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all praise is due to Allah we praise him
we seek his help and we ask for his
forgiveness and we take refuge with
Allah from the evil of ourselves and
from the evil consequence of our evil
actions whomsoever Allah guides none can
misguide and whomsoever Allah leaves to
go astray there is none to guide and I
testify that Allah alone is worthy of
worship and that Muhammad s wasam is the
messenger of Allah and his true
worshipper my dear listeners brothers
and sisters in Islam brothers and
sisters in humanity today I am going to
be embarking
on a journey a journey to take you
through a very amazing and interesting
topic and that is the proof that Islam
is the truth and that really is what I'm
going to be trying to show to you over
the next series of programs that we can
prove that Islam truly is the religion
that has been revealed by Allah the
creator of the heavens and the Earth for
the guidance and the the benefit of all
of humanity now before of course we
actually go into the main topic itself I
would like to spend a little bit of time
dealing with what may seem to be
periphery issues but they're very
important I want to talk about what is
proof what is faith when I say we can
prove that Islam is the truth what do I
mean by that some people would already
look at that as a type of oxymoron how
can you prove a faith to be true isn't
Faith supposed to be something that you
believe without proof isn't that what
the meaning of faith is so I want to
examine that what is the meaning of
faith and what is the meaning of
proof but first of all I would like to
mention an Ayah of the Quran the Ayah of
the Quran is actually is not only one
Ayah it is something that is repeated
again and again in the Quran so the
Quran tells us
say if what you claim is true bring your
proof bring your evidence bring your
proof If you are making a claim about
Allah if you are making a claim about
anything in fact what is upon you and
what is an obligation upon you is to
bring your ban your proof your
evidence and this is something that
Allah T mentions many many different
times in in the Quran in other words it
is not enough just to make a claim you
have to prove your claim and this is
something that the prophet Muhammad s.
wasam He also mentioned that the proof
is upon the claimant the person who is
making a claim has to prove it because
otherwise we would claim the blood and
the property of each other and this is
the reality so I'm sure that every
single one of you is familiar with with
this in your daily life for example if
someone comes around to check your
electricity meter or to check your gas
meter if you have such a thing or your
water meter if you have such a thing
then that person will usually be wearing
a uniform or they will usually carry an
identity card if that person came
knocking at your door dressed like
someone from the Hell's Angels motorbike
club with you know long hair and I don't
know a leather jacket and with the you
know love and hate tattooed on his fist
you I don't think you would be letting
that person in your house rather you
would say you know what you stay right
where you are cuz you're not coming in
my house and checking out my house and
seeing what's in there because what you
thinking oh this person is now going to
come this person's going to rob me this
person's going to come in my house and
steal every so if someone's coming to
check the utility bills you want to see
an ID you want to see the person wearing
a uniform before you let that person
person in your house in other words you
want some type of evidence that that
person is who they claim to be similarly
in another example if I said today for
example all these studios here they
don't belong to peace TV they belong to
me they belong to abdurahim green and
this is my place and you guys get out
I'm in charge of here now no one's going
to take me
seriously if I go to court and I want to
make a claim about something if I want
to claim some place belongs to me or
some property belongs to me then I have
to bring evidence I have to bring proof
I can't just say well what's my proof I
believe it I have faith you know that's
not good enough no one accepts that type
of thing in everyday
life so why should it be any different
when it comes to religion in fact if you
think about it the issues in religion
are even more important than these
worldly issues whether this place
belongs to me or belongs to peace TV
whether someone robs my house or
not is very insignificant compared to
the consequences of what any religion is
saying because religion is talking about
the purpose of our whole life religion
is talking not only about the purpose of
this life but what is going to happen to
us in the Life to Come The
Eternity so therefore is it enough that
someone just comes along and makes a
claim someone just says oh God says this
God says that you should believe this
you should believe that surely The
Logical approach to anyone who makes a
claim about God is bring your evidence
if what you say is true and this is what
allaha tells the Muslims to say for
example if a Christian comes to us and
makes a claim about God that Jesus is
God or he is the Son of God or the Bible
is from God well bring your proof If
what you say is true and this is the
same for anybody about anything but it's
only a matter of time before a person is
going to say well you know you Muslims
you claim your religion is from God you
claim your religion is from the Creator
well you bring your proof If what you
say is true and in fact really that's
just what we're waiting for because
we'll be more than happy to furnish and
to provide the proof to show that Islam
is the truth and that's what we're going
to be hoping to do inshallah tala over
May with the will of God over the next
few programs and that is to really show
some and to give a bit of insight into
some of the
evidences that we can have and that we
can show in order to illustrate and to
show that Islam really is the religion
