Yasir Qadhi – The Stories of The Prophets 10 – The Proofs of Prophethood

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			Santa Monica Morocco Mahabharata. We began by praising Allah subhanho wa Taala, the one and the
unique, it is His blessings that we acquire and it is his prayer and it is his mouth filler that we
seek, we ask Allah Subhana Allah to bless us in all that we do and to guide us and to guide others
through us. Today we're continuing our discussion about the lives of the prophets. We're still in
our introductory series of lectures and are pretty much winding down. In fact, this might even be
our final introductory lecture, before we begin the actual lives of the prophets, and one of few
topics are left. And I just wanted to cover them in shallow data before we dive into the actual
		

			profits one by one. And of these topics, which is very important regarding all of the prophets, is
the topic of proofs of prophethood. The Arabic term is della Luna Buddha. And this is a concept and
genre even of literature that so many of our scholars have written about great aroma, such as Mr.
malbay, healthy, and such as a great number of Roma, including those other interpretations of Islam,
such as the Martha's ILA, that they loved to concentrate on this chapter. And the chapter deals with
how do you know a prophet is a prophet? How do you prove a prophet is a prophet and the reason why
the mortician and others they love this topic is because one year debating and they love to debate
		

			when you're debating with people of other faith traditions, one of the main points that you need to
prove is the prophethood of our Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And so the Morteza
were well known to debate the advocate up, and you have people like George Gianni, and people like
john Hill and others, that they would debate the philosophers, they would debate to the people of
the book. And so in this debate, they began honing an ideology or a concept that was then taken by
many other, you know, strands of Islam, and they all gave their interpretations about how do you
prove a prophet is a prophet Alhamdulillah all the Muslim Ummah, affirmed the Prophet of the Prophet
		

			salallahu alayhi wa sallam, but then they kind of sort of, you know, different amongst themselves,
what's the best way to prove it? It's a very trivial difference in the end of the day, not a big
deal. hamdulillah The main thing is, you know, we believe that the profits or profits, but then the
question arises, that when you're talking to a non Muslim, what should you prioritize? Like, how do
you begin proving that our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is a prophet? What are the mechanisms
that we need to discuss the veracity of profits? Because in the end of the day, everybody wants
evidence? What's the evidence? How do we know this man who claims to be a messenger of Allah is
		

			actually a messenger of Allah. Now the Quran is very explicit, for a number of key points and we can
derive other points as well. The Quran is very explicit that profits come with the Quranic term is a
unit and also the Quranic term is a yet and a bayona is something that is self evident and an idea
is a miracle or a sign and the both have really overlapping meanings. And Allah azza wa jal usually
uses them interchangeably in the Koran, one of our center rusu Lana bill by unit we sent our profits
with baby unit, and Allah as origin mentions as well that we gave ix to the prophets and the Bani
Israel. So these are yet an IRA, as we said, is a sign or a miracle. And bayona is a clear
		

			indication. Later scholars they coined another term, the term is miracle. The Quran does not use the
term miracle per se. The Quran uses as we said, a sign or a clear cut indication. But later scholars
they said the concept is what we call an Arabic a mortgages or a miracle. And a mortgages up is a
supernatural event for the Eros he defines it that a miracle must have three conditions. Number one,
it breaks the natural order of things. It's something that is supernatural. Number two, the prophets
come and mentioned that they're going to do the miracle, and the miracles cannot be imitated. Number
three, the miracles cannot be imitated. And so the point is that the prophet will say that I'm going
		

			to show you a miracle. And the miracle will then take place and no one can imitate that miracle. So
these are the three conditions that Fellini Raji gave for a miracle. And Allah subhanho wa Taala
mentions the concept of Burjanadze and ayat with many, many prophets. For example, in Surah Al
Baqarah, verse 92
		

			That will occur the Yakuza bill by unity Moosa came to you with the unit with the clear signs, and
in my the verse 32, one of our arsenal musulman rusu Lana, Bill by unit, we sent our messengers with
clear signs. So the Quran affirms but you not is a part and parcel of Russell. Anytime there are
sooner than a B comes, then the beja not are there and this is very clear in the haoran Sutra tob
over 70 Surah tober 70 I don't get a table to him never already in mo probably him. All Menuhin
widen with a moody walk O'Meara Hema was highly Medina well, more tificate at home Russolo home bill
Bay unit, haven't they seen the stories of those before them that people have no idea that people
		

			have add the people have moved the people around him that people have madeon the people have more to
figure out or the overturn cities meaning Sodom and Gomorrah, their messengers came to them with
signs, and a lot did not wrong them but it was they who wronged themselves. Their messengers came to
them with signs attached home Russolo home built by unit. So Allah explicitly mentions that the
prophets come with signs. In fact, signs are so clear that Allah azza wa jal mentions that the bunny
is right, he took it for granted they took it as something that was the norm that Allah says in the
Quran, that the that the bunny is right when the Prophet says same came to them that the bunny is
		

