Introducing Qur'anic Arguments: Surah At-Tur | Mohammed Hijab in Mecca (2022-12-28) ​

0:00:01 foreign
0:00:18 particular chapter 52 of the Quran
0:00:22 and then in the next session we're going
0:00:24 to be looking at chapter 53 and then the
0:00:26 next session after that we're going to
0:00:27 be looking at chapter 54. and what we're
0:00:30 going to be trying to pluck out if you
0:00:32 like is we're going to be trying to pull
0:00:34 out those aspects in particular which
0:00:37 relate to the messenger shape or the
0:00:40 prophethood of the Prophet Muhammad
0:00:43 because in the context of doubts in the
0:00:46 age of doubts in the age of internet and
0:00:48 the age of globalization the age of
0:00:50 competing discourses and these kinds of
0:00:52 things
0:00:52 [Music]
0:00:54 as Muslims we're going to be asked to
0:00:56 many questions
0:00:58 and especially as Muslims living in the
0:01:00 west we are asked questions relating to
0:01:02 our Prophet Muhammad
0:01:03 relating to the religion of Islam and so
0:01:06 on
0:01:07 and the bottom line is this the bottom
0:01:10 line is
0:01:12 if you are if you really believe
0:01:14 if you truly believe that
0:01:17 God exists and he's worthy of worship
0:01:19 and that Prophet Muhammad
0:01:21 is the last and final messenger that he
0:01:24 is truly inspired by God
0:01:27 then in theory you should not have any
0:01:30 doubts in theory you should not have any
0:01:33 doubts
0:01:34 it's like for example
0:01:37 somebody going to a doctor
0:01:39 okay a layperson who has no medical
0:01:42 background
0:01:43 go into a specialist doctor
0:01:46 that specializes in one
0:01:49 sub-field of specialism not just the
0:01:51 field of specialism the subfield of
0:01:52 specialism
0:01:54 for example you have a kind of kind of
0:01:56 very rare kind of cancer or a very rare
0:01:58 kind of you know whatever disease
0:02:01 and you go to your GP your general
0:02:04 practitioner and he says to you know
0:02:05 look go to this specialist and he says
0:02:07 go to another specialist and a third
0:02:09 specialist so it's a specialist of a
0:02:11 specialist of a specialist
0:02:13 and then he starts telling you a plan a
0:02:16 rehabilitation plan a therapeutic plan
0:02:19 of how
0:02:21 and you can get better
0:02:23 he says look you know we're going to do
0:02:25 these tests on you we're going to put
0:02:26 your blood through the lab and we're
0:02:28 going to give you some
0:02:30 prescriptions
0:02:32 now let's be honest
0:02:35 who Among Us will reject such things we
0:02:38 wouldn't reject this would we why
0:02:39 because we in a sense we submit to the
0:02:42 authority of the specialist
0:02:44 in a sense we accept that this guy knows
0:02:47 more than we do
0:02:49 why because he has the authority
0:02:52 you know and the word author and the
0:02:54 word Authority have a very uh similar
0:02:57 root word because the author of
0:02:59 something usually has some kind of an
0:03:00 authority
0:03:02 so you'll accept the authority of that
0:03:04 particular doctor you say okay whatever
0:03:05 prescription you give me I'll accept
0:03:07 because
0:03:09 you know more than I do
0:03:12 and you may have some doubts because
0:03:14 nothing is perfect in terms of Medicine
0:03:18 but
0:03:19 you'll have more certainties and doubts
0:03:22 and you'll follow the doctor now we are
0:03:24 saying that the Quran
0:03:26 the author of the Quran is the
0:03:28 all-knowing one
0:03:30 an entity which knows all the
0:03:33 all-powerful one
0:03:36 the all-strong one
0:03:38 the one who created the universe
0:03:41 we are saying that the author of the
0:03:43 Quran
0:03:45 is this entity which knows all the most
0:03:48 wise one
0:03:52 now in theory therefore we shouldn't
0:03:54 have any questions we should just say
0:03:55 whatever this author says
0:03:59 if we truly believe that the prophet
0:04:01 Muhammad is a messenger and we truly
0:04:04 believe that this is from God and God is
0:04:05 all-knowing and all wise
0:04:07 then really we shouldn't have any doubts
0:04:10 we shouldn't have any issues
0:04:13 but the issue is that we believe in
0:04:15 extents we don't believe in zero or a
0:04:18 hundred percent
0:04:20 so the question is to what extent do we
0:04:22 believe
0:04:23 that a Allah exists
0:04:26 that is worthy of be that is worthy of
0:04:28 worship and see that the prophet
0:04:29 Muhammad sallam is a true Prophet
0:04:32 inspired by Allah
0:04:34 a b and c
0:04:36 so the ones with high Iman close to
0:04:39 yakin
0:04:41 close to yakin which is certainty
0:04:44 they will not have any doubts by
0:04:46 biological necessity
0:04:49 the ones with low Iman
0:04:52 closer to what is referred to as well
0:04:55 [Music]
0:04:56 then they will have many doubts in fact
0:04:58 they have more inclination towards that
0:05:02 the prophetam is not a prophet and
0:05:04 really these are the kuffar
0:05:06 there's many Muslims that
0:05:09 if you set it to our extent do you
0:05:11 believe in Allah
0:05:13 and you believe that he's worthy of
0:05:15 worship and then you believe
0:05:16 the prophet saws was inspired by God now
0:05:18 if they say
0:05:19 maybe 60 70 in theory they are Muslim
0:05:23 with a lot of doubts
0:05:25 but if they say 49 48 now they are not
0:05:28 Muslim because it's gone below
0:05:33 or
0:05:35 so there is a sliding scale of belief
0:05:38 those who believe more will have less
0:05:40 questions to do the rulings of Allah
0:05:43 most of the problems people have today
0:05:45 are to do with the rulings
0:05:47 why should I do this why this why that
0:05:50 because Allah said so now that's the
0:05:52 answer that is really without going into
0:05:54 mental gymnastics the answer is because
0:05:57 Allah is the authority and he said so
0:05:58 and he's the all-knowing one that's the
0:06:00 real answer that's the unadulterated
0:06:02 Unapologetic answer because Allah says
0:06:04 only is the authority
0:06:07 however
0:06:08 the question as to what extent do you
0:06:10 believe in that now if you say I believe
0:06:12 in it but let's be honest I have some
0:06:14 doubts maybe I'm 70 Marco 75 mark then
0:06:19 really trying to fire fight or combat
0:06:22 each doubt is not the solution the
0:06:25 solution is going back to a b and c to
0:06:28 what extent you believe God exists do
0:06:30 you want to what extent you believe
0:06:31 Allah is worthy of worship and to what
0:06:33 extent you believe the prophet sallam is
0:06:35 a true prophet
0:06:36 if you bolster a b and c everything else
0:06:39 will
0:06:39 will be bolstered with it it's like the
0:06:41 roots of a tree
0:06:43 doubts are like the branches of the tree
0:06:47 whereas a b and c here
0:06:49 the basis of Islam
0:06:52 that is these are the roots of the tree
0:06:56 so the reason why we're going through
0:06:57 these three chapters inshallah is
0:06:59 because they help solidify the roots of
0:07:03 the tree
0:07:04 and I think the best way to do these
0:07:07 things sometimes is to be quranic lent
0:07:09 to let the Quran lead us in the way that
0:07:13 we understand faith
0:07:16 So inshallah today we're going to be
0:07:17 going through
0:07:19 this is chapter 52 of the Quran many of
0:07:22 you shall have translations you can
0:07:24 follow along I'm going to recite some of
0:07:25 it now and then translate it with you
0:07:27 and then go through some aspects of this
0:07:29 Surah
0:07:31 which in a tadabor sense because we're
0:07:33 going we're going to ponder over the
0:07:35 verses together
0:07:38 it's the difference between we're not
0:07:40 going through an exegesis here going
0:07:41 through you know we're going through
0:07:43 tadapa we're thinking about the ayatwood
0:07:49 so we start without the blend machine
0:08:07 [Music]
0:08:19 foreign
0:08:26 [Laughter]
0:08:29 [Music]
0:08:38 [Music]
0:08:48 foreign
0:08:56 foreign
0:09:24 I'll translate I'll get the translation
0:09:26 for you
0:09:27 well tour is by the mount
0:09:29 and is the Mount that Moses was spoken
0:09:32 to
0:09:34 where Allah spoke to Musa
0:09:37 and this is
0:09:40 which Allah he swears by things just
0:09:43 like we swear by Allah
0:09:46 Allah himself he swears by things and
0:09:48 when Allah swears by things it becomes
0:09:50 it becomes something which is important
0:09:54 in the Shariah becomes something which
0:09:55 Allah specifies with importance in the
0:09:57 Sharia
0:09:59 and by the book inscribed and this is
0:10:05 where many of you will know everything
0:10:07 is written
0:10:08 including the Quran itself
0:10:12 in a parchment unrolled
0:10:16 well Bates
0:10:18 you know we have the Kaaba
0:10:21 in the in the Dunya where we just went
0:10:24 yesterday we go around the Kappa
0:10:26 there is a parallel Kappa in the heavens
0:10:30 for the angels and this is called
0:10:35 and by the roof raised high and this
0:10:39 suck off
0:10:40 which means the roof is talking about
0:10:42 Samaya Dunya
0:10:45 because Allah
0:10:47 he mentions
0:10:54 which means a roof now there are seven
0:10:56 Heavens as many of you will know
0:10:59 the quranic cosmology is that there are
0:11:01 seven heavens above that is the Kursi
0:11:03 above that is above that is
0:11:06 foreign
0:11:20 which is set on fire ayani let's set on
0:11:23 fire now we know in Surat uh
0:11:28 in just Amma
0:11:30 in um
0:11:34 itar where it says uh
0:11:37 uh
0:11:39 [Music]
0:11:45 you know when when the when the when the
0:11:47 Bihar when the
0:11:49 seas are set a flame
0:11:53 so this is that is referring to that so
0:11:56 Allah is by the way all of this all of
0:11:58 these things are possums they're Oaths
0:12:00 so Allah saying
0:12:03 so this is he's swearing by the mountain
0:12:05 and by the parchment and by the Kappa
0:12:09 and by the Dunya all these things all
0:12:13 these things are important
0:12:15 and then Allah says
0:12:17 that certainly verily the torment of
0:12:20 your Lord will surely come to pass now
0:12:22 this is called
0:12:23 where Allah now is
0:12:26 answering the qasim so you know we say
0:12:29 well obviously when we say Allah you
0:12:32 don't just say Wallah you say wallahi
0:12:34 and then you say Allah this happened or
0:12:35 that happened so in the same way Allah
0:12:38 is saying buy all of these things
0:12:40 that's certainly the punishment of Allah
0:12:42 will come
0:12:45 it says no one can avert it there's not
0:12:48 going to be anyone that can push it away
0:12:50 when the punishment comes there's no you
0:12:51 cannot push that punishment away
0:12:54 and then it talks about the day of
0:12:55 judgment so here is a description of the
0:12:58 day of judgment
0:13:02 um
0:13:03 the day that the heaven will shake
0:13:06 with a dreadful shakening okay because
0:13:09 we've just spoken about the heaven
0:13:11 was suck off
0:13:13 now Allah is mentioned again what's
0:13:16 going to happen to this Heaven it's
0:13:17 going to shake it's going to be
0:13:18 obliterated it's going to be destroyed
0:13:22 and the mountains will move away with a
0:13:24 horrible movement
0:13:26 because these are the things we think
0:13:28 are
0:13:29 very stable basically the things we
0:13:31 think are stable will become unstable
0:13:34 like when we were when we were driving
0:13:36 here and we saw the mountains they
0:13:38 looked extremely stable
0:13:41 we don't think you cannot imagine that
0:13:43 these mountains will be taken out of
0:13:44 their place but the idea is that these
0:13:46 mountains will be taken out of their
0:13:47 place
0:13:50 foreign
0:13:55 the ones who rely the truth
0:13:59 the one who these are the quranic
0:14:02 phrases here which are very important
0:14:06 the ones who are playing in falsehood
0:14:09 they're playing about
0:14:11 why yellow why playing
0:14:14 let's ask the audience what do you think
0:14:15 why is the Quran using the term because
0:14:18 this is a joint venture now we're always
0:14:20 doing teleport together
0:14:23 why do you think Allah and this is
0:14:25 something common in the Quran
0:14:28 the Allah he mentions this time when it
0:14:30 comes to the behavior
0:14:32 the unguided behavior of those who
0:14:36 believe the message
0:14:37 why is it referred to as playing yes
0:14:40 they're not taking it seriously like yes
0:14:43 they don't take life seriously because
0:14:45 they don't have they don't have one
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0:14:49 they don't have yeah maybe they don't
0:14:51 think properly
0:14:53 what else
0:14:56 Wildlife children what they Carefree
0:14:59 they don't they don't have any any
0:15:01 consequences good that's very beautiful
0:15:03 that child plays around he doesn't know
0:15:04 that of any concept we have to go to a
0:15:06 child and say to them you know these are
0:15:08 the consequences of your actions you
0:15:09 know
0:15:11 so we're in a sense
0:15:13 it's an infantilizing discourse you guys
0:15:17 are children you're playing about
0:15:20 what else what can you imagine with this
0:15:22 with this terminology here why do you
0:15:23 think
0:15:26 yes because because
0:15:32 they're living for Dunya and it's
0:15:34 they're just being distracted
0:15:36 they just bring the stress one
0:15:37 distraction after another
0:15:40 what else
0:15:42 yes another way of saying like you're
0:15:43 mocking basically yeah I mean
0:15:47 to be fair if it was mocking that's
0:15:49 another term
0:15:52 it's a little bit different yeah
0:15:57 yes but this is not really meant for
0:16:00 that purpose I would say because this
0:16:03 these guys are the losers right
0:16:05 so go ahead
0:16:09 when you play you get tired
0:16:12 yeah it's it's just uh but I don't know
0:16:15 if this is
0:16:17 really relevant here I'll be honest with
0:16:19 you
0:16:23 yes lack of responsibility
0:16:25 is this the point you don't take
0:16:27 responsibility they're unaccountable
0:16:28 people
0:16:30 and this is
0:16:31 the idea is like you imagine
0:16:34 I mean just let's think logically for a
0:16:37 second yes
0:16:39 anything you do in life
0:16:41 has a hidden taxation
0:16:43 anything you do in life yeah
0:16:46 if I eat a cake now big one
0:16:49 you know maybe you get hungry after the
0:16:52 armor yesterday
0:16:53 I could have eaten two big ones actually
0:16:55 after that one
0:16:56 if I eat a big cake
