Yusuf Estes – Beauties Of Islam – EP01

			Bismillah Alhamdulillah you're watching another episode of beauties of Islam. I'm your host us
Festus. And today I wanted to talk about the subject of how beautiful it is, when we can have faith
and proof at the same time. I recall when I was first learning about Islam, I was actually trying to
teach a Muslim about Christianity. And I was telling them, oh, look at Christianity, this is
something good. Why don't you come be a Christian like us? And my friend, the Muslim was saying to
me, Well, I will, I will go to your religion if your religion is better than my religion.
		

			I thought about that. And then I said, Well, I guess we're gonna have a new Christian now, because
number one, in Christianity is very easy. You don't have to pray five times a day as a Christian,
you don't have to fast the month of Ramadan. You don't have to pay any Zika. There are many, many
things Muslims have to do, the Christians don't have to do.
		

			But then he finished the sentence. And he said to me, I will become whatever your religion is, if
it's better than my religion, but you need proof. And I remember saying to him proof, proof,
religions, not about proof. Faith is just about believing. Just have faith. You don't need any
proof.
		

			He said, Well, in my religion, Islam, we have both we have faith. And we have proof. And I remember
saying to him,
		

			how you mean to tell me you can prove things said yes, everything in Islam can be proven. Then I
said, Do you mean to sit there and tell me as a Muslim, that you can prove there's God?
		

			Then he said to me, do you mean to sit there and tell me as a Christian, and a preacher? That you
can't?
		

			I had to think about that.
		

			Huh? Okay. So Islam is saying there's proof, actually more than that. Islam asks us to use our mind
or ockel, to determine and find out things about the things around us. The things that we take for
granted every day actually are a big part of what Islam is teaching us. Islam asked us look around
you examine the things think, use your mind, and then then you will begin to understand one of the
examples that we have in Islam is the Koran, the Quran of Allah, this is his speech to the human
beings. And he's telling us in the Quran over and over and over, look at this and look at that,
think about this, ask about that. And then the answers that come often we find the term yes
		

			Salonika, in the Quran. This means the people are asking Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him about
something. And then Allah subhanho wa Taala. God Almighty, he's giving the answers in his speech,
the Quran always threw out Islam. As we're learning and teaching, we're coming back to this thing
called the mind article, you can use your mind you can determine a lot of the things that you see
around you. Things that you take for granted every day, you can look to this, you can look to that
and begin to discover a whole new world around you. This is one of the beauties of Islam.
		

			I remember in the Quran, when I first read it the very first time that it was telling me about this
straight path, and I was thinking that what's that about? And here it is, you read it in the very
opening of the Quran. In chapter one called Fatiha. There are only seven verses and listen to what
it says. It says Nina Serato. Mr. Kane.
		

			Now we've talked about some of the other verses in the Quran. But today let's look at that what is
what does that mean? It Nina?
		

			Well, these coming from hedaya or guidance, Edina guide us, Surat, this is a straight path. Masaki.
This means the straight path which you're gonna stay on this thing and you're gonna go with it.
		

			How about the idea here that you've only asked for one thing out of seven verses in this chapter?
Only one thing you're asked for guidance. Because now, this is showing you, for instance, that
there's only one straight path, but many people could be on that path at the same time.
		

			Guide us to your straight path. And this is a request. We're making this request to Almighty a law
we're asking him to guide us. No, watch what happens when we go into the next chapter. We go to the
next chapter and it says I leave them
		

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			who did a little tacky. It says that is the book
		

			meaning the book with a law we're in there's no doubt, there's no doubt and then the word Huda, it
means what? guidance. The guidance to the straight path is right here in this book. Just a few
verses after you asked for it Dina Serato musta came here it comes who don't live with a cane. And
what is Mata cane?
		

			It's those who are having taqwa, taqwa for Allah. Now look at this word. And it's so beautiful when
you know the Arabic language. The taqwa means to put a partition of the veil, a barrier between you
and the punishment of a law.
		

			So if the person is a believer in the law, and he's trying his best to please the law and not
displeased the law, so as to not get a lot of anger on him, that this person, he's going to be on
the guidance. The Huda Of course, we talked about who the that's a special word around here, at
hooted TV. We love that word. And it means guidance. And this is really what it's all about. I
recall when I first came to Egypt the very first time and a friend of mine was a doctor, and I was
going down to his place on the knocker, Neil, which is the Nile River.
		

			And he asked me a question, he said, can you tell us what it's like? To go from some other religion
to go from what you were in before to come into Islam? Could you tell us about it?
		

