Review of 2022 with special mystery guest (2022-12-31) #

0:00:03 hello everyone and welcome to blogging
0:00:06 theology today I'm very happy to share
0:00:09 the platform with my very special
0:00:11 mystery guests uh Professor Alia Thai
0:00:14 from say tuna College assalamu alaikum
0:00:17 Sir
0:00:18 Paul how are you I'm doing very well
0:00:20 good to see you how are you
0:00:22 I'm not alone it's uh another blessed
0:00:25 day always good to be a vlogging
0:00:26 theology it was great to have you uh for
0:00:29 those who don't know
0:00:30 um uh Dr aliota is a scholar of biblical
0:00:32 hermeneutics specializing in sacred
0:00:35 languages comparative Theology and
0:00:37 comparative literature at zetuna college
0:00:41 now we're going to review the year
0:00:44 2022 as it draws to a close in the next
0:00:48 24 hours literally uh particularly we're
0:00:50 going to be focusing on those events in
0:00:53 the news that have impacted the Muslim
0:00:56 Uma and I think it's been a tumultuous
0:00:58 year so much has been going on so um Dr
0:01:03 uh aliottai uh where would you like to
0:01:05 begin
0:01:07 wherever you'd like we can talk about
0:01:09 the uh the World Cup maybe that's a
0:01:12 biggie that's probably the biggest yeah
0:01:14 but what's your Take On the World Cup
0:01:15 yeah I was I was actually
0:01:18 um leaving Medina for Mecca when uh when
0:01:21 Saudi Arabia beat Argentina wow the
0:01:24 eventual champion in uh the group stage
0:01:27 I guess they won two to one
0:01:29 so I remember the the lobby of my hotel
0:01:32 exploded with Glee
0:01:34 and I was literally in Iran at the time
0:01:38 uh so that was that was interesting but
0:01:41 yeah the World Cup was so intriguing for
0:01:43 so many reasons I mean I heard there
0:01:45 were uh um hundreds of people who uh
0:01:49 made shahada yeah
0:01:51 uh they were so impressed with Islam and
0:01:55 and with Muslims that they felt this
0:01:57 irresistible urge to become Muslim and
0:02:01 just imagine the thousands more that
0:02:03 went home with a a deep respect uh for
0:02:06 Islam I mean I saw a video of an entire
0:02:08 Brazilian family
0:02:10 reciting the shahada right I saw a
0:02:13 Mexican fan with it with a huge Sombrero
0:02:16 right on his back
0:02:18 there was actually an American woman
0:02:20 whose video went viral I think she
0:02:23 removed it after but she said that she
0:02:25 discovered that women were more
0:02:27 respected yes
0:02:29 uh than than women in in America
0:02:33 uh so the the government of Qatar I did
0:02:35 a fantastic job they actually placed
0:02:37 like Hadith of the Prophet salallahu on
0:02:41 billboards
0:02:42 um in multiple languages and people were
0:02:45 just they were overwhelmed with respect
0:02:47 and uh admiration uh there was a musala
0:02:52 um Like a Prayer Hall in in every
0:02:54 Stadium
0:02:56 um with a wall made of glass so that
0:02:58 non-muslim outside could actually watch
0:03:00 the prayer yes and people said that they
0:03:04 fell in love with the Adan the uh
0:03:07 massage it were totally packed with
0:03:09 tourists from all over the world wow
0:03:12 asking questions listening to lectures
0:03:14 uh watching the prayer the the
0:03:17 Palestinian flag uh was was everywhere
0:03:20 you know people saw you know true
0:03:22 Brotherhood of humanity uh people
0:03:25 discovered that you can have fun without
0:03:28 getting drunk right yeah that's what
0:03:31 that you say that I mean we laugh but
0:03:34 that's what I discovered after I became
0:03:36 a Muslim because I obviously used to
0:03:37 drink alcohol as a Christian and and I
0:03:39 thought well and I live partly in France
0:03:41 as well and you know everyone seems to
0:03:43 drink as part of this social kind of
0:03:45 cohesion the cement that helps people to
0:03:48 be jolly and enjoy themselves and it
0:03:50 will when I I became a Muslim and I
0:03:51 stopped drinking I discovered this
0:03:53 amazing thing actually you can have a
0:03:54 really good time you don't need alcohol
0:03:56 at all and I don't miss it at all I just
0:03:59 see it as simply completely separate
0:04:01 from me I was like you just don't need
0:04:03 it and this is something that most
0:04:05 people in the west probably can't get
0:04:07 their head around but I can bear witness
0:04:08 it's true you do not need alcohol to
0:04:10 have a really good time and alcohol has
0:04:12 lots of bad side effects as well which
0:04:15 we all know about not going to go into
0:04:16 those so yeah this is amazing absolutely
0:04:18 yeah and people were clearly having a
0:04:21 great time but there's something else
0:04:22 that the World Cup did and something uh
0:04:24 really really interesting and maybe
0:04:26 unintended so so in America there are a
0:04:29 lot of um you know liberal Muslims who
0:04:31 really support uh the left and say
0:04:35 well you know at least the left
0:04:37 tolerates us and they respect us and I
0:04:40 think that that that Allah
0:04:42 through the means of of the World Cup
0:04:46 um completely exposed the reality of
0:04:49 some of these Western liberals I mean
0:04:50 there were leftists you know these woke
0:04:51 liberals
0:04:52 who who boycotted the World Cup because
0:04:56 of the the government of Qatar you know
0:04:58 they said you know no rainbow stuff
0:05:00 allowed here right and this is their
0:05:03 country I mean this is their culture
0:05:05 this these are their values you know
0:05:07 they were liberals that were screaming
0:05:09 and shouting and demanding for change in
0:05:11 Qatar you know change many of our
0:05:14 principal leaders in in Brittany in the
0:05:17 UK were uh denouncing Qatar it was
0:05:19 hugely embarrassing and shameful
0:05:21 actually the the because this it was
0:05:23 never actually said explicitly but the
0:05:25 subtext was absolutely clear Islamic
0:05:27 teaching is unacceptable it must change
0:05:30 because we say so and yeah these are the
0:05:34 people who say we believe in
0:05:35 multiculturalism and diversity and
0:05:37 respect and tolerance of other religions
0:05:39 of course but they don't really if the
0:05:43 religion uh conforms perfectly with
0:05:44 their liberal secular values then they
0:05:46 tolerate it if it doesn't they insist it
0:05:48 must change and that was really it was
0:05:50 really in your face big time yeah what I
0:05:53 was saying I was like what happened to
0:05:54 respect all cultures and diversity and
0:05:56 tolerance
0:05:59 so this is a Europe about the the level
0:06:01 the left in in the states and everywhere
0:06:04 I think that um this really exposed
0:06:06 their hypocrisy they claim to be
0:06:07 tolerance and diverse and inclusive but
0:06:10 they're not uh as soon as you disagree
0:06:12 with any of their liberal secular
0:06:13 principles then you're you're ridiculed
0:06:16 and and told criticized and condemned
0:06:19 extraordinary hypocrisy yeah yeah these
0:06:22 were Western supremacists I mean that's
0:06:24 yes that's the only way I can put it
0:06:25 cultural colonizers who who claim to
0:06:28 celebrate diversity as long as people
0:06:29 agree with that right that's the caveat
0:06:31 right you can have diversity I guess of
0:06:34 of race but you can't have diversity of
0:06:36 of thought maybe that's that's the
0:06:38 thinking process I don't know but did
0:06:40 you see what the German team did so they
0:06:42 covered their mouths in solidarity with
0:06:45 the rainbow people and when I saw that I
0:06:48 just did a face palm
0:06:49 you know Germany really I mean does
0:06:51 Germany really have some sort of moral
0:06:53 High Ground uh you know yeah based on
0:06:56 what they did now some people might say
0:06:57 well this you know that's that's ancient
0:06:59 history 70 80 years ago it's really not
0:07:01 I mean the sins of Germany from 80 years
0:07:03 ago are still visiting the Palestinians
0:07:06 a woman who is literally uh convicted a
0:07:08 few days ago in a German court for being
0:07:10 a concentration camp God in a Nazi
0:07:13 concentration camp and she was convicted
0:07:15 for being complicit in the killing of
0:07:17 Ghana's hand thousands of Jews he was on
0:07:20 the news so yeah people who still
0:07:22 committed these crimes are still being
0:07:23 convicted in Germany today Germany to
0:07:26 this day they pay a billion dollars of
0:07:28 reparations to uh so-called Israel
0:07:31 because they admit that it's not ancient
0:07:33 history I think
0:07:35 um he said he said it quite eloquently
0:07:38 um and I'm paraphrasing this is
0:07:40 something like the Palestinian people
0:07:41 have been slaughtered on the altar of
0:07:43 Zionism for the sins of Europe yeah like
0:07:46 this type of vicarious atonement I guess
0:07:49 Paul of course this would be proud of
0:07:51 that
0:07:51 um
0:07:52 Apostle Paul uh according to Christians
0:07:55 I mean before I'd like to move on to
0:07:57 what's going on in Israel at the moment
0:07:58 it's quite shocking the recent news but
0:08:00 I just wanted to
0:08:01 um there's an interesting bit in the The
0:08:03 Times newspaper the times of London uh
