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peaceful. Alhamdulillah. Asalam
alalaykum. Peace be unto you. Welcome to
another episode of the Dean Show. And
today my guest is the author and
publisher of over 40 different books.
He's also a
translator.
And we are going to be discussing one of
his books actually two of his books
today. One of them which is the 50
righteous and humane concepts brought by
Muhammad the last and final messenger to
mankind. Peace and blessings be upon him
and the prophet of
mercy Muhammad's role in Islam. Without
further delay, let's bring out our
special guest, Jalal Abul
Rub. Asalamaikum.
Did I say it right this time? Yes, you
did. Get better.
So, let's let's start into this book.
Um, uh, she tell us what because there
was a response to a pope who actually
said
something derogatory about the last and
final messenger that enticed you to
write this book. Can you tell us what he
actually said? It's actually on the back
of the book. I I collected here the very
statement that he made which made
Muslims all over the world very angry.
And uh sadly enough, some Muslims
actually went out to the streets to
prove that Islam is not violent by you
know burning cars and destroying
property which is absolutely the
opposite of the message they wanted to
send. So the new pope after the one that
died who uh of course stayed for a long
time and had some kind of a plan to uh
evangelize Muslims or bring them to
Christianity by way of dialogue or
interfaith or aspects like this. But
this new pope in a few the few months
since he became pope he managed to u
upset just about every other religion
starting with Islam with of course
protestants and non-atholics and Jews.
Uh the things that he said about
andoolah here means a prophet of Allah
messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi
wasallam means peace be upon him
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam. He
quoted a an Byzantine emperor who said
things centuries ago about sallallahu
alaihi wasallam and while quoting him he
was actually approving what he said. In
summary what he said
uh quoting the emperor show me just what
Muhammad brought that was new and there
you will find things only evil and
inhuman. I thought I think he he meant
inhumane. So he put it inhuman. Such as
his commandment or command to spread by
the sword the faith he preached. I put
it here on the back of the book so that
anyone who reaches out to this book will
find the topic of the book from here.
From the title he said bring me anything
that was new that Muhammad brought.
You'll find things evil and inhuman
inhumane whatever. So I didn't only
bring one. I brought more than 50.
Actually, you have more than 60 here. I
just left the number 50 because it looks
nice. But I have more points, far more
points than 50 here discussed. And he
said, "Anything new?" I brought 50
concepts that prophet Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wasallam came with and
they are both righteous and humane that
if anyone who has a good sound mind
who's fair who's not about just hating
Islam and refuting Islam and rejecting
Islam for just because they don't like
it or they have misinformation. If they
look at these aspects they will say well
this is good. Uh I'll give you an
example. You know, the only religious
book there is in existence that forbids
the pagan and especially the Arab pagan
or pagan Arab tradition of killing their
infant females so that they don't share
the food with them or they don't
dishonor them later on in their life.
The only book that makes it outlawed in
specific and mentions it and the title
is the female infant who's killed
because like I said they didn't want
them to share the food with them or they
afraid if they grow up they're going to
bring them dishonor is the Quran because
Allah subhana wa ta'ala said in the
Quran and Allah is the creator subhanahu
wa ta'ala all praise be to him said in
the Quran the Quran is the holy book of
Islam.
to when the is asked meaning on the day
of
judgment why she was killed. So the
Quran came and prohibited this practice.
Now can anyone come and say that uh in
the Bible it has the same because there
isn't anything similar to this very
subject in the Bible. Nobody before the
Quran or nobody before Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wasallam who was sent
with the Quran came with this concept.
And can anyone who has a sound mind on
the face of the earth say this is not
good, this is evil. So instead of uh
discussing just what the pope said and
refuting what he said and so I brought
50 points
uh I said before on this show uh and I'm
going to repeat it again. I'm not one
who would lower his head to other than
the creator. In Islam, we only lower our
heads and prostrate and bow down only to
the creator, to Allah subhana wa ta'ala.
So this man threw something at my
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, the
pope Benedict, the new
pope. He said things about our messenger
sallallahu alaihi wasallam that are
completely false. And therefore he
opened the door and I just went inside.
Now the 50 righteous points that
Muhammad brought, there is a comparison
here between what the Quran says as
compared to what the Old Testament says
and the New Testament says because this
man is the representative of
Christianity and Christianity believes
in the Old Testament and the New
Testament. So I responded to him by
bringing more than 50 righteous and
humane points or concepts Muhammad came
with from his Lord sallallahu alaihi
wasallam.