			right, he said that Allah has commanded us Allah Miller soudan Hector yet Tina Corbin itakura, who
now colocado Jacques Cousteau makaveli Bill bayona, it will be lady Colton, that the Benny Israel
said that we have a sign. And until we see that sign, we're not going to believe in the profits. And
that sign is that the the prophet will come and He will give a gathering he will give an offering he
will give, let's say, some offering which is, let's say sacrificed animal, he will place it towards
the direction of the Qibla. And in front of everybody's eyes, a lightning or Thunder or fire will
come down and consume it and it will not be there anymore. So when the people see this sign, they
		

			know that this is a prophet now. The Prophet Muhammad says him came to them. They said the money is
right. He said hey, we have a we have a condition in our books. And that condition is that we have
to see this miracle. Now the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam did not show them this miracle.
Why? Because he was not of the same genre of profits of bunnies, right in his breaking away from
that tradition. So he cannot show them that miracle. It's not befitting because that is a miracle
that shows the continuity of the children of Israel profits, and he's not of the children of Israel
profits. And so the Quran says that, look, these prophets before you they have come with exactly
		

			what you wanted. And yet you know what you rejected them as well. It's not as if you believed in
them. So the journey is, that miracle was not given to them. But the point is that Allah is saying
that the Rasul came with a unit, the prophets came with the unit and with this sign that you
yourselves demanded. So, what is the B unit what is a unit beta, as we said, is a very clear cut
sign is an obvious sign, it is something that you cannot negate. And of course, the the other the
most simple examples is the she camel of the people of Saudi that Allah says, Dana thermodyne. Now
pata mobile sera attend, and we gave the people of the mood, the she Campbell, the now call mobile
		

			Sera, it was clearly visible, interesting choice of adjectives, the miracles are not hidden. The
miracles are not ambiguous. You really cannot deny a miracle unless you deny what you're seeing, or
you have arrogance in your heart. The miracle is simply too great to be denied. And that is why in
the prophetic sooner we learn that when such miracles were demonstrated in front of the people, then
a lot of xojo did not give choices to them. Either they believed or the punishment would come.
Because once that self evident miracle comes and they reject it, then they have no choice of
ignorance. That miracle, it automatically negates the ignorance excuse that might happen if they
		

			heard about a prophet in a faraway land and the teachings came to them in the incorrect form, they
might have an excuse but to see the miracle, and you examine that miracle and then you turn your
backs and you go away there is no hope for forgiveness after that. So Allah mentions that the
miracles are Moodle, Sarah clearly visible and of course we all know some of the miracles of the
prophets. I mean, Jesus or is it his Salaam? Allah says in the Quran, that with Allah we are Isa
that Allah will say or is a URI seminarium or Jesus that are married, or the coordinate Metallica
why now Why did Attica recall the favors and the blessings I gave you on your mother, how I
		

			supported you with the Holy Spirit, how you spoke to people in your infancy and when you were an
adult?
		

			I taught you how to the Torah, in the NGO, I taught you the wisdom and the Hikmah. And the Torah and
the NGO, the gospel, how you molded a bird from clay by my will, and you breathe into it and it
became a real bird by my will, how you healed the blind, how you healed the leper by will, how you
brought back the dead to life by my will, how I prevented the children of Israel from harming you,
when you came to them with clear proofs, it will pay you not once again the term but you know is
used and the disbelievers for amongst them said this is nothing but pure magic. So once again, we
have the prophets coming with the unit. And this is something that every prophet was sent with. We
		

			learn this from a hesitancy, Bahati in which our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that
mominul ambia II that mominul ambia. I mean, they've been ill, for the order to mean a yachtie mommy
through Armand ID, Hill Bashar, no prophet has ever come, except that he has been given yet science
through which and because of which mankind believed in him or should believe in him. The point being
is that my mystery who I am, and it is special, that the average person, the average human, if he
were to see that sign, he would accept this is what the Hadith is saying, every prophet is coming
with an idea or ayat, such that these ayat, if they were to be seen by mankind, with open minds,
		

			they would believe in them. And then the prophets of love, while he was selling them said, and what
Allah has given me is the revelation that he has inspired to me. And I hope, therefore, that I shall
have the largest number of followers on the Day of Judgment. Now, here, of course, comes a
discussion, what constitutes an iron or a bayona? What is the definition of a miracle? And our
theologians go into a lot of pages of discussions. And the reality is that if you ask me that a
miracle does not need to be defined in technical language, if you try to define a miracle, that
defeats the purpose, a miracle is self evident. We don't need to go down pages and pages of what is
		

			the technical definition of a miracle. However, what our scholars wanted to do was to differentiate
between other types of things that might be supernatural or appear to be supernatural. So for
example, obviously, people who are you know, the tricksters or the magicians that we watch on
television are ones that are, you know, doing their tricks in front of the children, you know, they
think that they're pulling a rabbit out of a hat to is this some type of, of miracle, we also have,
of course, actual magic that takes place that takes place. So we differentiate between the magic of
entertainers, which is not actual, you know, magic, meaning the black magic, we call it the sale.
		

