43) Quran Study: 3rd International Conf. Sept. 1988 Tucson

Rashad Khalifa speech, -Insurance based...

Speaker 2 (0:07) They idolize the messenger, Jesus. (0:11) That's why he disowns them in Matthew 7, 23. (0:15) They will go to him on the day of judgment and say, Lord, Lord, did you not prophesy in your name? (0:21) Did you not perform miracles in your name? (0:23) And he will say, out of my sight, I don't know you. (0:25) Get out of here. (0:27) This is what Jesus will tell the Christians. (0:30) And God looked down at the planet Earth and he saw you and me committing idolatry. (0:36) In our contact prayer, as we're making salat prayer, we will say Muhammad, Ali Muhammad, Ibrahim, Ali Ibrahim. (0:45) When God tells us in the Quran, Great Lady, a commandment in 72, 18, The mosque, the places of worship, the acts of worship belong to God. (0:58) Do not mention anyone else. (1:01) No one will God. (1:04) Certainly Muhammad is someone and Ibrahim is someone. (1:09) And you and I were doing this for many years. (1:17) God looked down at the planet Earth and he saw the Muslims not doing zakat, charity. (1:24) They are all doing it wrong. (1:26) We were doing it wrong. (1:27) You and I were doing it wrong. (1:30) God told us in a very clear message that you must give out the charity, the zakat, the day of harvest. (1:38) The day you harvest. (1:39) Surah 6, verse 141. (1:42) And what were we doing? (1:43) We were giving zakat once a year. (1:46) Two and a half percent of our savings above a certain limit. (1:51) And this is what all the Muslims are doing. (1:54) The zakat and salat are mentioned together. (1:58) And God wanted us to get out the zakat to our parents, then our relatives. (2:05) If they are rich, then to the orphans. (2:06) There is a specific system in the Quran. (2:09) And this must be done according to the day you receive income. (2:14) We do not harvest fruit. (2:16) We harvest paychecks. (2:18) So God wanted us to do the salat and the zakat correctly. (2:25) He wanted us to fast correctly. (2:28) The ablution is wrong. (2:31) That we used to do. (2:31) You and I. (2:32) God looked down and he saw that you and I were doing the ablution wrong. (2:37) Eight or nine steps when he gave us four steps. (2:42) God saw that everything we were doing was wrong. (2:50) God looked down and he saw us associating the name of Muhammad with the name of God, with the first pillar of Islam. (2:56) The shahada. (2:58) And this is why this prayer of thanks. (3:02) Because if someone walks through this door and says, There is no God except the one true God. (3:11) We will be very happy. (3:14) You do the same thing at the Islamic center or at any mosque in the Middle East. (3:20) In Egypt, or Karachi, or Iran. (3:22) Go walk in the door and say, And they'll go like this. (3:29) Where is the rest? (3:32) Now if you don't come up with the rest, they will literally beat you up. (3:36) The great writing, it's in the Quran, surah 39, verse 45. (3:42) When God alone is mentioned, the hearts of the disbelievers shrink with aversion. (3:47) This is why we thank God. (3:50) Because he looked down and he saw that you and me were doing it wrong. (3:55) We were committing idolatry. (3:57) The only unforgivable offense. (4:02) God wanted us to know that we are the creatures who agreed with Satan. (4:09) Long time ago, a few billion years ago, Satan violated the absolute principle of God. (4:18) He thought in his head that God could have another God beside him. (4:23) Satan initiated that idea. (4:27) And there are some who said, yeah, Satan can do that. (4:30) He's powerful. (4:31) He's got the qualifications. (4:33) He can do that. (4:35) Some creatures did agree with Satan. (4:39) You know who those creatures are? (4:42) That's you and me. (4:45) God wanted us to know that. (4:48) And God called himself, the most gracious, most merciful, beyond belief. (4:59) Our belief. (5:01) So God told Satan, you go, you do, because he still thinks that you can be a God beside God. (5:08) But the creatures, you and I, who agreed with Satan mentally, are given a second chance. (5:14) This is it. (5:16) God is giving us a second chance. (5:20) And God wanted us to know that. (5:23) God's kingdom, where all constituents of God know that God is the absolute Lord and Master, the kingdom is going from eternity to eternity. (5:34) And in surah 38, we see a dispute happening. (5:37) Surah 38. (5:38) Surah 38. (5:42) Dispute. (5:44) Dispute. (5:45) In the high society. (5:46) Satan initiated an idea. (5:49) And we agreed with him. (5:51) So God put us all in Abel. (5:55) And isolated us from that dimension. (5:58) We don't remember those things, because we are given a second chance to take back this idea that Satan, maybe he can do it. (6:09) Maybe God alone is not enough. (6:11) This is why associating anything with God is not forgivable. (6:16) This is why we are thanking God for being born at this time when God wins. (6:23) That we remove all association. (6:25) That we say, la ilaha illallah, and we are happy with it. (6:29) This is the criteria. (6:31) You go in any mosque in the world and say, la ilaha illallah, they will beat you up. (6:37) In fact, they come in our mosque, and we tell them, la ilaha illallah, and they want to beat us up. (6:43) Now listen to this, so that you can tell them that. (6:47) Tell them, you do not want Allah, Muhammad is not with him. (6:51) And this is the truth. (6:54) When you say, la ilaha illallah alone, try it. (6:57) Go to any mosque, any Islamic center, anywhere in the world, and say, la ilaha illallah. (7:02) They don't want Allah without Muhammad. (7:07) I have recordings of songs from Egypt and other places that enrage the Ismailis, where God is a messenger of Muhammad. (7:18) They pray to God to go to Muhammad and get his intercession, his sifah, for them. (7:26) I have it, it's a mosque, you can hear it. (7:40) God looked down at the planet Earth, and he saw that his message, the Quran, has been tampered with. (7:49) They added two verses in praise of the Prophet. (7:53) What else? (7:55) At the end of Surah 9, and God wanted to remove those two verses. (8:01) God wanted the Quran to be pure, restored. (8:07) And God wanted us to know when will the world end. (8:11) It is in the Quran, and God wants to reveal it now, to our generation. (8:17) And we thank God for being that generation. (8:22) God wanted to reveal the miracle of the Quran, an overwhelming miracle. (8:28) And God wanted to tell us that our only source must be his word, the Quran. (8:34) And he did it mathematically. (8:35) I'm going to share this with you, which will demonstrate the miracle, and why the Quran alone. (8:42) The word alone is mentioned in the Quran six times. (8:47) It's a very limited number of mentionings. (8:50) The word alone, wahdahu, in Arabic, is mentioned only six times. (8:56) Five times I'm referring to God, Allah wahdahu. (9:00) And one time is referring to the Quran, al-Quran wahdahu, the Quran alone. (9:08) You look at any translation or tafsir of the Quran, and they never say it, al-Quran wahdahu. (9:15) They tell you that this wahdahu alone refers to Rabbaka, to Allah, to God, not to the Quran. (9:21) Because it's a doctrine from God. (9:24) It says you follow the Quran alone, and they don't want to do that. (9:28) So they distort it. (9:30) Now listen to the mathematics that God put in the Quran. (9:33) If you take the surah, and the verse, where the word alone is mentioned. (9:40) The total is 19 times 19, 361. (9:44) These are the five alone that refer to God. (9:49) If you take the one referring to the Quran, this destroys the criterion. (9:55) This is not a multiple of 19 anymore. (9:59) And this proves that alone in surah 17 refers to the Quran, alone. (10:08) Linguistically, it is referring to the Quran. (10:11) It came after the Quran. (10:12) It says when you preach about God in the Quran alone, they turn away in aversion. (10:19) They run away in aversion. (10:23) Now God could have said when you preach God alone in the Quran, they run away in aversion. (10:28) But he didn't do it that way. (10:29) He put the word alone after the Quran, and this is supported, as you see, mathematically. (10:34) So God wanted to establish this fact. (10:38) That religious teaching must come from the Quran, and the Quran alone, nothing else. (10:48) God wanted us to believe that he is doing everything. (10:52) Now this is a very difficult concept. (10:55) But we find it in surah 8, verse 17. (10:57) 8, 17 is a multiple of 19. (10:59) And it