Mustafa Khattab – The Clear Quran On The Deen Show

Mustafa Khattab
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The Deen Show discusses the importance of reading the Quran in context and the importance of accuracy, clarity, and flow in translation. The speakers emphasize the need for diverse translation systems and the importance of understanding the nuances of translation in the Arabic language. They also discuss cultural misunderstandings and the potential for violence in the West. The CD is a free copy of the Quran, and it is a reliable and authentic source of information. The CD is a message that is easy to read and is common in the century.
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Because how silly do you look? Does an

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individual look who goes on Fox News, for

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instance, who goes out there quoting

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certain verses from the verbatim word of God

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out of context

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as if that person's an expert. Well, we

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have an expert.

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Because if you wanna learn, first you gotta

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be sincere, have the right intentions, and then

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go to the experts.

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And that's what we bring on here on

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The Dean's Show, people who are qualified

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to go ahead and explain the verses, people

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who have studied the Arabic language,

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academics

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in this field.

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And

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my next guest, doctor Mustafa

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Khattab,

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is

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this week's special guest who's translated

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the clear Quran, verbatim word of God. So

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you get a different feel, a different understanding

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when you come because if you're his blood

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pressure

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as

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he talks about

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was going up

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from listening to Fox News

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and many of the other media outlets

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who bring on supposed experts,

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imagine how your blood pressure,

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when certain verses are quoted out of context,

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must have been going up.

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And the fear was developing that trepidation in

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your heart

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because some Islamophobe

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has got you caught up in the slobophobia

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machine,

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and you're getting the mistruths, misinformation

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directed towards you. It's it's very scary. It's

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very frightful.

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But thank God you've been led to the

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Deen Show, so you can go ahead and

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hear it from the Muslims, from people who

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are qualified in this area. So we have

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a very exciting show. Don't go anywhere. We'll

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be right back.

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This is the Dean show.

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Welcome

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to the Dean show. How are you guys

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doing? We have another great and exciting show

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for you. I'm with our special guest, doctor

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Mustafa. Salaam Alaikum peace be with you. How

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are you Shay? Very good, hamdulillah.

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How you been? You're coming in from Canada?

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Yes. Yeah. Hamdulillah.

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How's the, prime minister there? He's doing well,

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alhamdulillah. He's doing well. He's making the connection

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with the Muslims. Yes. He's not building any

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walls or anything. No walls over there.

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I wanna time is short. I wanna get

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right into it. You know, there there are

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a lot of misconceptions

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revolving

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around this book actually, the Quran. Yes. Right?

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People pick it up and they say, look.

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How can you guys be people at peace

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when you have all these violent texts in

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there? And, you know, some of these young

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kids, they pick up this Quran, and this

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inspires them to do something violent. No quote.

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Surah 929

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or others are you familiar with? Yes. How

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do you address this? Well, it's a book

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and it has to be read in context.

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When you take something out of context you

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can make the author

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look terrible. We can do the same thing

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with any book including the Bible. There are

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passages in the Bible where Jesus said, for

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example, do you think I have come for

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peace? I have not come for peace, but

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a sword. Or something like bring all my

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enemies

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who don't believe in me and slaughter them

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under my feet. This is not so wait,

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this is supposed to be the Prince of

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Peace, who we actually love by the way.

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Jesus. Many people don't know that but so

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you're quoting from the Bible. Yes. All you

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need to do is put it back in

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context and read the verses before, the verses

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after in the Bible and it's something totally

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different. Yeah. But if you want to twist

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and play Of course. You can twist and

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play. Of course. Yeah. So all you have

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to do is, of course, number 1, you

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have to ask for a reference.

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Because most of the time I see, you

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know, Fox News, other

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news channels, they say that the Quran says

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this, but they don't give you a reference.

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And if they do give you, you have

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to go and read it in context. Read

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the verses before and the verses after, and

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you'll see that it talks about something totally

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different. Like the the most frequently quoted verse

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from the Quran, kill them wherever you find

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them. So this makes you feel like, oh,

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they're talking about kill them wherever you find

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them at Walmart,

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everywhere.

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When you put it back into context and

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you read the verses before and the verses

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after, it it says something totally different.

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Mhmm.

