Ali Dawah - October 28, 2019HOLY SPIRITED LADY & ALI DEBATE MERCY - SPEAKERS CORNER
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss the concept of mercy in Islam and how it can be obtained in this world and in the final day of judgement, when we will be judged by Allah. We also talk about what it means to ask for mercy and how to receive it.
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Your belief is that the Father, the God, you have a personal relationship with the Father.
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The Father is saying, in order for you to have salvation, you have to believe that I took an innocent man
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who did nothing wrong to anybody. I need his blood to forgive you.
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Okay, so I'm interested, I can ask your viewers as well. I'm interested in knowing how do you obtain mercy in Islam.
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Because you're sharing, affection, love and mercy. I'm just interested in the mercy aspect of Islam.
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Yeah, I would say, look, the way I understand mercy from the Islamic perspective is
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mercy is not like a final state that you aim to reach.
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There's two types of mercy. There's mercy that you can obtain in this world
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and there's the final mercy that you're probably talking about, which you will obtain on a day of judgment
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Mercy is not like something that is final, but it's more of a practice in Islam, a process.
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You continuously seek mercy by asking the Almighty God or Allah.
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Mercy actually is like a development and it develops the character and also it's an evolution.
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The more you do it, the easier it becomes for you, you know, to seek mercy.
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But if you want to get technical with it, mercy is in three parts.
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So in order to obtain mercy or willing to want mercy, it means that sometime down the line you've committed a sin, right?
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First of all, you have to reject the act of sinning.
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And once you've done that, you have to have the determination not to go back, even though if you...
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Even though there might be a possibility that you might go back, but at that point when you have made that decision,
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So do you believe that every single human being...
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So what do your scriptures say about obtaining mercy?
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And how are you guaranteed that you receive this mercy?
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It's a narration, a transmission that comes from the Prophet.
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For example, there's one where it says, the Prophet says that Allah says,
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even if you were to come with sins as high as the sky, like as in, I would still forgive you.
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So mercy is not a door that is closed ever until you enter the grave.
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Do you have a guaranteed proof that you're going to receive what you've asked for?
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But our good deeds are not what's going to lead us to paradise.
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Because from the get-go, we are indebted to God.
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For us to say, you know what, God, we've repaid you back for what you've done for us.
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Because there is a hadith, a narration, a saying of the prophet, peace be upon him.
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He told us that on the day of judgment, a man will come.
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And he will say to God Almighty, I would like to enter paradise with my good deeds.
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I do not want to enter paradise with your mercy.
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But you want to enter paradise with good deeds.
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So what he did is, he took that man's eye, put it on the scales, got all of the good deeds that he did, and the eye outweighed all his good deeds.
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He said, God Almighty said, well now you're destined to hell.
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My justice means that the eye that you have, your good deeds, if you did it eternally, will never repay me back for the eye that I've given you.
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When God said to him, go to hell, he said, God, please I want to enter paradise with your mercy.
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Because he understood that with justice, he's indebted.
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So that's the reason why, we as human beings, from the get-go, we, there is nothing that we can do to repay God.
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But what God wants from us is to acknowledge him.
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To acknowledge that there is him and him alone.
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How do you, how do you obtain mercy in Christianity?
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Do you have to believe that Jesus died for the sins?
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In Islam, God tells us that if you sin and your sins are to reach the mountains and the skies, I will forgive every single one of them, as long as you don't associate partners with me.
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The only way I will forgive the sins is that I need blood sacrifice of an innocent man.
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Talking about mercy, can you kindly tell me which one seems more merciful to you and why?
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Jesus Christ's whole being was to be born and to die.
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Because for God so loved the world that he gave his one and only begotten son.
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That's everybody, anyone, white, black, Indian, Chinese, do anybody.
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You either accept him now while you're walking or you'll pay the consequences later.
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So which one, from what I said, Christianity, the God of Christianity requires blood sacrifice.
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All you have to do is ask for repentance and you're forgiven.
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That's why you don't have, that's why you don't have a guarantee that you can, I can
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Me, I can offer up myself to die, not to go and kill other people in the name of Jesus.
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The God of Islam says, no blood is needed for me.
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Not only when you sin and you repent, God turns all your bad deeds into good deeds.
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Let me explain because I know where you're going, yeah?
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Does he just say, oh, my son, it's okay, I'm not going to punish you.
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But he's only a father to those who choose him to be a father.
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What I'm saying is, okay, you have God the father.
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But what I'm saying is, look, please hear me out.
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Your belief is that the father, the God, you have a personal relationship with him with
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The father's saying, in order for you to have salvation, you have to believe that I took
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an innocent man who did nothing wrong to anybody.
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Because you came today and asked about mercy and love.
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In Islam, God doesn't say to me, Ali, I need you to believe that I require blood sacrifice
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God says to me, Ali, all you have to do is say, there's three conditions to repentance.
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You stop the sin, you hate the sin, and you don't go back to the sin.
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So Ali, that means you believe that from this, so what you're saying to me is-
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No, what you're saying to me is when you sin today, Father, forgive me, I sinned, forgive
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That means for the rest of your life, you've never sin again.
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No, I can't, but I'll return back to repentance.
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So, which means you're going to be, you're going to be repenting for the rest of your life.
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Before you talk about sacrifice, he did not take an innocent man.
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Look, he came here today and he said, I want to know, what does mercy mean in Islam?
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If no one has to die, then you have no guarantee of your forgiveness.
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You came and asked today, what is mercy in Islam?
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Why do Muslims go out killing people in the name of Allah?
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If somebody goes and kills, for example, Lord's Resistance Army in Central Africa.
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Not only do they kill them, they burn them and eat them.
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1 Samuel 15, verse 2-3, it says, go to the Amalekites, kill men, women, children, babies and donkeys.
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Nowhere in the Quran does it say such statement.
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So, the Jews, because they were sinful people, they were sinful nations.
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So you're justifying the killing of babies and children and donkeys.
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If they won't accept God's way, who are you man to question God?