mohammed rasoolallah mrs. al hamdulillah
assalamu alaikum which is a greeting a
peace peace be unto you welcome to
another episode of the Dean show every
so often we get a super special guest
all of our guests are special but then
we got super special my good friend who
I have had an opportunity to work with
several times and I get excited every
time he's here in Chicago he visits us
here at the Dean shows studio so when we
come back we're going to be talking
about the prophets and we're going to be
letting you learn about some of these
messengers of God also so when you come
back get ready for our good friend
sheikh yusuf estes here on a Dean show
will be right back love there's only one
but a Muhammad is His Messenger of la la
o Allah there's only one where Jesus was
his messenger Allah no I did that maybe
it maybe it's just to break the ice
assalamualaikum sure Oh harlequin stood
on one of the library cat it's nice to
be on the show it's always a pleasure to
have you here on the Dean show I think
every time I come up to this your
Studios go higher and higher it seems
like it too we're up really high this
time al hamdulillah all praises to Allah
who's given us this ability to do this
Dawa to be here trying to educate the
people and to have such wonderful
guesses yourself to be able to share the
beautiful message of Islam I couldn't
help but hear when you started talking
about super special because it tickled
me because the subject we're going to be
talking about tonight has something in
it of in Islam that would you don't find
in other religions we're going to get
straight to the topic but we want to
know a little bit because there's some
non-muslims probably too not okay they
don't know who you are yes you used to
be a former preacher your father was the
doctor of divinity and he really dr.
divini it was a minister it was a
minister so you came over from
Christianity to Islam sure just take one
minute and sum it up what happened well
basically I had met a Muslim my father
met a Muslim and he said we would be
doing business together and I thought
well this would be a great chance for me
to work on my conversion skills do some
of my missionary work on him and I had
heard some things about Muslims from
some of the evangelists that I knew and
some that were quite famous actually and
I had thought a lot of bad things about
islam and muslims and to me it seemed
rather easy that i should be able to you
know propagate Christianity go to him
and converting but it didn't work out
like that it was totally different all
the misconceptions that i had about
islam were clarified and cleared up in
my mind at least because i could see the
way this man was behaving things that he
talked about me especially talked about
his country Egypt and
and it didn't fit the stories that I had
been getting so that was one thing
another thing was to see the good habits
of the gentleman and he said that the
teachings of Islam are thus and so even
though I spent three months with this
man traveling with him working alongside
of him I didn't really think about
converting to Islam I was just thinking
about taking some of the nice qualities
he had and put them into practice as he
had because you know Christianity
teaches these things as well but it was
a stranger story that happened what I
invite people to do is go to a website
we have so they can get the whole story
over there cuz it takes about 45 minutes
to tell it what's that you mean yeah
it's called yusuf estes that you
services.com and they can hear the whole
story on how you spell it like this y
you s you f then my last name is es te s
and calm and the host racer okay great
now we thought it'd be wonderful with
our super special guests to talk about
some of the super human beings who were
living who were propagating the way of
life that was ordained from the crater
that heaven to earth and we got a lot of
isms out there we want to learn a little
bit about these prophets we want to
learn who they were what they taught you
say isn't your tone about different
divisions within really exactly the
different sects that come out absolutely
yes so we want to see that some of these
prophecies that we're going to first
talk about the first man Adam talk a
little bit about him and tell us so we
can get well acquainted with who he was
what he taught what his mission was well
to start with there you're right that we
do consider these people as special
people let's let's say that we consider
all the prompts to be very special then
amongst some of those special people we
would have those who we would say are
super special and what I want to clarify
that to say that in Arabic we have
something called a knobby this is a
prophet the plural of this is unbe a so
from all of the ambia all of them are
nabis I'm going to use a English s there
but then within this group of special
people you have super
special horror called Rasool and now all
of those that are resul are also nabis
because they're special but they're
super special and if allah accept me to
say it that way the distinction would be
first of all anyone who is on the
category of being a prophet in general
one of the special people then that
