Mustafa Khattab – What Is Islam 2
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So as I said last time,
Alhamdulillah,
we we, did phase 1 of the project
Alhamdulillah,
we have been receiving a lot of positive
feedback.
Maybe a couple of data at once,
difficult questions about Islam because people will be
receiving the power in their mailbox. So if
you study with someone, you go to work
with someone, you expect them to ask you
questions. Why is Sharia? Why is Jihad?
Why women are abused in Islam? What is
this? Why is that? So you should be
able to answer questions
in the right way
without debating or arguing with anyone. You just
give the right answer to clear straightforward
answer from Islam.
But most of the time, we don't know
how to give the right answer
or we give the wrong answer and people
blame it on Islam. So you have to
be a good ambassador, you should have the
basic knowledge of a religion.
So inshallah today we'll talk briefly about,
some of the common grounds that Muslims share
with non Muslims
I go to a church or I give
a talk to non Muslims these are the
questions they come across. The fight violence in
Islam, Sharia, and the abuse of women. So,
I should be able to answer
these questions
To start with, as you said last night
that there are so many common grounds between
Islam and,
none of the faith. And we said that
every religion has 2 sides or over 2
parts. In a religion, it stands on 2
feet. The first one is your relationship with
God,
The second one is interaction
with people, what they call global ethics or
universal
values or ethics.
So, with regards to the second one, the
global ethics, your relationship with the people of
every single religion
whether it's God given or mandate,
they believe the same thing. So, everybody believes
you have to be honest, you have to
be kind, you have to be sincere, you
have to be generous.
So, if you ask a Muslim or a
Hindu or an atheist or a Christian, anyone
they will give you the same answer. We
have to be loving and caring and respectful
and courteous and good to everybody. Everybody believes
the same thing.
But what makes a difference is the second
part, your relationship with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
or what we call theology
or aqidah or aqidah.
Your,
connection or relationship with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
So, if you look
at the different faiths we have today,
especially
Abu Kita, the people in the book,
there are 3 main differences. The difference on
the perception of God, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
and they always point in one point the
perception of Isa alaihis salam.
So with regards to the perception of God,
there are 3 perceptions
especially when you look about Islam, Christianity, and
Judaism this is based on my understanding of
the Quran and the Quran and the Bible
because I studied both and I studied comparative
religion. So when you look at the Old
Testament
of the Jews, the Jewish people,
you look at God,
He is God
and the perception
is very close to Islam that there is
something that makes it different and that is
God
sometimes he does or has some qualities that
look like human beings. So, on the first
page when Allah created the heavens and the
earth according to the book of Genesis in
the Old Testament, he got tired on the
6th day, and he had to take a
day off to relax.
Well,
if you watch cartoons,
spiderman
doesn't get tired. How can Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala get tired? And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
answers this in the
So this is the first perception.
And also, you flip a few pages after
when Adam, aye salaam, came from the tree,
he ran away and he hid in Jannah.
So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala according to the
Old Testament, he didn't know where Adam was.
So he started to look for him and
call his name Adam Adam where are you?
So these are human qualities Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala knows everything and he has perfect color
over all things. So this is the old
belief.
So in the new testament
so the first one you have a God
that has some human qualities.
Fast forward to the new testament to the
Christians you have a human being
who is given divine qualities or qualities of
Allah subhanahu alaihi the person of Isra alaihi
salaam.
And what they refer to is his
miracles, Marjazat.
So he, like Musa and Mohammed and all
these prophets, he did some miraculous things like
giving
life to the dead
and giving cure to the liver and the
sick people and so on and so forth.
And every prophet has a miracle. He was
not the holy one. Okay.
If you look
at the perception of Isa alaihis salam, of
course, the perception of Allah alaihis salam, Allah
is Allah's people are the people. The creator
cannot be like the creation. 2 different things.
So, we look at the perception of Isa
alaihis salah because this is what makes a
difference. This is the biggest difference between Islam
and Christianity and Judaism. Now, you have to
notice
the perception is
Muslims say
he is a prophet.
Christians say
well, he is God, he is the son
of God, they believe in the trinity and
different people have different beliefs.
Then other people they say well, he was
not a prophet, he was not God, he's
he's no one.
So well, if
there's a person someone
like someone in the community
he's sitting with us in the room
and you have 3 people one of them
say
says that this brother is a doctor
The other person says, no, he is a
teacher.
And the 3rd person says, no, he is
a farmer.
So who should you ask? If not a
slave, know that person precisely.
I think you should ask the person himself,
who are you?
And this is what people miss all the
time. You need to ask Aisha alaihis salam,
oh, who are you? And the answer is
given in the Quran, the answer is given
in the Bible. Exactly what it says about
the Isa in the Bible is what exactly
it says about him in the Quran.
