Shadee Elmasry – NBF 46 Why Islam is The Absolute Truth
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Amanda Hey Salam aleikum. Everyone. Welcome everybody to
nothing but facts as it is a Thursday, and what is it the sixth
or seventh day of Ramadan?
We're gonna get started today. And today we're going to talk about a
topic which we're not going to talk about right away, we'll get
going first and give everyone a chance to show up. But we're going
to I got a question today. And that's what we're going to talk
about why Islam and not other religions? It's a good question.
So the question that I thought about a lot, a lot a long time
ago. And I think that everybody should know the answer to that and
be able to answer that themselves. So we're just gonna give it a
second. If you want to talk right now. You got our initial four or
five minutes. Just chit chat until everyone shows up and then we'll
get going.
I'm going to quiz you guys here. A little food quiz based on the star
that I had last night. If I say pepper pot, what country are we
talking about?
Pepper.
What is the
nation of origins of this dinner?
Pepper pot is basically a it's a it's a close it's, well, it's a
guy. And he's still basically where they take the ox I think.
And they literally every single piece of the ox and the forest and
the woods, right is in this stool.
And I remember the first time I had it was in Queens. I had it
again yesterday. It's called Pepperpot. Someone got it right.
No, no, yes or no. Got it. Right. He said Guyana. Someone said
Jamaica close. Yeah. Again, pork chops up said Cambodia. Someone
said Nigeria, but that's not. And so pepper pot stew was basically
that
every piece of the ox is in the stew. And I first saw it and there
were leaves floating around sticks, right?
And I was like, I'm not eating that. This was in Queens, the
outputs from that. But then they say you have.
Right. So it's very sweet though. It's like a sweet stew. There's
probably a lot of honey or something. But I had it again
yesterday. And I had a more sort of Americanized version, where
there weren't as many hopes, you know that the foreign countries,
everyone except America eats like every part of the animal shaking
the rod was we were having a kitchen discussion one time and he
was telling me the humans who Hey, we're talking and he was like,
there's this principle here saying it like as if it's like a hockey
the principle. There's the less amount of prevalence and the part
of the body has on the animal the more valued it is eating. Yeah,
it's true. I didn't know it was the kneecap or something I
remember go.
I remember go into in Egypt and walking with my end, and seeing a
butcher shop.
Now, there was a pile of tongues.
Cow tongues, a pile, he must have just gone to the farm. Because
that's they do things the old, old school way, at least back in the
80s and 90s. drive out to the farm. Early in the morning. You
have a farmer that you deal with you buy from him a whole bunch of
tongues, you come back and sell them. And I'm sitting there with a
bunch of tongues and I'm like,
what is that? And they're like, oh, tongue sandwich is amazing.
Like this. sent me back to America. Give me peanut butter and
jelly sandwich was a rare thing via the rarest thing. I did eat a
piece of brain one time. It was almost like blocky cheese, but
fatty and didn't have much of a taste. I would say the one thing
that I do eat is the liver of a chicken with lemon. I never
thought I would like it by putting lemon on it. Yeah, it's a Lebanese
thing. It's good Lebanon, I eat that.
I'm pretty much pretty basic on my dinners, right. But there was
stuff in the pepper pot like oxtail, the tail. The there's the
fat of the tail. Right? We have something in Egypt, they call
hosts. Right? And they eat the hosts or the joints and stuff,
right? So I'm looking at my mom stirring the pot, and she's like,
Oh, we're having this. And I'm like, what is that? Feet? Feet,
cow feet. So
I'm basically a very old fashioned I guess American so
while I eat like this stuff that just the meat, what I'm going to
find in the supermarket in an American supermarket, I'll eat if
it's going to be in an ethnic supermarket. I'm 5050 hearts. I've
seen hearts being sold lamb hearts, cow hearts that sold here.
And one in Arkansas, the
African population they like the lion's loins, really? Of the of
the sheep something.
Oh my goodness. I've been to enough mood said brain couriers
are really tasty Pakistani brain curry. You're kidding me? Ryan,
period. See, to think and here's the thing that if I ever ate that
stuff, it would be in a curry. You know why? Cuz there's so much
mashed up stuff in a curry. You don't even know what you're eating
sometimes. Right? Like there is. See the difference in Desi food in
each airport. We take the spices out of the food before we serve it
to the people. Like you wouldn't find an Arab dish for example,
with a leaf. Oh, you got a marinade with a stick? Yeah, with
the cardamom pot. Right? We tend to take the stuff out before we
serve it to the people. Because now you have to do something like
a Where's Waldo. Where's my actual food that I'm going to eat? And
where's the stuff that is going to disrupt my mouth?
So we don't want to do that, to me is like the I need Americanized
Desi food. Right modernized and Americanized DC food. That's what
I need. Where you got basically all the pods the stuff that you
want to displace if we were to put it in a little package right? Like
a metal thing container. Stick that in the food. And then you can
pull it out. Maybe it's like calligraphy though. Like you know,
calligraphy. You have to like sit there. You really have to look. Oh
yeah, you have to pull it apart. That's what your food is like you
really have to sit there and study and see what's going on before you
put the fork in your mouth. All right, I think we're good to go
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All right, Ramadan, Mubarak, I have a friend looking to answer a
question. All right, that question is Why Islam and not other
religions, by Islam and not other religions? That's the first
question.
There's a lot of other questions as to
why Islam and not other religions? Well, the first answer to that was
answered by a member of as it Satan, remember was that he
actually answered this question.
And he said that,
in order for a religion for us to alter our beliefs and our
behavior,
if I'm going to alter my beliefs in my behavior, I need to know.
I need to know that that religion was actually true. That was
actually stated, as it was. So in other words, if I'm going to live
by the Bible, don't I need to know that, that what's in the Bible was
actually what Jesus said, If I'm going to live by the Torah, he's
in the precondition to that to be certain that this is actually the
word of Moses.
Because this is transmitted, I'm not behaving, I'm not altering my
behavior because of an observed reality. I'm not altering my
behavior because of a rational thing that you brought me
altering my behavior because of what you're telling me, Moses
said, or Jesus said, or Sidhartha Gautama, who also known as the
Buddha said, Okay?
All right. What did the Buddha say?
Do we actually have any certainty that that's what they said,
because we're going to alter our behavior here. Because if you want
spirituality, spirituality, your soul is in here, your body
influences your soul. And your soul influences your body, it's a
two way street. So if you want spirituality, you need to alter
your behavior.
And all these religions call for that they call for this is the
standard of goodness, and you behave accordingly.
Right? And this is what is true about the unseen. So you need to
believe that. But what's the basis of that belief? The basis of the
belief is that that's what they're transmitting to us. It's a
transmission. All right. So what I remembered was that he said, and
what is common sensical is that examined the transmission, all of
those other faiths that are competing with Islam, Judaism,
Christianity, maybe Buddhism, a B Hinduism and they have
some books that they operate with.
I'm not even considered the the religion that came after Islam,
none of them really compete in a serious way. Like Sikhism, for
example, does not compete with Islam in a serious way.
The the Mormonism is a religion that is based on the profit
claimed claim of prophecy of John Smith. Yeah. So we're gonna reject
that too, because they're not really competing. Okay? But the
competitive religions out there that you say, Okay, what are the
religions going to say Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity. And
Hinduism is so all over the place. It's not even they they never even
called it Hinduism. It's the British who called it Hinduism.
They just had different local gods. That's all it was.
So that's the first answer to your question is that none of those
fates
can offer you with any certainty that this is actually what Moses
said, or Jesus said, or Buddha said, things have been lost in
between. So so no rational person is going to act upon something
that isn't certain, a transmission that isn't certain someone says to
you, Hey, listen, you're gonna need to change.
You know, all your headlights on your car, because the rules of the
state have changed regarding headlights on the cars, you got to
go change them. All. Right, you're going to act upon that.
I'm going to have to go and go through the headache of changing
all the headlights on my cars. I wouldn't do that on so what do I
say? Hey, are you sure? Show me the proof that the state law has
changed and I have to change my.
So any behavior based upon transmission, behavioral change
based upon transmission, I need to know for sure that they said that.
And the answer to that is, cannot be certain that they said that
there is no certainty. In fact, they themselves, the Jewish and
Christian scholars will admit that they have no clue who transmitted
their Bible.
I've taken these classes, right. And they just give them like, they
know the writing styles, there are four different writing styles. So
they just give them different letters, like p q, r, for for just
to demarcate the styles of writing. So they know that there's
a certain style here, there's a completely different style of
writing here. There's four different authors who wrote this
thing.
There's no way for them to show us a transgender, what do we have in
Islam, we have something called the chain of transmission. And we
have that for the Quran.
In a way that there's no doubt about it.
And we have that for the Hadith of the prophets, I send them in a way
that even the non believer, a Kaffir, Harold Matsuki,
has admitted that when the Muslims say that a hadith is so here, it's
probably what the Prophet said. Now, that's not our source, but it
is a source for someone who'd like on doubt, and he's like, Oh, well,
you guys are apologists, meaning that you support your religion
anyway. So I want to hear from from someone who doesn't like you.
Here's the guy who is that man's a Kaffir? Harold muskies, not a
Muslim.
I'm saying Kevin like in a legalistic Lee speaking his
category is. He's an unbeliever, right. Yeah, he's admitting to
you. And he's telling you that when the Muslim scholars talk
about their Hadith and say so here, that's what it is. Right? It
probably it is very likely, this is what Muhammad said, right? If
not, he has much more certainty than the adjectives that I just
used. Right.