would mean that he is being divinely
guided by Almighty God he's a human just
like you and I accept that he's special
in that he is here for a purpose to
really communicate to the people and
talk with them know what will be the
deciding difference between them in
Arabic will be whether or not he has a
text which is memorized and or written
down yes well if they have a text it
will be definitely memory and some of
those they had some that were also
written down some were preserved in some
weren't yeah so that's the general thing
now you want to go to Adam Adam now this
is very interesting for me because then
I visited so many countries and many of
them not Muslim countries and I would
ask them in your teachings of your
traditional history and so on who do you
have as a first man if you have such a
story and all of them said yes we do
have a story of a first man and all of
them are saying his name is Adam yeah
yeah that's in every language it's good
a common ground add add done Adam and
add done I found I'd done also mentioned
yeah so I found this in of course the
romantic languages for instance anything
with a latin root French Italian Spanish
and so on they're going to be at as his
English you find it in German you find
it in a lot of the European language as
well Adam Adam Adam it's very
interesting to me because if we did the
understand that means we're
acknowledging there's one common
grandfather to everybody at least
according to their folklore the funny
part is though we
only known as everybody say Adam is our
grandfather but who's your God and then
we get into all these different stories
and as far as that goes it appears
according to the anthropologists and
those who study ancient history of human
beings they will tell us that now
they've changed their mind they used to
say that that people had all these
different gods and then at some point in
time they all came together and decided
you know let's start working on a one
God a theory and they usually associated
with Judaism but now their studies have
indicated that even way back that it's
appears the older history they did have
the idea of one God and later this
became multiple gods this fits right
along with the teaching of Islam now how
did it start with Adam was Adam created
then he was put in the garden and then
how did this whole thing happen with the
sin that he committed can you start to
tell us about this story the story for
the Jews is going to be the same story
for the Christians because they picked
it up from that the Christians picked it
up in that the story for the Muslims is
so identical that many people have tried
to postulate that Muhammad slyszalem
copied this story that he heard it from
the Jews or he was taught by some monks
or something like that it's not true he
did definitely was a prophet and he
definitely knew this by divine
inspiration that came to him from a
mighty of law I bet the story still is
the same because it's still the same
truth a truth was that God brought all
of the creation together first then
after everything is said and done as far
as the creation is concerned then Allah
creates Adam but according to Islam we
know that there was another creation
before mankind and these are called the
jinn hmm some have said that this is and
the Jewish teaching might have been the
I think they call an Ephraim are at room
how do you translate gin in English that
a spirits can you say spirits some
people say that they all say sprites or
spirits or genies and it's taken from
the word gin about the
think the proper thing to do is just to
leave it in Arabic because they don't
really have a much on it anyway yeah
okay so to say Jim which is the plural
of a genie you know that or Jenny and
they existed prior to us these were not
angels they had free will free choices
that they had and they did as they
pleased and one of them was worshipping
God one God and three times a day at the
time of this rising and setting in the
Sun and then when the Sun is directly
overhead another three times that we're
now forbidden yes who worship those 10
minute spreads there and it is said that
he was actually fighting against the
disbelievers of his own kind and they
were really bad there were some very
evil ones and God reinforced him with
angels who came along with him and
helped him to fight and to put down all
this rebellion and bad stuff that was
going on then Allah raised him up to a
very high status and made him amongst
the angels but not of the angels in
other words he was going around with
angels and actually worshipping God and
praying with these angels but he wasn't
one that explain something we're going
to come to now yeah the creation of adam
the creation of adam according to the
Quran in the teachings of Muhammad Aslam
is not just that God took some earth and
blue life into it it's much more
detailed we know then that Adam was very
big he was a huge man and that he was
formed from the clay of the earth and so
without a head and then finally God puts
the head on him and blows life into him
the spirit of life was blown into and
through his nose and when at the moment
it happened he sneezed a chew and that
