is a greeting of peace peace be unto you
thank you for tuning in to another
episode of the dean show
this week we're going to be talking
about the prophets
the prophets who were sent
by the creator of the heavens and earth
to teach us on how to get close to god
to teach us how to live
the prophets who we needed to emulate
and today
we have the last and final messenger of
son of mankind the prophet muhammad
peace and blessings be upon him we are
going to be talking with our special
friend
our guest sheikh youssef estes
we talked with him previously about the
first man the first prophet adam
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oh
we
talked about adam who's the first
prophet
and you talked about the story
what happened in the garden and some of
the other things how he turned to allah
alone he repented and people can go and
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tell us and continue talking about some
of the other prophets that god almighty
allah sent to mankind
i think it's good for us to go back and
you know kind of pick up where we were
on the subject of special and super
special that you were talking about yes
a special person to us would be
one who is carrying a message an
important
statement for the people
that message is to worship god without
any partners
but in english
they will get confusing
because a messenger
to us and we'll use the word in the
bible it's used is an epistle
a message is an epistle and one who
carries it's an apostle yeah
but for us when we say the messenger of
allah this is called super special let's
give that message there
that he is a messenger in the sense that
he is physically coming with something
that you can
touch
yeah because
some of the prophets they came and they
told people to worship god but they
didn't come with a particular
scripture yeah or what's called
they did not come with that they just
came with the general idea that worship
god worship god worship god don't
worship rocks stick stones bones don't
worship things you see or don't see or
make up in your mind but worship the
only one god who created everything in
the first place this is what they all
said now this would be for every single
one of them from
the beginning which would be adam all
the way to muhammad peace and blessed be
upon all of them
but when they come with scripture now
this is going to be more for the folks
who know about the bible
moses comes with the ten commandments
yeah
and not because it's carved in stone but
because it is a new set of commandments
for the people they said we didn't know
about this okay here it is
and then david
or dawud this is called an arabic and
his son suleiman
they have also come with scripture
called zaboor
or psalms yeah
jesus christ peace and blessings be upon
him he also came with something called
the injil or the gospel or the good news
yes so each one of these is having
something there associated with them
more so than just a good character about
them or just that they're saying just
worship god
there are many many prophets more than a
hundred and uh
i think 124 000 more than
so
tens of thousands of profits out here
yeah and
now
we have
a distinction here between them in that
some are actually
rasools or ambia that have another
nomenclature
and a distinction that they have this
this thing of uh here's a commandment
this is something to remember and so on
they originally came
in the form of what was taught from
mouth the prophets hear it and they
teach it
some of the prophets knew how to read
and write
now according to
some old manuscripts that we have
from jews christians
some teachings of early muslims
they believe that adam of course is the
first of the all of the mankind and also
the first prophet
he has a son
the name seth or shith
depending on how you pronounce it
and
he would be a prophet
in the sense that he's telling people
we're going to worship the god
that our father worshiped
adam yes to his offspring and so on
then after that he's going to come
another one idris
enoch is how he's known in the bible you
know yeah there are some apocrypha from
the bible in other words hidden from the
public these are hidden things but there
is a gospel or a
manuscript attributed to enoch
enoch's teachings and so on
and it is also in islam to believe that
idris or enoch is the first man
who came with scripture that was written
that he was the first of all people to
read and write about this it's mentioned
in the quran that allah says that
that it is a law
who taught man what he didn't know
taught taught the human being how to use
the pen and taught him what he didn't
know and it's said that this is talking
about enoch
so this would be enoch would be idris
who's another prophet
after a prophet and a messenger
he's
a prophet but he's also a messenger
because it was something where he had
something written down something for the
people to learn about so it means that
not only i guess that it means that he
not only could
read and write but also he had to teach
reading and write news people if they
were going to be able to carry it
forward now we talked about our previous
show when you talked about adam
that he called people to
surrender
submission sincerity obedience obedience
and peace
now what was the teachings and the way
of the next
prophet
or messenger no prophet you said idris
and you how did you how did you say his
name idris idris or enoch
what way of life was he upon
the difference for all of them they
would all be saying to have the attitude
this thing that we're talking about to
recognize there's one god
this is monotheism yes
then what's your relationship with him
this would be islam
so we believe as muslims that there was
always the belief of at least some
people believing that there is one god
the god of adam that created adam and
that god and and the understanding of
him this is called
hanef
hanafiga hanef to believe in this this
is monetism yeah
then when people are talking about this
they're preaching a religion of
monotheism or hanaf
but when they come with some commandment
they said okay and in addition to
believing in god
and living in a subservient way to god
here's a commandment from god you have
to do this
okay that makes him a result that makes
