Allah there's only one and muhamad is
his messenger
Allah
Allah there's only one God and Jesus was
his messenger
Allah I don't know why I did that maybe
it's just maybe it's just to break the
ice
alhamdulillah which means peace be unto
you welcome to another episode of the
dean show we are here trying to help you
understand Islam and Muslims and you
have done a very important step you've
come to the source to learn
about the most misunderstood way of life
in the world today yet it is still the
fastest growing way of life in the world
today there's a lot of junk that's being
thrown out there so before we get to
explaining what Islam is and this
perfect way of life that is from the
creator of the heavens and the Earth we
got to move some junk out of the
way so to help clear some of these
misconceptions is the doctor of dawa Dr
sabil how you doing asalam alaykum to
everyone I'm doing good nice to be on
this show thank you for being back with
us again Dr sabil you got a lot of junk
out there
people are some people claiming to be
experts some people are just
deliberately they're misinforming the
people about Islam we want to give them
the correct information so we're going
to be talking about some of the
misconceptions people have and we're
going to talk about the five that you've
seen that are Mo the most common so
let's start with number five and then
we'll work our way down all right it's
very good that we are doing this show
because unfortunately
because of the explosion of knowledge on
the internet on the radio magazines and
newspapers there are so many people
saying so many things about you know so
many ideologies and one of those
ideologies is Islam okay and
unfortunately Islam is a very
misunderstood religion because of you
know many things which happen in the
history and many things which are
happening now so it's the obligation of
Muslims that we should be clearing up
those misunderstand standing and
alhamdulillah all praise be to Allah we
are here to provide you with that so
inshallah God willingly we'll go with
the very first top five misconceptions
of top five all right so let's start
with number five some people claim that
Quran has been borrowed from the Old
Testament or the New
Testament all right so this is an
allegation that people make so how do
Muslims respond to it what Muslims say
say is that the
Quran which is the word of Allah the
Creator is revealed directly from God
and its source is God himself it's not
the Old Testament it's not the New
Testament it is not even Prophet
Muhammad peace be upon him it is not his
writing so how can we prove that number
one Quran has lots of information which
is not present in the Bible
and historically that information was
not present in the time of prophet
Muhammad peace be upon him all right
couple of
examples there are some stories in the
Bible which are similar to the stories
of the of the Quran number
one the Bible says in the gosp in the in
the Book of Genesis chapter number seven
it says that there was a universal flood
in the time of prophet NOA peace be upon
him if you look in the Quran if Quran
borrowed from the Bible the Quran would
have extracted the same story and would
have said there was a universal flood in
the time of prophet NOA peace be upon
him but guess what the Quran says Quran
says in chapter number
10 that there was a flood but that flood
was a local flood it was limited to to
the unbelievers in the time of prophet
NOA peace be upon him what does history
say so now we have two accounts you have
account from the Bible and the account
from the
Quran but to be fair let's examine what
does the history
say historical fact says that it was a
local flood according to the Christian
scholar who wrote the book The Bible as
history he's an
archaeologist in the book he mentioned
that even though the Bible mentions that
it was a universal flood history says
history AR archaeology accounts that it
was only a local flood we have not yet
proved it was a universal
flood so you have two versions of the
flood history supports the quranic
version if Quran was borrowed from the
Bible why didn't the Quran extract it
the biblical version of
it that's number one number two the
story of pharaoh is present in the Bible
in the Old Testament it is also present
in the
Quran in the Old Testament it says that
pharaoh and his army that they were
drowned okay indicating that they
disappeared in the sea the bodies are in
the sea what does the Quran says the
Quran Quan says that yes
Pharaoh U initially he was drowned in
the sea but God saved his
body and he would be assigned for
people all right so Quran indicates that
Allah took the body out of uh body of
pharaoh out from the
sea all right amazing yeah amazing so
what they discovered in the year 1898
they discovered the body of pharaoh not
in the sea
but in the land okay so if Quran
borrowed from the Bible that means Quran
would have extracted the same incorrect
