working with the folks of the dean show
so all of you out there at the dean show
uh make Dua for Eddie and his group
because they're going to be showing this
on their programs and inshallah this is
going to be distributed all over the
world there we in fact I forgot to
mention we have online uh a whole group
of folks that are watching this in
different parts of the world right now
and so let's get started that's enough
introduction my name my name is Yousef
can you say Yousef youf well you said it
right the first time my wife been
married to me all these years he still
says
useless what I wanted to talk to us
about today is something that's very
crucial to every single Muslim on the
planet but especially those who are
coming into the fold of Islam and they
don't really understand what they're
getting
into I want to mention that this is
going to be talking about the nine
points of the Shah itself when a person
enters into Islam they are basically
giving a testimony of Faith called the
sh which
saysed it means more or less in English
that I bear witness in open testimony
that there is no God worthy of any
worship other than the one true God
Allah he has no
partners and I bear witness an open
testimony that Muhammad IB
Abdullah who lived in Saudi Arabia 1400
years ago is his last his final
messenger and he's the one who brought
the message that we just said no God to
worship except one this is the meaning
behind it and you want to get meaning
sometimes you won't find the words from
Arabic to English exactly so you need to
know how to get the information we'll be
talking about that in some of our
programs today we want to focus on these
points this was never mentioned at the
time of Muhammad that there are nine
points of the Shada that is not from
there that's not where we got it from
and since that time there have been
those who have said there were six
points some said there were seven some
as said eight and I found a booklet that
said nine and I just went with that
because it had everything there all of
the others they covered the same points
but some of them they group together
that's why you're going to know some of
these are very similar but I just want
to be sure we cover the point
the first thing that a person must have
as a Muslim is the knowledge of what
they're
saying the knowledge of what it is
because you could actually get somebody
to say it like you could train a parrot
to
say and you say wow the parot just
became a
Muslim but it's not so a person could
say that and not have a clue what
they're talking about so this is the
first and foremost most thing and it
says in the Quran in chapter 47: 19
Surah Muhammad it said so know that
there is no God except the law and ask
forgiveness for your sin the prophet
peace be upon him said whoever dies
knowing that there's no deity worthy of
worship except Allah will enter Paradise
he also said and this is in the Quran in
Surah
Al verse 86
except him who Bears witness unto the
truth
knowingly the meaning that nobody will
enter the paradise accept these so this
is the first and most obvious of all
conditions that if you're going to say
there's no God to worship worthy of
worship accept the law and if you mean
it that's great but if you mean it's
Jesus it won't
work if you mean that it's you know a
rock or a stick or a bone or a statue or
something like that it's not going to
work it has to be the real God so you do
have to understand that the second
thing is that a person has to have
certainty or what's called in Arabic
y y means that the person has no doubt
whatsoever in it and before I give
shahada to people that's one of the
things I always say to them in their
language if you speak English I'm going
to ask you in your language is there any
doubt in your mind is there any doubt do
you really know there is God there
really is a God God are you sure and
they say yes okay but if they say no you
know I still have some doubts I say then
stop right there and let's deal with
that and when you're removing that we
can come back but otherwise full stop
Shar is not going anywhere until we
remove these doubts cuz this is not a
contest to rack up how many did you get
today and how many did I get today it
doesn't matter in fact if you if you
know this Islam we know that there was a
prophet of Allah who came and he gave
the message to his people throughout his
whole life and not a single person
accepted it nobody another Prophet came
and through his whole life gave the
message and only one person accept it
there were some that had only a few
there were some that had some good
number of people but they couldn't get
the ones that they wanted the most
Abraham is one of those he couldn't get
his father Noah couldn't get his own son
the prophet loot called lot in English
could not get his own wife the Bible
said she turned back into a pillar of
salt but we know what happened she
stayed there in Sodom and Gomorrah and
became one of those people and was
destroyed so this doubting business has
to be out of your mind you have to know
there really is God he's one he has no
partners he always was and always will
be and that's the God we're talking
about so you have to have firm belief in
it Allah says about it in Sur H that's
ch 49:15
the True Believers are only those that
believe in Allah and his messenger and
afterward they do not doubt and they
strive with their wealth and their lives
for the cause of
Allah these are the
sincere Allah also says in the Quran in
Surah number n s to Toba verse
45 they
alone seek leave of you not to
participate the who believe not in thew
in the last day and those hearts feel
doubt
so their doubt is what causes them to
waver what the I'm going to have to give
you a translation of the English now
because when it says they seek leave
this is Old English that means that
they're trying to get permission to get
away from you because they don't want to
fight they're basically saying yeah
right uh you guys are going to into the
war okay no no no no no no so their