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Yeah. Tell me what is the difference between

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when you actually because many people, they'll pick

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up

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the Quran in English, and you've also had

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some authors

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who, with some malicious intent, they've actually

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translated they're not even Muslim. Yes. And have

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you come across these these translations

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that deliberately

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are meant to deceive people?

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Well, that's a very good question.

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So, because they'll have some right context. They'll

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have some some right trans but they'll they'll

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because the Arabic explain to us how deep

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the Arabic is for you just put one

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wrong word. Right? You don't know the the,

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the the,

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the you're not an expert in the Arabic

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language, the

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the sierra of the history of prophet Mohammed,

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etcetera, and now you're trying to, you know,

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translate this Quran. The question always comes up.

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Why do we need a new translation? There

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are 100 of them over the last 1500

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years.

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And I say, well,

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if you look at the translations of the

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Quran, the prophet

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passed away in the year 632,

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common era.

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And the first English translation of the Quran

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by a Muslim was done in 1905,

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which means for over 1300 years the Quran

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was never translated into English by a Muslim.

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And this explains, of course,

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they were mostly done by

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orientalists,

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by missionaries.

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And, this explains why we still have some

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words in translation like holy war, infidels,

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whereas we don't have this in in Arabic.

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Right?

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And after this, after 1905, so many translations

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were done by Muslims out of pride or

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out of zeal because they wanted to defend

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their faith. And they didn't have many of

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them, they didn't have the qualifications. They didn't

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speak Arabic. It's not their native tongue. They

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didn't study translation, Qur'anic studies, Islamic studies. So

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they didn't have the background. And this is

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why the translation,

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you know, their translation is not better off

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than many that were done by non Muslims.

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So,

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there are 4 things that I needed to

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achieve in this translation. And I think when

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you look at any translation of the Quran

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in English, you have to look at 4

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things. Number 1, accuracy. How

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they understood the Arabic text?

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And because there are so many terrible mistakes

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in translations that were done

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by non Arabs.

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You know,

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I'm not saying any bad thing, but when

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you translate using a dictionary,

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you can't translate the Quran by just using

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a dictionary. Right? You can translate a newspaper,

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but not the Quran. I'll give you one

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example. A very common mistranslation

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is in Surah Anbiya, chapter 21, verse 87,

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where it says

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So everyone says that when, John when

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Yunus

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Jonah, he left his town in a rage,

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he thought that Allah had no power over

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him.

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How can a Prophet think like this? This

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is not the correct meaning, but this is

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what you get when you translate using a

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dictionary. The actual meaning is, he thought that

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Allah would not restrain him. And this verb

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is used in the Qur'an,

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'Restrain.' And He put him in the belly

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of the whale. So accuracy in understanding the

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Arabic. And number 2, clarity, when you translate

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from Arabic into English,

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you have to make it understandable.

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The Qur'an describes

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itself as and this is actually the name

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of the translation, the clear Quran.

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Mhmm. It has to be understandable because it's

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for everyone.

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Arabs and non Arabs. Muslims and non Muslims.

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So when you translate it in a very

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archaic

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language style,

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it makes it very difficult for people to

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understand.

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So this is number 2. Number 3, eloquence.

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The Quran in Arabic is so powerful, and

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when you read translation in English, it's it's

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not, you know, it doesn't reflect reflect the

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beauty and the power of the. And this

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is something we try to do, and you

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have the sample right there. And number 4,

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the flow, how it flows. So we avoided

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all the parenthetical information, like half

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a page of parenthetical information to explain one

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concept, like,

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and all that stuff,

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you need to keep the flow going,

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to to be enjoyable to the reader. These

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are the 4 areas, accuracy, clarity, eloquence, and

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flow. And this is, I believe, what makes

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the trans the clique on a a good

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translation. We hear this often, the two

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statements that you the two words that you

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mentioned, holy war And infidel. And infidel. That

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that

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from my studies, what I've seen is

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if we go from back to front, infidel,

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this is something that was coined by the

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Christian Crusaders at that time Yes. Right, against

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the Muslims. Yes. So this is not an

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Islamic concept, infidel. They'll throw this out there.

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It's a dirty word. It's like right? What's

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the proper translation coming because they translate that

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from what?

