bah alhamdulillah alaykum we greet you
with the best of greetings peace be unto
you this is a greeting of Jesus this is
a greeting of Moses and the last and
final messenger said to mankind the
prophet Muhammad peace be upon him now
all these Messengers they came with the
same message they never called people to
worship themselves Saints Angels nothing
in creation but the one God and they
came with a complete system a way to
live your life not according to your
whims and desires but according to how
the Creator wants you to live it' only
be fair if he set a complete way of life
otherwise it'd be left for you to figure
it out You' be making mistakes here and
there bumping into this and that so God
is the most just and he's the guy so he
sent the guidance and this episode of
the dean show we're going to talk about
that complete guidance and how it was
implemented how it was implemented we're
going to go a little bit way back in
history and you're going to see when
those who submitted themselves to
Muslims when they implemented
Islam and the law of God Shar uh oh some
people get a little nervous here so
you're going to learn about what Sharia
means and a practical example of when it
was implemented and how wonderful things
were when we come back here on the dean
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show there's only one God and muhamad is
his messenger Allah
there's only one God and Jesus was his
messenger
Allah I don't know why I did that maybe
maybe it's just to break the iceam Alum
peace be unto you peace be unto you
too yes how are you alhamdulillah how
are you good aldah do you know sh B of
course of course of course I love him so
much yeah so tell us now okay we have so
little time but this is a vast topic and
at the end we're going to direct people
where they can go look into is because
you're actually teaching a course on
this
Shar this is something when a lot of the
not yet Muslims they hear this word they
say we don't want no Sharia over here
they don't even know what it means so
let's start off there before we get into
our main topic what does this word
Sharia mean Sharia simply U if we want
to um Define it it's Islamic law if you
want to translate it this way uh because
it is uh some it is law that is decreed
by God because uh when you think about
it uh God or Allah as we call him he's
the one who created human beings and of
course the one who creates knows better
about his creation than anyone else and
this is even if someone invents
something in this life they know about
it better than anyone else so the one
who created the human human beings is
the one who knows what works best for
them and you said Allah so we're not
talking about a man inventing this or
the moon inventing is we're talking
about who the creator of the universe
and the human beings and everything this
is the uh Islamic definition which is it
means the the law that is decreed uh by
Allah to the human beings and it's a
it's um two parts there is one the the
law of worship and then there is law of
dealings meaning the trading the uh
dealings when human beings deal with
each other or deal with anything else
even nature anything else there's a laot
that governs uh the Muslims and their
life and this is the ideal law that is
uh Allah has told us about and of course
we have parts that uh Allah has made uh
or God has made that it's the same it's
fixed all uh it doesn't change based on
time and place but then we have the
other part which it's a flex
and people depending on where they live
and what time they live and and where
they are they could adapt these uh laws
to suit the environment that they're in
and an example for that if you want to
yeah give me give us an example so let's
talk about for example the laws of
trading so interest is something that is
fixed it's always wrong and it's always
forbidden in Islam because it always
leads to a lot of uh uh destruction and
we have seen that we are actually
witnessing this at our time when we saw
yes when we saw the recession and
everything that no one could argue about
it anymore it might in the beginning we
might some people might get a gain of it
uh um while other people are losing but
we could witness what it causes to the
worldwide economy in general so that's
something that is always forbidden in
any time in any place but for example in
the laws of trading we for example um
uh there is a flexib AB ility for the
currency we could use gold and silver we
could trade with each other things
directly we could use paper money we
could use checks Islam here leaves
things flexible so that people could
deal with whatever is comfortable to
them so we have part that that doesn't
change because there is always a
constant harm throughout history and
then we have the parts that are uh
flexible so that people could adapt it
based on where they live and uh what
time they live in now the Jesus Moses
Abraham did they come with a Sharia also
of course yes now the uh all religions
or the previous religions they're
actually Islam which means the
submission to God because we believe we
as Muslims believe in all the previous
prophets that came before that were
mentioned in the Quran and in Hadith and
uh of course certain laws as we see are
the same in Islam as in other uh
previous religions but also there is
laws that have changed because human
beings change and we know this as a fact
from different time periods So based on
those changes the law has changed but
however since Islam is the final
religion or what prophet Muhammad came
with since we said it's all Islam what
prophet Muhammad based upon Him came
with then this was uh at this time it
this is the final revelation of the
religion that would be followed till the
