Pearl - May 09, 2024Has Christianity has been infiltrated ｜ THE SITDOWN ｜ @MohammedHijab
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In this episode, we discuss the difference between Christianity and Islam, and how they differ from the Bible and the Quran. We also discuss the concept of God, and whether or not there are three separate and equal gods.
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So you think in Rome, they invented that he was God?
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So in the beginning, what happened is that Christianity was a persecuted
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And in the beginning, they were persecuted minority.
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They were being persecuted by all kinds of people, right?
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Up until the third or the fourth century, you had this guy called Constantine.
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He had a dream of the cross and all that kind of thing.
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even though Christianity had been a minority religion
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and they were a persecuted minority for a very long time.
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there was something called the Edict of Milan and in 325,
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They started to formulate what is the belief of the Christians.
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325, they said it was, you know, you have the Father,
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the Son and the Holy Spirit, this idea of the Father, the Son,
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Oh, and then you guys, you guys had the same text
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we believe i think i've heard snico say that right yeah so the quran look so to finish the
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story on this right we believe that christianity had been interpolated had been people
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What happened is Islam is a continuation from Christianity, from Jesus Christ.
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we believe Muhammad who is the we believe the final prophet he was sent in Arabia and he went
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when he was 40 to the cave and the angel had an interaction with him and he had revealed the Quran
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to him the Quran we believe is the verbatim speech of God and in that verbatim speech of God you know
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there are prohibitions there are allowances what to do what not to do etc etc etc we also believe
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that this text and there's good evidence to show that it's been
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preserved for the whole time. Nothing has been changed of it.
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And if I asked, if I asked the Christians, would they agree with
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that, that the Quran hasn't been changed? Or would they say,
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because often what I find is both groups say the other is lying.
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Well, it depends on what Christian you ask. If you, if you ask a
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fair minded Christian, who's a scholar and academic, they may say,
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yes, we agree with the Muslim notion that the Quran has not
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been changed. But if you ask a polemic or an apologist for Christianity, he'll say,
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no, the Quran has been changed just like the Bible. But they wouldn't deny that the
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Bible has been changed. So there are, for example, great scholars of Christianity
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like Bruce Metzger, who's come out and wrote a book about how the Bible has been
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changed. So that's one thing. The other thing is, so we've got the idea of God.
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And you've got to ask yourself an honest question, which one makes more sense?
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Let me ask you, in fact, which one makes more sense? The idea of three persons,
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co-equal co-eternal or the idea of one God if we're being honest about this one
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God or three persons well I guess the way they taught it to me was that it's
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like it they're gonna roast me cuz I know I'm not gonna explain it right but
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but it's like it's like three in one so yeah sure it's still one God but it's
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just like there's it's like three in one yeah I know but you've got the father
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You've got the Son and you've got the Holy Spirit.
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So if I had a fourth and said no, and also the disciples, for example, when do I stop?
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So when you, for example, if you're, if you're very sad, if you're, if you're in a traumatic
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situation or if you're desperate, who would you call out to?
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I mean, you call out to the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit or all three at the same time?
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There are verses in the Quran that say that when the people are in the sea and they're
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about to be capsized and so on, they will call out to God in earnestness and sincerity.
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But when they come back to the shore, then you'll see them ascribing partners with God.
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See, God doesn't want you to ascribe partners with him.
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You see, that's what Jews have said all over the time.
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That's what, you know, in the first 10 commandments, you'll find in the Old
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So that's the first thing I'll leave it with you.
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I mean, this seems to be the first question, because that's one of the major
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differences between Islam and Christianity, the idea of God.
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The second major difference is the prophethood of Prophet Muhammad.
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That's the question, because if he's a true prophet,
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Then it's just a man-made text, a man from the 7th century, etc.
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But if we owe it to ourselves to explore the issue.
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So for example, we would find that the Prophet Muhammad had a pure track record.
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No one considered him in his community to be a liar at all.
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He came when he was 40 years old after living a full life amongst them
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So the kind of evidences that we have as Muslims, for example,
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the fact that the Quran does not have any contradictions in it.
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So Islam makes a series of predictions about the future,
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Let me give you ones that are pertinent to your work.
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There are predictions in Islam that say that women are going to join the workforce with men.
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In the future, there's a woman will join the workforce with men.
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Another thing you've spoken about, which is mentioned in the prediction of that prophet,
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is that there will come a time where people will engage in promiscuity,
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sexual intercourse outside of the marital structure,
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there'll be an advent of sexually transmitted diseases.
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So sexually STDs will come about as a result of this degenerative behavior
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So I guess my question, because, you know, I'm a believer of people are people.
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And so it would be, I would be very shocked if at no point in history,
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there was like like didn't king david have like 300 wives or something in the bible yeah yeah like
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people were like to me that's not a god like i mean it might be true i'm not trying to be like
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disrespectful but it's like i wouldn't put that as a god-like prediction sure one or two of them
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wouldn't be but if i had 50 of the same kind of precision and sophistication what's the best one
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give me like that i'll give you three or four good ones okay so for example in the quran is mentioned
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in chapter 30 verses one to four that the romans had been defeated and remember we said that the
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roman empire and the persian empire they had been kind of going at it yeah there were two major
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empires even at the time of the prophet and that in three to nine years that they will win and they
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will and they will win in a nearby low land okay now this prediction has been has materialized now
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you're a volleyball player for example yeah if i said i don't know whatever team you play for right
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i say look hurley's team is going to win and they're going to win five nil and they're going
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to win at this time in this place yeah i mean that's a pretty good prediction i'm getting this
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from god if it if the opposite happens or if you don't win if there's a draw or if this whatever it
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is um then it completely discredits what i'm saying so would the christians come in so if i
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said, hey, Christians, there's 50 things that Prophet Muhammad said, am I allowed to say his
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name? I don't know. I don't know. I know there's some like. Yeah, we believe that's in the Quran
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though. So we believe the Quran, remember, is from God. Okay. Let's mention the Quran and the
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Hadith. Okay. Yeah. Well, so if I said that to the Christians, would they say, yes, you're right.
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All the predictions were correct. They couldn't deny this one. And I have actually presented this
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to uh oh really so even the christians would agree with you they'd have to okay on this issue i don't
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think there's any controversy whatsoever because it just happened and there is there's corroborating
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evidence outside of the quran and sunnah there's roman primary source historical information about
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this okay do you know what i mean so that's one thing there's a there's a book that was written
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by a friend of mine called the forbidden prophecies by abu zakariya his name is abu zakariya and he
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lists a lot of these predictions a lot of them a lot of them is where islam will spread what
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countries it will spread to like Egypt like for example Yemen and Jordan and present-day Palestine
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etc like a lot of the countries that we know that Islam has spread to a lot of them have to do with
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the economy economy for example one of them is that that interests will overwhelm the economic
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system so that you will not be able to get away from it whatsoever and a lot of it is to do with
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the infrastructure. For example, one of the famous one is that the barefooted Arab,
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the barefooted Arabs will compete to raise tall buildings. We know now the tallest building in
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the world is in Dubai, in Burj Khalifa, right? The third most tall building in the world is Mecca,
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it's the clock tower. You know, so they're competing with each other now to exactly that.
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Someone could say it was a self fulfilling prophecy. But it couldn't be a self fulfilling
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prophecy if the economic situation wasn't there if they didn't have money to do that
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you needed to have a certain amount of gdp to do that