Also I made comparisons between these
points and what's found in the Old
Testament and the New Testament. Now
some things are positive the comparisons
some of the comparisons are negative
because he started it and we have every
right to not only expose the lies he
said but also to uh bring to uh
humanity's attention that Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wasallam is absolutely
nothing like what this man was saying
plus our religion Islam has so many good
points and they are in the thousands and
tens of th tens of thousands that if
anyone who has a good mind who would
really think for what's better for him
with his lord when he meets him would
look at this religion and say wonderful
Muhammad is the prophet of mercy so I
started actually uh this is a part of an
eight book series all of them titled the
prophet of mercy
uh each one has its own unique title so
I still have six more books to inshallah
write now what you did was interesting
as you didn't go breaking car windows.
You didn't go burning flags. You didn't
go jumping and, you know, acting a fool
in the street. You actually did jihad uh
by the pen. Is that correct? Yes.
Because um like I Ahmed, one of the
major scholars of Islam said before that
anyone who responds with words to the
innovators and in this case to the
non-believers, then he is doing jihad.
So you did the intellectual thing. You
responded with a book. Yes. Yeah. Tell
tell us now was Islam spread by the
sword because that's what he mentioned
it was. Yeah. His command to spread the
religion by the sword of course. How do
you how do you respond to this? Uh it's
absolutely false. historically they
cannot find and I always challenge
Christians I debate and Jews and
non-Muslims and also even some Muslims
who have this concept to bring proof
historically that any town any town not
a whole country any town during the time
of the prophet of Allah sallallahu
alaihi wasallam Muhammad his successors
and the generations that came after that
the early generations of Islam that any
town was forced to become Muslim
Egypt for example it was conquered by
the successors of Muhammad sallallahu
alaihi
wasallam specifically the khalif the
khalifa Omar his friend and his
father-in-law and his companion now
those Muslim armies that went to Egypt
they liberated Egypt from the Roman and
Byzantine influence which was really
corrupt they tax the people to the point
of exhaustion or even death and They
forced their own brand of Christianity
on the cups. So the cups, many of them
were happy that the Arabs came because
they offered with them freedom of
religion. For centuries, for about two
centuries after that, Egypt was still
mostly
Christian. Centuries after that, Muslims
outnumber the Christians. Until today,
you have like about 5% Christian, 95%
Muslim. But for two centuries after
Islam came to Egypt, mostly most of the
population was still Christian. Another
point, Spain, the Andelus under Muslim
rule, I mean they remained under Muslim
rule for about 800 years. when the Arabs
the Arab Muslims went into Spain and the
of course the Berbar Muslims they they
cooperated and they did a marvelous job
there established a civilization that
Europe can't have or couldn't have you
know imitated even until today they
established this civil civilization in
in in Spain for 8 centuries they went
into Spain with just about the majority
of the population Christian they left
Spain with just about the majority of
the population Christian and therefore
my response to them is that prove it.
You can say anything you like about the
religion. It was spread by the sword.
What sword? Indonesia today, Indonesia
is the largest Muslim
country. Historically, not a single
Muslim soldier set foot on any island in
Indonesia. But today, the largest Muslim
country, largest Muslim population is
Indonesia. So how can anyone say that
Islam came by the force or by so the
sword when historically it didn't
happen? Why do you think there's so much
ne negativity and stigma and so much
resentment towards Islam like you know
like Islam did something wrong to
somebody even though the majority of
people don't really understand it. Well
I explain it here too. You see
Christianity had a 600 year you know
u you know
like they started 600 years before
Islam. Okay. So they were ahead by 600
years and they thought they had it
cornered and covered that you know they
wanted to spread Christianity by the
sword all over the world because you
know if you talk about Spain when the
spa span came came to and took over uh
Spain from andelus from Muslims what
happened to the Muslims and Jews who
were there and non-atholics they all
became Catholic
Indonesia okay they tried to uh preach
the Dutch tried to preach their religion
there by force but it wasn't accepted.
The
Philippines was about 90% Muslim before
the European colonial, you know, powers
came. Now it is about
95% Christian. So they're the ones who
did the sword. And look at these two
continents, North and South America.
They had no idea what Christianity is
about. Now they're mostly Christian. And
they came and they annihilated the local
population. They were not Christian.
They forced them to become Christian.
And they brought millions of slaves from
Africa, forced them to become Christian.