says, it is not you who threw, when you threw it was God who threw. (11:05) The Quran, in about a hundred verses, tells us people who believe that he is the lord of the universe, the lord of the great throne, these people are going to hell. (11:17) Why? (11:19) Because they do not believe that God is doing everything. (11:23) This doctrine that God wants us to know, sheds a whole new light on the concept of submission. (11:34) Because if you know that God is doing everything, you will not object. (11:37) You will never be unhappy. (11:40) You will not object to anything. (11:42) You will be a Muslim. (11:44) You will be a submitter, this is what Muslim is. (11:50) God wanted us to know that Muhammad wrote the Quran with his hand. (11:54) That he was not an illiterate man. (11:56) A ridiculous concept. (11:58) He was looking for a miracle in the Quran, the wrong way. (12:01) And they thought, if we say that Muhammad is illiterate, he cannot read or write, this would make a fantastic miracle. (12:08) So they lie about their idol. (12:10) He wrote the Quran with his hand, we have the proof, and God wanted us to know that. (12:16) God wanted us to know that in Masjid al-Aqsa, the Aqsa mosque is not in Jerusalem. (12:23) It is in the seventh heaven, the seventh universe. (12:26) And he wanted us to know that Muhammad went there and received the Quran over there. (12:34) And God wanted us to know the secrets of perfect happiness. (12:39) We are going to go into all details for all of these. (12:46) On page 69 of Rabbi Kusner, Kusner's book, he said, I don't know why people are mortal and fated to die. (12:56) And I don't know why people die at the time and in the way they do. (13:00) Perhaps you can try to understand it by picturing what the world would be like if people lived forever. (13:07) Of course God can do that if he so willed. (13:10) But we know the reason why we came to this world and why the human being dies. (13:17) But for all these reasons, God tells us in the Quran that after all the prophets have come, in surah 3, verse 81, God will send a messenger who will confirm all the prophets and restore all their messages to their pristine purity. (13:36) Now, do we believe the Quran? (13:38) Do we believe in the Quran? (13:41) If we believe in the Quran, we would believe this verse, verse 81 in surah 3. (13:46) And as most of you are aware, some person in South Africa wrote an article saying that the messenger who will come and confirm all the prophets is Muhammad. (14:01) This person fell in a trap of his ignorance because in surah 3, God says that it is not Muhammad. (14:10) That Muhammad is one of the prophets who made the covenant and the pledge with God to believe and support and help the messenger who will come after all the prophets. (14:21) So, if we believe that verse, we have to ask ourselves, who is this messenger? (14:26) What does he look like? (14:28) How about Ronald Reagan? (14:31) I mean, we have to be open-minded. (14:33) I mean, just imagine, how about your uncle? (14:36) Think of your uncle. (14:37) Think of the brother of your father, for example. Speaker 12 (14:41) Is he good? Speaker 2 (14:42) Could he be? (14:44) We have to be open-minded. (14:46) Because, as Faribas read the verse that says, they swore solemnly by God that if a warner came to them, they would be better guided, they would treat him better. (15:00) Then when the warner came, this increased their aversion because of their arrogance. (15:07) Because the human nature, when you say, this human being is God's messenger, the human nature, unless we overcome the ego, will be averse to that idea. (15:22) But we must be open to that. (15:24) And we just have to ask the person, what is your truth? (15:29) The Quran says that. (15:30) The Quran says, Read your truth. (15:37) So I'm going to close with this, that we must be open to the idea that God told us in the Quran. (15:47) It is very clear. (15:49) And there are many, many places in the Quran that will explain it and make it very clear to us. (15:54) I want to introduce all of you to each other. (16:02) And will you carry the camera on your shoulder? (16:06) We're going to start with Raymond, the one and only. Speaker 12 (16:09) Take the camera, it's easier. Speaker 15 (16:14) All right. Speaker 2 (16:19) Raymond comes from Vancouver. (16:21) He's one of the original strivers. (16:25) And with the very first fight where they sent warriors from Saudi Arabia to come and combat us. (16:36) Vancouver, D.C. Next to him is Ahmed Barouli. (16:39) He's very shy. (16:40) We love him very much. (16:43) Without him, we cannot make a ton of Salat. (16:46) No, it's all right. (16:50) You can see him. Speaker 12 (16:53) Okay. Speaker 2 (16:57) Hamid. (17:02) My brother-in-law, Ahmed Rayan. (17:06) Very strong believer. (17:07) Brother Abdel Moutahar came all the way from New York. (17:12) And brother Ezzatine came with his sister-in-law, Naima Turner. (17:17) He's testing the water. (17:18) He wants to find out what the truth is. (17:21) And he comes all the way from California. (17:24) Brother Mahmoud Mohini. (17:27) God bless him. (17:28) He's a strong member of NASA, too, sir. (17:33) Farhan Mohini, excuse me. (17:35) Farhan Mohini. (17:36) Brother Hossein Kowsai. (17:37) I discouraged him, but he came. (17:39) In spite of all the discouragement. Speaker 1 (17:45) At 1.30, I'm supposed to give thanks to God. (17:49) And congratulations to you. (17:52) And I think this will be my chance to finish early. (17:56) There are some people who are trying to catch planes. (17:59) So I expect, Inshallah, to have lunch, eat and run. (18:04) After we have lunch, we'll just leave. (18:07) Let's do dhul. (18:09) Let's do dhul. (18:11) Let's do dhul before we run out of time. (18:14) Well, let me start with congratulating you. (18:21) Because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala saw us heading for a conference. (18:26) Absolutely the greatest collection of people who worship God alone. (18:30) And uphold the words of God alone. Speaker 2 (18:32) So, there's no question that this is a very special spot in the universe. Speaker 1 (18:42) And you'll agree with me that there are angels that are full of excitement roaming around us here. (18:53) And also, I have to go to the book of Job and quote a few examples from there. (19:02) Where Satan told God, why shouldn't Job worship you? (19:07) He's happy, he's content. (19:09) Everything is going right for him. Speaker 2 (19:12) If I touch his properties, he'll blaspheme against me. Speaker 1 (19:16) And God told Satan, okay, you can go and touch his properties, but you cannot touch him. (19:25) God puts limits on Satan. (19:29) So, Satan went and destroyed all of Job's properties. (19:33) And Job continued to worship God alone. (19:37) Didn't make any difference. (19:38) And you know the rest of the story. Speaker 12 (19:40) Okay, this is it. Speaker 1 (19:43) And then fix this. Speaker 2 (19:55) These people are not strong. (19:58) If you give them just a little bit of trouble, they will turn around and go back. (20:03) And God told Satan, okay, you can have them, within limits. (20:07) Give them some confusion and some overheating cars. (20:12) And let them get lost. (20:15) How should we recite it this way or how should we do it? Speaker 1 (20:18) The way we read this beautiful recitation of the Quran. (20:24) We had a discussion with the Azhar, seems to be, like a prophet, a prophet, a messenger of Satan. (20:36) We had the rest of the Azhar say it before our eyes. (20:40) But anyway, we had a discussion with him. (20:41) And he disagreed with the way the Quran is recited. (20:45) By Perry Brash, for example. (20:46) Or the other reciters. (20:50) But he had a discussion with the way he wants the Quran to be recited. (20:53) It's a very repulsive, ugly recitation. (20:57) And in his opinion, he thinks that the Quran should be recited in that way. (21:11) So, anyway, we had the big discussion. (21:15) And somebody asked the extreme question, how about adding music to the Quran? (21:19) I mean, what's wrong with anything that would make us listen to the Quran and learn to the Quran and understand the word of God? (21:27) That was said jokingly. (21:31) And then, the very first morning after that, And we were guests at my brother's house, where he has some beautiful flowers and landscaping outside. (21:44) So, Kat wanted to take some pictures of the flowers with the video to use as background for our video program. (21:55) And it just happened that Perry Brash was