Nouman Ali Khan – Surah Al-Jumuah #06 Stop Idolizing Humans

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			right so the when the Quran uses this word what I want you to know is it's taking a word and talking
about it that the average Muslim Arab can understand. But even the highest priests of this religion
of these religions Christianity Judaism, that had been studying the religion for decades and decades
that know the special nature of these words are like, how did he get this word? And how did he use
it in this way? Where's this coming from? Where's this knowledge who's leaking our information
		
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			so I'm already calm before you begin this video just quickly wanted to let you know that so much of
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			Our older biller him initiate plan or rajim Bismillah Al Rahman Al Rahim. You said beholding him if
is to MF in our daily money can you put those disease in Heike when Lady basophil me in Rasool M
min. Home yet you want him to he will use a key him while you are in limbo. Homoeo kita about one
hikma we're in QA no min kabhi laughing bada the Mobi rubbish risotto us silly Emery Lulu rock
bottom in descending of Hokulea when hamdu lillah wa Salatu was Salam ala Rasulillah Eddie, he was a
big mine and my bad everyone once again, it's too late and Ricardo Good to have you back. Today
Inshallah, we're going to try to finish some of the work on Iron number one and we'll get started on
		
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			Iron number two, I'm pretty confident we will not finish item number two today, but that's okay.
		
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			These two these first two Ayat are the heaviest out of the surah. So it's okay if we take our time
there and we still have a few days to catch up with the rest of the work. Anyway, so yesterday I did
speak to you about the king and some of the contemplations that we can make through the concept of
kingdom, and how a kingdom is known by its markings at science. When you walk into a kingdom, you
see a palace you see the soldiers wearing a certain kind of armor, you see the uniforms of its
governmental employees, you see the flags of a kingdom, you see the ships and the Navy and all of
that stuff of a kingdom. You see the assets of a kingdom, the roads they've built, right the
		
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			infrastructure they've done, how they take care of their people, how they engage in war, their
history, all of these things are markings of a king, the identifying markers of a kingdom. And we
contemplate that when we think about Allah azza wa jal, and yesterday before I ended the lecture, I
tried to tell you about the connection between kingdom and power, and holiness, and how in politics,
religion and politics have always had this. I mean, the right word to say they've always had an
unholy marriage, right, they've had an unholy connection between them. And so even today,
politicians use the religious class in many countries to gain their votes. So in American politics,
		
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			for example, if on a conservative party or something, a politician wants to gain their base, they
will go into a church and kiss some babies before they eat the election. You know, and make sure
they take their pictures and talk about God and all of that, even though they're, they're the most
anti Bible people in their lifestyle, but they will still tell the Bible when they're trying to get
their votes, right. So religion and politics have always had this kind of a relationship.
		
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			This has happened among the Israelites also, I've talked about this in some detail. If you want to
know more, more about that concept. There's actually a story in the Quran that details this unholy
alliance and how the Quran comments on it in such a sophisticated way, it could be a PhD in
Political Science. And that's the story of Badiou Tanja lute and Soto Baqarah, where Allah talks
about religion and politics together, and how people try to manipulate religion to serve political
goals, right? So religion just becomes a tool and political agendas. I've had some personal
experiences with this, too. I was in a country that shall not be named.
		
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			And I was giving lectures at the university, I was giving talks at the masjid and all that kind of
stuff. All of a sudden, I got a call from the, you know, the prime minister's office, they hit that
he'd like to meet me, like, Why does he want to, once you want to meet me? And what are you going to
talk about? And usually you think, Oh, my God, the Prime Minister wants to meet you. I was like, No,
I know what this is. Let me just check. And I have to check whether or not he's doing well in the
elections.
		
