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alhamdulillah which means peace be unto
you welcome to another episode of the
dean show my name is andan is a way of
life Islam which we try to help the
people understand clearing the
misconceptions thank you very much for
coming to the source to learn about
Islam and Muslims now today we're going
to be talking about the last and final
messenger the prophet Muhammad peace be
upon you've heard of Moses you've heard
of Jesus peace be upon both of them and
other Messengers that came but this is
the last and final messenger he hasn't
just been sent to the Arab living in
Mecca he's been sent for the whole of
mankind we're going to be talking a
little bit about his life so you can get
familiar with him you've heard about the
testimony of Faith we've talked about
this in our other shows which is that
one Bears witness that there is nothing
there's only one God he is the only one
worthy of worship and that Muhammad
peace be upon Him is his messenger this
is what brings someone into Islam but
you got to get to know this man so we're
going to give you a little bit of some
highlights of his life we have a special
guest s and when I get back I'll tell
you his last name sit tight you're going
to read about him and we're going to
bring you back here on the dean
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right I say right right you're saying
right thank you very much for being with
us on the dean show we really tried to
help educate the non-muslims on Islam
and we thank you for being with us we
want to talk about there's a lot of
misconceptions about this last and final
messenger some people have never heard
of them they're going to hear about him
today we're going to start off if you
can help us God willing about him his
life even before prophethood let's start
from there who he was where he was born
and from there we'll
go number one I am very excited being
here and may Allah subhana reward you
for hosting me and I think this is one
of the most exciting episode you would
have why because everybody knows about
God but they don't really know about
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam you
can ask and you say to non-muslim who's
God or what is God and where is God and
they can tell you a lot of information
about but as soon as you ask him who is
Muhammad who's he we don't know much
about him so today inshallah we will go
over that a little bit and we'll talk
about him sallallah alai wasallam and we
will explain to the people what this man
uh did for the for the um or we say For
All Mankind human humanity and inshah
we'll go with this well before Islam you
asking about before he became a prophet
of God see Muhammad sallallah alai wasam
as a child I before he was born he lost
his father so he was an Aran and his
mother raised him but two years after
that he was giving away to a desert
people there was the custom of the Arab
to send their children outside the city
environment so they can learn about the
language they can learn about the
culture so they can come back and come
back to the city and be strong
physically and mentally and so on and
then shortly after that his mother
passed away and his father also as we
know he passed away then his grandfather
took the custody of Muhammad sallallahu
alaihi wasallam but it was not long
enough shortly after that he died he
passed away also his uncle Abu Talib is
the one who raised him from 8 years old
until he became until he died I mean
until the ancle died uh Muhammad reach
the age of 40 he was there for him to
support now as a young man he was a very
quiet kid very intelligent very smart he
would not engage with nonsense things
that other kids do he would behave he
would carry himself in a very manner uh
very acceptable and well behaved child
child may do and then every everybody in
the city they loved him why because he
was always eager to help he was always
there for the people who are who are in
need he was always trying to do
something for the community being a
member of the community being being a a
member that is active that he's doing
something to improve the lifestyle of
the people in that area then when he
became he was 14 years old his uncle
took him for a business trip to show him
how he should do business because it is
very important for life for the Muslims
or for the young people especially to
depend on themselves they should not
rely on their parents all the time they
should not rely on the system but they
should go out and be independent and be
someone that can contribute something to
the community and then after that he
when he by the age of 25 he married a
woman who was older than him by the name
Khadijah and she was a very wealthy well
respected lady now keep in mind at that
time women were not respected at all you
know men would go and as soon as he was
announced that his wife had a baby girl
they were go and bury her alive but this
this woman was well respected in the
community of the city of Mecca and after
that he became Surly 10 years after that
or 15 years or after that became a
prophet of Allah can we just rewind just
for a second can you give us were there
any signs anything before prophethood
while he was a child were there any
incidences that were unique
absolutely there was so many incidents
when he was around 8 years
old still living in the desert and this
is what everybody needs to you know do
that do do that little mental you know
image in your head and see a little
child with his brother some another
brother he was with him in the desert
taking care of sheep and all of a sudden
these two men come out of no place out
