Mustafa Khattab – The Clear Quran On The Deen Show
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your heart
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has got you caught up in the slobophobia
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and you're getting the mistruths, misinformation
directed towards you. It's it's very scary. It's
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Welcome
to the Dean show. How are you guys
doing? We have another great and exciting show
for you. I'm with our special guest, doctor
Mustafa. Salaam Alaikum peace be with you. How
are you Shay? Very good, hamdulillah.
How you been? You're coming in from Canada?
Yes. Yeah. Hamdulillah.
How's the, prime minister there? He's doing well,
alhamdulillah. He's doing well. He's making the connection
with the Muslims. Yes. He's not building any
walls or anything. No walls over there.
I wanna time is short. I wanna get
right into it. You know, there there are
a lot of misconceptions
revolving
around this book actually, the Quran. Yes. Right?
People pick it up and they say, look.
How can you guys be people at peace
when you have all these violent texts in
there? And, you know, some of these young
kids, they pick up this Quran, and this
inspires them to do something violent. No quote.
Surah 929
or others are you familiar with? Yes. How
do you address this? Well, it's a book
and it has to be read in context.
When you take something out of context you
can make the author
look terrible. We can do the same thing
with any book including the Bible. There are
passages in the Bible where Jesus said, for
example, do you think I have come for
peace? I have not come for peace, but
a sword. Or something like bring all my
enemies
who don't believe in me and slaughter them
under my feet. This is not so wait,
this is supposed to be the Prince of
Peace, who we actually love by the way.
Jesus. Many people don't know that but so
you're quoting from the Bible. Yes. All you
need to do is put it back in
context and read the verses before, the verses
after in the Bible and it's something totally
different. Yeah. But if you want to twist
and play Of course. You can twist and
play. Of course. Yeah. So all you have
to do is, of course, number 1, you
have to ask for a reference.
Because most of the time I see, you
know, Fox News, other
news channels, they say that the Quran says
this, but they don't give you a reference.
And if they do give you, you have
to go and read it in context. Read
the verses before and the verses after, and
you'll see that it talks about something totally
different. Like the the most frequently quoted verse
from the Quran, kill them wherever you find
them. So this makes you feel like, oh,
they're talking about kill them wherever you find
them at Walmart,
everywhere.
When you put it back into context and
you read the verses before and the verses
after, it it says something totally different.
Mhmm.
Yeah. Tell me what is the difference between
when you actually because many people, they'll pick
up
the Quran in English, and you've also had
some authors
who, with some malicious intent, they've actually
translated they're not even Muslim. Yes. And have
you come across these these translations
that deliberately
are meant to deceive people?
Well, that's a very good question.
So, because they'll have some right context. They'll
have some some right trans but they'll they'll
because the Arabic explain to us how deep
the Arabic is for you just put one
wrong word. Right? You don't know the the,
the the,
the you're not an expert in the Arabic
language, the
the sierra of the history of prophet Mohammed,
etcetera, and now you're trying to, you know,
translate this Quran. The question always comes up.
Why do we need a new translation? There
are 100 of them over the last 1500
years.
And I say, well,
if you look at the translations of the
Quran, the prophet
passed away in the year 632,
common era.
And the first English translation of the Quran
by a Muslim was done in 1905,
which means for over 1300 years the Quran
was never translated into English by a Muslim.
And this explains, of course,
they were mostly done by
orientalists,
by missionaries.
And, this explains why we still have some
words in translation like holy war, infidels,
whereas we don't have this in in Arabic.
Right?
And after this, after 1905, so many translations
were done by Muslims out of pride or
out of zeal because they wanted to defend
their faith. And they didn't have many of
them, they didn't have the qualifications. They didn't
speak Arabic. It's not their native tongue. They
didn't study translation, Qur'anic studies, Islamic studies. So
they didn't have the background. And this is
why the translation,
you know, their translation is not better off
than many that were done by non Muslims.
So,
there are 4 things that I needed to
achieve in this translation. And I think when
you look at any translation of the Quran
in English, you have to look at 4
things. Number 1, accuracy. How
they understood the Arabic text?
And because there are so many terrible mistakes
in translations that were done
by non Arabs.
You know,
I'm not saying any bad thing, but when
you translate using a dictionary,
you can't translate the Quran by just using
a dictionary. Right? You can translate a newspaper,
but not the Quran. I'll give you one
example. A very common mistranslation
is in Surah Anbiya, chapter 21, verse 87,
where it says
So everyone says that when, John when
Yunus
Jonah, he left his town in a rage,
he thought that Allah had no power over
him.
