Yusuf Estes – Beauties Of Islam – EP31-33

Yusuf Estes

Sheikh Yusuf Estes, American Muslim Preacher & Teacher giving public lecture on the topic ‘Beauties of Islam: (Part 31~33) Preservation of Islamic Resources’

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The importance of preserving the Prophet Muhammad's teachings and the historical figures who have been taught to the audience is emphasized in the discussion of the Prophet's teachings. The use of Arabic language in writing, learning to recite the Prophet's teachings, and the transmission of his teachings to future generations is emphasized. The importance of learning and teaching is emphasized, as it is the only way to remember the Prophet's teachings. The segment also touches on the importance of the Prophet's teachings and how they are being protected by the way he speaks.

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			Bismillah Alhamdulillah and welcome to this episode of the beauties of Islam. I'm your host, Yusuf s
this. And for the next few minutes, I want to talk about one of the beauties of Islam known as
preservation, meaning that the evidences and the proofs of Islam are preserved for us even today,
just as they were revealed 1400 years ago, 14 centuries ago, the urn was revealed to the Prophet
Muhammad peace be upon him in the Arabian desert. Now, no matter how you look at it, this would be
		
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			a strange thing to consider a man who could neither read nor write, who is coming up with something
so amazing that even today, those who are students of knowledge, and those who are appreciating the
RMB, the Lego daughter via language of the language of Arabic, they will say that this is something
amazing, amazing is this Quran, there is not a book like it, nowhere in the Arabic language and in
fact, nowhere in any language on the earth today.
		
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			The style, the structure, the beauty of the Quran is unmatched by any literature, by any poetry. And
the beautiful part here is that it is all 100% preserved, not so much in the paper and ink as many
people consider when they talk about books, but rather even more emphatic, it's preserved in the
minds and in the hearts of all of the Muslims around the world. I'd like to call your attention to
something that when you think about this, of all of the people in the world that are claiming Islam,
something to do with Muslim, each and every one of them, regardless of their culture, their
traditions, and their various opinions on social and political issues. Still, in all, the Quran is
		
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			exactly the same verbatim, word for word, letter for letter, and dot four dot, and some of our
programs, we've discussed this in more detail. But what I wanted to talk today is about the
methodology of preservation.
		
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			First of all, when the Quran came to the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him, what we find is that he
himself not being literate in hidden, unable really to read and write, had to hear, understand,
memorize, and then convey this to his companions. And in such a way that they would also be able to
understand, memorize and pass it on then to generation after generation.
		
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			And one of our programs, we discussed the game called telephone, I'd like to repeat that for you
just let you think about this. I don't know if you ever played this when you were a child or not.
But it's where you take a group, maybe eight or 10 individuals, you take one aside, and then you
read something to him, maybe two or three paragraphs, you asked him to listen closely. And then that
person will take another person aside, and then they will begin to rehearse. And he will tell him
those paragraphs as much as he can remember, then that person will tell the next person who will
then tell the next person and so on. Now, imagine that this is going to happen in the same day in
		
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			the same time in the same place with the same people who speak the same language and even have the
same traditional background and understandings, idioms of words and so on. Now, imagine what will
happen after those eight or 10 people though here and pass to the next person. And it's funny that's
why we call it a game we enjoy doing it. Because what started out talking about maybe space travel
going to the moon ends up somebody talking about pizza and Pepsi's.
		
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			But here now we're talking about something amazing because more than 600 pages, there's the Quran
right here, when you write it down on paper.
		
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			Kind of big, don't you think that somebody could memorize all of this in its entirety, all 600
pages.
		
