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you how are you alhamdulillah all praise
be to Allah subhana wa tala now you know
many people that are out there that are
tuning in they want to know because it's
all over the news you know Islam Muslims
and a lot of false things being
attributed to Islam so they heard an
Arabic word Allah can you go ahead and
Define you know what Allah means because
some people think that this is some
foreign God that the Muslims worship
who's Allah well let me start with by
saying that uh we have Arab Christians
and Arab Jews and we have the Old
Testament and the New Testament in
Arabic you know that right the viewers
know that guess what in the first page
in in the Book of Genesis the Old
Testament in the Arabic version Allah
was used 17 times 17 times Allah
Allah this is how we refer to Allah that
kills that argument yes weak yeah
without even having to go over Jews and
who who speak Arabic read Arabic yeah
Allah is used Allah is used they know
who Allah is not not nothing not Jesus
uh not yahovah jeh not but Allah no
that's it and it's in in the place of
God with a capital
G not with a small G with a capital G
yeah yeah wow that's amazing I mean you
you also I'm I'm you you do some um I've
seen some of your your debates dialogues
with um people of different religions
Christians so I'm I'm sure you're also
uh well versed as a comparative student
also of different religions a little bit
right I strive you we so we strive to
learn because you know we want the
knowledge have you seen anywhere
else that because you know to find the
truth some people make it seem like it's
so difficult like all these religions
are making the claim but have you ever
just with this one point seen anywhere
in the Bible or any Hindu anywhere that
the Creator is making himself known so
clearly saying like we have in the Quran
where Allah is I am your creator I'm
Allah I created you this universe and
everything in it it's Crystal Clear do
you see anything like that absolutely I
mean there are some if you approach any
uh scriptural text with any uh
preconceived notions yeah you could
always manipulate the text but listen uh
talking about people being God or
attributing Divinity to people that's
how we we like to to put it for example
Jesus peace be upon him the messenger of
Allah listen Jesus was born this is just
one fact Allah has no beginning
he is the
first none existed before him and
amazing Subhan Allah this is the first
paragraph in the Book of Genesis in the
beginning it was God the beginning when
you say that somebody is born for
example like Jesus or any other human
being that means he has a birthday
that's why when I speak to Christians I
tell them God doesn't have a birthday
that's real deep right there just think
about it he doesn't have a birthday
another one right away is the fact that
and this is this argument was was
actually addressed in the Quran look at
this look look the messenger the Messi
the Messiah Isa Jesus peace be upon Him
came is a messenger came in a chain of
Messengers after Moses and his mother is
a truthful women look at this they used
to eat
food for them to survive this is in the
Quran now this is in the Quran eat food
yes that means they need to sleep that
means they need they do need God is free
of need go to the bathroom now that's
really deep if you think about
it that GL you yeah I mean this is but
Allah made clear Allah F I'm free of
needs they needed to sleep
they needed to sleep Allah doesn't
sleep there is an other isi one of the
Israelites which we do not believe we do
not be there are things that we get from
the people of the book from the uh
Christian and the Jews who accepted
Islam and they bring some of the
teachings into uh Islam as long as it's
not contradictory to our teachings we do
not believe it we do not be it
and we could Nar read it uh that Prophet
m. asked Allah subhah wa tala this
question how come oh Allah you do not
sleep so Allah subhana wa tala wanted
him to experience something they said
stand up and he had him hold an object
in his hand stand up until I tell you to
to sit stand up and hold this hold that
yes he stood up for a day you could try
this at home right now right yeah they
can try this right now a slumber of
asleep overt overtook him so he's
standing up
holding something a cup a cup in his
hand even a cup that weighs 3 o try it
even the lightest even the lightest a
slumber of a sleep overtook him what
happened to the
object he said by my might by my glory
if a slumber of a sleep would overtake
me the heavens would crumble in Earth
and this is in the
Quran and he's holding the heavens not
to f down in Earth the Creator the
Creator except with his permission which
is in the you can't say that God created
the the the um the heavens and the Earth
and in six day and then rested on the
seventh that goes back what you're
saying you see id id we are I think this
is what draws the line between us and
Christian and Jews you see Christians
Jews Muslims they speak of a God but we
differ on the concept who is the concept
you see for me as a Muslim to say Allah
rested
huh number one the viewers we need to
know that inah Allah subhana wa
dismissed this totally and he actually
said do not say
that look at the verse
in indeed I have created the we have
created the heavens and the Earth in six
and and what's in between them in six
days and no fatigue
touched that's the word m the the
beginning of fatigue now if you say
Allah rested that means you're saying
Allah gets
