Mustafa Khattab – What Is Islam 1

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The importance of understanding Islam's elements and global ethics is highlighted, as it is crucial to determine one's faith and relationship with the people. Different people's beliefs and perception of God are also discussed, with emphasis on common sense and language penetration. The speaker emphasizes teaching children to speak their own language and being proud of their culture, while also acknowledging the need to learn to speak their own language and be proud of their culture.

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			Convey to the people is the common grounds
		
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			we have
		
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			because in faith, the girl always talks about
		
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			one religion
		
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			and that is the religion
		
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			of Islam and crosses or different shalaq
		
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			different faiths.
		
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			Study with to ask you questions about these
		
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			non difficult questions, so you need to know
		
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			the basics to be able to answer.
		
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			So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			sends all prophets from Adam alayhi salaam to
		
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			Muhammad SAWSAWAYH in the same message.
		
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			And we have the commandments
		
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			repeated in the Quran at least twice. 1
		
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			is once and Islam
		
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			or theology, acts of worship, and so on
		
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			and so forth, the belief
		
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			system. And the second half is your relationship
		
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			with the people. So
		
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			a lot of people differ with regards to
		
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			the first half, your relationship with Allah.
		
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			So, every faith has a different perception of
		
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			God
		
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			and their acts of worship are different. Not
		
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			everyone, class, or praise like us, everybody is
		
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			different.
		
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			But, when you come to the siding house,
		
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			mawalah, the relationship with the people,
		
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			every
		
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			You have to be kind. You have to
		
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			be sincere. You have to be generous. Everybody
		
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			says exactly the same thing. But, when it
		
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			comes to the first half reality, different people
		
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			have different,
		
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			ideas and different beliefs. So, we need to
		
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			focus and this is all I did in
		
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			the past, I focused on the second half.
		
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			The the things we have in common with
		
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			you when it comes to global ethics
		
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			or dealing with other people, we exactly
		
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			No prophet ever called his religion or his
		
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			faith anything other than this have faith in
		
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			1 God and be a good person submission.
		
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			When they I tell them when you're reading
		
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			your books
		
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			The answer is no. Because the word Christianity
		
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			is not even in the Bible.
		
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			All things and the same thing, made in
		
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			one God,
		
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			be a new person. Cause. In Arabic, we
		
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			call this Islam or submission calls, Hamakar. That's
		
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			it. Cause.
		
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			That Allah subhanahu wa'ala sent over
		
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			a
		
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			124,000 prophets from Adam to Muhammad
		
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			So if this is the case and every
		
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			single prophet says exactly the same thing, why
		
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			different people worship different things?
		
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			Well, there are different
		
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			explanations. We'll give you 2 of them.
		
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			The first one, the prophet
		
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			says in Hadith al Bukhay in other books
		
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			of Hadith,
		
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			to submit to Allah's account of God, one
		
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			God, and to be in the person.
		
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			But it is the parents who change everything.
		
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			So every single person or the great majority
		
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			of human beings in this world,
		
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			they they just follow their parents.
		
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			And this is what Allah says in the
		
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			Quran. Whether you ask someone who has a
		
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			different belief, why you believe so? They say,
		
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			we found our parents doing the same thing
		
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			so we just walk in their footsteps.
		
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			So if someone is born in China,
		
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			then most likely it would be Buddhist because
		
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			this is what the majority of people believe.
		
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			If someone is born in Morocco or Egypt,
		
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			most likely it will be Muslim. If
		
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			or it doesn't make any sense. They just
		
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			follow without giving conviction or common sense. They
		
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			just follow it. And as I say in
		
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			English, common sense is not very common.
		
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			People just they just follow,
		
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			blindly. So this is one of these.
		
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			Also,
		
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			if we read about
		
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			history,
		
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			most people have not been happy
		
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			with the idea of believing in a God
		
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			they can't see.
		
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			Islam is probably the only religion
		
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			that teaches that
		
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			Allah is different from you. The creator is
		
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			different from the creation.
		
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			So Al Khaled,
		
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			like salam, not to place a
		
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			with the 5 senses. So they need a
		
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			God. They can see. They can touch. They
		
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			can relate to. So what people have done
		
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			from the times of the Romans and the
		
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			Greeks and the ancient Egyptians tell this day,
		
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			what they do, they put a face on
		
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			God.
		
