alhamdulillah Alum peace be with you
thank you for tuning in to another
episode of the dean show it's Christmas
time is that time of the year and we are
excited to bring you another show and
Christmas it has some connotations to
Christ We Believe In Christ we love
Christ Christ simply means the Messiah
in Hebrew Messi this is Jesus Jesus the
Messiah we love him he's so dear to our
heart and this holiday revolves around
him so we want to help our brothers in
humanity understand the Muslim Viewpoint
and we also want Muslims to understand
Christmas a little bit better so we're
going to be here with our next guest Dr
seil here on the dean show don't go
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allum peace be with with you you too
brother thank you for finding the time
to be with us to talk about this very
important topic Christmas it involves
Jesus who we love respect one of the
mightiest messengers of God no muslim is
a Muslim unless you believe in Jesus
some people are like well then why
aren't you guys celebrating Christmas
with us why why are we covering this
topic it's a very important topic
because it revolves around Jesus Christ
peace be upon him who we love admire and
respect so it's a very important topic
that not only we should speak about
Jesus Christ in the Quran we should
examine the teachings of Jesus from the
biblical point of view and from
historical point of you so we could
present a better picture to our audience
inshallah now many people are in the
holiday spirit you know they're shopping
they're celebrating and many people
aren't thinking like really what's
Christmas all about many people believe
as you know that Jesus was born on this
day many people believe that he's God
you know we love as I said you know we
are not trying to offend anybody we just
want people to understand things a
little bit better because some people
are just going with the flow and they're
not really investigating these things or
looking into them so many Muslims are
also saying what's the problem we love
Jesus why don't we just celebrate
Christmas too so let's talk a little bit
about the origins and the history from
the Bible and also from history itself
and kind of just give people an educated
response to where Christmas came from
wonderful wonderful let me ask you this
question and the audience are going to
be asked this
question name this person who was born
more than 2,000 years ago who is
considered as God by some people and as
a mediator and he was born on the 25th
of
December now people are going to say
that who is this person if I if I
mention these uh attributes of this
person considered as God born on the
25th of December taken as a mediator who
would this person be born 2,000 years
ago people would say automatically now
that that is Jesus our brothers in
humanity would say that that's Jesus and
what if I say that the answer is wrong
well then we can say produce your proof
all right wonderful now according to
encyclopedia
britanica in uh the ancient times there
used to be a person who was called as
MRA the Persians the Romans the Greeks
the Egyptians they used to believe in
this person that he was God he was the
son of God that he was born on the 25th
of
December so this was a very prominent
faith when Christianity was developing
around the middle eastern region and
they were migrating to Egypt and to the
Greek and the Roman Empire so it so
happened that as Christians the
disciples as they went to different
places they Incorporated some of the
Pagan beliefs of the Romans and the
Greeks and the Egyptians so that is how
the 25th of December was attached to as
the birth of Jesus that is how Jesus
Christ a human being as a prophet was
taken as a God and a son of God and as a
mediator so Christianity it Incorporated
the beliefs of the Pagan and the
polytheistic cultures as it was
expanding so are you telling us now that
in no way there's evidence that Jesus
peace be upon him was born on this day
correct so according to encyclopedia
britanica that's a very U valid very Au
authoritative Source according to that
Source it says that neither the mention
of the 25th of December is there in the
Bible nor the disciples they celebrated
on the 25th of
December so that's a fact that's a fact
according to encyclopedia britanica and
if you go to the Bible
itself thousands of pages and thousands
of
there's not a single mention in there
about the 25th of December as the birth
of Jesus in fact it says that when
Joseph when he moved from um from to uh
Judea and Bethlehem with his uh you know
future wife Mary Mother of Jesus peace
be upon
her she gave birth and around that time
the
Shepherds they were going at night to
tend their flock of sheep this is
mentioned in the chapter of uh Luke
chapter 2 verse number 4 to verse number
8 so now a question would be if
shepherds are going out on the 25th of
December or around that time what is the
temperature around that
time according to weather
online.com the temperature in the
December in the last week of December it
goes to around freezing degrees and
Shepherds they don't go they don't go
out in that kind of a
temperature so according to britanica
encyclopedia britanica and according to
the biblical sources Jesus Christ was
not born on the 25th of December now the
