what
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as my
God
how can we know that Islam is from Allah
subhana how can we be sure and how can
we reach y
certainty that this Dean that we profess
to be followers of This Dean which
alhamdulillah is the fastest growing
religion on the face of the Earth and it
is the largest religion now on the face
of the this Earth
alhamdulillah how do we know that Islam
is the truth how do we know that this
Dean is the true Dean because there was
a time 1,400 years ago when there was
only one
man one very special
man his name was Muhammad IB
Abdullah and we know know him of course
as Muhammad s. wasam who began to call
the people to the pure and beautiful
Message of
Islam to
theal
muham so my brothers and sisters what
are the proofs and what are the
evidences through which and by which we
can know and also that those people who
are not yet Muslim and we ask Allah to
guide all the people to Islam how can
they know that Islam is the True
Religion first of all I want to discuss
briefly why this is an important
subject the first reason why this
subject is very important is
because every Muslim needs to be armed
with Y
certainty every Muslim has to have
certainty that is far from any type of
doubt that Islam is the true religion
that has been revealed by Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala
to his last and final messenger Muhammad
S.I
wasallam and certainty does not come
about by merely being born into a
Muslim family or a Muslim country or a
Muslim
culture I know there are many brothers
and
sisters many people who call themselves
Muslim but if you ask them why are you
Muslim why are you a Muslim and not a
Christian why are you a Muslim and not a
Jew or an atheist or something else the
only reply they will give is because
this was the religion of my
fathers and I am following my
fathers of course this is not really
what should motivate a Muslim Muslim or
anyone to follow
religion religion is followed the true
religion is followed because it is the
truth and the true religion is based
upon proof and
evidence it is based upon proof and
evidence imagine if I came here today
having arrived recently from London
after my 24-hour
flight and I arrived here in this
mashallah beautiful Mosk I think I was
staring at the ceiling for at least 2
minutes alhamdulillah we have a
beautiful mosque in London as well
Central mosque but this I have to say
mashallah so if I arrived here and I
said this mosque does not belong to the
Muslim Community of
Sydney this mosque belongs to me
this is my mosque it belongs to me and
from now on I am the IM and I am the
mosque committee and in fact I want all
of you to leave cuz I don't really like
you please
go I could come along and I could say
that and I could make a
claim will my claim be accepted will you
accept my
claim I mean come on I do look a bit
like what Jesus is supposed to look
like huh maybe if you think about it I
could probably start a cult and I could
get many
supporters and I could get many people
with me maybe even I could make people
think that Jesus has come again maybe
Allah there's plenty of people if David
qur could do it I could probably do it
so so I bring the people along and now I
have lots of followers to tell this is
abdim's
mosque does that make it my mosque
because lots of people say it's my
mosque that's not a proof it's not an
Evidence it doesn't make it my
mosque if I really believe that this
mosque belongs to me then in a just
Society I will have to bring some proof
and evidence in order to support my
claim I will have to go to
court I will have to show the court
evidence that can be examined and looked
at
so that the people can decide the judge
can decide based upon the evidence not
upon how I look not upon the color of my
skin not upon how beautiful my words are
but they should judge me and judge my
claim according to the evidence that I
bring it's no good if I stand there and
say but I believe it's my mosque I
believe it I really really believe it I
have faith doesn't make it my mosque I
can believe it all I like but it doesn't
make it
true you have to bring evidence this is
how Society
works this is how it
works yes do you have I'm I don't know I
haven't checked yet but in England in
our house we have meters for the
electricity yeah does you ever have a
come you ever have a guy knocking on the
door coming to read your meter you have
that we have that in England too imagine
some guy comes knocking on your door
with long black hair and a big b doesn't
look like a muslim with a with a leather
jacket on and a t-shirt with death
written on it okay and he has the he
said I come to
well he wouldn't that's an English
accent he'd say it in an Australian
accent right so you
say go away you're not the meter man let
me see some
identification prove to me you're from
the electricity
company because you know that people
from the electricity company they have
identification and you can really you
can ring a number did you send the
electricity man round today yes what
does he look like has he got a jacket
with death on it and yes he has I know
he's strange but so you know you
understand why will you you won't let
anyone into your house because in your
house is your wife and your children and
your possessions so you want to see some
proof some
evidence yes this is how we
are why is it then when it comes to
religion
when it comes to
religion people have different
standards when it comes to religion
people say well I follow the way of my
ancestors they were Hindus so I'm a
Hindu they were Christians so I'm a
Christian to the Jew and to the
Christian and to the idol worshipper and
to The Atheist and to the Communist and
everyone anyone bring your proof If what
you say is true if you claim that this
is what Allah says if you claim that
this is Allah's Dean if you claim that
this is God's revelation bring your
proof bring your evidence because this
issue of religion is more important than
the issue of my house it is more
important than the issue of to whom this
mosque belongs to the issue of your
religion is what is going to decide your
fate whether you will be punished
forever in a fire where your skin will
be roasted and recreated and re roasted
so you can taste the
punishment or whether you will
experience the Delights and the
pleasures and the Bliss of
paradise this is what is being decided
here not some few mundane aspects of our
worldly
life so we want to see proof we want to
see
evidence now if you are a Muslim and
this is the second benefit of this
lecture the first benefit is to give us
Y the second benefit is inshallah so you
will also have a weapon or not a weapon
but you will have something to be able
to give da to call the people to Islam
with when you say to them prove to me
your religion is true and they will not
be able to prove that their religion is
true what then they are going to say
brothers and sisters you prove to me
that your religion is
true yes it's actually very strange how
few people say that they will argue
about everything they will argue about
hijab they will argue about Jihad they
will argue about polygamy they will
argue about the Shar they will argue
about all the things in
Islam and they will argue and argue with
you but none of them say or very few of
