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alhamdulillah
alhamdulillah usually I just go right
into the program but I couldn't help but
here the mentioned of someone I know
very well who happened to be there when
I made Shahar in 1991 she Muhammad
jabali who he just was talking about
actually lives in Medina now but he when
he was doing his
degree work in Texas he was there in
Arlington Texas and that particular M
right there was in those days the only
one we had so that happens to be the
same place where I did Shahar and he is
a great guy since then alhamdulillah
we've shared the podium a number of
times together he's uh also
formerly the head of the uh qss the
Quran and Sunnah Society in the United
States if you ever heard of it and they
still have a website up so it's a good
guy and you can get some of his stuff is
on one of our websites called watch
islam.com
so the topic tonight what we want to
talk about is a subject that I think is
probably at least to some
extent a valid topic to every one of us
it's a subject of responding or being
able to answer the harsh attacks and the
criticisms that are coming toward Islam
the
Muslims the prophet sallallah Ali
wasallam and every aspect of
Islam and I don't mean by
this clearing up misconceptions this is
another subject I'm talking about people
who are intentionally attacking Islam or
people who are following those who are
intentionally attacking
Islam now how many of you speak Arabic
call Arabia how
many about half alhamdulillah this is
good because you'll understand this very
quick if I talk to you about those who
are Arab Christians and
Jews then you quickly you know exactly
what I'm talking about but I will
mention to you now something from the
Quran and this is for all of us to think
about when Allah
says you hear this in the in
the or speech that we have every Friday
along with some of the other ay of the
Quran but the the meaning behind it is
very
powerful that Allah is telling the
Believers to have ta for Allah but then
always we have to say the truth
throughout the Quran you see there's
this comparison between truth and
falsehood truth and falsehood even in
the translations you cannot help but
pick it
up the H and the
ble when someone is speaking the truth
or if somebody is a liar these things
are constantly coming up over and over
and over throughout the Quran from the
beginning up until the very
end
even at the very last Surah of the
Quran when Allah subhana wa ta'ala is
talking about the
wias and the wias coming inside your
heart from the gin and Mankind and
certainly you don't think he's wising
the truth to you so obviously you can
see this from the beginning from the
very beginning and all the way through
the Quran the subject of Truth and
falsehood being on the HW or are being
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elsewhere you know and I
know that
Islam is the only answer it's the only
solution there isn't an option really to
go to to look at anything
else and as Muslim we realize the value
of telling the truth and everything we
do
anyway we don't see any benefit in line
even a temporary benefit isn't really
there
we know that you have to tell the truth
even if it's against yourself your
family you know the truth is the truth
and you have to say the truth and this
is what one of the great things that
makes us Muslim is that we know what the
truth is and this is what
we operate off of this is how we
function is from the standpoint of the
truth how critical is it to us when
somebody talks about the Quran and the
Quran is coming to us today from
a
or for how many uh centuries but it's
still exactly the same today as it was
when it was revealed this is I
mean if I don't understand that I don't
even understand what's the Quran right
you got to understand this is a basic
thing the Quran is not changed meaning
what that means that every time people
said it they said it exactly exactly the
way it was in other words they didn't
add to or take away
from it's exactly the same this is why
sometime you hear people when they say
Allah is H well that's his name of H the
dean is H it's the truth the Quran is H
and Prophet sallam is of course on the H
so this H or truth absolute
truth
is we take it for granted
this is why when they want to compare
their books whatever they
have we're not going to accept
that we listen to them out of politeness
we listen out of
curiosity but never would we be able to
accept even the first verse when they
start to recite it especially if you've
heard the Bible in Arabic anybody heard
the Bible in
Arabic I left
it in the room in the hotel I wanted to
bring it and let you hear it just wanted
to let you hear it but for whatever
reason the Lord didn't let me bring it I
didn't think about it till we were
gone but you can get it anytime you want
to look at it any hotel or
motel has right beside the bed a little
nightstand or something there you pull
the drawer
open there's a book in there what's the
book it ain't the yell Pages somebody
already beat you do that
one no it's the Bible it's put there by
the Gideon society and they're proud of
the fact that they
have translated this into 27 different
languages and they will show you that
with an example of a verse in the gospel
of St John
chapter 3:1 16 they call it John 3:16
it's the one if you've ever heard them
preach it they say for God so loved the
world and they go on from there when it
says that you find the word Allah in the
Arabic which is the second language
first one is Africans in Arabic you see
it says for Allah so loved the world so
it's very clear but when you try to read
it you're going to look at it and you're
going to
say oh it's not even correct
grammar if you know which is the Arabic
classical Arabic and you read it you're
going to
go uh who did
this you'll never be fooled not even for
a
second I was thinking actually when I
was looking at it tonight that when we
have these opportunities when we have so
many of the Arab Christians who do come
to the
programs and they want to do this
attacking thing that I was talking about
and by the way it happened in Sydney the
last time I was here really
nasty but
I thinking wouldn't it be something to
let them say okay you've got your guys
with you choose whoever you
like let him stand up and then choose
any verse you like and if you don't have
one memorized in your your language cuz
they won't here's the Bible that we
pulled out of the hotel just read that
verse for us in your best voice go
ahead then listen to this choose any one
of are guys that memorize the Quran
anybody I don't care pick the one you
like and then you go pick the verse any
verse you like from the
Quran okay then you recite well let our
guy recite and let all those who don't
know listen and see which one they
like I have no doubt what'll happen cuz
I've seen people who didn't know
anything about Islam Quran Arabic
language
nothing yet when they heard Quran all of
a sudden you see Tears start coming down
their face and maybe they'll even say
what is
that one time I was given a
lecture for the elderly in San Antonio
Texas they asked me to come and talk
about what is the Islamic perspective on