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			And notice that the majority of the people memorizing the Quran today,
		
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			they're not Arabs. In fact, since the time of revelation until now, it was only in the very
beginning that the people who recited it were Arabic speakers, many Muslims like myself, when they
come into Islam, it's necessary for them to begin to learn what is Arabic, starting with the Alif,
ba, ta and so on and going through, then seeing how these letters come together, then forming the
words and pronouncing some of these strange sounds like
		
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			in a vein and
		
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			And for many of the sounds that we find in the Arabic language are not necessarily in the English,
and we have to kind of work at it. So considering that the sounds, the letters and even the
structure of the words themselves, I'm going to show you something Have you look at this, and
probably you're not gonna see it as close as I can. But the letters instead of going from the left
side of the page to the right side of the page, as we do in English, and many other European
languages, this start on the right side of the page and go toward the left. By the way, when you're
writing, it's a lot easier to do it that way. But that's another story. I'm just telling you that so
		
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			is different. Here, you're going from the opposite side of the page, you've got brand new
characters, letters, they're not even letters that you're familiar with the shapes the sounds, and
yet
		
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			memorized today by all of these people,
		
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			maybe 92%.
		
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			Roughly
		
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			10% of the people memorizing the Quran are Arab speakers, all the rest of us are not abs. So how is
that this book is being preserved, so exact. And it's not just by writing it down. As a matter of
fact, as we discussed in other programs, gruhn is not really meaning a book in the sense that this
this book here, but rather the book, that's without law, and when it's recited, it's considered core
on that which is being recited.
		
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			Now, here's the beautiful thing. Each and every Muslim on the planet is using Arabic throughout the
day, every day, what we're doing, how we're acting, we're actually using words from the Quran. Just
now when I picked this up, I said something in my heart, I said Bismillah
		
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			pretty good. And why is because Muslims say that before they begin anything. And that's the
beginning words of the Quran in the name of Almighty Allah. And what we'll do, we'll take a break.
And then when we come back, we're going to show you more of the things that Muslims are using
everyday from the Quran, in their daily lives and how easy the Quran is really to be preserved.
		
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			Sit right there, right best Mila, we're back and you're watching the beauties of Islam. I was
talking in the first part of this episode, about how many things that the Muslims do every day using
words from the Quran, and how easy it is to preserve the Quran in our memory. One of the things that
the Muslims are always doing when they greet each other is to say salaam, salaam alaikum aleikum. We
find these words also in the Quran, it means peace be unto you. Another thing that we say is
Mashallah. And we're actually taught in the Quran to say this, meaning because Allah wills. Another
thing that we're taught to say is inshallah, meaning that if Allah wills if God's willing, and this
		
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			is an expression, I remember using many times, even in English as a Christian living in Texas, we
used to say if the Lord's willing, and exactly the meaning here is insha Allah. In fact, a lot tells
us in the Quran that you should say this, anytime you say, I'm going to do this, I'm going to do
that, so and so on. So you say in sha Allah, and we find again, these are things in the Quran,
helping us as non Arabic speakers even to be able to retain and preserve the message of the Quran.
We say many times a day of hamdulillah and these are the first words we find in the Quran. After
Bismillah R Rahman Rahim In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. hamdulillah
		
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			Rabbil aalameen all the praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds now, if you think about it,
Muslims, if you ask them any question, look what they're gonna say. They're gonna say homme de la
principi say, How are you humbler? Praise to Allah? You say How are things going? hamdulillah how's
your children? hamdulillah and how's the work? I'm doing law, how's the life 100 law, everything
hamdulillah Praise to Allah. And these are the first words of the Quran Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim
al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil aalameen.
		
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			And then our rock Manor Rahim again, repeating how merciful and how gracious is the last panel.
		
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			Maliki oma Dino, this part is the first thing we got. It's a little different here. This is that
Allah is the King. On the day of judgment. He's the owner or the sovereign on the Day of Judgment.
Wow. And already we're halfway almost through the first chapter of the Quran. Because we're using
this word so often it becomes
		
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			Simple and easy for small children even to begin to memorize the Quran. And before you know it, they
know all of Surah Fatiha, then it's easy to learn another one called in our technical Kota. Kota is
only three little short verses, but it helps and we begin and we're going from step to step to the
next one. And we'll learn while us in, in Central Africa, sir. And then after that, they'll learn go
who Allahu Ahad. Oh, Who's the man after that globe will be rebelled for luck. And then the next
chapter will be Robin.
		