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Well, from the word kafir in the Quran,

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a disbeliever.

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And guess what? Muslims are called kafir in

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the Quran. Because if you believe in something,

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you have to disbelieve in the opposite.

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Allah says, whoever believes in Allah and this

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believer

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in false gods So you are a believer

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in tawhid, one god. You have to be

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a disbeliever in the trinity

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and in other forms of shirk for example.

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Yeah. So it's not a negative word in

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the Quran. It's not a derogatory term to

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non Muslims. Because if you believe in something,

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you have to disbelieve in the opposite Mhmm.

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Of it. Does it mean to cover up

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the truth, to conceal the truth when you

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get when you go into the deeper meaning?

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Yeah. To cover belief with disbelief.

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Okay. So a disbeliever.

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One who covers the truth. Yeah. A farmer

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in the Quran, al kuffar,

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are called

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kuffar in the Quran because they are farmers.

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They cover the seed with dirt. Yeah.

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So it's not a horrible word as

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they make it seem like like infidel and

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all that stuff. Yeah. So so that you

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don't find that actual word info. That's an

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English word. So that's not that would okay.

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That another thing is holy war. So you

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guys these these, radicals out there, you know

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Islam is encouraging to holy war. Is there

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such a thing as holy war? Well, there's

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nothing holy about war. The prophet

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even in his teachings,

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he said,

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don't ask Allah to meet your enemy in

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battle. He said don't ask for it, but

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if it's forced on you, you have to

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defend yourself. And in Surah Hajj chapter 22,

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it says that the reason that the believers

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are allowed to fight is to defend

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churches,

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to defend synagogues, and to defend mosques, and

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to defend, the weak and the oppressed. So

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it's it's used for a good reason, not

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just to go out and push everyone to

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accept Islam because Islamically, you cannot force someone

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to become Muslim. So this is

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these, verses of combat are in combat situations,

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can you say? And there's a just war

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theory Yes. That would equivalent to that. Right?

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Yes. Okay. Let's take a break, and we'll

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be right back with more with doctor Mustafa

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here on The Dee Show. Don't go anywhere.

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This is The Dee Show.

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Welcome back to The Dee Show, and I'm

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with

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doctor Mustafa who has

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translated

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the copy

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it's called the clear Quran.

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And you're responsible for how many put this

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together? Yes. Yeah. So give us some give

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us some you're going to give us some

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examples of some mistranslations.

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Okay. Please go ahead. Well, the story behind

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the clear Quran,

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August 2013,

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I was in Toronto, Canada visiting imam, and

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I just gave Jumah Khutba, and I was

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coming back to the hotel,

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dressed up like an Arabian prince who just

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came out of the desert, you know, the

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thobe, the flowing rope, and, turban, and.

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So if you have been to Toronto,

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admit so many Muslim cab drivers, But that

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day, it so happened that the cab driver

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was not Muslim. And I I don't usually

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force,

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you know, religion on anyone unless they have

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a question. So that day, the non Muslim

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cab driver said, you know what?

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Muslims are good people but Islam sucks. I

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said, okay. Thanks for the compliment about Muslims

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but but but what do you think Muslim

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Islam is is an evil religion? But he's

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insulting you in another way. Yes. So I

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said, why? He said, because your book, the

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Quran, calls me an animal. And I said,

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subhanAllah. I'm hafidh. I know the whole Quran

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by heart and it doesn't say that anywhere.

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And he said, no.

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Chapter 8 verse 55.

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And I told him the word in the

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Quran does not mean an animal, it means

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a living being. And this is explained in

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another verse in the Quran, chapter 24

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verse 45.

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It says, chapter 24 verse 45, Allah created

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every living being out of water. Some of

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them crawl on their bellies, some walk on

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2 feet like you, some walk on 4

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feet. This is what Allah says in the

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Quran to explain this concept. He says this

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what his translation

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said. So that night I went to my

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hotel room and I checked, there's a website,

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it's called Islam Awakened,

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they list like 40, 45 different translations of

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the same verse, And he was correct. Most

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of the translations said animal or beast.

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They're both as bad. But a living being

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or a moving creature would be a good

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translation.

