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I'm going to thank you again for coming. May Allahel bless you all. May Allah make it beneficial session.
A Muslim speaker argues that Islam is the religion of truth, outlining criteria for evaluating religions: a true faith must claim divine origin and absolute truth, be internally consistent, and be pre
Key Takeaways
- A religion's claim to divine origin and absolute truth is a necessary first criterion for evaluating it.
- Many religions can be dismissed quickly because they do not claim exclusive divine truth; the investigation should focus on those that do.
- Internal consistency and freedom from contradiction are key tests of a divinely revealed text.
- Muslims should maintain their faith in a diverse society while engaging respectfully with non-Muslims and nurturing good companionship.
What the video covers
- Opens with a supplication and a hadith on the blessing of gatherings for remembrance and learning of God.
- Frames the central question: how can one know which religion is the religion of truth, especially when challenged by non-Muslims and atheists.
- Argues that the claim of '4,000 religions' is an unverified number and that multiplicity of claims doesn't negate the need to investigate evidence, comparing it to a criminal investigation.
- Distinguishes philosophical/ethical traditions (e.g., Hinduism, Buddhism) that don't demand exclusive adherence from Abrahamic religions that threaten consequences for non-belief.
- Proposes a first criterion: a religion must claim to come from God and claim to be the absolute truth; texts that don't make this claim (e.g., Harry Potter, the Gospels per the speaker) are disqualified.
- Argues that the Gospels and New Testament authors do not claim divine revelation for their own writings, questioning their credibility as God's word.
- Discusses the Sikh and Hindu notion of subjective truth (the elephant parable) as incompatible with a single absolute truth claim.
- Proposes further criteria such as internal consistency: God does not contradict Himself, citing alleged contradictions in Genesis about the order of creation.
- Addresses practical issues: how a Muslim should relate to non-Muslim family and friends, and the importance of being a good example for children.
- Discusses theological points such as the Quran affirming previous scriptures and the nature of prophethood and the mission of Noah, and touches on Jesus's second coming.
Chapters
- 00:00Opening supplication and introduction
- 00:21Framing the question of the religion of truth
- 05:01Answering the 4,000 religions argument
- 05:21Philosophical vs. Abrahamic religions
- 10:00The criterion of divine claim and absolute truth
- 16:00Internal consistency and textual critique
- 30:00Preservation of scripture and Quran's claims
- 55:00Q&A on family, friends, and Jesus's return
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Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam he said that there is no group of people that gathered to remember allahel to worship allahel or to study and learn except that tranquility dep the descends upon them and mercy encompasses them and the angels are surrounding them. So may
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allahel make us those group of people inshallah and accept from us. So the topic that I want to talk about today is a question. The question is how do I know the religion of truth? Now this is a very common question that we get
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[clears throat] especially among the people who are not Muslims. But that is a question that some Muslims get. I'm born a Muslim. I'm practicing Islam. I'm praying five daily prayers. But why is Islam the truth?
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Why? How do I know which religion is the religion of truth? And I think it's very important for us to know the answer to this question. Not just for ourselves.
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So we can be sure about what we believe but because we are in a country where we are surrounded by non-Muslims. If you're non-Muslim colleague or friend or someone at school, if you're at school or university or work approaches you and
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you're like, "Okay, how do you know what is the religion of truth?" Is a common question that is always posed by some atheists and non-Muslims. It'll be like there are 4,000 religions in the world, right? How do you know Islam is the
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right religion? Now, first and foremost, this arbitrary number of 4,000, nobody has confirmed this. If you were to ask the same atheist, can you tell list out what are these 4,000 religions? He doesn't know. It's just a number that
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they throw around. Essentially, there are religions out there, right? There are religions. So, how do we know that what is the religion of truth? You'll have some people come and claim that you cannot know the religion of truth
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because there are many religions and you give someone a basic example. If you're a judge and there's a crime, right? And then you have 10 suspects.
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Each of them says we haven't done the crime. Does that mean you're going to close the case and just look there's no crime just because there's many theories or many suspects? No. There must be one.
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But you need to investigate, right? You need to look at the evidences. You need to look at what happened, the time, the alibis, and then you will know the person who committed the crime. The same thing applies to this idea of multiple
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religions. How do I know which one is the truth? The existence of a multitude of them doesn't mean anything. The evidence and researching and looking at them is what is going to lead you to a conclusion of what is the religion of
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truth. Okay. Now, first, religions are really divided, you can say, into two types of religions. You have religions which are more philosophies and you can say what people refer to as the Abrahamic religions on the other side. Right? So you have for example
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religions like Hinduism and all of these types of philosophical Buddhism these ideologies and religions they don't even tell you that you need to worry because we have hellfire and you need to follow what we say. No, they just live the
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life. So you you don't even need to worry about it because it doesn't even tell you you have to follow what we believe in or you're going to be punished. You don't even have that concept. We as Muslims, we know this
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idea because we grew up, we're born with this idea, we grew up with it. But we assume other religions are the same. No, there's many ideologies, these other religions which are more philosophies of how to live your life. They have
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different concepts, but they don't try to bring you into their fault. So in reality, you don't really need to investigate these much. Why? Because if a religion doesn't say if I don't follow it, I'm I'm going to be punished, then
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why should I worry? Why should I bother? For example, now you have, for example, some some groups of Jew Jewish people that believe that Muslims are going to paradise. I mean, not their paradise. We have like some different paradise, you know, for us
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because we're not Jewish. Okay. Yeah. The the kind the heaven, right? So this heaven or heaven that we're going to go into but they still say we're going to go to a sort of a heaven right because we're monotheists.
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So we could we could easily turn around and tell them that if we are going to paradise isn't it safer that I'm a Muslim because Islam says if you're not a Muslim you're going to go to hellfire.
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So if I'm a Muslim I'm winning both Judaism and Islam cuz according to you I'm okay. So if I'm okay according to you then I would rather remain as a Muslim and stay up on my religion than change my religion and become a Jewish
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person. Why would I become a Jewish person? So all of these religions that I'm mentioning to you, the overwhelming majority of them, you don't even have to investigate them. So it's not really a question of how many religions are
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there, but it is a criteria that we need to look at one by one. So I have I have a criteria I usually put forth when it comes to investigating religions. And I would say this criteria is very rational and anybody who's
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non-religious or a Muslim or other will agree that this makes sense. So the first thing I'd say is the first thing you need in that religion that you want to investigate if it's the true religion or not the religion of truth. You know
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the Quran refers to Islam as the religion of truth. So if we want to know what the religion of truth is the first thing is that religion needs to claim it is from God. It needs to claim that it
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is the absolute truth. If that religion doesn't claim that right then that religion I don't even need to worry about it. So if I write a book Harry Potter, right, why why are we not following the religion of Harry Potter?
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You're going to tell me Harry Potter is not a religion, right? I'll tell you why. Say it doesn't claim it's from God.
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Doesn't claim is the truth. It's a story. So we don't even investigate it because it doesn't matter. But what will surprise you is that the so many religions or people are going to call religions, they don't even claim to be
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from God. You might not know this, but I'll give you an example. Christianity, right? We have like which is you can say the major religion in in this country right if you if you read the New Testament the
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writers of their book which they call the Bible the New Testament none of them starts by saying I'm writing the revelation of God none of them does that they don't do that you have you know some Christians who quot one of the
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verses from one called apostle Paul who wasn't even meeting Jesus came later on some guy random dude that came later on but they still follow him he says the old scripture is from God, but he was referring to the Old Testament cuz at
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his time that New Testament was not yet written in that way. So there is nothing or you they have gospels. They say the gospel of Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John.
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You told them does John say that he's writing the words of God? You get crickets. No. Nowhere in the in his entire gospel he says he's writing the word of God. Matthew is the same thing. Luke is the same thing. So if
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these people didn't even claim that they're writing the revelation from God, why should I believe they were writing the the revelation from God? Why should they seriously even investigate that faith? So essential criteria like I said is that that religion needs to first
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even claim that it is from God and that would disqualify so many religions. It needs to claim that it's the truth. You know you'll go to some Sikhs, they will tell you that you know they have their own concept of truth. Okay? So they will
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tell you you know some some philosophers in Hinduism and within Sikism gave this parable of elephant right they will tell you truth is subjective so it's like an elephant right there's an elephant here if I'm touching the feet of the elephant
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I'm feeling that this is a pillar right imagine you're blind you're touching the feet of the oh it's it's it's a a pillar another person is touching the horn of or the nose of the elephant they think it's a snake right another person is
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touching the ear so they're essentially saying this is the truth everybody Everybody is seeing a side of the truth.
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Everybody has their own way to the truth. So this is the truth. But everybody subjectively has a way to it.
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You know, it's all everyone is touching the elephant, but you just think different things. So Muslims are okay.
