SHNEAKO - Is Professor Jiang Becoming A Muslim？

00:00:00.000 Guys, the idea of Jesus makes no sense.

00:00:03.120 Jesus cannot be God.

00:00:05.040 Jesus, at best, can only be a messenger of God, just like me.

00:00:09.100 And the idea that Jesus is God makes no sense.

00:00:12.560 Jesus is a human, just like me.

00:00:14.600 God is God.

00:00:16.160 Professor Zhang is doing Dawa, bro.

00:00:18.820 He doesn't even realize that he's giving Dawa.

00:00:20.800 And he sounds convinced of it.

00:00:23.220 Am I wrong?

00:00:24.860 When I saw him read the Bible, or when I saw him read the Tomlin,

00:00:28.180 i did not see that he was convinced at all the way he's talking about this with righteousness

00:00:32.080 in his voice this is different am i am i obviously i'm biased but right here the way

00:00:38.580 he's speaking as even the way he's repeating this it sounds like he's convinced the islamic

00:00:43.920 golden age professor jang the islamic golden age the caliphate predictive history let's see

00:00:48.980 what's going on. Good morning. So today we do Islam. Some quick facts, some questions that we

00:00:58.740 will look at today about the Islamic Golden Age. The first major question is, while Europe was in

00:01:07.620 its dark ages, Islam was embarked on its golden age. So the first question is, how did this happen?

00:01:17.660 Why was there this divergence?

00:01:22.580 The second question we're going to look at is, what ended the Islamic Golden Age?

00:01:28.820 Why would this period come to an end?

00:01:31.620 The third question we're going to look at is, eventually, how did Christian Europe overtake the Muslim world?

00:01:40.640 So those are the three big questions we will look at in today's class.

00:01:45.340 some quick facts about islam damn steezy just texted me i'm about to tear up he said hey

00:01:52.080 brother end of a fucking era i hope i'll uh man w steezy bro we're gonna miss him over here i love

00:01:57.240 speech it is the world's second largest religion uh christianity has two billion people islam has

00:02:03.180 one billion people uh they are divided into two major sects the shia which is based primarily in

00:02:11.700 iran is everywhere else uh the light green are the sunni people and the dark green are the shia

00:02:21.560 people and i know sunnis on the internet will often say like oh the shia kuffar and stuff and

00:02:25.920 shia this year that well the shia is the one really standing up right now the shia is the

00:02:30.880 one who just burned that ball statue in iran the shia is the one that israel wants america to go

00:02:35.660 with so bad so i mean are the sunnis really how much are the sunnis doing to to battle israel

00:02:41.080 right now. Hamas, Hamas, of course, Hamas, of course. And as you can see, Islam extends all

00:02:48.680 across Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia, and into India. The most populous Muslim

00:02:56.880 country in the world is actually Indonesia. The Shia and the Sunni, the only major difference

00:03:05.800 is that the Shia believe that only a direct descendant of Muhammad's grandson, Ali,

00:03:13.500 can be the leader of the religion, whereas the Sunni do not believe this.

00:03:18.380 Now, this is a religion of one-to-one people,

00:03:22.080 so there are many different belief systems, many different sects.

00:03:26.760 Wait, sorry, sorry.

00:03:27.420 Only direct descendants of Ali can, what, be the caliph?

00:03:30.260 Can be the leader of the belief system, many different sects,

00:03:35.800 within this cosmology, but this is really the major difference between the Mashiach and the Sunni.

00:03:47.700 So, Muslim means to submit yourself to God, to believe in God and to submit yourself wholeheartedly to Him.

00:04:02.120 And Islam was founded by a man named Muhammad, who the Muslims consider the prophet of God, the final prophet.

00:04:14.280 And Jesus was the penultimate prophet.

00:04:17.840 And the legend is that at age 40, Muhammad, who is a merchant or a trader, he has a vision.

00:04:28.040 He goes in a cave to meditate.

00:04:29.560 So what was the word he used for, Jesus?

00:04:31.080 Sorry for pausing. He said Jesus was the penultimate

00:04:33.800 penultimate.

00:04:34.660 And reveals to him

00:04:36.740 certain visions that he has

00:04:38.900 memorized. And these visions become

00:04:40.820 the basis for the holy book

00:04:42.540 of the Muslim tradition

00:04:44.660 called the Korat.

00:04:47.400 He skipped a lot

00:04:48.840 of stuff. It wasn't really visions.

00:04:50.820 It was from Angel

00:04:52.400 Gabriel who

00:04:54.660 revealed the Koran.

00:04:57.340 He kind of skipped over some

00:04:58.680 stuff. I'm not sure if that terminology

00:05:00.540 is the right way to say it right saying visions like that hamas is not shia there you go i know

00:05:07.660 understanding the cia wygur propaganda is not comey okay cia why okay there's so many things

00:05:17.020 you got wrong here i said hamas was sunni understands that his mission is to be a messenger

00:05:22.780 of god and to reveal the truth of god to the pagan society in the arabian world

00:05:28.700 So he's based in Mecca and when he tries to reveal the truth, he is met with a lot of resistance.

00:05:36.700 And eventually he's forced out of Mecca and he goes to Medina.

00:05:41.700 This is called the Hijra in the Muslim tradition, the pilgrimage.

00:05:46.700 And when he goes to Medina, he becomes the leader of the warring factions within Medina,

00:05:56.700 primarily between the pagans the muslim tribes and the jewish tribes so there are three major

00:06:02.620 factions and at this point muhammad christian call the constitution of hadina which promises

00:06:10.720 religious freedom to everyone within the muslim tradition so again this constitution is super

00:06:18.260 important for when they talk about how like oh there was always conflict in israel palestine

00:06:22.240 It's like, no, when the Muslims were in charge in Spain, in Turkey, Muslims have always traditionally, it's literally doctrine to let people of the book coexist properly.

00:06:31.740 That's not true.

00:06:32.800 They spread that lie around like there's a bunch of hate and that, no, this is, when it's Muslim rule, we're supposed to allow people to exist.