			This is just entertainment. This is just tricksters where they use, you know, the the tricks of the
trade, they use optical illusions. They have, you know, special props that they use, that's not
actual miracles, or magic or something that is supernatural. It's just something that sleight of
hand, you know, they put the ball here and they don't really see it, they pull it out. It's not
something that is actually real. Of course, we also have to worry about or not worry about here, but
define, if you like, say her or magic? And how are we can differentiate between the miracle of the
profits and the magic of the magicians because one of the things that concerned our theologians is
		

			that what if a non Muslim says and again, once upon a time, everybody believed in magic these days,
a lot of people don't believe in black magic. And that's a separate category. I've given many
lectures about this. We do believe in the world of the jinn, we do believe that the world of the
jinn is beyond our realm and eyesight and the world of the jinn can do certain things that
		

			it does appear supernatural to us, but it is not actually supernatural. It's only supernatural
because we don't see the jinn, if we could see the jinn. If we could see the jinn it would be 100%
natural so agenne can lift this up and take it in the air and we might see it in the air on the
magician is going to be telling the jinn what to do and so it's going somewhere or the magician
himself might be picked up. And the magician is, you know, allegedly flying in the air, he's not
flying is simply a jinn, picking him up and walking with Him. If you could see the jinn, it would
literally be just like a strong man picking a child up and walking How is that a miracle? But
		

			because we cannot see the Djinn it seems like a miracle to us or it seems like you know supernatural
to so our scholars, obviously there that's the job of scholars and theologians that they have to
differentiate you know the reality of the profits from these other charlatans and these other
tricksters and the worst category which is actual magicians or sorcerers, and we can see the reality
of the difference in what the prophets do and in their character.
		

			And in their and in their head that is called the head the means that they're going to claim that
what they're about to do is a miracle. And that will be from Allah subhanho wa Tada. So what we have
over here is that the miracles of the prophets are self evident breaks of nature, they are
supernatural. And they are things that when you see them, you understand or realize that no other
person can do these things. It is in a category of its own. As for the magic of the magicians, it is
pretty much standard run of the mill, the same 1015 things that are done from the beginning of time
it is done up until our times. So the magic of the magicians typically typically affects an
		

			individual, or it gives an illusion that you think something is happening but it is not actually
happening. And Allah mentions this in the Quran, that the magic of the magicians have found that one
day through their stabs when they threw their sticks that you hire to lay him in surgery him and the
artist. The illusion came that the sticks were waving, that the sticks were wiggling away. This was
an illusion, okay. At one, Moosa threw his stuff. And this is the simplest example of the difference
between a miracle of a profit and the magic of the magicians. The magic of the magicians was utterly
trivial. It made the illusion the optical illusion that the the stars are wiggling. And so it seems
		

			as if it's like a stick, it did not become a snake, it did not look like a snake even it was simply
wiggling. And it wasn't even actually doing that it simply made it appear to be so. And Allah zoa
just says that when Moosa threw his staff, it became an actual snake, an actual living creature. So
Allah created life out of that stuff. And Allah azza wa jal made this entire staff into a serpent,
and the serpent then swallowed up these fake entities that were wiggling, awake. And that is why the
magicians instantaneously understood, this is not magic. There is no ambiguity between what is magic
and what is a miracle. There's simply no ambiguity. And that is why the magicians who are the worst
		

			of the worst and they are worshipers of devils, quite literally, that when the magician saw this
reality of Moosa, they understood immediately and instantaneously, that this has nothing to do with
magic. Magic cannot create life. Magic cannot go back to Risa resurrect the dead. Magic cannot heal
the one born blind. Magic cannot cure the leper, as once upon a time, leprosy was incurable. And
even in our times, we have medicine, which is not magic, we understand how it works, you know, to
hold somebody even today, by the way, no doctor can just hold the leper and say be healed and he's
going to be healed. That doesn't work that way. Nobody can do this right. It's impossible to do for
		

			human beings. But recently he said I'm did it because Allah azza wa jal gave him that, that reality.
So the mind is another example. That's really man it his Salaam control the genes, and the genes
built for him massive structures, can you imagine mankind is looking at in front of their eyes,
buildings are being made, massive blocks are being lifted in the air and take into a location. You
know, this is what the Jin would do, saw it, he said, that he by the will of Allah allows that rock
to become a camel, literally the people of Saudi, they said to him, that you need to show us a sign,
he needs to show us a sign. And so silently, his Salah he made to our to Allah, and in front of
		

			their eyes, the rock transformed into a camel. So all of this is very, very clear that the miracles
of the prophets are in a category of their own, there is no ambiguity, the miraculous nature of what
they do, it boggles the mind, it cannot occur from any other entity or human being. And one scholar
mentions, our scholars mentioned an interesting point here as well. And that is that the miracles of
the prophets are typically of the genre or of the genus of the societies that they live in, such
that people would appreciate that miracle, according to the culture of their own society. And so for
example, the people of Somalia, the people of the mood, what were they known for? The ancient people
		

			assembled, if you look at the nabateans, they are the descendants of the people of the moon. If you
go to Petra, for example, right in Jordan, or if you go to that Insider, for example, you know,
these are the same civilizations, you know, not necessarily maybe
		

