiny group of the bunnies rot in followed by ESA. And that
small group was persecuted both by the Jews and by the Romans. And so the
		

			This group went underground, it went into hiding. Now, whenever a group goes underground, it doesn't
have mattresses. It doesn't have Alama. It doesn't have books. And since this is not 123 years,
these are hundreds of years go by. When that group comes out from underground, the understanding is
going to be very strange.
		

			The religion that they started off with, to what they ended off with is very different. And so,
Christianity emerges 300 years basically after Nabi Isa, the persecution was over, the Roman Emperor
became Christian, and he calls the Christians all over the world. Okay, guys, you will American come
out of hiding. Tell me about Christianity. And you find complete disagreement amongst them from the
most fundamental things as to who is Allah? What is Jesus? Is Jesus a man? Is he a nubby? Is he a
god? Is he the son of God? And you had different groups and so they had to call what we call an
ecumenical council basically an all Mr. Council to buy fatwa to pass, who's God and Christianity. So
		

			when we pass it when the orlimar pass a fatwa they ask is cryptocurrency Halal haram? Can you eat
this conduit that the fatwa was? Is Jesus God, yes or no? By fatwa? They decided who God is. Okay.
And so, Christianity, what it is now and as it went through many stages and forms of Christianity
today, again, what do Christians believe? Christians, all of them agree on the purpose of life. They
believe in the concept of original sin. Now, many of your colleagues and I pause on this because
many of your colleagues themselves don't understand this. But this is what they take say that the
purpose of life is
		

			Adam and Eve committed a sin when they ate from the tree in Jannah. We all have the same page,
right? They were sent to Earth. As soon as Islam we said that they got forgiven, they made Toba
ALLAH forgive them. And also this is the this is now a lesson that all of mankind will know. You
will come with a sin make Toba and you come back to me hamdulillah fantastic. Christianity know when
they came to earth, they may Tobin is too far asked forgiveness. And honestly, I cannot forgive you.
The sin that you have done. You've invented sin before you there was no sin, you created sin,
disobedience to Allah, and because of that your souls are cursed tainted, and you will go to
		

			jahannam for eternity, and you will never ever get rid of that sin. No matter how much Toba is still
far how'd you do? You will never ever be forgiven God, Allah cannot forgive you. Then even worse,
your children that are born from you inherit the sin. That's why you find this concept. Mankind is
born into sin. Maybe you heard this terminology using Christianity. Why did he born into sin? Every
child that is born, is born condemned death sentence to Janna. So you say what's the what's the
purpose of life thing? I mean, if I'm going to join them no matter what I do, so how does how do I
save myself? Tada, you need a Savior, the vaccine to the cure, a vaccine must be sent. And you must
		

			accept that vaccine. And when you do that, then you go to Ghana, what you do how you live your life
doesn't matter. So long as you accept the vaccine, you go to Ghana, if you don't take that vaccine,
you're going to join them. Okay, what is this vaccine while someone must be called a band and
sacrifice for that, and that was Jesus. Jesus was seen to be sacrificed to die on the cross and with
his death, all of mankind was saved and you must accept it. As Okay, so who is Jesus? No, no, he's
not a man. Now they combine a second concept called the trinity of this becomes even more confusing.
If it was okay, Allah sent a man to die. Okay, then we kind of understand this is your religion.
		

			This is the concept but you don't know Allah sent himself down in human form.
		

			Christianity, Christianity is a monotheistic according to them, they believe in one Creator, again,
could we use the word Creator who created the universe to say one Creator, okay, they call him the
father.
		

			There was Jesus said that same Father himself came down in human form. We call this incarnation.
God, we are the biller. The lie is method ALLAH SubhanA. Allah, Allah subhana, Allah, Allah Himself,
according to them comes down in human form, is born through a mother is circumcised, eats and goes
to the toilet. And then as he grows up, he is sacrificed, dies, God dies. And with that death, he
goes back to himself and all of mankind is saved. This is Christianity in a nutshell. All Christian,
all Christians kind of believe this concept. And what I say again, is, in reality, if we speak to I
mean, without meaning any offense here, but this is the religion of Christianity, that the concept
		

			of original sin with a savior and Allah, we are the biller, sending himself down as the son of
himself to be sacrificed, and all of mankind is forgiven. And so the purpose of life in Christianity
is, you just need to believe that Jesus is the Son of God, and that He died for my sins, and I
accept his I thank you Jesus, I accept your sacrifice. Now I am saved from sin and I can go to
Jannah that is
		

			Christianity, okay.
		

			Christianity, perhaps a little bit more on in terms of the evolution and the the literature of
Christianity. It's interesting, as I said, Christianity, its Bible has the Old and New Testament.
The Old Testament is the book of the Jews, which means the Christian believes
		

			in the religion of Nabi Musa. He believes in the theology of Nabi Ibrahim, he agrees what the Jews
agree, but then they've added a new section
		

			called the New Testament.
		