next question that arises comes to my
mind that is
okay Jesus you said that Christians
believe that Jesus was God celebrating
Jesus's birth so are people trying to
say that God had a beginning and that
God was born because if Jesus was God
then
God has certain attributes right so God
was born is this what they're exposing
to well I mean I hope all of you agree
up there that one of the attributes of
God is he is eternal that means he's
neither born never going to die don't
have parents doesn't have any kids or
children so if someone is saying that
God is born that means uh they're just
going against the fundamental belief of
the Eternal nature of God in fact if you
if you go back to the Greeks and the
Romans they used to have Gods who were
born right for example hercus the son of
Zas the god of the Greeks he was born on
the 25th of December he also along with
Mithra so you mentioned one Pagan God
now another Pagan God whose name is
again uh hercus the son of Ze okay so
which one is it is it mythra
oraculus then to complicate the picture
beus the light god of the Romans he was
born on the 25th of December now people
can Google this or they can go to the
encyclopedia banic and and these facts
not fiction they can go investigate this
of course of course not my opinion go
back to the authoritative secular
sources you will find these things so
again we come back to the same uh to the
same notion that as Christianity was
spreading to different parts of the
world they Incorporated many different
ideologies of the foreign cultures
including the 25th of December as the
birth of
Jesus let's hold off right there we're
going to take a break and we'll be right
back with more discussing Christmas the
origins here with Dr seil on The Dean
show we'll be right
back go down and take the books put the
books in front of you and read them read
the Quran don't be
afraid the question is about whether
Muslims are or not good citizens the
Constitution defines what a good citizen
is and the pramer says we the people of
the United States in order to form a
more perfect union to establish justice
ensure domestic tranquility to many
Muslim that can say that is a good
Muslim and most Muslims can say that
most Muslims will Embrace that most
Muslims are good Americans back here on
the dean show talking about Christmas
Christmas is right around the corner and
we talked about you gave some facts
about Christmas and Jesus definitely not
being born on that day and definitely
that there are links connecting it back
to the Pagan God Mithra her aculus the
third one was bakus bakus these were all
gods at the time that the Romans used to
worship they used to worship I mean
obviously at one time in history they
may be just human beings then later on
people attributed them to you know
Divinity godship but apparently they
were all born in the 25th of December
according to history right so um yeah
Santa Claus now you know we're all told
that this uh guy big heavy guy fat guy
is going to come down to triny give you
some gift gifts and etc etc what about
this where where does this come from
again according to the encyclopedia
again uh there used to be a saint called
Saint Nicholas in Denmark 300 years
after Jesus Christ peace be upon Him
supposedly he was a good Saint giving uh
gifts to the
kids when he died on the December 6th
people people started to you know
recognize his uh day of his death and
they started to give gifts again each
year on that day later on Queen Victoria
she changed that day of December 6th to
the night of 24th of
December right so from that point on
everyone is now kind of celebrating
their day and you know you have Santa
Claus in the mall and everyone is
waiting for you know praying that he
could bring their gifts that he could
hear your prayer he knows if you're a
good kid or a bad kid so that is how
that custom cames you know came into
Christianity very important thing would
be we are shifting again from God to a
person called Santa Claus we are
attributing we we are giving him the
attributes of God saying that he will
know all the 7 billion people in the
world who is good and who is bad that
means we are telling that this person is
all no
instead of asking from God we asking
from this person called St Nicholas or
St
AA so it may have began as a you know
benign as a fun way of you know
recognizing St Nicholas but again we are
diluting the monistic belief of Jesus
Christ and shifting it to a human being
and giving him those attributes of God
so not everything that's fun necessarily
is good good you have to cross reference
and check to make sure it's pleasing to
the creator of the heavens and earth now
when you start giving attributes of the
one Creator the one creator that Jesus
called us to worship you start saying
this man is all knowing you know he's
the person that you're basically giving
one of the attributes that only belong
to the Creator the same creator that
Jesus called people to worship that one
God now you're setting up a partner next
to him right that's what's happening
unfortunately and it's based on a lie
too it's based on you know that you know
uh is based on a lie and there's some
some uh people that will say no no I'm
not going to you know lie to my kids
because tomorrow when I really want to