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You know, according to them, we're okay. We're fine. You know, nothing to worry about. So if you're a montheist, you truly believe in what you do. You try to be a good person according to them. Good person means just to practice your own
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faith, right? You'll be okay according to many saints. So if your religion does not claim again like I'm saying if your religion does not claim is true and if I don't believe in it or follow it I'm punished why should I bother why should
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I worry to begin with I don't need to I'll just stick to Islam because Islam makes that claim Islam is explicitly clear Allah in the Quran he says verily the only religion acceptable in the sight of Allah is Islam. Allah also
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says whoever seeks any religion any religion whatsoever other than Islam it will not be accepted from him and he will be among the losers in the afterlife. So that is something that Islam explicitly claims. So I would say that's criteria
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number one. Would you say that's reasonable? Pretty reasonable, right? Cuz you don't have to be a Muslim to agree with this. If you go to someone who's not Muslim and you tell him for me to check if a religion is from God, it
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has to first say it's from God. At least it doesn't say why would I think it's from God. Okay, so that's the first criteria. Claims to be from God and claims to be the truth. The second thing is that religion must be free from
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contradictions. It must be free from contradictions errors mistakes. You want to tell me why? The answer should be very simple. If something comes from God, is there any contradiction in the creation of God? Is there any contradiction? No. Creation of
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God is perfect. If the creation of God is perfect and we know that God is perfect in his attributes, his majesty and his knowledge, God doesn't make contradictions. If God wanted to tell you something or reveal something to
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you, that thing which God reveals to you is not going to contain the thing and its opposite. So God is not going to say to you pray and in the next verse don't pray. So all the religions which are
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false share in contradictions. All religions you know Allah says in the Quran about the Quran itself if it was from other than Allah they would find in it much contradictions much much errors much mistakes. However I'm not saying this is
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evidence that this religion is from God. Be this is a very important point here.
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Just because a book doesn't have contradictions it doesn't mean it's from God. That's why we have a criteria like I'm saying it's not one thing. However, it cannot be from God if it has contradictions.
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Which means what? It's a necessary thing in a book or any any religion, any scripture that claims that it's from God to be free from errors and contradictions. And like I said, if you look at any religion, any faith. So for
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instance, look, we mentioned Hinduism. Let's talk about Hindu. I'm addressing the major religions, right? Why am I addressing the major religions? Because these are the ones that you're really going to investigate. Because another question is this is if a religion is the
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religion of truth, would it be hard to find? It's impossible. Why? Because if it's meant to guide you and you're punished if you don't follow it and God like the religion of truth, guys, it's in somewhere in the Amazon jungle,
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right? With two bold guys sitting under a tree. Sorry, you're going to go to hellfire because you didn't find them.
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Of course, it makes no sense. The religion of truth has to be accessible. I have if God wants guidance or God wants to punish me in the end, right? If God wants guidance for you, it should be easily accessible for you to find
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whatever that religion is. That's why we're discussing these major religions because people get confused. Oh, there's many religions. No. So, let's talk about Hinduism. You know, Hinduism, it's contradictory in every sense. I mean like so contradictions are divided into
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two things. internal contradictions which would be in the the teachings of the religion itself, the scripture, the verses and then external contradictions in comparison to the world.
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If I made this phone, I know how this phone is functioning, right? I know how it functions. I know every detail about it. I know every I made it. God made this universe, right? God is not going to tell you that the sun is as big as
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this cup when he made the universe, right? God knows how big the sun is. He knows how big this cup is. He's the one who created it. So when you have contradictions in the external world, do you know this religion is not from God?
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Because God is the one who made this universe. He cannot be confused about his own creation. He doesn't know what is going on in what he created. So you have two types of contradictions. Like I said in Hinduism, you look at the
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beliefs. For example, it's all contradictory, right? You'll find a scripture that says God is one. Then you'll find millions of gods. Okay? Is God one or is God millions of gods?
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Which one is it? You you'll find scriptures that talk about the everything is God and the God is is the is within the universe and this eternality of the of the world. Then you'll find the story that the that the
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world is created and has a beginning. So which one is it? Does the world always exist and and everything is God or does the universe have a starting point and on and on and on. The more you see the
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more you realize, right? And you'll have these stories. For example, you guys didn't know this, but the fact is the sun is not just moving. There is a chariot with seven horses. I know you don't see them. According to the book of
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Hinduism, there is the Hindu scriptures. According to them, there are seven horses with a chariot pulling the sun.
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So, God is the creator of this universe, right? He didn't know if there's horses with the sun or not. But like I said, religions that are religions of falsehood are owed to have these problems. It's it's because it's not
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from God. It's from humans. Like we all know, we make mistakes. Like nobody can be perfect in his writing. You know what he says. You look at the Old Testament, right? You look at the Jewish scriptures and also the Christians share the same
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scriptures with them. So the Bible is divided into two parts. Old Testament and New Testament. And the Old Testament is the Jewish scriptures. But the Christians also follow the Jewish scriptures with the New Testament. So you look at Genesis which is the
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beginning of the creation talking about contradictions in the scripture. It mentions to you that in Genesis chapter 1 on the third day God created the vegetation and plants and all of that.
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Yeah. You go to the next chapter. Yeah. Genesis 2 it says to you and no plant have sprung yet. But you just told me 5 minutes ago that in the third day God created vegetation and plants. So how is
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there no plan? So God created the plants on the third day. What what are we talking about?
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Contradictions. You're a human being. You're writing and the writer which in many cases by the way in these books are multiple writers.
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You don't even know what the other guy said, right? He said no plants. You're writing. You say there's a plant. You start seeing contradictions.
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You look at the New Testament. You have a story. You guys know they believe Jesus was killed, right? They say that there is a disciple, a follower of Jesus that was a ratted Jesus out, right? He went to the Romans and said, "Oh, look,
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he's this guy. Come capture him. He's a traitor. Do you know his name?" Judas.
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Yeah, that's his name. Judas. Does anybody know how Judas died according to the Bible? Well, according to the Bible, he hung himself. Okay. So he says Judas hung himself. That is according to the book of Matthew. But when I turn around
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and look at the book of Acts, Judas was walking and he tripped over and he fell and his belly gushed over it and he died. So I'm I'm I'm like scratching my head. What's going on here? Can you die
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in two ways? Is it possible for a human to die in two ways? It's impossible, right? However, like I said, people writing stories, different authors. The author of Acts is not the author of Matthew. He heard the different hearing. People were saying
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something here and people were saying something here and that's it. So in Matthew they will say it's not only how he died but they say the money he betrayed Jesus right they gave him money for betraying Jesus a money of treachery
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he took that money according to the book of Matthew he threw it at the priest and then he hung himself okay so that's story number one story number two that same money he buys a field with it okay
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but I thought he threw it at the priest and hung himself no no he goes and he buys a field and then when he's walking he falls and then his belly okay and then it's called the field of blood. You
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can clearly see you know they will try to do you know how what Christians will say they'll try to reconcile this.
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They'll tell you, you know what, he was hanging himself and then he fell after a few days and he's very, okay, come on.
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Come, you know that this is ridiculous. You just know that these are two completely two different accounts. You look at again crucifixion of Jesus.
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Yeah. Alleged crucifixion of Jesus. They'll talk to you about Jesus going to the tomb or the Mary mother of Jesus going to the tomb. One story will tell you she went and there was an angel, you know, angel coming from God. There was a
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great rock in front of the tomb of Jesus and the angel removed that rock. You know, a miraculous act, a whole miracle.
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Same story in a different book. They came and there was no rock. Did they come and there was no rock or they came and there was this entire miraculous action of angels coming down and removing. This is what we call what
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contradictions. And by the way, contradictions are many. They're not just numerical. You can find many numerical contradictions where they mention the same story in different books but with different numbers. This is very easy to find, right? But these
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are even more clearer contradictions. We have an entire story that's completely different from the other story that they're pushing for. External contradictions, right? You talk about, for example, we already talked about Genesis and and the plants. It's an external
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contradiction. Right? Now you have for example the new testament it talks about or also the old testament the book of job it talks about embryology you know embryology is the baby growing in the mother's womb so it describes the creation of man and then
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he talks about god creating us from dust or from clay right as we all know from the beginning and then it says you poured me like milk and cdled me like cheese so you guys might not know this but we were all cheese and milk at
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some point someone was pouring ing us like milk and crediting us like cheese. You think about these things and you think are absurd and I'm going to come back to this point. It's a very important point. This idea of absurdity.
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However, you see these contradictions, right? And these contradictions already and easily disqualifies all of these religions. I'm talking about world religions. Now, not talking about small religions, right? We're talking about religions where if you want to count the
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people on the population of the planet you can say like half of the population you know or more than a third of the population or half of the population if you count Hinduism and Christianity only right so many people are following this
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so when someone says how do I know the religion of truth it's not really as hard as people make it seem what matters is is the investigation that you put into that now of course we know the Quran like I said mentions this
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idea that the Quran has No contradictions and if you are someone coming with a false religion you wouldn't even put that criteria why why risk it right why even mention this it's like you're encouraging people you're putting a
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challenge if this wasn't from God you'll find any contradictions you'll be encou encouraged to go and do your research so here's the challenge we put today is going to remain until the day of judgment go find us a contradiction in
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the Quran you're not going to find it the revelation of Allah is perfected as allahel says. Now, another criteria, another thing which is a necessity for a religion to be from God. Again, look, you see these criterias are common sense
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because like I said, if you go to anyone, they will agree with them. However, they already disqualify so many religions to show you how easy the search is. Now, a criteria is preservation.