was the first movement that he did was
to sneeze then after he sneezed he said
alhamdulillah which means
the praises to Allah as his first words
praise be to God and then the response
came back to him the homo come along and
this is the mercy also to you yes and
then he sits back to that ya dijo mala
was you sleep alikum and the guidance of
Allah for you and he makes your affairs
easy for him so this is the first
dialogue of Adam now Adam is not born
he's created and the spirit that he has
in him is blown into him by Almighty
Allah so this is an amazing creation now
just before that takes place though well
he's still standing that before he is
breathing all the creation has been
ordered to bow down all the Angels have
been told bow down now this is for all
the gin and angels and all of them bow
down except for this one who had been
elevated up with angels and he refused
he said I'm not going to bow down the
wreck amendment from the crater he
refused to do it yeah and he said why he
mentions why he said I'm better than he
is i made from a smokeless fire the
content the makeup of a Djinn is to be
made from a fire whereas the angels are
made of light yeah either case we
wouldn't see them but this is a
different substance so the one he's
saying I'm better than this guy so I
refuse to bow down but the angels are
better than him because they're
absolutely pure and they're bowing down
so why can't you get with the program
you know well he says why he says
because I'm better than him so this
arrogance called gibber in arabic is the
reason why he is condemned it's for this
reason even though he had done some good
things been raised up to a very high
level but he refused to obey Allah and
he said I'm better than him so his
arrogance anybody's arrogance will not
fly it won't work in front of Allah
because Allah is the only one who is the
greatest of all it's called Kabara
that's the root and Allah is Akbar we
say Allahu Akbar Allahu greatest
in Cuba this is pride come from the same
root means you put yourself up like see
how great I am and this doesn't work
with a legal mania it's considered a
form of making partners with Allah
actually dangerous stuff shirk yeah
unforgivable sin we talked about that in
a previous program the unforgivable sin
of shirk well this is the blasphemy and
this is what he had done this is what's
so horrible because if a person will do
that he'll do anything if you know
there's a god and he obviously knew I
mean he's right there with angels hello
and he knows that that was a command it
wasn't that of any ignorance whatsoever
it was just real stubbornness say you
know okay God tell me what to do and I
won't do it mmm this is very scary yeah
may Allah save all of us for men I mean
so now how did how does the story of the
Garden go where they're both in the
garden does this come next now yeah well
ya allah Suppan wattala said in Quran
that he said la cara jalapeno in Santa
Fe a sun-eater queen that barely i have
created the mankind from the very
greatest of mold the best molds so this
is the statement that comes now in this
condition he has to be in the best place
and he was he was in a place called Eden
or Eden we call it Eden the garden of
eden now the next thing it happens Allah
creates for him a mate from a bone in
his side which we call the rib bone and
then Allah gives life to it it's very
interesting that the woman is not
considered to be below a man like under
the foot didn't come from a foot bone
yeah didn't coming from the head bone
but from his side and then this way
she's equal to him in front of a law
that is a very nice concept as well then
what happens next is they're told to
enjoy all the fruits of the paradise to
eat to drink to enjoy and there's so
much in paradise I hope all of us get to
go be there and enjoy this firsthand
but for sure this is what they were
going through they were enjoying this
this wonderful place but they were
commanded enjoy everything here except
for the fruit of this one tree that you
shall not eat now this story is exactly
the same here that you'll find in the
Bible don't eat from this tree yes and
the devil now comes to them each of them
not to her and then she goes to him this
is different from Christianity and
Judaism because in our story we have
that the devil went to her yes and she
ate then the devil goes to Adam and he
ate so we're not putting any blame on
her we're not blaming her for what Adam
did this is not permitted in Islam to
blame others for what you do and both of
them had sinned by disobeying the
commandment it wasn't because they ate
fruit there was plenty of the fruit
there it was because they disobeyed they
were told don't eat that fruit so that's
interesting now the devil was told to do
something and he didn't do it mankind
was told not to do something and he did
it but both of them had sinned now
here's another difference yeah that Eve
and the Prophet Adam both repented now
all of them were put out a paradise not
because of their sin but because this is
how a lot always planned it anyway this
is much healthier understanding
psychologically we didn't get kicked out
of paradise because we sinned because
Allah already knew we would do that in