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			Because when they're because when they're politically going down, and they want to take a picture,
they want to take a selfie next to somebody who think will get them, make them feel a little more
normal. Right? And they'll do these kinds of things. So, you know, these these things are a reality
in the world. And we have to be mindful of that and that's some
		
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			Thinking alludes to in medical coders, but let's get right to the work. The word that we could use
the second name of Allah mentioned in this ayah. Let's dig into the origin of this word, Gods. The
root theme, meaning the the word, the three letters five dot and seen originally have to do with
purity and holiness and sanctity. What does it means to purify? I'll show you that in the eye of
sort of Baqarah. It's one of the earliest words we learned about in the Quran. The angels when Allah
told them that he's going to put human beings on the earth. They said, when Nuno said Behold, we
have the Kiowa naka de su like so they use this word to describe what how they are with Allah. So
		
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			we'll get to that idea in a second to help us understand this word a little better. But its origin
comes from this imagery of water that can get muddy easily and the Arabs, they would have like a,
like a trough like a mini Well, kind of thing like the picture you see here. That's a water trough.
And they will put stones in it so it doesn't get dirty, so it doesn't get muddy underneath. And this
was an old way of keeping water pure, but filling it up with stones. Okay, so who are you that will
help you supply the hill, the layer to dump will help so it doesn't get you know, contact the water
doesn't get contaminated easily. I thought this is again, it's also used, because the camels have to
		
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			put their head down to drink. But sometimes the water level was too low. So they would put stones in
the water. So the water would rise, and then the camels can reach it and they can drink more
comfortably, right? That kind of stone was called a pod this a goddess is how you guys know because
back in the day, in ancient times people didn't have like sinks, where they turn on the water and
wash their hands. How do people wash their hands or wash their face, they would have these bowls
that you put fresh water in from the bucket and then you wash your hands in that right and even in
some traditional families, if you go into in the Middle East and Asia some other places, you sit and
		
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			eat on the floor. And before you eat on the floor, they give you a bowl to wash your hands in and
everybody washes their hands and dries over that right to the sink. You don't go to the sink, the
sink comes to you. Right and that washing bowl, that's actually called a goddess in old Arabic. The
word for that is Okada. So there are other vessels in buckets in Arabic that are not for washing,
but the one used specifically for washing. That one is called Oh Goddess, okay? Now there's Cadiz,
which is a sacred stone or a precious stone. So it could be like a Ruby or Perl or something like
that can be called up at least, or sometimes people had, you know, like in different religions, they
		
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			have trinkets that are sacred or holy, right, that they ascribe a lot of value to right. So for
example, in some Christian variations, people have like crucifixes, right or they have amulets, and
the stones or whatever. Or in some other traditions, somebody can have a stone or a necklace, and
some, you know, saint or guru or whatever, cast a spell on the stone. And now the stone has special
powers and you will never have diarrhea so long as you were the stone etc. So, that that kind of
stone is called a Cadiz and language a sacred stone right. Similarly, jewelry was called Gouda
silver beads or trinkets. Interestingly, from there, we also get the idea that the Kaaba one of the
		
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			words one of the names for the Kaaba, before Islam was odd, it's because it's sacred, and therefore
all of its stones are also what sacred right so that's why it was called others and oran uses the
word mocha this to describe Jerusalem and others mocha dasa. So it uses the same term for so it's
the name of Allah who could use but now it's being used for other than Allah, it's being used for a
land right? And a duck these dogs This is what the eight let's come to what the angel said to Allah
will not be will be handicapped one Oh God, this shoe duck, no condition. Luck actually means two
things I've written them here. One of the things that means is we purify ourselves for you. We
		
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			purify ourselves for you. We keep ourselves pure for your worship. That's what the angel said to
Allah. The other meaning is, we keep declaring how pure and perfect you are. So this means two
things and you need to know that this will unfold some luck. That's one implication we purify
ourselves for you, and no additional luck Yanni na W Luca, produce and we consider you we
acknowledge you as pure. This is a name of Allah that we use the Prophet sallallahu alayhi salam we
used to use Subhanallah medical produce and medical coders and sometimes in Ruko the prophets I see
them sometimes will say so both are due soon rubble mother Kathy Whoo. So it's used there. It's also
		
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			used for the angel Jibreel right. rufen kudos rowhill Kudos, you'll find it in the Quran. So what is
what I want you to take from this so far, is it seems to be similar pure purify. What does that have
to do with the water being elevated? I'll explain in a second, but it's similar to this beer because
this be listed make your call
		