How can a Prophet think like this? This
is not the correct meaning, but this is
what you get when you translate using a
dictionary. The actual meaning is, he thought that
Allah would not restrain him. And this verb
is used in the Qur'an,
'Restrain.' And He put him in the belly
of the whale. So accuracy in understanding the
Arabic. And number 2, clarity, when you translate
from Arabic into English,
you have to make it understandable.
The Qur'an describes
itself as and this is actually the name
of the translation, the clear Quran.
Mhmm. It has to be understandable because it's
for everyone.
Arabs and non Arabs. Muslims and non Muslims.
So when you translate it in a very
archaic
language style,
it makes it very difficult for people to
understand.
So this is number 2. Number 3, eloquence.
The Quran in Arabic is so powerful, and
when you read translation in English, it's it's
not, you know, it doesn't reflect reflect the
beauty and the power of the. And this
is something we try to do, and you
have the sample right there. And number 4,
the flow, how it flows. So we avoided
all the parenthetical information, like half
a page of parenthetical information to explain one
concept, like,
and all that stuff,
you need to keep the flow going,
to to be enjoyable to the reader. These
are the 4 areas, accuracy, clarity, eloquence, and
flow. And this is, I believe, what makes
the trans the clique on a a good
translation. We hear this often, the two
statements that you the two words that you
mentioned, holy war And infidel. And infidel. That
that
from my studies, what I've seen is
if we go from back to front, infidel,
this is something that was coined by the
Christian Crusaders at that time Yes. Right, against
the Muslims. Yes. So this is not an
Islamic concept, infidel. They'll throw this out there.
It's a dirty word. It's like right? What's
the proper translation coming because they translate that
from what?
Well, from the word kafir in the Quran,
a disbeliever.
And guess what? Muslims are called kafir in
the Quran. Because if you believe in something,
you have to disbelieve in the opposite.
Allah says, whoever believes in Allah and this
believer
in false gods So you are a believer
in tawhid, one god. You have to be
a disbeliever in the trinity
and in other forms of shirk for example.
Yeah. So it's not a negative word in
the Quran. It's not a derogatory term to
non Muslims. Because if you believe in something,
you have to disbelieve in the opposite Mhmm.
Of it. Does it mean to cover up
the truth, to conceal the truth when you
get when you go into the deeper meaning?
Yeah. To cover belief with disbelief.
Okay. So a disbeliever.
One who covers the truth. Yeah. A farmer
in the Quran, al kuffar,
are called
kuffar in the Quran because they are farmers.
They cover the seed with dirt. Yeah.
So it's not a horrible word as
they make it seem like like infidel and
all that stuff. Yeah. So so that you
don't find that actual word info. That's an
English word. So that's not that would okay.
That another thing is holy war. So you
guys these these, radicals out there, you know
Islam is encouraging to holy war. Is there
such a thing as holy war? Well, there's
nothing holy about war. The prophet
even in his teachings,
he said,
don't ask Allah to meet your enemy in
battle. He said don't ask for it, but
if it's forced on you, you have to
defend yourself. And in Surah Hajj chapter 22,
it says that the reason that the believers
are allowed to fight is to defend
churches,
to defend synagogues, and to defend mosques, and
to defend, the weak and the oppressed. So
it's it's used for a good reason, not
just to go out and push everyone to
accept Islam because Islamically, you cannot force someone
to become Muslim. So this is
these, verses of combat are in combat situations,
can you say? And there's a just war
theory Yes. That would equivalent to that. Right?
Yes. Okay. Let's take a break, and we'll
be right back with more with doctor Mustafa
here on The Dee Show. Don't go anywhere.
This is The Dee Show.
Welcome back to The Dee Show, and I'm
with
doctor Mustafa who has
translated
the copy
it's called the clear Quran.
And you're responsible for how many put this
together? Yes. Yeah. So give us some give
us some you're going to give us some
examples of some mistranslations.
Okay. Please go ahead. Well, the story behind
the clear Quran,
August 2013,
I was in Toronto, Canada visiting imam, and
I just gave Jumah Khutba, and I was
coming back to the hotel,
dressed up like an Arabian prince who just
came out of the desert, you know, the
thobe, the flowing rope, and, turban, and.
So if you have been to Toronto,
admit so many Muslim cab drivers, But that
day, it so happened that the cab driver
was not Muslim. And I I don't usually
force,
you know, religion on anyone unless they have
a question. So that day, the non Muslim
cab driver said, you know what?
