alhamdulillah assalam allum which is the
greeting of peace peace be unto you
welcome to another episode of the dean
show radio show our TV programs are
still on you can go to the Deans
show.com and see the show times but we
are on the Audio Waves today with my
next guest Shake Fidel salaman the
director of Bridges Foundation they're
doing some wonderful work helping to
help everybody understand and get a
better information about
Islam Shake are you there with
us peace be upon youum May the peace and
mercy of God Almighty Allah be upon you
also we're going to get straight into
our talk and Shake are you ready yeah
I'm ready I'm ready for you
thank you sh now I I want to start off
here we know that Islam is the way of
life of all the messengers it's been the
same way of life since the beginning God
Almighty he's not the author of
confusion he has sent Messengers and
they've came with the same religion the
same way submit to the one God and not
his
creation so the last and final
messenger being included in the line of
Messengers just to name a few Noah
Abraham Moses Jesus Christ and the last
and final messenger the prophet Muhammad
peace be upon him he was a man of
pristine and magnanimous character he
was a man of great
integrity he was kind
altruistic he was a mercy to the mankind
but the
opponents of Islam with their mellian
ways Sly shy their ways will try to do
anything to malign him to Defan him true
and his Noble me his noble character now
I want to ask you I want to start off
like this we know he was the last and
final messenger sent to mankind but what
I just describ did the opponents to
Islam at that time and and like we said
we Define Islam it means to surrender
and submit to the will of God did the
opponents of Jesus Christ peace be upon
him did they do the same thing to him
yeah but actually I don't want people
also to think that we're speaking about
non-muslims all non-muslims because
there were also some non-muslims who
were very fair when they read about
Prophet Muhammad like for example like
for example Thomas carile he's a
Scottish historian and critic he said in
his book The Prophet the hero he said
the lies which well-meaning Zeal has
heaped around this man are disgraceful
to ourselves only and there is the
British historian Edward Gibbon who said
the greatest crime the greatest sin of
Muhammad in the eyes of the Christian
West is that he did not allow himself to
be slaughtered to be crucified by his
enemies he aily defended himself his
family and his followers and finally
vanquished his enemies Muhammad's
success is the Christian's goal of
disappointment he did not believe in any
vicarious sacrifice for the sins of
others he believed and behaved naturally
in the state of nature everyone has the
right to defend his person and his
possessions so there were non-muslim
historians non-muslim thinkers who were
Fair actually when they read about
Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him now
these were non-muslims and that's who
we're trying to really R reach out to
our brothers in humanity who we want to
become our Brothers in faith but even if
they choose not to want to worship the
one God alone without any partners and
doing all the good wholesome thing that
he calls all of us too because we know
this life is short and Paradise
is there if we want it so we got to
strive for in this life but I want those
sincere individuals to hear what we have
to say from the authentic sources and to
clear up the fog to clear up the
misconceptions so I wanted to start with
this to mention some of the other
Messengers and were they opposed when
they tried to deliver the truth were was
was their way easy did when when Jesus
delivered the truth to the people did he
get spit on did he get ridiculed did he
get
mocked did Moses did some of the others
kind of go through the same thing what
the prophet Muhammad peace be upon him
went through she actually actually the
Quran itself mentions to Prophet
Muhammad that these stories of the
previous Messengers your colleagues we
are mentioning it to you to strengthen
your heart because uh for example the
the story of Yousef Prophet Joseph the
son of Jacob and how and all the
hardships that he went through from
being uh tried to be when his own
Brothers tried to kill him and then they
threw him in a well and then they sold
him as a slave and he was sold as a
slave to in in Egypt and then he he was
even uh uh seduced by a beautiful woman
and then he was thrown in jail all this
hardship descended on the heart of
prophet Muhammad all this the story of
Joseph at the time when he was coming
back back from after people there
ridiculed him and they stoned him and
and and he went and he sat with his back
to a wall and and he cried and he said
oh Allah if this is not a a a sign of of
your anger of me then I don't care about
what happened to me and then Allah uh uh
sent to him such uh verses from the
Quran to strengthen his faith as you
said all those prophets are the prophets
of Islam but some people may be may may
may may may be shocked with this word
because they think that Islam is started
by Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him
while actually if we all believe in one
God
and one humankind because there's no
difference between us whites are not
better than blacks men are not better
than women then there is only one sender
God and only one recipient humankind why
would anyone say think that the same
sender God will send to the same
recipient the humankind different
messages or contradicting messages it
has to be one message therefore we don't
believe that there were ever religions
with an S but rather one religion not
the religion of Muhammad or Jesus or
Moses or Abraham but rather the religion
of God that he communicated to the
humankind once through Muhammad and 600
years before him through Jesus Christ
and 20 years before him through uh John
the Baptist and 20 more years uh also
before him through Zechariah and a
thousand years before him through Moses
and a thousand years before him through
Abraham and a thousand years before him
through Noah and so on so if you if you
just think about that Islam is the only