00:06:43.600 Explains even Haibar.

00:06:45.480 Should I put the notes?

00:06:46.440 Where should I put my notes?

00:06:48.080 Okay.

00:06:48.340 So, ever since the beginning, and this is very important, the religion of Islam was an open, tolerant, and inclusive religion.

00:06:58.340 They have basically maintained this tradition for the next thousand years.

00:07:10.760 Eventually, Islam will spread from the Arabian Desert to all across the Middle East.

00:07:18.340 They will conquer the Persian Empire, and they will take at least half of the Byzantine Empire,

00:07:25.360 including the richest parts of the Byzantine Empire, which are Syria and Egypt.

00:07:33.280 They will also take Jerusalem, where they will build something called the Al-Aqsaq Mosque.

00:07:39.380 And legend has it that Mohammed ascended to heaven from this place.

00:07:48.340 Now it's really important for us...

00:07:50.340 Is that true?

00:07:52.340 Wait, I spelled something wrong too?

00:07:56.340 Also, this is not Al-Aqsa?

00:07:58.340 That's true?

00:08:00.340 It said...

00:08:04.340 Mohammed ascended to heaven from Al-Aqsa?

00:08:10.340 You guys are saying this is not Al-Aqsa? It looks like it, right?

00:08:14.340 Yeah.

00:08:16.340 about this place is Al Israa waal, whoa whoa whoa whoa, Al Israa waal Mirai, what is this?

00:08:28.020 Oh, so he didn't ascend from Al-Aqsa, he sent it from Al Israa, no, this is the title for it,

00:08:36.420 so this is what it's called. So did he get it wrong? The Night Journey.

00:08:42.660 The Al-Aksat Mosque, it's still there in Jerusalem, and it is built on top of something called the Temple Mount.

00:08:58.740 Remember, in the year 70, the Romans burned down the Second Temple of the Jews, the holiest site in the Jewish faith.

00:09:06.000 and now and then the muslims came and built the al-akzat mosque on top of the temple mount

00:09:13.240 now this is a very strange thing to do if muslim if the muslim tradition is open inclusive and

00:09:21.200 tolerant and jews are welcome into the into the tradition boring guys let's get out of here with

00:09:28.000 this boring muslim shit el stream el porco good boy give me more money build a mosque on top of

00:09:35.860 the jewish holy site that doesn't really make any sense but honestly this has been a mystery

00:09:43.560 to everyone really no one has been able to figure this out okay so we will today attempt to solve

00:09:50.800 one of the great mysteries in the islam tradition why was the al-aqsa mosque built on top

00:09:57.480 of the Jewish Temple Mount, okay?

00:10:01.720 As I mentioned, the Arab will expand.

00:10:06.240 Shias believe in 12 infallible imams.

00:10:08.780 We know.

00:10:09.280 Iran unalived Sunnis in Iraq.

00:10:13.120 From the desert of Arabia,

00:10:16.300 and they will conquer the Sassanian Persian Empire,

00:10:20.520 and they will take at least half of the Byzantines, okay?

00:10:24.060 They will try to lay siege on Constantinople,

00:10:26.580 But remember that when we discussed the Byzantine Empire, Sassanid, I've never even heard of this empire before, Sassanid Empire and half of Byzantine, a.k.a. the Roman Empire, right? Byzantine is Roman Empire.

00:10:41.180 So Sassanid, what is this? Sassanid is like, where is this? It's west of India. It's okay.

00:10:50.040 Empire. Caustinople is designed as... So Assassini is like basically Persian and Byzantine is Roman.

00:10:58.600 Essentially, right? This is a good parenthesis. Whenever I do parenthesis for these notes,

00:11:02.840 it's because it's my thing. An impenetrable fortress. So there will be two major sieges

00:11:09.400 and because of the walls, because of Greek fire, they will be unable to take the city.

00:11:16.040 Say it again. Say this. How far?

00:11:18.780 They will just and became as an impenetrable fortress.

00:11:23.260 So there will be two major sieges.

00:11:25.680 And because of the walls, because of brick fire, they will be unable to take the city.

00:11:34.300 The spread of Islam was lightning fast.

00:11:38.080 In less than 100 years, they spread from the desert of Arabia, really the poorest place in this entire region.

00:11:44.860 throughout most of the Middle East, okay?

00:11:51.880 So the dark green is where they started,

00:11:53.840 and the light green is where they eventually expanded to.

00:11:56.780 And remember, this process takes less than 100 years,

00:12:01.680 which is remarkable.

00:12:07.820 The Omanic Caliphate was about 700, okay?

00:12:11.880 So let's just compare the Umayyad Caliphate with other empires, including the Tang.

00:12:18.820 The Tang really is the height of China civilization.

00:12:22.380 But as you can see, the Umayyad Caliphate really is the largest empire in the world at this time.

00:12:29.960 And eventually, they will also become the wealthiest empire at this time.

00:12:35.340 um there are five pillars of islam it is an extremely simple and clear religion

00:12:47.020 wait chat say what it is say what it is uh so you need to take your shahada then there's prayer

00:12:52.080 there's salah then there is i don't remember number three number four is ramadan passing

00:12:58.200 out of his backside and then pilgrimage solomon built this place of worship not a temple so okay

00:13:04.180 so it wasn't a jewish temple it was just built by solomon let's continue and see what he says

00:13:07.800 here with zakat yes charity charity judaism charity i knew that there are five pillars

00:13:13.160 i knew that to the religion i knew that um first of all you have to believe that allah god

00:13:20.120 is the only god and this mirrors the christian and the jewish faith um you are required to pray

00:13:30.260 at least five times a day facing the direction of uh mecca you must give uh money to the poor

00:13:40.580 um you must you're broke the brokies they want my charity they want my zakat

00:13:49.540 but i've got a bugon why would i give zakat when i've got a bugon

00:13:53.700 fast during the holy days the last thing is you must make something called the hajj

00:13:58.660 which is a pilgrimage to the holy site in mecca and perform rituals in mecca this is something

00:14:04.980 that all muslims must do and you will have the poorest muslims they will save their entire lives

00:14:12.980 just so that they could make this hajj okay the muslim people are probably hey who's the haji in

00:14:19.300 the chat anybody i've only done umrab i've never done i need to get my hajj done most devout uh the

00:14:27.380 the most religious people you will meet.