Muslims are good people but Islam sucks. I
said, okay. Thanks for the compliment about Muslims
but but but what do you think Muslim
Islam is is an evil religion? But he's
insulting you in another way. Yes. So I
said, why? He said, because your book, the
Quran, calls me an animal. And I said,
subhanAllah. I'm hafidh. I know the whole Quran
by heart and it doesn't say that anywhere.
And he said, no.
Chapter 8 verse 55.
And I told him the word in the
Quran does not mean an animal, it means
a living being. And this is explained in
another verse in the Quran, chapter 24
verse 45.
It says, chapter 24 verse 45, Allah created
every living being out of water. Some of
them crawl on their bellies, some walk on
2 feet like you, some walk on 4
feet. This is what Allah says in the
Quran to explain this concept. He says this
what his translation
said. So that night I went to my
hotel room and I checked, there's a website,
it's called Islam Awakened,
they list like 40, 45 different translations of
the same verse, And he was correct. Most
of the translations said animal or beast.
They're both as bad. But a living being
or a moving creature would be a good
translation.
So this is why we decided to, you
do a new translation of the Quran and
correct some of these misunderstood concepts
about the Quran because this can easily be
used to give Islam a bad name. Like
this one right here in Surah 3 Al
Imran
aya
106. It talks about the day of judgment,
and it says on that day some faces
will be white, some faces will be black,
or at least this is what most people
say in in translation.
But it doesn't talk about black on white
because was a black man and his face
will be bright on the day of judgement.
And Abu Allahab or Abu Jal, they were
white people and their faces will be gloomy.
It talks about,
you know the fact that faces will be
gloomy
even if they were white, and some faces
will be bright even if they are black.
It doesn't talk about black and white. So
when you read this in translation that black
people are going to jahannam, the hellfire, and
white people are going to jannah, this sounds
very racist to me. But the Arabic, the
actual meaning is bright and gloomy.
And this is explained in many ayats in
the Quran, it explains this concept. So this
is another example.
Also when people translate
and they don't know
the historical background
of the verses, like say for example when
they translate 53,
Ayah
27. Those who don't believe in the hereafter,
everyone says
they
give angels
female names.
And I'm looking at all the names of
angels and none of them is a female.
But if you understand the Arabic,
you know, belief at the time before the
prophet the pagan belief in Arabia at the
time, they believed that the angels were the
daughters of Allah, but they didn't give them
female names. They just classified them or label
them as female, and this is the right
translation.
They don't give them female names, they label
them as female, as the daughters of Allah.
So this is the proper understanding.
So these are some of the things.
Also, we try to reflect some of the
linguistic issues in the Quran. For example, this
is a good one, chapter
94, verse 56.
We have to understand when something is repeated
in the Quran, it is repeated for
emphasis. Even if
Surah Rahman 31 times. And this is no
different than I have a dream, let freedom
ring by
Martin Luther King, just for emphasis.
But when you see a story like for
example Moses is repeated all over the place
or Ibrahim
but when you look closely
the focus shifts all the time. So in
surah for example, surah Kasas, the focus is
Moses's
childhood,
how he killed an Egyptian by mistake, how
he escaped to Madin and got married. You
read Surah Araf chapter 7, it talks about
the persecution of Bani Asayl. You read Surah
Kaf, it talks about his encounter with Al
Khid. The focus is always different.
But here
Everyone says in translation, with difficulty comes ease,
indeed with difficulty or hardship comes ease. They
don't understand that when something is repeated in
Arabic,
there is something there linguistically.
For example,
the two words repeated here
is repeated twice, it has If
something is repeated with it means the same
guy. I met the guy, I gave the
guy money. Means that. It's the same guy.
Which is ease,
is without the
definitive
it means like I meet a guy and
I gave a guy some money. It's a
totally different guy. So what Allah means here,
it's one difficulty but two eases.
So the actual translation is with
with every difficulty comes ease,
then with that same difficulty comes more ease.
And this is totally lost in translation, this
linguistic aspect, but I think it's a beautiful
thing if you
put it in there. So so so far
we have, some things that are very, very
important when someone is approaching the Quran
to be careful from being deceived
is,
a, we can say the cut and paste,
like taking, let's say, one verse and then
be snapping it through the middle, like, what
can I think of? The Quran says,
don't
approach prayer. Yes. Right?
Intoxicated. So if you cut that off, the
intoxicated part, but then someone can go further
and say, look, I'm not intoxicated, They can
play with it and say, Now I'll pray.