passing by. (21:58) And Kat said, why don't I have you recite some Quran while I'm shooting the flowers? (22:04) And Perry Brash came and started reciting in the most beautiful, heavenly recitation that you can hear. (22:10) For example, at the beginning of the video tape, they're called The Great Debate. (22:15) Some of you did hear it. (22:17) Perry Brash wanted to read the Quran. (22:19) And soon enough, a bird came and provided, you know, God provided music. (22:27) Whenever Perry Brash read the Quran, the bird read the Quran with him. (22:32) It was just a beautiful harmony and an absolute miracle. (22:36) One of the things that we witnessed. (22:39) Okay. (22:40) Maybe that was a coincidence. (22:43) Outside right now, brother Abdul Muta'al from New York. (22:47) He wants to take his collecting mementos of the conference. (22:52) Souvenirs to take back to New York. (22:55) And Perry Brash happened to be passing by as he was holding his recorder, right? (23:00) So he asked Perry Brash, if you could come and recite some Quran for my recorder. (23:05) You know something? (23:06) A bird. (23:07) Did you hear any birds this morning? (23:09) I don't know. Speaker 2 (23:10) A bird showed up and started singing along with Perry Brash. Speaker 1 (23:14) It is not as profound as the video tape. (23:25) You're going to see something. (23:27) But here. (23:28) Here's the evidence, folks. (23:36) Notice the bird. (23:38) It is not as pronounced as the other one. (23:39) But it is there. (23:40) It's a confirmation. (23:42) Absolute confirmation. Speaker 6 (23:45) This is Farideh. (23:47) Peace be upon you, everybody. (23:48) I'm very glad that I'm here for the convention. (23:54) Congratulations to all of you who, Alhamdulillah, worship Allah and follow Quran. (24:00) And really, congratulations for being, Inshallah, all united together. (24:07) Alhamdulillah. (24:10) Now, one verse from the Quran. (24:21) Our Lord, let not our hearts falter after being guided by you. (24:28) And shower us with your mercies. (24:30) You are the creator of the heavens and the earth. (24:32) We are very happy here because we worship Allah alone. (24:35) And we are really, really, a very lucky generation. (24:40) Congratulations to all, Inshallah. Speaker 11 (24:42) This young lady has an inspiring voice. (24:44) I'm telling you, I'm trying to get some of it on the tape so that you can hear it. (24:47) Okay. (24:47) Now or? (24:49) Now. (24:50) Okay. (24:51) Come on. Speaker 6 (24:53) You have a beautiful song. (24:56) Did I put something wrong? (24:58) Yeah, but start it up there. (24:59) This is live. (25:00) Come sit. (25:19) What did you say? (25:21) Yeah, after your song. Speaker 11 (25:22) Yeah. (25:23) Okay. (25:24) I heard it. Speaker 2 (25:25) Yeah. Speaker 11 (25:26) A little bit. (25:27) Yes, it has to go. Speaker 6 (25:32) There. (25:35) And that is. (25:40) Very good. Speaker 12 (25:46) Wonderful. Speaker 2 (25:57) Where did the bird come from? Speaker 6 (26:12) There's more after this. (26:27) I don't know how to sing it. (26:41) SubhanAllah, he ain't bad at all. (26:46) I want you to say to me, Alhamdulillah. (26:49) See, that's how much better. (27:01) Alhamdulillah. Speaker 2 (27:14) By the way, this verse says, the truth has come and falsehood has vanished. Speaker 1 (27:37) A'udhu Billahi Minash Shaitanir Rajeem. (27:39) Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. (27:41) Quran is wisdom. (27:46) Just the subtitle provokes a short discussion here, because people who are trying very hard to go to hell, people who are storming the gates of hell and digging tunnels under the fence to go to hell, say that Quran is the scripture and hadith is the wisdom. (28:09) Because God says in the Quran consistently, scripture and wisdom. (28:14) And God says this to every prophet, Jesus, Moses, Muhammad. (28:19) But of course, they lose sight of this. (28:22) And in this verse, verse 39, we are told that Quran is wisdom. (28:25) When you acquire Quran, you acquire wisdom. (28:31) Before we look for this one, they are giving us a list of commandments, which include the ten commandments. (28:39) We shall not kill, we shall honor our parents. (28:42) Of course, the first commandment, we shall worship God alone. (28:45) And then now comes verse 39, which says, this is some of the wisdom inspired to you by your Lord. (28:52) You shall not set up another god beside God, lest you end up in Gehenna, blamed and defeated. (29:01) So, if you can make a mental picture in your mind, when these people tell you that the hadith is the wisdom, remember this, 1739. (29:16) 1739 is a clear statement that Quran is the wisdom. (29:19) Verse 40 says, has your Lord given you boys, while giving himself the angels as daughters? (29:27) How could you utter such a blasphemy? (29:30) We have cited in this Quran all kinds of examples, that they may take heed, but it only augments their aversion. (29:42) There is a tendency among, especially the Arabs of those days, and even now, and some other nationalities, a prejudice to baby boys. (29:54) Before the baby is born, they want a boy. (29:56) This is their wish. (29:58) But at the risk of being prejudiced against boys, I say girls are better than boys. (30:06) Just to counter that general erroneous bigoted trend. (30:18) But it seems like when we have sons and daughters, when the sons get married, we lose them. (30:24) But when the daughters get married, we gain a son-in-law. (30:27) This seems to be a general trend. (30:32) So to correct the biased statement just made, I say when the boys make it and become believers, they're wonderful. (30:41) But the girls definitely have an advantage, as far as God is concerned, in that God created the man with more ego. (30:50) And this is a real problem. (30:53) This is why when we have boys and they are believers, they're wonderful. (31:00) When we have girls and they're believers, they're fantastic. (31:08) So this bigoted principle is very wrong, of course. (31:15) The Quran condemns it in the strongest terms. (31:19) In surah 16, for example, the surah for this one, as to how they react to a baby boy or a baby girl. (31:26) The Quran condemns their prejudice. (31:33) Surah 41, we have cited in this Quran all kinds of examples that they may take heed, but it only augments their aversion. (31:43) Surah 42 says, if there were other gods beside him, as they claim, they would have tried to overthrow the possessor of the throne. (31:51) So God is discussing it in logical terms. (31:58) If we had three gods, they would overthrow each other until one of them dominates. (32:04) Saeed, why are you hiding? (32:06) Come back here. (32:07) Do you have a Quran? (32:09) No, come here and be cozy. (32:12) We want to see you. (32:16) Get a copy of the Quran. (32:20) Why not? (32:26) Open page 286. (32:35) Verse 43 says, Be he glorified, he is much too exalted, far above their utterances. (32:46) Their utterances cause mountains to shatter. (32:53) It's like putting a virus next to you. (32:56) Of course, it's much more than that. (32:57) The proportion is much more than that. (33:00) A virus is your partner in this business, for example. (33:07) A vice president of the Islamic University in Medina tells us, you have only God there, that's all? (33:14) On the wall. (33:15) He wants Muhammad next to God. (33:20) Is that all? (33:21) Can you imagine? (33:21) I mean, it makes me cringe. (33:24) That was the end of the conversation. (33:27) Really, it makes you cringe. (33:28) Is that all? (33:29) He's talking about God. (33:31) Is that all? (33:33) This is why verse 43 says, Be he glorified, he is much too exalted, far above their utterances. (33:39) I mean, you and I are going to meet this man on the Day of Judgment. (33:43) Let's see how he can repeat that question. (33:46) Is that all? (33:48) 44. (33:51) Glorifying him are the seven universes, the earth, and everyone in them. (33:57) There is nothing that does not glorify him. (34:00) But you do not comprehend their glorification. (34:03) He is clam and forgiving. (34:05) Even the disbelievers glorify God unwillingly. (34:09) Because their heart beats. (34:11) They cannot change the number of their heartbeats. (34:14) Or the way their intestines, their first pulses work. (34:17) They cannot control their blood, their body. (34:26) Glorifying him are the seven universes, the earth, and everything in them. (34:30) There is nothing that does not glorify him. (34:33) But you do not comprehend their glorification. (34:35) He is clam and forgiving. (34:39) We