00:14:29.740 They take their religion very, very seriously.

00:14:32.560 This is the Hajj in Mecca.

00:14:35.480 And I was actually in Saudi Arabia, and I tried to go there.

00:14:39.440 And then I was told, only Muslims can go.

00:14:41.440 Yeah, get out of here, Jang.

00:14:43.640 You can't come here.

00:14:45.420 You can't come here.

00:14:46.780 You got to take Shahada to come in here.

00:14:48.580 And you know why they knew there was kind of a racial profile?

00:14:52.060 They looked at him and were like,

00:14:53.300 Nigga, you're not Muslim.

00:14:55.100 You're not Muslim.

00:14:56.300 I didn't get that.

00:14:57.040 That didn't happen to me, though.

00:14:57.960 Maybe I had Noor on my face.

00:14:59.920 And so as a train station, I was trying to buy a ticket to Mecca.

00:15:05.440 You can go to Medina, but you can't go to Mecca if you're not Muslim.

00:15:08.660 But that's it, though.

00:15:09.340 And I still recommend if you guys are not Muslim, check out Medina.

00:15:13.200 Check out Medina.

00:15:13.880 But show respect, man.

00:15:14.920 Show respect.

00:15:15.720 And they said, what's your Muslim name?

00:15:16.980 Like, well, I'm not Muslim.

00:15:18.400 I don't have a Muslim name.

00:15:19.880 You don't need to have a Muslim name to be Muslim.

00:15:22.420 Like, well, you can't go then.

00:15:24.040 So I was disappointed.

00:15:25.160 it uh but it is a beautiful um absolutely one of the most beautiful rituals in the world today

00:15:32.620 okay um so now we have proof now so that he's not not muslim i think he's just basically gnostic i

00:15:40.080 think he believes in god but doesn't really have a specific faith someone said al sneko bin laden

00:15:45.060 really dude no come on they're gonna i'm better than that nick's in the chat it's finished chats

00:15:51.120 bro well if he's in the chat why finish it oh there you are dude what the fuck is with these

00:15:56.240 mods man you guys are always asleep nick we're learning about the islamic caliphate we're

00:16:01.040 learning about the islamic empire the golden age summarize the introduction there are three

00:16:06.400 major mysteries to the history of islam really dude look at this guy oh my god you're distracting

00:16:14.120 me from the lesson mission log updated acquire zamzam water yes it's the purest water it's the

00:16:19.020 best water what's with that zim zam zap zap water zip zap zappity do it's try the water and tell me

00:16:27.420 if it's good or not it's delicious that we still haven't really saw and it's it's holy water okay

00:16:31.420 the first mystery what about operation operation dunk a baby in holy water operation cleanse my

00:16:38.420 little baby mandate country didn't exist 3 000 years ago w real history maxing yeah don't mission

00:16:46.280 acquired dunk dunk my baby dunk my sinful baby and cleanse it of original sin splash splash splash

00:16:58.520 he is um zam zam attitude inventory that they have something called the constitution of medina

00:17:05.000 we also know that jews who are literate were part of the early movement of islam

00:17:11.000 so why do you have no early records for the first 100 years wait wait what so what jews

00:17:17.240 were literate and part of the early movement of islam did you guys know that i didn't know that

00:17:23.800 a part of early islam and were literate wow is nick gonna start laughing the fact that muslims

00:17:30.280 weren't literate that all the og muslims weren't literate that's not funny bro okay why do we have

00:17:35.560 no early records for the first 100 years what the first 100 years of the movement that's very very

00:17:42.120 strange okay um another strange question another strange um thing is why would the muslims go to

00:17:51.320 war against two major empires the romans and the persians that's kind of suicidal they didn't know

00:17:57.000 they were going to win so why did they go to war okay that's the first mystery we'll solve today

00:18:02.360 Second mystery is, remember I said that the Shia and the Sunni have a major sectarian divide.

00:18:10.100 The Shia believe that only the descendants of Muhammad's grandson, Ali, can be the caliph, the leader of the Muslim...

00:18:17.580 Nick, who do you like better, the Sunnis or the Shia?

00:18:19.520 The Sunnis don't.

00:18:20.960 So why didn't Muhammad just name a successor and avoid civil wars that were erupt after his death?

00:18:29.560 The third question is, why was Al-Aqsaq built on the site of the Temple Mount?

00:18:34.680 And this is still a problem today because a lot of conflict in the Middle East is driven by this problem where the Jews want to rebuild the Temple.

00:18:46.320 But to do so, they would have to destroy the Al-Aqsaq Mosque, which is the third holy site in the Islam world.

00:18:53.040 So, Nick, you're Catholic. Who do you want to win for the Al-Aqsa Mosque?

00:18:56.480 Do you want it to remain Muslim or do you want the Jews to establish the third temple?

00:19:00.840 All right.

00:19:01.480 Which one?

00:19:02.400 And you say you prefer the Alawites?

00:19:06.680 The Alawites are a secretive ethno-religious group primarily based in Syria's coastal Latakia region

00:19:13.500 who follow a distinct branch of...

00:19:15.860 So who are these?

00:19:19.020 Oh, Zoroastrian?

00:19:21.360 Is this the Jewish sect?

00:19:24.240 Secretive sect.

00:19:25.100 Of course he picks the Fed branch, huh?

00:19:28.820 Of course Nick picks the Frankus branch.

00:19:33.000 I'm not trying to say anything bad.

00:19:34.280 Hold on.

00:19:35.800 I remember.

00:19:36.180 What does Zoroastrian mean?

00:19:37.060 I had it in my notes before.

00:19:40.140 This is.