0:16:58 yeah
0:17:01 the body's Gonna Keep school there's
0:17:02 going to be some count accountability
0:17:04 whether I like it or not either I'm
0:17:06 going to account myself restrict myself
0:17:09 or the world will restrict me that's
0:17:11 basically how the world works
0:17:12 this is the Dunya that we know there is
0:17:15 no such thing as a free lunch
0:17:16 Danny if if you're getting something for
0:17:19 free that means there's a hidden
0:17:21 taxation somewhere
0:17:24 if you're relaxing some I mean think
0:17:26 about it even people they just you know
0:17:28 relaxing
0:17:30 idle lazy
0:17:32 if
0:17:33 if rest is not preceded by hard work it
0:17:36 becomes laziness actually if you think
0:17:38 about it
0:17:40 what's the difference between rest and
0:17:42 laziness
0:17:44 think about this question what's the
0:17:46 difference between resting I'm resting
0:17:47 versus you're being lazy what's the
0:17:49 difference the difference is that rest
0:17:52 is preceded with some level of hard work
0:17:55 whereas laziness is not you're just not
0:17:59 motivated you're lazy you're unmotivated
0:18:01 the point I'm making is
0:18:04 whatever you do in this world
0:18:06 there's going to be some consequences
0:18:07 for your actions
0:18:09 now the problem with the catheter
0:18:12 mindset
0:18:13 is I can do all of these things whatever
0:18:16 it is I will do
0:18:18 I can be negative to my parents I can
0:18:21 eat this I can do that I can drink this
0:18:23 I can commit that
0:18:25 and
0:18:27 in fact not only will there not be any
0:18:29 consequences but if there are
0:18:30 consequences they should be favorable to
0:18:32 me
0:18:33 so it's the high of entitlement
0:18:36 it's the unaccountable mindset
0:18:38 so this is they are playing about like
0:18:42 children because a child like everyone
0:18:45 here just kind of alluded to doesn't
0:18:47 even know those consequences so number
0:18:50 one
0:18:51 they don't accept the consequences
0:18:53 number two even worse they're heedless
0:18:55 to the consequence you need to tell a
0:18:56 child if you do this this will happen
0:19:00 and by the way not even just a child a
0:19:03 really young child
0:19:05 nakiani a three four-year-old kind of
0:19:08 child
0:19:09 two three-year-old even like a six
0:19:11 seven-year-old now he's been playing for
0:19:13 some time he knows that though she knows
0:19:15 there's consequences
0:19:16 to certain behaviors
0:19:18 so this is why this term keeps being
0:19:20 used
0:19:27 the day when they will be pushed down by
0:19:29 the force
0:19:31 to the fire of hell
0:19:33 with a horrible forceful pushing pushing
0:19:36 imagine these people they have no choice
0:19:38 in the matter
0:19:39 now it goes from extreme
0:19:42 assumption illusion of choice to extreme
0:19:47 uh being false coercion
0:19:50 like this
0:19:52 people being pushed have no say in the
0:19:55 matter before you had to say in the
0:19:56 matter but when you had a say in the
0:19:58 Mata
0:19:59 you weren't doing what you need to do
0:20:01 you are taking responsibility so now
0:20:04 responsibility is going to take hold of
0:20:05 you
0:20:07 you're either going to take
0:20:08 responsibility
0:20:09 or responsibility is going to take hold
0:20:11 of you
0:20:16 you're either going to make a choice
0:20:19 or you're going to be forced
0:20:22 you will be coerced
0:20:24 and is this very powerful imagery
0:20:28 even the the the Arabic language here
0:20:31 the iron is coming out
0:20:34 is almost violent vehement pushing
0:20:37 thrusting
0:20:43 no more you don't have any choice the
0:20:46 day you will be pushed into the night of
0:20:47 jahannam a violent thrusting pushing
0:20:51 you don't have any say anymore
0:21:00 this is the fire
0:21:03 that you used to be like is to you
0:21:06 deny its existence now it's here
0:21:11 you cannot deny its existence you cannot
0:21:13 put on The ultraseptic Atheist Act
0:21:16 so I don't know if I exist I don't know
0:21:18 that am I burning ah screaming and uh
0:21:25 every time their skin comes out more
0:21:27 skin comes so that they can taste the
0:21:29 punishment
0:21:30 in this situation you won't have time to
0:21:33 play about with your skeptical
0:21:35 philosophies
0:21:37 now it's time to burn
0:21:39 and the skin will come out of your body
0:21:41 and you will be burning and screaming
0:21:43 and begging
0:21:47 you sir to the case
0:21:50 you know subhanallah I will tell you
0:21:53 something
0:21:54 I will tell you something and it will
0:21:56 come in this
0:21:58 Surah but before it comes in the Surah I
0:22:01 want to say something
0:22:04 you know well I've spoken to many
0:22:07 atheists Hamza spoken to many atheists
0:22:09 famously you know Lawrence Krauss and
0:22:11 these kinds of people
0:22:14 and they always have the luxury of
0:22:17 philosophizing being skeptical
0:22:20 and the level of skepticism is actually
0:22:22 unreal
0:22:25 the level of skepticism that if you have
0:22:27 a conversation with a vehement strident
0:22:29 atheist the level of skepticism that
0:22:32 they will show in that conversation
0:22:36 it is
0:22:41 comedic proportions
0:22:44 thank you
0:22:45 and the Surah right before the Surah
0:22:47 which is
0:22:51 because
0:22:52 the Soros have a very deep sense of
0:22:55 intertextuality knitted togetherness
0:22:58 even though the swords were not revealed
0:23:00 in the same time
0:23:02 the stories are this is one of the
0:23:04 Miracles of the Quran that there are
0:23:07 somehow joined together lexically and
0:23:10 thematically
0:23:11 and you will find that some of the
0:23:14 themes in this Surah in the next Surah
0:23:16 is going to be repeated in a different
0:23:18 way
0:23:19 likewise some of the things in the next
0:23:22 or the previous Surah are connected to
0:23:25 this
0:23:26 so everything is is called coat tailing
0:23:28 everything is like almost um it's like a
0:23:31 pearl necklace
0:23:33 each Pearl is beautiful in its own right
0:23:36 it's intrinsically valuable but when it
0:23:38 comes together it creates this wonderful
0:23:41 aesthetic Mosaic of pearl magnificence
0:23:46 the Quran is like this
0:23:48 this is the truth
0:23:49 in the previous Surah
0:23:53 foreign
0:23:59 and this is I was thinking about this
0:24:01 area for some time
0:24:03 very powerful and it relates to the
0:24:05 skeptical mindset Allah says that by
0:24:09 your lord imagine Allah we said that
0:24:12 when you do an oath
0:24:15 it shows that something is important now
0:24:17 Allah is making an oath with himself
0:24:20 can you imagine this yeah
0:24:23 that certainly it is the truth
0:24:25 just like you are talking now this is
0:24:29 this is very important I want you to
0:24:32 consider this
0:24:35 I'm talking right now
0:24:38 has anyone deny this fact I don't think
0:24:40 anyone here Will
0:24:42 now if you start talking
0:24:45 if you start talking to me
0:24:47 that's an admission
0:24:49 now this is very powerful and if you
0:24:51 speak to an atheist if I speak to an
0:24:53 atheist by him just verbalizing speaking
0:24:56 to me he admits things by doing that
0:24:58 what does he admit he admits I exist
0:25:02 he admits he exists
0:25:04 he admits that I can hear him
0:25:07 he admits that he can make noises
0:25:10 he admits that his words are
0:25:12 intelligible to me
0:25:13 he admits that his words are
0:25:15 intelligible to himself
0:25:17 he admits many things
0:25:20 now these things are almost thrown out
0:25:22 the window when you speak to a
0:25:23 philosopher
0:25:24 he goes how do we know we're not a brain
0:25:26 and a vat it's called solipsism how do
0:25:29 we know we're not the Matrix right now
0:25:31 how do we know this how do we know that
0:25:34 that's what they say this is what they
0:25:35 say
0:25:36 well if this was the case all of the
0:25:39 skepticism you're talking about how do
0:25:41 we know that there wasn't a million
0:25:42 billion universes in a Multiverse Theory
0:25:44 how do we know how do we know how do we
0:25:46 know how do we know because these are
0:25:48 the doubts these are skepticisms yeah
0:25:50 how do we know because as the Quran says
0:25:53 if you didn't believe that you wouldn't
0:25:55 even be speaking to me because your
0:25:57 speech itself is an Evidence of where
0:26:00 what kind of evidence you accept
0:26:03 so if you want to know what the
0:26:05 evidentiary standard of an atheist is
0:26:09 the evidentiary standard
0:26:13 is contingent on what they do on a daily
0:26:16 basis they speak they talk they eat they
0:26:19 leave things out they come back they see
0:26:21 these things there
0:26:23 now all we're saying is use the same
0:26:25 standard to judge religion and you will
0:26:27 find that religion is true
0:26:29 [Music]
0:26:31 use the same standards that I've given
0:26:33 you I've endowed you with some rational
0:26:35 faculties and you've been using those
0:26:37 rational faculties you're not a
0:26:39 professional philosopher you're not an
0:26:41 analytical logician
0:26:44 you don't need to be a mathematician you
0:26:47 don't need to be an astrophysicist
0:26:49 just use the same faculties as have been
0:26:52 guiding you through life
0:26:54 and you will come to the conclusion that
0:26:56 this is true the same evidentiary
0:26:57 standard that you set for everything
0:26:59 else is the same evidentiary standard
0:27:01 that you can use to find that religion
0:27:04 is true
0:27:05 now why am I bringing this to your
0:27:07 attention
0:27:08 because this is the height of it's
0:27:10 called
0:27:13 all right there's different levels of
0:27:14 European but
0:27:16 is when you see the thing itself
0:27:19 so for example if someone is in the
0:27:21 Hellfire and they are burning and
0:27:23 they're in they are being scolded in
0:27:25 them their Skins are coming off
0:27:29 you have no lunch there is no luxury
0:27:32 afford it to you
0:27:34 so that you can philosophize and say
0:27:36 this and that no
0:27:38 I listen to the next Ayah is slow her
0:27:41 first Bureau
0:27:45 taste you it's heat so now
0:27:48 you're experiencing it
0:27:51 Isaiah
0:27:53 common saying which some people say
0:27:57 if you don't hear
0:27:59 you must feel
0:28:01 this is if you're teaching a child
0:28:03 something
0:28:04 if you don't hear it if you don't hear
0:28:05 my advice you must feel
0:28:07 what happens to you if you don't yeah
0:28:09 and your life will teach you the lesson
0:28:11 yeah
0:28:12 Allah saying now you taste this thing
0:28:16 and this is this is one of I would say
0:28:18 one of the most demoralizing
0:28:21 ayats in the Quran relating to the this
0:28:24 one here
0:28:28 be patient yes oh don't be patient
0:28:31 doesn't matter
0:28:35 your patience in this Dunya is
0:28:38 rewardable
0:28:39 with some level of reward if you're
0:28:42 patient on Good Deeds you get the reward
0:28:44 if you're patient in your diet and you
0:28:45 restrict yourself you'll see the rules
0:28:47 if you're patient with savings you'll
0:28:49 see the reward if you're patient in this
0:28:51 Dunya you will see the reward in fact
0:28:53 told us
0:28:56 foreign
0:29:05 if you want to learn you have to get you
0:29:07 have to engage in learning and if you
0:29:09 want to be haleem which is forbearing
0:29:12 you have to which means by the way not
0:29:15 just being kind but it also means being
0:29:16 in control of yourself
0:29:18 this is one of the meanings of al-halim
0:29:20 meaning being control in difficult
0:29:22 situations you have to put yourself in
0:29:24 more difficult situations and try it out
0:29:27 Johnny let me put it this way you'll
0:29:29 never learn how to swim by being on the
0:29:31 shore
0:29:32 there's only one way to learn how to
0:29:34 swim is to get into the water likewise
0:29:36 you'll never learn how to be patient
0:29:37 you'll never learn how to be resilient
0:29:39 by just talking about it theoretically
0:29:42 the most resilient people in the world
0:29:44 are those who have experimented with
0:29:46 resilience in subject-specific contexts
0:29:53 and if you want to be patient you have
0:29:55 to keep it's a Melaka
0:29:58 it's something you have to keep trying
0:29:59 out you have to
0:30:03 nurture it
0:30:05 it's a practical application
0:30:08 but here
0:30:09 this is the Dunya someone is some people
0:30:13 they hand wave Subway give me something
0:30:16 better again give me something easier
0:30:17 somebody is awesome really
0:30:20 what Allah
0:30:23 [Applause]
0:30:29 it's irrelevant actually Allah this
0:30:31 thing in the tunya which makes you a
0:30:33 success
0:30:35 if you do it hard work determination
0:30:38 grit resilience all those things if
0:30:40 you're in the Dunya in any context that
0:30:42 is the formula of success imagine that
0:30:45 won't even be afforded to you
0:30:47 so you have the luxury and the blessing
0:30:49 and the risk of because in the Hereafter
0:30:52 there's no such risk Allah will take
0:30:53 that away from them
0:31:00 and this is exactly an appropriate
0:31:04 punishment for what you used to do
0:31:07 foreign
0:31:12 the pious ones will be in Gardens of
0:31:15 paradise and Delight
0:31:21 enjoying in that which their lord has
0:31:24 bestowed on them
0:31:26 and the fact that their lord saved them
0:31:28 from the atonement of the Blazing fire
0:31:30 this is in many ways
0:31:34 as much of a risk
0:31:36 as Jannah to be averted from the
0:31:39 Hellfire
0:31:40 if you think about that because there's
0:31:42 two risks when you go into General
0:31:43 studio is one being averted from that
0:31:45 punishment
0:31:46 and the other one is to go to heaven
0:31:48 itself
0:31:52 Allah speaking now he's gone to second
0:31:56 it's now speaking to you directly so
0:31:58 before he was speaking in the third
0:32:00 person
0:32:01 this is what's going to happen to them
0:32:03 this and that now Allah it's almost as
0:32:05 this welcoming guest get welcoming the
0:32:07 guests
0:32:08 come on eat and drink because of what
0:32:12 you used to do as well
0:32:14 in happiness be happy
0:32:18 this is yeah imagine Allah welcoming you
0:32:22 into Jannah in such a way
0:32:24 go and eat and drink and enjoy
0:32:27 yourselves
0:32:33 reclining with ease on Thrones arranged
0:32:35 in ranks