them say prove to me your religion is
true prove me that's what I want to know
I want to know whether this is from God
or not is this from Allah or
not I would like to know out of
curiosity don't be
shy how many brothers think think they
could if I ask them now in a imaginary
discussion prove to me that Islam is
from Allah please raise your hands if
you think you can prove maybe I will
pick you so to come and give the talk so
be honest if you think that you can
prove to me that Islam is from Allah put
your hand up be honest now come on come
on I want to see one hand two three 4
five
six okay certainly anyway
alhamdulillah which is not alhamdullah
it's sad not all of you because without
doubt Brothers every one of you should
put your hand up how can you live in
this
Society amongst the people who are the
majority of them not
Muslims and you do not
know how to prove to them that your Dean
is from Allah
how are you going to what are you going
to say to your children when they come
back and they say oh Mommy and Daddy
they taught me that we came from
monkeys oh Mommy and Daddy they taught
me that all religions are the same oh
Mommy and Daddy they taught me that
religion is not really important it's
just an old thing people do but we have
modern society now oh Mommy and Daddy
they tell me that this Islam is an old
religion full of tales of the
Ancients what are you going to say to
your
children if you don't know and you can't
prove that Islam is the true
religion where is your Y where is your
certainty from where do you get your
certainty maybe alhamdulillah you get it
from your F your natural disposition
alhamdulillah there is that but brothers
and sisters we are not anymore living in
villages
in Lebanon and Iraq or turkey or
wherever else we came from where we do
not come into contact anymore with
outside Society we are living in the hot
bed of the land of the people who are
not Believers in Islam where every
minute of every day we are confronted
with challenges to our Iman and our
Islam yes brothers and sisters seeking
knowledge is an obligation upon every
Muslim alhamdulillah you are here today
first of all I will have to apologize
because this lecture could easily I
could spend 3 hours or 4 hours giving
this lecture or even I could spend four
or five days because the proof that
Islam is from Allah alhamdulillah Allah
has given this Dean so much proof and so
much evidence we could write volumes of
books about it we could write volumes of
books in fact alhamdulillah volumes of
books have been written about it so we
don't have time to mention all of the
details but what I would like to do is
to give you an outline and inshallah you
can research
yourselves later inshallah into more
details about
this what are the proofs and the
evidences that we can know that Islam is
from
Allah we want to know prove to me that
Islam is from Allah
the first proof and
evidence and for me I believe this is
one of the
strongest
evidences is that Islam is a truly
Universal
religion that can be understood by
anybody
anywhere it is based upon certain uni
what I call Universal principles some
fundamental principles
that anybody anywhere in any place and
in any time irrespective of their
culture their color their upbringing
they could understand these things
because the truths of
Islam and what Islam teaches us about
Allah about God are so fundamental and
so rational and so logical It could only
be the
truth
every other religion if you examine it
has something confusing or misguiding or
something contradictory to say about
Allah about God only in Islam you will
find the pure
unadulterated teaching of toed
monotheism
toed and this toed or this teaching
about the one Allah the one God
is so clear and so easy to understand
and so in touch with the human mind and
the human reason that one of the proofs
that Islam is from Allah is that it
teaches this toed this truth about
Allah let me briefly because this could
easily be a lecture in itself let me
briefly mention to you what I
mean how can we
know
about the existence of God how do we
know that Allah exists really the
existence of Allah is a simple fact that
nobody with intelligence can
deny nobody with intelligence can deny
that there is a Creator who created this
universe and this world in which we
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live
why because if we look at the universe
we see that the Universe and the world
in which we live is
organized that we have
planets solar
systems
galaxies all of them working according
to very strict
laws let us just take the earth on which
we
live and this is something Allah he
tells us to do in the Quran to
reflect to reflect to contemplate on the
creation in fact Allah he says that in
these things there are enough signs
there are enough
signs for those who
contemplate look at our Earth we live on
a planet that science tells us today the
Earth rotates on its access once every
24
hours so the sun is shining we can
imagine that's the Sun and the Earth is
turning on its axis so when the this bit
of the earth is facing the sun it is day
and the other part of the
Sun the other part of the earth is away
from the Sun that is the night so the
Earth turns on its axis once every 24
hours
imagine if the Earth was spinning very
slowly very slowly so instead of the
Earth spinning on its axis once every 24
hours it spun on its axis once every 20
years so imagine a day was 10 years long
and a night was 10 years long yes cuz
the Earth is spinning slowly what would
happen one part of the Earth's surface
would always be exposed at least for 20
years to the sun and the other other
part would be in the shade for 20 years
for 10 years 10 years and 10 years so
the sun beating down on the earth as I'm
sure you know in Australia you get the
sun here a lot and Australia most of it
is Desert I remember flying across a
continent that was really mostly a
desert imagine this there is no
night the sun is beating down constantly
you will have one part of the Earth's
surface will become super heated and the
other part will become super cooled and
most likely life will not
exist but the Earth happens to spin at
this beautiful precise movement once
every 24 hours not only that it is just
the right distance from the Sun if it
was closer to the Sun it would be be too
hot if it was further from the Sun it
will be too cold we have gases in our
Earth's atmosphere oxygen nitrogen and
carbon dioxide in exactly the right
balance for life to exist oxygen is
essential for life's existence but pure
oxygen is
poisonous that's why we need carbon
dioxide and we also need nitrogen which
helps to fertilize the
soil we have a gas on the Earth's
atmosphere called ozone this is the name
of the gas the ozone layer which is a
gas it is a layer of this gas ozone and
this gas happens to have the property of
filtering out the harmful effects of the
sun's
radiation take away this gas then
radiation that would hit the Earth
surface would kill all
Life water is amazing property water has
when water is solid it floats on the
liquid meaning ice floats on water put
ice in your glass of water and does it
sink to the bottom or does it float to
the top icebergs do they sink to the
bottom of the sea or they float on the
top they're on the top but this is only
with