end of so you you mentioned what the
prophet Muhammad peace be upon last and
final message the mankind came with
Islam but did Jesus Moses they all did
Islam didn't they because Islam means to
acquire peace by submitting like you
said to your will to God's will that's
correct the Creed or the belief doesn't
change our belief about God our belief
about the Angels our belief about uh The
Messengers that part is fixed among all
the messengers the part that changed is
the law because human beings again uh
the environment and the surroundings
were different at the previous
Messengers but since Islam as we said
it's the final religion then that part
there was a part that is made in the law
fixed and part that is made adapted so
just before we go on into our main topic
as we said all the messengers came with
the same message submit to the one God
worship the Creator not his creation and
do the good that God wants you to do so
you can get to Paradise so they all came
they were all Muslims because the Muslim
is one who submits to God they all came
with the Islam worshiping submitting to
one God and they all came with Sharia
God's law yes so now we're going to go
into a contrast before and we're going
to use one part in history because
people can go and look this up because
like I said most of the media are trying
to create a fear frenzy and they throw
out these Arabic words and they don't
even know what they mean yes and they
create this sensationalism and we hope
that the media and all those because we
care we're sharing with them that they
can come to the dean show and they can
learn about Islam so then we can all
live in peace because then this fear
will be eradicated because of your C
fear then you know what people are
obviously not going to be more in tune
to collaborating working together and we
want to work together so we need the
proper education that's what we're
trying to do and sitting with Scholars
such as yourself so then we can all come
to this proper understanding now when we
come back you're going to talk to us
about Spain how's that that's excellent
looking forward to okay so we're going
to be right back here on the dean show
to give you a example of when God's law
Islam was implemented and how people
were living in peace right back
on born about 60 years ago in former
Yugoslavia today is Bosnia after second
world war can you imagine today you have
one child K too much it's important that
we realize that Islam is a gift so we
believe that in the teachings of Jesus
what is left there is truth in
there but the truth has been mixed up
with paganism and with nature worship
and so Islam has given you a pure
straightforward way of approaching
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monotheism go ahead now we're back here
with you go ahead and take it away talk
to about talk to us about Sharia and
Islam and when it was implemented in
Spain talk to us yes thank you uh I had
the pleasure to uh go to Spain this year
and I witnessed uh over there the uh
Muslim Heritage and how this Spanish
culture uh was affected by Islam now if
we want because many people say okay
so how did the Muslims get there in the
first place and uh there's always this
misconception about uh the Muslims
trying to take over the world or
something people might be scared when
they hear about this term in the
beginning but how did it happen and also
that Islam spread by The Sword and and
all these misconceptions but Spain or
the history of Spain is the perfect
example of how that was not the case and
the best way to know this is to compare
and contrast between Spain before Islam
and Spain after Islam so we'll start
with before Islam yes so we'll start
before Islam now again um some
historians they call the Muslims uh that
they have occupied Spain for example but
why wouldn't they call others other uh
Nations that came into Spain before them
this so Spain U there was people living
there tens of thousands of year ago of
years ago and then the Romans they took
over the land of Spain and then the
visigothic kingdom the Germanic tribes
they came and took over from the Romans
after the uh around the fifth century
they took over and then after that
around the uh 8th Century in the year
7eleven specifically that's when the
Muslims came now what happened and how
was it before and after so in order to
understand before the Muslims were there
in Spain there was a king called uh
Rodrigo and this King he was ruling
Spain by force and by dictatorship so
people actually before Islam over there
they were paying so much taxes more than
half of what they're making and we're
not just talking about uh just the the
rich or those who have businesses even
the poor were forced to pay that tax so
they were paying like 30 40 50% of their
earnings yes more more than that
actually and it was taken uh to them by
Force sometimes whether they worked or
not yet at the same time also there was
a lot of spread among there was a
um it was spread over there a lot of
evil so for example people were afraid
because there was forceful uh rape by
the soldiers who were there soldiers
were raping people before Islam that's
before Islam and there was chaos there
was a lot of uh stealing and there was a
lot of killing and and this was all this
is documented you could check this even
in the non-muslim history books how
Spain was before Islam crime was at an
all-time high rape uh denigration of
women subjugation of women everything
was just upside down that's correct and
we're going to see this actually once
the Muslim came how people who were in
Spain reacted to when the Muslims came
and and when the Muslims they entered uh
the country uh over there and King
Rodrigo he was fighting in the north uh