that has been revealed by Allah the
creator of the heavens and the Earth and
I say bring evidences because if you
open the dictionary and you look at the
dictionary evidence or the dictionary
description of proof proof actually is a
collection of evidences and when you get
enough evidence
then you could say that that thing is
proven to be true because of course on a
philosophical level we could say you
can't really prove
absolutely anything in an absolute sense
you can't prove anything there is always
I suppose a type of room for a little
bit of Doubt however small there is
always a potential for some type of
doubt and so what we really mean here
when we say we're going to prove that
Islam is the truth what we hope to do is
to provide so much
evidence that a person will not really
have any reasonable cause to doubt that
thing it's rather like a court it's
rather like when you go to court for
example now in the UK for example we
have a jewry system that means that when
a particular case goes before the court
the jury makes a decision based upon the
evidence in front of them and that's
what they should do they shouldn't be
looking or what is the color of this
person's skin they shouldn't be looking
at whether this person is beautiful or
ugly they shouldn't be looking at
whether this person is Rich or poor no
the way that it should be done is that
people should look at the evidence and
they should look at it dispassionately
and they should look at it clearly from
a type of intellectual un bigoted point
of view and So based upon the evidence
they make a verdict they have to make a
verdict guilty or not guilty now
ultimately that verdict has to be made
ultimately that decision has to be made
is the person guilty or not guilty and
that in a sense is what I want to move
on to is the actual what we could call
Faith what is Faith what do we mean by
faith Faith exactly because for some
people as I've mentioned isn't it an
oxymoron proving Faith isn't Faith
supposed to be something that you just
believe well that's what we're going to
look into isn't Faith something you just
believe or is it something that can
actually be proven in some way okay
brothers and sisters we're going to take
a break
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salam alaikum brothers and sisters
welcome back to the proof that Islam is
the truth and today we are talking about
what is proof and what is Faith and can
we prove a religion to be true now let's
go back to the issue of
Faith what do we mean by
faith now let's take an example one of
the things I often ask people is do you
believe that spins on its axis and goes
round the sun in
365 days and most people I ask they say
yes we believe that we do believe that's
true I said Do you believe it 100% are
you absolutely sure do you really
believe it they say yes we believe it
we're sure it's true it's a fact it's
what they call a fact then I say okay
prove it and it's very interesting how
many times I get complete blank
Expressions because although most of us
believe that the Earth spins on its axis
and goes around the Sun in 365 days if
we were actually asked to prove it then
most of us not be able to do that that
doesn't mean that we don't believe this
thing based upon some good reasons
and of course the reasons that we
believe that is because well for example
the scientific communities scientists
have examined certain things they've
come up with certain theories and they
have made certain observations So based
upon those theories and those
observations of those theories in
practice and so many scientists have
observed this thing so many times then
they consider it to be a fact they
consider it to be something that is
proven to be true but of course most of
us ourselves couldn't really prove it we
wouldn't really know what exactly is the
evidence we might have some type of idea
but we have faith in the scientific
Community we have faith in science
because well look at what science has
done what look what science has produced
so there are many reasons that we might
have faith in something and this is a
type of faith it is a faith in science
and it's a faith in the teachings of
science it's maybe not what we're used
to in terms of religious Faith but it's
still a belief it is still a type of
faith and therefore when it comes to
Islam when it comes to the teachings of
Islam when it comes to our topic here
the proof that Islam is the truth the
evidences that we can accumulate to know
that Islam is the divine revelation from
Allah then what we are really talking
about here is this type of Faith it's
the same type of faith that you have
when you go to a doctor and you know you
put your faith and your trust in the
doctor and you know he examines you and
he looks at you and you believe that
because he's the doctor you trust him
because he's the doctor because he's
studied because he's got knowledge you
trust and you believe that his diagnosis
is going to be accurate and is based
upon some information and so this is the
type of faith that we are talking about
in Islam we don't mean when we talk
about faith in Islam when we talk about
belief when we talk about Iman we don't
mean believing something unbelievable
without any evidence no what we mean in
Islam is we are asking you Allah is
asking you to believe something entirely
believable that there is one God that
this universe has one Creator and if you
watch my previous series of programs
about the proof of the existence of God
which I do encourage you to refer to as
an essential part of this then you'll be
familiar with what I'm talking about so
we are asking you the Islam is asking
you to believe that there is one God and
to believe that God has sent guidance
Ence to a human being Muhammad may God's
peace and blessings be upon him and that
God has given some evidences through
which and by which any reasonable
rational person can come to know that
Islam is truly the religion that has
been revealed by the creator of the
heavens and the Earth for the benefit of
all the human beings and so that is what