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So this is why we decided to, you

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do a new translation of the Quran and

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correct some of these misunderstood concepts

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about the Quran because this can easily be

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used to give Islam a bad name. Like

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this one right here in Surah 3 Al

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Imran

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aya

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106. It talks about the day of judgment,

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and it says on that day some faces

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will be white, some faces will be black,

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or at least this is what most people

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say in in translation.

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But it doesn't talk about black on white

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because was a black man and his face

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will be bright on the day of judgement.

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And Abu Allahab or Abu Jal, they were

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white people and their faces will be gloomy.

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It talks about,

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you know the fact that faces will be

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gloomy

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even if they were white, and some faces

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will be bright even if they are black.

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It doesn't talk about black and white. So

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when you read this in translation that black

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people are going to jahannam, the hellfire, and

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white people are going to jannah, this sounds

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very racist to me. But the Arabic, the

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actual meaning is bright and gloomy.

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And this is explained in many ayats in

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the Quran, it explains this concept. So this

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is another example.

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Also when people translate

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and they don't know

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the historical background

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of the verses, like say for example when

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they translate 53,

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Ayah

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27. Those who don't believe in the hereafter,

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everyone says

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they

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give angels

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female names.

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And I'm looking at all the names of

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angels and none of them is a female.

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But if you understand the Arabic,

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you know, belief at the time before the

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prophet the pagan belief in Arabia at the

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time, they believed that the angels were the

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daughters of Allah, but they didn't give them

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female names. They just classified them or label

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them as female, and this is the right

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translation.

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They don't give them female names, they label

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them as female, as the daughters of Allah.

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So this is the proper understanding.

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So these are some of the things.

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Also, we try to reflect some of the

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linguistic issues in the Quran. For example, this

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is a good one, chapter

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94, verse 56.

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We have to understand when something is repeated

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in the Quran, it is repeated for

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emphasis. Even if

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Surah Rahman 31 times. And this is no

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different than I have a dream, let freedom

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ring by

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Martin Luther King, just for emphasis.

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But when you see a story like for

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example Moses is repeated all over the place

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or Ibrahim

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but when you look closely

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the focus shifts all the time. So in

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surah for example, surah Kasas, the focus is

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Moses's

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childhood,

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how he killed an Egyptian by mistake, how

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he escaped to Madin and got married. You

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read Surah Araf chapter 7, it talks about

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the persecution of Bani Asayl. You read Surah

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Kaf, it talks about his encounter with Al

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Khid. The focus is always different.

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But here

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Everyone says in translation, with difficulty comes ease,

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indeed with difficulty or hardship comes ease. They

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don't understand that when something is repeated in

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Arabic,

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there is something there linguistically.

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For example,

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the two words repeated here

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is repeated twice, it has If

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something is repeated with it means the same

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guy. I met the guy, I gave the

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guy money. Means that. It's the same guy.

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Which is ease,

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is without the

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definitive

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it means like I meet a guy and

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I gave a guy some money. It's a

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totally different guy. So what Allah means here,

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it's one difficulty but two eases.

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So the actual translation is with

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with every difficulty comes ease,

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then with that same difficulty comes more ease.

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And this is totally lost in translation, this

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linguistic aspect, but I think it's a beautiful

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thing if you

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put it in there. So so so far

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we have, some things that are very, very

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important when someone is approaching the Quran

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to be careful from being deceived

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is,

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a, we can say the cut and paste,

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like taking, let's say, one verse and then

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be snapping it through the middle, like, what

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can I think of? The Quran says,

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don't

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approach prayer. Yes. Right?

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Intoxicated. So if you cut that off, the

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intoxicated part, but then someone can go further

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and say, look, I'm not intoxicated, They can

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play with it and say, Now I'll pray.

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But now they'll miss out the verses where

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and about drinking totally and then the deeper

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so we have the cut and paste. You

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mentioned the

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before

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and

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after.

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We have the linguistic,

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and then you have the historical context.

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And then what else am I missing? If

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you then just take in everything as a

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whole. Yes.

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You have to understand the Arabic. The Arabic.

