Introducing Qur’anic Arguments: Surah Al-Qamar | Mohammed Hijab In Mecca (2023-01-13) ​

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0:01:05 and this is the third of three stories
0:01:09 we're covering
0:01:10 with the purpose and attention and
0:01:12 objective of looking at some of the
0:01:15 arguments persuasive Style
0:01:18 linguistic features structural elements
0:01:21 of the Quran
0:01:24 in relation to making a case for three
0:01:27 things in particular
0:01:29 who remembers those three things yes
0:01:34 okay but more specifically
0:01:38 existence of Allah yeah
0:01:43 why Allah is being worthy of being
0:01:45 worshiped and see from the sisters
0:01:51 yes
0:01:54 the authority of the Prophet Muhammad
0:02:00 the authority of the Prophet Muhammad
0:02:01 sallam why the prophet is a true Prophet
0:02:03 why is it that we believe he is a true
0:02:05 Prophet so these are the three things
0:02:06 we're concentrating on when we're
0:02:08 looking at these three stories so guys
0:02:11 can we just have
0:02:13 silence so basically
0:02:15 we were looking at two or three
0:02:17 different things
0:02:18 number one as we've said before yes was
0:02:21 the structural coherence who remembers
0:02:23 some things we've said about the
0:02:24 structural currents of the Quran
0:02:30 yeah
0:02:33 yeah perfect so there's a there is a
0:02:37 connection between the sun yes
0:02:41 it looks like a cluster of stars and
0:02:44 then you go closer and actually looks
0:02:45 like constellations because they relate
0:02:46 together in some different ways like
0:02:48 some beautiful
0:02:51 excellent so how did the last Surah end
0:02:53 what was the last Surah in the first
0:02:54 place
0:02:59 okay and who how do you remember how
0:03:02 this Surah ended does anyone have the
0:03:03 Quran with them you can bring out a
0:03:05 translation of it
0:03:16 yeah
0:03:18 but before that what was what we were
0:03:21 talking about
0:03:22 what themes were at the end of the last
0:03:24 Surah
0:03:53 thank you
0:03:57 we're looking at sort of the medium here
0:03:59 the last of sort of Imagine
0:04:01 okay so what what in what kind of things
0:04:03 is it saying give us examples of
0:04:05 something in the last
0:04:10 16. okay
0:04:13 54.
0:04:15 okay beautiful good
0:04:18 okay great
0:04:28 yeah
0:04:29 foreign
0:04:45 legend for example that is mentioned
0:04:47 like there's a cosmological theme the
0:04:49 beginning it starts with a measure and
0:04:51 it ends it starts with kind of like a
0:04:52 legend a Shara is one of the it's one of
0:04:55 those and in the beginning
0:04:57 so there is a connection between the two
0:05:00 here we're still in the summer we're
0:05:02 still in the sky
0:05:03 and what we're talking about in
0:05:05 particular here the comma when you look
0:05:07 in the sky what you see you see the
0:05:09 legend on the drum and you see the
0:05:11 camera as well so it's a night time
0:05:13 theme
0:05:15 it's a nighttime theme you see so I
0:05:17 covered that when Chuck I'll come up so
0:05:19 the translation is the hour has drawn
0:05:21 near and the moon has been cleft asunder
0:05:23 we're talking about one of the Miracles
0:05:25 of the Prophet Muhammad which is in
0:05:27 Chicago all the splitting of this of the
0:05:29 karma now interestingly it's been used
0:05:32 on both sides of the argument here in
0:05:34 the world of apologetics some people
0:05:36 they come and say well actually this is
0:05:37 an argument for the prophet of prophet
0:05:39 Muhammad because they say that look I
0:05:43 mean this is one of the physical
0:05:44 Miracles you guys demand physical
0:05:45 Miracles it was witnessed by the sahaba
0:05:47 of the of the Prophet The Companions of
0:05:50 the prophet and so therefore I mean for
0:05:53 example look at the Christian tradition
0:05:54 the Christian tradition their strongest
0:05:55 Miracles or their strongest evidence is
0:05:57 other Miracles they say look Jesus done
0:05:59 this Jesus was resurrected this is their
0:06:01 strongest arguments I mean I was reading
0:06:04 a book
0:06:05 I think the guy's name is Lee Strobel
0:06:07 it's one of the ones that William Lane
0:06:08 Craig recommends one of the top guys
0:06:10 from the Christian world top guys and
0:06:13 one of the key arguments they always use
0:06:16 is the resurrection of Jesus Christ a
0:06:17 historical incident so imagine this is
0:06:20 the highest level of argumentation
0:06:21 historical incidence
0:06:23 and so here we have in Chicago we say
0:06:25 look you got you think you've got you
0:06:27 know Miracles we've got miracles and in
0:06:29 fact not only do we have Miracles our
0:06:31 Miracles are something which is
0:06:34 testified by sanit which is what has an
0:06:37 authentic transmission whereas your
0:06:39 Bible is not transmitted authentically
0:06:41 however they will say this and this is a
0:06:43 you know counter argument I want you to
0:06:44 be aware of it
0:06:45 they'll say look you know the moon if it
0:06:48 was sight it was really cleft asunder
0:06:51 and split into two surely there would
0:06:53 have been so many people that would have
0:06:54 seen this how how comes you know uh we
0:06:58 only find a few people that see see that
0:07:00 they see this and it's only in the
0:07:01 Arabian peninsula
0:07:02 you see the argument here they will say
0:07:04 that how comes it's only these people
0:07:05 here that have witnessed it why don't we
0:07:07 find so many scattered reports in
0:07:10 history now the answer is twofold
0:07:12 some people have attempted to find this
0:07:14 Indian Prince or this and that and
0:07:16 historical things which are problematic
0:07:18 are absolutely honest with you and say
0:07:20 the better answer is this what's the
0:07:23 population of the world today 8 billion
0:07:25 let's say eight billion that's 2022.
0:07:27 what was the population of the world 100
0:07:29 years ago
0:07:31 what about 1 billion
0:07:33 maybe less than that so the population
0:07:36 of the world has gone up almost 10 times
0:07:38 it's kind of 100 years now how the
0:07:41 question is what would be the population
0:07:42 do you think of the world we don't have
0:07:44 exact figures historical guess but what
0:07:47 do you think the population of the world
0:07:48 is going to be a thousand four hundred
0:07:50 years ago before globalization before
0:07:52 technological advancements before Planes
0:07:54 Trains automobiles maybe if we're lucky
0:07:56 if we're lucky 80 million the whole
0:07:58 world is a population of one country
0:08:00 which is not one of the biggest ones
0:08:02 you're lucky you get 80 million 100
0:08:04 million and I think that's an estimates
0:08:06 that's a fair guess now let's just say
0:08:08 for the sake of argument that you're an
0:08:09 Arabian Peninsula and it's night time
0:08:12 yes there are people that are obviously
0:08:13 going to sleep but then there are people
0:08:15 in countries where it's not even night
0:08:16 time yet like we know we're Saudi Arabia
0:08:18 now right what time is it here it's like
0:08:20 8 10 yes okay what time is it in the UK
0:08:24 it is like you know I don't know five
0:08:26 o'clock or something maybe it's back up
0:08:27 now it's not a great example because
0:08:29 it's a short night but no but for the
0:08:31 most part of the year it will be night
0:08:34 time in one place and it'll be daytime
0:08:37 and another so they don't even see the
0:08:38 night
0:08:39 in Australia there wasn't even a
0:08:41 civilization there probably and if there
0:08:42 was they didn't see the night there are
0:08:44 places in the world they didn't even see
0:08:45 the night so the idea that okay of let's
0:08:48 say 80 million 100 million people maybe
0:08:51 50 maybe 60 of people they won't even
0:08:54 seeing the night and the rest of the
0:08:56 people
0:08:57 okay they were omis
0:08:59 they weren't all historians because the
0:09:01 idea is that everyone's a historian
0:09:02 waiting to see the cosmos and the
0:09:04 question is I mean how long did this in
0:09:07 Chicago take place for how long do you
0:09:08 reckon it took place for five hours
0:09:10 three hours
0:09:11 it took place for a very short period of
0:09:13 time three seconds if I saw something or
0:09:16 I thought would be the moon going like
0:09:17 this
0:09:18 in three seconds I wouldn't think oh
0:09:21 yeah that happened then I would doubt
0:09:23 myself I'll say I think I saw something
0:09:24 but I'll go to you know my friend said I
0:09:27 saw the brother what you've been
0:09:29 drinking at that's what would happen I
0:09:31 mean that's the real situation so the
0:09:33 the strongest argument is I think our
0:09:35 argument we are saying that this
0:09:37 happened we have witness testimony all
0:09:39 of it is all of these kind of things and
0:09:42 it Rivals any of the strongest things
0:09:43 that these guys say they have for
0:09:45 example the Christian tradition
0:09:48 I want you to um and I was reading this
0:09:50 Surah and a very interesting thing about
0:09:52 the structure of the Surah
0:09:55 we talked about the structure
0:09:57 I'll tell you now out of break I'll
0:09:59 break the Ashley I'll ask you first
0:10:02 every Heir in this Surah
0:10:05 there's something significant about its
0:10:07 ending
0:10:08 I want to give you 30 seconds to try and
0:10:09 work this out look at each Surah
0:10:12 each eye and this is something
0:10:14 significant about the ending of each
0:10:15 area tell me tell me what you think it
0:10:17 is I'll give you one minute yeah
0:10:23 huh
0:10:33 this one ends with oh
0:10:40 yeah every single a I I've only well I
0:10:43 only recognized this the other day again
0:10:45 every Ayah in this Surah every single
0:10:48 one
0:10:49 films
0:10:51 now this is quite an interesting
0:10:53 situation because here if you heard how
0:10:55 this was being recited it's all very
0:10:57 abrupt
0:11:00 meaning it's all very choppy it's all
0:11:02 very simultaneous it's all very instant
0:11:04 it's all happening straight away and
0:11:06 what's the theme of it you'll you'll
0:11:07 find as we'll come to the end of the
0:11:09 Surah it's the ins is the simultaneurity
0:11:12 or it's a spontaneous nature or it is
0:11:15 the southern abrupt nature of what that
0:11:17 their judgment we're in there
0:11:21 it's going to happen more like one
0:11:23 second
0:11:24 this thing's gonna be one second it's
0:11:25 gonna come so look the structure of it's
0:11:28 almost onomatopoietic meaning it's
0:11:31 almost like the words and the the
0:11:34 rhyming
0:11:36 now it's meant to symbolize the content
0:11:38 of the Quran
0:11:40 and you'll find this is very regular
0:11:41 like it
0:11:42 sounds like a shaking
0:11:45 you know
0:11:46 yeah
0:11:47 it sounds like a whispering you see and
0:11:51 here it's all choppy why because you
0:11:53 want to get to the point quickly
0:11:55 you see
0:11:56 and you see subhanallah in the previous
0:11:57 Surah it was ending in an alif
0:12:01 and this one is
0:12:03 changing but it's similar at the same
0:12:06 time you'll see the similarity it
0:12:08 maintains some of the characteristic
0:12:10 Integrity of Allah and the style of it
0:12:12 but it's actually different and by the
0:12:14 way just on a side note this idea of the
0:12:17 Falafel or the ends of thesaurus ending
0:12:19 in a certain letter is something which
0:12:21 is very common in the Quran for example
0:12:22 every
0:12:25 Ayah ends with the alif except for one
0:12:27 air
0:12:28 which is the word Sabine in the third or
0:12:30 fourth air and the same thing which was
0:12:32 last up chapter 33 of the Quran every
0:12:34 Aya ends with L except for the same word
0:12:35 by the way
0:12:37 very interesting things
0:12:39 yes
0:12:42 small that's why I'm giving you the like
0:12:44 a smaller it's a bigger Surah but the
0:12:46 another one just because since we're on
0:12:47 the theme of it
0:12:49 Chapter 58 every single area has the
0:12:53 word Allah in it
0:12:55 every single area you can go and check
0:12:57 this out and try and prove me wrong huh
0:12:59 I'm saying every a every a has the word
0:13:02 a lot why because there's a there's an
0:13:05 on the air in that Surah which says he
0:13:11 got them or he he overpowered them so he
0:13:14 made them forget the mentioning of Allah
0:13:16 so in order to counteract the shaytan
0:13:18 Allah he puts Allah in each and every
0:13:20 Ayah
0:13:21 now tell me now imagine if a man here
0:13:22 the Prophet Muhammad
0:13:25 he is narrating this Sur instantaneously
0:13:28 sometimes he's narrating them as an
0:13:29 answer to certain questions
0:13:31 so he's not doing it Yani he doesn't
0:13:33 have time to write and edit and send it
0:13:35 to the editor and see this and that
0:13:38 so how could it be I mean it's too
0:13:40 detailed it's too complicated it's too
0:13:43 precise and this is what we say
0:13:46 yeah
0:13:48 let them bring something like it
0:13:51 try and bring something like this
0:13:52 structurally linguistically rhythmically
0:13:55 syllabilistically historically
0:13:58 this is the challenge when you start to
0:14:00 realize that the challenge is no joke
0:14:02 here it's a serious challenge
0:14:04 and imagine they weren't able to meet us
0:14:06 so we'll go to the next um
0:14:08 yes change phones
0:14:11 you want to change
0:14:18 that's why I'm saying but they're saying
0:14:19 it's only the same tradition yeah
0:14:26 and if they see a sign they turn away
0:14:28 and say it says continuous Magic
0:14:32 in the previous Surah this was the same
0:14:33 allegation
0:14:36 but here there's once again they're
0:14:38 saying it's magic which shows it's an
0:14:39 admission of what what did we say it was
0:14:41 the mission of who remembers
0:14:43 if you're saying something is magical
0:14:45 what does what does that mean yes
0:14:48 you're admitting to the supernatural
0:14:51 external extraordinary remarkable nature
0:14:53 of the thing
0:14:55 and this theme continues
0:14:58 you see Allah
0:15:01 he's removed this idea that he could be
0:15:04 here is saying no they're the ones
0:15:08 double
0:15:14 they belied him whatever why did they do
0:15:18 that what's the reason psychologically
0:15:20 because they want to follow their
0:15:21 hedonistic desires
0:15:24 because they know Islam is a religion
0:15:26 you need to do had you need to do
0:15:29 fasting years they're praying this is
0:15:30 headache for them I'd rather just drink
0:15:32 candy and eat like an animal yes
0:15:41 uh each chapter like relates to the
0:15:43 other but then what someone brings the
0:15:45 argument that okay the quran's like that
0:15:47 because it was compiled like that yeah
0:15:49 I'll come to that okay just remind me
0:15:51 yeah don't forget
0:15:53 foreign
0:15:57 and every matter will be settled every
0:16:00 single matter will be settled yeah
0:16:04 and indeed there has come to the news
0:16:07 wherein there is
0:16:09 enough warning to check them from evil
0:16:11 in other words
0:16:13 this is interesting because especially
0:16:15 in remember this Ayah it's a number four
0:16:16 yeah this is going to come about when we