00:19:42.320 Oh, the Persian sect.

00:19:43.760 Okay, Zoroastrian was the Persian monotheistic religion.

00:19:48.140 Ooh, 12% of them.

00:19:49.480 Ooh, did I just insult some Syrians?

00:19:53.200 Oh, wait.

00:19:53.800 are they bait are they the houthis okay let me just one question that is still relevant to us

00:19:59.380 today so you want al oxa to be catholic yeah i guess that's gonna happen okay i'm about to rage

00:20:03.840 bait nick right now because he just because he made fun of his arms on water i'm about to rage

00:20:06.740 bait nick chat ready ready i'm about to drop a nuke right here this is gonna be this is oof this

00:20:11.160 is super and wait nick i'm gonna stop jester maxing and tap dancing because you're in the

00:20:14.480 chat this lesson's good it'd be good but this is uh this is bad oh rage bait rage bait rage bait

00:20:21.880 yeah yeah watch up he's gonna say something about mbs or something but so we will also look at these

00:20:26.360 three mysteries and again no one knows the answers to any of these three questions and no one will

00:20:32.880 ever know because so much of the historical record has been lost to us but i will try to provide you

00:20:38.180 with an explanation okay given uh my understanding of the islamic world which by the way is extremely

00:20:46.540 unlimited okay so uh please ask questions please challenge me uh i'm looking at you doug okay all

00:20:54.620 right he trolled him google what he wrote tell me what did the pope write in the wall he didn't put

00:20:58.860 his head on the wall though he still put it on also nick we've been doing okay this is this is

00:21:05.000 not jester maxing but we've been researching the jesuits and the catholic church from these lessons

00:21:09.760 as well he definitely knows that the jesuits were infiltrated by crypto jews and were meant to

00:21:16.520 infiltrate the Catholic Church, right? He knows about the truth about the Jesuit order.

00:21:20.680 Come on. Okay, so today's topic is

00:21:24.260 the Islamic Golden Age. So let's just have a quick look at the

00:21:28.700 Golden Age. At the height of

00:21:31.840 Islamic influence, there were a few centers of

00:21:36.520 incredible cultural creativity.

00:21:40.740 One such site is Bukhara, Uzbekistan. It's still there,

00:21:44.600 guys, you can get on a plane like Doug did and visit it. It is an incredible city. I say that

00:21:50.840 without actually having visited it, but I've heard terrific things from Doug. And you can go

00:21:56.600 online as well and look at videos, but it is an incredible city. Doug, shout out to Doug.

00:22:00.740 And it shows you the artistic creativity of the Islamic Golden Age. But the main

00:22:08.720 cultural center. The answers to these questions are well known.

00:22:13.240 Research it independently later lol. Yeah well that's the point of a lecture

00:22:16.800 you do your own research as well. It's Baghdad.

00:22:20.900 It's not so beautiful now but back then it was

00:22:25.020 really the center of the world. It's a

00:22:28.840 round city and it's a new city. This is

00:22:32.920 a topographical map of the

00:22:36.900 city. As you can see, it's surrounded by the Tigris and Euphrates, and it is a round city.

00:22:42.140 Okay? One of the few round cities of that time.

00:22:45.240 This is like the Mecca for the Shias, right? In Baghdad? Or where the fuck? I should have

00:22:51.820 paid attention there.

00:22:54.020 But back then, Baghdad.

00:22:56.240 What?

00:22:56.980 Old Islamic Golden Age.

00:22:58.580 Okay, the Golden Age is Baghdad.

00:23:01.540 Main cultural center of Islamic Golden Age is Baghdad.

00:23:03.220 geographical map city. Okay? One of the few round cities of that time.

00:23:12.220 Baghdad was the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate, which started the Islamic Golden Age.

00:23:17.220 The Abbasid Caliphate is the successor to the Umayyad Empire, okay?

00:23:24.220 And this is where the Abbasid Caliphate was. And this is what Muslims consider the height of their civilization.

00:23:33.220 The thing that's really important for us to understand about the Abbasid Empire is that

00:23:42.300 not only were they influential in the Muslim world, but they eventually would come to create

00:23:49.080 the world that we live in today.

00:23:52.580 So when we think of globalization, we think of this as a recent phenomenon.

00:23:57.780 But look at the trade route that the Abbasid Calipat would create over its 300 to 400 year

00:24:04.780 history.

00:24:05.780 It connects the entire world.

00:24:11.480 As I mentioned last semester, globalization has always existed to a certain extent in

00:24:18.480 world history.

00:24:20.160 But the Abbasids, the Muslim religion, would take these existing networks and make them

00:24:25.860 rich a lot richer a lot more dense not faster british museum has manuscripts carbon dated during

00:24:33.700 the life of the prophet btw yeah i've heard that too because you said that the first hundred years

00:24:38.420 are not documented okay so the ambassadors um used global networks and made them richer

00:24:46.340 probably through trade right um you may not know this but the abbassage traded heavily

00:24:54.980 with the tongue and the song dynasties in fact it is the abbassage who would initiate something

00:25:03.640 called the maritime silk road the overland silk road has existed for a long time but it is the

00:25:10.320 abbassage who will eventually create the maritime silk road silk road sounds familiar isn't that a

00:25:15.420 Torrent website, Silk Road.

00:25:16.860 And it will bring China into the world to a greater extent than ever before.

00:25:24.280 Okay?

00:25:25.660 So this is just a trade.

00:25:30.500 The main center for cultural production in the Muslim world is something called the House of Wisdom.

00:25:39.060 And its model is the Library of Alexandria.

00:25:44.840 Oh, my God.

00:25:45.240 Okay, okay, okay, sorry, sorry, sorry.

00:25:47.840 It's something called the House of Wisdom.

00:25:49.500 House of Wisdom, the model is called,

00:25:53.080 main center of production, called House of Wisdom.

00:25:57.400 So many notes.

00:25:58.580 Library of Alexandria.

00:26:00.280 The model is called the Library of Alexandria.