0:08:06 on what was expected in inverted commas
0:08:08 to be written on the World Cup at Qatar
0:08:11 there's an article in the times uh and I
0:08:13 want to read it's just very short
0:08:15 um and the journalist says this uh who
0:08:17 was in Qatar as the times Jonas at one
0:08:20 match I sat beside a fellow journalist
0:08:23 not a times or Sunday Times colleague he
0:08:25 says uh another major national newspaper
0:08:28 and we fell into a what's it been like
0:08:31 for you conversation he was enjoying the
0:08:33 World Cup and there was no dissension
0:08:35 from me on that point the football had
0:08:39 been great and logistically it had been
0:08:42 off the scale easy same bed for five
0:08:45 weeks no flights no long car Journeys
0:08:48 good all organization
0:08:50 impressive stadiums
0:08:53 some of this stuff he would like to have
0:08:56 reported on for his newspaper and he he
0:08:59 lamented that he could not
0:09:01 more than once he'd been told by
0:09:05 somebody on the desk in London otherwise
0:09:07 the editorial HQ the good stories about
0:09:11 the World Cup were not wanted
0:09:14 freedom of the press eh so this is why
0:09:18 some of a lot of the bad publicity is
0:09:20 simply well would be manipulators we've
0:09:22 been told to believe bad things by
0:09:24 people who refuse to give the really
0:09:26 good news which was you know excellent
0:09:28 organization impressive stadiums
0:09:29 journalists loved it women loved it they
0:09:32 weren't molested by drunken English
0:09:34 football fans and so on so um I was
0:09:37 absolutely shocking uh generally shotgun
0:09:39 I read that um that's what's really
0:09:41 going on behind the scenes yeah I mean
0:09:43 if you think about the propaganda
0:09:45 campaign of the last 20 years to justify
0:09:48 violence in the Middle East you know you
0:09:50 have to keep millions of people sort of
0:09:53 ignorant of the true teachings of this
0:09:54 religion right so for a lot of people
0:09:57 this was for a lot of westerners
0:09:59 millions of westerners this was really
0:10:01 their first sort of Peak at at Real
0:10:04 Islam at just normal normative Islam and
0:10:08 just Muslims being Muslims and the
0:10:10 powers that be they consider that to be
0:10:12 um you know it's it's very powerful and
0:10:14 it is very powerful that's why they
0:10:16 don't show like the the Hajj I mean the
0:10:18 the Hajj is a global event every year
0:10:21 how many times do we see it on the news
0:10:24 literally billions of people from every
0:10:26 country in the world are converging upon
0:10:28 you know Mecca and Medina and they don't
0:10:31 show it because I think they know you
0:10:33 know it's it's bad optics for them right
0:10:35 yeah and the BBC refused to show the
0:10:38 opening ceremony on television uh
0:10:41 because
0:10:42 um you know it just didn't like it it
0:10:44 always shows the opening scenes at these
0:10:46 World Cup events but this time it didn't
0:10:47 uh in a kind of a Proto extraordinary
0:10:50 censorship and sort of patronizing
0:10:52 arrogance there uh quite disgusted but
0:10:55 coming back to the Middle East I think
0:10:57 perhaps we could go on to what's going
0:10:59 on in Israel and
0:11:02 um
0:11:02 nehenyattu's Hardline new government
0:11:04 which has just taken office in Israel on
0:11:07 the BBC back to BBC again reported uh
0:11:10 that quote the most religious and
0:11:12 hard-line government in Israel's history
0:11:14 has been sworn in and the guardian
0:11:18 reported today Benjamin nahiata's
0:11:20 incoming Hardline government put West
0:11:23 Bank settlement expansion at the top of
0:11:26 its list of priorities and this is a
0:11:28 priority for Country occupying other
0:11:30 people on Wednesday vowing to legalize
0:11:33 dozens of illegally built outposts and
0:11:36 Annex the occupied territory as part of
0:11:39 his Coalition deal with its Ultra
0:11:41 internationalist allies end quote and
0:11:44 it's interesting even if the I noticed
0:11:46 um the Italian sorry the Israeli
0:11:48 ambassador to France of all places uh
0:11:51 has just resigned believe it or not in
0:11:53 protest uh named his new government
0:11:56 which quotes goes against her conscience
0:11:58 it even some some of these people have a
0:12:01 conscience
0:12:03 but she's resigned let's see if anyone
0:12:06 else will will do the same
0:12:08 yeah I think um it seems like Netanyahu
0:12:11 attempted to do some damage control
0:12:13 maybe after the uh the World Cup because
0:12:16 the the support for Palestine I mean he
0:12:19 did this so-called interview with um
0:12:21 Jordan Peterson
0:12:22 that was one of the most embarrassing
0:12:25 things I couldn't better watch that I
0:12:26 haven't watched I couldn't bear to watch
0:12:27 it I I heard so many bad things I mean
0:12:29 did you see it yeah it was it was very
0:12:32 hard to watch there's a Palestinian
0:12:34 academic doctor uhmi
0:12:37 um who said it best I mean she said
0:12:38 basically that that Peterson is either
0:12:40 some sort of sycophant
0:12:43 of the lowest order or a monumentally
0:12:46 ignorant person that's just kind of sat
0:12:49 there and entertained these delusions
0:12:52 of this uh you know Zionist apologist
0:12:54 and this radical historical revisionist
0:12:56 Netanyahu I mean
0:12:58 um you know this idea this this fairy
0:13:01 tale that that pre-1948 Palestine was a
0:13:04 Barren land right containing a few
0:13:08 uncultured uh people this is pure
0:13:11 mythology
0:13:12 you know this is this is on par with
0:13:14 like Jack and the Beanstalk and the
0:13:16 legend of the gingerbread man and I mean
0:13:18 this is how this is how genocide is
0:13:20 swept under the rug in 1948 I mean again
0:13:23 this is not ancient history right I mean
0:13:26 people can look at archival footage of
0:13:29 pre-1948 Palestine and see for
0:13:31 themselves you know thriving vibrant
0:13:34 Palestinian cities and towns Muslims
0:13:36 Christians and Jews living together
0:13:38 working together uh practicing their
0:13:41 faith practicing you know their culture
0:13:43 uh you know the Muslims didn't expel the
0:13:46 Jews I mean that's what England France
0:13:47 and Austria and Germany did
0:13:50 um I reckon actually recommend a book um
0:13:53 by Elon Pape it's it's an older book the
0:13:57 ethnic cleansing of Palestine he's
0:13:59 actually in his great story I won't grab
0:14:01 it from my library I do have it yeah
0:14:03 it's a good book it's extraordinary
0:14:04 particularly documented his story I
0:14:06 think he's now in in England as a
0:14:07 professor here yeah and he describes
0:14:09 something called plan dalit people
0:14:11 should know about this plan D plan dalit
0:14:13 1948 you know the Israeli Army going
0:14:16 Village to Village uh expelling seizing
0:14:19 uh killing uh men women and children you
0:14:22 know the massacre Guardia seen you know
0:14:24 hundreds of Palestinian Villages
0:14:25 destroyed he says 531 to be exact
0:14:29 so here's a question you know why was
0:14:31 plan valid necessary if it was just a
0:14:33 Barren land you know what happened to
0:14:36 thou shall not kill Thou shalt not steal
0:14:38 I mean this is clearly not Judaism
0:14:41 um and the other thing about Netanyahu
0:14:42 that's interesting
0:14:44 is that a few years ago he said
0:14:45 something that's possibly even more
0:14:48 ludicrous I don't know if people
0:14:49 remember this but there was a uh there
0:14:52 was a photograph taken in 1941
0:14:55 of Hitler meeting with the grand Mufti
0:14:58 of Palestine which was normal two heads
0:15:00 of state or political figures meeting
0:15:02 this was before the war right lest we
0:15:04 forget that you know FDR at Churchill
0:15:06 met with Stalin right so Netanyahu
0:15:09 suggested uh that Hitler only wanted to
0:15:12 Exile the Jews from Germany but it was I
0:15:16 mean at husseini the Grand Mufti of
0:15:18 Palestine uh who suggested the final
0:15:21 solution to him
0:15:22 uh in other words Netanyahu blamed the
0:15:25 Palestinians for the Holocaust I mean
0:15:28 that's what you called hutzpah right
0:15:30 yeah forget the fact that the Germans
0:15:33 you know they published a full record of
0:15:35 that meeting uh and the recording
0:15:37 totally falsifies netanyahu's you know
0:15:39 delusion
0:15:41 to that kind of narrative will play in
0:15:43 the West for many people because they
0:15:44 don't know any better they're you know
0:15:46 manipulation or brainwashed by the media
0:15:48 as we've seen who report refuse to
0:15:50 report on certain stories because it
0:15:51 doesn't fit in with their narrative so
0:15:53 this will have some Traction in the west
0:15:55 but obviously not in in the Muslim world
0:15:58 or anywhere else for that matter or
0:15:59 China yeah yeah Norman Finkelstein who's
0:16:02 who's the Jewish professor's parents
0:16:04 were at Auschwitz he called this claim
0:16:06 Beyond lunacy you know you know I I wish
0:16:09 you know Dr Peterson the best you know
0:16:12 is he is he someone who's really seeking
0:16:13 to learn