0:32:40 and the brothers here don't know what
0:32:42 this means
0:32:44 foreign
0:32:54 and those who believe
0:32:57 and whose Offspring follow them in faith
0:32:59 to them we shall join them their
0:33:02 offspring and we shall not decrease
0:33:03 their reward
0:33:05 of their deeds in anything
0:33:07 every person is a pledge of what he has
0:33:10 earned
0:33:11 now obviously we could take this um kind
0:33:14 of skimming through these ones because I
0:33:15 want to focus on the ayat which have
0:33:19 most application in terms of doubts and
0:33:21 dawa because that's our context if I
0:33:25 spend a long time in each one we won't
0:33:27 be able to get through all three stories
0:33:28 so this is why I'm kind of rushing
0:33:31 through these ones in a sense
0:33:36 and we shall provide with them fruits
0:33:39 and meats as they design that's some
0:33:40 people say and I've heard this
0:33:42 Why Annie is it such a visceral carnal
0:33:46 thing
0:33:47 yeah your depictions of Jannah is all
0:33:50 about this and sexual thing and foods
0:33:53 and what's this
0:33:54 and the Christians especially they say
0:33:56 what kind of thing is this now we
0:33:57 believe that to be honest the highest
0:33:59 thing is to see Allah to be in the
0:34:01 company of Allah
0:34:02 to to to share that most pure love in
0:34:05 the company of Allah there's nothing
0:34:07 really higher than that to be honest
0:34:09 with you however Allah created us in a
0:34:12 certain manner
0:34:13 every single one of us loves to eat and
0:34:15 drink and to procreate
0:34:17 now some people
0:34:19 maybe yeah only one percent of
0:34:21 population may not want to do the third
0:34:23 of these things no problem everyone
0:34:24 needs to eat and drink
0:34:27 they'll tell me oh and I'll put glucose
0:34:28 drips and stuff
0:34:32 and they like it
0:34:34 to a mistake and this and that imagine
0:34:36 when you fast and you see the food and
0:34:38 this and that how you feel huh you feel
0:34:40 good doesn't it
0:34:42 and once you've eaten something Savory
0:34:43 and something delicious
0:34:45 like a steak or something I don't know
0:34:47 what you guys like Afghani food or you
0:34:49 got some of you from the subcontinent
0:34:51 you have some of the best food or
0:34:52 Moroccan food here what do you call it
0:34:54 the tagine it's fantastic one of the
0:34:57 best foods I mean Gordon Ramsay when he
0:34:59 went to Morocco
0:35:01 I saw this he was like this is the best
0:35:03 meat I've had in my life when he was
0:35:04 eating the tagine in Marrakesh so very
0:35:07 fantastic
0:35:09 yeah oh and the shame man imagine and
0:35:12 then now you have the fruits every
0:35:13 everyone's okay well now we have sweets
0:35:15 and Harry bows and this and that but all
0:35:17 of it is an attempt to be like fruits
0:35:20 yeah and if you think about it They're
0:35:22 copying fruits that's all they're doing
0:35:23 they're just accentuating the sugar
0:35:24 giving you more diabetes breaking up
0:35:27 your immune system
0:35:31 and if you think about it it's not as
0:35:34 tasty as a fruit
0:35:35 but even if you say yes I believe the
0:35:37 sweets are more tasty is because they're
0:35:38 trying to accentuate what it means to be
0:35:40 a fruit
0:35:42 but hey you have a proper fruit like you
0:35:44 know you have these Roman you have these
0:35:47 pomegranates and the fruits we have in
0:35:49 this Dunya there's some blemishes with
0:35:51 them there's some problems some of them
0:35:53 were yesterday we drank some orange
0:35:54 juice it was problematic from the guy
0:35:56 you remember but I'm saying that now
0:35:59 because you know this season and not
0:36:02 season and the guy leaves the fruit out
0:36:04 for too long and we don't have these
0:36:05 problems
0:36:06 you drink the fruit juice you have the
0:36:09 the meats you have this you have
0:36:11 everything is pure you don't have to
0:36:13 feel guilty about anything sometimes you
0:36:14 know we eat food
0:36:15 good food and then we feel guilty
0:36:17 afterwards
0:36:19 we don't have to feel guilty here
0:36:22 yeah I don't know if you had cats
0:36:26 they shall pass from hand to hand a wine
0:36:28 cup free from any level
0:36:31 things and it would be legal for them to
0:36:34 drink now
0:36:35 obviously if you drink alcohol you get
0:36:37 hangover you get you know sick you get
0:36:39 it's problematic it's a depressant if
0:36:41 you think about it
0:36:43 alcohol is a drug
0:36:44 and it's not an antidepressant it's a
0:36:47 depressant why do people take it then
0:36:48 why you want to be depressed
0:36:52 they want to be depressed yes because so
0:36:54 long as they forget
0:36:56 their life and it's a form of escapism
0:36:58 they don't mind being depressed that's
0:37:00 how bad it is for them
0:37:02 that's how bad it is now that's
0:37:04 alcoholism that's some people that drink
0:37:05 you know some wine glass this that it
0:37:08 you know however even that has its
0:37:10 problems we're saying get rid of all of
0:37:12 his problems
0:37:13 and you get the pure
0:37:15 in a nice glass beautiful glass you know
0:37:18 someone giving it to you as well see
0:37:22 you drink it you enjoy it this is
0:37:25 fantastic this is brilliant you know
0:37:33 and the round boy Servants of theirs to
0:37:37 serve them as if they were preserved
0:37:38 pearls now this is in reference to the
0:37:41 boys going around this boil now some
0:37:43 people say like well you know the Quran
0:37:45 is very gender biased when it talks
0:37:48 about Jannah it's always women that you
0:37:50 know serving the man so hey you got boys
0:37:51 serving yeah if you think about it right
0:37:54 because he's a boy he's serving men and
0:37:56 women
0:37:57 why is it boys but real man is his boy
0:38:01 and he's going around making sure that
0:38:03 everything is okay
0:38:05 it's not like the service we're getting
0:38:06 holiday in
0:38:09 you know I'm joking his alhamdulillah is
0:38:12 a good place but I'm just saying you
0:38:13 know this is a completely different
0:38:14 level you know
0:38:18 some of them will draw near to others
0:38:20 questions
0:38:23 saying that full time we were afraid
0:38:26 with our families from the punishment of
0:38:28 Allah
0:38:31 but Allah has been gracious to us and
0:38:33 has saved us from the torment of the
0:38:35 fire
0:38:35 you see
0:38:37 they're still in a state of gratitude
0:38:40 which shows you that one of the
0:38:42 prevailing characteristics of a Believer
0:38:45 is gratitude
0:38:50 and if if somebody cannot your name
0:38:54 really be grateful for what Allah has
0:38:57 given them
0:38:57 that is a slippery sliding road to
0:39:03 cover actually the word the word kuffer
0:39:06 in the Arabic language
0:39:08 it means to put a seed under the
0:39:10 the Dust
0:39:12 a cafe is actually a farmer
0:39:18 [Music]
0:39:20 in the Quran it's mentioned like even
0:39:23 the world kufar is used in the context
0:39:25 of a farmer
0:39:27 you know in the Quran
0:39:29 why because the farmer he puts you know
0:39:31 the seeds under then he so he does the
0:39:33 job of
0:39:34 a cafe he hides the truth
0:39:39 Yani the word infidel is someone who is
0:39:44 he hides the truth or he rejects it's
0:39:46 actually a very good word for word
0:39:48 translation of the word however the
0:39:50 reason why we don't use it is because
0:39:51 it's now got connotations of an archaic
0:39:53 sense but Infidel is a better
0:39:55 translation than disbelievers
0:39:58 if you think about it because if it is
0:39:59 someone who conceals the truth that's
0:40:01 exactly what a cafe is but we don't use
0:40:04 it because it has this medieval
0:40:06 connotations the infidelines we don't
0:40:07 really use this at that time
0:40:09 but that's what Infidel is
0:40:11 there are infidels actually
0:40:13 again I haven't got a problem saying
0:40:15 this they are infidels because they're
0:40:17 hiding the truth now if if you're
0:40:19 somebody who is not
0:40:21 and that's why they say infidelity
0:40:23 it's disloyalty of some sorts in a
0:40:25 marriage for example they call it
0:40:27 infidelity
0:40:28 anyway the point is is
0:40:32 they
0:40:36 are thanking Allah and Allah
0:40:42 foreign if you try and count the
0:40:46 blessings of Allah you will not be able
0:40:48 to enumerate them
0:40:52 and he gave you from everything you
0:40:55 wanted Allah says Quran
0:40:57 he gave you everything you wanted
0:41:03 and Allah says
0:41:06 and if you think I'll give you more
0:41:11 and if you
0:41:13 disbelief then my punishment is very
0:41:16 severe so the stakes are high when it
0:41:19 comes to gratitude it's not just a
0:41:21 matter of you have the luxury of being
0:41:22 grateful and in fact gratitude is good
0:41:25 for your mental health and in fact if
0:41:27 you they have something called gratitude
0:41:28 journaling now
0:41:30 which is all True by the way
0:41:33 but the reality is if you're not
0:41:35 grateful
0:41:37 then the stakes are high
0:41:40 and if you are the six also high but in
0:41:43 a positive sense
0:41:46 we were verily we used to invoke him
0:41:48 before
0:41:52 foreign that verily he is the most kind
0:41:55 the most courteous the most generous and
0:41:58 the most merciful but is like the good
0:42:00 one he's good
0:42:01 the goodness of Allah
0:42:07 now here's where we're going to go into
0:42:09 a little bit more detail because this is
0:42:11 where
0:42:11 we went we started off this discussion
0:42:13 with a b and c who remembers what a was
0:42:17 we said that if someone believes a b and
0:42:19 c very
0:42:20 strongly they won't have doubts as such
0:42:23 who remembers what a was yes sir
0:42:26 the God's existence what was B
0:42:30 yes sir
0:42:31 worthy of worship yes and we'll see
0:42:36 yes the truth of the authority of the
0:42:39 Prophet saws so hey we're going to start
0:42:40 now with you Allah is now going to make
0:42:42 his own case and this is the best
0:42:51 the first thing he says therefore remind
0:42:53 and preach o Muhammad
0:42:55 because you are not by the grace of
0:42:57 Allah neither a soothsayer or a Madman
0:43:00 okay so you have two because you've got
0:43:02 to think about it what could they say
0:43:04 about the prophet that he was a magician
0:43:07 why do you think that they are calling
0:43:09 him a magician let's let's open the
0:43:12 floor for this one
0:43:13 what does it indicate that they will be
0:43:15 calling the prophet magician yes
0:43:18 yes you don't call someone a magician
0:43:20 unless you think that what they're
0:43:22 bringing is extraordinary
0:43:25 yeah if I came here and I started to
0:43:29 speak normally and stuff and I started
0:43:31 leaving and then one of you says
0:43:33 you know you're a magician it's kind of
0:43:36 inappropriate
0:43:39 it's inappropriate
0:43:41 some people say it for example with
0:43:44 great Sports people
0:43:45 but they know it's metaphoric for
0:43:47 example Messi Lionel Messi sees a
0:43:49 magician on the pitch you know he's
0:43:50 amazing yeah
0:43:52 he's a magician
0:43:56 they say that about me when I go on the
0:43:58 football pitch for another reason
0:43:59 she doesn't know what he's doing he's a
0:44:01 magician
0:44:03 no but the word magician here is
0:44:06 they meant it for real
0:44:09 they meant it like you are a magician
0:44:11 but why would they go that far
0:44:14 this is a question
0:44:16 and this already indicates to the power
0:44:19 of the Quran in the Arabic language
0:44:23 now I want you to understand something
0:44:26 that before Islam
0:44:30 the Arabs were engaged very
0:44:34 much
0:44:35 in the Venture of poetry
0:44:38 Li poetry
0:44:40 we had people like antarov and dead
0:44:43 you had the miracle Christ
0:44:45 you had the people who wrote them Allah
0:44:48 these poetries and stuff
0:44:51 and if you really spend time with these
0:44:55 poems and you understand them you
0:44:58 realize that these guys were no joke
0:44:59 really
0:45:00 these guys were no joke the way they the
0:45:03 way they spoke the Arabic language and
0:45:04 the rhythm of their speech
0:45:08 the power
0:45:10 of their speech
0:45:13 and a lot of it was razal love stories
0:45:16 you'd be surprised you know I'm not
0:45:18 gonna go into great details a lot of it
0:45:20 was about war a lot of it was about the
0:45:21 camel they would mention the camel
0:45:23 because they always
0:45:25 interacted with the camera
0:45:28 yeah and horses and things like that
0:45:29 they would mention it all in one poem
0:45:31 but the way they would mention it is
0:45:33 because imagine just think about it for
0:45:34 a second yeah you're living in a desert
0:45:36 you're you're humble in a sense we're
0:45:38 here because we can see the environment
0:45:40 take away all the buildings all the cars
0:45:43 all the electronics all the technology
0:45:44 imagine living in a place like this with
0:45:47 about a 3 000 population five thousand
0:45:49 ten thousand maximum population of Mecca
0:45:51 would have been ten thousand inhabitants
0:45:53 10 15 000 with the people coming in and
0:45:55 out maybe twenty thousand yanny that's a
0:45:57 stretch
0:45:58 now it's probably about one million here
0:46:00 maybe 1.5 million in Mecca right now but
0:46:03 imagine a situation where there's only
0:46:04 ten thousand fifteen thousand people
0:46:06 meaning for us to get to the Haram it
0:46:08 would be like we'd need a horse we'd
0:46:09 need a camel and it would be difficult
0:46:10 yeah
0:46:11 and it's all tense around them just
0:46:13 imagine this for a second
0:46:14 now if this is your life you're living
0:46:17 in a tent you don't have air
0:46:18 conditioning
0:46:19 what are you going to be doing you come
0:46:21 out you start looking at the desert you
0:46:23 start looking at the situation you start
0:46:25 looking at the sky they will speak about
0:46:27 the sky the stars all these things why
0:46:28 because that was their environment
0:46:31 which means that they had incredible
0:46:34 imaginations
0:46:39 the mother of all invention if you are
0:46:42 forced in a situation
0:46:44 yes where you cannot this is the only
0:46:46 way you can actually make sense of life
0:46:49 or enjoy life entertain yourself
0:46:52 then you're forced into a state of
0:46:54 Ultra imagination