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You have to be able to translate it

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into good English. Yeah. And have to reflect

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the beauty and the linguistic aspects of the

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Quran. Yeah. And how silly do you I

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mean, do you how do you when you

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see some of these people that they bring

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out, this is just, I mean, this is

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just mind blowing. You turn on some somebody's,

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like, channel Fox News and have some, like,

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so called,

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like, Quran or,

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Islamic expert on the show. Yeah. Have you

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seen them? Yeah. Of course. Actually, I did

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my PhD dissertation

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on how Islam is portrayed on Fox News.

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Oh, yeah. For 5 years, I was watching

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5 Fox News day and night.

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And,

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2 things I have now that I didn't

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have before I started watching Fox News,

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blood pressure and heart attacks.

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Sheer lies.

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Total lies, you know. And and they know

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that the people who are watching, they don't

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have the background and they don't have the

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proper knowledge of Islam so they just they

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can spew hate and they can just say

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nonsense and many people are willing to believe.

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All you need to do is think for

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yourself.

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Is this a bad religion? If it's a

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bad religion and the Quran is a of

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violence, how come that Islam is the fastest

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growing religion in the world? How come that

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so many people are accepting this religion?

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If Islam is so violent and abusive to

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women, how come that 75%

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of all reverts to Islam are women? My

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name is Yvonne Ridley,

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And my name is Nabil Azarir. The Muslim

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faith is under the spotlight again, and this

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time, its detractors and critics are wondering why

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more women in the west are embracing Islam

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than any other religion. Yes. In their eyes,

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Islam is supposed to be a religion which

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oppresses and subjugates women or that's what the

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critics want everyone else to think. And the

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profile of the new converts has them baffled.

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According to figures from a multi faith group

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called Faith Matters,

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those most likely to convert to Islam are

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career women in their 20s 30s. The number

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who've converted has now passed the 100,000

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mark with 5,200

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recorded last year alone.

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They are choosing to reject the excesses of

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Western life styles such as consumerism and immorality.

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But before we introduce 2 Muslim women with

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amazing stories to tell So there has to

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be something to it. So all you need

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to do is just read it with an

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open heart and open mind and think for

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yourself. You are an intelligent you are intelligent

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enough, smart enough to read and think for

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yourself. Don't let other people with agendas do

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the thinking for you. Yeah. Capitalize off your

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ignorance,

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with fear. We're gonna take a break and

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be right back with more. Don't go anywhere.

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Welcome back to the Deen Show. I'm with

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doctor Mustafa Khattab.

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And

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you translated

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the clear Quran, and we're talking about

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giving the criteria for someone because they're not

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Arabs speaking, and someone said, well, why did

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God reveal the Quran in Arabic if He

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wants me to understand it? I speak English

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or French or German. How would you answer

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that? Well, that's a very good question.

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What if God if Allah revealed the Quran

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in Chinese?

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The Arabs would have said, well, we need

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a Quran in Arabic. And the French would

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have said, okay. We need the Quran in

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French. Right?

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So Allah revealed the Quran, and we know

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that the Quran is the richest language on

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earth. It has more vocabulary

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than the next 5, 7 languages combined. Mhmm.

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A very rich language. And subhanAllah I remember

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when I was working on this translation, it

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took us about 3 over 3 years to

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finish this work. And I you know, all

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these,

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sleepless nights, I was awake up all night

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thinking about

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how powerful the Arabic is and how weak

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the English is. Like

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it's like when you have a bucket of

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water and you try to pour this

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bucket of water into this small cup. It

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will be you know, overflowing.

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The Arabic is so powerful, so beautiful. SubhanAllah.

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Even people are moved

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when they listen to the recitation of the

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Quran in Arabic even if they don't know

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the meaning. But if they understand the meaning,

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they would be more moved and impressed with

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the the recitation of the Quran. So God

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knows Allah knows what he was doing when

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he picked this particular,

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language to preserve the final last final, message,

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to mankind, the Quran. He knew what he

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was doing. And don't you see it's ironic,

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you know, many people,

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these are some, you know, if you're sincere,

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you're gonna see

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through it. But sometimes people, you know, they

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they throw these things out there. But that

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person who might have said that, he learned,

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like, you know, different languages to impress that

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woman he loves. Yes. Yes.