water with other materials it is the
opposite the solid sinks to the bottom
of the
liquid but imagine if water had the
property of all other materials imagine
if solid water sank instead of
floated then every river would be Frozen
from the bottom the Seas would be Frozen
from the bottom and life would not
exist and we can look and look and look
and what we find everywhere is this
Precision everything is constructed
according to a fantastic plan if we talk
about our eyes our brain our
ears the
animals the trees the plants how they
all exist in this symbiotic relationship
each one relying upon the other you will
see what a beautiful balanced mechanism
that we live
in how do we explain
this we have to ask some questions where
did it come
from where did it come
from did it come from
nothing now you see we talk about
Universal principles you see all human
beings all of us everywhere we
understand certain things we have a
shared set of principles we all
understand yes for
example it doesn't matter where you go
you go to Turkey to Lebanon to England
to Australia to uh the South Pole north
pole wherever you go and you ask a human
being is part of something less than and
the whole of that thing is part a part
of
something less than the whole is a part
of this sponge on the microphone is one
part of it less than the whole of it
you'll all say yes this small part of it
is less than the whole of it we all
agree every human being
agrees there are some things we all
agree on one of the things we agree on
if we ask someone do you find something
coming from
nothing do you find something coming
from nothing we say we don't find that
we don't find something just coming from
nothing do you find order spontaneously
arising from chaos you say no if I see
some order I know someone or something
has imposed order on
it that's why I can take out the most
simple thing you know what's a simple
thing is a key look a very simple thing
a key
so simple
really but there's not one of us who
will think that this came from nowhere
from chance and coincidence we know
someone made it someone constructed it
for a
purpose we know
that you know we know that we don't get
something coming from nothing in fact
when we look in this mosque Subhan Allah
what a beautiful example we are amazed
at the ability of the artist
to paint these
beautiful geometric designs on the
ceiling and around the
mosque and the more beautiful and the
more
intricate and the more difficult the
architecture the more we are amazed at
the ability of those people yes so these
things tell us something about the ones
who made
it this is what we know from our Human
Experience so when we ask the question
in fact Allah asks the question in the
Quran about this the universe about
ourselves did it come from
nothing human beings we know that you
don't get something coming from
nothing you know why my brothers and
sisters atheism is the most
irrational it is the most irrational of
all
beliefs because it is expecting us to
believe something that no human being
ever has ever
experienced there is nothing in the
whole totality of Human Experience to
lead us to believe that something comes
from nothing let alone the beautiful
order that we find in this
universe so then we ask another question
did this universe create
itself did it create
itself how could it create
itself because if it did not exist in
the first place Place how could it bring
itself into
existence and the universe is what a
collection of stars and galaxies and
planets and we do not say that the stars
and galaxies and planets have the
ability to organize they need something
to organize them so it could not have
created itself are we the creators of
it no because we ourselves need a
Creator we ourselves need a
creator
so what is the answer the answer is that
there must be one who has created this
universe and brought it into existence
and there could not be two of such Gods
because otherwise you will not find
order you will find
chaos so my brothers and sisters you see
that the first thing Islam is teaching
us is something about God but that is
not
all because we can understand that Allah
this
God his nature must be different from
the
creation the Creator must be different
from the Creator
Creation The Creator must be different
from the creation why because if Allah
or the Creator was the same as the
creation then Allah would need a
Creator he would need a creator he would
need something to order him and
to bring him into existence and so on
and so forth so we understand that the
Creator must be
different this creation is temporary it
has a beginning it has an
end Allah is eternal he has no beginning
and no end he is the
first before whom there was none and he
is the last after whom there is none
this universe is needy it needs Allah to
sustain it it needs Allah to make
it exist and keep on existing but Allah
is he is the living He is the self
subsisting he is
a he is a suad he is the one upon whom
all things depend and he depends upon
nothing all of this my brothers and
sisters we could understand with our
minds with without even opening a
book which religion teaches you this
about God which religion teaches you
that there is one God who is different
from and separate from the creation who
brought it into existence and everything
depends upon him and this creation there
is nothing in this creation that is like
God there is nothing this creation which
shares the qualities of God which
religion teaches
that
look look Hinduism what does Hinduism
teach you Hinduism teaches you
essentially that this universe is
God between the creation and the Creator
there is no
difference the rat is God the dog is God
the elephant is God I am God you are God
the stone is God everything is God this
is what they teach
yes God is everywhere in everything and
everything is God this is what they
teach that's why they worship the
everything they worship everything you
know when they put the ash on their head
you know where that's from it is from
the dong of the
cow yes and if you go to India you will
see themselves cleaning themselves
cleaning themselves in because they
think it's
holy yes and this is why some of of them
they call themselves some of the yogis
they say they are
God because God is in you and God is in
me but God is more in me than he's in
you yes so worship me because I'm more
of God than you this is what they
say but we know from these principles
that this is false god is not the
creation nor is God in the creation that
Allah God the one he's separate and
different from it Christianity teaches
that Allah became a
man Allah
God who is
aad he
is he
is he is the first and the
last they tell us that the one this one
Allah he became a man and died on the
cross so he was born of a woman he was a
little baby he suckled on the breast he
got bigger and bigger and
bigger H he walked and breathed and ate
food and then they say they put him on a
cross and he died God
died this is what they
say so they say God is a man who died
this does not agree with the reason with
the F it does not agree with these
principles how can you ever prove this
you cannot prove it because you are
asking people to believe two opposite
things that the Eternal is temporary
that the Everlasting
died that the
self-sufficient had needs it's
impossible two imp contradictory
