Ali Dawah - August 25, 2019


I'LL ACCEPT ISLAM IF... - SPEAKERS CORNER'


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1,450

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129

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In this episode, we talk about what makes us better than the angels or lower than animals, and how we can become more intelligent. We also talk about the meaning of the word of God and what it means to be a Muslim.

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00:00:00.000 Because, I mean, if it is true that if I'm living the way I'm living, I'm going to go to hell, I don't want that.
00:00:07.000 Live and die, yeah? So, I would say, without being insulted to anyone, what's the difference between us and me and a cow?
00:00:15.340 The cow, the cow lives and drinks.
00:00:17.020 Or we're more intelligent.
00:00:17.840 No, obviously, yes, I think I am a bit more intelligent as well. 0.98
00:00:22.420 But I'm saying, a cow eats, drinks, sleeps, defecates and lives his life. 0.96
00:00:26.540 I can't be like him. I'm more intelligent. I can't be like, okay, forget this. I'll just drink, sleep, defecate. 0.79
00:00:31.320 How come we're more important than animals? Do they go out to heaven? 0.97
00:00:34.300 Good. Okay, let me tell you something, yeah?
00:00:36.280 In Islam, we have kind of a concept, yeah?
00:00:38.580 We have the angels. We believe in angels.
00:00:41.040 The angels do as they're told.
00:00:42.800 God says, you do this, they do as they're told, yeah?
00:00:45.180 Then we have the animals and then we have the human beings in the chain, yeah?
00:00:48.700 The angels do as they're told.
00:00:51.060 The animals act on instinct, yeah?
00:00:53.160 What makes us better than angels or lower than animals is the following.
00:00:58.640 Either, either we become better than the angels. Why?
00:01:01.900 Because the angels don't have a free will. We do.
00:01:04.620 So if I choose to obey God and try to follow his commandments, yeah?
00:01:10.360 Then that makes me better than the angels because I'm doing it because I want to.
00:01:14.420 The angels do it because they have to.
00:01:16.520 What would make me worse than the animals is that I will say, no, whatever I want to do, I'm going to do it.
00:01:22.260 I don't care what it is. I don't question it, etc.
00:01:25.000 So now, I'm not saying anyone's an animal.
00:01:27.060 I'm just trying to give an understanding that we, as human beings, we have a purpose.
00:01:31.320 We're intelligent. The way we're designed.
00:01:33.080 My fingerprint doesn't match anybody else's fingerprint, yeah?
00:01:35.900 The way my body works, if I have a cut, look, I had a cut there.
00:01:38.940 The way it builds itself, the DNA.
00:01:40.600 The DNA is a factory, yeah?
00:01:41.880 So, hold on a second.
00:01:44.040 All of these stuff, all systems, all order, all factory, we look at our robot hand, robotic hand, and we say, wow, the man who made that must be so intelligent.
00:01:53.020 We glorify you. We praise him.
00:01:54.680 The man who made the airplane, thank you.
00:01:56.880 I don't need to travel to Saudi Arabia in four months.
00:01:59.860 I can get there in six hours.
00:02:01.140 Thank you very much.
00:02:02.000 So, what about the one who created the man who made the plane?
00:02:06.520 The purpose in life is that we find true freedom in having that connection and relationship with God Almighty, and understanding our true purpose, which is through the Quran.
00:02:17.040 Because, I mean, if it is true that if I'm living the way I'm living, I'm going to go to hell, I don't want that.
00:02:21.040 No, no, no. I wouldn't say you're going to go to hell.
00:02:23.400 What it is, in Islam, a lot of religions have this concept of, you don't believe in our religion, you're going to hell.
00:02:28.820 Allah says in the Quran, we do not punish a nation until we send a messenger.
00:02:32.700 So, if you haven't heard the message of Islam, we have three categories, four categories.
00:02:36.660 A person who hasn't reached the age of puberty, somebody who's not mentally stable, and somebody who hasn't heard the message of Islam.
00:02:42.500 If you die in that state, but you never heard Islam, God will test you on the day of judgment. 0.99
00:02:47.640 Specific test.
00:02:48.800 However, if you know Islam to be the truth, and you reject it, then you're in trouble.
00:02:53.940 If I knew it was the truth, I wouldn't reject it.
00:02:56.200 That's, did you see what he just said?
00:02:59.280 And this is sincerity.
00:03:00.720 This is submitting your will.
00:03:02.540 That's saying, you know what, because there's people at the time of the prophet, when he came with the revelation, they were the Arabs.
00:03:08.040 They knew him to be the truthful.
00:03:10.100 They knew that he was the truthful man.
00:03:12.120 This is what he said to them.
00:03:12.900 Listen to this here.
00:03:13.400 He went to them and said, because he was claiming he's a prophet, yeah, with the miracles and signs.
00:03:17.260 If they knew it, why would they reject it?
00:03:18.880 This is what I'm saying.
00:03:19.760 This is so key.
00:03:20.660 He went to them and said the following, yeah.
