a person cannot be Islamic by by
definition if they are
fanatic they cannot be because Islam is
a system of Peace a system of submission
and surrender to God a system of dignity
now if somebody who's a Muslim doesn't
act that way if a Muslim acts is a
criminal way what are they they're a
Muslim criminal is that correct if a
Christian doesn't act the way Jesus
Christ spoke how he lives and his
message if a Christian commits a crime
what are they a Christian criminal a
Jewish person commits a crime what are
they a Jewish criminal a Buddhist a
Hindu or anyone else that commits a
crime they are what criminals but you
don't indict the faith because of the
criminal do
you if that were the case America Great
Britain France Germany all the so-called
Advanced Nations they got more criminals
wearing suits than all the criminals
that are in jail they would all be
criminal
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governments now we hear the terms Islam
and Muslims quite often and we read
about Islam and Muslims in the
periodicals textbooks of colleges and
universities we hear and we see a lot of
inaccurate misleading and purposeful
misinformation through the media and we
have to admit that some of this
misinformation some of this
misrepresentation and some of this
Distortion has been perpetuated by
Muslims themselves we have to admit
that that is true to a certain
extent
yet one out of every five people in this
world is a
Muslim there are more than 1.4 billion
Muslims in the world we don't say 1.4
billion Arabs Asians Africans we didn't
say
that because you cannot find any country
in the
world and even if you discover a new
country there'll be some Muslims
there white black green yellow tall
short male female poor
Rich of every ethnicity
the Muslim Nation the Muslim Brotherhood
is a global Brotherhood a global nation
and Muslims are everywhere in the
world one out of every five people in
this world is a
Muslim just like one out of every five
people in this
world is a
Chinese and nearly one out of every five
people in this world
world is from the Indian
continent these are statistics that we
can
support go to your computer do a search
go to the encyclopedia and do a search
go to the almanac and do a search and
you will verify this statistic and you
know everything about India and you know
everything about
China but I ask you the
question why don't you know something
about
Islam you know the language of China you
know the language of India you know the
Constitution everything can be found
people talk you eat Chinese food you eat
Indian
food but I ask you what do you really
know about
Islam what do you know about the social
the economic the political the
historical factors about Islam why don't
you know about Islam what is it that
joins over 37 Nations
together into A
brotherhood a
configuration a common
fraternity what makes a brother in Saudi
Arabia my brother and I'm from America
and what makes my brother from Pakistan
my brother and what makes an Australian
my brother a French Muslim a German
Muslim a Scandinavian Muslim a English
Muslim a Indonesian Muslim what makes
them my brother we're not the same color
we don't have the same culture we don't
speak the same language what makes us
Brothers is our bond of
faith it is Islam that makes us
Brothers what are the accurate
characteristics of this misunderstood
way of life that is followed by the
greater part of humanity I'll try to
provide you with some facts but in
addition to this as I mentioned to you
before it is necessary for you to be
open-minded and
openhearted otherwise you're going to
miss what I tell you because you're
going to turn that glass upside
down the word Islam means surrender
submission and obedience surrender
submission and obedience to whom the
creator of the heavens and the
Earth you can say Allah you can say the
Creator you can say the source of
creation you can
say the principle behind existence you
can
say all those
attributes belong to the
Creator the all wise the all knowing the
absolute the
Eternal the one upon whom all
depends while the Creator depends upon
none we say
Allah
Allah because in the Arabic language
this is a very clear
nomenclature you see if I said God if I
spell it backwards what is
it
see and that's why some people might
even take a dog as
God I mean after all if a dog is a man's
best friend he could become his
God we say Allah
and this is not a god of the
Muslims Allah comes from
the the article a l meaning
the meaning
only meaning
particular meaning distinct a
l and
means that which is
worshiped that which is adored that
which is
obeyed that which is inclined to that
which is submitted to so when we say
Allah it means the only one worthy of
worship recognition and praise
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Allah we say Allah because in the Arabic
word this means uniqueness and without
gender
so from this point I'm going to use the
word Allah and you know that I'm not
speaking of the Muslim God I'm speaking
of the creator of the heavens and earth
your lord and my Lord the same God of
Moses and Abraham and Jacob and the
tribes and John the Baptist and Jesus
Christ and the prophet Muhammad peace
and blessing be upon them the same God
and none of them use the word god
in the Hebrew language or the Aramaic
language or the Arabic language the word
IL or Allah is the only word they ever
used because it is a very clear distinct
name it has never been used for any
tangible thing nor even an
idea the word Islam is derived from the
word sal sal means to be at peace it
also means safety it also means security
therefore a Muslim is a person that
surrenders to whom
Allah a Muslim is a person that submits
and obeys the law of whom
Allah almighty God and through this
submission obtains peace for themselves
you see the formula is very simple when
I surrender to the law when I conform to
the law and the legislation which is
intended for me that means that is my
natural disposition therefore I become
what a
conformist I am in order I am in Harmony
and by being in order and Harmony the
things I'm supposed to receive comes to
me so it's natural to be a Muslim it's
unnatural not to
be we can immediately see by that
definition that all the prophets of
almighty God were
what
Muslims because even almighty God said
in the Revelation that we recited before
from the Surah which is called
this verse from the Quran says
the verse is very clear it
says and they the human beings the
prophets of almighty
God they were not ordered to do anything
except to
worship to recognize to obey their lord