0:16:14 I don't know it doesn't seem like it you
0:16:16 know
0:16:17 um
0:16:18 I don't know but on that I'm okay with
0:16:21 that uh this year we with the uh the
0:16:23 Abraham Accords I mean we've seen the
0:16:25 the alleged the so-called normalization
0:16:27 of relations with uh between Israel and
0:16:30 the the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain
0:16:32 and Morocco and Sudan uh other countries
0:16:35 said they might they haven't joined this
0:16:38 and others have kind of pulled back
0:16:40 um uh from this but um what are your
0:16:42 thoughts about this I know it's
0:16:44 interesting that about interesting the
0:16:45 very name that Abraham Accords Abraham
0:16:47 of course was a prophet uh not not a
0:16:50 Jewish Prophet because he wasn't a Jew
0:16:52 the Israel didn't exist
0:16:55 um but um why are they chosen this name
0:16:57 and what's going on do you think
0:16:58 religiously yeah this is a
0:17:01 this is a strange thing um
0:17:04 yeah so they're trying to create this
0:17:06 this new world religion right very
0:17:09 powerful people in the world seemingly
0:17:10 powerful
0:17:11 by combining basically all three
0:17:14 abrahamic religions right there's a
0:17:16 major movement right now
0:17:18 um and they're apparently going to call
0:17:20 this religion abrahamia
0:17:22 um an amalgamation of these sort of core
0:17:24 principles of Judaism and Christianity
0:17:27 and Islam so it's a it's a syncretistic
0:17:29 uh religion I think there was a there
0:17:32 was a mogul King in India
0:17:34 um who tried to do something yeah
0:17:36 similar to this in the 16th century
0:17:38 his name but yeah there was you're right
0:17:40 yeah yeah I think he called it Dean
0:17:42 ilahi I think his name was
0:17:45 failed miserably right but there were
0:17:48 Muslims who think this is actually a
0:17:49 good idea which kind of boggles the mind
0:17:51 right I mean how is this even going to
0:17:53 work I mean this is the Trinity going to
0:17:55 be valid or not I mean who who is Jesus
0:17:59 peace be upon him in this in this
0:18:01 religion is he is is he a prophet is he
0:18:04 God is he nothing you know which part of
0:18:07 the which parts of the Quran are they
0:18:09 going to accept and
0:18:10 which parts are they going to uh reject
0:18:13 which parts need to be radically
0:18:14 interpreted reinterpreted
0:18:16 um you know it's it's it's very very
0:18:19 strange but there's there's a there's an
0:18:21 organization in Israel called the temple
0:18:23 Institute right and um I was on their
0:18:26 site it's Temple institute.org and one
0:18:29 of the FAQs I thought was really
0:18:30 interesting
0:18:32 um so one of the FAQs is when will the
0:18:34 Reconstruction of the Holy Temple
0:18:37 commence
0:18:38 the Third Temple uh and here's what they
0:18:41 said and this is a quote they said
0:18:42 geopolitically
0:18:44 the Temple Mount has to be cleared
0:18:47 of the Dome of the Rock and the mosques
0:18:49 which are presently located upon it
0:18:51 before the physical rebuilding of the
0:18:53 Holy Temple can begin
0:18:55 many scenarios Can Be Imagined which
0:18:58 would accomplish this the most comp the
0:19:00 most promising and not necessarily the
0:19:03 most far-fetched would entail Muslim
0:19:04 recognition of the mount
0:19:06 as the intended location for the rebuilt
0:19:09 Temple
0:19:10 uh with the acquiescence of the Muslim
0:19:12 world the Muslim structures currently on
0:19:15 the mount would be disassembled and
0:19:17 reassembled elsewhere
0:19:19 traditionally this is their claim
0:19:22 I'm still quoting traditionally Muslim
0:19:24 texts beginning with the Quran except
0:19:26 the Prophecies of the return of the
0:19:28 Jewish nation and the rebuilding of the
0:19:31 Holy Temple okay it continues today of
0:19:34 course radical Islam holds sway over the
0:19:37 Muslim world
0:19:38 and until this phenomenon is defeated
0:19:40 the likelihood of a peaceful preparation
0:19:42 for the rebuilding of the Holy Temple
0:19:44 remains nil end quote so in other words
0:19:47 uh Muslims who don't agree with our
0:19:50 eschatology are radicals defeated
0:19:55 right Muslims who don't agree with our
0:19:57 plan of disassembling
0:19:59 right
0:20:03 these are radicals who must be defeated
0:20:06 right
0:20:08 but you know the big question to me is
0:20:09 you know how are they going to get
0:20:10 Muslims to willingly recognize
0:20:13 their Temple uh and eventually they're
0:20:15 they're Messiah
0:20:18 um I don't know well maybe it's perhaps
0:20:21 you know part of the rationale behind
0:20:22 creating this new sort of syncretistic
0:20:24 abrahamic religion in the singular
0:20:27 under the guise of sort of unity and
0:20:29 tolerance is to convince Muslims uh who
0:20:32 have already embraced this new religion
0:20:34 that this coming sort of false Messiah
0:20:36 will also be their Messiah so this new
0:20:39 Temple will be there or their Temple but
0:20:42 really it isn't so I don't know it's
0:20:44 it's very it's very strange things
0:20:45 happening you know very uh very strange
0:20:48 I saw um the news recently that um about
0:20:50 five or six red heifers
0:20:52 um have been shipped from Texas I think
0:20:55 from your country these days
0:20:58 um to Jerusalem
0:21:00 um uh why because uh allegedly this is
0:21:02 in the Torah and they're going to be
0:21:03 needed for uh sacrifice in the temple
0:21:06 when it's rebuilt uh presumably sometime
0:21:08 soon because we've got these animals
0:21:09 that are not going to be living like
0:21:11 decades and decades but um
0:21:13 um I saw that I mean what's your take on
0:21:15 that these red heifers being prized and
0:21:18 shipped over and you know looked after
0:21:20 for the new Temple of sacrifices yeah if
0:21:23 things like that are really interesting
0:21:24 to me
0:21:25 um there are some very interesting
0:21:27 developments uh happening right now and
0:21:29 the sort of topic of messianism which is
0:21:31 one of my favorite uh topics so right
0:21:34 now in in Palestine so-called Israel
0:21:36 there are there is a lot of messy ionic
0:21:39 fervor in the air
0:21:42 um I've I've heard that there are even
0:21:43 rabbis who are apparently claiming
0:21:46 that they're long-awaited King Messiah
0:21:48 has arrived or will arrive imminently
0:21:52 um Israel's uh leading Rabbi Rabbi
0:21:55 kavieski who actually died in March of
0:21:59 this year 800 000 people attended his
0:22:01 funeral highly highly respected he was
0:22:04 reported to have said on multiple
0:22:06 occasions that the Messiah is already
0:22:08 here and that he was holding secret
0:22:10 counsel with him I mean God knows what's
0:22:13 actually you know going on maybe this is
0:22:14 you know fake news maybe this is um red
0:22:17 airing or some sort of misdirection
0:22:19 although you know the history of
0:22:21 pseudo-messias and Jewish history is a
0:22:23 really interesting topic it's very long
0:22:25 yeah and there was other at the Messiah
0:22:27 who died in New York wasn't it I forget
0:22:29 his name but uh he was still called
0:22:32 schneerson yeah yeah they have pictures
0:22:35 he was a Chabad Rabbi um they actually
0:22:38 put his pictures up in New York in them
0:22:40 yeah caption that says the Messiah uh is
0:22:44 here yeah there was a Messianic claimant
0:22:46 in the 17 Century in Turkey she baptized
0:22:48 fee who actually convinced Jews from all
0:22:49 around the world
0:22:50 that he was the Messiah and he actually
0:22:53 ended up converting to Islam so as
0:22:56 Muslims we know that whoever you know
0:22:58 this person is if he exists he's not the
0:23:00 Messiah in reality we know that is
0:23:03 Jesus the son of Mary is the Messiah and
0:23:07 he's the only Messiah yeah and I believe
0:23:09 in you know and we believe in the second
0:23:11 coming of of Jesus peace be upon him but
0:23:14 this whole
0:23:15 um biblical notion of a coming
0:23:18 davidic King Messiah who will rule the
0:23:21 world at the end of time in my opinion I
0:23:24 think this is a result of a misreading
0:23:25 of the Tanakh and uh a whole lot of
0:23:28 wishful thinking
0:23:30 so the prophecies and descriptions of in
0:23:33 the Tanakh of a davidic king during the
0:23:36 Assyrian period I think were clearly
0:23:38 fulfilled by Hezekiah they seem to be
0:23:41 describing him Isaiah 9 Isaiah 11. the
0:23:43 second set of prophecies during the
0:23:45 Babylonian and Persian periods of a
0:23:47 davidic king who would rebuild the
0:23:49 second temple I believe those things
0:23:51 were written by Israelite scribes who
0:23:53 hoped that such a person would manifest
0:23:55 and free them but it seems that God
0:23:59 himself exposed these statements as
0:24:01 being Fabrications because God chose
0:24:04 Cyrus a Persian king and it was his
0:24:07 edicts that led to the rebuilding of the
0:24:09 second temple and I think the lesson
0:24:11 here is that God does what he wills and
0:24:13 no one can dictate to God
0:24:15 um the rabbis then claimed because they
0:24:18 had to I mean they had to do they had to