went through the fact that this wall glorifies God. (34:42) The carpet. (34:43) This tape recorder. (34:45) Because every atom has molecules and has nuclei and electrons and neutrons and protons. (34:51) And they're all moving in precise orbits according to God's law. (34:54) This is how they glorify God. (34:56) They never deviate. (34:58) Never. (34:59) Otherwise, all of a sudden, this book will become gold. (35:01) Or lead. (35:06) Don't say, I wish it is. (35:08) Because it can turn to lead. (35:12) And it takes minor changes in the electrons. (35:14) The numbers in the orbits of the electrons. (35:21) There is nothing that does not glorify God. (35:34) The invisible barrier. (35:37) The invisible barrier explains your experiences when you're talking to the people, giving them very strong proof. (35:42) And they don't move. (35:44) It doesn't reach them. (35:46) When you read the Quran, we place between you and those who do not believe in the hereafter, an invisible barrier. (35:52) This is one of three important criteria that tell us whether we believe in the hereafter or not. (36:00) You and I claim to believe in the hereafter. (36:02) But that doesn't mean a thing. (36:04) When we claim with our mouth that we believe in the hereafter, it doesn't mean a thing. (36:09) You have to pass these three criteria. (36:12) This is one of them. (36:16) When you read the Quran, we place between you and those who do not believe in the hereafter, an invisible barrier. (36:21) And we place shields around their minds to prevent them from understanding the Quran. (36:27) And deafness in their ears. (36:28) And when you preach your Lord using the Quran alone, they run away in aversion. (36:33) So that's the criteria. (36:35) If you tell them Quran alone and they are averse to this idea, this means they do not believe in the hereafter. (36:41) No matter what they say with their mouth. (36:44) The other criteria is the same number of verses, 45, but in surah 39. (36:48) You want to look at it? (36:49) Surah 39. (36:54) It's a very simple criteria that we can apply to ourselves and to the people we talk to. (36:59) Ayat 463, verse 45, I call it the greatest criteria. (37:08) It says, when God alone is mentioned, the hearts of those who do not believe in the hereafter drink with aversion. (37:16) But when others are mentioned beside him, they rejoice. (37:20) Yusuf Ali outright refused to translate this verse correctly. (37:24) He refused to use the word alone, which he translated correctly in other places in the Quran. (37:30) But when it came to, when God alone is mentioned, they become averse, he became averse. (37:36) And he changed alone to the one and only, which doesn't mean anything, it doesn't mean alone. (37:44) Because the one and only means the great, the gracious, merciful, the one and only. (37:49) But alone is a very specific word. (37:53) And Yusuf Ali refused to, you can see the other translations squirm around it and try to avoid saying it. (38:00) Because they apply the criterion to themselves and they cannot, they don't pass. (38:05) It proves that they do not believe in the hereafter, which is a prerequisite for going to heaven. (38:13) So this is the criterion. (38:14) When you talk to someone and you tell them God alone, or you just talk about God alone, and they tell you you're a kafir, which is a very funny statement. (38:29) You tell them la ilaha illallah, you say you're a kafir. (38:31) What? (38:32) When I'm saying worship God alone, they tell me, you call me I'm a kafir because I say God alone? (38:39) Ahsan always asks, when he says kafarna bi shirkukum, he says, yes, I'm a kafir of your shirk, your idolatry. (38:45) Which is a statement in surah 60. (38:50) It's a very funny statement when you tell the worship God alone, you say you're a kafir. (38:54) Kafir of what? Speaker 16 (39:10) Right. Speaker 1 (39:19) Right. (39:22) Did you hear what she was saying? (39:24) Al muwahhideen, yes. Speaker 9 (39:25) Al muwahhideen, yes. Speaker 1 (39:33) Naima Ihsan developed a very good idea, it's going to help you when you argue with those flobsters. (39:38) She was arguing with an Egyptian fellow in Canada, and she told him that when you say la ilaha illallah Muhammad Rasulallah, among the commandments you break is the commandment of making distinction among the messengers. (39:49) You should not make distinction among the messengers. (39:51) So she asked him, when was the last time you said, la ilaha illallah, salih rasulullah? (39:57) He said, just because I don't say salih rasulullah, doesn't mean I don't believe he is rasulullah. (40:01) She said, exactly, just because we don't say Muhammad rasulullah, doesn't mean we don't believe that Muhammad is rasulullah. (40:06) I mean, he just fell in the trap very nicely. (40:13) We have the conversation recorded. (40:19) There are a few other ideas that will come. (40:22) So now we saw two criteria. (40:25) The one in verse 45 of surah 17, 45-46, which says Quran alone. (40:30) When you say the Quran alone and you become averse to it, this tells them and tells you, and we'll bear witness on them on the Day of Judgment, that they did not believe in the Hereafter. (40:40) If somebody tells me Quran alone and I don't like it, this tells me that I don't believe in the Hereafter, even if I'm saying it with my mouth. (40:48) I can swear by God that I believe in the Hereafter. (40:50) But if I'm not content with the Quran alone, I'm a liar. (40:55) This is a criterion. (40:56) Now, the third criterion is in 6, 113. (41:03) And this is in page 142. (41:10) You start at 112, it says hadith and sunnah, fabrications by the prophets, enemies, and accepting them, again, is a criterion for disbelief in the Hereafter. (41:20) Because 112 says we also set up enemies against every prophet. (41:24) And this, of course, includes the prophet Muhammad. (41:27) Human and jinn devils who inspire in each other fancy words. (41:33) Another description of hadith. (41:35) In order to deceive, as your Lord willed, they would not have done it. (41:40) You shall disregard them and their fabrications. (41:43) So why did God will that they fabricate those things? (41:46) In 113 it says this is to let the minds of those who do not believe in the Hereafter, this is the common denominator here, disbelief in the Hereafter, listen to such fabrications and accept them, and thus expose their real convictions. (42:02) Because with their mouth they say we believe in the Hereafter. (42:06) But if they accept any source besides the Quran as their source for religious guidance, this is the criterion that tells me, tells them, that they do not believe in the Hereafter. (42:19) So the first two criteria are really the same thing, but in two different ways. (42:23) One of them, if you accept a source other than the Quran, you don't worship souls and their families on the Day of Resurrection. (42:32) Most certainly, this is the worst loss. (42:35) Losing the soul is literal. (42:42) When we don't pray, we don't worship God alone, the soul shrinks. (42:46) Not only to zero, it goes to negative. (42:52) Just be full of negative charges. (42:57) Losing the souls and their families, because a soul that is shrunk is repulsed by everything else. (43:06) Do you remember those movies about gambling in the Old West, and drinking, and shooting and killing? (43:14) Murders, fighting, shooting and killing are always associated with the places of gambling and drinking. (43:20) Because the souls are so shrunk, there is so much hate. (43:26) It's amazing how they show those movies, and they have poker heads or something, and they focus on the faces, there is so much hatred and cheating, money grabbing, greed, and then they shoot each other. (43:42) They are reaching for their guns every few minutes. Speaker 5 (43:46) They have their guns on their lap, actually. Speaker 1 (43:48) Yes, exactly. Speaker 5 (43:50) Or on the table, and whiskey. (43:53) Gambling and drinking. (43:56) In France, for instance, they show these films, all the films they show in one week in France. (44:03) There are so many killings and murders, and it's only this. (44:08) That was murder week or something? (44:10) No, every week. Speaker 1 (44:12) Oh, every week. (44:12) Yeah, it's nothing like that. (44:16) It affects the people. (44:17) Of course. (44:21) Sixteen. (44:23) They will have masses of fire on top of them and under them. (44:30) God thus alerts his servants, O my servants, you shall reverence me. (44:34) As for those who discarded the worship of all idols and