death and dying so was for old
people and in it I had recited some
Quran my voice is not all that
great and I don't claim to have a very
good you know kir of Quran but anyway
after it was over this old man come up
to me and they were all thanking me for
coming out and they're very sweet and he
said man that's the best singing I ever
heard I said singing I was
singing I didn't see anything cuz you
know I used to be a Christian and I was
a music minister so obviously I'm
thinking did I sing something but he was
talking about the
Quran so how much we've got going for us
we take it for granted let's talk about
Hadith again truth is critical to us do
we accept Hadith if somebody come in and
say hey here's a Hadith blah blah blah
blah blah and you say well I never heard
it before and the guy says I didn't
either but you know I saw it on the back
of an advertising on something and
looked like a good
Hadith so where did it come from nobody
knows but still it sounds nice you know
so let's used
it incorporated into a talk or a
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program nobody would do
that they wouldn't do it where did it
come from you don't know where it came
from what book did it come out of who
cares it sounds nice you know something
really nice
you get those probably on the internet
you get email some brother or sister
will send you something and you read it
you're
going uh this doesn't sound
right but they're telling you if you'll
pass this on to x amount of people or
somebody else got it and they you passed
it on and they got some money and the
other guy he didn't pass it on he
dropped dead the next day or something
like that you're going wait a minute I'm
definitely not going for this now this
is not
Islam doesn't work like
that we're not going to be impressed if
you come up with a Hadith especially if
there's no Arabic for
it say what's the Arabic for it nobody
knows and you don't know where it came
from I'm sorry I don't think it's a
Hadith I think you pulled it off the
internet I think you got some little
warm fuzzy that somebody sent to you and
you just put a bismah across the top and
aam alikum across the bottom and send it
out to everybody on your list I think
that's what you did yeah you know what
I'm talking about you've seen them
right
so but if somebody shows you where the
Hadith is
Inari or in sah
Muslim and you can look at it and you
said there it is right
there all of a sudden this is part of
our Dean it's not just a nice saying
it's part of our
life it's not an option to us all of a
sudden it's
real yeah
okay for the other people they don't
have
that they don't even know what that
is they've never been exposed to real
truth in in their
lives they use the
word they know there's a difference
between a lie and the truth
basically but for many even people with
education even people with degrees
people with social
status people with responsible positions
in the
world still have have trouble
differentiating between the truth and
falsehood is that right or
wrong remember
Clinton I did not you remember what he
said huh huh and when they caught him I
won't say red-handed but they had Clear
Proof and what did he say what I meant
was
did he
yeah and what about
Nixon maybe some of you too young to
remember Richard Milhouse Nixon I was
there I remember it real
well he put his hands like this he said
I am not a crook and then they proved
that he was a big
liar
what
about the one we got
now now remember I got to go back home
so I'm going to
stop for a
Muslim the truth is not just being
accurate in what you
say it also means that you're going to
be accurate in your intention to go with
it because you could be accurate real
accurate and still be
lying because you could just not say all
the
truth you could just say part of the
truth or or you can say all the truth
but not let the person understand how it
comes what it's relevant to that still
be a
lie I've never
met any other group of people I've met
individuals of course who are truthful
but I never met a group of people more
responsible for giving messages
correctly than I have with Muslims I
never saw this from other people when
somebody gives you am mana and they said
I need you to tell
Abdullah that I'm real sorry I couldn't
see him before I caught the plane I have
to go so when you see him tell him I
said now your brain is already clicking
in Abdullah he's the she is leaving he's
giving me an am and I got to remember
what he said so when you go to him
you're going to say had a message it's
am man I have to give it to you now even
if I said stuff that you don't
particularly agree with you will tell
him exactly what I said because that was
the am given to you true or false
there's no doubt about
it and I promise you that's not the case
in the rest of this society that we live
in you have no idea
really the value of the truth unless
you've lived without
it and then when it comes to you it is
sweet and it is
beautiful and those who live it speak it
and and practice it they're beautiful
people I want to mention something to
you that I've heard quite a lot of in
the last 17
years and I take exception to it and I
don't agree with it because I don't
believe it's a truth although I've heard
a lot of Muslims say
it the statement
says if you want to know
Islam you have to look to the Quran and
then Sunnah don't look at the Muslims
because if you look at the
Muslims you don't want to
know even the statement that someone
said if I would met Muslims first I
wouldn't even become a
Muslim have you heard statements like
this some of you may have fallen into
this trap this is not
true it only has some tiny truth in it
but it is not true
from a person who was not
Muslim didn't even know any
Muslims till I was in my late
40s I immediately could see the
difference between Muslims and
non-muslims on that one topic alone the
truth and how valuable it
is so I
say if you want to know what's Islam
look to the good
Muslims because if you're saying if you
said you can't find Islam like this is
some she even said it like this that he
went to Europe but when he came back he
made this statement that he found Islam
without Muslims and then when he gets
back home he finds Muslims without Islam
a very famous statement I'm not going to
say who said it doesn't matter the point
is that is not a good statement
that does more damage than it does
good in the J the IM is supposed to
admonish the community and there's no
doubt about it but he still has a
responsibility not to go too far and
that's going too far because when you do
that here's what the next thing will
happen and it has happened we find
ourselves criticizing the
Muslims for their
shortcomings and praising the
non-muslims and they don't even have the
AA to
know have you heard this happened
yeah they'll be saying oh man you know
this guy so and so he's not a Muslim but
man you know he was very good with the
business dealing we had with him and he
was and he was on time
wow and then immediately on the Muslims
they don't don't pray and they don't
fast and so on and so on and so and
without realizing it without thinking
about it you're absolutely doing the
worst thing you can do to your own