factual uh things which are not factual
from the Bible would have been in the
Quran too but Quran correct it and
history testifies to it so those are
just two instances and there are
hundreds of those instances where Quran
corrects the Bible yes so we're talking
about we're going from five and on our
way down that this misconception that
Muhammad who's the last and final
messenger that people say that he took
from Biblical sources and he wrote the
Bible uh we'll touch upon this just a
little bit more then we'll go to number
four motive when someone commits a crime
or he does something the detectives the
police they look for a motive if we
study this man's
life is there a motive that he's calling
the people away from idol worship he's
praying uh in the middle of the night
he's praying throughout the day he's
fasting giving charity I mean what's his
motive for doing this did he attain some
status of wealth kingship was he given
abundance of money and power women
what's the motive that's a very good
question for anyone to claim propit Hood
there have been many people who who
claim propit in our times David KR
Reverend Moon and many people so most of
the time when people when they claim
prophethood there is a motive motive for
power Fame motive for women motive for
wealth motive for status any one of
those motives but when you look at the
life of prophet Muhammad peace be upon
him who is a Mercy to
Mankind people during his time they
wanted him to stop spreading The Message
of Islam calling people to Oneness of
Allah
okay they so they bribed him by saying
that we will make you the head of state
if you give up preaching Islam we will
give you all the wealth that we have if
you stop preaching Islam we will give
you the most beautiful women if you stop
preaching Islam but guess what prophet
Muhammad peace be upon him who was a
true Prophet just like prophet Abraham
and Prophet Moses and Prophet Jesus and
all the prophets peace be upon all of
them he rejected their bribery and he
hold on to preaching monotheism if he
were a false prophet God forbid he would
have accepted those
bribes he would have got caught up he
would have got caught up with those
things number four of the top five
misconceptions that people have let's go
to number four Dr sail all right let's
go to number
four some people say that the word
Allah is referring to the god of the
Arabs or a moon God all right so let's
let's deal with that
misconception first of all the word
Allah is an Arabic word for the
Creator so Allah is the creator that
created the whole universe which is out
there things that we see things that we
do not
see Allah has shown us to us by his
attributes Allah is all knowing Allah is
all just he is the first he is the last
he is all knowing he is the sustainer he
is the one who is commanding the whole
universe so the same word Allah is also
used by the Arab Christians and the Arab
Jews in their Bible which is um in the
translation in Arabic language from The
Book of Genesis up until the Book of
Revelation for the word god guess what
what word they use the word
Allah if they have to mention if they
have to pray to God to one
God they use the word
Allah so Allah is the universal God so
what is the connection of Allah with
moon Allah is the creator of the Moon
yes Allah is the creator of the sun
Allah is the creator of all the prophets
Prophet Jesus Moses Prophet Muhammad
peace be upon all of them Allah is the
creator of the whole universe
tell tell us uh before we go on to
number three what did Jesus call God by
what name very very very good question
according to encyclopedia
britanica Jesus Christ PE be upon him
his language was aramik he did not spoke
English and call his creator as God his
language was Aramaic and he called God
as allaha allaha allaha
so much similar to the word Allah in
Arabic
language because Aramaic Hebrew and
Arabic these are sematic languages there
are so many words in common between all
these languages so Jesus is Allah his
God was Allah makes you just want to
call God Allah yes it's very simple all
right so it doesn't take a theology
degree or a bachelor's degree or
doctor's degree this is something very
simple
let's go on to number three all right
number three
is people think that Jihad is holy
war
well Jihad the word itself it means to
struggle and to
strive me coming here this late at night
away from my family away from the
luxuries of my home away with my friends
I'm here doing Jihad do I have a sword
in my hand am I coming after you no I'm
not right so struggling to be the best
that I could be is
Jihad to fight my innate nature to fight
my
desires to submit to one God to follow
the guidance of God that is
Jihad all right so Jihad could be on my
own self number one to see that I don't
speak a bad word to people to see that I
control my tongue my eyes my ears that
is
Jihad a second form of jihad is that if
I see evil in the society I make sure
