and all cursed Innovations lead
ultimately to the
Hellfire brothers and
sisters
today we have
dedicated a
conference to rasool S alai
wasallam one in which we seek to to
reacquaint
ourselves with his role in our
lives to bring
him back to a
position of
reverence an
honor a
position which for many of us
unfortunately he has lost in our hearts
so all of the various
presentations address different
aspects of the
man and the
messenger the slave of
Allah and his
prophet in the previous
presentation you heard
about his description
the physical elements of the messenger
of
Allah in order to
bring him
closer to our
hearts
because it is very
difficult to attach
ourselves to someone who we have no idea
what he looks like how he really was how
did he keep himself Etc we don't have
any personal information about
him it is natural that the more
information we have the closer he comes
to us and that is why we had a whole
session dedicated to
that of course on the other hand we
don't
go to the
extremes that some people have gone with
regards to the physical
elements of the Prophet sallallahu alaih
wasallam as a human
being so when my brother Abu
muslima told us
about the
sh which has been translated and is
available on the
market unfortunately the version which
has been
translated was trans translated along
with a
commentary written originally in
Udu and translated now into English the
text along with its
commentary the basic text is
fine but the commentary is
dangerous so
beware that commentary calls to the
extremes it tells
you after the disc destion of the
sandals of prophet Muhammad sallallahu
alaihi wasallam what did his sandals
look like it
says that if one draws a picture of
these
sandals and puts it under his
pillow he will dream
abouto
wasallam and it will benefit him in this
way and that way and the other way in
his
life total nonsense
absolute
misguidance Prophet Muhammad sallallahu
alaih wasallam never called us to that
that wasn't his
message what was natural to him as a
man his own personal preferences those
were unique to
himself yes there was Abdullah Omar who
used to imitate the Prophet Muhammad
wasallam dressing as he dressed wearing
sandals like What He Wore but he was one
Abu Bakr didn't do it om didn't do it
didn't do it Ali didn't do it the
righteous
calips it was only Abdullah Omar that
was his thing and the prophet s wasallam
didn't stop him but that wasn't the da
that's not what the physical elements of
the prophet wasallam calls us to it is
calling us to understand that he was a
human
being not as others portray him a
portion of Allah's Divine Light that
becomes manifest in physical form no he
was a human being and he had likes and
preferences he cut his
hair he chose particular sandals to wear
out of a number of other sandals he wore
particular types of
garments turban different particular
colors that he chose he was a human
being as Allah told
us this was to emphasize to us as Allah
said indeed Prophet Muhammad wasallam
should say to people I am just a man
like you so we would not
exaggerate who he was as a man and to
keep that in contact
context know he was a man and know his
preferences his likes and his
dislikes but what is most
important is the message which he
brought and how he brought that
message how personally in terms of his
character how did he convey that
message and how did he keep in mind in
conveying the
message those who the message were to be
conveyed
to these are topics which will be dealt
with
later my
topic contrary to what the MC said is
the
message the
message the essential message which
prophet
Muhammad S.I wasam
brought that
message as you all know
is that is the essential message
Muhammad is the
completion however if we look
at the call the message which was
brought by all of the prophets before
before Muhammad s alai wasam we found
that they all
said but in the time of Isa he would
add in the time of Moses he would
add in the time of Abraham he would add
ibraim so the essential
message was fund
mentally as Allah told told us in
general in the
Quran I've
sent to every
nation a
messenger to worship Allah alone and to
avoid the worship of false gods
that was the essential
message expressed in another set of
terms it's the same
message worship Allah
alone and avoid the worship of false
god
ill there is no God God worthy of
worship but Allah that is the same
message expressed
in another set of
terms that
message
laa begins
with a
nullification a negation a cancellation
of all that is
worshiped besides
Allah
whatever human beings turn into a
God that
message
rejects those
Gods so even the
atheist The Atheist who
says there is no God
and he stops
there we say to
him you say there is no
God but in fact in practice you worship
false
gods how is
that I said there is no