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			concept of God pure. And now this is also having to do with Allah being pure. Right? So what's the
difference? Okay, that's similar, but what makes them different? This B is about anything that will
be unfit for Allah to say to say about Allah anything then fit about Allah life and death like you
know or weakness of any kind like you know how an assault item could see we say data who who seen it
and what unknown, right so it was drowsiness exhaustion doesn't get to him and he never falls to
sleep. Right that's that's it this be of Allah being forever present, and ever aware, constantly
aware that this we have Allah, but duck these is not about perfecting every quality duck, this is
		
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			about making sure you don't say anything evil about Allah. So there's a difference between saying
something imperfect, and saying something evil. Let's take a human example. First. If I say this is
a really good person, but they're not very healthy. Okay, they're they have they have diabetes or
something. They're a good person, but they have diabetes. I didn't say that they are evil, but I did
say that the health wise they are not in a state of perfection. Okay, so that's kind of removing
this behind that sense, right? But tuck, this is not about that duck. This is about this is a good
person. They're not jealous, they're not angry. They're not spiteful, they're not a liar. They're
		
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			not a cheater. They're not greedy. I removed all these negative qualities from them. I'm considering
that person mocha does. And that's why this word could this actually get these important word in
Arabic was used for religious leaders, religious leaders and saints and things like that they were
considered what these and this is part of the psychology of religion in a village if one person
knows the religion more than any of anybody else. And it doesn't even matter which religion if it's
Islam, its Islam. If it's Christianity, its Christianity. If it's Hinduism, or Buddhism, or Taoism,
or Jainism or any ism, the guy in the village or the lady in the village, who knows more than
		
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			everybody else, all of a sudden, everybody thinks that's the best person.
		
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			They are peds, they are pure, because then they have more knowledge of the pure scripture or the
pure religion. So the more knowledge you have of that, the more pure you must be. Right? And do
Muslims have this kind of mentality? When someone knows more? They must be a better person? Yeah.
Does the Quran come and take a hammer and destroy that mentality? Absolutely. No Quran comes along
and says there were people that came before us that had a lot of knowledge of the book, and Allah
criticizes them more than anybody else. What's Allah saying knowledge, having knowledge is great,
but that doesn't guarantee that you are pure of your flaws. Those are two separate things. You could
		
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			be a terrible human being with amazing tweet.
		
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			You could do that you could be a half of the Quran and a horrible husband or whatever you could be
both of those things but in the eyes of the village and in the eyes of the people or the community,
mashallah this person Oh, you know, so because we have this concept of duck these of people
incidentally, these is used for other than Allah but this B has not this beer is only for a lot.
Right? So when you when you say someone is not a bad person in any way, they're good in every way.
They have no unholy qualities, then you are considering a person more kindness. That's what you're
actually doing other than look at the sorrowful mocha this and Allah the prophet of allah sallallahu
		
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			alayhi salam told us the OMA he told us that we will fall into some of the same traps that people
before us fell into that to be understood. And then Latina men publico, you will end up following
the waves of people who came before you. And one of the things that people that came before us they
did, is they considered their religious leaders perfect. They considered them perfect. And so they
turned them into saints, you know, the concept, right? They turned them into it. And what that means
is the saints, they had a different kind of clothing than everybody else. They walk different from
everybody else. And if you're hanging out with your friends, chillin and you're just having lunch or
		
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			whatever, and one of these saints walked in, the priest walked in, the pope walked in, the Holy One
walked in, everybody's like,
		
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			everybody just changes because the Holy One is here, you understand? And what did we learn about our
prophets, so long are you so that when he used to be among the gathering of the Sahaba, and some new
person walked in, they couldn't tell which one is the Prophet. They couldn't tell. Sometimes they
went to Abu Bakr and said, Yeah, rasool Allah is I don't want to know that's over here. The wrong
address that's over here, so they couldn't figure it out. Which one is the messenger? SallAllahu? I
assume because he was so among the people. He wasn't, it wasn't a special class of he did. He didn't
get treated in a special way or expect that kind of treatment in a certain way. But then you have
		
