is he can change his mind and uh take
his wife back there's one question which
somebody asked here which version of the
Bible is best to use against Christians
really rather not to use it against them
but use it to help them understand as
you know some versions have large
amounts of verses being taken out and
books well the uh Modern Standard
Version the revi or the revised Standard
Version
this is the most commonly used one
between that and the King James version
you can uh you know the King James
version has all the verses initially
revised standard they have deleted
verses but in the revised standard they
indicate where the verses have been
deleted and this is actually a good one
because you can use it to show them that
their Bible has changed you know you've
got deleted Version verses which they
said were once a part of the Bible for
many hundreds of years it was part of
the Bible and now we have deleted it so
this is something to is useful to show
them you know where changes human
changes have taken you know uh affected
the the Bible text itself
for question about Christianity I wasn't
here yesterday address
yesterday um I wanted to know about um
specifically from Mo experience I was a
Christian before when IED to a Christian
I would like her to condu is very hard
um the hardest thing is not that she
knows that the Bible's been changed
since the since uh since the beginning
and many Christians are aware of this
and many Christians are aware of
different versions of the Bible as well
um so that's not the main problem with
her the main problem is that a lot of
times she's prayed and her prayers have
been answered and I've prayed as a
Christian and my prayers were actually
answer even though I believe fully and
totally in Islam now um also she had
Visions which she beli helped her when
my father was very ill she saw that he
was extremely ill when she couldn't have
known otherwise and she prayed to Jesus
and believed that Jesus helped her and
there that my father actually got a lot
better and it's very hard to convince
her of Islam and she believes that Jesus
has helped her in this way and I want to
know what sort of um arguments
or what I can tell her in to
that okay this point
there is a point which we looked at
earlier uh that where a Christian says I
believe in Jesus uh because of the fact
that my prayers were
answered um I
know it's the truth Christianity is the
truth because it has worked for me well
we can just give them the example of
others a person a Hindu who believes in
Hinduism he has his own person personal
God ganish the Elephant Head God who he
prays to and his prayers are answered
because surely if Hindus prayed to their
idols and their prayers were not
answered do you think they would
continue to pray to their Idols
obviously prayers are being answered so
we have to ask her as a Christian do you
think that it is the Elephant Head God
ganish who is answering her those
people's prayers so what is she going to
say she's going to say yes
no she she will say it must have been
God so then you say to her that's the
same thing you're praying to Jesus
prayers are being answered but that
doesn't mean necessarily it is Jesus who
answered it anymore than ganes answered
the prayer of the
Hindu um I was just asking what about
Visions a lot of Christians believe they
SE Visions well you know the issue of
Visions is the same thing Hindus see
Visions Buddhists see visions all kinds
of people see Visions we understand that
um these
Visions uh it depends a vision could be
what we may call a true dream where
Allah shows something to somebody you
know of the future and it does happen
and these kind of things and this is
from Allah or they could be actual
apparitions where people groups of
people have seen Mary and the Christ
child appearing before them these kind
of things statues of Jesus with the you
know tears coming from the eyes and you
know all these kind of things happening
and we know that the Jin are able to
possess objects and things and and give
these kind of Impressions to people so
uh this happens in all societies it's
not unique to Christian Society so if
we're going to accept that as evidence
of the truth of that then we have to
accept it for the other
religion Jesus being the begotten Son of
God what do they mean by that well
begotten means
that one has been given birth to that's
what begotten means born
of right which takes it away from
symbolism meaning literally God gave
birth to that son that's why they say
the only begotten Son of God Son of God
they say okay yes God referred to many
Adam is a Son of God you know number of
others but begotten son they restrict it
to Jesus however even the term begotten
has been used in the Old Testament with
regards to others besides
Jesus um and for us as we said before
our response to that is uh what do gods
have how do we deal with the issue of
the modernist orientalists
are they both of the same kind how do we
give them
dawa well the
modernist uh meaning a person who wants
to give a modern interpretation of Islam
Islam for the 20th
century uh we have to point out to them
that uh Islam is for all
times that what Allah has prescribed if
it's right
if it is the final message then it is
for all times this is what makes Islam
unique if it is about changing and
modifying Islam then what's the
difference between Islam and Hinduism
and the other isms that are constantly
modifying
themselves right so it loses its
uniqueness if we will modernize Islam it
uses loses its uniqueness it loses its
uh Divine
Purity it is now becoming defiled
because once human beings step in and
start to make changes then they're
