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The Dean Center is hosting an upcoming mass media event where leaders and guests discuss the importance of educating and highlighting the truth of Islam to avoid confusion and evil behavior. The segment also touches on a man who became the first century-athlete at the Deen Center and discusses the importance of learning about Islam in gaining confidence in the community. The segment also touches on the history of the Bible and its origin, as well as the importance of providing evidence to support the scientific community. Finally, the segment emphasizes the importance of devoting money and sadaqa to support the center.AI Generated Transcript ©
Allah made it that, you know, because of
the situation, he came himself
to the Deen Center.
Life of a traveler,
experiences from different lands,
conversations with a brother.
Look at what Allah planned.
Now you have the miracle
that's mentioned in the Quran, the splitting of
the moon.
Good. I love you very much. I love
all the work that you're doing. When I
was ready to talk about this, I would
only talk to guests.
It's long overdue.
Alai, it's a pleasure. This has been a
dream. I remember sitting with you in Chicago
and talking about the Dean Center and,
how someday, inshallah, we're gonna work on it,
and now it's happening. I wanna tell you
a story.
But first, I wanna talk start off with
our first shahada. We just had it together
here yesterday.
And we didn't just have an average person
Most of you out there know our brother
Habib.
Now before Habib, there was hoist Gracie, because
if there wasn't a Joyce Gracie there wouldn't
be no UFC. What's the moral of the
story? That if we could have people like
Joyce Gracie, the legendary Bruce Lee of our
time, come and visit the Dean Center and
not only visit but take his Shahada,
imagine all of the other people who know
0 to nothing about Islam, who are able
to come in and learn, and inshaAllah go
from being Abu Jahuls to potentially Abu Talibs,
or even like Royce Gracie
accepting
Islam. And that's where you guys come in.
Help us to reach our goals so we
can go ahead and make this a reality
to get up open and running. Don't eat
right now and help us to reach our
goal.
And for those people that don't know, you
knew anybody who's into the martial arts,
they know Bruce Lee. Right? Of course. But
But Bruce Lee was fiction. We got the
real one. Yeah. So now we have, someone
who
hit the scene, the family, the Gracie family,
then you had hoist Gracie. How many have
heard of hoist Gracie?
Yeah.
So how many knew that we had him
here yesterday?
Anybody? Oh.
I did. So
so we had our first shahada. So he
came down. He came to visit the Dean
Center. We gave him a tour. He sat
with us. We started talking,
and it was very unique. And I I
want people to to understand that anybody who
had a part
in contributing, helping,
do they
get a part of that reward for an
individual accepting Islam, like hoisted?
Of course.
First thing,
this is a blessing from Allah
that the center is just opening right now.
We haven't even had any events for non
Muslims yet, and already we've had a person
accept Islam.
And not just,
anybody, but somebody who is definitely gonna be
a means of a lot of other people
learning about Islam.
And everybody who contributes towards
the will get the full from it. This
is the beautiful thing about Islam. This is
how merciful Allah is. This is how generous
in Tabuk. He said, There are people back
in Madinah
that they are not crossing these valleys. They
are not going through these hardships. They are
not going but they are getting the full
reward because of their niya, because their intention
and their support.
So when somebody supports the dua
with their intention for the sake of Allah,
Allah gives them the full reward.
So there may be a sister sitting somewhere
at home who saw the need for the
dawah, and she donated
with her intention to be a part of
the dawah.
And that shahadah we just had, she will
get the full reward for it, as will
you, as will everybody else, and that is
the generosity of
Allah. What do you think overall? And I
I like the direction how it went. We
were
deprogramming,
educating,
initiating,
and it just seemed like at the end,
he was talking about,
because he had
what many people have
of the programming with the mass media, what
was going on, because that's how we ended
up connecting with what was going on in
Palestine,
free Palestine, Palestine.
And he was
having one perspective, but he got to sit
with the Muslims, and it seemed like a
lot of stuff. He didn't even know the
difference between Zionism and Judaism. Right? Yeah. It's
very interesting. We're getting a lot of comments
also. What about his post that he had
in in early Feb? He had posted something
about supporting Israel and so on. But again,
people don't realize that instead of just getting
upset, we need to educate. Educate. Yes. And
many things our brother,
didn't know about. So alhamdulillah, we had that
conversation with him. It's on the Deen Show
channel so people can watch the entire episode.
And we clarified a lot of issues about
what happened before
October 7th, what what is the history,
and what is the cruelties that are currently
going on, and so on. And he was
very receptive, and he was open to changing
his views about that. But subhanAllah, Allah made
it a means of hidayah,
where from that came the conversation of what
he believes.
Yes. And in his heart, as you can
hear himself,
hear him say himself,
he had a monotheistic belief.
And alhamdulillah, we went over that, and then
we, you know, switched off the topic and
came back to it. And he continuously said
that he believes in one God. He believes
in none none should be worshipped. He didn't
believe Jesus was God. He didn't believe Jesus
should be worshipped, he believed Jesus was a
messenger, and he believed the prophet Muhammad was
a messenger. He wanted to go for Makkah.