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			other religions where the the holy one walks in, and he puts his hand out because you gotta kiss the
ring first. And you see, you know what I'm saying? And we did and the Prophet warned that you will
follow the ways of the people before you and some people within this OMA
		
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			develop this kind of thinking, and they develop this kind of Saint class of people. Right? And
what's amazing about them is if if, if a group among them declares one person a saint, and another
group declares somebody else's saint, this group says your saint is shaitan. And this one group says
your say to Shetland,
		
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			okay, so not only do they make their own saints, but everybody else is the devil. And the only thing
you're not as human now, you're either saints or devils, but you're no longer humans. Right? And
then this, this mentality is so problematic, because then when you when you put your leaders or your
teachers in this position, then they're human. In the end, two things will happen. One, when you
keep describing people, that's perfect. If you keep telling someone, they're perfect, they're
perfect. They're perfect. I'll give you a child's example. If you tell a little girl when she was
growing up, you're a princess, you're the most beautiful, nobody's prettier than you. Everyone else
		
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			is ugly. You're the best. You're the greatest. And she said, Yes, I am. Yes, I am. And when she goes
to kindergarten, or kindergarten, she goes there.
		
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			She's gonna walk in and say that princesses hear.
		
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			Hey, what are you doing? They're ugly. Show some respect. What did you do? You praise this kid so
much. And you elevated their ego so much, they actually started believing that about themselves.
They started expecting royal treatment. And I'm giving you the example of a child. But does that
even happen to human beings or adults? And Episodul you keep telling them they're the same, their
whole either this? Every time they walk in, everybody stands up.
		
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			everywhere, every time they walk in, everybody stops eating. Oh, my God, how can I touch your hand?
Here? Please, can I can can you put your hand on my child's head? Because if you put my then he will
never go bald. Because in my family, there's a lot of baldness, please, please drop his head good.
Because we can't afford Propecia or whatever.
		
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			To do that, when the guy gets used to that. Then he walks into a restaurant and nobody got up,
people kept eating their sandwich.
		
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			It was like these people, I'm never coming back here again. They have no respect for him.
		
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			They have respect for him. They just, they don't play this game. They're not used to this game. But
this was a class that was developed. And this was dubbed mocha dust class. Now, what is this in its
origin, it's actually someone who's pure and has essential goodness in it. Allah considers Jerusalem
a place that is meant to have great goodness, because of the prophets that came there. Right. And it
was a place where revelation kept on coming. Right until even asa de salaam, the revelation came
there. And so many prophets received revelation there. So the place has a lot of goodness in its in
its roots in its soil. And the same way our sacred land Mkhize mocha does because it's the place
		
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			where Ibrahim alayhi salam built Allah sacred house, and the final messenger was sent and Gibreel.
Annie's Salam came in brought the Quran in that region. So it becomes wickedness you understand, and
the one who delivers this pure message becomes the root of our goods are those witches, debris, or
the Instagram. So these are some of the meanings of the case. But now let's look at the scriptures
that came before us. This is a I can't read that. So I just it's just a picture. But it's it's it
reads are this a Yawei, the holy to Yahweh and inscription worn on the forehead of the high priest
of Israel, meaning the goddess is a word that was being used before. You know, the Quran talked
		
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			about this word. In Hebrew, it was already being used by the Christians and by the Jews to describe
high holiness. It's already a term associated with them in Hebrew. The route is reflected in
Phoenician in Hebrew, in northwest Semitic as coders in Arabic, in Central and South Semitic in
Akkadian, texts. And in all of them, the word actually means to pupi to be pure. So this is a word
if there was a rabbi, listening to the prophets of Allah, or at least for them, or there was a
priest listening to the Prophet socialism of Arabian background, they would immediately say that
word really that word, because that's a very important word in their scriptures. And what I want you
		