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The Arabic language sounds good, and it looks

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good. When you see it in calligraphy, it's

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it's it's very beautiful. Yeah. And I will

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give you one example, how rich the Arabic

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language is. In English you have one word

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for lion, l I o n. Mhmm. In

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Arabic we have more than 37 words for

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lion. In English it's what? Lion. 1. So

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now you have what? Synonyms and words for

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that? Yeah. A word that means lion in

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Arabic, we have more than 37. Wow. That's

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deep.

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Yeah.

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So very rich language. Yeah. Let's continue on

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with some more of the,

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mistranslations

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that you can share. Yes. Another example from

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Surah 12, Yusuf

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ayah 33, Joseph.

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So for example, when Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

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says, in the Arabic language we have a

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preferential,

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style we call tavdril,

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which means that 2

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things or 2 people have one quality in

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common but one of them

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precedes the other. Put it this way. Say

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for example,

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I'm tall

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or handsome and brother Eddie is

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taller than me and he is more handsome.

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So we share our quality, right?

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But sometimes you see this style in Arabic

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and it doesn't mean this preferential

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style. Say for example when Yusuf alaihi salam

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Joseph in this surah 12 verse 33, it

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says,

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It says, You Allah,

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going to jail

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is more beloved to my heart than committing

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adultery with these women. It doesn't mean that

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both of them were beloved by him.

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No. It doesn't mean this that he loved

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adultery, but he loved going to jail more

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than committing adultery. No. He said, and this

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is our translation,

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You Allah, I would rather go to jail

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than to commit what they are asking me

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to do. So there's no preferential

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style here. When Lut

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Lut is asking the men of his nation,

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My daughters are here, the daughters of, you

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know, the singles of his ummah,

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marry them

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everyone says in their translation, they are purer

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for you in marriage. Then,

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it's understood that he's comparing marrying women to

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being with these men.

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You know. Mhmm. So of course it doesn't

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mean this in harab. It means that these

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women are pure for you, men are not

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pure for you, period. So there's no comparison

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in impurity. They don't share the same quality.

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So when you translate it literally, then you

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have a problem in the understanding of the

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Quran. Mhmm. Yes. Tell me for someone now

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who is maybe tuning in for the first

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time

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and some people put all religions in the

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same boat, oh, maybe this Quran is just

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another scripture. What differentiates the Quran from other,

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like to say, man made religions?

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Okay. First of all, you have to read

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and think for yourself. As I said at

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the beginning,

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if you have a number of scriptures in

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front of you, read all of them and

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see which of them makes more sense. Which

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one is applicable, which one is practical,

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And which one is closer to

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our daily lives here? When you look at

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the Quran,

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number 1,

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it challenges you from page 1 it says

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There's no contradictions in this book, if you

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want to prove me wrong

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find 1. And it says, if you believe

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this book is not from me, produce 1

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like it.

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Produce a Quran like it. If you can't

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produce 10 chapters. If you can't produce 1.

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They couldn't do it, so he's challenging you.

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We know that the Quran is not a

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book of science.

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It's a book of science.

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Right? So it puts a lot of scientific

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references in the Quran about the,

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the developmental phases of the embryo inside the

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mother. The big bang is there in chapter

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21. It talks about the constant expansion of

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the universe. All these scientific references in the

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Quran, at least from the perspective of Maurice

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Bucai, a French scholar. He said I did

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not find a single contradiction, scientific contradiction in

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the Quran. So the Quran is always challenging

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you to, to read and look and reflect

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and to challenge the Quran to see if

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it's word of Allah or not. Is there

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any other book like the Quran where the

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author states that, look, I am the creator

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of the heavens that are revealing this book

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that is challenging the reader like the like

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this Quran that is making the claim that

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this is from the creator of the heavens

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and earth? I have not come across a

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book that says that. No. You can't just

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give a paper to your teacher and tell

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him, I challenge you if you find a

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mistake

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in my paper. No. But Allah does this

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in the Quran.

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Now how would you contrast that to with

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the Bible?

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Well, if you look at the Quran, the

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Quran, from what I know, is the only

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book that does not have the name of

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the author on the cover

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or in the table of contents. When you

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go, to the table of contents of the

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Bible, for example, there are so many writers.

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Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and the old

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testament, and Paul, and so on and so

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forth. You can't find this in the Quran.