So look who's talking. I mean, you you
have this legacy, you know, talking
about my religion. Why they have this is
because Islam spoiled the dream. They
thought the Christians that before
Muhammad wasallam came, they're just
going to take over the world. And
everybody will believe in these the
concepts that they have that Jesus is
divine that he's the son of God and
divine that he died on the cross for you
know for humanity sins and that he was
resurrected after death. Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wasallam came and
spoiled it. He told them what Jesus was
really about. He brought the monotheism
that Jesus came with and in doing that
the Christians who had 600 head start
they found that Islam is spreading all
over the world and that it's not only
spreading in its local and native areas
but also to Europe these days. So the
this is one thing and the second thing
of course Islam has jihad and jihad an
aspect of it is to fight. There is no
doubt about it. It's not the only
aspect. It's one out of 13. But fighting
in the sake of Allah in defense and
sometimes to preempt you know the
treachery and hostility of non-Muslims
is comes with Islam. So Islam is a
unique way of life. It establishes a
religion, a state, a way of life,
educational system, a social beliefs.
Also it's a military power. All these
together made Islam a very unique power
that of course they feared they hated
and add to that ignorance in Islam
itself will make things that even far
far worse in the minds of the people who
hate Islam because you don't understand
it you hate it so how are we going to
deal with it so this all this that
Christianity has against Islam is
because Muhammad dared resurrect the
monotheism that the Christianity
Christians spoiled by making God into
three gods or into a man and having a
son and all these things. A God who
according to Christians doesn't change
because the Bible says that I do not
change. God doesn't
change. He came in the form of a man and
was a baby and had to be changed. Not
only changed himself become from growing
from being young to a young man to you
know uh full grown man. He had to be
changed when he was a baby. Yeah. So
this is the god they brought and they
wanted the whole world to believe the
story when Jesus has absolutely nothing
to do with this you know belief. In this
book by the way I mention several
Christian and uh western
encyclopedias all of them agreeing
trinity is not in the bible. Trinity is
not in the bible. Trinity is not in the
bible because it isn't. Yeah, because
there is not a single quote from Jesus
by Jesus that he establishes any of the
stuff that these people say. So Islam
came and spoiled it for them according
to them. But it didn't spoil it.
Actually, it brought back what Jesus was
all about, which is he was a slave and a
prophet from Allah. He only called to
the worship of Allah alone. He never
called to his worship. He never said to
his people, "Hey, listen people, I
created you. Worship me." He never said
that. It's just there putting words on
his mouth that he never said. So Islam
came with it a total way of life as
compared to Christianity which is not a
total way of life. So we establish a
life and a religion through Islam and
the mechanism to defend it which is
jihad and therefore we spoil their
dream. Big deal. We're here. We're not
going anywhere.
tell us with the you gave us one concept
or uh humane concept that the last and
final messenger to mankind brought. Can
you give us a couple more before we go
to the next book? Uh among the things
that prophet Muhammad brought of course
um let me mention a few quickly. Yeah.
Uh of course Islam came with a concept
that is new. The world had listened to
Christianity for about 600 years that
Jesus was crucified and the Quran comes
and says he wasn't crucified. He wasn't
killed. Allah saved him from being
killed by the hand of some of his
creation according to Christians. And
this is the awful thing to say about God
that he came in the shape of a man and
actually was crucified by spitting Jews.
You know what I why I say spitting Jews?
Because according to the Bible, while
they were leading him to be crucified,
they were spitting at him and smacking
him on the back of his neck. It's a
humiliation, a humiliation to God and he
was killed by some of his creation. So
Islam came saying no. First of all,
Jesus never said he is God or the son of
God or anything like that and he wasn't
killed. Allah saved him from that
humiliation. Also about an aspect that
Christianity doesn't have and I once
showed this to a Christian who was
really amazed. He said why doesn't the
Bible has this the miraculous birth of
Jesus it is mentioned in general in the
Bible that he was born without male
intervention in the Quran it is clearly
shown that Jesus spoke in the cradle I
mean we agree with that of course Allah
gave Mary Isa Jesus without the
intervention of any male she she just
you know had the baby and Allah subhanaa
tala made it a miracle but what the
Bible doesn't have and what Islam has is
that Isa spoke in the cradle to his
people. And I can imagine why they
erased that because what did he say? He
said, "I am a slave of
Allah." What he said in the cradle and
she took him to her to her tribe, her
people. She said, "Oh Mary, you did an
awful thing. You know, your mother
wasn't a Your father wasn't a
sinner. So where's this baby come from?"
