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welcome back to the proof that Islam is
the truth and in our previous episode we
were discussing the Prophecies of
prophet Muhammad May Allah's peace and
blessings be upon him in the Bible now
today we're going to be dealing with
another fascinating subject and that is
the subject of prophecies now we
mentioned in our previous episodes how
the Bible in both Deuteronomy 18:18 and
also in Isaiah uh and also in the Gospel
of John uh in those passages we quoted
that the comforter the paraclet Ahmed
the prophet Muhammad sallallahu wasam
that prophet he will foretell them of
things to come and this is a quality of
a prophet because Allah alone indeed is
he is the one who has knowledge of the
Unseen it is only Allah who truly knows
the future and this is something that is
mentioned in the bible as an actual
Criterion who is a true prophet and who
is a false prophet how can you know
someone who is really prophesying and
who is really a prophet from God and one
who is not one of the Criterion that you
can apply is does are things that he
foretells do they take place do they
actually happen Okay so the Bible says
and if you shall say in your heart how
shall we know the word which the Lord ha
spoken if the thing followeth not nor
come to pass then that is the thing
which the Lord has not spoken but the
prophet has spoken presumptuously and
thou shalt not be afraid of him so we
can know a false prophet from a true
Prophet depending does that prophecy
come true so there are true prophets and
there are false prophets there are
people who claim prophethood but one of
the Criterion that we can use in order
to know that the claim is false is that
indeed the things they say don't happen
now there are people who do claim to be
able to foretell the future people who
read the stars for example and they
claim Our Fate is written in the stars
Muslims do not believe this we do not
believe Our Fate is written in the Stars
nor do we believe that a you know a
gathering of stars in any particular
shape or form has any impact upon your
fate whatsoever there is no scientific
evidence for that whether there's some
other thing well we don't believe it as
Muslims anyway your fate is determined
by Allah that is the one who has
determined Our Fate and it is only Allah
who knows the future no soothsayer and
no prophesier except someone who is
receiving Revelation from Allah can tell
us accurately about the future in fact
the prophet Muhammad May Allah's peace
and blessings be upon him said whoever
believes a soothsayer or a fortune
teller has disbelieved in what Allah has
revealed to Prophet Muhammad whoever
visits a fortune teller even out of
curiosity then their prayers will not be
accepted for 40 days this is because
fortune tellers are claiming they are
pretending to have a type of knowledge
that only belongs to prophets themselves
and this is a great falsehood however I
do not say and Islam does not say that
these soothsayers and fortune tellers
are not able to sometimes get some
things right they may guess some things
and they may predict some things that
may turn out right and they could do
that just from guesswork and that's why
you often find that when these
soothsayers and fortune tellers they are
predicting the future they do manage to
get things right that happen very close
and that in the very near future but the
further and further they get away from
their time then the more and more
inaccurate their prophecies start
becoming and this is certainly the case
with a modernday soothsayer Edgar Casey
who was amazingly predicted it seems the
second world war but as his prophecies
moved further and further in today what
is present time his prophecy has seemed
to become less and less accurate another
thing is that the Quran does tell us and
the prophet Muhammad does tell us that
the shtin the jins they are able to
travel through the heavens and they are
able to sneak and listen to the angels
and the angels are carrying the commands
of Allah and they are obviously carrying
the decree that is going to happen and
they are implementing that decree so
they may be discussing those things that
Allah has decreed for the servants on
Earth in that upcoming year or sometime
in the future and therefore they are
able to listen to some of that and they
bring that down to the soothsayer and
the magician now they cooperate with the
soothsayer and the magician because the
soothsayer does many things that are
displeasing to Allah and because of that
they fall into disbelieving with Allah
but the soothsayer mixes up these truths
with a hundred different lies but you
know what people are like they just tend
to remember the things that are true but
if you actually recorded all these
things and examined them then you would
really see that yes they got some things
right but they actually really got a
whole load of things wrong as well then
that is not really of course a sign of
