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with you welcome to the dean show today
we're going to be talking about A Book
Like No Other book and this book when
you live by it you adhere to it calls
you to nothing but goodness calls you to
the purpose of life gives you peace
prosperity and you know what when you're
down and out and it just feels like this
life is just you know what it's taking
its toll on me and you're on
anti-depressants and you're suicidal but
why because you don't have purpose this
book illustrates explains lucidly the
purpose of life and gives you hope that
it's not just about this life there's
also a better life waiting and it
describes it in detail it's a miraculous
book you read all other kinds of books
this is the book that at the end of this
show God willing you're going to be
excited excited to go and read this book
get this book the Quran will'll be right
back to talk about the verbatim word of
the creator of the heavens and the Earth
the Quran here on the dean show don't go
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peace be with you
Salam how you doing sh aldah beautiful
is it true that you can get off the
anti-depressants you can get off of all
the Pharmaceuticals God willing and you
know because many people are depressed
not not a great majority you know we're
advancing in technology but you know
immorality On The Rise depressions on
the rise suicides on the rise m is is
this the antidote to all of these things
this Quran definitely inshallah by the
will of Allah because there's nothing
better than the words of the creator of
the heavens and earth that's the Cure
and we challenge this is a challenge
because that's what says in the
Quran we brought down in the Quran what
is cure and mercy to the Believers so it
cures inshallah by the will of Allah all
of our problems how can people be sure
now okay how can they be sure sure that
this Quran is just not some other book
that it's indeed from the Creator
because sometimes it's hard to Fathom
and imagine how what the god sit there
writing a book you know did it just drop
from the sky you know people start to
think like this and they're like you
know how is this possible Right how can
they be sure right God Allah subhana T
spoke the Quran and the Quran was
revealed to the prophet Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wasallam throughout 23
years and it's a book that starts and
end from first chapter to the end and
it's a miraculous words of the creator
of the heavens and the Earth that the
humanity were challenged to bring the
like of not just the whole Quran this
was yes mentioned some verses but to
bring the like of one Surah one chapter
if it's correct to say that but a Surah
the smallest one in the Quran can fits
in one line if they can bring up the
like of it if it's the work of human
beings then do that and nobody is there
to even to do that whatsoever it's a
miraculous words linguistically what's
the information what is been mentioned
there uh all the different orders the
stories it's it's a miraculous book from
all sorts and means and that's why we as
as Muslims when we call people to get to
know about the religion of Islam we call
them to read the Quran we don't have
anything that we hide there's no hidden
agendas in our religion we have our book
this is the book that we follow and
please read it right and if anybody's
intimidated to read a book and then
there's a something something wrong
definitely read the book because God
Allah subh
says say Muhammad I warn you by the by
the Revelation from Allah so we need all
of us Muslims and non-muslims everybody
we need to really read the Quran but for
Muslims we have even more rights that we
have to observe towards the Quran I like
to always make a contrast to look at for
instance because people claim that the
Bible is the inspired you know word of
God that the authors were inspired they
started to write but many academics
people who were former Christians you
know I'm going to take it to a clip
right now as people can see uh some
places it looks like it's a manipulation
of the text where where the author wants
to change where where the Scribe wants
to change what the author said I mean in
many cases it may be that the Scribe
thought this is what the author really
meant and so he changed it but uh but
sometimes the the text gets changed to
say just the opposite of what it
originally said and so uh that's that
that can be a little bit troubling yeah
but as I engaged in historical research
on the Bible as I was getting my PhD in
New Testament studies at Princeton
Theological Seminary I started finding
mistakes in the Bible and uh this this
cut away at my assumptions that the
Bible was in erant and then I started
questioning other parts of my faith is
Jesus really Divine uh is it really a
trinity well this is an interesting
thing that the um you know we think when
we read the Bible that we're we're
obviously reading the words that Matthew
wrote or that Paul wrote um but the
reality is we don't have the originals
of Matthew or Paul's letters or of any
other book of the New Testament or of
the Old Testament so we had this this
one of the leading Bible scholars in the
world today uh Bart do Dr Bart arum he
was a Evangelical Christian and he was
born again and then he went to Princeton
got his uh his doctorat and now he
teaches and he says that the Bible today
we don't have a copy of a copy of a copy
of a copy of anything original has been
changed scribed sometimes deliberately
sometimes you know intentionally
sometimes you know uh by mistake but
basically they changed the book so now
