Shadee Elmasry – The People of the Book in Islam – NBF 403
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The importance of belief in Islam is emphasized in various segments, including the Prophet's teachings and the importance of alignment with explicit texts. The importance of deeds and the acceptance of Islam as a religion is emphasized, along with the use of language and language-related issues. The Q booked of the Kaaba foundation provides insight into the importance of belief in God and marriage, as well as transmission in people's minds and shaping information to make it more personal and engaging.
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Welcome everybody.
After a little brief medical hiatus for a
whole week we missed live streaming and today
we got Thanksgiving week.
We're now in Thanksgiving week and look at
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And that's thanks to this amazing sword.
You see this right up here, right?
Look at that sword.
A gorgeous sword that we got and it's
a replica of Omar Ibn Khattab's sword.
So we come to you from the La
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in the great state of New Jersey, one
mile down from Grohl Bob Wood Medical Center.
Today is the first of two streams this
week.
Of course, Thursday in the United States, everyone
is on vacation.
And on top of that, we are busy
on Thursday, right Ali?
We are giving away turkeys.
Thanksgiving to me is nothing.
It's not a religious holiday in my view.
It's nothing at all.
It's just turkeys go on sale and all
sorts of, you know, three foods go on
sale, which is turkey, which is cranberry sauce,
stuffing, right?
And that's it.
This is not a holiday.
You're not celebrating anything.
And allegedly it was the native Americans who,
what they had a pact at some point
and they made peace and they had a
nice dinner with the pilgrims.
And it lasted like, who knows, a week
or something before they all got slaughtered again.
Poor guys, native Americans.
And some people, they have another kind of
holiday, which is like, they call it like
native American.
What do they call it?
They, they rechanged the name basically out of
sympathy for the native Americans, indigenous day.
Okay.
Okay.
And so the soup kitchen here, we have
a regular Wednesday dinner and then we have
Thursday at two o'clock.
Are we giving out like cold food, hot,
hot, who's cutting the turkeys?
You got the electric ones.
Okay.
How many turkeys are going to be cooked?
20 turkeys.
Our oven is going to burst.
How long is our oven going to be
going?
We have a, for someone that sponsored everything,
I mean, all five of us, yeah.
Aji, Aji.
Cranberry sauce, stuffing, mac and cheese, and, uh.
Mac and cheese?
Oh, that's an innovation.
Yeah.
Okay.
Is that a thing?
All right.
Let's get straight to our topic today.
There is no subject matter.
There's no heresy.
There's no wacky idea.
There's no crazy idea.
Since I've been a teenager, that just bothers
the life out of me.
More than anybody saying that Ahlul Kitab do
not have to believe in God, in the
Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
The first place I heard this was at
an academic conference.
I'm telling you, everything starts in these academic
conferences.
Was at an academic conference by a guy
who is not a Muslim, who had read
some books, who knows what, and he's given
this khutbah, or given this lecture, trying to
tell everybody that actually, there's another opinion, and
you don't actually have to believe in the
Prophet, peace be upon him, if you're Jewish
and Christian, and I'm sitting there, looking at
the Muslim next to me, who's just watching
this with no action, and I'm like, have
you ever memorized something called Surah Al-Bayyinah?
In which Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, lists
Al-Kuffar as Ahlul Kitab wa Al-Ladhina
Ashraqu.
Lam yakun Al-Ladhina kafaru min Ahlul Kitab.
That min is a descriptive min.
It's not tab'id.
Tab'id means from amongst.
It's min called min bayaniyah.
Bayaniyah means, we're just clarifying to you who
they are.
We're not saying that we're only talking about
some of them are kuffar, and some of
them are believers.
So this idea first propped up, I saw
it there in the academic, I didn't see
it for a while, then it came across
my radar again only a few years later
at the George Washington University, which was the
Islamic department there was run by perennialists.
Sayyid Hussain Nasser is a perennialist.
He's openly a perennialist.
He's not a sneaky perennialist.
He is openly a perennialist.
Now the perennialist idea is a little bit
different than other religious ideas because they don't
necessarily care about salvation of heaven and *.
That's not the issue for them.
They're all about attaining enlightenment, right?
They're more about that.
The idea of bodily resurrection and fearing the
fire and desiring the beautiful, wonderful things of
paradise, to them is lowly.
They're transcendent beyond that, and all they care
about is some kind of spiritual enlightenment, and
they don't believe in the requirement of believing
in the Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam to attain
any of that.
They're big on Ramaswami, who is a Hindu.
If you're a mystic in whatever field you
are and you have a spiritual anti-modern
inclination, they're good with you, essentially.
They have an issue with Jews.
They have no relationship with Jews.
They have a lot of relationship with Catholics,
Catholic mystics.
When I say mystic, I mean people attempting
to be mystical and spiritual.
I don't mean their mysticism is acceptable.
And from the Islamic scholars, they're only very
interested in the Sufis and the heretics amongst
them, too.
They're those types who have a good taste
for these heretical ideas.
And there's no concept for them of Aqidah,
Sunni, and Shiite.
It's all the same to them.
But point being, the perennialists are the first
group that he came upon, and Sheikh Hamza
Yusuf took so much heat for merely being
approving of these perennialists, merely approving of them
and supporting their book.
And he announced that he's not a perennialist.
And he announced that he believes that the
Sharia of Islam abrogates those other religions.
Okay, but what he didn't do, and he
really owed it to everybody, was to say
that it's kufr.
Now, if we care about our religion, and
that's what we do, we actually care about
what removes us out of this religion.
We have to know what moves us out
of the faith.
What moves us out of doing it correctly?
Like I always give the example, if you
want to be a vegetarian, you've got to
do it right.
You can't be a vegetarian, but on Thursdays
I have steak, otherwise I'm a vegetarian.
Then you're out of the vegetarian club.
So there's one thing to be a Muslim.
There's another thing to do it right, and
that's the Sunnah, following the Sunnah.
And when I say Sunnah, we're talking about
an Aqidah here.
Then there's a second group, and really only
one individual, and that was two springs ago,
I believe.
Omar, you went with us, or no, you
stayed here.
Did you go with us?
L.A. to Javad Hashmi.
Right?
And he takes it from the purely Orientalist
perspective.
From the Orientalist perspective, different from the Perennialists.
Perennialists are totally from a spiritual perspective that
you can't argue against, because their source of
authority is some guy, Frithjof Schwan.
That's the source of authority, right?
How are you going to argue?
You can only argue against his character, right?
Which he was, ended up being accused and
alleged of some child * things.
Because at the end of his life he
went cuckoo, and he was doing naked Tantra
dances in Indiana, and involving little girls.
Everyone naked, wearing a mask, like some kind
of satanic movie or something.
You don't know about this?
Oh, it's all over the internet.
Everyone knows about it.
Tantric dances in the *.
Well, Allah humiliated him at the end of
his life, so no one can take him
as a Hujjah.
But anyway, the Perennialists, they do not argue
with you textually.
They appeal to an authority of Frithjof Schwan.
And then they try to find a line
from Ibn Arabi here, a line from Rumi
here, which is easy, you can find anything.
You can probably find Thanksgiving recipes in these
poems, I guarantee you.
You can find anything you want in Islamic
poetry, mystical poetry especially.
But the next group, which is only really
one guy, Javad Hashmi, he appeals to the
same idea, that Jews and Christians are believers.
And he appeals to it textually, but relying
solely on Orientalist sources.
The guy literally relies on non-Muslims.
And we went in the debate, and he
was utterly creamed.
Actually, I would just say creamed.
I'm not going to say utterly creamed.
Because I'm actually upset at myself.
Because the original pitch was, come give a
seminar to UCLA grad students.
So I prepared an academic paper, right?
An academic presentation.
By the end of the month of negotiations
about this thing, it ended up being a
YouTube debate.
I would have completely changed my approach.
But I didn't adapt well enough, because it
was the first time I ever did such
a debate.
I wish I had adapted and simplified my
presentation, and brought the verses up.
Then I could say I utterly creamed him.
But I would just say creamed him, and
that's it.
He was creamed completely.
And the proof that he was creamed, here's
the beautiful.
The proof that he was creamed, after the
debate, you know the post-debate Twitter fights,
he actually admits that, no, I believe, and
I've always said he said, that they have
to believe in the Prophet in a certain
way.
In some sort of capacity.
Of course, this is non-legal language.
It's fuzzy language, and it's not what he
was saying that he did in the first
place.
It wasn't his position in the first place.
All right, so put Javad aside.
Allah blinded him, and he decided, and he
decided to have a debate with Danny Haqiqa
after that.
I was polite at least.
I didn't go for the gutter.
I didn't go for his character.
I didn't make up nicknames.
Okay?
You went with Daniel, he dragged you through
the gutter.
Right?
And he started calling him Jafed.
And he went after him personally, and he
has time for this stuff.
To me, this is on the side, right?
He has, I think they did a six
-hour debate.
How do you talk for six hours, right?
This is his territory.
Javed has been absent since then.
So what I didn't do out of my
limitation for trying to have some manners, I
think, I hope I have some manners, right?
What I couldn't do of completely tearing the
person down, Daniel did.
I couldn't do that.
I want to try to preserve some kind
of, I have to meet people.
I don't think Daniel is the head of
a masjid, right?
I got to go and be a part
of a team at a masjid.
He totally destroyed the guy.
I think his organization, even Tabarra Umin, his
organization, they just said, you're bringing us too
much heat.
You're out.
And then, of course, I think the compromise
was, let me say that I resigned.
You know?
And then he said he resigned.
Well, he's completely out of the picture now.
I recently discovered a third strand of this
heretical idea, that Jews and Christians do not
have to follow the Prophet ﷺ.
And this strand is coming out of the
state of New Jersey, fortunately.
Maybe in some quiet little corners that no
one knows about.
But for me, it's the principle of it.
I can't stand that this is in public
at all.
And I'm trying to talk to the people.
I've offered myself to talk to their people
who are promoting this idea.
Or at least it's in their vicinity.
Maybe they don't even know that it's happening
in their community.
But nonetheless, this is the Egyptian modernist Muhammad
Abdu strand.
