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brother and he gonna show you all the
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you this is the unique greeting the
greeting of the angels the greetings of
the messengers and we're greeting you
with that greeting here today peace be
unto you and today we have a special
guest sheikh abdul rahim green who's
come back here on the Deen show he's
with us again he shared his story he
went from Christianity to Buddhism to
Islam acquiring peace by submitting his
will to the owner of peace not to a man
to a woman but the creator of man and
woman to one God and he's here with us
again to talk some more so you don't
want to go nowhere
there's only one Jesus was his messenger
no I did that maybe it maybe it's just
to break the ice I'm here with the cool
sheikh sheikh abdul rahim green on the
Deen show this is the green show today
can I take nobody is how are you I like
I like being caught up I am cool but I
like being cool Islam is cool and it's
cool to be a Muslim is cool to acquire
peace by submitting to the one guy doing
all the good that he's told us to do and
people can go back to the Deen show calm
there's your special section there
people can see the story on how you came
to Islam now you've grown all praises to
God Almighty Allah that you're out there
educating the not yet Muslims and the
Muslims about Islam that's right yeah
this is amazing well that you know it's
the least you can do you know I think if
you really love something you can't help
but share that thing with people it's
just inevitable it's you know it's a
psychological condition if you if you
really love something and you that thing
benefits you you want everyone else to
benefit from it as well so how can you
stop yourself sharing the beautiful
message of Islam once you've tasted and
experienced it and you know how sweet it
is
and how completely it fulfills the life
of an individual you feel compelled to
want to share that beautiful experience
sharing is caring and we care about the
people that's why we want to share it's
not absolutely absolutely now the thing
is that you said it you said if I had
ever read a book I never read a book
that was from God this was it
that was from God Almighty it was this
Quran you shuffled around you went
around and you experienced all these
different religions and then you finally
came to the truth because Islam provided
the proof that it wasn't man-made but it
was divinely sent from the one God and
you didn't want to worship a man God you
also just kind of bringing people up to
speed these are some of the things we
talked about I remember like it was
yesterday
you said a penny dropped it was like a
penny drop when the man said what well
when he said to me do you believe that
Jesus is God and I said yes and he said
do you believe that Jesus died on the
cross I said yes so he said well God
died and that was it I realized that I
realized that I didn't believe that I I
didn't believe that God could die but no
one had really felt in hell for me no
one had really said look this is the
logical rational end result of your
belief system I knew something was wrong
with it the whole time because I always
was questioning and felt uncomfortable
with it but it took someone to really
spell out look this plus this equals
this when he did it was epiphany you
know you saved and you came to the
realization that I don't want to worship
the creation I want to worship the
create or elaborate when we say the
creped or some people just mix it all up
they say gods and you gods of me we're
all gods
God could be a man and it gets confusing
define when we say the creator and the
creation and just worship the crater
what do we mean well I think it's really
beautifully summed up in a very short
but extremely powerful
al-almost form and let me any dual
amulet well a mere Coulomb who for one a
handle which is actually cool sort of a
cross which means the purity is the
purity of faith and it says I had a lot
of summoned them you did well I'm you
that one let me occur on the hook of one
eye which means that say he is Allah I
had now the word I had means one and
alone it's not just one you know you
could do one or I could be one but one
and alone without any partners so the
the concept of Trinity is excluded in a
head so Eliza had his one and alone and
is a summoned summer it means that God
is the one upon whom everything depends
everything needs God whereas God doesn't
need anything so this idea that some
people have that maybe by worshipping
God you're making God stronger it's like
so maybe there's a competition between
the gods and like whichever God gets
more worshipers no Allah doesn't need
anyone to worship you don't eat her what
doesn't need anything and he doesn't
because he he depends upon nothing
whether we worship Him or not it doesn't
make any difference to the fact that
Allah is the sovereign God is the summer
have the heavens on earth so he needs
nothing
he's totally self-sufficient whereas in
fact everything in the creation is
entirely and completely dependent upon
God lamb ulid means he is not born no
one gave birth to Allah so he didn't
have a beginning
Allah is the everliving he has no
beginning well I'm glad and also he is
not the big s it means God does not you
know have children
he doesn't have daughters he doesn't
have some so this whole concept of sons
of God and daughters of God