			Same peoples, but the same civilizations that are from the people have assembled. And they did
amazing things. They built houses into the mountains, how they did it to this day, you know, people,
they're trying to figure out what utensils they use to how did they do that, you know, we're not
100% sure how they did that. But they built houses and magnificent structures in the very desert
dwellings and in the very caves and the mountains that they lived in, and they are still available
to this day, you can visit them you can go timber that inside, you can go to Petra, and you can see
yourself how these dwellings look. And they are miracles for us meaning when I say miracles, I mean,
		

			in the generic sense, not in the divine sense. Like we're like wow, how did that happen? How could
they have done this? So the people have saw the the mood, they thought they had mastered a
discipline that nobody else can master? So Allah azza wa jal says to them metaphorically, basically
that, hey, you think you can carve rocks and stones and build houses, I can create life out of those
stones. So in front of their eyes, what happens in front of their eyes, they see a she camel inaka
being formed. And the prophet SAW that he says you wanted to sign here is the sign Hi, the Hinako to
aloha shearable Welcome shoo, shoo borjomi married on y la tema su have a su In fact, who is either
		

			one of them that this is the Napa you asked about. And it will drink one day, and you will drink one
day, and you had better not harm it. Or if you harm it, then you will be destroyed. So a massive
huge beast is formed in front of their eyes. And they know this is not something that comes from
nowhere. This is from Allah, only the Creator of the heavens and earth can create a she camel out of
stone. That's what you call a mortgage is a miracle. But they still ended up rejecting their
prophet. So this is one example of a miracle. Another example and again, it shows us that there are
people understood the miracle. Another example is Jesus being sent to the Bani Israel during a time
		

			when the Romans prided themselves on their medical discoveries. So I mean, again, it looks a little
bit anachronistic for us to look at the Romans as somehow being reaching the pinnacle of medicine,
but in their timeframe, they felt that they had discovered medicinal secrets that nobody else had
discovered. And perhaps they were right for their timeframe. And so Jesus comes along and says, You
think you guys know your medicine here, the leper, I put my hand on him, he's cured, the blind, who
was born blind as a baby, he's born blind. And I put my hand on him make Dora and he's cured.
Lazarus being resurrected from the dead, can you resurrect the dead, nobody can resurrect the dead
		

			other than Allah subhana wa Tada. So these genre of miracles dealt with medicine, because the people
in the time of Jesus thought that they had mastered medicine, Moses is sent upon the, the the people
of Egypt and the people of Egypt, they felt that they had, you know, mastered the Dark Arts, they
felt that they were experts in black magic, black magic was rampant across Egypt, the worship of you
know, these entities and whatnot. And so Musa alayhis salam comes, and he shows them, the genus of
miracles, that is on the same types of things that you know, the light coming out of the hand, the
staff becoming the snake, and yet it is an a whole different category and level, that the genus is
		

			the same, the category if you like, or the concept is the same, but the level that the miracles come
to, is far exceeding anything that humans can do. And the same goes for the miracle of our Prophet
salallahu idea. He was setting them that the Arabs prided themselves mostly on their poetry, on
their poetry, and that's why they will compete who is the best poet and their poetry is indeed very,
very amazing and interesting. And the Arabic language itself is a very interesting language. I've
given another lecture you can see it online It is called the, the Arabic language and the language
of the electoral board is a unique lecture for the Arabic language. And the Arabs prided themselves
		

			in their eloquence. So the Quran comes down challenging their eloquence, destroying their eloquence,
superseding their eloquence, and Allah azza wa jal says, Look, this is from me, try to bring
something elegant, more eloquent than this, and you shall not do so. So the out of appreciated
language and the Koran comes down, breaking all previous, you know, barriers that existed to
eloquence. So the point being, that generally speaking, the bayonet and the ayat of the prophets are
in accordance with their cultural understandings of what would be most suited and well suited for
that civilization. Now, an interesting point here that needs to be mentioned is that we can also do
		

			Divide the miracles of the prophets into two basic categories. The first of them are, if you like
the major miracles, and these are the miracles that are meant to affirm the truth of the prophets,
they're meant to legitimize the message of the prophets there are a different category, okay? And
the second are that which they do, which is miraculous, no doubt about it, but it is not meant to
prove to the non Muslims that they are prophets. So let me give you a simple example. For example,
the Prophet Musa alayhis salaam, how many miracles was he given lots but Allah mentions there's nine
that are extra special. What are the Athena Musa, this is Tim but you know, We gave Moosa nine clear
		