She said she pointed to him and Allah
made him speak. He said I am a slave of
Allah and the message that he gives that
I call you to the worship of my lord and
your lord Allah. So they erase that
other things that Muhammad came with and
this is I want to repeat every time I
have the opportunity to speak which is
what prophet Muhammad once was told or
he saw a woman dead in one of the
battles. So he said to his companions do
not kill women and children. So this is
a concept in warfare that in
contradiction to the old testament
actually says do not kill women and
children. In contrast you see some
edicts from the bible that I have them
here go to this town and kill every man,
woman, child, suckling, infant, oxen and
sheep and donkey. Of course God would
never have ordered this. But compare
this to that. That's what you have pope
in your book which you're hiding and you
know majority of your people they don't
read your book anyway they just read the
passages that the priest choose on
Sundays and that's all they didn't read
it like we do like we read the Quran
every day it's in your book you're
telling me my religion is violent you're
telling me my religion is evil what
about this addict in your book and they
claim that the one who revealed the Old
Testament is Jesus okay so who revealed
this addict then in Samuel to Jesus. So
are you now telling me what he was the
Lord before then he repented and he
changed his personality. He was the
prince of the the the lord of war then
he became the prince of peace all of a
sudden just because he became a man. So
this kind of legacy they come attack my
religion. No I'm sorry. Now among the
aspects that I have here is the
inheritance of women and maybe inshallah
I can elaborate on that if you like. Go
ahead. the inheritance of women in
Islam. Of course, in the Quran, Allah
says that the she in the inheritance of
a male is twice that of a female or the
female is half that of the male. Yeah.
Now, Islam is being of course, you know,
bashed all over about this, you know,
backward stuff. You know, they're not
fair to women. And here I explained that
it's not only fair to women. Actually,
men earn less than women if you think
about it. How? First of all,
Christianity and Judaism have no set
share in the inheritance for
females. The only thing that they can
they can bring is some Old Testament uh
story that Moses said okay the female
can have this share of the inheritance
if she doesn't marry outside of her
tribe otherwise she loses that. Before
that women used to be
inherited not to inherit. They used to
be the subject of inheritance
themselves. Islam came and gave women a
set share in the inheritance by the
commandment of Allah to be recited until
the day of judgment as a fixed share
that Allah gave not man and nobody can
deny except an unjust person. So this is
point number one. Number two, in Islam,
if someone is really taking care of his
religious duties, I am a male. I'm
supposed to spend on my daughter, on my
wife, and on my sister and and mother
and aunts and female relatives as much
as I can, but I'm required to spend on
my family, of course, my wife. Now if I
when I marry when a Muslim man marries
when you married when he married when
you know you bring into the marriage
your share your wealth and you're
required to spend from that on the
family. If the woman had inherited any
money from her parents or relatives she
brings that inheritance into her own
account inside marriage because she's
not required to pay for anything in the
marriage. She is encouraged as a you
know a way of goodness and being kind
but she's not required to. Therefore
when you marry a Muslim
woman your money
is yours both of you and her money still
is hers. So when she marries she
literally puts her stick sticks her hand
in your pocket. And I'm joking about it
because they're welcome. Yes. They're
always welcome to do that and more than
that. But anyway, so when I inherit some
money, I have female relatives whom I'm
supposed to spend on. I'm required and
other female relatives I am greatly
encouraged to spend on them. But the
female doesn't have to. So my
inheritance goes quickly, vanishes,
disappears because I have to spend it
here and there and there, let alone
spend it on my family, but she doesn't
have to. And therefore what she takes in
inheritance is actually more and lasting
than what I would inherit from my
parents because what I inherit I have to
spend it. Mhm. Let's get back to uh the
the sword because a lot of the the
people who have
a a hatred towards Islam for whatever uh
reasons that they do they try to quote
certain verses from the Quran. Now, if
you were to take most of these verses
that talk about fighting that they use
and you know what most of them are, how
do you refute these things? How do you
put them in their proper context where
they try to use it out of its proper
context? Well, uh what they what they
want to say that Islam didn't spread as
a religion but spread as a military
power. Uh of course, this is false. Now,
every state on the face of the earth
that when it starts, it would read it
would need a sphere of influence. They
need to establish authority. They need
armies. They need to defend themselves
to even expand. This is nothing that's
unique to Islam. Every state did it. The
Romans, how did the Romans end up
occupying, you know, most of the known
world during their time when according
to the name they're Romans, they went
out of a city and occupied the huge
lands. How come they don't bash the
Romans also? Not only before they became
Christian, also after they became
Christian because they kept expanding
and occupying countries all over the,
you know, the area and nobody said
anything about it. It's only Islam that
was spread by the sword. You mean the
Roman Empire was spread by what?