of nowhere they all wearing white they
look very unfamiliar they don't look
like a Travelers they not familiar with
and what did they do as soon as they got
to Muhammad sah was a child the one of
the men said is this the kid and the
other one said is this is the kid that
we're looking for so they grapped him
and they put him down and they cut his
chest open now when his siblings saw
that when his brothers saw that he had
to run and get help but meanwhile what
they did they open his chest while he
still alive and's still looking he can
relate to that story and he related that
story to us later and he said this is
what they did they took my heart out out
of my chest and they washed it with the
special water that they had and they
took something dark out of my chest and
they said well this is the share of Shan
in this young man he Shan how devil has
no share in the life of this young man
and then by the time the other kid came
back with help Muhammad was standing
sallallahu alai wasam standing there his
chest being you know stitched back and
he was still used to show the sahaba the
companion and you said look this is the
mark of that incident he had that scar
oh he had that scar he did now were
these angels what were this was Angel
giel and Angel is M two angels in in uh
jbel would we say Gabriel Gabriel that
was the same angel that would come to
the other other Angel was Michael
Michael right okay so from that that was
one incident now we come and continue on
where there before his leading up to his
prophethood how was he amongst his
people how what was he known as his
character this man even as being a young
man you know in in meca there was a
place a house that was known
that this place if you're not 40 and
over you cannot have a membership for
that house or that club but Muhammad was
giving this because he was very mature
was loved by everyone people trusted him
everyone loved him everybody loved him
this is documented this is a and he used
they used to call him Al which means you
know the trustworthy the man that
everybody would trust they have they
want to travel and they have something
that they want to keep and they afraid
that they may lose they will take it to
Muhammad s wasallam and that continue
even after he became prophet and they
were fighting him they were still say
well we cannot we cannot trust anyone
but this man they will go and take this
stuff there to Muhammad sallallahu
alaihi wasallam and the other incident
that is worthy of mentioning here is
when there was a flood at the time in
one of those days and the Kaa what we
call um which is the house of Allah in
the city of Mecca was destroyed so the
people of quray said let us rebuild the
house of Allah and allow the people to
come that was the first house built by
abraam the first house built by Abra and
by the way for the non Muslims who do
not know this everything that we do
almost everything that we do when we go
for pilgrim
is command what prophet Abrahim did yeah
you know we did not introduce anything
to what he did when we go around the
house that's what he did when we move we
travel between the two mountains sa
that's what he did when we drink from
the well Zam that's what he did on so
one but the point is when they were
building the Caba there was this rock
that Abrahim was given to from Allah
from the heavens and that remains still
in that place and he's still in
and then all the chiefs of the qur were
fighting over who is going to place this
rock in the place of the Kaa which we
call and they were about to fight and
kill one another concerning this and
then one of them said listen if we
continue arguing with this we will not
go anywhere so the first man who walks
through that door we will accept his
judgment and Muhammad was the first man
who would walk sallallahu alaihi
wasallam and everybody said this is the
am Al Al we trust him he's a trustworthy
and then sallallahu alaihi wasallam he
said what is the problem and they said
well this is the issue that we have Dean
and then he said well it is very easy
very simple because he was very
intelligent very very intelligent man he
was a man that was built to lead not to
follow he was a man Allah subhana wa
taala created to be a w For All Mankind
so he said it's very easy and he took
all his over garment and he said well
you everybody place the right right here
and they did and he said well all the
chiefs of the tribe grab this and let us
carry it and let let us lift it and when
they reach a certain level he say and
now I'll place it where it should be
placed and everybody's like that is what
we were looking so all the tribes they
were fighting they all they all grabbed
this cloth and they all so he smooth
this out oh
yesam yeah so when when he's saying
sallallahu alaihi wasallam this is
wishing uh peace and blessings on the
last and final messenger
the prophet Muhammad who sent for the
whole of mankind we talked about we're
giving you glimpses of his life so you
can from here see who this man was
somewhat and then you can continue on
investigating on your own because he is
indeed a messenger for you to follow
your father to follow your uncle to
follow your whole family to follow so
we're going to go on from here talking
about we discussed and there are many
more incidences and we're just giving
you a few before he was an adult we
talked about that one uh unique
situation as a child but there's many
more but we don't have time to go into
those we talked about before his
prophethood he was known as the truthful
i' I've heard different nicknames you
know this is Knuckles this is uh non
neck gazali this is uh all sorts of