0:16:21 have a discussion about home loot in
0:16:22 particular and this is a very very
0:16:24 important discussion for today's world
0:16:26 because as we'll find
0:16:29 you know the Allah says to Prophet Lord
0:16:33 yeah he says the prophet Lord that he'd
0:16:35 done something that he was successful in
0:16:38 doing something and this is connected to
0:16:40 that so just bear that in mind
0:16:43 a perfect wisdom
0:16:46 but the Warner's benefit not them not in
0:16:49 other words people come this is perfect
0:16:51 wisdom it makes sense but these guys
0:16:54 they're not interested in it
0:16:57 so now Allah is telling the prophet
0:16:59 speaking to him directly says
0:17:01 withdraw from these people
0:17:05 and this time
0:17:08 keep coming in two in two times in one
0:17:10 hour have happened before as well
0:17:16 even the the fact that you have certain
0:17:19 letters that are this wasn't two sutures
0:17:21 ago here you have
0:17:25 um
0:17:30 to something which is terrible
0:17:33 it's the same kind of Reflections as we
0:17:36 had
0:17:38 so now it's the punishment being
0:17:40 mentioned
0:17:42 that they will come home forward with
0:17:44 humbled eyes
0:17:50 by the way in this Surah this term
0:17:54 keeps coming up is as if as if simile to
0:17:58 simile in in English language in Arabic
0:18:00 language is the same thing you have my
0:18:01 jazz and you have you have a simulator
0:18:03 you have a metaphor
0:18:05 if you say someone is like someone else
0:18:08 a metaphor if I say this man he is a
0:18:12 lion yeah and if I say I went into the
0:18:13 mosque and I saw someone
0:18:16 right
0:18:19 I saw a lion doing a hotbot on the
0:18:24 windward No One's Gonna think that
0:18:25 there's actual lion you know came from
0:18:26 the zoo
0:18:27 you're going to think it's Yani
0:18:29 it's a it's a brave man yeah
0:18:37 foreign
0:18:46 so this as if they are Locus spread of
0:18:49 uh abroad
0:18:51 Yani have you ever seen Locus how they
0:18:54 look especially when they're together
0:18:56 they look like they are yeah it looks
0:18:58 kind of
0:18:59 uh
0:19:01 it looks kind of um disturbing actually
0:19:03 horrifying yeah it looks kind of
0:19:05 disturbing it does they're scattered
0:19:07 about it's like muscle these insects and
0:19:09 sorry to say and you'll find this
0:19:13 speaking about human beings he always
0:19:15 uses insignificant
0:19:17 he brings them down and you're nothing
0:19:20 basically telling us you're nothing your
0:19:22 Muslim and non-muslim all of you are
0:19:24 nothing you're basically nothing you're
0:19:25 like insects you know how you see
0:19:26 insects I see you like that actually
0:19:28 worse than this we already spoke about
0:19:31 in the previous Surah I was talking
0:19:32 about how Allah he took the prophet
0:19:33 sallam to the high places and yeah
0:19:35 nothing compared to the Hulk of Allah
0:19:38 we spoke about that now imagine here
0:19:41 yes we're talking about his Allah is
0:19:44 trying to make us feel how insignificant
0:19:46 we are by presenting the insects as a
0:19:49 point of tashvi
0:19:52 insects don't even know where to go
0:19:54 don't know what to do have you ever
0:19:55 played a bat with an inset insect and
0:19:58 when I was a kid I used to see and that
0:20:00 going this way I used to put my finger
0:20:01 like that and then they used to go there
0:20:02 and put my finger down just playing
0:20:04 around with the insect and this is very
0:20:05 cruel I don't want to encourage it kind
0:20:07 of behavior
0:20:08 okay but the point is is that we
0:20:10 consider them easy crush this that throw
0:20:12 put my foot on them
0:20:15 it's a big foot as well smash them you
0:20:18 know whatever I mean
0:20:20 so the way we consider insects this is
0:20:22 how really we are we're insignificant
0:20:24 insect type and it's on the day of
0:20:26 judgment and subhanallah the day of
0:20:28 judgment had just been dominant and
0:20:30 stuff like that had your number if you
0:20:32 look at people in hajiramra even with
0:20:34 the two pieces of garments the like plus
0:20:36 and stuff like that as if as if they
0:20:38 come out of the graves actually because
0:20:40 this is the garments are meant to
0:20:41 signify as if you come out of the Grave
0:20:43 because you'll be wrapped with the same
0:20:44 garments
0:20:45 you know and you're there all of you and
0:20:47 you see it from the bird's eye view even
0:20:48 we have now on TV how it looks like you
0:20:50 don't even know who's who
0:20:53 and by the way the Americans they use
0:20:55 this kind of uh programming to the
0:20:58 foreign policy
0:21:00 because they look like yeah these people
0:21:01 here look at all of them it's so easy
0:21:03 when you have a distance to dehumanize
0:21:05 press the button you know you press they
0:21:06 don't care about every single one is a
0:21:08 human being like so in a sense Allah is
0:21:10 showing us you're nothing
0:21:12 you see and on the day of just but
0:21:13 you'll you'll realize that Hasting
0:21:15 towards the caller do this Believers
0:21:17 will say this is a hard day
0:21:19 they will admit that time it's a hard
0:21:20 day ending
0:21:24 now we're going into the stories
0:21:31 the people of Noah denied there before
0:21:34 them
0:21:36 their messenger they rejected our slave
0:21:38 and said he's a madman and he was
0:21:39 insolutely rebuked and threatened
0:21:42 now the story of Noah has mentioned is
0:21:45 mentioned
0:21:46 in many different parts of the Quran
0:21:48 he's one of the most mentioned uh
0:21:50 Messengers in the Quran
0:21:54 but here is very interesting because
0:21:56 it's kind of summarizing
0:21:58 everything in an evil Anka boat actually
0:22:01 it's summarizing many different things
0:22:03 in in short space of time
0:22:05 so firstly it's telling us what his
0:22:07 people said about him
0:22:08 and we know he was around for a very
0:22:10 long time
0:22:11 okay with his people
0:22:13 fantastic yeah
0:22:15 he said
0:22:17 he he evokes his daughter I have been
0:22:19 overcome so help me
0:22:21 he made Dua and then here is
0:22:28 it happens as a result when a prophet
0:22:31 makes a Dua it's a very different kind
0:22:33 of level of God
0:22:35 he made a law against them and he said I
0:22:37 am overcome I've had like in a sense
0:22:40 I've had enough so help me which shows
0:22:44 you that
0:22:45 we can all make such a Dua that when we
0:22:48 feel overcoming our own lives when we
0:22:49 feel like things are too difficult it's
0:22:52 too much unbearable
0:22:55 that we should make a similar to that
0:22:57 like all of the prophets if you look at
0:22:59 their their they have a very similar way
0:23:01 of doing it
0:23:02 Allah
0:23:08 and all the prophets have a way of of
0:23:10 doing it
0:23:16 the Gates of Heaven with a water pouring
0:23:19 forth yeah and it rains started to come
0:23:21 down
0:23:22 thunderous rain
0:23:25 you know you imagine the scene
0:23:28 it's a very serious you know the war is
0:23:31 coming down and
0:23:32 it's flooding from the from the bottom
0:23:34 as well
0:23:36 this is a scale one of the scariest
0:23:37 things for human beings to see a tsunami
0:23:40 type situation we've seen tsunamis we've
0:23:42 seen how that looks like imagine a heavy
0:23:44 tsunami and a rain from the sky this is
0:23:47 serious
0:23:52 and we caused the Earth to gush forth
0:23:56 with springs so the Waters of the
0:23:58 heavens and earth met for MATA predis
0:24:01 distant
0:24:03 and this word comes up in the Quran on
0:24:05 this very Surah many times actually
0:24:08 so once again there's repetition of
0:24:10 words sometimes to let you know that
0:24:13 no matter who you think you are and
0:24:14 we're talking about this in the previous
0:24:15 session we were saying like whoever who
0:24:17 you think you are whatever civilization
0:24:19 you have been able to construct
0:24:22 you're really insignificant
0:24:24 all it takes is one command and I'll
0:24:25 destroy you and flatten you in one
0:24:27 second
0:24:28 but once again as modern people we
0:24:30 should be very well aware of that
0:24:31 because we have nuclear weapons of mass
0:24:33 destruction
0:24:34 we've actually seen
0:24:35 whole cities and towns be destroyed with
0:24:38 one button with one human being pressing
0:24:40 a button imagine in the Second World War
0:24:43 you had Hiroshima Nagasaki yeah two
0:24:46 cities in Japan all it took was a person
0:24:48 to do that human being and then the
0:24:50 whole place was flattened out and if you
0:24:52 think a human being can do that press a
0:24:54 button and then flatten out human beings
0:24:56 like I'm insects
0:24:58 then imagine if you don't believe Allah
0:25:00 can do that
0:25:01 if a human being can do it then what
0:25:03 about Allah he can flatten you out in
0:25:05 less than these times
0:25:06 and in a way which is more
0:25:09 you know it's more grueling it's more
0:25:10 punishing it's more humorous than that
0:25:16 and we carried him on a ship made of
0:25:19 plaits and nails why did Allah mention
0:25:21 planks and Nails he's showing that this
0:25:24 insignificant things
0:25:26 which human beings use Allah
0:25:30 can help his profit using these things
0:25:32 to create an invention
0:25:34 like a ship which can withhold such a
0:25:36 situation and I actually believe
0:25:39 and this is something interesting
0:25:40 actually my children sometimes they ask
0:25:43 me who invented this thing like this
0:25:45 building here who made it and we've got
0:25:47 to be careful with the answer here
0:25:48 because there's two answers in one sense
0:25:50 we the human beings invented yes but
0:25:52 there is Allah invented it because
0:25:56 he created you and what you do whatever
0:25:58 good we do
0:26:00 we should ascribe that to Allah he
0:26:03 created us did you know so in a sense
0:26:05 indirectly Allah created
0:26:08 us
0:26:09 our actions even he he invented the
0:26:12 things we invented everything Allah is
0:26:14 responsible for
0:26:16 well there's a difference between
0:26:17 because I mean he'd done all the bad
0:26:19 things as well because I know what you
0:26:21 know the thought process is going to be
0:26:22 this is
0:26:23 the created you actions that you've done
0:26:24 your actions
0:26:26 and this distinction is a very important
0:26:28 one that even Tamia mentions
0:26:30 he has a whole
0:26:33 section on it on the eighth volume
0:26:36 the eighth volume he just speaks about
0:26:38 these kind of things and he speaks about
0:26:40 how this works and basically in the
0:26:43 eighth volume of much Michael Patel he
0:26:45 he makes this distinction an important
0:26:47 distinction where he says that
0:26:49 on the one hand Allah creates everything
0:26:52 including your actions and everything
0:26:54 you've done Allah is the creator of it
0:26:57 yes but he does not do everything
0:26:58 including your actions let me be
0:27:01 provocative a bit
0:27:02 sorry to say Let Me Be provocative I'm
0:27:04 going to be very provocative in this
0:27:06 session because he's going to be talking
0:27:07 about different groups and different
0:27:09 issues but let me let me start the
0:27:11 qualification if I say that there's a
0:27:13 rapist Daniel or a you know a thief
0:27:17 say you say didn't you say that Allah is
0:27:20 responsible and he created the thing and
0:27:22 he invented it how the atheist may say
0:27:24 well you want to have it your way when
0:27:26 it comes to the good things but what
0:27:27 about the bad things huh how about that
0:27:29 one I say listen
0:27:31 two things number one
0:27:33 it's impossible for Allah to do those
0:27:35 things anyway
0:27:36 why because Yani for example let's take
0:27:39 an easy example theft what is theft
0:27:42 theft is to say something it doesn't own
0:27:43 to you
0:27:47 because he owns everything
0:27:50 so theft is not even applicable to Allah
0:27:52 so that's from one General another Janet
0:27:55 another idea is
0:27:57 that this distinction between we are the
0:28:00 doers of the action Allah is the creator
0:28:02 of it he's got an indirect relationship
0:28:04 with that action
0:28:07 he has an indirect issue with that
0:28:09 action
0:28:10 but he has a direct relationship in the
0:28:12 creation of that action this is an
0:28:13 important distinction so when something
0:28:16 bad we do something bad that's because
0:28:17 we've done it
0:28:18 we're to blame for it did Allah create
0:28:21 the bad things yes he created everything
0:28:23 but what is bad anyway
0:28:25 and this is another discussion for
0:28:26 another day which we can't go into
0:28:28 details but some said that doesn't exist
0:28:31 even tell me I had that view uh Aquinas
0:28:33 had that view Thomas Aquinas a Christian
0:28:36 guy
0:28:37 Augustine had that you said actually the
0:28:40 bad thing is just the the lack of the
0:28:42 presence of the good thing
0:28:44 foreign
0:28:51 anyway that's another discussion for
0:28:53 that but the point I'm making to you is
0:28:54 Allah is responsible for all of the
0:28:57 Great Inventions anybody has ever made
0:28:59 at any time in human history
0:29:02 and it's ironic that we use those
0:29:04 inventions to feel like we feel
0:29:06 self-sufficient
0:29:08 from Allah and we say look what we've
0:29:10 created look what we've done we've done
0:29:12 this big building here we've got this
0:29:14 clean streets here
0:29:17 and in a sense that makes us feel like
0:29:20 we are Everlasting or Eternal creatures
0:29:23 Immortal creatures
0:29:25 but actually even that Allah is
0:29:27 responsible foreign
0:29:32 floating under our eyes a reward for him
0:29:36 who has been rejected
0:29:40 we have left as a sign then is there any
0:29:43 that will remember or receive admission
0:29:49 then how terrible was my torment and
0:29:53 warning
0:29:55 Allah doesn't destroy a people until he
0:29:57 sends them a message
0:30:02 that he does not destroy your people
0:30:04 until he sends him a messenger and this
0:30:06 is very important because someone will
0:30:08 say well there's so many people in the
0:30:09 world today they're Christian they are
0:30:11 you know they're this they're that but
0:30:13 they have never heard the message of
0:30:14 Islam or in fact they may have heard the
0:30:16 message of Islam but it might have been
0:30:17 distorted
0:30:18 Yanni or their mouth all they know about
0:30:20 Islam is that Islam is a religion of
0:30:22 terrorism is it fair that they will be
0:30:24 put into the Hellfire the Islamic cancer
0:30:26 is no it's not actually Fair
0:30:28 and that's why Allah says
0:30:31 we're not going to destroy them until we
0:30:34 send them
0:30:34 a prophet
0:30:37 and so
0:30:41 because if you really think about it
0:30:45 you know he says
0:30:55 yeah that when Allah took from a pledge
0:30:58 or Covenant from the people of the
0:31:00 children of Adam he took a covenant from
0:31:03 them am I not your road and they say yes
0:31:04 we are
0:31:06 so in other words we have this fitra or
0:31:08 this thing we have this thing
0:31:11 this idea of Iman already in US embedded
0:31:15 software
0:31:17 yeah for example a child