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Criteria is what? Preservation. that faith and that religion has to be preserved in in the original form that it was in. Someone ask me why why does it have to why is that a criteria for a religion to be from God? Because if God
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revealed to me, let's say God revealed something to me and I have a religion and God revealed something to me. Okay, God revealed to me, you know, be good to your mother, give charity, whatever, whatever commands they are, right? I
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write them down. Ten commandments, you know, get my own ten commandments. Okay? go buy cereal in the morning, whatever the command is. Then I pass away, I die.
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Now I have followers of my religion, right? I told I told you guys, you say you guys are the followers. You know what to do now. Yeah. Everybody has the ten commandments. I die. Then you know who should I chose? Okay. One of the
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people here [laughter] comes and then starts to change. Yeah. Give 50% of your money to this guy.
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Command number one. You know, don't park your car in front of the masjid. command number two and just change them to whatever absurdities they are. Then that's it. What God communicated to us is no longer there. You don't know what
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even if he just changes one command or two commands. You don't know what is from God and what is not from God. The minute there's a corruption in a scripture, the minute there's a corruption of the communication that is
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supposed to be to come from God to us, we cannot trust it. And if we cannot trust it, then how can we follow it?
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Now if you want to talk about corruption, I mean that's something that even Christian scholars if you talk about Christianity would admit to. They have the biggest Christian scholars in the world. You have the the likes of Daniel B. Wallace who the most popular
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today in the scene you can say of of textual criticism. He will tell you every manuscript of the Bible is corrupted. He will tell you there's around 4 500,000 variants in the manuscripts. He will tell you this. He will tell you over
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100,000 changed the meaning significantly. Imagine the Quran. If we had one mistake, the whole world would go up and down. These people have 100 thousand over 100,000 mistakes that significantly change the meaning. Every manuscript is corrupted. All of them
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contradict each other, but they still follow the religion. You go to the Old Testament is worse.
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You have a book written. The earliest thing you have, the earliest parts of it, even all of it is 2,000 years separate from the source, which is Moses. You have what they call the Dead Sea Scrolls. have the majority of
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Isaiah, a part of the Old Testament, and some books here and there. It doesn't even have the full Old Testament, and it's 2,000 years separate from Moses.
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And according to them, it's written by heretic group. So, group of heretic means the people who are, you know, they don't follow the right beliefs.
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Following the wrong beliefs like if you think about any corrupted group now like the or something like that, imagine something written by Quran written by 20,000 years after Prophet Muhammad.
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This is what we the only thing we have. This is honestly what they have when it comes to the written form. But they'll say, "Wait, we have a oral tradition." Now they want to copy Islam now all of a
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sudden. Yeah. We have a a tradition of memorizing. You ask them, "Okay, yeah, really?" They say, "Yeah, do you have a chain of nation?" "Yeah, yeah, look, look at this chain. That guy lived 300 years before that guy, but somehow he
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gave him the Torah." Really? Oh, yeah. Look, they used to live very, very long.
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I'm like, "Okay, thank you." This is what they have. This is what the Judaism and Christianity. You go to Hinduism, you don't even need to talk. There's no really scripture that you can look at manuscript. Nothing. Because obviously
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they will tell you, "Oh, it's 5,000 years ago. So we don't have anything from that time." Okay, cool man. If you don't have anything, then how can we how can we know what you've introduced, what you've changed, what you've done, what
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you've not done. So preservation as a criteria, third criteria, it's a necessity. And we talk about the preservation of the Quran.
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We don't really need to go much into that. Everybody knows how preserved the Quran is. We memorize the Quran mainly in our hearts from the time of prophet Muhammad wasallam. Not only in the memorization but in the written every
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verse would be revealed. The prophet would bring a companion. We have writers of revelation.
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All of those companions we have their names, the biographies. They would write down what was revealed from Allah and it would be kept everything. And then that was maintained and gathered in one place right after the death of the prophet
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sallallahu alaihi wasallam in Abu Bakr's house. It was there maintained and for each verse they brought two witnesses. I want you to think about that why you already memorized. You think about they memorized the Quran. He know the whole
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Quran from beginning to end. But this is not only for verification in his time but verification for anybody in the future. This is the wisdom of those companions because today when that guy comes to you the atheist look look he
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didn't only bring it they brought two witnesses for each verse that they collected and that remained until the time of man where he copied from it the copies of the mah that you have you hold in your hand today but not
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only that it remain remained even after that original written in the time of the prophetam remained within the Muslims now until like around 50 ah time like you already had millions of people memorizing the Quran but that was still there maintained then
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you have of course we know the tradition in Ramadan you you're all an example if I start right now saying did I make a mistake what is the mistake that I did I didn't say all of you are an example
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Did I make a mistake? Allah. So all of you are the example of the preservation of the Quran that no other religion, no other faith that can even compare to it's impossible. Now there's a a story that a Jewish rabbi that
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im mentions in his book the proofs of prophethood. He mentions a story about a Jewish rabbi, right?
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It was at the time of Al Matm, I believe, the caliphate alm. And he saw this Jewish rabbi, there was a sitting, there was a gathering and he sat down and he was very eloquent in speech, right? Very intelligent, eloquent,
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eloquent in speech, intelligent. So he asked him, he said to him, why don't you become Muslim? You know, you invite him to Islam. The guy is like sounds like very educated, very knowledgeable Jewish rabbi. why don't you become a Muslim?
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So then he refused. Then a year later, that same Jewish rabbi again in a sitting and now he's speaking about Islam. We're speaking about Islamic knowledge. So he asked him, "Did you become a Muslim?" He's like, "Yeah, I became a Muslim." Why?
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What? So I'm curious now, right? I want to know this Jewish rabbi, I invited you to Islam a year ago. Why did you accept Islam now? What happened? What changed?
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So he says that he did an experiment. What is the experiment that he did? He took the Tawra books of the Jewish people and he said, "You know what? I changed here and there. I added some what I was telling
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you about adding taking some of here, adding some books here." And then I went to the synagogue.
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I gave it to the rabbis. They bought it from me. Nobody was like, you know, wait this is not our book. This is not a Torah. What is this? He says he went to did the same thing. Went to the
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Christian church. He took the Bible, changed, put some things here, take some things here. You know the Bible, if you buy a copy of the Bible 10 years ago and you compare it to the one today, it already has changes. I'm not going to
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talk to you about one like 2,000 years ago. Today, like buy a copy 10 and then just go, you'll see some revisions and additions already. So he went to the church, he did the same thing. He gave them their book. He already corrupted
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and changed it. Nobody knows. He said, "I tried the same on the Quran. I went to the me memorizers and they threw it in my face." That was the reason he accepted Islam.
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He understood nobody can corrupt this preservation of this faith, the preservation of this religion. Nobody can come anywhere close to it.
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So these are enough criteria so far to in reality in my opinion exclude every religion other than Islam. Any religion you can mention to me even though I didn't even give you the entire criteria but what I've given you so far. So
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easily you can use this to debunk the overwhelming majority or all the religions except Islam. In religion you'll find contradictions, you'll find issues. You're not going to find preservation. Now the most important and the last remaining criteria is that that
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religion has to have proof that it is from God. What does that mean? Something you and me cannot do because I can I write a book now and say it's from God? Yes, I can. Can I write a book now that has no
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contradictions? Can I do that? I can easily, right? So I can do these things.
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Can I write a book now that is preserved? Yeah, we have here today. You know, you have Chad GBT, computers, whatever. It's very easy to preserve now. Yeah. In comparison to that time.
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So all of these criterias are not enough. You they're easily you can use them to debunk all the religions are already there. But what if I do that today? I need to be able to produce or do something that you, me and every
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other human being sitting here is unable to do not only today until the day of judgment.
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I have to be able to do something that nobody is able to replicate. And that's what the definition you can say of what we call you know miracle something that no other human being is able to replicate and imitate. Now go to
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the Christians, ask them, "What is your proof that what is your miraculous proof that G that Christianity is the truth?" Do you know what they're going to say?
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I was sleeping yesterday and I saw Jesus come to me. It's always the same story.
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By the way, you know, you you think you really think someone is passing the script because it's impossible for the amount of Christians I've met that say the same thing. However, you know, one thing is that in Islam, we believe that
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the shaitan can control your nightmares, your dreams. So, it makes perfect sense that he shows all of them the same thing, right? He shows them that Jesus coming or whatever. That's why the prophet told us whoever saw me in the dream, he has seen
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me. Satan or thean does not take my image. So the prophet is telling us that look Satan can take the image of a different person of something whatever in your dream but a lot of people also get confused with this narration when it
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says if you see me you've seen me you just seeing someone thinking is a prophet doesn't mean he's a prophet he has to be in the description of the prophet in two things that's the criteria schol first in his
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human shape looks like the prophet we have his description has to look exactly like the prophet and his behavior and what he teaches you. So if he comes to you and and he looks like the prophet but he says to
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you you are the new prophet today you know today everybody's going to follow you know you're the new you're the new prophet no that's not the prophetatam that isan so that is the criteria so it's very easy for Satan to come to a Christian in
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his dream and appear as Jesus or appear as what they call the father you know and then tell them that Christianity is the truth so you explain to them that doesn't work can you give me any evidence that Christianity is the truth
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Oh, I feel it makes me feel this way. It makes me feel that way. Try try this with anybody. Nobody will be able to give you evidence undeniable that their religion is the truth from God except Muslims.
