alhamdulillah peace be unto you thank
you for tuning in to another episode of
the dean show he's back again Dr Bal
Phillips to help clear that way there's
some confusion out there there are many
ways calling people saying that they're
the correct way so how does one
differentiate the true way of life the
True
Religion the true way to be successful
from all these thousands hundreds of
ways saying that they're the way so when
he comes out we're going to try to
answer this very crucial question here
on the dean show you don't want to go
nowhere we'll be right
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back there's only one word and muhamad
is his messenger
Allah Allah there's only one God and
Jesus his
messenger I don't know why I did that
maybe maybe it's just to break the
ice alaykum
allum back again on the dean show my
pleasure to be back all right aldah
thank you very much my pleasure people
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show that we did purpose of life that's
a crucial question but another question
is people are like you know what
religions are all the same they're
man-made I'll just do my own thing how
does one differentiate the true way of
life if one has already acknowledged
what's in his very nature that it is a
Creator but now you have all these
different isms these different ways how
do you differentiate what is the true
way the true way to success happiness
peace and the pleasure of the the
creator of the heavens and earth talk to
us please well if we're to find the true
way we have to believe of course that
this true way must have come from
God so if it's coming from
God it must have what we call a
scriptural basis there should be a
scripture there and then that scripture
should be one in which there is no doubt
no doubt no doubt about the auth
authenticity of its text its
origin
the protection of that text from any
change or
modification so that we know what is in
our hands was what was revealed mhm then
we know we have a religion whose basis
whose Foundation is solid otherwise if
the document that is claimed to be the
origin is something which they've got so
many different manuscripts of and no two
manuscripts agree with each other like
the gospels for example there over 5,000
manuscripts no two manuscripts agree in
all details with each other and at
present we have something like 5,500
manuscripts in Greek of the new
testament which is a lot for an ancient
book it's far more than any other
ancient book The problem is most of
these copies are hundreds and hundreds
of years after the originals and all of
them have differences in them uh so that
the scribes who were copying these
manuscripts changed the text that they
were copying uh sometimes by accident I
mean sometimes they just made mistakes
they were sleepy or incompetent or
whatever but sometimes it looks like
scribes actually thought the text should
say something other than it did and then
they so they would change the text so
then which one's right how do you figure
it out yeah you know or the Gita or the
you know scriptures of the Hindus and
others you know when they were written
they have no idea bits and pieces here
and there you know it's of Uncertain
origin who wrote they don't
know clouded clouded in in in confusion
and uncertainty yeah so when you have
text like that I mean even the the Old
Testament which maybe a little more
accurate and more solid than the New
Testament writings but even that the
scholars scriptural criticism of shown
contradictions that exist in it uh some
places it looks like it's a manipulation
of the text where where the author wants
to change where where the Scribe wants
to change what the author said I mean in
many cases it may be that the Scribe
thought this is what the author meant
and so he changed it but uh but
sometimes the the text gets changed to
say just the opposite of what it
originally said and so uh that's that
that can be a little bit troubling yeah
different documents which are being used
stories which are being repeated in you
know different ways and all kinds of
doubts there we have doubts so we can
distinguish we just have to put the the
basic scriptures on the table and say
like which one we can be 100% sure about
and that's the Quran
the evidence is there speaks for itself
so it can't Happ that is external yeah
that's from an external perspective yeah
then internally uhh what does that text
contain yeah now is that text if it's
from God it should contain accurate
information it shouldn't have fallacies
and you know um contradictions with
modern science and these kinds of
things when you pick up the other texts
you read in there maybe you might find
some interesting things here and there
but there's a lot of old wives tales
which don't agree with what we know
about science today yeah whereas when
you go in the Quran you go from chapter
to chapter when you look at scientific
things which are talked about in the
Quran they match modern scientific
theory so much so that when the verses
were shown to uh Dr Keith Moore who WR
wrote the book on embryology yeah right
the book used in all of the medical
colleges around the world World they
showed him these verses from the Quran
which described the development of the
fetus at a time when it's not visible to
the naked
eye he
said Muhammad could not have known these
facts about human development in the 7th
Century because most of them were not
discovered until the 20th century that
God transmitted through Muhammad bits of
his knowledge that we have only
discovered for ourselves in recent
times 1,000 400 years ago when the world
was immersed in darkness the Quran was
revealed which brought light to a baguer
world and whereas the earlier books came
with many scientific mistakes due to the
hand of man having delved into them the
Quran had none of these