tell them about God they're going to say
well you told me this fairy tale and now
you want to tell me about the truth
they're not going to accept it of course
you know according to the Quran
according to the Bible and according to
just you know us human beings we know
that lying is wrong yeah doesn't matter
for what reason that we doing it it's
plain and black you know it's just wrong
to lie so if you're just saying that you
know Santa Claus is going to come and
bring you you know through the chimney
these gifts and you know let's uh hold
on and when they wake up on the 25th
they have all of these gifts and the
parents will say these were brought by
Santa Claus all of those things
obviously you know we as parents and we
as human beings we should refrain from
yeah and this holiday around you know uh
Santa Claus and all of that it goes into
that uh that aspect of Lies yeah so we
hope we're not hurting anyone's feelings
and for the kids who who believe this so
long respect your parents be good to
your parents and the one who brings good
is the creator of the heavens and earth
so do good because God rewards good
isn't that better indeed indeed the
Christmas tree let's talk about this
where does this come from did uh does
this have any rence re uh any um proof
for it in the Bible was this something
that Jesus he told the people to do okay
when it comes to the Christmas trees and
almost all the Christians who are out
there with some exceptions and that 200
million in the USA by the way and 2.1
billion in the world they celebrate
Christmas with the Christmas tree they
bring it out from the forest or they buy
it from you know people who bring it out
from the forest they decorate it they
put the gifts in there and that becomes
like a symbol of Christmas in the USA
close to 40 million Christmas trees are
sold each year 40 40 million 40 million
mhm each Christmas tree it cost about
$50 it's a billion doll industry when we
look at the fact that they are close to
49 million fellow Americans of ours who
don't have enough to eat 44 million
people our fellow Americans who don't
have
insurance and about 15 million Americans
they don't have job they're
unemployed right so when you look into
this context and we celebrate with the
Christmas tree on the top of it
Jesus Christ peace be upon him and or or
his disciples never had anything to do
with that
tree in fact in the Old Testament there
is a verse The Book of Jeremiah in the
Old Testament chapter 10 I think you're
going to see this now go ahead chapter
10 verse number three and verse number
four the god of the Bible he says in the
Old Testament that the customs of the
people they are worthless this is in the
Bible God is saying yes that the customs
of the people they are worthless they go
to the forest they chop down a tree they
bring it home and a crafts men it chisel
he he he chisel the tree and then they
decorate the tree sounds like the
Christmas tree that's the Christmas tree
so God of the Bible is condemning the
practice of the Christmas tree who my
dear fellow Christians out there they
are celebrating Christmas with that
Christmas tree but if they go back to
the Old Testament and look at the
Commandments of God this is one of The
Commandments that God has
forbidden now now someone's like look
you guys you Muslims you Muslims you
always trying to mess up our good time
you know I was just about to have some
eggnog with some spice of vodka and
we're going to celebrate families coming
together we got all these uh gifts and
that why are you guys messing up why are
you guys talking about this we're just
trying to have a good time how would you
respond to this well my my response to
that wonderful intention of our fellow
Christians would be the focus of our
life is not a tree it's not a man it is
God so anything that we do and we should
do should revolve around God so when we
look at the teachings of Jesus Christ
peace be upon him he always was calling
people to the worship of one God and to
obey the Commandments of
God so if you look at from that angle
yes we may be having fun but could still
have a nice benign fun without excessive
spending uh without involving into any
Innovations without uh without you know
all of the drinking and the dancing and
all the things uh immoral things
sometimes that may come about in these
kind of
celebrations and the main thing is that
Jesus peace be upon him as a fact was
not born on this day he never called
people to worship him on his day nor did
he ever call people to worship him or to
set up any kind of partner with him he
called people to worship the one unseen
Creator the same God that we worship the
same God that Jesus worshiped and this
is what basically Islam is call God is
calling us to do to live to live that
and to revive that in our lives in fact
according to the Quran chapter 51 verse
number 56 that the only purpose that God
has created humans and Gins is that we
should worship
Him obviously worshiping the one true
God if you look at Jesus peace be upon
him his main calling of the people is
also to worship one God if you look at
the gospel of Mark 12 verse number 28
and
29 some people who they came to Jesus
Christ peace be upon him and they asked
him this very important question that of
