Shattering Doubts #2 – Islam Preserves Life

Hello hello Heyman 100 Allahu Alameen wa Salatu was Salam ala Rasulillah him Hamid while he was a big marine about so every Friday night we're covering shattering doubts. The series in sha Allah. Last week we talked about the objection that people make against the polygamous life of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam. Now the biller, out of disrespect, they say that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam had so many wives, because he was a womanizer, he was a woman, he was a man who was after fulfilling his desires, and so forth. And so bahala one thing I can say, is that about that lecture, that if you go into history, and you study people of the past, leaders of nations, leaders

of tribes, and how they would get married, and why they wouldn't get married, and so forth, while longing we will never question the marriages of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. So without I don't want to dwell, I don't want to dwell too much on that. Today I want to cover another question. Another idea of the Quran that takes that is taken out of context, not once but on many occasions, first of all, is that I want to go back almost 18 years, to to to the year 2001. And to the month of September, and as we all know, September 11, a day that many of us we remember if we were alive, and the incident and the events that occurred that day. And so behind Allah since that day, Muslims have

been accused of so much wrong they have been, the Quran has been misinterpreted the Quran has been mis contextualized and ayat of the Quran are taken out of context. And from that day till today, Muslims have been defending their Deen. And since then you find a lot of Muslims who are apologetic, they go and they apologize to other people of what has happened. One of the very first things that we need to realize as Muslims is that we should never be apologetic to anyone, there is no need to be apologetic towards anyone. Subhanallah look at the world that we live in today. When there is a Christian when there is a Jewish when there is any other person who belongs to any other religion

besides Islam, you don't find the religion, the people of that religion coming and apologizing. They usually say that this person does not belong to our religion, yet we find today Muslims coming out and apologizing for what has happened. And we should never feel or we should never express our apology because as a Muslim, as a person who truly believes in Allah, who believes in the in the deed of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam who believes in the akhira, who believes in justice who believes in that there are rights of other people, there are rights of people around us whether they are Muslim or not. We do not need to feel apologetic. The second thing that we need to realize

is when people they come and they bring these kinds of IUI from Surah Toba and insert Toba Allah subhanho wa taala. He says *o toodle sneaky in a high fever jet to Mohammed, that the literal translation of this idea or this part of the idea is that kill the Mushrikeen wherever you find them. First of all, there is a context and I will get into this context. But the second thing that we need to learn how to respond is when we look at the affairs of the past and when we look at the affairs of our current dunya right now.

If if we think if people think that Muslims are the ones who are after the lives of other people, they are the ones who are causing havoc on earth will lie you look at the world that we live in right now. There are so many different people, there are so many different people, groups that belong to other countries, that they are killing other people in the name of their religion. And yet, and yet you don't find them apologizing number one to begin with. At the same time. We don't know how to respond when people say that you as Muslims. This is what your Quran is saying that we need to learn that first of all, go back into history, World War One, World War Two, where there

were 1000s and 1000s. And sometimes even millions of people who lost their lives. Was those wars started by Muslim countries. Was those wars started by Muslim individuals? Absolutely not. Those were wars. They were started by people who don't believe in Allah who don't believe in allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, so they were inspired by whatever they were inspired by, even today, the world that we live in today. Today, you look at what is happening in India, you have these people who are coming

As soon as Hindu fascist, today we live in America where you have white supremacist that they say and they go after other minorities in the name of their religion. So what we need to learn is that when people come, and they object to Islam, and they said, This is what your Quran is teaching, we need to learn to tell them that there are other groups around the world. You see what's happening in Burma, you see what these Buddhists and once again, we cannot label we cannot use a paint a broad paintbrush and paint the entire religion the same way. There are Buddhist people that are taking the lives of Muslims, what do they say how to say about their religion and to so that's why we should