thinking people they're like hey if it
happened to this book it probably
happened to the Quran what do we got to
say we believe that the books we believe
in all the books of Allah the Torah the
Bible these are books from Allah words
of the creator of the heavens and the
Earth but human beings have been
entrusted to save it but the fact with
all human beings they change and they do
things in a corrupted way so things has
been changed it doesn't mean that every
single thing in the Bible or in the Old
Testament is changed but you know many
things have been changed then the last
final messenger to all man kind which is
the Quran God himself Allah the most
high promised that he would save the
book and nothing will be altered or
changed in it and that by itself is is a
miracle, 1400 years more than 1400 years
ago and the Quran with every single
letter of it it's not like these funny
people they say they discovered on the
ground a transcript of the Quran Quran
has been saved not how you would find a
book under the ground the Quran has been
saved in the hearts of the people from
one generation to the other it's the
only book on the face of Earth that
millions of people they have it
memorized by heart H nobody even the
pope memorize the Bible right but the
Quran you find a child 7 8 9 10 years
old memorize the whole Quran and
memorization from the beginning to the
end and even his language his mother
tongue is not Arabic but he has it
memorized where is that in the world you
have a book written in Arabic a totally
foreign language to you and you would
memorize it word by word over 600 pages
right memorize it by heart and if
somebody makes a mistake he would
correct him at any position any place
this by itself is a miraculous thing we
know the book is not the the Quran the
rebating word of God is not a book of
science but it's a book of signs so
anyone who looks at it they'll see that
this is indeed a sign from the Creator
and you all but you do have science in
there because many people fled religious
persecution because for instance the
Bible we make a contrast we're not
trying to disparage on anybody but it's
a fact that you have unscientific
statements in there so scientists that
were coming up intellectuals is like hey
this contradicts science does the does
Islam does the Quran do the same thing
never whatsoever why because it's from
the creator of the heavens and earth so
the signs that are mentioned in the book
about some of the creation of the oceans
the mountains and so on it's all facts
and that's why we have to differentiate
between what is theory people had
theories in the past and they thought
that this is so much certain and true
when they changed it later on but facts
in life you would find it never
contradicting with what's in the Quran
and that's why this is there are many
things in mention in the Quran about the
creation of of Allah that people need to
go and to see for themselves that this
really fits the nature of what God
created things and this people something
didn't know maybe 200 years ago this is
truly amazing I mean just the people
would just take the time out and be
sincere and look into this look into the
purpose of life does it does it clearly
explain the purpose of life in this book
is this is it a believable message
because people also go away from from
following many of these man-made
religions because it just don't make
sense right Quran frees you as a human
being from being enslaved to others
slave to another human being being slave
to your own desires and slave to the to
the pressure of the world that we live
in frees you from all of that and makes
you a real servant to the creator of the
heavens and the Earth call you to
worship none but the creator of the
heavens and the Earth alone rely with
your heart on him he's the one that you
turn to whenever you are in need of
anything you're he's the one that you
that you worship right and you you look
things in the right perspective and he's
the most wise that means he created
Created us for a purpose and then this
life is nothing but a test and after
this life life is the Hereafter people
will be either in Jenna Paradise or the
Hell Fire so it sets the goals for the
human being in everything that they do
very clearly everybody can understand
very clear very lucid very
understandable pragmatic makes sense
we'll be right back with more talking
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back here on the dean show talking about
the verba and word of God the Quran this
is not a book of just uh fairy tales
something that Muhammad concocted this
is indeed from the crater anyone takes a
look analytical scientific approach they
examine it they'll conclude that it is
indeed from the Creator we contrast it
to the Bible which we don't have a copy
of a copy of anything original obviously
and many Christians don't know this but
if they if they look at it you know and
they research they'll see that this is
you know indeed something that can't be
from the Creator one mistake if there's
one mistake it can't be from the Creator
is that right that's correct and it's
miraculous in nature and when a person
wants to read the Quran read it with an
open heart and O and read it realizing
that we're are human beings we're
created by the creator of the heavens
and the Earth and you would see clearly
how the message is from the Creator that
fits the nature of every human being
very simple very easy and to do what is
right and to stay away from what is evil
he created evil evil and good things for
a reason you would never be able to see
what is Right unless there is some
things that are wrong this is the nature