him a messenger
so that's how we would say that i
obviously idris would be the first of
those if he's the first one reading
writing and passing it on then it must
be that he's the first of the results
yeah what from authentic information do
we have
about the life of injuries
very little very little yeah when i did
the series for the children called
casasolambia the stories of the prophets
uh we couldn't even make a full program
out of it because unless i really want
to talk about what's known from the
apocrypha
if i want to talk about what's known
from the christians and what's known
from the the jews about these i'm
talking about scholars have information
on that but i didn't want to turn my
program into some scholarly work about
stuff but we don't even know if it's
authentic anyway
but i did want to reference that there
is somebody with this name and he was a
prophet
and he had some things now what he had
exactly if you want to compare what he
had to what let's say for instance
abraham had we don't have
enough comparison there to make a decent
uh
program out of it but we can conclude
that he worshipped god alone he didn't
worship the man
jesus
every single prophet of almighty god
has to believe there's only one god and
they're trying their best to do his will
on earth as it is in heaven this is
a foregone conclusion that long sentence
you just said it's summed up with one
word in arabic isn't it islam islam okay
is the verb islam would be they were
doing islam they were submitting they
were doing islam
islam
islam okay moving on we went from adam
idris
and now
the next
prophet or messenger
in line who is that
there are many and we won't know all of
them the ones that we know about but key
key yeah he would be
abraham
peace be upon abraham
abraham
was also in the same area as jonah he's
in iraq
now some might offer that they might
think that uh
that uh
jonah would be older
but well no we did forget one didn't we
i did and that would be uh obviously not
a prophet in the sense of being a
messenger but definitely a prophet in
the sense of calling the people to
worship one god would be noah noah so
no it the noah it could yeah it would be
according to the genealogy mentioned in
the bible it would be
that
noah comes after enoch yeah and
is how it's pronounced in arabic
with the ha sound at the end
was one
who worshiped god alone without any
partners and he finds that his people
though they're
worshiping these statues yeah and how
that comes about is that when there were
these righteous people before and they
died then the people would tell the
children you know you should be like
them should be like them they were
righteous this guy or that guy so and so
so some of them made images or statues
of these people
and said he looked like this she looked
like that i guess you know and then they
would erect these statues and people
would possibly buy them and they could
say well you know this person right here
you should be like this when they had
this good quality and that one had this
good quality
so people were identifying with these
statues in a way that
was to
improve their character their moral
behavior their
their belief in god
but then another generation comes they
don't know what you're talking about
with statues they begin to worship the
statue itself
and so even you find this iconic
mindset today where people say well i'm
not really worshiping the statue but i
represent what
i i worship what it represents to me
yeah
and so i'm not worshiping the statue i'm
worshiping the god that dwells in the
statue or i'm worshiping the
god who made the statue or i'm just
worshiping god and the statue reminds me
of god but all of these things
are coming from this mentality and this
is what noah came to get the people away
from yeah and now another thing we
didn't talk about before about prophets
they come with signs
yes those who come with the major signs
these are major profits
a major sign with noah was of course the
flood not because the water came up
because anybody could say well it was a
flood yeah but the fact that he
predicted it
in a time and a place where that had not
occurred before
and he kept telling it was going to
happen and you need to repent
you need to believe in god need to
turn your lives over to him and live
righteous because people were really not
very righteous at all at this time
so what happens
that when he just builds this ark now
the big ship out there they're dying
laughing at him like what are you
building it here for screwball you know
look at you
and then he started bringing these
animals and putting him in there okay
this guy's whacked and they're making
fun of him laughing joking his own son
rejected to go with him on that yeah and
in those days for sure there was a big
family ties and it would be really
bizarre for you to disobey your father
but he's telling them come get in this
boat with them they're going to do it
now
he couldn't guide his own son so this
should tell all of us something you
can't force people to accept the beliefs
yeah he couldn't do it we can't do it
either but you try your best to explain
to them
and when the water started raising up
and you told the sun come on get in get
in he said no i'm going to go up the
mountain he said it's going to go up
there he said i'll go higher up he said
it's going to top it off oh it's never
going to be that high water doesn't it
go up to the top of a mountain are you
crazy
well
we found out who's crazy because sure
enough noah did get into the ship
he did have the animals with him and he
had
maybe had 70 or 80 people i don't know
exactly how many i didn't have certainly
didn't have the whole village
and the water came it came from above
and below this could be
rising water as well as rain coming down
it could have been a number of things
but it eventually covered everything in
their area
in islam we don't have this idea that
the whole entire earth had to be covered
with water for so many days and nights
or anything but certainly the known
world to him
was covered yeah they had a lot of water
there was a big flood and reports that
we have from some of those who
archaeologists have told us that there
is evidence
that in ancient times there was a big
flood that might have been around the
