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Alum which means peace be unto you you
are watching the dean show and we're
here trying to help educate you on Islam
and Muslims and my next
guest he is coming in all the way from
you know what he's all over the world so
there no particular place you probably
recognize his laugh right there maybe
I'll get him a crack of joke but we're
going to talk about something very
serious you probably heard some
misconceptions you probably uh heard
people say certain things about Islam
but you've come to the source so we're
going to be talking about uh a certain
issue how we need to act with the
non-muslims what is our role in Islam as
far as the dawa and to help clarify a
lot of these issues my good friend she
EST it's great to be on the dean show
again I love being on the dean show it's
a lot of fun for me and I always learn
something every time I come to your show
I'm serious the way you guys bring the
questions you make me think I have to
research I have to study you make me
learn and that's good it's a good
stimulus we love having so this topic
you want to talk about you've heard and
you you hear some people saying that
Islam says don't take Jews and
Christians as friends yes what do we got
to say about this okay alhamdulillah
first of all there is uh there is a
reference for this but it's incorrect to
translate it that way there is a
reference but it's being in incorrectly
translated Quran is only in the Arabic
language as you know and it's uh it's
preserved in the original so we don't
have to any doubt about what it says in
Arabic but when you try to translate
there's where the problems come in
especially if somebody has an agenda
they're working on and they have their
own feelings or emotions that they're
putting into it now what we find is that
Allah is telling us in this case and
it's in Sur May chapter 5 the table
spread out that Allah is telling us do
not take the Jews and Christians as your
aah verily they are aah to one another
now this is the word word that they're
translating to be friend but that's not
the word for friend in Arabic actually
it means allies the word allies like for
instance when uh Great Britain and
United States are allies or Canada in
Great Britain or France and another
European country they're allies one to
the other and whenever there's going to
be a conflict so they're saying if
there's conflicts don't take the Jews
and the Christians as your allies and
particularly now that's a general
statement but in particular against each
other you have to remember that Muslims
have throughout history have fought each
other over money power wealth things
like this it happened in Spain for many
years they they fought each other to the
extent that when they brought the
Catholics in as mercenaries they paid
them in Gold to serve on one side or the
other but when they got more money they
would switch to the other side and they
proved the versus to be exactly correct
because what they were doing actually is
paying somebody to help them kill each
other the whole thing is forbidden in
Islam we shouldn't be killing anybody we
shouldn't kill each other and surely you
don't hire somebody else to help you
kill people so the idea of these
mercenaries really was stimulated very
much by these guys at that time those
guys calling themselves Muslims and that
was in Spain and basically it's why we
lost Spain in 1492 so if you said
Muslims make mistakes over that and they
shouldn't do this and that you're
absolutely right because nobody should
do that but this is what happened and
this is the verses that we would refer
to talking about that as far as the
people that we live with every day
here's what Allah says about that he
says he does not forbid you to deal with
them with kindness and Justice and so on
and so on because in these talking about
Jews and Christians or any of the people
but particularly the Jews and Christians
are the closest to us these are the
revealed religions before us we consider
the what they call the Old Testament the
Torah we consider the original to be a
very legitimate book then we consider
the gospel when it was revealed at the
time of Jesus to be another legitimate
book but whereas the Christians will say
Old Testament New Testament Jews don't
say that they would say the Torah The
Testament itself because they're not
going to accept any new testament after
that but here the whereas the Christians
are saying new
testament old testament so we are
Muslims and we're saying Old Testament
New Testament and last testament which
would Quran but still doesn't mean we're
canceling anything anymore than the
Christians are canceling something and
we're saying that okay guys
look when it comes to uh choosing
upsides no we're not going to prefer
somebody outside of Islam to those who
are inside Islam and we shouldn't divide
ourselves let's look to another verse in
chapter 3 before you ever get to chapter
5 is chapter 3 Allah says
and so here Allah is saying you who have
come to
Faith have regard for your lord full
respect and piousness fear of your lord
it's his right and don't die except in a
state of submission to him in peace and
hold fast all of you guys together to
one rope the Rope of Allah and don't
divide yourselves up so here this is
clear again Muslims should stick