tired be careful we as Muslims we do not
use these terms with Allah subhah wa
ta'ala we're very disciplined uh even
when we negate things regarding Allah
subhah wa tala we only negate that which
Allah
negated I cannot say for example as a
Muslim Allah doesn't walk in the street
I'm just doing this for Allah forgive me
I'm just doing this for the sake of
Education I cannot say Allah doesn't go
to the the moall I cannot say that I
only say neg I I say Allah is not blind
uh one eyed I mean Allah is not one
eyed because it was established uh so I
negate and affirm the names and the
attributes which are negated and
affirmed in the Revelation we're very
disciplined once we talk about Allah
subhana and that's what draws the line
between us and and and and non Muslim so
nothing is said about the Creator that
he say about himself so you can't make
up things according to your fancies
because logically you haven't seen him
have you seen him subhana tala no one no
one can so how in the world do you
speak how in the world you see there are
two elements here element number one
that you have not seen Allah and no one
can so how in the world can you describe
someone who you have not seen okay
number two there is none like him so
that you can use as a major yeah there
is none like him in the world he's he's
not like his Creations his Creations are
not like him so you cannot say okay I'm
going to describe that creation because
it looks like Allah so those two
elements out there so you have to stick
to what to what is what is being no look
look so you're sure that no one's seen
God no one can no one can see God are
you sure absolutely okay you heard what
he said because there's some people
saying that they saw God look and we're
going to be right back to answer this
question I'm going call you out on that
wait hold on don't say nothing we got
we'll be right back we'll be right back
to ask this question about have you
really seen God some people say they
have we'll be right back here on the
dean show 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
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 wor ship 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 and we're talking about a very
important issue that you know talking
about the Creator without knowledge is
something that we don't do so we have
the verbatim word of God God Almighty
sent Revelation throughout time and the
last and final Revelation is the Quran
previous Revelations were sent we
believe in the original Torah the
original injil gospel that was given to
Jesus peace be upon him what was given
to David of the Psalms but these
scriptures over time they got corrupted
changed
so God sent the last and final
Revelation the Quran so when we get to
talking to people you know when we do
the invit we give the invitation Islam
is based on proof and evidences and we
talk to people and we explain to them
that Jesus he never claimed Divinity nor
did he talk Trinity or calling people to
worship himself alongside with God and
then it goes back and forth and some
people will say and this goes back to
what you were saying they say look God
spoke to me he spoke to my heart I saw
him in a dream
so you said that no one saw God but they
said those people and I've talked to
them myself personally can I answer this
in a very interesting way go ahead you
know uh we believe that uh there is a
character who will emerge right before
the the second coming of prophet Prophet
Jesus which is the Antichrist M uh the
Antichrist his initial emerging
emergence into emerging into Earth he
will claim to be a prophet and then
finally he will say I am God now now you
know the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam made a very interesting comment
when you say Prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam him now you talking about the
last and final mess Prophet muham okay
yes when the prophet was talking to his
companions warning them about the
Antichrist he made that statement you
know what he
said muslim rest assured that you will
never be able to see Allah unless you
die or until you die so look at this now
the fact look at this now iddie the fact
that the Antichrist is saying he's Allah
and you're still in this world this is
the first argument or the first point
that that that dismisses the fact that
he's God that I'm able to see
you the fact that I'm able to see you
and you're supposed to be God because
I'm not supposed to see you in this
world add to this is the defect in his
face you're the
Creator and you made me with two eyes
eyes and you only have one eye go fix
your eye man I mean come on you you made
me better than you so the creation is
better than the Creator add to this we
have a very interesting experiment which
prophet mam went through and it was
recorded
in the meaning of mam with Allah subhana
tala the children of Israel by the way
uh
the Jews yeah during the time because
they lived in Egypt so many times and
the Egyptians used to worship idols they
got contaminated by this that you need
to see God so they kept asking M we will
not believe unless
we kept saying to Moses yeah to to Moses
that we will not believe what you're
conveying unless we see Allah so Prophet
m in a way when Allah was speaking to
him
oh Allah can you make me see you
huh you're not going to be able to
because the way that we're fashioned Ed
the our body cannot handle it the
greatness of Allah subhana tal canot of
God you just cannot be absorbed can't
look up at the too long no no there is a