Allegedly, that this idea comes from Muhammad Abdu.
And it is purely Quranic, purely textual.
And that's what we're going to go at
today.
And we're going to assess it rationally.
I'm going to look at the proofs that
have been presented in a khutbah by one
who promotes this idea.
Why is that?
That's because I was talking to Dr. Hatem
al-Hajj the other day about this.
And he said that which used to be
well-known, maybe today is not well-known.
And we have to preach it.
We have to promote it.
We have to correct everything.
And we have to speak clearly about what
is actually something known in religion by necessity
which so much time has passed that perhaps
possibly it's no longer known for everybody.
And it has to be spelled out.
And we're going to do that.
We're going to do it in two ways.
Number one, we're going to talk about principles
of interpretation.
As-salamu alaykum.
Let's get straight to it instead of too
much talking.
Let's get straight to it.
Let's go to – before we get to
the clip, we are going to get to
the clip of the khatib who says this.
But first I want to talk about what
makes a person a Muslim in the first
place.
Remember, this live stream is for people who
are Muslim, who care fervently about doing this
religion right, practicing it right, believing in it
properly.
The bare bone in order to be a
Muslim, to be just deemed a Muslim, is
you utter your shahada.
And the fact that you're entering Islam, just
logically speaking, the default of it is the
default understanding of what Islam is.
Nobody goes into a golf tournament except he
knows at least what golf is.
He's not confusing that with basketball.
So we call that al-ma'loom min
al-deen bil-darura, what is known in
religion by necessity.
And if you want to talk about it
textually, it's that those ideas, those doctrines that
are explicit, qat'i, the language is qat
'i, explicit, means there's no other possibility for
an interpretation, no room.
And the dissemination is mutawatir.
Fal al-qat'i wal-mutawatir, you can
pretty much say it's also known in religion
by necessity.
And that makes you a Muslim.
When it makes you a Muslim, what does
it allow you?
Some basic rights, right, that you can go
to Mecca and Medina, you can be buried
with a Muslim, your marriage will be valid
with another Muslim, meaning it won't be zina.
But we have to do this right.
So you can see there are two rungs
of the green circles, right?
We've got to do this right.
And there's a lot more than what's qat
'i and mutawatir.
So Amr, let's go to the next slide.
You know I'm like all into slides these
days, you notice that?
I'm like all into slides.
Here, talk to the hospital.
OK, the next one, by the way, I
made this whole slideshow in like 25 minutes
because I've been at this idea of people
rejecting belief in the Prophet ﷺ as a
necessity for everybody for like years now.
All right, the next one is Ahlus Sunnah.
Correct belief established by affirming all qat'i
and mutawatir texts.
Qat'i texts.
Everything that is qat'i, that is explicit,
that comes to us, whether it sums mutawatir,
mass transmitted, or not mutawatir, we have to
submit to it.
That doesn't mean every madhhab will use it
in their fiqh, but they accept it.
And specifically we're talking about theology here.
Theological texts.
We're not talking about the law.
All right, next slide, Amr.
So now let's go to the opposite now.
Someone now negates.
We're going to go to the bottom of
these two.
Someone negates something qat'i and ahad, that
is a mubtada.
Someone who is part of a sect.
And at that point, your good deeds don't
count.
Unfortunately and very sadly, your good deeds no
longer count because you're not believing properly.
You're refusing to believe in something that the
Prophet made crystal clear and the Qur'an
makes crystal clear.
Even if a lot of people don't know,
you're excused until you know.
An example of this are the Shi'i
sects.
Example of this, Mujassima, Mu'tazila, or we can
say someone who negates that Mi'raj was
in the body.
Like that.
These are things that maybe a person wouldn't
know off the bat, but it could be
very easily be learned.
What's the update?
Was that Babwood?
What did she say?
Okay, good, good, good.
All right, next slide.
Now here's what's extremely dangerous.
If a person negates what is known in
religion by necessity, then that is what produces
the zindiq.
Someone who negates something, qatiyah mutu'atir.
Ali, if someone negates that hajj is in
Mecca, that's a zindiq, right?
Because that's known in religion by necessity.
When you say the word Islam, that's literally
the madmoon of the kalima.
Let's look at it logically.
Who has the right to define anything?
The author, right?
The author.
Who has the right to define Islam?
None other than Allah and His Messenger.
They define it.
What they tell you explicitly over and over
and over, that is the core definition of
Islam.
What they tell you explicitly one time, but
clear language, is part of doing Islam correctly,
which we call that second rung called Ahlus
Sunnah.
Okay?
Now if somebody was to come and negate
what is ma'loomin al-din daruratan, and
is qat'i, he can be accused of
zindiqah.
Now why is zindiqah worse than kufr even?
It's all kufr, but why is it worse?
Because the kafir, he's not trying to be
a Muslim.
He's not telling you he's a Muslim.
He can't confuse you.
A regular person out there who's not a
Muslim, no one will confuse.
He won't confuse our religion, right?
But someone who is a Muslim, like the
Qadianis for example, the Prophet ﷺ said, سَيَكُونُ
فِي أُمَّتِي مَنْ يَدْعِي النَّبُوَّةَ أَلَا وَلَا نَبُوَّةَ
بَعْدِي There will be in my ummah those
who claim prophethood.
So the ulama said, in my ummah, that
means they're saying they're Muslims.
They're not of my ummah.
He didn't say, من أمتي.
No, he said, في أمتي.
So the zindiq is saying un-Islamic, at
the core, un-Islamic things to people, saying
he's a Muslim and saying it's Islam.
So that's why the Prophet ﷺ said, سَيَكُونُ
فِي أُمَّتِي There will be in my ummah,
not of my ummah.
Now the kafir and the kuffar, which we
would say are people of the book, and
pagans, they're far less than the zindiq.
They're not confusing to us.
They give us no confusion at all.
So we actually have far more relations possible
with them than with the zindiq and even
the bid'ah because those two who are
in the red rung there are physically in
the ummah saying that this is Islam and
causing a lot of confusion.
And that's why teaching aqidah is something that
has to happen every single generation, now more
than ever.
Now the Prophet ﷺ said, I want to
say this is so important.
He said two different hadiths.
One hadith is, There will come a time
at the end of time, يُصْبِحُ الْمُؤْمِنُ كَافِرًا
وَيُمْسِي كَافِرًا There will come a time at
the end of days where a person will
wake up a mu'min and sleep a kafir.
However, the Prophet ﷺ also says, إِنِّي لَأَخْشَ
عَلَيْكُمُ الشِّرْكُ I don't fear shirk for you.
So therefore, the kufr of such an individual
at the end of time, which will so
casually take on a kufri belief, will not
be about another god.
It will be about something else in the
religion.
So you don't become a kafir only on
taking on another god.
Bani Israel did.
The sons of Israel, in their times of
prophets, when they were receiving prophets, one of
them may wake up one day, at the
end of the day, he worships a golden
calf.
So أَصْبَحَ مُؤْمِنًا وَأَمْسَ كَافِرًا He woke up
a believer.
We're supposed to fear this if we take
our religion seriously.
We're supposed to be...
This is to us like the most important
thing.
So when the Prophet ﷺ says, this will
happen in our ummah, but it won't be
through paganism.
It'll be through other...
Like what is Iblis a kafir for?
Did he worship another god?
No.
He rejected a prophet.
His kufr is in prophethood.
Right?
He rejected Adam.
So prophethood is so important.
Most of the kufr of the Bani Israel
was in prophethood.
Of course they did have paganism too and
worshiped idols as well.
Okay.
So this is why we care about the
subject.
Next slide.
Let's look at how to interpret.
Watching you real quick, Ali.
There we go.
There's two Adis here.
What's your last name?
Adi Daves and Adi Chaudry.
A-C-D-C or A-C-A
-D.
Okay.
Methods of interpretation.
Explicit texts are like the umbrella.
You cannot interpret interpretive texts outside of that
umbrella.
Is that a clear diagram?
Look at how clever I'm getting with these
diagrams.
I got like curved text now.
I got arrows.
I got colors.
Okay.
So the realm of interpretive texts is under.
It has to match with explicit texts.
Next slide.
All right.
Explicit texts and then you have interpretive texts.
You have two layers of texts.
Some texts there's no interpretation.
Say Allah is one.
Is there interpretation to that?
No.
Then you have the interpretive texts.
But the interpretive texts must be aligned with
the explicit texts.
And anything that is not is totally outside
a valid interpretation.
It's an invalid interpretation.
And let me tell you something.
What may be valid or invalid in the
first place?
Nothing other than Vanni texts.
Vanni text means a text that can be
that has room for interpretation.
As for explicit texts, you do not have
the right to interpret it at all.
Just because someone does something doesn't mean they
have the right to do it.
Okay.
So in Israel, the experts of war at
it in Israel are saying there's no genocide.
Right?
But when our eyes have seen it and
it's mutawatif, mushahad, right in front of us
that you've killed 40,000 people in the
first few months.
Now it's up to probably 100,000.
Right?
And they don't update the statistics.
There's no statistics.
There's whatever the statistic is multiplied by two.
And half of them are kids.
So you don't have the right to interpret
anything you want.
You do not have the right to interpret
explicit texts.
The very basic thing in fiqh, they call
it la fatwa ma'an nas.
There's no fatwa if we have a nas.
So explicit texts are not even up for
interpretation, let alone valid or invalid.
Is that clear, Ali?
Make sense?
All right.
Next slide, Omar.
All right.
The nature of textual language.
On one hand, you have the explicit qata
'i.
You have to learn this word.
If you listen to the Nothing But Facts
live stream, I don't know how many times
I say it.
Qata'i, text, carries only one possible meaning.
On the other side, zanni, text, carries multiple
possible meanings.
That zanni side, you can interpret.
The qata'i side, you do not have
the right to interpret.
There is no...
It has no meaning to interpret it.
It's like doing a scientific report and seeing
if the sun is going to rise from
the east.
This is something that's qata'i.
It's something that is daruri.
It has no realm for interpretation.
Next.
Okay.
So qata'i, no interpretation.
If you do, it's deviation.
It's not interpretation.