religion which is not called after any
person or any group or a tribe or any
geographic region like Hinduism after
Hindu which is India it's a geographic
region yes so people not from India
won't feel like they want to be
Hindus um Judaism after the tribe of
Judas Christianity after Jesus Christ
Buddhism after Buddha but Islam after
who Sim Oran or someone no Islam is a
concept Islam is like water all of us
drink water not all of us drink tea not
all of us drink coffee not all of us
drink juice but all of us drink water
because it is water it it is transparent
it has it doesn't have a color had the
water been green or yellow which are
beautiful colors some of us would have
never drank it yes it doesn't smell
anything not even a good smell had the
water smell a good smell some people
would never drink it it it doesn't taste
anything neither salty nor sweet had the
water been sweet or salty some people
would never drink it but because water
is water no color no smell tastes not
salty and not sweet all people are
drinking water and this is Islam this is
Islam that's why it is suitable for all
people the old and the young the men and
the women the the the the white and the
black this is Islam that's why all those
prophets of Allah they were Muslims
which means submitters submitting to the
will of God in the Quran we have a verse
where Moses tells his people oh my
people if you are really Muslims then
put your trust in Allah and we always
thought that that he was talking to the
Jews no they were Jews by race but by
religion they were the Muslim Nation for
about 2,000 years Jesus disciples said
twice in the Quran and bear witness that
we are Muslims so those are Muslims they
were not Christians they were Muslims
like Jesus and like Muhammad and like
Abraham and like all those it's one
religion the religion of God submitting
to the will of the
Creator now that makes sense when you
define it but some people they get hung
up on the Arabic and they see this as
something foreign Muslim Islam what do
you have to say about this well well it
has to be in a language well the the
language of Islam for about 2,000 years
was the Hebrew
language so when the I was just reading
in the uh Book of Matthew and I was
reading the parable of the Covenant of
of the vineyard where Jesus is supposed
to be giving the example of the owner of
the vineyard and who sent uh several uh
laborers to to the tenants to collect uh
from them maybe the the money or
something and they kept like fighting
them killing them and stuff like that
and then he sent uh uh someone else who
in the Bible says his son uh uh and then
when
they tried to kill his son he removed
the Covenant from them and gave it to
another people and here I was I was
thinking that if this Parable is
authentic then it means that God after
all those Messengers and Prophets that
were sent to the sons of Israel and they
did not obey them and they killed some
of them and tried to kill some of them
like like Jesus he took the Covenant and
gave it to another people their sons the
ishmaelites that's why the Quran is in
Arabic because it is the language of the
ishmaelites had the ishmaelites Speak
Greek the Quran could have Greek now so
it's not about the language itself which
is a very beautiful and a very rich
language and one of the uh uh
characteristics of the Quran is being
um miraculous linguistically
miraculous but also the God chose the
Arabic language and send to send the
Quran with it because it was the
language of the Arabs the sons of
Ishmael after the sons of of of Jacob or
the sons of of Isaac betrayed the the
Covenant so this is the issue and and by
the way who said that Islam is in Arabic
it's the Quran which is in Arabic and
the Quran is translated to many
languages we pray five times a day only
formal prayers and here you just have to
uh uh recite seven short verses in
Arabic but we pray a lot uh you know
informally which we called
and thear can be in any language the Dua
which is the invocation of God it can be
in any language actually I believe that
it has to be in your language you cannot
do it in Arabic if you don't understand
what you're saying because it should be
from from the from the the Deep of from
your heart deeply from your heart how
can you say something that you don't
understand so there's no problem at all
being in a in in Arabic world the the
the gospel was sent in Aramaic
is it true that Jesus he spoke Aramaic
and we know he didn't speak English and
he called down the Creator and he said
Allah yeah yeah he
said means my God my God in Arabic too
because the Aramaic is the mother
language of the Arabic and the Hebrew
together my God my God why have you
forsaken me and of course Jesus never
said so he said yes but not he would
never say why have you forsaken me
absolutely not and and this what what
brings us this was a short introduction
now we're going to get into the the
topic the
misconceptions we want to live in a
peaceful coexistence with our neighbors
with Society but we first seek peace
from the owner of Peace the creator of
the heavens and earth and then he gives
us peace within ourselves we know the
purpose of life we know why we've been
created we know this sh life is
transitory and we're seeking to be the
best proven it through our actions doing
the good and then hopefully God willing
with God's mercy we get Paradise now
just as the same way we share we because
we care so we want to share this message
of peace with the world and we also want
to remove other misconceptions and some
people they worship Jesus some people
worship monkeys some people worship all
sorts of different parts of the creation
so we'll try to have a dialogue with
them and explain that you know what this
is something that you shouldn't be doing
you should worship the one who created
creation and some people get upset so
they'll go and try to vilify Islam since
they cannot intellectually and and
peacefully try to go ahead and and
refute what we're saying so they'll make
up
things and to not make this long I'll
give you example there was a big
preacher he worked for 50
years as he's saying he was he was was
doing an interview on on CNN and he said
he loves the Muslim uh people but