0:31:19 a baby
0:31:21 a toddler
0:31:23 whatever happens he knows kind of who
0:31:25 his mom is he knows he has a mum
0:31:27 he knows the idea of motherhood all
0:31:30 these things are
0:31:31 clear in the mind of the child
0:31:33 and what we're saying is that the same
0:31:35 thing the filter is the same thing as
0:31:36 this
0:31:37 you see
0:31:38 it could have been sufficient for Allah
0:31:40 to destroy us
0:31:41 because we're not going we're not even
0:31:42 searching for the future we're not
0:31:44 searching for Allah
0:31:46 but Allah he made a condition which is
0:31:49 that you have to hear it first so that
0:31:51 you come back to the truth
0:31:54 so when you hear these
0:31:56 punishments and stuff you have to put it
0:31:58 in that context
0:31:59 that we put it in the context of they
0:32:01 were sent a messenger and they have a
0:32:03 photograph two things they are well
0:32:05 deserving of that punishment why else
0:32:07 would they yes why else would they
0:32:10 reject the situation I would be reject
0:32:12 it the evidences are there all the
0:32:14 prophets came with some kind of evidence
0:32:18 and then Allah says yes
0:32:22 we have certainly made the Quran easy
0:32:25 to understand and remember then is there
0:32:28 anyone who remembers and this is itself
0:32:30 kind of a miraculous verse
0:32:32 the Quran is the most memorized book in
0:32:35 the world
0:32:37 of a science there's no other book I
0:32:39 have not I've met many Christians many
0:32:41 Jews in my life spoken with them debated
0:32:44 with them discuss with them I have not
0:32:46 met a single Christian or a single Jew
0:32:48 who has memorized the holy book
0:32:51 ever
0:32:54 to be honest with you I've never even
0:32:56 met somebody who has attempted it
0:33:00 have you I know why do you think that
0:33:02 that is what it's hard to even memorize
0:33:04 that stuff
0:33:05 yeah I mean what are you going to
0:33:06 memorize anyway is look at this listen
0:33:09 to this area look at look at the solar
0:33:11 we just told you like everything is so
0:33:12 rhythmic that I was reading a book by
0:33:14 some guy called Tony buesan a long time
0:33:16 ago how to remember oh memory the secret
0:33:18 memory or something he said one of the
0:33:20 most important aspects of memory and
0:33:21 most people will tell you this
0:33:23 is risen
0:33:25 rhyme it's syllables there's all these
0:33:27 things
0:33:28 the the Bible's not fit for purpose as a
0:33:31 book to be memorized
0:33:33 neither is any other book a religious
0:33:36 book it's not take a look at it
0:33:39 take it I mean read it if the Genesis is
0:33:41 a story it's a fable like yeah
0:33:43 for example Genesis chapter six or
0:33:46 chapter nine the whole thing is the
0:33:47 whole thing is he was the son of him he
0:33:49 was the son of him he was the son of him
0:33:51 what kind of information is that it's
0:33:53 like you're going to the Future
0:33:54 Euro or something and getting someone's
0:33:56 answer and retest or something
0:33:58 it's not something to be memorized yes
0:34:00 what's wrong with that
0:34:02 that it's not a book to be memorized I'm
0:34:04 we're not saying there's anything wrong
0:34:05 with it we're just saying that because
0:34:07 the question is
0:34:10 saying that he has made the Quran easy
0:34:12 to remember so so this is a this is
0:34:15 something
0:34:16 special about the Quran and you'd expect
0:34:18 for a book which is meant to contain the
0:34:22 words of God
0:34:24 to be implemented to be spread
0:34:28 to be easy to memorize because if not
0:34:31 then anyone can change it anyone can
0:34:33 it's part of the preservation mechanism
0:34:36 it's hard
0:34:37 sorry go first go first I mean do you
0:34:39 think it's hard to memorize it because
0:34:40 it was changed like they put some things
0:34:42 that are not from God exactly exactly
0:34:46 guys let's uh let's try and keep it down
0:34:48 please yeah
0:34:50 let's try and keep it up
0:34:52 yeah so as I was saying it's uh yeah I
0:34:55 mean it could be sorry it could be yeah
0:34:56 because it was changed it could be
0:34:58 because it was changing and because it
0:35:00 was not only just changed like let me
0:35:02 get I'm not gonna go into deep detail
0:35:03 about this but like for example the Old
0:35:05 Testament one of the main sources of it
0:35:07 is a Greek Source the Septuagint it's a
0:35:10 Hebrew Book they have to translate it
0:35:12 from Greek to Hebrew first
0:35:15 Johnny this is the problem of not having
0:35:17 a book that's easy to memorize if you
0:35:19 don't have a book that's easy to
0:35:20 memorize then it's then you rely on even
0:35:23 another language Source it's another
0:35:25 language imagine if I say to one of the
0:35:27 earliest qurans is is in this place or
0:35:29 that place and it's in it's in French or
0:35:32 another language
0:35:34 William the French is relatively new
0:35:36 let's say a language access at a time
0:35:39 Hebrew and I had to translate it from
0:35:42 Hebrew to Arabic
0:35:43 first
0:35:44 then you rely on the translator you rely
0:35:47 on this and you're right there you
0:35:48 cannot compare the Quran with any other
0:35:50 book full stop
0:35:52 but the fact that Allah keeps repeating
0:35:54 this
0:35:56 itself is is kind of as if he's trying
0:35:58 to encourage us to memorize the Quran
0:36:00 because
0:36:01 doesn't just mean understand it it means
0:36:05 remember it
0:36:08 yes yeah and like you said earlier about
0:36:11 this
0:36:12 he was like a warrior he was under
0:36:15 similar to the Quran people can always
0:36:17 say oh so what for each individual
0:36:19 aspect but they're missing the whole
0:36:21 picture like it's compounded like
0:36:22 probabilities okay I flip heads once I
0:36:25 can't clip heads 506
0:36:27 000 billion times and get heads always
0:36:29 it's like there's something else going
0:36:31 on if I made a YouTube video
0:36:33 for 30 40 hour long video yeah
0:36:38 I've never done that I don't plan to do
0:36:40 that but let's say I do a 40 it takes
0:36:42 about 30 hours to recite the Quran the
0:36:45 whole thing 30 to 40 hours let's just
0:36:47 say 35 hours
0:36:48 I'll make a 35 hour video I claim to be
0:36:51 wherever I claim to be yeah
0:36:54 and then that whole video is memorized
0:36:57 a thousand years later
0:36:59 by a quarter of the you know not a
0:37:01 quarter of the world but a big chunk of
0:37:02 millions of people
0:37:03 what kind of success would you call that
0:37:05 video
0:37:06 do you see yeah it's the most successful
0:37:08 video of all times
0:37:10 if I if I made a 25 30 hour 35 hour
0:37:14 music track
0:37:15 there's not one musician one poet
0:37:19 one you know astounding
0:37:23 writer of literacy Shakespeare anybody
0:37:26 who's ever achieved anything like that
0:37:29 how could that not be worthy of notes
0:37:32 my question to the fair-minded Cafe
0:37:35 is you cannot tell me this is not worthy
0:37:38 of note because well like if you had
0:37:40 been the if you have been the author of
0:37:42 it you would know that it's worthy of
0:37:44 notes
0:37:46 there's no other book in the world that
0:37:48 has actually achieved that
0:37:49 it has an Accolade that no other book
0:37:53 has and that's an empirical thing
0:37:56 it is a sociologically empirical thing
0:37:59 it's a historical thing it's a
0:38:00 cross-cultural thing
0:38:02 you can't lie out you can't um uh
0:38:05 distort the faculty
0:38:06 the Quran has an Accolade which no other
0:38:09 book has which is it's the most
0:38:12 memorized book in human history
0:38:16 so what
0:38:20 it's not what they say when they're
0:38:22 watching
0:38:23 Netflix shows
0:38:25 because they look at the ones that
0:38:26 everyone recommends everyone wants or
0:38:28 the movies that everyone watch what
0:38:30 everyone uh watches these things there's
0:38:32 something called the perito principle
0:38:34 which is that I don't know what exact
0:38:36 percentages are but let's just have a
0:38:38 sake of argument two percent of people
0:38:40 make 98 of the content
0:38:43 yeah and if I ask you the question
0:38:47 who makes the majority of music in the
0:38:49 world really so 100 people getting 100
0:38:51 people 150 people today and living human
0:38:53 beings
0:38:55 how many people are doing music
0:38:58 so many people
0:38:59 how many A-list celebrities are the
0:39:01 highest level out there
0:39:03 300 maximum
0:39:05 highest level 100
0:39:06 I'm not going to say anything more than
0:39:07 that now what I'm saying is is that not
0:39:10 significant of course it's significant
0:39:11 Society has hierarchized that as
0:39:14 something which is significant otherwise
0:39:16 when you walk in the street and when I
0:39:18 will conestrate it's the same thing I'm
0:39:19 joking no but that's the idea you see
0:39:23 Society rates Things based on views
0:39:25 based on effects based on that I'm
0:39:28 telling you this book is the most
0:39:30 memorized book
0:39:32 in the history of the world
0:39:34 and there's there's no there's no second
0:39:36 place
0:39:37 of a size
0:39:39 there's no second place
0:39:40 so this is a it's an Evidence
0:39:43 for the veracity of Islam and if someone
0:39:45 says it's not well they are deluding
0:39:48 themselves
0:39:52 yes
0:39:53 important I kind of know the question
0:39:55 but they just want to look down so that
0:39:57 they want to hear it from you how
0:39:59 important is memorizing Quran
0:40:02 um
0:40:03 today to the person in doubt I know it's
0:40:06 very important like significantly you
0:40:08 don't need to do that but how much do I
0:40:11 invest okay that's gonna discoke this
0:40:14 and I don't wanna hold on to that
0:40:16 question like his one yeah just hold on
0:40:17 to it and if we have time at the end
0:40:19 I'll have to deal with that
0:40:21 but one more thing linguistically
0:40:23 stylistically this is a question that is
0:40:26 continually awesome
0:40:28 foreign
0:40:54 have a question continually asked that's
0:40:57 a stylistic feature of the Surah
0:40:59 the next to a lot you have one question
0:41:01 continually ask as well
0:41:02 so this the stylistic feature of this
0:41:05 Surah which in a sense is continues to
0:41:07 the next
0:41:09 cancel
0:41:13 by the way
0:41:16 and how terrible was my atonement and my
0:41:18 warnings
0:41:24 this is the second time has been used in
0:41:27 the Quran
0:41:28 verily we sent down
0:41:31 Furious wind
0:41:34 of a harsh
0:41:35 voice on the day of evil Omen and
0:41:38 continuous calamities Bill mouthful this
0:41:40 translation
0:41:41 but we have something look all the
0:41:43 elements are being described first we
0:41:45 have the water
0:41:47 if you think about it right yeah the
0:41:48 water it destroys Allah
0:41:52 Allah
0:41:54 only knows
0:41:57 the water we use it for drinking for
0:41:59 living without it we wouldn't be alive
0:42:07 but you use it to destroy the people
0:42:09 likewise
0:42:12 now we're going to the Furious when the
0:42:14 loud noise that destroyed other people
0:42:17 so you're moving from element to element
0:42:19 meaning you don't even know where it
0:42:21 could come from which goes back to the
0:42:23 theme of simultaneurity instant abrupt
0:42:26 endings and all these kind of things you
0:42:28 don't know how this fight is going to
0:42:29 end
0:42:30 you don't even know
0:42:34 you know you could be you swallowed up
0:42:36 it could be your bird it could be this
0:42:38 it could be unlocking the stream
0:42:39 whatever he wants you think this is
0:42:40 something which is only applicable to oh
0:42:42 this is a as well in
0:42:45 look at for example how people die go to
0:42:48 your country and how people die on a
0:42:50 yearly basis
0:42:52 I was on cancer research website some
0:42:54 time ago
0:42:56 and I read something on there which I
0:42:59 found quite disturbing
0:43:02 it said one in every two people will die
0:43:04 from cancer
0:43:06 and I thought this must be a super
0:43:08 inflation or some kind of caricature but
0:43:12 then they said no actually what is is
0:43:13 that most of these people are going to
0:43:14 be over the age of 65 and they're going
0:43:16 to die from cancer how many cancers are
0:43:18 there is Leukemia are the skin cancer
0:43:20 there's
0:43:21 all kinds of cancers sound
0:43:24 so we think we're safe
0:43:26 we have a man that we believe
0:43:29 we think that is not there a luck
0:43:33 industry one look at Comfort weapon
0:43:36 government shut themselves down and
0:43:37 we're all stay in our homes and stuff
0:43:39 like that and animals were in the
0:43:40 streets
0:43:42 well that's what happened and the things
0:43:45 were being unpolluted and these kind of
0:43:47 things
0:43:48 one one virus from some cow plant and
0:43:51 whatever it was in China move on
0:43:54 well this it was a battle Yeah that can
0:43:57 destroy all of us
0:43:58 one basket just for all of us first it
0:44:00 was one man that pressed the button that
0:44:02 was one but what's next
0:44:06 I'm saying yeah
0:44:08 the point is you can be destroyed from
0:44:10 anything cancer can hit you
0:44:13 and we have anxiety over things in life
0:44:15 because Allah
0:44:20 we have created the human being in a
0:44:22 sense in a state of anxieties
0:44:25 where essentially anxiety-ridden
0:44:27 creatures
0:44:28 yeah we have anxiety all the time oh
0:44:31 what's going to happen or what is going
0:44:33 to happen or is this good yeah I'm gonna
0:44:35 lose money and I can't get here and the
0:44:36 money's not gonna be enough and this and
0:44:38 that is not gonna get through school uh
0:44:40 actually I'm gonna get the grades and
0:44:41 I'm gonna get married and what if I
0:44:42 don't get married and what if I my kids
0:44:44 turns out disabled and what
0:44:48 what if you just died what if something
0:44:50 happened to you immortal Fajr what if
0:44:52 something yeah you drink or you walk the
0:44:54 street someone hits you someone stab you
0:44:57 someone shoot you you live in America
0:44:59 there's a shooting inside them
0:45:01 walk in the street
0:45:04 anything can happen
0:45:06 so there's a level of tawakul you have
0:45:08 to have
0:45:09 and there's also a level of fear of the
0:45:11 marker of Allah
0:45:13 you have to ponder over the consequences
0:45:15 that lack important place for you
0:45:17 these people they were walking as freely
0:45:19 as we were
0:45:20 you think they didn't drink and eat and
0:45:23 laugh and joke if you saw some people
0:45:25 from come north and I did a a
0:45:28 documentary on him maybe you'll feel
0:45:30 sorry for the guy
0:45:31 this was one of the guys walking and
0:45:34 he's got his kids and they're laughing
0:45:35 and smiling and then one day destroyed
0:45:37 why because he had the arrogance in him
0:45:40 he had um
0:45:42 he didn't care
0:45:44 they left he thought everything was okay
0:45:47 maybe we think everything is okay
0:45:51 and look at this
0:45:54 plucking out men as if they were
0:45:56 uprooted stems of day problems
0:46:00 once again so as I said this this Surah
0:46:02 is going to have continual mention of
0:46:06 and so on