making changes according to their own
interpretations which are limited and
will make mistakes so they're
introducing mistakes into the system of
Islam Hadith all my umah will be
forgiven except those who speak about
their sins what about somebody who is um
giving dawa and talking about their
previous life prior to Islam they
mentioned I used to drink and fornicate
Etc is this uh included in this well
um if
one explains this or elements of this
one this doesn't need to go into details
you know one can say well you know I was
like everybody else doing similar things
you know that young people do of this
time or whatever better to talk in
general terms than to go into specifics
you know and uh and that's this is where
it has some benefit you're trying to
relate to an audience let them know that
you didn't live in a place where these
things didn't exist so you're well aware
of it so you use it from that
perspective otherwise if it's not needed
then it's better to avoid it and the
main idea behind that is that for a
person to speak about sins and specifics
then a per you talking to an audience
that may not be involved in those things
and now you've put it in their heads you
know so it's better to keep whatever not
that's why you know if you have a bad
thought an evil thought even a bad dream
Prophet wasam said don't tell tell
anybody you have an evil dream a bad
dream scary dream whatever don't go
relate it to other people because then
you're introducing thoughts into their
heads and then it messes them up you
know so you limit it you ask Allah's
forgiveness protection and keep it to
yourself a revert sister finding hard
finding it hard to practice Islam is it
okay for her to carry out the far
obligations and not the
Sunnah yes the F obligation the which is
the obligation this is what is required
of her the Sunnah is additional so
that's what we're encouraged to do
that's additional reward if a person
even if they weren't having difficulty
if they decided today I'm not you know
after fud I'm in a hurry I'm not going
to do my after for example I miss sunnas
after or you know
after Isha or what ever due to some
other things I have to do there's no sin
there's no sin on it you know people
sometimes mistakenly teach that uh for
example Isa is like 17 rakat or
something like this you know so people
are learning you know the the prayer as
being but really Isa is for that's what
Isa is all of the others are voluntary
prayers which you may do for additional
reward or if you didn't do it there's no
sin against you Isha is for
m is three ass is four is four and Fa is
two that's the bottom line and we know a
man came to the prophet Salli wasallam
and asked him what is on meh wasallam
said you have five prayers in a
day
and uh if you wish you can do additional
prayers and the man said no I'll just
deal with the five in the day
then he went on to say to him then you
have the fasting of
Ramadan and if you wish to do the man
said okay I'll deal with the fasting of
Ramadan he went on through the
different F requirements and each time
the prophet Salli wasallam uh began to
express a Sunnah the man stopped him and
then at the end of it the man said okay
that's it he said yes he said I'll do no
more and no less
and then he left as he was turning away
the prophet Sall wasallam turned to the
other Companions and said he will enter
Paradise if he's
truthful he will enter Paradise if he's
truthful so it means that if you do the
basic fed requirements then that is a
guarantee doing it of course sincerely
with all the other issues concerning it
that is a guarantee for Paradise that is
the basic
requirement so
uh dawa in Africa where there is a lot
of uh culture mixed in with religion I
mean this is not Africa this is Asia
this is everywhere in the world today
for Muslims Chia you know Bosnia uh
Muslims all over the world have their
Islam mixed up with culture so much so
that people are hardly able to
distinguish what is culture and what is
Islam what do we do in those
circumstances we have to try to bring
people back to the Quran and the Sunnah
get them to go back and to read and to
understand the dean from the Quran and
the
Sunnah if we get them to learn the dean
from those sources then that will give
them a foundation to correct up the
cultural uh baggage which they have
inherited and which is blocking them
from implementing certain aspects of
Islam okay question what is the ruling
about music and Islam actually this is
in the book one of the topics that we
should have covered but we didn't have
time to I'll just say briefly that the
basic ruling on music in Islam is that
it is
halal basic ruling on music in Islam is
it is
halal but certain types of music are
Haram unfortunately
that type of music which is Haram is the
most popular music
today you see this is where people get
this idea Islam is forbidding everything
you know everything we like to do is
Haram well actually the majority of
things are Halal and the things which
are forbidden are few this is very
important when people bring this thing
to us you know say everything is Haram
for you guys no no everything is halal
for us except for a few things
you know it's the issue of as they say
looking at the um the glass as being
half empty or half full
right for us the vast majority of things
are Halal for every Haram thing there
are thousands of Halal things but what
happens is that Shan has made the Haram
things the things that people feel I
have to do my life is incomplete without
doing this Haram right you know it
becomes the most attractive the most
pleasurable the whatever you know it
seems like that's where all the fun is