Kindness. And they were just, you know
what? Why kissing each other on the
cheek and saying, "Oh, we're okay. Let's
let's have some dialogue. We'll be
Romans. You'll be Romans. Everybody is
Romans. We're happy." No. They did it
through brutal violence in which they
used to kill entire towns especially in
France when they rebelled against them.
So now when they talk about this they
talk about Islam as a state as a state
it expanded militarily. There is no
doubt about it. It started in Medina
expanded.
But what they want to imply is that the
religion was forced upon people by this
expansion which is absolutely not true
because as I said I challenge every
Christian and Jew and Muslim and even
some Muslims who have this idea to bring
proof that Prophet Muhammad or his
companions or the next generation or the
next one or the next one went to any
town and told people you die or you
become Muslim because it didn't happen.
people became Muslim on their own
especially in the Sham Syria area and
Egypt area and Iraq and Iran all the way
that until India all the way until you
know Morocco and of course into Europe
and through the Ottoman Empire people
became Muslim on their own. What they
want to imply by using the sword is that
religion the religion of Islam couldn't
have spread this much and couldn't have
you know become an empire without the
sword. So they're mixing the religious
aspect which didn't happen because the
Quran clearly
says there is no compulsion in religion
and the prophet doesn't didn't uh force
people to become Muslim by the sword but
the Islamic state as a military power as
a state it expanded and mainly uh
because people started attacking Muslims
and Islam and trying to exterminate
Islams in the early era and then there
were hostility from Christians started
by the Christians actually especially by
the Roman Empire and as a retaliation
the
Muslim the califfs they started the
expansion into these uh two uh major
powers of the world the Persian power
and the Roman power and today I want to
mention Indonesia again because like
over 350 million Muslims live there and
none of them was forced either now or
before to become Muslims. So when they
speak about the sword, they mean to say
that the religion of Islam is not
appealing by itself. It's just the sword
that spread it. But the Quran says no
compulsion in religion. And Prophet
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam did
not do anything other than what the
Quran says here. He didn't force anyone
to become Muslim. How about if someone
brings up and says look that the prophet
Muhammad peace be upon him he conducted
so many battles and he raided caravans
for his political gain for wealth and
for women or whatever. Have you heard
this accusation? Of course we hear it
all the time and uh it's not new. You
see the devil who's teaching them this
ideas is the same devil who was there
maybe during the time of prophet
Muhammad because according to the Quran
the devil doesn't die until the day of
judgment. So the old tricks that people
think now are new tricks are actually
old tricks. So the same stuff they said
before, the same stuff they say now. Now
of course the prophet had during his
lifetime in as a as a as a leader,
military and state leader in Medina. It
was 10 years since he migrated from
Mecca until he died. 10 years. During
those 10 years, more than 70 battles
happened of two types. one called Sarah
plural for Sarah uh an army detachment
that he didn't lead himself and the
other type is called Gazwa which he led
himself so about more than 70 battles
actually I went through each and every
one of them because this is my job I'm a
translator I have access to the Islamic
resources in Arabic and I read them
extensively especially about the history
if you go back to the history you'll
find
that many so many of these These battles
started because other people were
gathering armies to attack the Muslims
or they already are attacking Muslims.
So many of these battles that started
they started because of the aggression
of non-Muslims who trying to exterminate
Islam and Muslims. And many of these
battles didn't witness any fighting at
all. Now this is something even many
Muslims don't understand or
realize. of over 70 battles that
happened during the span of 10 years. I
went to the historical resources we have
and they're all in Arabic by the way and
collected the number of deaths in each
and every battle the reason behind every
battle and mostly as I said it was
defensive defensive and how many people
died combatants non-combatants Muslims
and non-Muslims do you know how many
people died in all these 10 years
because if you hear what the Muslims are
saying about prophet Muhammad Mhammed,
you would think that he started carrying
the sword when he was 5 years old and he
killed like 7 million people, but it's
all false. And these people, they can't
tolerate the truth. And I posted this on
my website
www.islam life. I sl a I'm sorry. I
l there. You know how many people died?
All deaths. less than 4,000 in 70
battles at the rate of about 56 a
battle. Tell me, is there a country, a
state in the face of the earth in the
history of mankind over the span of 10
years that started and was established
and became powerful by you know dur
through the death of less than
4,000 about half of them Muslim. Tell me
is there any culture on the face of the
earth that can boast about this? No.
less than 4,000 people died. So violence
doesn't mean the battles here doesn't
mean violence as they claim and it
doesn't mean that people were forced to
become Muslim because many of those
battles no fighting even happened. And I
challenge everybody and I still
challenge him today. Go to the resources
and find a larger number than 4,000 cuz
you will not find it. And this is
amazing. Amazing. Here I mentioned
several examples from the Old Testament
about number of deaths according to what
the prophets ancient prophets did
according to the Old Testament. Okay.