of this life because it's a test in
itself so you would find the wisdom of
the creator of the heavens and the Earth
being explained with the stories of The
Messengers and and the struggle between
the truth and falsehood and what happens
to the people of the truth what happens
to the people of falsehood so it's
definitely a a great thing it's a waste
of life when a person doesn't read the
book of Allah tell us we mentioned the
um there's prophecies in this Quran no
mistakes there's no contradictions you
mentioned some of the um SC science in
the Quran Mountains and the the
development of the human
being isn't it true that when the
Muslims those who have submitted to the
will of God when they were they were
living by this Quran that you know they
were like the superpower of the world is
this true that's true they were they
were the advancement of society usually
people when they think of those who hold
fast to religion they become backward
and they live the Dark Ages because it's
all fairy tales and things that is
against what facts and Science and what
life of the people is in Islam it's the
total opposite where Muslims stayed away
from or turned away from the Quran and
its teachings and so on they became
backward and they became humiliated and
so on so when people they they hold fast
to the book of Allah they were Superior
in the land and that their whole entire
life changed they for example the Arabs
they were just Nomads and they're
everywhere and they were humiliated by
everybody but when they hold fast to the
Quran they led the whole world so why
because the Quran actually give you the
the purpose of your life that everything
will make sense people they suffer when
it comes to matters of the religion
because they have been taught that
religion and money or your success in
this life they go against one another
either or Islam it's not the way you'll
be more successful in this life you'll
be happy you have wife children and work
successful and all of this but all of
that makes sense that because it's all
from the creator of the heavens and the
Earth and you'll be taught how to be a
father how to be a husband how to be a
son how to be a worker how to be someone
leading others so keeps you in your
occupations you don't have to be one
thing or the other you can stay in your
occupation but to be the best human
being in whatever occupation you have
we'll teach you
that some
people might think that because of a lot
of the false propaganda that the Quran
is a book of violence what would you say
to this this is absolutely a wrong
statement and anybody can claim anything
and that's why the book is there we're
not hiding anything from the book we
don't have another chapters that we hide
for us as Muslims that we in dark rooms
we open and read it the book is out
there and it's memorized by millions of
people read it and see what the Quran
says and don't take things out of
context because yes as a part of life
there is violence on the face of Earth
regulates this it makes you see what's
happen happening in the world and how
things to be how to react with all of
what's Happening some people they get
caught up how can this world be a
perfect world but it's all so much evil
and killings and atrocities and so on it
meant to be this way because God wants
from us to worship Him in different
levels of worship to worship him with
patience to worship him with struggle to
worship Him With Love With Fear with
hope to be or fulfilling all these means
with means of worship so when you would
see in the Quran that when people people
think of religion that when you apply
the religion you would find allbody
everybody is is is good and the Earth is
just the birds and it's not like this
right this is a life that it's a test in
itself but you will be happy in the
midst of all of this you will understand
why things are happening the way it's
happening different levels of worship
worship is not just to to sit and do
some rituals it's more than just rituals
it's everything in your life it's the
the time of struggle it's it's the
calamities it's the good things and so
on and that's why people they run away
from religion right because they think
religion is just an ideal world that
doesn't exist no this is the reality of
this life and that's what the Quran
would teach you that you can be
extremely happy and enjoy in the midst
of all of these craziness because really
the place of it is in your heart and you
would understand there's a reason for
this there's a purpose of this so my
position to be living and to be kind to
others when they're not and so on and so
forth while knowing that there's a
reason a wisdom behind it and how to act
then in the midest of all of this it's
all in the Quran and in the way of the
Prophet sallallah alaihi was what are
some of the benefits to memorizing the
Quran and then obviously we talked about
you know the the miraculous nature of
the Quran so those who who live by Islam
now they they profess to be those who
have submitted to the will of God the
same profession that Jesus made he was a
Muslim he worshiped only the Creator and
they lived by Islam to the will of God
now you're a Muslim but we see the
quran's been abandoned it's on the Shelf
collecting dust and it comes down maybe
for Ramadan or when someone dies do you
see a lot of this happening right and
this is a very sad thing the that were
supposed to follow their way the
companions of the Prophet s wasallam
Quran was not just a book that they seek
some blessings from it once in a while
Quran was the life they learned the
Quran to live the life according to the
Quran abdah Mas and the ones that came