all the Commandments which one is the
first commandment and the Jews they used
to have 6113
commandments so Jesus Christ did not
mention that the first commandment is to
believe in me as God or Son of God and
believe in the Trinity and let's do
Christmas According To Jesus peace be
upon him the first commandment he said
that here o Israel the Lord Our God he
is one Lord worship him with all your
heart with all your mind and with all
your soul and that is the first
commandment so look at this Jesus Christ
was calling people to worship one God in
the Quran chapter 3 verse number 51
Jesus Christ also
mentioned that worship your God and my
God who is Allah and that is the
straight
path if you look at the prophets of the
Old Testament prophet Abraham peace be
upon him he did not worship the Trinity
he bowed down to the one God Prophet
Moses peace be upon him in the book of
Deuteronomy chapter 6 verse number four
he said here o Israel the Lord Our God
he is one
Lord so the message of all the prophets
from the Bible and from Jesus and from
the Quran has been consistent worship
the Creator and not the creation very
simple straightforward we're going to be
right back to wrap it up here on the
de the
the no problem you can take my daughter
to dinner you and my daughter and
me let me tell you something it's
natural that's the idea God created it
and he created us to have a good time we
should have a good time only with our
wives
though Islam is the fastest growing
religion in the world and most of the
converts are women not men they see that
the rules of Islam instead of
constraining them the rules set them
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back here on the dean show and we are
talking about Christmas we talked a
little bit about the attributes of the
Creator only worshiping him and this was
the true message of Jesus and we talked
about the Pagan roots and again not to
offend anybody this is case sensitive
and we love our brothers in humanity and
we want the best for everybody so we're
talking about this because as you said
is not good enough to just have a good
intention it needs to be backed up with
knowledge to make sure that it's
pleasing to the one who created us
because ultimately that's who we want to
please the one Creator so we talked
about that let's talk about the greeting
as Muslims now you know who obviously we
love our neighbors and we live amongst
the people who we want the best for and
we should exchange gifts and we should
help our neighbors in doing good so some
Muslims they feel like hey it's their
holiday I'm not celebrating it but I'll
wish the best to them Merry Christmas to
you too and a Happy New Year and all the
other fun stuff that goes fun stuff that
goes with it and you know what I might
even get you a glass of wine I don't
drink it the crown says not to drink
wine but you know what I'm not drinking
it I'll get you a glass of wine because
you're my neighbor and I love you how
what do you have you met some Muslims
like this well in fact you know that's
very unfortunate that our fellow uh
Muslims sometimes they also get in the
spirit of this Christmas which is not
bad if you're are acknowledging Jesus
Christ peace be upon him as a prophet
and trying to follow his teachings which
is submitting to one God which is fine
however when we are giving Christians
our Christian friends a bottle of wine
on Christmas and I have seen some some
people doing that unfortunately just to
please them and just to acknowledge that
we also are with you they go out of the
way and they give something which is
forbidden you know to give the wine so
in Islam to drink to make and to give
they're all forbidden about wine and
alcohol and intoxicants some Muslims
unfortunately because they see all of
their Christian friends and you know
having all of this fun they bring a
small tree and they tell their kids you
know this is uh we're also celebrating
the birth of Jesus that is also wrong
because Prophet Muhammad peace be upon
him who is appointed as the last and the
final prophet and he's been mentioned in
chapter 33: number 21 as the best
example to follow he never celebrated
his birthday Jesus Christ never
celebrated his birthday neither any of
neither any of the prophets so if you
are going to follow all the prophets we
have to follow their ideology we have to
follow their
actions right so when we meet our
Christian friends yes we acknowledge
that this is your holiday but we love
you just like we love our own uh
brothers and sisters out of this love we
would like to correct you or educate you
about the message of Jesus and about the
message especially of Islam because
isn't it true now if you as a Muslim or
you now as a Christian you say well
Christians do believe this some many
don't all right you know many people
just slide in on Sundays and they just
go with the flow this is what our
fathers did but when you explain it to
them they're like you know what this
doesn't make sense the whole Trinity God
having a son God being a man these
things are confusing so now the Muslims
when they say okay Merry Christmas
aren't you acknowledging now that God
had a son you're acknowledging this
Trinity and this is something that in
the Quran in the verbatim word of God
this is something that is definitely a