crazy names but I have not ever met a
man this is the truthful especially
today's society you know people are
lying deceiving cheating but even
amongst his enemies enemies later who
became his enemies who actually love
love love him they call him the truthful
uh that we learned that now let's go
about the Revelation how it came when it
came let's talk about this and what
happened right back check this
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out welcome to the mailbag this portion
of the dean show that deals with the
subject of the you the readers and the
Watchers and those who want to write
into us and ask questions I'm Yousef
Estus and of course of course maybe some
of you know me from some of the other
programs that we do online but today I
want to deal with this subject it's it
comes to me in a form of emails and we
get calls on this subject how do I know
it says here that Muhammad is really who
he said he was how do we know Muhammad
is really the prophet and what he's
bringing is really On Target how can I
know that this isn't something from the
devil maybe the devil wrote the Quran
and tricked Muhammad into believing it
and we've heard that's a number number
of times from different people so what
that's what I think I want to tackle
that today and let's let's talk about
this first of
all what do we know about Muhammad well
we're talking about Muhammad peace be
upon him who was born in the Arabian
Desert to the Ki tribe in about 570 ad
and then Liv to about 633 ad and during
that 63e period he was well known and
established as being honest
truthful quiet humble kind
generous and one of the best friends you
could ever
have now we're not talking about some of
the other Pretenders to the throne here
like I want to mention some people like
gulam Ahmed in India and claimed to be
some kind of prophet no and people like
Elijah Muhammad who claimed to be a
prophet but that we're not talking about
that we're talking about this Muhammad
who lived 1,400 years
ago and one of the things that we can
know about it is there has been more
information gathered about Muhammad than
any other human being more people today
are named Muhammad than any other name
in the world also there has been more
written about him and authenticated
about him than any other person if you
want to make a biography of a well-known
person with established references that
you can rely on Muhammad is your choice
and many people have done so so you have
testable evidence immediately to say
that yes there really was a man and that
was really his name that was where he
was born this is where he died and this
is what his followers said about him so
what we did we developed a website so
that you could go to it taking your time
to learn as much as you can about
Muhammad from his own sayings from
sayings and teachings of his followers
and companions other people who knew him
that weren't necessarily Muslims and
then from people over the history since
then who have commented about him such
as George Bernard Shaw and Gandhi and
others so you can follow up on that let
me tell you where the website is it's
got everything on there you could call
it Muhammad A to Z that's going to be at
prophetof islam.com let me repeat
prophetof
islam.com go check it out and we'll turn
your back over now to the dean show
already in progress how it came when it
came let's talk about this and what
happened again it is is in a nutshell we
will put this in a very concise
way and this is by the way we say
sallallah alai wasam you know peace be
upon him it is not only for Muhammad but
we say that also for Jesus we say that
for Moses we say that for all the
prophets of God because all of them to
us are on the same level we believe in
all of them but at this moment he
realize that living in that society
which means women do not have any rights
which means you know if you're not Arab
or if you're not from makah people would
not respect you if you're a servant
people will treat you differently if
you're different color people will not
treat you the way they would treat other
people he realized this is not a life
that a man should live so what he used
to do and he also used to dislike the
idea a man who would go kill his own
child they were doing this they would do
this as a matter of fact they would go
on a mount would say God if you give me
this number of children I will sacrifice
one of them for your sake and he will
bring that child to the city in front
all their idols and everybody is
watching and he was slaughtered that
child Psychopathic exactly but people
thought that this is we're doing for God
people would thought that this is good
this man is so righteous that he
sacrificed his own son so Muhammad say
this is not acceptable so what he did he
drew himself and he used to do this once
a month I'm sorry one a month out of
once a year and he used to go leave the
city leave the people and used to go out
in a place in a mountain called and he
used to stay there for a whole month
just contemplating thinking about how
this creation came about who is the true
creator behind this what is happening
what would happen to us after we die are
we here for purpose is that a purpose
for you know for our for our existence
is that a purpose for us doing this is
this man is treating or mistreating
other people is he going to be judged
you know all this was in his head and
this how abah IIM Alam this how he used
to contemplate before he received a
revelation and Khadijah and this look
this was very unusual men used to say to
their wives I am going are you not
following me that's it yeah but is
saying no she's my wife she's the one