in the Haram you know reality is that
the Halal is huge and there's way more
fun there but we have just been
indoctrinated we have been you know
brainwashed by the media the society
that this is where the fun
is so um
you mean music of today which
one music of today we're talking about
Madonna Michael Jackson you know and all
those types of things all those uh the
common music even classical music you
know Bak betoven people say oh but Bak
betoven we can understand Madonna and
Michael Jackson but Bak betoven you know
this is very you know but hey Bak
betoven was the rock music of the 15 18
century huh it's just times of change
and people are not doing what they used
to do to to it but in those days that
was the dance music they were doing
their dances and you know so the point
is that wind and stringed instruments
the prophet s wasallam forbade wind and
stringed instruments so where the music
is produced by The
Voice
singing or by the duff which is like a
hand drum this is permissible anything
beyond that hand drum just produces what
a beat gives it some kind of tempo
whereas the voice is produces the
musical element and the prophet wasam
had
said whoever doesn't sing the Quran is
not of us so we understand singing is
halal and we know so many other
evidences so the point is that music is
permissible but a certain element of it
has been made forbidden and it is
because of the quality that that element
has in captivating the
hearts it captivates the
heart it is the Quran of
Shan Satan's
Quran and when it captivates the heart
then it blocks that element that part of
the heart from accepting the Quran of
Allah so this is what there's a struggle
over the hearts
there can a woman travel to another
country without a m in order to do Aid
work or voluntary work in the service of
Islam I da to women or to teach Quran to
Children
Etc um one has to again look at you know
we we we what you're asking here is do
the ends justify our
means because we want to do this good
thing which is da to women teach the
Quran will that justify us doing
something which has been identified as
Haram no we don't function like
that if there are other options we go
and try to find those other options
otherwise I'm sure in the country that
you're in there's place for da to women
and place to teach children
Quran you know so it's not to say that
the only way I can give da to women and
teach Quran is if I make you know take a
journey to another part of the world Etc
to do it no it's not the only way so
Allah has forbidden the women from
traveling for a
reason why is it because he doesn't want
women to teach women Islam make da to
them and teach children Quran no of
course not he wants to protect them from
harm there is d anger in Journey in
traveling so a woman traveling alone is
in even greater
danger this is the point it's for her
protection no more no
less sisters giving dawa alongside
Brothers on the same dawa
table well islamically I mean of course
and they're saying basically these
people are not mams you know it's better
to have two
tables you know two tables one for
brothers and one for sisters so if women
come then the brothers can direct them
over to the sisters and if Brothers come
to the sisters they direct them over to
the brothers that is uh
better could you please explain what
happened to Surah rajam which was not
included in the Quran well it's not
Surah Raj but the verse on Raj it's the
verse on stoning Omar talked about out
and uh Allah uh removed the text from
the
Quran as he said that he
would Allah will remove from the Quran
what he wishes and he will affirm what
he wishes this is a part of the uh
abrogator process which Allah had with
the Quran some verses were deleted and
their ruling was deleted some verses
were deleted and the ruling was kept
some verses were kept and the ruling was
deleted he said the different ways in
which Allah you know uh did abrogation
in the Quran what made you interested in
Islam huh and what type of Da worked on
you for myself uh briefly I was into um
communism I was a communist in
University at the time when um I decided
to become a
Muslim however though I was a communist
I had become uh disenchanted with
Communism after working with the
Communist party for a number of years
and
I uh started looking
elsewhere and alhamdulillah a friend of
mine actually uh from the Communist
Party had accepted Islam and uh when she
accepted Islam she got married to a
Muslim brother it caused me to want to
look at Islam and I asked for some
material I started reading uh towards
understanding Islam by Udi and the
second book I read was um Islam the
Misunderstood religion by Muhammad K and
that book convinced me from a political
level that Islam was the right way you
know it had it it was a comparative
study of Islam communism Christianity
socialism Etc and from looking at that
comparison I was convinced that Islam
had the answers all the good that was in
communism all the good that was in
Christianity etc etc it was there in
Islam but belief in God for me took some
time after that because after having
lived four years 5 years denying God's
existence you don't just turn around one
day like flipping a switch and all of a
sudden you believe in God again you know
so it took me some time of reflection
and Allah gave me some personal signs in
my life
that he existed and uh following that
then I accepted
Islam and people had been telling me
different little things about Islam I'd
run into people at different occasions
but for me as I said that particular
book uh towards understanding Islam was
a good presentation but what convinced
me was the Islam the Misunderstood
religion