So,
it ended up with him accepting Islam, you
know, on the show, and
we sat with him afterwards, we had lunch
with him, we explained,
and Insha'Allah you'll see Royce Gracie in Mecca
soon. Insha'Allah.
Look, and that was one of the things
he kept saying, how do I get there?
He was he was asking, how do I
go to Mecca?
We said that's the easiest visa.
So you do believe there's only one god?
Yes. Right? You have no problem testifying to
that? Yes. And you believe that Abraham, Moses,
Jesus, Muhammad were all messengers of god? Yes.
You don't worship any of them. Right?
It's amazing. We're gonna say it in English.
Alright? I bear witness. There is none worthy
of worship. Then the word worship. Except
one Allah. Except one Allah. And I bear
witness. And I bear witness. That Muhammad. That
Muhammad. Is a messenger of Allah. It's a
messenger of Allah. Allahu Akbar. Muslim. That's it.
We're going to Mecca.
And then we explained it. He gave the
little fist bump, said that we're going to
Mecca.
You know what? Again, Allah guides whom He
wills, and we just hope that Allah makes
us a means of that guidance. And that's
what the Deen Centre is all about.
And Allah made it that, you know, because
of the situation, he came himself to the
Deen Center and became the first shahada
here at the Deen Center. And
I and I think,
I I wanna
and I get this a lot. You tell
me if you experienced this also. And and
this was, it was me and brother,
Timur and
my son Hamza, and I was taking them
out to get something to eat.
And very interesting story, I started to the
car started swerving, you know, more towards one
side, and I heard some noise.
And then Taimur jumped out and said, hey.
You got a flat tire. So we pushed
on, and we hit the, juice place.
And then,
as we changing the tire,
look,
put this
the tire under the car, put the jack
a little bit wrong, and then the car
fell. I don't know. So it fell on
the tire. And then the brother came this
is,
Ryan. He came. I didn't know his name
at that time, and he came out of
nowhere.
And he started,
where's Timor?
Timor.
He came out of nowhere. Right?
Yeah. Yeah. He just came out of nowhere,
and he said, hey. What's going on? What
you guys doing
there? And and he started getting underneath, started
helping, putting the jack he saw that happen
to me before. You gotta put the jack
like this, blah blah blah. And then, at
the end, the point of the story is
that I asked him I said, what do
you know about Islam? After we talked about
this, that, and the other, we gave him
some dawah. We explained what Islam is and
what it isn't. And then I asked him,
what do you know about Islam? Have you
learned anything about Islam over these years? And
he said this, now this is
the the important point.
He said,
I have not heard anything about Islam
except
what I heard after the Twin Towers, which
is obviously, this has nothing to do with
Islam. Wow. Building 6. You know? You ever
heard of building 6?
Anyone know building 6?
When I say 7?
Okay. Anyways, when I mentioned this, I always
mention this building. That just nothing hit it.
It just came down by itself. Anyways,
so nothing to do with Islam, but the
point the moral of the story is
he's one of the 300,000,000
Americans.
He's not even in neutral. He's in the
negative. Yeah.
Because he was like,
this is the only thing I I I
heard about Islam. Do you get the same
thing? Yeah. We We get this a lot.
SubhanAllah.
We have a brother in San Diego. I
tell the story.
He didn't know anything about Islam.
In fact,
we saw him at a masjid one time,
and he was praying, and he was making
a lot of mistakes.
So I told one of the brothers, like,
you know, maybe some new Muslims talk to
him, see what's going on.
And we started speaking to him, and subhanAllah,
he said I'm Muslim, but he didn't even
know the Shahadah.
So we tried to ask him, how did
you know about Islam? He said, from Fox
News.
Mhmm.
So what had happened is, you know, he
was in a gang neighborhood, like a rough
neighborhood, and
he was sitting one time and he saw
a TV and he saw Fox News was
playing on it outside his house, somewhere at
a restaurant or somewhere,
and he saw a lot of negative negative
information about Islam, you know, lies that they
were spreading. But to him, he was like,
man, that's gangsta.
That is some gangsta thug stuff. You know?
Like, weird gangsters, but those guys, oh, man.
I gotta join that gang.
So
it sparked his curiosity, and he went, and
then he got a Quran, and he started
reading it, and he realized that that's nothing
to do with Islam. The lies that are
being told are not what Islam is about.
And he just went online. He didn't know
any Muslims, and he accepted Islam in his
heart, and he was trying to learn how
to pray from videos, and then he just
came to a masjid, and we ran into
him. So a lot of people, they have
misconceptions, but Allah
sometimes makes a way for them to find
out about Islam. Like your car breaking down
or your tire, this was a way. Allah
made the Saba. Our brother, Horace Gracie, you
know,
He Allah
made a way for him through this situation
in Gaza
and his ignorance of what's going on. And
then from educating him, Allah made a way
of guiding him towards the truth. And we're
seeing a lot of that right now in
San Diego. A lot of people that we
see at the parks, they come and tell
us, I had no interest in Islam. But
I started watching the faith of the people
of Gaza. How they're strong even when they're
being bombed, even when they have nothing. They're
turning to Allah. They're praying.