never feel that I need to answer for what they are doing. When people bring this up. We say that they may have called themselves Muslims, but that is not what a Muslim is. So let's go into this Surah Surah Toba or Surah Bara mentioned in the 10th jewels of the Quran, Allah subhanho wa taala. The question is, first of all, what is the context of this surah go back two years before that, or three years before that to the instead of Herdade via the prophets of Allah Allah He was salam and the Sahaba they made a treaty they made an agreement with the Quraysh first of all is we will not do aamra this year. We will come next year and we will perform Umrah next thing is that no one none, no

one from the Muslims will attack the Quraysh. No, and the police who attack the Muslims. And if there are any allies of the Quraysh they cannot touch an attack the Muslims. If there are any allies of the Muslim community, they cannot go in harm anyone else when there was an ally of the Quraysh that went after and they attacked a Muslim community and ally of the Muslim community. That is when Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa salam and those days when Allah subhanho wa Taala he said that we were associated with them, yes, we were in agreement with them, but the minute they violate the terms of their agreement, nors no more deal on the table because they are the ones who violate the

terms of their agreement. And this is why ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada. He began to sutra by saying Barah there is complete disassociation mean Allah He was truly he from Allah and messenger towards who Ilan levena hitomi I'm shaking with those people who made a treaty for amongst the poly polytheistic people, meaning that those people who made the agreement once again, Allah is now referring to all the machinery Kuhn, he said me not in Mushrikeen meaning that from these people, there are certain people who made the agreement, they violate the terms of their agreement. And and this is a disassociation from them. And I anima for Allah subhanho wa Taala says, inland Lavina had to me I'm

shaking from Mala Mia yakusoku mache Welcome to bar hero alaykum Africa then for a team who lay him down in a mood that he came in Allah you have been with taka and Allah says accept accepted are those with whom you made a treaty among emotionally Cohen and then they have not been deficient towards you and anything or supported Anyone against you so complete for them their treaty until they term meaning that the provinces are made this treaty and made this agreement Allah saying that those people who are in Mecca, those people who are in Mecca, they have honored the Treaty and the agreement. Let them complete the time of that agreement, the timeframe of that agreement and don't

touch them because they have not done anything wrong against You. Then I am or five ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada says, For E then seller hull assurance from Falco tool Mushrikeen a high fever gentleman, a rather than says when the sacred months have passed. Now, what are the sacred months we all know what the sacred months are, but that's not the point here. The sacred mines that is mentioned over here is that in the year of the Hajj, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that to all those people who violate the terms of the agreement, they have four months, they are four months within these four months. They have to leave MCE. Now, if you think about this, just think about this. If

there are people who are betrayed, if this was was any other nation and they were betrayed, they will not give them four months to leave the city. They will be immediately killed. Allah is telling them you have four months to leave this town because you are the ones who violated the terms of their agreement. It is not as if and we should understand this. It is not as if the person just came and kicked people out of Makkah. They violate the terms. This is why Allah did this. Then Allah says if they're still living

in Makkah, then you ambush them and you attack them. But then he says, Allah also says, and capture them were who whom capture them wasu whom and receives them work or doula whom can the Mossad and stay and wait for them and every place, but Allah then says for in taboo, they made a mistake. They violate the terms of the agreement, but if they make Toba what I call masala they established a lot why to occur and they give them the car for Hulu Sabina home, Allah then says that let them go on their way meaning that after even after violate the terms of the agreement, Allah is saying that he's still willing to forgive them. If they if they become Muslims. What if they don't become

Muslim? Someone could say well, now you're pushing people into accepting Islam, Allah subhana wa Tada then says, and if in the next ayah Allah says we're in I don't mean with shakiness, the DA raka for ajira, who are rather than says, and if any of those who Shikun they seek Your protection, they say, you know, it will live in Makkah, we will live under your command, we will not do what we want to do anymore. We we are the ones who are going to be taking orders from you from now on. Allah then says, For a God who then grant them protection, Allah did not say that still go attack them. Allah said grant them protection while they are there, so that they can listen the word of Allah subhanho