things this cannot be true so all
religions that teach these things we
find that if you look in all the
religions you will find in all the books
you will only find really in reality one
religion one book that teaches this pure
belief ofed and that is the Quran and
that is Islam and that my brothers and
sisters is really the strongest proof
because if you can make people
understand that if people have sincerity
then they will believe on
this but sometimes people they need more
encouragement they say yes that's very
sensible I agree with that but how can I
be sure that
Muhammad Sall alai wasallam is a prophet
of God because really what you have said
is very true and beautiful but any
intelligent
person could have thought of
this how do I know that
Muhammad sallah alaihi wasallam how do I
know that he is a messenger how do I
know the Quran is the word of God so
they want more convincing alhamdulillah
we'll give them more
convincing first of all we want to look
at the prophet Muhammad sallallahu
alaihi
wasallam Brothers Allah has blessed
us with a
messenger and this messenger
Muhammad Sall alaihi wasallam W he he is
a he is a proof from Allah he is a proof
from Allah that this Dean is the true
Dean
his
character his
personality his
behavior his firmness his truthfulness
is a clear proof that he was what he
claimed to be the messenger of
Allah his whole life is a proof that he
was a messenger of
Allah and of course we don't have time
to mention the whole
s but I would like to mention a few
incidents
but before that I would like to
think I would like us again to use
reason to
think if someone comes along and says I
am a
prophet if someone comes along and he
says I am a messenger of
God there are three
possibilities three possibilities
concerning this person's
claim number
one the first possibility is that this
individual or this person is a
liar like
m
al like Ahmed mza of
kadan who from whom the kadis the Ahmed
claim who now America are telling us
that we should now accept them although
they say Gul Ahmed mza is a prophet
after Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wasallam Subhan Allah now they want to
teach us about our
Dean Subhan
Allah Subhan Allah what is more you want
a more clear kufur than that or like for
example Elijah Muhammad from the Nation
of
Islam who now farakhan Lis farakhan he
is the leader of them he they claim that
Elijah Muhammad is the prophet of
Allah yes so either the person could be
a liar he know knows he's not a prophet
he knows that Allah has not given him
any Revelation but he has invented this
lie in order to get something from
people like m al even his tribesmen said
they call him alab they knew he was not
a prophet but they say he's from our
tribe they just supported him cuz he was
from their
tribe so this is the first possibility
the first possibility is the person
could be a liar so not everyone who
comes and says he's a prophet is
speaking the
truth yes could be a liar the other the
other possibility is maybe this person
really thinks that they
are receiving Revelation maybe this
person thinks that they are a prophet
meaning they're
mad you know they're majn they're crazy
he really thinks that he sees an Ang
that comes to him or like the Son of Sam
I don't know if you remember the Son of
Sam he said that a dog talked to him and
that God spoke to him through the dog
and that the dog told him go and kill
this prostitute and go and kill that
prostitute I'm sure he didn't wasn't
lying he really believed this because he
was
mad
yes and the third possibility is that
the person is speaking the
truth these are the the only three
possibilities if we look at the life of
prophet Muhammad sallai wasallam and we
ask these three questions number one
and this is exactly what the enemies of
Islam have
done this is the path of most of the
Christian writers they said we look at
number one they said Muhammad they
said and we will show how they are liars
they say Muhammad was a liar they are
the
Liars they say Muhammad sallallah alaihi
wasallam he sat with a Jewish rabbi he
sat with Christian priests he learned
about all these things he copied the
Bible and he invented Islam he sat in
the cave and he invented
Islam this is what they say until today
this is what they say if you read their
books this is what they claim they say
Muhammad was a liar he invented it they
say that because when any Christian
reads the Quran they will see Abraham
Noah yakob
Yahya John Jesus Moses Abraham Jacob
they will see laws they will see things
that they are familiar with they will
see descriptions of paradise and
hellfire and the day of judgment so they
will say where did this man living 1,400
years ago in the desert how did he learn
about all of these things there were no
universities there were no colleges how
did he get all this knowledge how did he
get all this
information where did you know the Quran
talks about very difficult theological
issues like the
Trinity about for example atheism I
already mentioned the Quran refutes
atheism it where did this man get this
knowledge from so the Christian he says
well Muhammad
sallahu alaihi wasallam he must have
learned it from a rabbi or a priest he
must have copied it from the
Bible and he invented Islam and made
this
lie they say he was a
liar another group of people modern
writers they say something different
they say when we look at the life of
Muhammad he didn't have the character of
a liar the actions and the behavior of
this man they say he behaved like this
because he really believed that he was a
prophet he really thought it but he was
really
deluded let us look to the life of the
Prophet I want to take as an example my
brothers and sisters just three
incidents
one three
incidents yes the first incident
is when
Allah he first ordered the prophet
Muhammad sallah alaihi wasallam to call
the people to
Islam in
public so the prophet sallallah alai
wasallam went to the top of Mount
Safa now the Arabs they had a
tradition the Pagan Arabs they had a
tradition that if Mecca was being
attacked by an army and someone saw the
army they would have to take off their
clothes and run to the top of Mount Safa
and warn the people people people an
army is attacking and they would have to
be
naked I guess the reason behind that is
so they don't cry wolf you know the
story Cry Wolf when the shepherd boy he
says wolf wolf wolf and the people come
he says I'm only joking there wasn't a
wolf he does it three times after the
third time the wolf eats him cuz the
people ignore him yeah we all tell that
story to our children probably so the
same thing the Arabs had this custom you
you went to the top of the hill and you
took off your clothes and you said an
army is attacking
us the prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam
of course wearing his clothes went to
the top of Mount saf he started calling
all the tribes of qur
yah B hashd Abdul MB calling all the
different
tribes until either the leader of the
tribe came or he sent a representative
so the people of Mecca were in front of
him and the prophet sallallahu wasam he
said oh my people if I was to tell you
that there is an army about to attack us
from behind the hill would you believe
me and the people said oh
Muhammad we never heard anything except