he had some interal conflict which won't
go through much but when he heard the
Muslims there and he came with his Army
and the Muslims were outnumbered by 1
to8 yet they were able to uh defeat that
Army it was again they weren't killing
civilians it was soldiers so you just WR
here you said okay so there was no
killing it was a a complete Constitution
Islam where there's no killing of
innocent women children none of this was
going on by the Muslims yes it was
soldiers against soldiers and that's
what happened
now after that period the actually some
of the even it was documented that some
of these soldiers because they were
forced to fight by the king Rodrigo and
they were not getting anything out of it
uh so and you could imagine that uh one
one evidence for this is even though
they were outnumbered by 8 to1 they they
were able to defeat them um after that
when the Muslims they went to the uh to
the towns and Villages one by
one uh first of course when any uh new
nation arrives people are afraid
normally because you're afraid of what
you don't know they're a little bit
timid yes but when they saw how the
Muslims first of all the people don't
have to pay those huge taxes anymore
that's cut out right away that's
completely cut off what they have to
pay that then they have the choice
either they accept Islam and this is
done there is no compulsion or force in
the religion so it's not someone put a
knife on your neck and say accept Islam
you is this allowed that never happened
because and the proof for this is
because even when the Muslims ruled
Spain for 800 years the Christians and
the Jews and other religions as well
were living there and they existed there
until the peacefully together peacefully
together Christians and Jew what I heard
that this was like the Golden Ages for
the Jews in Spain is this true that's
correct yes that was the Golden Age and
they were protected uh by the Muslims
but once the Muslims were defeated and
forced to leave that's when the
Inquisition happened and they were
killed and this is a historical fact
that we can't hide they were uh killed
in the Inquisition and tortured by the
Catholics for example so the Catholics
killed the Muslims and the Jewish and
the Jews as well that was the
inquisitions yes and at that time who
but but before that I'm sorry before
that Jews Christians Muslims were living
in peace completely in peace and that's
why we saw even there's some uh
scientists from uh from Jewish people as
well who florish under the Andel Empire
yet uh again we always say Islam
practices uh tolerance without
compromise of the uh uh of the people or
the religion was this under Sharia law
this was yes under complete Shar so wow
so what's happened is
um people there when they saw how the
Muslims were treating them very nicely
the the soldiers there were protecting
these Villages from uh they were
protecting the order like acting like
the police so peace came back to these
cities and Villages and at the same time
time uh those people instead of paying
these huge taxes they only had to pay if
they don't want to accept Islam yeah
let's go back so you said they had a
choice now they can accept Islam or they
could or be killed no no okay that's a
misconception yes yeah the other option
is they pay just how much one gold coin
a year if they could afford What's this
called this they call it gizia what is
this mean when a jiza they get nervous
and scared about this jiza which is
actually a lot less than 50 40 30% is
that right of course if if the people
are this is only for the working people
who could afford it if you if the people
were sick if it was uh the women if they
were also the uh the senior actually
they get paid uh under Islamic law they
get paid if if they have any needs and
no one is there to fulfill their needs
the the Muslim government would fulfill
those needs for them but this even that
gold coin was paid that that what that
they paid they paid it for their
protection so if someone was goat and
and and for example and uh fight with
the Muslims to protect the nation he
wouldn't have to pay that gold Co there
was a story that I heard maybe you can
elaborate on this where the Muslims who
were protecting the Christians another
group of Christians came to fight the
Christians and the Muslims were
defending the Christians because they
were living and paying this tax to jiza
and they weren't able to fight off the
Christian Army that was coming to fight
the Christian Army so they gave them the
Jah back but they tried humbly to defend
them did you hear cases like this yes
and there's even even later in history
that happened for example the later
Ottoman Empire they were protecting uh
the uh the Netherlands the Dutch people
who were Protestant they protect the
Muslims were protecting them from the
Catholics yes and there was actually an
economic relationship between them
between the Netherlands and the Ottoman
Empire so that's another example in in
history that the uh Muslims they in in
this case they protect the truth and
even we were just mentioning the uh what
happened to the Jews now many people
don't know that when uh when they were
prosecuted in Spain who did they seek
Refugee to at that time they suck Refuge
to the rising Ottoman Empire so the
Ottoman Empire the Muslims protected
them from what was happening to them
they the Muslims were protecting the
Jews also yes they this is known in
history yes got to do your homework yes
this is well documented why is this
false information now spreading like
Islam is the enemy of En everyone Islam
doesn't want peace Muslims are okay
they'll say Muslims are good people but
it's Islam we need to worry about why do
you think this is there's two things we
have to pay attention to First is uh