			IR tin but you notice that both words are used ayat and bayona. We gave Moosa nine clear signs. What
are these nine clear signs? They are mentioned in the Quran very explicitly, there are mentioned the
nine clear signs are the hand coming in and coming out bright. It is the stuff
		

			that the staff of Moosa becoming the serpent, it is also a specific type of famine and a specific
type of shortage, shortage of crops that they saw. And Allah mentions in the product for our son
Adam will tofana will Gerardo kumanovo father our dumb, we sent upon them floods and locusts and
lice and frogs and blood. We're going to talk about these nine signs when we get to the story of
Musa all of them clear signs, Allah says in the Quran now these are nine. Okay, let me ask you, are
they the only miracles of Musa we learned from the Quran? That many other things happened to Moosa.
For example, did he not split the Red Sea? Did he not split the Red Sea? Did he not as well cause
		

			water to gush out from rocks for when the when the bunnies stray? were thirsty, did he not make dua
to Allah and then men and salwaar came down from the heavens, yet those are not mentioned in these
nine. Why? Because just like with our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, how many miracles was he
given 1000s upon 1000s so many times when he was there and shortage of food happened, the food
became more for the people. In fact, once in the Battle of the book, water became coming from the
fingers of the professor's like a tap water began coming, and people were doing will do from the
fingers of the Prophet salallahu it he was selling, how many other miracles that the Sahaba saw. And
		

			yet, when he was asked, he said, the miracle that I have been given is the Koran. So the miracles
that are meant to prove the prophethood of the Prophet is a higher category, and that's a separate
category. And these are the Quranic bayonet, and ayat, these are the actual by United yet profits
also do lots and lots of supernatural things. But they are not to the level of those bayona. Are
they miraculous? Of course they are. Our Prophet salla, Selim once took a tree and pulled it and the
tree literally walked in the ground and came to him, I will process and spoke to a camel, I will
process and could hear that the spirit of the stones, all of these are no doubt miracles, but
		

			they're not the type of miracles that were used to prove the prophethood of the prophet to
outsiders. And that is because if you try to open this door, and you say, hey, our Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, you know, he spoke to camels, our Prophet salallahu, Allah, he was
sending water came from his fingers, those were outside the faith will say, We don't believe this.
That's something coming from your tradition. But if you say to him, Hey, the miracle that we have is
the Quran, they can examine the Koran, they can see the Quran, it is a different category, different
level of miracle. And so when we talk about the miracles of the prophets, we have to categorize
		

			them, let's say there's an external miracle to prove the prophethood to those outside the faith. And
then there are internal miracles that happen lots and lots of times that the followers can see and
appreciate and the demand goes up. But in and of itself, it is not used to prove the profit or to
those outside of the faith. So we said, the miracles of the prophets are in a category of their own.
They have nothing to do with the fake tricks of the charlatans, which is literally, you know, side
tricks of entertainment. And they have nothing to do with the magic of the magicians. They're in a
separate category all together. Now, one other thing does need to be said before we move on. And
		

			that is that, how about miracles that happened to the righteous people? Do we believe in them?
		

			Do we believe in mini miracles? Do we believe that nonprofits can have interesting things that
happened to them? And their responses that yes, we believe that sometimes a mini miracle let's call
it a mini miracle, something supernatural, it might happen to a righteous person. And the technical
term for this is Karl Marx.
		

			Karl Marx and Olia. Now this chapter is a very detailed one. And there are various ways
		

			to approach this topic, and no doubt Some people go to quite a lot of exaggeration in this and
others want to deny it altogether. But you know from our tradition, it is very clear that sometimes
a righteous person is blessed with something that is supernatural. And there are many examples for
this for example, so I Bahati it is mentioned that two Sahaba were walking in the art complete
darkness and they were worried about getting lost, and a light came down and showed them the way.
And when they had to split to go home, the lights lit up. And each one is following the light till
they go home, for example, or whatever the hubbub is giving a hotel bar, and all of a sudden, he can
		

			see the battle taking place in bladder Sham, and he is speaking to the commander in Medina, and he
is speaking to the commander telling the commander do this or do that and climb up the mountain and
be careful of this. And the Sahaba are looking at armor on the member. And this is something that is
taking place as a supernatural event. This is called karma, karma to Olia or the mini miracles, if
you like of the righteous people. Now, what does a karma show? Our karma is very different from
mortgages for multiple reasons. Obviously, first and foremost, a Corolla is given to a righteous man
or more Jesus given to a prophet. But more than this, generally speaking, and this is the key point
		

			here. cut offs that are nowhere close to the level of miracles that are given to the profits are
totally different genres. So a light coming down is okay, very nice and interesting. You can't
compare that to resurrecting the dead, can you? It's a completely different category. There's no
comparison between parting the red seat that Moosa given or the I should say the the she camel of
Sonic, for example, there is no comparison with that versus you know, a Karama that might have been
to a volley. Another key difference or point here is that the Koran much of the earlier they do not
take place at the will and whim of the person. The person cannot just snap his fingers and say, hey,
		

