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			While making peace be up to you. Thank you for tuning in to another episode of the D show, you have
testified you declared what's in your very nature, that there is only one God that I will not wish
it a man, a monkey, an elephant, an ant, a mouse, the sun, the moon, I'm not going to worship any of
these things. I'm not going to worship a man or a woman. I'm going to, I'm going to worship the
creator men and women, and I'm going to obey the messenger that was sent. I was living during the
time of Jesus, I would have followed his teachings. He was the way the truth and the light. If I was
living during the time of Moses, I would have followed his teachings. But the last and final message
		

			to mankind is the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him. You have testified to this. You've testified
to it. You've started to to get into establishing the proofs five times a day. And you're checking
into the fasting Ramadan is coming up. And all the other Pillars of Islam is very simple as
rational. There's some confusion, you're asking questions. There's some things you're studying, but
you're going to some of the masjid you're hanging around with some people who got the name tag
Muslim. But you seen that Hold on, I'm reading something I'm investigating for answers this the way
of the prophecies that were to get missed of homes back home culture, or is this Islam? All this and
		

			more. Next on the deen show. De Allah. Only one. Mohammed is His Messenger.
		

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			did that maybe it's maybe it's just a break the ice Salaam Alaikum. Peace be with you. walakum wa
salam Peace be with you, too. Thank you for being with us here today. It's a pleasure. Thanks for
having me. Thank you. And we're going to get straight in a topic because the time pretty soon we'll
be going to commercial break. Down is finished. That's right. So we're going to get straight down to
business. We want to follow the way, the way that has been set down by the Creator of the heavens
and earth. So do those sincere, humble people, I just want you to be able to show how many other of
the different people who had a messenger. And then they started to fall back home cultures, and
		

			things got all mixed up. And the people want to stray, we see it happening today, you have the kind
of verbatim Word of God. And you have the sooner the way the authentic teachings, the last and final
message. But man now it's become like a buffet. You got this person doing this from his back home
culture, that and there's some good food and good other things in culture. And there's no problem
there. So how do we differentiate? What is the correct way? And back home culture thing? Is that
just been created by men? Can you just briefly touch upon the history of how other generations when
they went away from the teachings of the prophets, things got out of control? And how we don't want
		

			that to happen to us today?
		

			Well, if you look in the history of how people, okay, from, from the point of view of the teaching
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			the original religion of human beings, was the worship of the one God, not the story that we have
been given through evolution, that human beings, you know, as they evolved, they were worshipping
all these different things that they were afraid of. And then, you know, as they evolve more, they,
you know, started worshipping fewer and fewer gods, and then they had a sky garden, and then
eventually they have this, you know, one God, and then eventually, you know, according to this
logic, when we evolved enough, we realized there is no God, you know, this is their, this is their
idea. But no, we believe, of course, that the first human being was Adam, that God created Adam, and
		

			from Adam, he created even from Adam and Eve, came many men and women, yes. And the original
religion of Adam, and the children of Adam, the descendants of Adam, was monotheism, the worship of
the one God, there was actually amongst the people of Noah, the prophet, Noah, his people were the
first people to worship idols. And they did that by it wasn't really a trick of the devil shaytaan.
You know, they had amongst them some pious people. Those pious people died, they became really,
really upset. And then they were exactly you know, they were just too much upset. And this is where
shaytan saw his opportunity. So he came to them and then he encouraged them to do something that
		

			Adam had never taught that had never been part of the religion. He said, Why don't you make statues?
And why don't you make pictures of these pious people and hang them in your home?
		

			Put them in your places of gathering. So when you see them, you will remember God more.
		

			So it was a new thing was an innovation in religion. It was not something that prophets had ever
taught. And it was a suggestion from the devil. But what is really interesting is that the devil
suggested something that seems to be good.
		

			What's wrong with remembering God move? You see, I see this pious person, I remember how good they
were. I remember how holy they are. They were I get encouraged, you know, to be a more pious person.
From the outside, it seems good. But of course, shaytan has a big plan. So now what happens that is
the devil there's a satanic forces that will no shake on himself. Does he have also his descendants,
though? He does, but you know, he's shaytan is a living individual being not a human being but a
jinn, which is like a spirit. Okay.
		