God well we
say you said there is no God but when I
ask you a simp simple question you
graduated from high
school with
classmates who had the same marks or
even better marks than
you but after
graduation you got into University you
completed your
education you married into good family
you had access to wealth and you became
successful yes that's
true so what about your
classmates classmates who had what you
had in terms of
knowledge and even
more they are not successful like
you so why why are you successful and
they are not
The Atheist would say
well it's my good
luck it's my good
luck and when we go through that
individual's
life step by step why this and not that
why that and not
this and so on and so forth we find the
individual consistently saying
my good luck my bad luck my good luck my
bad luck and he might also say My Good
Fortune my bad
fortune so we remind him or
her that the term
Fortune comes
from
Fortuna go back into the dictionary and
look at the origin for the word fortune
Fortuna what is Fortuna Fortuna was the
name of the Greek Roman goddess of good
luck so what have you
done you have
attributed your whole life everything
that happen happens in your life back to
this goddess who was worshiped in Pagan
times prior to the time of
Christ that's who you have attributed it
all back to
Fortuna so that's your god of course
when you
attribute the
control the
direction the decisions of your life
when you attribute that to
Fortuna the Pagan
goddess you don't have any
obligations you don't have any
obligations to Fortuna to good
luck you're not of course the ancient
Pagan pagans they had obligations but
for you you just called her good luck
and you don't have to do anything
there's nothing required of you you just
recognize that's who's behind it all
Fortuna and what do you
do you may develop a set of rituals
connected with
Fortuna which become your worship
rituals you don't call it that but if we
look into your life and how it functions
there are worship
rituals so we'll see for example after
you
graduated and you went out into life
looking for your first job you went here
and you went
there and you couldn't find a job for
days
weeks then eventually you found a job
hamdulillah well you didn't say
alhamdulillah but we're saying
alhamdulillah you found your job so what
do you do when you go home you're
ecstatic you're so happy you found your
job you want to change into your clothes
that you're going to relax in what do
you do you carefully take the shirt you
are wearing and you put it in a special
place in your
closet and your shoes in a special place
and your tie you put it in a special
place your pants your belt buckle
everything you don't mix it with the
other ones why because because now this
becomes your good luck
outfit so anytime you need some that
special good
luck you will go to your closet and
you'll take out your good luck belt your
good luck pants your good luck shirt and
your tie and now you're going not ready
to get that good
luck that's your
ritual other people have rituals
like after saying the going to do
something they knock on
wood others cross their
fingers this is these are part of the
Pagan rituals of worship because where
does KnockOn would come
from ancient Scandinavians who believed
in the tree God gods of the
trees and of course the Christmas tree
comes out of that same channel
the
Evergreen seemingly
Eternal when you wanted to go and ask
the tree God for something you had to
First wake him
up you woke up your tree God then you
asked so this became a part of
your regular
ritual so when we say
we cancel all of
that all of those customs and
practices that in fact indicate that we
do have a God In Our Lives who is not
the true
God and I was just talking about the
atheists not to talk about the majority
of
humankind who actually have Gods who
they've given different
names and who they have described in
inappropriate ways belief in God this is
the norm for human beings Allah created
each and every one of us with that
natural
belief as the prophet wasam had
said each child is born with a natural
belief in Allah that is the norm the
atheists are
abnormal something went
wrong and of course when one has to give
dawa to them it is important to find out
what went
wrong don't just try to deal with their
arguments find out what went wrong why
did you end up there because it's an
abnormal situation so for the majority
of human beings the norm is we believe
in God everything points to the
existence of God but problem is without
Divine
guidance then we're not able to
distinguish between who is truly God and
who is not and that's
why the first
condition that we have to
consider for our Declaration of faith
there is no God worthy of worship but
Allah the first condition that we have