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			to understand is nowadays, if I want to do this research, I can go to Wikipedia, or I can go to some
Biblical Studies website and I can find this information right. Back in the day if I wanted to know
what is in the Bible, what words are used in the Hebrew text, what word is used in the Syriac
scriptures? You know, what do they have, you don't get access to that information that is classified
documents that are rolled up in scrolls, and only their high priests and high rabbis have access to
those documents. Even the general public among the the Israelites don't have access to that, just
like the archives in the in the Vatican, for example, that you have to have very high access in the
		
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			in the hierarchy of the church to be able to access those manuscripts. They're not you can't just
Google them, right so the one
		
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			Quran uses this word what I want you to know is it's taking a word and talking about it that the
average Muslim Arab can understand. But even the highest priests of this religion, or these
religions, Christianity, Judaism, that had been studying the religion for decades and decades, that
know the special nature of these words are like, how did he gets his word? And how did he use it in
this way? Where's this coming from? Where's this knowledge? Who's leaking our information? There's a
WikiLeaks situation that's happening in the world. And this is actually a constant phenomenon in the
Quran. The Quran is commenting on things that actually only the knowledge that was only accessible
		
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			to the highest priestly sources. In previous scripture. I saw an example of this in the last year I
was teaching I was teaching sootel Hadith. So the Hadith, Allah says that, you know, like the
Catholic religion, they develop the monk life, like people that lived a celibate life, they didn't
get married, they lived in the church, and they just remain there forever. Right. And this was
their, their their vow to celibacy, they take a vow that he could promise that they're going to stay
that way and stay pure. Allah says about that Allah, Anita and the monk life EBITA Dharohar. They
invented it, they created it, do you know that the, at the time, no, Christian knew that they
		
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			invented it. Nobody knew that every Christian in the world believed that that was actually what the
religion was. That's how it's supposed to be. No one had the background knowledge of how this was
actually a later creation. This was not public information. And the Quran very casually says the
robber near 10. If the ruler and their highest preacher who were just classified, you're not
supposed to know that, how do you get access to that? You know, so this is actually you know, we
read these out quickly, but behind them is a large story. And it's actually it's quite telling how
the Quran uses these phrases. Just some more about this background. hakodosh This is their own
		
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			pronunciation is one of the names of Allah in Judaism, the holy one similar to the mobila form,
meaning this form we see in Arabic being a produce, and our grammarians noted that there are no four
rule like the Obama beginning and a shutdown for rule, there are only two words in Arabic that have
that Cebu, and produced those are the only two words in Arabic that have that sound like that, with
Adama beginning with Adama like that, and the shutdown and then a while, so go and record those. And
those are both names only used for Allah, they're not used for anybody else. This is just to show
you how these words are connected to previous scripture. Now, this be a hand tuck. These are both
		
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			typical Syriac Christian expressions for the glorification and sanctification of God. Now watch
this. There's in red, you see that title and read, what does it say? Cave of treasures. This is one
of the Syriac Christian texts, okay. And in it, they have stories of like, we have stories of the
prophets in the Quran, they have their stories in it, their version of the story of Adam Alayhis
Salam is very different than what we have. So I want you to know this is about their version. So
just listen to this with me in home. So are of Adam meaning the glorification this be and tuck these
in their scripture, these two words, in Syriac, not even in Arabic, were used for Allah, but they
		
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			were also used for Adam.
		
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			So Allah is mocha does Allah is could do sense of war and according to them, Adam is also Cebu, *
could those in whom the divine image dwelt, meaning, you know how they The Bible says God created
man in His own image. So they use that to say, Well, if God created man in His own image, than the
human being must also have perfection inside him, he must have God within him. So Adam had God
within him. That's why he also has the qualities of being Cebu hand kudos. This is found in the cave
of treasures, hence God's command to the angels to worship Adam, in their story. God commanded the
angels not to do such that what to what to worship them and the logic behind it is well, he has
		