no no yeah it's it's very much true when
Muslims when they greet back with the
greeting of you know Merry Christmas
they are acknowledging or they are
legitimizing the the sunship of Jesus or
the Divinity of Jesus or the Triune
ideology of Christianity what Muslims
could say likewise would be when they
are greeted with merry Christmas they
could say happy holidays and they could
again mention we love Jesus we honor and
respect him in fact our book which is
the Quran sent by God to Prophet
Muhammad peace be upon him as a guidance
for all of humanity it mentions Jesus
many times with respect and his message
is mentioned here as the message of
Oneness of God so we Muslims we should
convey to our fellow
Christians that Christianity is a faith
about Jesus and Islam is a faith of
Jesus so if anyone out there and all the
Christians I know they love Jesus should
you not be following the faith of Jesus
and the faith of Jesus or the ideology
of Jesus according to the old test
according to the New Testament according
to the Quran is to submit and worship
the one Creator so if you love Jesus
follow his faith the faith of Jesus was
not Christianity it was Islam so it's a
good opportunity for us now to engage
and to educate to talk to people about
the one who's beloved to our hearts
Jesus peace be upon him who know Muslim
is a Muslim unless we believe in Jesus
but in no way do acknowledge that he was
born on this day that he was God that he
was a literal Son of God God doesn't
have children he doesn't have daughters
he doesn't have DNA he doesn't have
these attributes that human beings have
he doesn't have a mother a father this
is not God this is what human beings do
so this is a good chance to talk to them
and to prove to them that look you know
we're on the same page we love Jesus but
nowhere did Jesus ever called people to
worship him so let's move a little bit
further and do what you were talking
about let's do what Jesus wanted us to
do and that's to worship the one God not
to worship anyone besides God or set up
a partner with God because this is
something that obviously God did not
sanction and a person is going to earn
the displeasure of God yes because we
have to die one day when we are standing
in front of God on the day of
judgment our parents our uh Church our
environment our friends they cannot come
and save us on the day of judgment when
God is going to ask us on the day of
judgment what did you believed in did
you receive the message of the Oneness
of God it will be too late for any one
of us to come back to this life again
and start submitting to the one Creator
so it's very important that we should
not get distracted by our family friends
environment just because they're doing
something we should not jump on the
bandwagon and start doing that God has
given each single one of a wonderful
mind we should use it examine the
history examine the scriptures and
especially try to read the Quran which
is the last verbum word of God and if
you do that one simple message comes
very clear that God created Adam and Eve
gave them one core message submit to God
the same message was given to all the
prophets including Prophet Muhammad
peace be upon him and that message
submission to one God in Arabic language
it means
Islam so if you want to follow an
ideology of Jesus and Moses and Abraham
and all the prophets of God and peace
and Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him
follow their ideology their ideology was
submit only to one God which equals
Islam simple and straightforward and how
if people want to get a hold of you and
you know if they have some questions
about this say you know I think you got
it wrong and they want to talk with you
and dialogue with you and um you know uh
hook up with you how can they get a hold
of you okay wonderful uh on behalf of
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the truth and the truth is worship the
Creator and not the
creation thank you very much may God
Almighty the Creator reward you we hope
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asalam alikum peace be upon all of youum
and that was it for another episode of
the dean show Islam says to Islam Islam
says love all mankind and inside of the
love because we love our brothers and
Humanity that we want to deliver and
educate people with the truth and you
have gotten to see the orent of
Christmas and you've got to learn that
Muslims love love Jesus peace be upon
them and it's always been one sender one
recipient the one Creator sent the
message to one Mankind and it wasn't
religions it's always been one religion
one way of life and that way of life has
been to have a direct connection a
relationship with the one who created
you to submit yourself entirely
wholeheartedly to the one God the same
God that Jesus called all of us to
submit to nowhere did ever as we talked
about did Jesus ever call people to
worship him he never never expressed
that but he always expressed that you
love the Creator that you worship the
Creator and you never set up a partner
with the Creator and that's the message
of Islam Islam has been there since time
and Memorial so why don't you get to
know Islam get to know your Muslims call
us 1800 662 Islam and until next time
peace be unto you