0:24:20 say face
0:24:21 um that these descriptions during the
0:24:23 Babylonian and Persian periods uh were
0:24:26 actually describing a third Temple
0:24:28 towards the the end of time and that
0:24:32 this davidic king is yet to come right
0:24:35 So eventually I think they will at least
0:24:37 try to self-fulfill you know this this
0:24:39 uh
0:24:41 of course there is an organization
0:24:43 in so-called Israel I mentioned this
0:24:44 earlier the temple Institute of
0:24:46 Jerusalem uh which is called uh
0:24:50 in in Hebrew and and they actually have
0:24:53 the blueprints done for the Third Temple
0:24:55 wow um they have the menorah already
0:24:58 made the um the Priestly vestments
0:25:03 the stone altar is made the incense
0:25:06 altar is made the breastplate of the
0:25:07 kohen gadol like the high priest several
0:25:10 other items all these items are actually
0:25:12 on display
0:25:14 um and they described a lot of detail
0:25:15 and they painted shook in in the yeah
0:25:17 yeah they're in the Institute Museum and
0:25:20 these are not they they actually specify
0:25:21 these are not models or replicas
0:25:24 they said these items are fit and ready
0:25:26 for use in the service of the Temple
0:25:29 um and I even heard that some of the
0:25:30 kohanin they actually have some aeronite
0:25:32 priests who are ready uh to move these
0:25:35 things into the Third Temple I mean
0:25:37 they're ready to rock and roll
0:25:38 uh Hussein who is the grand Mufti of
0:25:41 Jerusalem
0:25:42 uh he's been saying that you know
0:25:44 underground sort of archaeological
0:25:45 excavations are causing noticeable
0:25:48 cracks in The Columns of uh
0:25:52 right uh so who knows maybe the plan is
0:25:55 a sort of accidental collapse uh of the
0:25:58 mosque and then quickly move the Third
0:26:00 Temple into place
0:26:02 um
0:26:03 but also you mentioned the red heifers
0:26:06 also from the temple institute.org this
0:26:09 is what they say they say on Thursday
0:26:11 September 15 2022 5 p.m five perfect
0:26:15 unblemished red heifers
0:26:17 arrived in Israel from the USA you know
0:26:20 Texas a a modest ceremony was held at
0:26:23 the unloading Bay of the cargo terminal
0:26:26 at Ben Gurion Airport where the new
0:26:28 arrivals were greeted and speeches were
0:26:30 made by the incredible people that put
0:26:32 their hearts and souls and means into
0:26:33 making this historic slash prophetic Day
0:26:36 become a reality end quote
0:26:40 so five blemish free one-year-old
0:26:42 uh heifers that is female cows have
0:26:45 recently arrived in Israel so blemish
0:26:48 free means
0:26:49 um totally red not a single black or
0:26:52 white hair and having never been yoked
0:26:55 before
0:26:56 so what is the significance of the
0:26:58 blemish free red heifer uh the the the
0:27:01 uh the blemish free red heifer by the
0:27:04 way is the namesake of the second Surah
0:27:06 of the Quran actually
0:27:11 perfect uh cow that has no Faults
0:27:15 a heifer so according to Jewish belief
0:27:18 there have been nine
0:27:20 uh previous perfect red heifers
0:27:22 sacrificed in Jewish history and the
0:27:24 last one was sacrificed about two
0:27:25 thousand years ago but then as we know
0:27:28 the temple was destroyed uh by the
0:27:29 Romans and 70 the Common Era
0:27:32 um so according to Leviticus the water
0:27:34 that the kohanim the priest of the
0:27:36 temple use
0:27:37 uh for the temple rituals this this
0:27:40 water must be purified by the ashes of a
0:27:43 two-year-old blemish-free red heifer
0:27:46 right uh and the ashes of one heifer can
0:27:49 last for hundreds of years so there are
0:27:51 currently five of them they're all one
0:27:53 year old if one of them makes it a two
0:27:55 years old and is still perfect
0:27:57 uh then the 10th red heifer in their
0:28:00 history will be sacrificed presumably by
0:28:03 their Messiah I mean this is their hope
0:28:05 and then after that the temple and
0:28:07 priesthood can be re-established and I
0:28:09 think it'll push hard to do that I'm not
0:28:12 saying this is going to happen or but
0:28:13 this is what they're hoping for I mean
0:28:15 we should be you know spiritually
0:28:16 prepared for things like this I mean is
0:28:18 the world but really prepared for this
0:28:19 it's all very nice having you know these
0:28:21 red heifers and fantasies about the uh
0:28:24 the re-establishment rebuilding of the
0:28:26 you know the Third Temple but if you
0:28:28 have the rest of the tour as well I mean
0:28:30 you you have I mean there are a few
0:28:31 offenses and just a very very few in
0:28:33 Islam which are capital offenses
0:28:36 um but in if you look at the Torah
0:28:38 there's lots and lots of offenses which
0:28:40 carry the death penalty uh explicitly
0:28:42 not just by stoning but by being burnt
0:28:44 to death you know literally being burned
0:28:47 to death if you're a witch if you're
0:28:48 adulterer if you're homosexual you're a
0:28:50 blasphemer if you apostasize from
0:28:53 Judaism uh these are all death penalty
0:28:56 offenses now are we looking at the
0:28:58 restoration of the whole legal system of
0:29:00 the Torah because your romantic you know
0:29:03 the Romantic feelings about the temple
0:29:04 and heifer is all very nice but if
0:29:06 you're going to have the whole system
0:29:07 consistently which you should do because
0:29:09 you're restoring the the the state of
0:29:12 Israel as it used to be not the current
0:29:14 one
0:29:15 um then either world is Israel already
0:29:17 is America ready to see these Mass
0:29:21 executions and burnings of witches and
0:29:23 apostates and adulterers and homosexuals
0:29:25 I don't think so somehow yeah yeah I
0:29:29 mean some of the Orthodox hold this
0:29:31 belief that when the Messiah comes he's
0:29:34 going to reinstate all of these myths
0:29:36 vote because something like half of a
0:29:38 613 have really no application in the
0:29:41 world right now according to them
0:29:43 because so much so much of it is is
0:29:45 predicated upon the existence of the
0:29:47 temple and the kohanim the sacrifices
0:29:50 and the Sanhedrin
0:29:52 um the religious Sanhedrin which is
0:29:53 which is not there uh so yeah I mean it
0:29:57 seems like um and this is a good
0:29:58 argument for from from us
0:30:01 um that you know nus is a real like
0:30:03 abrogation of certain Commandments is
0:30:06 just a reality I mean for the vast
0:30:08 majority of Israel's history
0:30:11 um almost half of their mitzvot have no
0:30:13 application whatsoever this is a good
0:30:15 sort of circumstantial a good
0:30:17 circumstantial evidence kids that
0:30:19 there's going to be another law code
0:30:21 revealed after the Torah that is more
0:30:24 Universal uh you know uh but yeah some
0:30:27 of the some of the Orthodox hold that
0:30:28 when the Messiah comes all of these
0:30:30 things are going to be reinstituted and
0:30:32 of course as Muslims we have a belief in
0:30:35 an imposter Messiah right yeah and this
0:30:38 is a really important part of our
0:30:40 eschatology
0:30:42 at the job which literally means the
0:30:46 Imposter Messiah
0:30:47 and this is all over our Hadith Corpus
0:30:51 and there's no denying this uh and we're
0:30:54 told in the Hadith that the prophet saws
0:31:00 the prophet himself uh peace be upon him
0:31:04 uh would seek Refuge from The Imposter
0:31:07 Messiah
0:31:09 um and he's you know he's obviously
0:31:10 teaching us uh by example but there's
0:31:13 another Hadith in musnan Ahmad
0:31:16 and there's there's some weakness in the
0:31:18 chain but our Scholars quote it
0:31:20 extensively I mean the meaning is
0:31:21 obviously true even if it's weak uh
0:31:24 where the Prophet is reported to have
0:31:26 said that the the jaw The Imposter
0:31:28 Messiah
0:31:29 will not actually appear until the
0:31:31 people become negligent in talking about
0:31:33 him
0:31:34 and until the preachers on the pulpits
0:31:36 stop mentioning him right so when the
0:31:39 preacher stopped mentioning the the job
0:31:41 in their khutbas this is when the
0:31:43 Imposter Messiah will emerge that's
0:31:46 ironic because you you preached on this
0:31:48 subject recently I saw the the video a
0:31:50 fascinating video but you were lamenting
0:31:52 that indeed precisely what you were
0:31:54 saying has now taken place that people
0:31:56 are no longer preaching on this yeah I
0:31:58 mean I I thought about this for a while
0:32:00 and you know why would Muslim speaker
0:32:02 stop talking about the Imposter Messiah
0:32:05 so I came up with two possible reasons I
0:32:08 mean I don't know I'm just speculating
0:32:10 uh but it seems to me that that one
0:32:12 reason seems to be obliviousness to the
0:32:16 culture of the the job uh that there
0:32:18 will come a time when we are so
0:32:20 inundated
0:32:21 uh by these sort of dijolic zeitgeist uh
0:32:25 that we just think it's normal this is
0:32:27 just you know it's life as usual we we
0:32:29 don't think to even imagine that we're
0:32:31 surrounded by the culture of the