that I join with people who are
good-hearted and fight that evil an
example if I see drug pushers out there
on the street corner either I could call
police the the police do not come I
could make sure that they don't harm the
society that that they are not going
after the kids what am I doing I'm doing
Jihad Jihad yes yes I'm fighting evil in
the society that's Jihad yeah number
three form of jihad is that Islam says
to use up all the Diplomatic means of
fighting evil sit down with them talk to
them reason out with them give them
better option better guidance
even if they don't comply with that that
Islam says as a last
result pick up arms to fight the evil in
the society as a last result after you
exhausted all the Diplomatic means as an
exception okay even in that just War we
are supposed to go by certain guidelines
we cannot Islam says do not kill
innocent human beings no killing of
non-combatants no killing of women no
killing of children do not destroy the
infrastructure do not go after the
people who are praying do not kill
animals do not destroy the land that is
the beauty of
Islam so Islam says to fight evil the
best way possible by diplomacy by
showing by your example if they don't
comply fight with them in a just War
even in a just War all of these
beautiful guidelines
on the top of it if the enemy
says I'm going to lay down my weapons
Muslims are supposed to lay down their
weapons and try to
mend so this is what Jihad is it is not
holy war there is not a single reference
of holy war in the Quran The Holy War
the word does not occur in the
Quran I'm sure for a lot of people this
is a surprise but you have done
something good you're coming to Muslims
to learn about Islam and we're covering
the five top misconceptions with Dr
sabil we are number
two let's go Dr seil all
right the second most common
misconception
is that women in Islam they are
oppressed because they are wearing the
hijab the veil the
scarf the reason that women are covering
themselves is because number one Allah
has commanded
them Allah who is our creator he knows
what is good for us what is bad for us
so he has commanded women to dress
modestly so they are obeying their
creator they're not obeying the fashion
industry they're not obeying some men
out there on the street they're not
obeying their own personal
desire but they are submitting to the
Creator because Allah says to cover
themselves now modesty in Islam is not
limited to women it is also for males me
and you and all the males out
there so Allah says in the Quran chapter
24 verse number 30 it is addressing to
Men first all of you men this is for you
okay so Allah says in the Quran chapter
24 verse number
30 that oh men lower your gaze and guard
your
modesty so that modesty concept is
initially for men then the following
words it's for women it says the same to
the women lower your gaze and guard your
modesty and cover yourself in a modest
way so modesty is for both males and
females in Islam okay number two very
important the concept of modesty is a
very comprehensive word it is not
limited to the way that we dress
ourselves it has to do with the modesty
of our eyes modesty of our heart modesty
of our tongue modesty of our ears
modesty of what we touch and who we
touch so the reason that the
hijab the scarf is there is because
Allah has commanded and it preserves
Chastity for the person and it preserves
Chastity and peace and harmony in the
society beautiful so we're covering the
five top
misconceptions with Dr Sao we've covered
four so far and we're going on to the
number one
misconception that people have that
you've run across yes the number one
misconception if you pick a person on
the street and if they ask that person
what do you think about Islam they may
say Islam is synonymous with violence
and
terrorism in fact they took a
survey um in 2007 last year according to
45% of the population that was their
number one attachment of Islam with
terrorism unfortunately okay part of
that has to do with the media part of
part of it has to do with Muslims not
explaining ourselves Muslims not living
what Allah has mentioned to us to live
in the Quran okay
so the top misconception is Islam is
synonymous with
terrorism so the way to dispel this
misconception or to dismantle this false
notion is Islam is perfect Allah has
given a perfect guidance in the Quran
however Muslims are human beings we are
fallible just like Christians are human
beings they are fallible they are not
living according to what Jesus Christ
has mentioned in the Bible
of what Moses peace be upon him has
mentioned in the Old
Testament so we are not going to judge
the Christianity Faith just because
Christians are fallible because
Christians are doing some things that
they're not supposed to do the Crusades
the
Inquisition uh the Bosnian War the Iraq
War the Afghanistan war the wiping away
of the American Indians the colonization