this is reducing the creator to being
like some created thing and what Lamia
couldn't look upon had and that really
seals it that there's nothing that can
be likened unto God Allah the Creator
God is not like anything in the creation
and this is really the essence of the
monotheistic belief in Islam about God
leisa come with me he show you there is
nothing that can be likened unto God and
I think really you find a lot of
religions although they say we believe
in God but their concept of God they've
reduced Allah introduced God to being
almost like some created thing in their
minds they don't really comprehend they
haven't really absorbed how great God is
and you find that in our call to prayer
when we start our ritual prayers what is
the thing that
the the words that we say again and
again on a long look but actually means
Allah is greater
you'd say Allah is greater
well almost greater than anything you
can imagine now you think about our
universe if you think about ours if you
think about our galaxy which is ten
thousand light years across that means
if you travel from ten thousand years in
the speed of light that's how long it
would take to cross our universe wow
that man
our galaxy is one of millions in the
universe the universe is worth billions
of light years across and this universe
the Prophet said is like a ring in the
desert compared to the which means
the pedestal of the chair and the
courtesy is like a ring in the desert
can you just imagine a ring thrown in
the desert it's like it compared to the
throne of God so how great is God so
this you know when you really try and
imagine how insignificant this creation
is compared to the greatest creation of
Allah the throne then how great is allah
and so this idea that people have how
they reduced allah to being some man
that breathes and eats and goes to the
toilet and they think that God is like
some creative thing with the weaknesses
of a created thing before we go to break
if any of the prophets ever teach or
preach that God was a man who stone
never how good thing every messenger
came and taught what I am talking about
now the God that nothing is like unknown
you can see it in the Bible you can see
it you know even the remains of the
Bible you know there is nothing that can
be compared to those statements are
there in the text so this is the t-shirt
real quick real quick 30 seconds you
mentions even some verses I mean was it
Hosea that it says God is not a man yes
Brian God not men so there you go how
can about me man be good you know the
Bible itself confirms those teachings
the second commandment thou shalt not
make any graven images of anything in
the heavens or the earth or in the sea
and you shall not bow down and you
should not worship them I mean that's
the essence you can't make an image of
God because God has no image like
anything and this is what we're talking
about
I know it's making sense and it's making
even more sense if you're sincere and
you have an open heart open mind right
back with more on the detail when
outside everything looks good you see
the hundred thousand dollar card you see
a lot of diamonds you see a lot of
females and they think that this is you
know this is a life this is this is not
you know paradise right here are to go
into someone's heart to change their
heart your job is to topi what the truth
is and then the alley of it is while
we're sitting here while I'm sitting
here constantly paying for the disease
the cure was free
back here on the Dean show with sheikh
abdul rahim green on the green show
today this is the green show ladies and
gentlemen on the digging show I'm so
excited that you're back with us well
it's great to be back I do as usual
thank you thank you fine at a time and
inshallah
we'll get to be together some more over
the years if God Almighty gives us life
and then hopefully we do enough good
deeds we worship the One God and we do
the good that he's told us to do and
then you'll have mercy on us
we'll have grace on us and give us
paradise that's the objective as we go
that's what we want to get exactly so
tell us now there's the quote this was
just an introduction now the question is
because many people this is in their
nature this is something that is logical
rational just worship the One God and do
the good that he wants you to do and now
someone writes in a question says you
know what yeah that makes sense but how
could God who's so merciful and loving
how can he send a good person to the
Hellfire and I think that somebody even
asks you this question or many times
before and how do you answer this so we
can clear out some of the confusion and
then we can clear the path for them to
totally submit to the one God talked to
us well I think you know first of all we
have to we have to have a working
definition of good
and this is a really big a very profound
of it because if you merely define good
as whatever is acceptable in your
society then you could argue that well
in Nazi Germany the good people of our
see Germany with
to kill the most juice is that a working
definition of good I think most people
today would agree that there are some
things that are absolutely evil and they
you know they always will be and they
always have been evil and you know
genocide wiping out populations of human
beings is something we pretty much agree
upon it's evil but you know imagine
conceptually that the whole world was