			I want to light coming from the heavens doesn't work that way. Whereas the prophets, their miracles
happen when Allah tells it and it does happen, when they announced is going to happen. And so Allah
says to Moosa, throw your staff and something's going to happen, so a lot tells and announces that
there's going to be a miracle. Whereas the Karama is unannounced, it just happens. No person can
predict a Karama. No person announces a Karama. Frankly, if a person's announcing semi spiritual or
supernatural events, in all likelihood, it actually no not in all likelihood that if a person has a
habit of constantly saying things that are going to happen, that seem to be supernatural, actually,
		

			this is not a positive sign. It is a sign that this person is either a trickster, a fraud, or
wilayah Davila, a type of magician using the Jin's actual Olia do not know when the miracles will
happen to them. And they thank Allah when it happens, and they don't boast or flaunted.
		

			Getting a miracle mini miracle having a kurama is a blessing from Allah. And every blessing that a
person has. You don't flaunt it in front of others. Anybody who goes around boasting of his miracles
is not of the Odia of Allah. It is not of the Olia of Allah. Rather, such a person is a trickster or
fraudster or we seek Allah's refuge. This person is a type of magician, so the point being that
these supernatural things that take place to the righteous of Allah xojo we believe in them, we
affirm them. But we say that you know, these things that happen they are gifts that Allah gives to
some people once in a while, and no human being has inherent supernatural powers. This is a key
		

			point. No human being can walk on the water at will can fly in the air at will. can it possibly
happen that once in a while Allah azza wa jal blesses somebody that instead of drowning, he'll just
walk on the water to the shore. Yes, indeed, it's possible and we affirm that it is possible. But no
human being is intrinsically given supernatural powers, no one, the prophets of Allah have certain
gifts and privileges that we do not I have no doubt about that. But other than them, US average
humans, none of us can snap our fingers and fly in the air because we snapped our fingers. It just
doesn't work that way. And anybody who stops his fingers and produces something supernatural, either
		

			this is a trickster or fraudster or this person is calling the jinn and you think it is
supernatural, and it is not really supernatural. So once again, this entire genre of evidences of
mortgages that is something that we all understand because it is self evident, it is obvious, when
you see a miracle. You know, this is something that no human being can do. Only the creator of human
beings can do. So the miracles are the most obvious evidence of prophethood and every prophet has a
miracle. Okay, so I hope this point is clear.
		

			Free prophet comes with something that is so mind boggling that nobody with an open mind can reject
it. And that is why anybody who rejects a prophet in the flesh and blood, and anybody who rejects
the miracle in the flesh in the blood, there is simply no hope whatsoever. Our Prophet sallallahu it
he was selling was giving Dawa and the courage said, If you transform the mountain of
		

			the mountain of maca into gold, if you transform suffer, I should say, the mountain of suffer into
gold in front of our eyes, we shall believe in you. So the promises are made to our to Allah, God
came down. God said to him, listen to this, if you want, we can transform into gold in front of
their eyes. But we have a rule. If they then reject, there shall be no hope for them. That's it. You
don't get double chances with Allah azza wa jal in this regard. And if you want, we will let them be
and we give them a chance, multiple chances to accept or not. So the profitsystem said no, if that
is the case, I would rather we give them multiple chances and in reality, those multiple chances,
		

			cause them to convert in the long run, if they had rejected that point in time out suffer, right
then in there, the punishment will come and there will be nominal koresh. But in the wisdom of the
Prophet system, he understood that you know, what happens and this is in the Koran that have the
courage say that we want a miracle. We want to see, you know, the, the the the book come down, we
want to see the angels. Allah says, If I showed you this, you would say he has bewitched our eyes,
you wouldn't believe it, even if you saw it. And so in Allah's mercy, you know, the prophets have
some understood that I don't want to put them in that situation either. Or, if they don't accept
		

			destruction, right then in there, so the point being, the miracles of the prophets are self evident,
and they are signs that anybody who sees them will with an open heart will know this is coming from
Allah subhanho wa Taala. Now, let's move on. Is this the only way to prove a prophet? How do you
prove a prophet? We said, that's the question for today? Is this the only way to prove a prophet?
No, there are other things as well, the miracle is the most obvious why because it's supernatural,
because it's a miracle. I mean, it's like you don't need to have a lot of knowledge of anything like
the peasant to the intellectual you see the miracle and you know, that hey, this is you know, from
		