00:26:07.020 Oh my God, sorry.

00:26:07.860 Remember last semester we discussed

00:26:09.860 the Library of Alexandria in Egypt,

00:26:12.880 And its mission was to be the first university

00:26:16.600 to take all Hellenistic knowledge and culture

00:26:21.740 and systemize it for-

00:26:25.080 Hedonistic, he said?

00:26:25.920 Desemination.

00:26:28.000 And the House of Wisdom was doing the same thing

00:26:31.040 where it would take all knowledge and culture-

00:26:33.760 Thank you for the five gifted.

00:26:34.600 Within the Islamic world and outside the Islamic world

00:26:38.340 and systemize and center it for mass dissemination.

00:26:42.540 Okay. So the things that they were doing were, they were taking numerals. Okay, so 0, 1, 2, 3.

00:26:50.720 Okay, so he was saying, oh, Hellenistic. To systemize Hellenistic. Hellenistic. Okay, so he's

00:26:58.720 going to talk about algebra, right? Mass dissemination. What's the definition of dissemination?

00:27:04.060 I don't know this dissemination definition dissemination definition the

00:27:15.460 action or fact spreading something we still use them today they took it from

00:27:22.780 India and again they standardized it and disseminated this knowledge they took

00:27:28.540 works from Aristotle and Plato translated into Arabic and Persian and

00:27:36.040 then disseminated it. The main contribution of the Islamic Golden Age to

00:27:43.300 world culture is in actually mathematics. Okay, so they took all the math in the

00:27:48.940 Greek world and in the Persian world and in the Hindu world and then they would

00:27:54.300 systemize it and then build on top of it this is a rendition of the house of

00:28:06.960 wisdom this is where the three major creative civilizations would meet and

00:28:12.900 exchange ideas right the Greeks the Jews and the Persians they would also take

00:28:18.600 ideas from the Indian tradition and the Chinese tradition as well. The major

00:28:28.020 literature or literary work that we still have today from the Islamic Golden

00:28:32.220 Age is the Arabian Nights. Scholars have looked at this very

00:28:37.500 closely and most scholars believe that this story is actually from India. Also

00:28:43.980 But what's important for us to understand is that at the time this was translated, it

00:28:50.160 was actually not that popular within the Muslim world.

00:28:54.100 Poetry, philosophy, mathematics, science were considered the high arts.

00:28:59.200 This was considered low arts.

00:29:01.600 What we have today is that the Europeans would discover this centuries after this time of

00:29:07.520 golden age.

00:29:08.820 And they fell in love with these stories, and that's why we still have them today.

00:29:13.140 Disney movies are based on this as well. Okay, so let's look at some of the major

00:29:20.420 thinkers and philosophers. So it was Aladdin, probably Aladdin and this stuff was based off of

00:29:24.860 Arabian Nights? Based on the Golden Age. Okay, Rumi from 1207 to 1273, major thinkers of

00:29:36.400 Islamic Golden Age. So at this time in world history, we don't differentiate between philosophers,

00:29:41.700 poets scientists mathematicians okay all intellectuals engage in all these

00:29:51.460 different fields okay so the one most famous is Rumi who is Persian a poet a

00:29:58.320 mystic a philosopher Ibn Sina is probably the most famous intellectual of

00:30:06.200 of the Islamic Golden Age?

00:30:08.240 Ibn Sina was the most famous of Islam.

00:30:13.160 So Ibn Sina, 980 to 1037, most famous intellectuals on the earth.

00:30:21.200 His books, his works, were admired in Europe, OK?

00:30:26.760 So the Islamic philosophy was being exported to Europe,

00:30:33.100 where it would have a major influence on many of Europe's major thinkers.

00:30:38.740 You may have heard a man named Leonardo Fibonacci.

00:30:42.540 You should have heard of him in math class.

00:30:44.420 Well, at this particular time in history, he was going to Baghdad to study

00:30:50.180 from the leading mathematicians of this time and taking their ideas

00:30:53.620 and importing them all back to Europe, okay?

00:31:00.100 So this is Ibn Sena, and the Latin name is Avercina.

00:31:08.360 Ibn Rusa Averroes is also a major intellectual at this time.

00:31:15.780 Just to show you how influential these two were in Europe,

00:31:20.660 let's look at Dante's Divine Comedy.

00:31:25.060 So Dante is in hell and there in limbo,

00:31:31.240 he's meeting the most influential,

00:31:33.920 the greatest philosophers in human history

00:31:36.200 who have influenced European civilization.

00:31:39.060 Obviously, he's gonna name Socrates and Plato, okay?

00:31:42.420 But guess what?

00:31:43.560 He also names Averroes and Abachanti, okay?

00:31:48.560 okay

00:31:49.300 so Dante is acknowledging

00:31:53.240 the

00:31:55.040 debt Europeans

00:31:56.840 have to Islam

00:31:58.780 this is important for us

00:32:00.120 what's the real name of intention is that

00:32:02.400 Ibn Rushud

00:32:03.180 so is this how

00:32:06.880 Avicii got his name

00:32:07.680 super it sounds Italian but that's how you

00:32:10.940 say it in Latin

00:32:11.560 move your fucking hand

00:32:14.060 Dante is acknowledging

00:32:15.220 the debt

00:32:18.120 europeans have to islam this is important for us because um the muslim intellectual influence on

00:32:27.560 europe has been whitewashed from history this is something you do not learn in in school usually

00:32:33.400 but without islam you can make the argument that europe could not have modernized okay

00:32:38.280 and later on i'll explain why that's the case um omar khayan is also another famous um

00:32:45.560 intellectual, poet, philosopher. This man, Musa al-Hazami, is considered the

00:32:55.740 father of modern day al-Hazami. Okay, I knew this. People always talk about this,

00:33:00.980 about the importance of algebra. Musa al-Hazami, and Musa obviously didn't have to

00:33:08.120 the Prophet 782850 Algorithmi. So are these the are these the Latin names that