anything but a prophet someone who is
receiving Revelation from God everything
must be right every prophecy must come
true now we have recorded from the
earliest history of Islam prophecies in
the Quran and prophecies of the Prophet
Muhammad May Allah's peace and blessings
be upon him and we're going to compare
those things to the cryptic writings
example of Nostradamus Nostradamus is
famous for his prophecies but his
writings are all very cryptic the Rhymes
could mean this or that or anything in
fact the soothsayers were no different
in the time of the Prophet Muhammad they
used to have a sort of confusing rhyme
that could mean this and could mean
that let's actually now see some of the
prophecies in the Quran and some of the
Prophecies of the Prophet Muhammad May
Allah's peace and blessings be upon him
now one of the things that the Quran
prophesies is the victory of Islam and
we have to remember that when these
verses were coming down the Muslims were
a very small group they were at every
moment under the impression that they
were going to be wiped out either by the
Pagan Arabs or then by the Romans yet
the Quran is promising victory in
different verses let's examine one of
those verses in the 2 fourth Surah in
the 55th Ayah the Quran tells us Allah
has promised to those of you who believe
and do good deeds that he will surely
grant them in the land inheritance of
power as he granted it to those before
them that he will establish in Authority
their religion which he has chosen for
them and he will change their state of
fear to one of security and peace and
they will worship me and not associate
anything with me and also the Quran says
say to those who deny Faith soon you
will be vanquished and that is in the
third chapter of the Quran in the 21st
Ayah and again in the
110th chapter of the Quran in Ayah 1 to2
when comes the help of God and victory
and you see the people enter Allah's
religion in multitudes
the first verse was revealed at the time
of the muslim's weakness and it promised
them victory over the disbelieving
people and it also said that people will
enter Islam into crowds and this is
exactly what happened after the capture
of Mecca and during the time of the kis
of Abu Bakr and Omar andman and Ali
people entered Islam into crowds and
Islam was established in the land and
the Muslims defeated the Romans and they
defeated the Persians and Islam was
established from Spain to China in a
matter of just 20 40 years and this also
fulfills in part another Prophecy of the
Quran it is he who has sent the
messenger with guidance and the religion
of Truth to make it triumphant over all
religions this is in the ninth chapter
of the Quran in the 33rd Ayah Allah is
promising that Islam will be triumphant
over all religions Islam will be the
largest religion in the world and
without doubt this is what is happening
today although it is perhaps 50/50 at
the moment between Christianity and
Islam it is predicted by people who
study this matter due to conversions and
demographics that in by the year 2050
30% of all human beings on this planet
will be Muslim and it will make Islam
the largest religion on the face of the
Earth actually
what we find is that Judaism
Christianity and paganism have never
really established a lasting dominance
physically and intellectually since the
coming of Islam even in terms of
Christianity you may say the Christian
world is dominant economically and
militarily but in reality it is not
really Christian it is a type of
secularist materialist philosophy that
is dominant anyway join us after the
break for more Prophecies of the Prophet
Muhammad May Allah's peace and blessings
be upon him in the proof that Islam is
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alaykum welcome back to the proof that
Islam is the truth where we are talking
about the Prophecies of the Prophet
Muhammad May Allah's peace and blessings
be upon him we talked about how Islam is
going to be the Domin religion indeed it
is becoming that it is that um and we
mentioned about how Islam until today is
growing and that how the Quran was
promising the Muslims Victory even
though they were so small and they were
so weak um also there is another
Prophecy in the Quran in the 30th
chapter of the Quran in the verses 1 to
7 a very interesting prophecy the Roman
Empire has been defeated in a Land close
by this is what the Quran is saying but
they even after this defeat will gain
victory in a few years Allah's is the
command in the past and in the future on
that day shall the Believers Rejoice
with the help of Allah he helps whom he
Wills Allah is the mighty and the most
merciful it is the promise of Allah
Allah never breaks his promise but most
men do not understand they crave for the
outer things of this life but of the
Hereafter they are heal
needless now the Eastern Roman Empire
the Byzantine Empire had for many years
been fighting the Persian Empire and
they suffered a massive defeat at the