Iman you are basically throwing your
belief in the
toilet you got me it's not
good what is the order in Islam on how
to look at your brother if he makes even
a mistake
do you immediately criticize or give
excuse give him
excuse but only
once
twice
three 7 time
70 7 * 70 what do you give
one
example we see our brother Here Comes
Tark he's coming along hey man there's
tar over
there oh my
God man look he's got a can of beer in
his hand oh stuck for a
lot what's up is that a cigarette he's
got too I don't know it looks like he's
got cigarettes and beer and
everything and look where he's going man
he went he went in that place over there
with where all them women and stuff oh
wow stuck for a law man and he's always
out there in pger acting like he's some
kind oh
man next time I see somebody
anybody hey you know tar T who you know
tar I oh yeah yeah man I don't want to
say anything about anybody but you had
never seen him with any beer cans have
you or smoking or going over that place
over on such such Main street over there
and with the
huh you saw him over there I mean I
don't want to say anything but you
know I mean I got to tell the
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truth when Sheik was here from America
he told us we got to tell the truth I
got to tell you man St
for we didn't give him one
excuse what would happen what would
happen on the day of
judgment if we found that what we said
about him got spread around and other
people spread it around and it got back
and it damaged his reputation damaged
him and all he would say is Allah knows
best Allah knows best but then it comes
on us and come to find out what he was
doing there's a Hadith of s alhi
wasallam whoever clears the way for the
Believers is is getting Act of charity
for each little thing he gets rid of so
when he reaches down and picks up that
empty beer can half empty beer can and
the cigarette that was laying there
looks for the closest place to throw it
and there's a door over there you just
stick it in there throw it in the trash
and you went on his business and
you did
what oh big
problem you didn't even give him one
seats
so I want to come back now to our topic
because it's very critical for us today
in spite of what other people are doing
to us and attacking and saying on the
things that they're
saying we cannot do what they
do now this has been going on since
before I got to
Islam some of the Christians were down
in South Africa really going after their
business that's what they do this one
group that jov's Witness
there's another group called The Mormons
but job's Witnesses were down there
really pumping it up and blowing it out
talking with all their Spiel that
they've
got so some of the Muslims were taking
exception to that one of them ran across
a series of some books that were 150
years
old from one of the scholars in
India who had developed this whole thing
to respond back to those who were
converting
Muslims to
Christianity so this one he takes it and
it is good orator a good speaker and a
big guy on top of that and he
starts going after him and turning them
around in their tracks they couldn't
wait to run away from this
guy but then it turns into debates and
then it becomes like a public thing and
then it becomes like
okay half the room will be filled up
with Christians the other half will be
filled up with Muslims huh the
Christians
came sometime more Christians than the
Muslims and this was the
case down
in
Louisiana and they brought the man all
the way from South Africa to
Louisiana and they had a
debate it became very famous they made
videotape
spread it all over the
world and you know which one I'm talking
about don't you you no doubt in your
mind what I'm talking about how many of
you ever been to lafette
Louisiana huh
never I
have I've been in those little Villages
those little towns there and I've talked
to the people the Muslims and the
non-muslims
only question I had was what was your
relationship
before and after the
debate what was the relationship Muslims
and Christians before this debate it was
good better than it was between let us
say for instance the Catholics and the
Protestants because they mostly
Louisiana is Catholic they even have
Catholic law still there today it's the
only state in the United States that
does not have counties it has parishes
and parishes that are associated with
the Catholic church till this
day and they under the structure their
constitution is more on the French law
than it is on
British and again I'm going to repeat
that's in Louisiana
only so in that
state where the Muslims had a better
chance with the Protestants for
sure after the
debate they hated
him until this day I was there right
after the Hurricane
Katrina and I talked with the people
about this some of the refugees that had
left from it we discussed some of these
things imp passing I didn't let him know
that that was a big issue that I was you
know just dialoguing talking but I
wanted to find
out I talked to two
people on two different occasions once
when I was in hjj and the other when I
was down there after Katrina who were
there at the
debate and I asked them what was the
response of the
people when it started out we could talk
to them easily after afterwards
everybody was
polarized you know what polarized means
has nothing to do with the North Pole
South Pole it's talking about the poles
of a magnet you're attracted to each
other and away from
them each of the communities that I've
visited where they've done these kind of
debates suffers more than it
gains that's why I refuse to do the
debates not because I don't think I can
beat somebody talking I got no problem
doing
that but because I know Allah is not
going to like
it and when I was here the last time
down in Sydney that's exactly what they
tried to start out with and I told them
I wouldn't even come over here if they
were going to do
that the reason I came was to keep them
from doing that they were going to get
somebody else to do this debate stuff
and it was going to be real serious the
plan was to bring in three of the top
Christian guys and put one of the
Muslims from America up against
and then have a judge sit and listen to
the whole thing and make a final
judgment it was going to be broadcast
and everything what do you think would
have happened after
that well I got news for you it would
have been a huge Collision because only
a month
later two months wasn't it 77 remember
that remember what happened in England
that was just two months later do you
have any idea how bad the Muslim would
have looked in all of Australia you'd
probably all be living in a refugee camp
right
now do you think I'm joking
huh alhamdulillah we were able to avert
that what I told him was we'll come and
we will just talk about the nice things
of Islam they said we got this one guy
though now we've already
started he wants to do it I said only if
it's a dialogue he finally agreed to a
dialogue dialogue means d means to by
the
way log speak dialogue so
okay and the deal is we'll each talk
about the good things that we have that
will contribute to the community and the
future of our children let's build it on
that and go for
it and that was the premise from all the