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala does not have His

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name on the cover of the Quran, but

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He reveals Himself in every line and every

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verse in the Quran. So On every page

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God Almighty's name is mentioned? On every? Yes.

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And he describes himself, he talks about himself.

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This is what I need from you. Do

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this, don't do this. He speaks with an

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authority. He speaks with an authority. And he

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knows people more than they know themselves. The

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way I see the Quran, when you buy

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a laptop for example, it comes with a

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manual. Allah

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is our manufacturer, He is our creator, and

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He gave us the manual. If you live

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by this book, you will live a good

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life, you will be able to function as

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a good human being, and you will achieve

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happiness in this dunya and salvation in the

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next life. What's the main theme of the

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Quran? What what what is the Quran calling

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humanity to? Well, two things. And this is

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the message that was shared by all the

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prophets of God from Adam to Muhammad, peace

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be upon all of them. Everyone said the

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same thing.

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Abraham, Moses, and Jesus, all the prophets, they

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said,

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have faith in 1 God and be a

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good guy, be a good person. If you

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look at the 10 commandments, the first 4

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of the 10 commandments say, worship 1 God,

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serve Him alone, and from 5 to 10,

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don't kill, don't lie, don't steal, be a

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good guy. And Jesus said,

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Love God with all your heart and love

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your neighbor

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as

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you love yourself. So it's always about your

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relationship with God and the relationship with His

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creation. Be good. Have a good relationship with

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God and be good to everyone,

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humans

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and animals and all of the creation of

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Allah around you. This is a common theme

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in the Quran. We're coming to a close.

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We're gonna wrap it up.

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You you have

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this,

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chapter 4 of the Quran? Yes. 1 42?

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Yes. Now this is a sample regarding Yes.

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The clear Quran. My translation of the Quran.

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Okay. So this verse in, chapter 4142

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says surely the hypocrites seek seek to deceive

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God in Arabic Allah but he outwits

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them. When they stand up for prayer they

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do it half heartedly only to be seen

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by people

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hardly remembering God Allah at all torn between

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belief and disbelief belonging neither to these believers

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nor disbelievers

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And whoever

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Allah leaves to stray, you will never find

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for them away. Yes. So you'll see a

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lot of rhymes

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in the translation.

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So the youth can also connect with the

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with the translation. So this is an example

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how you translate it, how it flows. Yes.

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Yeah. Very very powerful ayat as the whole

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Quran is powerful.

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The organization for Khan gives these out for

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free. Yes. It's for Khan Foundation. Yes. Yeah.

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So how could someone get this now if

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they want we got not a lot of

00:31:00 --> 00:31:02

not yet Muslims out there. Simply Muslim is

00:31:02 --> 00:31:03

what? Who surrenders

00:31:04 --> 00:31:06

someone who freely, consciously surrenders and submits to

00:31:06 --> 00:31:08

the same God Jesus submitted to Moses, Abraham,

00:31:08 --> 00:31:11

the one who created creation, God Almighty, Allah,

00:31:11 --> 00:31:13

and now they wanna they wanna connect with

00:31:13 --> 00:31:15

the Quran. Yes. You can order you can

00:31:15 --> 00:31:17

order a free copy online. Go to order

00:31:17 --> 00:31:19

a quran dot com, and you can get

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it for free. Mhmm. Yes. And you can

00:31:21 --> 00:31:25

get the Arabic English for the Muslim audience.

00:31:25 --> 00:31:27

They can get it from Al Furqan Foundation.

00:31:28 --> 00:31:29

This one here, just 1999.

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This one is,

00:31:32 --> 00:31:33

20, 24.99.

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So it's affordable. Yeah. But reliable and authentic.

00:31:36 --> 00:31:37

That's these with the Arabic and and then

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this one for congress for free for for

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the not yet Muslims out there. The our

00:31:41 --> 00:31:43

brothers in humanities Singing humanity only. Yes. In

00:31:43 --> 00:31:46

English only. Because the the

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the original

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is in Arabic.

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This is the author's humble temp in English

00:31:51 --> 00:31:53

to translate it. Yes. Alright? To give the

00:31:53 --> 00:31:55

meaning of the Quran. Yes.

