Yusuf Estes – Beauties Of Islam – EP22

			Bismillah Alhamdulillah and welcome to this episode of the beauties of Islam. beauties of islam.com
is where you'll find our website, where we'll be talking about more of this subject, give you the
details and explanations behind what we're saying in our short little episodes that we're giving you
now. My name is Yousef Festus and for the next few minutes, I want to continue talking about the
importance of understanding the way the way to Almighty a law. How do I get to God, and this is
something that we've been talking about, and numerous of these episodes, and explaining that there's
only some things that Allah is going to accept. In fact, they made it real clear that there's
		

			something who will never accept. And what he will not accept is something in Arabic called shark.
What shark shark is to associate partners with the law in worship. And whoever commits this whoever
worships others, alongside of a law or instead of a law, that he will never accept that. He tells us
in the Quran in chapter four, Sir aneesa verse 48, he does not forgive shark, but anything less than
this, he can forgive. So this is one of the things that we definitely must avoid at all costs, not
setting up partners with a law, because that would not be the way to get close to him.
		

			And how do I understand that? Well, shark has been described in different ways by some of our
scholars over the many centuries. One of the things that they tell us is that there's something
called Shergill agbar. They've described it based on many of the teachings and findings in Islam
from the Koran and the teachings of Muhammad peace be upon
		

			this sherco Akbar is meaning of great Akbar means great, great, greatest of
		

			this act of associating partners with the law. This is someone who is who committed this, they are
putting a partner with the law in a way that can be enormous. Think about it, this is something
huge. They have said that God is a man, or a man is a God. Or they have said that, you know,
something like a tree is a God. They're worshiping something clearly not a law, but they are
claiming that this is a worship to God. There is another type of sharp, which we find it's been
described by the scholars as sherco as a smaller word, but not necessarily a smaller deed, because
it's still a shark. And it's unforgivable. That's when someone is going to be worshiping something
		

			like they have, say, I believe in God. And my way to get to him is through this way. For instance,
they said, they have a lucky amulet that they carry with them a bracelet, that gives them good luck,
or a rabbit's foot that brings good luck. But you have to wonder if the rabbit's foot is such good
luck. It wasn't very lucky for the rabbit was, I mean, after all, here's a rabid going around on
crutches, saying, oh, gosh, that rabbit's foot wasn't any good for me. Why is it going to work for
them.
		

			But come back to what I'm trying to convey to you is that these things called shark won't work.
They're not going to be acceptable to a lot. It's come to the third type of shirt that they talk
about. Check out coffee. And this is what's called a hidden type of associating partners with a law.
The Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him spoke about it like this. He said,
		

			Could you see a black ant on a black rock on a black night? In other words a night with no moon, no
stars, totally black? Here's now a black rock with a black hand running across it. Are you going to
see it?
		

			I think not. And I think you understand what he's saying. This is something we all have to be very
careful of. Because it could be anywhere at any time.
		

			And here we're going to give an example that, for instance, Somebody said, Well, I believe in God
and he's the only one that I worship. And, you know, I hope that he takes care of us. We want to
thank him for everything and
		

			knock on wood will never worship anything else. Okay, there's a big mistake by going like this and
knocking on wood actually is a form of shirt.
		

			Why did you knock on the wood? Maybe you didn't know this, but that comes from a religion and
ancient religion in the European part.
		

			The world and they worship that God called wooden. And they believe that he existed in the trees and
the plants and all in nature.
		

			And that's where our the word would in English comes from this god they worshipped in the woods.
		

			And they used to knock on wood thinking that they were basically being in touch or making a
connection with their God wouldn't
		

			know, if somebody did that accidentally, that might be a different story. But when people are
habitually doing the same things, for instance, thank our lucky stars, you might hear somebody say
that.
		

			Again, this doesn't work in Islam, because they have said the stars could bring them a benefit.
		

			I'd like to give you an example of this. It was the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him that told us
in a clear Hadeeth are saying, right after the morning prayer that was called the treasurer, he
turned to his companions, and he talked about the rain, it had rained during the night, he said,
This morning, somebody became a disbeliever. And somebody became a believer.
		

			As for the one who said that that rain that came during the night was because such and such as
stars, or stars, constellations,
		

			they became a disbeliever in law by believing in those stars. But as far as the one who said that
the rain was caused by a law, they became a believer. So it's very clear that when people start to
talk about their lucky stars, or astrology or any of these
		

			so called innocent little things they like to do, it's not acceptable to Alon it's considered
disbelief. Even when somebody goes to their lucky horoscope to see what kind of day they're going to
have, this is a problem of serious problem for even Muslims. Maybe you said, Well, I was born in the
month of July, that happens to be the Gemini. And I believe that I should look up and see what kind
of day I'm going to have tomorrow.
		