But the problem is people don't know and
they don't read.
So what he says about himself in the
Bible, I, though, myself cannot do anything. Whatever
I do is to please Allah and to
please me.
In the Quran,
so this is what it means with the
help,
He says, I don't know. The Israel don't
know. Only Allah knows.
In the Quran,
in Nakah Al Nahul Bew.
It's the same thing. So he says, I
don't know. Only Allah subhanahu waqala knows. Otherwise,
it's the same thing about him.
He says about himself in the new testament
in their book that I came only to
the Jews. I came only to the lost
sheep of the tribe of Israel. That is
my mission. Just like Ibrahim alaihis salaam gave
to certain people, Musa gave to certain people,
Shaway saw it, but Muhammad
is the only one who said I came
to everybody.
So, this is the difference. And Allah
says the same thing about him in the
Quran,
Allah says the same thing about him in
the Quran, that he was sent as a
Rasul to Bay al Sahib. But so, Ka'ala,
Allah is very clear
what he said about himself
in the book.
People seem to get everything completely wrong about
him.
They got everything wrong about himself, even his
birthday.
He was born in the summer, they celebrated
his birthday in this in December.
Everything is wrong. All you need to do
is go back and read what he said
about himself. It is that simple.
The perception or these beliefs
classify people into 3 groups,
those who have the right key and the
right door to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
jannah and the right door
to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's agenda. And there
are Muslims and the key is Muhammad Those
who have the right door or the wrong
key
because Muhammad
is not there in their belief system so
they have the right door they're standing in
front of the right door but the wrong
key.
And those who follow the wrong door and
the key is wrong, so they cannot get
inside.
So if you wanna make it dead, you
have to use the key. If you move
to a new house, if you buy a
new house, you usually change the lock And
the lock for this time is Muhammad salasat.
But before,
'Aisal was the key, before that, 'Nuzal was
the key, and so on and so forth.
Also, the concept like
So according
to nahlusa belief,
salvation is based on your belief in Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and you don't have to
prove this with good deeds.
Well, your book says you have to show
faith and you have to be good.
Yes, you're a Muslim but you have to
pray. If you call yourself Muslim and you
don't pray,
if you call yourself Muslim and you are
violent to abuse people, you're unlike a vegetarian
who eats beef and chicken every day.
So it's something completely different. So Muslim basically
means someone who believes in Islam wholeheartedly.
In belief and in practice. But if you
do something else, this is not Islam. This
is the total opposite
to have faith only. But I said, you
have to prove it by good deeds. This
is what Allah says in Abu Adina ladirah
alhamu al salihati.
Can I know for natur for dosing nuzra?
He said, no. Good deeds are not needed.
So I told him,
according to what you're saying
mother Teresa who is a Roman Catholic
and she is like a priest in Catholicism
will be with Hitler in Genesis again who
was also a Roman Catholic. Are you saying
that both of them will be in the
same place?
You call yourself Muslim, you have to prove
this through good deeds. So on the result
of that, for example,
Asanaqa Khurhan,
charity is a proof.
Approve of what? Of your faith and your
sincerity.
You can say I'm a Muslim all day
long, but when it comes to salatah, no.
You have to shoot me first to give
salatah.
This is the total opposite. So you have
to show, approve your faith through good deeds.
So, salvation in Islam based on good deeds
and faith in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Also,
the original sin. There's no original sin because
the belief is when Adam alaihis sala
hid from the tree, he was kicked out
in Islam. So
Adam alaihis salaam prayed for Allah for forgiveness
and he was forgiven and therefore there's no
original sin. Every human being, every one of
us is born cured
and clean. You are not accountable for any
life sins.
So if there was no original sin in
Islam,
then
And if there's no crucifixion, Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala says,
he was not killed and he was not
crucified.
So if this is the case, there's no
Easter
because Easter, he died for 3 days and
he reign he was raised from the dead
so there's no Easter
too bad for the bunny and the eggs
because there's no Easter okay Adam alaihis salaam
was forgiven so there was no ill for
this whole thing Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
is the creator and he is the forgiver
and he could just forgive everybody he doesn't
have to take anybody's life for somebody else's
sins and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is the
old merciful
In the same way that me and brother,
Nakamal, brother, Salah, and the end of the
brothers here, we are equal,
but we are different. We are not identical.
In the same way, me and my wife
are equal, but we are not identical.
If you look at the Quran, I'll give
you an example.
When Allah subhanahu wa'ala speaks about good deeds
like Salat.
So, if I pray
and the sisters in the back pray or
my wife prays, do we get the same
reward?
Of course, yes.