wa Taala in Iowa number 10. Allah subhanho wa Taala Says law your meaning in no way. They do not observe towards a believer, any pact of kinship, or covenant of protection. And if that is what they do, when I come home and water Dune, these are the people who have transgressed Allah then says an ayah. Number 12. What if they break their oaths after their treaty, and they defame your religion, then fight the leaders, the ones who are giving the command? Fighting means fight for justice. And that situation, for indeed, there are no oaths sacred to the mean that if there are people who have no math, no morals, and the word and their word is not their bond, then that means that even if they

commit that you still need to go even, I mean, meaning that if they make this oath, they will not honor the oath and you need to fight for justice, rather than satisfyingly in item a 13. Allah to party Luna, would you not find people who broke their oath, and they determined to expel the messenger of allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and they had began to attack you the very first time attack Xiao Nahum, do you fear them for long? Show? Allah says that Allah is more has a more right that you should fear him if you are true believers. Now, I did not go through every single idea here at the beginning portion of so talk about, but if you go back and you say these ayat, it is

absolutely clear. That first of all, is that let's understand that what are the crimes of the Quraysh? What are the crimes declaration, first of all, is the courage they broke their agreement. If you go back and say the seat of the Polish Salem having someone's word if someone gave you their word, and not just even within Arabia, anywhere you went, if someone gave you their word, that was their bond, if the Quraysh not only gave the word, but they signed an agreement, and yet they violated the terms of their agreement. That is a crime at that time, a huge crime. Number two, they were they forced the Muslims out of their own city. Number three, they persecute the Muslims while

they were living in Mecca, which was absolutely considered as wrong but they did what they want to do. So all these crimes of the grace, and now Allah subhanaw taala is still saying, Allah is still saying, the first of all these people only have four months, if they're gonna be there for four months, then then you have a right to go after them. Number two, if they repent, then no problem. Number three, if they seek Your protection, and they don't want to fight, then you give them to your protection. If this is not mercy, the What else do you want to call mercy? If this is not justice from Islam, if this is not forgiveness from Islam, the what do you call this? So this is why it is

so important that when we come across these is that when people bring up these if we need to learn that how we need to answer to these people, that even in Islam, even in situations like this and go back and study, the seat of the Prophet sunnah. There were times when people were captured after a battle after a war wars that were not initiated by the Muslims, wars that were initiated by the opposition. And when wars are in the PAs, initiated by the opposition, and people are taken as captains of war. They were journey killed their province Salam there were times when he let them go. He led them

Don't go. There was one time when he did when he did execute the Jewish, the Jewish people, the Jewish community. But that was because that was according to their laws, their laws said their laws said that if there is someone who betrays their agreement, who come, who, who betrays they're under and they violate the terms of the agreement, that in that case, they are to be executed. Islam is not the one that said go it was a it was the province of Salah that went according to the rules of their own book. Now the next thing that we need to also keep in mind is this

guy go back in history go back in history before 2001, before September 11 took place, as Muslims in this country are Muslims all over the world, Islam was a religion all over the world, people were Muslims. If Islam is synonymous with terrorism, where was it before 2001? Never were Muslim synonymous terrorism, this concept of terrorism, and SubhanAllah. You know, we see that even today, so many TV shows, are using Muslims are using Muslims, as the villains. People are saying the shahada on the TV, showing women in hijab showing men who are praying and showing that these are the people who are the criminals in the city. Why do they do that kind of stuff till today is because

that is where the money is being generated when they show and because this is what politics is all about. They have to show the world that there is an imminent threat, when you show that there is an imminent threat, that people are gonna throw money at you, you're gonna get people's votes, you're gonna get their support, because majority people, a majority people in this country, they have no clue about what Islam is. And what they believe is that Muslims are here, and eventually they're going to take our life one day, that is the perception. They're being fed over and over again. And this is why even today in politics, there is two things. There are two things that exist today in