getting educated about Islamic history
and an all history and the other thing
is we have to distinguish between Islam
and Muslims Islam is the perfect
religion from God God submission to the
one God but the Muslims some of them are
good some of them are not following the
religion correctly some of them may do
wrong things but that should not uh as
they say don't judge the car by the
driver you could have the excellent car
and a reckless driver and if you want to
test really that car you should have a
good driver behind the wheel so we have
to always distinguish between the
teachings of the religion and what
people are practicing great so tell us
now so the tax was eliminated this high
tax that's killing the people now they
go and make so much money now they got
to give half of it or more to the king
Islam
comes now the people can keep their
money they're paying what is this
equivalent to the the amount the jiza
that they're having to pay what is it
equivalent to so if he calculates one
gold coin right now you would know I
mean how much the gram of gold equals
right now and uh um I'm not sure 10% 5%
2% what is it equivalent if you put a
percentage on it taxes it's not really a
percentage because as we said it's it's
a fixed amount that you could you would
only pay if you are working and could
afford it and what do you compare to the
50% compared to that one coin so people
get a better there it wouldn't even be a
comparison you can't compar you can't
compare them well it did sometimes uh we
have to also be historically accurate
sometimes they increased it to four gold
coins because certain um uh certain
elements like for example there was uh
some friction or wrongdoing from the
other side and there is a few exceptions
in history where for example someone
misused this law to get that but as we
say these are the exceptions we ow in
every time and in every place we're
going to find people who are the
exception they don't follow the law they
do it wrong they use it or they use
Islamic law for their own gain and we
have to be fair and mention that this
did happen okay so when you read history
you know about it but we should not as
they say put the microscope on them and
try to make that all Muslims throughout
history every time did that's the defect
of the Muslim yes that's what happens
sometimes we choose certain bad parts of
history and everyone has bad parts of
history and we try to or the media tries
to highlight those parts let's hold it
right there we right back with more here
on the dean
show coming to the truth requires two
things it requires deep thinking that
you've already done but it requires
another step and that's courage if you
have the truth but you don't have
courage you won't stand up for the truth
and that's as good good as standing up
for
falsehood I I would say this thing that
you just told me it's not in the
scripture and they would say a marginal
note added by a scribe yeah okay we know
that and I'd be thinking if you know
this is not the Bible why are you
preaching it as if it's gospel
Tru I am not afraid of stand
alone I am not afraid to stand alone if
a li by I am not afraid to stand alone
I am not afraid to stand alone if Li by
I am not afraid to stand
alone I am not afraid to stand alone if
Li I am not afraid to stand
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alone peace be unto you welcome back to
the dean show and we're talking and
giving a live historical example of when
God's law Sharia the same way Sharia was
implemented during uh other prophets
times now you have it here Islam also
which is the call to acquire peace by
submitting to the one God submitting
your will to the will of the creator of
the heavens and earth and we're showing
the Justice we're showing that the tax
was
eradicated and now we mentioned earlier
the contrast between the two you had
rape of women you had crime people were
scared
because the criminals are out what
happens now when Islam takes over yes
when the Muslims took over eventually we
will see first that uh one of the things
is once they did this model of applying
the sh the the news spread about how
fair they were treating people and
everything that to the point that they
were able to be uh to uh uh they were
able to easily go from Village to
Village and have a presence there and in
3 and 1/2 years all of Spain was under
Muslim Rule and just within about 15 to
17 years the vast majority of Spanish
people who were living at that time
there they accepted Islam and that's how
it became many of them we will see the
soldiers the number of them who
initially came was first 7,000 and then
12,000 and it was about 30,000 but
people accepted Islam in masses who were
living in space voluntarily voluntarily
and under no ceron that's true and the
only part that was left because it was
surrounded by the mountains was The
Basque region in the north so because
why they saw the manners of the Muslims
and they saw that the soldiers were
there to protect them not to steal from
them not to rape their women they have
never seen anything like this and even
that's what they uh there's a something
they said when they went to uh report to
the Spanish King they said we've seen
people that are almost like people who
came from the sky what what why did they
say this because they saw the normally
at that time around the world when a new
nation comes they are trying to take
over by force to steal the money to
steal the land the Muslims did not do
any of this at all they came and they
said to them what they want and they
said we're just coming here to let you
know about the religion of God and
whether you accept it or not and then
they spread the peace and this is this
was something common that the mus that
