Saleem Chagtai – Islam Awareness Week Messengers to Mankind 1 of 7

In Islamic

awareness. And, this one is called entitled messengers

to mankind,

which I I'm sure you can guess is

about the of Allah, the greatest men to

have walked this earth.

Before I introduce the sheikh,

just for the benefit of everyone including the

sisters,

I just wanna establish some moves inshallah.

Mobile phones, make sure they are silent or

they're off to, preventing disturbances.

Secondly,

we will have 2 portions to the event.

1 will be the actual talk.

Secondly, we'll have, an opportunity for your questions

to be answered. So during the talk, write

write down your questions.

I'll keep the flow going for the question

q and a session

session. Celine Shakhtar, which we are honored here

today,

was born and raised in the UK. He

is a khadid and a writer,

and his interests include

Islamic law and theology, comparative religion,

philosophy and ideology,

as well as aspects of political and social

history.

He has many years of experience

of teaching and presenting orthodox Islam to Muslims

as well as non Muslims.

He's affiliated with several prestigious

organizations.

One of them being the Barnet Multi Faith

Forum, as well as as well as MRDF,

which stands for Muslim Research Development Foundation,

as well as the famous, Dawah Organization, Ira.

And he is the director of the Clarity

Institute. So subhanAllah, we have a personal knowledge

here.

Give him your, full attention. Maybe you can

learn

Let's start by saying actually I'm not a

sheikh on 2 counts. 1,

I have not hit that devil in terms

of knowledge, and also I'm still less than

40. So alhamdulillah.

That's that's one thing to be happy about,

the second one anyway.

So but Zakrahi and Fazibadir is, Dali for

his introduction.

We're covering the subject of messengers

to mankind, the prophets of God,

and,

I didn't want to give this subject

attention before

and without

covering some other issues first. It's very important

that we see how

the issue of nisala, the issue of messengership

is something which is very important

in

the

the issue of messengership

is very important in the whole scheme

of

the divine communication,

the communication between Allah

and his servants,

his creation.

So it's first of all, we need to

understand

that this is a very

essential

and

part of the human experience.

This is something that we as human beings

should expect.

The reason for this is,

in the same way that this plastic

cup,

this microphone,

this screen,

this keyboard,

this table, the chair that you're sitting on,

In the same way that these items

have a form and function,

this

implies,

explicitly and implicitly,

that these things have been made by somebody

or something with some intelligence or some design

involved.

So there

stands to reason that we as human beings

who are more advanced than all the things

I have mentioned,

it makes sense to accept from a purely

logical and rational basis

that we as human beings have

been designed or created.

And I think this is something which is

which is important to mention

because

if that is the case and we have

the consciousness to understand and recognize

our creator, our designer, then at that point,

we need to really

understand

that there is a need for some kind

of relationship

between the creator and the creator.

And for that relationship

to be manifest,

there needs to be

some communication.

Given that we are the ones that are

limited,

weak,

and needy,

then all we will be able to do

is

to come at least to the conclusion there

is our designer and our creator out out

out there, indeed,

out there, which we have to have relationship

with.

And this communication inherently

means

that this it is this

that is going to answer the 3 fundamental

questions.

Those questions are,

who are we?

Where do we come from?

Where are we going?

And about who are we? What are we

actually doing here? What are we doing on

this planet?

So therefore, this communication

will define the purpose of human beings

because it seems absurd that the that this

cup has a purpose

and will be used for that purpose, yet

we human beings wouldn't.

That will be very absurd that we consider

ridiculous.

Absurd.

So therefore, this communication will will provide the

defining purpose of human beings

and also information

about those things which our human intellect cannot

comprehend

due to its limitations.

Because at the end of the day, human

beings can only make assumptions.

They can only make assumptions if they left

their own devices.

They can only make

educated or uneducated guesses

about the profound

questions of this life.

And often, these are disastrous ones.

Often, these assumptions or these conclusions

glean from those assumptions

will motivate humans to act in very despicable

manner. Maybe resulting in genocide,

resulting in oppression,

resulting in

the

propping up of themselves as kings or royalty

and oppress

the people who are much weaker than them.

So we assume beings being limited

and biased

because all of us cannot have the total

experience of of life in general.

We all come from various countries, from various

social classes, various backgrounds.

So, therefore, we can only talk within the

context of where we come from, from our

background,

which therefore means that our consciousness will also

tell us that this communication,

this relationship, this

understanding between us and the creator would also

give us what we term morality.

Because

because brothers, the issue is

that morality when people talk about morals

without reference to God,

it's ridiculous.

It's ridiculous.

You can really show somebody how ridiculous it

is.

Why?

Because

if morality

is not fixed

and can change

due to whatever theories are out there, evolution,

due to democratic will, meaning whatever the majority

of people in any particular area decide,

that they will have to end up with

a number of very

unpalatable conclusions.

One of which is

that if people

decide to exterminate

another people,

democratically,

then this would have to be considered good.

And this is exactly what happened in Nazi

Germany in 19 thirties.

This was

an elected democratically elected government. Hitler's government was

democratically elected.

And while the Jews were being persecuted before

they were exterminated,

the public turned a blind eye

because they felt

he's our leader. He knows best.

We've elected him.

So that's from the democratic will side. What

about from the evolution side?

Because if you believe

that all we are is just is just

a collection of molecules,

That's really killing people. It's just rearranging the

molecules.

You're just moving one molecule from another cell.

You also have a very primitive view of

of human beings.

You will think that men and women need

to be treated treated in this