their doubt though is what really was
causing them to do
this so that's point now we've we've
talked about Point number one is is
knowledge number two certainty no doubt
let's talk now about Point number three
which is acceptance acceptance here is
talking about that you will accept
everything that goes with
it there's no benefit in saying oh
there's only one God and Muhammad's his
messenger and that's
it not going to do anything about it
still going to the same bars still
smoking cigarettes still hanging out
with the wrong people and not work
worshiping Allah doesn't work that
because this is not something of the
lips it's something that the heart and
the mind have to have conviction on and
this conviction causes a person to
really accept what comes and they're
going to do it if you know for sure that
there's one God and you know for sure he
sent you a message are you going to act
on the message that you got because if
you are that's good but if you said no I
don't care I'm not going to do it I
don't have to then you come in the
category with the Devil Himself because
that's his problem that's exactly the
problem that he has he refuses to obey
Allah Allah says in Chapter 2 Surah
bakar verse 85 do you believe in part of
the book and reject part of
it and what's the reward for those who
do
that except that they will be humiliated
in this life in this world and on the
day of judgment they will be sent to the
most Dreadful Doom
so this very important let's go to the
next point point number
four is submission and compliance this
is The Logical Next Step from what I
just said if you accept it now what are
you going to do let's talk about
it this implies the actual physical
enactment of our Deeds that align with
the
shahada it is one one of the meanings of
the word itself of Islam Islam comes
from a word in Arabic a root called
ASL
ASL and when you bring it to this
beautiful perfected State and you say
Islam you're saying five things in the
English language all at
once you're looking at all five at one
time you can imagine the dimension of
this word it's very powerful it means
surrender
submission
obedience
sincerity and
peace but all of them are existing at
the same time all
five and these five are one no no wait a
minute we're going back to the Trinity
thing but
seriously if one of these is not there
then it's not the full Islam anymore you
have to have all of this at one time
there has to be this sense of giving up
to the
Lord then the sense of surrendering to
whatever he wants and then obeying his
Commandments to the full and complete
ability that you have whatever ability
you have you're going to go all the way
and then you do it sincerely even if
nobody else is looking and even if
everybody else is criticizing you about
it it doesn't matter I'm not trying to
please anybody but him and it sometimes
you'll find and this is a strange thing
for a new Muslim to realize
sometimes the actual enemy on this one
is Muslims
themselves some girls are being told by
their own parents who are
Muslims not to wear
hijab some boys being told by their
parents who are Muslims don't grow your
beard and yet these are things in Islam
that you're supposed to
do so it means that you have this
submission to Allah to the extent that
and it's in Surah Al zumar verse 54
turn unto him repentant and surrender to
him so there's a full complete surrender
to Allah Allah also says and this is in
chapter 4 Sur Ana verse 125 who is
better in religion than the one who
surrenders his purpose to Allah while
doing
good and actually Allah has made it
clear in this condition faith that
whoever submits to the command of Allah
and his messenger then Allah says this
and this is in chapter 4 on is verse
65 I'm going to give you the before I
give you this verse I want you to
understand how it comes the way it is in
Arabic it's the strongest verse in the
Quran of swearing of
Allah cuz Allah
swears he swears by things that he's
created and he swears by things that we
don't even understand he even swears by
the passage of time when he
says and he swears by something small
and he swears by something
big this is by the Fig and by the
Olive and this is Mount
C and this is the whole area of
Mecca that he created the human beings
in the best form the best
smold and reduced them to the lowest of
low and in here it's talking about for
these people that have the right faith
and they have the right actions and for
them will be this great a this great um
blessings rewards coming to them from
Allah
T and he ask us
who is there would be a judge outside of
Allah then there is none other but him
isn't he the best of the judges so I
want you to understand that he swears
and he says some mighty things when he
swears but the verse I'm going to give
you now from from Sur that was Surah
this is Surah anter 4 verse 65 listen to
the swearing here nowh else in the crown
you find this he swears on himself
self God swears on
himself he
says no but by your lord meaning
himself they have no Iman they have no
belief until they make you Muhammad as a
judge in the matters wherein they
dispute and then they don't find
anything inside of themselves to dislike
what you've decided and they submit with
full submission
to who to the teachings of Muhammad so
this immediately that verse makes it
clear whoever tells you you can accept
the Quran but you don't have to take the
Sunnah or the Hadith of Muhammad they
are liars they are the devil themselves
talking to you that verse is clear that
verse is the one where he's swearing on
himself telling Muhammad that the people
have to make Muhammad as a judge in the
matters where they dispute and then come
away with nothing inside of them except
to say what and Allah says in the Quran
this is the saying of a
Believer we hear and we
obey on the spot have you heard the
expression when I say jump you say how
high well you in Islam if Allah told you
to jump you say how high well you're
jumping you don't wait and he's being
real clear about this so all of the
teachings of Muhammad peace be upon him