world certainly it was in different
places in europe different places in
arabia this is known as historically
well yeah they're definitely but there's
been more than one flood too yeah and
they might not be able to put them all
at the same time i don't know yeah but
if we make a contrast now between what
the bible says the bible says that this
was a worldwide flood and then the quran
would say that it was a local flood so
would this
the quran doesn't say
it doesn't try to commit to that because
the subject is not about how much water
was covered yeah it's about the fact
that the people themselves were covered
with water i see this is the point yeah
so it doesn't really matter to us and we
don't really care if it was all covered
fine and good if it wasn't that's fine
and good it doesn't matter what matters
is people didn't obey yes they had a
chance they knew he was a righteous man
he wasn't lying and then even when the
water started coming they could have
said okay this could be a sign let's
just get in the boat for fun you know
well they didn't yeah
so the main thing he did was he called
them to worship god and not these
statues idols
the people amongst themselves that they
had
lifted up to the level of god he called
them something that was natural to the
worship of one god
yeah and and now it this is course of
testing them in a way because you want
me to worship on god finding good
but now you're also asking me to believe
in a prophecy here that water's going to
come up
and that would be a condition yeah you
need to believe that
so this is this is what happened at his
time now later on we find that we'll go
now to abraham and abraham his name is
ibrahim this is the next prophet now
yeah
and he's going to be a key prophet super
special if you will because he's a
rasool
and that he has actual scripture again
apocrypha teaches us that abraham had
some scripture yeah
but in the bible itself no we don't have
that
but from islam we do know he did because
it says in quran in surah atarik the end
of it it says
the scriptures of abraham and moses
so we know he had scriptures
so what happened and what was the unique
circumstance with
abraham
you talked about noah and his unique
circumstance what about abraham what was
he well battling at his time abraham's
father according to the bible is uh
tehran
and his uh
father
was a statue maker statue maker yeah he
made the statues that people worship
big business also isn't it well it was
actually a ministerial post yeah that he
in other words
you're not just the guy out here
hustling statues on the side of the road
you're making them by the royal command
of the king himself
at that time the king was named nimrod
or nimrod in arabic his name was nimrud
and he was the one who told people that
he was god actually said that he was the
lord you need to worship him there's
some dialogue mentioned in the quran
between abraham and nimrod where in the
the just one example
that abraham is telling him that you
should worship god
and he's saying well i'm god he said no
my god my lord is the one who gives life
and gives death now the story has it
that nimrod brought some people forward
and ordered that some be killed and then
he spared the others he said those
people lived in those diets so i give
life and i give death
so then the response comes back
well
my lord is the one who causes the sun to
rise in the east why don't you make it
come up in the west no he's stumped yeah
he's stumped that's that's a good way to
translate that
he was stumped
and he couldn't answer that of course he
gets mad and some other things happen
but there's another event that took
place like this that these people
worshipping these statues and abraham's
complaining to his father about these
statues why why were you making these
statues and and you want people to
believe that there's a god in i mean you
can make the statue have big ears or big
nose or you know and it's up to you to
tell tell them that this is this god or
that god give it a name and yeah and
what's that
his father of course didn't want him
talking like that because look i got a
high post here i'm a big shot and you're
messing everything up
so at one point the people were out
doing something i don't remember this
that part of the story but so abraham
went in their temple where all these
gods these false statues and idols were
there
and he took a huge mallet a big hammer
like a sledgehammer and he began to beat
and destroy all of these statues except
the biggest of all of them
and then he leaves
the hammer the big hammer right beside
the big guy yeah
and then he goes away
well when the people return to the
temple they're amazed so what happened
what in the world who could do such a
thing and somebody said bring that boy
who's the son of the statue maker bring
him he's complaining about our gods so
let's see what he has to say they
brought him and said look at this and he
looks around okay i said well what do
you say about all this he said why are
you asking me
why don't you ask the guy with the big
hammer yeah
so at that stage they're like huh
well that's a good answer and then they
respond back to and said he can't hear
and he can't uh see
i can't hear and he can't speak i think
that's what he said he can't hear and he
can't speak he says then why are you
praying to him
that's a pretty good deal yeah
and i've asked people that have statues
and things that they hold on to
why do you
why do you think this thing can benefit
you if it fell off and broke what would
you do they said i'll go buy another one
what is this
it doesn't make any sense so
when he did that though that's when they
made the big fire and one of the biggest
fires that was ever in history of humans
at that time
a whole valley full of fire i guess and
they wanted to burn him up
the king nimrod ordered to burn him up
but the people trying to build the fire
were averages were themselves getting
burned up trying to build it wow they
couldn't get close enough to throw him
in and they developed then in their
what's called the catapult
you know the catapult yes this is that
long
long long tree or bar and you put a
fulcrum here and then you have a
balance there and then
throw him into the fire