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			God's image in him. So it's like worshiping God Himself and that's why you shouldn't you know, you
should bow down to him in worship. The Quran corrects this by having the angels director this be and
duck these specifically to Allah so for centuries, they believed us be and took these belong to
Allah and to Adam, but the Quran says so brilliantly. I am putting a Khalifa on the earth in Niger I
look after the Khalifa and the angel say are you going to put someone who is so flawed? You know, if
you have a new CDFI How is FICO Dima, you're gonna put someone who's who's gonna cause corruption is
going to spill blood and then what did they say when that new new sub B will be handy? Ca or naka de
		
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			su the CA and we do this we have you and we declare you pure meaning ALLAH redirects the Christian
discussion on tisby and took these that was happening in the region for centuries and says no, just
be heads up these does not belong to Allah
		
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			Adam, it only belongs to Allah let me correct the story for you is the Quran correcting the story?
So as merely having angels Prostrate to Adam rather than worshipping him at the same time, whereas
the rabbi's engaged with the Christian account by saying the own the the angels only worshipped Adam
by mistake, so the Rabbi's, the Jews and Christians follow the Old Testament, right? They follow
similar beliefs, but they also disagree with each other. Now why would the Christians developed the
idea that Adam has God inside him? Because eventually from the Children of Adam, Jesus will come?
And then he's going to be full on God for them, isn't it? So they need to figure out a way of
		
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			justifying that down the generations. The Jews want to undo that in their tradition? So the rabbinic
tradition says, yes, yes, yes, the angels did bow down. But they did that by mistake.
		
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			So the debate that was happening before Islam was one was saying they did. They did say the
Christians are saying they did such that to Adam because they worshipped them. And Allah told them
to worship them. And the rabbi's was like, no, no, they weren't told to worship them dishes, you
know, I made a mistake. Angels make mistakes. So they just accidentally did such that to Adam. Okay.
The Quran vindicates the angels. The Quran comes and says, no, no, the angels didn't make a mistake.
They were commanded to do siesta but not worship Him. So what does the Quran do? It actually
disagrees with the Christians and disagrees with the Jews and finds the middle correct path, and
		
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			retells the story. And this is really important in the Quran, you might not know this, but the Quran
is telling many, many stories that are in the Bible, many stories that are already in the Bible, and
in both Christian tradition and in Jewish tradition, but the Quran is retelling them completely. So
the names are the same, the characters are the same. But the story has completely been restructured
to bring it to its original form. As if Allah is saying you made you made a change here, you made a
change here, you made a change here, you made a change here. You don't like in movies, because you
don't watch movies. So this is hard for you to understand. But in movies, sometimes people write a
		
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			novel and the novel turns into a movie. Okay? But by the time it turns into the movie, the director
makes some creative changes to the original novel. So people who read the manga, I mean, the novel,
right? They're like, Oh, I saw what really happened is what is so much more interesting, blah, blah,
blah. Because there's a there's a director's cut. That's different from the original author. Well,
some of that happened, Allah revealed a story. And then over time, and the Jewish and Christian
accounts according to the Quran, you guys made some Director's Cut choices. You made some edits to
the story and converted into something else. And then the original story is basically gone. is
		
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			basically not there anymore. And what does the Quran do? It retells the story as it was originally
and it challenges both of those accounts I'll take your question at the end inshallah. So, while
while could use is extremely common in the Hebrew Bible, Cebu is unique to Syria and Syria is
Christian. So what I'm saying is, the word could do so in Cebu together in this ayah u sub mafia,
similar to my friend, Al Malik, Al, produce actually targeted in a sub in a kind of very subtle way
targeted both the Christian and the Jewish audience together in just using that word. So we of
course, Muslims are the main audience, but there's also a secondary audience. I'm reminded of a
		
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			saying in Arabic, yaki, and he was Maya, Java, let me tell you the meaning behind this. It's kind of
cool. You know, back in the day, people lived in houses where they don't have a in America, we have
backyards, right. And they have a fence in the backyard. But in the old days, people had a front
porch. So you walk into the house, and there's an open front yard with the walls around it. And then
you walk inside the house, and the cooking and the hanging out and all that stuff happens outside in
the open. And the only thing separating your front, this is your living room under the sky,
basically. Yeah. So this living room is separate from your neighbor's living room by what?
		