Now there says a revelation from God.
It's not a revelation from God, but
let's let's talk about it because some
battles in the Old Testament in one day
12,000 people died. Some a
100,000 all the way to a million people
died by the hands of the mighty Jewish
people. This is in the Bible. Now, in
the Bible, one day they say an Ethiopian
army of 1 million. Can you imagine 5,000
years ago or 6,000 years ago the
Ethiopians to be able to raise armies of
1 million soldiers? I mean, China today
can barely do it with all the techn
technological advances. America has
1.3 million soldier. I mean, they can't
do that. It's not possible. Ethiopia
didn't have a million maybe people 5,000
years ago. So there is this
army and took the army all the way to
Palestine where they met the mighty
Israeli army, they all died in one
day. So they talk about 70 battles.
Excuse me. Look at your book. You know,
if one battle led to the death of 1
million soldiers, you're telling me my
religion is violent. You know, you got
to be serious about your religion, about
what you going to face with your Lord.
what point at one point in your life. So
I compared this because it is very
important. The same person who says the
religion of Islam was his command to
spread by the sword the religion he
preached which is false because there is
no such commandment. I challenge the
pope if he can hear me today and I doubt
he'll hear anything cuz he's just
secluded in his own world. Bring me any
statement in the Quran or the prophetic
sunnah where the prophet said by the
sword force people to become Muslim.
It's not there. Absolutely not. Let's go
into now we talked about swords and and
these other things. Let's talk about
your other book the prophet of mercy and
give us some examples of mercy of this
last and final messenger. And you guys
can get the book at islamife.com.
Let's talk about this mercy she
uh well since you mentioned this book
let's talk about this book now because
here it's about Muhammad's role in Islam
actually in about 100 pages I explain
the religion of Islam here and the title
is about Muhammad wasallam because he's
the one who was sent with the Quran with
Islam I started here by talking about
montheism because this is the major
point in our religion this is the
foundation of it this is the
establishment this is why Allah sent
Muhammad to bring back monotheism.
Because without monotheism, if you do
every kind of good deeds, Allah will not
accept it. You have to have the belief
that he's the only creator and thus the
only one who deserves to be worshiped
alone. No children, no ancestors, no
offspring. So here I talk about Muhammad
sallall alaihi wasallam being the mercy
because just before he was sent,
Christianity almost destroyed the
monotheism of all the prophets. They
brought a new religion that no one
before in the Bible, the Old Testament,
New Testament ever preached. It's not
there. They go to the Old Testament.
They read it from beginning to end
talking about God is one. Your Lord is
one. Your Lord is one. And they make it
mean to mean three when no one Abraham
never gave a speech similar to what
evangelical people today give about uh
trinity. They never speak about Trinity.
Abra Abraham never said uh by the way
there is a Lord his name is Jesus and
he's the son of God. He never said any
of this stuff at all. So Muhammad and
this is the greatest mercy Allah sent
with him. He brought back that
monotheism that Christianity almost
killed. I mean Judaism still has
monotheism even until today. But it is a
minor religion compared to Christianity.
Christianity is a world religion just
like Islam, just like Buddhism,
Hinduism. So they almost killed that and
prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wasallam was sent with the resurrection
of which is montheism to bring us back
to the one and only lord and creator of
everything who the only one who deserves
to be worshiped. Also a part of the
mercy that was sent to prophet Muhammad
is that Allah gave us detailed
instructions on what he wants us to do
about his names and attributes. He
described himself vividly in the Quran
and by the words of Muhammad. Also, he
speaks about where we came from, our
mission in life. We were created to
worship him, where we're going after
death. Because many people think, I'm
going to live only one life. It's the
only life I'm going to have is the only
body I'm going to have. But that's not
true. Allah didn't create us to die.
Allah created us to live for eternity.
But there's going to be death between
those two lives. The one that we have we
are in now which is
short and which is uh full of action.