0:46:56 and that is why these actually is a
0:46:58 Hadith
0:47:00 which says that every
0:47:03 the ansar said that almost everybody in
0:47:06 the Medina they had some knowledge of
0:47:10 poetry they had memorized poetry every
0:47:11 house for them it was the medium
0:47:14 now imagine these guys are like everyone
0:47:16 has what you call though
0:47:18 the ability to see certain things and
0:47:21 judge certain things
0:47:24 we all have though of certain things by
0:47:26 the way like for example
0:47:28 Yani I'll give you a crude very crude
0:47:29 example
0:47:31 if I bring two individuals one guy is a
0:47:34 bodybuilder
0:47:36 that comes with horses no but some guys
0:47:39 like a professional bodyboard like like
0:47:40 Ronnie Coleman or these guys yeah he's
0:47:42 got these extraordinary muscles and this
0:47:44 and that and you have a guy who's a sumo
0:47:46 wrestler always like you know overweight
0:47:47 or something and I said both stand here
0:47:49 and obviously the women have to lower
0:47:51 their gazes or something and then he
0:47:52 does double bicep poses yeah and we say
0:47:55 everyone which one is more masculine
0:47:56 everyone will say the the bodybuilder
0:47:57 okay everyone knows that yeah because
0:47:59 they have the e to assess this is
0:48:02 muscular retention this is fat this is
0:48:04 whatever yeah
0:48:05 okay if I bring two teams
0:48:08 of football we all watch the World Cup
0:48:10 one of them is like Australia or
0:48:12 something one of the I don't know what
0:48:14 was the worst team in the Qatar sorry to
0:48:16 say again
0:48:18 to say sorry to say and then we bring
0:48:21 like Argentina not in the game when
0:48:23 they've lost against Saudi Arabia that
0:48:25 was a that was a mishap but let's just
0:48:27 say that was another game man
0:48:29 where they what we're winning and you
0:48:31 say which of the two teams is better
0:48:32 every one of us will know okay this team
0:48:33 is better why because look at this how
0:48:35 the passing is look at this messy in the
0:48:36 Middle look at this one everyone can
0:48:38 judge even the Layman can judge what
0:48:40 we're saying is that we in the 21st
0:48:43 century have judging ability
0:48:45 we know how to judge certain things
0:48:48 now likewise these Arabs at that time
0:48:51 they were the arbitrators of what was
0:48:53 good prose
0:48:54 they were all qualified
0:48:57 men and women it wasn't just some
0:48:59 agenda specific thing some of the best
0:49:02 poets in that time and that's Allah
0:49:07 was a woman I have a brother called
0:49:10 Sahara died
0:49:11 foreign
0:49:13 [Music]
0:49:15 foreign
0:49:30 she became famous among the sahabis
0:49:34 actually
0:49:34 she became she was a famous one on the
0:49:37 basis of her uh poetry ability so
0:49:40 everyone knew men women and children
0:49:42 they were fantastic at this
0:49:46 but is these people
0:49:49 who are saying this is seven with the
0:49:51 Quran now you imagine now so this is a
0:49:54 serious allegation
0:49:55 but it's also an admission
0:49:57 [Music]
0:50:00 um
0:50:01 there they don't realize they're
0:50:03 incriminating themselves by saying this
0:50:05 if someone will say okay maybe the Quran
0:50:08 or maybe the author of the Quran
0:50:09 believes they'll say maybe he just said
0:50:12 that because he knew that we would say
0:50:14 this
0:50:14 I would respond and say well if that's
0:50:18 the case then by saying that people say
0:50:20 what you're talking about no one called
0:50:21 it sir
0:50:22 no one like if this was something they
0:50:25 didn't say
0:50:26 then by the Quran saying it's his magic
0:50:29 then the people say no one called and
0:50:31 why are you making up lies they would
0:50:34 they would compound they would accuse
0:50:35 him of lying as a result
0:50:38 so it makes no sense
0:50:40 so in other words the fact that the
0:50:42 Quran is being called by the primary
0:50:45 audience who are all to a great extent
0:50:47 able to judge the Arabic language and
0:50:50 the poetry and these kind of thing is a
0:50:52 major admission that the Quran descoped
0:50:56 the abilities of the Arabs in being able
0:50:58 to put prose which was at a level
0:51:01 different to any level this is number
0:51:03 one
0:51:05 [Music]
0:51:11 well I imagine you're not okay you're
0:51:13 not a magician and you're not mental
0:51:15 you're not insane
0:51:17 now what is insanity anxiety in the
0:51:20 modern psychological sense
0:51:24 is if you're psychotic if you have
0:51:26 psychosis not psychotic like psychopath
0:51:28 but if you have psychosis meaning if
0:51:30 you've lost touch with reality like a
0:51:32 schizophrenic
0:51:34 for example someone who's lost touch
0:51:35 with reality
0:51:37 at the time of the Arabs mejinun comes
0:51:39 from the word Jinn actually because they
0:51:41 believe that Jin got involved in the
0:51:42 matter and maybe they didn't maybe they
0:51:45 still do we don't know by the way
0:51:47 when the Jinn get involved and when they
0:51:49 die I'll tell you something quite
0:51:50 interesting
0:51:51 I spoke to this Jordan Peterson
0:51:53 his biggest Idol was a guy called
0:51:57 Carl Young
0:51:58 one of the biggest psychologists of the
0:52:01 20th century him and Freud were like on
0:52:03 the same path and they started what you
0:52:04 call the psychoanalytic school of
0:52:06 thought
0:52:08 and Carl Jung actually ran an experiment
0:52:10 on people who said
0:52:13 that they were afflicted by Jinn by
0:52:15 devils
0:52:16 and he was astounded at the fact that
0:52:19 they all reported similar experiences
0:52:22 do you know this this is something which
0:52:24 has not been mentioned by many people
0:52:25 but the idea of demon possession
0:52:33 of these things is something that has
0:52:36 some psychological backing
0:52:38 now the ethics committees will not put
0:52:40 this forward and there has since that
0:52:42 time not been experiments to that effect
0:52:46 but the idea is someone who's let's say
0:52:49 mentally deranged or disturbed or insane
0:52:51 or has psychosis
0:52:53 and someone who is has a tibet's journey
0:52:56 or is the Jinn has come in
0:52:59 yes
0:53:01 possession yeah they're possessed by the
0:53:02 gym both of those individuals have very
0:53:06 similar
0:53:07 diagnostic features
0:53:09 what the Quran is saying is the prophet
0:53:11 sallam is neither a magician
0:53:15 which already is an argument if you
0:53:17 think about it and ponder over it as
0:53:18 we've seen
0:53:19 and or he is not
0:53:23 now
0:53:25 why would it say that without giving
0:53:27 evidence because the Quran doesn't even
0:53:29 give you any
0:53:31 temporary art it doesn't say this is
0:53:33 because and this is this is very
0:53:34 interesting
0:53:36 the Quran says he's not this and he's
0:53:38 not that he's making the surgeon it's
0:53:39 not even telling you any giving you any
0:53:41 evidence here he's not this one it's not
0:53:43 that one
0:53:44 he's not saying and because this and
0:53:46 because that explaining itself
0:53:47 justifying itself giving excuses
0:53:50 this is not the kind of language and it
0:53:53 would well lie this is an Evidence of
0:53:54 the Quran being from Allah why because
0:53:56 look at the language that has been used
0:53:58 already we're going to push you into the
0:54:00 Hellfire we're going to do that it's a
0:54:01 fiery language you can't go from that
0:54:04 language to saying because this and
0:54:05 justifying and trying to convince this
0:54:07 atheist and convince this one here and
0:54:09 convince that one there
0:54:11 well if he makes you he gives assertions
0:54:14 that can be justified by whom the
0:54:16 primary audience because let me ask you
0:54:18 guys a question
0:54:19 foreign
0:54:21 if somebody
0:54:23 if you went to a mosque have you ever
0:54:24 been to a mosque or a public gathering
0:54:26 and you saw someone who was acting in a
0:54:27 manner and you've identified that they
0:54:29 have mental health issues
0:54:31 put your hands up if you've been in such
0:54:32 a situation okay everyone here so
0:54:34 everyone is a judge therefore
0:54:36 of who's imagination who's not so you
0:54:38 are all qualified
0:54:40 no it's true because we all are
0:54:42 qualified to some extent to notice who
0:54:46 has psychotic uh features who is insane
0:54:49 who's not insane we know the behaviors
0:54:51 of an insane person and we know the
0:54:53 behaviors of someone who's not insane
0:54:55 you don't need to be a master
0:54:57 psychiatrist to know this guy or this
0:55:00 woman here she is insane
0:55:03 there are some things that human beings
0:55:05 the lay audience can judge
0:55:08 and this especially when the Quran tells
0:55:11 us he spent a whole lifetime among you
0:55:13 you don't just have a day to judge you
0:55:15 have 40 years to judge he's been with
0:55:18 you in your village in your towns he's
0:55:22 walked with you you haven't noticed that
0:55:24 behavior so why are you pretending now
0:55:26 why are you bringing new accusations
0:55:29 after 40 years now he's much noon and
0:55:32 before he was not
0:55:33 how why was this accusation never held
0:55:36 for 40 years now you're bringing it
0:55:39 you see
0:55:41 so these two options because this is
0:55:44 actually is called a logical disjunction
0:55:47 you look at all of the options that are
0:55:50 available
0:55:51 logically what could he be
0:55:53 he could be much known type is not
0:55:56 measure known
0:55:57 he's not mentioned because you would
0:55:59 have noticed that for 40 years
0:56:02 magician or he's not a magician he
0:56:05 wasn't known to be with The Magicians
0:56:07 and hanging around with The Magicians
0:56:09 and finding out threads and this and
0:56:11 optical illusions
0:56:12 you know that about him
0:56:14 he is appealing Allah is appealing to
0:56:17 the madifa to the knowledge of the
0:56:20 primary audience
0:56:22 so therefore he does not need
0:56:25 to give them
0:56:26 evidence because they are themselves
0:56:29 they are the witnesses
0:56:33 it is like for example you have a
0:56:35 brother or a sister
0:56:37 and you for all of the your life you
0:56:40 know what they're about
0:56:42 you know what they're about
0:56:45 so someone comes and says to you look
0:56:47 you know
0:56:49 your sister is not a thief or your
0:56:52 sister is not a murderer sometimes
0:56:55 obviously these examples can be
0:56:56 problematic but if we say Your sister is
0:56:58 not mental you should know that
0:57:01 your sister is not mentally disabled
0:57:03 this is not paralyzed
0:57:05 your sister does not have fill in the
0:57:07 gaps
0:57:09 and so
0:57:12 it now there is a series of questions
0:57:15 now all now this is very important
0:57:18 in dawah in general we think sometimes
0:57:20 the best thing to do is make arguments
0:57:22 a question is more powerful than an
0:57:24 argument
0:57:26 because the question
0:57:27 a question invites you to reflect
0:57:29 whereas an argument makes a point which
0:57:32 you can forget
0:57:36 so most of the is now M yakuluna
0:57:39 Corona oh did I say this or did I say
0:57:42 that or did I say this or did I say that
0:57:44 it is exhausting your options
0:57:48 so what we're saying is the problem
0:57:50 he couldn't have been National
0:57:53 he could not have been a cabin let's see
0:57:57 what other options you have here
0:58:04 or do they say that he is a poet
0:58:09 we await for him some Calamity by time
0:58:14 if it was a poet they say maybe but they
0:58:16 don't they didn't actually accuse him of
0:58:18 that as much
0:58:20 that's why Allah says because now that
0:58:23 these two options which are the main
0:58:24 primary options yes are exhausted and
0:58:27 eliminated now we go to the next one are
0:58:30 they going to now say that he's a poet
0:58:32 is that the next one
0:58:38 and there's going to be more evidence on
0:58:39 this front in a second
0:58:45 say wait I'm with you among the waiters
0:58:52 do their minds command them to this or
0:58:55 are they people exceeded exceeding the
0:58:57 bounds Johnny
0:59:00 are there mine is this something logical
0:59:02 yeah is this a logical conclusion
0:59:04 or are you just people that don't you
0:59:07 have a psychological inhibition this is
0:59:09 the question
0:59:10 is this have you reached this conclusion
0:59:12 through proper pondering and logical
0:59:14 discursion or have you reached this
0:59:16 conclusion because you have an
0:59:18 inhibition or a psychological prejudice
0:59:21 like in the case of some of the Jewish
0:59:22 tribes
0:59:23 of course many Jewish people at the time
0:59:25 accepted Islam
0:59:27 some of them didn't accept it as such
0:59:29 and others would be outright
0:59:32 you know hostile with the promise in a
0:59:35 way that would be uh which would show
0:59:37 not just their hostilities their tribal
0:59:40 allegiance to many Israel
0:59:42 they could not accept that you have this
0:59:44 Arabi some born from a completely
0:59:47 different tribe a different Nation at
0:59:49 different people speaking different
0:59:50 language no way
0:59:52 no chance it's like when we say I'm
0:59:55 giving these examples now because of the
0:59:56 World Cup was just around the corner
0:59:58 when Morocco was winning the matches
1:00:00 everybody from the Muslim world and even
1:00:02 in Africa was supporting them
1:00:04 but I was quite surprised to find that
1:00:06 when Argentina was winning the
1:00:07 Brazilians were not celebrating yeah did
1:00:09 you notice this
1:00:11 well and the reason why is because they
1:00:13 have a different Dynamic they're
1:00:15 competing with each other in a different
1:00:16 kind of way you see and this kind of
1:00:19 dynamic was reflected in the behaviors
1:00:22 of the Arab and the the Jews because
1:00:24 they're cousins
1:00:26 and it's a pathway of jealousy like you
1:00:29 know if Pathways of jealousy
1:00:31 for example the mother-in-law and the
1:00:34 the daughter-in-law is a pathway of
1:00:35 jealousy two sisters can be very jealous
1:00:38 of each other for example uh to what
1:00:40 co-wives easily that's the easy one two
1:00:42 brothers
1:00:43 this is all mentioned the Quran the
1:00:45 brothers can be jealous of each other
1:00:46 people that are in the same profession