way back in November December like that
all the way up till I came here in May
or June of the end of May or whatever it
was that year
and Subhan Allah everything went so
smooth the whole time I was here because
we kept focus on that one thing talk
about the good of what we both have some
of you heard of Fred Niles he was one of
those that I went and spoke to and he
turned around 180 degrees and he was
looking actually positive toward Muslims
and toward
Islam he even what we did Salah he stood
behind us and he was praying like this
and crying and I went to him afterwards
and he was very positive toward
Islam didn't last as you well know what
happened right after
that but we tried and then what
happened on that last event on the last
day the one representing the Christians
came and broke his word on every Point
said he wasn't going to do it he did it
said he would do this or that he didn't
do it each thing that he said he did the
opposite of and the Muslims had worked
closely with him ask him go to Sydney
and ask him well they did they had a
barbecue for the for their youth and
they brought him over and fed them they
played soccer with them they even
brought a well-known soccer player and
let him meet him get autographs that
kind of thing
nice but when he got up on the
stage he had a Quran and a Bible in his
hand already I know it's a problem you
know
why you see me with anything up here
well I need that
for if I need to open a book and read
out of it I don't need to be given a
speech about it do I do I no you don't
need to be looking up something you're
going to give a talk you either know it
or you don't why he's got both books cuz
he's going to use it as props to show
people you know what the Bible says this
is what Christians do you know what the
Quran said and like one of those
deals we had exactly 30 minutes
each he said he needed more time I said
let him have some of my time it's all
right give him five minutes off mine
I'll talk 25 let him talk 35 I don't
care just be all
right but one thing I ask the moderator
to do when you get up there read this it
says it's not a debate we're not here to
attack each other's religion we're here
to talk about the positive future for
our youth and the good that we have and
let people see what it is and leave it
at
that when he started speaking he didn't
wait two seconds before he was saying
really bad things against Prophet
Muhammad
s and then misquoting the
Quran talking about Hadith I didn't ever
hear of before I'm sure that their
Hadith because I could see where he got
him
from he had with Arab Christian sitting
right there feeding him like spoon
feeding you know say this say that they
had been brainwashing him for two
weeks just for this
purpose and he came down Bam Bam Bam and
for one whole hour he used up all the
time the brothers asked me aren't you
going to make any notes I said for what
said you can say he I said this a debate
we're not going to do
it after our break when we came back
in I told him I said there's no point in
talking they said go ahead and try
anyway I said well you know most of the
people are
leaving but I went up on the stage and I
told him
that I was real happy to be here in
Australia I always wanted to get to see
kangaroos and guys fighting
crocodiles and figure out how guys can
hang on to the end of the globe like you
guys do down here I was trying to figure
out how you didn't fall off you know cuz
I wanted them to relax a little bit
laugh it up and and relax because
there's no way I can come in and pick up
after what he did then I did the only
thing I could think to do was just talk
about my trip since I've been there and
the good things that I saw from the
Christians and the Muslims working
together and I mentioned the name of the
people that they
knew even one of them from the uniting
Methodist Church is that what they call
it we have United they have 19 I think
here yeah well this one at the end of
his speech he said I'm calling for the
reinstitution of the Sharia of Islam if
we had it in Christianity I would call
for it we don't have it they do and we
need it this is what he
said I said I don't need to give a
speech after that
guy that's great I just say Amen let's
go for it if I had have called for it it
probably wouldn't let me go
home butd left we had a lot of good
things then I just pointed to him and I
said the only disappointment I've had is
sitting in that chair right
there because before we came out here
and what we talked about the last 6
months was what you heard the moderator
say this was not to be a debate this was
not to cut each other down this was not
to put anybody down all it was was to
show the good that we had from both
sides so that our youth can find things
that they can work together on to build
the future here in
Australia that was our topic if you
remember in the meantime I checked him
out cuz I never took my finger off of
his face I just kept pointing to him
when I turned and look at him man he was
redac and looking
down so I said so I'm not going to
respond to his
misconceptions
misunderstandings Mis quotes from his
book Mis quotes from our book
instead I'm just going to tell you the
three words I came out here to tell you
about and then I'm going to
go in case you didn't figure it out I
just responded to everything he said in
one
sentence so I gave him the meaning of
the word Islam the word of Muslim the
word Allah of four words cuz I talked
about the Quran what does it actually
mean that was
it and I felt like well you know I did
my job I'll
go a guy came up on the
stage and I was telling you know you got
to get off the stage you can't come up
here because the people Milling around
and everything and you don't know who's
got what kind of agenda going on in
their head it wasn't a Muslim you know
and he said but I want to make
shahada I said what they get up on this
stage and he did his
shahada a young man I think was in the
Australian Navy or something was behind
us on the bleacher area over there and
he said I want to as well and he entered
Islam then there were some girls three
right over in the area right over there
that we took the microphone over to them
and they did
shahada now they're making
shahada after this guy insulted Islam
every way he could think to do
it and it's not because of
me but I guarantee you if I would have
done what was inside of me to do
that would have been a big problem for
me Allah would have made a problem for
me because Haw is HW and when they play
their
gains we still cannot respond that way
we've been told by Al Fontella very
clear that you have to be patient and
forbearing they plan and Allah plans not
you plan they plan and Allah plans and
who's the best of
planners so you tell them you deliver
your message and you do it in the best
way now let's come to the main point of
our talk tonight which is how do we deal
with the harsh
attacks somebody comes to you you want
the mlim ain't
you yeah so you believe in allet don't
you
y how come you guys is
terrorist we going say how come you guys
have to beat your
wives or like one woman asked me how
come you men can have four wives and a
woman can't have four