Anything, any commentary, trying to interpret away an
explicit text is what we call deviation.
It's my interpretation of being a vegetarian is
that we can have steak on Thursdays.
That's a deviation.
I am out of the vegetarian club if
I do that.
Okay.
Now let's go to the zanni side of...
Okay, there's more.
If you're...
What you're deviating from is mutawatir, then it's
zandaqa.
I'm not a Muslim.
Yes, he's in Islam.
He's trying to make himself a Muslim.
He's not a Muslim.
If it's something qata'i and mutawatir.
If it's qata'i and it's ahad, fayusbihumuttadi
'a.
Bida'i in his aqeedah, his good deeds
will not count for him until he fixes
his belief.
Let's go to the next slide.
The difference between the zandiq, let's just say
for prayer, with the zandiq, the prayer behind
him is batil.
Can I go pray jama'a behind a
qadiani?
My salah is batil.
And I'm sinful for merely doing it.
Can I go pray behind a shia, assuming
his wudu is done properly?
Because you know they wipe on the feet.
They don't wash their feet.
They just do mas'ha.
I'm not saying mas'ha on the sock.
Mas'ha on the skin.
So let's say I did it anyway.
I'm sinful but my salah is valid.
I'm sinful but the salah is valid.
That's the difference between the innovator and the
zandiq.
Let's say you marry a qadiani.
Sister comes and says, I married a qadiani.
What's the ruling?
I said, you didn't get married.
You're committing zina.
Sister comes and says, I married a shia.
What's the ruling?
You're married.
You're not a zania, but it's sinful.
That's the difference between the zandiq and the
mubtad'a.
The zandiq wants to go to Mecca.
In Pakistan they don't let them go to
hajj.
The one thing that all the groups, the
deobandis, the bravies, the sunnis, the shias, everybody,
ahlul hadith, they all agreed upon is that
qadianis cannot be listed as Muslims.
And on their passport they're not allowed to
go to Mecca.
And they're not buried in the Muslim graveyards.
The bid'ah, he can go to Mecca.
He can be buried in the Muslim graveyard.
Next, on the other side, hold on, go
back because I didn't read the other side.
The interpretation must, we're on the right side
of that picture here.
The interpretation must, number one, align with the
language of the text.
And two, not contradict explicit text.
Basic rule of tafsir is that tafsir is
by the language of the text, not the
sabab of nuzul.
Not the circumstance from which it was revealed.
And number two, it cannot contradict an explicit
text.
Simple as that.
Next slide.
Now let's go, when are the people of
the book praised in the Quran?
On what occasion?
Is it conditional or is it unconditional?
What is the condition when Allah praises people
of the book and people say, oh, Allah's
saying they're believers.
He's gonna send, they're getting rewards.
Let's go to the slide, what it says.
Number one, those who believed and did good
deeds and believed in what was revealed upon
Muhammad.
And it is the truth from the Lord.
He will forgive their sins.
So the people of the book, of the
past, are praiseworthy when they complete their faith.
Yes, you believed up into Moses.
And Christians, you believed up to Jesus.
Yes, you had mistakes, but you're generally attempting
to follow those people.
When you, Islam is coming to correct your
beliefs, to correct these notions about Moses, these
notions about Jesus, these notions about God, to
correct all these notions, and you accept the
update and you follow the final prophet.
At that point, you are praiseworthy.
Those are the praiseworthy, Ahlul Kitab.
And the prophet says, they get both rewards,
the reward of their past religion and the
reward of this religion.
Next one.
Next one, if they believe in what you
believe in, only then will they be rightly
guided.
The Quran is speaking about them.
فَإِنْ آمَنُوا بِمِثْلِ مَا آمَنْتُمْ بِهِ فَقَدْ احْتَدُوا
So when are they rightly guided?
When they believe in what you believe in,
which is Muhammad in the Quran, and Islam.
Next.
Did you find a hot button key, Omar?
Shortcut, oh.
Next one.
But those among them, people of the book,
firmly rooted in knowledge, yes, they have knowledge
of their Torah, and the believers, believe in
what was revealed to you.
So when does Allah call them believers?
When they believe in what was revealed to
you, and in what was revealed before you.
Of course, we have to believe in all
the books and all the prophets, but what
we're believing and following is the last one.
So again, those firmly rooted in knowledge, talk
about Abdullah bin Salam, and all those who
are firmly rooted in their scripture that led
them to believe in what was revealed to
you, which is the Quran.
So Ahlul Kitab are praiseworthy once they believe
in Allah and His Messenger.
Next one.
Oh, people of the book, our Messenger has
come to you.
That is the proof, and this should actually
be repeated in another section here, that the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam also comes to Ahlul
Kitab.
Alright, next.
Surah Al-Ma'idah.
Say, oh people of the book, you have
no basis until you uphold the Torah and
the Injil, and what is revealed to you
from your Lord.
i.e. the Quran.
Not upon you.
It was revealed to them.
Meaning, it was revealed to everybody, right?
But why to them?
To specifically correct their false beliefs about Jesus,
and their false beliefs about God, and their
false beliefs about Solomon, and their false beliefs
about David.
They have lies about David.
Allah brings a correction in the Quran.
They have false beliefs about Solomon.
وَمَا كَفَرَ سُلِيمًا Why does Allah tell us
in the Quran He did not make kufr?
Because the Jews said He made kufr.
He died under a pagan apostate.
Right?
That's what they say.
I watched the movie one day, way back
in the day.
You know those Bible movies in the 70s?
Let me check this out.
Someone gave it to me.
Because someone is into this stuff.
So I popped it in one day while
I was working.
I'm working and I got the Solomon movie.
I stopped working because they made Solomon into
a pagan.
Why else does the Quran say وَمَا كَفَرَ
سُلِيمًا So this Quran was revealed to you
to correct all your mistakes.
You have no basis until you uphold the
correct Torah.
Where is the correct Torah?
Now we know because the Quran corrects it.
The correct Injeel because the Quran corrects it.
And what was revealed to you from your
Lord.
If what was revealed to you from your
Lord is the Torah and the Gospel why
repeat it?
Right?
No.
But what is revealed to you from your
Lord will increase many of them in rebellion
and disbelief.
The Quran only increases them in disbelief.
Clearly they're already accepting the Torah and the
Gospel.
So how would that increase them in disbelief?
Therefore what was revealed to you is the
Quran.
So do not be sorry for the disbelieving
people.
What does Allah call them?
Disbelieving people.
Next.
Surah Al-A'raf Those who follow the
Messenger, the Unlettered Prophet whom they find mentioned
in the Torah and the Gospel in their
possession those who believe in him in the
Prophet and respect him and support him and
follow the light that came down with him
which is the Quran.
These are the successful ones.
So here, again the successful ones are those
Jews and Christians when they recognize the truthfulness
of the Quran and accept it.
Next one.
The believers are only those who believe in
Allah and his Messenger.
So the phrase believers refers to those who
believe in Allah and his Messenger.
Next.
Conclusion.
Ahlul Kitab are praised as believers only when
they submit to the final Messenger ﷺ.
Next slide.
What does Allah and the last day apply?
We see مِنْ كَانِ يُؤْمِنُ بِاللَّهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الْآخِرِ
Oh, that's it?
Two things.
I believe in Allah and I believe in
the last day.
First of all, this is logically impossible.
You don't even know that there is Allah
or the last day without prophethood.
Your mind by itself can never tell you
that there is that the creator's name is
Allah.
You don't know any of his attributes and
you don't know that there's a last day.
So that logically, it's unacceptable that Allah and
the last day is the only thing that
anyone has to believe in.
The only, what you have to believe.
And secondly, where did you even learn that
phrase?
Through transmitted proofs.
Quran and Nubuwwah.
So therefore, the books, the prophets are included
and Allah and the last day is just
a short form.
It's a short form to include what's in
between.
Let's look at the next ayah to prove
that.
Next slide.
Surah Al-Baqarah.
The messenger has believed.
Khawatim Al-Baqarah.
أَمَنَا الرَّسُولُ مَنْ أُنْجِلَ إِلَيْهِ مِنْ رَبِّهِ وَالْمُؤْمِنُ
كُلٌّ آمَنَ بِاللَّهِ They all believed in Allah
and his angels and his scriptures and his
messengers.
Okay.
We make no distinction between any of his
messengers.
Meaning the obligation to believe in all of
them.
Next one.
Oh, you who believe.
Believe in Allah and his messenger and the
book he sent down to his messenger and
the book he sent down before.
Whoever rejects Allah and his angels, his books,
his messengers, and the last day.
There you have all five.
In basic logic and tafsir, if I specify
in one part of the document and I'm
general in another part of the document, which
one do you have to choose?
The specific one.
If I say to you, Ali, I need
you to go buy me ten granny apples.
You know, those green ones.
Later on in the discussion, I said, make
sure you buy me apples.
So I was general in one and specific
in the other.
Which one overrides which?
Which one do you have to go with?
You gotta go with the specific one.
Common sense says that, right?
What is mantiq logic except common sense?
So here, to believe in Allah and the
last day is in fact, I should have
actually, the red shouldn't be the first line.
The red should be the third line.
Allah, angels, books, messengers, last day.
Any time that you hear somebody saying believe
in Allah and the last day, it means
all five of these things.
It's just a short form of it.
When the Prophet, peace be upon him, said,
whoever says la ilaha illallah enters paradise.
Really?
So I can make kufr with all the
prophets?
Of course not.
I can reject the last day?
I can reject angels and go to Jannah?
Of course not.
It's short form.
Next.
Verses showing that ahlul kitab are disbelievers.
Now look, listen.
Are we trying to go out and put
people in *?
We are a dawah organization.
But we also have to learn our deen
properly.
We got to know who's who, right?
We got to know who's who.
Because look, if they're not disbelievers, if they're
believers, guess what?
Let's cancel two thirds of the dawah budget,
right?
At that point, why give dawah to Christians?
Cancel the soup kitchen.
They're saved.
They're all Christians, right?
If ahlul kitab are believers, that all they
have to do is practice their own religion,
then if you really care for them, go
study the Bible and teach them to practice
the Bible.
How absurd does that become?