truth from you why should we not believe
you
W Allah put on the mouth of the put on
the mouth of the people of the Prophet
Muhammad on their tongues oh Muhammad we
never heard anything but truth from you
they testified that he s wasam was a s
he was the truthful they even ni nickn
named him Al before that they Nick they
gave him the nickname al-amin the
trustworthy Subhan Allah so his people
said we never heard anything but truth
from you and the prophet Sall wasallam
said I have come to warn you of a
terrible punishment from your
Lord oh my uncles oh my aunts oh
Fatima daughter of Muhammad I cannot
help you and I cannot Avail you at all
in front of Allah except that you
believe in him and Obey him and then
Abu he stood up he said oh Muhammad may
your face be rubbed in the dust may you
be humiliated is this what you wasted
our time
for and then Allah
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revealed and as you know the rest of the
Ayah goes the Surah
so now people look my brothers and
sisters how the people of Muhammad
testified that he was
truthful really they never heard lies
from him they knew he was the most
truthful and trustworthy man amongst
them and then another amazing thing
happened his uncle his own Uncle Abu
laab insulted him and on the first
time that Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wasallam he called the people publicly
to
Islam he said you Abu laab you Abu lahab
this is what the Ayah is saying you will
go to the fire you and your
wife you will dwell in the
fire is if you are a now think about
that if you are a con artist if if you
want to persuade everybody here am I now
go back to the beginning I imagine say
I'm pretending to be Jesus or something
I want to persuade you all that I'm
Jesus right and I'm saying I am him I'm
come you must follow me right and you
you will never believe in
me and you're sitting there and you
stand up but I do believe in you I
believe you really are
Jesus you understand if I start from day
one from the first moment pointing out
someone and saying you you will
never believe in me that's not the way a
con man behaves do you understand if
he's a liar he's clever he's not going
to put himself in a difficult situation
like that cuz he's thinking how can I
fool the
people huh for 10
years this Surah was there and ab he
used to criticize the prophet sallallahu
Al attacked the prophet if the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam went
somewhere he will try and refute the
prophet afterwards for 10
years all he had to do is
say but he never
did you see Muhammad was truthful we
could bring many evidences but we're
only choosing three the next evidence is
this think about this after some years
the da of the prophet and the da of
Islam was beginning to get the people of
Mecca
worried so they sent to the prophet
Muhammad Anem Emissary utba and utba was
given an offer utba
said oh
Muhammad if you want to be our King we
will make you our
King if you want to be the richest man
amongst us we will give you money and we
will make you the richest man amongst us
if some there's some beautiful woman
that you
desire just tell us who and she will be
yours and if you suffer from some
illness that you say this Spirit comes
to you we will spend any amount of money
for you to be
cured think about that if a man is a
liar what does he want he wants money he
wants Fame he wants women he wants
something they offered the prophet
sallallah
will make you our King to be
king we'll give you all the money you
want just leave this
message give up preaching
Islam Subhan Allah and the prophet said
in those famous
words if I had the or this is what it's
reported anyway in the S although is a
more authentic he said I cannot leave
this anymore than if I took you can take
a torch and light it from the Sun in one
of accounts it said if I had the sun in
one hand and the Moon in the other I
will never give up preaching this
message Subhan
Allah not like us give me a few pounds
don't worry I'll be
quiet Subhan
Allah really is the truth you know it
Brothers may Allah help us Subhan Allah
so this is the prophet now is these the
words of a
liar are these the words of an ambitious
person
person you see this is why the kufar
these days when they're writing their
books they don't they can't this is not
the behavior of a liar Liars don't
behave like this Subhan
Allah and then I want to one final
incident I want to
mention this is in
Medina and the prophet sallallah alaihi
wasallam he had a
son his name was ibraim
and as we know ibraim the son of the
Prophet Sall died when he was 6 months
old he died in the arms of the Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasall yes his son
died on the same
day that the son of the Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam died there
was an eclipse of the
sun now if I went around saying you see
that proves he's a
prophet many some of you might say yes
that's true there's eclipse of the Sun
and his son died if you told most of
those people who believe in star signs
that the Virgo is in the ascendant over
the Pisces which is in The Descendant
over the Leo and I'm going to you know
be a happy man this week right do you
tell them that on the day that the son
the prophet Muhammad's son died there
was an eclipse of the sun they will say
wow that's amazing and you know at that
time the people came rushing and they
said look
even the Sun
darkens out of respect mourning the
death of the son of the Prophet Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi
wasallam please if Muhammad sallallahu
alaihi wasallam was a liar he would be
saying this is amazing here I've got it
can you believe this after all these
years now I've got the chance you see
everybody you see I told you I was a
prophet yes and and if he was deluded
he'll be thinking yes God is showing the
signs to the people to prove that them
I'm a
prophet what did Muhammad sallallahu
alaihi wasallam do he called the
people to announce to them
what this is the Sun and this is the
moon they are from the ayat of Allah and
they do not rise or set or eclipse for
the birth or the death of any
man so when you see this pray to your
lord and he taught us the prayer of the
eclipse are these not the words of a man
who was what he truly claimed to be he
was no liar and he was no deluded person
he was what he claimed to be the
messenger of
Allah and his life and I've only given
three incidents proves
that
but that is not all my brothers on top
of that Allah has given us the great
miracle of the
Quran the convincing Miracle of the
Quran we don't have time to even begin
to touch upon the Quran and its many
miraculous
aspects what can we say about a book
that is in fact the uncreated speech of
Allah Allah he says that if this book
was from anyone else than him you would
find within it many contradictions you
would find within it many
contradictions if you open the Bible you
don't need to get Beyond page one to
find the first
contradiction believe me page one you
don't need to go any further on page one
of the Bible it tells us in the Bible
that God created the night and the day
before he created the
Sun
it's in the beginning God created the
light it says this in the beginning God
created the light and he called it
day and he created the darkness and he