husbands why do you have to oppress
women how come you have to kill all the
Jews and
Christians why is your religion so
violent so what do you
saying has anybody ever sat with you and
showed you the right way to respond to
this because we have the best
example on Earth of how to reply to
those types of harsh
attacks and who am I talking
about no doubt about it did he have a
problem every single day did they give
him a problem the the Kori tribe his own
relatives
man coming at him and by the way they
weren't just coming up in saying things
to hurt his feelings they were hurting
the Muslims
physically true or
false how many of you know about the
occasion when he and Abu Bakr were both
right by the
cabba and the coration nearly beat them
to
death they had to haul them home drag
him home and Abu Bakr nearly
died but when he came to all he could
worry about was the prophet sallallah
alaihi wasallam and he wasn't going to
relax until he knew was okay remember
the
story they nearly beat him to
death okay so what happened so the
prophet said okay okay everybody tonight
get your weapons and sneak up on them
and we're going to go in and blow them
up and nope
nope that was still in the early years
that was in Mecca they had no
commandment and the prophet didn't make
up the religion it has to come from
Allah and without a commandment to do it
they can't do it all they can do is
self-defense which of course anybody can
do
that when the
orders for battle
came they were very clear
and even today in the Geneva Convention
they cannot match they can't
touch the laws and
rules for battle that Islam has can't
even get close it's too
beautiful first you have to have the
circumstance that Allah is describing in
the crown it can't be that you're going
out here fighting for
money there's no such thing as being
mercenaries in Islam you can't fight for
money they can right now in the United
States we have a huge number of people
being trained in private camps private
businesses training people to be
mercenaries and then renting them out to
the United States to the tune of over
$100,000 a month
each have you heard about
it you're looking at me like you got no
clue what I'm talking about it's called
Blackwater that's one of them one of six
of the major ones and the guy runs it's
a personal friend of Mr
be's hey take care of your
buddies those are mercenaries we can't
do
that kill for money you can't do
it property same thing no
and again I'm not talking about I'm not
talking about self-defense that
everybody always has the right to self
defense that's common sense but when it
comes to organizing and going in battle
there's a name for it and Arabic do you
know what it is what is
it you guys are freezing up on me
man what you afraid of the secret
cameras in here or
something
somebody said shck is it the J
word no it's not the J
word the word actually has the reference
to to
killing it's called K from
K and this is the word Allah is using in
the Quran but it means to
engage in a type of fight that can wind
up in death
in English it has the word Mortal Combat
and this is what's mentioned in
Quran but there are so many things that
have to be in place and it has to be
followed a certain way that's why the
prophet wasam never allowed anybody to
do this until they had it from Allah and
how to do
it and when to do it and most important
of all when not to do
it they use the term in the translators
use this in verse 1990 sir bakar he use
the term in English
fight but more appropriately it should
be
combat cuz fighting you imagine somebody
standing there
going no it's more
like you know this is a lot closer fight
them when they fight you but stop if
they stop otherwise you're the aggressor
and verily Allah doesn't love the
aggressors verse 91 191 next
says now this is the imperative
like
Quran Quran is a word it's a
noun one who
recites you recite that's the imperative
of the word
so CU W just means
and
says kill them but it's in combat so
it's the same word again killing combat
or Mortal
Combat wherever you find them turn them
out from where they turned you
out now what did that mean that was
specific wasn't it they never read the
rest of that verse by the way because
right away that people would be going
who got turned out what was that all
about out so they just stop short and
that's another kind of lying is to take
part of a verse and just show that and
in that in actuality it was talking
specifically about when they go for Haj
if you go back to verse one 189 you can
see that there are three things are
being asked to
wasam yesun they're asking you that's
how the verse starts out about such
things as the moons and this is to know
when to do ha and entering your house by
the wrong doors and that's Superstition
don't do that and then the subject of
when are we ever going to get to fight I
mean you know 13 years and we've just
been hassled to death all we want to do
is go do Hajj so this is what it was
pertaining to that and going back to the
place which was their own land their own
homes their own families their own
property and they were being told Now by
Allah yes you can go back and if they
fight you you can fight them and you can
even turn them back out of the property
they stole from you and take your land
back but it has these conditions to go
with it because before that they never
had any of the
conditions Arabs before Islam came were
very tribal and
feudal meaning that they would just go
after it and go after it and kill and
kill and kill with no
limits have you heard about the Battle
the feud actually that they had over a
camel race there was a big camel race
and the winner of the the
race a certain camel another boy is
jealous so he picks up a rock and throws
it and kills the camel so they killed
the boy so those people killed their boy
and then they started killing each other
and you know how long it went 40
years to to the extent that people
couldn't remember what the battle was
about anymore why are we killing these
people over a stupid camel
race now aren't you glad we don't have
camel races
anymore course we do have
football
oops it gets pretty rough too doesn't it
but you can see if you put it in context
this is nothing like what the people are
trying to claim Islam is saying there's
nothing like that especially because it
has the warning marks in there stop if
they
stop and it repeats that again even
after this thing about turning them out
and everything but still if they
stop it's up to Allah it's back to Allah
again notice how many times when you're
dealing with your
enemies even if it's in your house you
got a problem with your wife but once
they stop back off
and don't keep jamming it in their face
that's in Surah Ana it doesn't say like
that in in Arabic but I'm trying to give
you the essence of what it's telling you
about for sure the more you study Islam
in Arabic and the more you understand
how these things all fit together
there's no way you'd ever let anybody
convince you that there's a single thing
wrong with Islam there's a lot wrong
with some Muslims no
doubt and I'll put myself in that
category but there's nothing wrong with
Islam Islam is perfect because Islam
describes a relationship between us and