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			Many times we find children 567 years old, and memorize 1020 3040, even 50 chapters of the Quran.
And they haven't even really attended any of the formal schools for learning Quran? And how about
those that do? You might be amazed to find out that a child could spend one and a half years only
studying the Quran, and they would have it all memorized entirely, and be able to quote it to you
all the way through front to back cover to cover without even looking at it once.
		
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			Is this a miracle? I want you to think about it. In the beginning of the program, I gave you the
example of the game called telephone. And how funny it is that we can't even communicate something
from one person to another in the same room for only eight people all living at the same time
speaking the same language. But how about when we're talking about passing something down for 1400
years, from ear to mouth, mouth to ear. The majority of these people not speaking the Arabic
language, the majority of them speaking so many different languages, and learning the Arabic just
for this purpose, so they will know that we're on.
		
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			And then to top it all off. Today, we have more than 10 million living human beings walking on the
earth today who have the whole Quran in their hearts. And a lot of tells us in the Quran, that he
will preserve this, this recitation, and he's done. So I have so much to tell you about more of the
beauties of Islam, use our website beauties of islam.com to get more information about this. Till
next time, Salaam Alaikum. Peace be upon this villa Alhamdulillah. Welcome to this episode of the
beauties of Islam. I'm your host use the best this. And for the next few minutes, I want to talk to
you about a subject I was speaking about in another episode talking about preservation, or
		
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			continuing and authenticating the information or sources that we have in Islam.
		
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			I want to share with you something funny that happened to me so you can see my perspective and where
I'm coming from when I talk about this topic. When I was first learning something about Islam,
actually, I was trying to convert a Muslim to become a Christian. This was in Texas many years ago.
		
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			Bismillah.
		
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			And one of the things that we did is what I just did right there. I said Bismillah Yeah, pick up
something I start a neat say, Well, why don't you say in the name of God, before you begin? I say
what does that mean? He says before we do anything as Muslims, we invoke the name of the law. So if
you say Bismillah, then this is good for you. I said, Okay, Bismillah
		
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			then I came to find out something amazing. He told me that in Islam, the Prophet Muhammad, peace be
upon him tells us that we get blessings for all the things that we do, if we do them for a law. So
instead of just getting in your car and going to the store, you do it for a law, you say Bismillah
you get in your car, and then you go to the store. So now you're getting reward while you're
driving. You enter into a building and you say Bismillah
		
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			Hmm, even before you go to the bathroom, Bismillah In the name of Allah, and all of this will do
what it will give you rewards with the law and protect you as you're going along through your life.
And I said, this sounds good. Why not? It won't hurt anything.
		
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			Along the way, when I was talking with my friend, I was really trying to convert him. And he told
me, you know, if your religion is better than mine, I'll go to your religion, but you need proof.
And when I had a discussion with him about what kind of proof was he talking about? He was
explaining that the things of Islam are still preserved today. The Koran as we've mentioned in many
of our programs is totally and completely preserved in the heart.
		
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			In minds of over 10 million human beings living today around the world, and that all the Muslims in
the world are memorizing at least portions of the Quran.
		
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			All Muslims, even little children, because the first words of the Quran are what Bismillah
		
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			The thing that I just said, when I started doing this, the thing that I said when we opened up the
program, all of our programs and you listen, when we start up beauties of Islam, what we always say
Bismillah Alhamdulillah. And this is the same as the Quran starts Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim, Allah
from the ladder below the mean. So from the very beginning, as a Muslim, even the small children are
learning to recite the things that we have in the Quran. But also along the way, is the preservation
of the teachings of Mohammed, to explain how to implement the teachings of the Koran, they work
together. They're called Hadeeth, or stories, and they're preserved in the sooner or the way of
		
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			Mohammed, peace and blessings be upon him.
		