			If you do it, you're going to have a real bad day because it means that you're not following Islam.
And certainly that's not the way to a law. We've got a lot more about this, but I want to take a
break, give you a chance to think about it. And then when we come back on it tell you an explicit
example of what is shirk what is not talking about how to get to God, all on booties of Islam, sit
right there. We'll be right back. We're back and you're watching the beauties of Islam. What we've
been talking about, is something called shirk the unforgivable sin. Now, in English, you could call
that blasphemy. That means that's the sin that nobody is going to escape from * if they practice
		

			it. Now, a lot of times people ask me, Well, wait a minute. Are you saying that people who are not
Muslims are committing shark? I'm gonna tell you this whoever consciously worships other than their
Creator. Then they've committed shark. And if you said, Well, wait a minute, blasphemy This is done
forgivable sin? And then what good would it be then if somebody used to be a Christian or a Jew or a
Hindu or a fire worshiper, they decided they want to become a Muslim, but it won't do any good
because they're not gonna be forgiven anyway.
		

			Actually, that's a very good question.
		

			Can a person ever be forgiven if they committed it?
		

			In fact, most of all, the companions of the Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, had
been mushrik King, that's the one who commits shark is a moose rake, plural mushrikeen. All of the
companions almost of Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him formerly had been mushrikeen. So it's quite
obvious that by going to Islam, this cancels that out. It removes that horrible sin takes it away.
And then a person is okay with their Lord. So if you or anybody you know, has ever committed this,
you can tell them, there's a way to come back to your Lord.
		

			First and foremost is to recognize your Lord is one he has no partners. recognize what his way or
Dean, we talked about Dean and so many of our programs, what is his Dean, what is his way? What is
he prescribed for you recognize that, then bear witness to that orally, say it out loud, and then
begin to practice that day, and never go back to this other way. This needs repentance means a
person repents of this big mistake of worshiping other than all my dear law, without any partners.
		

			Yeah, one of the things that I ran into on this subject
		

			is the discussion about the Christian who
		

			like to be a Muslim, or at least like to know more about Islam. And if they said, No, hold on a
second, you're saying we're committing shark, simply because we're worshipping Jesus. And yet he's
God. We could be Muslims too, because we believe there's only one God, we believe is Jesus. And, you
know, we follow the way of Jesus,
		

			we as Muslims would tell you that that's a mistake, because the Quran tells us, Jesus was not God.
		

			He was not a third of a trinity with God, there is no Trinity according to Islam, and that Jesus was
not the Son of God, not a biological son of God.
		

			This is clear, and that God has no sons. God has no daughters. And God is not a son, and he is not a
daughter, that merely it will lead you that. Then it goes on to say, Well, I'm your COO, coo. He's
not the father of anything, not the son of anything. And and this is real key. He's not even like
anything else.
		

			Understand it like this, if you can see it, if you can hear it, if you can taste it, if you can
smell it, if you can feel it. If you can even imagine it in your mind, then you cannot worship it.
Because it is not all my dear law. It's not God.
		

			I realize that some people would take exception to that right away and say, No, no, no, my Bible
says my Bible says
		

			there are two things to consider about this subject, first of all, and we've talked about it in some
of our other programs. The Bible that you're claiming to be from Jesus is in the English language.
And it's based on some translations from Latin, or corny, Greek. And these are translations from
older manuscripts from other languages, Aramaic being one of the principal, and then also the Hebrew
language.
		

			Unless you could really come up with an exact document that could be attributed back to Jesus
Himself. That How would you know that it was really accurate? That's 1.9. I know that people will go
on and say, Well, yes, but so leaving that aside, the other point is this.
		

			Anything that you find in those older manuscripts that I was talking about? That says Jesus claimed
to be God, I'd be interested in it because I've studied that for a lot of years. I never found
anything where he said that I never found anything where he even said worship other than God. And
fact if you did find something like that, here's something to consider a statement, according to
your English Bible. It said, Jesus denies this look in the chapter called Mark 1229. wherein they
asked Jesus and he said, the greatest commandment is to know Oh, Israel, the Lord your God is one
and you have to worship Him, all your heart, all your mind, and all your strength. That is one of
		

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