together and don't prefer somebody
outside your faith to those who are
within your faith it's very
simple so one point we can say for sure
that this is a misconception well this
is a misconception Muslims have yes now
we don't need to talk because where the
non-muslims are getting this and they
put it on their websites and put it in
the magazines and newspapers and all
they're quoting English translations but
to be fair they're quoting English
translations from people who wrote it
they translated first to Udu and then
they translated the U language which is
Pakistani language to the English
language and that was almost 100 years
ago at the time of marmaduk pikal and
then after that there was YF Ali and
both of them are giving their own
interpretation whereas marmaduk pctto
he's coming up from the Arabic to the
English and here we have us Val going
Udu and from Arabic to English but as I
said in the very beginning it has to
understood in Arabic so nobody should be
out here saying the Coran is this the
Coran is that but they're looking at
English so if I got a date meaning a a
meeting okay with my friend John from
work that we're going to eat some
Kentucky Fried Chicken and a brother
comes and says look the Quran says don't
take Jews and Christians as friends I
can still go have my Kentucky Fried
Chicken with my friend John it's okay oh
please of course and this the evidence
we as Muslims are going to use
is not what somebody translates to
English today we we can easily go back
and look through the stories of prophet
Muhammad that's why they're they're
called stories or Hadith those stories
are very accurately narrated by people
who memorized everything that happened
and they conveyed it to us and related
to uh us through uh chains or narratives
that we can prove up and look what he
did he had neighbors that were Jews and
Christians he had friends that were Jews
and Christians and and he had people he
did business with that were Jewish he
had a lot of relationship with the
Jewish more so than Christian simply
because there were a lot more Jews there
were Jewish tribes Arab Jews who lived
in the city of Medina where he retired
and that's actually where he
died second point we need to be did you
say or is this correct kind
gentle oh Allah is saying that actually
he does not forbid you to be kind and
gentle with them in good treatment this
is what Allah when says he doesn't
forbid you it means that you're supposed
to be so they're hearing this on the
dean show because we have other people
that would have the people believe that
Islam takes everyone as a non-friend
who's not a Muslim that we hate them
that we despise them that if they're not
Muslim they're infidels they're this
they're that and the other thing I'm
going to make a statement I this thing I
really want to clear up this mcon I hope
that people can understand this if
you're a Jew or a Christian or a Muslim
isn't it correct for you when you think
about this that you don't really hate
the people but isn't it true that you
hate the evil that some people do
somebody might change and they might
stop being evil they might stop doing
the bad things then you wouldn't hate
them anymore you only hated the evil
they did so if this is the way people
are understanding then we would agree
with that we do hate for the sake of
Allah but it's not to hate humans it's
to hate the evil that some humans do
then Justice that a human being might do
these things we don't likewise this
works two ways you also love for the
sake of Allah we love the good that
people do what if somebody's not Muslim
and he did a good deed don't we love it
of course any good that is done we see
as even if you say well it's only good
in this world well it's still good so we
love good when it's being done we hate
evil when it's being done but this is
normal I mean if you stop analyze it
psychologically there's nothing wrong
with
that so we're clearing up these
misconceptions on The Dean show with
shik yusf Estus we mentioned before we
start started daah mhm what is our role
as Muslims what does this word mean and
what is our role in the da the the word
dawa is very much related to a word in
Arabic the root in Arabic to mean to
call it literally is c a l l call and
it's interesting because we use this all
the time we have cell phones that we're
calling everybody every day well
literally this is when you are at night
you get up and you cry to your lord and
you're praying or supplicating this is
called Dua Dua means to call call on
Allah and in the day we call to the
people and give them
da it has a little hiccup in the word da
that's how you have to put that hiccup
in there and this is to call the people
to what to understand what it is that we
believe if they want to accept it okay
if not that's okay but at least we have
to call them to sit together to come to
terms to have a way to discuss which is
better all these things I'm paraphrasing
from the translation of Quran so that
the Muslims can understand this is our
duty this is our responsibility it's not
just something nice that you could do on
a Sunday afternoon no no this is
something we as Muslims are supposed to
be calling to this and especially by our
actions and our ways and how we behave
if the people see us behaving in a good
way and a proper way wouldn't they like