And if you ask psychologists, they say the
same thing that men and women are equal
but different because they are different psychologically
and physically.
So if you haven't figured out when you
go to the superstore
why they have different risk for men and
women. InshaAllah, you will favor biology class at
big time because they have differences
and also, psychologically,
men and women are different. Men tend to
be more rational and women tend to be
more emotional.
I'm not saying women are crazy, but
they have differences. This is what psychologists say.
They have different emotions and different feelings and
they respond to the same thing, the same
action differently.
So, they have different reactions to different things.
So, Allah Subhanu, I created them different
to complete each other and not to compete
with one another.
In Islam, we allow women
and they have the right to education.
They have the right to own the property,
to keep the last name when they get
married, and so on and so forth.
Although, a major ulama,
a major ulama or leadership in Islam is
a segreed upon by scholars,
still in Muslim countries,
several Muslim women, at least in the last
10 years or so, have been elected president
or prime minister in their countries. We speak
about Indonesia,
if you speak about Pakistan,
Bangladesh,
Turkey, they elected women to hit the, the
main office in the country.
In North America, in the US, in the
last 250
years, not a single woman has been elected
president or prime minister.
Not one.
In Canada, in the last 150 years, not
a single woman has been elected. I know
Kim Campbell in 1993.
She was never elected.
The,
mister Mulrooney,
prime minister at the time, decided to retire.
So, the next one in line 1 was
Kim Campbell.
She became prime minister without elections for a
few months. They did elections and she lost
a big time. So, not a single woman
has been elected prime minister or president in
the history of North America in the last
250
years. Okay. So, in Islam we honor women
and Allah Subhanahu Wa'ala has given them a
lot of rights that some of them are
denied to all this day. The right to
education, the right of inheritance
are denied to some women in Muslim countries.
Why? Because
people don't follow Islam.
When a lot of women follow Islam, not
a single person, woman, or man will will
stop.
The next question is about
jihad.
Jihad basically means to exert an effort.
If your country is under attack, you have
to defend your country. Self defense.
And this is what the Quran speaks about
all the time. So if Canada is attacked
by the Russians, for example,
so you don't expect us to take the
Russians to for a double level until war
against. No, we have to defend our country.
So Muslims, like everybody else, we have to
go out, take ill parts, and defend our
country. Make Jihad from Canada. Defend Canada from
any outside of attack.
Self defense.
Any reasonable human being will say the same
thing.
Then Jihad also applies
to spiritual things like he made Jihad against
greed
bad messiahs that we have. So we made
Jihad against women abuse,
against drugs,
about child abuse.
So all these negative things when you attack
them, when you campaign against them this is
the meaning of Jihad in Islam. So
There's the
Sharia or Islamic definition,
and there's the Faxaniyus definition.
I did my PhD on Faxaniyus. So Faxaniyus
definition is that, Sharia is the law that
chops people's heads off. This is Sharia according
to the definition.
Sharia, Islamically,
linguistically means the way to do things.
And technically,
from a sharia perspective, Sharia means that the
law, it governs a Muslim's life. In this
dunya, in Afrah,
the law governs economics,
social status,
behavior, interaction among people, the life of this
dunya, and how it looks like in the
next life, how to deal with your wife,
marriage, divorce, inheritance, Hasidiyyah, the children,
the relationship between a Muslim and a non
Muslim, war and peace.
So, this is included in Sharia how to
worship Allah, salah, zakah, and all this is
called Sharia in Islam.
And of course, yes we have a law
for punishment. If you do something wrong
in Islam just like anybody else, we don't
give you candy, you'll be punished.
So if you said that Sharia is a
law, of course, I'm talking about
100 of 1000 of rulings in Sharia. Okay.
100 of 1,000.
And you can't just go to Amazon dotcom
or to the bookstore
to order a Sharia. There's no such thing
is called Sharia.
Sharia is everything included in the Quran, in
the sunnah, in the teachings of Prophet Muhammad,
the opinions of the Sahaba, and the different
scholars of Islam. So it's not included
in wabu.
So to say that sharia is the the
law that chops people's heads off is like
saying that the American law and constitution
is the law that kills people with the
electric chip.
It's the same thing. Yes, there is the
concept of punishment if you do something wrong,
but
it governs everything
in your life. So, nobody should be afraid
of the Sharia because Sharia only applies, especially
the punishments, applies to the criminals. If you
were a woman this is the punishment you
get. But if you are a good citizen,
you didn't want anybody,
then you shouldn't be afraid because this is
not for you,
it's for the other people.
So, Sharia
is intended
to make your life easy, to protect life,
and to give people dignity.
This is the meaning of sharia. So this
is the answer you can give insha'Allah