But Allah says very clearly in Surah al
-Imran, O people of the book, why do
you reject the revelation of Allah, even as
you witness?
If they could be saved without Islam, why
would their rejection of the Quran be a
problem?
Next slide.
People of the book, do not exaggerate in
your religion.
And do not say about Allah except the
truth.
The implication here is that they are speaking
falsehood.
Therefore, cannot be a source of salvation.
Do not say about Allah except the truth.
That means your books are so altered, are
so off the mark.
From all the centuries of transmission and alteration
and things were lost and translation, as a
result of that, you're saying false things about
God.
You're saying about Moses false things, about David
false things, Adam and Eve you say false
things.
You say terrible things about Solomon.
You say terrible things about Jesus.
You say terrible things about Mary, being the
Jews, right?
So, don't say about Allah except the truth.
Your attributes of Allah are all mixed up.
بِتْمَ مُجَسِّمَ حُلُولِيَّ Every kind of heresy and
error that the Quran clarifies, you have fallen
into it.
So Allah is saying, لا تغلوا في دينكم
Don't be so attached to what you think
is the truth.
And don't say about Allah except the truth.
Next, you'll find that people of the book
most hostile towards the believers are the Jews
and the polytheists.
Therefore, the Jews are not what?
They're not believers, right?
How could you contrast believers?
And then the next verse says, you'll find
the nearest in affection towards the believers are
those who say we're Christians.
So therefore, who is contrasted with the believers?
Three groups, pagans, Jews and Christians.
Two of them are Ahlul Kitab and one
of them are pagans, right?
SubhanAllah.
So believers are contrasted with Jews, pagans and
Christians.
Next, سُرَةِ الْبَيَّنَةِ Those who disbelieve among the
people of the book.
That is, بَيَنِيَّ Not, and literally the surah
is called Bayyanah.
It is clarifying.
It's not giving you the exception.
It's not saying that there are some people
of the book who are disbelievers.
Alright, next one.
Previously revealed books and religions have been corrupted.
Next slide.
الْمَئِدَةِ They twist the words out of their
context and disregard much of what they are
reminded of.
Next.
From among the Jews, listeners to lies, listeners
to other people who did not come to
you, they distort words from their places.
So, do these descriptions sound like people who
are saved?
That's number one.
Number two, if you are attributing or your
idea is that they're good to go, and
as we're going to see from the proponent
of Muhammad Abduh's alleged modernism, saying that أَهْلِ
الْكِتَابِ are good to go.
They just have to follow their books.
That's it.
Okay.
How when their books are altered?
How when their books are مُحَرَّفِ On one
hand مُحَرَّفِ on the other hand follow them?
That makes no sense.
On the other hand, you're blameworthy for not
following the Quran?
On the other hand, you're being told stop
saying lies about God?
Because your books are full of errors.
Next.
O people of the book, do not exaggerate
in your religion beyond the truth.
Not follow the opinions of people who went
astray before you and misled many, meaning all
your false rabbis, whether they made mistakes, whether
they intentionally altered the book, and themselves strayed
off the balanced way.
Allah calls them that they're astray.
O people of the book, all of your
elders, they totally screwed you up.
Paul was the worst.
And the rabbis, so many of them told
so many lies in the books.
Okay.
Allah is telling them they are so far
astray, don't follow them.
Next.
The Prophet was sent to all people.
Now this is basically the end of the
debate right here.
Right?
The Prophet ﷺ is sent to all people.
Let's go to it.
We have sent you only as a deliverer
of good news and a warner to all
of humanity.
But most people do not know.
Yes, they don't know.
These people, the perennialists, they don't know meaning
they're pretending not to know or they're covering
the truth.
This is such obvious and plain truths.
And how many verses are we on?
There's 55 slides here.
Right?
Next one.
The Prophets themselves would have been required to
follow Muhammad ﷺ.
By the way, you notice we didn't even
touch hadith.
Because these groups between the perennialists, between the
orientalists and now the Egyptian modernists, Muhammad Abduh,
allegedly that this is his idea.
And allegedly Rashid Rida and allegedly Mahmood Shaltuz.
I didn't see that myself.
But the speaker who we're going to show,
he says it.
He's summarizing for us.
We didn't even touch hadith.
Who knows what they would say about hadith?
Just Qur'an is sufficient for us.
The Prophets themselves would have been required to
follow Sayyid al-Kaunayn You know that this
idea that anybody is not bound to follow
the leadership of Muhammad and to believe in
him and to honor him and respect him
by belief and submission to him.
This is the champagne version of insulting the
Prophet with cartoons.
I'm telling you.
And the difference is I know the people
who are saying this, they're not trying to
insult the Prophet.
I know that.
And I know a lot of these folks
probably they're very good-hearted people, wonderful community
people.
I'm not saying anything about their personal character.
Even from the perennialists, Joseph Lombard is their
chief now.
I don't think he's a bad guy.
He's not trying to destroy Islam.
There's no way when you look at the
way he lives and what he cares about.
But I'm telling you whether you got on
this, stepped on this on accident or what,
you're stepping on a mine here.
You're doing something disastrous.
Children hurt other children all the time out
of ignorance.
They don't know any better.
But you can't be stubborn.
As soon as we're showing you these evidence,
you have to submit to this.
Cannot be stubborn.
Same thing with the Egyptian modernists.
I don't think they thought one day, let's
destroy Islam.
But I'm telling you, that's what you're doing.
You're literally doing this.
Because if Judaism and Christianity are good to
go, then let me ask you, what if
your son wants to apostate and become a
Christian?
Logically speaking, let me just do that.
It's almost no different than going from Hanafi
to Shafi'i.
If I have a kid one day who
says, listen dad, I'm extremely pious.
I love religion.
I love what you've done.
And I respect you.
But I'm going to change Madhhabs.
I'm not going to be your Madhhab in
Fiqh.
I say, son, Madhhabs are interpretations.
This is not Islam.
It is Islam, but it's not the...
You're not leaving Islam.
You want to be a Shafi', you be
a Shafi'.
I'm not going to get emotional about that.
I'll be emotional about Islam.
Meaning, Qatiyat al-Din.
Aqeedah.
You're going to say, I'm not going to
be Ahlus Sunnah anymore.
I think I'll become Ismaili.
That's a different story.
Because that's the trunk of Islam.
There's a trunk, and there are branches.
There's a trunk, and there are branches.
The Madhhabs don't...
Are you telling us the Aqeedahs of Ahlul
Kitab and Islam are branches?
In that case, when your son says, you
know dad, there's less laws in Catholic religion
or Protestantism.
I'll just be a Protestant.
Or I'll just be Greek Orthodox.
Or I'll be whatever, Russian Orthodox.
Then you should say, I support you son.
That's the lazım, the necessary implication of this
Muhammad Abdu idea that is now being promoted
by some people.
The prophets themselves would have been required.
Let's look at this.
And recall, when Allah took an oath from
the prophets, I have given you scriptures and
wisdom.
Now if a messenger comes to you confirming
what is with you, you must believe in
him.
So if the prophets themselves had to believe
in Muhammad, then obviously their followers would.
Next.
Verses commanding belief in all prophets.
Next.
We believe in some and reject...
Here it is.
This is the number one verse for these
folks.
Those who disbelieve in Allah and His messengers
and want to separate between Allah and His
messengers and say, we believe in some and
reject some and wish to take a path
in between.
These are the unbelievers truly.
So anyone who comes and says...
By the way, we're not having Christians come...
The perennialists are like Christian converts who are
saying, yeah, it's okay to believe in Muhammad.
It's okay not to.
Right?
In the Muhammad Abdu case, they're Muslims saying,
you don't have to believe.
Right?
They're Egyptian Muslims saying, you're good to go
and wish to take a path in between.
These...
أُولَٰئِكَ هُمُ الْكَافِرُونَ حَقَّ These are the unbelievers
truly.
And we have prepared for them a shameful
punishment.
Next line.
O people, the messenger has come to you
with the truth from your Lord.
So believe.
O people, all people, not just...
مُشْرِكِ مَكَّ نَقْفْ كُفَرْ قُرَيْشِ Yes, at that
time it was Kufar Quraysh.
It was only people who were listening to
the Quran.
Right?
And being given the message.
But it applies to all people.
If you go to China, it applies to
them.
If you go to the Vatican, it applies
to them.
All of those who reject prophets earn punishment.
You cannot reject any single messenger of Allah
سُبْحَانَهُ وَ تَعَالَى And case closed.
Next.
Another one.
Whoever disbelieves in Allah and His angels, books,
messages, day of judgment has gone far, far
astray.
All right.
Next one.
One was done.
O people, I'm the messenger of Allah to
you all.
He to whom belongs the kingdom of the
heavens and the earth.
There is no God but He.
He gives life and causes death.
So, the most important line is that red
one here.
I am the messenger of Allah to you
all.
O people, not just Kufar Quraysh.
Yeah, at that time Kufar Quraysh.
But afterwards everybody.
Next.
Whoever does not believe in Allah and His
messenger, verily we have prepared for the disbelievers
a blazing fire.
Therefore, who is the disbeliever?
Whoever rejects the messenger.
Again, the Prophet ﷺ said, there will come
a time one of you will wake up.
يُصْبِحُ مُؤْمِنًا وَيُمْسِي كَافِرًا He wakes up a
mu'min, he goes to sleep a kafir.
How?
Casually ingesting one of these crazy ideas that
the Prophet ﷺ is optional.
It's the best.
We believe it's the best but not the
only.
And that's what's said.
We're not going to play the whole khutbah,
but we are going to play just one
minute.
But at the end of that khutbah, it's
like yeah, we believe this is the best
path.
And that's what the perennialists, I think they
say too.
It's the most complete and the best path.
But it's not the only path.
I'm telling you.
People don't, they don't go into shirk.
What they do go into is this.
لا أخشى على أمتي الشرك أنا لا أخشى
عليكم الشرك Prophet ﷺ said, I don't fear
shirk for you.
But there are other beliefs that are required
to keep us in the good graces of
Allah.
Next.
All right.
Here a verse is showing that Islam is
the only valid religion.
All right.