that I trust she's the one who knows my
secrets I honor her I respect therefore
she has to come with me but she used to
stay a little bit away from where he's
contemplating is you know
meditating and then one of those days he
used to say in a little cave that can
only fit one or two people maximum yeah
and all of a sudden one of those days he
sees this man out of the blue as they
say out of nowhere standing in front of
him and he's talking in very powerful
you know authoritative tone and saying
read number one he's shocked I mean
there was no introduction he was no the
man is climbing up to the mountain I
could feel I can hear him no this man
just appears right in front of him and
then he says read knowing that Muhammad
cannot read or write
and by the way in Arabic when we
say they translate most of the time read
but it can also translate me recite
recite right so when you say if you have
a if you memorize a poem and you say I
would not say to you you know only
recite in Arabic I will say you know say
so means recite or read so he said read
I said what should I read and then he
grapped him now imagine a stranger
coming to you grabing you squeezing you
so hard and he said I felt my chest
bones Crossing I mean they was so
painful and then he released me and he
said read and I I was instead of shock
read what and then he grabbed me for the
second time and he did the same thing
and I said read what and he pushed he
grabbed me until the third time he
said read in the name of your lord and
that was the first a the first verse
that was revealed but also this Ayah
contains so many benefit indicates so
many things because when he says means
to read you know later you will learn
that was the beginning of civilization
beginning that people have to learn have
to learn how to read and write because
without you being able to read or write
you cannot really go far so this Ayah
when Allah said read the first Ayah was
indication that this um will be um that
will be civilized this nation will be a
nation that be civilized and this people
and the companion of the Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam now after
that you know look again keep in mind
you're talking about a bedwin you're
talking about people who do not respect
women what did the prophet sallallah was
do he ran to his wife he ran to his wife
a lot of people will say no no no no I
will not go to my wife I will go to my
uncle Abu Talib or I will go to my you
know Uncle Hamza I will go and seek the
protection of someone that is strong but
he know he went to his wife because that
is the relationship between husband and
wife this is the relation this is the
fear and that's why Allah
said and Allah placed between you and
her a mercy and compassion so when you
feel down you should go to your wife
when you feel that you know everybody's
against you you had you you had hard
difficult day you should do like the
prophet sallallah alai wasam and you
should go to your wife so now he went to
his wife and this was when the
Revelation first came now you had people
we talked about before this who loved
him they called him the trustworthy now
he's coming with the message tell us
what this message was what did the
Creator God Almighty Allah want him to
do and how did the people's perception
of him change because of this
message
now he stay in that
situation he came back to Khadijah he's
nervous he doesn't know what is
happening you know she calmed him down
she says no Allah will never disgrace
you you do this you do this you're such
a wonderful man Allah will never
disgrace you so don't not do not worry
now he stayed in that state calling
people secretly for three years so the
first one who accepted Islam was his
wife and that's why in Islam again and I
know this show is not about rights of
women but in Islam we respect women
women because they were the first being
to accept yeah the first person who
accepted Islam was a female khad and as
you know the first person who was died
for Islam was
also so we always respect the women and
we put them in a higher a lot of people
do not understand but in three for three
years he start calling people to Allah
and he's telling them worship one unique
God it's not he it is not she and by the
way the reason that we say he in the
Quan translation because in English we
have it and we have she and we have he
but in Arabic we only have he and she we
don't have it therefore since God Allah
subhah wa ta'ala is not a human and it
cannot be you know uh he or she it can
only be it then the people say Well it
in Arabic is sounds very disrespect
disrespectful so they said ha he
so that's how we translate we say who it
means he but we cannot say God has
gender no gender no gender is not male
it's not a female it's not white he not
a human he not in us he not with us he's
above his creation and this is now in
this where he was calling people his
servant accept Islam his friends accept
Islam and then later he came out to the
people when Allah
said say go and want your people he was
giving a direct commandment from Allah
and then he came
out and he stood on the mountain called
sa small mountain and he
said all the people ofr and everybody
came and he told them this is what he
told them if I tell you there are enemy
Army behind that mountain marching
towards the city to destroy you what you
believe me and they say of course you
never told a lie he said well I am the
Messenger of of Allah and I'm warning
you you from what you do not know about
and then here some of the people
rejected some of the people so wow some
of the people they say no no no no we
will stick to our forefather he's the