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			Some of the early scholars, earliest lamb, just within a few decades after the time of Muhammad
realized the importance of preserving each and every one of his sayings and teachings, therefore,
they were careful to preserve it by checking their own memories, and then teaching the next
generation of Muslims. Exactly what was said how it was said, and describing the events that went
along with it. So that these narrations would be passed on in oration form, as well as being written
down.
		
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			We have a series of books today that you can read when you hold it in your hand. That's a book of
course. But there are also narrations, which are done orally. And they are exactly the same as what
we find in these books. And these also are passed down in the same way. And the same methodology or
men hedge that it was done with the Quran itself.
		
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			So when you get into the bigger schools of knowledge in Islam, you'll have the chance then to begin
to really use your memory, because instead of just reading something and writing it down and passing
a test, one of the test is how much of the Quran Do you know from memory, until you memorize all of
it, you're not even considered a scholar. And then after that, to memorize these Hadeeth in the
Arabic language, and when we say to memorize these stories of Muhammad peace be upon him, we're not
just talking about the matin or text. We're talking about knowing the rewire or chain of narrators,
all of this in memory to be sure that you know, who said it, where you got it from? And how
		
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			authentic it is. And then what is the exact text in the Arabic language? The Prophet Muhammad, for
instance, is reported to have said,
		
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			A dunion signal movement watchin ato cafr the meaning here in English more or less is that the life
of this world, the dunya, the life of this world is a prison to a true believer, but is the only
paradise for a disbeliever. Now, do you know for sure if he really said it? Well, we do because we
can take it to the book and show you exactly where it is. And we can also take you to the scholars
of memory, and they can tell you exactly how it was said even and on what occasion and what it
referred to. Many of the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him are preserved so
authentically, that it leaves no doubt in the mind of the one who is studying this, that for sure.
		
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			This must be something amazing, just as the Quran itself. There's a lot about this, I want to tell
you, but let's take a break, give you time to think about what I just said, Don't go anywhere. We're
gonna be right back with more beauties of Islam. Bismillah Al Hamdulillah, we're back and you're
watching the beauties of Islam. We've been talking about the preservation of the sooner or the way
of Mohammed, by way of Hadeeth are the stories that have been passed on generation upon generation
upon generation. These were done in two forms one in the oral text as I've been explaining to you
from mouth to ear, and the other they were preserved also in the writings of the teachers and
		
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			scholars of Islam so many centuries ago. What is interesting to note is that even today, there's
something called ijazah where there's like a diploma, handed to one who has gone to the trouble to
sit and listen and memorize from his teacher. The Koran and the relative had deeds or teachings of
Muhammad to go along with this. In this the person not only admitted
		
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			memorize the Quran. But they've also memorized the Hadeeth that go along with this. And they've
memorized the names of the teachers who have passed this on, they've memorized also, the teachers,
teachers, and the teachers, teachers, teachers, the names and things about them all the way back to
the very lips of Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him. Now,
		
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			if you think that that's something you think that's amazing, I will remind you that human beings are
not able to do something like this on their own. But rather, this is something that is only
particular to the teachings of Islam. These two things that were on in the Sunnah are preserved like
this. If you consider, for instance, in literature, the famous works called the Iliad and the
Odyssey, which are very much attributed to one called Homer. In fact, if you study literature,
you'll find that he's not really the author of these great works, but rather, it's something
produced by his students who said that, basically, he would have said it this way, he would have
		
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			written it this way, because they know him and they knew his style.
		