			the Lord of the heavens and earth, but there are other things as well some which is not as evident
as others. So point number two, point number two, how do you know a prophet is a prophet, that
prophets all of them have knowledge that we do not have from Allah subhana wa Tada, knowledge of
what might be impossible for other people to have. And this is demonstrated in the lives of the
prophets so many times and the Quran mentions his research says that I shall tell you what you're
hiding in your houses, right? He is in the Quran. He says said that won't a bill come I'm going to
tell you what you are hiding in your houses and our profits a lot. Why'd you send them multiple
		

			times? multiple times, things would happen? And he would tell the people and nobody would know how
did you know this except Allah subhana wa Tada. It's a ibises conversion, the uncle of the Prophet
says my boss, converted to Islam. In the Macan phase, they say, and he was taken as a prisoner, by
the way, that bottle of butter, and abus was taken as a prisoner, the uncle of the processor, and
the Prophet system said, we need to give ransom for you. And abus said that I don't have any money.
Look, you can go and check, ask, you know, your aunt, because I bought was the process uncle, ask
your aunt. So the profitsystem said, and where is that hoard of gold, that you said to my father,
		

			your wife, that I'm going to hide it behind such and such a mountain, and make sure nobody knows
about it. So he described exactly that conversation. And at that point, I bust rhodiola one who
said, By Allah, no one could have told you have that conversation other than Allah subhana wa Tada.
Like, that was just me and my wife in the middle of the night we're planning where to hide the
treasure. No one could have told you other than Allah subhana wa tada that causes conversion to
panela that caused his conversion, to recognize that the Prophet system had knowledge that nobody
else had. So another way to prove a prophet is a prophet is by the special knowledge that he has. A
		

			third way to prove a profit as a prophet is by the characters and the manners and the overall laugh
and conduct the respect and love that they generate. The all that their followers have of them, the
exemplary Lifestyles of the prophets, and this is again, something that is a miracle. So Allah says
in the Quran, in Salinas, verse 16, that if Allah had wanted, I would not have recited the Quran to
you and you would not have known of it. I have lived my whole life amongst you for the robots to
feed
		

			kumerow moron mill, probably, I have lived my whole life amongst you don't you understand? This is
an interesting verse here. Why is the Prophet sallallahu? Why do you sell them saying to the people,
I have lived my whole life amongst you, because they knew him inside out thoroughly. They knew him
and his manners, they knew him and his flock, they knew him and his truthfulness. He was the saw
that he was the mean. And the same goes for all the prophets. Their characters are so noble, that in
and of itself, they become miracles for people and mankind. And by the way, this doesn't mean that,
you know, they cannot enjoy this world funnyman was a king. But the enjoyment of this world does not
		

			become a priority. It does not corrupt them. Our Prophet sallallahu it said him if somebody gifted
him good food, he would eat it, but he would never go out of his way for the pleasures of this
world. If they came he somebody gifted him a fancy dress he word, but he never it had nothing. It
occupied no place in his heart. And even in the end of his life, so Laura said, and he had wealth,
but he lived a very frugal and simple life. He barely had as a mother, he said, he never ate two
meals to his foot in any day, he never had refined to bread. See that level of morality, that level
of consistency, that level of genuine sacrifice, along with being a perfect role model, along with
		

			humility and forgiveness, along with generating so much love amongst the people around him. that's
the sign of a true leader. So the of the miracles of the prophets is their lifestyles, and their
luck, and their gentleness and their compassion, and their overall exemplary manners of living. This
is point number three, point number four of the miracles of the prophets, is the message and the
content of the message. What exactly do the prophets come with the teachings of the prophets
themselves, the theology, the ethics, the laws, the content of the prophets, the fact that the
prophets are teaching a perfect monotheism and a perfect belief. And if you contrast the religion of
		

			the prophets with false ideologies, you will find loopholes, you will find loopholes in those
ideologies, you will find internal contradictions, you will find things that don't make any sense,
contrast Islam with any other way of life. And you will find that Islam makes sense. And this is of
the miracles of the proves that the prophets are indeed from Allah, sent by Allah subhanho wa Taala.
And this is especially the case when it comes to theology. By the way, our strength and when it
comes to proving Islam is belief in a lot and belief in the day of judgment and belief in the
Hereafter, and belief in the prophets. This is where we, our forte lies, we prove our religion by
		

			teaching the theology of our religion. No other religion has this simple concept of one perfect God,
sending down prophets and laws worshipping that God having a judgment day to decide our life,
everything makes complete sense. And so the fact that the teachings of the prophets are so pure and
simple, is a miracle from a law that indicates the prophets are sent by Allah. This is point number
four, point number five of proving that the profits or profits is that and this is not for all
profits by those who point number five is not so 1234 for all the profits, no exception, point
number five, and one can even say six now is that this is not for all the profits only for some
		

			profits. Point number five is that some profits, most profits, the default of the profits, and
especially our profits a little off while he was selling them and others as well.
		