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Everybody else will give you personal experiences, subjective experiences. Oh, we have prophecies about Jesus. You go to the Old Testament, right? You you start reading this prophecy that they're talking to you about. It has nothing to do with Jesus. Oh, he shall be called
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Emmanuel, everlasting father, prince of peace. Okay. Was Jesus ever called Emmanuel? Uh, no. Was he ever called prince of Is he the father? Thought he was the son according to you. You asked them anywhere. Did his mother call him
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Emanuel, prince of peace, peace, everlasting father? No. But this prophecy is true because I said so. It's about Jesus. Oh, there's a prophecy some guy is going to be put on on a on a cross or something. How many people were
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put on cross in human history, man? How many people were put on a cross and crucified? Why does that have to be Jesus?
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So they will tell you we have all of these prophecies and evidence. There's nothing. Try it. Try it out. Test it out with a Christian. You know, you have a Christian colleague, a friend. I'm just I'm curious. You know, you it will be
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revealing for you. Just ask them. Look, you know, I'm curious. You know, I'm a Muslim, but you know, you got you're a Christian or you're a Jew or a Hindu or whatever.
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What really gives you the what's what convinces you that your religion is the truth. What is the evidence that you have that Christianity is the truth? Try it out. They'll tell you, "Oh, my forefathers the same thing that the of
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Quray the believers of Qur pagan Arabs would say we found our forefathers our forefathers upon something and we're following them." That is it. Now with Islam that is the main thing as allahel says in the Quran say the truth from your lord has come to
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you from your lord. Allah explicitly tells you this is the truth. Allah says they said you have to be a Jew Christian to enter paradise.
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Produce your proof if you're truthful. Where's the proof? If Islam demands proof, it necessitates that Islam has proof. If I don't have proof, I'm like, "Oh, you bring your proof." Oh, I don't have a proof, but you bring your proof. Cannot happen. We
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already have our proof. Allah says in the Quran, there's no compulsion in religion, the truth manifests clearly from falsehood.
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Manifests what? Clearly. So this excuse is how do I know the religion of truth?
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What is the truth? The truth is clear. It's as as light as the day as bright as the sun. You just have to put little bit of investigation. Now you know I'll tell you something. You know I the most fascinating thing to me. In
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fact I may say to me personally maybe this is the number one evidence that Islam is the truth. Remember I was telling you some some things in the Hindu I was telling you about the Christian scriptures Hindu scriptures
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for example Hindu scriptures telling you there's a chariot with seven horses pulling the sun right they also tell you for example that planet earth there's a massive bowl with these two horns he's holding planet earth nobody sees it yeah but it's there they
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will tell you all so they you know they have measurements for planets in their books like with with the kilometers or whatever they're all false of course how big is the sun how big is it Some scriptures will tell you the mountains
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used to fly, but one of their gods, you know, he put them straight, but the mountains used to fly in the air. So, you'll have all of these types of beliefs. I'm telling you, you hear them now, you think absurdities, right? You
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think this is absurd, but it's not absurd to the people 5,000 years ago. It's not absurd.
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If you were sitting with me 5,000 years ago and I was like, "Oh, the mountains, you probably believe me. The mountains used to fly, blah, blah, blah." You believe me? If you were with me 2,000 years ago and I was like or more let's
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say 3,000 years ago job and I come and I tell you look actually the humans were ped like milk and credit like cheese.
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You're not going to think much of this. You know the Greeks they talk to you about Aristotle and Galian and all of these people and how great they right they had some of the most ridiculous beliefs that you couldn't even imagine
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but they believed them believing oh in embryology a baby was like a miniature baby small baby you know like the human figures and then you become bigger and your mother's womb small and then you become bigger believe all all sorts of
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ridiculous things about about humans but for them it was not ridiculous why they did not have the advancements that we have today so that is when I tell you that for me the number one thing actually that I don't have a doubt that
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Islam is the truth I would say the strongest evidence is that the Quran does not reflect the absurd beliefs of its people it does not reflect the absurd beliefs of all humans on earth that time humans on earth believed the
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earth was flat that time believed the earth was flat they believed if you throw a bird the Arabs if you throw a bird in the air if it goes Right. They call if it goes right, then it's good.
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We should do this. If it goes left, no, no, no, no. Let's not go. I'm going on a trip now. I have a bird. I'm going to throw it. If it flies right, I'm going on a trip. If it flies left, I'm not
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going on a trip. They have all sorts of ridiculous beliefs. Of course, they believe the earth the earth is flat.
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They believe all all sorts of nonsense about planets, about stars, about the universe, about the galaxies, about the stars. Now, if you are Prophet Muhammad and you live there 1,400 years ago, so like I I told you, I'm not surprised
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these other books say these things because they're not absurd from their time. However, if you're Prophet Muhammad 1,400 years ago, there's no cars, no telescopes, no microscopes, no technology, no even printing machines. Certainly no Chachi BT and Gemini and Gro going to tell you
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everything in 2 minutes. Yeah. No, nothing. So if you going to make up a religion and you will talk about every single thing that you can think about, you'll talk about the human as the Quran does, their makeup, their hearts.
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You'll talk about mountains and their makeup and their functions. You'll talk about the stars. You'll talk about the universe. You'll talk about water.
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You'll talk about embryology. You'll talk about cattle and cows and sheep and animals. seven. We have like over 6,000 verses in the Quran, right? Talking about every single topic. You talk about bees, you talk about every single thing you can
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think about. Not just things today or in the future, but things about the past, describing previous civilizations, previous nations. Now, tell me, is it humanly possible with your 1,400 years ago knowledge, which we've learned so many things, haven't
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we? We've learned so many issues and mistakes and we realize that these were issues and mistakes. With that level of knowledge, would you be able to produce a scripture that today 1,400 years later, nearly 1,500 years later, it does
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not have a single error or mistake, would you be able to do that? Would you be able to do that?
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That is the thing which I believe for me is the most convincing. Of course there's many many evidences I've discussed but for me this it is impossible for prophet Muhammad to be a human in that time let alone we
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don't even need to talk about the fact that he couldn't read or write right as the majority of the people in that region because they were illiterate people in general in Mecca there was no like you know schools and libraries and
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like I said printing books or whatever that was normal let alone all of that even if he was the most educated person of his time even if he read read all the books Aristotle, Galen, Socrates, all everybody. He went
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to the China and he learned what from their books. He went to which he never done any of that. Imagine he did all of that and he gathered all the knowledge of the people on earth. All that knowledge is deficient. He would go and
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learn from Aristotle the things I'm telling you and people will laugh today. Imagine the Quran. He went and he copied from Aristotle. Human being is a miniature baby that becomes bigger bigger bigger. And that is written in the Quran. people will come and laugh at
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us just like we laughed at pouring like milk and crediting like cheese. This will be the knowledge of the prophet's time. He will reflect what his people said. However, even and like I said, I have like few lectures on this idea of
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evidences of Islam. I'll give you like maybe one or two evidences, one or two things to think about before we end.
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Just couple of things to think about. So, you know that all of these religions that I told you, they will not fit even your innate disposition. That's another thing you can know. Like a religion comes to you and tells you that God is
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one. Count with me. One. One. One. God is one. No. No. You your eyes is is okay actually. But this is one. It's not three. Your inate human disposition is not going to accept this. The Christian will come to you tell you God the father
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was speaking to God the son. You know it was a voice from heaven. God the father.
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The son was being baptized and the spirit was flying. How many gods? One. One. But I see one. One. No, it's one.
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It's one god. That your innate human disposition is not going to accept this. You go to some, of course, traditions in India, every everything is god, you know, and the cow you start like bowing down to okay, your human innate
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disposition god-given is enough to disqualify so many of these traditions, so many of these beliefs.
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You go to the Jewish people, oh, you don't look you don't look Jewish to me.
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What makes you think you're going to be one of us? You're not born, you don't look like you're born from a Jewish parent. If you're not born from a Jewish mother sorry the door is over there. You can go. Some
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of them will say, "No, no, no, wait. Actually, we're nice. What we're going to do is we're going to observe you." Yeah. For seven years straight. When we see you practicing every single command of Jesus, of Judaism, we the rabbis,
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gods, quotation marks, we're going to say, "Okay, you can become a Jew." And then once you do that, nobody in the community is going to treat you like a Jew. Nobody does even if you do all this process and
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you like you kill yourself for seven years just so they can accept you. You're not going to be one. So this innate dispos already tells you you know your fra your inate disposition God given to you will already tell you that
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these things are problematic. Now you see the Quran Allah says in the Quran about humans.
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Yeah. I'll see I'll give you two quick examples before we finish. Just two quick examples. Yeah. Allah in the Quran talks about humans. Yeah. And he says about the day of judgment.