contradictions the world thought there
could be no reconciliation between
religion and science but the Quran
mentioned many scientific fact facts in
great detail like how a human being
developed in the mother's womb and
described other scientific facts which
Amaze the world's renowned scientists
and scientific Community this could not
have come from
Muhammad so they said then where did it
come
from it must have come from God no doubt
not possible to describe what is there
when the microscope wasn't developed
until
many centuries after him yeah this is
the evidence these are concrete bits and
pieces of evidence that's internal you
have external and you have internal and
then the overall message which is being
taught I mean it's not a whole bunch of
fairy tales wild fantastic Tales but
things which seem to match the realities
of this life you read the Quran this is
God talking to you directly so now so a
person doesn't have to go deep into
let's say Buddhism Christianity or any
kind of Hindu religion or all Sikhism
now at the face of it so they're looking
for contradictions mistakes things that
aren't rational what are they actually
looking for these are some of the things
that you mentioned that it has to be the
message has to be Lucid clear something
that is basically not flawed by man and
then if it is leave it alone go to the
next does Islam encourage that you look
at these different ways and you'll come
to realization if you're sincere and
you're asking the Creator to guide you
that you'll eventually end up back to
this way the way of all the prophets
Islam if a person is
sincere God is going to guide them yeah
that's for sure if they're sincere but
they have to be ready to act then on the
knowledge that they get from this
problem is that a lot of people may come
and realize yes the truth is there with
Islam yeah but to take that on what is
involved in in becoming a Muslim creates
such problems in families you know how
parents are going to react how the wife
and the kids and you know or the husband
and the the kids and how are they going
to react how am I going to deal with all
of this some people say hey too much
that's the real isue I I like what you
have yeah it makes sense it's very good
but I'm just not ready to deal with the
consequences consequences and that's sad
because one cannot afford once you seek
the truth you know as it's mentioned in
the Bible that the truth is going to set
you free it's true set you free from
ignorance bring you to the realization
of the true God so once you're there for
you to turn aside and say well because
of people I can't deal with this that's
a big mistake that is the most serious
possible mistake that you can make in
your life to have known the truth in it
Clarity with certainty and turned
away what can we say after that yeah so
does it seem like these other religions
ways are just things because the inside
of a person is searching yearning for
something so this is convenient now the
other religions you can just modify them
to your way it can just you can uh put
it in and it doesn't have to
inconvenient you or something but it's
easy yeah yeah you know it doesn't
require that much commitment you know
you can do it once a week or you know
when you feel like you know it's it's
it's it's uh they say fast food like
fast food you know so it's not it's not
a real change where to become a Muslim
requires major
change it requires taking on a
commitment
24/7 24/7 yeah there's no part-time
Muslim I mean of course there are people
who might do Islam part-time but that's
not real Islam Real Islam requires 247
commitment MH there's no time when you
take a vacation from
Islam yeah so that Islam that we're
talking about we're talking about that
complete conscious decision that I'm
going to surrender I'm going to submit
I'm going to be obedient to the one who
created me and this is summed up with
one word in Arabic Islam exactly
submission to the will of God some
people get hung up now on the air now
they feel that possibly look this this
is an Arab thing this is an Arabic thing
how do we have them look past this well
reality is that the followers of the
Prophet may God's peace and blessing be
upon Him came from all parts of the
world we had them coming from Persia
coming from abisinia coming from all
over you know right from his generation
and reality is is that the vast majority
of Muslims in the world are not Arabs
Arabs only make up a fraction
15% of the whole of the Muslim Nation
you know 1.5 or billion people Arabs are
only a fraction the total number of of
Muslims in India alone is more than the
total number of Arabs so it's not an
Arabic religion becomes but okay Arabic
is there but this Arabic is a unifier so
that the nature of our prayer is such
that no no matter where you go you can
join in your brothers and sisters with
them in prayer yeah you know I go to
China if you heard the aan in chines
well then you wouldn't even know what's
going on the call to prayer yeah but
when you hear it in Arabic you know
exactly wherever you are any Muslim
hears that they know there's a mask here
you go in there the guy's going to lead
the prayer he he does it in Chinese
again you're lost what is he doing
what's he saying he speaks in Arabic
everybody can fall in and it's the
unifying factor and again it is also the
language of
Revelation the language in which God
revealed his final message so you learn
Arabic not to be an Arab but to be able
to hear the word of God as it was
revealed I mean Jesus spoke
Aramaic the gospel that he received was
in Aramaic but there are tribes in in in
Syria today that speak Aramaic he didn't
speak English he didn't speak English
didn't speak Latin
you know from which Greek from which
these things were translated he spoke
Aramaic so where is his gospel it's
lost not