00:33:16.940 they were or okay. Musa al-Hazami is considered the father of modern day

00:33:26.360 algebra. His Latin name is Algorithmi okay and if this sounds familiar it's

00:33:32.420 because his name will give us the modern English word algorithm both algebra and

00:33:39.260 algorithm were originally Arabic words all right so most of the math you're

00:33:44.240 studying in school actually originated during the Islamic Golden Age this name

00:33:53.640 is Alhazan and he invented physics basically optics again extremely

00:34:00.320 influential. And again, these ideas will be imported back to Europe and they will become

00:34:06.680 the basis of the Renaissance. Al-Zahari is the father of surgery. At this time in world

00:34:15.080 history, the very best hospitals are in the Islamic world, by far. This is the first 24-hour

00:34:24.820 hospital in baghdad what's also amazing about these hospitals is that if you are poor and could not pay

00:34:32.740 you could receive medical treatment for free that was just part of the faith all poor were treated

00:34:40.100 with great charity we still don't even have today um during the summit golden age you missed an

00:34:46.020 important one dude this is kawa william again guys i'm i don't speak arabic i'm probably butchering

00:34:53.220 the the name right but it's found in 859 in fez morocco this is important because this is the

00:34:58.900 first university in the whole world it's still there guys okay this is the oldest university

00:35:06.100 in the world what's also amazing is it was founded by a woman who inherited a uh

00:35:12.660 fortune from the father and spent all her money on building this university right wow

00:35:23.220 I want to go to Fez.

00:35:28.300 Morocco is an amazing country as well.

00:35:30.740 Hey, that's a great sign, man.

00:35:32.000 That's where I'm supposed to go visit on my IRL tour.

00:35:35.100 Again, I've been to the capital.

00:35:40.000 Fucking losing my...

00:35:41.260 I've been to Marquetsch, and I don't want to look at the chat.

00:35:45.240 The capital, oh my God, it's supposed to be a C.

00:35:48.580 Casablanca, Casablanca.

00:35:49.700 Okay. So 1258, the Islamic Golden Age, officially came to an end. Or that's what scholars believe.

00:35:58.340 And the reason why is on 1258, the Mongols will sack Baghdad and they will burn all the books.

00:36:07.220 Or that's what the legend tells us. Baghdad had a thriving bookstore culture.

00:36:14.720 And this was unique in the world. Intellectuals or the elite, they spent a lot of their resources on buying books.

00:36:25.100 And they imported paper from China. They learned how to make paper from China.

00:36:30.880 So books were extremely popular within Baghdad, especially among the elite.

00:36:39.040 As well, because of the Koran.

00:36:41.240 why are you guys saying w genghis kong w mongols they destroyed all the books necessary for the

00:36:46.800 elite to be literate it was the men of you i don't read books are gay i've got a fucking fight and

00:36:53.360 drive my bugatti i've got a conquer i gotta get my name remembered books are gay reading stupid

00:37:01.600 doop-dee-doo, I'm reading a book, doop-dee-doo, to be literate. And the Koran will also

00:37:10.600 sterilize Arabic and make it the official language of the entire Muslim world.

00:37:16.600 Okay? But just because the Islamic one age ended does not mean that creating stopped in the Muslim world.

00:37:27.600 world. This is Ibn Khaldun, and he is considered the father of social science, okay? Economics,

00:37:38.640 quantitative history, politics. This man invented a lot of these disciplines.

00:37:46.560 He is most famous for his idea of asabeya, which means social cohesion.

00:37:51.760 So he was actually the first to systematically think about grand history.

00:37:59.460 Why do civilizations rise and why do they decline?

00:38:04.880 And his conclusion is that the borderlands are able to conquer empires

00:38:14.920 because the borderlands, the people there, have asabaya,

00:38:19.880 which just means that they are more egalitarian, more free, more cohesive as a culture.

00:38:28.200 Whereas the empire, because it's so big, it loses a lot of cohesion.

00:38:35.920 And again, Ibn Khodan is a major inspiration for the history that I try as well.

00:38:45.600 Okay.

00:38:46.280 from 1300 to 1700 oh my god the world will be dominated by three major empires the ottomans

00:38:54.780 the safariats in iran and the moguls in uh india they are collectively known as the

00:39:00.460 uh gun power empires ottoman is so amazing is since um its inception if you said that the

00:39:08.600 islamic empire ended at 1258 then how come the ottoman empire were still dominant for the next

00:39:15.140 400 years 622 up until the year 1700 the islamic religion dominate the world and so the question

00:39:25.160 for us is why was that the case how did islam overtake europe and overtake christianity let's

00:39:32.580 go okay that is a mystery and question for us today that we will look at okay so let's go back

00:39:39.240 to the three mysteries that I introduced earlier. Why do you have no written records, even though

00:39:46.920 we know that the people within the movement, Jews and Christians, knew how to read and write?

00:39:52.940 Okay, that's the first question. Second question is, why didn't Mohammed name a successor?

00:39:57.940 The third question is, why was the Al-Qasid mosque built on top of the Temple Mount?

00:40:03.860 He wrote these two questions down.

00:40:07.120 This is a paradox because Jews were an extremely important part of that early movement.

00:40:12.620 So why would you offend the Jews?

00:40:17.900 To understand what happened, let's go back in time.

00:40:24.440 And we know that in 622, Muhammad goes to Medina and that's what starts the Islamic movement.

00:40:33.040 But let's just go over to Jerusalem and figure out what's happening there.

00:40:38.180 And once we do that, then we're able to figure out what's going on in that world.

00:40:43.360 It turns out that in 622, there's a major war going on between the two major powers at this time, the Persians and the Byzantines.

00:40:53.620 And it is a deadly war that is engulfing the entire Middle East.

00:41:00.860 Okay?

00:41:01.400 So this is from Wikipedia.

00:41:03.660 Now, guys, never trust Wikipedia as a historical source.

00:41:09.200 But it's useful for us to understand what contemporary historians think.

00:41:13.880 Okay?