Now when it comes to the Quran, let's take another look at it.
Let's look practically what's happening with the Quran.
Go to any country, go to any mosque, pick up the Quran off the
shelf, and compare them, you will find the same book.
So practically speaking, this is not just a theory that we're
saying, we can show you the practice of it, or the
application, or the demonstration of it, go to any country.
And you will find the books on their shelves coming off their
shelves, are all the same book. It's the same Quran, no matter
what people try to cast doubt upon it. I have a, I had a I had a boss
one time at Yo, this guy. His job now is to cast doubt on the Quran,
saying like, why are you wasting your time, practically speaking,
go to any mosque in the entire world. It's the same book. And
it's an Arabic go to any mosque the entire world, the prayer is
exactly as it's described, that the Prophet prayer how the Prophet
prayed, the five prayers a day are exactly as the Prophet said. So
that's in terms of the comparison between the two religions, or the
main religions, we don't even get into a comparison. Because the
precondition of a bit following of faith, the precondition, before we
even think about it, is that we have to be certain that that God
or that Prophet, his words are in this book. And you have none of
that certainty by the admission of the Jewish and Christian scholars,
that their book is not preserved. And in fact, it has been played
with it has been altered, it's been translated, it's been
translated from so many languages to different languages, that the
original, the middleman language has been lost, like the middleman
translations are lost, to have translations from whatever Hebrew
to Greek, to English,
or to Latin, to English, whatever it is. So you're not even
translating the English has not even been translated from the
Hebrew. Right? It's not even been translated directly,
in many cases, and if to get the Bible, you have to ask yourself
which version why because alteration is so easy, you can
alter the Bible so easily and sell it.
So these books are altered, those religions cannot even be relied
on, just historically to say what it is, you know, what this is
called? This is called discovery. In any case, we have to lay out
what are the facts before we even judge the case? That's called
discovery. So this thing fails on Discovery. We're not even sure
that this is what Moses said, or Jesus said or otherwise. Okay?
Even if we were sure, right, you know, the claim in the Quran. And
the claim of the prophets, I said, is that Allah has taken an oath
with all the prophets. If another prophet comes, and he brings a
revelation, you leave off what you're doing, and you follow the
new prophet. Why? Because there can't be chaos. There can't be two
messengers with two different books at the same time. That's
chaos. Now let's turn to a very simple examination on the
existence of God. How do we know that there is a Creator? So the
first thing we're going to look at this rationally very quickly? Like
a glossier
right quickly in Rationally speaking.
You own the our existence here, as a couple of possibilities, the
first possibility we could have always existed, like the earth
could have always existed. That was like the belief I believe of,
of Aristotle. Right? The universe always existed, this world that we
live in has always been here.
Second possibility is that it made itself. And the third possibility
is that it has a creator. We're going to see right now why the
first two are impossible, the third one is necessary.
The first one
is that this world created itself well or has always existed. Well,
that means it's infinite into the past, right?
Which means infinite means it's infinite in both ways in the past
and in the future. Now, infinity, the concept just the mere concept,
anything that's infinite, you can't add to it or subtract from
it. Right? If it was infinite, the nature of infinity is that you
can't add to it or subtract what's infinity minus one that's not even
a number. It's a no such thing was infinity plus one. But what we
live the what we experienced in life, I mean, is that work?
There's constantly addition and subtraction to the world.
Yesterday's gone, and tomorrow's coming and the present, has
existing constantly as an addition. So time is consistently
adding to the existence of the universe and the world. Right? The
future is always coming up being added to the world. The population
of humans is constantly coming into the world, and it's
decreasing their people disappear.
Think they're dying, and they're people being born, there are
leaves constantly dying, and there are leaves blooming. There are
animals coming in and out. Right? There are planets that die. And
there are stars that are born, constant change and flux, constant
change and flux indicates that is not infinite. So the world could
not have existed forever. So that's impossible. How about the
world creating itself? That's a much easier discussion, we could
simply say, nothing can create itself, because that would require
it to exist and not exist at the same time.
So it doesn't exist? How can it take an action if it doesn't
exist? So if it created itself, it would necessitate existence and
non existence simultaneously.
Third thing.
The third option is a necessary option is that a creator who does
not, is not subjected to the laws of this universe that exists and
made this universe? Or what are the indicators of that,
okay, that anything that changes must have come into existence,
this universe changes, therefore, it came into existence, there must
be a force outside of this universe completely, that brought
it into existence. That's a necessary conclusion.
Because we just said this, The world didn't exist forever, it
can't have created itself. Therefore, it was created by force
outside of it, or external to it, I should say, transcended from it
is even a better word to say, transcendent beyond all of its
laws. Why? Because this world exists with laws, what goes up
must come down, things like this, these laws themselves are created,
therefore, the creator cannot be subjected to them. That's what we
call the transcendent creator. And that's the philosophical
definition of God, the transcendent Creator, who exists
by necessity, and brought this world into existence.
What are some of the Indic signs of this creator? Well just look
around you at the engineering of the world. And the efficiency of
the world. The fact that there's one Creator, why would we say
there's one Creator, an example, if you look at a cell,
the structure of an atom, and the structure of a cell is the same
structure. And that is that there's something in the middle,
and there's empty space. And there are things that revolve around it,
that's let's say, forget the cell, the atom. That's the nature of the
atom, right? There's one little nucleus, and then there's protons
and electrons of different types that will give you different
elements, right?
Protons and electrons floating around a nucleus. All right,
that's when you zoom in to the atom, no zoom out to the universe,
the entire world, the entire universe, has the same model of
every universe has like a sun in the middle, and the planets
revolve around it. It's the same exact model, which tells you that
the creator of the atom, the creator of the universe, is one
there's one model of creation, as opposed to, let's say, this
microphone and this iPad, have nothing to do with each other.
Right? They don't look alike. They're not use the same color
scheme. They don't use the same plugs. So what does that tell me?
It tells me that different manufacturers and manufacturers
have nothing to do with each other. They weren't communicating.
But when I see that the atom, when I look at my eye, and the eye is
is very similar. It's a nucleus and there's things around it,
there's constant similarity in the way things are done, tells us that
this creator is one Creator, it's not multiple creators. He's one
Creator. Now let's take a look at another
example.
Look at the ecosystem that we live in, it rains water, that water
goes down into the earth, what does that Earth produce? It
produces a tree that tree releases something and intake something
What does it release and versus what is an intake it releases
oxygen and intake C co2.
What do we human beings who what do we intake, we intake what the
tree releases and we expel co2 And the tree takes the co2 creates a
perfect balance in the world.
We eat the leaves the tree in turns the roots of the tree go in
and pull more water out.
So that we can have water from under the earth now.
And what happens is animals then will come and eat from these
leaves so that the tree is an excessively strong if the tree is
too strong, it pulls up too much water. So Allah has regulated
the tree the world of trees in the world of vegetation is regulated.
Too much of it will destroy
it will destroy the population. Right it will just
Choi there's too much of it. It pulls up the water well what it
pulls up too much water. So
Allah has created herbivores their job is to regulate an eat some of
the greenery. Well, what if you have too much herbivores, too many
herbivores, too many sheep and deer and cows, they'll eat up all
the vegetation. So they need to be regulated how they regulated?
carnivores.
And a carnivore and the herbivore eventually will die? And what
happens to their body? Does it just sit there? No, it
deconstructs
and makes the soil rich so that we could farm in that soil. You know
that if you want a soil to be just that you have bad soil. If you
have bad soil, what do you do if you have bad soil, all you do is
you get a bunch of sheep and goat, and cows, and you throw some hay
there and you let them eat, and walk around that that plot of land
and just urinate and defecate, and then it can even die there.
That's where the wealth of the soil comes from rich soil. That's
how you in the old days, that's how they fixed up the soil. Just
put some animals there, let them eat hay or eat whatever they want.
And let them urinate and defecate all day in that soil for a year or
two, that soil becomes rich with their nutrients, and then that
animal will die there. It becomes rich with that nutrients over
time. takes time of course.
And then we the system. So everything systems constantly
replenishing itself. You got some dirty water? How are you supposed
to purify it? You have to go through a process of purification.
That's extremely difficult, right? Desalination, for example. You
know how hard it is to desalinate water, it means take the salt out
of ocean water so that you can drink it. It's really difficult.
Okay.
What happens actually, when we when rain comes out? Where's that
rain coming from? That rain is all the evaporation which is 95% from
the oceans. It's not from the lakes, lakes only producing a
small amount of vapor, right? The oceans are what's producing all
this vapor goes up into the sky.
How does it come down?
If we didn't have cars, that water if we didn't have air pollution,
the way we pollute the air, that water would come down so perfectly
clean, you can drink it.
It takes us factories and machines to desalinate water that water's
getting desalinated in the sky. You look at the sky, you don't see
a single thing. There's a factory of desalination that you can't
even see. I asked my friend he's a geologist, I said Where does like
the world water comes from? He said all the water all the waste
that goes into the earth.
It goes deep into the earth. And it undergoes a process of
purification until it gathers up in a well, and it bursts forth a
spring or a well a spring is when the water bursts forth itself. The
well is when the water is just sitting there, you have to use a
bucket
that water comes up, you can drink it straight.