Islam it's a violent religion it's a
violent religion and to justify this
they'll also use certain verses kind of
like the cut and paste and that's what
we want to cover today one of the most
popular is chapter 9 verse 29 that they
say look you see you people are about
peace but it says in here to kill all
Jews and Christians and they'll throw
this in people's face and get them all
nervous and scared and this creates
division this creates misunderstanding
so we want to create a understanding
what do we have to say about this she
let let me tell you here because one of
the most frequently used verses uh by
the um The islamophobes Who attack Islam
is verse number five in chapter number
nine which says so when the sacred
months have passed away
then slay the idolators wherever you
find them and take them captives and
besee them and lie in weit for them in
every Ambush then if they repent and
keep up prayer and pay the alms leave
their way free to them surely Allah is
forgiving merciful and they say how
forgiving and how merciful um the issue
is and I'm now whispering in the ears of
every Muslim who wants to defend Islam
if you want to answer any misconception
about the Quran all you need to do is to
go to the
context the verses before and the verses
after and read them carefully and and
here you can answer the the question
very easily because those islamophobes
they play a very I'm sorry dirty game
with us always which is the cut and
paste game they just cut versus or cut
some words sometimes from verses and
take it out of context to attack us with
it that's not nice yeah no they are they
are deluding people they are deceivers
they want to deceive people if you look
at chapter nine itself chapter nine
tells us about the types of
non-muslims there are three types of
non-muslims mentioned in chapter number
nine the first type is sincere
non-muslim covenantor which means
non-muslims who are uh who signed an
agreement with us and they are sincere
to their covenants they are respecting
their signatures the second type is
non-muslims who revoked their covenants
with us who revoked their agreements and
attacked us
first I'm
sorry the third type is non-muslims who
seek Refuge with Muslims let's talk
about the first type which is sincere
non-muslim Muslims who have agreements
with us and they respect their
agreements honorable people honorable
people if you go just one verse before
that verse number five verse number four
it says except those of the idolators
with whom you made an agreement then
they have not failed you in anything and
have not backed up anyone against you so
fulfill their agreement to the end of
their term which means if they are
respectable people you should also be
respectable like they are respectable
here there is also another um verse
about them it's verse number seven that
says so as long as they are true to you
be true to them surely Allah loves those
who keep their Duty and here the the the
the the verse ends with the rationale
why should you also respect your
agreement because Allah loves those who
keep their Duty
and this is responding to the radical
Muslims who say that all these verses
that have leniency with non-muslims are
abrogated it cannot be abrogated because
of this of the way the verse ends Allah
is saying so as long as they are true to
you be true to them why because Allah
loves those who are who keep their Duty
how can you abrogate this this is unog
they want to be Allah loves those who do
not keep their Duty or what so this is
number one the the chapter number nine
talks about this type of honorable
non-muslims ordering Muslims to be true
to them as they are true to us the
second type is non-muslims who revoke
their covenants verse number 12 in the
same chapter says and if they break
their oath after their Covenant and
taunt you for your faith then fight the
leaders of unbelief surely they do not
respect their Oaths so that they may
desist the verse after verse number 13
says will you not fight people who
violated their oath plotted to expel the
messenger and took the aggressive by
being the first to assault you do you
fear them nay it is Allah whom you
should more justly fear if you believe
so every verse in the Quran that tells
Muslims to fight those people whether
they are Muslims or not it's talking
about people who revoke their agreements
with us who attack us who assault us but
Islam never allows Muslims to commit
aggression but the issue is Allah says
fight them uh Smite their necks stuff
like that so this is criticized by
non-muslims actually this is in the
context of don't commit aggression but
when you fight fight bravely be tough
Fighters or would you like the Quran to
tell us fight gently fight softly no the
Quran is not allowing Muslims to commit
aggression and that's it but when we
fight no we are very good Fighters
there's no problem with that the third
type of non-muslims is non-muslims who
seek Refuge with Muslims non-muslims who
seek Asylum and this is in verse number
six one verse after the verse that that
that is controversial
it says and if one of the idolators seek
your protection what do you do kill him
no it says Grant him protection so that
they may hear the word of Allah okay
what they hear the word of Allah and
maybe they don't become Muslim what do
we do the verse continues then escort
him to where he can be secure this is
because they are people who do not know
which means that here he his safety is
the responsibility of the Muslims if an
idolator an UNM Muslim seeks my
protection I should give him my
protection and give him dawa make him
give him the hear the word of Allah and
then protect him until he becomes safe
somewhere which means I am in I I should
fight to protect him whether I fight a
Muslim or a non-muslim because he is
under the protection of the Muslims now
no one he should not be harmed see here
the three types of non-muslims that the
Quran talk about every verse in the
Quran that talks about fighting
non-muslims it speaks about non-muslims
who revoke their agreements and be the
first to attack us because yeah even
Allah subhana wa tala said that if they
incline to peace then you should also