0:46:08 similarly similarly similarly similarly
0:46:11 the Surah is filled with repetition of
0:46:13 the same thing and simile these are the
0:46:15 two things which characterize the style
0:46:17 and the linguistic uh lexical field of
0:46:21 this particular Surah
0:46:23 but look at the itself
0:46:26 because it's very I was thinking about
0:46:27 this actually I was thinking
0:46:32 you got trees
0:46:34 now a tree is very
0:46:37 firmly rooted into the ground
0:46:41 the What would
0:46:42 pull out a tree from a through some
0:46:45 cataclysmic event some enormous events
0:46:48 some serious event
0:46:52 but these trees
0:46:54 are being used
0:46:55 to describe the human being
0:46:58 because the human being thinks he's
0:47:01 stable he's okay
0:47:03 I've got enough money in the bank
0:47:07 he thinks his money has made him okay
0:47:09 now you see when when there's more and
0:47:12 more money in a society that Society
0:47:15 becomes less and less God-fearing
0:47:17 that's a strength
0:47:19 they don't need it around the flip side
0:47:21 I'm puke this is a correlation if you
0:47:23 see the most religious countries in the
0:47:25 world that War uh places where this wall
0:47:27 for example look at Somalia
0:47:30 look at one day when they answer about
0:47:32 the Sharia questions they usually get
0:47:34 very Afghanistan when they ask about
0:47:35 Sharia question is very high would you
0:47:37 implement God's law yes yes and then
0:47:39 Pakistan yes
0:47:41 listen that yes Kosovo actually that's
0:47:44 they've changed they've got their own
0:47:45 situation I'm not going to mention
0:47:47 because they had to have a walk
0:47:50 but then when you ask the people in uh
0:47:52 England for example they don't even have
0:47:55 natural disasters
0:47:56 we don't even have natural disasters in
0:47:58 England
0:47:59 from time to time we're not in a
0:48:01 tectonic area is pretty safe for
0:48:03 countries to go honestly I'm not trying
0:48:04 to you know take you away from the gang
0:48:06 crimes and the shootings and all this
0:48:07 kind of things
0:48:08 you know
0:48:11 we've got snack Prime as well actually
0:48:14 but you think you're stable then you
0:48:16 think you're okay you're all right I'm
0:48:17 all right I'm doing okay yeah yeah yeah
0:48:19 whatever you know you're looking around
0:48:21 strutting and stuff
0:48:24 and then one day you get destroyed you
0:48:25 get humiliated
0:48:27 we've seen it in popular culture we've
0:48:29 seen it with celebrity culture we've
0:48:30 seen it with dictators we've seen it
0:48:32 with everything yet
0:48:33 because these people that why is Allah
0:48:36 comparing them with
0:48:38 these trees
0:48:39 because he is showing you that the tree
0:48:41 is stable or at least it seemed there
0:48:44 was the illusion of stability
0:48:47 all of us
0:48:51 only have an illusion of stability
0:48:55 and then he took them out of the ground
0:48:57 like they were
0:49:00 and once again this iron is coming out
0:49:04 it's almost roaring house
0:49:13 that how terrible was my torment and my
0:49:15 warnings
0:49:19 once again we have made the Quran easy
0:49:21 to remember for who's going to remember
0:49:23 it
0:49:24 who's going to remember it
0:49:27 and questions
0:49:29 in the previous sort of were commonplace
0:49:30 as well
0:49:33 actually this was in uh
0:49:37 um
0:49:41 or is it this or is it that is question
0:49:43 question which shows us what what do we
0:49:46 say about questions
0:49:49 it's a challenge it's a challenge but
0:49:51 what is it why yeah I mean
0:49:53 you have an assertion I make a point and
0:49:56 you have a question is it their
0:49:58 admission exploring yeah this is the
0:50:00 same
0:50:03 to think yeah so it makes you it makes
0:50:05 you think
0:50:06 yeah yes you said that sometimes it's
0:50:08 more powerful it's more powerful
0:50:09 sometimes because you always think about
0:50:12 follow the quranic method
0:50:14 if you ask someone a question sometimes
0:50:16 it's more powerful than making a point
0:50:19 for life
0:50:20 a question
0:50:22 can really shake somebody one question
0:50:24 just one question they'll say yeah I'll
0:50:27 give you one question now that you can
0:50:28 use in that one
0:50:30 and I've read some atheists saying about
0:50:33 this question
0:50:34 that it was one of the it haunted them
0:50:36 this question I'm going to give you some
0:50:39 and you'd be thinking why would this
0:50:41 question haunt an atheist
0:50:44 but think about that you'll see why
0:50:46 but obviously from a Muslim perspective
0:50:48 we may not appreciate it
0:50:50 the question is why is there something
0:50:52 rather than nothing
0:50:55 why is there something rather than
0:50:57 nothing
0:51:00 if the atheist
0:51:03 something yeah why is there something
0:51:04 not nothing that's like and it can make
0:51:06 him go mad
0:51:07 then he's going to try and what find an
0:51:09 explanation and the explanation is gonna
0:51:11 have to be what an ultimate cause and
0:51:12 that's it we've got God
0:51:14 on the as an option on the table yeah
0:51:19 so this is the question if we really
0:51:21 believe in Allah and you really believe
0:51:22 in this story
0:51:24 actually
0:51:26 people in history then with this Quran
0:51:28 easy to remember made it easy for you
0:51:32 so why don't you remember it
0:51:34 now we have samud also belite the
0:51:37 warnings foreign
0:51:43 as well these four sometimes a lot of
0:51:46 times are coupled together why because
0:51:49 they were so similar in their behavior
0:51:50 and their culture and their behavior
0:51:58 they said a man alone from Among Us that
0:52:01 we would follow
0:52:03 truly them would be error and in
0:52:04 distress or Madness
0:52:07 remember they were accusing him of
0:52:08 Madness
0:52:09 and now they're saying we would be mad
0:52:11 if we follow you
0:52:13 so they've changed the goal post a
0:52:14 little bit
0:52:16 but what's the problem with it I mean I
0:52:17 was thinking about this myself
0:52:22 if it's one person
0:52:25 why should we follow one man
0:52:29 say yeah
0:52:33 no I mean this is what the Quran these
0:52:35 guys yeah the people of samud yeah
0:52:37 they're saying should we fall why should
0:52:39 we follow one man
0:52:41 foreign
0:52:48 the idea is they don't want to just
0:52:52 follow one person
0:52:54 actually it's a herd mentality we're
0:52:56 seeing our father's doing this we're
0:52:58 seeing these people doing this well why
0:52:59 should we follow this one guy
0:53:01 what do you mean why should we follow
0:53:03 this one back
0:53:04 it's not a rational argument if you
0:53:06 think about their arguments is
0:53:08 it's a weak argument actually
0:53:14 and then they go further actually
0:53:16 foreign
0:53:30 from Among Us and by the way he was one
0:53:33 of the Arab Prophets
0:53:35 and they say and he is an incident liar
0:53:38 they're speaking about a prophet as he's
0:53:39 alive Allah
0:53:43 so as if Allah
0:53:45 they'll know tomorrow
0:53:48 Yanni later on they'll know
0:53:50 it's not exactly tomorrow but later on
0:53:52 they'll know who the liar is
0:53:54 which shows you something
0:53:56 they knew he was a true prophet
0:53:58 otherwise it wouldn't be a line
0:54:01 it would be taxi but it wouldn't be a
0:54:03 lie because why would it be a lie if
0:54:05 they actually believed that he wasn't a
0:54:07 prophet
0:54:08 so Allah didn't destroyed them just on
0:54:10 the basis
0:54:12 that they belied the prophet no they
0:54:14 they knew he was speaking
0:54:17 and then they rejected him
0:54:19 what kind of arrogance is this
0:54:22 and then Allah continues because even
0:54:24 after this Allah gives them additional
0:54:26 evidence
0:54:32 verily we are sending the she camel as a
0:54:36 test for them so watch them and be
0:54:38 patient and it's not worth
0:54:42 which is a lesser form of the word Sabah
0:54:48 seriously patient of it
0:54:57 same word is used here
0:54:59 that tell your your family to pray and
0:55:03 Be watchful over them man
0:55:05 it's not enough to tell your son or to
0:55:06 tell your daughter go and pray
0:55:09 you have to keep telling them to pray so
0:55:12 I've had enough I've told them already
0:55:13 no no because if your job was just to
0:55:16 tell them one time
0:55:17 he wouldn't have used such a strong term
0:55:19 in the Quran your job as a parent is to
0:55:23 continually tell your parents your kids
0:55:25 to pray and your and your family
0:55:30 so this is the importance of the word
0:55:32 stubborn one part one letter changes the
0:55:36 dynamic completely this is why the
0:55:38 importance of the Arabic language
0:55:41 we have said this Napa this she camel
0:55:45 as a fitness as some kind of a trial for
0:55:48 them
0:55:49 so watch them was established
0:55:53 all they're saying is do not kill he
0:55:55 says don't kill this this camel
0:55:59 uh yeah I mean what do you think about
0:56:00 it
0:56:01 that's the easy thing to do
0:56:03 all I have to do is nothing
0:56:08 I don't have to do anything
0:56:11 but imagine the arrogance
0:56:13 yeah imagine like they want to prove a
0:56:15 point
0:56:16 they're coming up
0:56:22 and even now I'm telling them look you
0:56:24 want to drink every one of you has your
0:56:26 turn
0:56:27 meaning you're still going to give them
0:56:28 provision Allah is
0:56:31 he gives a chance of the chance
0:56:34 look you want a drink you can drink
0:56:39 Fernando
0:56:40 this is the word that they use with the
0:56:42 Prophet Muhammad
0:56:44 remember in the previous Surah Allah
0:56:49 your friend did not did not go astray
0:56:51 the same language is being used now of
0:56:54 the previous prophet
0:56:55 they liked him they liked the guy can
0:56:58 you imagine this you have a friend of
0:56:59 yours yeah if you got my friend of yours
0:57:01 good friend I want you to imagine one of
0:57:03 your best friends
0:57:04 yes and now he's telling you some very
0:57:07 important thing to him
0:57:09 and you know he's a community of people
0:57:11 maybe it's 500 a thousand two thousand
0:57:13 we don't know what the population of
0:57:14 that kind of places
0:57:15 he's telling them please you know this
0:57:17 is something I'm
0:57:18 he's a friend of this
0:57:20 and all he's saying is don't kill this
0:57:26 he's not even telling us to give the
0:57:27 money nothing just don't kill this one
0:57:29 here
0:57:30 and he said
0:57:32 they gave a sword to this one guy he
0:57:34 killed the camera
0:57:36 this is wrong with these people
0:57:38 well like what's wrong with these people
0:57:39 you feel that they're sick in the mind
0:57:41 when you think about them what the hell
0:57:43 is wrong with you
0:57:45 why would you do that yeah
0:57:48 and imagine they know he's a true
0:57:50 Prophet what kind of Africans because
0:57:52 remember
0:57:55 they believe he's a true prophet
0:57:59 and he's telling them don't kill this
0:58:01 one and they kill him
0:58:02 they give them they all give them like
0:58:04 like a ceremony they're giving him a big
0:58:06 sword to kill the camel no one's saying
0:58:08 stop stop don't kill her you don't know
0:58:10 what could happen to us
0:58:11 although these people are sick in the
0:58:13 mind
0:58:14 but we think that this is an ancient
0:58:16 story which doesn't have any application
0:58:17 today well life is has so much
0:58:20 application today
0:58:22 people are sick in the mind
0:58:24 they have now deluded themselves into
0:58:26 thinking that they're in control of the
0:58:28 world
0:58:30 they're offended
0:58:33 when we say that you have to there's a
0:58:34 control above your own desires they're
0:58:36 offended by it
0:58:38 they are offended
0:58:42 every one of them
0:58:45 so how was how terrible was My
0:58:47 Punishment and my warnings
0:58:49 and that tells us what it is
0:58:56 we sent them a single site
0:58:58 which is like a torment or an awful cry
0:59:01 and they became like dry stubble
0:59:04 of fold Builder now this is a very
0:59:06 horrible translation let me just change
0:59:07 up
0:59:09 basically in the farmer when he gives
0:59:11 food to the animal and it crunches up
0:59:14 it's like now you're not even like an
0:59:16 insect or an animal you're like the food
0:59:17 that the animal eats yeah you're crushed
0:59:20 up your crumbs of the earth you're
0:59:21 nothing
0:59:23 so imagine that you you thought you're
0:59:25 all this now you're just like some
0:59:26 crumbs on the ground
0:59:27 you you're going You're sick-minded
0:59:29 people coming out stabbing the the the
0:59:31 shoe camel
0:59:33 you're coming out you're hurting your
0:59:35 friends feelings
0:59:36 going you know who's the true Prophet
0:59:37 you're doing all this stuff now you're
0:59:38 nothing you're you're a footnote in
0:59:40 history
0:59:42 you're in the trash heap of History
0:59:47 we have made
0:59:48 the Quran easy to remember so who's
0:59:50 going to remember it now we're going to
0:59:52 come Lord and I'm going to spend a
0:59:54 little bit more time with him I've done
0:59:55 this on purpose because I feel like this
0:59:57 is very applicable to us not like the
0:59:59 other ones weren't I actually think that
1:00:01 all of the Russell when they came to
1:00:04 their people and all of the problems
1:00:05 that they had
1:00:06 today's age is almost like a combination
1:00:09 of all of those problems
1:00:13 so like for example
1:00:14 uh
1:00:15 uh the the
1:00:17 crystals and and the the you know
1:00:21 business fruit basically
1:00:23 some prophets came with that some
1:00:25 prophets came with blue art or was
1:00:27 referred to Miss Lee yeah
1:00:29 whatever
1:00:31 LGBT community and not just that it's
1:00:33 what they come with the ideas that they
1:00:35 come with which we're going to speak
1:00:36 about in detail some detail here
1:00:38 everyone's going to wake up please
1:00:42 okay well I'm saying is that yummy
1:00:46 all of the prophets oh I believe for us
1:00:49 so when we're looking at these we should
1:00:51 be looking at how we should be giving
1:00:52 dollar to
1:00:53 homosexuals
1:00:56 because this is
1:00:58 and obviously there's one sort of money
1:01:00 uh that speaks about Commodore let's get
1:01:02 involved the first thing that Allah says
1:01:04 is
1:01:08 that we sent them a violent tornado
1:01:12 with showers of stones which destroyed
1:01:14 them except for Luke's household
1:01:17 uh that we delivered them by early Dawn
1:01:20 we know from the other parts of the
1:01:21 Quran that in fact the wife of Lord
1:01:24 was destroyed as well some officers even
1:01:26 say that she was joining the lgbtq
1:01:29 and there is some indication that she
1:01:31 was herself lesbian
1:01:34 how's this the case yes maybe
1:01:37 some some indication there she joined
1:01:39 them
1:01:40 and she was destroyed actually and
1:01:42 imagine subhanallah imagine this is a
1:01:44 this is a wife of a prophet
1:01:48 so sometimes some of us man and woman
1:01:51 I'm not this is not a general specific
1:01:52 issue because in the Quran you have a
1:01:54 man example of that
1:01:55 which is it there's two main examples
1:02:02 you know that they were underneath two