our country. And they exist for the most part. One is, one is, there is ignorance. First of all, there's Jackie Ania, that what exactly Islam is, and when there is Jackie Leah, and then not only that, but then they're fed fear that if you don't do anything, these are what Muslims are going to do in our society and so forth. Then this generates something according to political science, which is call hate. This is where the hate comes from. They're ignorant, they're fed, then they're made to fear. What exactly happened in World War Two, go back and study Nazi Germany go back and study Hitler, and the things that he did. And he was, of course, a fascist, but that's exactly what he

did. He fed wrong information about the Jewish community, to the people. And they all gave in to what he had to say, because they did not know very well who that Jewish community was. And this is why then we know what exactly World War Two is. So this is why it's very important that we understand that Islam and terrorism as it is today, synonymous unfortunately with each other, in never existed before 2001. The next thing is when people say infidels, This term has been used so much infidels, infidels, infidels. One thing that you have to all know and realize, if you don't know this, infidels was not a term that the Muslims used for the non Muslims. This term was first

used in history, when the Crusaders, the Christian Crusaders, use this term to refer to the Muslims every single time, you know, subhanAllah you see people nowadays that they write the word cafe, I've seen people that they have tattooed cafe, infidel, and so forth, because they want to, they want to show that they're not scared of anyone. And so the Haisla we need to really educate people that Muslims are not the very first people to use the word infidel. And Phil is just a word is the word actually is caffeine on wishek. That's what it is. But the word Fidel, were not it was not first used by the Muslims, as many people they believe. Now the next thing

there is an ayah of the Quran, where Allah subhanho wa Taala he says, mean allegedly Dalek, Katana Allah Bani Israel either and now Mankato Lanuf, some behind enough sin Oh facade and fill out *a Nakata, NASA Jamia, this is a very famous many Muslims they use this idea wherever they go, that if you kill one person is as if you've killed all humanity. If you have saved one person is as if you have saved all humanity. Now, here's the objection that many people they ask or they put forward that this is why are you Muslims using this idea over and over again? Whereas if you

look very closely at this ayah Allah says menagerie Danika Taberna we have ordained or we have decreed upon who Bani Israel in, are you but it's not you know, we're not being studied. So then they say the weather how can you use this idea when this is in reference to the Israelites? That's the question. Why are using using this? If it's not for you, it's for other people? What's our answer to this? Our answer is that first of all, is that if there was something of the past if there was a practice, pre Islam, and later on in Islam, there is no pneus there is no text of the Quran, or the Sunnah of the Prophet Psalm negating it, then it is absolutely an acceptable practice within

our deen, for example, if you go back and say the history, or the the time of the father of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam without going into a lot of details, Abdulmutallab at the time of digging the willows zum zum are rediscovering the world zamzam he made an oath if Allah gives me 10 Children, I'll sacrifice them for the sake of Allah. When Allah did give him 10 Children, he did a drawing. And in that drawing the name of Abdullah, the father, Paulson's name, his, the father of the province of Salem, his name came out not once, but a few times, he decided to go and take Abdullah and sacrifice him and to fulfill his oath, as soon as you take him took him to Makkah to

the Kaaba, I would say, and he was about to sacrifice him, the families intervened, they say you cannot do this, there has to be another way to fulfill or to break, there has to be a way that you can break your oath a way out. So they went and they consulted. Of course, there was no Islam at that time. So they would go, and they would refer to people who would have contacts with gins and so forth, and they went to a person and they said that you know what, the best thing that you can do is if you want to get out of your oath is to place Abdullah on one side, and please 10 of camels on one side, and you do a drawing. If the camels come out, if Abdullah's name comes out, you add 10 more

camels to the other side. And you keep on doing this till the camels until the camels or the drawing when you drive, the camels come out, and then you can sacrifice the camels. And every single time when they did a drawing, it kept on coming. Abdullah Abdullah Abdullah and as they kept on coming, Abdullah, they kept on adding 10 camels 10 camels, tenant camels, to the time came that you had 100 camels on one side, you had Abdullah on the other side.