1:00:48 tend to be jealous of each other people
1:00:50 of the same race can be jealous
1:00:52 yes
1:00:54 but people of similar races but slightly
1:00:58 different can also be very jealous of
1:00:59 each other and this Behavior manifested
1:01:02 itself and that's why you'll find in the
1:01:04 Old Testament just as a side note
1:01:08 God repented to Israel can you imagine
1:01:10 this Allah this is what he mentioned the
1:01:14 Old Testament to Israel
1:01:17 they even reduced Allah
1:01:20 to a very low level he Allah is doing
1:01:23 terrible to them they've made themselves
1:01:25 really if you think about the Old
1:01:26 Testament well like they made themselves
1:01:27 Allah they have made themselves a god
1:01:30 because you think about it Jacob beats
1:01:32 God in a wrestling match
1:01:34 I saw a video somebody was making fun of
1:01:36 this
1:01:37 what kind of what kind of thing is this
1:01:40 it's WWE
1:01:42 what kind of thing is this and it was
1:01:44 entrance musics and your your your top
1:01:46 guy is going to beat God
1:01:51 when someone is illusioned is deluded to
1:01:55 that level
1:01:56 it's a psychological inhibition so Allah
1:01:58 is saying
1:02:00 um
1:02:05 is it something they have reasoned you
1:02:07 come to this Yadi rationally or is it
1:02:09 something you are transgressing why
1:02:11 would they be tahun because they have
1:02:13 these psychological inhibitions which
1:02:16 stop them now it can't be from this guy
1:02:17 even the Arabs they were competing in
1:02:19 tribes
1:02:21 it has to be someone from type it has to
1:02:23 be from the the big uh places it can't
1:02:26 be from Mecca it cannot be from him and
1:02:28 why him here this guy's got money this
1:02:29 guy doesn't have money this kind of
1:02:31 things he's an orphan and they would use
1:02:33 his things as arguments against the
1:02:34 prophet
1:02:35 this is not this is not an argument
1:02:37 basically you have psychological
1:02:39 inhibitions that are stopping and these
1:02:41 are the ones that indicate your
1:02:43 arrogance because
1:02:50 is basically believing in something and
1:02:53 takib is be lying in it
1:02:56 and if you think about it Islam
1:03:00 is all like accepting the prophet is yes
1:03:03 accepting him is believing him that is
1:03:06 the ultimate barometer of a person's
1:03:08 authenticity
1:03:11 that is the ultimate barometer the
1:03:13 ultimate test if a person is humble or
1:03:15 if he's arrogant
1:03:17 it's not a test that you do on the
1:03:18 computer
1:03:19 a personality test now they have
1:03:21 personalities tests
1:03:23 the Big Five personality tests the
1:03:25 Enneagram the Jordan Peterson
1:03:27 personality test
1:03:29 I'm sure he's done it himself
1:03:31 these personality tests don't tell you
1:03:33 if you're a good person or bad person
1:03:34 they tell you what kind of temperament
1:03:35 you have what will tell you if you're a
1:03:38 good person or a bad person effectively
1:03:41 is this one test tastic versus Trek Deep
1:03:44 you have a case being made against for
1:03:46 you here you have no reason to deny it
1:03:48 it goes in line with your fittler your
1:03:51 predisposition Allah already created you
1:03:54 in a way to believe in these things
1:03:58 this indicates you're a good person
1:04:00 humble person no matter how loud or
1:04:03 extroverted or exhibitionist you may
1:04:04 look like
1:04:05 and whatever your temperament may be
1:04:07 this is the the ultimate test
1:04:15 you know
1:04:22 nay they don't believe Yani they have no
1:04:25 belief so now this is an argument coming
1:04:28 fell yet to be Hadith
1:04:32 let them produce a recital like onto it
1:04:35 if they are truthful
1:04:36 now I want you to speak to the person
1:04:38 next to you for the next two three
1:04:40 minutes or five minutes even
1:04:43 yes five about what you think this means
1:04:46 what this challenge is
1:04:48 what this challenge indicates
1:04:51 yes so what is the significance of the
1:04:53 challenge of Allah telling the Bashar of
1:04:57 the human beings to produce a chapter
1:04:59 like it and they will get some responses
1:05:01 and we'll continue we've almost finished
1:05:02 the first session inshallah so five
1:05:04 minutes and we'll come back speak to the
1:05:05 person next year
1:05:07 foreign
1:05:08 so let's get some participant
1:05:10 participation
1:05:14 um okay so who wants to share something
1:05:16 yeah go ahead
1:05:17 [Music]
1:05:19 yeah yeah
1:05:23 what was your name first of all everyone
1:05:25 say their name before they uh I'm sorry
1:05:28 if okay mashallah go ahead
1:05:31 we said that whenever Allah said the
1:05:34 prophet Prophet to his people
1:05:36 Prophet always challenged them and what
1:05:39 the people were good or best at so when
1:05:41 Musa was sent to his people he came at a
1:05:44 time where people
1:05:46 Advance or prevalent but magic was
1:05:48 scientific things
1:05:49 challenged them with the magic when
1:05:51 hearing standing set up as far as I know
1:05:54 um he came at the time where medicine
1:05:56 was pretty Advanced so he challenged his
1:05:58 people in medicine healing the blind and
1:06:00 the leprosychic and so on and the
1:06:02 prophet saws when he was sent to you
1:06:04 when he was sent to the operation I mean
1:06:06 all they had I mean they didn't have any
1:06:07 fancy architecture
1:06:09 so what they had and what they were
1:06:11 super proud of was
1:06:12 their language and their poetry so the
1:06:15 prophetam challenged them at what they
1:06:17 were best at and that was the poetry and
1:06:20 this is not the prophet Allah
1:06:23 to show that I mean you guys I think
1:06:25 you're the best so
1:06:26 you know like what's up fantastic a good
1:06:29 very nice contribution yes
1:06:39 foreign
1:06:42 foreign
1:06:44 [Music]
1:06:50 [Music]
1:07:17 [Music]
1:07:21 he just basically said that you know or
1:07:24 the Arabic poetry had a very high
1:07:26 placement among the Arabs at that time
1:07:29 so he challenged all the Quran
1:07:31 challenges them with that particular
1:07:33 with something that they were very
1:07:35 familiar with so that they could Ponder
1:07:37 because the challenge created for them a
1:07:39 pondering situation they could think
1:07:41 about
1:07:42 you know how could this be from a Bashar
1:07:46 human being and so on anything else yes
1:08:06 it's not seen in any other scripture in
1:08:09 history there will not ever be
1:08:11 so I believe this is a challenge for
1:08:17 read the past structures and structures
1:08:19 like the people who are creating
1:08:22 scriptures nowadays
1:08:24 scripture that is as perfect and as
1:08:26 linguistically accurate
1:08:28 okay excellent
1:08:32 um everyone heard that yeah
1:08:34 um anyone any other contributions
1:08:37 yes
1:08:39 so so the thing is I mean maybe just
1:08:41 looking at numbers as well right like uh
1:08:43 peer pressure they're looking at their
1:08:45 numbers and saying you know you're on
1:08:47 lettered amongst us we've known you as
1:08:49 well right and all of a sudden uh they
1:08:52 think that their numbers can kind of
1:08:53 somehow by calling him these names rely
1:08:56 what it is that he's doing so the
1:08:57 prophesive is not responding for himself
1:08:59 Allah is actually saying actually this
1:09:01 challenge is to me you are choosing my
1:09:04 messenger and the words that I'm sending
1:09:06 to her so if you think that that's the
1:09:09 case then your numbers put together try
1:09:11 to come up with one you are not going to
1:09:13 come up with one and you will not be
1:09:15 able to come before so
1:09:16 beautiful
1:09:22 excellent
1:09:23 anything else yes
1:09:25 it shows the confidence the level of
1:09:28 confidence since God Allah chose them
1:09:32 and they filled with expertise
1:09:34 which is poetry language
1:09:38 beautiful there's some really good
1:09:39 contributions there
1:09:41 I'm happy that you guys had the time to
1:09:43 think about that so let's let's go into
1:09:44 it in a little bit more detail in this
1:09:46 source is
1:09:49 let them bring a recital like it now
1:09:52 obviously this
1:09:54 it was not in a sense abrogated but we
1:09:56 have now an easier challenge
1:09:59 which is now even bring one soul I like
1:10:02 it so there was kind of a reduction of
1:10:04 the challenge when they couldn't meet it
1:10:05 you know if it was
1:10:08 first it was uh the whole thing then it
1:10:11 was 10 then it was one so there was a
1:10:13 gradual reduction when they couldn't
1:10:15 meet the challenge
1:10:16 and as the brother mentioned it's not
1:10:17 something which is necessarily confined
1:10:19 to the people of quraish because the
1:10:22 people of Quran Quran there's a phrase
1:10:26 that uses a Libra to be
1:10:28 laughing
1:10:32 when there is a particular or the
1:10:37 you look at the generality of the phrase
1:10:38 not the specificity of the context
1:10:42 so that is that is a kind so in other
1:10:44 words many things that are revealed in
1:10:45 the Quran they would be revealed
1:10:49 about a specific context but if they use
1:10:52 a father yet
1:10:57 this is a general kind of statement so
1:11:00 we will say
1:11:02 it doesn't it's not necessarily
1:11:04 something confined to that particular
1:11:06 context at that time
1:11:08 so now
1:11:10 it's very interesting there's a few
1:11:11 things you should say there's a
1:11:13 difference of opinion among the scholars
1:11:14 you'd be surprised I want to go into too
1:11:15 much detail because this is not the
1:11:17 forum for it but there's a difference
1:11:19 opinion among the scholars as to what
1:11:21 Surah we're talking about
1:11:23 some Scholars they say is
1:11:25 some say no it's actually even the
1:11:28 smallest Surah Amazon says wrote
1:11:30 something about this I hear about is
1:11:32 even the smallest one even kalthara and
1:11:34 he mentions why you know he believes
1:11:36 that there's something that Yani can be
1:11:38 mentioned in kel'that how can kelther
1:11:40 itself
1:11:45 you know have contained so many
1:11:48 different uh features linguistic
1:11:50 features and so on
1:11:52 however
1:11:53 the point is is
1:11:56 the question is
1:11:59 why didn't the Arabs meet this challenge
1:12:02 now there's a few things I want to say
1:12:04 about this number one
1:12:07 the Arabs knew how to rank things
1:12:10 like for example there's a reason why
1:12:13 the seven writers of Allah
1:12:16 that they wrote their poetries and they
1:12:18 hung them on the camera everyone was
1:12:20 unanimous that these were the seven best
1:12:21 guys
1:12:22 and within them can you imagine within
1:12:25 them they knew how to rank who was the
1:12:27 best and who's second best so it's
1:12:29 almost
1:12:30 the best guy this is hero famous they
1:12:34 say he was the best
1:12:35 and some say he was the best poet of all
1:12:37 time
1:12:38 this is what they say
1:12:40 so it's almost Ishmael among the people
1:12:43 of specialism that this is the case
1:12:47 now it's very interesting says
1:12:56 who is the student of imnabis
1:12:59 when it says in
1:13:04 he says that means
1:13:07 the people of specialism
1:13:10 the people of specialism
1:13:12 meaning bring your specialists in the
1:13:15 field
1:13:16 Yani not just you the lay people because
1:13:18 we said the lay people have a kaliha
1:13:20 they have a Malachi they have an ability
1:13:22 to already judge not just you but bring
1:13:25 your specialists in poetry and judge the
1:13:27 matter
1:13:29 bring your specialists
1:13:31 so it's two things are being said
1:13:34 we have to now rely on the testimony of
1:13:37 the specialists in poetry but why not
1:13:38 because if especially all of them come
1:13:40 to one conclusion about bedihi things
1:13:42 who is the top guy
1:13:44 of the malachiities who is the second
1:13:47 best poet of all time they say
1:13:51 who is the best poem of all time there's
1:13:54 almost no there's some level of
1:13:56 disagreement
1:13:58 some level
1:14:01 maybe one other guy
1:14:04 but yeah that's that's what the
1:14:06 conversation is it's like now saying who
1:14:08 is the best footballer of all time sorry
1:14:09 I'll keep bringing this
1:14:11 yeah you say Messi for example or who's
1:14:13 the best footballer today Messi okay
1:14:14 fine it could be Ronaldo that's what the
1:14:17 discussion is if someone says no it's uh
1:14:20 okay you can bring him back no problem
1:14:22 there's some discussion there but if you
1:14:24 bring uh I don't know some guy from
1:14:25 Sutherland FC or something
1:14:28 or you guys don't know this maybe we
1:14:31 should talk about basketball players
1:14:33 maybe we should you guys from America
1:14:35 right we have a few Mercer just a second
1:14:38 yeah basketball players yes or whatever
1:14:40 it may be people know people know where
1:14:43 you stand you know
1:14:45 who is the best
1:14:46 architects of all time
1:14:49 Michelangelo uh Da Vinci ever in every
1:14:53 field there's conversations about who
1:14:55 the best guy is
1:14:56 so we're saying that
1:14:58 this is what we're competing with here
1:15:00 number one you guys already have an
1:15:01 ability to judge things number two we're
1:15:05 saying that this is the best
1:15:09 we're saying bring your Specialists and
1:15:11 they will say this is the best
1:15:13 now
1:15:14 is
1:15:15 that mad that the person engaged himself
1:15:19 in 19 Wars
1:15:21 which means that the the kuffar they
1:15:23 waged War 20 times with the prophet
1:15:24 sallam at a time of Medina at the Medina
1:15:27 times 20 times that's like two times a
1:15:30 year
1:15:31 two times a year
1:15:33 now what I'm saying here is
1:15:36 why go through all the trouble
1:15:39 of fighting someone where you can just
1:15:41 come out and say I've got a poetry here
1:15:44 or I've got this recital here yes I've
1:15:47 got this thing which is better than the
1:15:48 Quran and everyone's going to agree
1:15:50 everyone here they know how to judge
1:15:52 these guys they know how to judge let's
1:15:53 not fight no need to fight I'm just
1:15:55 going to bring my poetry and you'll see
1:15:58 now the fact that they couldn't do that
1:16:00 and they opted for the option of war is
1:16:03 the ultimate evidence