But now they'll miss out the verses where
and about drinking totally and then the deeper
so we have the cut and paste. You
mentioned the
before
and
after.
We have the linguistic,
and then you have the historical context.
And then what else am I missing? If
you then just take in everything as a
whole. Yes.
You have to understand the Arabic. The Arabic.
You have to be able to translate it
into good English. Yeah. And have to reflect
the beauty and the linguistic aspects of the
Quran. Yeah. And how silly do you I
mean, do you how do you when you
see some of these people that they bring
out, this is just, I mean, this is
just mind blowing. You turn on some somebody's,
like, channel Fox News and have some, like,
so called,
like, Quran or,
Islamic expert on the show. Yeah. Have you
seen them? Yeah. Of course. Actually, I did
my PhD dissertation
on how Islam is portrayed on Fox News.
Oh, yeah. For 5 years, I was watching
5 Fox News day and night.
And,
2 things I have now that I didn't
have before I started watching Fox News,
blood pressure and heart attacks.
Sheer lies.
Total lies, you know. And and they know
that the people who are watching, they don't
have the background and they don't have the
proper knowledge of Islam so they just they
can spew hate and they can just say
nonsense and many people are willing to believe.
All you need to do is think for
yourself.
Is this a bad religion? If it's a
bad religion and the Quran is a of
violence, how come that Islam is the fastest
growing religion in the world? How come that
so many people are accepting this religion?
If Islam is so violent and abusive to
women, how come that 75%
of all reverts to Islam are women? My
name is Yvonne Ridley,
And my name is Nabil Azarir. The Muslim
faith is under the spotlight again, and this
time, its detractors and critics are wondering why
more women in the west are embracing Islam
than any other religion. Yes. In their eyes,
Islam is supposed to be a religion which
oppresses and subjugates women or that's what the
critics want everyone else to think. And the
profile of the new converts has them baffled.
According to figures from a multi faith group
called Faith Matters,
those most likely to convert to Islam are
career women in their 20s 30s. The number
who've converted has now passed the 100,000
mark with 5,200
recorded last year alone.
They are choosing to reject the excesses of
Western life styles such as consumerism and immorality.
But before we introduce 2 Muslim women with
amazing stories to tell So there has to
be something to it. So all you need
to do is just read it with an
open heart and open mind and think for
yourself. You are an intelligent you are intelligent
enough, smart enough to read and think for
yourself. Don't let other people with agendas do
the thinking for you. Yeah. Capitalize off your
ignorance,
with fear. We're gonna take a break and
be right back with more. Don't go anywhere.
Welcome back to the Deen Show. I'm with
doctor Mustafa Khattab.
And
you translated
the clear Quran, and we're talking about
giving the criteria for someone because they're not
Arabs speaking, and someone said, well, why did
God reveal the Quran in Arabic if He
wants me to understand it? I speak English
or French or German. How would you answer
that? Well, that's a very good question.
What if God if Allah revealed the Quran
in Chinese?
The Arabs would have said, well, we need
a Quran in Arabic. And the French would
have said, okay. We need the Quran in
French. Right?
So Allah revealed the Quran, and we know
that the Quran is the richest language on
earth. It has more vocabulary
than the next 5, 7 languages combined. Mhmm.
A very rich language. And subhanAllah I remember
when I was working on this translation, it
took us about 3 over 3 years to
finish this work. And I you know, all
these,
sleepless nights, I was awake up all night
thinking about
how powerful the Arabic is and how weak
the English is. Like
it's like when you have a bucket of
water and you try to pour this
bucket of water into this small cup. It
will be you know, overflowing.
The Arabic is so powerful, so beautiful. SubhanAllah.
Even people are moved
when they listen to the recitation of the
Quran in Arabic even if they don't know
the meaning. But if they understand the meaning,
they would be more moved and impressed with
the the recitation of the Quran. So God
knows Allah knows what he was doing when
he picked this particular,
language to preserve the final last final, message,
to mankind, the Quran. He knew what he
was doing. And don't you see it's ironic,
you know, many people,
these are some, you know, if you're sincere,
you're gonna see
through it. But sometimes people, you know, they
they throw these things out there. But that
person who might have said that, he learned,
like, you know, different languages to impress that
woman he loves. Yes. Yes.
The Arabic language sounds good, and it looks
good. When you see it in calligraphy, it's
it's it's very beautiful. Yeah. And I will
give you one example, how rich the Arabic
language is. In English you have one word
for lion, l I o n. Mhmm. In
Arabic we have more than 37 words for
lion. In English it's what? Lion. 1. So
now you have what? Synonyms and words for
that? Yeah. A word that means lion in
Arabic, we have more than 37. Wow. That's
deep.