known was it now meant for a particular
time a particular people and now we
don't have it because some people would
argue that well did God make a mistake
now because this is supposed to be for
for all of us until today so now how did
this how do we lose it now did God make
a mistake mistake or was it meant to be
saved well there's no there's no mistake
here because the fact that Jesus's
message was for as you said a particular
people in a particular place for a
particular period of time a prophet was
going to come after him who would bring
the final message which would be for all
people in all places at all times so all
of the earlier Prophets The Scriptures
were not guarded and preserved by God as
he guarded and preserved the Quran not
because they were not scripture yes they
were all scripture in that sense they're
all equal they're all the word of God
conveyed to human beings but the changes
that took place by human hands to the
earlier scriptures God permitted because
those messages were not Eternal messages
they were messages for particular people
particular places particular times so
the final message if it were to be the
final message it had to be preserved and
that's again evidence of its
truthfulness and finality do we still
have the word of the Creator in what we
have in the Bible today we have bits and
pieces bits and pieces yeah bits and
pieces here and there and these are
affirmed in the Quran many places which
affirm texts from the Bible but the the
totality of what's there is confusion
for a long time I thought that the Bible
was inspired and inherent that there
were no mistakes in the Bible but as I
Eng engaged in historical research on
the Bible as I was getting my PhD in New
Testament studies at Princeton
Theological Seminary I started finding
mistakes in the Bible and uh this this
cut away at my assumptions that the
Bible was inherent and then I started
questioning other parts of my faith is
Jesus really Divine uh is a really a
trinity mhm it's confusion but a person
who reads it
sincerely from beginning to
end he will be forced to accept accept
the Oneness of God because that message
is there in spite of all the distortions
and all the other things that are there
the Oneness of God is there all of the
earlier prophets talking Oneness of God
and Jesus affirming when they asked him
what is the the command God's command he
said here oh Israel the Lord your God is
one God one God he's affirming the same
thing that came before so anybody who
reads that says okay well where did the
Trinity thing come from yeah it
definitely is not in the text you know
this is something people added and what
is the text now which is
clear Oneness of God is Crystal Clear
it's the Quran now if we take what is
meant for a people at that time and
people saying the Son of God because
many people believe that Jesus was God
Son of God there's a bunch of confusion
here they have to do a bunch of mental
gymnastics to make it fit but now if you
take this what's meant is it that he was
a righteous upright person close to God
but if you take this out and you take it
now to let's say the Greeks who are
worshiping Demi God semi Gods this God
that guy can you can that be where a lot
of the confusion came where now they
take what is meant for that time and is
understood and now you bring it over to
another totally Pagan society and
they're already worshiping man gods and
now we have what we have today modern
day man worship Jesus as a son son of
God well definitely I mean this is a
one of the explanations of the process
of what took place yeah I mean of course
the message of Jesus was crystal clear
clear it had to be crystal clear because
if it's coming from God the clarity is
going to be there and it remained clear
but what happened is that when it was
taken out of
the the we could say the East and it
came now into the west then these
changes took place whether it was a
question of interpreting or
misinterpreting earlier texts or really
introducing ideas which were never in
the original text M which I I feel it's
probably more of that than actually
misinterpretation because
misinterpretation sort of implies that
the message wasn't that clear whereas I
don't believe that the case in fact the
message of Jesus was very clear in fact
after Jesus left
as they thought he was killed or
whatever you know but when Jesus went
away the one who came behind him who
became the head of the Jerusalem Church
is none other than James who's called in
the gospels the brother of Jesus and
James as the head of the Jerusalem
Church taught that Jesus was a prophet
of God God was one
he was a Unitarian he wasn't a
trinitarian so wasn't un for that's for
those that period of almost like 70
years after the time of
Jesus that was the main Church the
Jerusalem Church was a Unitarian Church
preaching the message of the one God and
that Jesus was a human being and a
prophet of God who was sent to convey
this message but with the dispersion of
the the Jews the breakup of the Temple
of Solomon Jews being dispersed
from Jerusalem and of course the the
Muslims or we could say the
judeo-christians of that time uh who
were those who truly followed Jesus
externally they wouldn't look any
different from the regular Jews so when
they dispersed everybody had to disperse
so the Jerusalem Church which was the
main me core center from which the
teacher teachings the true teachings of
Jesus was being taught that was
destroyed and people had to flee so when
that was lost then the center in Antioch
which was headed by Paul right Paul now
took over the movement and he started he
had already been doing it earlier now he
was given a full clear hand James is
assassinated he has the full clear hand
to change the message and preach the new
religion which he called Christianity
which obviously Jesus his followers they
