Tom Facchine – Minute with a Muslim #125 – The Islamic Perspective on Religion

			All religion true religion comes from Allah. That's the Islamic perspective. Okay? Religion is not
what people invent for themselves. actual true religion comes from a law because we take it upon
faith as a part of faith that there is a Creator. And there's various proofs for that we don't need
to get into but assuming that there is a Creator, and assuming that the Creator is merciful, then
the Creator out of His mercy wants to guide he wants to guide human beings as to what is right and
what is wrong. It would be unjust or unfair if the Creator were to leave us groping in the dark, not
knowing what was right and what was wrong or what to do. And so he communicates, and he communicates
		

			through prophets, messengers, Revelation, so we believe that all true religion is the communication
from the Divine, authentic actual communication from the Divine. And anything that anybody else made
up human beings came up with themselves is false religion doesn't deserve to be called religion,
because it's not actually what a lot communicated. Okay, then well, how can we tell what is actually
authentic communication from the Divine from the Creator, and what's made up by human beings? That's
the million dollar question. In Islam, we believe that every single communication previous to ours
has been either lost or changed or corrupted somehow, through the passage of time. And people only
		

			need to go to the most recent revelation before Islam before the Koran, which was the Bible, the
Gospel given to Jesus, in order to see how easily this thing happens? Anybody and Christians
themselves admit this, anybody who looks into the preservation of the gospel of Jesus knows very,
very well that what we have in quote, unquote, Scripture is not a very accurate depiction of what
Jesus actually said or did. There is lots of different contradictions. There's lots of
irregularities and even just the preservation of the text itself is very, very shoddy. That's the
closest revelation that was given to a prophet before Mohammed was given the Quran, Allah He sets it
		

			up. So what about those that are even older? What about the Torah given to Moses? What about the
other possible prophets that we don't even know about? Because Allah tells us in the Quran, the
identity of some prophets, and he also does not tell us the identity of others. And so because all
of these messages were either lost or changed, or they're not entirely preserved, it necessitated a
renewal of that message. That's why a lot of the Creator kept on sending messengers, okay, if they
had all been completely preserved, then maybe there wouldn't have been a need. But the fact that
they weren't necessitated that the Creator continued to communicate what he wanted from us. And so
		

			the last one, and the final one was the correct, it's in late antiquity, the world is becoming
smaller, you have a very unique language, like the Arabic language that has is very, very
systematic, and has been very, very well preserved. You have a culture that is basically takes pride
in its ability to memorize orally, and then very soon after, are able to write everything down and
meticulously keep the records on what was said and how it was conveyed. It was the perfect storm
historically, for the appearance or the revelation of a text that would be preserved forever. And so
Islam, in some sense, is not something new, in an important sense. And the sense that I'm talking
		

			about is that it is simply the last manifestation of the last communication from the Creator. And
that central message that the Creator has always been communicating, which is to heed the worship of
one guard alone is completely unchanged, when it comes to other things, small things, what we should
do, you know, the types of rules and regulations, they vary slightly from community to community,
but Islam is the last software update Islam as the last, the last type, everything else has been
replaced, and there's no need for it anymore, because Islam has been preserved, whereas the others
have not. That doesn't mean that does not affect the way in which Muslims are supposed to act with
		

			people of other religions. Okay. And this is a very, very hard thing for people that have a
historically European Christian experience to understand, because throughout European Christianity,
or the history of European Christianity, if you disagree with someone on religion, you fought them,
you killed them, you oppressed them, you persecuted them, whether it was France, or England or
Germany or anywhere else. For a long time, you weren't allowed to believe in a religion, even a
Christian sect that wasn't the Christian sect of your Lord. In the feudal system. We don't know that
when it comes to Islam. That's not our way. And so when it comes to us, believing that we have the
		

			truth 100% of Muslims believe we have the truth, we have the final revelation, the perfect book, the
preserved revelation, and yet we are instructed our love and our revelation to respect other people
and to treat other people with honor and even to revere in a certain understanding of the word,
their customs and their traditions and their even understanding of their religion. Allah tells us in
one of the chapters of the Quran, the sixth chapter, he says, Don't curse the idols of others, even
if we think that their idols don't curse them. Because if you do, then they're going to turn right
around and curse God, they're going to curse the real creator. And so that's a parodic Matic sort of
		

			principle of guiding sort of Axiom for how we're to treat other people. So there's a difference
between belief and this is a lot of people confuse this these days. There's a big difference between
belief
		

			Giving your rights and treating other people with respect. We can believe that we're 100% correct
and that you guys are wrong and still respect you and still give you respect and honor that you
deserve as a human being, just like anybody else.