veil between us and Allah if Allah and
removes that but that Veil does not
prevent him from seeing and hearing us
be careful
Allah does not sleep and sleep and it's
not befitting for him to
sleep he lowers people he put down
people our Deeds are presented to him at
night before the day and the day before
the
night there is a veil between him and
his
creation if that Veil is removed
everything will
burn everything will burn so imagine
this but again be careful that ve does
not prevent Allah from hearing and
seeing us what what do you tell someone
now let's say our brothers in humanity
the Christian let me just finish the
experience of M quickly in in a minute
or so Allah said to him you're not going
to be able to but listen if you want to
try this let's do
it the mountain is if you've been to
Sinai I've been to Sinai the mountains
there are out of this world I mean huge
mountains raasi huge look at this
mountain I'm going to descend on this
mountain of course we believe that Allah
descends in a face in a in a way that
fits his majesty we do not reject the
attribute of descending like people do
but we do not try to liken it to our
descending nor we try to visualize it or
figure out how he
descends and at the end of the
world how do you define that word the
only one who knows how Allah is is Allah
subhana wa tala no one is like Allah
subhana wa tala nothing resembles
nothing resembles him no rival resembles
him no one is like him and and so so we
believe that Allah subhana wa tala he
descends in a certain way how he
descends I don't know but I believe he
descends should I strive to know no you
should not but you must believe that he
descends so Allah subhana T descended on
the top of this mountain guess what
happened to the mountain crumbled we
cannot see Allah in this world what
would you say to our brothers in
humanity who say the Christians many or
many others who say look that Jesus came
to me in the dream God came to me in a
dream and told me to do things this way
what do you say you know those Ed who
say that we we seen Allah we seen the
messenger I don't want to get into
whether they saw or not that's whether
they even believe or not whether they
had wo or not whether they pray five
times or not we could go attack the
issue tackle the issue from there but
let's say that that you seen a dream our
messenger told
USL that a dream belongs to one of the
following three categories whether it is
something that you're consumed with
you're thinking all the day about um you
know ice
cream it's just you're consumed with it
you could see ice cream in your dream at
night Hadith because something something
that you're thinking about all the time
your NFS is is is attached to all the
time then you dream of it at night
number two is from shaan that shaitan
comes and the devil now the devil yes
Satan and comes actually and reveals
things to to scare you number three is
from Allah yeah it could be from Allah
subhana but let's say that you saw in
your dream uh that someone uh telling
you Ed you don't have to pray anymore
you're good let's say that and your
certain is from
Allah can you implement that dream no
you can absolutely not you have to take
this to the Shar if you see a dream kill
your your your neighbor you go and and
kill and say
it's we're disciplined Ed we we go
through the Shar the religion we go
through the de so the Revelation says
opposite now you can't go ahead and do
opposite to the Revelation whatever you
see in your dreams has to be measured by
uh the religion yeah but it does not
override the religion you see that's a
sect in Islam that that GNA stray in
that field they
say that I receive my religion straight
between me and Allah my heart is
connected with Allah I don't have to go
through Messengers and this is is where
I said at the beginning that if you
actually uh reject the message and the
messengership you go out of the fold of
Islam uh you believe that uh you connect
directly with Allah subhana wa tala
without a medium without the messenger
the way to Allah is the way of the
messenger and you heard that you can't
reject any of the messengers you can't
reject Jesus Moses Abraham or the last
and final messenger sent to All of
mankind the proph mam peace be upon him
who called people to worship the Creator
not his creation we right back with more
here in the dean show
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back here on the dean show with Shake
kareim tell us Shake we're talking about
we're talking about the dreams and some
people will say they had this experience
have you had any experience because you
host the TV show called let's talk about
it have have any non not yet Muslims
called in or people and they actually as
soon as they say dreams I say I don't
interpret dreams they ask you about
interpreting dreams I don't I tell them
right away some callers they call I saw
right away I I actually C you got to be
a specialist in that area or how is that
no it's not that um you know I'm not I'm
I'm I'm a guy who you know who tells
religious rulings based on the text I'm
not there to to to say your dreams mean
that or mean that in my opinion in my
humble opinion actually yeah you're
right you must have the skill of doing
it this is number one but you should not
do this in in in a show because a lot of
people make a lot out of these dreams
and they have to be extremely careful I
mean dreams in a way are a form of
Revelation from Allah a revelation in
the sense not literally but Allah subh
is conveying a message to you uh in a
