Allah said
Quran and he God revealed the Torah to
Moses and he revealed the inel or the
gospel to Jesus these are the scriptures
these are the legitimate uh Revelation
that was given to these prophets for for
for mankind so we believe in God we
believe in his angels we believe in
these prophets we believe in uh the
scriptures that they brought and we
believe very importantly that as to tell
you this Eddie I want to tell you this
go ahead one day you're going to die
that's a reality it's a reality and your
loved ones going to die everyone's going
on a trip going on a trip One Way Ticket
yeah all right coming back Ain come back
right all the money houses you leaving
behind leave behind well let me say what
Allah say in
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Quran and word of God word of God every
shall taste of death so we're going to
die but but but but but is that the end
no we believe in the resurrection and
therefore one of the fundamental beliefs
articles of belief is that after we die
on the day of judgment God will ra
resurrect everybody everybody ever lived
now you have any idea how many people
ever lived all together no billions and
billion I don't know right now you got
many people on
earth a little more than 6 billion 6
billion According to some scientists
they say from beginning of time there'
have been maybe up to 100 billion people
that's a lot of people a lot of folk
right all coming up from there all
coming up man I mean I mean and God is
going to judge all of them be scales huh
it's going to be scales of justice so as
a Muslim we have to believe in that and
there's one more that becomes a little
bit complicated but I'm going to just
touch on it for a minute yeah and the
the other Article of Faith is Muslims
believe what is called the
of what does that mean that means
that anything that
happens it's already written in the book
God knows about it even before it takes
place uh there is an interesting version
of Quran the word of
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God and no uh uh Soul can die except by
the permission of Allah it is already
written in a book Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King was assass 1968
before he was born it was known that the
day he would die Malcolm xik shabaz was
assassinated
1965 before he died it was already
written that's the that's the that's the
that no matter what happens as Muslim we
accept the of Allah don't misunderstand
us we work hard we try to change our
faith we try to do everything that we
can
once we make every kind of effort and we
leave it in the hands of God and what
Hever happens we realize that it could
not have passed us by it was already
written in the book therefore we accept
Our Fate we accept our destiny it's
called the it's I mean it's a bit more
complicated than that but that is in the
simple simple terms this is the faith of
the Muslim now let me tell you some
things we have to do um if you if you
notice in this conference so all these
Muslims and perhaps the largest session
was prayer Muslims have to pray five
times a day but how do we pray our
Prophet Muhammad peace and bless me upon
him which the last prophet
said pray as you see me pray so Muslims
pray five times a day and the first
prayer is actually Before Sunrise it's
called the dawn prayer to prayer of f da
prayer and then the afternoon like 1:00
1 1:30 and then midday around uh 5 5:30
something like that then the sunet and
then maybe one one hour and a half after
Sunset just basically dialing up
thanking the Creator for everything you
got your eyes your ears everything you
got it you said it so now tell us do
anything you want to add to this no
except for you got the last question
that's the only thing I want to add to
Yeah couple more questions tell us now
how does someone benefit in this life
and in the Hereafter from Islam from
being a Muslim oh man uh I I I just
quote a Hadith that the prophet said
that's a saying of the last and final
Messenger to mankind the prophet
Muhammad peace be upon him he
said that God
said all my servants every one of you
are
misguided every one of you unless I
guide you therefore ask me and I will
guide you what are we misguided about I
give a couple examples the foods we
eat we some things Allah made prohibited
a few things like for
instance every Prophet that came told
their people not to eat pork every one
of them including Jesus and Moses and
Muhammad so we we we are you know some
things is prohibited and the pork is a
dirty animal that's not uh permitted for
human consumption so we don't eat pork
we don't drink alcohol in no form no
beer no champagne
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no no none of that yeah no reefer no
cocaine all the things that are bad for
you anyway they're bad for you anyway we
found out that God made all these things
prohibited because they're bad for us
they hurt us um so I I benefit as as a
Muslim just in terms of my diet um
Muslims uh they they look wonderful
they're they're healthy because they
they they they follow the strict diet
how about the addition to that in
addition to that because we're doing all
of these things we have this belief and
we're doing all this prayer is actually
making us uh humble humbling ourselves
before the Creator and and one of the
meanings of Al Islam is peace from the
word uh
which means to submit to God and by
submitting to God then we have peace
within and peace without that money
can't buy money cannot buy you can't you
can't get that only through God let me
tell you why because if you can only get
it through money then all the rich
people they will have it and poor people
have none of it tell us about this
paradise now that we're we're aiming for
oh man that's what it's all about that's
the goal the eternal life the goal is
after we die that somehow God is going
to raise us up again but wait how God
going to raise us up again well the same
God that gave us life the first time