to imitate that if you see somebody
successful makes a lot of money and you
say I want to be like that or if you see
somebody that's good in Sports and you
say I want to be like that somebody
that's good in music or whatever he does
and you say GE I want to be like that
whatever it is that they're doing then
somebody could be attracted to it so in
this way as Muslims we should be the
best and then when we're successful
people see us attaining what Islam has
for us what's the benefit of Islam by
the way if you want to know what's Islam
it's to gain peace you gain peace with
Islam that's what it's all about so when
I see somebody who has gained peace he
has peace in his heart has peace in his
mind and when he's dealing with people
even when hard times comes he's at peace
when Good Times come he's still at peace
he's not going ballistic or crazy or
over emotional but he stays in this way
and people say why is this guy like this
because he has gained peace now I don't
know if you mentioned this before but uh
one of our beautiful Brothers here and
actually group of brothers here in the
Chicago area have put together something
to represent that on the Internet it's
called gain peace.com and I really I
like that I had a lot of fun uh being
with them we went out you were with us
actually went out and looked for the
buses that said Islam on the side of it
and talked to the people in the streets
and if you get a chance maybe you can
show some of that show some clips from
that absolutely now we're going to wrap
up so what we learned here today because
we're seeking the knowledge we covered
the misconceptions about the bad
translation saying don't take Jews and
Christians as friends and calling them
basically to the goodness that Islam
offers worshiping one God the Creator
not his creation leaving off drugs
alcohol gambling all the evil things of
the world inviting to good old wholesome
goodness that is from the creator of the
heavens and earth some of the street
people might say that we're boring
because you know we we don't we don't
want to go to nightclubs yeah but we
don't need to why did you go to a
nightclub cuz you need something you
need to have attention or you need to
have somebody listen to your stories or
but we didn't need that we need we've
found a peace we've gained our peace
through our beliefs and through our
understanding our relationship with each
other we have a beautiful relationship
with each other in Islam and it's it's
the kind of thing that transcends even
Brotherhood from biological brothers and
sisters it's something that goes far
beyond that it's a it's a good feeling
because we know who our Lord is we know
what he wants from us and we know what
we're supposed to be doing so is it safe
to say that we want to be more than
friends with them we want them to be our
brothers of course to the one true God
this is the goal real quick tell them
what they need to do if they want to do
that right now there's actually a 1800
number that can call but before we give
him that number is that 1 1800 662 Islam
662 or 622 no
662 Islam but tell them what they need
to do to become our brothers instead of
just our friends first and foremost is
don't do it for the sake just to be
somebody's brother do this for the sake
of the peace in your own heart what you
want to do is open up your heart and
remove any type of preconceived notions
or prejudices that you may have act as
though you don't know anything at all
about religion God anything just wipe it
all away start like a child a small baby
starts with nothing and just say in this
state of innocence and
Purity oh God if you're there listening
to me guide me these are almost exact
words that I said many years ago 1991 in
Texas oh God if you're there guide me I
didn't know what else to say but when I
raised up my head I had my head on the
floor begging him to give me this
guidance when I raised up my head you
know what I was thinking there must be
God there's no doubt about that it's
just a matter of way I'm behaving or
misbehaving this is the problem so start
with that ask him to guide you and then
if you come away from this knowing that
there's only one God he has no Partners
he's not two Gods six gods or three Gods
but rather
one and that Jesus peace be upon Him is
a prophet a messenger the Messiah the
word of God he's with God and be back in
the last day this is what we
believe but we don't accept him as a God
or a part of God but we do accept all
the prophets as being the greatest of
men That Ever Walked and that includes
also Muhammad cuz he's the one who told
us this but when you accept those two
things and you're ready to put yourself
forward for the sake of your God and you
said this is my God I want to serve him
I don't care what anybody else thinks
I'm going to do my best well you're
probably more in Islam than some of the
so-called Muslims today and you're
certainly our brother or sister in faith
thank you very much by the way Eddie we
might mention to them that coming back
and forth to the dean show is a good
thing to do too yeah definitely you got
the uh the dean show we're here every
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want to speak to somebody live until
next time we'll see you again on the
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