0:32:33 Imposter Messiah you know it's like a
0:32:34 it's like a fish
0:32:36 uh who's born in a fish tank and then is
0:32:40 asked by another fish how's the fish
0:32:42 tank and he says what fish tank there's
0:32:44 a fish tank you know in other words yeah
0:32:46 you know pornography is everywhere this
0:32:48 is just normal you know uh you know
0:32:51 advanced technology becomes the summit
0:32:53 of achievement you know gluttony and
0:32:56 greed Hedonism all these things are sort
0:32:57 of normalized entertainment is
0:32:59 normalized people waste time men and
0:33:02 women you know stop acting like men and
0:33:04 women you know there's gender confusion
0:33:06 just another day totally normal uh and
0:33:09 then the second thing that occurred to
0:33:10 me is is just censorship
0:33:13 um in other words the reason why
0:33:15 speakers will stop mentioning the
0:33:16 Imposter Messiah uh is because they'll
0:33:19 be censored yeah silenced I mean it once
0:33:22 happened to me I mean I once gave a
0:33:23 hookah
0:33:24 Messiah and it was suddenly removed and
0:33:27 I thought to myself how ironic right
0:33:29 imagine a Muslim comes to me and says
0:33:32 why is it that you hateebs never talk
0:33:34 about the dejao and your foot was and I
0:33:36 said well I did but it was censored you
0:33:40 know thus giving the impression that you
0:33:41 know I didn't say uh I didn't say
0:33:43 anything because in some countries the
0:33:45 censorship is far more sales like in
0:33:47 France where you can literally be
0:33:48 expelled from the country as it happened
0:33:51 to uh an Imam not in a number of months
0:33:54 ago who uh was literally kicked out of
0:33:56 France for just to just um reciting the
0:33:59 Quran when it talked about the different
0:34:01 gender roles that men and women have and
0:34:03 this was seen as violating the secular
0:34:05 Norms of the Republic
0:34:07 yeah yeah it's very interesting
0:34:10 um you know there's a really really I
0:34:13 mean all the all of these Hadith are
0:34:15 just they're just amazing but there's a
0:34:17 Hadith in the in the sun of Abu dawood
0:34:19 where the prophet salallahu he says he
0:34:22 says and he you know he warned us about
0:34:24 these things we should take these things
0:34:25 very seriously he said let him who hears
0:34:27 about the Imposter Messiah keep a
0:34:28 distance
0:34:29 for I swear by Allah that a man will
0:34:32 come to him thinking he's a firm
0:34:33 believer
0:34:34 and then end up following him because of
0:34:37 confused ideas or heretical matters
0:34:39 shubu hat roused in him by the uh
0:34:44 imposter Messiah so the Oscar Messiah
0:34:46 not just the you know actual physical
0:34:48 person but this the whole culture of the
0:34:50 system the Zeitgeist of the dejal raises
0:34:53 these shubu hats in the religion in in
0:34:55 the Deen in other words people who
0:34:57 identify as Muslim will eventually leave
0:35:00 Islam and follow this imposter Messiah
0:35:02 because the Imposter Messiah will
0:35:05 confuse them and cause them to to doubt
0:35:07 their religion you know so you know he's
0:35:10 going to you know criticize and raise
0:35:11 suspicions about normative
0:35:14 traditional prophetic Islam he's trying
0:35:17 to redefine Islam you know and we know
0:35:19 that if if words lose their definitions
0:35:21 then you know they can mean whatever we
0:35:24 want and this is happening now there's a
0:35:25 clear assault on language right today
0:35:28 there are people who identify as Muslim
0:35:29 uh but oppose things that are
0:35:33 like axiomatically
0:35:35 undeniably self-evidently known to be
0:35:38 part of the religion right so for
0:35:41 example they think there's nothing wrong
0:35:42 with being Muslim and living you know
0:35:43 homosexual lifestyle or transgender
0:35:45 lifestyle or bringing being pro-abortion
0:35:49 or believing in critical race Theory
0:35:51 things like this um or believing that
0:35:54 the Quran is not actually the words of
0:35:56 God but they're sort of the inspired
0:35:57 words the prophet uh or that the Sharia
0:36:00 like Salon zakah these things are
0:36:02 optional
0:36:03 um or you could be like a you know a
0:36:05 moderate uh alcohol Drinker as a Muslim
0:36:08 uh you can sort of combine religions
0:36:11 like I said one time I mentioned this in
0:36:13 the recently as well I was at the UC
0:36:16 Berkeley campus and I met a brother who
0:36:18 said he was a Buddhist Muslim
0:36:22 what's a Buddhist Muslim a moodist uh I
0:36:26 said what do you mean by that and he
0:36:27 said well I believe in reincarnation you
0:36:28 know I believe in some of the Quran and
0:36:30 some of it's correct but I also believe
0:36:32 and it's just very strange you know it's
0:36:35 like what one could say is an outsider
0:36:37 well this is California isn't it really
0:36:38 and what do we expect in California yeah
0:36:41 you should sort of have to look you have
0:36:43 to hunt around around here to actually
0:36:44 find a career like a traditional
0:36:46 Christian to have a good uh uh
0:36:49 conversation with
0:36:51 um but yeah I mean there's there's uh
0:36:53 there's a very prominent Muslim uh
0:36:55 feminist Professor who teaches in
0:36:57 colleges and universities and she
0:36:59 teaches that if the Quran you know says
0:37:01 something that you don't like something
0:37:03 that hurts your feelings you just say no
0:37:04 to Allah that's what she says
0:37:08 this is sort of her method of dealing
0:37:11 with these with these verses and the
0:37:14 basic Point what the word Islam actually
0:37:16 means itself you know Islam means
0:37:18 submission it doesn't mean saying no to
0:37:20 God it means submitting to God uh it
0:37:23 seems like a very basic Point principle
0:37:25 missing from what you've just said yeah
0:37:26 it's it's uh it's very strange you know
0:37:29 it's um wow I also mentioned this when I
0:37:32 was a kid you know I had non-muslim uh
0:37:34 teachers who would tell me that if
0:37:35 anyone ever offered me drugs I should
0:37:38 just say no right and nowadays we have
0:37:40 so-called Muslim professors telling
0:37:42 Muslims just say no to Allah
0:37:45 right and these things you know these
0:37:47 things are addressed in the Quran you
0:37:48 know Allah he says in the Quran he says
0:37:54 he says those who are those who are
0:37:58 anchored in knowledge they say we
0:38:00 believe in it meaning the Quran all of
0:38:03 it is from God that's right so I think a
0:38:07 major problem is that you know just a
0:38:08 lot of Muslims in the west are just so
0:38:10 confused you know apparently very
0:38:13 confusing times even though I would
0:38:14 argue that our religion is very clear
0:38:17 our beliefs are clear this is not
0:38:19 complicated you know we we confuse
0:38:22 ourselves it seems like you know the
0:38:24 Quran is called kitab mubin which means
0:38:26 a clarifying book the prophet salallahu
0:38:29 in the Quran is called which means a
0:38:32 clear evidence he said
0:38:35 what that which is listed and illicit is
0:38:38 is clear right but it seems like this
0:38:41 you know sort of anti-christic culture
0:38:43 uh this sort of anti-theistic zeitgeist
0:38:47 says introduce these shubu hat where
0:38:49 these these heresies that are causing
0:38:51 people to really have serious doubts
0:38:53 about traditional Islam
0:38:55 um uh Islam you know people in America
0:38:58 became very very uh um polarized you
0:39:02 know which is not a not a good sign
0:39:04 right
0:39:05 um
0:39:06 what's going on in your your country at
0:39:09 the moment yeah yeah it's um you know
0:39:11 you have you have uh sort of uh you know
0:39:14 the ultra Omega people on one side and
0:39:17 you have this sort of extra woke
0:39:19 liberals on the other side
0:39:21 so you have one you have one group
0:39:23 basically saying no more mosques in
0:39:24 America then you have the other group
0:39:25 saying more gay mosques in America you
0:39:28 know Muslims that you know neither group
0:39:30 is our Ally right right there there are
0:39:33 many Muslims who feel like they need to
0:39:34 sort of choose sides we just don't fit
0:39:38 it with either group we're Misfits and
0:39:40 that's okay it's actually a good thing
0:39:42 right you know yeah the prophet said
0:39:45 that you know this religion began as
0:39:47 something something strange
0:39:50 to something strange so so fat So Glad
0:39:54 Tidings you know uh to The Strangers
0:39:58 um and so you know we apparently are
0:40:01 very strange to people
0:40:03 um to Modern people people are sort of
0:40:05 steeped in this post-modern culture you
0:40:08 know we believe in Traditional Values
0:40:10 traditional you know morality we believe
0:40:13 that God you know acts in the world we
0:40:15 don't drink we don't fornicate we fast
0:40:17 for a month these are very strange for
0:40:19 people nowadays you know people that's
0:40:22 that's that's good this is this is Glad
0:40:24 Tidings from uh from the prophet himself
0:40:27 kind of on that one of the good news
0:40:29 stories I think of for me of 20 22.