to keep in
mind is
knowledge we must know who is Allah so
that we can know who is not
Allah who is the true God and who are
the false
gods reality is that we have many false
gods in this
world people who believe in Gods but
they're
false so the first part of that message
cancels out all of these false
gods the false gods of human
making and it replaces it with the one
true God
ill except
Allah Allah being of course the
Arabic
name for
God
Arabic the meaning is what is
essential what do we mean when we use
the term
Allah if we mean by the term Allah
that everything is Allah and Allah is
everything then that's the wrong
Allah that's not the true Allah who
we're supposed to believe
in Allah is not his
creation neither is his creation Allah
we have to be clear on that
when Allah said in Surah
Muhammad that's the 47th chapter verse
19
know have certain
knowledge that there is no God worthy of
worship but Allah and the prophet Salli
wasallam had
said an authentic narration in sah
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Muslim who ever dies
knowing that there is no God worthy of
worship but
Allah will enter
Paradise that is a
guarantee if one knows it meaning the
one who thinks he or she knows it
believing that Allah is his creation or
her
creation then that promise does not
apply
it is not
applicable that promise is for those who
actually know who Allah
is according
to what source according to the Quran
and the Sunnah as it was
understood by the
companions of prophet Muhammad Sall
alaihi wasallam
why did you have to add that part isn't
it enough to
say according to the Quran and the
Sunnah well no it's not why because
everybody who has a different view of
who Allah is says this is according to
Quran and Sunnah but what we find is
that it is according to the Quran and
Sunnah as on
understood by the
individual so for
example to understand
Allah not being his
creation not being a part and parcel of
his
creation Prophet Muhammad sallallahu
alaihi wasallam left behind an incident
recorded in sah Muslim
wherein one of the companions mua
hakam had a slave girl who was looking
after his
sheep and a wolf came and took off ran
away with some of the sheep when he came
and found out what happened he was so
upset he slapped her having slapped her
he caught himself oh why did I do that
should not have done it it he knew that
that was not permissible Islam does not
permit us to even hit an animal in its
face much less a human being so he
needed to find a means of
atonement so he went to Prophet Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wasallam explained to
him the circumstance and said can I free
her to atone for what I did hitting her
in the face can I give her her freedom
and the prophet Sall wasallam said bring
her to
me and when he brought her he asked
first
question he because he wanted to know
whether she was a Muslim a Believer
whether she had not declared it or
whether she declared it he asked
her I
Allah where is
Allah he didn't ask her do you believe
in Allah why because everybody believed
in
Allah but people had this idea mixed up
so that Allah could appear or be present
in
statues when you ask a Hindu for
example how can you worship that statue
which you made from your own hands you
bought from the
store if he's
educated he will tell you
I am not worshiping that
statue but but we see what you're doing
there you know you come and you ring a
bell they wake up their gods in the
morning right they ring a
bell then you take the god out you wash
him off give him a
bath then you put him in his
place pour milk over his head put Foods
in front of him
you said that looks like we worshiping
him to
us no no no that's not what I'm actually
doing it may appear that way to you
however what I'm actually
doing is
worshiping the one
God the one true
God who becomes concentrated in the idol
at the time of my worship
wow that's
heavy the one true God who becomes
concentrated in your idol at the time of
your
worship so worshiping Idols obviously
the idea that God is inside of his
creation is firmly founded in
Hinduism that's why they can believe
that God becomes carnate he becomes a
human being they call them
avatars God men saaba for example in
South
India in Madras he has over 8 million
followers among them presidents former
presidents of India who believe that he
is God incarnate he does a few magical
tricks pulls eggs out of his mouth he'll
be sitting there and he goes
and then a golden egg comes out of his
mouth he shows his
father
God point
is they believe that
God
becomes his
creation exists within his creation
while claiming to believe in one God
so Prophet Muhammad s
wasallam knowing that this was already
in
existence the pagans of Mecca they had
these
ideas versions of it so he didn't ask