well they did they threw him into the
fire without catapult but when he went
in allah said be cool
for abraham and they said for days and
nights he was in that fire and he came
out unscathed he had nothing no burns
nothing on him and they didn't know what
to do with him after that i just want
him to leave now this is a miracle right
there wasn't it be a pretty big miracle
yeah
now if we take it to modern times he was
fighting against idolatry calling the
people to worship the crater alone the
same thing noah did the same thing idris
did the same thing the first
man
adam did
and if we look at modern times today
these were icons these were statues you
see some of that present today don't you
in a different form
you see it in the exact same form and
other variants of it the exact same form
i have seen in some countries i've
visited people have idols or statues i
recall one he had a statue on the
dashboard of his car he was a driver and
i got in and slammed the door and when i
did that idol wiggled like that and i
said what is this
he said that's my god i said your what
he said this is my god for traveling
and put your seat belt on and as i was
putting my seatbelt on i said why don't
you put a seatbelt on your god there
and he started laughing i said i'm not
joking i said you know things wiggle in
there you're allowed to hit a bump up
here and it falls down
you know and uh he said no it won't
watch and he grabbed it and he picked it
up and you could hear
he had velcro on it
i said a god with a velcro and then
he
he put it back and when he did i said
well what would he do if it did fall
down and broke
he said i'll go buy another one
so there's
for some people they're not catching
that what you're saying you're
worshiping you're giving prayers and
thanksgiving and requests to a piece of
wood or a piece of stone for crying out
loud why do you think people don't
see the seriousness of this issue
they'll walk you'll walk in some grocery
store and you might see the icons of
mary or jesus they what they claim to be
jesus or even you can put a quarter in
one of these little slot machines and
something will come out of a little
small statue and icon you see this going
on why do people turn to these things
why do you think this is something that
attracts people
well muslims even have some of their own
problems too as far as taking those
little teeny teeny qurans you can't even
read them yeah and they want to wear it
as a locket or something and it brings
some good luck it's superstition
people want something they can hang on
to to believe in
but they're not accepting that allah
himself is the one that really is
providing for you caring for you the one
you turn to the one you give
thanksgiving to they don't want to do
that because
of their various reasons but
it this is the biggest problem of all
this is the biggest incorrect worship
and incorrect belief is what destroys
the society
do you see this as just a cop out an
easy way out
that i feel like i can do whatever i
want to do and then i there's something
yearning inside the human being so he
takes this it could be for some people
eddie but i won't say that it's true of
everybody
it could be that that's the case but we
can't just write it all off and say
everybody's the same
let's bring in different reasons yeah so
before we
conclude tell us now
what other special
event happened with abraham
and something that we can take home and
all benefit from
abraham
was
really i think a good example for us
to realize that we can't identify god on
our own because he had another example
that he looked to the sun to the moon
and to the stars and each a long way
said could this be my god could this be
my god could this be my god but the sun
sets the stars go away the moon
different phases and he says all of this
is not my god
and the scholar said he did this for
for his people to hear him say it
because he knew better but he said that
you know this is not my god
so i won't be guided unless he guides me
uh so we should ask for guidance
absolutely and i'd like to thank you for
being with us great to do it
thank you we're going to have to
continue on talking about these
wonderful human beings the prophets that
we should all emulate and the last and
final messenger but hold on
i want to give you an opportunity that
if somebody wants to learn more you have
some websites that you can refer the
people to i suggest really that they
visit our website called
shareislam.com.com
and on the drop down list on the left
you can look for what says prophets or
muhammad and check it out thank you
and thank you for being with us and a
wonderful example of what abraham did
peace be upon him he looked to the sun
and said that can't be my god to the
stars into the moon he said that can't
be my god and he asked the one guy the
creator who created the sun the moon the
stars and everything in creation he
asked that god to guide him and that's
what we should all do ask the creator
alone to guide us and we hope to see you
again next time here on the dean show
until then assalamu alaikum peace be
unto you
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invite all to the way of your lord with
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with
them in ways that are best and this is a
great opportunity for you to take up the
obligation take up the call as allah has
told you to do and share this beautiful
message with the world islam submission
to the one god come and see what
everyone's talking about if you find one
contradiction it can't be from god
but the rational idea the rational
explanation is you do your best give up
worship
i will never give up spending this
message i hope that you take that
necessary step you don't know if you're
gonna live until tomorrow
so you gotta find that urgency to do the
right thing right now
if you say that you not believe in jesus
you have stepped outside of islam you
cannot be a muslim and attended our
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it's cold it's late
sleeping
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arise and ask a lot to think in me
oh allah you see
oh allah you know
all the sins i do
i turn to you to forget my sins and my
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