incline to it and the verse next says
even if they want to deceive you put
your trust in Allah which means even if
they want to deceive you get deceived
but at least reach peace what what what
is more uh peaceful than this what's
more peaceful than this you know what
this reminds me with another also issue
in the film FNA yes because Fiers this
Dutch parliamentarian This Racist
parliamentarian actually um um started
the film with a
verse in chapter
number uh um 8 verse number
60 and it's the verse says against them
make ready your strength to the utmost
of your power including steeds of War to
strike Terror in the hearts of the
enemies of Allah and your enemies and he
cut the translation he cut the subtitles
he stopped the subtitling at this point
oh not being deceitful cut and Pace cut
and Pace that's not nice exactly and
here he says you see is
the Quran encourages Muslims to be
terrorists because the verse says strike
Terror in the hearts of the enemies of
Allah and your enemies and you know what
I was speaking to some uh high rank
officers from the uh War
College uh recently they met me uh in
Egypt and they spoke to me um I gave
them a
presentation and after I finished the
gave me a small gift I opened when I
went to my office it was a medal and on
one side the medal says ruselt Hall the
national War college in Washington DC on
the other side there's a Latin statement
that
says and I don't understand Latin but I
wrote it on Google and I found that it
means the one who desires peace should
prepare for for war and if you read the
verse again and you continue reading the
translation don't stop at the point
where fielders stopped the verse says
against them make ready your strength to
the utmost of your power including
steeds of War to strike Terror into the
hearts of the enemies of Allah and your
enemies if you continue it says and
others besides them whom you may not
know but whom Allah does know how can
can the Quran tell me to strike Terror
in the hearts of people that I don't
know the Quran has to tell me who are
they to terrorize them but since Allah
said and in the hearts of some people
whom you may not know it means that this
power this STS of war is to deter people
who are planning to attack us Those whom
we know that they are our enemies and
Those whom we may not know that they are
about to attack us and this means that
if you yeah if you have a strong Army it
will deter people and you will live in
peace because people won't be fighting
you as long as Muslims are not allowed
to commit aggression and to assault
people who are peaceful people and at
the same time they are having a strong
Army then they will avoid getting you
know involved in Wars so actually this
pieace is a way for PE this verse is one
of the ways for peacemaking not Warfare
by the way this is very interesting now
so this is not what they're trying to
say a green light for Muslims to go and
do aggression and harm
non-muslims yes yes yes actually one of
the also verses that they use by taking
it out of context is a verse in chapter
number five it's verse number
51 and H here they say that the Quran
encourages Muslims not to make
friendship with Jews and Christians
because the verse says oh you who
believe do not take the Jews and the
Christians for friends they are friends
of each other they use that too yeah yes
and whoever amongst you takes them for a
friend then surely he is one of them
surely Allah does not guide the unjust
people how do you respond to this sh if
you just continue reading six more
verses this is verse number 51 verse
number 57 and 58 that say oh you who
believe do not take for friends or
Guardians those who take your religion
for a mockery and a joke from among
those who were given the book who are
the Jews and Christians before were
given the book before you and the
unbelievers and be careful of your duty
to Allah if you are believers and when
you call to prayer they make it a
mockery and a joke this is because they
are a people who do not understand so
the verses number 57 and 58 are
particularizing a general verse number
51 it's further explaining a shorter
verse number 51 so you always have to
read the context in the in the first one
it says don't take the Jews and
Christians for uh for uh friends in 57
and 58 it says those among the Jews and
Christians who mock you for your
religion don't take them as friends
which means I can't take for friends
those who mock Prophet Muhammad make
jokes about him draw cartoons about him
so simply this verse says to the Muslims
have dignity make friendship with people
who do not Mark your religion only
that's it so you always have to read the
context because for example if you tell
me I'm going uh tomorrow to Denmark and
I'll spend there the summer I will tell
you look because I know the D so much
I've been to Denmark several times D are
very nice people you can make friendship
with them except those who make fun of
prophet Muhammad and publish the cartoon
and then before leaving the room I tell
you remember what I told you about the
Danes I don't have to repeat everything
all over again
I explained in another situation or six
verses after that or six statements
after that who among the Danes do I mean
I don't mean all Danes gotta Shay tell
us can you make an example if somebody's
making fun of your mother your father
your family they're insulting I mean we
love our mothers and fathers so much we
wouldn't befriend someone like this even
if we told them look stop and the guy
said your mama this and your mama that
your father this and your father that
but now someone making fun of the
creator of the heavens and earth and the
last and final messenger and to that
can't we also add if they make fun of
one who is so beloved to our heart the
prophet Jesus pleased be upon him or
Moses we wouldn't even prend those
people is that right sh exactly exactly
exactly Muslim responded also very very
strongly to um a play that was in Texas
one day showing Jesus as a homosexual
and making fun of him I remember Muslims
this is what this is what the
non-muslims did to to the one that so
beloved to our hearts Jesus peace be
upon them yes yes and I remember that