1:02:05 righteous like enslaves and then they
1:02:07 betrayed them
1:02:09 and then you have
1:02:10 who had a very horrible husband
1:02:13 so sometimes you can have a great person
1:02:15 she was seen as one of the best people
1:02:17 of all time actually
1:02:19 the wife of firoud but she had one of
1:02:22 the worst people of all time as a
1:02:23 husband likewise this is one of the best
1:02:26 people of all time we had one of the
1:02:28 worst women of all time as his wife
1:02:30 so you never know it's always not sleep
1:02:32 you cannot control all the variables who
1:02:36 you married is that
1:02:37 I mean imagine someone coming to Luther
1:02:39 and say look how comes you married this
1:02:41 woman here and he is mother or his
1:02:44 auntie or something how could you not
1:02:46 know this beforehand
1:02:47 and look at her how's your behavior
1:02:49 Annie
1:02:50 the point is
1:02:52 you can't control the hearts of mankind
1:02:54 people will go straight your kids could
1:02:57 go straight your family could go astray
1:02:59 your spouse could go straight
1:03:01 and if it happened to the prophets could
1:03:03 happen to all of us we're all
1:03:05 susceptible to this point
1:03:07 this is fasting
1:03:09 so Allah says obviously this is
1:03:12 referring to the fact that the najat
1:03:14 that has been referred to not the
1:03:16 destruction
1:03:17 that it's a Grace from upon us that
1:03:19 Allah saved these people
1:03:22 that the the people of Lord he saved
1:03:26 them and that's
1:03:28 and we talked about gratitude previous
1:03:31 Surah and it shows you how important
1:03:33 gratitude is we will reward the people
1:03:37 that that not just praise Allah but
1:03:40 thank Allah
1:03:41 with a removal of Affliction it's very
1:03:43 important which shows you that from the
1:03:46 benefits of doing chakra of Allah
1:03:48 is
1:03:49 the removal of affliction
1:03:52 and this is what Allah said
1:03:54 he said put together all of the
1:03:57 blessings of Allah
1:03:59 with the Gratitude of Allah is what he
1:04:02 said
1:04:03 the Quran also says
1:04:05 if you're thankful I'll give you more so
1:04:07 two main things that the Quran is
1:04:09 telling us that you'll get as a benefit
1:04:10 in this Dunya for doing gratitude number
1:04:13 one is that you'll be saved from
1:04:14 Affliction and number two that Allah
1:04:15 will give you more blessings
1:04:17 so this shows you the power of sugar
1:04:21 and that extends as we know to the Hulk
1:04:24 because
1:04:28 whoever doesn't thank the people has not
1:04:30 thanked Allah
1:04:32 so this is the importance of sugar
1:04:36 and
1:04:38 a lot did warn them of our punishment
1:04:41 but they disputed about the warning
1:04:43 now this is very important
1:04:45 I was thinking about this for some time
1:04:50 this shows you the minimum requirement
1:04:51 of Dao of homosexuals
1:04:54 that you have to at least warn them of
1:04:56 the consequences
1:04:58 because what did Allah praise the Lord
1:05:00 for him he said
1:05:02 uh what do I just say
1:05:06 we he did warn them
1:05:10 so they didn't pay attention to it the
1:05:12 point is this is that Allah is praising
1:05:15 Lord
1:05:17 he is praising him for telling them the
1:05:20 consequences of their homosexuality
1:05:24 now a lot of people in Tower they don't
1:05:25 even want to mention the consequences of
1:05:27 homosexuality they'll say it's Muslim
1:05:31 in America
1:05:33 yeah I don't mind mentioning names we
1:05:35 have to tell the truth
1:05:36 like they'll make this they don't speak
1:05:38 to homosexuals in a way that lot spoke
1:05:40 to his people
1:05:41 this is the biggest criticism and it
1:05:43 could be the Achilles heel of that
1:05:44 organization
1:05:45 because Lord he told the people at least
1:05:50 he said that you know uh
1:05:55 are you coming to the men with desire
1:05:59 this stuff you don't find it in some
1:06:01 aspects of American dawah at all is
1:06:02 absent
1:06:04 in fact if someone did that I promise
1:06:06 you part of the community would reject
1:06:07 him but say this guy is being too rough
1:06:09 with that with the homosexuals no it's
1:06:11 not being rough he's doing exactly what
1:06:12 the prophets do
1:06:14 now it doesn't mean that's the only
1:06:15 thing you do
1:06:16 because that's not the only thing Luke
1:06:18 did and I'll give you an acronym here
1:06:21 that can help doing that autism I've
1:06:23 made This Acronym myself
1:06:25 see
1:06:27 stands for consequences the first thing
1:06:29 with homosexual that you should do is
1:06:31 tell them the consequences
1:06:33 now the consequences are divided into
1:06:35 two
1:06:37 this life and the Hereafter this life
1:06:40 there's undoubtedly studies that show
1:06:43 homosexual parenting they produce kids
1:06:46 that have pathology psychological
1:06:47 pathologies it creates for example
1:06:50 homosexual people by almost all studies
1:06:53 that have ever been done including the
1:06:55 NHS National Health Service you know in
1:06:57 England the main body they say that they
1:06:59 have 10 times 10 to 15 times more likely
1:07:02 to to contract
1:07:05 a sexually transmitted disease than a
1:07:08 normal person
1:07:09 you can easily make a consequentialist
1:07:11 communitarian argument that what you're
1:07:12 doing is affecting the whole Community
1:07:14 we shouldn't allow this thing
1:07:16 yeah you can ease it's the easiest
1:07:18 argument that you can make
1:07:20 it affects your children it affects your
1:07:22 bodies it affects everything bad is
1:07:24 everything bad
1:07:27 but that's not the only thing we should
1:07:28 do obviously we believe in the Hereafter
1:07:30 they might not believe in here after but
1:07:32 we tell them as well
1:07:34 at what point in the conversation you
1:07:36 decide to tell them
1:07:37 that's going to be a matter of personal
1:07:39 choice but consequence is c for
1:07:42 consequence A is for Alternatives
1:07:43 because he says
1:07:46 now the thing is people they don't
1:07:48 realize look he said these are my
1:07:50 daughters you can marry them
1:07:53 these are more pure for you and someone
1:07:56 would ask how can the prophet offer
1:07:58 homosexuals I wouldn't I wouldn't offer
1:08:01 homosexuals to my how could the prophet
1:08:03 do it so some have done that will of the
1:08:05 Quran says
1:08:06 the girls of the Town it wasn't really
1:08:08 like any how you say my jersey way
1:08:10 that's all I think this is a week ago
1:08:12 Yani I don't believe in that just to be
1:08:14 honest because then why why would you
1:08:16 give
1:08:17 these homosexuals it was such a bad
1:08:19 thing why would you do it for other
1:08:19 women mostly women for example yeah it's
1:08:22 still a problem man
1:08:25 when he said
1:08:27 these are my daughters
1:08:31 he's not saying you can marry them
1:08:32 straight away
1:08:33 because we know that if you want to
1:08:34 marry a chaste person you have to go
1:08:36 through a whole Rehabilitation process a
1:08:38 repentance a spiritual repentance and we
1:08:41 we I mean the converts and for example
1:08:43 in Africa communities and stuff some of
1:08:45 them have done worse than Amazon you
1:08:47 know in our understanding
1:08:48 some of them have killed people some of
1:08:50 that but so long as they've gone through
1:08:51 a rehabilitation they've repented you
1:08:53 can see that they now know have the same
1:08:56 views they've changed so why not give
1:08:58 them the alternative because let me tell
1:09:00 you something
1:09:01 the truth of the matter is that
1:09:03 sexuality
1:09:04 is like a wave
1:09:07 yes and
1:09:09 a wave is huge
1:09:12 you can't stand in front of it like that
1:09:14 and say stop because you'll just get
1:09:16 washed away with it you can't stop
1:09:17 someone's sexuality and you can't if
1:09:19 someone has a sexual desire
1:09:21 cannot say stop and the person is going
1:09:24 to say I've made a rational decision I'm
1:09:26 going to stop
1:09:27 you can only really redirect and this is
1:09:30 the idea
1:09:31 you can redirect to sexuality but you
1:09:34 can't stop it
1:09:35 and sometimes when you try and stop it
1:09:36 it gets worse like for example let me
1:09:39 give you a yanny this might be a
1:09:40 character chore
1:09:42 but some Fringe members and I'm being of
1:09:45 the clergy in the Christian World they
1:09:47 have been found
1:09:50 to engage in pedophilic practices with
1:09:53 children
1:09:54 it's not a representation of the clergy
1:09:56 it's not representation the priests it's
1:09:57 not representative however why this
1:09:59 actian in particular
1:10:01 is it because the child won't tell is it
1:10:04 because this is because that
1:10:06 we don't really know exactly why this
1:10:09 pathway in particular but what we can
1:10:10 say is you told them to stop doing
1:10:12 something now they're doing something
1:10:13 worse
1:10:17 sometimes when you try and stop
1:10:19 something
1:10:20 you produce a worse result now there's
1:10:22 many different schools of thought in
1:10:23 psychology
1:10:24 there's a cycle analytics school it's
1:10:27 the behavioral school there's this
1:10:28 school there's that school whatever
1:10:31 and all of them have some share of the
1:10:33 truth about cycle analysts would say if
1:10:36 you try and tell someone to stop
1:10:37 thinking of something sexual you're
1:10:40 actually making them think more about it
1:10:43 and they would say that and the moment
1:10:46 even in the payment Jose mentioned that
1:10:48 in this book
1:10:49 so if you just tell them stop
1:10:52 there's consequences you're going to go
1:10:53 to hell the likelihood of success is
1:10:56 very low actually
1:10:58 you should do that should be a part of
1:10:59 the package but it's not the only thing
1:11:00 you can't just do that
1:11:02 so you have to give them an alternative
1:11:04 and the question is is it possible now
1:11:07 once you free up in the mind of any
1:11:09 homosexual whether by the way there are
1:11:12 many Muslims who suffer from these kinds
1:11:13 of feelings
1:11:15 once they free up the possibility that
1:11:17 yes I can change my sexuality
1:11:21 because the question is can you change
1:11:22 your sexual preference
1:11:24 the answer is yes there's a good deal of
1:11:27 evidence that you can change your sexual
1:11:29 preference and you know who will tell me
1:11:31 that the the main people ironically
1:11:33 ironically ironically he will tell you
1:11:35 that you can change your sexual
1:11:36 preference
1:11:37 are the queer theorists in the lgbtq
1:11:39 lobby why they say because sexuality
1:11:41 just like gender is fluid
1:11:45 it's very interesting you're saying this
1:11:46 to me huh
1:11:48 you say that sexuality is fluid so yes
1:11:51 and so are you gay yes so can you change
1:11:58 so it's not fluid
1:12:00 it's either fluid it's not fluid you
1:12:01 can't have both ways
1:12:03 Yani the one question you ask the
1:12:06 homosexual who is whether the Muslim or
1:12:08 not is sexuality fluid
1:12:10 just like you're saying gender's fluid
1:12:12 yes I'm gender fluid
1:12:15 I'm saying it's sexuality fluid you say
1:12:17 yes I say if sexuality is fluid it means
1:12:20 there's a possibility you can change
1:12:21 your sexual preference
1:12:23 now the question is does one want to
1:12:25 change their sexual preference
1:12:27 that's all it boils down to there's one
1:12:29 want to change their sexual preference
1:12:31 what I'm saying too is if there's a will
1:12:33 there's a way
1:12:35 if there's a will then there is a way
1:12:39 now
1:12:41 before there was something called
1:12:43 conversion therapy which actually is
1:12:45 outlawed and I think the UK and many
1:12:46 other countries in Europe I don't know
1:12:48 about the United States of America but
1:12:50 people used to come into the
1:12:51 psychologist's office and they used to
1:12:53 actually
1:12:54 uh you know want to change their
1:12:56 sexuality to becoming heterosexual now
1:12:58 they're saying it's an offensive which I
1:13:00 think is nonsense because actually this
1:13:02 is an affront to Liberal individualism
1:13:04 like if you believe in Liberal
1:13:05 individualism yes if you believe in
1:13:08 Liberal individualism you should allow
1:13:10 the person to change his whatever he
1:13:12 wants to change
1:13:13 yeah I mean if you wanted to become a
1:13:15 homosexual you've got to say stop to him
1:13:16 as well
1:13:19 at what extent are you going to try and
1:13:21 encroach the rights of the people like
1:13:23 this anyway
1:13:25 the alternative thing is a very
1:13:27 important component and it's it works
1:13:30 with almost any sexuality
1:13:33 what I'll say is on this point as well
1:13:38 the question is I'll go into a little
1:13:40 bit more detail
1:13:41 yeah why not
1:13:44 the question is this is that how does
1:13:46 sexuality work
1:13:49 it's a very complicated question I can't
1:13:50 answer it this time no chance
1:13:52 but it's important for us Muslims to
1:13:54 have a proper discussion about this
1:13:55 because a lot of it right like a lot of
1:13:58 the stakes are high now in the society
1:13:59 that we live in the six or two high for
1:14:00 us not to understand this stuff
1:14:02 sexuality Works in a very complex way
1:14:05 where physiology and psychology and
1:14:07 biology are all connected
1:14:10 and the truth of the matter is that
1:14:12 there is something called the
1:14:13 sympathetic nervous system you've got
1:14:15 the autonomic nervous system right and
1:14:18 it's just divided into two the
1:14:19 parasympathetic and the sympathetic
1:14:21 nervous system the sympathetic nervous
1:14:23 system it deals with fight or flight
1:14:25 responses and
1:14:27 excitement stuff like for example
1:14:29 sexuality is in that domain
1:14:33 because we're living in the age of
1:14:34 boredom we are living in the the age of
1:14:37 border in fact one philosopher very
1:14:40 famously said that we oscillate between
1:14:42 two different ages ages of war and ages
1:14:45 of border
1:14:46 because if you're not going to war you
1:14:48 get bought there's no fight there's no
1:14:49 survival you get bored you're staying at
1:14:51 home what am I doing I just let me see
1:14:53 flick flick flick flick and watch watch
1:14:55 flick flick flick that's your life
1:14:56 you're living in the age of boredom
1:15:00 so what does someone who's both want to
1:15:02 do tell me now like they want to not
1:15:04 necessarily just fight that is one of
1:15:06 the things
1:15:07 excite they want excitement
1:15:10 now imagine up someone has built up a
1:15:13 tolerance
1:15:14 built up a tolerance to anything this is
1:15:17 the biological element
1:15:18 at one point I was doing some studies
1:15:20 and stuff I started taking Ritalin if
1:15:22 you know what written I haven't got ADHD
1:15:24 so ADHD thing it gives you a bit makes
1:15:26 you think it makes you like concentrate
1:15:28 it's not it doesn't make you high-end
1:15:30 just in case anybody understands
1:15:31 thinking it makes you concentrate gives
1:15:33 you more power
1:15:34 but it gave me this uh how do you say it