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			It was also something very acceptable, even at the time of Jesus peace be upon him, for someone to
take it upon themselves to write something down, and then say that it came from the Prophet Moses or
the Prophet Abraham, or the Prophet, Enoch, and so on. What they did, was to write in the spirit of
that person, and then attributed to them. Now, this would not be anything different than what we
find today. If, if I were, for instance, to go to a place where Abraham Lincoln grew up and walk
around and see what it is like, imagine his place of birth of places still preserved there, and read
some of the documents that he had written. And then, on my own, begin, describe something out and
		
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			say, you know, this is something he probably would have said, and this is the style he would have
set it in, and then sign it Abraham Lincoln. And then say, you know, I was writing in the spirit of
Abraham Lincoln.
		
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			If you study the Apocrypha from the Bible, you find out that what I said, is exactly true of many of
the old books that are not acceptable, really, as canon for the Bible itself. It whether you're a
Catholic or an orthodox or Protestant Christian, you know, that there are books that are still not
part of the Bible, even today, they're called apocrypha. And if you check it out, you'll find that
that's how these books were written, I'm sure people met Well, there's no doubt about that. And they
said, they wrote it in the spirit of a particular Prophet, or they wrote it in the Spirit of God, or
they wrote it in the spirit of something. But after checking it out, a lot of those who
		
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			authenticated the various different Bibles, decided to leave those out. Even at the time of the
Protestant Reformation.
		
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			There were books being tossed out of the Bible, by some of the scholars saying they weren't
authentic enough, and they weren't really testable, and they didn't fit with a cannon at that time.
And they also didn't go along with some of the teachings they had. So the Orthodox Bible having 78
books is totally different than the Catholic Bible having only 73 books, which is again, even
different from the Protestant Bible, the very famous King James version, which has only 66 books in
it.
		
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			All of them are very similar. And this is not the point here. But what we're trying to say is that
none of them are exact.
		
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			What we do know though, is that the teachings of Muhammad, peace be upon him. And the teachings from
the Quran. Not only work together are homogenous that flowed well together, but they're exactly
preserved today and understood in the exact style of Arabic language, called push ha, this classical
Arabic is still available to learn today, and you can hear the sound exactly as it came. This is not
true of other ancient texts. For instance, the cone a Greek we're talking about Homer's Iliad and
the Odyssey. You can't find that today in the exact pronunciation because the language is no longer
spoken. The same would be true about the ancient Hebrew, the ancient Aramaic, and also the Khan, a
		
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			Greek of the time of Jesus peace be upon him. So what's nice really here is that Allah has preserved
both the Quran and the Sunnah Mohammed without question, we can easily say that this is right and
attest to the fact that the Quran and the Sunnah have been totally and completely preserved by our
Lord, Allah subhana wa tada
		
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			amazing
		
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			Yeah, it's amazing. That's why it's called mortgages. Why does it means miracle. And this is one of
the miracles of Islam, and certainly one of the beauties of Islam. For more, visit our website,
beauties of islam.com. Until next time, peace saramonic Bismillah Alhamdulillah and welcome to this
episode of the mysteries of Islam. I'm your host, Yusuf s this, and I'd like to continue talking
about one of the beauties of Islam called preservation.
		
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			A lot tells us in the Quran that it is he who preserves this Koran, and he uses the word Hafiz,
Hafez it means to preserve. And we say Hafiz Quran is someone who memorizes the grammar, but
actually, they're preserving the Quran, we've been talking about preservation of the Koran, we
talked about the preservation of the sooner or the hadith of Muhammad peace be upon him. Now, we'd
like to discuss another type of preservation. And that is the teachings of the scholars of Islam,
who came after Muhammad who understood his teachings and passed it on to their generations, and
subsequent generations after them.
		
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			But as always, we begin by saying Bismillah
		
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			In the name of Allah,
		
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			one of the early in groups, what are called the companions, or Sahabi, these are people who knew
Mohammed, personally, they'd met him. They accepted Islam during his lifetime.
		