Next one.
It is He who sent the Messenger with
guidance and the religion of truth to make
it prevail over all religions.
If all religions can save people, why the
need to prevail?
Why the need?
If Judaism is good to go, we should
support it.
We should support it.
If it's the truth, like right now, Dar
al-Fatah, if somebody says, hey listen, I'm
going to give you guys a grant, $100
,000 a year to preserve the Hanbali Madhhab,
meaning just hire a scholar to teach Hanbali
Fiqh online and write books and study Hanbali
Fiqh.
That's his whole job to preserve the Madhhab.
I accept it 110%.
Somebody says to me, come with Hanbali Aqeedah.
110%.
I would accept it to preserve the religion.
Right?
These are good things.
But if all the other religions can save
people, then why would we need to prevail?
If somebody came to me and said, I
will pay you $1,000,000 to support
the Maliki Madhhab and ensure that it prevails
over the Shafi'i, Hanafi, and Hanbali Madhhabs,
and I'm going to give you another $1
,000,000 for the Ash'ari Aqeedah to
make sure it prevails over the Hanbali Aqeedah,
I say, take your money and go.
You're a dar mudhil.
You're sowing fitna.
These are all valid and excellent interpretations of
the truth.
We're not here to prevail one over the
other.
You prevail over something that's bad, something that's
false.
Next line.
The deen in Allah's sight is Islam.
The people of the book differed violently among
themselves.
Therefore, Islam here is talking about the religion
of Islam.
Because what's contrasted from them?
The people of the book.
Judaism and Christianity.
They differed violently amongst themselves after knowledge came
to them.
Whoever rejects the sign of Allah very easily,
Allah is feeding judgment.
So, you know what?
They try to wiggle around this and say
Islam means submission.
And you know what I'll say?
I accept it.
Because submission from the necessary implications of submission
is to submit to the last and final
prophet too.
Right?
So, if they say it's submission, I say,
ahlan wa sahlan.
It is submission.
Translated as submission.
Can you submit while rejecting the last and
final prophets?
What kind of submission is that?
Next one.
Whoever seeks other than Islam as a religion,
it will not be accepted from him.
Meaning, Jews, Christians, Muslims, we want a path
to God.
At least us, these three religions, we accept
this idea that there's God.
We need to please God, our creator.
And we need to earn His good graces
and we need to earn paradise.
It's not going to work except through the
path of Islam.
Your worship is not accepted.
I mean, Ali runs a soup kitchen.
Right?
And we report back to a board who
collects all the money.
That's how non-profits work.
Ali, his work will not be accepted if
he does it his own way.
You'll be removed.
If I go to MBIC and I say,
from now on, my schedule is to give
a halaqah, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, that's
five halaqahs, at 9 a.m. in the
mosque.
And I'm not going to give Jummah.
And I'm not going to come Friday night.
Right?
So that's, I'm replacing two with five.
They're going to say, no one shows up
at that hour in any masjid.
9 a.m. in a masjid?
No, you've got to come to Jummah and
you've got to come Friday night.
You can't do things how you wish.
God cannot be worshipped how you wish.
That's the idea here.
So he's saying it's not accepted.
What's accepted for you to be in God's
good graces and earn His pleasure and protection
is to do things this way, not any
other way.
Next one.
Today I perfected your religion for you and
I've completed my favor upon you and have
approved or been pleased with Islam as a
religion for you.
Okay, next.
Here he says Islam is a religion.
Submission is not a religion.
Submission is a state of being.
Now, we're not going to go to the
next slide just yet.
Verses falsely used by Muhammad Abdu, I should
say the, the Muhammad Abdu School of Modernism.
How do we know it's the Muhammad Abdu
School of Modernism as well as Rashid Rida?
And I'm saying they are alleged to be
promoting this.
Let's go to the khutbah and we're only
going to play one minute because I'll tell
you what happened.
Last week I alluded to the khutbah.
I didn't present it to anybody.
So they don't know if I'm speaking the
truth or not.
I can't blame them, right?
So here, one of our local khateebs, local
to the state of New Jersey, is telling
us what Muhammad Abdu believes.
And some people apparently believe this.
So let's look at this link.
Okay.
This is from his YouTube channel by the
way.
Pause.
Alright, first thing he says here is that
this group is not many and their leaders
are Muhammad Abdu and Rashid Rida.
And their thesis is that the Jews and
Christians are only asked by God.
You misspelled Abdu there.
They're only asked by God to follow their
book.
Okay.
That's it.
Now Muhammad Abdu and Rashid Rida, when did
they come in Islamic history?
What, 200 years ago?
Not even.
1930s.
Not even 100 years.
100 and some years, right?
So we're going to have a new understanding
of Ahlul Kitab.
200 years later?
I mean 1300 Islamic years later?
Alright, keep going.
Stop right there.
Summary.
Summary of Muhammad Abdu and Rashid Rida's ideas
is that if they just believe in their
book, that's a problem in itself because their
books are all altered.
Injil doesn't even exist.
And believe in God and the last day.
Again, that mistake, that idea that believe in
God and the last day does not include
prophets.
All prophets.
So they did good deeds according to their
book.
Yadkhuluna aljannah.
Play.
Just like the Muslims.
We do good or bad.
So, pause.
So he says here that according to these
scholars or maybe according to him there's no
Ijma' in the Ummah of Islam that Ahlul
Kitab have to accept the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ.
Okay, so that means if we're saying there's
no Ijma' the premise there is we believe
in Ijma'.
What is the number one rule of Ijma'?
One rule of Ijma' is that once it's
munaqid it's never broken, right?
So therefore from the time of the Prophet
ﷺ until the time of Muhammad Abdul Rashid
Rida no less than 1200 years have passed.
How many continents have passed?
Name me one person in that span of
time who said Ahlul Kitab laisu mukhatabina illa
bikutubihim.
That Ahlul Kitab only have to follow their
words.
Show me one person.
Ijma' for 1200 years.
And who's going to flip that Ijma'?
Nobody can flip that Ijma'.
If you get all the scholars in the
world their Ijma' will be belted because once
Ijma' is made on something there's no going
back from it.
Okay?
Within a Madhhab if there's Ittifaq in a
Madhhab like Hanafis have had Ittifaq agreement within
their Madhhab yes, that can be changed.
Yes, that's just within the Madhhab.
We're talking about Islam, Aqidah here.
Okay?
Next.
He says here if you accept this opinion
or the Ash'ari opinion which is what
we believe in which is that the Jews
and Christians are responsible once they hear the
message.
In our Aqidah nobody is responsible for something
unless they hear the message.
The degree in which they hear the message
we can debate it.
Right?
The degree in which they have access to
information that's...
forget that.
Put that on the side.
When they don't receive the message they're innocent.
A kid grows up in Poland on a
farm and goes to church every day until
he dies at 70 years old never having
once heard the name Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
or Islam or Quran.
He's not going to be taken into account
for his kufr.
Or maybe he heard it incorrectly.
He said, who is Muhammad?
He's a devil worshipper.
Wa la ya'du billah astaghfirullah to even say
that.
Who is Allah?
It's the moon god as the, you know
evangelicals like to say.
So, he grows up thinking that that's the
identity of those names.
So he's innocent.
So he's saying whether you take that opinion
or you take Muhammad Abdul's opinion and Rashid
Riz's opinion which is also his opinion then
you're good to go.
So we cannot be approving of this this
kufr idea.
This idea that you are allowed to make
kufr with the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
That idea for us is not an opinion.
No one has the right to give an
opinion on that.
It's not valid or invalid.
You have to understand the difference.
We can argue valid or invalid.
Someone says say Bismillah and eat anything you
want.
What do we say about that?
That's an invalid opinion.
But for someone to say belief in Muhammad
is not necessary for salvation for Jews and
Christians.
That's not even an invalid opinion.
As one philosopher used to say you're not
even wrong.
You don't have a right to speak on
the subject.
That's why it's a red line.
And that's why it's a big deal.
And we're not saying Muhammad Abdul, Rashid Riz,
Dr. Muhammad Musa that they're trying to destroy
our religion.
But we're saying this is a grave mistake.
It's on YouTube.
It needs to be spread.
And I volunteered myself to talk to them.
I've sent them messages.
And I think we will.
And we'll have a wonderful conversation.
No problem.
I can talk to anybody.
Right?
And this is nothing personal.
It's on the issue.
This specific issue.
All right.
Next line.
The reason I'm saying all this is because
last time it was like in passing.
And you're like when you're in passing oh
this is a bunch of Zindaqa.
But I also said if this is the
belief then this is Zindaqa.
Right?
Why do you have to say if?
When you see someone's YouTube video you don't
know if they changed their opinion since then
and forgot to take it down.
You don't know if they changed their opinion
since then, lost their YouTube account and couldn't
take it down.
Or even forgot that it's up.
And sometimes these sheikhs don't even know someone
puts their khutbah on the internet.
So that's why you have to say if.
If this is the belief then that's what
I said.
Right?
Next one.
Continue it.
Actually, keep going.
I personally have a third opinion.
The opinion of Imam Muhammad Abdul Rashid Ghida
and whoever is on his side.
Okay.
Stop right there.
Alright.
So here is where he basically attributes himself.
He says I'm going to go with Muhammad
Abdul Rashid Ghida and we're saying this is
not an opinion.
Right?
Let's go back to the slides.
And the rest of this podcast or live
stream and I know Ibrahim is waiting.
We're going to get to him.
Is dedicated to a young man called Mu
'ayyad.
Who is Mu'ayyad?
I don't know who he is.
He's somebody he tagged me on Facebook.
And he said if you could kindly explain
the verses used by Muhammad Abdul Rashid Ghida
because I know it's wrong but I'm confused.
I need to know why it's wrong.
And how many of us were that position
when we were young?
And even now.
Something doesn't sound right but I can't put
my finger.
So let's go to the evidences one at
a time that's used that Dr. Muhammad Musa
has referred to in his khutbah which you
can find on his YouTube page as the
evidence is used by Muhammad Abdul Rashid Ghida
Mahmoud Shaltout that Jews and Christians are exempt
from believing in the Prophet.