called it night the first day came and
the first night came and it's not until
the fourth day check it it's not until
the fourth day that Allah creates the
sun on the fourth day he created the sun
to rule the day and he created the moon
to rule the
night Subhan Allah now anyone reading
that will say the one who wrote this
does not know how night and day occurs
they got confused in fact it's an old
ancient Babylonian creation
myth do you find such contradictions in
the Quran no my brothers and sisters
you find in the Quran
statements that are accurate concerning
scientific facts that scientists have
only discovered in the last 20
years we have statements of scientific
fact concerning the mountains concerning
the creation of the
universe where Allah he tells us have
not the unbelievers seen that the
heavens and the Earth were United joined
together as one piece of creation then
we the aund and we bought from every
living thing we we made from water every
living thing the Quran describes the
common origin of the universe how was
rent aunder from this Duan from the
smoke Allah created the planets the
Quran tells us the Quran tells us how
Allah placed in the
mountains like the pegs of a tent how
the Quran describes that the mountains
have Roots which has only been
discovered recently that Continental
mountains have roots roots and they help
to stabilize the Earth's surface this is
mentioned in the Quran the Quran
mentions the stepbystep stages of
embryonic
development
accurately in detail so much so that one
of the most eminent scientist Keith
Moore he said about this he decided to
restructure the whole science of
embryology based upon the quranic
method and he alhamdulillah embraced
Islam he is the world's most famous and
most eminent embryologist Keith
Moore anyone who is studying embryology
in University will have have heard of
him and his book the developing
human and many other scientists were
Amazed by what the Quran contains the
Quran contains historical information
that we have just begun to discover
today Subhan Allah one things the
Christians if you find in books of
Christians they actually write about
some of them saying one of the biggest
mistakes we find in the Quran is about
history it's in their writings for
example the Quran mentions that Pharaoh
is talking to a man called Haman Haman
was in fact this is what they say a
courtier who is mentioned in the Bible
in the in in the court of
Nebuchadnezzar some brothers recently in
Cambridge did did some
research they went through the
hieroglyphs
alhamdulillah Allah caused the Rosetta
Stone to be discovered and the
hieroglyphs to be deciphered now people
can read
hieroglyphs this is in 100 years ago
more than 100 years ago and they did
some research and you know what they
found they found in this one book in
German about hieroglyphs they found the
word
ham ham they were very excited because
the Christians were mocking us saying
look who is this H so they searched
through this H it was in German so then
they had to translate the German I
brooken whatever it was
right and then and as they translated it
you know what the hieroglyph means do
you remember the verse Oh ham build for
us a lofty building so we can look upon
this God of Moses build for us oh Haman
a lofty building you know what the
hieroglyphic word for ham meant as they
translate it he is the chief of the
workers of those who work in the quaries
mining and building with
stone Subhan Allah the chief of the
quaries of the Builders of stone oh ham
build for us a lofty
building this proves how did this
information come to be in a book 1,400
years old when there was no knowledge of
hieroglyphs at the
time how does the Quran manage to
mention that the
arcudi it came to rest on
Judi whereas the Bible tells it's the
mountains of arat and now you know they
have discovered a boat-shaped
object which they think could be the ark
upon where is it upon a mountain called
Judy you find the Quran is full of
scientific historical not contradictions
but accuracies that no one could have
known 1,400 years ago the Quran is a
book my brothers that is memorized by
children as young as six or seven years
old from beginning to
end and unknown numbers of Muslims
through every generation have memorize
this
Quran unknown uncounted me me numbers of
people have memorized this Quran the
Quran we have today is the same letter
for letter word for word we can e even
mashah as we heard the our brother
reciting the Quran in the same accent
that was recited by the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam 1,400 years
ago this book has been preserved there
is not a book like
that this book the language of which
when the Pagan Arabs heard it it was
enough to make them Embrace
Islam because they knew that no man
could have RIS WR words of such beauty
and elence eloquence and power and
uniqueness and the Quran challenged them
that if you believe this book is from
anyone else than Allah bring one Surah
like it and they could never do
it this Quran my brothers and sisters
has
laws has
laws so upright so clear so straight so
perfect
L adapted to the needs of human beings
and this is something I want all of us
to think about as
Muslims the laws of the Quran the
teachings of the Prophet Muhammad
sallallah sallallahu alaihi wasallam
they're not for sometime 1,400 years ago
these laws are for us today living in
the 20th century there is not one
command or one Prohibition in the Quran
that is out of date for another time and
another place wah whoever says that is
some is someone who's left
Islam the Quran today is as good and as
perfect for human beings As It Ever Was
because it is from Allah and if you
examine and you think about these laws
they're so perfect how could any man
think of these things how could any man
have put these things down and
understood the human being so
perfectly It could only be from the one
who created all things
this is a huge subject to discuss it I
ask you brothers and sisters to research
to find out to study for yourself from
the simplest things the use of the
smallest Sunnah using a miswak now we
are told brush your teeth twice a day at
least but 1,400 years ago Islam
instituted the miswak even a simple
thing the prophet sallallahu alaihi was
told us advised us when you put your
sandals on sit
down
what's so great about that a brother
told me he was studying a book and he
found in this book on a medical journal
that s such and such percentage of back
problems came from people trying to put
their shoes on standing
up a simple thing this is the smallest
thing but if you look at the laws
concerning the Sharia laws the divorce
laws you will find that Islam is full of
incredible wisdoms and insights into
human nature that no human being could
achieve
verily Allah subhana T he told us in his
book never will the
disbelievers from the people of the book
or the mus leave off their disbelief
until they came to
them Prophet from Allah reciting to them
a purified scripture containing upright
laws this is what we have the pure
scripture with the upright
laws Muhammad s Al Allah has given us my
brothers and sisters proof upon proof
upon proof and I've only touched upon
this subject so that we can know
ourselves
and we can prove to all of humanity that
what Allah has revealed to Muhammad s.