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			And they lived and died as Muslims. And they had heard from him something that could be verified
that for sure, they heard it. And then they could pass that on to next generations. And this is the
beginning of the transmission of both the Koran and discipline, Muhammad peace be upon him because
we mentioned many times in other programs, the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him never wrote a
single thing. He did not write it down. How we know it to be authentic is because it all matches,
there's not even a word difference in the Koran. And there are many rewires or sources to show us
the different teachings that he gave. And again, they're exactly the same thing.
		
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			Now, I want us to reflect for a minute on those companions, those people who were teaching this
information to the next generation now these would be people who never actually met Muhammad peace
be upon him, but they had definitely met these scholars and these teachers who had met him. They're
called Tabby the Tabby are the people who are the companions of the companions of the Prophet
Mohammed Silva lives and I'm pleased to be pining.
		
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			After these people are their generation, the next generation from them. There are people who now are
meeting people who had met the companions, therefore, they're called Tabby, Tabby are companions of
the companions of the companions, if you will,
		
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			about these people, the Prophet Muhammad prophesied, peace be upon him, he prophesied that the best
of the people would be those who are of his companions of the day, the next, the best reliable,
would be those who came after them Now, again, is the Tabby, then after them would be the Tabby,
Tabby. Now we understand that these are the best, and after them the best and after them the best.
But then after that would be regular people, normal people who could make mistakes, and so on, up
until the last days, and then there would be another group of people in the very end, who would
really understand this message and convey it to each other.
		
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			And it's even mentioned the in the big speech, the famous speech called the hooded over there of the
Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him, when all of the companions had gathered together on arafat, and
he delivered this famous sermon called the farewell sermon. What he did was to explain basically the
principles of what Islam is teaching us. And be sure that the people understood, it's about how we
worship God without partners, our treatment of our mothers and fathers, our treatment of our wives
and how we have to be so careful to give everybody their rights. He talked also, though, about
something that is kind of amazing when you think about he talked about races of people and mentioned
		
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			that no race of people would have any advantage over another race, and not according to Islam,
regardless of your skin color or your ethnicity, or the country that you come from, in the sight of
Allah.
		
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			You're all the same. This was 1400 years before we start talking about segregation, separation
between
		
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			black people, white people, looking down upon somebody, maybe they're from the Orient, as opposed to
somebody who's Arab and so on.
		
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			So this teaching is,
		
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			I think, amazing. And then look what he says at the end of this teaching, though, he said, It is
hoped that those that hear it today will convey it to those who are not here today. And those who
hear it at the end will understand it better than those who are here today.
		
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			That's an amazing statement when you consider what he's talking about.
		
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			Because he's saying that the people in front of him right there, need to get out and share this
message with the people who are not there. But the people who hear it at the end, are going to
understand it even better than the people there will today. It is amazing when you think about it,
we today have of course, we have the whole Quran that was preserved even at his time many people
memorized it. But we have it in written form, which they didn't have, at the time of Mohammed wasn't
completely written down, as it was at the time of his death. There's a lot about this. So what I
want to do is take a break here, give you a chance to think about what I'm talking about. Maybe
		
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			you'd like to get a pencil paper, make some notes, make note of our website, all that's coming up.
So stay right there, don't leave, we'll be right back with more theories of Islam. Bismillah
Alhamdulillah, we're back and you're watching the beauties of Islam. And just when we went to break
I was talking about how the Quran is preserved, how the Hadees are preserved, and how the teachings
of the scholars are preserved. Now what I was saying is that even at the time of Mohammed, they
didn't run around with books in their hands like we have today. The Quran was not compiled in book
form, like you see this, he was all written down, by the way on such things as scrolls, and animal
		
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			hides, palm leaves, things like this. But the Quran itself gathered together as a book didn't happen
during the lifetime of Muhammad peace be upon him. This came about at a later date.
		
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			And yet, even then, it was not considered to be right until they would check it against the memories
of so many of these companions, who had totally memorize the Koran.
		