the muslim's reaction was also very
strong the issue here also comes I want
to to um to focus on one amazing Point
Muslims love Prophet Muhammad so
much but they are offended when they are
called
muhammadans how
come see here because we're not
muhammadans we're Muslims like him and
like Jesus and like Moses so this shows
the balance in Islam we love so much but
not one Muslim not one Muslim among the
1.5 billion Muslims worships him and
this is the balance of Islam a wonderful
balance Shake can we move on to the next
misconception I have a couple here in
the time remaining are you ready yeah
may Allah help me yes a mean tell us now
we
know it is estimated that Islam the call
to acquire peace by submitting to the
Creator alone and not his creation is
the most followed the most practiced
they estimate we've seen on the news
that over 20,000 people convert to Islam
a
year and it is the most expanding way of
life in the world no other Prophet than
the last and final messenger had more
followers than the last and final
messenger in the prophet Muhammad peace
be upon him and it's growing constantly
because he this is the religion of Mercy
he is the the prophet of Mercy but now
again
you have some people and we're trying to
reach out to those sincere and humble
truth Seekers who want to know the truth
and who want to be on the truth cuz they
know that this life is short they're
going to die then they're going to have
to answer on the day of judgment so we
want them to be in Paradise with us
because caring is sharing so we're
trying to share so they might have heard
they might have heard shake from some of
the the
races and I hate to use such strong
words but it's some some people who just
are out there trying to cause division
bigotry so they say that the prophet
Muhammad he wasn't a prophet of mercy
and they'll give some
examples and two of these are that and
there's a woman out there she um and me
a few others from the Arab Arab
peninsula they've gotten on TV and they
said how can someone follow this Prophet
who ordered the killing
of a woman who spoke out against him
through
poetry have you heard this yeah yeah
yeah uh actually this is a fabricated
Hadith fabricated tradition and even the
fabricated tradition doesn't say that
Prophet Muhammad ordered her killing it
says that a a blind old
Muslim went to a woman who used to tell
poetry
and uh to insult Prophet Muhammad in her
poetry and he killed her and after he
killed her he went back to the prophet
and he said oh prophet of Allah I went
and I found her in her tent with five
children so he's blind how can you know
that they are five he should count them
first and then he took his sword and he
put it on her stomach and he leaned on
it so he killed her like
that uh and the prophet did not punish
him or order him to be killed that's
what the fabricated story says by the
way yes and number one it even the
fabricated story doesn't say that he
ordered her killing number two it's a
very funny story because how can a blind
man know that they are five children and
all do all this and she's just sitting
and watching him killing her like that
like like uh someone sitting in a soccer
stadium watching a match uh uh so it's
it's actually very funny she's
called and this is just a
fabrication um there is about three or
four incidents that are mentioned like
that all of them are uh a fabrication
except one there is one case in which
prophet Muhammad peace be upon him and
not as a prophet but as the the the the
the uh
commander-in-chief uh ordered the
killing of someone
called tell us about this please yeah
the problem here is that people think
that because K was a poet that he was
killed because he was a poet saying
poetry which is not
true if you go to the book of T the exes
of the Quran of Al IM Al in chapter
called which is chapter number four
verse number
51 in the explanation of this verse IM
Al mentions
that as went out in 70 among 70 Horsemen
uh Jewish Horsemen and they went to
Mecca and they met with the leaders of
quray and and they held an agreement
with them to fight Prophet Muhammad so
actually here we're talking about a
citizen of Medina who is
conspiring With the Enemy on fighting
and killing Prophet Muhammad so here
when he was or when when he was when he
was killed he was not killed for being a
poet this is very silly to say he was
killed because he was a
military uh uh enemy who was planning
with a big group of 70 people to cause
confusion and fight and do terrorist
acts inside the country so when we talk
about Prophet Muhammad here we talking
about the commanderin-chief who's taking
a decision to uh make the country safer
so it was an act of war on terrorism if
we can say killing this
man so the two are fabricated we don't
even entertain them the one about the
woman and the other poets yes yeah it's
about three incidents or four in are
fabricated and only one which is
authentic the one you just mentioned
exactly was planning to uh put to to
fill up a van with explosives and put it
in the main uh Square in Medina it was
called Time Square at that time too so
you're you're making analogy that's like
what he was trying to do of course of
course of course he had to be
eliminated so we're putting things in
context and isn't this the same man the
mercy to the world who when a Jews woman
who tried to poison him and then he
pardoned her he he didn't he it was
attack against him please elaborate on
this tell us a story
and then he didn't he didn't allow for
her to to get killed is this an
authentic story I I don't recall this
actually but if you want me to give you
an example about his magnanimity yes
please well he is the man whom after 21
years of struggle against the pagans of
quray who killed many of his followers
and the first follower to be killed was
a woman not a man at all Lady sua they
jabbed her with a spear in her private
parts and they killed his uncle and they
even mutilated his body and they ate his
liver after all this when they all fell
in capture after the conquest of Mecca
With Tears in their eyes and fear in
their hearts they told him he asked them
what do you think that I will do to you
they said now they're saying so they