if you can verify that he really said it
that's the only dispute there might be
with somebody did he really say it let
us investigate the chain of authority
how we got it and so on yes but if
somebody come to you and say I don't
need to worry about that how do you
think we got the
Quran how did we get the Quran do you
think that Muhammad sat there and wrote
it down you think some people just wrote
it down and passed it out is that what
you heard well if you heard that you're
wrong because Prophet did know how to
read or right what he heard from the
angel jel he memorized repeat and talk
to his companions the same way it was
written at his time but that was not
considered Quran that was called the or
M scripture and still called that today
Quran means that which is recited what
you hear being recited is the Quran what
you heard me say in Arabic that was
Quran at the time I said it but when I
stopped it's gone got it a song you know
about music a song is a song when you
hear it people write music don't they
but can you hear anything maybe you hear
the pen being dragged across the paper
but you don't hear the music when it's
written down it represents the music
doesn't it somebody has to play the
music huh somebody give you a piece of
paper said there you know this is the
latest Michael Jackson thing or some
from the back street boys or from
whatever and you s a piece of paper
you're going okay and give me 15 bucks
for it get out of here you're crazy mud
here's the DVD oh less of the story you
follow so in the same way you can look
at what we're talking about here the
Quran this word means recite not read
and Quran means that which is being
recited and we have a lot of bad
translations a lot of translations that
are real old that nobody has really
taken the time to update so when you
read it you get the wrong words in
English and there's no way you're ever
going to get a perfect translation of
Quran to English so by the way learn
Arabic don't wait it's the best way to
do
that I took a lot of time on that one
because that is a critical point with a
lot of Muslims today that's a very
critical point next point is number five
is
truth in it's opposed the opposite here
is
hypocrisy and dishonesty someone who is
K a liar and this means that when we say
the Shah we are saying it with total
honesty and we actually mean it not
lying now if and it happened to me I
gave shahad to a man one time and about
and he come around my house he would
follow me around and go here and go
there and he was an Arab an Arab
Christian and then I moved to Washington
DC he came all the way up there and was
hanging around me again and then finally
he said I want to tell you something I
lied when I said the shahada I was lying
I was just trying to hang out with you
and see what this is all about who you
Muslims are and I was actually working
with some a agencies and giving them
reports on
you and he said but now I found out
Islam really is true he said I I can see
I can see by your actions this is for
real you believe this I want you to talk
to me some more if you don't hate me I
said I don't hate you anybody's got the
guts to come up to me and tell me that I
trust you more than anybody right now
because the other people I don't know
what they're thinking I know what you're
thinking within a short time he accepted
Islam and we talked about the Shahar he
said I feel like I need to do it again I
said you absolutely have to because when
you said it before you didn't mean it so
it doesn't count there's nothing there
for you but now if you want to do it you
can start over he said do you think God
will forgive me he said could you
forgive me I said it doesn't matter if I
forgive you or not what matters is that
yes God can forgive anything except
shark he can forgive anything but it's
between you and him not between you and
me I'm disappointed in you and I'm
disappointed in me for not seeing
through it but I always give people
benefit of the
doubt he changed himself amazing he he
really did the guy became if you'd have
seen him the day he did this real
shahada and then a year later you said
it's not the same person you looked
taller looked straighter look like light
coming from his face he was a very
beautiful person he changed totally then
he stayed away from lies he stayed away
from all this you know Espionage kind of
stuff he became a responsible citizen
aldah so we want to talk about the
truthfulness I want to tell you what
Allah said about this this is in Surah
Bak chap 2: 8 through 10 and I was
talking about hypocrites Hypocrites
people who say one thing but they don't
really believe it and of mankind there
are those who say we believe in
Allah we believe in Allah
and the last day y but they don't
believe they think they're going to
beguile that's the word they used here
in the translation they're going to
trick Allah and those who believe and
they're going to only trick
themselves but they don't catch that
they don't perceive it in their hearts
is a disease and Allah will increase
them in that disease and a painful Doom
is waiting for them because they love
why they are called monafikin
liars and
hypocrites when they're with us Muslims
they're saying yeah yeah I'm with you
guys but when they go back to their
devil friends they say oh no we're just
Jing those guys we're with
you this is the way of them you'll read
about it in the first part of Surah Bak
Allah talks about Believers in the first
few verses then he talks about
disbelievers in the next few verses but
then Allah spends a lot of time talking
about
hypocrites and this is not new if you
were a Christian you know about
hypocrites you heard about them real
well you heard about the Pharisees Jesus
called them the worst of the
Hypocrites read Matthew
5:17 when he said that he came not to
destroy the law he did not come to do do
away with the Old Testament law the laws
of Moses he said I didn't come to
destroy the prophets he didn't come to
put down the prophets he said rather I
came to fulfill he's with those prophets