1:16:05 yes that they could not match these
1:16:07 primary this primary audience could not
1:16:09 match
1:16:10 this particular
1:16:12 challenge
1:16:14 and this is what
1:16:16 he wrote a book called Quran or the
1:16:19 miracle of the Quran
1:16:21 is his argument you don't need to be an
1:16:24 Arab you don't need to have Arabic
1:16:25 language skills he says
1:16:27 the fact that the primary audience
1:16:30 implicitly or explicitly admit it
1:16:33 yes they implicitly or explicitly
1:16:36 admitted that the Quran
1:16:38 is the highest form of speech
1:16:41 is
1:16:42 the testimony that we need to go by
1:16:46 and the more you get involved in this
1:16:48 field of learning about Arabic and
1:16:50 poetry and stuff the more you realize
1:16:51 why that is the case so if you wanted to
1:16:53 it's not like the and by the way
1:16:56 brings me to another point
1:16:59 the other point is as follows and this
1:17:01 is very important
1:17:02 may I mentioned this in his guitar he
1:17:06 has
1:17:07 he's called
1:17:10 and he says he has a unwant or a
1:17:13 question that he asked very important
1:17:15 question for us for our purposes he says
1:17:17 what's the difference between a magician
1:17:19 and a prophet and if you think about
1:17:21 this question for a second
1:17:23 a magician comes forward with some magic
1:17:26 tricks and some optical illusions yes
1:17:27 but some magicians especially nowadays
1:17:30 like David Blaine walking on water
1:17:32 walking on water I saw the guy walking
1:17:34 on water go on YouTube right David
1:17:36 Blaine walks on water
1:17:39 you'll see the man walking on the water
1:17:41 well you say that Jesus walked on water
1:17:43 it's one of the major major
1:17:45 miracles of the New Testament now David
1:17:47 Blaine is doing it
1:17:50 some of them are comical like you see
1:17:52 this like ghanaians and Nigerians
1:17:54 especially they get this guy and they
1:17:56 pretend to raise him from the deadness
1:17:57 have you seen this hilarious and the
1:17:59 guy's already like you know breathing
1:18:00 and everything
1:18:01 [Music]
1:18:02 no but some of them are quite serious
1:18:04 like like this David Blaine or this I
1:18:06 don't know I'm not going to mention the
1:18:07 names of The Magicians but yeah you
1:18:09 probably know more than I do some of
1:18:10 these magicians do some serious tricks
1:18:11 so if this musician said look I'm gonna
1:18:13 walk on water and I'm going to tell you
1:18:14 on profit and if you go against this
1:18:17 then you're an arrogant
1:18:19 Nanny now this is a serious question why
1:18:22 is that not good enough for us
1:18:25 now let me give you the answer because I
1:18:26 want to save you the time
1:18:28 number one it's not just about the
1:18:33 miracle this is very important
1:18:39 must be contained for example Allah says
1:18:52 himself now the evidence of prophet one
1:18:55 of the evidences of the truth of Islam
1:18:57 is the prophet himself
1:18:59 it's not good enough for a magicians to
1:19:00 come out and say I am a prophet because
1:19:02 that guy doesn't have a track record
1:19:05 of trustworthiness in the community of
1:19:08 no lying no messing about
1:19:11 we know this person to be good
1:19:13 we know this person is not a majnoon
1:19:15 he's not a kahin in fact The Magicians
1:19:17 have a background in in that
1:19:19 so you know that they've learned the
1:19:21 tricks and the traits from other people
1:19:22 that's number one number two and this is
1:19:25 where it gets more interesting the
1:19:27 variety of miracle that the Quran brings
1:19:30 forward
1:19:31 he mentions this yes the variety of
1:19:34 miracle
1:19:38 had been given is greater than any magic
1:19:41 trick that can ever be performed I'll
1:19:43 explain why
1:19:44 let's say for example you have a
1:19:45 magician
1:19:46 who can split the sea I think one of
1:19:48 them tried to do something like this
1:19:49 somewhere and try and one of them walk
1:19:51 on the water or something yeah
1:19:53 now at the time of Musa as the brother
1:19:55 mentioned were people it was a beer
1:19:58 if nahaja mentions he says it was a beer
1:20:00 it was an environment
1:20:02 where everybody they knew what was kind
1:20:04 of correct magic and false magic they
1:20:07 had a khadi half of that they had
1:20:08 America for that they could see
1:20:10 that's why when the challenge was made
1:20:12 at the time of Moses it was made in a
1:20:15 public space
1:20:17 foreign
1:20:19 that's not going to be good enough for
1:20:21 the final Revelation why because let's
1:20:23 imagine the prophet Muhammad and he did
1:20:26 had physical Miracles he had physical
1:20:28 Miracles that's good as a supplement but
1:20:30 can never be good as an why
1:20:32 if somebody saw it let's say a thousand
1:20:34 people saw this thing
1:20:36 fine it works good as a miracle
1:20:38 but I will always as as a subsequent
1:20:41 generation have a disadvantage in not
1:20:45 being able to see it like the other guy
1:20:46 saw it
1:20:48 for him for me it has to be summer
1:20:51 you see like for me if I'm told if you
1:20:54 ask a Christian by the way they've
1:20:55 written this apologetic Works William
1:20:57 Lane Craig and famously what's his name
1:21:00 the uh
1:21:01 forget the guy's name but yeah these
1:21:02 guys have written books about why
1:21:04 Christianity is true yeah their
1:21:05 strongest argument for them is the
1:21:07 miracles of Jesus that's the strongest
1:21:09 argument and Resurrection the miracle of
1:21:10 Jesus this is the strongest argument
1:21:13 I'm saying this all depends on what
1:21:16 witness testimony that's fine
1:21:18 I'm saying the miracle of the Quran
1:21:21 doesn't actually depend on you seeing
1:21:23 that miracle
1:21:25 this is more powerful because it is
1:21:28 something which you can engage with
1:21:29 today
1:21:31 so of the Miracles of the Quran which
1:21:34 we're going to cover is the linguistic
1:21:36 thing which is this inimitability
1:21:37 challenge this challenge of to try and
1:21:40 produce something like it it's caught in
1:21:41 it's to this day you do it another thing
1:21:45 which is so powerful which I've been
1:21:46 using more and more of is the prophecies
1:21:49 because magicians don't necessarily it's
1:21:52 not in their remit to tell us about the
1:21:54 future
1:21:56 to tell us about what's going to happen
1:21:57 in the future
1:21:58 that's more of a soothsayer or somebody
1:22:02 who's like a what's his name Nostradamus
1:22:04 all these kinds of guys it's not really
1:22:05 a magician's thing
1:22:07 and that is not necessary you cannot
1:22:10 there's no magic trick There's No
1:22:11 Illusion that can tell you what the
1:22:12 future holds otherwise all The Magicians
1:22:14 would be where in the casinos
1:22:17 that's the truth All The Magicians would
1:22:20 go to the casinos if they if they were
1:22:22 truly inspired by a a supernatural force
1:22:26 and it's a true magic
1:22:27 I say forget about don't give me a card
1:22:29 pick a card this that walk on the water
1:22:31 forget about it go to the casino
1:22:33 you'll be a millionaire why are you guys
1:22:35 walking walking with ragged the clothes
1:22:37 and stuff like that
1:22:38 if you're a true magician why don't you
1:22:39 go to we have something called William
1:22:40 Hill where you bet on this team or that
1:22:42 team so if you know the future then go
1:22:45 Yanni
1:22:47 if you know the future if you can palm
1:22:49 read if you can look inside my coffee
1:22:51 cup then why don't you look inside the
1:22:54 coffee cup if he's gonna win the world
1:22:55 cup and put the money on this thing
1:22:57 look inside yeah seriously that's how we
1:23:01 know that you are a fortune you're fake
1:23:03 put your money where your mouth is it's
1:23:06 this is the ultimate test for a fortune
1:23:08 teller go to the casino don't come to me
1:23:15 because no seriously if you know what
1:23:17 the future holds why are you coming to
1:23:19 me I'm not going to give you money
1:23:24 go to the stock broker
1:23:26 so I'm going to put all my money on
1:23:27 Google
1:23:28 I don't know if one fortune teller that
1:23:30 put their money on Google why don't you
1:23:32 get engaged in cryptocurrencies
1:23:35 this is my advice to The Magicians
1:23:37 no actually it is it's the fortune
1:23:39 tellers my advice go to all these
1:23:42 industries where it's about future
1:23:43 projections
1:23:45 and if you are true fortune teller why
1:23:48 don't you go to the people in Japan and
1:23:49 tell them when the Salam is going to hit
1:23:51 so they can evacuate
1:23:54 that means you're immoral person
1:23:56 do you know what I mean no Danny what
1:23:59 I'm saying to you is that that no idea
1:24:01 that type of miracle that the Quran the
1:24:04 Sunnah provides is a type which is not
1:24:08 available in the remit or in Kick That
1:24:10 The Magicians cannot do all of the
1:24:13 Miracles of the Quran today if a prophet
1:24:15 or somebody that died nabua comes and
1:24:18 says I'm a prophet and did them it could
1:24:20 easily be called Magic the Quran so
1:24:22 these people that say
1:24:23 it'll come back to this why is it the
1:24:26 Christian comes that your prophets
1:24:28 Miracles are less than ours we say no
1:24:29 it's not
1:24:30 because you say you can raise Jesus
1:24:32 raised dead and uh killed the leper
1:24:34 that benefits the people that are
1:24:36 watching that more than it benefits me
1:24:37 and to be honest even the people that
1:24:39 are watching that they can doubt it
1:24:41 because it was staged
1:24:45 you can you Annie so the Miracles of the
1:24:47 Quran the Sunnah are more powerful than
1:24:49 any miracle and we can rationalize this
1:24:51 any miracle any Prophet has ever been
1:24:54 given because it is susceptible to
1:24:56 examination
1:25:02 foreign
1:25:14 were they created from nothing or were
1:25:17 they themselves the creators of
1:25:20 themselves
1:25:23 really is a better translation
1:25:27 then from nothing because
1:25:28 buy nothing
1:25:30 yeah says
1:25:35 can Allah
1:25:40 that Allah was there and nothing was
1:25:43 with him
1:25:44 and that his arsh was on the water
1:25:46 [Music]
1:25:48 even Tamia has a whole discussion about
1:25:50 this he doesn't believe
1:25:53 that Allah was ever there by himself but
1:25:55 he has an Aboriginal opinion on the
1:25:56 matter
1:26:13 was there
1:26:15 yeah okay but yeah as you see
1:26:18 he's trying to say that he believes in
1:26:20 something called and it's a long story
1:26:22 I'm not going to go into it but the fact
1:26:24 is
1:26:28 were they created by nothing
1:26:33 Yani there was no effective cause of the
1:26:36 create Christian
1:26:38 but that's not
1:26:39 plausible because we came from
1:26:41 antecedent causes which is our mothers
1:26:43 and fathers we're saying apply the same
1:26:45 logic to the universe apply the same
1:26:47 logic to everything everything has a
1:26:49 cause that has a beginning
1:26:51 and razali very famously said everything
1:26:53 that has a beginning has a cause the
1:26:55 universe however getting there for the
1:26:56 universe as a Cause
1:27:05 so arguments have been made from this
1:27:07 and almost all Arguments for God's
1:27:09 existence Sprout from this
1:27:12 area
1:27:13 in fact uh even Tami wrote a book called
1:27:18 which he basically mentions is Ayah and
1:27:21 he argues for God's existence from this
1:27:23 Ayah he starts with design he mentions
1:27:26 in
1:27:29 fact almost everybody that's Muslim and
1:27:31 engaged with Arguments for God's
1:27:33 existence mention this end
1:27:38 foreign
1:27:45 you know and he mentions it there
1:27:48 so this is the hustle of all the
1:27:49 arguments for God's existence because
1:27:50 you couldn't come from nothing
1:27:52 or buy nothing
1:27:55 and by the way no one has ever said that
1:27:57 even uh Lawrence Krauss who hands the
1:27:59 sources debated
1:28:01 and that book um will tell you more than
1:28:03 I I read his book unfortunately
1:28:07 we've got it under one of the low
1:28:09 shelves in our office
1:28:12 yes well he says he wrote a book called
1:28:16 The Universe by nothing or a universe
1:28:17 from nothing or something like that and
1:28:20 in that book he was saying the universe
1:28:22 was and then he says what is nothing
1:28:23 it's a Quantum field vacuum I don't know
1:28:25 what was it called was there nothing for
1:28:28 what he calls uh Quantum vacuum or
1:28:30 something like that
1:28:32 Quantum Haze or something like that yeah
1:28:34 so it's not nothing
1:28:36 what he calls nothing is not nothing
1:28:37 what he calls nothing is some Quantum
1:28:40 reality
1:28:41 yeah what do you mean Quantum Haze yeah
1:28:44 it's nothing it's not he says it's not
1:28:46 nothing and then when he was asked about
1:28:48 why'd you call it nothing that he says I
1:28:49 did that again he didn't say it like
1:28:51 this so don't quote me word for bite
1:28:52 only for marketing purposes yeah
1:28:54 no philosopher in the history of the
1:28:57 world from the from Aristotle times from
1:29:00 the Hellenistic period to to the
1:29:02 enlightenment period has ever made a
1:29:04 successful case of the universe coming
1:29:05 from nothing this is a fact
1:29:08 this is I have read everything I used to
1:29:11 read or not I know that sounds very
1:29:13 arrogant not everything any but I know
1:29:15 all these things
1:29:16 yeah and why because I'm doing my PhD on
1:29:18 this matter so I had to do a lot of
1:29:20 digging and stuff I have not found a
1:29:22 successful theory that says the universe
1:29:24 has come from nothing what is nothing
1:29:25 the absence of something
1:29:27 where there's nothing there Johnny let
1:29:30 me just tell you something yeah
1:29:33 let me just tell you something
1:29:34 if I say to you and I want you to
1:29:36 indulge me Yani in this uh exercise
1:29:39 thought experiment
1:29:42 everyone close your eyes
1:29:44 okay everyone close that now imagine
1:29:47 nothing
1:29:49 just imagine it
1:29:56 okay open your eyes
1:30:00 so I'm gonna start with you I'll bring a
1:30:03 mirror so you can see what nothing looks
1:30:05 like now I'm joking
1:30:08 what did you imagine honestly on a
1:30:11 serious level