our Lord Islam is based on those words
you've heard me say it if you know any
of our programs I say it every program
Islam is surrender submission obedience
sincerity and peace and when those five
things are together and you're having
this relationship with your
Lord that's the best relationship there
is he's the boss and you're not and as
long as we adhere to this relationship
with our Lord doing what he wants us to
do on his terms we're going to be
okay but now how do I respond when these
guys come up to me and I'm going to
leave you with this and let you think
about it it doesn't matter how they
attack you it doesn't matter what they
say or how they do it train yourself you
can go in front of the mirror so you can
do this so that you can be like the
Companions of theam and how they had to
respond in those early years especially
before the verses came because you by
the way you you can't you cannot get
together and get a little group and go
out here and do stuff like that today
this that's not Islam it has to be under
Authority and we don't have authority
you cannot do that okay you are being
tested and this is your test just as it
was for many of the sahabi
somebody come to you and insult you say
something bad like some of the things I
mentioned want to throw another one out
how come you guys worship a black box in
the desert and kiss the ground five
times a
day thank you for asking me about my
religion try it thank you for asking me
about my religion
thank you for asking me about my
religion
hey how come your wife got that rag on
her head thank you for asking me about
my
religion in my case how come you look
like Santa
Claus thank you for asking me about my
religion and you're getting nothing for
Christmas but
seriously seriously you just be nice and
tell them thank you
because guess what now he's
stuck cuz you acted like you didn't know
it was an
insult and only the worst of the worst
of the drunks is going to persist after
that he'll be like uh uh well
uh would you like to have the answer to
your question would you like to sit down
and have coffee we can talk uh uh uh can
I get your email I'll send you something
or phone number we can talk maybe you're
in a hurry or
something it
works it's perfect because they didn't
come to really ask you I told you this
is not about clearing up
misconceptions this is about the ones
who came to attack now some of them do
it out of ignorance there's no doubt
about that because they picked it up
from people who are trying to program
them to do this stuff but some of them
are exactly that in any case when you
say thank you for asking me about my
religion and you smile they're G to go
okay okay okay that's it that's I'm out
of here and that's good that's really
good but when it comes to the issue if
you Happ to know the answer the proper
answer you'd be surprised how many times
it turns the whole thing
around just turns it upside down in the
other
way here's one for
you when they ask
you
how come a man can have four wives but a
woman can't have four
husbands thank you for asking me about
my
religion in Islam there are two
important things always say this first
is the truth meaning that I have to say
the truth or I can go to
hell the second thing is the
proof even if I make a mistake you can
find it out real easy because everything
of Islam there's only one version
there's only one version of Quran
there's only one version of prophet
Muhammad it's all one so it's really
easy if Islam teaches it or doesn't
teach it it's known we can ask any of
our Scholars it'll be the
same so we have
both truth proof we got the
evidence but sometimes questions have a
problem in the question because the
question is the statement or a question
mark let me give you an example somebody
asks you can you answer this question
yes or no answer only two choices you
have is say yes or no it's about your
mother is she out of jail
yet my mother's never been it was a yes
or no
question but my mother's never
been is your mother out of jail yet yes
or
no yes good I'm glad she got
out so it doesn't matter what you said
you're stacked up because the way the
question is yeah so in this case we have
to straighten the question out oh and
there's one more little thing and that
is well I'm giving you the answer if you
hear something that you like you see the
sense of it the common
sense and you find that what you thought
was actually upside down are you going
to be ready to read consider your
position and start to worship your God
and my God Without Partners cuz by the
way that's all Islam is really about
worshiping God that's what Islam is
about you ready for the answer he's
going to be going huh how did I get into
this
deal because you are telling him exactly
what he needs to
know Islam is about worshiping God on
his turn
let's check that out you ask me now
about four wives and one husband yeah
well according to Islam there is
something called No
Sex except in
marriage now the Catholic Church kind of
goes to an extreme for the most holy and
righteous of all the men or all the
women they have no
sex period
ever because can't get
married can't have
children never going to have any
grandchildren nuns priests Bishops
Cardinals even a pope never ever ever
get
married and never have
sex well at least they're not supposed
to that was the whole idea wasn't
it but Islam is not saying that it's
just saying
no sex that's not sanctioned by Allah
meaning you have to get married meaning
you have to have a contract a written
contract with the lady so that she has
something to get her rights with because
when Islam came women weren't getting
their rights but now women get their
rights women and you can begin to
explain how it is that in Islam women
have the right to own property women
have the right to vote 1,400 years they
didn't have to go through women's
suffrage like we had in our country
women have the right to be
women they don't have to be men to try
to get money so they can have the things
they want they can just be women and
stay home do things at home and still
get money comes to them how because it's
the man's
responsibility to take care of them to
bring them food to bring them clothes to
help them with education about Islam
especially all the things Islam is
providing these people don't even know
about this subject and a woman who has
even any kind of property at all whether
she's very rich or not so rich never has
to give a dime to support the
household if a man is a street cleaner
making minimum
wage
but he's married to a
lady who's worth a half a million
dollars she doesn't have to give him a
quarter he still pays for the house he
still pays for the utilities he still
pays for the car it's his
responsibility you can't marry a woman
for her money in
Islam but a woman can marry a man for
his money
easy because Islam has the ideal thing
that every woman's looking for it's
called what's mine's mine and what's his
is mine
too it's not a joke it's it's a
Truth by now the guy's going I didn't
know that I didn't know that see now
watch it turn watch it turn and this is
just one
example so a woman has so many rights in
Islam that she is considered the queen
of the
house