just as Muhammad was he say I came to
fulfill the law and the prophets and not
until all things are accomplished shall
a single dot jot or Iota be in any Wise
lesson and whoever breaks the least
commandment of Allah law and teaches
that he'll be the least in the Kingdom
but whoever keeps the Commandments and
teaches that he'll be the highest in the
Kingdom now listen what comes next this
is in your Bible go look at it says
unless you're
righteousness exceeds the righteousness
of these Pharisees Pharisees are the one
who were running the temple at that time
there were the ones in charge unless
your righteousness is more than theirs
you will in no wise enter the
kingdom why because it's very simple
they're Hypocrites same thing that
Muhammad sallam said Prophet Muhammad
said Allah is going to start the fire of
hell with the Hypocrites that were
preaching the religion but didn't live
it it's a good lesson so that sincerity
is a big thing and that's what we're
coming up to next so we talked about
truth you have to say it in Truth now
let's go to
sincerity Al Zumer chapter uh is verse
two it says worship Allah make religion
pure for him and there is another
reference for this one in talking about
what I was just talking about Allah
tells us about the people before the
Jews and the
Christians that when they were ordered
by their
prophets they were commanded nothing
else than what and Allah
says and the people before were not
ordered anything more than to worship
Allah alone Without Partners keep the
religion pure for him establish the
worship called Salah pay the charity to
the poor people and that's the true
religion of almighty
God that's what it
says chapter 98:
5 Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him
said Allah has forbidden Hellfire for
anybody who said there
is no one worthy of worship except Allah
and they say so Desiring the face and
pleasure of Allah so that's something
for us to really think about there let's
go to number seven the seventh point is
mahab what is that
love love now you don't hear Muslims
talk about this very much you know
usually you think oh there a Christian
preaching that love stuff
yes there's you know and we love and
everybody loves and it's a Rel of love
love love love love love love love they
even write love you know on the side of
those missiles when they send it to the
people in Afghanistan and so but we'll
come back to what we're saying here
Surah bakar 2 verse 165 and this is what
Allah says yet of mankind are some who
take unto themselves objects of worship
as Rivals to Allah they love them with a
love that should be only for
Allah however those who
believe are stronger in their love of
Allah so the real love in this life is
the love of Allah and now a Woman Loves
A Man A Man Loves A Woman but that
should never get to the point where
becomes
Obsession because that's not love
anymore that becomes lust that becomes
something of a mental condition
condition with a person the obsession
with a human being needs to be for the
only one who will never disappoint them
and it's okay to have the obsession of
love for Allah because he will never
disappoint you but a human will always
disappoint you because humans are not
perfect do not use that beautiful love
capacity that you have for anything
other than
Allah got it that's a special thing you
have it's a gift
don't waste it on something that you can
see or hear or touch or feel or smell
because it's going to go
away but the one thing that you can't
even describe the one who created you
Allah it never go away and that's the
one we want to be close to in the next
life that's the real goal of the Muslim
the real purpose that we have here I
want to be close to my Lord I want to be
with him I love him he is my object of
My Affection I want to be close to him
this is what Muslims are after the
closer we can get to him the better and
in the next life the closest to him is
Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him and
then the other prophets right around him
they're the closest to Almighty Allah
and who are the people closest to them
and that's going to be those who
sacrificed in this life and believed and
were steadfast even through the
calamities even through the difficulties
and they will have the highest place and
does that make sense of course who
suffers the most for the cause should be
paid the most and this is how it is in
Islam Allah says about this and this is
in chapter N9 surba verse 24 say if your
fathers or your sons or your brothers or
your wives or your tribe or your wealth
that you acquire or merchandise that you
fear that you will not be able to sell
or your dwellings become dearer to you
than Allah and his
messenger and striving in his way then
wait then wait till Allah brings his
command to pass Allah does not guide the
wrongdoing
people that's number seven the love for
Allah number eight is denial of false
worship and Allah says in chapter 2
verse
256 he says
part of it it says and whoever
rejects false deities and believes in
Allah he has grasped a firm handhold
that will never break so whatever you do
don't give up on this one always deny
false worship and number nine is the
adherence of this until death and I
mentioned that from the beginning of our
talk earlier today and this means that
and Allah says in Surah 3 Surah al-
Imran verse 102 oh Believers observe
your duty to Allah with the right
observance and die not except in the
state of
Islam so these are the keys to the
paradise the keys to the Shahar and I'll
repeat them again again is to have the
correct knowledge of what you're saying
the certainty without doubt the
acceptance the full acceptance and being
willing to go for it the submission to
Allah and the truthfulness in what
you're saying the sincerity to back it
up and the
love the full love for Allah and what
the message is about the denial of any
other gods and then finally is to stay
on that until you die
that's the nine points of the
AL the praise to Allah the one that made
us into
Muslims for