Because of that, I wanna learn about Islam.
And you can see the videos on the
One Message Foundation channel. You'll see many of
those people end up accepting Islam
just from watching this on TV.
So if we don't get out if you
have the Ryans and this individual
and where they're getting their information from the
Fox News and the confusion, the lies, the
$1,000,000,000 I don't call it the $1,000,000,000. It's
a $1,000,000,000 industry,
this Islam base
bashing, this,
these hate provocateurs that are out there. If
we don't get out there and deliver this
message, who will?
So that's the thing. Allah
has put this responsibility upon us as a
ummah to be the representatives
of the messengers. We're here to bring this
message of Islam, and if we don't, we
will be questioned about it on the day
of judgement. You know, everybody complains about the
media, everybody complains about not having the the
ability to give the narrative of Islam,
but Allah has opened up that path, And
may Allah bless you. And the Deen show
you were from the people who were the
forerunners
in using the social media to bring the
true message of Islam.
Now we have this opportunity.
We have this ability that we tell our
own story. We make our own narrative. We
tell the truth. We show the real Islam.
And if we don't take advantage of that,
we'll be held accountable on the day of
judgement. When our neighbors and our coworkers were
misinformed,
why didn't we take the opportunity to inform
them?
You know, for many
for many of us when we were going
to school as little kids,
we were taken to Holocaust museums and places
where we had to walk around and learn
about these things. And, you know, and and
I used to wonder, you know, when the
battle when the war in Bosnia was going
on and the genocide there was going on,
that when would Muslims have that opportunity?
And then I realized that we have to
make those ourselves.
Here inshallah in the Deen Center, in the
Dawah section, when we're not going to have
a place where people can walk off the
street and come see exhibitions about Islam, and
hear about speakers
speak to know about Islam, and any time
walk in and learn about Islam. This is
us
narrating our own story in the future of
America.
And it's very I mean, when when you
get to know your dean and you
are on that
pure monotheism and you compare it, you see
what's out there. You studied your student also
comparative religion myself. You look at everything out
there. You you have naturally this confidence that
comes
because and that was, very interesting. You see
Royce's son also. He's asking questions. And, you
know, if you if someone's asking you questions
and you're talking about,
UFOs and Martians and all this weird stuff,
I mean, that doesn't go with the fitra,
does it? But Islam goes with the fitra.
So you gain that confidence now, and then
people are intrigued. Like, hoist, you're talking to
him, and he's just sitting there listening. Yeah.
Naturally, if you start talking God is a
man, there's the things that don't make sense,
he's got the courage to step up and
start to question. Right? Of course. But everything
made sense. Alhamdulillah.
You know, it was as if everything was
already in place. Allah just made us that
means for that final step of the shahada.
Yeah. And we see that a lot. A
lot of people,
if you ask them, what do you believe
about God?
Unless they've been programmed otherwise, they will tell
you, you know, He's the creator, He's above,
He's the one that created us, He's the
one that guides us, He's the one that
feeds us, I pray to Him. Hardly anybody
will be like, it's a blue guy.
Or or you see that cow over there
that we're gonna make steaks out of later?
That's God. You know, like like, unless somebody
tries to really brainwash you with that kind
of stuff, nobody believes that. Right?
Recently I was in Dubai, and Kuwait, and
Qatar.
Had an amazing trip.
And we had a debate with
a Christian
Pastor
Bible Scholar PhD.
You know, and it's very important because we
get a lot of people that are like,
oh, you know, you're debating people on the
streets, whatever, but they're not knowledgeable. Well, this
guy has a PhD.
He was sent by a church
to and his PhD is in using the
Bible to spread the church, to increase their
their following.
So he was somebody who formally studied
doctorate
in
using of the Bible for their dawah,
and he was in Dubai,
officially as a preacher,
there to spread Christianity. And he has a
church, a congregation, 4,000 followers, all of that
stuff. And we had to sit down and
debate with him. And it's on it's on
our channel. You can see the video. It's
in 2 parts.
And
none of his belief made sense
to the point that even as a Bible
scholar, he ended up saying, well, it's a
mystery.
It's a mystery. I can't explain it. It's
a mystery, you know. But the Islamic
the Islamic belief is so pure, it's so
simple, it's such
fitra, such
a natural state that a person would be
on, that it's very easy to explain. 1
Creator,
uncreated, always been there, always will be there,
created us, gave us purpose to recognize Him
and to worship Him, and this life is
a stage in the stages of the human
experience. We were souls,
then we were we transitioned from Adam and
Arwah, from the place where we had no
body, we were just souls, to being in
the womb of the mother. That was one
life, which we can see
is very different from this worldly life. Right?