after him one of the
one of the second generation he said we
took the Quran from the
companions in such a way 10 verses at a
time we would recite them learn the
rulings of them and act according to
them and then we'll go to the next set
of 10 verses this is how the Quran was
in their life and where is that in our
life we and actually I would take this
opportunity and call myself and everyone
take the Quran seriously learn the Quran
said verses after s verses learn it of
course from the right sources memorize
the Quran and don't say I'm tooo old
it's only for the children repeat the
verses over and over again even if it's
a word a day a verse a day that you
would repeat all the time 15 minutes
half an hour but never give up
whatsoever and learning the meaning of
it and while you're learning the
meanings how am I going to act according
to what this verse means and this is how
the Quran will change our life and W by
the will of Allah your life will be
totally such a happy contentment peace
by just constantly reading and pondering
and reflecting and acting according to
the word of Allah the word of the
creator of the heavens and earth what a
waste when people are just talking and
talking and reading but neglecting the
words of the creator of the heavens and
the Earth and not learning it from the
beginning to the end even if it takes 10
years 20 years even if a person dies
before that intentions goes beyond one's
actions but to start today and every day
there's no day passes unless you open
the Quran you read something in it you
repeat and you memorize even one word of
it you reflect upon some verses in it
and you would think to yourself did I
act according to this today or not and
tomorrow and after tomorrow and this is
how we transform ourselves to be the
people that Allah subhana T want on
Earth to receive them the the ultimate
joing this life and we're going to take
a break sh we'll come back with more
here telling about the verbatim word of
God the Quran pick it up read it live by
it understand it implement it we'll be
right back with more here on the dean
shelf I want you to imagine
you wake up and in front of you are a
bunch of guys running around kicking a
ball no goals no lines no rules what
would you
think but is that your life surely every
sport has its goal every game has its
end it has its objective it has its
rules how about life how about our life
isn't there a goal to life isn't there a
purpose an objective
that we have to reach we think so the
Quran tells us that we exist in order to
worship God and worshiping God means
knowing god as the Quran
says worship though is not some narrow
small thing it's wide it's vast it
encompasses everything that the human
being does everything that you do
everything that you think everything
that you feel can be done thought said
felt in a way that is either pleasing or
displeasing to God the purpose of life
is to try and do everything in a way
that God loves and God is pleased with
that is your goal back here on the dean
show we're talking about the verb and
word of God the
Quran now there's a statement that was
made by the last final message prophet
Muhammed can you comment on this I'm
going to practice my Arabic a little bit
you correct me and get some uh good
practice
now can you define this and tell us what
this actually means alran the book of
Allah means an Evidence established
without any doubt
whatsoever either for you or against you
so when you say that means if I tell you
the evidence of something it would not
leave you with any doubts something very
strong something so profound that you
won't be able to have any doubt
whatsoever so this is what the means so
the Quran is the Quran makes the reciter
of the Quran would be appalled of how
strong the evidences and the clear
statements are mentioned very precise no
ambiguity no unclear things and then it
says either for you or against you
meaning when you read the Quran now you
would find for yourself you would find
yourself I don't want to say forced but
by necessity you have to believe in this
this is very clear otherwise it becomes
against you in day of Resurrection
because why didn't you follow the truth
the truth has characteristics to it one
of which once you see it once you read
it it becomes very clear to you that
this is the truth but take away the
arrogance take away the diseases in the
heart the ways of the forefathers the
pressure of whatever right these things
are negative evil things so but we are
being tested with regards to our hearts
is this is something that we believe is
the truth or not otherwise it will come
in the day of judgment and it'll be the
reason for people to enter the Hellfire
you read the Quran you get to know the
truth why didn't you follow it why
didn't you apply it in your life and the
same thing if you're a Muslim where are
you from the Quran orders of Allah Allah
subhana tala order us to do certain
things for bait us from something and we
know that for sure and this is the words
of Allah why you turn away from it C can
we apply this shake now that we see
today we have the Cyber bubble and
there's a lot of good that could be
accomplished you know if we use a lot of
these things Facebook Twitter you know
and the media to go ahead and to help
deliver the purpose of life and to share
the truth with the people but now if you
are let's say one who submitted to God
Muslim and you find yourself on on you
know following many of um the Facebook
and the the the internet and now if you
add up your time for instance at the end
of the day and you spent here let's say
three hours a lot of it's useless time
you know gossip and you know just