1:15:37 it made me very bored when I stopped
1:15:40 taking it I was thinking why am I
1:15:41 yawning all the time what's wrong with
1:15:42 me man
1:15:43 and I realized it's because it increases
1:15:45 your dopamine levels to such a level
1:15:46 which is Yanni is surges and then the
1:15:50 crash is big
1:15:51 it's the same thing when you use your
1:15:54 phone and when you use this in
1:15:55 pornographies and there's films and all
1:15:56 that it increases the dopamine to such a
1:15:58 high level that to keep it high
1:16:01 you need some new excitement
1:16:05 and some psychologists have said that in
1:16:07 order to get that sexual excitement you
1:16:08 need they refer to it as transgression
1:16:11 something which you know or at least you
1:16:13 think morally According To You Is Wrong
1:16:16 which by the way I did a study uh not
1:16:18 not through using anything illicit I was
1:16:21 looking at where homosexuality
1:16:22 pornography is consumed the most
1:16:25 and you'll be very surprised a lot of it
1:16:27 is in African countries where you know
1:16:29 like Kenny and so on here there's lots
1:16:31 of countries like this yes you think why
1:16:33 is that they're they're up they're
1:16:34 opposite to homosexuality they're
1:16:36 against it but because
1:16:39 it's a transgression everyone knows
1:16:41 what's wrong in that country
1:16:42 every sometimes when you know something
1:16:44 is wrong you want to do it more
1:16:45 yeah
1:16:46 the point is is that it's a
1:16:49 transgression now how do you solve this
1:16:50 issue therefore
1:16:58 okay
1:17:10 so the point I was making is this is I
1:17:12 was saying that
1:17:13 how do you moderate this point like how
1:17:17 do you moderate if you if you know that
1:17:18 what excites you is these transgressions
1:17:20 and these kinds of things yeah how do
1:17:21 you moderate the point
1:17:23 actually there's two ways of moderating
1:17:24 yeah and it technically and logically
1:17:26 there's only two ways of doing it
1:17:29 number one is to increase in the
1:17:31 behavior
1:17:32 at number two is to decrease in the
1:17:34 behavior hey honey there's only two
1:17:36 things you can do increase or decrease
1:17:38 there's no third option
1:17:41 now what do I mean by that like say for
1:17:43 example if you're addicted to drugs
1:17:44 you're not getting the high that you
1:17:46 wanted to
1:17:47 yes with this level of drugs so you go
1:17:51 higher
1:17:51 that's one way you can get the high
1:17:53 again feel good again another way is to
1:17:55 stop taking the drugs all together and
1:17:57 then you'll feel good
1:17:58 when you do when you take coffee or
1:18:00 something you drink coffee you'll feel
1:18:01 good from other things other than the
1:18:02 drug people that are drug addicted
1:18:04 because the truth is why am I comparing
1:18:06 drug with sexuality because a big part
1:18:08 of the brain that works with sexuality
1:18:10 is the same part of the brain which
1:18:11 works with the drugs many have said this
1:18:13 The Reptilian core and this kind of
1:18:15 things in the brain and the yes one
1:18:17 second let me just here so do you see
1:18:18 the point I'm saying there's two ways
1:18:20 you can either reduce or you can
1:18:22 increase
1:18:24 what we can do therefore a good
1:18:27 therapeutic method for somebody who's
1:18:28 suffering from homosexuality
1:18:31 is to wean them off their behaviors
1:18:35 clearly you offer them alternatives
1:18:38 and you win them after behaviors like
1:18:40 any other drug
1:18:43 someone wants to stop
1:18:45 doing any Behavior you win them often
1:18:46 offer them an alternative
1:18:49 and yes you remind them of the
1:18:50 consequences we said I've got a new
1:18:51 acronym for you to how to deal with
1:18:53 homosexuals C is for consequences and we
1:18:56 said that that's Hereafter and Dunya we
1:18:58 said A is for Alternatives and we
1:18:59 explain the mechanics behind this
1:19:02 and then the third thing is very
1:19:04 important is purpose because when you
1:19:06 which is p yeah P for purpose which is
1:19:09 when you offer them a purpose now
1:19:11 you've got to give them a reason you've
1:19:12 got to give anybody
1:19:14 you're doing anything at all
1:19:15 and if you give someone a strong enough
1:19:17 reason they 'll stop like for example if
1:19:19 I say Yani if you do this if you call
1:19:22 your boyfriend Daniel sorry this Tomball
1:19:25 is going to take this out of context but
1:19:27 if I say let's just say you if you I get
1:19:30 a gun someone says and say if you call
1:19:32 your girlfriend I will shoot your head
1:19:36 you call her yeah let me give you a more
1:19:38 X example because I want you to remember
1:19:40 this
1:19:41 imagine you are in you are just about to
1:19:44 engage in zinner sorry to say not you
1:19:45 somebody else
1:19:46 Yanni or you're just about to watch
1:19:48 something Hala on the internet just
1:19:50 about to watch pornography or something
1:19:51 like that yes you're very excited your
1:19:53 sympathetic nervous system your your
1:19:55 heart racing you're ready to do it
1:19:58 you're gonna watch it now someone comes
1:20:00 into the door boom puts the gun on your
1:20:02 head in two seconds you know what's
1:20:04 gonna happen all of your shower
1:20:08 okay
1:20:11 why because the situation the fear has
1:20:14 overpowered your Shuffle I'm saying to
1:20:16 you if there's a will there's a way and
1:20:18 if you can do it in that context you can
1:20:20 do it in any context so it's a matter of
1:20:22 motivation therefore
1:20:24 because fear produces a motivational
1:20:25 drive I'm saying that you can produce
1:20:27 the same motivational drive without the
1:20:29 extraneous variable
1:20:31 it's going to be hard there's no one's
1:20:32 going to say it's going to be easy but
1:20:34 the fact that it's possible is also that
1:20:36 someone needs to know
1:20:37 one second let me just finish this out
1:20:40 because the Sheikh also wants to get
1:20:41 involved in it yeah so we said C is for
1:20:44 what
1:20:45 consequences it was A4
1:20:48 Alternatives very important was people
1:20:51 the purpose and there's another P CAP
1:20:52 with two P's yeah the other p is
1:20:54 purification
1:20:57 because one of the things which is the
1:20:59 fifth threat of the human being is that
1:21:01 he wished to be purified yeah let me
1:21:03 give you an example
1:21:04 most of you I don't know about the the
1:21:06 service of this hotel for you guys but
1:21:08 for us we've had a problem with the you
1:21:10 know people haven't cleaned the roots
1:21:11 put your hands up your rooms have been
1:21:12 cleaned no if they have been cleaned so
1:21:14 the problem isn't it we should go and do
1:21:16 a major complaint but that's inside the
1:21:17 point now I'm being serious
1:21:20 but no I'm saying how do you feel about
1:21:22 that
1:21:23 you feel very upset about that aren't
1:21:24 you you go to somewhere where you see
1:21:26 dirty on the floor this and that your
1:21:27 towel is over there your trousers here
1:21:31 you don't no one bill filter there's
1:21:34 good evidence to show that no one likes
1:21:36 to be in a dirty and messy environment
1:21:37 no one likes that
1:21:39 so blacks that therefore the person
1:21:41 likes to be cleaned
1:21:42 yeah we like to clean ourselves we like
1:21:44 to brush our teeth brushing our teeth is
1:21:46 common to everybody it's common to every
1:21:48 civilization on the face of the Earth it
1:21:50 I don't know actually maybe I shouldn't
1:21:52 say but at least some form of brushing
1:21:54 the teeth getting rid of bad smells like
1:21:56 we don't like good to bad smells we're
1:21:58 trying yeah every rubber section in the
1:22:00 world will say I brush my teeth yeah
1:22:02 there's not every single one yeah you
1:22:03 get on point why because they like to be
1:22:04 purified you see
1:22:06 homosexual has a shower
1:22:09 doesn't he the person who has
1:22:12 homosexual desires also has a shower
1:22:15 because they want to get the dirt of
1:22:16 their bodies
1:22:17 so when you offer purification to people
1:22:20 people they take it
1:22:22 if they believe in that purification
1:22:25 what we're offering is not a sea
1:22:27 purification though what we're offering
1:22:28 is a manner with purification it's a
1:22:30 spiritual one it's a cleaning you're
1:22:32 cleaning will be saying because when you
1:22:34 bring the purification in it we don't
1:22:35 bring that enough
1:22:37 you know these things we need to and the
1:22:40 Quran is Malik with these kind of things
1:22:42 you see it's it's like a test key yeah
1:22:47 he's already succeeded the one who has
1:22:49 purified himself so we offer them
1:22:51 purification
1:22:54 and this is very important so I'm going
1:22:55 to let the chef do the uh the Hadith
1:22:57 okay
1:22:58 this is Capp just remember those ones
1:23:00 and now finished soon
1:23:12 yeah
1:23:14 Brothers we will take a break in sha
1:23:16 Allah foreign
1:23:50 thank you
1:23:52 foreign
1:24:22 foreign
1:25:42 foreign
1:26:47 Muslim
1:26:51 s
1:26:52 [Music]
1:27:03 Allah
1:27:16 foreign foreign
1:27:42 [Music]
1:28:08 foreign
1:28:36 foreign
1:28:53 foreign
1:29:29 foreign
1:29:31 [Music]
1:30:02 which is very powerful Hadith actually
1:30:05 because it even includes this men's
1:30:06 includes Muslims non-muslims animals
1:30:09 everything
1:30:10 is
1:30:15 Summer and this one is um one which we
1:30:18 recite in after the prayers actually
1:30:20 which is first of all my jebus who is
1:30:23 one of those Hobbies he came through
1:30:24 from
1:30:25 and he said to him in the prophet said
1:30:28 to him that I love you all my so he said
1:30:32 and then he said you know he say the
1:30:35 following Allah
1:30:39 keep me steadfast on the creek on your
1:30:43 remembrance or your
1:30:45 mentioning
1:30:46 which we were talking about today it was
1:30:49 your gratitude
1:30:50 and a perfect or the Excellence or the
1:30:56 excellent way in which we can worship
1:30:58 you
1:31:06 foreign thing
1:31:16 well I think this is
1:31:17 double check
1:31:21 I don't know I think it might be 10
1:31:23 minutes
1:31:30 well basically this hadiths are
1:31:33 basically like you know there's lots of
1:31:34 them there's like a bit more sofa like
1:31:37 sometimes the chef will teach the
1:31:39 student and you say I'll shake your hand
1:31:41 too so shaking his head and then he the
1:31:43 person shakes the other guy's hand and
1:31:44 he goes on like that until our times
1:31:52 anyway we move on
1:31:54 so just to repeat what was the what was
1:31:56 the acronym that we just learned
1:31:58 all right who wants your brother yeah
1:32:01 God tell us I'm just thinking about
1:32:02 America
1:32:03 yeah yeah but what does it stand for
1:32:06 what is it is the camera back on yeah
1:32:09 all right so go oh for all of it yeah
1:32:12 what are the consequences Alternatives
1:32:14 purpose and purification beautiful
1:32:16 beautiful I think my wife you do that
1:32:19 you're just ill it will be enough for
1:32:21 you because imagine a lot this is what
1:32:24 Lord have done and Allah he kind of
1:32:26 sanctioned because it's beautiful that
1:32:27 we can see that Allah he affirmed that
1:32:29 this is enough that offer them
1:32:32 you know he said this is he did he did
1:32:34 own them Allah is affirming that what
1:32:36 law done was enough
1:32:39 in fact he's putting the blame on them
1:32:42 the other ones now you put them you put
1:32:44 all of this on them and they say we
1:32:46 don't want it it's like a Yani I don't
1:32:48 want to make too many examples because
1:32:49 this is a topic
1:32:56 and early on tomorrow what kind of
1:33:00 translation is this anyway an abiding
1:33:03 punishment seized him
1:33:05 okay
1:33:08 so taste my wrath and my warning
1:33:15 finished by the way do you want to ask
1:33:18 yeah I was going to ask us
1:33:25 the argument is saying that okay
1:33:29 we don't know like for a couple years
1:33:32 after a lot longer okay but then but
1:33:35 then again how many times did you have
1:33:36 back that was another question then then
1:33:38 Can someone say okay but maybe his style
1:33:40 wasn't perfect
1:33:44 because I'm just thinking now
1:33:47 did I did I says
1:34:04 I'm sorry let me just mention that
1:34:07 because this kind of helps with the
1:34:09 answer and they sought to statuate his
1:34:12 guests now who was guess who remembers
1:34:15 the angels that came now it's beautiful
1:34:17 because in the previous Surah we talked
1:34:19 about an angel which is Angel Gabriel
1:34:21 and in fact he was described as being
1:34:23 pure from all defects talking about
1:34:25 purification I imagine you have three
1:34:27 angels in the form of men who came to to
1:34:30 Lord's House and these guys the first
1:34:33 thing they thought about is I want to
1:34:34 have intercourse with disguise
1:34:37 what kind of what kind of baby is that
1:34:39 yet
1:34:41 walking in the streets and they're very
1:34:44 well you know imagine how Angels would
1:34:45 have been presented yet very clean very
1:34:48 perfect Annie and there must be like the
1:34:50 whole beautiful stuff you see someone
1:34:53 like even now if you see someone
1:34:55 presenting himself in a very respectable
1:34:57 way
1:34:57 the last thing you'll do is say you know
1:35:00 something like that
1:35:03 it's not normal
1:35:06 like they have they have objectified the
1:35:09 men look in fact you know we'll talk
1:35:11 about justification of women it's it's
1:35:12 true women objectified unfortunately
1:35:14 into their society
1:35:16 but especially in in homosexual circles
1:35:19 men are also objectified don't forget
1:35:21 like if you think about it if men are
1:35:24 prone to of justification
1:35:26 and then they're attracted to other men
1:35:27 then objectification continues
1:35:30 so the first thing to think about is
1:35:32 they think about as sexual opportunities
1:35:34 they don't look at men they look at them
1:35:36 as sexual opportunities
1:35:39 and they are angels
1:35:42 and this is actually it's interesting
1:35:44 for like women who get harassed and
1:35:46 stuff that even their angels will have
1:35:48 sexually harassed like can I think about
1:35:50 that
1:35:52 by the the Angels they came to the house
1:35:54 of Lord they were and how did Lord he
1:35:57 was very very troubled by that how did
1:36:00 he respond to us like he was shocked by
1:36:01 it even by his standards what they're
1:36:04 doing like which by the way it shows you
1:36:06 that
1:36:07 we think lgbtq and homosexuality is a
1:36:10 new phenomena it really isn't this is a
1:36:11 good evidence that it's not it's always
1:36:13 been there in history
1:36:14 oh by the way I want to make another
1:36:16 Point since we're on the top of Canada
1:36:18 it's an interesting
1:36:19 it's an interesting one
1:36:22 you know how the galley in modern
1:36:25 explanations biological explanations
1:36:28 they use evolutionary psychology
1:36:30 a lot of the time they say this has
1:36:33 happened because of this evolutionary
1:36:34 reason in life what is the evolution
