Dawah to Batman
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Summary
In this episode, we talk about our religion and how we believe in God. We also talk about how we live our lives according to the teachings of the Quran and the revelation of the Holy Qur and Ayn al-Qadhi.
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Basically, what we do is, so you're celebrating Halloween, yeah?
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I am celebrating Halloween, but also celebrating superheroes.
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Without Robin, you know, everybody needs a Robin.
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Okay, so you do not believe, like for example, any man is God, or a statue is God, or a tree
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You just believe God is powerful, he does not belong to his creation.
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God is omnipotent, but no statue or symbol can be...
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So we'll just come here and we'll just talk about our religion, because you know our religion
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is like, you know, a lot of people have got misconceptions about it.
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Yeah, yeah, a lot of it is misinterpreted as well.
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Okay, so you do believe in God, so you've done that job for me, I don't need to go around.
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We believe in the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, and we believe in all the messengers
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Do you believe in scriptures, revelations, or do you say, look, I don't kind of go into
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I would rather go for the people that have come in the past and left a message.
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Because the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, he came like 1400 years ago.
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And so to be honest, to the people that kind of say, you know what, look, it can't be from
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Like for example, the Quran challenges the people that, for example, if you read it, I'm
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not sure what verse it is, but it says, if you think the Quran is saying, like from God,
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if you think this is not from your creator, bring a verse like it.
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So it's doing an open challenge to people that are saying, look, this is not from God.
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It's clearly telling you, look, if you think this is not from your creator, bring a verse like it.
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Not only that, it's got many scientific miracles.
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The Quran talks about embryology, the expansion of the universe, the two seas meet, but they
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So there's many things that a man, because Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, he didn't
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So we need to ask ourselves, how could a man 1400 years ago, where there's no technology,
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he comes along with this kind of message, right?
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It's impossible for him to know such things, right?
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So what I would say is, for example, you know when everything we buy, we have a product,
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When we buy a product, everything comes with a manual, right?
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For example, if somebody just invented a television new, and you went and bought a telly,
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but you didn't know how to use it, you can never make it work, right?
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So what we say is, if God made us, he should have sent a revelation to tell us how to live
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Because he made us, he knows what's good for us and what's bad for us.
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So we would say that, you know, okay, as every product has a product, as a manual, we humans
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have the revelation to tell us how to live our lives.
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And the one thing I think there, is if you wish to live your life by that manual, then
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you should adhere to the manual, and not only use the manual when you want, and then do
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There's a lot of people out there that, you know, even Christians, they say we're Christians,
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but they don't practice their religion properly.
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There's a lot of Muslims out there that say they're Muslims, they don't practice their
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Is there any kind of misconception that you want to know about Islam?
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One thing I have tried to clarify, and that's the word of jihad, which is a personal battle
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against the darkness in yourself that I understand, and not against other worldly human beings
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I was really happy because the things that, I don't even want to explain it.
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Just like you said, the word jihad, there's two meanings for it, right?
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For example, I can strive, for example, let's say I was an alcoholic before, right?
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I said, you know what, I'm going to stop drinking alcohol.
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So what it is, it's jihad within yourself to stop doing that.
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You're fighting within yourself to stop doing that.
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Another way of jihad is fighting, but how is it fighting?
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If the enemy comes to attack you, which is called self-defense, right?
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I'm like, Joker, finally, I've been looking for you all night long.
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Would there be any reason of you saying, you know what, I can't believe that the Qur'an is from God?
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Is there anything that's in your head that you can say, you know what, I've got doubts of this or that?
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The Qur'an is a system of belief that many people live by and I know is very good in its true state.
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So I wouldn't, same as I wouldn't challenge the Bible or the Torah.
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Would you believe that the God Almighty will send down messengers?
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And some people have put their message forward a lot louder and clearer.
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Like for example, I'm conveying a message to you, you're right in that manner.
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But, chosen messengers, like from God saying, you know what, this is, you're the chosen one, these are the revelations you, I sent down through, do you believe in them?
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And Sahaja Yoga Meditation believes that each chakra that you have is related to a different prophet.
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Okay, so here at the big center, that's Muhammad's chakra, the big green one in the center of your body.
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In your throat is Krishna's chakra, and in your head is Christ's chakra.
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And I like that way of explaining how everyone is related.
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So, when you said like the stomach bit, so how do you refer that to the prophet Muhammad?
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They color it green in the diagrams, and that's the way they like to explain it.
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This is related to Muhammad, this chakra is related to Krishna, and this chakra is related to Christ.
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Now, if we say, okay, if we say the revelation was sent by God, right?
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If I could prove that to you, wouldn't you say, you know what, let me take my time out and
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read the Qur'an maybe, like, have you read the Qur'an before?
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So, is there any reason that you can doubt that, like, messengers, not just as we as,
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you know, I'm coming in a message, like you said, everyone coming in a message.
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Well, again, when we talk about realisation, self-realisation, as you say, you mentioned
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That's when you, when you become a realised soul in yourself.
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Then, you will find that enlightenment in yourself.
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But, I'm going to leave it to you because you're working.
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I would advise you to give it a chance by, you know, read it all.
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Read it all because at the end of the day, we are all going to die.
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And when we all die, believe me, my own mother who loves me so much is not going to come in
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So, I respect your views and a lot of things we agree on and stuff like that.
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I really like that because you believe in one God.
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Because we say, look, God cannot be human because some Christians believe that Jesus
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So, you know, it's a bit wrong because nowhere in the Bible Jesus claimed divinity.
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But, what I would say is, I don't want to hold you much.
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And, inshallah, it was really nice talking to you, man.