said you are a good and kind man you are
a kind um cousin so he said you are all
free and and their lives were saved and
their possession stayed in their you
know in their possession he he is the
one who frees people he is the one who
came to Free People to liberate the the
Mind itself from from Superstition he
came to liberate the slaves and the
women they say that Islam is against
women why 70% of the new Muslims are
women then at least he came that Islam
is is against slaves why where most of
the first followers of prophet Muhammad
were slaves no Islam is a Liberation
movement H
liberating people from worshiping other
people and taking other people as Lords
to worship The One and Only God the
creator of this world Allah in Arabic
language a in Hebrew language god with a
capital G in English de in French
doesn't matter exactly this makes so
much sense worship the one Creator who
created man and woman but he's not a man
or woman the Creator creator of Jesus
Muhammad and the whole of this universe
but it's become religion become big
business some people making money off
this and some people you know they don't
like when you speak the truth so they
come back at you it's like that nice old
lady who gets on the stand and now you
have an attorney who's paid to defile
her to malign her to make a innocent
person look like someone despicable so
we want to clear these misconceptions
another one that we have just a few more
shik in this time that we have they say
that Muhammad peace and blessings be
upon him that when he got the Revelation
from the
angel that he was choked he was choked
and then he ran out he was
suicidal and he was going out of his
mind and they try to use this as an
argument have you heard this yeah yeah I
heard that actually that's also a
fabrication that he tried to uh commit
suicide when the angel uh you know came
uh first time and then he he didn't come
again for a while that he kept wandering
and he was about to throw himself off
the uh Cliff actually this is a complete
fabrication because even when the angel
came the first time Prophet Muhammad
went and he was scared he was scared
that why would this happen to him and he
went to his wife beloved wife Khadijah
who Cal him down he said you are always
helping the poor helping the needy
helping the weak Allah will never do any
will never harm you and then she took
him to her cousin who was a an Aryan uh
you know arens are those who believe
that there is no God except the one true
God Allah in Arabic uh Jesus is the
messenger of God so those are Christians
who rejected the Divinity of Jesus and
rejected Trinity and he was one of the
people of the book so he told him that
you are the prophet of the uh um end of
time and I wish I I'm I'm alive when
they kick you out uh and the prophet
said are they kicking me out and um here
was U predicting what really happened to
Prophet Muhammad later on the issue is
no Prophet Muhammad never uh uh tried to
commit suicide suicide is a major sin in
Islam so we moving out we got to move
out the junk so the people could see
this TR
and the year sensible people I'm sure
they're liking what we have to say the
worship of the one God and not his
creation and doing all the good that
he's called us to there's um under the
pretense it's called The Satanic Verses
they say that some verses came and
everyone bowed down and then all of a
sudden it was a mistake and these are
called those verses that came from Satan
so they try to say that okay there's
some confusion here you know your lord
is is Satan he's sending Satan verses
and this is a satanic religion and you
know how the story goes can you clear
this up yeah yeah actually actually
alhamdulillah that in Islam we had uh
Scholars who focused upon
authentici any narration that that that
we hear and and they went uh you know
exploring the chains of narration and
the men and the women who are narrators
and and and they very neutrally they
told us which narration is weak which
narration is the fabrication and that's
also one of the Fabrications that
Prophet
Muhammad
uh received some
Revelations from Satan one day and he
thought that this is a revelation from
Archangel Gabriel from Allah through
Archangel Gabriel so he mentioned the
names of the idols
uh as gods and that's what made the
whole tribe of quray in Mecca bow down
and submit in Islam and then later he
discovered that oh oh oh that's not a
revelation from gibel from Gabriel that
was a revelation from Satan I'm sorry
I'm sorry and he retracted the verses
from the Quran this is childish and and
very funny well people can say whatever
they want about H Prophet Muhammad and
always H H those who were successful in
their life and they they were Genius
Like Prophet Muhammad they were always
attacked but the issue is some people
attack him even with very childish H uh
stories like this one this is very
childish and it never happened we're
moving out what they want to prove is
that it was possible that he received
something from Satan this one he
retracted but maybe there is something
else that he did not retract and here
again they are not attacking him
personally they are attacking the Quran
itself the and and the issue is well the
Quran there's only three
options either the Quran really comes
from Allah God or it is from Prophet
Muhammad's uh well he he authored the
Quran or maybe he got it from someone
else or it's a revelation from Satan
number one if you just you know uh uh
falsify two then the third is the right
one it will never be the Revelation from
Satan because if it's from Satan he will
never curse himself in every page the
the all the way in all through the Quran
the Quran is um uh warning us from
following Satan's footsteps telling us
that Satan is your enemy don't
follow what he tells you number two it
cannot be from Prophet Muhammad's uh uh
own uh words or from anyone's words
because there's a lot of of proof uh
that prove that it's not the the word of
any human being like for example the
scientific mirac miraculous aspect of
the Quran like the linguistic miraculous
aspect of the Quran like uh prediction
the prediction of uh future events that
are amazing like for example saying that