How did that happen? So this creator has made a desalination
plant in the middle of the sky that you can't even see.
And a purification source, a purification plant in the middle
of the earth that you can't even see.
Also that the human being can continue to exist. So we know that
this creator he has a lot of knowledge. And this creator has is
one because everything is in one system. Entire Universe is in one
system, you think that our world exists by itself as it is we need
the sun. How far away is the sun, right? But that distance is the
perfect distance.
If the Sun was smaller, it would be closer in order for us to
exist. If we were any closer, just a small, about closer, we'd all
fry.
Think about this.
What is the difference between let's say the Sahara Desert? And
let's say a nice temperate climate, like where we are in New
Jersey like we have, we have a little bit of everything. Right?
What's the difference? What is the difference of distance from the
sun from let's say the the these these impossible deserts to live
in where life cannot exist because it's just so hot.
Versus the North Pole, for example, where it's too cold? What
is the difference in distance?
The sun is lightyears away. Yet the distance between where we
can't live on earth because it's too hot versus too cold. It's such
a small amount. Like we're not even saying move the planet on the
planet itself. There are parts that are too exposed to the sun
and not exposed enough to the sun. Human beings cannot survive on
either one.
Just goes to show you that that distance itself has to be the
exact precise distance in order for us to exist.
The moon around us if it didn't exist, we would have a whole other
set of problems.
If bees were removed from the earth, it has been calculated that
human beings would be wiped out within two weeks.
Bees like I don't even understand how that's happened if they made a
movie about it, the B movies made based upon that, right? It's a, it
was a fact that was a paper that got popular A while back, that if
bees were suddenly just in one shot deleted from the earth, if
someone went into the code of existence, and just deleted bees,
we would not exist within only two weeks. How,
like, we're that delicate to this creator has an immense amount of
knowledge. And this creation is is by his will, this is not a machine
that's just creating, like, how do we know that it's by his will,
it's because certain things are set in stone, almost like we can
call them laws.
And other certain things are always variable.
But the things that require us to live perfectly, are always the
same. So this creator has the capability of doing everything the
same.
Like what like gravity is the same every day. Gravity doesn't change.
anywhere on Earth, you go to grant gravity is the same, right? Time
is the same.
The time passes pretty much everywhere on the earth 100% In
the same manner.
The sunrises from the east sets in the west, every single day.
The Earth rotates the same amount of time it rotates, so that you
don't have a day, that's 25 hours and other day, that's 23 hours and
other day, that's 22 hours, then you get a day that's 30 hours
never happens. So time, gravity, certain nourishments water will
always nourish you in a certain way.
Meat will always nourish you in a certain way. So that if you have
anemia, we know what you need, you need more red meat, for example.
If you have in, you're not digesting well, you need greens.
From from now all the way into the time of the future all the way to
the first human beings. If you're not digesting well eat vegetables,
you'll digest better. If you're weak eat protein. If you're
dehydrated, drink water, things never change. So that we can live
a stable civil, stable life otherwise we'd go crazy. The
seasons, the winter comes. In general the winter comes. Yeah, of
course you can have we have global warming. And but I remember a time
and I'm sure are the elders, anyone older could probably attest
to this too. You could late basically look at your watch, look
at your calendar. And the winter would start.
And you can look at your calendar and the spring would start. But
we've sort of messed up the environment a little bit.
But you have winter, followed by spring, followed by summer,
followed by Autumn.
You never have summer, then jumped to autumn, then autumn, then to
spring, then to watch. It never happens, right? Everything's in
order. Why so that we can know that there's an immense amount of
knowledge that went into this creation.
And that we could live otherwise we go crazy. But however, if
everything was always the same, that every human being would have
the same face, every leaf would look the same. Every zebra would
look the same.
Every person would be the same. And
we would say like this is just a factory, but no to prove and to
display that this creation is simply because Allah wants it that
way. He's made everyone different. And he's created animals that you
cannot even imagine. Little completely black monkey with
bright white hair.
Why? Just because he wants to. That's it. Frogs, little tiny
frogs, fluorescent green with red spots. Why? Don't tell me
evolutionary process that there's no value in that being frog
fluorescent. Right? It's because Allah wants it that way. He wants
us to see the beauty that He loves His creation. Why create so many
different types of birds?
Why create so many types of lizards? Why create so many types
of ants? You can go and make a career of studying ants. That's it
your whole career studying ants. You can go your whole career
studying types of lizards. Right? Komodo dragons is one of the most
vicious creatures on earth. You would probably rather be in a in a
in a ring with maybe, I don't know 10 Other types of predators rather
than the Komodo dragon. Right.
Why don't the scales that have this fluorescent color to them
where they're almost reflecting the light as if it's like a work
of art to show us he's doing this by his will. Okay.
It's his will
To do this, he's not creating because it's a factory that's
churning out creations. If that was the case, then why are the
things that are always the same?
For a reason, so help us live. But the things that are always
different for our enjoyment.
The way flowers come out, it's always different. The way zebras
are striped, everyone's different. The cheetah spots, always
different leopard, Jaguar, all the spots are completely different.
There, no two will ever be the same. No two snowflakes will ever
be the same. No two leaves, like you got this plant here with tons
of leaves. But it's as like a fact that you cannot get two leaves
that exact same size and dimensions. Every one of these
leaves is going to be slightly different.
Every single one why? It's to show you he's creating.
And it's in your status of well, what's the point though? A
snowflake comes down from the sky.
And it comes down, maybe in a minute. It's journey down from the
cloud, maybe what 234 or five minutes maximum, then it's going
to hit the ground and dissolve into the other into the other
snowflakes. Or it's going to dissolve on the street. And you're
asked yourself, Well then how many millions and billions of
snowflakes have existed?
What was the point? If no one's gonna see it?
Allah subhana wa Tada says, What if he Shahida it is enough that
Allah is witnessing.
We're not always the center of the universe. We're not there are
creations that are so tiny and so small, they live like a fraction
of a second their entire lifespan. Allah has enough as a witness. So
you have a creator now we have to ask ourselves, with our minds only
will only have a limited amount of knowledge about the Creator. We
know he's very, he has immense knowledge, we know that he's one
we know that there's order, there cannot be all of this without a
purpose for it. What's the what's the what's the purpose of this
creation? We need prophethood we need a message from this creator.
Otherwise, the human being will destroy himself.
I will we destroy ourselves, we just we would destroy ourselves by
destroying each other. If we did not have a sense of law and order
for us human beings.
As human beings, we have moral issues, and moral dilemmas. When
is abortion allowed? When is it not? It's a dilemma who's to say
no human being has the right to answer that question.
So we actually agree with what the Liberals on that, right? The
Christians will say the banzuke has said, No God has revealed we
agreed that we just don't agree on what version of revelation you're
talking about. And we have our own laws on abortion.
We have our own laws
on what to do with criminals.
Criminals have to be punished. All human beings agree on that, but we
can never agree on how do they should be punished. Right?
When can you kill somebody? Can I kill someone who's trying to kill
me? Can I kill someone? If I'm at war? Can I kill someone who killed
another person?
No human being truly has the right to answer that. We need revelation
for that.
Okay, well, what should a human being eat once you do not eat?
What is cleanliness? And what is not clean? Right? Like these
things? Yes. You say, Oh, well, let's use our common sense. Okay,
but your common sense differs from my common sense. And who's to say,
Why is your common sense? Should? Why should your common sense be
applied to me? That's what whenever there's no religion, the
state comes in and oppresses everybody, and forces the views of
a few elites on everybody else. These are the views now you have
to all force because you can't convince me.
But it's labs comes and says this, we will, we're telling you this is
your Creator is telling you. And the religion is spread through the
people through the book, and through the prayer. So the law is
not something that comes from an elite group of people and is
forced upon everybody else. In Islam, the law is in the Quran,
the basis of the basics of the law, we all recite it. And so any
common person picks up the Quran, he has an idea of marriage law
idea of what to do with inheritance with my money after I
die, an idea of what the crimes are if I if I kill someone, What's
the punishment?
What should I do about drugs and alcohol? Is there a limit? Can I
have a little bit Can I have just recreationally? Who's to say? So
human beings cannot judge other human beings and pass judgments
onto other human beings with their own brains? We need and we're in
absolute dire need for a message from external external to us that
has authority over us. No one has authority over us except the
Creator. So that profit now he has to come with proofs. That's
another big question. Okay, so we agree in theory that there has to
be revelation, but
what, what's his proof that Muhammad was a prophet for
example,
the Prophet Muhammad SAW said him didn't come
Just from himself, out of nowhere, the Prophet peace be upon him came
from a lineage where his grandfather, and his great
grandfather is made, and then his grandfather abdomen. were known to
be people that were special with Allah. And they had their own
miracles of the mythology himself. I don't know if we would call them
we definitely do not call them watches that because he was not a
prophet, but they were miraculous events that happened. We can't
deny that there were miraculous events that happened. The
discovering of the well of zamzam through a dream.
You're like, Okay, what's the big deal is just a spring of water.
Yeah, but were a spring of water in the middle of the desert, based
upon a dream.
And then when they defer it upon who's gonna manage it, they all
traveled out again, to get an arbitrator. He discovered this
well of water, spraying of water, well, who's gonna manage it, who
has the honor of managing it, who's going to be in control of
it? They disagreed. So they said, Let's go to an arbitrator. They
went to an arbitrator, they got lost in the desert, and they all
sat preparing to die. That's what you did in the old days.