You you you don't eat with your mouth,
you don't go to a job, you don't
meet people, you don't go to school, you
are fed through a tube that's connected to
your belly,
nobody is around you. 9 months about is
that life.
And then you die from that life, and
you come into the belly of this earth.
Totally different existence. Whether you're going to live
one day or a 100 years, it's going
to be totally different. The way you interact
with people, the way you live, the way
you look, you speak, you have teeth, you
eat, you work,
and these
this stage will die. It's only a stage.
You will die from this life, and you
will go into the belly of the grave,
the barzakh.
And now the rules will change. You're not
going to eat the way you eat here.
Allah will sustain you. You have a life
in Barzakh, but not in this worldly life.
And then you will die from that life
into the hereafter. You'll be recreated,
raised on the Day of Judgment, brand new
body, you know, from the from the bottom
of the tailbone that will be left a
little bit, you know, is left, then you
will be recreated.
Now imagine when the Sahaba were hearing about
this, they couldn't have imagined this. But today
with DNA and cloning, we can understand how
that works. And Allah is on all of
that.
This judgment that comes after that is is
human,
any basic
fitra that we would agree, that nobody gets
away with anything. If you're a rapist, murderer,
you're not going to get away with it.
You're gonna be held accountable for your deeds.
And then you will either be punished or
you will be rewarded for how you lived.
Now when you take that belief, it's so
simple.
It makes perfect sense. It's justice. Allah is
merciful. He can forgive your sins. Wonderful.
But if you take that aside and say,
no. No. So you got a rapist, murderer,
robbing people,
held accountable because he just believes in Jesus.
And then somebody else, some Hindu girl somewhere
is living a good life,
but she's gonna go to hell because she
she didn't believe in Jesus. You know, like
like, it doesn't there's no accountability. Right? So
it doesn't really make sense. And that's why
when you start speaking to
even preachers and pastors,
they start falling apart. That belief doesn't make
sense. How can
that
a man who sleeps and eats and goes
to the bathroom and so on be fully
God?
When I asked the pastor, like, was Jesus
fully God? He said, yes. I said, oh,
do you know everything? Yes. Did you know
the hour? No.
How could he know and not know? It
doesn't make sense. But Islam, Alhamdulillah, Allah knows
everything.
Other than Allah, nobody knows everything. Even the
prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam didn't know
everything. When he was asked about the day
of judgement, he said, I don't know. You
know, when Jibreel alaihi salam asked him in
the hadith, he says, the questioner doesn't know
any more than one being questioned. Meaning, Jibreel
alaihi salam doesn't know, and the prophet sallallahu
alayhi salaam doesn't know. When is the day
of judgement? Only Allah knows. Allah is all
knowing.
But none of the creation, none of the
prophets are all knowing.
That belief is so simple and so beautiful,
that's why you see Islam spreading. And alhamdulillah,
Islam is spreading
in every state of America, in every country
from South America around the world. You see
Islam as the fastest growing religion through conversion,
not just birth rates as some people try
to say. The Pew Institute, if you look
at the
the the stats that have been put forward,
according to conversion, Islam is the fastest growing
religion,
even though we have some of the least
missionary work.
If you look at the Mormons, if you
look at the JW's, if you look at,
you know, the Catholic ministries,
the amount of money and resources and 1,000,000,000
of dollars that are being put into
spreading Christianity,
we don't even match anywhere close to it.
As Muslims, we don't even have any kind
of
governmental, international
organization
like, for example, the Mormons have and the
Jehovah Witnesses for spreading the religion. Me and
you are individuals, you know. I don't know
if you get a check from any government
because I don't, you know. Right?
If anybody does, I'm open, but I'm just
kidding. I'm just kidding. Right? But just as
individuals, just as Muslims, regularly we've come together
and look at how the deen is spreading.
Truly ama I like this point that you
said. It's not because you'll see some people
out there that say it's because of birth
rates, but this is Oh, no. No. False.
This is this is I mean if you
look at statistics Yeah. This is important. Numbers,
the
conversion rates of people becoming Muslim
is the fastest growing religion in the world.
Yes, alhamdulillah, Muslims have children, and we have,
by the will of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
the Muslim Ummah is growing that way as
well, but that's not what we're talking about.
We are talking about people that are choosing
to be Muslim, and you see it right
now. You see it from brothers like Andrew
Tate, brothers like Sneeko, brothers, you know, football
players, basketball players, boxers,
and our brother Horace Gracie too. I mean,
yesterday,
you see people
that come from a background that had nothing
to do with Islam, coming and becoming Muslim.
Alhamdulillah.
And these are people that you see, but
on on our videos you can see, Alhamdulillah,
we've had 1,000. In fact, in the last
2 years, we're estimating around 3,500
people that we know of from OMF that
have become Muslim. Right? These are people that
came from non Muslim backgrounds that are accepting
Islam. And that's just us. And there are
many du'a'a out there in the world doing
a lot more than us. I think this
conversation that you had with the, PhD, the
Christian, that was a very respectful conversation. Very.