1:36:36 reason for this yeah if you think about
1:36:38 it
1:36:39 this this behavior is not even
1:36:41 explicable on an evolutionary level
1:36:44 it doesn't help with reproduction it
1:36:45 doesn't help with
1:36:47 survivability these are the two things
1:36:49 like why would you need to do this
1:36:52 you see the point so it's it's an
1:36:55 anomalous kind of behavior if you think
1:36:57 about the the uh to go into these angels
1:37:00 of this bathroom sexual opportunities
1:37:02 they're gone now they're finished they
1:37:04 have shahua they're addicted they don't
1:37:06 see humans anymore
1:37:08 because a lot of people wanted to it's
1:37:10 so ironic isn't it that one of the
1:37:12 greatest criticisms of these stories
1:37:14 both in the Old Testament and in the
1:37:15 Quran is that look they dehumanize
1:37:17 homosexuals not actually the human in
1:37:20 these stories the homosexual the
1:37:22 homosexuals are dehumanized elements
1:37:24 and then they will dehumanized as a
1:37:26 result
1:37:27 yes so when you say sexual opportunities
1:37:30 I mean it almost seems
1:37:32 uh the second quarter I think is diverse
1:37:34 is something is that when they come to
1:37:36 Saint Luke's house they're not asking
1:37:39 for permission they're literally saying
1:37:40 we're stashing these people and yes
1:37:42 they're willing to like it or not so
1:37:43 this is not even looking at is like you
1:37:45 know we start talking to them there
1:37:47 could be an opportunity whether they
1:37:49 like it or not we're gonna be doing this
1:37:50 so like it's actually it's a crime it's
1:37:52 real and it's sexual entitlement to the
1:37:54 highest level and by the way this this
1:37:55 crime is is not left the minds of people
1:37:58 like
1:38:04 it's not your right
1:38:07 their body their choice yeah it's even
1:38:09 their Angels yeah what can we do yes
1:38:13 um so there was a type of
1:38:16 basically the person said that they and
1:38:19 they like lift up this article that had
1:38:21 said that
1:38:22 these ayads were about rape and
1:38:25 foreign
1:38:50 different places here
1:38:53 so this is very weak because then they
1:38:56 would not be able to answer all of these
1:38:57 things
1:39:01 yeah I know the liberal guy I forget his
1:39:04 name is
1:39:09 and they early on tomorrow and abiding
1:39:13 punishment system
1:39:14 so taste my wrath and warning you must
1:39:18 taste it because seeing it hearing it is
1:39:20 no longer a thing for you now you must
1:39:22 feel it
1:39:23 now you must feel it that's the only
1:39:25 recourse with you we tried our best we
1:39:28 brought a prophet in fact Lord was
1:39:31 connected to who which of the prophets
1:39:33 yes yes
1:39:35 does everyone know the connections
1:39:47 exactly you know he was connected to him
1:39:52 yeah
1:39:55 I have to make sure
1:39:57 but yeah you see that's another thing
1:39:59 now we're going to move to the next one
1:40:02 another to the people of pharaohs came
1:40:06 Warners
1:40:14 the people rejected all our signs but we
1:40:17 seized them with such a penalty as comes
1:40:19 from one exalted in power able to carry
1:40:21 out his will he's a very wordy
1:40:22 translation it's good yeah
1:40:26 they imagine how many ayat they were
1:40:28 given it's sort of their mentions it's
1:40:32 nine this is it's actually nine major
1:40:35 ones that they were given the splaying
1:40:37 of the sea the hand coming out yeah
1:40:39 imagine seeing all of that all of that
1:40:41 you know it's not the magician stuff
1:40:42 because the magician even The Magicians
1:40:44 came without such that the top
1:40:46 suggestions everything and then you're
1:40:48 still rejecting everything why because
1:40:50 you're arrogant that is the top reason
1:40:53 why you're doing it
1:41:02 your unbelief is better than they are or
1:41:04 have you immunity in the sacred books
1:41:07 so basically Allah now is speaking to
1:41:10 the people of quraish is the people of
1:41:12 quraisha you guys better than them Yani
1:41:14 do you think you did better than them
1:41:15 meaning their civilization well it was
1:41:17 better than yours actually
1:41:19 or it could mean that you're the same in
1:41:22 your careful your Catholic that's it
1:41:25 that's what it means yeah
1:41:29 are you guys yeah are you guys do you
1:41:31 think you're really better than these
1:41:33 guys you're the same
1:41:34 you rejected a prophet you rejected a
1:41:37 prophet
1:41:38 you're walking around strutting around
1:41:40 thinking that you're stable in finances
1:41:42 and civilization they did the same they
1:41:44 are the major one as well
1:41:46 Pharaoh was arrogant you guys are
1:41:48 arrogant
1:41:49 and and therefore
1:41:52 don't think you're any different
1:41:56 what did I say
1:41:58 we can act together to defend ourselves
1:42:05 is referring to the Battle of beta and
1:42:08 this is actually a prophecy
1:42:11 could mention this okay when he was in
1:42:14 the tents before the Battle of brother
1:42:16 he would say say
1:42:19 he would continuously repeat it
1:42:23 he's basically saying that in the Battle
1:42:25 of better you guys are going to run away
1:42:27 the Quran is saying that you guys are
1:42:28 going to lose this battle
1:42:30 bear in mind this this didn't come about
1:42:32 enough
1:42:34 this is a prediction of the Quran
1:42:36 it's a very dangerous production he's
1:42:38 the brother's wearing a Moroccan t-shirt
1:42:40 yeah so for example if I right before
1:42:42 the Morocco match with uh with the
1:42:46 Portugal yes I say Morocco is going to
1:42:49 be Portugal it's a big climate they had
1:42:51 the Cristiano Ronaldo like it was almost
1:42:52 finished his career those kind of things
1:42:55 it's a big claim if they win that's a
1:42:56 that's a big our shock when they scored
1:42:58 that goal
1:43:00 I want to tell you for it more of that I
1:43:03 was absolutely ecstatic I couldn't
1:43:05 believe it
1:43:07 because we don't have it's the first
1:43:09 time an Arab team you know or an African
1:43:11 team has reached the semi-finals of the
1:43:13 World Cup it's a big deal
1:43:15 there's 300 people fighting a thousand
1:43:18 it's it's the betting favorites the
1:43:23 pagans on paper it's a three to one
1:43:25 Underdog or something I don't know
1:43:28 the Quran
1:43:30 understood that as we are going to be
1:43:34 Victorious and better
1:43:37 and he was saying it he was by the way
1:43:41 this shows you that the faith the man
1:43:43 has whenever there's a prediction of the
1:43:45 Quran he comes out and he's so happy
1:43:47 about it he knows what he means like for
1:43:50 example you know with the Hollywood
1:43:51 rooms
1:43:59 where it says that the Romans have
1:44:00 beaten the Persians and after three to
1:44:02 nine years they will come and they'll
1:44:03 beat them again
1:44:04 he went because at that time gambling
1:44:06 was not Haram because gambling became
1:44:08 later on he took all of his candles and
1:44:11 money and he said let me he went to find
1:44:13 somebody to put because remember what we
1:44:15 said last time
1:44:16 we said that if the fortune tellers were
1:44:19 true fortune tellers where would they be
1:44:20 in the casino
1:44:24 he was a casino
1:44:26 [Music]
1:44:29 he went and he said this is my money he
1:44:32 put all cash into it
1:44:34 he believed it this shows you that this
1:44:36 is however they believed the religion of
1:44:37 Islam but it also shows you that the
1:44:40 dangerous level of the predictions of
1:44:41 the Quran they're all dangerous the
1:44:43 predictions of the Quran are so
1:44:44 dangerous
1:44:46 because if you get this wrong your whole
1:44:48 prophethood or the claimant to
1:44:50 prophethood is put into question
1:44:53 imagine I'm saying I'm gonna beat you
1:44:54 guys in a how could you know
1:44:58 how do you know they're gonna win
1:45:01 how do you know you are the betting
1:45:02 underdogs
1:45:04 it is too dangerous to say you're going
1:45:05 to work and to connect that with
1:45:06 Revelation a true prophet
1:45:10 does this a false prophet never does
1:45:12 this and if a false prophet does this he
1:45:13 always gets caught
1:45:15 like this
1:45:19 is a man who claimed to be a prophet
1:45:22 after the prophet and then you have a
1:45:25 group called The ahmadis and he said
1:45:28 I am going to marry a woman her name is
1:45:31 Muhammad I begum
1:45:32 that's what he said imagine this he goes
1:45:34 and listen he got excited because he's
1:45:36 in love now yeah
1:45:39 he goes if I don't marry her I'm not a
1:45:41 true prophet
1:45:42 he went that far he went that far you
1:45:45 know what happened to him he didn't
1:45:46 marry him
1:45:50 that's it you're finished it's done
1:45:53 it's finished
1:45:56 but on the flip side whenever the Quran
1:45:58 makes a prediction about a future event
1:46:00 it happens exactly as it's mentioned and
1:46:04 the sahaba are so expressly abubakar
1:46:07 because he is a Sadiq he is so ecstatic
1:46:09 and excited about the situation he goes
1:46:11 and puts all his mind on the situation
1:46:12 he's willing to put his life on the line
1:46:14 actually
1:46:17 and he had to fight his son in the
1:46:19 battlefield
1:46:20 this is the level of belief he had his
1:46:22 son was in the same Battlefield as that
1:46:23 and then his son became Muslim
1:46:25 thereafter
1:46:26 and then you know his son said to him I
1:46:30 have to look at your sentence on the
1:46:31 fonticity of it he goes you know that
1:46:33 we're in the we're in the battlefield I
1:46:35 was trying to avoid you you know you
1:46:37 know what you say he said I was trying
1:46:38 to look for you
1:46:40 I was trying to find you
1:46:45 this is a next level of Faith
1:46:52 you don't find somebody who really
1:46:54 believes in Allah
1:46:55 love the ones who go against Allah is
1:46:58 Messenger he had the true belief he
1:47:01 doesn't care is that he loved Allah
1:47:03 messenger more than his children more
1:47:05 than his wives more than everybody this
1:47:07 is the highest level after the prophets
1:47:09 so he was saying this Ayah and he was
1:47:13 excited he was like after he was the
1:47:16 most excited person after because he
1:47:18 knew what's going to happen
1:47:20 there's a big victory and it's one of
1:47:21 the biggest victories of Islam oh it was
1:47:23 a small Skirmish only a few people died
1:47:25 comparative to the wars that happened
1:47:27 today but it was so symbolic
1:47:30 that it changed the course of history as
1:47:31 we know it
1:47:37 is
1:47:41 that the time the hour is damn right
1:47:43 Allahu Akbar because whenever Allah
1:47:46 makes a prediction or not every single
1:47:47 time but commonly he connects it to
1:47:51 NASA
1:47:58 after he says
1:48:01 connected to the afterlife now he's
1:48:04 saying just like I predicted this thing
1:48:05 which is so dangerous to predict which
1:48:07 no other book would have predicted C.S
1:48:10 Lewis who wrote a very famous Christian
1:48:12 guy
1:48:13 he was talking about something in the
1:48:15 Bible called the Olivet discourse
1:48:18 it's a it's a passage in The Book of
1:48:20 Mark which said that the whole world
1:48:22 will end in one generation
1:48:24 and you know what he called it he said
1:48:26 this he said it's the most embarrassing
1:48:28 verse in the Bible
1:48:31 C.S Lewis if you almost all Christians
1:48:34 know who he is he is the biggest figure
1:48:38 Bar None no doubt about it
1:48:41 when I went to the University of Oxford
1:48:43 his pictures were everywhere
1:48:45 C.S Lewis
1:48:52 by the way C.S Lewis I believe you know
1:48:56 this formulation is either deluded or
1:48:57 deceptive or a liar or speaking the
1:49:00 truth a lot of it he I think he took
1:49:03 this from the Quran because he put that
1:49:04 in his book he had like a an apologetic
1:49:07 material talking about why he believes
1:49:08 Christianity is true he also mentions by
1:49:11 the way he also mentions the uh the
1:49:13 resurrection is the biggest evidence and
1:49:14 the Miracles the biggest evidence C.S
1:49:16 Lewis also mentions those things
1:49:18 point I'm making is that he is one of
1:49:21 the biggest figures and he's he is
1:49:22 saying we have a verse in the Bible
1:49:25 which is trying to tell us the future
1:49:26 and is the most embarrassing verse in
1:49:29 the Bible why is it why is it
1:49:30 embarrassing C.S Lewis it's embarrassing
1:49:33 because you got it wrong the Bible got
1:49:35 it wrong
1:49:37 and this is one of the biggest Scholars
1:49:38 that he's universally accepted Catholics
1:49:40 accept him and Protestants Etc you've
1:49:43 you rarely find the unifying figure like
1:49:44 this guy and he is admitting candidly
1:49:47 and openly this verse the Olivet
1:49:49 discourse you can check out online
1:49:52 Wikipedia page is no one can read on it
1:49:55 is the most embarrassing verse in the
1:49:57 Bible you don't have like that in the
1:49:58 Quran that's why our book we talk about
1:50:00 memorization we were talking about but
1:50:03 this is why our book is the best it's
1:50:05 the truth
1:50:06 it's too much well when you compare it
1:50:09 it's done the deal is done if someone is
1:50:11 sincere the evidence is and as we said
1:50:13 the evidences in the Quran are better
1:50:15 than the evidences that any of the
1:50:17 prophets have been given before
1:50:19 because those evidences were what
1:50:21 time-bound they favored those who saw
1:50:23 them and so on whereas the Quran can be
1:50:26 examined today we have a retrospective
1:50:28 hindsight perspective where we can look
1:50:31 back and say well let's look at the
1:50:32 predictions of the Quran we see all of
1:50:35 them are actually true we saw all of
1:50:37 them are not only true but they're
1:50:38 dangerous as well in the first place to
1:50:40 make
1:50:47 and then
1:50:50 that certainly those who are in sin or
1:50:54 the criminals are strained and strength
1:50:58 in mind and mat
1:51:00 remember they were accusing the prophet
1:51:03 of this Allah is now saying they're
1:51:05 projecting it's them that have this
1:51:07 problem
1:51:08 it's not the problem it's you guys that
1:51:10 you're the Mad ones
1:51:19 they will be pulled on their faces in
1:51:21 the Hellfire taste
1:51:23 taste the punishment of the Hellfire
1:51:27 they will be just like the people of
1:51:28 Noah and the people of Lord and the
1:51:30 people of ayat and the people of samud
1:51:32 and the people around all of them you're
1:51:34 going to be like inshallah but yeah I
1:51:37 mean those guys would be like the
1:51:39 message are going to be just like them
1:51:40 they're going to be learning and in pain
1:51:42 I didn't
1:51:43 yes
1:51:46 this is not a joking laughing matter why
1:51:48 this is a serious and they will they
1:51:49 will fade they will taste it
1:51:53 in their collection
1:51:55 means proportion and measure although it
1:51:58 has been translated as predestination by
1:52:00 Martin Khan
1:52:05 and our Command is not just but one
1:52:09 command like a twinkling of the eye
1:52:16 and we have destroyed the gangs this is