hands of the Persians who captured
Jerusalem in the year 614 of the
Christian era and after that Egypt fell
and then Syria fell and Constantinople
itself was laid Siege to this means a
Land close by now the Pagan Arab
actually delighted in this as it seemed
to signal to them that the success of
idolatry and its followers over the
people who followed the
Revelation the Christians in this case
and when this verse was revealed it
seemed
impossible that the Roman Empire the
Byzantine ever Empire would ever recover
it seemed it was the end the Persians
had reached dominance the byzantines it
seemed were finished now the word in the
Quran translated a few is B which
actually means anything from 3 to 9
years that term means anything from 3 to
9 years and Obey we mentioned him in a
previous talk obey who was a pagan Arab
he actually beted Abu Bakr who was a
close companion and a friend of the
Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wasallam he beted Abu Bakr that this
will never happen this will never happen
he said I'll take a bet now this is
before before gambling was forbidden of
course gambling is not allowed and that
was forbidden
later and so they actually took a bet of
100 camels that's about
50,000 in modern day money that's quite
a lot of money 100 camels is a lot and
they wagered that this will never happen
now it actually did happen by the year
623 herculis the Byzantine Empire took
to the field and vanquished the Persians
in a series of battles culminating in
the Battle of Nev and this was in
627 by this time in fact OB had been
killed so his relatives actually had to
pay the debt to Abu Bakr and at this
time when the Romans won the Muslims had
been Victorious over the qures and were
rejoicing just as the Quran had
prophesied the prophecy came true
exactly and it is a great reminder that
Allah knows and you don't know and
little do men understand and it is the
same Quran that is warning us about the
dangers of disbelieving in Allah and his
Messengers and not following his
Revelation it is the same Quran that
warns us of the Hellfire and invites us
to the paradise and warns us of the
distress and the misery that people will
suffer on the day of judgment for not
following the truth anyway we've got
some more prophecies for you coming up
so let's mention these are some
prophecies from the Hadith or the
sayings of the Prophet Muhammad
sallallah alaihi wasallam and there is a
long narration that is found in the two
authoritative books of Hadith this means
bukari and Muslim we've mentioned
sahkari before sah Muslim we also
mentioned it previously in fact these
are considered to be the most two
authentic sources of information textual
information in the religion of Islam
after the Quran now according to this
long Hadith the prophet Muhammad was
sitting in a garden andman afan walked
in and the prophet asked Abu Musa ashari
who was with him to inform him of the
good news of paradise so to tellman of
the good news of paradise and also that
people would Mutiny against him and this
exactly is what happened it is well
known from Islamic history that the
people did mutiny against IB affan in
fact they even killed him prophecy came
true exactly as the prophet had said in
another narration while the Muslims were
fighting the Jews in kber after some
days of attempting to besiege The
Fortress the prophet said the next day
he would entrust the flag to a man whom
Allah would give Victory and he gave the
flag to Ali and the same day the
Fortress was conquered by the Muslim
under Ali's command as the prophet
Muhammad had prophesied in another
Hadith the prophet sallallah alaihi
wasallam said the calipat will last for
40 years then there will be a biting
kingship so the caliphate will last for
40 years the caliphate are the Righteous
successors of the Prophet Muhammad
sallallah alai wasallam and then after
that there will be a biting kingship so
the prophet said 30 years and it
happened exactly like this the rule of
the rightly guided meaning Abu Bakr
Omar and Ali was exactly 30 years okay
so we had Abu Bakr for two Omar for
10man for 12 Ali for two and a half and
Hassan who succeeded Ali IB Talib was
three and a half years so that makes as
the prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam
said exactly 30 years after that evil
spread and kingship was established just
as the prophet Muhammad sallallah alaihi
wasallam said would happen in another
Hadith the prophet Muhammad sallallah
alaihi wasallam he predicted the capture
of Egypt remember this is a time when
the Muslims they're just a small group
of people yet he's telling them you're
going to capture Egypt and he even said
and told them treat the people well and
he mentioned also that they would seize
the Treasures of the Persian Emperor can
you imagine this he is telling them you
will defeat the Persians you will seize
the Treasures of the Persian Emperor and
he described the palace and all of these