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			And of course, they all agreed exactly point four point dot four dot how it is because they had all
memorized, it wasn't something they had to worry about making up later. In fact, it's been said many
times, if out of all of the books on Earth, that we had lost all of the books on Earth, that the
Earth is the only book on earth that we could bring back exactly as it was word for word, letter for
letter, and dot four dot, because of the preservation in the memories of so many different people
around the planet.
		
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			Now, I want to mention too, is that when these teachers and scholars went out to teach, they didn't
consider themselves to be scholars of Islam, that wasn't even their aim. That was not their goal, to
set up shop somewhere and say I am a teacher, I'm setting up a university over here. And you know,
you can come and get your Islam for me. As a matter of fact, what did happen is that so many new
people, there was a big influx of new people entering into Islam, in large numbers. This is
mentioned in the Koran, then entered into Islam as larger in big numbers, huge numbers 1000s of
people came. So there would be certain ones who had done a lot of extensive work, along with
		
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			memorizing the Quran and so on in learning and teaching what had been brought by the prophet
Muhammad peace be upon him.
		
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			These people all had jobs, all of them had work that they did, and then they would do this on the
side. In other words, the teaching of the Arabic to those who are not Arabs, the teachings of the
Quran and the memory work and the preservation of the Hadith, or the sayings of Muhammad. All of
this was done on the side, because these people were having different businesses and different jobs
that they did, and didn't consider that this is something that people need to be paid for. After
all, they were really believers in Islam. And they understood that this is more than just a ritual.
It's an obligation. It's a right that a Muslim has to get knowledge and it's the responsibility of
		
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			the other Muslims to teach them and that's what they did.
		
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			We've talked also in our programs about the four schools of fic, which is often a bin Hanbal mama
Shafi Malik, and Imam Abu hanifa. I want you to be sure to understand that these people never set up
shop across the street from each other and had competition of university, our academies, or schools
trying to get people to join them. That was not the case. First of all, they were very much remote
from each other. For the most part. The first in the succession was Mmm, Abu hanifa. And in fact, he
knew companions of Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him. Therefore, he was considered a Tabby because
he had met some of the companions of Prophet Muhammad. That means he was in the generation
		
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			considered the best after the companions and he was a great and wonderful teacher. He lived in
Basra, which is quite a ways from the Arab peninsula. Then the next one in succession is the imaam
Malik now he lived in Medina and he was the great scholar of Medina. That's the place where Prophet
Muhammad peace be bomb is buried.
		
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			In America, Merrick met and shared information with enam Abu hanifa. Therefore, for sure, we know
that Imam Malik is a Tabby Tabby, because he met a companion of the companions.
		
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			What's interesting now is the we find that a mama Shafi happens to be a student of who of Imam, Abu
hanifa. How, because he was a student of Imam Malik and Mr. Malik sent him to learn from Abu hanifa
students. And so he went journeyed to Basra and learn from Yaqoob, Abu Youssef and Mohammed Eben
has. In fact, he even lived with Mohammed bin Hassan and studied with him it was the great judge and
kadhi at that time of the, what was known as the School of fichte of the handfeel. From Imam Abu
hanifa. Now, if that's not enough, the last and final one we talked about is the hanbali thick or
Amelie been humble, and he was a student of Imam Shafi. So therefore, we can see immediately that
		
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			none of them we're having these great differences of opinions that you might see today, from some
less educated Muslims will say, but in fact, they all agreed on the most important principles, which
is that there's only one God that ilaha illAllah. Muhammad is His last and final messenger, Muhammad
Rasulullah. Is the Huck the Absolute Truth and is preserved as we know it to be without any doubt in
it, and that all of the Hadees and all of these studies, all of these studies, if they're authentic,
then that is my way. That's my madhhab that's what I understand. So please, if you know any Muslims
have a problem with this, talk to them about this, let them see this program by going to our
		
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right there and get more information about the beauties of Islam. Oh, we ran out of time. We must go
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Salaam Alaikum.