He was very polite, cordial,
but
the obvious things that you were bringing up,
he couldn't answer. You brought up the was
it the king? Was he 42, 22? Sure.
Straight contradiction, clear, numerical. You couldn't run from
that. And then it seems like they get
into stories now. They explain try to explain
Preacher mode. Preacher.
Yeah. So this gives you how does this
how do you relate to now this with
with the Quran now? Because we don't have
this issue now, but some people go ahead
and try to throw some things out there,
break your confidence.
The Quran,
we thank Allah, we praise
Allah, is is totally
any
at a different level. Mhmm. The first thing
is, most of the Bible as we see
it today is not even attributed to be
the words of God.
Meaning, I have a red line Bible. I'm
sure you do as well. So which shows
you what is attributed to the words of
being of Jesus, peace and blessings be upon
him, and they make it in red. Mhmm.
And hardly any of the New Testament. I
mean, the Old Testament obviously, no. There's it's
before the time of Jesus, peace be upon
him. But the new testament is not even
attributed to being the words of Jesus. Most
of it is not. Right? So the words
of Paul or the words of anonymous authors,
they're not even the words of God. God
himself is very seldom speaking in the Old
Testament or the New Testament. Right? There are
verses that are attributed to him.
So
the Quran on on the opposite of that
is 100%
the words of Allah.
In the Quran, nowhere is it the Prophet
Muhammad
addressing us.
Even when the Prophet is told to say
something, it is
say, O Prophet.
Say this is my way.
He's being told what to say. So the
words of the Quran are 100% Allah's words.
Alright. So that's the first unique thing that
you can find about the Quran, that it's
not a man's narrative.
One of the things I asked that PhD,
Bible scholar, and any pastor
is,
was there a bible
in the time of Jesus, the way you
have it today?
And his answer was no.
Meaning a lot of those accounts even according
to Christians weren't even written
in the lifetime of Jesus. I mean in
the time of the prophet Muhammad salallahu alaihi
wa sallam, the whole Quran was there.
The prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam recited the entire
Quran to the Sahaba.
Many of the Sahaba, and and I've documented
I think 32 in one of the videos
where I can give references
historic to each one of them having memorized
and knowing their names.
Many of the felt there was more than
a 1000 of the sahaba that memorized the
Quran. But we can give you
names.
So many that we can show that they
memorize the entire Quran word by word, letter
by letter from the Prophet salallahu
alayhi wa sallam himself.
And in the last year of his life,
he recited the whole Quran with Jibreel alaihi
wa sallam twice in Ramadan and to the
Sahaba. So this is one thing very unique,
we had the whole Quran
in the lifetime of the Prophet
If you look at the Christian traditions of
the Bible today, the New Testament,
much of it, even according to them, wasn't
even written. I mean, Paul, for example, never
met Jesus. Maybe he saw a vision, I
don't know, maybe it was I don't know
what he was smoking or whatever. But
right? But
even if you look at a chronological historic
view, he never met Jesus. So all of
the writings of Paul that are in the
New Testament
could not have been there in the time
of Jesus, peace be upon him, on this
earth. Right?
And then if you look at the actual
authorship of many of the books like John,
Matthew, Luke, and so on,
Those were definitely manuscripts that were written in
Koneg Greek way later on. Right? So whether
you take the earliest
little scrap that looks like a credit card
size that being 70 years after the time
of Jesus, peace be upon him, AD, or
you took look at Codex Sinaiticus, the first
semi complete manuscript
that's going to be 4th century.
Again, none of that is going to be
so so Jesus, peace be upon him, according
to them even, he would have never read
this.
So all of this is kind of developed
later. And that's why you have Catholic Bibles
that have different chapters and books. And this
is something I brought up with the with
the with the preacher, and he had to
admit
that according to him as a as a
Protestant Christian,
those books are not divinely
inspired.
And according to Catholics, they are just as
divine as the others. So which one is
it?
For us as Muslims, we have, alhamdulillah, so
many brothers here.
How many of you have ever seen raise
your hand if you've ever seen a Quran
that is not a 114 chapters.
No hands. No hands.
How many of you ever seen a Quran
that's not 30 Jews?
Or a Quran that doesn't begin with
or that doesn't end with Surat Nas.
No. Alhamdulillah,
you're from different countries and different backgrounds, and
you might recite different qira'at, like a brother
reciting warsh and nafiyah today. Right?
But every Quran
is 30 Jews. Every Quran is a 114
chapters.
Every Quran begins with and
with Surah An Nas has the exact same
word in the same.
This is the
miracle of the preservation of the Quran that
is unmatched.
That nobody can deny.
Even, you know, there's a Bible scholar,
doctor Bart Ehrman, and I've mentioned him many
times.