and it's a very big Royal status in
Islam for a woman to
be a Muslim woman and queen of her house
something nice respect honor
dignity and a man in Islam cannot cheat
on his
wife the punishment for it is you don't
want to know you don't even think about
it that's why you see Brothers again
this is something you take for granted
but I'm trying to tell you that I know
both
sides and if you see it the difference
between the young Brothers for the
Muslims and these other youngsters out
here in College jobs and so on or
without jobs and a girl goes
by Muslim sees a girl go by and the
other boy sees a girl go by and both of
them do this okay the boy the Muslim not
supposed to but he's going
like this and the boys going like this
both of them did the same thing but
what's the difference is what one of
them
saying one of them is
saying look it's fitting man it's
fitting yes or no the other one's going
ha
Mama yes or
no even here in
Australia the Brothers still have Islam
they still know this is
wrong this is not the right way to be we
don't like it I want to get married
that's the answer isn't it that's not
what those other guys are
saying they're looking for instant
solution to their
problem and Muslims do
that Muslims are looking to get married
and Prophet sallam told us get the
children married as soon as they're old
enough don't wait till they're
21 because then they're fully
grown that's not Islam it's not what the
prophet taught
us is
it okay you got to be honest that's what
this lecture is about by the
way along with
that getting
married when you get married there's a
whole lot about giving rights to the
lady is that
right she has a w or a w who is
responsible for her and he's taking care
to be sure she gets a fair
deal and whatever's oh and here's
another thing Dowry for Christians has
always been girls pay the
boys how many of you knew
that the Dowry goes the other way and
and for 2,000 years now just in the last
couple decades the women are going hey
why should I have to give any
money but it's always been in Islam the
men have to take care of the women
right
always so when you get married you give
her and she gets to tell you what it's
going to be or you can make an offer and
if she doesn't like it she'll say no and
we need more than that it's not right if
he can say well you know the prophet
mentioned to one of the sahabi just to
teach her one Ayah from the Quran said
yeah because he didn't have anything
else okay go back out there in your BMW
and do dig around a little bit you know
cuz that ain't going to work she has the
right because that's what Islam is about
about rights about now the person you're
talking about he's going whoa uh he
wishes he didn't get into this you're
telling him think he never heard of
before but check this
out in
Islam the man is the one who is having
the heavy burden when it comes to
support the woman doesn't support
anything and it's set up in Islam that
the women have extra
protection so that they don't wind up
out in the streets with nothing they
don't wind up as old bag ladies
they don't wind up as
prostitutes they don't wind up with a
child with no
father Islam is providing for them in
the best way even if you're in a society
with 20
women 20 women out
here and only six or seven
men no
problem it's not a
problem because each of those men can
take on the responsibility of up to four
yeah now if you got seven men 20
women still got one
opening
yeah no more than that CU four so it's
not a
problem not only that though and this is
usually where I cap it with them I ask
them have you ever consider if you have
a 100 women on this side and 100 men on
that side as soon as you marry this man
to this woman here we got a match how
many are left 99 on both sides so let's
start getting a married till we get down
to the very end and we find all of a
sudden there's five men
left and five women
left now what's the choice
man can only choose from the
five
right right cuz in Islam the woman
cannot have more than one
husband well one of the reasons by the
way is because a child born wouldn't
know who the father was and when it
comes time for inheritance how would you
know how to distribute it that's one of
the rights of the child but to come back
to this the man over here can only
choose from the unmarried women true
true but the women who do they get to
choose
from every single man there is still
eligible to
her cuz they don't have four wives
yet who's got the most
Choice see you never thought of that
never hit you that Allah see because
we're not Allah we can't think like God
but Allah knows what he created and
there's always more women on this Earth
than there are men
today it's more than 4 to one but that's
not the point of having the discussion
I'm just saying who has the most Choice
the woman because the man is stuck he's
only got five women to choose from or
three women or what if there's only one
woman left that's it that's your
wife that's
it and I don't care if she's really
healthy you know that's
it but for the ladies
they can choose from any other men as
long as he doesn't have four wives now
what's another advantage of that is a
man gets around we're social we know
each other we know who's where going on
BL but the women don't a lot of times
they don't know what's up and they might
think oh this guy he's real nice but
then they find out oh he's stingy he
slaps his wife around he does you know
thing I don't like that I wish I would
know that beforehand well how would you
know
well it's real easy because if she's
already if she has a friend that's
already married to the guy she'd know
word gets out real fast who is the nice
guy really and who's the one praying and
going to the mid and praying charity and
so this is one of the ways that she is
being benefited by this so who's got the
most choice and who's got the most
benefit and by now the guy's going I
didn't know that I didn't know that
happened actually it happened a woman
had asked me the same same way and when
we got to the end of the
thing why because it becomes clear that
this is not from a human being no human
could have figured all of this
out and nothing in Islam said you had to
marry Four
Women the sahabi the companions of
Muhammad wasam when the order came it
didn't say marry Four Women it said
marry other women because it was talking
about not taking the orphan girls and
marry them to get their money away from
them that's what it's talking about the
verse before marry Other Women of your
choice ithna two Sal three
four if you can treat them with equality
and that's what makes it so great
because if I have one wife and I give
her this and this and this I have to
give the other wife the same thing I
cannot mistreat her and put her lower
than this one they have to have the same
status social status material status you
have to provide for
them and if you stay a night with this
one you have to stay a night with that
one this is the
deal your time your money your resources
it's
theirs
H so the companions of Muhammad they
weren't like out on the street going hey
we can get wives no come on they already
had
wives there was not forbidden for them
to have multiple wives what they did had