the Romans were defeated and within few
years they will defeat back the Persians
and that was incredible to believe at
that time is it's like saying the USSR
the Soviet Union will be back within few
years from now and it will defeat the
United States of America people will
laugh at someone when he says so and
they will think that he's crazy at that
time the Roman Byzantine Empire was
collapsing to the Persians and saying
that within few years and this even
shows the the uh um the the how the the
Quran was really challenging because had
not the Quran say within few years and
then the Romans don't get Victorious
again we could have been saying until
now the Quran didn't say when but the
Quran said within few years the Romans
will be victorious again so here the
there's a lot of things that prove that
the Quran is neither the word of any
human being neither Prophet Muhammad nor
anyone else nor the words of the Shan it
is the word of Allah you made an
interesting point we're almost out of
time we're going to wrap this up like to
thank everybody tuning in to the dean
for tuning in to the de show radio show
you said on every page we're seeking
Refuge with the Creator from this
accursed devil and that's interesting
there's a verse in the Bible that is
saying that if Satan drives out Satan
his kingdom will be divided so if they
just look to their book they see that
the evidence there's a plethora of
evidence to prove that this cannot be
from a devil this can't be from a man
but it's indeed from the creator of the
heavens and earth but the formula is
isn't it you have to be sincere yes of
course well sincere
is is a condition for the acceptance of
God to or or you know a prayer a short
prayer of two raas two Circles of prayer
can lead you to heaven or can lead you
to hell if you do it with not with
sincerity uh if you do it for the sake
of someone else if you go to pray in a
certain mosque because there's a man
that you want to do business with and
when he sees you pray praying he will
say that you are a good man and he will
you know give you money or do something
like that then this is not sincerity uh
sincerity is a condition uh if you want
God to accept
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uh well the the the Islam Islam deals
with a human being as a physical being
and is as a spiritual being too and what
Allah wants from us is to be sincere
this is according to thean tell us uh
for people just so we can understand
this a little better you it seems like
sometimes we'll give the proofs we'll
we'll clear up these misconceptions how
does the lay men because we know the
devil is the author of confusion Islam
is clear it's rational it's logical but
sometimes when you give the people the
evidence and they'll and we'll show them
what the experts say they'll say no no
no no no you know we'll say that Allah
says in the Quran that if this was from
other than than the Creator you would
find contradiction in it and any sincere
person sees there's no contradiction but
then they'll list a list of 10 or 20 and
they'll say no no these are
contradictions so how does the Layman
decipher what is a contradiction what is
not un knowledgeable he just just go to
a knowledgeable person and ask there's
no contradictions in the Quran and I
challenge anyone to prove that there's
any contradiction in the Quran no way
and by the way the the verse doesn't say
contradiction say it says no
discrepancies discrepancies so yeah
which includes contradictions and
non-contradiction so it there's no
discrepan whatsoever in the Quran the
Quan is extremely precise
precise I challenge people to show me
any contradiction in the Quran or
anything any discrepancy so none of that
that would mean that it wasn't from the
creator of the heavens and earth just
wrapping up now we're coming to a close
we didn't this is a vast topic but
anytime because I'll get a lot of emails
sometimes and and a person will go to
some website and they'll hear something
some of the points we covered but
there's so much more so anytime a person
a Muslim or non-muslim he's seeking the
truth but then something that startles
him something like this and how should
he go about it instead of just
abandoning investigating the truth and
then following your desires or God
Almighty said God Almighty
said ask the people of knowledge if you
don't know no one will know everything I
have to ask people I have to read I have
to explore I have to I my intellect so
the lay Muslim should go to the people
of knowledge and ask them real people of
knowledge it's not about how long your
beard is it's about how knowledgeable
you really
are so knowledge is
key yes seeking knowledge let's start to
wrap it up now shik for those people
who like what we have to say and they
say you know what now that you put it in
contest
these people who are cutting and pasting
they can see the bigotry there they can
see the racism and they don't want to
succumb to that so now the fog is
beginning to be cleared and they want to
know a little bit more so what is the
call how can someone have true peace in
life and attain
Paradise uh well this this leads us to
the concept of salvation in Islam which
is a completely different way from the
concept of salvation in other religions
in other religions through faith you can
acquire eternal life or acquire
salvation but actually in Islam you have
to combine two things the first one is
having the right faith and the second
one is doing the good work God Almighty
said in the Quran that at the last uh
verse in chapter the cave Al that let
those who to uh seek salvation do the
good work and not associate any partner
with Allah in their worship so um Allah
all through the Quran always Associated
Faith with good work
in those who believe and do the good
work all always they were always
mentioned together like that and
actually the in the last verse of Surah
for the only time in the Quran
good work was mentioned before Faith
because in the beginning of the Surah
there is a criticism for those who
believe that through only Faith
salvation can be acquired who are the
Christians because the the the Surah in
the beginning uh is actually warning the
Christians for claiming that God has a