And he he he's somebody who was a
very practicing evangelical Christian professor,
PhD in the Bible,
and then he became agnostic,
atheist, because of whatever he saw in the
mistakes of Christianity, and so on, Allah guide
him. He's not a Muslim, so I'm not
quoting a Muslim source
here. But he he clearly says that that
this Bible was and he's written 5 or
6 New York bestseller books and so on,
that he shows that this Bible was not
the words that Jesus taught to his followers,
that it has been changed. He's got a
book called Forged, and how the Bible was
forged,
you know, changing
making
Jesus into God, how the original Christians did
not consider Jesus to be God, and so
on. Right?
And he was asked and I have this
in some of our videos. We put that
clip. He was asked, what about the Quran?
And he says, from what I know, the
Quran has been very faithfully preserved,
unlike the bible. And this is an atheist
agnostic
professor.
So
the first thing is the Quran is the
words of Allah. It's not the words of
Paul, or the words of John, or anybody
else. Moe, Larry, anybody else like that. Right?
And it is
preserved.
So being the words of God and being
preserved, this by itself is enough to know
this is the truth.
I I don't know if you know the,
research that was done to substantiate this point
where they put the hadith, the words of
Prophet Muhammad salallahu alayhi wa sallam, and the
words of the Quran.
And they did by
this test, this study that they did, that
they were able to this is non Muslims.
I don't know if you know about this,
That they determined that no, no, these 2
are distinct. They're different. Of course. You know,
when you study the Quran, from the uloom
of Quran,
you see Nazim and the style of writing
of the Quran.
And if you look at
the Asar jahaliyah, the you know, there's a
book called Alfiya Abdemalik. Alfiya
is a 1,000
bait, like 2 lines is a bait poem.
Ibt Malik, very famous, and there is a
very famous shahr called Sharhabne Akeel. When I
studied alfiyyah,
in the Mahadulullah Arabiyyah, we studied with the
Sharhabne Akeel. And in it you study a
lot of the poetry
of the time before Islam.
And they had styles of writing poems, and
they would have a format, How they would
praise their tribe, and how they would insult
the others, and so on and so on.
And when the Quran was revealed, it was
totally unique.
And the prophet Muhammad salallahu alayhi wasalam wasn't
a poet.
He never wrote poetry. And that's why the
hadith are not in the style of the
Quran.
The Quran was so unique that the poets
of the harab
who were excellent at poetry, they were the
experts, they wrote 30,000 line poems,
You know, 10,000
lines, so many.
They could not
match the Qur'an.
And that's where Hassan ibn Thabit, the famous
companion of the prophet
who was a poet. When he heard the
Quran, he said, This is not from any
man. And he became Muslim. And when he
gave dua to Banu Tamim, for example,
he told them that listen to the Quran,
and you will see that your best poets
can tell you this is not the work
of any poet. It's not the work of
any man. There is a linguistic
aspect to the miracle of the Quran. And
of course there are scientific aspects to miracle
of the Quran. Many things that are in
the Quran, there is no way that a
man in the desert, more than 1400 years
ago, could have known. And this is something
doctor Mirza Bikai and many other non Muslims
who became Muslims from from looking at science
in the Quran have explained.
When we did our program
some time ago,
you were for those that haven't heard this,
I thought that was fascinating. It's because it's
one thing it's mentioned.
Now you have the miracle
that's mentioned in the Quran, the splitting of
the moon. Yes. But then you went
and you quoted sources.
Can you share those sources that you quoted
from non Muslim
sources and people who had traveled to this
part of the world who also has spotted?
Yeah. So so one of the miracles in
Surat Tamar, in the Quran, that is mentioned
is the splitting of the moon. And we
know that through mutawatir,
through numerous
chains that we consider to be what we
call
that there is no doubt to it from
a hadith that this incident happened.
Many Muslims, and and and unfortunately,
many of you in our had a little
bit of a hesitation when they talked about
this. And non Muslims, most of them doubted
this.
So for me being a Muslim, I wanted
if I saw something in the Quran, and
I saw something in hadith, I wanted to
put forth a
any non biased,
objective,
evidence based approach on this. So of course
for me, if it's in the Quran, I
believe it. That's me, personally.
But if I'm speaking to a non Muslim
who doesn't believe in the Quran, I cannot
just say, well it's in Sur Tamar. You
know? If it's in hadith, I believe it.
They said,
but I cannot tell a non Muslim it's.
He doesn't know what is. Right?
So of course in Bukhari and so on,
Sahih Adeel.
So which I said, okay, let's look at
history.
For example, if I speak to you about
Cleopatra.
Cleopatra, the queen of, you know, Egypt of
her time. You've heard of her. Mhmm. Right?
You believe she existed. Right? It's in your
history books. You studied her. Little coins and
all that. Right? Mhmm.
How do you know? How do you know?
Have you ever seen her? No. Do you
know anybody that personally saw her? No. Do
you know the names of any eyewitness that
saw her Not at all. That reported? She
married Augustus or Julius or this or that.
Everything that we're taught as
sure knowledge history in our books just because
it was printed in a book that was
printed a few years ago You're supposed to
swallow it. We're supposed to swallow it. Right?