never taught never taught were opposed
to took Paul to task called him to
Jerusalem and questioned him why are you
doing this why are you doing
that that's what's even recorded in the
gospels to today and the writings the
letters of Paul let's talk about the
uniqueness of this name Islam compared
to what the other religions are named
after after well the other religions
tend to be named after people mhm you
know the
Jews or they may be named after a
particular person Buddhists Buddhism
from Buddha yeah or they're named after
a place Hinduism from the Indus Valley
you know they're connected to people's
persons places whereas Islam means
submission to the will of God the name
of the religion is the central pillar
the basic concept the essence of the
religion that's what it refers to Muslim
is not the name of a person it's the
name of one who does Islam right it is
the what they call the present
participle you know one who does that
act of Islam or submission is called a
Muslim so the name of the religion is
found in the text in the Holy text
right you cannot find Hinduism in the
Hindu texts you cannot find Buddhism in
the Buddhist texts you not cannot find
Christianity in the Christian text it's
not there that
the Jesus called his followers
Christians know this was Paul he's the
one who invented that name so is it safe
to say that Jesus peace be upon if he
was alive today did he ever hear this
word Christian if Moses was alive today
did he ever hear this term to be would
he be labeled a Jew or would he be
labeled a Christian or would he be
labeled a Muslim all of the prophets
would have been labeled Muslims because
this essential message was the same
message submission to the will of God
beginning with Adam what was the command
that he was given the command he was
given was to submit to the will of God
don't eat from that tree mhm that's what
that's the essence of all that you know
that was the essence of the religion you
can eat from all of the other trees
quite similar to the one but this one
here don't eat from it mhm submission
will you
submit or not and that's Islam that is
Islam so that's why we say that Islam is
the original religion one cannot claim
Christianity was a religion of Adam no
way can one cannot claim Judaism or
Buddhism or any other the isms but we
can claim maybe you don't accept it
that's another issue but we can claim
that Islam was the religion of Adam and
Eve that was the religion which God
revealed to them they were commanded to
submit to the will of God and that is
what Islam means so when when the first
man Adam he disobeyed and he ate from
this tree was this tree was it
beautified for him that he was lured
into this and then when he did this was
he forgiven afterwards well the reality
as it is recorded in the Quran is that
after Adam and Eve ate and they sought
forgiveness from God because of course
for God to have put them in a situation
like that yeah knowing full well that
they were going to
eat God knew ahead of time they were
going to eat so for him not to have
given them a root and a way to remove
the sin from themselves would have been
unfair unjust unjust so he gave them
that knowledge how to repent if you sin
so when they realized that they had
sinned they repented and so the sin was
removed from them that's why the process
of repentance is in the hands of each
and every individual it's not a special
priest cast class that they're the ones
who do forgiveness you have to go and
sit in a booth and make confess your
sins and then the the priest comes out
and says your sins are forgiven that's
not the way you know it doesn't work
that way how your sins are forgiven when
some of these priests are committing
more sins than the people are confessing
their sins yeah you know there human
being so forgiveness belongs only to God
that's the essence of religion and that
God will accept that forgiveness from
whomsoever turns to him
sincerely with a repentant heart God
will forgive them no matter how great
the sin is he's the most merciful the
most loving all we got to do is turn to
him alone exactly simple logical and
that's the way the religion of God
should be it should be a simple rational
logical religion it shouldn't have you
know as you said mental gymnastics as a
pillar for you to be a a follower you
got to be a mental gymnast you know how
to make three one and one three no we
just deal with one one that's it few
more points be before we come come to an
end so much to talk about so little time
tell us now is the same concept that
happened with Adam I'm interested to
know is that what was beautified or
however he went off and slipped today
many of the things that we're supposed
to stay away from the fornication the
adultery the alcohol and the drugs it
seems like that is just beautified today
well exactly the trick of the the that's
one of the methodology
of Satan and in the Quran addresses that
specifically saying that you know Satan
and actually even Satan makes that open
statement recorded in the Quran that I
will beautify for them ah you know so
that's what I'm yeah I will beautify for
them corruption corrup so that they
would accept it and that's exactly what
he did with the tree he came to Adam and
he told them that this tree tree is the
Tree of Life of eternal life so made it
beautiful mean before that Adam wasn't
thinking about eternal life you know
short life Etc eternal life I need some
of that you know yeah who doesn't want
to be Eternal I I need a piece of that
so what he made it seem is that of all
the trees in in in the uh in the whole
of the garden this is the one tree he
had to eat from yeah and that's is not
exactly what's happening now we're doing
the media makes the corruption seem like
these things our life is incomplete if
we have not experienced and tasted this