going to give us life again and he's
going to bring us and give us life again
and then he's going to judge us and
there's two places there's no third
place either you will be judged and God
give you mercy and you will go to
Eternal Bliss same way the Christians
and Jews believe that there will be a
place of No Pain No Death none of that
no no poverty like we have now none of
that and if God judges you and and
punishes you he can send you to the
Hellfire what it's called hell where his
punishment the beautiful thing about it
is that not everyone will stay in
Hellfire some through God's mercy will
be taken out of the Hellfire after being
there for a period of time and God will
take them out and put him in in Paradise
but there are some people that will
never come out of paradise who are those
and hey hey I'm not the judge God
judgment let me tell you what he said
yeah in the Quran that's God speaking
God it's not me it's not it's not you
it's not me not Eddie not me not saraj
not we just conveying the message we
just conveying the message that God can
forgive any crime he said there's one
thing he will never forgive only one
thing and that is the worst sin that you
can commit the worst sin that you can
commit in Arabic is called sh and that
is associating Gods with God if you die
associating Gods with God then there's
no way out no way out for you from this
it's locked up forever light light
sentence and and throw away the king so
if you set up Rivals of God you set up
partners with God you pray to anyone
else inter
intermediaries is finished worst thing
you can do is finished worst thing you
can do because because because the
primary message that every Prophet came
with is this absolute Wess of God but
God is the most merciful he can forgive
he's the most merciful or he can punish
he can do what he say he says in Quran
it's very interesting verse
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you better know that God is strong and
punishing on the one hand but on the
other hand he's merciful and forgiven
now it's up to him it's up to him I I
there was an example in history of a man
who killed 100 people 100 people imagine
murdered 100 people and because that man
turned around and turned to God in
Repentance God accepted his repentance
you see so um he he is so merciful that
you can't even count his Mercy but on
one issue nonnegotiable
setting up partners with him the worst
thing you can do now you want to be
Muslim now you've heard this now you
studied Islam and now something hit you
and you know what you're ready to submit
to surrender to who to the creator of
the heavens and earth none of his
creation to the Creator alone one wants
to be Muslim what does he got to do go
get baptized dipped in the pool how does
he do this how does he take this step
very easy all he has to do is announce
there is no God but Allah there's no God
but the creator of the heavens Earth
Allah and Muhammad is his messenger and
Muhammad is the last and final messenger
if you say that that's it now you think
you want to go to a Masid to say it
formally don't have to you don't have to
you can get to any Muslim and say listen
I want to become a Muslim it's good to
go to the Masid so you learn uh but you
don't have to technically just make that
pronouncement it's called Shah or
witness anybody's wondering what's going
on we're in we got a firework show going
on behind us so if you're at home and
it's 2: in the morning and you're
feeling like man you you just you need
that spiritual connection with your
creator this is it it's simple simple
that's very simple you're Muslim declare
that none has the right to be worshiped
except the creator of the heavens and
the Earth Allah in the Arabic and
Muhammad is the last and final messenger
in the
Arabic Muhammad
simple musl now you're Muslim we got to
come to a close in a few uh concluding
tell us now for those Muslims who are
Muslim and you have a real good tone you
go up and you go down you get people
motivated man they're missing the Salah
they're not connected they have this
beautiful way of life and some are
taking advantage of it you know by not
fulfilling their their obligations how
do you get them to do the first step
that's the most important step is the
prayer give some encouragement some
advice some the last thing I want to say
yeah the last thing I want to say is
that
um sometimes as Muslims Christians or
Jews religious people we are negligent
sometimes and we don't do what we should
do yeah happens to all of us sometimes
it happen to some of us more than others
think we're just lazy sometimes we're
lazy and we need to kind of shake
ourselves up a little bit but for us um
see God doesn't allow you to take them
for granted yeah see he doesn't say to
you for instance listen pray to me once
a month once a year but pray to me every
day five times a day every day and we
need it he don't need he don't need it
absolutely he doesn't need it at all if
all uh 8 billion people on the Earth and
all 100 billion people ever lived if
they refuse to worship him that doesn't
take away from his kingdom at all it
doesn't hurt him it doesn't injure him
at all it is
impossible but what we do it do it for
us and when we pray we benefit I always
ask the question quono who benefits and
we benefit so I would say to any Muslims
who who are struggling be around other
Muslims and it helps to give us give us
uh strength uh our Prophet said finally
he
says a person will follow the religion
of a very close companion therefore let
every one of you be mindful of whom he
shall choose as a
friend be with good people good people
and you will do what good people do give
some closing comments advice you got the
audience shoot I just did I'll say this
again be with good people be with good
people be in the company of good people
sjaj on The Dean show thank you brother
for being with us
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one God and muham is his messenger
Allah
Allah there's only one God in