fact he created us to be normal to make
mistakes and then repent to him so this
whole idea of repentance is different in
Islam than it might be in some religions
that you might have heard of in the past
because Islam is not saying that the sin
is what makes you filthy in front of God
it's the fact that you refuse to repent
because we have two examples the devil
who sinned and Adam who sinned Adam and
Eve are forgiven because they ask to be
forgiven who did they ask the ask Allah
and along the way they won't do that sin
anymore you know I learn from my lesson
I shouldn't have done it
steak and I'm sorry I really am sorry
and whatever you want me to do to make
up for talk about so this is the concept
we have in Islam and so the devil though
he says no I am NOT still not going to
ask for forgiveness because now if he
does it he has to go in front of Adam
and put his head down and he says I I'm
never going to do that i will not
prostrate in front of this guy I'm
better than L know the devil did ask for
something he said let me live as long as
there are any offspring from Adam grant
me that he's asking God he's brain
directly to God and he says grant me
that I will live long enough to be there
for every single son of Adam and I will
tempt them and I will come to them from
every angle that I can and you will see
they are not worthy of what you said
about them being so great and I will
trick them or convince them you know
mislead them yes all to hell so he made
a a request and Allah Allah granted it
running it to him or do you know what
the scholar said about that well they
say they said that the reason that he
got what he wanted even though he was
the devil is because he only asked allah
so allah i was like letting me have fun
one last request he should have used his
last request to ask forgiveness but he
did of course not and it this is showing
again the mercy of a law and the
forgiveness of allah now you might think
well that would be it that law would
never give him another chance some of
the other prophets were going to be
talking about also asked questions about
this subject I mentioned to you Moses
for instance asked Allah well what about
the devil and now could he repent in and
if he did would you accept it so here we
find that yes but he would have to go to
the grave of Adam and he would have to
prostrate for what he didn't do before
and the devil says look if I wouldn't do
it while he was alive I'm sure not going
to do it now so he's still the same
today as he was that he refused
to repair this makes a lot of sense now
they made a mistake they turn to the
crater alone a law he forgave them let's
look at another belief that you used to
believe being a Christian that we have
somewhat of a similar story but there's
some blame being focused here on the
woman or the man can you talk about this
we can but we'll be living our part
strategies and tell you okay I'd like to
finish that that Jesus peace be upon him
also asked a similar question to God if
if the devil could possibly repent and
should that happen would you then allow
him to come to paradise if he repented
would you forgive him and everything and
Allah says yeah I would but I already
know he won't hmm so we don't want to be
stubborn either don't be stubborn don't
be stunned so we don't have from the
story that we're seeing the stigma of
that original sin original sin is
something that's used to believe in is
it now yeah the original sin is
mentioned in the Bible as coming to us
from Adam and Eve and this is passed on
generation upon generation and there's
no way for us to escape it you're born
in this original sin of the forefathers
and in one case the law says the God of
the Bible anyway is saying that he
visits the iniquity of the descendants
of those who hate him on to the tenth
generation we don't have that in Islam
what we have an Islam is that every
single soul as soon as they're born
they're innocent regardless of religion
or lack of it from the parents mm-hmm
there's nothing about passing on
original set now what lesson can we
learn from our
great-great-great-grandfather the first
man when we see all these different ways
of life out there calling and saying
that they're the only way or they're
there the truth or maybe some even have
like a buffet will mix everything up and
we'll just do it our own way or do our
own thing I would say we come back to
the first man how did he do it what way
of life was he upon well according to
what we know he believed of course in
the God that created him and blue life
into him so that would be the first and
foremost of all religion to believe in
one
God because he believed in one God and
that religion or way of life because it
wouldn't be a formal religion like we'd
understand today it was a way of life
now that's interesting because that's
the exact same term used in the Quran
when Allah says in edina inda llahi
Islam for sure the only way of life is
to do Islam Islam is the surrender the
submission to Almighty God in peace so
he was surrendering to the One God the
creator of all things mmm that's it
because that was that was his religion
and his biggest thing was to repent that