00:03:22.040 He stood on the mountain and he said, if I told you guys, behind this mountain is an army coming to destroy us, would you believe me?
00:03:28.820 They said, of course we'll believe you.
00:03:30.720 We know you to be the truthful.
00:03:32.220 We've never heard you lie.
00:03:33.540 He goes, I'm telling you I'm the messenger of God.
00:03:35.480 They go, we don't want to know.
00:03:36.200 This is what you call, this is why God says in the Quran that every stubborn, because I enjoy sinning and I don't want to.
00:03:44.060 Yes, because you know what it is?
00:03:45.600 They're saying this is the way I know, I don't care.
00:03:48.060 So the prophet will show them miracles of a miracle, literal miracles.
00:03:51.580 I don't want to know.
00:03:52.800 Why?
00:03:53.260 Because inner desire, the inner, this is why Allah says in the Quran, have you seen the one who takes his desire as his God?
00:03:59.460 Meaning, this comes first.
00:04:01.360 What I want comes first.
00:04:02.920 And Islam is about submission. 1.00
00:04:04.840 Once you acknowledge there's God there, and you want a relationship with him, you submit.
00:04:08.280 God, I submit to you, whatever needs to be done, you know?
00:04:11.080 And that's what it is, and this is like you said beautifully, yeah?
00:04:13.660 How could you not believe if it's the truth?
00:04:15.880 Sadly, there are people there, in those times, who even today, who are short of evidence, they don't want to know.
00:04:21.660 Nope, I don't care.
00:04:22.680 I say to them, what do you want?
00:04:23.560 How can I believe God?
00:04:24.480 If God came in and said, I am God, he would say, oh no, maybe it's an illusion.
00:04:27.820 What can we do?
00:04:29.280 Our job is to convey.
00:04:30.640 I can't change nobody's heart.
00:04:31.900 I can pray for you.
00:04:32.880 You can pray for me.
00:04:33.680 I don't know where I'm going to end up.
00:04:35.000 Today, I'm talking like this.
00:04:35.920 I don't know where I'm going to end up.
00:04:37.080 So, I don't ever look down on anyone and be like, oh, this guy.
00:04:40.120 Surah Fatiha, yeah?
00:04:41.380 So, it goes,
00:04:42.240 Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen, Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem, Maliki Yawm-Din.
00:04:47.500 I'll translate.
00:04:48.400 Iyaka na'abudu wa Iyaka nasta'een.
00:04:50.880 Ihdina sirata al-mustaqeem, sirata al-lazina an-amta alayhim, gairil makhtoobi alayhim walad-daaleen.
00:04:57.680 This is something that you must have.
00:04:59.340 It's a pillar.
00:04:59.740 So, what that means is, it says,
00:05:01.460 Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem,
00:05:02.500 In the name of Allah, the most merciful, the very merciful.
00:05:07.200 Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen.
00:05:08.520 All praises belong to the one who's the master of the whole universe.
00:05:15.580 Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen.
00:05:17.080 All praises to the one who's created the whole universe.
00:05:20.180 Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen.
00:05:21.020 Ar-Rahmanir Raheem.
00:05:22.340 The most merciful, the very merciful.
00:05:24.980 Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen.
00:05:26.120 Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen.
00:05:27.180 Ar-Rahmanir Raheem.
00:05:27.880 Maliki Yawm-Din.
00:05:29.620 Owner of the Day of Judgment.
00:05:31.880 Iyaka na'abudu wa Iyaka nasta'een.
00:05:34.060 You alone we worship, you alone we ask for help.
00:05:36.500 Yeah?
00:05:37.160 Ihdina sirata al-mustaqeem, no, sorry.
00:05:39.940 Iyaka na'abudu wa Iyaka nasta'een.
00:05:41.560 Sirata al-lazina an-amta alayhim, gairil makhtoobi alayhim walad-daaleen.
00:05:46.360 Guide us to the path, guide us to the straight path of those of whom you have favoured,
00:05:51.220 not of those who have earned your anger and gone astray.
00:05:54.020 Yeah?
00:05:54.520 So here we acknowledge that God Almighty is the one who's created the heavens and the earth.
00:05:59.100 He is the one that's merciful, very merciful.
00:06:01.600 This is something that you hear in the Quran a lot.
00:06:04.060 Every chapter starts with this except one.
00:06:07.040 Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.
00:06:08.200 God Almighty in the name of God, the most merciful, the very merciful.
00:06:12.200 So why does God keep repeating that?
00:06:14.220 The most merciful, the very merciful.
00:06:15.360 The most merciful, the most merciful.
00:06:16.340 Why?
00:06:16.780 Because He's trying to show you that He is the most merciful.
00:06:19.360 He wants the best for you.
00:06:20.560 So God is saying He is the owner of the day of judgment.
00:06:23.660 And then what do we say in our prayer?
00:06:25.620 You alone we worship and you alone we ask for help.
00:06:28.580 This here is the problem with a lot of other religions. 0.98
00:06:31.600 They go through Jesus.
00:06:32.620 Christians believe Jesus is God.
00:06:34.240 We say how could God be a man?
00:06:36.760 You know, that's what we say.
00:06:38.260 Yeah.
00:06:38.400 I mean, this is God.
00:06:39.360 Couldn't He do what He likes?
00:06:40.220 Okay, but this is where, okay.
00:06:41.380 Can God become a would? 0.80