devoted themselves totally to God, they have the good news. (44:41) Give good news to my servants. (44:44) They are the ones who examine all worlds and follow the best. (44:50) These are the ones whom God has guided. (44:53) These are the ones who possess intelligence. (44:56) For those who have incurred the retribution, can you save those who are already in hell? (45:01) As for those who reverence the Lord, they will have mansions upon mansions, constructed for them with flowing streams. (45:11) This is God's promise, and God never breaks his promise. (45:14) Do you not see that God sends down from the sky water, then places it into underground wells, then produces with it plants of various colors, then they grow until they turn yellow and become hay? (45:26) This should be a reminder for those who possess intelligence. (45:29) I think I'll stop here and have general discussions if there's any. Speaker 7 (45:35) By interruption here, by Markhan, is there any devil, Shaitan, is there any action here? (45:46) For example, Markhan, by the card I dropped, I make you a little nervous, etc. (45:54) Markhan, by the card, it makes me nervous, my son, Muhammad. (46:00) So, he interrupts, really, and makes me nervous, etc. (46:04) Oh, Muhammad is making noise? (46:06) Yes. (46:06) That's natural. (46:09) Does Shaitan have any power here? Speaker 1 (46:15) Yes, he scares you and makes you nervous. (46:20) You need to relax, concentrate on that. (46:24) Don't worry, he's in God's hands. Speaker 3 (46:27) Shaitan is very powerful, don't worry. Speaker 1 (46:30) He's probably good. (46:31) In the case of Shaitan, he's kind of like that, yes. Speaker 8 (46:36) Does the jinn that you were born with, you know, do you have a companion? (46:42) As an early child, can you already start, when you're too young to really understand, and just understand the concept, can you already start to influence and be the jinn, not like taking cookies from the cookie jar, but stuff like there's no God, and already start to influence? Speaker 1 (47:02) Yes, that would be from Shaitan. (47:03) It has to do with God. (47:05) But remember that the jinn is also a baby at the time you're a baby. (47:13) Our qualities as humans are not really complete. (47:17) We grow in our human qualities, and so does the jinn. (47:21) He also grows in his jinn qualities. Speaker 5 (47:23) So his chivalrousness in children is when the jinn is in control. Speaker 1 (47:31) No, no, I didn't say that. (47:32) I said the exact opposite. (47:35) I said that when there are children in the jinn, there's also children. (47:39) It's not an adult jinn getting hold of a child. (47:42) No, I heard. (47:43) The jinn also is a child. Speaker 5 (47:44) Yes, but I mean the age. Speaker 10 (47:45) It's directly proportionate. (47:48) You mean to the age? Speaker 1 (47:49) Yes. (47:52) As soon as the human being begins to reason, so will the jinn. (47:58) For example, he will tell you as of now, don't get up early in the morning to do the morning prayer. (48:04) It's more fun to sleep, he'll tell you. (48:08) He'll even keep you from school homework. (48:11) He'll make it boring for you. (48:13) You know, it's really crazy. (48:15) The jinn tells us the things that are bad for us. (48:18) Don't they realize that if I starve, he'll starve too? (48:23) Because they share in our pain and our joys. Speaker 15 (48:29) In other words, there are as many jinn as human beings? Speaker 1 (48:34) No, as many companions as human beings. (48:38) Every human being is two. (48:41) A human being and a companion. (48:43) A human being and a companion. (48:44) The jinn are the freed companions. (48:47) There are many more of those. Speaker 5 (48:48) But Satan must be really stupid, because he wants to prove that he's competent. (48:55) Yes. (48:55) But basically he's just proving the opposite all the time. (48:58) Willingly. Speaker 12 (48:59) How? Speaker 5 (49:01) Well, by... (49:02) I mean, he should be as smart to see that his ways are destructive, that they don't lead anywhere. (49:11) So why can't he... (49:13) Give up, yeah? (49:14) ...be enough intelligent and draw the conclusions then? Speaker 1 (49:17) Because he's still hoping that he can fix everything. Speaker 5 (49:20) He's still hoping. (49:21) Just like the perestroika. (49:23) He has to continue the perestroika. Speaker 1 (49:25) That's right. Speaker 5 (49:27) Very good analogy. Speaker 4 (49:32) As I said, just to understand a little bit what he's saying, right now it's just 10% of the population. (49:46) He's saying this to the right time. (49:48) He said that the Earth is populated just 10% of the global population. Speaker 1 (49:55) The total human population, yes. Speaker 4 (49:57) So he thinks he still has lots of time to catch up. Speaker 1 (50:02) Yes, he's still hoping that he will fix everything. (50:07) But things keep popping up. (50:10) Just as he takes care of polio, for example. (50:12) AIDS comes up. (50:16) And he's working on AIDS and so on. (50:18) So it's like somebody who's guarding a wall or a dam that has leaks in it. (50:26) I always give this analogy. (50:28) And he puts his finger in the hole to stop the water, but another leak comes up and pokes another hole. (50:34) It seems like right now he's got all 10 fingers and 10 toes. Speaker 10 (50:37) He's running out of fingers and toes. Speaker 1 (50:38) Yes, like out of fingers and toes. (50:45) This is the purpose of that system of increasing the population. (50:52) For example, how come AIDS didn't show up 1,000 years ago? (50:58) There were homosexuals 1,000 years ago. (51:01) Why didn't AIDS show up then? (51:04) Can you guess? (51:07) Why do we have AIDS now and not 1,000 years ago? (51:10) Where did it come from? Speaker 14 (51:12) Well, they've become so vocal now and so violent about it. (51:18) They've become made up now. Speaker 9 (51:20) It's because of Satan. Speaker 1 (51:22) Let's give Mohammed a chance to think. Speaker 9 (51:25) Hold him. Speaker 1 (51:27) Could you keep that children apart? (51:29) Call your child next to you. (51:31) Annie, Annie. (51:33) Annie, come here. (51:34) Come here. (51:38) The only way to keep him quiet is to keep him apart. (51:41) Good boy. (51:43) Divide and rule. (51:44) Yes. (51:46) Hanan, come next to mom. (51:54) Okay, where do you prefer to sit? (51:56) In that chair over there? (51:58) You prefer to sit in that chair? (52:00) No? (52:01) Okay, you pick out a good spot. (52:04) What's the best spot? (52:06) Where you are? (52:09) Okay. (52:09) Okay, Mohammed. Speaker 13 (52:13) Get his attention away from there. Speaker 4 (52:15) Like if they did it in the Romans, the Roman empire collapsed. (52:21) Mostly because of the wrongdoing. (52:26) They have other diseases that the population was small. (52:34) Yes. (52:34) So, very small population. (52:36) So, we give him just a test of what he tries to make a perfect work with the Romans. (52:47) For instance, if you take the Roman empire, that the general idea, just like in the communists, as long as it's on the paper, it's fantastic. (52:59) It has to stay in the paper. (53:01) So, they try to, they put some applications. (53:08) In the world? (53:09) The whole thing is collapsed. (53:11) Yes. Speaker 1 (53:14) My feeling is that AIDS, a thousand years ago, the population of the earth was very small. (53:22) And Satan was able to handle that. (53:25) But now that the population increased, he's losing control. (53:29) So, we get all this starving children in Africa and AIDS. (53:35) So, things are getting out of control for him. (53:38) And if I get the chance in the next few days, maybe, we had examples here of Satan's incompetence. (53:47) Where we have proved that his ability to see is very limited. (53:53) I mean, God sees everything in the universe. (53:55) Not a single atom is out of God's control. (53:59) But we have very strong evidence that Satan's control is very limited. (54:03) And he cannot, he has very serious limitations with seeing. Speaker 3 (54:10) By the way, you need to conclude the wrong point. (54:19) If Satan wants to prevent starving, starvation, or AIDS, he's trying to find a cure for AIDS. (54:33) Or people, charitable people who try to, how do you say, help starving people. (54:41) And by this way, they help Satan to make it better. Speaker 1 (54:45) Satan is trying very hard to make everything better. Speaker 3 (54:48) I know that, for example, if you have starving children, you help Satan by this way, you shouldn't help starving people. Speaker 1 (54:57) No, no, you