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			The devil.
		
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			You
		
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			read about, the church or the devil worshipers
		
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			in the US. They put the face of
		
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			the devil on gods
		
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			because this is something they can't see.
		
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			Read about ancient Egypt. They have thousands of
		
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			gods. The gods that have the head of
		
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			a crocodile,
		
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			hyena,
		
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			snake, ancient breed, ancient roe. And this is
		
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			why
		
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			when
		
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			the people of Musa alayhiskan, when they left
		
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			Egypt
		
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			and they were surrounded by
		
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			people who worship these different gods, the statues,
		
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			and all these things. They just crossed the
		
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			the sea.
		
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			So they told Musa
		
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			when they lost their sight from the sea
		
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			what
		
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			is
		
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			this?
		
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			Okay,
		
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			let's
		
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			say,
		
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			and you ask for a sash to worship
		
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			what is this? Okay, let us listen. Okay,
		
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			we will worship Allah but we want to
		
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			see Allah face to face
		
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			in Surah Al Baqarah because they have been
		
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			influenced
		
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			by the people who have these beliefs.
		
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			Muslim. Why? Because they believed in one Allah,
		
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			one God,
		
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			and they were good people. So this is
		
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			the essence of the messages in Islam.
		
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			So what we want people to know
		
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			to know the basics of the religion, they
		
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			ask you
		
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			to debate with them about anything. Because some
		
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			of the brothers,
		
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			when they ask you a question about Islam,
		
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			or what do you think about Islam?
		
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			Some of us, and we start a debate.
		
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			We start a debate with them. And you
		
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			will say, how do you believe in this
		
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			book and it was corrupting over time? Or
		
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			how have you worshiped Islam and you never
		
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			sin our God? You guys, you don't think
		
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			you have no whatever?
		
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			When people are offended, they will never listen
		
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			to you. They already know what they believe.
		
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			They know what they believe in their books.
		
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			They know what they believe in their they
		
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			are called in their places of worship. So,
		
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			they know.
		
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			So, what they want from you is to
		
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			tell you or to tell them
		
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			your perception, what you believe. Now talk to
		
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			them about Islam,
		
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			talk to them about iman and the belief
		
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			in the different prophets.
		
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			We're told, of course, Afghan of Islam, the
		
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			5 pillars of Islam, the belief in 1
		
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			God,
		
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			you recognize all of them. So when you
		
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			take an oath to become a citizen of
		
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			Canada
		
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			and you take the oath and the picture
		
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			of the queen is there in Elizabeth deciding.
		
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			If you recognize the last queen,
		
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			it means you are set to recognize all
		
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			of them. It's exactly the same thing. Maybe
		
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			you can use this example and they challenge
		
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			you.
		
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			Then, of course, we believe Mohammed SAW Salam
		
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			has a prophet. He never claimed anything to
		
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			be anything other than a prophet.
		
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			When we tell them that Muhammad SAW is
		
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			mentioned by name in the Quran only 4
		
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			times and Aisha is mentioned by name 24
		
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			25 times by name.
		
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			Mariam Alayin Salah, there's a chapter named after
		
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			her in the Quran.
		
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			There's no chapter named after her in the
		
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			bible. She's mentioned
		
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			by name in the bible 18 times. In
		
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			the Quran, she is mentioned by name 34
		
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			times.
		
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			Twice the number of times she is mentioned
		
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			in the bible.
		
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			When they hear this, they are shocked. So
		
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			these are the things we need to focus
		
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			on.
		
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			Of course, we talk to them about salah,
		
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			we pray to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			And when you make Urduur,
		
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			we make Surduur, they ask us why do
		
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			you do this?
		
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			When you read salah, they say
		
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			that's Jesus in the New Testament,
		
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			when he made salah, he moved his face
		
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			on the ground and made sadhah of Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa'ala.
		
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			So what we do, we do exactly
		
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			our salah,
		
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			includes all the movements that the prophets did
		
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			in their time.
		
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			So we're very close. All you need to
		
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			do is go back to the original teachings
		
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			of your book and you'll see exactly what
		
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			it says. We're doing exactly the same things
		
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			They gave
		
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			salah. Rizal was not permissible for
		
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			them.
		