Yeah.
So very rich language. Yeah. Let's continue on
with some more of the,
mistranslations
that you can share. Yes. Another example from
Surah 12, Yusuf
ayah 33, Joseph.
So for example, when Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
says, in the Arabic language we have a
preferential,
style we call tavdril,
which means that 2
things or 2 people have one quality in
common but one of them
precedes the other. Put it this way. Say
for example,
I'm tall
or handsome and brother Eddie is
taller than me and he is more handsome.
So we share our quality, right?
But sometimes you see this style in Arabic
and it doesn't mean this preferential
style. Say for example when Yusuf alaihi salam
Joseph in this surah 12 verse 33, it
says,
It says, You Allah,
going to jail
is more beloved to my heart than committing
adultery with these women. It doesn't mean that
both of them were beloved by him.
No. It doesn't mean this that he loved
adultery, but he loved going to jail more
than committing adultery. No. He said, and this
is our translation,
You Allah, I would rather go to jail
than to commit what they are asking me
to do. So there's no preferential
style here. When Lut
Lut is asking the men of his nation,
My daughters are here, the daughters of, you
know, the singles of his ummah,
marry them
everyone says in their translation, they are purer
for you in marriage. Then,
it's understood that he's comparing marrying women to
being with these men.
You know. Mhmm. So of course it doesn't
mean this in harab. It means that these
women are pure for you, men are not
pure for you, period. So there's no comparison
in impurity. They don't share the same quality.
So when you translate it literally, then you
have a problem in the understanding of the
Quran. Mhmm. Yes. Tell me for someone now
who is maybe tuning in for the first
time
and some people put all religions in the
same boat, oh, maybe this Quran is just
another scripture. What differentiates the Quran from other,
like to say, man made religions?
Okay. First of all, you have to read
and think for yourself. As I said at
the beginning,
if you have a number of scriptures in
front of you, read all of them and
see which of them makes more sense. Which
one is applicable, which one is practical,
And which one is closer to
our daily lives here? When you look at
the Quran,
number 1,
it challenges you from page 1 it says
There's no contradictions in this book, if you
want to prove me wrong
find 1. And it says, if you believe
this book is not from me, produce 1
like it.
Produce a Quran like it. If you can't
produce 10 chapters. If you can't produce 1.
They couldn't do it, so he's challenging you.
We know that the Quran is not a
book of science.
It's a book of science.
Right? So it puts a lot of scientific
references in the Quran about the,
the developmental phases of the embryo inside the
mother. The big bang is there in chapter
21. It talks about the constant expansion of
the universe. All these scientific references in the
Quran, at least from the perspective of Maurice
Bucai, a French scholar. He said I did
not find a single contradiction, scientific contradiction in
the Quran. So the Quran is always challenging
you to, to read and look and reflect
and to challenge the Quran to see if
it's word of Allah or not. Is there
any other book like the Quran where the
author states that, look, I am the creator
of the heavens that are revealing this book
that is challenging the reader like the like
this Quran that is making the claim that
this is from the creator of the heavens
and earth? I have not come across a
book that says that. No. You can't just
give a paper to your teacher and tell
him, I challenge you if you find a
mistake
in my paper. No. But Allah does this
in the Quran.
Now how would you contrast that to with
the Bible?
Well, if you look at the Quran, the
Quran, from what I know, is the only
book that does not have the name of
the author on the cover
or in the table of contents. When you
go, to the table of contents of the
Bible, for example, there are so many writers.
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and the old
testament, and Paul, and so on and so
forth. You can't find this in the Quran.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala does not have His
name on the cover of the Quran, but
He reveals Himself in every line and every
verse in the Quran. So On every page
God Almighty's name is mentioned? On every? Yes.
And he describes himself, he talks about himself.
This is what I need from you. Do
this, don't do this. He speaks with an
authority. He speaks with an authority. And he
knows people more than they know themselves. The
way I see the Quran, when you buy
a laptop for example, it comes with a
manual. Allah
is our manufacturer, He is our creator, and
He gave us the manual. If you live
by this book, you will live a good
life, you will be able to function as
a good human being, and you will achieve
happiness in this dunya and salvation in the
next life. What's the main theme of the
Quran? What what what is the Quran calling
humanity to? Well, two things. And this is
the message that was shared by all the
prophets of God from Adam to Muhammad, peace
be upon all of them. Everyone said the
same thing.