1:30:12 Darkness I mean there's something okay
1:30:15 what did
1:30:16 beautiful okay so Darkness what else is
1:30:19 there in here
1:30:20 yeah and you put your hands up
1:30:22 when I said imagine nothing
1:30:25 yes
1:30:26 Blank Space okay what else did you
1:30:29 imagine
1:30:33 but what did you imagine what came into
1:30:34 your mind what picture came to your mind
1:30:38 a blackhead
1:30:40 okay whatever you imagined
1:30:43 is something
1:30:45 the reason like think about it Darkness
1:30:48 can is something because it's
1:30:50 distinguished from light
1:30:52 anything you imagined is something if
1:30:54 you said it was a space a space isn't
1:30:56 something and there was even major
1:30:59 physic physics uh guys for example
1:31:01 leibniz versus Newton there's discussion
1:31:03 about what is space is space uh uh is is
1:31:07 is is is space a container
1:31:10 this is the Newtonian understanding that
1:31:12 like the the the fabric of space is like
1:31:15 a container in fact like container
1:31:16 there's no such thing as space in fact
1:31:19 and then you have like the no actually
1:31:21 there is gaps and then you have
1:31:23 Einstein's uh specialist space-time
1:31:26 Continuum and the curvature of space
1:31:30 and then you have the quantum thing
1:31:32 string theory and the the smallest thing
1:31:34 is a string and it's vibrating now
1:31:36 wherever you're thinking of
1:31:38 can be explained in some of these ways
1:31:41 it's not nothing
1:31:47 so the point is there's never been a
1:31:49 time in any point in existence where
1:31:52 only nothing has been in existence
1:31:54 because if only nothing has been
1:31:56 existence there would be nothing else in
1:31:57 existence because nothing cannot bring
1:31:58 about something
1:32:00 simple as this
1:32:02 so this is an impossibility
1:32:05 whether created by nothing
1:32:09 or were they themselves the creators of
1:32:12 themselves and they can't be that why
1:32:14 because
1:32:14 it's like a mother giving birth to
1:32:17 herself
1:32:18 you might have heard this thing before
1:32:21 yeah you have to exist and not exist at
1:32:22 the same time
1:32:24 when even more time heard this this Ayah
1:32:28 being he was listening and this shows
1:32:29 you that Allah the beautiful Rhythm the
1:32:33 knitted togetherness the intertextuality
1:32:35 the rhythmic syllabilistic lecture of
1:32:38 the quranic discourse in content and in
1:32:41 rhythm
1:32:43 one of the harbor heard this and the
1:32:45 questioning nature
1:32:48 it's the same all this is it that is it
1:32:51 this he says
1:32:53 that when I heard this Ayah it was like
1:32:56 my heart was gonna fly out of my chest
1:32:58 he said
1:33:00 that and it was I was convinced
1:33:03 yeah and that's why I bring this a
1:33:06 and the Surah because it's so powerful
1:33:08 is giving you it's very logical
1:33:15 what are the options here
1:33:18 this Surah if you think about it
1:33:20 carefully it covers all ground a b and c
1:33:23 you couldn't have come from some nothing
1:33:25 the universe couldn't have created
1:33:27 itself therefore I had to have creator
1:33:30 the prophet Muhammad
1:33:32 it is
1:33:34 therefore he must be truth truthful
1:33:44 did they create the heavens and the
1:33:46 earth now this is preposterousness
1:33:49 they couldn't have created the heavens
1:33:50 and he has
1:33:52 they have no ability to do so so now
1:33:54 it's making you think of the ability
1:33:55 wherever did create the heavens and the
1:33:58 Earth must have had what ability so it's
1:34:00 making you think
1:34:01 that whatever created the heavens and
1:34:04 the Earth must be capable of doing so
1:34:06 which is giving you all the necessary
1:34:08 fat for a creator
1:34:13 and this goes exactly if you wanted to
1:34:18 characterize the
1:34:22 state of an atheist this is basically
1:34:25 the situation they don't have any
1:34:27 certainty in anything and they will tell
1:34:28 you that
1:34:30 at the highest levels if you speak to an
1:34:31 atheist and you engage with them they'll
1:34:33 say well I don't know I don't know and
1:34:34 you don't know as well
1:34:36 what do you mean I don't know as well
1:34:38 and they call themselves agnostics
1:34:41 what does agnostic mean it means I don't
1:34:43 know agnostos means someone doesn't have
1:34:45 knowledge of something
1:34:47 but if you don't know that means you're
1:34:48 what
1:34:49 means you're ignorant
1:34:51 baby and if you're ignorant why'd you
1:34:53 have such confidence
1:34:54 if you think about it yeah if an atheist
1:34:57 they will tell you if you argue with
1:34:59 them because we don't know I'm agnostic
1:35:01 on the issue I'm not saying for sure
1:35:02 this there could be a higher power
1:35:03 that's where they end up almost all the
1:35:05 time when you argue with them because
1:35:07 they can't do jeze them on anything
1:35:09 so if that's your state if you don't
1:35:10 know anything you're ignorant one so why
1:35:12 is the ignorant one coming and saying
1:35:14 speaking to me with great confidence
1:35:15 like Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss
1:35:18 why are you confident if you don't know
1:35:22 this shows you you're arrogant
1:35:27 once I went to my country one time
1:35:30 Egypt and there was a guy
1:35:33 he's been very Arrogant with me but he
1:35:35 was like impoverished
1:35:37 he was poor guy Annie he didn't have
1:35:39 money
1:35:41 and all of a sudden I was a younger at
1:35:43 the time I said to him listen I said
1:35:45 why are you so arrogant and you're poor
1:35:48 because there are some things which
1:35:49 don't even add up like for example the
1:35:52 Hadith
1:35:54 an old man who comes dinner he doesn't
1:35:56 need to he hasn't got the need for it he
1:35:58 doesn't have the Vigor but he gets it
1:36:00 engages in it
1:36:01 if you're ignorant you have no reason to
1:36:04 be arrogant
1:36:06 because you don't know you should be
1:36:07 humble
1:36:08 you should be asking the people
1:36:11 which shows you Allah the heart of the
1:36:13 psychological disposition of the
1:36:17 skeptical atheist mind
1:36:19 it's arrogance that's what arrogance
1:36:21 looks like you don't know something
1:36:25 yet
1:36:26 yet you're arrogant about it you're
1:36:28 saying this you're you're debating it
1:36:30 how could you debate something you don't
1:36:31 know imagine going to a quantum physics
1:36:33 class and make it more caricatured
1:36:36 imagine a child
1:36:37 many of you many have childhood children
1:36:39 a 12 year old something
1:36:41 and he goes to his class mathematics
1:36:43 teachers teaching his Pythagoras Theorem
1:36:46 or he's teaching him trigonometry
1:36:49 and he stands up he says to the teacher
1:36:51 he says to him look
1:36:53 the classroom I'm going to take over
1:36:55 this thing
1:36:59 or he starts telling you he starts
1:37:00 arguing with the teacher
1:37:02 the salaf used to say
1:37:07 there's two kinds of people that don't
1:37:08 learn
1:37:10 someone who's shy and well someone who's
1:37:12 arrogant
1:37:14 it's not we don't expect this is the
1:37:16 number one thing it's a prerequisite to
1:37:18 guidance a prerequisite guidance is that
1:37:20 you must want to be guided you must want
1:37:23 to know the answer you must want to have
1:37:25 a purpose if you don't have if you don't
1:37:27 want to have a purpose if you don't want
1:37:29 to be guided then you deserve the health
1:37:31 of being pushed in there
1:37:32 that's what you deserve
1:37:34 why because Allah has already given you
1:37:36 a fitra
1:37:39 he's given you a nature to do this Yani
1:37:42 in for example in office or we want to
1:37:43 eat food
1:37:45 we want to eat food diani we get thirsty
1:37:48 it's part of our fitra we have sexual
1:37:51 desires
1:37:52 we want to avert pain we don't want pain
1:37:56 it's part of our future
1:37:58 but also part of the same Federal which
1:38:00 has been now
1:38:01 anthropologically proven
1:38:03 [Music]
1:38:04 is that we have
1:38:07 this Nazar this belief in God so why
1:38:10 don't you want to go back to that
1:38:17 um
1:38:21 with them are the treasures of your lord
1:38:24 or are they tyrants
1:38:27 with the authority to do as they like
1:38:31 now this
1:38:33 a kind of humiliation this is a
1:38:35 beautiful thing about if you think about
1:38:36 the Quran
1:38:37 it's very fiery speech it's making you
1:38:40 think
1:38:46 now is once again we're investigating
1:38:48 the psychology of these guys
1:38:50 now we know
1:38:53 in the Quran there is no is there is
1:38:56 criticism of the people that with the
1:38:59 bush
1:39:01 for example where that if one of them
1:39:04 says that they have been given a
1:39:06 female that one of them becomes
1:39:08 you know darkened of the face and he's
1:39:11 very suppressing his his disappointment
1:39:15 so the Quran criticizes people that when
1:39:18 they have daughters that they are very
1:39:20 upset about him
1:39:24 is to be buried alive at the extreme
1:39:26 case
1:39:28 but the mentality of those particular
1:39:30 people were
1:39:31 we God has daughters because they
1:39:34 ascribe the Angels they used to say they
1:39:36 were the daughters of God and we have
1:39:38 sons and they believe sons are better
1:39:40 than doors because they believe
1:39:43 that Yani they have sons and if they
1:39:44 have daughters they'll be very
1:39:45 disappointed so he's saying that look
1:39:47 going back to this
1:39:49 Israel repented or God repented to
1:39:52 Israel my typology which is that you
1:39:54 guys believe that you are the true God
1:39:56 here
1:39:57 that's what the issue is you guys
1:39:59 believe that you are the true God that
1:40:01 you have such an entitlement that even
1:40:04 the creator of the heaven on the earth
1:40:06 that you yes
1:40:09 think that you should deserve a better
1:40:10 deal than him
1:40:12 as the Quran in the next Surah will tell
1:40:14 us
1:40:17 when the same thing is mentioned it says
1:40:20 that this is a very raw deal
1:40:22 that you have boys and you guys believe
1:40:24 that this is better yeah I think about
1:40:25 it you believe
1:40:27 that having boys
1:40:29 is better than having girls
1:40:31 the Quran has already negated this
1:40:33 reality but you believe this and you say
1:40:37 at the same time God the God has girls
1:40:40 it means that you think you're entitled
1:40:42 to more than what God is entitled to
1:40:46 yanny what kind of sick mind do you have
1:40:52 and this is a kind of self shirk
1:40:54 your older things that like Allah
1:40:56 deserves the praise no you want the
1:40:58 praise to come to you
1:40:59 is the height of egocentrism
1:41:03 it's it's the Divine narcissism
1:41:06 you've created yourself as the God now
1:41:12 that's why Allah is telling them what
1:41:14 you create the heavens and earth think
1:41:15 about it and it was in the minds of
1:41:17 these guys they're thinking to
1:41:19 themselves no I I if you ask now
1:41:22 a typical agnostic what is the purpose
1:41:25 of life say whatever makes me love to be
1:41:27 loved or whatever you make our own
1:41:28 purpose nature said that God is dead
1:41:32 that's what you said
1:41:34 yes that's right but no he said God is
1:41:37 dead now we have to create our own
1:41:39 morality we have to be that he called
1:41:40 The Uber mench we have to be our own
1:41:43 Gods basically Annie
1:41:45 he's taking this stuff very seriously
1:41:47 you might think no one thinks like that
1:41:48 yes they do even till now the average
1:41:50 person thinks that liberal thinks like
1:41:53 this I am the god
1:41:55 foreign
1:42:00 foreign
1:42:07 the currency got
1:42:11 so this is the psychology that Allah is
1:42:13 unpacking
1:42:14 these are exposing the people
1:42:18 and look it goes back to now motivations
1:42:25 or is it that you ask them a wage
1:42:27 so that they are burdened with a load of
1:42:30 debt
1:42:36 because one of the motivations of human
1:42:37 beings is financial as we've just
1:42:39 mentioned
1:42:40 so it's the problem saying give me the
1:42:42 money was he living in luxury Allah I
1:42:44 came across a Hadith
1:42:45 the other day because someone could say
1:42:47 just to play devil's advocate well there
1:42:49 is the cat and there is and there's
1:42:50 ranima and they'll say yes he's actually
1:42:53 asking for money
1:42:54 the question is where's this money going
1:42:58 this is the question
1:43:00 for example as a cat that goes to eight
1:43:02 recipients it doesn't go to the prophet
1:43:03 Muhammad goes to eight different
1:43:05 recipients
1:43:10 goes to eight different recipients and
1:43:12 the hanima even though it's mentioned
1:43:17 it's not going to the house or the
1:43:19 prophet like that how do we know for
1:43:22 example our chemicals is Hadith
1:43:25 which Allah is very powerful Hadith when
1:43:28 you think about there's two Hadith I
1:43:29 want you to think about
1:43:32 one of them is the prophet sallam
1:43:37 he
1:43:39 so he gave his shield
1:43:43 as a domain as a guarantee to a Jewish
1:43:46 man in Medina
1:43:47 he gave his shield the one that he uses
1:43:49 to fight and this is a very important
1:43:51 piece of equipment especially when
1:43:52 there's life and death situation he used
1:43:54 his shield
1:43:56 he gave it as a demand as a guarantee to
1:43:59 a Jewish man in Medina so why so that
1:44:01 the Jewish man gives him some oil and
1:44:03 some barley and some food so he can give
1:44:05 to his family
1:44:09 put this think about this for a second
1:44:14 was living in such difficulty that he
1:44:17 had to give his most one of his most
1:44:19 important pieces of equipment that would
1:44:21 save his life in a fight in a Jihad
1:44:24 to a Jewish man so that he can take some
1:44:26 things and give it to his wives give it
1:44:28 to the food
1:44:29 in the Hadith that they were living on
1:44:32 two black things which is
1:44:35 the the dates and the water again
1:44:39 this is that he lived a difficult life
1:44:42 the Hadith
1:44:44 when
1:44:45 he went to the prophet sallam when the
1:44:48 prophet sallam was doing of his wives
1:44:50 and he was living in a place and he saw
1:44:52 his he's sleeping on the straw mats
1:44:54 and then he said you know I'm going to