When you get lost in the desert, you just sit and wait to die.
But he got up and he said, Let's die trying to live. As soon as his
camel got up, another spring came up. They said that's the
arbitration right there. From that time on the elites of Quraysh, the
tribe of the Prophet came back silent zipped, they will never
disagree with Abdulmutallab again. They saw with their own eyes, he
saved their life. And God chose him with miraculous event after
Mike Lisbon, of course, the most miraculous event of all being that
the Ethiopian, the East African king was going to destroy the
kava, but Allah subhanaw taala, sent by Iran and baby birds, with
pellets that pelted these enemies.
And they all have to scatter and the cows of God was preserved. So
he's the grandfather had these miraculous events happen to them,
and that was spread before Islam. And we have proof of that. We have
proof that all of this incident when this knowledge was
transmitted, before the come, the advent of the messenger peace be
upon him. So when the Prophet came, Allah has given he doesn't
just shock you. Like, the day doesn't just suddenly happen to be
day, like turning the lights on when you go to the bathroom and
your eyes get bothered. Allah does not shock people in this matter.
He gives you something slowly, gradually, very slowly, so that
you have no reason not to accept it. So he gave the Arabs the
miraculous events of optimal time. And then when his grandson
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi, wa sallam was born, he lived the life
of a regular man, and he only had one quality. And he didn't have
one quality, one feature to himself. He had one quality that
everyone knew that he was good for his word. And anything that came
out of his mouth was true. He'd never lied, because that's the
main quality of a prophet. He's a transmitter. He can he has to have
a reputation of honesty. Like a journalist, journalist has to be
honest, if a journalist is caught lying.
You're going to basically can't accept anything he says. So he has
to have that reputation. What else did Allah make sure he has this
reputation? He doesn't read.
If he read people would say he plagiarized the Quran.
That he obviously read it from somewhere else. It was known in
his life he never read. And Allah made it that not he's not unable
to read, but Allah created him.
Allah created him and guided him in a way that he would never learn
to read. He has he has the capacity to read, because
otherwise we would say such a person is not intelligent. No, he
has the capacity to read but Allah made him unlettered so because
this Prophet didn't read, nobody could accuse him of plagiarizing,
they cut it, this is called the decimal number. It cuts the the
affair the the issue at the head. How could you accuse him
plagiarizing? You know he doesn't read? All right, he's a great
speech giver and he's a great speaker. No, the prophet never
gave a speech never uttered poetry before the age of 40. How do you
suddenly then produce the Quran?
The Quran the revelation of the Quran came down to the Prophet
peace be upon him.
And the Quran were mesmerized by the words. How does someone go at
40 years old? Having never ever sat in nor recited poetry before
nor giving a speech nor read a book and suddenly produce a book
that all of humanity follows.
If you never wrote a movie, but a movie script, you think at the age
of 40 I give you a pen. Hey, have you ever thought of writing a
movie script? No. Did you ever write one before? No. Did you see
it on classes? No. Did you work in the field of movie writing
scripts? No. All right, here's a pen and paper write me a movie
script on one try. You don't get to tries to tell it
and then you sit there and you write a
Script and immediately Netflix picks it up. It's never gonna
happen. This that's not how life works.
Right? Never touched a basketball in your life. Alright, I want you
to make the NBA. I'm not just a basketball my life not only that,
I want you to make it and be the best player in the NBA. Because
the Quran themselves said, We've never heard words like the Quran
before. There was so mesmerized by the speech.
How would someone who had never done this before? And that's all?
No, they lived in a little town in Mecca, little town in Mecca. If
you change your jacket, everyone knows, right? If you buy a new
horse, everyone knows if you buy a new goat, everyone knows it's a
small town.
And the talk is one of those small towns where everyone knows
everything that's going on.
Let's take a look at his book because his miracle is his book.
This is a book that's
is the same book anywhere you go in the world. It's a book that's
recited out loud.
First of all, just that show me what other book is recited out
loud, like as a routine thing. Not one or two people are reciting a
book. Okay. Show me one book where
it's recited period. He can't find one. Show me a book that's
memorized, that people memorize. I mean, in maths in society, I can
go to South America today, and I can get you a kid who memorized
the Quran. 1400 years later, the furthest Lynn. I wonder what is
the furthest land from Mecca? Can somebody look that up? So if I if
I made a hole, and if I took a rod and stuck it from Mecca, straight
down? Where would it come out?
Somewhere in the
way would it be? Someone looked that up for me? Right? If I stuck
a rod right through me, that would be the furthest land from that
means the Qibla for that land would probably be in any
direction. Right? Because your east or west? Or north or south,
you're exactly the same distance in all directions. It's probably
middle of the ocean, right? What is it?
New Zealand, Mexico is pretty far too. It's somewhere in New Zealand
or South America.
It's probably New Zealand or South America. Yeah, I can go to New
Zealand I get you a Hafez of Quran, someone who's memorized
this book 1400 40 years later. Can I say that about any other
religion? 1000 years after that religion started.
Right?
I went there.
Can I get the same Bible at all?
The same words that Jesus spoke the same prayer that he prayed.
So the book is recited, it's memorized. It's used as a healing.
There we have an I have a book of documentation, where the Quran was
used to heal certain mental illnesses, just the Quran, it's
used as healing. The Quran is used as a work of art.
I go to look at pictures I go to churches, I don't see the Bible
written all over the the church, you go to a mosque, that's what
you see. It's our work of art is the book.
The one simple thing
that Allah to Allah forbade the drawing of inanimate objects. And
as a result, it forced the Muslims to find another force form of art,
well, what did they find the Quran, it became their form of
art.
So it's something that it's listened to, it's used as well.
More importantly than that, it's a source of law.
Our law comes from here.
Okay, our law comes from this book.
Again, the challenge of the Quran is go find me a book that Forget
all these other things. Find me one book that has been the source
of law
for people all throughout the world,
even the Torah,
right? Is it really for everyone? It's not for everyone. It's for a
select tribe. This Quran is telling you is for everybody.
Show me a book that is a source of spirituality.
On top of that, it's a source of what is our soul?
Like, what is it? What nurse is it? What's going to have to happen
after life? So show me a book that combines all these that's the
challenge of the Quran? Is that Well, when the Quran says show me
a book like this is the miracle of Muhammad is in the Quran. Okay.
Show me that miracle. It has all these qualities. Can you get a
book that has five of these qualities that we've listed? And
the idea with the Bible, there's things in the Quran that are
corrections to what's in the Bible?
There are things in the Quran, the Bible
didn't have knowledge of certain things. Hieroglyphics has proven
that it is like what the existence of Jimin Xerxes.
The Bible mentions there are two Xerxes one that Xerxes sorry that
is the mentions one Xerxes and that he lived in Babylon had
nothing to do with the Pharaoh. The Quran comes and says, Hey man,
same name.
Amen, was one of the aides of the Pharaoh
was he was the aides of the Pharaoh.
To all of the critics of the Quran said Mohammed copied wrong from
the Bible, Xerxes or HeMen was from the Babylonian civilization,
not the Egypt, not the Egyptian civilization. Well, fast forward
around the 1920s, when they really unlocked the code of
hieroglyphics, they discovered this.
And they saw Hammonds name as that he was one of the main workers and
ministers of the Pharaoh.
So Allah has proved this, how about the proof of the Quran that
Allah says, We will preserve the body of the Pharaoh?
So if you fail if you if you throw a body in the salt water, that
should dissolve and in a short period of time,
right, I don't know how long a year a year will be gone, right?
I'm assuming five years, about 500 years.
How about 1000 years?
And the Quran said we will preserve the Pharaoh. And in the
20s What did they discover? 20s 30s 40s Whatever it was, they
discovered, what their what the non Muslims discovered, not
Muslims discovered it. See the Muslims never even went down to
look for it. Okay.
They were never, they never even looked for the Pharaoh. So they
saw this promise in the Quran. They didn't have much doubt. So
they didn't even they didn't question it. It was a Frenchman
who discovered and when he did studies, I don't know how he does
their studies. But he came to the village it's Ramses the second,
this is the biblical Pharaoh, Ramses the second, that is the
Pharaoh and that was the time that he lived in. And he has all the
markers or whatever that they would assess that these the
Pharaoh they said it not us.
It's not Muslims who said that Ramsay's a second they didn't just
Muslims didn't discover him. And Muslims in it claimants rams is
the second which the claimant, the evidence produced by your your,
your your enemies, or the people who don't believe in you is
stronger than the evidence that you produce yourself.
Right. So here we go, that the Quran has prophecy has been
fulfilled.
All right, we can go on and on and on. But the miracle of the Prophet
is his book. After that the miracle of the Prophet is his
prophecies. Right, His prophecies themselves, what he prophesied is
not just that he makes prophecies, that none of them are wrong,
because prophecies is a very dangerous path to go on.
One wrong prophecy. And we throw it all out. And the prophets I
send them has dozens upon dozens upon dozens of prophecies. Not
one, show me one that has proven to be the opposite. We don't have
one that's who's the greatest rival in the world. The prophecy
right now, in the Western Hemisphere wouldn't be
Nostradamus. Everyone's heard of Nostradamus, right? If there's any
rival who made prophecies who's worth his weight, and not a person
who's a non expert would have heard of him. Right? So
Nostradamus?