of the land for centuries started by
Christians but we Muslims we are fair we
not going to attach the stigma to
Christianity the faith so likewise any
Christian or any person of open heart
and open mind they should not attach the
actions of a few misguided Muslims with
the beautiful teachings of the Quran
okay number
one number two if you are going to judge
Islam by a human being the best human
being being was prophet Muhammad peace
be upon him yes if we examine his life
we could find out that he prohibited
killing of women and children that he
used to treat nicely to both Muslims and
non-muslims that he was called the most
honest and the most trustworthy yes even
non-muslims they used to trust him so
much they used to keep their safe uh
their goods with him so he was the best
example and we see that he never ever
raised any so or anything against
innocent human beings yeah and in the
Quran Quran it mentions chapter 5 verse
number 32 that killing of an innocent
human being it is as if killing all of
humanity and saving the life of an
innocent human being it is as if saving
the life of all of humanity so that is
how much Islam resp respects the
sanctity of life so this is a very
beautiful guidance if anyone would like
to get a free copy of the Quran the
telephone number is very simple 1 1800
662 Islam i l
m800 662 Islam i l m Dr sail now that
we've gotten the
junk out from in front of the house we
cleared some of these misconceptions out
of the brains of people hopefully
there's some people who are watching who
are sincere and they're not happy with
the life they're living they don't have
peace they want to gain peace tell us
briefly what Islam is calling the people
to what their creator wants them to do
and this system this way of life that
they can be living today that they can
strive to get to know even further all
right we all know that we are we all
exist and and there is a purpose for our
existence we are created by God and God
is a loving God God wants to guide us
God did not left us alone on our own
whims on and
instincts so God has started sending
guidance to Prophet Adam peace be upon
him to prophet Abraham and Noah and
Moses and Jesus and Muhammad peace be
upon all of them and when God sent his
guidance he he does not want to confuse
Humanity by sending different religions
to different prophets so God by his
Mercy he sent only one faith and that
Faith was submit to only one God do not
submit to a human being or a saint or a
prophet or an
idol so submission to only one God the
Creator if you convert that concept into
Arabic language it becomes the word
Islam okay so Islam was the only Faith
which was given to all of these prophets
so if a person accepts Islam they're not
accepting a new Faith very important
yeah they're indeed accepting the same
faith and the only Faith which was given
to Prophet Adam and all the thousands of
prophets until the last prophet Prophet
Muhammad peace be upon
Him number two important thing is that
all human beings when we were born we
were born pure and innocent sent because
Allah God is a just God it does not want
to have a stigma of sin to a newborn
baby what did the newborn baby do did so
the newborn baby was implanted within
spiritual chip to recognize and worship
one God if you leave the newborn baby
alone without any outside influence that
person is going to grow to recognize and
submit to only one God so to recognize
and submit to only one God in Arabic
language is called
Islam so each human being is born in the
faith of Islam as Muslim later on their
parents and teachers and environment may
change them into some other Faith so
once a person converts to Islam or comes
to Islam they're again going back to the
same Faith as they are born with yes
isn't that wonderful yes yes so God has
mentioned that anyone who comes to Islam
and follows the guidance the beautiful
guidance in the Quran along with the
example of prophet Muhammad peace be
upon him God is going to make the road
of paradise easy for that
person and the the life of that person
in this world would be at peace because
now he has a direct connection with god
without any
intermediary Islam says to directly
connect with God and God is close to you
in his
knowledge okay so by a person coming to
Islam you having a direct connection
with God number one number two you are
following the guidance which is coming
from God himself not from a prophet not
from a saint not from an idol but your
creator okay number three the guidance
which is found in the Quran is very
practical it makes the person's life
better and the life of a society better
and
enhanced an example of that would be
drinking alcohol is a very big problem
in this uh country and in the world it's
a big medical problem it's a big problem
out there when people are having
accidents people are having divorces
people are you know killing each other
because of alcohol and rape and all of
those so we are debating should we lower