0:40:32 um was the the census this is a sense of
0:40:35 the population in the UK anyway uh that
0:40:37 was published just about several weeks
0:40:39 ago and and it showed uh very sadly and
0:40:42 I I'm genuinely not happy that there has
0:40:44 been a very continuing steep decline of
0:40:47 Christian practice and identity in
0:40:49 Britain I say I'm generally not happy
0:40:51 because the alternative is simply
0:40:54 nothing is consumerism materialism
0:40:56 nihilism wokism
0:40:59 um but the big exception story to to
0:41:01 this was uh the continuing solidity and
0:41:05 uh popular popularity of the Muslim
0:41:08 communities that they are passing on
0:41:10 their faith the parents are passing on
0:41:12 to their children and often the children
0:41:14 are more religious than their parents I
0:41:16 mean this is so counter to what should
0:41:18 be happening
0:41:20 um with religions certainly with
0:41:21 Christianity anyway where you see you
0:41:23 know uh I spoke to uh a professor from
0:41:26 King's College who's an expert
0:41:27 sociologist uh on this uh in the UK and
0:41:31 um you know fascinating stuff she was
0:41:33 saying so um Muslims there are some
0:41:35 really good news stories I think that
0:41:37 Muslims are holding on to their faith uh
0:41:39 that they're not diluting it mostly or
0:41:41 overwhelmingly in art and and it's been
0:41:44 passed on and their children are not
0:41:45 getting you know bit by bit less and
0:41:47 then their children are getting less
0:41:48 religious on the contrary there seems to
0:41:51 be a revitalization of the faith
0:41:53 um that's amazing a good news story of
0:41:56 2022 I think yeah no I I saw that as
0:41:59 well you know this this increase in
0:42:02 people becoming nuns not Catholic nuns
0:42:05 but n-o-n-e-s right they don't want to
0:42:08 affiliate with any type of of religion
0:42:10 whatsoever yes um you know it's just you
0:42:13 know it's uh we we have Muslims tend to
0:42:16 have very strong foundational roots
0:42:19 right uh in the religion and
0:42:22 um those things are you know once
0:42:24 they're ingrained they're they're very
0:42:26 very hard to to pull out of a person's
0:42:29 being
0:42:30 um and and Islam is a religion where
0:42:33 you know you there's there are certain
0:42:35 things we have to do physically with our
0:42:36 bodies yeah we have to pray five times a
0:42:39 day uh so when when the youth see that
0:42:42 that's why it's so important for for
0:42:44 parents to be to practice what they
0:42:46 preach because they can they can talk
0:42:47 all day long and they can pontificate
0:42:49 and and uh and you know uh you know
0:42:53 until the cows come home until the red
0:42:55 heifers come home apparently but but if
0:42:58 they're not actually practicing the
0:42:59 religion you know the youth may not say
0:43:01 anything to their parents because they
0:43:03 don't want to disrespect them but they
0:43:04 notice that they notice that hypocrisy
0:43:06 but if they're actually practicing you
0:43:08 know they they start from a young age
0:43:10 it's it's it's uh it's it's almost like
0:43:12 riding in stone you know it is I mean I
0:43:15 think lots of churches obviously when I
0:43:16 was a Christian as well I like to say
0:43:18 compare and contrast the the the the
0:43:20 attendance at places of worship
0:43:22 comparing Church from mosque in the UK
0:43:23 then there's no comparison I mean today
0:43:26 I went to you know German mosque it was
0:43:28 totally packed
0:43:30 um and mostly younger people as well and
0:43:32 that's typical as not some exception
0:43:34 whereas most Christian churches in the
0:43:36 UK unfortunately is much more serious
0:43:39 here perhaps in America
0:43:40 um are are empty you might get um a
0:43:44 scattering of uh old people lesson uh
0:43:47 but that's it uh whereas the norm has
0:43:49 always been I've never been to a mosque
0:43:50 it's not he you know it's not bursting
0:43:52 at the seams trying to accommodate
0:43:54 everyone
0:43:56 um and you just can't move the Muslims
0:43:58 everywhere and they're all taking their
0:44:00 religion really seriously and um
0:44:03 alhamdulillah that's an amazing thing to
0:44:05 see uh to be honest it's difficult to
0:44:08 overstate the contrast it is
0:44:10 dramatically different Christian
0:44:11 practice and Muslim practice in the even
0:44:13 in the UK is very different
0:44:15 yeah no even like um Interfaith
0:44:18 dialogues nowadays I mean the youth and
0:44:20 churches they're not sure I mean just my
0:44:22 experience I mean it's it's anecdotal uh
0:44:25 you know make of it what you want but
0:44:27 you know I I do a lot of interfaith
0:44:29 dialogues in churches and I rarely see
0:44:32 youth in these churches it's just a
0:44:34 bunch of old people this is America
0:44:35 where the religion is more vital perhaps
0:44:39 it's very strange I'm just I'm just
0:44:41 talking to older folks like my parents
0:44:43 generation these are people who attend
0:44:45 these events
0:44:46 um so you know I guess if there isn't
0:44:49 you know like music and you know some of
0:44:50 these churches you go it's like a rock
0:44:51 concert right yes yes
0:44:55 but why is it like you see this
0:44:57 particularly in America these mega
0:44:58 churches you have we have them here less
0:45:00 so but you know have qatars rock bands
0:45:02 singers a whole choir it's like a rock
0:45:05 concert and you wonder why Always to
0:45:07 bring the young people in of course
0:45:09 there is no music at all in mosques I
0:45:11 mean if there were there'd be an outcry
0:45:13 isn't it it's literally nothing like
0:45:14 that at all
0:45:16 um and again extreme uh difference but
0:45:19 they're not holding on to the young
0:45:20 people are they in the churches even
0:45:21 when they have the rock concerts going
0:45:22 on yeah that's that's true yeah part of
0:45:26 the and and no you're right the Muslim
0:45:29 youth are holding on to their Dean but
0:45:31 um I've noticed also uh when you know
0:45:34 they they go to high school or college
0:45:36 there is a bit of uh you know there is a
0:45:40 difficulty that they definitely
0:45:41 experience of course navigating uh those
0:45:44 those spaces yeah these colleges and
0:45:47 universities in the west are I mean
0:45:49 they're just becoming total disasters
0:45:50 right for people of religion they're
0:45:53 almost becoming absolutely toxic yeah I
0:45:57 mean
0:45:57 um Higher Learning Academia is becoming
0:46:00 fundamentally almost anti-theistic so so
0:46:03 at first uh you know Academia was
0:46:06 theistic right so like Harvard and Yale
0:46:09 and uh Georgetown uh I mean these
0:46:12 started as Christian seminaries uh
0:46:15 education was sought for the sake of God
0:46:17 uh there was a theistic worldview
0:46:21 um a metaphysic based upon you know
0:46:23 scripture and tradition and then
0:46:25 Academia became atheistic
0:46:27 where there's no God right and if you
0:46:31 believe in God that's your business but
0:46:32 just keep God out of here but now in
0:46:34 this sort of postmodern post-truth you
0:46:37 know world uh Academia has become
0:46:39 anti-theistic which really means two
0:46:42 things number one the belief in God and
0:46:44 practice of religion need to go just
0:46:46 throw it all out or if you insist in
0:46:48 believing in God uh that's okay but you
0:46:51 must reject traditional religion you
0:46:55 must change your beliefs for the sake of
0:46:56 hurt feelings otherwise you're just you
0:46:59 know patriarchal misogynist and
0:47:00 homophobic and a bigot
0:47:02 you know there are a few schools that
0:47:04 continue to you know keep it real as it
0:47:06 were like Thomas Aquinas College I think
0:47:09 um make their faculty and students
0:47:11 pledge uh that they're committed to the
0:47:13 to the magisterium
0:47:15 um I think Ava Maria uh University as
0:47:18 well right there's there's Catholic
0:47:19 schools of course it's a tuna uh you
0:47:22 know our our fundamental
0:47:24 um metaphysic and world view is
0:47:26 traditional Islam the Sunni tradition we
0:47:28 teach both uh the Islamic and Western uh
0:47:32 tradition as well as both canons right
0:47:34 and it's important for students to to be
0:47:37 you know literate in both Traditions I
0:47:39 mean John basically I understand the
0:47:41 roots of the western tradition it didn't
0:47:43 just come about yesterday it has long
0:47:44 roots to go back to ancient Greece and
0:47:46 and Christianity and Judaism and the
0:47:48 Renaissance Enlightenment and it goes on
0:47:50 and on this story but they're complex
0:47:52 roots that feed in very much in very
0:47:55 clear ways to uh the Zeitgeist that we
0:47:58 experienced in zeit cause we have didn't
0:47:59 just pop out of nowhere and it's not
0:48:01 natural it's not the the universal
0:48:03 Natural State of Affairs the world
0:48:05 should be it's recent it's very
0:48:07 culturally and historically specific to
0:48:10 a particular part of the world
0:48:11 particularly historical context and
0:48:14 particularly philosophical tradition as
0:48:15 well which we can map out uh we can
0:48:18 understand we can see where we come from
0:48:21 and where we're going and it's great
0:48:23 that your college is educating people in
0:48:25 that because it helps them to negotiate
0:48:28 and deal with these um ideologies which
0:48:31 just have the force at the moment of
0:48:32 like a force of nature when they hit
0:48:34 people but they're not that they're
0:48:36 they're recent and they're very
0:48:37 culturally and historically Pacific to
0:48:40 California and other parts of the West
0:48:42 right yeah no people need to learn the
0:48:45 Trivium and this is this is really like