wasallam is most certainly the truth
that Islam is certainly the dean before
Allah that Muhammad S.I wasallam is most
certainly his last and final
messenger you've been very PTI
mallah and uh before I
continue with the questions and answers
I would uh I would like also I would
like to thank all of you mashallah for
coming here tonight because it's my
pleasure to be able to give you some bit
of knowledge that I've got to you really
it's my pleasure so I would like to
thank you and I'd like to thank the
mosque this mashah the brothers and all
the community who have built this Mah
beautiful mosque and may Allah reward
all of you I mean inshah hopefully we'll
all share in the reward of Mark Shah
today
inshallah so the first question we won't
take too many questions uh very good
question
here if in Islam we believe that the
Bible along with the other books was
sent from Allah prior to the Quran why
does the bible contain contradictions
such as the example you gave of the
light and the Darkness and the night and
the day uh meaning being created before
the
sun the question again sorry it's a bit
difficult I'm holding this anyway okay
so the question is how come the Bible
contains
contradictions if we believe in the
previous books the first thing is
brothers and sisters is that the Quran
and this is very
important because
because sometimes Christian missionaries
confuse us on this
issue the Quran does not tell us to
believe in the
Bible the Quran does not mention the
Bible nowhere in the Quran is the Bible
mentioned in fact even the Bible doesn't
mention the
Bible because the Bible in fact even if
you ask 10 different Christian groups
what the Bible is they will tell you and
give you 10 different books so even the
Christians don't know what's the
Bible the Catholics have 16 books more
than the
Protestants and the Mormons have an
extra book Al together and if you look
and you go and you find ancient
manuscripts such as the Codex cyan
articus you'll find that it has books
that we don't even know about in the
Bibles today so what is the Bible anyway
the Bible anyway is from the Greek word
biblos which means a collection of books
these books are there because some
Christian councils of various Christian
denominations decided that these were
the authoritative scripture according to
their interpretation so the Quran does
not in any way tell us to believe in the
Bible all the Quran tells us to believe
in is in the books that were revealed to
The Messengers who came before Muhammad
S.I wasallam of which the ones that have
been mentioned in the Quran is the Su
which is given to
ibraim the Torah which was given to
Musa the zabor which was given to
dud and the injil which was given to ISA
and the Quran which was given to
Muhammad S.I
wasallam those are the books that we are
obliged to believe in them we believe in
them in the sense that Allah revealed
these books to those
Messengers however Allah has told us in
the
Quran and this is the AA of the Muslims
that these books have suffered
changes alterations and
deletions some things have been left out
and not
mentioned and theyve been kept
secret by the Jews and the Christians
and among some of those things are the
descriptions of the Prophet Muhammad
sallallah alaihi wasallam which they
know
about and other things they have added
and changed and corrupted so the books
that they have today which they call the
Bible is not the tah and the injil and
the
Zab it contains something of the T and
the injil and the Zab and it contains
some other things which they have added
and it also there is some things that
they have taken out from the T and the
injil and the zabur which should be
there this is what the Bible is so we do
not believe in the Bible if you mean how
come Allah has allowed those scriptures
to be corrupted where he is not allowed
the Quran to be corrupted that is
because Allah was always sending
Messengers so when the tah is corrupted
and when the zabor was corrupted Allah
he sent
Isa to remind the Ben is of those things
which they had gone astray and what had
been corrupted and what had they had
deviated from however because the Quran
is the final Revelation from Allah
subhana wa taala Allah has promised to
guard it from all corruption in fact the
fact that Allah has promised to preserve
it and the fact that we have the Quran
existing word for word letter for letter
the same as was revealed to Muhammad
sallallah alaihi wasallam that is one of
the proofs and one of the Miracles of
the Quran
alhamdulillah
is okay can it go on the floor maybe it
can go on the
floor when proving the existence of God
some people ask who created God how do
we reply
the prophet sallallah alai wasallam said
and he mentioned to us that this is
something from
Shan and like all of the plots of Shan
and the statements of Shan they really
represent foolishness and deception it's
a really a stupid question in fact we
have already answered this question it
is a question that does not have a
meaning anyway the prophet Sall Salli am
said that we should say when we hear
this and we should
say one in fact this Surah is an answer
to this question this this Surah is an
answer to this question if you ask who
created Allah we say Allah is one and he
is aad meaning he is the one upon whom
all things depend while Allah depends
upon
nothing he was not
born and nothing gives birth to
him and there is nothing which can be
likened unto Allah meaning Allah is not
like the
creation so Allah is aad and he is
unlike the
creation so this question is only a
question that is being asked about a
created thing we ask who created the
tree because the tree is a temporary
thing and a needy thing that is
created who created the stars and the
Sun and the Moon and you and me we are
temporary things that have a temporary
existence we have a beginning and we
have an end so we can ask that question
about the created
things this question does not exist
about one who is the creator but is not
created there is nothing like Allah so
you are not making a sensible question
Allah is not like the created things so
we do not we cannot ask this question
about
Allah because Allah is
unique this is one way to
explain the answer to
this and by the logic that we used the
logic that we used that Allah must be
his nature must be different from that
which he
created he must be there's a very nice
example that I also use this is from
logic this is from logic and this is
another way you could explain it to
somebody if for example I said
today uh I want to lift up what's the
the the member here yeah I want to lift
it
up so I tried to lift it I can't do it
obviously so I asked someone to help me
I said can you help me lift it up he
says I will help
you on the condition that he helps me
and he says I will help him on the
condition that he helps me and he says
well I will help him on the condition
that he helps
me everybody says I will only help if
someone else helps me everybody says
that will the member ever be lifted if
everyone makes that condition it will
stay no because it will never end
everyone will be saying I need someone I
will not help you unless you help me I
will not help you unless you help me
sounds like the Muslims again anyway
so inshallah may Allah help us so this
is the
similitude think
now if you ask this question who created
the
Creator and then we say well if someone
created the Creator then who created
that
Creator then who created that Creator
and who created that Creator you will
have creators creating creators at
infinum and just as this member will
never be lifted you will never get
anything
created it's the same
example but the creation is
here here we are it
exists so you can't have creators
creating creators eternity there must be
somewhere where it
stops there must be one where it stops
one who is therefore infinite and
eternal without beginning and Without
End one who is different from the
creation not subjected to the conf finds
of time and
space and so on and so forth so this is
one way inshallah two ways we can answer
that question
alhamdulillah is The Big Bang Theory
mentioned in the Quran and how does this
come about if it is
not the it seems very clear that what
they call the Big Bang
Theory and it's a very interesting
Theory because the Big Bang Theory
basically has brought an end to the
claim of those people there was a time
when there were scientists who claimed
that the Universe was