the limit should we raise the limit of
alcohol guess what Quran says Quran
Allah is saying in the Quran chapter 5
verse number 90 that do not come close
to alcohol zero tolerance for alcohol
Islam prohibits alcohol soles the
problem solves the problem you are
cutting the cause of the problem so
similarly gambling causes many problem
similarly you know adultery fornication
and all of those things so Islam
provides a perfect solution to many of
the problems or all the problems that
our society is going through the biggest
problem right now according to the
society is the economy guess what Islam
says do away with the interest do not
exploit the
poor that's what interest is we are
exploiting a person because he or she
does not have enough money to buy a car
or to buy a house
right so Islam solves the problem by
saying do not charge or take any
interest so Islam is practical it solves
the problems on the top of it Islam the
way to Salvation is very pure and
simple have the right belief in one God
and do good deeds which are found in the
Quran by doing that your road to
Paradise will be be Made Easy by God so
that's the first thing that someone has
to do is accept that there is one God
and that you worship him alone on his
terms indeed indeed yes and they have to
accept the Muhammad as the last and
final messenger now when they accept
Muhammad peace be upon him as the last
and final messenger now are they
accepting all the other Messengers that
uh came before him yes because if
somebody has an attachment to Jesus now
I mean do we just negate Jesus when you
accept Islam yeah so what Islam says
Islam makes it easy for people to come
to the religion of Islam because it is
the truth and God wants to make it easy
for people to come to the truth so what
God says is that obey what Allah is
saying means believe in one God submit
to only one God and Obey Prophet
Muhammad peace be upon him his
Commandments what he brought which is
the Quran from God and the sayings of
prophet Muhammad peace be upon him so
once a person accepts Islam they are
having a direct connection with God
they're submitting to no creation but to
God himself number one number two
they're accepting Prophet Muhammad peace
be upon him as the last prophet and the
last messenger along with that they're
accepting all the prophets of God
Prophet Jesus Prophet Moses Prophet
David Prophet Solomon Prophet NOA and
prophet Adam peace be upon all the
prophets so you are taking the best that
you already have in Christianity and you
are compiling you're piling much more of
what Islam has to offer to you so now
somebody is watching this they have
watched some of our previous shows they
believe that God is the one that should
be a worshiped along with our partners
that God is unique he's not a man he's
not statue and icon KH he's uh someone
that should be obeyed they believe that
from
studying the history of the Prophet from
the authentic sources that this man
could not have been
someone other than a prophet a messenger
of God and you know what they're ready
what do they got to do okay so someone
who believes that there is only one God
and Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him
who brought the Quran by the only one
God all the they have to do is give us a
call number
one800 662 Islam okay once you give us a
call along with us on the telephone you
could do the testimony of Faith the
testimony of Faith simply goes like this
in English the translation that I bear
witness that there is no other God
besides one God Allah and I bear witness
that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah
once a person recites that from his
heart without any pressure from anybody
then that person becomes a
Muslim now a person who becomes a Muslim
now they are following the faith of
prophet Muhammad peace be upon him the
faith of prophet Jesus peace be upon Him
faith of prophet Moses peace be upon him
going uh to all the
prophets so they're in connection with
all the prophets they're going back to
the same faith as they are born with and
ultimately their road to Paradise would
be made easy for them nice we got a few
more uh minutes we're going to cover a
few more points now that
somebody uh you got we got their
attention and they agree with everything
it makes sense you know what and some
people dragging their feet why is this
something that's so important somebody
might have been flickering through the
channels they have listened to it they
see that you know what Islam is
something logical it makes sense it's
not something weird something mystical
that's you know what uh only a select
few can understand this is something
that is meant for the Layman for for the
carpenter for the scientist the doctor
it has to make sense it's coming from
the Creator it makes sense but you know
what there's people that are still
procrastinating why is this so important
that someone has to be firm on what they