help because that's your requirement. (54:59) But it doesn't make any difference. (55:02) As long as Satan is concerned. Speaker 3 (55:05) I don't understand. (55:09) If you try to have a good world, or have a good, for example, cake, whatever, to be good with Satan's object... Speaker 1 (55:20) Your zakah, your contribution is insignificant. (55:24) Do not counteract the damage that Satan is doing by his incompetence. (55:29) Do not correct it. (55:30) But it is my duty and your duty to give zakah and to be charitable. (55:35) And this is in surah 36, This is what the unbelievers will say. (55:43) You want me to feed somebody that God wants to starve? (55:46) God wants him to starve, why should I feed him? (55:48) This is what he's saying. (55:50) But that's not... Speaker 3 (55:51) I think if God's dominion, things will go bad, we are good, God's rule is good, but Satan's dominion, people's power, things will go bad. (56:00) Satan will want to make it good. (56:02) Right? (56:03) Satan is trying to make it good. Speaker 1 (56:05) Let me mention it now, and very quickly, anyway. (56:09) The miracle of Quran, which is a fantastic finding at this time, came out of Satan's pocket. (56:19) It was hidden in his pocket. (56:23) Because... (56:25) Because this is a long story, I don't have to make it short, without doing it injustice. (56:30) I was working for Monsanto company, and then I had to give a paper at the American Chemical Society meeting in Chicago, 1970. (56:43) And after I gave the paper, this gentleman approaches me and he says, he's the research director for Anheuser-Busch. (56:52) Same city where I was working. (56:53) I was working for Monsanto in St. Louis. (56:55) He says, Anheuser-Busch is the biggest brewery in the world. (56:59) It produces more alcohol than any place in the world. (57:01) Drink, for example, beer. (57:03) And he came and he said, we would like you to work for us. (57:08) So I laughed. (57:10) I said, no way, I can't work for Anheuser-Busch. (57:14) He says, why? (57:16) I said, because I'm a Muslim and I can't deal with alcohol. (57:21) He said, this position has nothing to do with alcohol. (57:24) You're going to be in the food technology section, the food research section, and it has nothing to do with alcohol. (57:29) It has to do with yeast, baker's yeast, and brewer's yeast, and so on. (57:34) I said, I will be connected with the name of Anheuser-Busch, and this is something I don't want to be connected with, the name of Anheuser-Busch. (57:43) And he said, it starts from another angle. (57:47) He said, what we're trying to do is, in the world, there are millions of tons of yeast and other agricultural waste that we throw away, and it's full of protein. (58:00) If you can help us get this protein out and turn it into food, those starving people in your country and back in Africa will not be starving. (58:11) So he's trying to do the humanitarian thing. (58:14) I mean, it was really persistent. (58:17) We must reverence God all the time. (58:22) I mean, people will be driving, and in a minute they get in an accident and they're gone. (58:30) Oh, that he will not send upon you a tempest, then you will find no protector. (58:35) Have you guaranteed that he will not return you to the sea, and send upon you a storm that drowns you because of your disbelief, without getting a second chance? (58:44) We have honored the children of Adam and carried them on land and in the sea. (58:48) We provided for them good provisions, and we honored them high above many of our creatures. (58:54) The day will come when we summon every people together with their records. (58:58) As for those who are given a record of righteousness, they will read the record and will not suffer the least injustice. (59:05) As for those who are blind in this life, they will be blind in the hereafter, even a lot worse. (59:13) They almost diverted you from the commandments we revealed to you. (59:16) They wanted you to fabricate something else in order to consider you a friend. (59:22) If it were not that we strengthened you, you almost leaned towards them a little bit. (59:27) Had you done that, we would have doubled the retribution for you in this life and after death, and you would have found no one to help you against us. (59:36) So you can see the responsibility of, if you're in a position to be asked a question, you have a great responsibility to give the correct answer. (59:44) You cannot acquiesce to the people or play into their wishes. (59:49) You have to give them the word of God without any delusion or deviation because of this verse 75. (59:59) Had you done that, we would have doubled the retribution for you in this life and after death, and you would have found no one to help you against us. (1:00:07) So there's too much at stake. (1:00:09) So if they want to talk you into lying some white lies, say absolutely not, don't lie. (1:00:15) No white lies. (1:00:21) So we're going to stop at this and open the floor for questions. Speaker 5 (1:00:32) Satan is envious of us. Speaker 1 (1:00:35) Yes, because some of us have hope to be redeemed back to God's kingdom. (1:00:40) Satan has no hope. (1:00:45) So he's envious. (1:00:47) He wants to take as many of us as he can with him. Speaker 3 (1:01:04) God has created the children of Adam and said, and we honor them high above many of our creatures. (1:01:14) In other words, you see, God says that human beings are good and they are wicked. (1:01:23) He has to honor them. Speaker 1 (1:01:26) If you take a wicked person, he still can ride a horse. (1:01:31) The horse is much better than the person, but this is who is honored. (1:01:35) This is what this means. (1:01:37) And especially that it talks about carrying people. (1:01:44) We carry them with rides. (1:01:47) And we honor them above many of our creatures. (1:01:51) You can see lions in the cage, but you don't see a human being in a cage in the lion country. (1:01:58) If you go visit lion country, you will not find a human being in a cage and the lion is looking at the human. (1:02:04) Even though the lion is much stronger. (1:02:07) This is honoring the human being. (1:02:10) God gave us the mind, so we abuse them by setting traps for the animals, catching them, putting them in the zoo. (1:02:20) We ride the horse, use them as pets. (1:02:32) You can feed them any time you want to. (1:02:35) Notice that we feed the cats, not the other way around. (1:02:40) Yeah, they try. Speaker 12 (1:02:42) Can't blame them. Speaker 1 (1:02:44) Sometimes it works. Speaker 3 (1:02:52) Rashaad, there is another point here. (1:02:56) In Arabic, This is man, not God. (1:03:07) It means above others, man must include something like human being or animal. Speaker 1 (1:03:17) You can call the animals man also. (1:03:20) In this particular context, this particular grammatical structure, sometimes God says, and some say, sometimes man applies to inanimate objects. Speaker 5 (1:03:43) Satan knew that he could not control, he says, all his creatures. (1:03:46) He said, I will protect them, except for a few. Speaker 1 (1:03:49) He knew that. (1:03:51) The people who step into God's protection, Satan cannot touch them. Speaker 4 (1:03:58) Can Satan, like when you are in cat protection, everyday be forced by Satan to try to make the wrong decision? Speaker 1 (1:04:14) Yes, absolutely. (1:04:17) His main targets are the believers. Speaker 7 (1:04:22) Like when you make a decision, say this man or that man... (1:04:25) He is waiting for you to make a mistake, to step out. Speaker 1 (1:04:29) He is waiting for you to step out, so he can beat you up. (1:04:34) You step out by missing a prayer, for example. (1:04:38) Then you are vulnerable. (1:04:42) And God puts precise limits on him as far as, if you miss a prayer, you are supposed to get in trouble. (1:04:49) Satan can only do so much because of limits. (1:04:57) Remember I said, if you forget to say Bismillah when you get up in the morning, when you forget to mention the name of God, it is the first thing you do in the morning. (1:05:05) This will cost you $75, to put a dollar value on it. (1:05:10) So in other words, God tells Satan, you can only bother him to the amount of $75, but that's it. (1:05:18) So if you don't have it, it will give you a small headache, a little annoyance, or a flat tire. Speaker 5 (1:05:30) No wonder that, actually, that the majority of the people are against Islam. (1:05:38) Why? (1:05:41) Well, it's obvious that because they don't like it. (1:05:46) The law is too strict. Speaker 