Yusuf Estes – Beauties Of Islam – EP07

			Salam Alaikum peace, and welcome to you to our program, the beauties of Islam. beauties of Islam is
a program designed specifically to bring out the beauty and the understanding of what Islam is
really all about. My name is Yousef Festus. And for the next few minutes, I want to talk a little
bit more about the subject that I've been preaching on. The subject of the beauties that we find in
Islam, when we look at it from a different perspective, a human being looks at everything from the
human being point of view, you and I are not able to really look at life from the point of view of a
blade of grass, or a flower or a tree. We can't really know how a tree is looking at everything. But
		

			the one who created that tree obviously knows all about it. And who is the creator of everything?
And that's what we're talking about. Now we're talking about a law.
		

			What is it that the Muslims believe about a law? What do we understand about a law, and this is one
of the beauties, we understand a lot to be unlike, that's the first thing that we're going to say
Allah is unlike, unlike what unlike anything that you're going to be able to describe.
		

			Because everything that we are aware of is in the creation.
		

			So if the God is in the creation, that means he's created and the logical question, somebody's going
to ask you, well, who created God?
		

			And then what will be your answer?
		

			So the Muslim understands this beautiful concept that God is not in the creation, and he is not like
the creation, he is outside of his creation, in a manner that best suits him being God.
		

			One of the things that is a question that comes up a lot, Can God do anything? Well, for the one who
believes in a God that will say, Yeah, he's God, he can do anything he wants to do. A human will
naturally attribute that to God, because we're not God, there's a lot of things we can't do. And we
want God we can have like Superman, he can do anything, you know, is God Superman, sort of.
		

			But for the Muslim, that doesn't work. Number one, we don't compare God to a man, even Superman. And
we don't put God like the creation or in the creation. And then there's another point too, we know
that Allah is not having limits, like anything in the creation itself.
		

			Who is God? What is God. And this is, like I said, one of the most beautiful concepts that you will
ever imagine, to first begin with what is not. And this is how he begins. La ilaha illa untersuchen,
a conical $2 million mean, a beautiful statement that was said, by one of the prophets, peace and
blessings be upon him. And this is that there is none, like a lot to be worshipped, only allow us to
be worshipped. Banana glorifies His Majesty, above all things, and says, For sure the wrongdoing is
coming from me, a very healthy statement, by the way for a human being to come to this conclusion.
God's perfect, and I'm not.
		

			But when we talk about God's existence, how do we understand this? And how do we, how do we justify
what God does and doesn't do? Can God do anything? Actually, the Muslim is going to say, you've
tried to compare a lot to his creation, again, what God does and doesn't do. For instance, somebody
would say, Well, if God can do anything, could he be a man right away? The Muslim would say, No.
Well, could he lie? No. Could he die? No. Could God cheap? No, these are things that, oh, you're
saying bad things about God? So these are things he doesn't do? How do you justify that at the same
time, you're saying God could do anything? Well, Muslims don't say that. We say Look how low wala
		

			quwata illa. below. There is no mic, there's no power except the might and the power of the law.
		

			And we say Allahu Allah Galician kadeer, that this mean that Allah is capable of doing what ever he
wills to do.
		

			There's a but look at this. But Allah never wills to do something that will make him not be who he
is. In other words, he would never will to die because he's what he's a high, which means the
Eternally alive, which now brings us to another area of beliefs in Islam. And that is that Allah is
the epitome of each and every one of his characteristics. This is a beautiful teaching. And it's
something you really need to reflect on and think about because the more you think about this, the
more you begin to understand a whole new concept, something that maybe you never thought about
before.
		

			Allah says in the Quran lays the commit cliche in Lahore Semyon Bashir,
		

			the meaning here is he is not like anything.
		

			And what is this next part? Semyon Bashir means all hearing
		

			and all seeing. Even this is not like the creation, because the creation, there's nothing in
creation that can hear everything or see everything is there.
		

			There's nothing in creation that has this kind of ability. And why because the law is not in the
creation. These are just a few of the things to give you a little tip of the iceberg. Now what I
want to do, and want to let you think about what I'm talking about, so that this steeps in, is gonna
take a minute for you. So you just let that seep in there for a minute. Take a break, we're gonna
come right back, I want to pick up right where I left off, and continue with this beautiful concept
in Islam. It's the concept of who God is, and who he isn't. And all of that is going to be right
here. So sit tight, we're going to be right back with more beauties that are back and you're
		

			watching beauties of Islam. And we've been talking about the beauty of the concept of gardens lamb.
And we start start out by saying what a lot doesn't do what he isn't. He isn't in his creation. He
isn't like his creation, and what does he not do? He doesn't do anything that would make him no
longer be who he is. Now he defines himself. This is so interesting, because many people they're
searching for God. They want to know who is God, where's God? How do I know? What's my purpose? Why
did he create me many questions that we have, but now look what we find in the Quran. It's in
chapter two, verse 255, that would be surah Baccarat the chapter called the cow and look it up if
		

			you like and see the meaning that usually translated be something like this. I give you the Arabic
And slowly we'll examine the meaning of it.
		