believe and they have to believe the
right thing why is this so important how
do you get somebody to take this
seriously yes it's very important that
this life is a very short life no one
knows when I'm going to die only Allah
knows it no one knows anyone who's going
to die when they are going to pass away
once we pass away there would be a day
of judgment and Allah God is going to
judge based upon what we are what we
believed on Earth and our
Deeds if our belief was good if we
submitted to one God and do good deeds
Allah by his Mercy is going to place us
into Paradise so it's very important
that what we believed in this earth
right now should be the way that Allah
approves of it okay so since we don't
know when we are going to die and when
you are going to die once you know that
this is the truth that Allah has sent
that there is only one God and Muhammad
peace be upon Him is the messenger of
God they should embrace
Islam 4,200 people they pass away each
day 4,200 is 4200 each day so no one
knows when would be my turn your turn or
the turn of the viewers up there right
so what I would request for people who
are ready to accept Islam but they still
have that hesitancy they want to study
more the example would be this an
analogy all right so brother Eddie
suppose if you go to buy a car you have
certain things that you want in a car
right maybe the price range maybe the
car color the model the make some of the
big things that you look when you go and
buy a car once you're satisfied that the
salesperson is okay with your price and
the color and the model and the make and
all of those things of the car if you
accept the bigger picture of the car you
bring the car home right you don't open
the hood and look at each nut and both
you don't spend like many years in the
parking lot of that uh you know the the
dealership lifting and looking at under
each seat and smelling all the seats and
the Cs and the hood and the trunk if you
accept the bigger picture of the car you
purchase the car in the same way Islam
provides you the best guidance don't
submit to anyone else except one God
this is the book of guidance it has
practical advice to bring peace to you
and peace to the world it has guidance
for you how to attain salvation and the
best reward would be paradise there is
the bigger picture in
Islam once a person accepts the bigger
picture then they should go ahead and
embrace Islam they should go ahead and
recite the testimony of
Faith thank you Dr seil for being with
us again on the dean show thank you very
much people can visit uh you at gain
peace.com also yes and uh you have the
1800 number 1800 662
Islam do the right thing know that this
life is short and as Dr sail has given a
great
analogy you look at the bigger picture
you investigate before you do that ask
God to guide you it's life is
short we have to really contemplate and
think why am I here why have I been
created look at the other ways of of
life and you will not see something as
pure something that goes with your very
nature with your
mind that calls you to submit to the
Creator not his Creation in every other
way of life you'll see them in one way
or another calling you to worship
something in the creation Islam is
calling you to worship God alone and
accept all the messengers of God but the
messengership had to come to an end with
the last and final messenger the prophet
Muhammad peace and bless be upon him I'm
going to cut out with this if you don't
know this man get to know this man but
I'll tell you because I started off
talking about all the garbage that's out
there a lady used to throw garbage in
front of the messenger's
house and this went on time and time
again can you imagine someone throwing
garbage in front of your house what
would you do you'd be pretty upset
wouldn't you did he throw a fit no was
he patient yes did he snap no it went on
and on and one day he came out of his
house to expect what he usually sees the
garbage the garbage wasn't there what
did he do he went to this lady's house
knocked on the
door asked for the lady said what do you
want said I didn't see the garbage in
front of my house I came to see if
you're
okay she was dumbfound
struck she said
Muhammed she took this testimony of
faith that there's no deity worthy of
worship except Allah the creator of the
heavens and the Earth and that
Muhammad is indeed a messenger of God
this is one beautiful teaching story of
this messenger get to know who he is
come back every week to the dean show
and learn more ask God to guide you
that's the first thing you got to do and
we'll go from there we'll see you again
when at 662 Islam if you're ready to do
it now I am alaykum peace be unto
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you I see the rain fall from the and see
seed
become lift the veil from your heart
worship a and you
succeed you surely will succeed open my
eyes and see the existence of what
surrounding me