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Allah says when humans on the day of judgment were resurrect. Now again before I finish this I want you to take yourself back.
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Come back with me. Yeah. Let's go in the time machine. 1,400 years ago. This speech is 1,400 years ago. The humans will be resurrected. will come out the day of judgment like far like butterflies come out.
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We how many of us read these verses? All of us, right? You don't you memorize these verses. Yeah. Why did Allahel use this this description? Why did he say come out like the butterflies come out?
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Why? Why specifically this? Because we read these things and we think, oh, the Quran, we're just reading. We not reflecting what it says. Why does it specifically says like butterflies? You know how a butterfly is formed?
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You have a caterpillar, right? You have a caterpillar. You know what a caterpillar is, right? Then you have a cocoon where it goes inside and closes itself like a casket.
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Do you know what happens to the the Do you know what happens to it?
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It It disintegrates. It produces these fluids where it completely disintegrates. Completely disintegrates. So it's like going into a tomb literally sacrificing its own life killing itself dying completely disintegrating and after it completely disintegrates then you have some genetic materials
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left right and then from that you have a reproduction and then something beautiful comes out which is what a butter butterfly. So this caterpillar goes into committing literal analing itself inside this cocoon.
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Now what happens to you as a human being? What happens to you as a human being? So Allah gave the parable of this butterfly because the butterfly goes into a casket that cocoon. Are you going to go into a
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casket? I'm going into a casket. You're going to go into a casket. You're going to be in the earth just like this caterpillar disintegrates. You will disintegrate in the same exact way. You know what will be left from you? Prophetam he said
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all the human being is going to disintegrate in there except one thing called the cockus bone.
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The prophet said from this bone you were created. So we have something called you have the the creation the primitive streak of the human being. You have the DNA of the human being. That DNA in your creation in the end goes into your
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caucus bone. Who's telling us this information? Like you hear this information. Yeah. Yeah. Today we learned it yesterday. Yeah. Using our technology yesterday. We learned that this DNA the initial streak of the human being of the life goes into that caucus
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bone and your DNA is maintained there. The prophet said this caucus bomb from it you were created and from it Allah will return you on the day of judgment because it contains your signature DNA.
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Allah will bring you resurrect you back from it. So that signature DNA that is left from that caterpillar when it goes into the cocoon and then it res re-resurrects. The same thing will happen to you on the day of judgment.
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You go into the casket, you disintegrate in the earth. Small part, very small part left of you, a small cockus and Allah will resurrect you from that. Just here like he resurrected that butterfly.
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You see this example like you cannot ponder and understand this example without the knowledge that we have today. You can't. You would see okay maybe you see a caterpillar going inside the cocoon, right? But did you know that it completely disintegrates
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without without our knowledge today? We don't know. Even at that time you look it goes inside stays for some time it comes out different right you would not assume that it's the same no it completely disintegrates and it leaves
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this DNA behind that then it comes out as a butterfly with this without this knowledge that we have today you cannot understand the significance of that speech in the Quran you just be thinking oh this just speech someone is just
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speaking no Allah is just not just giving example like this of no because it applies to you when Allah says like butterflies you would be like that you'll be resurrected in that way you are is that parable being given there
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another example I'm going to give you and we're going to finish with this example Allah speaks about cattle in the Quran right he speaks about cows for instance and he speaks about the milk that comes out Allah says in the Quran
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you have an example a parable in cattle in cows for example, right? Then Allah tells us something there that we we give you drink from the continents of its bellies.
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Continents of its bellies from between blood and excrement, pure milk. You've read this verse. I've read this verse. Nobody has pondering this verse thinking, "Okay, what is this verse? Why is he talking? What's going on here?" Just a verse. Allah in the Quran is just
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telling us he's given us pure milk. But why why is this specific description given in the Quran?
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Why? Because you know Allah first says the continents of its bellies. So let's look at the cow. What happens? You have a feed, right? You have a cow. The cow goes to eat. Did you know the cow has
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what we call four bellies? Did you know that? The scientists will tell you it's not one belly. They refer to it as four separate bellies.
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Why? because they have different functions. So Allah says the contents of its bellies. Oh just prophet Muhammad just have happened to you know by accident say continents of his bellies right just by mistake he just okay okay that's a mistake so let's move on. So
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that cows is eating and somehow by coincidence he knew that his bellies and it's eating from the feed. Then that feed goes into these bies, right? Then it's broken down to different things like your belly would do would break down the nutrients, the
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food, stuff like that. Then that will go into you have a small intestine of the cow and you have a large intestine of the cow. Now that feed goes through that small intestine of the cow. You know what also goes into
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that small intestine of the cow? the excrement of the cow and the cow you know goes and poos that comes from there as well. So it goes from the small intestine to the large one. So that same passage
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Allah is feeding you from it what milk Allah is telling you you have a sign that that passage from between blood and excrement we give you pure milk. So from that same passage that small intestine you have the excrement coming but not
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only that then it's broken down all these nutrients into the blood and then it goes into the why is it called again the part of the cow that has the milk cuz I'm forgetting it now.
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Yeah. So it goes there and then milk is produced the other of the cow. Right. So I want you to imagine this.
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You are existing 1,400 years ago. Give me just one rational explanation. How would you possibly know that this cow that is eating this food? It's what I told you one verse, right? Five, six, seven words.
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All the scientific description breaking down that I'm giving you right now look different bellies of the cow. One of the cow purifies it. It goes through the small intestine and then through the bloodstream and then it goes into the
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other of the cow. Tell me, give me one rational explanation. How prophet Muhammad wasallam know this?
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How how would he possibly and Allah tells you you have a sign? You see, Allah is not just telling you the verse, right?
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You have a sign in these cows that we give you from the continents of his bellies between blood and excrement. We give you pure milk. When you get your milk, do you find in your milk excrement? Do you find when you get it
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from the cow from the other, does it come out with excrement? Does he come out with blood? That is a sign for you.
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But this description, this exact specific description of the creation of Allah that makes you not only like I said, there's no no mistakes, but this description is impossible to come from a human being.
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Now, of course, there is in the Quran many, many other evidences and proofs. So, to conclude, what is the religion of truth? It's Islam. It's not my opinion. That's not something that I'm saying because I was born in this religion because I think
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so. Because I think so. It's because nobody, nobody standing here today, nobody if you bring them from Mars is going to be able to explain how the Quran passes this criteria and at the same time comes and tells me that
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the Quran is not from God. So as a Muslim, you need to have full conviction and understanding that you are upon the truth and that should translate into your actions.
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We we don't just believe Islam is the truth. Okay, believe is okay, we know it's the truth now with evidences, right? But then you need to act upon it in your life. You need to continue and behave. And each of you here, right,
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you're sitting down, it's a very small town, right? Okay, it's further further away from London. Probably have a lot more non-Muslims here than you do Muslims.
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You have a responsibility as well to deliver this message right I you know I'm I don't come here it's the first time I'm here to you have neighbors you have friends you have colleagues non-Muslims you need to transmit this knowledge that you have if
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you know you have the truth you should have mercy for mankind like the prophetam was sent as a mercy to mankind you don't want them to die and be in eternal hellfire do you no you want goodness and truth for them and you See
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the stock that we talked about go to anybody just present these criterias. Nobody will disagree with you rationally that if for a book to be from God it has to be from God to say it's from God.
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They would not disagree with you that it has to be free from contradictions. They will not disagree with you. So take this knowledge and put it into implementation and invite people closer to Allahel and again for inviting me here for being
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patient like I know we were late you know we took wrong route and we came late but alhamdulillah I'm very happy to see you all I'm very happy to be able to give this talk inshallah I think we have
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quick Q&A that we're going to give right now in okay so what's what's the what's his Bruno. Okay. So, brother Bruno [clears throat] accept Islam today.
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Alhamdulillah. Just like an hour ago, right? [laughter] I'm very happy for you. Mah, you have a very nice community here. You're lucky. So, alhamdulillah.
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You'll have people inshallah that help you, take care of you, guide you. When it comes to misconceptions, you asked your question was how what is the biggest misconceptions that reverts battle with? Right. I think the biggest issue that reverts battle with when they
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accept Islam is they overwhelm themselves with too much information. They have a lot of fear. They think I'm doing this right. I'm doing this wrong.
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I'm worried. Someone needs to tell me this. Am I am I doing this right? And this is a trick of the take in Islam.
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It's a misconception that Islam wants you to become the perfect Muslim the next day. Doesn't exist. Right? You got many people that say to me, I can't accept Islam because I'm sinning. I believe Islam is the truth, but I'm I'm
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a sinner. I had a person who was like I'm a tattoo artist. I can become become Muslim. You can become Muslim. Of course, it's nobody's perfect. So what you need to do is to understand you take everything a step by step gradual step.
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The first thing you learn about you know continue reading the Quran if you haven't fully read it. First you learn how to pray. Come to this mosque you ask them how do I pray? While you're reading the Quran that's the only thing step by
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step. Don't be overwhelmed by so many questions from this person this and that. Should I learn this? Should I learn that? Take everything slowly. take everything easily, take everything a bit by bit. Right? So I think that's that's
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I would say probably is the biggest misconception that a lot of believers have. They worry about that they need to become perfect in order for them to become Muslim. No, can take everything slow.