Well, it is a Sunnah of Allah to Allah than any false prophet comes
in making prophecies Allah must humiliate them. Nostradamus
is humiliated. He's proven wrong. On his very first prophecy in his
book. He didn't even make it to chapter one. It's in the
introduction, where he said that humanity would basically become
very sparse. And there won't even be people to farm on the land,
because of disasters that will occur in 300 years.
After 300 years, we had the exact opposite happened, what happened
in three engineers the Industrial Revolution, and they discovered
how to farm in a much better way, they discovered so many better
things on how to make our existence better population
boomed.
He set a date. I think we're like 17. I don't know what the day was
like.
But it was around the time the industrial revolution happened.
Revolutions in farming happened. The population of Europe
skyrocketed through the roof. So Allah humiliated him on the first
one, to show these false prophets. There were many other false
prophets that come around.
Very quickly, you'll see their prophecies are not they didn't
happen yet. They're completely false. And the prophets
prophecies, we see them in front of our own two eyes when he said
the barefoot and
A good veteran would compete in the building high towers go into
Wikipedia were the biggest tallest buildings in the world. Where are
they? They're all people who would buy in 1970. Not so long ago.
1970. There were barefooted veterans. They didn't have a sense
of government. They didn't have sense of civilization. They didn't
have a library's didn't have anything, barefooted naked.
Bedouin very simple people
who have no sense of culture, or civilization. They're just nomads,
roaming around with the animals, and they die and born and died
doing that.
Yet, they will be people become so rich, they will compete and
building tall towers, you go on, I think seven out of 10 are in the
Gulf, the top 10 greatest, tallest buildings in the world. Last I
checked a couple years ago, seven out of 10 were their men ones in
Singapore, then there's some other
buildings
75% of the cranes that build towers, because you can't build
towers without cranes, right? 75% of the cranes in the world are
bought and sold and they're present in the Gulf.
Prophecies prophecies, one after the other, we see them happening
in our own lifetime. So much so he says metal one day we'll speak to
you about what's happening in your house.
Which we take today as all the artificial intelligence. Every
device that we have is just a hunk of plastic and metal. And the
Prophet said, metal will speak to you about what happens in your
house.
Your your sandal strap or your your whip in your hand will tell
you what's happening in your house meaning mundane objects will also
give us mundane information. Right mundane objects will tell us
everyday information that we need.
So that's what shows us that Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam in a nutshell, as as quick as we could possibly say this We
got an hour now
is a prophet is a truthful messenger. On top of that, just
look practically, is there any man that people live their life based
upon his teachings? Every part of our lives? How you cohabit with
your wife, we have guidance on this the Prophet said don't just
go do it. You should have some foreplay first.
And don't do it during menstruation. We have guidance on
even that we have guidance on what is the nature of the soul. We that
says the soul is fed is nourished by exposure to Revelation and the
remembrance of God. So many mental illnesses, emotional illnesses are
solved by just by that.
So from our soul, to how we go to the bathroom and wash ourselves,
we have basic guidelines on how to do all these things.
All from this man and his the book that he was he received
from his creator. Is there anything else out there that
competes?
So with that, we'll close it up and I hope that that's the answer.
That was a question from a sister from New Jersey who asked it from
a sister from the Netherlands. So I hope that that answered the
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after concluding and providing and proving of a transcendent creator.
How does one convince others that this crater is a love versus other
deities very simple. You confirm the Prophet peace be upon it. You
go from the Creator to the Muhammad Sallallahu it was seven
through the Quran. And then the Quran tells you it's his name is
Allah.
We will know His name except through
through transmission
right so we have to transmit and show that Muhammad Sallallahu
Sallam is a true prophet. And the Quran is the word of God.
Therefore,
the Gods name and everything about this. The deen is confirmed
through that. So I hope that answers and Ron's question Caitlin
Joe him says,
when we randomly come across things excerpts of writing that
pertain exactly to our situation is that Allah sending us a sign,
it is 100% Allah sending us a sign, and the cleaner the heart
from sins, the more it will be able to receive that as a bushel
from Allah. The more
cleaner our heart is, the more we can take it on. And we will accept
it as a sign from Allah and you'll be in a constant state of
communication with Allah subhanho wa Taala it will never end.
Ah, best three, and it's just echolocate and for your prayers in
your drawers. All right, Jessica. Mahama sewed for the live timings.
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Probably only hairless class, you'll be able to have to attend
because my classes, they tend to be at night.
Yeah, and we have to maybe we should find a time that's suitable
for the UK audience. Yeah. All right. Let's stick to topic. Two
questions on this topic. Insha. Allah Allah.
The nature of why Islam is true.
I was watching an Islamic video says Sophia, on the punishment of
the grave, when the two angels sit you up and they ask you three
questions. If you ask answer correctly, your grave is widened
and it becomes a glimpse a piece of paradise. And if it's not, they
close it done on you. And you know who else they close it in on a
Muslim? Who says Yes, I heard people saying God people saying
Allah, people say Mohammed, but I never investigated. They say Allah
give you a brain.
Right? And you never used it, they closed the grave in on it. So
don't be one of these people who are closer to hypocrites. You are
hearing all the time that there is an eternal life afterwards. You
don't investigate if I told you that there was a fire in this
room.
Okay.
And you didn't get up? You're guilty. You killed yourself.
So what about someone telling you that there's a fire prepared just
for you for eternity?
You have to you have to think about this. If you have any sense.
The only reason that someone wouldn't examine this, especially
a Muslim is that he doesn't really believe it's true. So he is a
Muslim, but he's a hypocrite, meaning truly His true reality is
disbelief.
Imagine he says, When atheists speak about the Big Bang, we say
that there has to be a creator for it. Of course, how could energy
just come from nothing? You know how much energy was in the initial
creation. Even from the physicist standpoint of the Big Bang, I was
wondering, you'd come to next to the mic and you can contribute
good
to it that actually defies all the laws of physics that that came
later, right? That nothing comes a great event of great amount of
energy cannot come from nothing.
My question is some from Sophia, how do you experience this if your
soul is in the Buddism you experience it.
You experience it in a way that we really can't explain. Because we
are creating create a create a creation that exists in this
matter. All we know is existence of this matter. When you die, you
are still existing but in a such a fine material. It's there it is a
material, but it's so subtle, the soul is so subtle, that its
experience of time. And space is different from our experience.
Like I can't, for example, get to the other end of the room without
getting up expending energy and walking right? The soul is
completely different. My brain can only account get so much
information. Because my right now I'm limited to this brain. The
soul is completely different. It can take on so much more. The soul
is like a trapped being inside of his body. All we understand is his
body. Once that soul comes out all what we can conclude we can say
with jasm is that it's gonna be very different. Right and, but the
nature of the soul is described as having this form. Your soul has
this form, but it's a different material altogether. Okay, I read
about the bars after lunch read his book. Yeah, read it. In hada
Rahim Allah he says, translated the Intermediate Realm talk about
the Barossa is the abode which lies between the world and the
life to come. It has more affinity with the latter, though, and is in
fact a part of it. It is a place where spirits and Spiritual things
are predominant while physical bodies are secondary, but share
with the spirits in their experiences. Whether Felicity
To enjoy or torment and grief.
That's the nature of the bodies of the bodies that is between our
physical life in this world and our physical resurrection in the
next world, where spirits without bodies remember we human beings
are not meant to be spiritual that bodies were meant to be bodies. So
therefore it's a temporary period of time.
And we don't exactly cannot describe what that experience will
be like.
Alright.
If someone were to pray from inside the Kaaba, which would you
face any direction?
All right, remember, we're on
questions that relate to why Islam was to today's topic.
Yes, so I think this is a question someone you know, looking at,
except it's on my my ask when they started reading the Quran. I don't
know exactly what he's talking about, though. But he says there's
some add in Surah NRHM that seem like they're harsh towards the
prophets of Allah or they were sudden. And there's a verse that
seems to sarcastically asked the Prophet so something to tunnel or
climb a ladder to the heavens? No, it's the catheters are saying that
to the Prophet, the enemies of the Prophet were saying
they were saying that and Allah subhanaw says, What do you want?
Do you want it to go climb in the heavens? Right? Alright, so the
the, the Quran one of the proofs that it is the word of God and not
the Prophet Muhammad sights on them is that it has in it, what
would seem to be corrections of the Prophet peace be been such as
a verse, If you do not transmit what we tell you, that we will
take you by the hand and cut your throat.
Who would say that about himself? So do we say that? Is that how God
treats his prophet? No. The Mohammed so I sent him is the most
beloved of Allah's creation. But verses like that exist.
Just to show you that he's not the author of the book.
Furthermore,
the prophets, the Virgin Mary, she's like the one of the She's
the only woman mentioned by name in the Quran.
Why would you mention her? Not your mom.
Not your wife, not your daughter? How could you do that? Right? Like
what man would ever write a book. And we're all humans, all humans
are pretty much the same. And human relationships are pretty
much the same.
What human being would author a book and have in it the name of
another woman. And she has her own chapter and her name is mentioned
all over the Quran. And not once mention his own mom and his own
wife, his own daughter.
None of them.
One person has a rival clan, his rival who has enemies in Medina,
the Jews right? There are the ones undermining him.
Why would you mention Moses?