taken over by Nazis and we'd all been
converted by a Nazi propaganda to
believe that we should kill Jews and we
all think that the guy who kills the
most users is a good guy this is evil as
well but this is the point you see when
a person says how can good people go to
hell
my first question is who defines what's
good do you define what's good to
society define what's good from our
position we would say that the only one
who has the right to define what is good
is God in fact the very essence of what
makes something good or evil is the fact
that this notion of good and evil itself
is anchored in a transcendental answer
something meaning it's something beyond
ourselves right and so that is very very
important the concept of good and evil
so the first thing is well the first
thing I talk about is well who defines
God right it can't just be I say who
defines good it good can't you just be
defined by society or by you or me so
when a person said you know why do good
people go to hell I'd say well who said
that's a good person who decides what's
good who decided what what makes a
person good the other way to think about
it is that truly good people don't go
now and truly good people as far as God
has defined it as far as the creator's
defined it good has a foundation and
that foundation starts with that
person's relationship and recognition
and obedience and submission to God
sometimes people find this a hard
concept to get their heads around so
what I what I what I try to do is
explain this concept in you know in a
way that's a little bit familiar to us
and of course in no way do I want to
compare God to any creative thing I'm
just trying to give the concept some you
know some framework for which we can
understand it so I want you to imagine
right Eddie Europe you know you you were
sort of journalists right and you know
the Dean show you have the detail you
decide one day you hear about this guy
who he's a really good guy
he gives lots of charity he's kind to
kids you know he's good-looking like me
you know and like you know although I
don't know whatever right whatever you
think you know this guy is a great guy
yeah but this guy keeps on saying bad
things about his parents doctor why my
parents my parent you know he just says
bad things so you being a generalist you
say I want to find out who are these
parents they must be awful people
right so you track them down and you
interview them and you find out that
they're the sweetest nicest kindest
people they gave everything to this one
everything to make that to educate him
they lived in poverty so that he could
you know whatever whatever you think but
they gave everything they never did
anything back to him right now what do
you think of this guy he's a creep yeah
and you know what the fact is that all
the good that he did just looks like
nothing it's not about the wondering
yeah because you say I can't ever think
of a person who would treat his parents
like that as being good it doesn't
matter what he does for the whole of
humanity but if he can't treat his
parents properly how can we look at him
as a good as it because there are some
things that are so bad it outweighs all
the good that you do and that's how we
should look at a person
who denies God who abuses God who
considers something in the creation to
be equal with God
this is so insulting and so abusive and
sold denying the reality of God and in
reality God has more right to be loved
more right to be worshiped more right to
be spent respected than even your own
parents
I mean God gave you your parents right
so this really emphasizes the point that
you can do something that is so bad that
it outweighs all the good you can do and
that is what should or making partners
or making equals to mine God denying
God's prophets denying his religion
turning away from God in the eyes of God
it is so bad that whatever you do
outweighs the the the evil of making
partners with God of denying God
outweighs whatever good you could do
right and so this is the context in
which we have to understand this issue
where people say oh how can a good
person to go to hell
well we'd sitting on a truly good person
would never go to hell but yes a person
may seem to do nice things and good
things and help other human beings and
may be so charitable of us on that but
at the end of the day if they have not
recognized God and obeyed God and
committed themselves to treating their
relationship had done in the right way
then and by doing God's will by doing
what the Creator wants you to do he
tells you to be the most merciful
karencc fulfilling to be good to
everyone how to do you see here's the
point that in Islam you give your rights
to go you see we will talk about rights
human rights animals rights you know
poor even the trees rights right okay
and that's good it's good that
everything has rights and we should
treat everything but how about the right
of God how about the duty and the right
and the obligation
that we owe to our Creator they you know
this is the most terrible right to
transgress but as you said when you
follow Islam when you follow the
teachings of the Quran when you follow
the teachings of the Prophet this then
tells you to respect your parents is one
of the biggest sins in its time to
disrespect your parents to be good to
your neighbor to look after the poor and
the orphans and the needy so in Islam
part of believing in God is being good