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Another thing is don't think that you're an external person from this community or something. Don't think that people are going to look at you different because you're from a different race or a different color.
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Everybody you can see everybody here sitting in all different colors and races and countries and ethnicities and and we're all one family which is the family of Islam family of being a Muslim. So don't have that misconception. Now when it comes to
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other misconceptions of course that will be person dependent you know some people have some misconceptions depending on where they grew up or what they heard from other people. Another misconception is like you have to learn Arabic you know oh I have to learn Arabic to be a
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Muslim. No, you don't have to learn Arabic. Over 80% of Muslims have non-Arabs. They they many of them don't even know the Arabic language, right? Some only some things need to be done Arabic. Like the prayer, reciting the book of Allah
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because the speech of Allah, you have to recite it original language, right? But other than that, do you need to learn the Arabic language? Absolutely not. Is it good? Of course. But you don't need to. Another quick misconception I think
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you have something to say is I have to change my name if I become Muslim. You know, now people are going to start calling you uh Omar or Abu Bakr. No, you don't have to be if your name doesn't
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have any issues, anything against the teachings of the religion, right? Cuz mine, if my name is the servant of Jesus or something, okay, or or the slave of Jesus, no, you have a problem, right?
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Some people have these names in Arabic, Abdul Msia, for example, you have to change that name because has negative connotations, right? But if your name is just like any average name, Luke, John, this just an average name, right? You
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don't have you don't need to change that name. Just because you you became a Muslim, it doesn't mean that you have to change your name. Because a lot of Muslims, they will come back, oh, what's your new name in Islam? You don't have
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to have a new name, right? Your name that you're born with is okay so long as doesn't have any issues with it. But you want to say something?
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So, so they're not Muslim, right? Yeah. So, it's the question is like how does a rever deal with his non-Muslim parents that are not supportive of Islam? And what about non friends that are non-Muslims as well? They're not
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supportive of their religion. Right? First and foremost, when it comes to your family, I want to tell you that Allah has given you examples in the Quran. Many examples of the best people that walk this earth.
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Prophet Muhammad wasam, prophet Abraham was, prophet Noah was Allah giving you many example. What did he give these example? Prophet Muhammad wasallam his uncle protected him all his life. You know after prophet Muhammad he had his parents die
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before you can say before his birth very early on some narrations you can say some of them so he didn't grow up with his parents he grew up as an orphan he grew up with his uncle he grew up first
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with his grandfather who passed away and then he grew up with his uncle his uncle protected him prophet loved his uncle and then tried everything in his power to get his uncle to accept Islam however his uncle did not accept Islam and Allah
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revealed to him that you do not guide the ones you love. A man came to prophet Muhammad wasallam and he said he asked him where's my father in the afterlife he said your father is in hellfire that man got upset was sad upset right so
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then the prophet said my father and your father is in the hellfire don't be sad basically am I better than prophet Muhammad are you better than prophet Muhammad is anybody here better than prophet Muhammad no he had his if he had his
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family members are we better than Abraham peace be upon him his father was this dis this believer he would speak very gently nicely with his with his father and then his father would threaten him. I would kill you if you
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don't stop. So then he had nothing to do. He had no control lot. He had his wife Noah, his wife and his son. His son was, you know, the story of the ship, right? Everything is drowning. And he said to his son,
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"Come." His son refused. He said, "No, I'm going to go up a very high mountain.
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I'm going to be fine." He said to him, "Nothing will stop you today." And then he died cuz he was a disbeliever.
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Disobeyed his father. He didn't want to be a believer. So you could Allah gives us example of your wife, examples of your wife, of your father, of your uncle, of your of your son, of he gives us these examples in the best people
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talk of the earth which is the prophets of God. So we can learn that look even if you are a Muslim born a Muslim.
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Nothing guarantees your parents your parents are going to practice. How many people I can talk about their their father starts to disbelieve or their mother does this or you know what I mean? Nobody has a guarantee. The fact
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that a person is born in Muslim family not doesn't really change that. The fact is nobody knows where our families are end up are going to end up. And the best thing the only thing that we can do is
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to be gentle and kind and be better people. Now with your parents do they know you except Islam searching?
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Yes. Yes. So if your [clears throat] parents don't know you're converted yet, if they are very strong enemies of Islam or they don't like Islam or they hate Islam, then I would recommend you don't tell them about religion right now at the
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beginning of your practicing. Anybody that you believe has a negative view, I would recommend you don't tell them.
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However, Islam makes you a better person overall. It makes you a better person. They will see that. And I think that is a bigger statement than any speech that you could say to them. Why Islam says to you about how you deal with your mother,
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why Islam says to you about if you implement that as you should. If they start seeing that, all of a sudden you're the best person to your mother. You take care of her, you look after her, you're really helping her,
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buying her gift, your life. She's like, what is going on? But she's happy about the change because it's a positive change. I think it's the biggest statement that you that you can make towards your parents, not to say to them
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anything right now. Show them in your actions. Show them what Islam is because they hear a lot of bad things about Islam. But show them how Islam is in application and they will be curious themselves. They will know something
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change and they will approach you. Then you can be after they see the good effect, you can be like, "Yeah, I became Muslim. I believe alhamdulillah it made me a better person." And if they have any questions, you can answer. You can
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bring them someone of knowledge you can speak to. If you if you don't know the answer, you tell them I'll get back to you. When it comes to your friends and that applies to everybody sitting here, not just new Muslims. Prophet wasallam
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said you are upon the religion of your friend. Even in this culture, they will tell you you are the sum of your five closest friends. Right? That's a fact.
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Like if my friends are a group of people that go to the club every night, smoke weed, drink alcohol, I be like, "Guys, let's go pray in the mosque." What do you think you're going to say? You're going to laugh at me, right? Oh, you're
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killing the mood. Oh, look at this religious scholar. is like you're going to make some sort of a mockery out of you until they bring you down to become one of them. Right? So your friends will influence you a lot and that's why
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prophet upon the religion of your friend in the Arabic language it's like it's like you go through the thing you go inside the thing that's how friend how much a friend influences you internally influences you internally influences your thinking your beliefs your actions
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is very important so the group of friends that you have need to be good right prophetam said the example of a good friend and a bad friend is like imagine Someone is selling musk and someone is selling something where you
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have to forge fire. Yeah. So it's either you're going to if you go buy from the person that bad friend that forges fires. Either he's going to burn your clothes or you're going to have some bad smell, right? From the smoke that is
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coming out or the fire that is coming from what he's doing. A good friend is like someone who sells musk. Even if you don't buy from him musk, you will smell a good smell. You will always get something beneficial from your friend
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who's a good friend. Those are the company that you need to keep around you. Now in it wouldn't be hard.
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Continue coming to the masjid here. There's a lot of the people I can see in the community. I think many people here are very happy to be your friend.
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Inshallah today already you're all friends you know starting already. I have met so many of these people. They are my brothers in faith. You have do you have brothers?
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Yes. So just as you see your brother, I see everyone sitting here because in Islam the the relationship the the bond that we have in faith is stronger than blood. So everybody here just consider them as your brother as you consider
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your own brother your brother. Right. All right. [clears throat] Uh some some questions from the sister side. Um, first question. How do you get Muslim children to act on the knowledge of their belief in Islam?
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Okay. So, I I have a long video that I really recommend people sitting here, especially parents to to watch on my channel. It's about raising your kids, raising your children the right way, the behavior, the attitude. Recommend everybody sitting here to watch that
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video. Of course, I'm I don't want to give you 1 hour lecture now. I'm going to give you a brief answer, but watch that video. You get a very detailed answer of what I'm about to say. So, the
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title, I don't remember the title. It has something to do with raising your kids. So, uh let me find the exact title right right now.
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It's a very recent video and it should be very easy to find inshallah. One second. Let me see.
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Okay. Okay. So, uh yeah, it's if you're doing this, there's a chance your kid leaves Islam. That's the title. Yeah.
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So, if you're doing what this video says, there's a chance your kid leaves Islam. I'd recommend you watch that.
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Okay? Because it it highlights the issues that we have, especially in a community like this, which is a western community.
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There's a lot of problems that parents are doing. Now you say how do you get your kid your kids to Yes. The question is how do you get your kids or your children to act upon their knowledge of
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Islam. The first and most important thing is to be their example. You are a mother. If you don't wear a hijab and you want to say to your daughter, wear it a hijab. She's not going to listen to you. You put makeup
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on. You spend the entire day watching TV and movies and Korean pop stars and whatever girls are doing these days. And then you're like your to your daughter.
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Oh, read the Quran. Read the Quran. Now, watch the scholar. She's going to look at you. What are you doing? You're not reading the Quran. Last time I've I've seen you holding the Quran for 10 minutes was last Ramadan.
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Why you telling me read the Quran, read the Quran, read the Quran. You don't do it yourself.