first person who was rejected was Abu
said to you is this what you gather us
today here so this is from there on his
is his what you call his follower start
growing growing and growing and then the
qur they try they kill some of them they
torture some of them like B
they were persecuting the Muslim all the
Muslims and then the prophet sallallahu
alai wasallam said let us move out they
migrated they migrated to the city of
Medina yeah so this is unique that he
basically he came with a simple message
to leave all the idol worship worshiping
statues men worshiping the creation and
just worship this unique God the one God
and now these people who loved him
because of this they started to have a
resentment towards him well they did not
really they were not against himage
Allah they were against the message and
when Abu sufyan the head of the qu when
he learned that Muhammad marry his
daughter he said that is such a
wonderful man and after some time
because people is it true they were used
to their Customs but after they would
many of them the intellectuals they
found out this can't be from no man this
is from even they started to come to
Islam absolutely especially the younger
people and the people who were educated
and the people were open they were
open-minded they said well you know the
man is not telling us anything that is
unusual something that that your your
your your mind or you will reject it is
very basic worship what one God be a
decent person be able to live with other
people and this is the message of
Muhammad and the message of all the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
before him he didn't bring no new
message nothing new it was the same
message the same worship one unique God
that's what I wish if you can interview
my friend good friend Tony mhm who
accepted Islam because initially he
wants to guide Muslims to Christianity
yeah and he thought you know they must
worship a little black house in the
middle of the desert they worship a man
by the name Muhammad to worship a rock
and then he came to the conclusion and
then he sent me the material I gave him
the Shah and then you know alhamd he has
a website he is telling us from the the
the the Bible from a different he's
telling us the Christians should should
pray like Muslims they should not pray
like this they should go knee down and
pray like we pray he's proving from
their document that Muslims they make
and the Christians should and the Jews
should make wo ablution like we do so
everything that we do is not new is
something that other prophets did and
other Prophet were preaching and he went
a little further and fell on his face
and prayed to who himself he pray to God
this is this is in the Bible uh how we
make evolution is in the Bible
worshiping submitting your will to the
will of the Creator is in the Bible it's
all there so tell us briefly where is a
uh for someone who wants to go deeper
into this because this was really short
just giving us some highlights what's a
good book that somebody can read to
study more about his history and his uh
Legacy well there there are a lot of
books are we we talking about the
something authentic something authen I
think the book um
um seal nectar seal nectar that would be
the best book the sealed nectar seal
nectar that is the best book that I
would recommend anyone to read because
it gives you all the you know authentic
material and it gives you you know um
tells you from A to Z and everything
that you need so that would be a good
book if you want to know about Muhammad
Sall just some closing comments advice
for those who've had now we hope that
many people had an open mind you know
we're sincere but some people you know
what they've been misguided by some
people misrepresenting Islam you have
some false perceptions due to the media
what do you have to say to them I would
say to those
people do not rely on anything but
yourself after your creator be
open-minded read what you need to read
let me tell you a very short story I
hope we have enough time I never told
this anyone before when I came here I
really did not know much about Islam and
I went to Catholic school and in the
Catholic school I I was like why do I
have to be a Muslim I mean I was born as
a Muslim but why do I have to be a
Muslim can I not be a Jew or Christian
or even atheist so I went out and I said
let me explore all other religions that
exist so I read as much as I could and I
learned about them but the when at the
end of the day the only thing that
really made sense was Islam because it
was very basic very simple now what we
want for the people to do for the last
minute is be open mind use your mind
forget about everything that you learned
about Islam forget about what other
media said about Islam just go if you
want to know about Islam don't ask
anyone but Muslims don't go to non
Muslims but go to Muslims and they will
tell you about
Islam thank you very much for being with
us thank you pleasure to you thank you
for hosting me thank you brother and I'd
like to thank you for sitting in through
another episode of the dean show for
coming to the source this man was the
last and final Messenger to mankind no
more Messengers to come he's a role
model for you for me for everybody if we
stop taking the celebrities as role
models and take God's Messenger as a
role model we will be better off but
it's up to you the message is there it's
simple it's Unique worship God alone and
not his creation ponder over this think
about it and come back and visit us
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peace be unto
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