way um but we should not we always have
to take it to the religion we have to
take it to the dean so I don't try to
present myself to be that because people
sometimes make a a big deal out of those
people how we we we see that you know
just from studying this way of life
Islam it's the natural way it CS you not
to do anything that's weird out of this
world it's really straightforward and
simple worshiping the Creator not his
creation establishing the prayer five
times a day not because you know some
people say well well why do I have to
pray you know what does God need my
prayer you know that's that's something
else that some excuse some people would
would would make like what's the point
of prayer but we know that okay as
Muslims we have to pray that's for for
us to develop ourselves more God
Consciousness keeps us away from Evil
Deeds right and all these other things
so how can someone be certain now that
look they come from a way of life that
everything's confusing it's kind of make
up things as you go everyone has their
own opinion you find 10 people in a room
with 12 13 different opinions I but when
you come over to Islam it's straight cut
it's it's really simple to understand so
what's the first step now what's the
first step that somebody who's look they
really you know are searching but
they're coming from a Land of Confusion
now you know you're just throwing Islam
in the buffet just another religion how
do you I like I like what you said you
know um I heard you I don't know more
than one time I I love that line that
always seek guidance from him go down in
the ground and prostrate because if
Allah guides you no one can take you
astray even if the whole world gather
that's simple simple so that's it start
start right now if you're right now
right now you know you're just not happy
just you know Have No Reservations in
your heart whatever way you show to me
oh Allah I will follow it this is the
first commitment that you should make
whatever whatever way even if it is the
way of the Muslims I will follow it make
that vow make that commitment and beg
him every day every night uh go down
like Jesus peace be upon himam did on
your forehead and ask him you cannot
imagine a lot of people who accepted
Islam they told me they done this they
told me they done this at night they
would be crying and weeping and they are
so distressed
depressed they are about to kill
themselves and they bro break in tears
and when you're at that stage you really
feel that connection between you and
Allah subhana wa tala and they go down
in their forehead and they they they
prostrate and they request guide me I
want you I want that's what you need to
do that's the first initial step the
first initial then after that if it is
the way of Islam which it is no question
about it then begin
learning read but begin
learning pure monotheism no Allah is
that is the first requirement that you
need to know don't get indulged in all
these details of the religion you're
going to be distracted get to know your
lord get to know who Allah is and this
is what the messenger did with his s for
13 years
as narrates that all what when from the
Quran is who Allah is Jenna and Hell 13
years that's what you need to learn but
of course they still have to pray and
I'm not saying that they they're going
to put Salah aside no that's not what
I'm saying but knowledge should be
focused here knowing who Allah is know
the basics how to
pray the Salah and so forth now from
there carry on and take it easy you see
a big obstacle in the faces of those who
accept Islam that they look at the
package in its totality and they think
they cannot do it and that's why Shan
plays in them are you going to do all of
this this is not going to work you see
what Allah subhana wa tala wants from
you is to believe in him and make a full
commitment in your heart that you will
submit to him no reservation and
then strive strive if you fall short oh
Allah forgive me I can do this oh Allah
help me to do this if you fall into a
sin oh Allah forgive me and work build
build that's how it goes make strives
each and every day but don't give up
road map Road M mapam is that road map
yes and at the end Jenna that's it
Paradise thank you very much we're out
of time thank you very much again May
the creator of the heavens and earth
reward you sh thank you and that's the
first simple step that you can start
with because if you're on Xanax if
you're on
anti-depressants and if you're looking
for love in all the wrong places with
that beer bottle you know that
something's missing so start break down
shed one tear or many if you have to but
ask the Creator earnestly to guide you
humble yourself because death is a
reality and when it approaches it's too
late and then all that stuff that's been
numbing your mind all that music and
entertainment that takes you away from
reality but when death comes then you're
in the reality and then it's too late
Hellfire or paradise and did you work
hard for Paradise you worked hard for
that paycheck you didn't get it for free
so Paradise is not for free you got to
strive in this this life to be the best
that you can be and you need the
blueprint you need the game plan and you
got to get it from the one who created
mankind that's the one God so start to
ask him do that simple that's the
homework right now start to ask the
Creator your maker my maker the one who
made everything in this universe for
guidance and give us a call 1800 662
Islam we'll see you next time until then
peace be with you