			So anyway, he, but he's waiting. And what happens after generations past, the people forgot why the
ancestors had made these statues.
		

			As that's what happens, oftentimes, people forgot. And then Shakedown came to them, the devil came
to them. And he said, You know why your ancestors made these statues, so that in your time of
distress, a need,
		

			you should go and ask these people, because they're pious people, God is not going to listen to you,
you're so full of sin. So you ask these pious people, and they will take your prayers to God, they
will be intercessors, between you and God. And this is how people started to worship idols. And this
is idolatry. This is why in Islam, worshipping saints, praying to prophets, you know, calling upon
them, thinking that they will take your prayers to God, as if you have an intermediate tree. And
this is all considered to be idolatry. But the guy says, Look, I mean, he says, this was a righteous
man, I myself, am not that righteous. All I'm doing is asking him because look, you can make do
		

			offer me that Okay, the first thing is that dead and dead people can't hear you. So calling upon a
dead person is like calling upon a brick, and brick, the dead can't hear you look for answers. In
knucklehead. They're too small, and you can't make the dead to hear. Right? If I always giving this
example. So meaning, you can't just as you can't make dead people here, you can't make a person who
doesn't want to know the truth. You can't make them follow it. But the point is that Allah is
showing the dead con you and an obstinate person who doesn't want to listen, you can't make them
listen. So the dead con here calling upon a dead person, right? And I mean, dead in the physical
		

			sense, okay, they may be spiritually alive, but they are dead, they are not in this world anymore.
You can't marry them. You can't do business with them. You can't trade with them. Right? You know,
so that you can't have a conversation with them. So it's cut off now. So yeah, and that's what it
means. bozek. And so that's why we don't believe in ghosts. There's no like souls of dead people
wandering around, though, that dead are in another dimension. Yes, their souls exist, that they
can't hear us. Okay, so calling upon a dead person. It doesn't matter how pious they are. Even the
Prophet Mohammed, Jesus, Moses doesn't matter who it is. If they you know, they are in that other
		

			the bottleneck, there is a barrier, that's a barrier, that dead can't hear the living. So calling
upon them is like calling upon a brick, because they can't hear you. So the issue is, is nothing to
do with how pious they are. It's just that calling upon dead people, if the pious person was sitting
right here, and I say, oh, at You're such a good holy man, can you ask God, that's fine, there's no
problem, you can ask a person who's living and right here, if you think they're righteous, so if
he's in Connecticut, or in Japan, where you can find them on the phone, but if you can just sit here
like there's no you know, because they put a big picture in front of you, and start to you know,
		

			talk to him or vision. And, of course, that's the same thing that's calling upon something that
can't he can't help you. Right? And the only one that we should call upon, like that is Allah is
God, the Creator, the only one that we should call upon like that is God because the only one who
can hear you wherever you are, even if you are an amped inside a rock on the deepest part of the
ocean.
		

			God can hear the call of that and so this is not Islam. This is some kind of culture paganism that's
crept dead that absolutely so this is I'm sorry that this is a really good example of how people
follow the way of their ancestors and following the way of their ancestors led them to commit the
worst crime a human being can ever make. And that is to make a partner or a rival or an associate
with God, to worship something when you should only worship God only worship God. We'll be right
back with more into detail.
		

			On the outside, everything looks good. You see the $100,000 cars you see a lot of diamonds you see a
lot of females and they think that this is you know,
		

			This is a lie. This is this is like no paradise right here or
		

			anyone's job to go into someone's heart and change their heart. Your job is to tell people what the
truth is. And the reality of it is while we're sitting here while I'm sitting here constantly paying
for the disease to kill was free.
		

			I am not afraid.
		

			I am not afraid.
		

			I'm not afraid.
		

			I am not afraid.
		

			I am not afraid.
		

			I'm not afraid.
		