0:48:47 grammar logic and rhetoric these are the
0:48:50 liberal arts right these are the liberal
0:48:52 arts and people hear the phrase liberal
0:48:54 arts sometimes they get the wrong idea
0:48:56 they they hear liberal and they think
0:48:58 about it oh yeah
0:49:01 it was a bad time that means left wing
0:49:04 yeah yeah exactly or they hear arts and
0:49:06 they think like underwater basket
0:49:07 weaving right so the word the word
0:49:10 liberal comes from the Latin for Freedom
0:49:12 right so liberal arts these are the
0:49:15 freeing tools these are these are tools
0:49:17 that free our minds they allow us to
0:49:19 think critically outside the box and
0:49:22 these are the most powerful tools that
0:49:23 one can possibly possess they literally
0:49:25 move the world right the most
0:49:27 influential people in history or masters
0:49:29 of these tools one of my teachers said
0:49:31 the prophet Muhammad was the most
0:49:34 logical human being he was always
0:49:36 grammatically correct right and he was
0:49:38 the most rhetorically powerful person
0:49:40 who ever lived you know so language is
0:49:43 power and and uh and Advocates of the
0:49:46 current Zeitgeist they understand this
0:49:48 so if they can control our language they
0:49:50 can control our ideas and I don't know
0:49:52 if you heard about this but Stanford
0:49:53 University they just released something
0:49:56 called the um the the harmful language
0:49:59 guide right it's a harmful language guy
0:50:01 so that's Stanford University it's
0:50:04 harmful apparently now to say the word
0:50:05 American you can't say the word American
0:50:08 you can't say the word immigrant you
0:50:11 know you can't say like there's an
0:50:13 expression beating a dead horse right
0:50:15 you can't say that because somehow this
0:50:18 sort of um encourage people to abuse
0:50:21 animals you can't say landlord you can't
0:50:23 say Manpower right for obvious reasons
0:50:26 you can't say stupid you can't say homes
0:50:28 you can't say prostitute you know you
0:50:30 have to say a person engaged in sex work
0:50:32 you know we want to offend the
0:50:34 prostitutes right and and the tragic
0:50:37 aspect of this is that these freeing
0:50:39 tools are seldom taught anymore
0:50:42 right or people don't value them and we
0:50:45 should know that there's a reason for
0:50:46 that I mean the elites don't want people
0:50:47 to think for themselves right
0:50:50 I mean there's a particularly risible
0:50:53 laughable examples about unfortunately
0:50:55 serious given where it's coming from but
0:50:57 this this rock started a long time ago I
0:50:59 remember the the in the abortion debate
0:51:01 even the word fetus for example simply
0:51:03 means young one in in Latin it doesn't
0:51:06 uh it doesn't have a special
0:51:09 um it doesn't mean anything other than
0:51:10 what it is a an unborn child and this
0:51:13 idea of a woman being with child or
0:51:15 expecting a child but when it comes to
0:51:18 abortion suddenly you get this kind of
0:51:20 special language like The Unwanted
0:51:22 pregnancy these euphemisms that
0:51:24 desensitize you to the reality of what's
0:51:27 being proposed which is a killing of an
0:51:30 unborn child so the use of or the other
0:51:32 one has got a collateral damage famously
0:51:33 you know during war oh we're not killing
0:51:36 civilians who are gonna men women should
0:51:38 just collateral damage
0:51:40 but we're used to creating these false
0:51:43 words really really to throw us off the
0:51:46 scent so we're not really looking hot
0:51:47 straight on at reality we can pretend
0:51:49 it's not there and yeah or like like
0:51:52 it's not it's not a baby it's a fetus
0:51:54 well yeah I mean fetus is Latin for baby
0:51:57 so yeah exactly it's not a baby it's a
0:52:00 baby right the people don't know that's
0:52:03 what fetus means they think it's some
0:52:04 special different word but it's simply a
0:52:06 euphemism
0:52:08 to avoid
0:52:10 um absolutely we move on just uh uh talk
0:52:14 a little bit about the Andrew Tate
0:52:17 conversion and this is ongoing in the
0:52:20 news I mean he's just a a court
0:52:22 apparently in Romania where uh he lives
0:52:25 um has ruled uh that he should remain in
0:52:28 custody for 30 days for some alleged
0:52:30 offenses and I I saw some footage of him
0:52:33 being taken away where he says uh just I
0:52:36 think one statement this is the Matrix
0:52:38 or the Matrix is doing this or something
0:52:40 like that I thought a very evocative
0:52:43 thing of course social media if you look
0:52:45 at the the trending subjects in social
0:52:47 media on Twitter for example uh right at
0:52:49 the top there is Matrix and I thought I
0:52:51 was a new Matrix film out so I clicked
0:52:53 on it the canoe written no is ordered to
0:52:56 rotate and the Matrix so you could use
0:52:59 all these emails about oh The Matrix has
0:53:00 got hold of him and now I'm not I'm not
0:53:02 mocking but I mean it's a very serious
0:53:04 thing what's happening but what's your
0:53:06 take on his conversion as such uh yeah
0:53:08 this was this was definitely one of the
0:53:09 biggest events on social media having to
0:53:12 do with Islam in 2022 you know
0:53:16 um you know I'm not necessarily a fan of
0:53:18 Andrew Tate I don't follow him uh and
0:53:21 rather than going around quoting him we
0:53:23 should really be quoting the prophet
0:53:25 Muhammad who's our real role model so
0:53:28 obviously Andrew Tate has a lot to learn
0:53:30 uh but Tate's conversion was an
0:53:32 interesting case study for me right so
0:53:35 what was so um what was interesting
0:53:38 about this conversion was the reaction
0:53:41 of any many Muslims right the reaction
0:53:44 was so strange to me
0:53:46 um from one aspect like a theological
0:53:48 aspect uh but from another aspect given
0:53:51 the fact that you know a type of sort of
0:53:53 militant feminism I think has so
0:53:54 permeated the minds of so many Muslims
0:53:57 that that it really wasn't a shock that
0:53:59 many reacted the way they did you know
0:54:01 somebody showed me a tweet of some
0:54:03 sister who actually
0:54:05 um conditioned her apostasy
0:54:08 upon him being welcomed as a Muslim by
0:54:12 other Muslims I mean it's totally
0:54:13 ludicrous I mean she literally said that
0:54:15 if he's welcomed in our community I will
0:54:18 leave Islam and then deal with uh God on
0:54:22 the day of judgment I mean this is
0:54:23 totally insane so I think the overall
0:54:25 lesson here is we should never question
0:54:26 a person's Islam right no matter how
0:54:29 unlikely his conversion may seem unless
0:54:32 he obviously commits some clear
0:54:33 unambiguous Act of kufur right but we
0:54:37 should never allow anyone's actions to
0:54:39 damage our own relationship with with
0:54:42 our Lord I mean as Muslims we believe in
0:54:44 the qadar we submit to the decree of God
0:54:47 uh so this is the point I wanted to make
0:54:49 I mean it's dangerous let's not play
0:54:51 found with you know took fear right
0:54:53 anathematizing you know other Muslims
0:54:57 in my mind uh when when people who are
0:55:00 steeped in sin become Muslim this is a
0:55:03 testament to the greatness of this
0:55:04 religion yes well people is a probably
0:55:07 always been such a terrible sinner
0:55:08 therefore he couldn't possibly become a
0:55:10 Muslim and I'm thinking hang on a second
0:55:13 Islam is about salvation it's about you
0:55:16 know rescuing people from the darkness
0:55:18 of a previous life to a a new life with
0:55:21 God and shouldn't we be more welcoming
0:55:23 uh at least given the benefit of Doubt
0:55:25 and just see what happens
0:55:27 yeah of course I I mean we believe in in
0:55:30 Allah who's an omnipotent uh Lord of the
0:55:35 universe who can change hearts and and
0:55:37 the prophet himself he would make Dua
0:55:38 for influential to uh for influential
0:55:40 people
0:55:41 uh like in Mecca because he knew that
0:55:44 they had the potential to bring that
0:55:47 same type of influence for the cause of
0:55:49 Islam so he would send letters to Kings
0:55:51 because they were people of influence he
0:55:53 made Dua for and for abujah to become
0:55:56 Muslim they were people of influence and
0:55:58 of course before Islam uh said
0:56:01 who was obviously very hostile to Islam
0:56:05 and to Muslims and he was actually
0:56:07 resolved upon the most evil intention in
0:56:10 the history of humanity I mean he was
0:56:11 going to go kill the prophet he
0:56:13 literally picked up a sword and was
0:56:15 walking to daughter on Arkham with the
0:56:17 intention of killing the prophet I mean
0:56:18 it doesn't get any worse than that and
0:56:20 where is Irma now I mean he's lying in a
0:56:23 garden from The Gardens of paradise and
0:56:24 he was martyred while standing in the
0:56:26 prayer niche of the Prophet salallahu
0:56:29 you know so you know this is um you know
0:56:33 it's a lesson for us it's an interesting
0:56:34 case study I'm also reminded of the
0:56:36 Hadith so so late in the late Medina
0:56:39 period when the idolaters broke the
0:56:42 treaty with the Muslims uh the prophet
0:56:45 salallahu had given them four months to
0:56:47 leave the hijaz or to face hostilities
0:56:49 so during this time a time of War when a
0:56:53 companion named Osama bin Zaid was
0:56:55 actually fighting an idolater in battle
0:56:57 and Osama knocked him down and was about
0:57:00 to strike him when the man shouted right
0:57:05 and Osama struck him anyway and the
0:57:08 prophet was informed about this so he
0:57:09 summoned Osama and he said to him did
0:57:12 you kill a man who said
0:57:14 and then Usama said
0:57:17 so he said he said he only did that to