Abraham, Moses, and Jesus, all the prophets, they
said,
have faith in 1 God and be a
good guy, be a good person. If you
look at the 10 commandments, the first 4
of the 10 commandments say, worship 1 God,
serve Him alone, and from 5 to 10,
don't kill, don't lie, don't steal, be a
good guy. And Jesus said,
Love God with all your heart and love
your neighbor
as
you love yourself. So it's always about your
relationship with God and the relationship with His
creation. Be good. Have a good relationship with
God and be good to everyone,
humans
and animals and all of the creation of
Allah around you. This is a common theme
in the Quran. We're coming to a close.
We're gonna wrap it up.
You you have
this,
chapter 4 of the Quran? Yes. 1 42?
Yes. Now this is a sample regarding Yes.
The clear Quran. My translation of the Quran.
Okay. So this verse in, chapter 4142
says surely the hypocrites seek seek to deceive
God in Arabic Allah but he outwits
them. When they stand up for prayer they
do it half heartedly only to be seen
by people
hardly remembering God Allah at all torn between
belief and disbelief belonging neither to these believers
nor disbelievers
And whoever
Allah leaves to stray, you will never find
for them away. Yes. So you'll see a
lot of rhymes
in the translation.
So the youth can also connect with the
with the translation. So this is an example
how you translate it, how it flows. Yes.
Yeah. Very very powerful ayat as the whole
Quran is powerful.
The organization for Khan gives these out for
free. Yes. It's for Khan Foundation. Yes. Yeah.
So how could someone get this now if
they want we got not a lot of
not yet Muslims out there. Simply Muslim is
what? Who surrenders
someone who freely, consciously surrenders and submits to
the same God Jesus submitted to Moses, Abraham,
the one who created creation, God Almighty, Allah,
and now they wanna they wanna connect with
the Quran. Yes. You can order you can
order a free copy online. Go to order
a quran dot com, and you can get
it for free. Mhmm. Yes. And you can
get the Arabic English for the Muslim audience.
They can get it from Al Furqan Foundation.
This one here, just 1999.
This one is,
20, 24.99.
So it's affordable. Yeah. But reliable and authentic.
That's these with the Arabic and and then
this one for congress for free for for
the not yet Muslims out there. The our
brothers in humanities Singing humanity only. Yes. In
English only. Because the the
the original
is in Arabic.
This is the author's humble temp in English
to translate it. Yes. Alright? To give the
meaning of the Quran. Yes.
How could people hook up with you?
Well, my email is there. Is there? Info
at mostafa khattab.org.
So Fox News, they realized they got it
wrong, and they wanna make up for all
this blood pressure that they're causing, not only
the Musa The heart attacks. Yeah. The heart
the people now imagine you have the knowledge
and you were you were getting, like, you
know, pumped up. Imagine those people who don't
know how much fear
is being propagated
through people's ignorance. You wow. It's amazing. So
they can hook up with you. If they
wanna bring you on, CNN, any of these,
just I'm here. That's it. Bring on a
real expert of the Quran. Shaykh, thank you
very much. Thank you. Thanks for having me.
JazakAllah. Assalamu alaikum. Salaam. That was doctor Mustafa
Khattab
translating
the clear Quran. The Quran is clear with
a clear and simple message.
It's from the creator,
identifies
to be as such.
The message is simple. It's believable.
It's from the same creator who revealed the
10 Commandments to Moses, the Torah,
to Musa, Moses, to Jesus, to Injil,
and all the preceding messengers before them.
They all called you
to the purpose of life, which is to
worship, to serve the creator,
to worship the creator, not the creation, that
pure monotheism
warning people about the day of judgment,
paradise, hellfire, accountability in this life, and being
good, doing good deeds.
And nowhere in this book,
the Quran,
does it call for any kind of injustice,
and that would be an injustice to go
ahead and kill innocent men, women, and children,
and to reign havoc on the earth. So
Islam is a just book from a just
God, calling you to be just,
to be peaceful,
and to live life according to God's will,
not your desires. That's the main theme of
the Quran.
And we got to clear up some of
these misconceptions
that I'm sure you've been hit with,
how to understand or approach the Quran, not
doing the cut and paste,
or forgetting the before and after context and
the historical context,
the linguistic
context,
understanding,
and also taking the Quran as a whole.
That should tell you a lot If you
were getting your information with someone who's not
qualified in this area,
they shouldn't be speaking on it. But we
brought someone to you who was qualified, so
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