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It hurts to hear this, but that's the reality. If you are not an example for your kids, forget your kids following you. How the only chance your kids are going to be good if you're not an example is that they will take someone
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else as an example who's a good person. If you're lucky, if Allah guides them through finding a good example of someone other than yourself, then they follow the truth. But if you are a bad example, of course, highly likely that
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your kids are going to follow you. So the first thing if you want your kids to act upon the knowledge of Islam is for you yourself to be acting upon that same knowledge that you want them to follow.
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The second thing is that you need to raise them from the start with role models, someone that they look up to that is from this religion.
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I grew up hearing about the Sahab. I grew up hearing about stories of what they did.
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If you don't if you don't grow up with an example, which are the best of examples like the Sahab or the prophets, hearing their stories, hearing how they dealt with their people and and no, I'm not saying go buy a book from the store
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and give it to your kid. Oh, go read the stories. No, you're not reading nothing.
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I'm saying you as a parent, start being a parent, start actually fulfilling your role, which I don't know why you call the parent, but you're not being a parent. And at least twice a week sit your kids down find some of the stories
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of the Sahaba of the there's a million story out there of the prophets of the Sahabah with a good lesson and then tell them a story you think kids don't like stories even adults like stories have kids they
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would be very happy to they will look forward to that day where you sit them down and tell them these stories about Islam and then they will want to imitate that when you give them a story about how prophet for example was being mocked
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and ridiculed and and he stayed upon his faith. You don't think when he goes to school and Mark and Matthew and Luke are mocking him, he remembers that. You don't think, you don't think so? He remembers that. Oh, the prophet, oh, B,
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he was they tortured him and he was upon his religion. I don't care if this idiot is making fun of me. But he's not going to have that idea if you haven't taught him this idea when he was younger. if
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you haven't taught them this idea to begin with. So if you want your kids to practice your the knowledge of Islam, you have to build in them the love of the religion. Islam is not taken with for being forceful. Faith is never taken
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as being forceful. I'm talking to you about my experience and everybody here would know if kid would probably you're young. Your father is for forcing you to pray to just go to the masjid for the sake of going to the masjid. You just do
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the movements you know and you're not really praying. They have to have conviction. You have to explain to them why they're Muslims, why they believe what they believe. So like I said, so I don't spend an hour talking about this
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is a very important topic, but watch that video. It's very important. Um how are humans made from clay and a blood clot?
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Yeah. So uh the answer to that how the question is how are humans made from clay and at the same time a blood clot?
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You remember talking about contradiction? Someone's like, "Oh, here you go." Okay. The answer is very simple and Allah tells us the answer in the Quran. It's in two verses. Allahel says he created begun the creation of humans from clay
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from then he made his progeny from you can say the semen sperm whatever. So Allah tells us there's a distinction between the creation of the first human which had a very specific special way and the creation of the rest of the
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creation. Okay. So that's the answer in this in this very small two verses of the Quran.
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He's raising his hand. Yeah. [clears throat] A lot of Christians bring up the idea that the Quran affirms the previous scriptures and they are asked to judge by it. How do we speak about the corruption?
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Yeah. So first I want to say I think they're given the sisters questions first. So they follow feminism. It seems one is first. So we got to wait a little bit brother [laughter] take your question inshallah. So yeah, again when it comes to the the
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question, the question about all affirming the previous scriptures. Again, I'm going to recommend I have a video on my channel. It's called the Muslims believe the Bible is corrupted.
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And the first hour of that video, I'm giving you a Christian scholars themselves telling you that how corrupted their book is. And towards the end, I'm answering this idea of Quran confirms or affirms the previous scriptures. But I'll give a very quick
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answer now. Affirming the previous scriptures, what does it mean? It means it affirms when Quran says we affirm that the the Tawra and the it means the Quran affirms that there was a scripture that revealed in the past called the
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Tawra. That's what the Quran affirms number one. Number two, the Quran affirms that within that scripture the description of Prophet Muhammad. That's what affirming here means. It affirms that Allah sent prophets in the past and he sent scriptures with these prophets and that
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those prophets foretold prophet Muhammad. That is the only thing that means the Quran says confirms is the only understanding we take from that.
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Now confirms never was used in language to necessarily mean that something is preserved. Preserved is a word and confirm is a word. I can confirm this idea that there was previous prophets and messengers. This idea that prophet Muhammad has mentioned these
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scriptures. I do not need that does not mean that I'm saying that these scriptures are preserved because the Quran all over the other verses talks about the corruption of these scriptures and if you go like I said this is not my
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like I brought a new idea right open any book any book of from you know the time of the prophet until today all of them will tell you confirm means that what I told you it means but like I said if you need more detail
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just go to that video you'll get more than enough details in that video inshallah um how to approach the criteria with atheists the criteria you mentioned I'm assuming how to approach the criteria with atheists how do we apply the knowledge
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that we learned today the lecture of of the criterias like I said you can approach your if you have an atheist colleague if you have a you know a neighbor atheist or whatever you could just start by asking them questions the
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best thing to do is to ask because people when you give them something you feel like you know you're you're they feel like you're a salesman. This guy wants to sell me something. No, no, no.
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Okay, ask them the question. Okay, you can come to if he's an atheist, you can come to them and be like, of course with atheists have to talk a bit about believe in God because now we're talking about how to know the religion, not how
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to prove God exists, right? So assuming they accept some sort of a higher power, you'll approach them and you'll ask them, are you religious? They'll be like, no.
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Like have you ever thought about Islam and any of the religions or or do you think they're all false? Like they're false. You ask, why do you think they're false?
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And then he'll give you whatever reason he'll give which we really don't care about. And then you'll say to him that you know what for me do you know why I became a Muslim he like okay curious now
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why why did you become Muslim and he'll be like okay I applied this criteria this rational criteria and you I let me know what you think about it and then start breaking down this criteria and ask him about each of them and he'll
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agree with you and then start started presenting the evidences for why Islam is the truth. That's how I would do it very very easily just with a conversation kind of format. Yeah.
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Okay. Yes. Yes. So, so the question is he's like he's got like a Christian colleague or someone that he knows and then he presented them that the Bible is false evidences or Islam is the truth or whatever and then the guy agreed, right?
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Then he was like, "Okay, if you agree then why don't you become a Muslim?" A common sense question, right? And the guy is like, "Oh, I'm okay like that.
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Then he got very emotional, right? Defensive. And he's asking me, "What is the response that you give to someone like that?" So a person like that is a person of desires. Allah says in the Quran, if they don't respond to you,
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then know that they're following their desires. He's following his desires. Well, I would tell him, "Okay, cool. I mean, I guess you want to have a vacation, hellfire." All right, cool.
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That's that's all I'm going to say. What? Like Allah has not put us as guardians over people. Allah says to the prophetam you're not a controller over them. You're not a guardian over them.
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You're going to kill yourself so they become believers. It's not upon you. It's not upon you their guidance. It's not upon us to guide anybody.
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Upon us is what Allah says in the Quran. Here is what you need to think about.
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And in the Arabic language, there is no except it's for exclusivity. Same in English. If I say there is no except then it means there's only that thing, right? Applies also in English. Same thing in Arabic.
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There's no obligation upon the messenger except delivering the messenger. Allah never said there is no obligation upon the messenger except to convince the people you know the hadith about the prophet will come on the day of judgment prophets
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the prophet will come and he will have a massive crowd prophet will come and he has a prophet will come here like 10 people eight people six prophet will come and he has nobody you know noam 950 years of calling
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people Allah says only a little bit of people believe in him small people small group of people.
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So it's not upon these messengers to convince people and they were better than you and me and ever being in eloquence of speech or whatever.
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However, people still rejected. So it's not upon us to convince anybody. It's not upon us to force anybody to do anything. We've given you the evidence.
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You can accept the evidence or like I said the door I mean hellfire does not have population problems, right?
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I mean nothing really stops you. If you want to continue advising them, you can continue advising. However, I'm telling you, don't approach it with my them I must convince them because that is the wrong approach to begin with. Cuz if I
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if I say to you this is the truth. It's like you come to a smoker. Yeah. Do you think a smoker doesn't know he's killing himself, his lungs, his he knows, right?
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Tell him, "Oh, this is going to harm you." I know. But why you smoking? I like it.
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I'll bring you every day speak to that smoker. You think he'll stop? He want to tell you stop annoying me. I want to do this. If I'm convinced of doing something knowing that I'm wrong and I'm doing it even though I know I'm wrong,
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then I'm going to continue doing it. So you could try I mean indirectly here and there, but I'm telling you don't have this idea that I have to convince someone of something. It's the wrong attitude. Sure. Okay. Sure. Sure. So uh
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first thing let's change how do you convince by how do you answer? It's better. I don't like this idea of convincing. Yeah. So I'm telling you this is what you learn from your exper experience in dawa. It's not about
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convincing the people. Now the question is we say the criteria one of the criterias is that there's no no contradictions.