1:44:56 make Dua huh I'm gonna make that so
1:44:59 Allah can
1:45:01 give you more he said I'm not he stopped
1:45:04 him from making a die
1:45:07 he said these people in Persian Empire
1:45:09 and the you know the Roman Empire they
1:45:11 have great things we don't have he
1:45:12 stopped if he did not interested
1:45:16 he said
1:45:17 what have I got to do with you
1:45:20 the Dunya I am just karaoke
1:45:25 I have I'm like a rider
1:45:28 that he there's a tree he went
1:45:31 underneath the tree and he went to see
1:45:33 shade under the tree meaning the Dunya
1:45:35 is like a tree and he left so he lived
1:45:37 this very basic life
1:45:39 and he was putting his life on the line
1:45:41 This is a serious matter
1:45:44 doing for three hours four hours five
1:45:47 six seven hours a night
1:45:49 imagine living like that
1:45:52 I wouldn't do that for any money
1:45:55 you stand up and you have to no I
1:45:56 wouldn't sorry to say yeah if you are
1:45:59 charlatan
1:46:00 you didn't believe in this thing how can
1:46:02 you stand up for five hours every night
1:46:05 and nine of your wife saw it your friend
1:46:06 sorry your sahaba sorry everyone sorry
1:46:08 that you were if I and the night seven
1:46:11 hours eight hours
1:46:12 standing and your legs are cracking and
1:46:14 you're crying in an emotional state
1:46:17 this is too much you cannot say this man
1:46:19 was lying about this situation
1:46:24 so saying their motivations what are the
1:46:25 motivations so we already said is yeah
1:46:27 no is your magician no is he a shire you
1:46:31 not know him like that
1:46:32 is here no you don't know him like that
1:46:35 because he want money has he got has he
1:46:36 ever been money hungry no you don't know
1:46:38 him like that either
1:46:40 because he's not even asking you for
1:46:41 money that's the ultimate evidence
1:46:50 all do they intend the plot against you
1:46:53 oh Muhammad
1:46:54 so now
1:46:55 it's a different line of inquiry now
1:46:57 they're interrogated
1:46:59 now it's like let me just put into this
1:47:01 is that we know what your
1:47:03 planning
1:47:05 because at this point it's almost as if
1:47:07 Allah is aware
1:47:08 that these guys they truly believe
1:47:12 but they don't want to believe for
1:47:14 psychological purposes for inhibitions
1:47:17 so you're saying and we know that you're
1:47:19 trying you're going to try to do
1:47:20 something and we've got we've got to put
1:47:23 ourselves back
1:47:26 um
1:47:29 or have they got a god of it in Allah
1:47:31 glorify be to Allah from all that they
1:47:34 ascribe as partners to him
1:47:36 now listen to this next
1:47:39 hey where your office foreign
1:47:48 think about this for a second actually
1:47:52 he's saying if the Miracles that you're
1:47:55 acquainted with cosmological Miracles
1:47:57 something came from the sky you would
1:47:59 find a post-hoc
1:48:02 rationalization for it
1:48:04 yes which suits your world view yeah I
1:48:07 mean you have already made up your mind
1:48:09 whatever evidence is presented to you
1:48:12 you don't care
1:48:13 it's not a matter of evidence now
1:48:16 if you saw some cosmological things
1:48:19 happen something falling from the sky
1:48:20 something going into the sky someone
1:48:22 flying in someone coming out someone
1:48:24 doing this someone
1:48:26 it doesn't matter to you always find a
1:48:28 way to rationalize it
1:48:30 and it's amazing that in this Surah
1:48:32 is talking about things which come down
1:48:35 from the sky and then the next Surah is
1:48:37 going to talk about things which go up
1:48:38 into scholarship
1:48:44 to the sky
1:48:48 even that they don't
1:48:50 so the idea is there's this parallels
1:48:52 especially the beginnings and end of
1:48:54 Surah and the beginning of once or an
1:48:55 end of another
1:48:56 there's always these connections and in
1:48:58 fact the suroti wrote a book called a
1:49:01 a suit a whole book it's called
1:49:04 uh
1:49:06 or something like this
1:49:11 the the
1:49:13 secrets of the quranic chronology
1:49:16 and before him's teacher wrote or
1:49:22 something like that so this idea that
1:49:24 these connections between the surahs are
1:49:26 so pronounced and some Scholars from the
1:49:28 subcontinent dislike islahi and these
1:49:32 guys got involved in it
1:49:33 that the connections between one Surah
1:49:35 and the next Surah is so pronounced
1:49:38 that this knitted togetherness happens
1:49:40 in fact there's some English Works
1:49:42 written on this
1:49:43 there's a guy called Raymond Farren who
1:49:45 wrote a book called structures of
1:49:46 quranic
1:49:47 structure of the Quran or something like
1:49:49 that
1:49:49 he's even a cafe his name is Michael
1:49:52 Kuipers
1:49:53 he was he was so intrigued he wrote a
1:49:55 book He's a cafe his name is Michael
1:49:56 Copus he did the same thing with the
1:49:57 Bible and the Quran he said look the
1:49:59 structure is something amazing
1:50:01 and he just I think it sort of Merida or
1:50:03 something of it and he's a cat he's not
1:50:05 a believer
1:50:06 he's very interesting anything anyway
1:50:10 so whatever evidence you present to them
1:50:12 if they saw something like of that kind
1:50:14 of nature they would say it was sahaba
1:50:15 Marco
1:50:17 ha
1:50:20 so leave them until they meet their
1:50:23 their day in which
1:50:25 they will sink into a fainting horror
1:50:27 now you can imagine the the imagery here
1:50:29 someone when they see something imagine
1:50:30 seeing someone like Kenny sorry to say
1:50:32 the image of someone you love dead what
1:50:35 kind of face would you make
1:50:37 like a child of yours or something like
1:50:39 it's just so it's that horror
1:50:41 this is the face that they're going to
1:50:43 be making when they know this stuff is
1:50:45 true
1:50:48 that day it doesn't say that day Elion
1:50:53 ophelion
1:50:55 he says their day
1:50:59 so in other words it's going to be so
1:51:02 important to them and their imagination
1:51:04 is going to be their day
1:51:07 but not in a positive sense not in the
1:51:09 sense that we were talking about
1:51:12 it's your house yeah no it's your day
1:51:15 Annie so for the for the Believers the
1:51:16 show House eat drink whatever
1:51:18 disbelievers it's your day
1:51:22 it's like if you've seen a corpse body
1:51:24 dead body of a child maybe your face is
1:51:27 going to be riddled with disappointment
1:51:29 and you're going to be sick into the
1:51:31 core and it's going to be the highest
1:51:33 level of disappointment
1:51:41 the day when their plotting shall not
1:51:43 available
1:52:08 which which is the uh you know uh
1:52:14 I need to remember it but it's a this
1:52:17 idea of doing athletic is there in in
1:52:19 the last a I've sort of that yet
1:52:22 so it's the same even lexical phrases
1:52:24 there there
1:52:26 where it says uh let me actually get it
1:52:28 I don't need to rely on my memory here
1:52:34 foreign
1:52:46 so it's the same evil even the
1:52:49 linguistic formulations are the same
1:52:51 very interesting
1:52:56 what's better you know that's
1:52:58 interesting because we're talking about
1:52:58 Sabor in the context that you are these
1:53:00 guys are not gonna be able to do supper
1:53:02 but now Allah because he says
1:53:06 what you call it is
1:53:11 like for the disbelievers if you have
1:53:14 patience or don't have patience it
1:53:15 doesn't matter but hey Allah is saying
1:53:17 to the prophet sallamina
1:53:26 so wait patiently for the decision of
1:53:29 your lord for verily under our eyes
1:53:32 are
1:53:35 and glorify the praise of your lord when
1:53:37 you get up from sleep yeah and when you
1:53:39 get up
1:53:40 but this thing of being is there also in
1:53:44 other
1:53:45 surahs that will come after for example
1:53:47 we're talking about
1:53:55 that the the ship tells you to be I so
1:53:57 that even the same phrases out there
1:53:58 very interesting
1:54:00 two things are very interesting yeah
1:54:01 number one surahs are clustered next to
1:54:05 each other in the Quran are a bit like
1:54:06 constellations in the sky when you look
1:54:07 into the sky you look at the stars you
1:54:10 might see a giant heap of cosmological
1:54:14 um you know
1:54:15 scatter
1:54:16 that's what you might look at and see oh
1:54:18 this is nothing but when you look
1:54:19 closely you start seeing constellations
1:54:21 likewise the Quran is the same
1:54:24 you start you look at the verse of the
1:54:26 Quran you look at the surahs of the
1:54:27 Quran you might see a giant heap of okay
1:54:29 this is why is this similar to this
1:54:30 two things very interesting about the
1:54:33 Quran
1:54:34 linguistically and structurally which
1:54:36 you'll find interesting
1:54:38 number one
1:54:39 surahs are next to each other in the
1:54:41 Quran the chronology of the Quran
1:54:42 usually have similar words
1:54:45 Yani for example they have similar words
1:54:48 they have similar lexical phrases
1:54:51 you'll find that the words that are used
1:54:53 as phrases the language the style are
1:54:55 very similar it even start with the same
1:54:57 you'll find that even the broken letters
1:55:00 are the same so you have how I mean like
1:55:01 six next to each other
1:55:05 you have elephant
1:55:08 you know
1:55:09 for example I'm very interestingly
1:55:13 yeah sorry
1:55:15 yeah and then after that
1:55:18 and then it goes back to inank about
1:55:21 so there's like two classes
1:55:25 and uh what do you call it a room and so
1:55:28 on
1:55:29 so there's two classes alhamdulillah
1:55:37 foreign
1:55:50 so between
1:55:51 soon
1:55:56 between
1:55:57 and Surat
1:55:59 uh
1:56:00 El catholicious
1:56:02 and between uh
1:56:06 so even that if you look closely you
1:56:09 start seeing these correlations it's
1:56:10 very very interesting
1:56:12 all right
1:56:14 very interesting
1:56:16 so Yani you don't even need to be in
1:56:18 Arab too yeah or no Arabic language to
1:56:20 kind of appreciate this so in this
1:56:22 situation very interesting because this
1:56:24 the ayat sorry the the the the the the
1:56:27 the the the words are similar
1:56:29 the words are similar the phrases are
1:56:31 similar to The surahs the words in the
1:56:33 Surah which is this Surah
1:56:35 which are similar wordings similar
1:56:38 themes and Concepts to the next words
1:56:39 we'll see
1:56:44 and so on but there's something else
1:56:46 which I'll give you this is so easy to
1:56:47 memorize this and I heard this from one
1:56:50 Sheikh yeah
1:56:52 this is such a wild fact
1:56:54 there's 114 through the Quran yeah 114.
1:56:59 each Surah has a word
1:57:01 in it that's different from that's
1:57:04 distinguished and it's only in that
1:57:06 Surah
1:57:09 in every sort of the Quran yes there is
1:57:12 a word that doesn't exist in any other
1:57:14 in any other sort of the Quran
1:57:17 and I'd invite you to try and find an
1:57:19 exception to this rule but this who can
1:57:22 think of all of these things Yani think
1:57:24 about it who can think about to make it
1:57:25 rhyme to make sure it has a unique words
1:57:27 in it that's not in any other Sora to
1:57:29 make sure that it's spaced out perfectly
1:57:31 to make to bring the best arguments
1:57:34 in the most poetic Style
1:57:36 Yani we don't say poetic in that sense
1:57:38 but in the sen in the most rhythmic and
1:57:40 in capturing Style
1:57:43 and facilitate this kind of structure
1:57:45 it's too much
1:57:47 let's finish this and I'll make a few
1:57:50 final remarks what they want us to
1:57:51 believe is that the prophet sallam was a
1:57:53 master poet was a master fighter was a
1:57:57 master politician was a master family
1:57:59 man he was a master husband because he
1:58:01 had nine wives at the same time he was a
1:58:03 master everything Yani
1:58:05 on their Paradigm where they don't
1:58:07 believe the processarily with the
1:58:08 prophet on their Paradigm yes they still
1:58:10 have to admit he was the best you know
1:58:12 what I mean you don't believe in the
1:58:15 prophet but just admit he's the best
1:58:16 then because he brought he brought
1:58:18 something which was at the highest level
1:58:20 of linguistic Precision it changed the
1:58:23 societies it changed the economies it
1:58:26 changed geopolitics we're talking about
1:58:28 it now a thousand 400 years later
1:58:31 he's the best
1:58:33 at least be fair
1:58:36 yeah it's like us nowadays yeah if we
1:58:38 say if I make the claim that uh Yani we
1:58:43 are the best Muslims or the best at
1:58:44 inventions it'll be a foolish claim in
1:58:46 the last hundred years because we
1:58:47 haven't been
1:58:48 be fair I'm saying be fair we can be
1:58:50 fair and we don't have to be Muslim to
1:58:51 be fair
1:58:54 because
1:59:02 so what this is talking about Salah When
1:59:05 you pray and we talked about the
1:59:06 prophet's prayer serious prayer
1:59:13 as well
1:59:16 and this is can you see the links
1:59:21 so yeah he's saying here and in the
1:59:23 night time also glorify
1:59:25 and in the setting of the stars and then
1:59:30 we'll talk about that in the next
1:59:31 session
1:59:32 but you see
1:59:34 so he's saying he's now given Comfort to
1:59:36 the prophet
1:59:38 after he's made the argument to us he's
1:59:41 threatened to disbelievers now he's
1:59:42 comforting his Prophet it's a lies
1:59:45 it's perfect
1:59:47 and all of this and again all of what
1:59:49 we've just spoken about
1:59:50 in what we're talking about here 49ers
1:59:52 50 as
1:59:55 so convincing
1:59:57 no wonder why these people
1:59:59 they believed in it like a lot of people
2:00:01 believe that it's no wonder why it is
2:00:02 what it is
2:00:04 it's so convincing
2:00:06 anyway guys with that it's uh 12 almost
2:00:10 12 o'clock now we're gonna have uh 10
2:00:13 minutes break
2:00:14 yeah
2:00:16 should we say 10 minutes well she would
2:00:17 say 15 minutes
2:00:21 15.
2:00:23 put your answer for 20.
2:00:27 oh you need to pray okay we're going to
2:00:29 pray then and we'll come back and travel
2:00:30 afterwards and we won't do all today all
2:00:33 three stories we won't do that because
2:00:34 it'll be too much
2:00:35 but we'll do one and a half today and
2:00:37 want to have tomorrow