You have to do the action here so you be
rewarded or punished. But that other
life is for eternity. Allah created us
so that we live in eternity either in
paradise or hellfire. So prophet
Muhammad was sent sallallahu alaihi
wasallam with detailed description of
montheism. the essence of Allah
description of his names and attributes
and his actions, his warning, his his
promises and what he wants us to do. And
he also was sent as a mercy in the way
that he also explained the Quran in
detail. Like we have verses ayat in the
Quran, ayat is plural for ayah loosely
translated to verse that say establish
the prayer. If we leave the Quran as it
is, then what's a prayer? In Arabic, if
you say all praise be to Allah, this is
a prayer. But Prophet Muhammad was sent
as a mercy from Allah to tell us no, it
is the prayer that we learn today, that
we do today, that we practice today, the
the kneeling and prostrating and the
recitation of the Quran, the invocation
we say throughout the salah, which is
called I mean the the prayer. So,
Prophet Muhammad came not only with the
detailed description of Allah, his names
and attributes, his actions, his
promises, his warnings, but a detailed
information of what Allah wants us so
that we earn his pleasure. And he didn't
leave us like this. He told us about
matters of the unseen. What's going to
happen after death, at the time of
death, in the grave on the day of
judgment? And the final destination that
awaits each one of us. It's either to
paradise or hellfire. Plus there is
vivid description in the Quran and by
the words of prophet Muhammad sallall
alaihi wasallam about paradise and
hellfire. So that you have no illusions.
you know what to anticipate if you are
patient and if you worship your lord and
you become among the righteous persons
or if you don't do that you have no you
know you have no illusions about what to
await you if you die as an unbeliever so
he is the prophet of mercy for all of
mankind because of him bringing backed
monotheism and detailed description of
why we were created the mission for
which we were created
and how we end up or we can end up in
the pleasure of Allah so that we are in
paradise in contradiction to hellfire.
So why can't he be I mean he is the
prophet of mercy because all this
information we had no access to it
before Allah sent him and today after
all these centuries there is a mercy
that is included and I mentioned it here
Allah sent Muhammad as the final and
last messenger and prophet from him with
the detailed information about what we
should do so that we earn his pleasure.
He also protected this information for
us that today the same Quran Prophet
Muhammad recited to his companions is
the same one we have today. Go to China,
it's the same book. Go to India, it's
the same book. Come to America, it's the
same book. Go to Mecca, it's the same
book. Letter by letter. Even with the
marks which are
called which tell you how to read the
word properly the same everywhere you
go. Isn't this a miracle? This is a
prophet of mercy. So Allah sent him with
the mercy which is what? To earn Allah's
mercy to go to paradise. Also he sent
with him with an eternal law that no one
can change. They tried to change the
Quran to corrupt it, to spoil it. It is
still the same today as the day when he
recited it fresh to his companions. Also
I mentioned that the explanation of the
Quran is found in his tradition. It's
called the Sunnah. So the sunnah was
also protected for us from corruption in
the same way the Quran was protected
that today I can if I want if you wish
if somebody wishes I can give you a a a
demonstration of how to make the prayer
according to the way of prophet Muhammad
did because the books of hadith
collected for us this information and
today I can sit in a lecture and say
prophet Muhammad said how because we
have that tradition protected from
corruption in books and preserved
through chains of narration in
contradiction to the Bible. The tens uh
of dozens of books in the Bible, nobody
knows who wrote anything in the Bible
for sure. In what original language,
time frame, nobody really knows the
Quran. We know that Muhammad came with
it from Allah and it is the same book
that he you know recited. The sunnah was
protected for us through chains of
narration. No religion has it. They say
in the Bible Jesus did did this did this
did that? But who said it? I mean when
you talk about John, the gospel of John,
who's John? Who's his father? What was
his original language? When when did he
write his book? What authority gave him
to write this book? Where did he get the
information? Who are the witnesses? I
mean, some people told him stuff. This
is what happened because he wasn't
there. He's not a disciple. He never saw
Jesus with his own eyes to begin with.
So, where did he get the stories from?
We have no idea. But we have books like
Bkari and Muslim where it ends with
saying Allah the messenger of Allah said
and give the text but before that there
is a chain of narration. Alb Bukari
heard that hadith from his teacher, from
his teacher, from his teacher, from the
companion, from the messenger of Allah.
Each one in those in this chain of
narration is a person known in history.