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What if someone comes there's a contradiction in the Quran there's a contradiction in the hadith and they give the example of alcohol where there are three verses one says there's benefits and then another verse says don't don't have alcohol. Okay. Now
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first and most most important thing is if someone comes and says a contradiction in the Quran I ask them for the proof. Right? We make the claim like I said it's a challenge right we make the proof I've had millions of
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videos you can see online people coming is a contradiction or easily answer in two minutes right in a minute even an example is what you brought as an example right first what is a contradiction we define it so we
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understand it what is a contradiction opposes a contradiction is two opposite statements that cannot be reconciled that is what contradiction is first understand what contradiction some people confuse contradiction with mistake as well no contradiction It has two things in this case. You have to
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bring a verse that says come to go to alcohol and a verse that says don't go to alcohol which you haven't presented.
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If a verse says if I say to you there is some benefits in drinking this water some benefits but there is more harms don't drink this water is this a contradiction makes statement that makes perfect sense. So you haven't even
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presented any contradiction so far, right? The verse says don't come to the prayer when you're drunk.
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Does that mean drink in other times? Does the verse say go drink when? No, it doesn't say. So so far in these three verses that you mentioned, they don't really contradict. So the first thing you say there's no contradiction to even
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answer contradiction, right? Number one. Number two, there's something called abrogation. Is that abrogation in the Quran or did I bring it up for myself? Abregation is in the Quran. Go to the Quran, chapter 2 of the Quran, verse 10.
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We do not abregate a verse or cause it to be forgotten except to bring one like it or better. We go chapter 16 of the Quran on and on verses of the Quran that talk about the replacing of verses or they talk
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about the abrogation where Allah abrogates a previous ruling. Yeah. So that concept we didn't bring it up. So there's no contradiction when that concept itself exists in the scripture itself and tells you that there are verses that are abrogated. So that's an
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abrogation but there's no contradiction even if you say there's no abrogation that's not contradiction still in this case. Okay.
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Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. So so I understand I understand. So the question is is it okay for a Muslim to have a neutral position of Jesus second coming or to believe that he's not going to come back or something? Is it is that okay? The
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answer is absolutely not. The re the very simple reasoning even before I go to give you the evidences is that there is the issue of consensus.
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What is consensus in Islam? Consensus in English is the overwhelming majority of people agreeing on something. In Islam, it's everybody agreeing on something. So in Islam is where you have a group of scholars in one day and age after the
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death of Prophet Muhammad wasam agreeing on a specific issue. All of them in one specific age. That's the definition of now we have on this issue for generations that Isaam Jesus peace be upon him will come back. Why do we have
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this? Because it's explicit. It's we have clearcut narrations that talk about this. We have verses in the Quran that talk about this.
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But it's all about your understanding. So when allahel says he is a sign for the day of judgment.
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He's one of the signs of the day of judgment. Referring to Jesus, if he's not coming back, then yeah, how is he a sign of the end times? Allah says in the Quran and there is of the people of the book
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that will believe in him before his death. It's talking about the future. When when are they going to believe in him if he's not coming back? How do you answer this verse? No, I'm not didn't even go to the hadith, right? Where of
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course we have all of these narrations son of Mary will descend. you will kill the cross, kill sorry, break the cross, kill the swine, all of that. And that's enough. I don't even need to go go to the Quran. But I'm telling you that it
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is clear why there is consensus because this issue is clear. It's agreed upon. There's no disagreement upon that. Okay?
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There are when you deny the existence of Jesus, you have other issues because why? Now the mai, who's going to pray now behind the mi?
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Me and you. Who's going to pray? We're going to replace Jesus now. Okay. What about the dal? Who's going to kill the jal? Me.
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You're you take one piece of the puzzle and you think you got something there, but you have all of these things are also connected to it. There's a reason why there's a consensus because you're now you're going to have to explain all
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of these other things now are problematic for you. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So, so there is different types.
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Okay. The question is how do you balance between loving disbelievers or loving if you have like family members or wife or something as a disbeliever how can you love her at the same time you you you have to hate
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disbelief and and right you have to hate sherik you have to hate all of these things there are different types of love the scholars talk about these issues and they define different types of love they one type of love is what they would call
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natural love a love from a father to a son a love from a wife to a husband You don't love them because of the religion. You love them because it's a natural thing. Some affection you could have someone you hang around with as a
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friend or whatever this that this type of love you're not held accountable for. Allahel affirmed in the Quran that prophet Muhammad loved his uncle. He said, "You don't guide the one you love." And that was who was he a
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believer? He was a disbeliever. That was the natural love that he had to him as his uncle for the protecting him, taking care of him. Natural love is okay. Now two types of love are not okay.
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Religious love for a disbeliever. It's it can lead you to disbelief if you have it or love for victory for a disbeliever over a believer or in general. So if I have two you know some I had this
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experience sometimes and that's problem Muslims not learning their belief. I had a Muslim come and he has a a non-Muslim friend and I will be having a discussion and he will intervene supporting the non-Muslim friend against me when I'm
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giving him dawa you know so that is a big problem right you're aiding someone who's a disbeliever over your brother who's trying to do something good to that that person for his benefit so the love of or support or the love of
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religion that is not allowed for non-Muslim the natural love you could have like I said for your father mother whatever who are non-Muslims. There's nothing that is contradictory there.
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Yes, you have a question. What would be my advice to someone who wants to create a YouTube channel about taking society and improving the the relationship with them is do something better probably unless you unless you're going to do I
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mean I don't really see much of a benefit there, right? If you're doing it for financial gains, if you're not doing it for financial gains, then I would advise doing something else. If you're doing it for financial gains, YouTube
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ads are anyways very problematic. It's not permissible for you to completely earn from them money and then you have other issues, right? However, if you're just doing it for the sake of like what why why should I make my goal as a
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Muslim is improving the relationship between tech and people tech and yeah, I'm doing because I'm an expert in the Ah, okay. Okay. So, so why not think about something I can as a person who is qualified in tech making something or
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helping develop things that are helping Muslims? Why, why not do that? Why not, for example, develop an app or do something like that, right? That helps Muslims. There are so many things that are missing we're needing. I would I
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would redirect your energy there. I'm not saying of course it's haram or anything like that or you can do what you want to do. It's up to you. If you're asking my personal advice on this issue, I'll tell you that I would look
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for something more beneficial for my because if I make a good that has good knowledge, prophetam said Adam if the son of Adam dies stop except for three things. What are the three things? Who knows what's the first thing?
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Knowledge. Knowledge. Okay. Beneficial knowledge that you leave behind. We started with a good thing which is what we're talking about. If I leave beneficial knowledge behind me after I die, this is going to give me reward in the grave. My deeds
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will not stop. My knowledge I left behind will bring me good deeds. I'm in the grave, but they're bringing me good deeds. And a righteous son that makes dua for you. And let's say for example, you buy a mah, if
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you put it in the mosque, you build a mosque or you help dawa in a way where someone becomes a Muslim, their families in the future, they will also be Muslim practicing Islam. All of it is your your
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deeds. every Muslim now is in the scale of the prophet because he's the one who invited everybody to Islam, right? So I would recommend doing that over just something that is like worldly, you know what I mean? So yes, you have an expert
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expertise on something, use it in benefiting the um as well as a whole cuz we do need that especially in this day and age where all of these issues are happening with AI. I mean, imagine you develop an app where you can detect when
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video is deep faked or something. So, it's not a real video of someone using AI, you know, be very beneficial for people as a whole, but for Muslims as well, you know what I mean? So, I mean, that's probably be very hard to do. Huh.
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But the idea is trying to help like the um in a beneficial way as much as you can. Yeah.
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No, I I think you misunderstood what I said. I said you you shouldn't support a disbeliever over your brother who's a believer, not the other way around.
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You understand what I'm saying? So if if my brother is a Muslim and let's say he's a any type of competition in school, you know, they're having a debate in school like mock debate. I support my Muslim brother over the
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non-Muslim. You understand? Yeah. So if it's a fight you said or whatever even if they're doing something haram or whatever you stand in the in the when I'm saying doing something haram I'm not saying they're doing justice to
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someone else right you don't support that of course right but let's say the action itself is both of them are doing something wrong like you said fighting or whatever you're not going to be on the side of this believer over the
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Muslim of course even even if they're both doing something wrong but he's still your brother in faith right so you'd still take his side in that case okay does that make sense Okay.
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Uh, a brother is asking, "I converted to Islam 5 years ago, but I've kept it a secret from most of my friends." Yeah. Uh, I've kept it a secret from most of my friends. One friend in particular is very close to me and he's
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not against Islam, so I know he'd be fine with it. My question is, do you think I should just tell him I'm a Muslim?
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He uh, so the question is, he accepted Islam 5 years ago. Yeah. So if it's 5 years ago, I don't think it's a problem for you telling him he's a Musl you're a Muslim.
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If you know him and you know that he's going to have a positive impact because you want good for him. If you want good for him, then you should invite him to Islam. If he has a good positive
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attitude towards the religion, then I definitely think you should tell him and invite him to Islam. You know, give him some proof, some evidences. However, also if you're having a circle of non-Muslim other non-Muslim friends that this may come back and he goes and tells
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them and then there's an issue, then you you need to weigh the benefits on the harms. But either way, I'll advise you to have Muslim friends in the end and to speak to him and even if it causes
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issues with other people, you have a good Muslim circle of friends around you. And there you have to serve.
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