her do you believe in God he asked her
where is God I
Allah to see whether she
understood that Allah was not a a part
and parcel of his creation and she
said above the
heavens
outside of
creation and he
said and who am I and she
said you are the messenger of Allah so
he turned to mu and said
free her because she is a Believer a
believer in
Allah as Allah actually
is he used that
Criterion her awareness that Allah was
not mixed up in his creation part and
parcel of his
creation he used that to
confirm the correctness of her
faith so not enough just to say I
believe there's no God worthy of worship
but Allah but we have to be clear on who
is
Allah
so that means the dawa of people like
harun
Yahya whose books are very popular
today he is put together
Toms of
books mostly about Evolution and issues
concerning Evolution many he spread out
into other areas now
too
but his subtle
da which may not be so subtle he's
actually put out a book
called The Illusion of
matter where he
says nothing is real
nothing we see around us is real and he
will go into certain scientific
arguments yes scientific argument you
see this table it appears to you to be
solid but if you go down to the
molecular level the molecules are all
bouncing
around so if you were to actually look
at this table on the molecular level it
is not solid it only appears solid to
you and even the
color it appears black to you but it's
not really black like the sea that looks
blue but when you take the water out you
find it's clear
illusion matter is an
illusion nothing
exists besides
Allah the only
reality is
Allah and as he
said that was the teachings of my great
Master
sheh
AAR who was that IB Arabi he writes
about IB Arabi IB Arabi who
said everything is Allah and Allah is
everything an idea which is
called or in English terms
monism who said there's no need need to
pray to Allah outside of
yourself he's in me and he's in you you
can pray to
yourself and so the majority of Scholars
of his time and after his time said this
man
is a heretic he is a heretic he has left
Islam those statements are statements of
disbelief
and Har is saying he
isbar the greatest she who also claim
for
himself to
be the Seal of the
sainthood which he said is higher than
the Seal of the
prophethood this man's
statement if one gathers them it lead
leaves no doubt that he had apostate
from Islam with these statements but
this is harun
ybar so and of course what is har saying
some of his books you know in the
appendix at the back and for as for
those people who believe that Allah is
above the
heavens fools that they are know that
Allah is everywhere
the slave girl said he's above the
heavens and the prophet Sall wasallam
affirmed what she
said so when we say and make fun of
those who say Allah is above the heavens
then we're actually making fun of the
messenger of
Allah so then what
happens for those people who have this
narration
authentic narration in sah Muslim what
do they then
do go back to the
mind we're following Quran and Sunnah
but according to how my mind perceives
it in my mind to say that Allah is above
the heavens is
ludicrous because if you stand on the
North Pole above the heavens is this way
if you stand
you're standing like this if you stand
on the south
pole then Allah is this
way if you stand on the East he's that
way if you stand on the west he's that
way so where is
he so the prophet Salli wasallam
couldn't have said that but it's there
in sah Muslim well perhaps this Hadith
is
it's weak you you know about weak
hadiths yeah yeah we know about weak
hadiths but how do you determine when a
Hadith is weak is it just because it
doesn't agree with what you
think is that how we determine weak
Hadith when it goes against your
logic
yes that's clear evidence if it goes
against my logic it's got to be
weak
so I've seen articles written attacking
this Hadith
in order to defend the false principle
that Allah is everywhere and in
everything and everything is Allah and
Allah is
everything so when we
say that the message which prophet
Muhammad s wasallam brought
was we have to
understand that
message in all all of its aspects we
have to understand
fundamentally how people create gods in
their lives so we can cancel them then
we have to
understand correctly who is Allah so
that we can actually worship
Him and after
that we have
to accept that message sincerely
not just lip service where we
say and some people take that lip
service to the
dead a person is dead and their corpse
is being taken away to be buried and
people are running along beside the
corpse saying say say say
Prophet Muhammad wasallam he did
say if you translate it literally it
says Tell your dead to
say however that is not what the sahabah
understood from that statement and they
were the best to understand Arabic when