We know their
biography, their trustworthiness, what
their teachers said about them, what
their students said about them, their
legacy when they were born, when they
died. So when I come and sit here and
say prophet Muhammad said and I give the
text and then I give also the resource
Bkari everyone who can hear me can have
access to actually the chain of
narration where alkari heard this from
so that we can verify in our religion
what we have in our religion and
contracts to the old testament new
testament they have no chains of
narration to anything they have no idea
who said whatever and in one of the
debates
Okay. I was I always do that. I make fun
of non-Arabic speaker evangelicals who
try to translate the Quran and explain
it because it sounds so funny coming out
of their mouth. They have no clue what
they're talking about. They can't read
the original language. So I I you know I
did the same with the recent debate I
had. And then the guy who came after me,
he was you know saying well Jaladal now
comes and explains Greek uh because the
Bible the New Testament is in Greek. So
now he comes and explains Greeks. He
makes fun of us because we explain the
Quran because it's in Arabic saying we
don't speak the language. But now he now
he speaks uh he he tries to explain the
Greek New Testament even though he
doesn't speak Greek. So when I came
after him, I said I don't have to speak
Greek because Jesus never spoke Greek.
Jesus didn't speak Greek or English. He
didn't speak in capital letters
too. God G like the capital G and the
lowerase G. He didn't speak English or
capital letters at all. So what I'm
talking about and refuting, we still
have the resource, the original book in
the same language it came in. What you
have is a translation of a translation
that's been edited and corrupted by
Allah knows how many people. So it's not
the same. I don't need to learn Greek.
Bring me the book that Jesus came with
which is called the injil the gospel the
gospel of Jesus that he came with and
I'll kiss it and I'll believe in it.
I'll still follow the Quran with regards
to the law but I'm going to find that it
is the same religion that Muhammad came
with is the same religion that Jesus
came with. They're telling us we're
almost out of time. Can you tell us for
those people now that they've
investigated Islam a little bit and they
haven't been naive and they haven't fell
for the trappings of the people who are
trying to sway people away from the
truth. They want to become Muslim. They
what do they have to do? Islam is a
wonderful religion. All what you have to
do is that you believe Allah is your
creator. This is his name in Arabic.
Maybe his name is Elohim in your
language. Maybe you call him God.
doesn't matter. It matters to some
degree. But if you believe that he's the
one and only creator of the whole
universe and existence and that
consequently he's the only one who
deserves to be worshiped and you believe
in that all what you have to say
isahillham.
All what you have to say
is I bear witness that there is no god
worthy of worship except Allah alone
without partners and that Muhammad is
his messenger. Then you become a Muslim.
Simple as that. As simple as that. And
you do not have to learn the entire
religion overnight. It's a process. It
will take all your life. You keep
learning and learning and learning. I
started learning this religion when I
was five. I don't consider myself a
scholar in any way. I'm still learning.
I'm still learning even from my own
books. Sometimes I translated stuff
years ago. I read it now and I remember
things that I forgot. This is a
wonderful religion. All what you have to
say is I bear witness that there is no
god worthy of worship except Allah and
Muhammad is his messenger. And then just
keep learning, keep learning and keep
taking those necessary steps.
Absolutely. Because that is the biggest
jihad there is. Yes. tell us real quick
and we're uh going to cut out that for
the person who heard you say Allah he
doesn't know much about Islam but he is
not with worshiping a man a monkey a cow
a statue can you define the correct
concept of the creator of the heavens
and earth Allah well I have it here in
this book so inshallah inshallah means
Allah willing if you like to reach out
to this book inshallah just email me uh
islamlife.com come uh even if you don't
have the money I'll manage something or
send you inshallah copy somehow but I
have full description here of Allah the
creator that he's the creator of
everything that he is the magnificent he
has the most perfect names and perfect
attributes that he is the king the owner
the one who gives sustenance life and
death the one who created the sun and
the moon the one who created everything
in existence the one who brings uh us
all kind of uh blessings in our uh life
guidance to the truth and to stay on the
truth. So in effect what we have of the
description of God is that he is in
control of everything every way you can
imagine and not only this life also the
day of judgment. So the description we
have of God is that the creator of
everything and in that it's not only
only about creating the physical
existence the soul and protection of
everything that's going on. You see
today we can really understand the
magnificent universe. I mean we can't
see if even a fraction of it still but
now we understand more than ever before
especially with regards to what the eye
can see how spacious this universe is
and this is all in your book it's here
islamlife.com and the book here talks
about Islam from A to Z thank you again
for being with us on the dean show hope
to have you again soon and I thank you
for sitting through thank you for coming
to the source to learn about Islam and
Muslims which Islam simply means
surrender and submission to the creator
of the heavens and the earth alone
without no partners. You've learned that
Islam is not about terrorism or killing
innocent people. Islam is a complete way
of life to strive to do jihad to be
righteous the way that your creator
wants you to live. Putting him before
anyone else and submitting to him alone
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inshallahalam. Peace be unto you.