nonsense but over here in your
dedication to the Quran is almost zero
is that that proof that's going to be
against you now you had time for useless
chitchat or Jibber J but over here you
didn't even put five minutes in is that
a problem definitely it's a problem and
that's why especially in the world that
we live in you have to set a time for
you to read the Quran and to ponder over
it pick the most the the best time of
your day way you can focus and so on and
again it doesn't have to be an hour it
can be 15 minutes but with dedication
with sincerity
right and whatever you read understand
it even try to memorize it repeat it a
lot and get to know the meanings of it
and apply it in your life take the
matter step by step not on your own of
course we need to learn from the people
of knowledge and so on especially if
it's rulings this is permissible this is
not permissible but most of the Quran is
about things that we can relate to
creation of Allah calling us to worship
him alone to put our trust in him to
have what is the meanings of Life what
is the ways of Allah on Earth so that we
would see things coming ahead and how to
be steadfast now when you don't when it
doesn't make sense for you now but you
know what's coming ahead and things like
this so we can relate to most of the
Quran like that rulings Haram and
permissive and not permissible yes we
need to ask the people of knowledge and
so on but definitely the call is for
everyone and I hope this is can find
really somebody that would have the
proper way of listening to this we need
to recite every day even if it's 10
minutes you have to you should try to
memorize every day the best your ability
every day even for for 10 minutes and
most importantly to add according to the
Quran so that when we can reading the
Quran okay I'm I'm I'm applying all of
this in my life I mean that's there is
no waste of time learning the Quran is
there over here you're wasting time and
probably picking up a lot of bad Deeds
seeing things you shouldn't see but is
there any time if you spent just five
minutes 10 minutes have you wasted any
time even if you struggled with it
definitely not and I would tell you
something that makes it easier if you
think and try this and you would find it
true if any time you would leave the
word or the portion of the Quran that
you read every day because you're busy
with something you would never fulfill
that you are busy what were you busy
with never the Quran never take you away
from fulfilling the things that you need
to do a day a day every day one of the
early generations of Islam he said I
start reciting the Quran and every time
I recited the Quran I found that my time
is more blessed and I can do more things
and I kept increasing and increasing
till I recite 10 j a day that means he
finish the Quran every three days and
Allah subhana T blessed his day so much
that he can do even more in it these are
the things that will be amazing that you
cannot really write it with the pen and
paper this is something that you would
see in your life but be truthful and
give the time to the Quran no matter how
much time you give to the Quran you
would find the blessings in the rest of
the day that Allah will bless your
relationship your life your everything
getting the family together and to get
them to read the Quran and to understand
the Quran and if you can't read
if it's difficult for you the
difficulties that you go through give
you double of the rewards as the Prophet
sallam this is the mercy of Allah this
is what he said that the one that
recites the
Quan meaning like you're doing like this
you're not able to to read fluently you
get two rewards one reward for the
recitation one letter is with 10 rewards
is better than the whole word than
whatever it contains and one reward is
for the struggle that you go through
till you reach the level where you can
fluent recite it you be like with the
Scribe is with the angel amazing this is
indeed the truth you've uh beautifully
explained it and hopefully we can
implement it in our lives amen and be
successful in this life and the next
amen am mean thank you very much so some
tips here for you really important it
behooves you to read this book to live
by this book it was sent as guidance for
the whole of mankind if it's your first
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it's it's very important you know to to
not be apathetic to this very important
subject that we're talking about this
leads back to the purpose of life you
know the same way that the PC and the
mcage comes with an instruction manual
the Creator throughout time he sent
instructions on how he wanted us to live
and this was through the messengers of
God Jesus being one of those Abraham
Moses and all the other Messengers that
came with the same believable message
worship the Creator the maker of mankind
not the creation not a stick not a stone
not a bone not a man not a woman nothing
in creation but the Creator that makes
sense and obey the messenger that was
sent to you Muhammad being the last and
final messenger whose message was the
same as Jesus they never called people
to worship themselves or Saints or dead
people they called you to worship the
one Creator so ask the Creator for
guidance and start to do some homework
homework some La work you know because
the people who have power money and fame
they still can't find contentment
because peace is something you can't buy
you can't buy six pack of peace peace
and contentment Prosperity comes from
living the purpose of life and that
purpose comes from the creator of life
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