And then they did the drawing and 100 camels or the camels came out what do they do they sacrifice 100 camels

and they sacrifice 100 camels and Abdullah was saved the Father the Prophet SAW Salem now till today even within our deen was this a practice a pre Islam? Yes it was. But even till today, what is the compensation manslaughter in Islam? It is 100 camels what is the DIA it is 100 camels. The point I'm trying to make is till today if there is a practice of the past and there is nothing there is nothing that Allah has said to negate it. It is an acceptable practice okay, if the possum also did it and so forth, this is part of our deen till today if you study criminal law, this is murder is murder. We know the laws of murder, but Chris manslaughter, you know then this is there is a dia a

dia is 100 camels till today. Okay. Now, the point the reason I share this this is that this is our answer to those people because even in the time of the Prophet said, in fact, in the time of

the Prophet sallallahu, ala he was setting them and in fact, even after the life of the prophet saw Salem, there were times when even the Sahaba of the ultra minimum, in fact illegal the Athan, he reported that even our best of your thought who said it is as Allah has stated, If anyone has killed if anyone killed a person not in retaliation or murder, or and to spread mischief in the land, that it will be as if he has killed and killed all he has killed all mankind. And if he saves a person is as if he has saved all mankind. Even if the above says that the explanation this idea and this idea is totally valid, even within our own Deen today, not only that, but it is also mentioned even the

cathedra mentions that armas was a person that was there and others said that Abu Saleh said that he that a boil the water on who said so mean that this all goes all the way back to Abu Huraira an autonomous who said that I went to a man of your time when he was under siege and go back to the time of of Earth man was the man was on in order to protect Medina in order to ensure that there is no fitna in Medina, or Thurman put himself under house arrest. He put himself under house arrest. And it said that when when he says I entered with man all the time when he was under siege in his house, and I said I can't

To give you now my support, is it good that we can go and fight and defend you people who are coming for your life, and we can defend you and we can kill them who are coming for your life? And what did the man say at that time? That no, he then said that if you kill one person is as if you have killed all of mankind, even at that time on Earth, man Rodon use the same idea of the Quran. So when people say that no, you cannot use this is because this is reference to Bonita star that is invalid. Because even the Sahaba they use this idea for this purpose. The next objection that is then made is that killing and saving the life here in this ayah as you say, saving one life is a saving is as if

saving all humanity's life, killing one person as if you're killed all humanity's life, then they say that this is not this is not in reference to any of the person who belong to any other faith or they don't belong to a faith. I mean that this is not in reference to a this, this is only reference to the Muslims, anyone who's a Muslim, they are excluded from this idea. And what we say to that is that this is absolutely wrong. Because first of all, this is not what the eye of the Quran says. The idea of the Quran says a nurse, a nurse means people, people meeting Muslim, non Muslim, everyone alike. In fact, there is even a hadith of Rasulullah sallallahu it was sending them narrated by

Abdullah even though I'm a rodeo time that the Prophet alayhi salam said whoever kills a person from the from among the aloe Dima, he will not smell the fragrance of paradise, who are the Anima? Who are the under them, and the MA are those people who are non Muslims who don't believe in Allah. They are living under Islamic rule. They live under Islamic rule, there are concerns and within the province, I'm saying that if you take the life of an anima, you will not smell the fragrance of paradise. So when the person has said this when the President has said this, and now you see now I mean, once again, there are non Muslims taking the life of Muslims. There are people in the name of

Islam as we know the high wattage and so forth. They think that they are following the deen. They think that they are following the teachings of the Quran. But apparently this hadith has probably not come to them. Okay. Probably this hadith has, they have never heard this hadith that the Prophet Solomon says when you kill someone like this, then you will never smell the fragrance of Jana. This hadith is authentic is mentioned and Sunnah unnecessary. Finally, the objection that then is made is that if a Muslim will a Muslim, be persecuted if he killed a non Muslim, we first of all, we just talked to talked about that, in the case of Android than my what about what about in general? What