00:41:14.400 So this is from Wikipedia.

00:41:17.360 The Jews have aligned themselves with the Persians.

00:41:20.760 Why?

00:41:21.240 Because, first of all, the Romans controlled Jerusalem.

00:41:25.980 And in the year 70, the Romans burned down their temple.

00:41:32.380 And in the year 135, the Romans expelled the Jews from Jerusalem, their holy city.

00:41:38.900 So ever since then, the Jews, obviously they want revenge, but they also want to return to...

00:41:45.680 Sorry, and then what year did he expel 135? They expelled Jews. Romans expelled Jews.

00:41:50.600 5 AD Romans expelled Jews.

00:41:53.920 the holy city and we build the uh temple and with the persians they saw this as an opportunity

00:42:02.140 because historically the persian and jews have gone along very well okay so hey wait

00:42:08.500 the persians and jews get along extremely well pbd and adam sosnick okay i'm a numbers guy

00:42:16.460 that explains the value attainment podcast the persians and the jews getting along

00:42:23.920 help the persians take jerusalem and and push out the byzantines when that happens the christians

00:42:33.120 in jerusalem they revolt and they force out the jews and then the byzantines under the emperor

00:42:41.760 heraclius they return to jerusalem in the first crusade okay this is the beginning of the idea of

00:42:47.680 Crusade, and they retake the city. Oh my god, so much information. Okay, under

00:42:51.680 the, okay, hold on, hold on. Under the Emperor Herakles

00:42:55.840 they return to Jerusalem. Emperor

00:42:59.180 Emperor, oh my god,

00:43:03.760 Emperor, I know if you guys know this is fast, but this is so much information. Emperor Herakles

00:43:07.840 of Romans, Byzantines of Romans, same thing,

00:43:12.680 return to Jerusalem. Is that the

00:43:15.780 first crusade is it the first one in the first crusade okay this beginning of the

00:43:23.280 idea of crusade and they retake the city and then what they do is they expel the

00:43:32.280 Jews in Jerusalem obviously but then they start to kill a lot of Jews and they

00:43:41.620 force these Jews outside of Jerusalem so now these Jews have nowhere to go but

00:43:51.520 there's something called the Constitution of Medina in Arabia right

00:43:56.800 and then we get high more right prophet Mohammed who is promising religious

00:44:02.140 tolerance for all all can practice their faith in peace right so it makes sense

00:44:08.020 for a lot of these Jews, not all of them, but a lot of them

00:44:10.760 to join this early movement.

00:44:13.800 What's important for us to understand is that at this point

00:44:16.380 Islam, Muslim, is not a distinct

00:44:20.000 religion.

00:44:22.140 All these people are called believers because Muhammad

00:44:25.720 sees himself as the final messenger of God.

00:44:33.340 Abraham was the first.

00:44:35.240 Then you have Moses. Then you have Jesus.

00:44:38.020 and now muhammad is the very last so all these three different traditions the christian tradition

00:44:44.500 the jewish tradition and islam tradition in the beginning we're all just one religion one idea

00:44:51.460 which is to bring god to earth and make everyone understand that god is the true god okay to create

00:44:58.340 monotheism on earth that's the origin of this and the muslims the only one to get it right huh

00:45:04.340 monotheism, not three.

00:45:07.320 New religion of

00:45:09.280 Islam.

00:45:11.360 Okay? And this is the

00:45:12.940 Constitution of Medina, which is in the

00:45:15.160 Quran, and which we know to be historically

00:45:17.360 true. Maybe not the... The Constitution of

00:45:19.300 Medina? The Constitution of Medina, which...

00:45:20.480 The Constitution of Medina. Is in the Quran,

00:45:23.720 and which we know to be historically

00:45:25.240 true. Maybe not the wording, okay?

00:45:27.400 But we know that this existed.

00:45:29.380 And these people

00:45:30.540 were called believers.

00:45:33.260 And also, this would also include people who believe in Zoroastrianism, because Zoroastrianism was also a monotheistic religion.

00:45:44.100 So the Khashoggi of Medina was an attempt to unite all monotheistic religions into one single tradition that fought for God.

00:45:55.420 Okay. I really want to learn about Zoroastrianism.

00:45:58.580 So it's monotheistic too. What do they believe? Do they believe in mysticism?

00:46:01.360 what is that religion at all?

00:46:02.440 It's disappeared, right?

00:46:03.400 Or some Iranians still practice it?

00:46:05.660 Also, what's really important for us to understand is

00:46:07.920 not only is there all this persecution going on

00:46:11.020 against Jews and against Christians

00:46:13.620 and against Zoroastrians, okay?

00:46:15.440 But also, this is an apocalyptic age

00:46:21.540 where all three traditions believe

00:46:23.620 this is literally the end of the world.

00:46:26.320 If you were Jewish,

00:46:27.840 you believed in a final battle called Argamanon

00:46:29.440 argument on between the Messiah who would lead you and against two enemies

00:46:34.320 called Gog and Magog. Gog and Magog. Okay, guess what? The Persians and the Romans

00:46:40.060 were fighting each other. So you can easily interpret this to mean the

00:46:44.820 Persians and the Romans were the Gog and Magog enemies. In your tradition,

00:46:50.660 Muhammad Ajab said in the interview a couple months back, he thought that

00:46:53.640 Gog and Magog didn't happen yet. It probably didn't happen yet, right? And that

00:46:57.540 That Gog and Magog, it could be the Chinese empire against, this would be the final battle.

00:47:04.880 This is when Jerusalem is most threatened.

00:47:08.220 Well, the Romans, the Byzantines, just took your city and mastered your people.

00:47:12.640 So in the Jewish tradition, this is the end of days.

00:47:15.460 This is the final battle.

00:47:16.920 And the Messiah would emerge and lead you to the final victory.

00:47:20.940 That person, a lot of Jews could interpret to be Mohammed, okay?

00:47:24.780 So for the Jews, this is the end of days.