Alexander the Great, as they call him, from
Macedonia. Right?
He conquered all the way through Egypt, lots
of the Middle East, all the way into
current day northern Pakistan, Afghanistan,
you know, and then he died there and
he
Northern Africa and this. How do you know?
Right? I mean, yes, it's in history books.
Who wrote those books? How do we know
they didn't just pump him up? Exactly. To
try to put him above Khalid ibn Walid.
So now when we look at history, we
say, okay, we have historic references.
People who wrote down that okay, Alexander was
here. Most of those scribes, we don't actually
know their names, Right?
But we take that as a collective history.
Okay.
So now let's look at the incident about
the splitting of the moon.
We have the first, last name
lineage
of many many reporters who were eyewitnesses.
For example, Abdullah ibn Abbas. He reports the
hadith. His name is Abdullah, his son is
Fadl, his his father is Abbas, he is
Qurashi, We know his tribe. We know his
memory. We know where he lived. We know
he was a very accurate reporter. We know
that he was an eyewitness account.
Another one is Anas ibn Malik. Right? We
know his name is Anas, we know his
father's name is Malik,
we know about his mother and who she
married, Abu Talha, and we know about his
brother Al Bara, we know his whole history.
Right? And we know that he was in
Madinah at the time.
At the time of this incident which he
reported, he was in Madina, so we know
that this was witnessed by not just the
people of Mecca, we have eyewitnesses from Madina.
But now, and again, I wanna be objective.
Yes. Somebody could come back and say, well,
they're Muslims.
So maybe they're doing it in a way
to try to prove a point. Maybe they're
biased.
Okay. Confirmation bias and so on.
But we also know that Al Mughaira
and Abu Sufyan, who for example, Abu Sufyan
later became Muslim, but at that time wasn't.
He also was an eyewitness in the book
Bidayah w Nihayah, and in in the video
if you put
moon splitting, the video comes up. You can
see I've scanned the actual pages of the
book, and I show them.
Non Muslims that were there witnessed it, and
they testified to it. Some of them later
became Muslim like Abu Sufyan. Some of them
never became Muslim,
but they still testified like Abu Jahal
and Abu Lahab.
They testified that they saw this with their
own eyes.
The enemies of the Prophet Muhammad. The enemies
of the Prophet Muhammad. They testified that they
saw the moon. They testified it.
Ibn Hazar al Kalani, ibn Kathir and others
have documented this, Bida'u Nihaya has it. Right?
So they say and even though
they wanted to deny it, so they said
maybe
Muhammad
did magic on our eyes. Maybe he's it's
an optical illusion.
So they asked the Bedouins that were on
the out skirts, did you see it? They
said, yes, we saw it.
They had caravans
that were out traveling. They took months to
come back, and when they came back, they
said, hey, did you see it? They said,
yes, we saw it. Right? So now
you have Muslim eyewitness accounts.
You have non Muslims
who are enemies
still confirming this, and the fact that it's
in the Quran,
in Surat Umar, that was resided in front
of the mushrikeen,
in front of the polytheists
that were the enemies of Islam, and they
never objected to it. Right? This continued. But
now people say, well, how come nobody outside
the Arabian Peninsula saw it? Okay.
I mean, now, we've already given you more
evidence than for Alexander and Cleopatra and for
all Julius and Augustus and all that. We're
giving you actual eyewitnesses, their memories, who they
told it to. Al Bama and others, any
who were narrators, who heard it, who who
wrote it down, al Bukhari, and Imam Ahmed,
and Imam Malik, and others. Right? We're giving
you all that evidence that you don't have
for western history, but let's give you more.
Right? If they say, what about reports from
other parts of the world? Well, obviously in
the Americas, in Europe, it would be daytime.
I mean, if it's the early part of
the night there, it's gonna be daytime. So
you're not gonna have them as witnesses. And
even if they saw it, not necessarily that
they would document it. And in
the Far East of it, like China, Japan,
it would be very late in the night
and so on. So the earliest time zone
that it would be a later part of
the night would be in around which India
is. Right? So do we have any reports?
Well, we do.
Now,
again, I'm being objective and fair and balanced
and all of that. Those reports
do not meet our standards of hadith. Our
standards of hadith are very strict. You know,
we make sure nothing is sharp, nothing conflicts,
nothing is this way, and this, so on,
because we are very strict in what we
accept.
None of western history would would meet that
standard today.
Right? But according to the standards acceptable by
Indian historians,
they did have a king in India that
saw the splitting of the moon. He didn't
know what it was, but he witnessed it,
and he asked his people, and this was
documented.
And many of the Europeans that went to
India,
and I've given references in our video, they
actually said that the Indians have this in
their history,
including people that were Dutch and others that
came and they said, you know what? This
is in their oral and written traditions.
Then when the Muslims came to India, later
on,
any in the time of Malik ibn Dinar
and others,
those kings they said, yes, we had witnessed
this. And they accepted Islam.
