Yusuf Estes – Beauties Of Islam – EP25

			Bismillah Alhamdulillah and welcome to beauties of Islam. I'm used to pestis and for the next few
minutes in this episode, I really like to address one of the beauties of Islam which is talking
about the way, the way to get to a law, the way to get to God Almighty.
		

			Many times when we're talking about this subject, I hear people give so many of opinions that
everybody has. And there are a lot of opinions when people talk about how to get to God. Some, as
we've discussed in other programs, believing they're lucky rabbit's foot, they believe in a
horseshoe that can bring them good luck or they believe in their lucky stars. They believe in some
statue, an idol or an image that they can pray to, and get their prayers taken up to God through
this thing that's making intercession for them. Or they believe in a man or a woman or something
they can pray to, perhaps somebody in the grave somebody that's dead that can go and ask from them.
		

			But is this really the way to get to God? And another one of our programs we talked about that
there's a way that God has prescribed anything basically, he's not going to accept anything but the
way he prescribed.
		

			This is well known throughout the Quran, but I'll give you a couple of references chapter three,
verse 19, chapter three, verse 85, chapter five, verse three, and on and on, we find over and over
this word is called Dean, Dean, Dean. And listen to this, even God is saying that the people who
disbelieve still have a dean, they have a way, their Dean is not going to go to a law firm, but they
still have one even an atheist as the dean because the dean is not a religion a dean means your way
what you do and so when some people they came to Mohammed peace be upon him, and look what they
said, hey, what worship would you worship? If your worship what we worship, let's make a compromise.
		

			How about this idea? Think about it.
		

			One year, you guys meaning the Muslims, you guys worship what we worship, and then the next year
will worship but you're worse What do you think about this idea? Before Prophet Muhammad peace be
upon him can even open his mouth and say something on his own? Here comes revelation from Almighty
God telling him what to say in Arabic language. Cool, yeah. You have a coffee room? law. Buddha
martaba done. Well, I am to be doing in my booth. Will I be doing my back to him? while I'm doing
I'll be doing my Lancome Dean Kuhn. Walia, Dean, did you hear the word Dean in there by the way?
Okay. Translation more or less than the meaning.
		

			God Almighty Allah is telling Prophet Muhammad what to say cool mean, say it's imperative. Cool.
say, Oh, you who have disbelieved. I don't worship what you worship. You don't worship what I
worship. I'm not gonna worship what you worship, and you're not gonna worship what I wish.
		

			Now that way. So to you, your dean.
		

			say to me, my reading to you, your dean. In other words, I'll go my way.
		

			And you go your way back on deer comb, while you
		

			think about that. So anyway,
		

			this helps us to understand why Islam is much more inclusive than some religions that are out there
because they will say that no, our way or the highway. And that's not exactly it. It's a laws way or
no way allows way or no way. And I'm not saying that some Christians can't go to Paradise. In fact,
I'm saying the opposite. I'm not saying some Jews can't go. I'm saying the opposite. And I'm
certainly not going to say that I'm the judge of anybody else either. Listen to this verse from the
Quran and see what you think about that. And I'm going to go to chapter three verse 110, this is in
the surah or chapter called lm Ron contin hierro Metin. Och, relate to a project NASA morona bill my
		

			roof, but 10 how not until moon car. What to noon Bella, the first part of this verse is very
familiar to most Muslims, I think, maybe, I don't know. Maybe half the Muslims in the world have
memorized it. But the meaning here is you're the best of nations raise that because you call the
people to the ultimate good of what Islam is all about. The morals, the teachings, the beliefs, the
actions, and you forbid the Ultimate Evil, which is what takes people away from Islam and all of its
great morals and
		

			teachings, and you believe in the law.
		

			Look at the next part of the verse though, and most people didn't memorize this. And I'll give you
the English translation, more or less. And if the people of the Bible had believed it would be
better for them.
		

			That means people are the Bible. And if the people of the Bible had believed it would be better for
them, from them are people who have belief, but most of them are disobedient. I took this to some of
the preacher friends that I still have,
		

			and talked with them about it. And they said, you know, we agree with that.
		

			Yes, there are some Jews and Christians who have belief, and it's better for them. And most of them
though,
		

			they're disobedient. Those who claim that they believe in God, they claim to believe in the Bible.
But er, if you ask them, why don't you follow it? You'd be surprised they would be, you know,
amazed. Why are you telling me about my book?
		

