in the name of Allah the beneficent the
most
merciful I would like to welcome
you may Allah's peace and blessings be
upon you and with that
welcome I introduce you to another in
the series understanding
Islam and in this segment we'll be
continuing with the concepts which we
developed in the earlier
segments which had to do with the
particular features about
Islam which prove that Islam in fact is
the true religion of God in the earlier
segments we looked at the name of Islam
we looked at the concept of God in Islam
we looked at at the concept of worship
in Islam we also looked at the
universality of Islam in this
segment We are continuing on from the
concept of the
universality that uh Islam is something
attainable by anyone
anywhere the question
arises if the foundation of belief in
Islam is that belief in
God and a correct belief in God we said
then how can people find God if they're
born in
environments where they may be people
may be their families or their society
may be worshiping Idols or trees or
planets or people or whatever how does a
person through all that
find
god well what Islam
teaches as is clearly stated in the
Quran in the seventh chapter known as
Al verses 172 and
173 God says in the
Quran that when he created Adam he took
from Adam all of Adam's descendants this
is in the spiritual form all of mankind
that was to be was created at one time
in the spiritual realm and
Allah asked them who is their
lord and they all
said you are or you
you oh Allah is our
Lord
now God went on to
say that he only did
that so that people would not have any
justification on the day of judgment
to say that they didn't know about God
one or to say that it wasn't really
their fault that they were worshiping
other than God because they were only
following what their parents did this is
all that they were exposed
to so God is clarifying
here that the concept or knowledge of
God is imprinted on the soul of every
human
being from the time of its
creation
before the human being's appearance in
this
world to further strengthen that and
give it clarification Prophet Muhammad
may God's peace and blessings be upon
him had said that every child is born in
a state of natural belief in God natural
state of Islam
however it is their
parents that turn them into Jews or to
Christians or to fire
worshippers this is that
essentially each Soul has that
consciousness of
God so no matter what circumstance a
person is brought up
in there is deep within himself or
herself
a
realization that God
exists and God doesn't leave them in
that state he further shows them signs
in their
lives different things will occur
different incidences will occur in their
lives which will point out for them that
whatever false belief they're involved
in whatever concept of of God they
hold which is
false in fact it is false God will show
them the signs that it is
false now after a person realizes this
then it is up to them to act on what
they know to be true for
example if we were to take the
case of a young man brought
up in the middle of the jungles of South
America in his
tribe they worship an
idol now one day this young man he goes
into the Hut in which the idol is
kept and as he sits down to worship this
Idol a dog comes walking into the hut
and when it reaches next to the idol it
lifts up its leg and urinates on the
idol when the young man sees this he's
very upset he chases the dog
out of the Hut terrible thing that it
did but he has to
think this Idol which he's
worshiping could this be the creator of
the
universe unable to stop a dog from
urinating on it this is a sign for that
young
man I we may not consider this to be a
sign of God but in fact in his
particular case that was a sign for him
that the idol that he is worshiping is
not
God I have spoken to many
people who have become Muslims and in
each and every individual's
uh case we find different signs one
friend of mine told me uh that on one
occasion when he was in the church
worshiping down praying before the
statue of Jesus as a young person he
happened to look up and he noticed that
the toe was broken off the
statue you know there was this image of
Jesus on the cross who was the image of
God that they're
worshiping and he noticed the toe was
broken off and this was something which
struck him that you know what is this
this is God that fact that the toe was
broken up was enough to wake this person
up to
question can this possibly be God and so
on through different people's lives
you'll find that there there may be very
simple things what may touch this person
may not touch another person and always
of course the signs of God that that God
gives us are particular to us what may
be suitable for you may not be suitable
for somebody else but the point is that
in each and every life each and every
human being's existence God shows him or
her the signs of his existence and that
whatever they are worshiping which is
not God is
false
so the ability to recognize God
to come to the conclusion that there is
a God and that the God is not the idols
or the the different forms of creation
that the people around us are
worshiping this ability is in the grasp
of every human
being Allah has created us with an
internal concept an internal recognition
of God and he has given us in our lives
signs which point towards the true God
furthermore he has sent Messengers
throughout the ages he has sent
Messengers to different uh segments of
the earth to inform people to further
amplify the the spiritual message which
is part of our nature which exists
within our life
circumstances the prophets came to
further amplify emphasize the this
message and point us in the direction of
the one true
God therefore dear
viewers the concept of the universality
of Islam is built on the concept that
each and every human
being knows
God even the biggest
atheist when he falls into a state of
depression
he's in an airplane and the airplane is
going to
crash he's in a boat on the on the sea
and the Sea becomes so rough it's
turning
over he doesn't call out oh Marx oh
lenon help me he will scream out oh God
though he's a person who has not been
believing in God all along you'll find
him in at the time of of dire need he
will call out oh God and this is what
you find in the Quran Allah speaks about
this in many places that these the worst
of believers they deny God outwardly but
they recognize him within their own
souls and when they find themselves in
states of Calamity they call out to him
however once the Calamity is removed
then they forget God again this is the
ongoing process
however as we pointed out each and every
soul has that
Consciousness and it is the environment
which seeks to
distort that Consciousness so it is only
for each and every one of us to look
within ourselves to reflect within
ourselves to accept the signs of God
when they come to us in this
life and to follow the truth
to follow the correct path to
God with that dear
viewers I'd like to thank you for being
with us in this segment of the program
understanding
Islam and I hope that the ideas that we
are trying to share with you are ones
which are comprehensible you can
understand and
appreciate and I hope inshallah God
willing that you will continue continue
to follow the remainder of this the
segments of this
program and before closing I would like
to remind you to write in if you have
any questions or suggestions to
understanding
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with that I would like to bid you
farewell now a am
alaykum