1:52:19 what kind of translation limitation The
1:52:22 Gangs the gangs
1:52:23 and indeed we have destroyed your likes
1:52:25 in the past and will there be any uh
1:52:27 remember will any of you remember just
1:52:30 look at the books that are written on
1:52:31 civilization the rise and fall of great
1:52:34 Empires
1:52:35 where are the Romans where are the
1:52:37 Greeks where are the Egyptians
1:52:39 where are these great civilizations
1:52:41 where have they gone now
1:52:44 the Roman Empire was in Italy the other
1:52:46 day and I was looking at the Coliseum
1:52:48 and looking at the Museum upstairs and
1:52:50 this kind of things look at these people
1:52:51 now well they know well they know
1:52:55 and the Julius Caesar and this one
1:52:58 where are you now
1:53:02 Napoleon came uh what was his name no
1:53:04 sir Mussolini he changed the
1:53:05 architecture outside of the Colosseum he
1:53:07 messed it everything up
1:53:09 he made himself the center of attention
1:53:13 where is Mussolini where's Hitler
1:53:16 where are most of the presidents of the
1:53:18 United States of America
1:53:22 they all finished actually they're all
1:53:23 done
1:53:25 and that is the reality
1:53:30 and each and every thing they have done
1:53:34 is noted in the rest of the Deeds
1:53:38 everything big and small is written
1:53:45 that
1:53:47 certainly now the pious ones will be
1:53:51 in gardens and rivers
1:53:54 in a sea of truth in Paradise near the
1:53:58 omnipotent King the most high
1:54:02 and then in the next Surah which will
1:54:04 not be doing together but
1:54:05 there's more discussion in the beginning
1:54:07 of our heaven
1:54:09 and less about hell so it kind of
1:54:11 inverts the situation and this is part
1:54:13 of the symmetry of the Quran in one soul
1:54:15 I talked more about Helen Evans and the
1:54:17 other one
1:54:17 more heavens and hell and it kind of all
1:54:20 weighs itself
1:54:21 I know it's been two hours actually it's
1:54:24 been as we said it would be any
1:54:26 questions any questions yes can you just
1:54:28 answer this question about the
1:54:30 compilation of the Quran yes
1:54:33 so basically there's two views among the
1:54:35 scholars yeah all the other son of the
1:54:37 Quran are they put in place like that
1:54:39 from The Scholar from the sahaba or they
1:54:42 put like that from Allah in the
1:54:43 messenger and it was something
1:54:46 some say it's so creepy some say actions
1:54:51 the truth of the matter is either way it
1:54:53 doesn't really matter because let me
1:54:55 just give you an example of what this
1:54:56 means let's say for example you have you
1:54:59 know the jigsaw puzzle a jigsaw puzzle
1:55:01 is made up of certain way whatever
1:55:02 whether you put it whether it's already
1:55:05 pre-made I in the case of tokif or
1:55:08 whether it doesn't have I have to figure
1:55:10 out where to put Watts
1:55:12 it doesn't really matter because the
1:55:13 jigsaw Remains the Same either way and
1:55:15 so the Quran is as it is now
1:55:19 is as it is now the fact that it's
1:55:21 capable of being structured in this way
1:55:23 is evidence that it's structurally
1:55:26 coherent now the second thing I'll say
1:55:27 is I actually do believe
1:55:29 I believe
1:55:31 that the uh
1:55:33 he told he was told by the angel Gabriel
1:55:35 what to put what in what order now for
1:55:38 sure we know that's the case with the
1:55:39 sword
1:55:40 with the ayat which that is actually
1:55:45 for example you find this
1:55:47 famous hadiths that you know if you read
1:55:49 the first 10 areas of the last 10 years
1:55:52 how do you know what's the first 10 or
1:55:54 the last 10 unless the prophet salaam
1:55:56 himself he told us what was going to go
1:55:58 where
1:56:02 if you read the uh the the the for
1:56:05 example
1:56:09 combined together in Hadith
1:56:11 if you read this Hadith and that if you
1:56:13 read this Surah together
1:56:15 so it would seem like it was topify and
1:56:18 don't forget the prophet salaam would be
1:56:19 given the Quran as a whole in Ramadan
1:56:22 and he would recite it in Allah what all
1:56:25 did he put him if there is too much
1:56:28 evidence to show us that he put it in
1:56:30 the order that was where we're reciting
1:56:31 now
1:56:33 so those who say it's not oh it's not
1:56:35 covered to believe that this Hub has put
1:56:37 in that order but I think the
1:56:38 overwhelming way of evidence is on the
1:56:40 other side
1:56:42 and even if it wasn't the case it still
1:56:44 was like that either way in the local
1:56:46 muscles
1:56:47 and it's like a jigsaw puzzle and it's
1:56:49 like what I just mentioned yeah
1:56:51 anything else
1:56:53 yes assistant
1:56:59 why
1:57:09 [Music]
1:57:15 I mean obviously God doesn't need us to
1:57:18 worship Him the life he made us and
1:57:22 other creatures and like wants us
1:57:24 basically to worship him because even
1:57:27 atheists agree that an all powerful and
1:57:30 a self-sufficient God doesn't need us to
1:57:33 worship him so alive
1:57:35 like what's the reason that they're the
1:57:37 government yeah so there's it seems like
1:57:40 there's two two in one in there so the
1:57:42 question of why is there something
1:57:44 rather than nothing is is important for
1:57:47 an atheist to think about because the
1:57:49 existence of something cries out for an
1:57:51 explanation
1:57:53 if you have anything in existence the
1:57:55 question is
1:57:57 from once did it come how did it get
1:57:59 there what is generating it what is this
1:58:01 cause
1:58:03 the fact that you have something rather
1:58:04 than nothing
1:58:05 you're going to have to ask these
1:58:06 questions where they come from how did
1:58:08 it get there and these questions
1:58:10 themselves are catalysts to start
1:58:11 thinking about the first cause the
1:58:12 ultimate cause or the idea of God
1:58:15 so that's the first thing that's why
1:58:16 it's a very important question to ask
1:58:18 on the second point that you made about
1:58:20 why does God need us to kind of worship
1:58:22 him so obviously we don't believe that
1:58:24 he does Allah says
1:58:27 foreign
1:58:37 except that they may worship me I don't
1:58:39 need them to uh I don't need any
1:58:42 provision from them nor do I need them
1:58:44 to feed me yet
1:58:46 meaning I'm not gaining from this
1:58:48 Allah is not gaining from us worshiping
1:58:51 him
1:58:52 and that Allah says
1:58:53 he is in fact the one who gives
1:58:57 a very powerful agent
1:59:00 now the question is why would Allah
1:59:03 create us
1:59:04 to understand why Allah will do anything
1:59:08 we have to look at the attributes of God
1:59:10 so if you look at the attributes of God
1:59:12 what are the attributes of God of them
1:59:14 is that he is
1:59:17 he's the best of creators he is the
1:59:20 perpetually creating and he is
1:59:22 the Creator in general these are some of
1:59:24 his attributes he is alive he is the
1:59:27 all-knowing he is a Hakeem he is the
1:59:29 wise
1:59:30 so what the question is
1:59:33 does it or does it not befit
1:59:36 an agent with these characteristics
1:59:39 to do that which these characteristics
1:59:42 entails like for example if I say I'm a
1:59:45 painter but this I don't what's the
1:59:47 evidence of your painting I have no
1:59:48 evidence
1:59:49 I've not painted a single painting the
1:59:52 point is is that it makes sense for the
1:59:54 Creator and who is the best of creators
1:59:57 to create
1:59:59 to create what the best of creation you
2:00:01 see the idea of a human species which
2:00:04 has free will
2:00:06 which can decide what's right and wrong
2:00:09 which which is living in a
2:00:11 environment where I have to cooperate
2:00:12 where it has to make decisions where
2:00:15 the best possible idea of a creation
2:00:18 so so
2:00:19 amazing is that we don't even know how
2:00:22 this stuff works the mechanisms of how
2:00:24 does determinism work with free will how
2:00:26 does Allah determine it boggles the mind
2:00:28 that's how powerful
2:00:31 Allah's creation is so in other words
2:00:33 the reason why Allah creates this
2:00:34 because it's a manifestation of his
2:00:35 attributes it's a manifestation of his
2:00:38 attributes to create
2:00:39 because he's the Creator it only makes
2:00:42 sense for him to create and not only for
2:00:43 him to create but to create something
2:00:45 which is the best of creation because
2:00:46 he's the best creator
2:00:47 so the point I'm making is that
2:00:50 you know it's
2:00:52 not just as creative capacity but other
2:00:54 attributes it it's a manifestation
2:00:57 anything that is a creation anything
2:00:59 that Allah has put into existence
2:01:01 its ultimate explanation is that it
2:01:05 manifests one of God's attributes in
2:01:07 some way shape or form easily
2:01:11 what's that makes sense
2:01:13 okay if not just think about it and
2:01:16 again yeah would that be like the same
2:01:18 explanation for why we all don't go to
2:01:20 heaven
2:01:21 like because some people are like oh
2:01:23 God is so um merciful and goddess of
2:01:26 this and that like the positive
2:01:28 attributes why is it just sent you all
2:01:30 that you know without having to give the
2:01:33 same explanation because like like the
2:01:35 thing is total of evil right yeah
2:01:38 the problem of evil was first put
2:01:40 forward by someone called epicurus and
2:01:42 he said look if God is all powerful and
2:01:44 he's all good it doesn't make sense for
2:01:46 there to be evil in the world because if
2:01:47 there's evil in the world that means he
2:01:49 could he could have removed it for his
2:01:50 power yeah
2:01:51 oh he's not actually all good but we
2:01:53 don't believe in a god with two or three
2:01:55 attributes yeah we also believe Allah
2:01:58 he is the old wise he is and he's got
2:02:02 other attributes now the point is is the
2:02:04 Hakeem aspect of God's attributes is
2:02:06 what is
2:02:10 is putting the place something in its
2:02:12 rightful place in our position to volume
2:02:15 which is yeah it opens of hecam actually
2:02:17 the volume of linguistically the
2:02:19 opposite of Hackman is
2:02:23 putting something in this wrongful place
2:02:25 what I'm saying therefore is it doesn't
2:02:28 it doesn't negate God's wisdom for him
2:02:31 he says this to me like I find that
2:02:34 almost laughable
2:02:35 in fact some philosophers William Rowe
2:02:39 for example atheist he's an atheist he
2:02:41 said that I don't believe him
2:02:43 he said this problem of evil argument is
2:02:45 morally he said this intellectually
2:02:47 bankrupt
2:02:49 even atheists admit that this is a
2:02:50 nonsense argument because there's no
2:02:52 Corridor there's no uh it's a
2:02:55 non-sequito
2:02:57 it's a non-sequence it doesn't follow
2:02:59 that just because God is good that there
2:03:01 should be no pain or suffering
2:03:04 and I would say to an atheist what is
2:03:06 what is evil anyway
2:03:08 are you not the one who says God doesn't
2:03:09 exist because you can't find some
2:03:11 scientific evidence for him so what is
2:03:13 this even evil that you've got that you
2:03:15 can put under a microscope that I can
2:03:16 see it with you on the laboratory
2:03:18 because he won't be able to find such a
2:03:19 thing
2:03:20 so in other words evil doesn't exist
2:03:22 there's no evidence that evil exists at
2:03:24 all
2:03:25 what is evil evil is what you don't like
2:03:28 evil is the suffering that you have
2:03:29 what's the difference between pain and
2:03:31 suffering pain
2:03:32 is
2:03:34 the sensory information that you get and
2:03:36 then but suffering is what you make of
2:03:38 that sensory information
2:03:40 if I do 10 push-ups right now
2:03:43 maybe not 10 maybe 20 or 30 let's say 40
2:03:46 for the sake of argument
2:03:49 no but let's just say
2:03:51 no I'll I'll I'll consider it painful
2:03:56 let's just say I'll consider it painful
2:03:57 but I would I could what I call it
2:03:59 suffering
2:04:00 like for example when I went up to this
2:04:02 job today I consider that pain and
2:04:04 suffering you know because I thought
2:04:06 this is no but really is it suffering
2:04:08 though what's suffering suffering is
2:04:10 what your mind makes of the pain
2:04:13 so the point is is that look the the
2:04:15 evil and suffering in the world
2:04:16 suffering is a test yeah if you consider
2:04:19 it as a test if you go to the gym you
2:04:20 consider it as I'm improving myself
2:04:22 self-improvement you don't say I'm
2:04:23 suffering I'm suffering ah please don't
2:04:25 awesome let's go doing this to me
2:04:28 no one does it
2:04:30 but no it's the same concept though
2:04:33 you see it's the same concept Allah is
2:04:35 putting you through a an adverse
2:04:37 condition so you can develop yourself
2:04:41 so that's uh there's no argument there
2:04:44 and I think they admit it they admit
2:04:45 that the problem of evil there's no
2:04:46 actual argument there
2:04:48 any any other questions especially from
2:04:50 this is to miss out so yes
2:04:54 so this cap
2:04:55 methodology doesn't actually work for
2:04:57 any
2:04:59 yeah yeah any kind of
2:05:12 then yeah the final alternative the
2:05:14 alternative is marriage you know
2:05:17 so that's what the limitations is
2:05:19 because sometimes you can't find the
2:05:21 alternative you
2:05:22 but you have to try and wait and the
2:05:24 alternative for by the way the
2:05:25 alternative for uh sorry to say about
2:05:27 excessive masturbation if you're not
2:05:29 married and pornography is not marriage
2:05:32 it's actually uh is actually it's
2:05:34 actually wet dreams
2:05:36 because the body has a way of flushing
2:05:37 all that stuff out
2:05:40 the fasting is not really an alternative
2:05:42 it's more it helps the idea obviously
2:05:44 the process on the device
2:05:46 myself
2:05:47 and so on but what I'm saying is that
2:05:50 yeah your body will find a way to get
2:05:52 rid of this stuff
2:05:54 but eventually you have to get Pagani
2:05:57 we have to but you should get married
2:06:01 and by the way yummy let's be real some
2:06:04 people get married and they still have
2:06:06 these addictions
2:06:08 so you kind of have to work on yourself
2:06:09 because some people I think to this
2:06:10 because I think I'm going to get married
2:06:11 to be all right they get married and
2:06:13 they continue the stuff why because
2:06:14 you've already programmed yourself to
2:06:16 this thing
2:06:17 so you you kind of have to purify
2:06:19 yourself you have to work on yourself
2:06:20 you have to monitor yourself you have to
2:06:22 hold yourself to account you have to
2:06:24 work on it
2:06:26 yeah any other questions yes
2:06:32 okay well we had a very long discussion
2:06:35 today oh like before
2:06:37 yeah that's fine but we can have more
2:06:40 it's fine anything else
2:06:44 foreign
2:06:48 you guys are tired I'm happy that you
2:06:50 guys are still awake I would be asleep
2:06:53 but actually if I was hearing me I'd
2:06:55 probably be awake as well
2:06:58 anyways guys inshallah we'll see you
2:07:00 tomorrow agenda right