			Allahu La Ilaha Illa who have hydrocodone? lotta hudl singer tune wellknown la Houma semi waka
Mattila
		

			de la de PUE into elevated me yo la mama Vayner at him mama have a home when my you he done a BA in
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			was he could see who smile what they will or will they are older who have the whom or who.
		

			You cannot translate this to the English language word for word. And really still get this beautiful
meaning but we're gonna try anyway. Allah starts out telling you again. Allahu La Ilaha Illa whom he
says the law he is the one that there's none other don't worship. He's the only one worthy of any
worship.
		

			Oh, hi. Okay, you have high means the Eternally and always living. I'll tell you that eternally and
always self subsisting, it means he can't die, because he's always alive. And he doesn't ever need
anything from his creation, because he's totally independent of his creation. He doesn't need
anything. These are two very important characteristics. And he is the epitome of those. It's these
are eternal and total capacities that only a lot can be ascribed to him.
		

			And then he continues, and he says in here, that
		

			all he doesn't get tired. And he doesn't get similar to nwaba now, and he doesn't sleep. These are
human attributes. These are creation, things like animals and people, but not a lot. He doesn't get
weary, he doesn't fall asleep and look at this. Then he said everything in the universe belongs to
him totally and completely. It all belongs to him.
		

			Then he asked a rhetorical question Who is there that could come between him and his creation,
except they have to give him permission to do it anyway.
		

			And then he says that he has full and total knowledge of the whole entire universe, and you don't
have any knowledge. I don't have any knowledge except what he gives us.
		

			And by the way, he can take it away from us dude, can't he? Then he says that his Kersey extends
over the universe. Just Mercy and this Percy is sometimes translated as Chair I'm sitting in a
curtsy right now is translated as Chair but actually can be also like a stool. And this tool is in
front of our laws Irish is thrown in the same way and same size proportion as a ring thrown into the
desert. This is to give you the idea of how huge and amazing is this cursey it's bigger than the
whole universe. Universe becomes like a tiny ring.
		

			The kirsi like a giant desert, then the comparison from Allah Kersey to his throne again. Now
suddenly, the kirsi is the tiny ring. And the throne is the giant desert. Now this proportion thing
is important because the next part it comes up, and it says the how mighty and how majestic, and how
amazing is a loss upon whatever. So this is something, I really invite you to learn about the Arabic
language and then learn about this verse, it's called, I have to perceive the verse of the chair,
not thrown arches thrown.
		

			From this, we're able to gain at least an introduction to the understanding of the beauty of the
meaning of the word of law,
		

			the word or law, you know, we could have a whole program just talking about this word Allah. So
amazing is this concept. But let us continue with what we were saying earlier, what it is a lot
doesn't do. If you said, Could he die? Absolutely. He doesn't do that. Because he is the all alive.
That's one of his attributes, his characters, it's one of his 99 names, as we call it, as Muslims.
		

			And as far as could he lie? Or could he cheat? Well, two of his names are all Hawk, which is
absolute truth. He is true. It doesn't mean he's truthful. He is truth. So obviously, it can't be
anything as a lie, or anything deceptive. Also, he's ideal, which is meaning totally fair, and just
therefore he could never cheat, and he wouldn't.
		

			And when you start talking about some of the things you did about a law, and you're comparing them
to the creation, this will boggle your mind, and it makes people nuts. I'll give you the example.
Somebody say cannot do anything, God, can you do anything? And somebody will say, Yeah, why not?
Then they'll say, can you make a rock so big that nothing can move it?
		

			And, sure, why not? You can make a rock so big, nothing can move it. But now you're gonna have a
problem?
		

			Because if he can't move it, that's something you can't do. And how will you answer that? What the
Muslim says, Allah doesn't make stuff like humans do. And he doesn't move stuff like humans do. He
can make a rock so big that nothing in the creation can ever move it. But for him, everything is by
command. He says goon fire, Khun B, and it is, and that's when the rock takes form and shape. When
he says, move and moves. And he doesn't move things like you and I are with a fulcrum, and a lever
and a mass. And I know, this is something for a law that he does as He wills and he is capable of
doing whatever he wills to do. So don't compare it to the creation you don't get in problem like
		

			that. And don't put him in the creation and you don't run into these problems in concept. Allah is
Mighty, and above all that he's created a beautiful concept of beautiful teaching in Islam.
		

			And for more about that, visit our website, beauties of islam.com and until next time, peace, Salaam
Alaikum.