I'LL ACCEPT ISLAM IF... - SPEAKERS CORNER'
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Summary
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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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.
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Live and die, yeah? So, I would say, without being insulted to anyone, what's the difference between us and me and a cow?
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No, obviously, yes, I think I am a bit more intelligent as well.
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But I'm saying, a cow eats, drinks, sleeps, defecates and lives his life.
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I can't be like him. I'm more intelligent. I can't be like, okay, forget this. I'll just drink, sleep, defecate.
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How come we're more important than animals? Do they go out to heaven?
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God says, you do this, they do as they're told, yeah?
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Then we have the animals and then we have the human beings in the chain, yeah?
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What makes us better than angels or lower than animals is the following.
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Either, either we become better than the angels. Why?
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Because the angels don't have a free will. We do.
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So if I choose to obey God and try to follow his commandments, yeah?
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Then that makes me better than the angels because I'm doing it because I want to.
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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.
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I don't care what it is. I don't question it, etc.
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I'm just trying to give an understanding that we, as human beings, we have a purpose.
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My fingerprint doesn't match anybody else's fingerprint, yeah?
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The way my body works, if I have a cut, look, I had a cut there.
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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.
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I don't need to travel to Saudi Arabia in four months.
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So, what about the one who created the man who made the plane?
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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.
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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.
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No, no, no. I wouldn't say you're going to go to hell.
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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.
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Allah says in the Quran, we do not punish a nation until we send a messenger.
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So, if you haven't heard the message of Islam, we have three categories, four categories.
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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.
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If you die in that state, but you never heard Islam, God will test you on the day of judgment.
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However, if you know Islam to be the truth, and you reject it, then you're in trouble.
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If I knew it was the truth, I wouldn't reject it.
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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.
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He went to them and said, because he was claiming he's a prophet, yeah, with the miracles and signs.
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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?
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He goes, I'm telling you I'm the messenger of God.
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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.
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They're saying this is the way I know, I don't care.
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So the prophet will show them miracles of a miracle, literal miracles.
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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?
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Once you acknowledge there's God there, and you want a relationship with him, you submit.
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God, I submit to you, whatever needs to be done, you know?
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And that's what it is, and this is like you said beautifully, yeah?
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Sadly, there are people there, in those times, who even today, who are short of evidence, they don't want to know.
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If God came in and said, I am God, he would say, oh no, maybe it's an illusion.
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So, I don't ever look down on anyone and be like, oh, this guy.
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Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen, Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem, Maliki Yawm-Din.
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Ihdina sirata al-mustaqeem, sirata al-lazina an-amta alayhim, gairil makhtoobi alayhim walad-daaleen.
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In the name of Allah, the most merciful, the very merciful.
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All praises belong to the one who's the master of the whole universe.
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All praises to the one who's created the whole universe.
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You alone we worship, you alone we ask for help.
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Sirata al-lazina an-amta alayhim, gairil makhtoobi alayhim walad-daaleen.
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Guide us to the path, guide us to the straight path of those of whom you have favoured,
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not of those who have earned your anger and gone astray.
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So here we acknowledge that God Almighty is the one who's created the heavens and the earth.
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This is something that you hear in the Quran a lot.
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God Almighty in the name of God, the most merciful, the very merciful.
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Because He's trying to show you that He is the most merciful.
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So God is saying He is the owner of the day of judgment.
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You alone we worship and you alone we ask for help.
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This here is the problem with a lot of other religions.