That's literally the necessary implication.
Alright Omar go ahead.
Exempt from believing in the Prophet.
The first ayah says لَيْسَ بِأَمَانِيِّكُمْ وَلَا أَمَانِيِّ
أَهْلِكِتَابِ It is not by your wish or
the wishes of the people of the book.
Meaning like heaven.
Whoever commits evil will be rewarded accordingly.
And you will find no protector or helper
besides Allah.
مَنْ يَعْمَلْ سُوءًا يُجْزَبِهِ وَلَا يَجَدْ لَهُ مِنْ
دُونِ اللَّهِ وَلِيًّا وَلَا نَصِيرًا وَمَنْ يَعْمَلْ صَالِحًا
مِنَ الصَّالِحِ يَعْمَلْ مِنَ الصَّالِحِ مِن ذَكْرٍ أُنتَ
وَهُوَ مُؤْمِنٌ So they use this as a
proof to show that there if you do
good O Jew and Christian you get rewarded.
If you do bad O Jew and Christian
you get sins.
You get punished.
But there is a condition.
Allah says وَمَنْ يَعْمَلْ مِنَ الصَّالِحَةِ مِن ذَكْرٍ
أُنتَ وَهُوَ مُؤْمِنٌ Whoever does good will be
rewarded of it males or females while they
are believers.
Only then will they enter paradise.
All the good deeds that a person does
while rejecting God and His Prophet are useless
you only get the reward here.
You will not get the reward on the
Day of Judgment because you didn't respect God.
You didn't respect the Prophet.
You only get your reward here.
But the point of this verse is it
puts a condition.
Yes, you're going to get your good deeds,
you're going to get your bad deeds on
the Day of Judgment and you'll go to
paradise if you're a believer while believers.
So the reputation is in the verse itself.
That means in this condition.
Next.
Alright, the next one says I'll just go
straight to the English for the sake of
the audience, but you have it there, the
Arabic And had they observed the Torah and
the Gospels and what has been revealed to
them from their Lord So what they looked
at, they took as a proof is the
first part.
Had they observed the Torah and the Gospels
but Allah didn't end there.
He said and what has been revealed to
them.
We said the theme earlier is that the
Jews and Christians are praiseworthy when they're praiseworthy
when they recognize the final message and correct
their past mistakes.
He says here they would have been overwhelmed
with provisions from above rain and below crops
some, go back I can't see some among
them are upright some among them are upright
yet how are they upright by believing in
the Prophet like who Abdullah bin Salam some
among them are upright yet many do nothing
but evil O messenger convey everything revealed to
you from your Lord wait a second if
the book if the Gospels and the Torah
is good enough why convey anything to them
if you do not then you have not
delivered his message Allah will protect you from
the people indeed Allah does not guide the
people who disbelieve so what does Allah call
them if they reject you O Muhammad what
are they people who disbelieve say O people
of the book you have nothing to stand
on unless you observe what the Torah the
Gospel and what has been revealed to you
from your Lord meaning if you were sincere
in following the Torah and the Gospel it
would have led you to the Quran and
your Lord's revelation to you will only cause
many of them to increase in wickedness and
disbelief so again rejection of Quran is disbelief
do not grieve for the people of disbelief
three times this verse refers to them as
disbelievers now here's why this all of this
within the verse the contradiction or the refutation
I should say of the attempt to make
this verse be an exception for the Jews
and Christians from believing in the prophecy is
actually in the previous verse alright so let's
go to the next slide look at the
previous verse just cite the verse before it
we have no argument Allah says if the
people of the book had believed and been
pious now if you notice in the presentation
of the modernist proofs he cites verse 66
right what about verse 65 had the people
of the book believed and been pious then
we would have absolved them of their sins
and admitted them into the garden of bliss
therefore without proper belief you're a rejecter next
we have two more this is a famous
ayah always used by people for this verily
where's the translation I didn't translate it alright
let me translate it verily those who believed
and those who had meaning Jews Christians Christians
Sabians Sabians are people who never got any
message but with their mind realized there's only
one creator and idols are false who believes
in God and his last day and does
righteous deeds they have all their rewards so
this verse has come down number one is
speaking in the past tense number two it
says Allah and the last day we already
said that short form for what to believe
in Allah and his books and his angels
and his messengers and the last day lastly
this is about Salman al-Farisi asking about
pious monks he met before Islam therefore it
applies to everyone before Islam okay so if
I get to a priest or a monk
who worshipped God so sincerely for 50-60
years then at the last minute he learns
about Islam and he enters Islam and I
wonder well I wonder if God's gonna reward
all those good deeds that he did the
answer is yes because you were the sign
of your sincerity and the sign of God's
acceptance of your deeds of your effort is
he guided you to the truth okay and
what about Salman al-Farisi asking those people
who died before the prophet came they were
trying to find the truth they couldn't know
where the truth they couldn't have any certainty
and they died before the prophet Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala is being generous with them
okay next one marriage to the people of
the book was used as a proof but
this is a verse has nothing to do
with Aqidah but the reason he uses this
as a proof is because on the one
hand marriage to pagans it is said pagan
spouses invite you to the fire then it
permits marriage to people of the book assuming
then that people of the book will not
lead you to the fire okay but that
there's no law that can be extracted from
that I could simply say on one hand
God was describing the pagans and the other
verse in a whole nother situation he's not
describing the people of the book as that
although it could be just because the description
is not there doesn't mean it doesn't apply
that's my point yes he's described the pagans
as leading you to the fire he did
not describe people of the book as leading
you to the fire but that absence of
the description does not mean it's the absence
of the reality and would Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala allow us to marry a people
who are on a path to the hellfire
the answer is yes it's possible if Allah
allows that right he can allow it marriage
is not necessarily followership in religion but here's
another textual proof against this let's go to
that verse 4 there it says permissible for
you in marriage are chaste believing women as
well as the chaste women from the people
of the book so what's being contrasted with
what believing women and people of the book
are being contrasted here okay they're not the
same and anyway this has to do with
fiqh just because on one hand the pagans
are described as they will lead you to
the fire and people of the book are
not described as well we see Allah says
about all the kuffar they're not all the
same yes some people are worse than others
towards you right we saw that in the
previous books alright is that our last slide
here's the last slide but why do they
come to you for judgment oh Muhammad this
confused many people when they have the Torah
containing Allah's judgment then they turn away after
all these are not true believers okay the
first verse is used as the proof but
there's no mention of the second verse if
you look at the presentation it says وَكَيْفِ
حَكِمُونَكَ وَعِنْدَهُمُ التَّوْرَىٰ فِيهَا حُكْمُ اللَّهُ oh Muhammad
why are the Jews asking you to judge
because the situation is that there was a
crime among the Jews and they asked Muhammad
the Prophet to come and judge okay so
this verse came down why are they asking
you to judge when they have the book
the Torah that has God's rules in it
alright so the refutation of that is just
to complete the verse and that's literally what
I did against Javad whatever he cited I
said give me the verse you're citing keep
scrolling keep scrolling right Allah says ثُمَّ يَتَوَلَّونَ
مِنْ بَعْدِ ذَلِكَ وَمَا أُولَيْكَ بِالْمُؤْمِنِينَ they're not
believers so why is it that the Quran
is saying this it's تَعَجُّب تَعْجِيب it's saying
you're inconsistent you have what you believe to
be the truth why are you asking Muhammad
when you believe him to be a liar
that's the whole point the point is are
you asking Muhammad to judge between you you
believe him to be a liar why are
you asking him right and that's why Allah
says these are not real believers they're not
asking they're asking because they don't like the
rule that's in their book they don't like
it and they want to find a way
around it I
think we covered everything right all right next
I think that's that oh there's one more
thing that in this speech was saying that
we don't judge heaven and * that's actually
true but we can judge the path to
heaven and * being Islam I can't judge
who's going to heaven and * right but
we can judge what is the path God
wants us to take otherwise there's no point
God tells us Allah tells us don't make
claims and assumptions who's going to heaven and
* fine we don't right but we definitely
can tell people read from the Quran from
the Hadith what is the path to heaven
and * all right let's move on to
the next segment of our live stream today
and that is Ibrahim Ibrahim's not in yet
unboxing we have unboxing last time we got
this amazing sword up here okay throw me
that little box there how many minutes
three minutes what's Ibrahim's last name Ibrahim Salman
sound of sirah by the way I will
I'll happily have a debate or a discussion
on anybody on this subject of the prophet
but you got to be someone of weight
I'm not going to give somebody attention I
know somebody recently asked me but he had
was of no weight in the community I'm
not going to give oxygen but if you
are somebody who people follow and listen to
you I'll have a discussion with you doesn't
it could be a nasty debate if someone's
far off like Javed and if someone is
close you know then it could be a
friendly discussion but we're also nobody budges on
that this is this is knowledge this point
about the prophet peace be upon him that
nobody is exempt from believing in the prophet
peace be upon him it's not an opinion
it's not a friend it's not something oh
who would have known unless you told us
no this is literally the definition of Islam
and that's why it's of the most dangerous
level to reject it yep yep what's
that there may be a reason for that
maybe his language was a little bit softer
not explicit not softer but less explicit oh
look at this really yeah
he's on that route too but they don't
have to follow his law um listen Takfir
Takfir is on these and it's quality control
in our religion like the product to use
that term it has to be kept clean
you can mess up on certain things you
can make mistakes you can have some odd
interpretations here and there but the essence of
Islam can't be altered like we can't get
emotional about it it's not emotional right it's
not emotional yeah
I mean I saw one of those videos
clipping all his sayings and I had enough
that's all I needed to see oh this
is a Qiswa look at this this has
got I mean this has got Qiswa first
of all who's it from that's the main
this has the Qiswa of the Kaaba Subhanallah
and it cloths from Medina the
actual foundation the I don't know I believe
so right the bottom bottom part pull pull
yeah the dimensions yeah oh look
at this gorgeous piece right here it's the
Qiswa of the Kaaba a piece of the
Qiswa a gorgeous piece and a piece from
the prophets chamber Al-Hujra Al-Nabawiyah Al
-Sharifah okay and yeah actual piece actual piece
there's no card can you look in that
box for a card like who are we
supposed to thank oh hold on oh look
at this the Isnet you know what do
they call it in art in art they
have a word for it like the proof