13 (1:05:50) On the contrary. Speaker 5 (1:05:52) No, but in the eyes of the people, they perceive it as being... (1:05:58) Yes. Speaker 1 (1:05:59) Actually, this is a sign of the true religion. (1:06:04) If you look at the different Christian sects today, they acquiesce to the people's wishes. (1:06:12) What is the book of the seven-day Adventists, for example? (1:06:22) They must have their own specific rules. (1:06:25) Or the Christian scientists, or the Quakers, or the Amish, or the Unitarians. (1:06:33) What is their book that they go by, a book of rules? (1:06:36) Do they have a book of rules? (1:06:37) The Catholics, what is the book of the Catholics? (1:06:44) Why did they eat fish on Friday 20 years ago, but not anymore? (1:06:50) Which book says to not eat meat on Friday, and then now it says eat meat on Friday? (1:06:58) So they acquiesce to the people's wishes. (1:07:00) The objective is to get as many people in this church as possible. (1:07:05) That's a sign of a false religion, false doctrine. Speaker 9 (1:07:15) Church of Christ? Speaker 1 (1:07:16) Which one? (1:07:20) No, but the Mormons also call themselves Church of Christ. (1:07:25) And that's what they say. (1:07:46) Don't be tricked. (1:07:47) If you dig just a little bit beneath the surface, you'll see them idolizing Jesus and Mary, the same. (1:08:01) Well, if they think Jesus is God or the Son of God, they already deviated from the Bible. (1:08:06) Do they say Jesus is God or the Son of God? Speaker 9 (1:08:13) Yes, the Trinity, right? Speaker 1 (1:08:14) That's not in the Bible. (1:08:21) So they say He is the Father and the Son. (1:08:28) God the Father and Jesus the Son. (1:08:33) No, I mean, what do they believe in? (1:08:41) That's fine. (1:08:41) They can do that as long as God is the Father of all the righteous fathers also. (1:08:52) You see, the name itself indicates idol worship. (1:08:56) It's not the Church of God. (1:08:59) If it's the Church of God, then we have to go a little deeper and see what their principles are. (1:09:03) Aside from the title, if it's the Church of Christ, then they are attached themselves to a human factor. (1:09:12) Then trouble from the title. (1:09:27) See, if the name is the Church of God, which is the name of one of the churches, then you have to move on to the next line. (1:09:37) But the first line says the Church of Christ, and that's it. (1:09:46) You don't follow the Bible, please. (1:09:47) Because the Bible says that Jesus is not God and not the Son of God, not the only Son of God anyway. (1:09:55) And this is in all the Bibles of all denominations, Catholic, Protestant, in John 20, 17. (1:10:02) Where Jesus says, I'm attending to my Father and your Father, my God and your God. (1:10:06) Finished. (1:10:07) This kid is the Trinity right there. (1:10:10) And this is consistent with the rest of the text. (1:10:12) I'm not just taking one verse. (1:10:14) Because in addition to this, the whole context of the New Testament agrees with this. (1:10:21) And nowhere does it say Jesus is God. (1:10:24) It doesn't say, I am God. (1:10:26) He may say, I'm the life and the life and the first and the last and then and that, but it never says, I'm God. (1:10:33) Why doesn't he? (1:10:35) Go ahead. (1:10:37) I know it. (1:10:43) Even if you take that, the thing that he is. (1:10:45) At the beginning there was the word, the word was with God and the word was God, but this means Jesus is God. (1:10:50) But it doesn't say that. (1:10:53) I mean, they just take you into a roundabout way and then they come up with a conclusion. (1:11:00) It has nothing to do with the statement in the Bible. (1:11:02) The truth is, nowhere in the Bible does it say Jesus is God. (1:11:08) And three of the Gospels never say that Jesus is the only begotten Son of God. (1:11:13) Only once in the Gospel of John does it say that Jesus is the only begotten Son of God. (1:11:18) And that verse happens to be questionable now by the annual convention called the Jesus Conference. (1:11:25) Please get your children to be next to you. (1:11:28) Separate them from each other. (1:11:29) Maha, come here honey. Speaker 10 (1:11:32) Tanya. Speaker 1 (1:11:33) Honey, come here. (1:11:36) Maha. (1:11:39) Honey, come here. (1:11:40) Come here. (1:11:44) Maha, come here. (1:11:47) Good girl. (1:11:48) Hmm, nice and quiet for 19 seconds. Speaker 10 (1:11:54) Rashaad. Speaker 1 (1:11:55) Yes. Speaker 10 (1:11:55) How do you introspect again Jesus' words when he was dying on the cross and he said to his God, Father, Father, why have thou forsaken me? Speaker 1 (1:12:07) No, he said, My God, my God. (1:12:10) They even put it in his language. (1:12:11) Eloi, Eloi. (1:12:12) Elahi, Elahi. Speaker 10 (1:12:13) Is that your Father? Speaker 1 (1:12:14) No, he said, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? (1:12:18) You probably read it, Father, Father, in some other translation, but that's not... (1:12:22) Because they put it in Aramaic, in all the Gospels. (1:12:25) Eloi, Eloi. (1:12:26) Elahi, Elahi. (1:12:28) Which means, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? (1:12:34) It means he's not God, right? (1:12:36) For one thing. (1:12:38) The truth is he never said that. (1:12:40) Just to compound the problem. (1:12:43) We know now that he never said that. (1:12:44) But if he said it according to them, it means he's not God. Speaker 10 (1:12:49) He never said that because he had already died, right? Speaker 1 (1:12:51) Because he was not there. Speaker 10 (1:12:52) Right. Speaker 1 (1:12:53) His body was alive, but he was not there. (1:12:56) That was a body that did not respond to anything. Speaker 5 (1:13:01) Pardon? (1:13:01) Yes, he didn't respond to anything. (1:13:02) No. (1:13:03) No. (1:13:04) But how come, how come that these people can believe that he's God? (1:13:09) What's next to that? (1:13:10) How come that they can believe? (1:13:12) Who? (1:13:13) That Jesus is actually God. (1:13:16) You're right. (1:13:17) That's the... (1:13:18) It's all contradictory. (1:13:19) Exactly. Speaker 1 (1:13:20) See, Satan wants to point at us and say, look how stupid they are. (1:13:25) I think Satan is hoping that so many humans will out-Satan Satan, that God will have mercy on Satan. (1:13:37) Yes, quite a few people out-Satan Satan. (1:13:45) I have a few examples. (1:13:49) In other words, Satan told them something and they went too far in doing it. (1:13:54) So Satan said, oh, I didn't tell you to do all this. Speaker 3 (1:14:04) For example, I can give you an example. (1:14:06) Yes, pardon? (1:14:07) I can give you an example. (1:14:08) Yeah, go ahead. (1:14:10) Satan doesn't deny God's existence. Speaker 16 (1:14:13) Right. Speaker 3 (1:14:13) But companies, they go further. (1:14:18) That's right. Speaker 16 (1:14:24) Now you. Speaker 9 (1:14:30) Yes, if you have two things. Speaker 1 (1:14:45) The two things that come from Satan, fear and worry. (1:14:48) Fear and grief. (1:14:50) Worry or fear and grief. Speaker 9 (1:14:52) How does anger come? Speaker 1 (1:14:54) Well, anger comes, but God says the believers suppress their anger. (1:15:00) So anger happens, but you control it. (1:15:07) But remember throughout the Quran, you know this very well, that God says, No fear, no grief. (1:15:13) Two things. (1:15:16) Yeah, this is the suppression. (1:15:17) The believers suppress anger. (1:15:22) So anger happens, but you control it. (1:15:25) It's part of training our wild horse. (1:15:31) Anger is part of the wild horse that we are training. (1:15:39) But really, this is a very good criterion to remind us whether we are believers or not. (1:15:43) If we have fear, worry, or grief. (1:15:56) And God spits this out in the Quran. (1:15:58) God says that fear is Satan's tool, with which he does it to his constituents. (1:16:04) That's why insurance agents are probably very close to Satan. (1:16:11) What happens if you die tomorrow? (1:16:13) What will happen to your family? (1:16:24) Insurance is all based on fear. (1:16:37) You don't have fear. (1:16:39) Satan will try to put worry in your heart. (1:16:42) What I'm saying is that Satan is the source of these two things. (1:16:47) Worry and grief. (1:16:49) When you grieve over anything, you are objecting to what God did. (1:16:54) God is doing everything. (1:17:01) Fear of cockroaches. (1:17:04) Adib is definitely afraid of cockroaches. Speaker 7 (1:17:12) If you are not, you shouldn't be. (1:17:14) You shouldn't go to the toilet. (1:17:16) You shouldn't smoke. (1:17:18) If I had a job, I'd