to the creation you can't say that the
other way around you can't say about
those people humanists or whatever right
that they would say yeah yeah we should
be good to the creation whatever good to
the creation is because that's open for
discussion as well right you know they
what they think is good may not even be
good anyway right I mean maybe these
people now start saying euthanasia is
good right you reach 70 years old you're
an old person put you down right let's
succeed
let's kill old people because you know
that it's not worth them living who
knows maybe in years to come this is
what people will be saying yeah right
and they will say oh that's the good
thing to do well we don't hold that we
don't agree then that's good right so it
all comes back to these things who
defines good right and the whole issue
of one's relationship with Allah with
the Creator is really at the heart of
this as well that's priority number one
and we'll be right back with more on the
Deen she'll even Jesus you have stepped
outside of this man you can be a Muslim
is a tenant our faith to believe in and
love Jesus Christ why is it then when it
comes to one of the most important
decisions in life he literally abuse
ourselves it's not that the main thing
we're looking for is to see what type of
money he has so that he can treat my
daughter like a princess
from hunger
back here on the Dean show and we're
trying to clear the confusion because
some people will say you know what I
feel like you know what I don't break
the law
I don't hurt nobody I get sometimes to
the poor I show up to work on time I
didn't murder nobody why would God
punish me and I believe in God once in
awhile I'll say hey thanks God so that
person feels like hey God owes me
paradise now where I'm okay I'm set it's
all good I mean what do we say about
this well what we have to say is that
you can't decide for yourself what it is
that God wants from us you know you're
making up your own religion really then
what you're saying is that I will define
the terms I'll define but it's not up to
you you don't decide whether you're
going to paradise paradise or not God
decides whether you're gonna go to
paradise and God has set down a set of
criterion this is the behavior of the
people who will go to paradise and this
is the behavior of the people who go to
Hellfire a blueprint is there anything
that's spare and God has that's why God
has sent his prophets that's why God has
sent us messengers and as we believers
Muslims those prophets and messengers
have come with a consistent message the
basic message of those prophets is the
same and at the heart of it is first of
all you have to single out Allah for
worship and you have to worship Allah
not the way you want but the way that
God wants I give you a quick example
please very quickly we've got time right
let's go back to the example of the
parents you want to give your parents a
really nice present you know after years
they've done so much for you so you know
80 years old your parents are eight
years old you take them down to a heavy
metal rock concert because that's what
you like I mean that's ridiculous you
know you're not you're not thanking your
parents the way they want to be thanked
you just doing something that you happen
to enjoy
that's not thanking them right the same
you know the same concept I'm not saying
God is really I'm not compared to go to
the friends but the concept isn't the
same as that no you have to thank God
the way he wants to be thanked not the
way that you just happened to cheat
explain this real quick we said that God
Almighty doesn't need our worship if we
all collaborated and did it together
what diminisher add and though he is
self sufficient he is the true King of
Kings the Lord of all creation but then
some on my ass then why do I need to
single him out or what I need to pray
what do we say well I mean that's the
way God created you that's the way that
Allah Allah created you to do that if
you do it and you fulfill your created
purpose you'll go to paradise if you
don't you go to hell I mean it's it's
really very simple right if you show up
to work I don't understand do you
understand why people will understand
this if it comes to their daily chores
and activity the CEO he's got some rules
laid out at the company and people will
stick to those rules and understand that
look if I miss work social days for sure
I may be fired you said it you know the
point is if you look in your ordinary
everyday life right it's very simple it
makes a lot of sense you're absolutely
right
if you don't turn up to work sooner or
later you'll get fired if you know you
can't do it to a company and the boss
tells you do ABC and use and you do efg
right the boss said I told you ABC you
did efg right you'll get fired right
it's the same thing why is it should be
why is it any different from God God
tells you do this and do this and do
this you'll get paradise and you want to
do something else if you want paradise
do what God wants you to do know what
you want to do it's very simple a couple
more points a couple more points just
tell us right now you are a known figure
and people look to you and you have some
confused youth out there and you also
have some people who now are doing
things that aren't in accordance with
Islam so for the not yet Muslims
everything's making sense but now he's
heard 9/11 and they are saying we're