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			Just a half wall. That's it. So if the husband and wife are having an argument, who's having a great
time on the other side,
		
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			it's your neighbor, right? So the Arabs have a saying the husband is arguing with his wife, he's
yelling at her. He says II IKEA, honey, I mean, you was Maria Jarrah, you can listen to a neighbor.
		
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			Because he knows he's like, you know, that's what she's doing. Well, look, what does the Quran do?
The Quran is talking to the Muslims sometimes, but the Quran is we're very aware that it's not only
the Muslims that are listening, who's also listening, the Jewish and Christian neighbors, then we
should be calling the other people they're listening also. So the Quran demonstrates an awareness of
second audiences. And that's why the study becomes important, right? So there's primary audience and
also secondary audience. Okay. Now, I'm going to read through this because this was written by a
couple of colleagues of mine, Sharif from Dawa, and, you know, so they, they've, they've put
		
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			together a small piece on how the Quran tells
		
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			Here's the story. And I'm going to read through this because I think it's just really well I tried
to summarize it myself and I was butchering it. So I'm just gonna read through it for you. The
Jewish and Christian texts discussed above, from the intro text for the Quran, that is they
represent the stories with which the Quran engages, when it tells its own authoritative account. In
doing this, the Quran affirms and rejects elements from both the Christian and Jewish renditions in
a manner that expresses its own distinctive theological outlook, correcting their excesses with
surgical precision. Allah is correcting both surgically, it's not rejecting all of this or rejecting
		
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			all of that a slice of this is taken out a slice of this is taken out. Now we're back to the
original, for example, in agreement with the Christian narrative and against the Jewish narrative.
The Quran accepts that the angels prostrated to Adam at Allah's command God's command, however, in
agreement with the Jewish narrative and against the Christian narrative, the Quran maintains that
Adam merely had a role of vice chairman or Khalifa, right, appointed by God, a governor appointed by
God, and not that God's divinity dwelled in him who believed that God's divinity dwells inside of
them. The Christians did and the Quran is saying no, he's just gonna differ accordingly. The Quran
		
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			only describes the angels as prostrating to Adam, but not worshiping. Moreover, whereas the
Christian account speaks of Adams divine glory, they use the word dash bootha, which is similar to
what this be. It's a Syriac word similar to this be and states that the angels sanctified him muka
naka de la cutscene which is similar to what mocha does. The Quran depicts the angels as declaring
to God we glorify you know, sub Bihu behind DECA with praise and sanctify you know, but this would
occur using the Arabic cognates of the Syriac terms but applying them to God instead of out of
meeting the Quran use the Arabic words that were very close to a foreign language to Syriac, which
		
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			the Christians were familiar with. To actually secondarily even target them these words you use them
incorrectly. The Quran therefore safeguards God's exclusive divinity against the Christian account,
and upholds Adams exalted but non divine status as the vice chairman of God and absolves the angels
of having wrongly worshipped Adam. Additionally, the Quran is an affirmation of God's command to the
angels to prostrate to Adam undercuts them makin pagans justification for their angel worship
meaning most raccoon of Makkah used to worship who among the false gods they used to worship angels.
Now in this story Allah says the angels themselves are doing such that so they are not objects of
		
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			worship. So now in one story, the Muslims are learning something the Christians are learning
something the Jews are learning something and the machine are learning something one speech multiple
audiences. One speech is Subhan Allah is one of the most remarkable things about the Quran. It
targets multiple audiences in one shot, you know this a two birds with one stone. This is like four
birds with one stone, right? Accordingly, the Quran presents its own distinctive narrative of the
story of Adam alley, Sudan, which at the same time engages with and corrects both the Jewish and
Christian versions of the story in a marvelous and precise and sophisticated way. Okay, so this was
		
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			some things that needed to be said in regards to produce because it has that story behind it. That's
why I shared all of this with you. Okay, now, let's move on to Al Aziz. You got work to do. So.
		
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