thing our life is what you know life is
just not fulfilled unless we get to this
thing and these things that we're
chasing after which have been beautified
for us are corruption things which are
harmful to us as individuals harm to our
societies without us shadow of AD doubt
has the truth always from the beginning
been opposed because you'll see a stigma
attach to this truth what we claim is
from the creator of the heavens and the
Earth as it always been the way during
Moses's time Jesus's time all the
prophets has there been opposing force
force to try to lure people away from
the correct way absolutely it began with
Adam and
Satan and will not end until the end of
this world and all that is living in it
dies and is resurrected the satanic for
forces will always be there throughout
this life as long as this world is
functioning it will be there it has been
from the very beginning it will remain
there till the end and this is a part of
the challenge and the
test will we submit our Wills to God or
will we submit our Wills to Satan and
his
forces plays on our desires plays on our
uh our needs
you know turns them into things which
are alluring to us but in fact harmful
to us so this process is a NeverEnding
process we just have to be conscious of
it we have to open up and and wake up to
know what's really happening we have
only two minutes for those it might have
been a Muslim one who has consciously
submitted to the crator now he has a
non-muslim sitting next to him and you
know what now what you're saying is lo
logical rational and makes sense and now
all that person has to do what's already
naturally in them help give that
encouragement for the person that's read
about Islam he knows is the truth but
you know what the Devil comes up and
says you know what you're going to
forsake the religion of your forefathers
and all the other doubts that start
creeping them how could we encourage
them to do the right thing and what are
the benefits of doing the right thing
submitting to God well the
benefits are the eternal life that we
are all seeking mhm eternal
life in a beautiful and a good and a
pure sense one in a state where we are
at peace with God God pleased with us
and us with him I mean what better State
can we be in that is Paradise so that
reward and that goal that we should all
have can only be Achi achieved through
submitting ourselves to the will of God
known as Islam nice that is the bottom
line and without it no matter what we
accumulate of this world it will be
ultimately of no benefit it won't last
and we can't take it with us none of it
it all stays behind yeah others benefit
Michael Jackson died Bruce Lee died will
die too exactly the Pharaohs died we're
still looking at their bodies and their
wealth uhuh didn't benefit them at all
you have an Islamic you have a website
where people can go and seek knowledge
and learn can you please tell the people
about this wonderful site before we come
to an end well we have a site known as
Islamic online university.com spell it
all out Islamic online
university.com there there are free
courses and most of them are by me but
there are others uh other Scholars whose
work is up there and we're adding more
and more material you can go there and
freely access basic information about
Islam in a course and organized and and
and and we could say educationally sound
uh
structured uh system you know because
often times people try to learn you're
learning reading this book that book the
other book here there and all over the
place and when in the end after one year
two years three years you look at what
knowledge you have and it just doesn't
seem to come together you know cuz it's
it's scattered whereas what we need is a
structured program of learning and
that's what the Islamic online
university the IOU you know provides and
inshallah we're working on upgrading
that to ba level courses at either
minimum expense or completely free I'd
like to thank you may God Almighty Allah
the creator of the heavens and earth
reward you for being with us it's always
a pleasure alhamdulillah it's my
pleasure to be with you and hope to see
you many more times in the future yes
thank you thank you and thank you very
much for tuning in to the dean show
we're here every week to help you
understand the way of life of all the
messengers that's that way that way of
submitting yourself not to a man not to
a woman the but the one who created man
and woman the creator of the heavens and
earth the one Jesus prayed to the one
Moses prayed to the one all the
messengers of God submitted themselves
to and the last and final messenger sent
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Allah has said in the Quran inah
16125 invite all to the way of your Lord
with wisdom beautiful preaching and
reason with them in ways that are best
and this is a great opportunity for you
to take up the obligation take up the
call as Allah has told you to do and
share this beautiful message with the
world Islam submission to the one God
come and see what everyone's talking
about if you find one contradiction it
can't be from
God but the rational idea the rational
explanation is you do your best give up
worshiping God as one I will never give
up spreading this message I hope that
you take that necessary step you don't
know if you're going to live till
tomorrow so you got to find that urgency
to do the right thing right
now if you say that you do not believe
in Jesus you have stepped outside of
Islam you cannot be a Muslim is a tended
our faith
to it's cold it's
late it's everybody
sleeping I
arise and ask a lot of for me oh Allah
you
see oh Allah you
know all the sins I
do I turn to you to forgive my sins in
my
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heart I'm your sinful slave
you're my Ling
Lord I'm the one who runs
away oh guide
me