Yusuf Estes – Where The Bible Agrees With The Quran

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The Bible is a simple translation and has many things in it that agree with it, but the Bible is arguing with itself. It uses the example of the birth of a baby and gives examples of translation and comparisons. The speakers emphasize the importance of giving da absorption to non-Muslims and avoiding confusion and mistakes. The Bible is also used for teaching and provides da bias to people. The speakers give advice on giving daily bread to receive the daily bread of Jesus and encourage people to give back to the church. The conversation is difficult to follow and appears to be a discussion of religion and religion.
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Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.
Masha'Allah.
Alhamdulillah rabbil alameen.
Huwa alladhi ja'alna muslimeen.
Wa salat wa salam wa rasool wa kareem.
Wa ala alihi wa sabiha ajma'een.
Ashadu la ilaha illallah.
Wa ashadu anna muhammadin abduhu wa rasool.
Did you think this was going to be
in English?
Huh?
Yeah, well, it is.
Texas English.
Alhamdulillah rabbil alameen.
He already stole my first joke about being
useless, but I feel useful after all of
the things that we just heard and all
of the people that were sitting there with
me.
I was really impressed.
And the brother just told us about things
that could go wrong in giving dawah because
he said, and you heard him say it,
about calling Isa Jesus.
Is that a problem?
Do you think that's a problem?
Well, maybe it is.
I don't know.
But I use those two distinct names
for Isa, because when I'm talking to the
Muslims, I call him Isa.
But when I'm talking to a non-Muslim,
then I have to say Jesus because they
don't know who we're talking about.
Anyway, so the topic today is the Quran
and the Bible.
But I don't have either one of them
right here.
Do you know that?
This is not the Quran.
This is not the Bible.
Why?
You got it.
Because they're translations.
A translation is not the same as the
real deal.
And there are some good translations, but they
will never equal what Allah said in the
Bible or in the Quran.
We have probably closer to the meaning.
Well, this is...
I'm wrong about that because this is the
Quran with translation to the English language.
Yeah, so...
Anyway.
Alhamdulillah.
But this one is all in English.
And I know that because it's placed by
the Gideon Society in a hotel or motel
somewhere.
And they picked it up.
Alhamdulillah.
Where did they agree?
And this is important because if you're giving
dawah to a non-Muslim, especially a Christian,
you need to be able to communicate on
his side.
And I want to focus now on the
idea of...
the general idea of giving dawah.
If you would like a debate, hang out
with Dr. Zakir Naik.
But if you would like to get people
to Islam, and especially if you're in your
own community, this is not the best idea
to start a debate.
Because you make a lot of enemies when
you debate.
You win some, but you lose some.
Is that right or wrong?
Yeah.
The idea is...
I'm going to walk away from this microphone
in a second.
Because you draw a line.
And on the other side of that line
is the person you're debating with.
But you want to pull them over and
talk to them gently.
And make the other side of the line
for the shaitan.
And tell them that.
We don't want a debate.
Because a debate brings a lot of heat,
but not very much light.
This is one of the basic principles in
the dawah.
Is you have to give the service to
the person.
The Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, was famous
for that.
He was a very humble person.
And very gentle.
Very quiet.
Can you imagine him taking a microphone and
shouting out at the people?
No.
No.
This is the example that Allah has given
us.
When he said in the Quran, Say, if
you really love Allah, follow me.
That's talking about the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam.
Then Allah will love you.
Ah.
I want Allah to love me.
So I want to follow the Prophet, sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam.
And then the rest of it, it says,
he will forgive your sins, because he is
the forgiver, the merciful.
Alhamdulillah rabbil alamin.
So, what is the commonality between the two
books?
Even in the translation, they still talk about,
at the very beginning of the Bible, it
talks about the creator.
And it tells you that in six periods
of time, Allah created the entire universe.
And then he created mankind.
The last of his creations was the human
being.
He created angels.
Then he created the jinn.
But the very last, he created the human
beings.
And that was a problem for one of
the jinn.
And everybody knows who that is, right?
Yeah.
But this is not about that.
This is about keeping the jinn away, or
the shayateen, away from us while we are
trying to give the dawah.
And how can you do that?
Well, you can start out by reciting Ayatul
Kursi.
Allahu la ilaha illa huwa al hayyu kayyum
la takhuduhu sinatun wa la naum Ah, that
is the problem with the first pages of
the Bible.
Because it says clearly in the Bible that
on the seventh day, God rested.
Ah, Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala doesn't need
to sleep or rest, or he doesn't get
weary, he doesn't wear out like we do.
And yeah, he keeps on going and going
and going.
That rabbit with the batteries that you see
on TV, you know what I'm talking about?
He will run out of the battery, but
Allah will never run out on you.
If, and this is the basic of the
giving dawah, start with the things that are
real simple.
Don't load them up all at once.
What is the simplest thing?
Talk about what Allah says in the Quran.
About what?
About what?
About peace.
Ah, okay.
And about wisdom.
Alright.
Then when we get the person relaxed, you
can open up and ask questions.
The last program I did here, we talked
about the questions, the three questions.