eternal they called it a static state
universe that the universe is the way it
is and it always has been and it always
will be so when they said that they say
we don't need a Creator because the
universe has always been here and it
always will be so the eternity is there
in the Creator in the creation that's
how what they said but the Big Bang
Theory destroyed that completely The Big
Bang Theory said that the Universe had a
beginning and it will have an end and
then they proved it as much as what you
can with science they proved it
scientifically how they did it we won't
go into it but it's become now accepted
as a fact among scientists that the
Universe had a beginning in what they
call a the sing a singularity
and they said from this beginning the
universe came into
existence now this is a very big topic
which we could discuss about it and it
has very big implications again on the
whole discussion of the existence of
Allah because one of the top scientists
of today he admitted that the state of
the universe in its beginning must have
been so precise and in such a precise
way and the laws were so finally
balanced that it leaves us very little
explanation except that it must have had
a
Creator this is what he
says in fact his name is Steven Hawkins
he wrote this in his book A Brief
History of Time you'll be amazed that
the guy is an atheist but it just shows
how arrogant and obstinate some people
can be and he goes on to explain a
theory that he can never prove and that
has no evidence called super strings but
anyway this is another theory this is
another thing so anyway the Big Bang
theory is alluded to or it seems to be
alluded to in the Quran we can't say for
sure but the Quran mentions have not the
unbelievers
seen I think it's
inah yes Surah I think it's verse
33 where Allah says have not the
unbelievers seen that the heavens and
the Earth were United this is the
meaning anyway in English they were
United as one piece and then Allah rent
them aund and Allah made from water
every living thing which is also a
scientific fact so inshah it does seem
that the Quran alludes to what is now a
proven scientific fact about the
beginning of the universe and Allah
knows
best last few questions because as you
can tell my voice is giving up on me
here a bit uh what do you think is the
best way to teach a revert about Islam
without giving them too much at
once well the first first thing that you
teach anybody about Islam whether it's a
revert or whether it's your children or
whether it's yourselves is the first
thing that the prophet sallallah alaihi
wasallam taught the companions the first
thing that the revelations were sent
down about and that is what we call AA
or
belief uh or what sometimes is called uh
Iman whatever names people give it but
it is the correct belief concerning
Allah his toed to avoid sh the these are
the most important beliefs of all the
most important belief is to believe in
Allah and not to make any partners with
him because Allah will forgive every sin
that he wants but Allah will not forgive
sh he will not forgive that people
ascribe Partners to him in fact it's a
subject that even many Muslims are not
correctly familiar with so the first
issue that we need to know is about and
and then we need to know about the
belief in the angels and the books and
The Messengers and the day of judgment
and the Divine decree the good of it and
the bad of it the details and the
specifics of those things and of course
the revert needs to be taught how to
pray this is uh the most important
initial aspects of knowledge and then
how to fast sorry then how to give the
zaka and then how to fast and then uh of
course if they uh have to make Hajj they
should be taught about Hajj so these are
the important things and they should be
taught manners also and to avoid the
sins in the level of importance so the
most important manners should be taught
first truthfulness for example keeping
your promises fulfilling your trusts
these are amongst the most important of
the manners and manners to the creation
obedience to the parents especially as a
revert the revert has to know what is
the level of obedience to parents what
if the parents tell you don't pray don't
be a Muslim anymore do you have to obey
them so they have to be taught those
things and uh so on and so forth to
avoid the major sins they need to be
taught about what are the major sins and
so on and so forth in the ordinance of
in the order in the order of importance
inshallah okay okay how is the identity
of a Muslim able to survive in a
non-muslim environment are Muslims
doomed in time to
disappear in such an environment or is
effective da able to strengthen Muslim
quality
and quantity through time I think the
questioner has answered the
question that is a very good question
with a very good answer to the question
in it really I believe I believe
brothers and sisters
absolutely that as I remember she Ahmed
put one on I don't I haven't listened to
the lecture but I saw it once da or
destruction and that's the reality it is
Da or destruction either we give da not
only to our own Community but to those
outside us either we are giving da or da
is being given to us either we are
calling people to Islam or they are
calling us to
kufur that's the
reality either be a caller or you will
be called call to Allah or you will be
called by
Shan that is the reality it is Da or
destruction
and I mean for us Muslims living in the
west or of course Australia is not the
west but we call it the West right so
like I said brothers and sisters it's
not like we are living in our Muslim
countries where we don't meet any
non-muslims living in some Village or
some City no here we meet them every day
and not only do we meet them we are
confronted with their ideologies with
their atheism with their disbelief with
their strange morality or lack of
morality this is what we're confronted
with every day you have to be callers
you have to every one of you has to be a
caller to Allah and to be a caller to
Allah you need knowledge you have to
study the the religion you have to learn
about Islam you have to study these
things that I was talking about today
brothers and sisters so may Allah help
all of us to do that a
mean is that it okay brothers and
sisters last
question scientific about the fresh
water
and yeah that explanation a lot of
people asking expl the
why yeah I I the brother mentioned
another scientific fact how there is a
barrier between the fresh water and the
salt water that's in fact there are
literally hundreds of scientific
statements in the Quran but I didn't you
know they would be lectures in
themselves we could lecture about the
the scientific statements about water
and the oceans we could lecture about
embryology just we could lecture about
history just really believe me we could
give a lecture on these statements in
the
Quran but I was trying to cover lots of
topics in a short time so I only chose a
few things that I mentioned very quickly
about the universe and about the
embryology but the brothers right the
Quran mentions about how Allah has made
a barrier between the salt water and the
fresh water Allah mentioned about the
waves the internal waves in the
ocean so there are many many statements
alhamdulillah in the Quran and in the
Sunnah also of scientific accuracy that
are amazing to scientists and
non-scientists today alhamdulillah so
brothers and sisters I hope to see you
all inshallah in the lectures tomorrow
and the day after tomorrow or just
tomorrow I don't know but anyway you can
even follow me to uh Adel where where am
I going I don't know Brisbane or
whatever not Brisbane Adelaide Perth
Melbourne so maybe I'll see you there
inshallah again thank you very much to
the mosque may Allah reward you Brothers
in the mosque with much goodness and
sisters and bless you in your Islam make
us all strong in Islam increase Us in
knowledge and Iman and tawa and make all
of us inshallah callers to Allah so all
of us inshallah get the a of bringing
someone like Mark to Islam inshallah and
that will be better than all the wealth
that you can get in this world Allah
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he say off to
me muham
muham
that means I testify that there is
nothing worthy of worship except Allah
and but Muhammad is his messenger you're
now alhamdulillah alhamdulillah you're a
Muslim wasn't that
bad he gets a kiss from
him I