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			Poor was not permissible for them. Musa alaihis
		
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			salam says, it's filthy. You're not allowed to
		
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			touch it. And,
		
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			you guys say, call your god Allah and
		
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			we call our god Jehovah.
		
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			So you worship a different god. But this
		
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			is not true. You ask him, what did
		
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			Musa alaihi salaam in his language of Hebrew,
		
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			and what did Risa, Jesus in his language
		
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			of Aramaic,
		
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			they come from the same,
		
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			they have the same roots or the same
		
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			moral origins.
		
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			So I think, most of the language
		
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			of Israel,
		
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			Eloh. Eloh in Hebrew means God, like the
		
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			word Elah.
		
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			And he uses sometimes in the plural Alodim
		
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			to show respect to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			Just like when we say Allahumma.
		
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			Alodim Allah is exactly the same thing.
		
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			Islam both Aramaic and the word he used
		
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			for Allah in Aramaic was the word Allah
		
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			a l a s a. You can Google
		
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			it. So they use precisely and exactly the
		
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			same words that we Muslims use.
		
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			Unique because it doesn't have a plural. In
		
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			English, you have and
		
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			all these things. And the Arabic word Allah
		
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			is not masculine and it is not feminine.
		
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			It is neutral.
		
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			Allah
		
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			is neutral. And, of course, we believe in
		
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			the We believe in the prophets.
		
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			We believe in Musa. We believe in Reisa,
		
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			and we respect them the same.
		
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			We are told in the Quran.
		
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			We respect all of them the same.
		
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			And
		
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			we name our children after them. And I'm
		
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			sure there is a sister in the back
		
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			who's called Maryam too, Mary. So we love
		
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			these prophets and we name our children after
		
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			them as a sign of love and respect.
		
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			Of course, we believe in the original teachings
		
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			given to prophets
		
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			like the Torah given to Musa alayhis salaam,
		
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			the gospel given to our Isa, the Psalms,
		
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			the zaboor given to Nahu alayhis salaam, we
		
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			believe in the scrolls, the sort of of
		
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			their books were revealed in an oral form.
		
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			So, Musa alaihi salam, Isa alaihi salam, they
		
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			were teaching
		
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			like giving speeches like this kufa, but nothing
		
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			was written. They didn't give a hard copy.
		
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			The prophet said, listen, everything was written and
		
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			he gave us a hard
		
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			Waladagya Salaam to analyze it. I came across
		
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			a sister in Egypt. She was 5, maybe
		
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			5 and a half years
		
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			old, Minna. And she knew the whole Qur'an
		
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			My Heart. So Surah Al Fatih and Surat
		
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			Al
		
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			more than 600 pages in Abu and some
		
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			of them they are not Abu speaking people
		
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			they would just give them the Nobel Prize
		
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			because this is something unique.
		
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			InshaAllah, we'll continue next time talking about how
		
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			to answer some difficult questions
		
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			proud of who you are. If you come
		
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			from,
		
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			I mean, if you are Pakistani or if
		
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			you are Indian,
		
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			if you are Arab or you're from Afghanistan,
		
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			if you are Turkish, if you are Kurdish,
		
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			if you come from Europe, if you come
		
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			from Latin America or North America, you need
		
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			to be proud of who you are.
		
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			You need to teach your kids your own
		
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			language. Or to speak Urdu at home, speak
		
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			Turkish at home, speak Turkish or Arabic
		
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			or Ilan, if you speak. Teach your kids.
		
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			Be proud of your culture and
		
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			your language. If they go to school InshaAllah,
		
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			they will pick up English very easy. So,
		
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			make sure that they are bilingual. Be proud
		
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			of your culture
		
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			unless there's something in your culture that contradicts
		
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			Islam, then you need to leave it to
		
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			And try to make doubt.
		
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			If you do something good, then people appreciate
		
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			it. Like, if I have a cab driver
		
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			and somebody forgets or leaves some money in
		
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			your car, give it to them and let
		
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			me ask you why did you give us
		
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			back the money anybody else could have taken
		
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			it? You tell them, well, this
		
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			you go to somebody else's clinic or work
		
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			or business, they all escape the bibles and
		
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			things and literature. So you should do the
		
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			same thing. You should be proud of who
		
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			you are.