was if you want to say well what was his
religion about it was about learning a
lesson about what you do and after
you've disobeyed God because we all
disobey God there's no such thing as
even the greatest of all prophets of all
times has still made mistakes yes and we
won't say that Jesus is without mistakes
we're going to say we don't know what
his mistakes are we'll be talking about
that later on into the series but for
now just leave it at this that every
human being makes mistakes because the
rest of the verse I gave you the first
part lajara holic know in sauna p.s
onnyta queen they barely allah has
created human beings in the best of
molds fuma radedi nachum as far as
sapling then he reduced himself down
this is in parentheses here he was
reduced to the lowest of low but we know
it's by his own shortcomings this is
interesting now so we see something
natural something pure that the first
man worship the One God alone he turned
to him and he forgave him so how can
somebody be upon what the first man was
upon the first profit it's actually the
natural inclination of a child to
believe only in one God so that every
child is still being born in the best
way this would be me because you might
find a child today who is born deformed
a child who is have a mental problem
anything like this and if this is the
case then some people would say well I
don't see where you get off
saying everybody is born perfectly we
didn't say that would say their best
shape the best mode in what way in that
they all have this inclination toward
believing in one God and worshiping him
alone no partners we have some people
have been following the shoal shake and
we know today that some people need
motivation there's somebody out there
and we're hoping that that one person
and he wants to do the right thing he
wants to do what his crater wants him to
do on his terms what would he have to do
right now we have a couple minutes to
enter into the way of life that all the
prophets of God lived and taught well
let's don't exclude the women women and
men yeah that's let's don't exclude
absolutely not i would like to remind
myself of what i did when i first came
to the same conclusion i realized that
on my own i could never solve and
resolve all of the different issues of
beliefs and religions and teachings but
I did know that I could do something
about my own life and that's a pretty
simple thing it's to clear out your mind
and your heart of hatred and
preconceived notions racism and
nationalism because you cannot have
anything inside of you that's like that
against people and still be successful
with the law you've got to get rid of
yes so once that's cleared away then
you've got a vacuum and you need to fill
the vacuum the vacuum is real easy to
fill you say Allah guide me or if you
don't believe that his name is Allah say
God guide me but if you say Moses guide
me or Jesus guide me or something like
that then you've already put a human
form to it and you're not going to get
the same result so no visit visual
picture or nothing that you can imagine
is god no okay no no so call on him
alone ask him to guide you that's simple
it's something that makes sense it's not
confusing ask the one who created you to
guide on my ask you a question sure
didn't you do this exact same thing
yourself at some point you're either the
exact same thing yes I did I actually i
humbled myself and i would ask the
creator i say you know what what
is all about I need some assistance here
and in different words I basically asked
for the guidance that's what I didn't
I'd ended the story of me coming to
Islam is when my friend told me you know
we were discussing real heavy one night
and he said listen this is not about you
and me and you and your father you and
your wife it's about you and God so why
don't you go off and talk to him I did
and in my heart really strong I said oh
god guide me and Here I am today thank
you for being with us today we're going
to have to continue on and have you back
please take a second we're going to wrap
up we got one minute left you have some
websites that people can visit if they
want some more information I would
recommend to those who are Christian to
find what we do believe about the Bible
and Christianity they can go to 911
Bible calm Bible Islam calm those are
two different websites then to get
started on the faith in general we have
another one called bridge two faith.com
and you see a lot of videos so that
we've done bridge to faith and then we
have another one to help us understand
who is God it's called God Allah calm
thank you very much jazakallah how to
make the created the heavens work Allah
rewards you for being with us today and
helping everybody benefit from the
knowledge that you have and I'd like to
thank you for being with us again for
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called upon the crater of the heavens
and earth alone and he asked for
forgiveness he forgave him he asked for
the guidance he gave it to him and you
do the right thing ask for the guidance
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bismillah al-rahman al-rahim
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