that something is what people claim it to
be the provenance there it is and they
spelled it wrong certificate of provenance Al-Isnet
from the Dinar Islamic Museum Al-Mamlak Al
-Arabiyah Al-Saudiyah Madhaf Al-Dinar Al-Islami
Bi-Makkah Al-Mukarramah Nawa Al-Qit'ah
Qiswa Al-Kaaba oh subhanallah Qiswa Al-Kaaba
well this
certificate is issued okay so it says here
basically it's written beautiful words of Quran and
the word of Tawheed on the Qiswa of
the Kaaba manager of the Islamic Dinar Museum
the certificate was issued by request of the
owner and the museum attests to this and
any scarping or modification invalidates it and this
is the provenance Shahadat Al-Tawthiq and that
is a gorgeous gorgeous now I'm going to
feel now I'm in a fiqh dilemma where
do I put it I don't want to
put my back to it my feet to
it Ali put it right next to you
put it right next to you all right
let's take a look at this other unboxing
what is this you know you get packages
these days in your house and it's like
cat food so unexciting all right Ali oh
another one gosh this place is full Ya
Ibrahim Salman we can't hear Ibrahim Salman Ibrahim
Salman Ibrahim Salman you working from home today
no I'm just asking you know this brother
all right another look how much wrapping is
in this Ali open he's an opening machine
all right let's see it oh oh
look at this gorgeous painting here this is
a calligraphy piece of Al Medina Al Munawwara
take a look at this gorgeous piece right
here he says here Dear Dr. Shaj in
your hands you have a design that I
hope you like it took me a long
time to make this digital my main intention
of sending this is to have token appreciation
the effort you put into Safina Society for
creating a beautiful platform where traditional Islam is
now finally getting more presence Alhamdulillah by the
way our viewerships it's getting more every single
day every single day I have been introduced
to very special teachers such as Sheikh Mahdi
Mahdi Allah for Arabic and Shafi'i Sheikh
Murabit Aqid Al Maliki Fiqh Subhanallah he says
here that he switched directions and he started
this store I love this store I love
this store simple as that spirituallinkgallery.com post
it please and
even open up the website and let's take
a look at this gentleman's website no that's
not it spirituallinkgallery.com spirituallinkgallery.com I'm really
sorry Ibrahim for keeping you waiting hit.com
spirit spiritual 1l between spiritual no spiritual ink
sorry it's where spiritual ink all right share
the website put the website up so everyone
could look spiritual ink and not spiritual link
look at this gorgeous piece right here from
spiritual ink gallery dot-com I'm all about
it I'm all about it okay now yeah
time or you stick that on your side
now spiritual ink gallery calm folks get your
stuff beautiful stuff all right let's get to
Salman Ibrahim Salman Ibrahim Salman ladies and gentlemen
is a native of New Jersey he is
not a member of Muhammad Abdu's movement okay
he is Egyptian though like me and he
is doing something great not just good great
it's called the sound of Sira sound of
Sira is getting so good so strong they
now have multiple studios across the nation and
have hired dozens of actors and Ibrahim let's
bring him on right away and then we're
gonna go straight to his video do you
want me to have a video you have
the YouTube link because I want to see
it I personally want to see it no
whatever he tells you to yeah all right
Ibrahim Salam alaikum and welcome to nothing but
facts live stream walaikum salam it's nice to
be back dr.
Shady likewise I'm gonna great to have you
back and we're overdue but since you came
how many episodes have you done it's been
a year right so we're cruising through season
2 at this point so we've released eight
episodes since then but the big difference between
season 2 and season 1 was season 1
had a lot of episodic episodes and season
2 each one is like a movie we
go we go all out with them tell
me how long does it take to make
one it really depends on the production size
how many actors are involved the writing the
script and stuff but from the moment the
research phase till the end where I'm pressing
upload it can be anywhere between three or
four months which one do you want us
to show right now so what we can
do in sha Allah I got the cinematic
trailer that kind of gives an overview of
the entire show so we can play that
inshallah and then I want to take you
guys through one of our recent episodes on
the specific scenes that we can maybe talk
about and what was the idea behind it
but I do want to correct you on
one thing although we are brothers in Islam
I am not an Egyptian what you know
what are you then you're gonna have to
guess and if you can't figure it out
by the end of the episode it it's
got to be Palestinian oh well there you
go good I thought for some reason I
thought this man is an Egyptian well you
know you wouldn't be the first I've been
called Egyptian Pakistani basically everything except Palestinian well
because you live in Masjid Amman too well
yeah that was my main Masjid for a
long time so I actually learned Egyptian dialect
from there so when I was family back
home like where have you been have you
been in Cairo this okay good to know
now that you're a Palestinian so too bad
I wanted the Egyptians to balance things out
but all right another loss okay let's go
to the trailer bismillah I saw something strange
at the sanctuary today I saw a man
walk up and raise his eyes to the
sky then a little boy stood by his
right a woman to his back up and
down they went bowing and prostrating an amazing
sight indeed you know who that man was
Muhammad you are Rasulullah I worry about him
up there low he's always enjoyed but on
a mountain what disturbs you about the mountains
Muhammad please tell me what happened did you
bring it here in Mecca you are the
prophet of this nation I Abraha declare that
all Arabs must perform their pilgrimage at my
Grand Cathedral Abdul Muttalib I've come to destroy
your sacred temple Allah is the master of
that and he will defend it if he
so chooses associating partners with Allah claiming he
has daughters while we condemn our own daughters
to death in the earth you will not
rest till you kill every last one of
them I advise you both to be ready
when Muhammad finally decides to reveal what he
really is I always knew there was something
wrong with him and now here he's telling
everyone that an angel's given him words from
God put your hands Muhammad is this why
you gathered us here today so that we
can hear more of your lunacy in the
name of Allah the most merciful and kind
Muhammad you are known for your generosity your
care of taking upon yourself the needs of
others Islam by touch presents you connect your
family ties you're honest when you speak you
you carry people's burdens uplifting the destitute you
honor your guests how did you encourage every
type of good I have never met a
man like Muhammad in my entire life an
audio adventure of the life of the Prophet
Muhammad this is Muhammad he is the most
honored amongst us as a Muslim I can
enter Jannah the paradise of the believers you're
a fool I'm with you the sound of
Sira I'll always be with you now sit
back and enjoy the show so that's
a trailer of season one right or is
it season one and includes maybe one or
two small parts from season two but overall
that's just kind of like season one is
really our base you know to give the
idea of what is the sound of Sira
and stuff for a lot of our viewers
that have already binged season one you know
that a lot of things have changed for
season two the quality has been upped the
production value much higher but you know if
you're already familiar it's the same kind of
idea it's an audio adventure of the life
of the Prophet peace be upon him with
sound effects and voice actors and acapella in
the sheet in the background so let's take
a look on right now to a segment
of season 2 and you want us to
watch from minute 3 so if he's gonna
play the actual video that I sent it's
the full thing if you're doing it off
YouTube I gave the time so much just
to give some just to give some context
so what has happened here in Mecca the
Persians have just dealt a serious blow to
the Roman Empire and the people of Quraysh
are now discussing the ramifications of that all
right very good click on similar to our
succeed I made even he sham approached the
group Abel Hakem welcome old friend we were
discussing the good news so I can't say
was unexpected I'm quite familiar with the Emperor's
intelligence so his victory was only a matter
of time if I'm being honest yeah Abel
Hakem did you know that Nutter studied in
Persia I always knew he was smart but
Wow do you fools really think this is
good news well I can't see how it's
bad news the Persians have always been softer
on us I'm like those self-righteous Christians
would you like to grab a ride and
save your Jesus Christ the Romans weren't always
Christian you know in fact they used to
have many mighty gods like us Jupiter Apollo
Neptune whole pantheon Wow you're so smart Abel
Hakem don't interrupt yeah they had a mighty
Empire and were feared by all but somewhere
along the line they lost their way and
abandoned the gods of their fathers they gave
up their pantheon and settled for a dead
man on a cross and now look at
them pathetic and weak yes yes quite fascinating
fascinating the same thing is happening to us
as we speak let me ask you a
question does Muhammad not come here and rub
his unworthy nose in the dirt when he
is among you yeah well yes well I
for one am NOT going to allow our
tribe to become the next Roman Empire all
right so what are you going to do
about it I swear by lat and Uzza
that when he comes to pray I will
step on his neck and smear dust in
his face Abel Hakem you wouldn't oh yes
I would well here's your chance now over
by the Kaaba the Rasul peace be upon
him raised his hands to initiate his prayer
gentlemen watch this Amir Ibn Hisham tiptoed over
to where the Prophet peace be upon him
was now bowing towards the direction of Jerusalem
he looked over his shoulder at another and
Al-Akhnas they were snickering and winking at
him he quickened his pace towards Muhammad who
was now prostrating on the ground with his
nose and forehead to the floor I'm at
his heart was accelerating from underneath his cloak
he pulled out a heavy rock had been
concealing today was going to be the end
of his problems he thought he was almost
at Muhammad he was breathing heavily beads of
sweat trickled down the side of Amr's head
but something was wrong every step he took
seemed to take him farther away from Muhammad
his vision swirled he was sweating even more
profusely the heat was unbearable suddenly the ground
ripped open in front of him like a
wound black smoke spewed out I'm a staggered
his legs suddenly feeling boneless the wound tore
open to reveal a bright orange ditch of
fire a wild tangle of wings made of
flames unfurled from the ditch as it expanded
I'm a ribbon he sham feared he would
fall as the ground beneath his feet seemed
to be sucked into the inferno what's the
matter with him I'm gonna be sham dropped
the rock and fell onto his back crawling
backwards on his hands as quickly as he
could the ditch got bigger and bigger ready
to consume him and between all the firing
wings a great beast emerged a monstrous camel
with red eyes and foam dripping from its
razor-sharp teeth I'm it ran as fast
as he could not daring to look back
lest he be eaten by the monster whatever
happened to stepping on his neck the Rasul
peace be upon him finished his prayer the
terrifying camel trotted over to him and lowered
its head Jibril resumed his angelic form as
did all the other angels the nineteen guards
of hellfire floating in servitude by the messenger
peace be upon him if he came any
closer to you we would have snatched him
away peace by peace the Rasul peace be
upon him gave his thanks to Allah for
although he was not the most powerful man
in the world his protector was a lazies
and he was powerful over all things around
it's really detailed it's really impressive where do