Way more times and you mentioned your own self. Right? So Moses is
mentioned and praised all over the Quran. The name Muhammad itself is
mentioned four times in the Quran. Yes, Allah speaks to the Prophet
many times in the Quran, but four times what author would do this?
Right. Did you finish everything you wanted to read about the
buzzer?
Yeah, I think so. It just went into about the experience of the
prophets. How is it different in numbers? Okay, good. I was looking
for in the foreword of this book, as I mentioned their children and
stuff. Like I guess you're saying, anybody who writes a book would
put like, please make dua for my family. Exactly. Everyone who
writes a book number one, you you would really put yourself
somewhere very clearly, right? Not your rival, your enemies profit.
Of course, Moses is our Prophet first. But here we have a question
about pain and predestination. So glitter's says what can we say to
a sister she's losing her breast to a mastectomy, as part of her
treatment in Nadella? Who in that era drone Islamically what can we
say to help her stay positive? This is one of those things that I
don't think anybody any human on the earth could really help out
with you shut your eyes and ask Allah to bring you something
you need a little personal miracle for yourself. Right? You literally
shut your eyes and ask Allah for help.
And and no human being I don't think can can come and soothe a
calamity that big. Alright.
Caitlin says Well, what about people say Islam perpetual victim
mindset because we believe our life and our risk is already
predetermined. Well the prophesy centum came with that and he said
you can change your disk with Da da can alter and risk can be
altered by is too far can increase your wealth. Dua can alter your
destiny, goodness to your family and to your parents will increase
your risk. So we actually don't have this concept. Now, the way
that we have it is that we believe in predestination of course, but
we also say that it's really made for after enough
happens. So after something happens, don't go back and say,
Oh, I wish I had done this wish I had done that. Unless it like
you're learning from the future for the future. But in the state
of regret,
don't go back and say that just say it's my job. My job means it
was written, right? Why this is a way that Allah Allah heals minds.
Because when something terrible happens, some people could spend
decades mulling over it, killing themselves literally, over regret,
Allah says stop, it was written to happen, there's nothing you could
have done to change it. Right? So we use predestination, the
constant predestination as a soothing matter,
to our to bad things when bad things happen after the fact, but
going forward, you don't know what's written for you. So your
DUA can improve your destiny. Your is to var can improve your
destiny, your hard work can improve your your future, your
goodness to parents can improve your future. So we use predestiny
for the past, not the future. Also, even if it's written for us,
we have to go out and we have to still, you know, acquire, yes, it
sells, you have to acquire, you just don't know what you're in. So
why don't you start selling yourself? Well, a million dollars
is written for me. Right?
And for the people who you know, like, they think that's too much,
you know, like that. They think that they have too much power.
Yeah, you know, it's some humble seminar, Allah tells them that,
you know, there's things that are written for you that this is the
other, and for the people who have, you know, they think that
everything is pre written for them, and you know, they're just
puppets on the string. It's the opposite for them, then, you know,
we're encouraged to go out and actually do the actions we'll call
it a man who say, take action. Yeah, metal do work.
All right. The book lives of men Ryan was just reading from you can
get it from Mecca. books.com. It's very simple read, but it explains
so much about
American Muslim org says, we'll see the prophet in the grave or
just see an image of him when asked about him, when people know
you will just be asked about him. But the life of the grave, the
buttons if you're not in a little territory, you can there's it can
be best, like you can be moving in, in a universe that we don't
understand. Because it's it's it's all spirit and no physical form.
And then he says, can you talk about women captives of war in
Islam? When doing now people usually bring this up? How do we
address it? In the old days, what did what existed was there like a
state that existed that gave social welfare and all that stuff?
You had little city states, when you had a war with people,
those people are trying to kill you. Right? You are allowed to
take them as captives.
They were trying to kill you, you have three options to do with
them. You can kill them. They were trying to kill you, right? So you
can kill them. You can take them and use them as late for labor.
And three, you can sell them back to their people for ransom, you
can ransom them.
So when you and if you conquered a city, what do you do with those
people? You're only allowed to take the people who were actively
fighting you, and everyone that came to support them? Right?
Everyone that came to support them, too. So what Islam came in
that world, there were no laws, there are no rules for this. When
you come into a world you don't just cancel everything. Right? You
know, there's some it's amazing people. So what why didn't Islam
just come in and abolish slavery? Alright, we're talking. Let's look
at ribber. Today.
If I tell you there's going to be an Islamic state, and the Khalifa
is gonna come and cancel river right away. Right? Practically
speaking, we know that that's like, it's an impossibility,
right? Things have to be done gradually. It's like, it's you
just don't cancel something that's an institution like that. It would
have to happen that some people believe in, it's wrong, a little
bit more people believe it's wrong, a little bit more people's
alternatives exist, right? Then it coexist, like, like, we don't want
it to coexist, but that's the nature of how things happen. And
alternatives will exist. Then eventually, finally, we remove it
altogether. Like an alcoholic, the Quran came and gradually removed
it. So when the Quran came at, in a world where people were would
would take their captives and there were no rules on what you do
with these captives. The Quran came and gave it rules, right and
gave it and civilized it to the degree that it could be civilized
with the hope that it would be abolished altogether. Slavery in
general, as a rule for Islam, its Abolishment.
And emancipation of slaves is the goal. Right? So I asked my teacher
then, like, what happens if we go into the old world happens again,
right? The rules of the old world happened again. What would happen
in terms of slavery said if they bring it back, if our enemies
bring it back and force it upon the world again, then we would use
our rules for that, but we wouldn't initiate it.
We wouldn't initiate a return to slavery just because we have laws
on how do we civilized slavery
and civilized it in the sense that it would never be civilized in the
in a good sense of like, oh this is a wonderful civilized reality,
right? It's not That's why all over the Quran it's emancipate you
did this emancipate you did this emancipate. So emancipation was
the main goal. And by the way, the Muslims abolished slavery way
before the western countries did. The Ottoman Empire abolished it
centuries before it was abolished in Islam
the Ottoman Khalifa can a person see alone he's great in his grave
now.
The verses that came down to Crusader Isha, yes. Okay.
The Imam is mentioning point here that we said that in the history
of the Prophet, there were three times where the revelation was
delayed.
And the Prophet was put in an extremely tight and difficult and
even like an emotional torture type of situation, not emotional
torture, emotional pain, type of situation.
And the firstly, the revelation started coming down. People in his
local family, they they realized he's a prophet. They spoke about
him, or sorry, I should say, they began hearing that he's claiming
to be a prophet.
And then all of a sudden, the revelation stopped. What did they
do? They made fun of him. happen again. The Jews challenge the
Prophet peace be upon him. He said, I'll bring you the answer
tomorrow. He didn't need to get an answer for two weeks. They made
fun of him. For two weeks, they made fun of him. In Medina for one
month, his wife Aisha was accused of not being loyal to the Prophet
peace be bottom and going with another man. Whenever the biller,
one month, this rumor spread around. And then revelation came
saying she's innocent. If the Prophet is the author of the
revelation, why would he have done this? Why put yourself through
this torture three times? He put you there after this. And not only
that, you put your wife through this too. Right? That would
wouldn't that be sinful? What kind of husband would do that for his
wife?
So clearly, Allah has done this to show this is not his book.
Right? Not that he does not love his messenger. This is in fact,
the height of his love for his prophet is to show the world this
is not his word. This is the Word of God. And everything you see
from him is profited. Ryan, what you got?
And this is a question that I think Abdullahi also was asking
the WhatsApp. Why is it that some individuals say that Islam is
backwards, or the Sunnah, they say, they have such terrible
things to say about him instead of lahardee.
Why do people have such terrible things to say about the Prophet
peace be upon him? Because his religion works? It's changing
people, it has an impact, they need to tear it down. As
famous New Yorker once said,
what's his name? Mr. October? Who's Mr. October again? I can't
remember who his name is. old Yankee player.
I hit three like homeruns all throughout the playoffs, and they
won the World Series for the Yankees. No, no way before. Way
before Reggie Jackson.
Then he started not playing getting older and not playing as
well. And they were booing him.
So they said, well read. You mean, you're like a beloved Yankee. But
now you're getting booed. He said, Yeah, well, they don't do nobody
really got it from Reggie Jackson. They don't do nobody. They don't
be someone who's useless.
Then the fact that Mohammed is the number one most attacked human
being in all time history.
It's true. All terminals fan Student Yeah. Means that means
he's also the most praised in all time history. That means he's the
most effective and alltime history right of all time. No one is more
praised. And we could see the literature just count the books.
Count the poems count the publication's right of praise, the
outloud praise in the mosques, in gatherings of the Prophet Muhammad
happens in every continent of the world, every single day, in every
country in the world every single day, and I would virtue to say
probably in over 80% of the cities of the world.
Every single day. Muhammad is praised out loud by people.
He's also the most maligned and attacked person. That means he's
the most effective of all, that's why they're trying to take him
down. Go ahead, right.
I was just playing with this but also, it's like about the
definition of what is back
What's in what's not backwards? So many people to have like a
colonized mindset of what is considered to be backwards? But
or, you know, like you look at Western civilization? Yeah, you
know, we live in, you know, like nice houses with drywall and, like
with insulation, paper houses. And you know, there's we're not like
in connected to nature. Yeah, that are those type of people, you
know, it's the West closer to answering any of the moral
problems that we have. Yeah. I mean, if you look at all the
atrocities, all of them, or if not, most of them, if not all of
them were motivated by Western mindset. Yeah. Communism by
capitalism, like you look at, you know, for example, the person
who's really responsible for agriculture, you know, what they
did is like the, they make like nitrogen, the person who made the
Bessemer process, I think that's what it's called,
the process that basically enriches
like livestock feed, and it allowed a single handedly to, like
support this big of a population that we have now. That's the same
guy who invented chemical warfare. Well, he invented mustard gas.