Anybody remember what they were?
Anybody here was in the first one we
did?
Anybody?
Yeah?
Do you remember the three questions?
Is there a God?
Yeah, you got it.
And if the person says no, this was
in our first program, if the person says
there is no God, you can ask him
a second question.
Can we prove it?
Include yourself with it.
Can we prove there is no God?
Because we're looking at a lot of stuff
around us all the time.
But don't take it for granted.
Because the science is on our side.
Because the Quran clearly tells us and it
doesn't make any mistakes in what it has
to offer.
And it came 1400 years ago.
Think about that.
With no mistake.
So talk about the Quran from a positive
point.
And mention that in the Bible, some of
the things are really good for a translation.
Some of the things in the Quran are
a good translation.
But both of them fall short of the
mark of representing what Allah or God Almighty
really said.
The idea of giving the dawah is a
simple idea.
Really simple.
Anybody can do it.
Anybody can do dawah to someone.
However, you can't control the reaction you're going
to get back.
Because that's another person.
Right?
So think about this.
If you have something that agrees with what
they already think.
Ah, number one.
It starts out with talking about the creation.
So talk about the creation.
Talk about it from the standpoint of the
Quran.
But include the opportunity for them to say
what they have.
And then listen quietly.
Because there are things in the Bible translation
that agree with the Quran translation.
In fact, I spent two years going over
it.
Comparing the Bible to the Quran translations.
And I found that the Quran agrees
totally with the Bible.
Except where the Bible, what?
Except the Bible is arguing with itself.
That's the mistakes.
For instance, we just put up something today
on the internet.
Talking about, and you can go to Islamnewsroom
.com and see it.
Because we spent a lot of effort and
time working with this.
Talking about the things that are in the
Bible.
We're talking about something that says in the
Old Testament.
In the book of Exodus.
Talking about, no it's in the book of
Numbers, yeah.
The book of Numbers 23.19. You'll find
it, it says, God is not a man.
And God is not the son of man.
What did Jesus call himself in the Bible?
In the translation of the Bible it says,
He was always saying, 78 times I think.
He was saying he's the son of man.
He didn't say he was the son of
God.
Actually, there is someone that called himself the
son of God.
And that was Daoud.
In the book of Psalms in the Old
Testament.
Yeah, he said, that I will tell you
something.
And he was having a crowd around him.
And he said, I will tell you something
that God told me today.
You are my son, this day I have
begotten you.
That is the only person in the whole
Bible.
That has the right to say that.
And I don't even know if he has
that right.
But he said, I was called the son
of God today.
Ah, and begotten of God Almighty.
So when we get to the New Testament.
We find that this is the opposite.
They were trying to say what Jesus didn't
say.
In the red letter edition of the Holy
Bible.
The red letter edition.
Only what Jesus said is in red.
So it's real easy to figure out what
he said.
And you will never see anything in the
red letter edition.
With Jesus saying, I'm God, worship me.
Yeah.
You won't find it.
But you will find a lot of miracles
that he did.
But what is the first miracle that Jesus
did?
What is the first one?
According to us.
According to Muslims.
Anybody know?
Yeah?
What?
He was a baby.
Yeah.
And he was just a few days old.
Babies don't even make noise.
Except ah, ah, ah.
At three days old.
Right?
But his mother was carrying him.
And Subhanallah.
I thought about this at Christmas time.
He spoke from the cradle.
Every display you have of the Christmas scene.
They have a cradle in it.
Right?
They have a place to put the baby.
Huh?
But they don't know the story behind it.
They just assume.
Okay, the baby is born.
Needs a cradle.
No.
He was speaking from the cradle.
Time for a coffee break.
Serious.
Yeah.
Now I feel good.
When we're talking about giving dawah to people.
You have to relax.
And don't feel like everybody is watching you.
And if you do.
If you're in a church or a school
or something.
Talking about Islam.
And you feel nervous.
The best thing you can do.
And from experience.
I know this.
You can tell the crowd.
I feel anxious.
I feel, you know.
Like you guys are not going to like
it.
Ha.
Because that means they're all on your side
right away.
Because they feel sorry for you.
And they feel like if I was up
there.
What would I say?
Ah.
So make it easy.
Make it easy on yourself.
Make it easy for the person.
Because you're really doing something that you were
created to do.
Share the message.
If you don't know much about the message.
Just share what you know.
But this is not about giving dawah.
As much as it is about comparing the
books.
And my talk was not about beating up
the Bible with the Quran.
But talking about where they come together.
And especially if you get the point across.
The Quran translations are not the Quran.
And they have mistakes in them.
Because nobody can bring a book like the
real Quran.
And if it's in French, Italian, Greek or
English.
It's still going to have problems.
The only one that is the real Quran
is in the Arabic language.
Get that in your mind before you walk
out the door.
Because this, well, this does have the Arabic
in it.
But the English falls short of the mark.
You have to have a lot of English
to explain a few ayahs.
Notice that there are probably 1, 2, 3,
4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11,
12, 13, maybe 15.
That's the average in a Musab.