it said mum which literally means you're
dead it meant those who are dying so
those who are dying they would be
reminded to try to make their last words
before leaving this
world there is no God worthy of worship
but
Allah but once you're
dead you can't hear people telling you
say Li and you can't respond you can
neither hear what they're saying nor can
you respond to what they're saying so
that's
nonsense that's
nonsense so it's not
about
just
saying it's
about
accepting in our
hearts that it truly enters into our
hearts and then becomes manifest in our
actions so we can say when we see that
person
that person believes that there is no
God worthy of worship but
Allah it's
clear as to the
one who says it but his or her life
doesn't reflect it then we have to
say these are just
words and that wasn't the message which
prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wasallam brought
he brought a message which was summed up
in the that phrase we call
the the statement of Islamic
monotheism it was summed up in that
statement
but he then lived it showed us how it
should be manifest in our lives so all
the struggles that he went
through the the good times the bad
times conveying that
message he lived it he demonstrated for
us how do we make that
declaration real in our lives and that's
really the most important aspect the
fruit the fruit of
that we live
lives in
which we have rejected the false
gods whether the gods of our
desires our desire is to have a house
we're living in
Canada it gets cold in
Winter we need to have a comfortable
house to to live in but we can't afford
that
house if we go to the
Islamic finance company they charge
more than the regular
Banks I am forced to take out a mortgage
and buy a
home
that is taking another other God besides
Allah who is the god it is our haah as
the prophet Sall wasallam said have you
not seen the one who
takes as his God his own
desires so whatever the God tells him to
do he does that's the desires the
desires say let's have that
place a house to live in
so we follow the those
desires and we take out
riba we call it
mortgage that's the modern
name so that it doesn't sound so bad a
mortgage in the old times it be called
it what Usery oh Usery doesn't sound
nice it's got
a nasty sound to it
Usery so we call it
Mortgage in
Arabic
riba when you go to the
bank and the bank tells you the riba
which is to put in your account they
don't call it riba what do they call it
f
benefits nice name if they put their
here is your ribba you
oh it's not nice I shouldn't be doing
this but fa we can all deal with
f even the name
interest sounds
nice interest what is in your
interest interesting things These are
nice
things interest not Usery
o us R not nice so we have a nice new
name for it calling it by other than its
name
so that is the challenge that we're
faced with removing the false gods of
our desires from our
lives and accepting the one true
God in our
hearts man manifest in our
actions and that was the example
ofo Sall alaihi
wasallam and on the basis of that we can
then be
sincere sincere as Allah told
us they were only commanded to worship
Allah
making the religion sincere for him
that's it
sincerity
knowledge first and foremost to know who
is
Allah and then accepting and
implementing that knowledge in our lives
sincerely acting on
it this was the example
ofo s
wasallam and my brothers and
sisters in
closing and there's a lot more that can
be
said I've only scraped on the
surface it is our duty it is the duty of
each and every one of
us to
know to know
clearly correctly
this
essential aspect of Islam the message
the message which the messenger
brought as it is important to know who
he
was it is important and even more
important to know what he
brought what he
brought in words in thoughts and what he
brought in actions
how he
lived
ill and inshallah in the coming
lectures you will be
enlightened to that
implementation so we hope that you
would sincerely and
conscientiously
attend the coming
lectures make notes
absorb that
information
not be
entertained we didn't come here to be
entertained we came here to better know
the messenger of
Allah Muhammad sallallah alaihi wasallam
so let us keep that as our
Focus throughout the rest of today's
lectures and tomorrow keep that as the
focus being real about this we didn't
come to
socialize though some socialization is
going to take
place we didn't come to be entertained
though to some degree we will be
entertained we came here to know rasool
s alaih wasallam so that we can bring to
life Allah's
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instruction
that there is in the messenger of Allah
the best of
examples he was the best example
of the message
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