even in the same time frame uh Egypt was
under the occupation of the Roman Empire
and there were the Roman Empire was
taking all the resources of Egypt when
the Muslim came when the Muslims came
they um defeated the Roman Empire and so
the Egypt within a few years also became
the vast majority of them became Muslim
because they the Muslims saved them they
didn't use their
resources and they didn't they didn't
use their resources and at the same time
they uh the Egyptians who were there
were able to flourish under the Islamic
L they had that type of protection so
the agenda of the Muslims was not to Rob
and pillage rap this is against the
teachings of Islam yes not to steal the
land not to steal the money not to rape
it was for the uh spreading of the
religion but as we said not by force so
you can accept that look there is a
Creator and just worship him alone and
do the good want you do the M yes that's
true and and when they went to open a
new region it was when they were not
able to give to preach to people there
because we saw for example in abisa or
what uh what they call that time alh
around Ethiopia over there that the
Muslims were there and there was they
were living under a a Christian King
initially yet they were there living
peacefully and they were able to give
the message peacefully to others but
when other nations at that time were
oppressed like Egypt was oppressed by
the Roman Empire and the Spanish people
was also oppressed by their king that's
when the Muslims are not able to tell
people about their religion so they have
to uh they have to go and defeat those
forces that are taking the resources of
people save them and then at that time
people would have the choice and they
would live under the Peace of Islamic La
that makes so much sense it's simple but
you know what people are getting a
better understanding we almost only have
a couple more minutes another few of uni
things when Muslims R everyone wasn't it
and invention Muslims were the topic
science inventions what other things yes
and Science and inventions to the point
that even the elit the kings of Europe
at that time they were s sending their
children for
scholarships to study under the Muslims
in Spain and they had the largest
universities in the world over there the
University of Cordoba over there and and
Cordova had the second largest library
in the world after Bagdad Bagdad was the
capital of the Islamic calate the Abasi
calate Ina they had 5,000 500,000 books
at that time when the largest at that
time it was recorded and this is again
in non-muslim sources you could check
this that the largest library in Europe
at that time was in Rome had about two
dozen of books not more than that 30
something uh so you and at that time the
trade of books has flourished through
the Muslims that um they were also
getting the paper and they were writing
and they were translating all the
Sciences from all all over the world but
then they built on it and then Europe
built again their Renaissance based on
what the Muslims have achieved at that
time during so Muslims weren't
persecuting scientists like some
religions they were what leading in
science yes they were leading and it was
also a chance for for scientists from
other religions to flourish under Muslim
law they were not pro cuted they were
not killed as as long as they have the
freedom to explore any topic as long as
there is no blasphemy against God and
this is something we have to uh this is
expected because uh he's our creator and
we have to respect Allah
subhana Allah the glorified but other
than that they were able to explore in
any field of science and they could do
other things through debate and talk
there there's no um there is no cut on
the freedom of speech in this if they
want to talk um and have a dialogue
between the Muslims about the religion
that was there was this freedom and we
could check this the best way to check
this is through the books that survived
from that perod so you also are doing a
course about this tell us the last just
20 seconds tell us because we just
wanted to give them a taste and people
go verify this they can also take your
class yes absolutely in this course
we're trying um to show uh intensively
in 16 hours about uh give them a flavor
of that history of the Golden Age and
what happened and also at the same time
we will admit that there's also mistakes
and we want to learn from these mistakes
so that we don't do them again we're
trying to for people who can't go to
Spain we try to bring Spain to them so
they will get to see uh shots of all
these places that remain from the
Muslims and how they're used even until
today some of the technology that the
Muslim like the water canals there're
still if you go to zil you'll be able to
see them between the trees the how the
water goes and that's just one example
of it uh and then uh if Allah Wills this
will be produced in a book by next year
and people could also get this book
through our website thank you very much
Gody Allah reward you may Allah you to
thank you very much and thank you for
tuning in to another episode of the dean
show and thank you for listening we gave
you an example when Islam the call to
acquire peace by submitting to the owner
of Peace the one who created you the the
one God people were living in peace Jews
Christians and Muslims and you can go
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right thing if you're looking for
guidance and you like what we had to say
ask the one who created you him alone to
guide
you and even if you feel you know what
it's not time for me to submit I want to
do my own thing at least you got to
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until then peace be unto you