However, look at the small text out at
the side.
Pages and pages of a lot of, and
then they don't even explain all of it.
Because the Arabic is really like an ocean.
And the English is like that cup.
Yeah?
It's good, but it will not hold the
ocean, will it?
No.
So get that in your mind.
So when you talk about the translation of
the Quran.
And we do give out a lot of
translations of the Quran.
And we have a website for that, afreequran
.com.
We only give it out to people in
the United States and Canada.
Because it costs too much money to send
it.
Anyway, if you want to give out the
Quran.
And you say it's a translation of the
meaning.
That's a good thing.
That's a very good thing.
Don't say this is the Quran.
This is a translation of the Quran.
Because you will find a lot of things
that agree.
If they will just open it up.
And then they think most of the Christians
believe this is the Bible.
But if you read it in the Old
Testament.
It talks about the books coming with Moses.
And it talks about that in a sweet
way.
He came down the mountain.
And he had all of the commandments with
him.
And then he saw the children of Israel.
Worshipping a golden calf.
And he lost it.
And the Bible says he threw it down.
And broke it up.
And they had to go back and get
another one.
We don't have that exactly thing.
But you can compare that.
And say, well, Moses, number one.
He killed a man.
Well, that's in the Bible.
He killed a man.
One shot.
Bam.
Alright.
So that's a comparison.
And the comparison is not exact.
However, you can get a lot of streamlined
footage.
Because in this, in the Bible.
There are places where it has a beautiful
thing.
In the New Testament.
It has two times.
Something that we only have a problem with
one word.
The translation of the Bible.
Says that Jesus told them how to pray.
He didn't talk about raka or sujud.
But he did tell them what to say.
And it goes like this.
Our father which art in heaven.
Hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done.
On earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses.
As we forgive those who trespass against us.
Ah.
And it ends with.
For yours is the kingdom and the power
forever and ever.
Amen.
The only problem we have is with the
first part of it.
Our father.
We don't say that.
We say our lord.
Our Allah.
But we don't say our father.
Because the Quran is really explicitly clear about
this.
Do not associate anything with Allah.
As a partner.
And definitely a father and a son are
partners.
Anyway.
To get back to the idea of where
it comes together.
We feel.
We.
I think we could say that we feel
a bit uneasy.
When we try to give the dawah.
Right.
If you've given dawah before.
You know how it starts out.
You know how.
How did I do?
How did I do?
But the people are not guided by you.
They're guided by Allah.
I'll tell you something that happened to me.
And I was.
Seriously.
Trying to get the dawah going.
In Texas.
That was 30 years ago.
My wife was talking with people.
They would ask her.
Why are you covering your face up?
You know.
And she would talk to the ladies.
And then she would bring them out to
the car.
If she was shopping.
Or bring them over to the house.
And she did all the work.
All I did was give them the shahada.
Maybe a hundred.
I don't know.
She did a real good job.
But the idea.
I wanted to get it out.
And I tried so hard to manipulate the
people.
But Allah wasn't having it.
As soon as I started asking questions.
And letting the people talk.
I found that that was the way to
go.
For me.
It was so easy.
You ask them.
Is there really a God?
Okay.
And then listen to their answer.
If they say I don't know.
Or no.
Well.
Look around.
The universe.
It came from somewhere.
Now.
A lot of people have the idea.
And that's why they're agnostic.
Because they think.
Well.
It's God like us.
The God of the Bible.
Is just like us.
He has arms.
He has legs.
And he has.
You know.
Appetite.
He has to eat.
He has to go to the bathroom.
Because.
They're told that Jesus is God.
Oh.
Man.
This is a big.
Big mistake.
And.
They know it.
But they don't realize.
That there is.
Another.
Way to look at it.
Allah Subhana Wa Ta'ala.
Is.
Ah.
What he said he is.
And.
If you understand.
Rahma.
Rahim.
That's good enough.
That's the start.
And talk about.
The idea.
Of Allah forgiving.
Okay.
Now.
In the Hadith.
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam told us.
That only one out of a thousand.
Bring it up.
Bring it up.
Oh.
Okay.
Alhamdulillah.
So.
They said wrap it up.
The idea.
Of sharing the message with the people.
Is really simple.
You give.
Service.
Just like the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam did.
And you give advice.
If they ask you.
And then.
Be.
Aware of what they are saying.
Because.
The person.
If they make Shahada.
You will be so happy.
And you will greet them as a brother.
Which they are.
Or a sister.
Right.
Yeah.
But they are not your enemies.
The Shaitan is your enemy.
Some people.
And I am going to end with this.
Some people.
Muslims.
Have the idea.
That.
The.
Jewish.
Are.
All.
Our enemies.
Because of what is happening in Palestine right
now.
But that is not the truth.
Even the worst person.
Can get Hedayah from Allah.
Is that right or wrong?
And we don't know.
Who the people are.
That are going to get the Hedayah.
The guidance of Allah.
So.
Take that.
And chew on that for a while.
And think about that.
And then.
Be ready.
For.
All of the people.
That you will help get to Islam.
As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullah wa barakatuh.