you how do you get these machines you
make them yourself so we work with some
machine studios Elias Mayo the machine artist is
someone that we use his tracks but a
lot of them that you've just heard are
ones that we created ourselves so we've hired
acapella artists that are actually non Muslim but
we kind of give them what we're looking
for the feel and stuff and they go
ahead and turn it to a non-musical
instrument you know try amazing so let me
tell you what books are you going to
for Sira because you're getting details that aren't
found in the regular customary books yeah so
we definitely start off with the very basic
books like you know even it's hot Sira
Ibn Hisham Sahih Bukhari all the mainstream ones
and we try to focus more on primary
sources rather than secondary sources because you know
things like the sealed nectar are just you
know putting together the sources that you know
they originally come from so we mainly focus
on Ibn Ishaq and you know any narrations
that we find from Tabakat Ibn Sa'ad
for example wherever a hadith comes and brings
in some kind of narration that's where we
would come to fill in any gaps to
bring a cohesive story how many videos is
season 1 season 1 is 11 episodes season
2 which is still ongoing we're releasing episodes
as regularly as we can about a episode
so far are you on Spotify too yes
we're on Spotify Audible Apple podcast anything that
you know really is a podcast platform listen
the of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasalam the
transmission is the most important source of truth
for us reason can only take us so
far reason can only tell us there's a
creator we don't know anything else we're not
gonna know why we exist the creators name
what he wants from us how he is
towards us it only comes from transmission and
transmission there is a saying the medium is
the message in other words you need to
transmit to be in love with the transmitter
you need to know everything to trust the
transmitter and that's how you will accept the
transmission if you have any strange ideas about
the transmitter you won't accept the transmission hence
what you're doing is so important so critical
what else see how have you been what
kind of reactions you've been getting so alhamdulillah
it's a very unique project we don't know
of anybody that's doing anything close to what
we're doing you know it's very interesting because
this was never intended for any specific age
range and we're seeing that in the audience
which is like we have adults you know
20 and up 35 and up who are
you know have avid listeners they can't wait
for the next episode to come we have
families that come and watch it with their
kids one thing that I've gotten a lot
is that parents play it for their kids
on their way to and from school so
it's really just been you know an emotional
attachment to the Prophet peace be upon him
that we're trying to build and an emotional
attachment to his companions which if you remember
last time I was here we really talked
about you know the importance of building a
human being a character and not just a
stream of events you know because Sira can
just be all right there was Iqra and
then Israa Miraj, Hijra, Badr, Uhud and that's
totally divorced from any human characterization from any
character from any humanity so a person looks
at it okay this is this is no
different than me studying the Civil War or
the Revolutionary War and why would I care
about somebody from the Civil War the Revolutionary
War and our Sira should not be like
that.
One time there was a woman who finished
memorizing the Quran under a Syrian scholar she
she was also Hafidha she eventually taught her
she said that she studied with her for
years and never once asked what was how
did you get into Hifz of Quran she
said I was from a Syrian family of
Damascus like the very hardcore elite and secular
Syrians of Damascus to the point that she
had not even one stepped inside of a
masjid and she thought it's like the heritage
just like it's a these are heritage sites
and then one day she's doing a master's
in math and she sees some of her
friends sitting down with another woman wearing hijab
and she's like what the heck like we
don't sit with these people like we don't
even know what they are so she sat
down just to be polite the woman is
talking to Sira she's just telling stories about
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and she
says you know stuff for Allah in her
own words she says all this time she's
doing a master's in math she's must be
21 years old 22 years old she says
I thought that Muhammad was just like it
a historical warlord or something like Genghis Khan
yeah like the Arab version of Genghis Khan
right and that he passed through Syria at
some point and left a trace of buildings
and some cultural things that's it she literally
and this is in Damascus Syria imagine that
but she said I became addicted to see
it up from the first gathering from that
first and they're sitting in a coffee shop
in the student center right and she's sitting
around and she's like I couldn't stop I
didn't want to go to class I wanted
to continue then I attended the next holocaust
next holocaust next holocaust within a year she's
wears hijab and entered into the academy and
she went because she had a mathematical mind
everything to her was systematic so if I'm
going to memorize it takes this much to
memorize it's going to take this many sittings
right and I'll be done by this she
finished within five to five years or so
have the Quran and then she ended up
getting the jazza from the biggest you have
Damascus and she ended up now she is
herself with the biggest you when she gives
a jazza now and it's all from Syria
and Syria really the way you personalize it
is so important and that's what Shema is
sometimes woven in to the events are so
important yeah absolutely and that's a panel oh
whenever somebody asks me like what what got
you into this project I always describe him
like I'm a Sierra enthusiast I'm not you
know I don't have a doctorate in Sierra
studies or anything like that I'm just like
you were saying for that sister in Syria
I'm obsessed with Sierra and I feel like
it is the greatest story the most important
story anyone can ever tell or listen to
or read about we've done it such a
disservice upon a lot in our in our
times yeah so it's it's a great product
project season two every season will bring you
on and I'm what if you can kindly
link the YouTube channel sound of Sierra s
-e-e-r-a-h sound of Sierra
and come inshallah go visit it listen to
it with your kids you get on Spotify
you can get it on YouTube you can
are there Instagram clips yeah so we have
Instagram reels that are like 1 minute 30
seconds you know that's great bits and pieces
from different episodes and you're getting better and
better may Allah give you more to fit
as time goes I mean you don't I
mean anything else you'd like to share about
the sound of Sierra yeah I mean one
of the things that you know people are
always interested in subhanAllah which is so interesting
to me is that we have a lot
of very talented voice actors in the Muslim
community so a lot of the voice actors
we have on the sound of Sierra are
Muslim a lot of them are not it's
about a lot so many people have been
reaching out saying that you know hey I'm
a voice actor or I've been trying to
get into voice acting but you know the
kind of cartoon Hollywood scene is not really
inviting to Muslims and it may never be
so subhanAllah so many people came out to
me and they said this is a project
where I actually feel like I can you
know join as an actor or actress we
recently had somebody from she auditioned for a
part online and I didn't even know where
she was I just kind of assumed she
was here in America turns out she was
from Kuwait yeah and subhanAllah it's it's really
bringing out the talent of the Muslim community
to join this to bring out their you
know inner actor slash actress and subhanAllah it
just it really really you know gave me
so much hope in our ummah that we
have a creative side to us we have
an artistic side and people are desperate to
bring it to a kind of halal open
you know space where I'm not going to
I don't have to fear disobeying Allah or
causing fitna or you know brainwashing propaganda for
children or so like that by joining this
series so definitely you know I've invited you
Dr. Shadi if you ever want to play
a character alhamdulillah we have like dozens and
dozens of actors if there's a real character
that you feel like you want to join
in inshallah I appreciate that and how do
people sign up to become voice actors the
only I mean there's different avenues some people
have just sent demos to my email info
at the sound of seerah.com so they'll
just send a demo reel but I do
post on Instagram whenever we're doing casting or
anything like that so if you follow us
on Instagram you'll be updated whenever we're doing
auditions and stuff so mashallah I'm always pleasantly
surprised that the number of Muslims that come
out and really just show how talented they
are amazing amazing I look forward to the
next and now that I have a young
son coming up and I actually still have
a daughter that's of age to listen to
this song we're gonna start inshallah or get
her on to straight on to season two
inshallah and then get her addicted to this
thank you so much for coming on JazakAllah
Khair.
Thank you so much.
Wa alaikum.
Wa alaikum salam.
ladies and gentlemen that is a wrap for
today I know we didn't do Q&A
people always get annoyed when you don't do
Q&A but we have to we had
to do this and we we covered a
lot today everything was about the Prophet salallahu
alayhi wasalam today because there's nothing I'm telling
you that irks me more than this saying
anyone is exempt from believing in the Prophet.
Yahud are not exempt from believing in the
Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam.
Christians are not exempt and that's that was
basically what we covered today in a 55
slide PowerPoint presentation and then sound of seerah
so tomorrow let's see you at the same
time we're at 1.30 we'll be streaming
and that'll be our last one and then
we got Thursday off because in the United
States Thanksgiving we're probably gonna get see I'm
gonna go to somebody's house I'm always invited
different person's house and they're gonna have a
big screen and the kitchens are gonna be
going crazy I don't want to sit on
the screen and I want to watch the
annual decimation of the Dallas Cowboys and then
we're gonna watch Stephen a Smith dancing across
the screen because the poor old Dallas Cowboys
have to get decimated and demolished every single
year I don't get it what's going on
with Jerry Jones he needs to be gone
he could have had Bill Belichick he could
have had that running back what's his name
he could have had that running back with
the hair that ended up going to the
Ravens but no let's just do nothing and
keep getting decimate that poor stadium of theirs
right billion-dollar stadium only to lose and
lose again and lose again and even they
didn't even put the curtain one game and
the poor seedy lamb drops the ball and
he's like I couldn't see because you know
they have this weird thing that they have
the Sun comes up and sets right and
there's there are windows there and it hits
the end zone receivers can't catch the ball
quarterback can't throw the ball some people like
what what subject are we on here anyway
anyway Derek Henry could have been on the
team but no let's pass pass up on
him Bill Belichick no let's pass up on
him and let's keep losing and let's keep
watching it's got to come to an end
I mean I've I gotta do something on
the treadmill everyone should hit the treadmill all
right folks we gotta run does that come
along Karen subhanak Allah humma wabi Hamdik ash
hadu an la ilaha illa anta nastaghfiru quran
atubu ilayk wa al-asr inna al-insana
lafeeq was illa allatheena amanu wa aminu as
-salihat wa tawassu bil haqq wa tawassu bil
sabr wa as-salamu alaykum
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