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How could people hook up with you?

00:31:57 --> 00:32:00

Well, my email is there. Is there? Info

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at mostafa khattab.org.

00:32:01 --> 00:32:03

So Fox News, they realized they got it

00:32:03 --> 00:32:05

wrong, and they wanna make up for all

00:32:05 --> 00:32:07

this blood pressure that they're causing, not only

00:32:07 --> 00:32:09

the Musa The heart attacks. Yeah. The heart

00:32:09 --> 00:32:11

the people now imagine you have the knowledge

00:32:11 --> 00:32:12

and you were you were getting, like, you

00:32:12 --> 00:32:15

know, pumped up. Imagine those people who don't

00:32:15 --> 00:32:17

know how much fear

00:32:17 --> 00:32:18

is being propagated

00:32:18 --> 00:32:22

through people's ignorance. You wow. It's amazing. So

00:32:22 --> 00:32:23

they can hook up with you. If they

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wanna bring you on, CNN, any of these,

00:32:25 --> 00:32:27

just I'm here. That's it. Bring on a

00:32:27 --> 00:32:29

real expert of the Quran. Shaykh, thank you

00:32:29 --> 00:32:30

very much. Thank you. Thanks for having me.

00:32:30 --> 00:32:34

JazakAllah. Assalamu alaikum. Salaam. That was doctor Mustafa

00:32:34 --> 00:32:35

Khattab

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translating

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the clear Quran. The Quran is clear with

00:32:39 --> 00:32:41

a clear and simple message.

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It's from the creator,

00:32:44 --> 00:32:45

identifies

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to be as such.

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The message is simple. It's believable.

00:32:50 --> 00:32:52

It's from the same creator who revealed the

00:32:52 --> 00:32:54

10 Commandments to Moses, the Torah,

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to Musa, Moses, to Jesus, to Injil,

00:32:58 --> 00:33:01

and all the preceding messengers before them.

00:33:01 --> 00:33:03

They all called you

00:33:03 --> 00:33:05

to the purpose of life, which is to

00:33:05 --> 00:33:07

worship, to serve the creator,

00:33:07 --> 00:33:09

to worship the creator, not the creation, that

00:33:09 --> 00:33:10

pure monotheism

00:33:11 --> 00:33:12

warning people about the day of judgment,

00:33:13 --> 00:33:16

paradise, hellfire, accountability in this life, and being

00:33:16 --> 00:33:17

good, doing good deeds.

00:33:19 --> 00:33:20

And nowhere in this book,

00:33:21 --> 00:33:21

the Quran,

00:33:22 --> 00:33:24

does it call for any kind of injustice,

00:33:24 --> 00:33:26

and that would be an injustice to go

00:33:26 --> 00:33:28

ahead and kill innocent men, women, and children,

00:33:29 --> 00:33:31

and to reign havoc on the earth. So

00:33:31 --> 00:33:33

Islam is a just book from a just

00:33:33 --> 00:33:36

God, calling you to be just,

00:33:36 --> 00:33:37

to be peaceful,

00:33:37 --> 00:33:40

and to live life according to God's will,

00:33:40 --> 00:33:42

not your desires. That's the main theme of

00:33:42 --> 00:33:43

the Quran.

00:33:44 --> 00:33:45

And we got to clear up some of

00:33:45 --> 00:33:46

these misconceptions

00:33:47 --> 00:33:49

that I'm sure you've been hit with,

00:33:49 --> 00:33:52

how to understand or approach the Quran, not

00:33:52 --> 00:33:53

doing the cut and paste,

00:33:54 --> 00:33:57

or forgetting the before and after context and

00:33:57 --> 00:33:59

the historical context,

00:33:59 --> 00:34:00

the linguistic

00:34:02 --> 00:34:02

context,

00:34:03 --> 00:34:03

understanding,

00:34:04 --> 00:34:07

and also taking the Quran as a whole.

00:34:07 --> 00:34:09

That should tell you a lot If you

00:34:09 --> 00:34:11

were getting your information with someone who's not

00:34:11 --> 00:34:13

qualified in this area,

00:34:13 --> 00:34:14

they shouldn't be speaking on it. But we

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brought someone to you who was qualified, so

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