Ali Dawah - December 25, 2023SANTA HEARS THE QURAN & ACCEPTS IS -
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Summary
In this episode, we talk about Santa Claus and his relationship with God. Is he a Christian or an Atheist? What does he believe in? And does he agree with the Qur'an? We find out in this episode.
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اللَّهُ السَّمَدْ لَمْ يَلِدْ وَلَمْ يُولَدْ وَلَمْ يَكُلْ لَهُ كُفْ وَنَحَدُ
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Not too bad, thank you, and I hope that all's well with you.
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Well, you can ask, but you won't get an answer.
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just to come and maybe take pictures with the kids and just...
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It creates a bit of fun for everybody, you know?
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Well, I certainly would think that any Santa Claus would believe in God.
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I think it's based, as you may know, on St. Nicholas.
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I think he was from Turkey, if I'm not mistaken.
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...giving out presents to children and things like that.
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Well, I'm loathe to label myself, if you know what I mean.
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But certainly I believe in God, there's no question about that.
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There are these various stories, and I'm sure you'll not be unfamiliar here.
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You've got people like Christians, Muslims, and a few Jews as well.
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And they'll all say, I'm right, no, no, you're right.
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So you've got to, you know, it's hard to know which stories are true, which stories are not true.
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So let me tell you, as a Muslim, our perspective.
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And then we can decide what is your belief system.
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No, I've always had the belief that there is a God.
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Because everything that we see around us is created in intricate design.
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And as we all know, that if we take some sand or whatever, throw it on the floor, it will scatter into nothing.
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Maybe if we get that same sand and we can mold it into a shape of an animal and we can present something.
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But we had to have an intelligent thought to make that happen.
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The sand wouldn't form itself into like a rabbit.
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You're speaking the truth and you've got intelligence.
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I've spoken here to atheists who will come and tell me that the universe came from nothing.
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And for you to come and just say simply what you said is as Muslims, we 100% agree with that.
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Well, I would be inclined to think, number one, why would he be a man?
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And also, I would reason that if God were to be a man, he is lacking something.
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Because I'm lacking something, I'm a man, but I don't have the attributes of a woman.
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So, I don't think he would, again, like labelling, I don't think God would label himself with this or that.
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I mean, I think probably people get the idea that God is a man because they think that, well, you know, the masculine side of the world is, it dominates and gets things done.
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And I think, well, that must be what God is, you know.
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But, okay, look, you're getting more intelligent as you're speaking.
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Because you're speaking from reason and rationality and logic.
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And as Muslims, we believe that every person is born a Muslim.
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Because nobody had to come and tell you that God is not a man.
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Like, I don't need to come here and tell you, by the way, Ed, God is not a man.
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You'd be like, well, duh, of course I know that.
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Or if I said there is God, you're going to say, of course there is God.
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What you're doing is we call the fitra in Islam.
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What the fitra means is you are innately programmed to acknowledge God exists, to acknowledge he is one, to acknowledge he is not the creation, but rather the creator.
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The stuff you've just said to me is things a Muslim says.
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So, Ed, jokes aside, you are uttering the words a Muslim would say.
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This is the definition that we give to God Almighty.
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Like, I'll recite a verse in the Quran for you.
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He does not beget, nor is he begotten, and there is nothing like him.
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Yes, our perception of God is that we believe God has attributes.
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He has a will that he will the universe and us to come be.
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Now, what God Almighty wants as Muslims from us is what?
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So, is there anything about Islam that you don't know?
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Because you already believe in the fundamental, which is who God is.
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Would you accept that God has to be all-knowing?
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So, there's certain things that you believe in.
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Now, is there anything you don't know about Islam that you had a question mark about?
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Well, like I say, there are so many things in stories.
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People put one perspective and the other side put, oh, that's wrong.
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It's very hard to really, I mean, you will appreciate the Christians.
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They will say that, you know, Jesus is, and I know that you regard Jesus as a prophet.
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But the Christians will say that Jesus is actually the son of Christ.
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But you, as a person who's not a Christian or a Muslim, logically, does that make sense?
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From one perspective, you could argue that it doesn't make sense.
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From another perspective, you can argue that it does make sense if you are prepared to accept these steps that you'll be presented with.
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Now, putting faith aside and using logic and rationality, you said God cannot be a man.
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Well, I can't say that God can't be a man, but logically, it wouldn't...
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I'm sure God could be whatever God wants to be.
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So if God wants to be a man, I can't say, you know...
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The only way I can answer that is, um, surely God could do whatever God wants to do.
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Okay, we say God does whatever befits his majesty.
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For example, can we say God can cease to exist?
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Well, I suppose only by God's own will could that happen.
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Okay, so we say he can't die because if he dies, then that would be against his nature because he's the ever-living.
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So what we say is God cannot lie because lying is something that is not righteous.
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That's why we say God will never be a man and cannot be a man.
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No more, really, than little touches here and there in the...
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So I'll hear, and what I've done throughout growing up as a child, you know, you'll hear stories and so on.
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You know, I've got a good thing from the Bible I can say.
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And, you know, I can tell you, you're probably aware of it, in the fact that I think that Jesus, I think, said that, you know, on the last day or whatever, God will turn to you and say, you know, you did these bad things.
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And people will say, no, God, I didn't do these things to you.
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And God will say to you, whenever you did these things to anyone, you did it to me.
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God, you're talking about the hadith of the Prophet Muhammad, he said that when I was not well, you didn't visit me.
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And he said, oh, God, you are the, you will never be unwell.
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So he's talking about a person who was, my servant was ill.
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Can you maybe just do this like on a random chapter and a random verse and may, let's see if there's a message in the Quran for you.
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Now, whether you endure it patiently or impatiently, it is all the same for you.
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You are merrily rewarded for what you used to do.
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Of course, the God-fearing will be in gardens of bliss, enjoying what their Lord will have given to them,
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and their Lord will have saved them from the punishment of hell.
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It will be said to them, eat, drink pleasantly because of what you used to do.
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Now, this is talking about the people of hellfire, the people of paradise.
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And we say that that could only happen with our relationship with God Almighty.
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13 years ago, I was embarking on my journey of finding the true faith.
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I found Islam, not only does the Quran preserve, hasn't been changed.
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Historical miracles, linguistic miracles, the prophecies.
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So I would just ask you, pray to God and ask Him and say,
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Because in the Quran, it's talking about the people of the fire who denied the hell fire.
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You must accept that if God exists, there must be a reason He put us here.
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Why would God just put us here and leave us on our own?
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So, therefore, I want to, inshallah, see you in paradise.
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So, I would say, when you get home, just do a prayer and say,
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If you have any other questions for me, anything else?
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And I ask God Almighty to guide you and myself.
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It was very interesting speaking to Santa Claus.
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I've been looking for him for the past 15 years.
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My sisters, may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala guide him to Islam.
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And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will guide those who have good heart, inshallah.
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As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.