			We are back here on the deen show. You gave a beautiful example this is in the Quran, the verbatim
Word of God. This example the the the story of Noah is in the Quran. But this, the how the people
actually came to worship idols is not in the court. And it was mentioned by Abdullah Ibn Abbas, who
was the cousin of the Prophet and he was very well known for his explaining the Quran. So obviously,
he heard this from the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa. So this is, this is a beautiful
example how when you deviate a little bit from the game plan, the blueprint, you go astray. Yeah.
And then you see the thing that people then the people think this is religion. Yeah. They think that
		

			this is the religion. And the same thing was the case in the time of the Prophet Muhammad, you know,
and in fact, if you read the Quran, you'll find all the prophets, Jesus faced the same thing. You
know, there's a famous, well, there's how famous It is these days, but there's, you know, there's a
story in the Gospels. Yeah. Tell us what the story, one of the stories in the gospels
		

			that is mentioned is about, you know, how those people, those, those Pharisees and those rabbis,
they had taken, they had made things up, basically. And they gave those things, the weight, that
should only be given to the laws of God. So they they that the man made ideas that they had the man
made concepts that they had,
		

			they actually really gave them that authority as if those things were from God, right. So you find
that this is something the all the prophets are experiencing, they're coming to tell people, this is
not the religion, this is not what God told you to do. God never commanded you to do this. But those
people have supplanted the true religion that was bought with the messengers, for the old man made
cultures and customs. That maybe that sometimes is, you see, when it comes to when it comes to the
religion of Islam. Islam has a built in flexibility that allows it to really be practiced just about
anywhere. And so sometimes we do take into account the culture of people, let me give you an
		

			example, right?
		

			In some societies, right? Just a simple thing. What if I undid my buttons, right? Hold down the way
down to my chest, under my buttons, show my chest, right. And some societies and some cultures, they
would look down on that and say, well, that's how bad people, you know, gangsters. They dress like
that, you know, their shirts open.
		

			Right? Okay, whatever, right? So the point is being here is that a Muslim should not look like a
gangster or a bad person, right? You should try and look respectable. But sometimes what is
respectable?
		

			is different from society to society, even though the Prophet Muhammad himself used to keep his
buttons open. Yeah, right. But then no one considered that to be something disrespectful in that
society. So you see, some of those things may change from culture, to culture, certain situation to
situation. And these are not things that Islam has ordered this or ordered that right. Rather, Islam
has ordered us to be good. It's all of us to be of the best character of the best type of behavior.
We can have many examples. Muslims are famous ever for being late.
		

			You want to organize a dinner, you want to organize a talk, you tell everyone will start at seven
o'clock, no one turns up till eight o'clock and they don't think you're going to start at 830.
Whereas in the West, if you tell people come at eight, you expecting people there to be eight, maybe
five past eight, maybe 15. Past at the latest, you don't expect people to turn up an hour and a half
late It's considered really bad manners. So these things change from culture to culture. Now the
problem is a lot of Muslims. They have adopted habits and customs and practices that are from their
culture
		

			which may be perfectly
		

			acceptable where they come from. But that doesn't mean that that's acceptable way to behave in the
West. Some of those practices may be necessary, for whatever reasons, I don't know, maybe there's
scarcity of food scarcity of whatever, I don't know, the different circumstances, they may even have
practices that are necessary and beneficial in the land they came from. But they have no importance
and relevance in, you know, in the western context. Now, the problem is, Muslims come from different
countries to live in the West, and they bring their culture with them. And they think that this
package, they have Islam, because Islam is such a deep part of their culture, it's so deep in their
		

			culture, they think that what they do is Islam, but it's not always the case. I give you an example.
The best example I think, is of arranged marriages, like forced marriages, forced marriages, and
arranged marriages. Now, for now, even in some cultures, they have forced marriages, where literally
a woman, even a man, it's not just a woman, the man and the woman are literally just married that
sometimes they don't even know that they're married. They just that's it. That's your husband,
that's your wife, they have no choice. They have no say. Now, actually, from the point of view of
Islamic law, this is not even considered to be valid. It's not valid, because part of a marriage
		

			being considered to be valid in Islamic law, is that the two people who are getting married agree to
it. So this is again, culture has nothing to do. It has nothing to do. Is it safe to say that Islam
didn't come to eradicate all different customs of culture? Most of the things that are bad, exactly,
it kept the good, kept the gross the good things, if there's a good thing in a culture, like being
polite, or like being on time or like being clean, will say, give that up. Okay, but walking in the
street with a thong. That's in that's your culture, everybody's doing it?
		