revisiting it and people are getting all
you know pumped up and then you have you
know the Christmas bomber and all these
things what do we got to say about this
because Islam have anything to do with
this you know what you said it so many
times before it says don't kill women
don't kill children don't kill old
people don't attack the civilians this
is what the Prophet Muhammad told us
that this is this is not part of
these are people's emotions these are
politics these are people who are gone
to extremes there are all sorts of
people who use religion to justify what
they want to do right and that's an
exception
they don't say let me look and see what
God wants me to do no they say I have an
idea I want to do this let me find
something that I can use to justify it
from the religion that's not the way you
approach the religion the way to
approach the religion is holistically
let me understand what the religion
teaches and then implement it not I've
got some ideas how I want to take
revenge I've got some ideas how I want
to do that let me find a verse in the
Koran that supports my that's not the
right way that's not you know that's how
you will just invent your own religion
I just find verses - and that's what you
find these people are not following the
teachings of his friend they see one
verse of the Quran that they forget
other verses they see one thing the
Prophet said but they forget the things
where the Prophet said don't kill women
don't kill children you don't they just
clearly it's very clear they just but
you know in their own minds they just
put dismiss that or they rationalize it
or justify it because you know this I'm
sorry to say there is a sickness you
know they have a sickness in their heart
you know and whatever that sickness has
been caused by that's a whole different
discussion yes but it is not the
teachings of Islam this is not what the
scholars have taught this is not what
the prophet and his companions to it so
another thing you have mentioned before
and into the show if a Muslim drinks
cross said don't drink so if the Quran
says don't fornicate with some
fornicating Islam says don't kill women
and children don't do these horrific
acts and now you can't blame Islam if
you study Islamic you'll see that Islam
is free and clear of Muslims now closing
comments and suggestions for those
people who are sincere they're getting
fed up drama from womb to the tomb
depression anxiety xanax but they like
what we have to say they like to call to
acquire peace by submitting to the owner
peace the one guy what do they have to
do and what advice do you give them the
best thing that you can
ever do in your life is bring the
guidance into your life
the best thing you can do is follow the
Quran the best thing to do is reconnect
to a life directly and you do that by
taking Islam that your way of living
taking Islam as a way of life and it's
very simple
all you have to do is say I bear witness
that there is only one God worthy of
worship and I bear witness that Muhammad
is the Messenger of God once you do that
you start to connect with your Creator
by praying and by fasting and giving
charity and doing the things that
McCulloch and the Prophet told us to do
it's very simple it's very beautiful and
I believe it is the only way to true
peace and happiness in your life by
accepting the Prophet Muhammad peace be
upon him you accept if someone had
attachment of Jesus you accept him as a
messenger Moses Abraham all the
preceding messengers I mean in this
family but even all of those messages
but their message has finished it's done
it's done you know like I gave the
example if it's like you know you have a
school and the school has a new new
headmaster and the new headmaster or the
new CEO over the company writes new
rules and said these are the new rules
and these are the new procedures and
this is the new way of doing that
someone can't come along and say you
know I'm gonna stick with the old guy
you know I preferred what he said no you
have the new CEO you have the new
headmaster you follow the new rules and
that's an Islam is the new rules it's
the rules for us today and it is in fact
the last book of all isn't toward their
judgment it's the final Testament for
that you do that and you get paradise by
doing the good worshipping God the way
he wants you to worship Him doing all
the good deeds you get His grace mercy
and paradise
definitely end up in paradise if you
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together thank you not much to add after
that it's simple you got to want it and
if you want something you go out for it
go out get the guidance just raise your
hands and earnestly seek the guidance of
the one God distinguish God from his
creation everything that came into
existence that walked the earth had a
zip code and airy gold DNA that can't be
God God is the creator of man and one
but he's not a man or woman he created
everything the Sun of the universe
everything this gold with your nature so
go ahead and ask that one God to guide
you and then be ready to submit to all
the good that he's told you to do we'll
see you next time
inshallah God willing peace be unto you
he created the universe to him along the
heavens and the earth he is the first
he's the owner of earthly eat them his
messengers to all his creatures on the
great dangers worshipping other than
Allah there is none greater
the Creator