0:57:20 save his life
0:57:21 right in other words he didn't really
0:57:23 mean it and the prophet was actually
0:57:25 furious with him and he said
0:57:31 so he said he said did you check inside
0:57:34 his art exactly verify his assumption in
0:57:37 other words we don't we don't know the
0:57:39 hearts only Allah does it is not our
0:57:41 business to question anyone's shahada
0:57:44 exactly exactly and then the prophet
0:57:46 kept saying to him
0:57:49 what are you going to do with
0:57:52 on the day of judgment you know so this
0:57:55 is serious matter and so I think people
0:57:57 just we need to think you know more
0:57:59 clearly we need to try to you know
0:58:01 control our emotions
0:58:03 um you should really uh we really need
0:58:06 to stop and sort of think before we
0:58:07 sound off because the prophet peace be
0:58:09 upon him you know he's a famous Hadith
0:58:11 he said he said verily a person utters a
0:58:13 word that he deems harmless but it
0:58:16 results in his falling into the depths
0:58:17 of the Hellfire right so you know we
0:58:20 have to be careful about how we speak
0:58:21 about people especially people who uh
0:58:24 are are Muslim you know yes so I think
0:58:27 that's the lesson yeah I I completely I
0:58:30 was I was quite shocked at some of the
0:58:31 from one or two notable leaders of the
0:58:34 Muslim Community in the UK who spoke
0:58:36 quite just continued to speak
0:58:37 disparagingly about uh Andrew Tate uh um
0:58:42 um and I was quite shocked because this
0:58:43 this guy is now a fellow Muslim and you
0:58:45 know he should be treated as such rather
0:58:47 than as some kind of imposter
0:58:50 um
0:58:51 extraordinary
0:58:52 um well perhaps finally
0:58:53 um could you just give us a a preview of
0:58:56 your uh forthcoming oh yeah presentation
0:58:59 uh in a couple of weeks on blogging
0:59:01 field I think it's scheduled for the uh
0:59:03 13th of January in Charlotte yes in
0:59:06 Charlotte yeah so the topic is going to
0:59:08 be establishing the historical
0:59:10 plausibility of an uncrucified Jesus of
0:59:14 Nazareth peace be upon him so I'll be
0:59:16 speaking specifically about the
0:59:18 historicity of the crucifixion and its
0:59:20 immediate aftermath from a secular
0:59:22 standpoint so so the question I'll be
0:59:24 tackling is is it plausible just
0:59:27 plausible from the standpoint of modern
0:59:30 uh scientific quote-unquote history by
0:59:33 looking closely at the criteria of
0:59:35 modern historiography to conclude that
0:59:37 Jesus was never crucified so if the if
0:59:41 so then the quran's claim about the
0:59:42 crucifixion is historically valid you
0:59:45 know it may not necessarily be the most
0:59:47 plausible but plausible nonetheless so
0:59:50 my contention is that the historicity
0:59:52 the crucifixion is highly over
0:59:53 emphasized by secular historians that
0:59:56 it's a tradition of secular history so
0:59:59 historians continue to endorse it but
1:00:01 when we look closely at the actual
1:00:03 evidence the historical case for the
1:00:05 crucifixion of Jesus is not nearly as
1:00:07 strong as we have the need to believe
1:00:10 um if there is a reasonable doubt that
1:00:13 Jesus was crucified in secular
1:00:15 historians must admit that the quran's
1:00:18 position is at least plausible so my
1:00:21 claim is that I can establish that
1:00:22 historical possibility and actually come
1:00:25 up with a theory of the crucifixion that
1:00:27 is in agreement uh with the Quran in
1:00:30 other words we don't need to postulate
1:00:31 the historically implausible in order to
1:00:33 explain how Jesus was not crucified and
1:00:36 how he was seen after some crucifixion
1:00:39 event
1:00:41 um of course we don't need to do this I
1:00:43 mean we have many good reasons for
1:00:45 believing in Allah and his Messenger
1:00:46 right
1:00:48 um and if Allah on his messenger said
1:00:50 that Jesus was increased specified then
1:00:51 we accept that yeah and this is not an
1:00:53 uncritical or blind acceptance I mean
1:00:55 we're raising our acceptance we're
1:00:57 basing our acceptance on on multiple
1:00:59 factors however in this presentation I
1:01:02 want to specifically address the charge
1:01:04 of secular historians and Christian
1:01:06 polemicists that the Quran contains a
1:01:09 historical error by denying the
1:01:11 crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth so this
1:01:13 is one thing that like William Lane
1:01:14 Craig and Mark Airman agree on right
1:01:18 people agree and I suspect yeah yeah so
1:01:21 we'll look at the evidence I mean the
1:01:22 the the the message and subtext of
1:01:24 Paul's letters the events of the passion
1:01:26 narratives of the gospels uh will raise
1:01:29 important questions are these events
1:01:31 described in the passion narratives of
1:01:33 Matthew Mark Luke and John are they
1:01:34 historically plausible the Last Supper
1:01:36 The Midnight trial you know the the
1:01:39 person of Judas Iscariot whose name has
1:01:42 a really interesting meaning the Pascal
1:01:44 pardon the the attitude of Pontius
1:01:47 Pilate why did the women go to the tomb
1:01:50 so what does this say about the overall
1:01:53 sort of reliability of the entire event
1:01:55 another question is is there material
1:01:58 evidence that Jesus was crucified is
1:02:00 there eyewitness testimony that Jesus
1:02:02 was crucified uh why don't we have the
1:02:04 authentic letters of James and Peter uh
1:02:07 that speak of Jesus's crucifixion why do
1:02:10 we only have Paul why don't we why do we
1:02:13 only have one side of the story
1:02:16 going into all the issues because we
1:02:18 mustn't but uh it's something people um
1:02:20 many perhaps ordinary Christians don't
1:02:22 appreciate that the letters of Peter for
1:02:25 example the one and two people in the
1:02:26 New Testament are seen by most New
1:02:28 Testament Scholars there's forgeries
1:02:30 they're simply not authentic Letters by
1:02:32 Peter uh to Peter by the way is is
1:02:35 probably seen as the most universally uh
1:02:38 accepted forgery in all biblical
1:02:40 scholarship it's it is almost certainly
1:02:42 not by Peter and yet it claims to be
1:02:44 explicitly by Peter it says I was there
1:02:47 I was an eyewitness to the ministry of
1:02:49 Jesus and yet that is the most
1:02:51 universally agreed upon forgery in the
1:02:54 entire New Testament as far as well
1:02:57 I always I was saying so you know just
1:03:00 because it claims to be honest it
1:03:01 doesn't mean it actually is iowan's
1:03:03 testimony for a whole bunch of
1:03:04 historical and literary and other
1:03:05 reasons which really hold a lot of
1:03:07 weight I think yeah yeah I mean it seems
1:03:10 like the early Pauline Christians
1:03:11 understood uh from from their opponents
1:03:14 whoever they were probably other
1:03:15 Christians
1:03:16 uh that their narrative needed some uh
1:03:21 some support from you know Apostolic
1:03:23 support so there's those are yeah
1:03:25 there's definitely questions we're going
1:03:26 to be tackling is the crucifixion even
1:03:27 multiply attested in historical sources
1:03:30 you know is it what the earliest
1:03:31 Christians believe does it fulfill the
1:03:33 Criterion of embarrassment you know in
1:03:35 other words a Christian would never
1:03:37 invent the crucifixion of Jesus because
1:03:39 that is just so embarrassing is that
1:03:41 really true though was it really
1:03:42 embarrassing
1:03:44 um so and at the at the end I'll
1:03:46 actually offer a plausible explanation
1:03:47 as to what happened to Jesus and why
1:03:50 certain people thought he was crucified
1:03:51 enough actually take the audience so
1:03:53 step by step through this story
1:03:55 inshallah well that's uh absolutely
1:03:58 really looking forward to that I can't
1:03:59 wait for that uh really looking forward
1:04:01 to that that'd be uh in Shalom the 13th
1:04:03 of January that's when we record it
1:04:04 anyway
1:04:05 um and it'll go up in a day or two later
1:04:07 uh God willing
1:04:09 um but before we close uh Professor
1:04:11 aliatize anything you want to conclude
1:04:12 about 2022 and are you going to be bold
1:04:16 enough
1:04:17 will you say what you think is going to
1:04:19 happen next year in the next 12 months
1:04:22 next 12 months inshallah you know people
1:04:24 will uh uh um continue to
1:04:28 become Muslim inshallah which is going
1:04:31 to be um a good Fallout that even makes
1:04:35 sense uh from the World Cup and I think
1:04:37 people are going to be doing more
1:04:38 research there's going to be more
1:04:39 opportunities for for dawa people are
1:04:42 going to be contacting
1:04:44 um you know Muslim communities uh
1:04:47 inshallah
1:04:48 um and then also I wanted to conclude by
1:04:50 saying to the viewers to you know
1:04:52 support your channel
1:04:55 um you're obviously doing fantastic work
1:04:56 I think I think most viewers know how I
1:04:59 feel about blogging Theology and it's
1:05:00 the best Channel on YouTube I said it
1:05:02 many times you know thousands upon
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1:05:35 and and uh the work that I do and I'm
1:05:37 clear where this comes from it comes
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1:05:41 um uh who is uh gracious and kind and
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1:05:49 or all gratitude and thanks belong to
1:05:52 him alone so thank you uh thank you very
1:05:55 much Dr Alia Thai for your uh your
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1:06:04 and we'll see what happens in the next
1:06:06 12 months so thank you very much and
1:06:07 until next time