Saleem Chagtai – Islam Awareness Week Messengers to Mankind 1 of 7
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The speaker discusses the importance of communication between Allah and his warriors, as it is essential for human beings to have a relationship with their creator. The communication is defined by the speaker as the need for a relationship between the creator and the creator, and communication inherently means that this relationship is necessary for a relationship to be manifest. The speaker explains that communication is a way to define the purpose of human beings and provide information about their actions. The speaker also discusses the idea of morality and how it is a reflection of human beings.
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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