to divorce wives yes or
no it was like
not so that you understand what I'm
trying to get across there are a lot of
things that we take for granted today
because we're trying to put our mindset
of the mentality of the people around us
of the society that we live in and we're
not realizing how it came we're not
realizing the ramifications of the laws
of Allah subhana wa ta'ala and the
hookum it's very important to understand
the the rulings and the wisdom with
it because then when you do and somebody
asks you a stupid question like that you
can say thank you for asking me about my
religion and then when you begin you're
going to be surprised that how quick
it'll go the other way one of two things
will happen when I get through talking
to them one of two things will happen
either they're going to make
shahada or they're going to shut
up and they're never going to do it
again
and remember again I want to repeat this
is I'm only talking about the cases of
real harsh attacks and harsh treatment
I'm not saying about the one who just
has misconceptions who doesn't
understand this is for the one who comes
to you and wants to treat you harsh
treat him good treat him better than
good but then lay it out real smooth and
let him realize that what he's got is
nothing compared to what you
have and the true Muslim Society where
Muslims are practicing Real Islam with
Islamic State you have a much much
better
overall Community than you do anywhere
else and that's for Muslims and
non-muslims alike it's just a safer
place and a better place I'm going to
end it now by telling you what happened
with one
person not that he was harsh at all he
was a lovely person but I but I was
reminded just now of something that
happened with
him he was in the hospital and the one
taking care of him happened to be a
Muslim who had uh was a med student and
was taking care of this man along with
other patients and the Man became
interested and fascinated talking to him
every time I saw him ask him about Islam
something else about Islam Islam Islam
so I happened to be visiting there in UK
it was in England and they asked me if I
would go and see this man just talk to
him for a few minutes so I went to see
him he's a very nice man he used to
drive a truck in fact right here in
Australia is where he was
from and he's old but he like to talk
about the old days what he used to do
and I asked him because he kept talking
about Australian relatives that he had
here so just one time I just said to him
well what's your favorite country I knew
he was going to say Australia no doubt
he said Saudi
Arabia
I said huh you've been in Saudi Arabia
he said oh yeah I used to drive a truck
from here to there to Europe from this
and that so he had literally driven
everywhere but he said of all the places
I ever went I never felt more safe
secure or at ease than in Saudi
Arabia I still didn't get
it I know how I feel when I go to Medina
but I know he didn't go to Medina cuz
they going to let him in in not there so
what is he talking about he said you
know I used to park my rig that's what
he calls his truck and trailer you know
he said I used to park my rig I could
leave the keys in it and go over and
have a cup of coffee talk to people and
I could come back I knew it was going to
be just like it was nobody's going to
touch
it he said they're Muslims they won't do
it he said Muslims there who are
conscious of their
way
best people that's what he said it
wasn't the heat that he liked don't get
me wrong he was talking about the people
cuz that was our subject talking about
people said what do you like best he
said Saudi
Arabia so I said to him you know I'm
going I'm going to teach you something
and it what I heard when I came in here
you were giv
shahada it was
beautiful
because I told him this is the shahada
you say this like this you
know what it means I about witness
there's none to worship except Allah I
bear witness Muhammad's his messenger he
smiled at me and he said that's all it
takes I said that'll get you started he
said I say it every morning when I wake
up and I say it every night before I go
to
bed I almost fell over
and when we were on our way back the
brother was driving he said how come you
didn't give him Shahar I said that
brother could give me
shahada well this not about a formal
piece of paper you know he already has
it he already believes it we' talked
several times about the subject I
thought he needed to make sure I didn't
know he's saying it all the time and he
said it while I was sitting there said
you don't need to jump up and shake my
hand and go through no he said it that's
it
Subhan Allah so we don't know really
when we're talking to people who might
flip and go the other way I used to be
one who used to attack Islam because I
was totally ignorant and all I knew is
what other preachers had told me I had
never met a Muslim never did business
with a Muslim I didn't know about the
Truth Factor I didn't know
anything it wasn't until I met a Muslim
and did business with him and watched
him and his Islam that understood about
this beautiful Dean so I'm just
encouraging you that when people come to
you this way don't respond the same way
that they're coming to you remember
thank you for asking me about my
religion Islam is built on two important
things truth and
proof and we have to tell you the way it
is now if you don't know the answer to I
don't know but we'll get back to you let
me get your email and or if you don't
want to give it to me I'll give you an
email and you can write Yousef
yuf at share islam.com that's one of our
many websites and then you can also go
to our websites to learn the answers to
these many other questions today I
posted 15 ay of the Quran that are
misquoted out of context and they're
used by those who particularly want to
destroy Islam
those 50 Nas are on one of our websites
and then the explanation that goes with
it okay I'm the composer but I'm not the
one to put it all together we actually
have Scholars who help us do these
things so if you want to go there it's
called Islam
Newsroom Islam Newsroom and in the
search box put the word
misquoting not misquote misquoting and
it'll pull up misquoting Quran there's
five parts to this because it's very big
you may want to turn it into a PDF file
there's a click a button you click it
turn it into PDF file you can print the
whole thing out make a book for you so
that when people come to you with this
stuff you got the
answers clear answers and you can even
give it to them so here read
it inshallah this will spread Islam
faster than you can imagine cuz Allah
can use something very negative to
spread his in fact I've watched it
happen many times
well I went further than I wanted to go
in the talk but I wanted to be sure to
hit this main point no matter what other
people do to you you're still
responsible in front of Allah to be a
good Muslim and I'm making Dua that you
hang fast with that if I don't do
anything else this whole tour while I'm
here in Australia except get that one
point out to keep us patient keep us in
sub and Allah
says Allah be with you Allah keep you
strong Allah keep your feet in his Dean
always and forgive us and give us his J
me