			And we ask this, that you are understanding Allah coming in human form. We have Adam and Eve in the
Old Testament, Nabi Musa spoke about in every item that we brought him spoke about and to be Adam,
the concept of original sin is no way. And the concept of Allah Yaga Billa coming in uniform is no
way in the Old Testament. So for three 4000 years, every element rabbi of the Old Testament, read
the Old Testament, and didn't come up with this. You mean the purpose of life and death of Jesus
coming down and saving you? None of the Gambia, not Abraham, not Moses, none of them knew about
this. Surely Allah would have said to them, this is the purpose of life. And we ask the simple
		

			question, well, if you need to accept Jesus's sacrifice to go to heaven, what about all the people
that died before Jesus? Before Jesus came?
		

			What did
		

			and so this is the questions within Christianity. And as we said that Christianity at a time had
many, many different strands and groups and Hamdulillah you know, we sometimes get frustrated.
orlimar. So you people are divided. You're not united, you can agree on winning Slobodan
Hamdulillah. We can agree how many Allah's they are.
		

			We can tell you how many of us there. But imagine you have a fatwa committee and say, Look, how many
Who is Allah, how many of them is the and and then those who said, those who believed in the Oneness
of Allah, that maybe ISA is a very special creation of Allah, they were excommunicated. They were
chucked out. And they were many groups like that. And you find within the seed of the NABI Salam,
they were Christians, at the time we're going to be engaged with who believe this, the origin of
Christianity, they're gonna be Isa was a special creation of Allah.
		

			Some said that he was a man, some said it was a special man, some say that he's a link between ease
I can intercessor between men and creation, almost a partner with Allah but Allah, and then of
course, the Trinity way, human, Allah is one and the same. And these were of the, of the of the
different groups, but ultimately, the Trinitarian group one where Jesus is full God, and full human,
and his death is your salvation.
		

			The Bible, as we said, went through many, many versions.
		

			In fact, it took many hundreds of years for the Christian Christianity to decide what is the Bible
and in fact, today, they still haven't decided the Catholic Church. My Christianity is kind of
divided in half the Catholic Church and the Protestant church. And those two groups have a different
version. When I say version, in the one book, in the one Bible, they are, say 60, Chapter 60,
sorrows in the other one, there are 65 sorrows, these are different versions, two different, they
are different things inside the and they cannot agree as to what is should be in there and not in
the and I think for Muslims, we take this for granted with Islam, that everything is by is from
		

			Allah. And it has been revealed where as in Christianity, they are things from the scholars the
Allah Morrow they are things which cannot be isa himself said, there are things that people have no
idea where it came from, and it's just been accepted over time. So that is Christianity. As for
where we are, so over time, and so we will skip Hinduism and Buddhism inshallah for next week, and
we just jump quickly to, to the, to the idea which Allah speaks about. The last idea, which in the
slides, there is a special relationship between Islam, Jews and Christianity.
		

			When we talk about Buddhists and Hindus and Eastern religions, you'd find the even further away from
our concepts of life and death, more complicated Ambia the concept of God, for example, very
strange, multiple gods multiple, they get married, and they kill each other and they're very
different to Islam, understanding but the Jews and the Christians, on the one side were very close
to the Jews in terms of Aqeedah. On the other side, we're very close to the Christians in terms of
Allah funa visa, and the belief that no visa is the Messiah and the belief that he will come back
but he is a a Nabi and a slave of Allah. And that is what Allah Subhana Allah says in the Quran to
		

			Kulia Allah kita when you give Dawa to the Allah's telling you when you give Dawa to a Jew or a
Christian,
		

			let us know not Allah says stylo comm Illa Kenny Matienzo are in beta now webinar comm Jews
Christians Muslims, let us unite on one thing let's put all our differences aside let's look
Palestine in Israel we leave that for now. Kosher Halal bacon we leave all that aside. Let us come
to one common understanding something we can all agree on Illa Kenny Mateen so are in vain Anna
welcome. I learned that Buddha Illa Allah let us not worship except the Creator. It is all unite on
that up
		

			Leave Christians in one creator, you should have some Trinity attached but you believe in one
Creator, Jews you believe in one Creator Muslims who believe one Creator, the same one. Let us
worship Him alone. Let's all agree on that. Well, then you should be shamed and let's not make
partners with him. Let's not make rifles with him. What are you talking about do not burden or
bourbon and let us not establish from ourselves my own desires, loads and drivers will Allah let's
all agree on that. Leave the other stuff aside hijab terrorism, let's put that aside. Let's talk
about worshipping the one creator alone.
		

			Mean duty law interval low but if you guys don't want to do that, then and you move away for Kulu
Adobe and that must be mean, then you may witness then you must testify that we are Muslims that we
will only worship the one creator that is our religion. And so inshallah we spoke about the hookah
tab, and we'll talk next week about the Eastern religions malice panda grant a steadfastness on
Islam. There's live and die upon the Kalima. I mean, I just did an announcement that potassium alley
still in hospital we make dua for Shiva, Allah and grant him speedy recovery and the last one take
away all the sickness for all those who are sick Allah Mara bananas, multiple VAs issue and the
		

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