			No, because obviously, you know, that all I understand what the thing is. So that's called just just
an extreme, extreme example. Or you're walking around in bathing suits. No, in this town, of course,
Islam has some limits, right. So what a person can do and can't do has to fit the limits of the
Divine legislation. Yeah, God has given us a type of, you know, a type of limit that we should
follow in terms of women's dress and men's dress, right interaction between the sexes, right? There
are some limits, these limits have been laid down by Allah. And you should follow those limits, but
within those limits, right, you have flexibility. So it's dress, but as long as as modest
		

			executives, okay, say, for example, a woman's dress, a woman's dress, she should, she should cover
everything except her face in her hands. And people should recognize her as a Muslim. But as long as
you fulfill those conditions, and the clothes are loose, it doesn't mean you have to wear the burqa,
like in Saudi Arabia or in Afghanistan, even if you look at the crystal, the women in Afghanistan,
it's different. The veil is different in Afghanistan, than it is from Saudi Arabia. So now the
culture if it's a different little style patterns, in that that's the culture that depends, you look
in Nigeria, for example, okay, and they were very colorful, very bright clothes, because really
		

			probably in different cultures, you will find that that is not considered to be, you know, like
enticing whereas maybe in Saudi Arabia would be so these things are going to be you know, are going
to change from time to time and place to place. But the basic rule is, when a woman is out in Islam,
she should only show her face in her hands, if she wants to cover a face, that's good. She can do
that if she wants. Now, you gave an example. forced marriages, arranged marriages is different. I
want to introduce you, your son to my daughter and see if they like each other under supervision,
arranged marriages are a normal again, it's part of the culture in Muslim countries that follow the
		

			religion. The sexes tend to be quite segregated. You know, they don't really mix, they'll go mix
school, they don't mix it University, they know that limited mixing in the workplace, even in the
market places, you know, so the segregation is perfect for promiscuity. Okay, there's reasons for
we'll won't go into that. But the point is, is that and there are good reasons for it. Yeah. But
that is the sort of normal pattern, you know, so how does the boy meet to go? The only way
ultimately, you meet and get married is through family and through friends, because practically
that's the only way to do it. Does that mean if a Muslim girl in Canada, for example, or in the
		

			States, yeah. Goes to university and a Muslim boy, and they meet each other? And you know, they talk
and they get to like each other. You know, is that necessarily, you know, does that mean that this
marriage is not allowed because it wasn't arranged. No, people can meet each other, they can like
each other. But obviously, they need to follow the limits of Islam, which means the goal of the
sheet the man should go and seek permission to marry this girl from her father, normally her father,
but whoever her guardian is, and she should get his permission and the marriage should be done.
According
		

			According to the rules in Islam, okay, so they should agree they should be witnesses, the father
should witness. Okay, so as long as those things are there, and as long as they're meeting and
talking with each other is not leading them to, you know, things that are forbidden in Islam, then
Okay, that's a different culture, we live in a different culture in the West. So we explained that
and then forced marriage is forcing a woman to marry someone, or a man or woman. So only women get
forced No, man, give me two small examples. The man before we go to break, we want to hit this
point. Now sometimes they say the Muslim they see the Muslim man up front and the woman's 20 feet
		