avoid that. (1:17:22) If I opened a store, a variety of stores, like a 7-Eleven, I shouldn't sell any beer. Speaker 5 (1:17:31) I should be like that. (1:17:32) Right. (1:17:33) I'd avoid it. Speaker 1 (1:17:48) Believers have no phobias. (1:17:53) Believers know that not a scratch will touch you if you are in God's protection. (1:18:00) Not a scratch. (1:18:02) So there will be no phobia. (1:18:03) Don't be afraid. Speaker 4 (1:18:07) You can conquer your phobia. (1:18:11) You can conquer your phobia. Speaker 3 (1:18:15) What if it is unconscious? Speaker 1 (1:18:19) Conscious or unconscious. (1:18:21) Your conscious being will convince your unconscious being that there is no reason to be afraid since no scratch will happen to you. (1:18:29) God puts in the strongest terms in the Quran that there are guards around you. َ َعل َحاِف ِظی َن َْی ُك َوإ ْم ِ َّن ,Arabic In) 1:18:35 (.guarded being are You) 1:18:34( ل These are two assurances. ِ َّن (1:18:39) َ َعل َحاِف ِظی َن َْی ُك َوإ ْم ِ َّن َلا َوإ ل You are guarded very well by God's guards. (1:18:44) So that they see to it that not a scratch comes to you against God's will. (1:18:56) Oh yeah, it is a long drawn process. (1:18:58) It is difficult. (1:19:00) It is not easy. (1:19:04) But you see, once we apply for admission into God's kingdom, there is a process that takes place. (1:19:11) Purification process. (1:19:12) Education. (1:19:15) As long as we do our homework. (1:19:17) This is the textbook. (1:19:18) This is the manual. Speaker 9 (1:19:23) Like this? (1:19:27) Yeah. Speaker 4 (1:19:30) That's right. (1:19:34) I am going to share with you, with your permission, just an experience. (1:19:42) Before you said the Arabs, and out of the boundary of God. (1:19:50) A few months ago, I was driving. (1:20:02) It is a story I really have difficulty to understand. (1:20:05) When I put it in Arabic, and English is different. (1:20:11) But when you listen to it now, and then suddenly I can't understand the words. (1:20:18) It is very easy because the word in Arabic, the Quranic word is not corrupted. (1:20:29) The understanding of the Arabs is corrupted. (1:20:32) So then you have the barrier. (1:20:35) And then I think that is what happens. Speaker 1 (1:20:38) Yes, well of course there is God's law that says an insincere person cannot touch the Quran. (1:20:43) Cannot get one word out of it. (1:20:45) But the sincere searcher, even a disbeliever, or a Muslim, or a Jew, or a Christian. (1:20:52) As long as the person is sincerely seeking the truth, it will be open. (1:20:56) That person. (1:20:58) Otherwise they cannot, they are blocked out. (1:21:02) They can be professors of Arabic language at the Islamic University of Mecca. (1:21:07) And they cannot get one single letter out of the Quran. (1:21:13) I have seen many people who have memorized the Quran for many many years. (1:21:17) They never lost it. (1:21:18) But they didn't believe anything in it. (1:21:20) They didn't have access to the Quran. (1:21:22) All their understanding was wrong. (1:21:28) For example, all the Mullahs in Egypt, graduates of Al-Azhar, they believe that Abraham's father in the Quran, who was a disbeliever, is not really his father, but his uncle. (1:21:40) This is what I mean by they don't believe, they don't believe anything in the Quran. (1:21:44) There are many others. (1:21:47) This is because they built a theory that all the lineages from Adam to Muhammad are believers. (1:21:54) So if Muhammad is a descendant of Abraham, his father could not be a disbeliever as was taught in the Quran. (1:22:01) So one lie leads to another. (1:22:05) So they refuse to say, even though, as you know in the Quran, Abraham repeats, when he talks to his father, he keeps saying, oh my father, oh my father, oh my father, oh my father, ya abati, ya abati. (1:22:19) But God knew that they would do that. (1:22:23) Not once did he say, ya ammi. (1:22:25) Every time he said, ya abati, ya abati, ya abati. (1:22:28) He never said, oh my uncle, one. (1:22:35) It's a lie, according to them. (1:22:37) Yeah, sometimes you look at the English to understand the Arabic words. (1:22:49) Because this Quranic Arabic, sometimes there are words that are not used anymore in our regular Tunisian Arabic or Egyptian Arabic. (1:22:58) So if you go to the English, then we remember that. (1:23:01) We know the meaning. Speaker 16 (1:23:11) It's okay. Speaker 3 (1:23:17) A few days ago, we were reading Quran. (1:23:22) We had a question about prostrating. (1:23:25) Especially in Quran, I think there are some different meanings. (1:23:31) Submission. (1:23:32) Submission, for example, God says, enter the city humbly, sujuden. (1:23:37) Not prostrating, but sujuden means humbly. (1:23:41) Every single creature, they prostrate God, but in their way. Speaker 1 (1:23:46) I never saw a tree go like this. Speaker 3 (1:23:48) It means obey. (1:23:50) Submission. (1:23:50) Yes, submission. (1:23:52) And there are words about Joseph's parents and brothers, they prostrated for him. (1:24:03) If you understand this way, because only God, we should prostrate only to God. (1:24:09) How can we understand this? (1:24:14) How did they feel prostrate for Joseph? Speaker 1 (1:24:20) Like this way? (1:24:23) Behrouz was worried about his brother. (1:24:26) Then he called him by phone, and his brother answered the phone. (1:24:29) As soon as he finished, he felt prostrate. (1:24:32) He was really prostrating to God. Speaker 3 (1:24:35) I gave you the answer, but I'm not sure. Speaker 1 (1:24:37) When they met Joseph, they were so thankful to God that they felt prostrate. (1:24:41) They did not feel prostrate to Joseph. (1:24:45) They felt prostrate before God, thanking him because they are united with Joseph. Speaker 3 (1:24:50) But the English translation, I think there must be a correction. (1:24:53) Before Joseph, instead of for Joseph, it is for Joseph, it's OK. Speaker 1 (1:24:58) That's what the Arabic said. (1:25:00) But your understanding must be that they felt prostrate thanking God. (1:25:04) But he didn't feel prostrate for his brother. (1:25:07) He was prostrating to God and thanking God that everything is OK. (1:25:10) But the Arabic the translating m'I But) 1:25:23 (.expression Same َِّ ُس َج ِ ًد ِ ا َّ ل ُس َّجًدا ِ َ َو ُھ َخ ُّروا ,says Arabic exactly the way. (1:25:26) And if God wants some people to be confused about it, that's their problem. (1:25:29) But you and I will understand that prostration is only for God, not for humans. (1:25:35) There are some traps in the Qur'an for the unbelievers. Speaker 3 (1:25:43) And I think this is also because of the dream. (1:25:47) Right. (1:25:48) The dream, sun, and both planets, they are prostrating to the sun. Speaker 1 (1:25:54) No, no, no. (1:25:55) The sun, the moon, and eleven planets prostrate to Joseph. Speaker 3 (1:25:58) Joseph now, I think, represents the sun, because all these planets, they turn around the sun. Speaker 1 (1:26:04) No, the sun represents the father, the moon represents the mother, and the eleven planets are his eleven brothers. (1:26:11) They were all prostrating to Joseph. Speaker 3 (1:26:13) Oh, yes. Speaker 1 (1:26:15) This is, in fact, this is in the books of dream interpretation in the Arab world. (1:26:21) The sun means the father, and the moon means the mother, and so on. (1:26:25) And it's taken from this. Speaker 5 (1:26:28) But in the next verse, he says, Maybe you heard worse. Speaker 1 (1:26:32) Pardon? Speaker 5 (1:26:32) Maybe you heard worse. Speaker 1 (1:26:34) No, maybe nothing, it's just Joseph. (1:26:36) Just in the dream. (1:26:37) A dream can have many representations. (1:26:40) What is seven fat cows eating seven skinny cows? Speaker 5 (1:26:43) Or vice versa. (1:26:44) So he's telling him, don't tell your brothers. (1:26:46) Surely the devil is man's worst enemy. Speaker 1 (1:26:49) Yes. (1:26:50) Because the devil will stir up his brothers again. (1:26:52) The devil drives wedges among the brothers. (1:26:57) OK. (1:26:58) Next time we'll meet at seven o'clock, Insha'Allah. (1:27:03) For the night prayer. (1:27:05) Salatul Ishaq. (1:27:11) If you miss the night prayer, we'll meet at six o'clock in the morning for the Fajr prayer. Speaker 16 (1:27:32) 286. (1:27:38) 286. Speaker 13 (1:28:05) Thank you, Muhammad. (1:28:06) We're waiting for you, Insha'Allah. Speaker 1 (1:28:21) Quran is wisdom. (1:28:26) It's just the subtitle provokes a short discussion here, because people who are trying very hard to go to hell, people are storming the gates of hell and digging.