			They have a divine protection from Allah, that their lives will be protected. Now, as I said, this
is not for all the prophets. Some of the prophets were killed by their followers, and this is in the
Koran, right? What's up Daniel ambia, that you kill the prophets, some of the prophets were killed.
However, some prophets were divinely protected and allies origin mentions in the Koran that he is
going to protect the life of the Prophet says and now notice, Allah vowed to protect the life, the
process and was injured in the Battle of Orford, he was injured in thought if he was injured, he was
physically hurt when he was doing stitches in front of the cab and Abuja had and others they
		

			engineered what they engineered, he was hurt, our profit system was mocked, but no one could
actually cause his death that Allah protected him. And that is why multiple times when people try to
physically kill him so long, why do you sell them and the most obvious example is the night of the
hedgerow 50 people gathered to kill him, and it was impossible to do so. So Allah says in the Quran,
will law who similkameen and us Allah shall protect you from mankind. So we have over here the
concept of divine protection, not just to him but
		

			To his message as well, and to the success of that message as well, the spread of Islam is a
miracle. And the fact that our prophets followers, the Lord sent him in the first two generations,
three generations, that they, by the mercy of Allah were able to spread this faith from China, all
the way to Europe, all the way to Spain, in one generation, or one century, I should say, Islam was
was practiced from border to border from east to west. And that is a miracle from Allah subhana wa
Tada, that indicates the truth of our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam. And the final point that
we'll mention, and again, this is a partial list, but it is a shala enough to get our juices
		

			flowing, as they say the mind to start thinking, the final point that we're going to mention and
time is up. Now inshallah that is that all of the profits, sorry, some of the profits, not all some
of the profits. They were foretold by previous prophets. And that's a miracle that you know, that
the Prophet is coming. So we have foretelling, we have predictions, we have some prophets predicting
that there's going to be people that are going to come, and this shall be their characteristic, and
they shall say this and that, and then that exact same thing happens. And especially when it comes
to our own Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu. It he was Selim, we have plenty of evidences. And I've
		

			mentioned this when I did the zero almost a decade ago, I think, the second or third lecture, I went
over the predictions of the prophet in the previous omas of the Old Testament, the New Testament,
you know, what did the previous prophets say, in predicting the coming of our Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wasallam. And there are references to this day of this genre. For example, you can open up
the Old Testament, Deuteronomy 1818, simple reference Deuteronomy 1818, that in the Old Testament,
it says, that, that I shall raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, not from among the
children, or from among their brethren, meaning the children of Israel, like unto see likened to
		

			Moses, and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command
him to do. So clearly, Deuteronomy 1818 is predicting the coming of a prophet from the children of
Israel, and that prophet shall resemble the Prophet Musa alayhis salam. For us. This is self
evident. I mean, there is no other prophet in history that is closer to Mousavi Salaam than our
Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam. And that's why again, the Quran mentions the story of
Musa so many times and the Prophet Jesus, we know that he predicted an entity coming now, the
Christians interpret that entity to be the Holy Spirit, right? That's their interpretation. We
		

			firmly believe the Koran tells us that the researcher predicted the coming of a hemorrhoid, which is
one of the names of our profitsystem Mohammed Mohammed is predicted the coming of the praised one.
And the term the praise one is found in the Song of Solomon as well that the praised one shall come.
So we firmly believe that surely man, the Torah, the Injeel, as a rule, they all predicted the
coming of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasallam. It's mentioned in our books, and we still have
corrupted references in their books. And there's no doubt that this too, is a type of miracle that
indicates the truth of the prophets of Allah subhanho wa Taala. So to summarize, how do we know the
		

			profits or profits, many things can be said first and foremost, and the most obvious, the miracles
and the signs given to the prophets call them karma, call them more Jesus, or the Quranic term is a
united IR. And secondly, the knowledge that prophets have that others do not have. Thirdly, the
character of the Prophets, and the fact that they live exemplary lifestyles, they're not corrupted,
that they they exude that sense of nobility, and they inspire their followers with a love and a
piety that only prophets can do. Fourthly, the teachings of the prophets, what do they come with the
content of their teachings? What do they say about God? What do they say about morality? What do
		

			they say about heaven and *, the teachings of the Prophet make complete sense. And this is an
indication that there are from Allah subhanho wa Taala fifthly. For some profits, not all, Allah
xojo protects divinely and that divine protection is manifested not just in the life of the Prophet,
but also in the teachings after him. The success of Islam is a miracle from Allah if you study
Islamic history, and you study how Islam spread. And you study how deep Eman goes into hearts of
Islamic civilizations. It is nothing short of a miracle. And it is an indication that this faith is
divine, and that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is a prophet from a lot. And the final
		

			point, as we said, is the predictions of the previous prophets that have come before and with this
inshallah to Allah we conclude in today's lecture, we'll continue shall actually I said to deal with
the last one, we have still some few odds and ends so we'll have one more lecture and shallow data
about overall the concept of profits and profit and then inshallah We will do our
		

			Individual profits one by one. Until then good luck will often sit on one or two lucky
		

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