about in general? If let's say if the Muslims are a minority, and they take them in one takes the life of another Muslim? First of all, is that according to all your lemma, in fact, Imam Abu Hanifa Rahmatullah Wa La Imam will album he has also made it very, very clear that if anyone, if any Muslim takes the life of a Muslim or even a non Muslim, then then the the, the compensation or the penalty is death. It is it is what it is. Not only that, but even almost even Pablo Don, who said that if one were to be good, if one of you were to give a gesture of safety, to a person who worships idols, or in our context, anyone who doesn't believe in his son, and he came trusting you and you kill

them, then I would execute you for this. This has already been a photographer. And was this him saying this? In the time of disease Rahmatullah? Are they, even he during his time, a similar situation came up, and he held them Muslim accountable for the death of someone else. So when you have all these historical records, and people still say that Muslims are or Islam prescribed, or Islam teaches Muslims to kill other people, you give all this reference there is absolutely no way that a person who truly believes in Allah who truly believes in the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, they will do something like this, even let's just say if this idea was even to be practiced

away, as they are saying to me practice, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he lived in a Jewish community, he lived with people who were Christians. What happened even after that, as Islam spread, Islam has even taught to this extent that when you go into a land and you have conquered a land, then you don't go and you kill the women. Don't go and kill the children, in fact, deny even harm. Forget about forget about people, you don't even harm a monastery, you find a church, you find a place of worship, to not even touch that place. You have a person inside that church inside that monastery, who is worshipping whatever they worship, even they are not allowed to be touched. So

then how is it in our religion that we prescribe this? Our dean is a dean of Aman

Subhan Allah go back and study Islamic history. There were nations there were people who did not believe in Allah. But when they saw that Islam had people, people who were Muslims had conquered their land, and they came into their land, they were happy. You know why? Because they knew that not only is Islam coming to their land, the Arden, the justice system of Islam is coming into our land, when a woman

is sitting in Medina, and he finds out that a Coptic Christian in Egypt has been missed has been not treated right? Forget about killing, not treated, right. He was he was a victim of oppression, they almost even probably not even leave that. So when people say this, it is not true that this is what our deen teaches us. And even if they bring up these kinds of ideas, there is a context this idea, the idea is not as they say, but there's a context to every single idea. And we need to keep this in mind. And once again, every time we need to really teach people what exactly is this? You'll be shocked. People are so ignorant people are illiterate about our deen, go out. Do your research. How

many people were killed in World War One? How many people were killed in World War Two, the Vietnam war that took place was that inspired by Muslims know how many people lost their life. Even today, you look at you know, there's so many different tribes, there's so many different parties who are taking the life of other people, I don't want to say their names right now. But this is what they're doing. And they're doing it. They're not Muslims, but they're doing it in the name of their religion, if they're doing in the name of their religion, so instead of them or so people objecting to Islam, we need to look at them. And we'd say that is this what's your religion teaches us? And

their answer is going to be that no, they do not belong to us. Well, if they don't, you don't associate yourself with them. We don't associate ourselves with them. And once again, one quick thing before Before I finish, when someone says to you that Do you have an explanation of what they're doing?

You should never say, never say that. I think this or think that. You have to make it always make Islam in the third person. Islam teaches us this. And this is what we believe in, what they're doing. What they're doing is all political driven, what they're doing, even what the holidays are doing what other people are doing. It has nothing to do with Islam, they may call themselves as Muslims, but we don't refer to their actions as an Islamic one. And we absolve ourselves from them, we have nothing to do with them, and they are not even 1% Probably of this ummah, when 99% 99.999% of the Muslim ummah, the mainstream Islamic Muslim world, they don't believe in this how can you

associate them with us? Or how can you believe that the entire religion is a representation of that? 1% So ask Allah subhanaw Without to give all of us ability to understand these things. May Allah subhanho wa Taala make us more firm in our iman and our deen and may Allah subhanaw taala give us the ability to defend our deen the way is to be defended. We're asked Allah subhanaw taala to give us the ability to be outspoken and to give the right answers and to give Dawa the way it is to be given. I mean, Zakum Allah Subhana Allah homophonic

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