son and and and and and and some of
their you know beliefs that we differ
with them uh on so the Surah here draws
this contrast at the end of the Surah by
mentioning good
work H before faith for the only time uh
and by the way if you go to the Bible
and read you will find Jesus teaching
the Islamic teachings by the way not the
teachings of the church that say that if
you believe in Jesus as Lord you you
you're saved and I have a friend who is
a professor in I think Chicago
University that I met in Oxford
University last last year when we were
in a in a conference on combating
terrorism and he made his presentation
about the people who tortured uh the
Iraqi prisoners in Abu he said I found
that they come from different
backgrounds some of them are men and
some are women some are whites and some
are blacks and some are Latinos but the
only thing that I find that I found
common in all of them is that they were
all Evangelical Christians who believed
that they were saved the moment they
believed in Jesus and this is the most
dangerous thing to tell someone you were
saved through your faith which means if
I'm saved the moment I believed in Jesus
then let me do whatever I want in Islam
No Islam is the only religion that
guarantees going to hell for his own
followers if they don't do good work so
I have to do the good work besides
having the right faith
faith in Islam is like what what Ma
mathematicians say is necessary but not
sufficient so that's the correct way the
way of all the prophets and then is it
true Shake if we do this with the proper
belief belief in the one God not calling
on other gods besides the one Creator
the creator of the universe and
everything in it we do the good deeds
and that's how we get the Creator's
Mercy Yes actually there are there are
three scenarios for a relationship with
God the first scenario is the scenario
of fear you do the good work and you
stay away from doing the evil because
you fear his punishment in this life and
Hereafter the second scenario is the
scenario of greed you do the good work
and you stay away from Evil because you
want to enjoy his blessings in this life
and in the year after but the third
scenario which is the perfect scenario
the one that he really wants it to be
the
scenario U of relationship between you
and him is the scenario of love love and
the verse in the Quran says if you
really love Allah then follow me uh it
says say which means say oh Muhammad if
you really love Allah then love then
then follow my commands Allah would love
you so you see here love from us to
Allah love from Allah to us and this is
the perfect scenario is the scenario of
love so I I I pray five times a day and
I don't recall when was it the last time
when I went to pray because because I
fear the punishment of Allah maybe that
was 2 three weeks ago and I don't recall
when was the last time I went to pray
because I want to go to paradise maybe
that was a week or two or three ago but
every time I go to pray I pray because I
want to appreciate God because for me
the prayer is like a mobile phone that I
use to call upon Allah Allah gave me a
number to dial every day and call him
and this number is
24434 and when I'm away uh when I'm
traveling I have a a longdistance number
which
is2 32 and these are the numbers of
circus of prayer that we do every day I
have to dial two circus of Prayer in the
morning four circus of prayer at noon
four circus of prayer afternoon three
Circles of Prayer in the after Sunset
and four circles of prayer at in the
evening this is the number that should
dial to call upon Allah and tell him
whatever I want I am the one who decides
when to start a meeting with Allah and
when to finish the meeting with Allah
and I'm the one who decides how long
this meeting can be just by going
anywhere and saying Allah abbar I am in
the presence of Allah so this is the
beauty of Islam the relationship with
Allah communicating with him which is
actually the nutrition of the the soul
this spiritual being inside every one of
us it needs nutrition like our body we
give it nutrition all the time we're all
the time feeding this body giving it to
drink H giving it medication but who is
doing this to his
soul because we're not giving the soul
the needs that it needs the soul weakens
and when the soul weakens the body
starts to overrule the soul and the body
starts driving oneself this means that
the desires are driving and here you can
see people falling into sin but if the
soul is strong enough if you give it the
nutrition that it needs and the
medication that it needs it is strong
enough to drive the body and control the
desires here you you see Pious people
and righteous people so we have to
understand first who we are I am not
just this 100 kilos or or 200 pounds of
meat that people see I am much more than
this I am something else inside that
acts like the worker who operates this
machine and this is the soul so it's
very important to understand yourself
and Islam is the only religion in the
world that gives these answers to these
questions who am I what am I doing here
on planet Earth what is the purpose of
my life and who created us and why did
he create us only Islam gives these
answers and that's why it is the fastest
growing religion in the world because it
gives these answers to these questions
at the same time it's a very simple
theology you don't need to be a
philosopher to understand Islam you
don't need to understand a religious
mystery to to be a Muslim no it's a very
simple theology giving answers to very
complicated questions that no other
ideology give the answers for shake we
got one minute tell us how someone can
get a hold of you and tell us about your
organization and the last minute that we
have please well um um Bridges
Foundation is an international
organization specializing in introducing
Islam to non Muslims and in uh training
Muslim public speakers and presenters so
we trained until today more than 9, and5
9,500 Muslims in 16 countries on how to
present Islam to non Muslims and answer
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refute them uh you can go to
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