things happened as the prophet Muhammad
sallallah alaihi wasallam said he even
mentioned concerning one particular
companion Malik that you will wear the
braceletss of the Persian Emperor and in
fact this is exactly what happened the
bracelets fell into the possession of
Omar Al he called suraka who was still
alive of course he could have been
killed in all of these wars but he was
alive and Omar put the bracelets on him
and reminded him of what the prophet
sallallah alaihi wasallam had said also
in
Sahari Malik he reported that the
prophet s. wasallam said look for six
incidents before the last day first
first my
death then and this is of course true
the prophet died then the conquest of
Jerusalem and the Muslims conquered
Jerusalem third an epidemic among them
fourth the abundance of wealth so a man
would not gladly accept 100 din if given
it Fifth a trouble that would involve
all Arab families without exception
sixth a treaty with the Christians which
the Christians would violate so the
Hadith describes exactly what happened
Jerusalem was captured and after this in
16 years after the Hijra of the Prophet
an e epidemic broke out it's well known
about and 70,000 people
died wealth became plentiful after that
especially during the caliphate ofman
and after that in the time of Omar IB
abdulaziz as his so famous when the
collectors of zaka they found no one who
was poor enough to receive the zaka
there was no one poor enough to receive
zaka money that's how wealthy the
Muslims had become and that's the
prosperity Islam brought to the world at
the time and this is exactly what
happened also after the rebellious War
uh against oan things became worse after
his murder and it is true that none of
the Arab families were saved from the
fitner of that from the trials and the
tribulations in after the murder ofman
there was not one family that excepted
was involved in it just as the prophet
Sall wasam had said in another narration
the prophet said that the Muslims would
conquer Rome and Constantinople and the
prophet was asked which was first and he
said the city of herculis which of
course means Constantinople and that is
absolutely true of course Rome has never
been taken by the Muslims and then I
suppose this is something we'll have to
say that every Muslim will believe this
is still something that is due to happen
sometime in the future okay but
Constantinople certainly was conquered
by the Muslims okay and what is
noteworthy here is that these
predictions were made at a time again
when the prophet no one could imagine
that the Muslims were going to do such
things okay the prophet also in many I'm
just saying very quickly some prophecies
here the prophet Muhammad sallallah
alaihi wasallam also predicted that the
Muslims would divide into many different
sect and different groups and in some
Hadith he described the characteristics
of these sects and these groups that
would arise he mentioned that some of
them would do to Ali what the Christians
did to Jesus in other words they would
claim that Ali is God how can a Muslim
ever claim that a human being is God
this is the greatest type of disbelief
you can imagine to claim that a human
being is equal with Allah the prophet
said some Muslims will do this with Ali
and they did first of all a sect arose
exaggerating and in their love for Ali
Talib and then this same sect subects of
them went on to even claim that Ali is
Allah is equal with God and this group
by the way still exists until today also
he mentioned that some people would deny
the Kad or the Divine decree of Allah
and he called them the mause of this um
the the magans of this umah and this has
happened exactly they were called thead
group of people who denied the Divine
decree which is an essential part of
Islamic belief and he also mentioned uh
that a tribe A group would arrive from a
certain tribe and the prophet pointed
out this individual and they would say
that the people who are believers are
unbelievers they would apply the verses
of the Quran talking about unbelievers
to the Believers and the prophet
mentioned very bad things about them and
said in fact he called them the dogs of
the Hellfire because they are saying
that the True Believers are in fact
disbelievers and the prophet mentioned
and pointed out this man and it happened
that a group arose called the these
actually most of them were exactly from
the tribe this man the prophet sallallah
alai wasallam pointed out and the
prophet sallallah alai wasallam
mentioned that they should be fought
against and this is exactly what Ali did
he fought against this group The so
these are some of the hadiths of the
Prophecies of the Prophet sallallah alai
wasam and we have a lot more in fact to
come we're going to be mentioning some
of the signs of the day of judgment
things that the prophet Muhammad said
would happen before the last days and
that will be our last in the episode of
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