we are going to be touching upon over
this series these evidences what are
they now some of these evidences are
rational proofs that are connected to
what we've already talked about in
previous series about the existence of
God but we're not going to be repeating
that what we're going to be going
through is some of the miraculous
aspects of the Quran we'll be talking
about what exactly is a miracle what do
we mean by a miracle exactly what place
does it have in this process of proving
and understanding that something is from
God and we'll be going through those
things to discuss and to understand uh
these evidences finally I would really
like to finish with a Surah from the
Quran and
it's where Allah subhana tala says
never so never will those people
from the from the people of the book all
the all the people who are making with
Allah they are making partners with
Allah whether it is the idol worshippers
or the atheists or the pagans or whoever
they will never leave off their
disbelief they're not going to leave off
their disbelieving in Allah and they're
not following Allah's guidance until
there comes to them a
until it comes to them the clear
evidence so this is Allah is telling us
something really about the nature of
people people need evidence they need
proof they need something to make
them realize and understand that this
thing or such and such thing is true and
what is that
proof a prophet a messenger from Allah
so this is one thing
the prophet Muhammad s. wasallam himself
is of course one of the clear evidences
that Islam is the truth and actually we
talked about this already in a previous
series of lectures so we won't be
repeating
that and that means that he is bringing
purified pages and this here is a
reference to of course the Quran and
that is something that we're going to be
talking about we're going to be talking
about the Quran this is of course the
great miracle that Allah has given to
the prophet Muhammad s. wasam the
Quran and that means with like the laws
that are clear and that are obvious so
this is the other thing it is the
guidance of Islam the guidance of the
Quran the the laws that are there in the
religion of Islam this is another whole
topic my dear brothers and sisters that
we're going to be exploring some of the
beautiful aspects of the religion of
Islam the Muslim way of life how we can
examine it and how this way of life
itself is a type of proof and an
evidence that it is from Allah subhah
waala so these are some of the areas
that we are going to be examining we're
going to be talking about the Quran
we're going to be talking about the
preservation of the Quran the
memorization of the Quran some of the
miraculous aspects of the Quran for
example the amazing scientific facts
that are contained in the Quran the
historical
information the facts that there are
concerning historical events that no one
could have known 1,400 years ago also
the Prophecies of the Quran and the
prophecies of the Prophet Muhammad
sallallah alaihi wasallam some things
the Quran tells us about the future and
things that the prophet Muhammad
sallallah alai wasallam told us about
the future things that he said were
going to happen and they happened
exactly how the prophet sallallah alai
wasallam said it would happen also we're
going to be talking about the Miracles
of the Prophet sallallah alai wasallam
the amazing things that were done by the
prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam in
addition of course to the miraculous
nature of the Quran its linguistic
miraculous nature uh the beauty of the
Quran and other amazing facts about the
Quran also we will be talking about the
witnessing of the people of the book
this is one of the very strong evidences
that many people
from from the scholars of the Jews and
the Christians have recognized that
Muhammad s. wasallam he is the messenger
of Allah so inshallah we will be
mentioning some of those
evidences that have been used from the
Bible to show that the prophet sallallah
alai wasam has been foretold in their
scriptures and also we'll be talking
about the stories of some of those
people like Abdullah IB Salam one of the
Jewish rabbis of Medina and of course
the famous story of of Salman Al Farsi
which is very very instructive in that
regard so we'll be talking about some of
those things which is a very very
interesting uh aspect which is another
series of evidences and that's what we
say we're going to bring these evidences
together the miraculous nature of the
Quran the linguistic Miracle of the
Quran the scientific statements the
historical statements the witnessing of
the people of the book The Prophecies of
the Prophet Muhammad s. wasam really in
fact if we looked at any single one of
these items own they would be really
unique and amazing but really when we
begin to combine them and we begin to
gather them all together we can see that
really we have so many evidences to
amass from so many different angles to
show that really our claim is not just a
claim it is not just something we are
saying based upon just Faith as people
understand it I believe it no really
there are many many good strong reasons
to believe that Islam is exactly what it
claims to be the Revelation from Allah
the creator of the heavens and the Earth
for the benefit of all of humanity and
as something I would like to really add
maybe it's not exactly part of our topic
but I would like to add it is that
evidence is very important for us as
Muslims whatever you do as a Muslim
whatever you believe as a Muslim
whatever you practice as a Muslim it
should be based upon evidence our
religion is not based upon guesswork
it's not based upon what I think or what
I imagine or upon some cultures or some
traditions that we may follow being a
Muslim is supposed to be based upon
following the evidence and the evidence
means what the Quran says and what the
prophet Muhammad s. wasam says so my
brothers and sisters we'll look forward
to you in our next program to continue
with this in exciting discussion