			Well, the Quran does not claim that the Bible is not from God. In fact, it says here, the originals,
we know the original came from a lot people tried to play with it. But for sure, we're not trying to
put down the Bible. The teachings of the Bible that are preserved in the Quran are part of what we
believe. Quran is real clear, says in Quran that you cannot kill any innocent person, if you do,
it's like you killed all of the human beings. If you save an innocent person, as though you saved
all human beings, says in the Quran, that you have to give honor and respect to your parents. If you
don't, you're in big trouble with the law. You can't even say
		

			when you're trying to take care of them, and when they get old, and so on. But it also says in the
Quran, you can't eat the meat of the pork, the pig, you can't do that. Well,
		

			excuse me, but didn't say the same thing in the Bible.
		

			Didn't say the same thing. Let's find out. When to take a break here let you digest what I've been
talking about. Come back, I want to talk about this subject the way to a law using the Bible, the
Quran, don't go away. That's some exciting stuff coming up. Well, we're back, you're back. Here we
are with more of the beauties of Islam.
		

			We have a website, they asked me to tell you about this yet. beauties of islam.com beauties of
islam.com. When you go to the website, we've got some samples of the programs just like you're
watching right now, we also have some articles there for you to follow up with, and other links to
help you better understand the subjects I'm talking about. I want to be sure that you understand
that we are not here trying to debate somebody, or to cause a, you know, a conflict. But rather what
we're trying to do is clarify what it is the Muslims see as the beauty of Islam, and how we can
focus on these similarities and comparisons that are in concordance with each other. Because if we
		

			can do this, then we can find ways to help our youth grow up together and better build the new world
for the future. I really have a lot of confidence in that. That's why we did these programs. Now I'm
going to come back to what I was talking about. I was saying about the Bible, that it has a teaching
in there that's just like the on it's in the Old Testament find it saying that you cannot eat the
meat of the swine. And it's detailed talking about the big the pork and the animal himself, the you
know, his skin and all the rest of it. It's forbidden.
		

			And in Arabic language, that word is haraam. And this is exactly what we find in Quran talking about
the pork, the Lamb khanzir, Haram, the meat of the pork, the pig, the hog forbidden to you.
		

			Now, if you understood what I just said,
		

			and you believe in the Bible,
		

			but you eat pork Anyway, what does that mean?
		

			That means you're being disobedient. Have you said no, no, no, no, no, no, that's the Old Testament.
I found the New Testament. And I don't think I've found it real close because if you read in Matthew
chapter five, verse 17 1819. It's clear there that whoever breaks the least command
		

			In teaches that is going to be the least in the kingdom. Why? Because it also says no same verses
that not a single.of, the law the Torah is going to be in any one is lessened. And whoever even
breaks one of those laws and teaches it, it's going to *.
		

			So how could you say, Well, I believe only in the New Testament when the New Testament is done,
you'd even know that.
		

			And if you said, Yeah, but I found something in the New Testament said that Paul said that the law
is dead to me, I'm dead to the law. If it weren't for the law, I wouldn't be at center, therefore.
		

			I cancelled the law.
		

			You're basically you're saying that? And so No, I didn't mean I didn't mean it's okay. Whatever
you're going to come up with either way. You go. Either, you're canceling the law, you're not. If
you're canceling it, based on what
		

			when you have a statement that says you have to keep it. Now there's also something illogical, too,
if you're saying that the Old Testament came from God, but then it came with a New Testament and
changed his mind and came with something new.
		

			as Muslims, we would quickly reject that kind of thinking. In fact, we have it clear in our book in
the Koran, that the originals were all from a law. People played with them, a law sent more people
played with those, that law sent more. And this continued, all the way through all the prophets.
When people lost manuscripts such as during the Babylonian exile, we talked about that, when some of
the manuscripts were corrupted when they were partially destroyed when people tried to remember
them, or Rican, put them back together. And this was during the time of the Babylonian exile with
Ezra. And we found in some of our other programs to what actually happened to the Bible.
		

			We developed some websites for this. And when you go to our main website for this program, you're
going to find links to go and compare for yourself and think we're not asking you to take my word
for anything. And in fact that that would be a new religion. If you did that. We don't need that.
We're just asking you to think about what's really being said and what the proof is for it. Then you
go to the website for yourself, see what you think.
		

			The Bible doesn't exist as it once did. That is clear. The Quran still exists today as it always
did. But the teachings that are coming from this, when we say God's words to human being, they're
still essentially the same thing. obey God.
		

			Follow his commandments, because this is the only way. And he says about that in the Koran, in
Edina, Idina in De La Jolla, Islam.
		

			For sure, the way with the law is submission to him in peace.
		

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