			I said, Well, I don't know how I would describe something like that. And then I realized, I said,
Okay, I was looking at a boat in the water in the Nile River, the Narnia. I said, there's one word I
need from you. He said, What word I said, the back of the boat. There's this thing you steer the
boat. What do you call this? He said duffer.
		

			What is
		

			this is the thing in the back of the boat disappear, okay. Now I can tell you, I said, Imagine
yourself now for a minute that you're out in the water, you're hearing this boat, and you're
blindfolded.
		

			And you can't hear it, something's in your ears, your eyes are closed. And you have no data. You
don't have a steering wheel. You're just in the boat. You feel about moving this way. And that way,
and this way, and that way, and you have no idea. And this is all you've ever known.
		

			Oh, you feel the wind.
		

			You feel the water. If it rains, you feel the motion, but you don't know where you're going, or why.
And you have no idea what your purpose is to be there. Then suddenly, one day somebody removes this
blindfold from you. Somebody is taking this stuff out of your ears. You can see you can hear and
most important, they're giving you the steering wheel the duffer.
		

			Now, this is the difference because when you come to Islam, you can see you can hear and you have
control. You have the control over your life. Now, by the way, just in case you didn't catch this.
This is a good parallel because just because you have a steering wheel just because you can see just
because you've been here doesn't guarantee that you're going to go the right way does know.
		

			But it sure gives you a head start over the guy who's sitting in another boat with his eyes closed
ears are plugged up and he has no duffer. Make sense. Yeah, makes a lot of sense. And that's what I
want to come back to again and mention that Islam has these beauties. And this one particular
beauty, where you're to use your mind and you can ask questions, and you can get real answers.
answers that really when you think about it, they make a lot of sense. You're not forced to just
accept something that somebody says, Just have faith rather Just have faith? Well, faith is great.
If you've got something to base it on. If you can see something, you can hear something and you have
		

			some control, some steering wheel, this is a great advantage. And it's probably one of the bigger
attractions I think of all of the beauties of Islam that we've been talking about. I think this is
one of the most emphatic of all of them, that it comes to you in a way that once you start using
your mind and your heart, and then you see what allows having in front of you. It becomes a lot
easier, a lot easier to accept and then to put into practice. All of this is just one of the many
beauties of Islam. We've learned today some words we learned the word who don't we know now who do
is guidance.
		

			We've got another word tough one we know Tuckwell means to put a barrier, or a partition between
you, barrier between you and the punishment of a law. And we know the inner Guide us to the straight
path. Now, Muslims, we say this seven
		

			times a day, 17 times a day, can you imagine that in our prayers, because we pray in the morning,
the noon, the afternoon, the evening and the night prayers. And when we pray, we always include that
in there we say, Guide us to the straight path. It Deena Serato, Mr. King, and that is the way to
open it up and open this dialogue between us in a law. And of course, that's going to be another one
of our programs, we're going to talk about this dialogue that we have another beauty of Islam. the
beauties of Islam are many. And if we tried to enumerate them and count them, I think we would run
out of time. And we're running out of time, even now, as I'm speaking to you, this program is too
		

			short, we wish we had more time to cover all of these beauties of Islam. And when we think about it,
and examine this, this brain that we have and realize that it was given to us the knowledge that we
have, that we're thinking with, this is all part of something in the Quran, which we find. Allah
says jamoma banner ad him on my cell phone, will you return the bishop Eman? ilma. He Illa be Masha.
Allah is telling us in the Quran, clearly, that he is the one that has all the knowledge, all the
knowledge is with a lots of power with Allah. He knows everything of the creation around us over us
under earth. And we don't have any knowledge, except the knowledge that he gives us. That's all we
		

			have. And he says that we only have what he gives us. And by the way, you can take it back. Have you
not noticed what happens when people become old? And they get these degenerative diseases of the
mind like Alzheimer's? They can't remember things anymore. Their mind starts to go, well, where did
all that intelligence go that they had? A lot takes it back. So this knowledge, even the knowledge
you and I have right now that we're talking and you're listening and I'm saying something back and
forth. All of this is from a law.
		

			Maybe you'll remember tomorrow, maybe not.
		

			All of this is coming back to the thing we started with talking about using the mind. And the mind
is a very important part of understanding Islam. And it's an important part of the beauties of
Islam.
		

			Allah says in the Quran, so many times using the expression alone Tara cave, don't they see? How
don't you notice how alone Tara cave of bouquets Have you? Have you seen how your Lord dealt with
the people of the elephant? This is one of the expressions a lot ask you and he's asking you to use
your brain use your mind think
		

			so many times so many times we've come to these beauties of Islam and we miss it. So I hope you
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