			behind him. And they say what is this? Simply explain it in Muslim countries. Not all of them. But
in some cultures, the man walks ahead, because there are other men walking, when they come they
greet each other, right? And so the wife stays behind, because it's nothing to do with her whether
this man is meeting that man, right? So he just stands in front, from the point of view of this is
what anyway, this is what my wife explained to me. Yeah, right. You know, but if you if you but you
don't find that, for example, in the time of the Prophet, the prophet SAW, Lawson would walk with
his wives even sometimes reported, they would hold each other's hands, you know, these type of
		

			things. So you might be amazed when you go back to reading the actual life of the Prophet and what
happened in that time, that some things that Muslims in certain cultural contexts, you know, they
don't practice those things. I give you another example. You know, for example, in, in Pakistani
culture, some Pakistani culture, you know, the idea of a man and woman seeing each other naked is
even a husband and wife, even a husband and wife, in something don't even see each other naked, it's
like, but the Prophet Mohammed and Ayesha used to take showers together, they used to take, you
know, they used to wash together, yeah, right. And they even used to fight with each other to take
		

			the water again, rather perfect example, culture,
		

			and Islam. So separate this, come to the so but that's fine. If that's your culture, you don't, I'm
not gonna say, you know, you can't have that type of behavior. But don't tell everyone that this is
Islam. And don't make everyone think that this is the right way to behave. Because your culture is
not the criterion, the behavior of the Prophet Mohammed and his companions. That is the criteria,
not your culture. Let's take a break. We'll be right back with more on the dijo I Salone, Dios,
otherwise solo, you know,
		

			go to my room, lock the door prostrate and cry, thank God, you know me better than myself, show me
the right way. And I will, I will leave everything behind
		

			everything.
		

			So,
		

			back here on the D show, giving you some examples of culture, and Islam. Now there are just one more
one more female, mutilation. female genital mutilation is a ancient practice from the times of
Pharaohs. And actually, it's something forbidden by the prophet Mohammed, they did use the practice
circumcision of both men and women in the time of the Prophet. But it was for the women a very
small, a very just a small cut in the cutters, right. That's all it was allowed. The Prophet did not
allow, you know, what is known as mutilation, female genital mutilation, right. And that is
something that Prophet himself warned against. Now, some Muslim countries practice that. But this is
		

			something an example of a culture that actually really goes against the teachings of Islam. So this
is another example of things that often Muslim, some Muslims think that this is the religion, it's
not the religion, it's got nothing to do with the religion. And so how can we give us the formula
that now there are some things that are acceptable with culture, we talked about some, okay, some
foods that I mentioned, and other things that are good. But there are some things now that conflict
with acts of worship, the simple formula is to know what the Quran says, to know what the prophet
Muhammad said, and to know what his companions were upon. Once you understand that, once you have
		

			that knowledge, then you'll begin to fit into the framework, and to see what is really culture? And
really what is really the religion and what are the bounds and the boundaries between the two. So it
does mean that you need to excuse me, you need to know you need to understand you need to study the
source texts of the religion that's the end the summer, according to the understanding of the Do we
need a basis do we ask questions say what's the proof the evidence? Exactly, because this is what's
important, right you Islam is not based upon Oh, such and such. So I saw someone doing this, oh, I
saw some Muslims doing that. I saw some, I suppose some Muslims doing whatever you can find Muslims
		

			drinking. It's very clear from the Quran that drinking is hot. All right. You find Muslims
committing acts of terrorism, but you find it very clear from the teachings of Prophet
		

			Mohammed that terrorism is something that is not allowed in the religion of Islam. So what Muslims
do is not a proof. Proof is what God says and what the prophet says. So what the verbatim Word of
God says the Quran, what the last of fundamentalist said the main kind of Prophet Muhammad peace be
upon him and the companions, the best of generations, how they understood it, that's fine. Now that
is the criteria. And with that said, we're coming to an end, last closing and comments and
suggestions and where people can also get ahold of you if they need to. You can find out more about
our organization www.irs.co. UK, and you can contact me through that website there. Thank you very
		

			much again for being with us. Thanks, Eddie. It's a pleasure.
		

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			I am not afraid.
		

			I'm not afraid.
		

			I'm not afraid.
		

			I'm not afraid.
		

			I'm not afraid.