And they built a masjid, and that masjid
still stands. That masjid is still there. In
fact, the prime minister of India who's a
very anti Muslim, BJP,
right wing, Hindu nationalist,
Modi, he
made a replica of that masjid
in gold,
and sent it as a gift to the
king of Saudi Arabia, in trying to build
trade relations, saying, look, India has such a
long standing history with Islam, that this is
a mosque that was built by the king
who saw the splitting of the moon.
So even the right wing Hindu vita,
RSS, BJP,
hate Muslims
of India admit
and quote
that there was a king in India that
witnessed the splitting of the moon,
who later became Muslim because of this miracle.
So again, we have our own standards in
hadith, and they're very strict and so on,
but according to their standard, what they accept
as history, this is something that was documented
there as well. So we have more evidences
to this miracle
than
any
non Muslim history
that's pre, you know, videotaping and pictures, even,
you know, the landing on the moon. Right?
Like many people don't believe that we landed
on the moon. They they doubt the videos
and so on. But where is the second
hand, third hand, and fourth hand eyewitness account
and so on? Where's the non American sources
that can prove it? We don't have it.
Right? But here, we have all of that.
In fact, when you talk about NASA Now
NASA doesn't say whether the moon split or
not. That's not their job. NASA is not
in the in the business of whether Jesus
walked on water or Moses split the ocean
or so on. Right?
But NASA has said that there are cracks
across the surface of the moon that go
all the way around.
And the moon the moon has two distinct
sides.
And according to NASA, and I've shown pictures
from their website and in the video that
we have, they say that it is very
possible that the moon was split into 2
or came from 2 different sources. Right? Now
they can't tell you exactly whether those are
lava, tunnels,
or whether they're cracks or being split, but
the two sides of the Moon have some
distinct features that tell you at one time
they were separated.
Right? And this is what NASA says. So
that tells you that scientifically
there is no objection
to the Moon having been split. Now people
say, oh, what about the oceans, what about
the waves? Again, if the moon splits and
comes back together, it's not like the world's
gonna end.
You know, this is something that people don't
understand.
And it's a miracle. It's not something that
would be in accordance to the regular
natural laws. That's why it's a miracle. If
it was just a shooting star or something,
well, that's not a miracle. Right? I can,
you know, predict a shooting star, that's not
the issue. But I can't make the moon
split and bring it back together. That's a
miracle from Allah to show this is a
true prophet. No.
Just for
fun, because people like to challenge this,
who are the eyewitnesses
for Moses splitting the ocean?
Like I believe in it, because it's in
the Quran, but if you're going to take
it through an objective
review,
Jews and Christians who say, you know, he
did split the ocean or the sea,
were your witnesses? Where's the history of it?
Right? But they just oh, it's in the
Bible. Well, and we're giving you evidences not
from the Quran and hadith. We're giving you
actual historic reports,
and that's why Islam is such a clear
truth. I wanna thank you again for visiting
us here and
helping us to, establish the first Jummah. Pleasure.
Did the first, Khutba here. And the first
shahada. And the first shahada.
Allah bless us with many more and we'll
have you visit us again soon sometime.
I just wanna say again,
this center, may Allah put all of this
in our brother Eddie's, Mizan, Hassanat, in his
scale of good deeds, and of everybody else
that supported it. This is a major step
for the Muslims of America.
We've been talking about needing
not just a masjid,
but something that's gonna be a center
focused towards sharing our beautiful faith with our
neighbors and our coworkers.
You're doing it. And we want everybody to
support it. This is gonna be, inshallah, a
masjid where you have jamaah and salah that's
already started, but
it's also gonna be a place where non
Muslims are gonna learn about Islam, where children
are gonna get an Islamic education,
and even the secular education in a way
that's gonna be in line with Islamic morals
and values, where you're gonna have a a
gym for our brothers
and at different times, our sisters to stay
in shape and and all, and and within
the halal environment. It's gonna be a community,
Dean City, Insha Allah. Insha Allah.
You ready? Yeah. We gotta be a part
of it. Right?
Yes.
Here in Florida at the Dean Center, a
dream coming to reality by the will of
Allah
Something amazing. My first tour, I just went
through it. And this is something that me
and our brother Hedi and Ashif Khayim would
speak about and we would talk about that
this is something needed for America. A place
that is dedicated to dawah. Yes. There's a
masjid. We're gonna make salah. Today is gonna
be the 1st jamaah. I'm gonna give the
hudbaah. We're gonna have the ibadah of Allah's
panel to dawah. So you have the masjid,
you have the school, you have the Dawah
Center, and you got a gym. But we're
gonna welcome non Muslims to come in and
see, have exhibitions
to show the beauty and the art of
Islam,
have questions and answers, have recordings, a center
like no other in the history of America.
We as Muslims are breaking ground. You need
to be a part of this, Insha'Allah.
Use your zakat money. Use your sadaqa money.
Use your sadaqa jaria and get going, help
the center open so it can be a
a way that hasn't been done.
a way that hasn't been done.