Wow. And he was a Nazi and responsible for gassing millions
of people. So there's, you know, like, it goes both ways. It's
crude, we're more you know, we're more progressive quote unquote,
progressive technically, technically progressed on this
stuff. Yeah. On the technology. But are we any morally more
progressive? Even just like a simple example like, like, we
drive around and computer cars like these Tesla's you know, you
could take a nap while you're driving to work and all this
stuff. But we think, like most people think that cleaning
themselves with paper is more effective than what
they think in paper is going to clean them. Yeah, that's true that
we drive around and Tesla's and I had a teacher who was a surgeon.
He said, People come out in the nicest suits, we have to cut them
up for surgery, we have to see their bodies. He said,
They're filthy. They're the same person. Right? And here's the
question, go to the aboriginals of Brazil. And go to the people here
walking on Tesla's and iPhones and lattes, and ask them are what
should we do someone kills? What do we do with the person who
kills? What do we do with abortion? And go ask the
Aboriginal the same question. Are you any better? Right? Outside of
Revelation? Do you have any better answer than the most Aboriginal
basic people of Australia or South America?
Next question. Okay, how do you respond to somebody who is
in fear of discussing religion? Because they're scared to offend
somebody about like talking about how other religions have been
changed? Or that they're wrong or something? I mean, don't offend
the person don't don't, you don't have to talk to someone who's
going to be offended if you think that there's going to be more harm
than good.
I'm just talking in general here. But let's say a person
does has a friend he doesn't want to offend them, then at the same
time, you're also not doing the Dawa, you have to ask yourself,
what is your degree of responsibility?
Right, this person already know about Islam.
Or you teaching him for the first time, then you may have to say
that, but you say it in a way that you know, no offense, but your
book has no authenticity, no historicity. Okay? I don't mean to
offend you or anything, but your Torah or your Bible, no one knows
where it came from? Who knows who wrote stuff in it? Who added to it
and subtracted from it? Can you answer me? Why don't you put it as
a question? Hey, can you tell me? What proof do you have that this
is actually the word that came out of Moses, his mouth, or Jesus's
mouth? Because I'm not interested otherwise, right? The only one who
has authority over other people
is the prophet by virtue of being given revelation to the from the
Creator. That's the only one and then after that authority comes
from who studies that word more than others. That's it.
Yes. So what response would you give to somebody who is doubtful
about Islam, because they've only been surrounded by Muslims who
have bad character. They've only been surrounded by Muslims who are
bad character, that's a major fitna, there's no doubt about it.
And that will cause a person really to probably have a
bad impression of Islam. There's no doubt about that. But what a
person needs to do at that point is travel around there's a lot of
misogyny, there are a lot of countries there are a lot of
Muslims. And
if you're sincere, you'll travel around and find another group of
muscles or who can be friendly to you.
Other even your DUA is predetermined Yes, it is.
determined, but you can only say that after you've done it, right?
What's your motivation to do it though? We need a motivation to do
it.
And that motivation is that a lot of the prophesy says nothing
alters your destiny except to ah
so yeah,
As your DUA is predetermined,
but what does that have to do with anything? Right? You still have to
do it. And it will protect you from tribulations that will come
in the future. I have a question about, you know, we, we know that
we're supposed to believe that we believe in all of the other ones,
like sweet of it, and what is bitter of it? But don't we also
know that, you know, Allah wants to do what's best for His servants
as well. So how do we know that there's anything bitter to begin
with? So that's a great point in that, you got to look at things
from from the source. If I look at something that let's say, what is
even good and bad, what are bad things, is a painful thing.
That's, that's the first mistake. painful thing is not necessarily a
bad thing. We purposely put our kids through pain all the time.
That is where it hurts. We take him to doctors where he gets
shots, and it hurts, we put them to school, and it hurts, we scold
them, and it hurts, we make them sleep on time, and it hurts for
them. Right? Stop playing do homework, that hurts everything,
it's the parent is a constant nonsense, stop source of pain,
right? For a kid, it's true. The better parent, the more that you
can be described as that.
But you and eventually your kid will all realize the value of
this, right? Even a good kid, a smart kid can recognize the value
of it early on, while they're still a kid. How by looking at
other kids. And look at this kid, he went out was close, not iron
like that. Right? Or look at this person, he talks back to his mom
like that, or yells like that in the supermarket, because he didn't
get a candy that he wants. They see it themselves. While they're
still kids, they see the value of it, then they realize, okay,
there's a lot of things I don't not gonna like, but I know that
pretty much the direction of where we're going as a family is good.
We all do that. So when it comes to the Creator, if something is
from the Creator, it's completely out of your control, that creator
is no his attributes are at Hakeem the wise. That means there is
goodness at the end of this, that you will yourself will testify to
that goodness. Therefore, we should actually look at things
through the opposite lens, if it's from God. And I know it's from
God, there's no way I could stop it, there's nothing. There's
sometimes something comes in the city that tells you to stop it.
The sacred law tells you go change it. So if something comes from
Allah as a test to me, I know what there's goodness going to be. So
we actually do things the opposite way.
We don't judge things as good as or bad based on how we feel. We
judge them as good or bad based on if it's from the Creator or not.
Likewise, the obligations and prohibitions over the religion
that says other will there are two wills from the Creator, his will
in the universe in the world and His will for our action.
Any prohibition is there's more harm than good. There could be
some good in it, but there's more harm than good. Any obligation,
there's more good than harm.
And anything that happens out of our control completely.
There, the way I react to it is going to be what determines the
amount of goodness I get from it. If I react to it by submitting
unreal, this is from Allah. I'm going to deal with this.
And I'm gonna see goodness at the end of this tunnel. You will. So
what is even good and bad.
Psycho 95 says Who is this brother Masha? Allah always dropping
knowledge bombs, right? That says it's Ryan. And Ryan says it's us.
I always think of that dude, when people say things like follow
science. How do you read science is not assumed to be believed in
science as a source of knowledge, right? Observation essentially, is
a source of knowledge. There's nothing to believe in. It's like,
What's your philosophy on building buildings? My philosophy is the
philosophy of tools. Right? Tool is just a means to a change. Ryan,
what do you got?
Um, I've seen charity ads, where if you say that Allah will show us
pictures of the atrocities some people faced on the day of
judgment and ask us what we did to help them that you're not really I
don't think so. I mean, you were responsible for the direct
the Sharia the sacred law. This helps us this is another moral
question, right. The sacred law tells us that there are some
people on this earth we are directly responsible for their
well being. Husband is directly responsible for his wife, Chris
kids. If his dad dies, then his mom if his dad gets older than his
dad, if his sister doesn't have anyone than his sister, directly
responsible.
And then the Prophet peace be upon him told us that we should care
for the affairs of them.
Muslims.
And generally we should have some general care in whatever way that
we can. Right? Then the leaders of the Muslims, though, the governor
of, for example, the ruler of,
let's say,
Saudi Arabia, right underneath him who's suffering Yemen, he is
responsible that King is responsible to go and help his
Muslim brothers in Yemen. He's responsible in the sight of Allah.
So he has to mobilize his kingdom to feed those people.
Okay, let's say for example, there was an unjust war being fought in
Kuwait,
you're responsible to stop that to protect those people if they can't
protect themselves. So we have we have because we have jobs as
individuals, rulers have jobs in the geopolitical sphere. Civilians
can't do much, they can do a little little aid work, put band
aids on basically stab wounds. That's what we're doing here,
there's got someone who just obliterated two bits, and we're
coming with a first aid kit. So that's what we could do. But as
responsibility, it's on the nation, the leaders, there's like
the maximum implies can meaning like, if you have a moral
obligation to do something, it implies that you have the ability
to say like, if I'm 100 miles away, and Someone's drowning, it's
not my fault, because I don't have the ability to change that
situation. But if Allah has given me the ability to like, you know,
if I give him the kingship, then I have a responsibility because of
the ability. Exactly. So we could we could summarize that and say
morality, is linked to ability. That's why it's, yeah, that's
that's the link. If I'm not able, they don't obligate it. Yes.
Right. So someone might ask, like, what's the deal with human
suffering, and babies who die? Yeah, animals, you know, all these
things, all of human suffering, the majority of it is actually a
result of, of human behavior. So there was an amazing study that
was done.
And it was all inspired by a photographer, he was in South
America. And he was out there, and he was looking, and he found that
these people's teeth are like, perfect. Like, he just made this
observation from the pictures, he's looking at the photos he
took, as people's teeth are excellent.
And then he started purposely going around looking at teeth, and
then testing eyesight. And he found their eyes are great, and
their teeth are great.
Because there's nothing artificial in their environment. So then he
started going studies and found pretty much in the past people's
teeth and their eyes were good, right? It's only when sugar
started, get
introduced to societies, and they're drinking it in their tea
and everything.
And they don't have dental care at the same time. So you go to a
place like moto Genya, when they do have like, five spoons of sugar
and a cup of tea. All their teeth are terrible. No offense to do
this anymore. They have so much sugar in their T shirt, and
you go and you see everyone see their bed, and you think of a
smile and the old days, everyone's teeth were terrible. No, it's not.
people's teeth were good overall. So also birth defects were very
minimal. In animal kingdom, out in nature, only when the animal comes
in mingles with humans. When you see animals with birth defects.
Same with humans. It's because what we do, so where are we so
quick to blame this on God? Right? As if? No, right? We don't think
that we are on action have any part in this? When someone does
something great. We celebrate the person we don't say there's no God
did it no celebration for you? God did not we celebrate the person,
right? But when something bad happens, we want to quickly put it
on the Creator doesn't work like that.
Someone's asking for further elaboration on the difference. And
the coexistence of predetermination and freewill.
Yep.
So once you repeat that, please, can you can you explain that more
in depth the relationship between predetermination from Allah and
our free will predetermination free will in a very simple
nutshell.
The predetermination
according to one opinion, is that you have certain options that you
could do right now I could put my hand up or down right or left,
right. All of my choice is something within the box that
allows predetermined predetermined for me. So anything I do is within
the predetermined it's as if to say, there's a box here, right?
Your choice is the actions that you take, but the whole box is
your predetermination. So it's the year 2022 Right now, and it's the
month of April. It's the seventh of April.
We literally cannot take any action outside of April 7 2022.
Right. We're stuck in April 20. Not only that we're stuck in the
hour, in the third hour of the afternoon. There's no way I can
take it out
And right now on April 8. So in that respect, that's how those are
the boundaries of our predetermination. Anything that I
choose all of my choices, I'm choosing from something
predetermined for me. And so that's why the province I said has
a hadith says every one of you has a spot in heaven ready for him at
a spot in * ready for him. That means from the moment you lived,
if you had done made all the wrong decisions, until you die, that
would be your spot in *. And then there's a gradiation, right,
a gradation, all the way to if you had lived and done all the right
decisions at every moment, then there's the highest point in
heaven for you. So all these things are predetermined for us,
in the sense that all of these choices are predetermined, and
then you choose from within. And that's a quick summary for it.
I saw like not to encourage watching movies, but there's a
movie it's called, I think, like No Country for Old Men. You heard
that movie. It has like a, it's an interesting movie, I've only
watched clips of it. But the character like the main villain,
he's the antagonist. And what he does is he's like a serial killer
going around roaming the countryside. And what he does is
that he makes people basically flip a coin. And if it's heads,
they die. If it's if it's Till's, they lose, they get to keep their
life along those lines. Now, you know, like, obviously, from our
perspective, we know how, like, an he says that, Oh, you made me do
it. You know, that's the thing that it was predetermined for you.
But obviously, we can see, you know, how, like, how how much of a
fallacy that is. Because the thing is, is that we still have the
choice, we can just, you know, put our hands up and say that
something else is compelling me. I think, really, at the end of the
day, it's it doesn't make a difference to us whether or not we
have free will or not, you know, like because we know we feel as if
we have it right? It's practically an irrelevant question in the
sense that you have enough free will to make you innocent or
guilty. Right? That's all you need to know.
You have enough free will to be judged by God on the day of
judgment. And when things and practically the way we use
predetermination is afterwards, when a terrible event happens, it
will say my job.
Right.
Perez said that young wise brother brings up one of the most brutal
movies.
I didn't watch.
I saw like a really intriguing clip, you know, the tube
suggestions. But it was interesting. Caitlin says when
Allah says take the ASVAB is not one of them. Yes. 100% do not is
not only one of them. It's one of the best. We have a new can of
worms open up here. Yeah. Sunshine says How would you respond to
people who don't want to follow the rules of the religion, as long
as they're doing good and not hurting other people?
They want to they want to follow the rules of the religion. They
don't want to just do good. They just do good. What is the
definition of goodness?
That's the question we asked them. They say, Oh, well, common sense.
Well, your common sense different from my common sense. You don't
think that that the Nazis thought that they were doing something
good? You think they say, oh, let's do evil today? They thought
they were doing something good, right? Trump supporters think
they're doing something good. transgender activist things are
doing something good. Everyone thinks you're doing something
good. What is your who? Who defines goodness? Yes, there are
certain things we all can agree or is good and bad. We can all agree
that if you have a beautiful little kitten, to throw her in a
vat of hot oil, you are very evil person. We can all agree on that.
Right? But if I see a cat walking across the street, am I
responsible to get it a bowl of milk? like at what point? Right?
We talked about the big issues that we talked about, when is
abortion allowed? When is it not allowed? How what how do I get
what is what is our position on on different political issues? We
need? These are big moral questions that we need to know
what is the degree to which I have to make people happy?
Right? Do I have to make my mom happy? Just because I happened to
come out of her stomach? I have to make her happy? Why? To what
degree do I have to make her happy? Like if she says I want you
to divorce your wife? Do I have to do that? If she says I want you to
come and vote for Biden do I have to do that? If she says I want you
to need you to leave your job and help me move to I have to do that.
Like To what degree do I have to make if she makes a joke that I
don't like to have to laugh at it? Like there are so many questions
that that the human mind will only produce our subjective answer to
right completely subjective. There is no goodness defined outside
from the Creator or outside of the Creator as a source except very
few things and these very few things that will never happen.
Also from like another perspective, the Pascal's Wager or
like
what he was saying that actually said it and Pascal's Wager the
idea of Pascal's Wager say 90
said that if I live my life, in obedience to Islam, number one,
you live a good life. Most people have no friends.
But most every practicing Muslim has tons of friends. So many
friends that you have to struggle to find private time. If you're
practicing mosque going Muslim, because you're gonna go to people,
number one, they're not going to judge you for the way you look. If
they're truly practicing knowledgeable Muslims, they will
not judge your looks. They will not judge if you're rich or poor.
They will not judge if you do these things, you will be part of
the circles, right? They won't back bite you. You can have
friends.
There's stuff to do to like Ramadan. We're busy. Could stem
here he's from Albania. No, where's he from? Kosovo. He's
asking us when are you going to be at IHOP? Right, like Ramadan.
There's so many stuff to do, right? Where we go to IHOP.
Sometimes we go in the last 10 nights if there's or in the, in
the weekends, I mean, more, more of the weekends, Friday and
Saturday night where we have the could afterthought away. And then
there's like an hour before federalized sleep, right? We
should go to IHOP. So we have I have right across the street from
the restaurant, we might go again, empty calories, fill them all up.
It's been hungry all month, right? So, so much, you live better. And
on top of that, if you die, what happens to you? If the atheist is
right, then what did I lose? But if the Muslim is right, atheists
is in big trouble. And I have everything to gain. So nothing to
lose, except for a few sacrifices, that when you sacrifice for the
sake of Allah,
you find sweetness in it. If I sacrifice committing Zina, for the
sake of Allah, I find a sweetness when I get home and I find myself
hamdulillah in tranquility descends upon you. If you
sacrifice stealing, if you sacrifice
pompous behavior for the sake of Allah, you come back home, and you
feel a tranquility that descends upon you. Right? So you're losing
nothing. It's a mirage of loss. That's all it is. And you have an
infinity to gain the atheist. What are you gaining? All the atheists
are in jail for all these big atheists, philosophers. There's a
book called philosophers behaving badly. The top seven American
western influence philosophers, all of them on some kind of sexual
charge. All of them they're all perverts. Right? So that's your
prophet. That's who you want to follow? Okay, go follow him and
become a perfect like him? Because even this this, this guy from
Arizona, who is vicious Kraus.
He's out. He's canceled. Groping girls.
I mean, it's not even smart. You can go buy that stuff. Right? You
can pay someone Oh, let you do. I don't get it. Right. Why are you
groping your students? Even as a cafeteria stupid, right? Yeah. You
from from the perspective of Kufa
from the perspective of just pleasure seeking, is that the way
to do it?
Go to the state next door to you. It's legal. Nevada, right
prostitution is legal. Yanni Subhan Allah, Allah blinds these
people so he humiliates them on this earth so we can all use them
as an example. That's why wherever we got to wrap up, question Yes, I
think this is the last one that really shouldn't be answered.
Yeah. How do we cope with a loving God putting people in hellfire
the loving God putting people in hellfire they wanted to go there.
Nobody gets anything from Allah except they wanted it. We give you
a warning. You might you made fun of it. You want it to go there? He
gave you what you want it?
Was it Oh, why did he even create the Hellfire
people deserve. He literally asked for it that like you know, like
the staunch atheist or the staunch secularists are literally like
telling your God to punish me. And you don't really have to say tell
them to punishment like smite me right now. You go on YouTube. And
you look at the atheists you can find like you know, all of these
guys they say stuff like this. They say yet don't be surprised
when it happens.
Just because it didn't happen when you want it to happen. It'll
happen later on. Right you you guys asked for it. We gave you a
warning. So why did he created he created what the human being we're
gonna is going to ask for right so upon a lot I think what he knows
the human beings gonna have
What if busy moms can't go to the masjid. You can do whatever you
want at home to for six 810 20 seconds however much you want.
Alright, we said we're gonna stick to why Islam questions here. Ask
why a person choose Hellfire over a loving God? Yes, that's true.
Why would you choose Hellfire when the claim is that your Creator
loves you and he wants to give you something. Why would you reject
that claim? Right.
It's an emotional thing.
All right, folks. Let's stop here. And we will be in the data Allah
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