00:47:27.540 for christians okay they also believe this is the end of days because um there were final battle

00:47:35.700 between the antichrist and the messiah and jesus okay the antichrist is obviously heracles

00:47:43.460 who is the emperor of the by scenes who've been persecuting uh rome christians for a long time

00:47:49.140 remember uh the official religion of the byzantines is the holy trinity but most christians

00:47:55.300 didn't believe holy shit there's so much of okay antichrist of the heracles

00:48:01.860 what of the byzantines is the holy trinity but most christians didn't religion of the byzantines

00:48:09.540 is the holy trinity but most christians didn't believe in the holy trinity and they were

00:48:13.540 persecuted for uh the refusal to believe in the holy trinity okay so for christians this whoa

00:48:19.780 Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

00:48:22.220 This is also the Holy Trinity.

00:48:24.460 But most-

00:48:25.140 The official religion of the Byzantines

00:48:26.980 was the Holy Trinity.

00:48:30.780 Romans was Holy Trinity, but what?

00:48:36.280 Christians didn't believe in the Holy Trinity.

00:48:38.260 Most Christians didn't believe in-

00:48:44.740 They were persecuted for the refusal

00:48:47.360 to believe in the Holy Trinity, okay?

00:48:49.320 So for Christians, this is also the final battle.

00:48:52.260 Zoroastrians believe in a final battle between good and evil.

00:48:56.720 Okay?

00:48:57.380 So this is an apocalyptic age where everyone believes this is it, the final battle.

00:49:04.000 Mohammed is saying to everyone, guys, we're all one people.

00:49:09.340 You unite by God.

00:49:10.300 And we are here to fight for him.

00:49:14.580 Okay?

00:49:15.120 And this is very appealing for people.

00:49:18.720 The GOAT. So the best evidence for my argument is actually the Koran okay so

00:49:26.640 again we don't have any written records of Mohammed but what we do believe is

00:49:31.120 the Koran. It is a collection of many of Mohammed's original sayings that have

00:49:39.760 been redacted over time okay so let's look at some passages from the Koran to

00:49:46.480 better understand how Muhammad he believes in the Quran as a source and why

00:49:51.400 what I want to hear him logically explain why he's not Muslim was thinking

00:49:55.080 and what he was preaching to the Christians the Jews and the Zoroastrians

00:50:00.340 all right and why is the why is Zoroastrianism not considered an

00:50:05.140 Abrahamic faith oh people of the book by this he means both the Christians and

00:50:10.480 the Jews okay why do you argue about Abraham when the Torah and the gospel

00:50:15.440 were not revealed until after him.

00:50:17.520 Will you not reason?

00:50:18.760 Okay, so he's saying,

00:50:19.980 why are we arguing about scripture?

00:50:23.360 Why are we arguing about belief?

00:50:25.320 We all acknowledge that Abraham is our forefather, okay?

00:50:29.540 And Abraham came before the Bible.

00:50:31.200 It came before the Old Testament and the New Testament.

00:50:33.880 So what's the argument?

00:50:35.420 Here you are, you argue about things you know,

00:50:37.780 but why do you argue about things you do not know?

00:50:39.840 Allah knows and you do not know.

00:50:42.100 Abraham was neither a Jew nor a Christian,

00:50:44.780 But he was a monotheist, a Muslim.

00:50:48.000 Okay?

00:50:49.240 So this is what Muhammad is saying.

00:50:50.980 A Muslim is someone who believes in God as the only true God.

00:50:55.560 And that includes...

00:50:56.780 Wait, so wouldn't this be hadith?

00:50:59.060 If it's from Muhammad, peace be upon him.

00:51:02.240 The Quran is all the words of Allah.

00:51:09.620 Oh, people of the book.

00:51:14.780 This is a Quran, not a Hadith.

00:51:15.960 I know, but he's citing it as something that Muhammad is saying.

00:51:18.440 Peace upon him.

00:51:20.580 This is coming from God, not from Muhammad.

00:51:26.180 So he got this wrong.

00:51:28.100 Yeah, he's wrong.

00:51:32.900 You're retarded.

00:51:33.760 He's wrong.

00:51:35.860 Okay.

00:51:36.460 Jews and Christians.

00:51:40.120 Oh, people of the book, why do you argue about Abraham

00:51:42.260 when the Torah and the gospel are not revealed until after him?

00:51:44.460 Will you not reason?

00:51:45.420 Here you are.

00:51:46.060 You argue about things you know.

00:51:47.460 Why do you argue about things you do not know?

00:51:49.580 Allah knows and you do not know.

00:51:50.900 Abraham was neither a Jew nor a Christian, but he was a monotheist, a Muslim, and he

00:51:55.040 was not of the polytheists.

00:51:57.740 The people most deserving of Abraham are those who follow him and this prophet and those

00:52:01.540 who believe.

00:52:02.020 Allah is the guardian of the believers.

00:52:05.540 He didn't know that Quran is from God.

00:52:07.220 Yes, I think he got it wrong.

00:52:10.460 And he was not of the polytheists.

00:52:12.680 Okay?

00:52:14.460 Let's also look at Muhammad responding to the Christian tradition.

00:52:20.000 Remember, in the Christian tradition, a lot of conflict arises from a debate over the nature of Jesus

00:52:25.800 and his relationship with God.

00:52:28.780 And what Muhammad is saying is, guys, the idea of Jesus makes no sense.

00:52:34.260 Jesus cannot be God.

00:52:36.180 Jesus, at best, can only be a messenger of God, just like me.

00:52:40.260 And the idea that Jesus is God makes no sense.

00:52:43.680 Jesus is a human, just like me.

00:52:45.760 God is God.

00:52:47.480 He would not represent himself through a human.

00:52:50.480 Okay, and so let's look at what he says.

00:52:52.540 Allahu Akbar.

00:52:53.100 They disbelieve those who say Allah is the Messiah, the son of Mary.

00:52:57.140 But the Messiah himself said, Messiah is Jesus, right?

00:53:00.740 O children of Israel, worship Allah, my Lord, and your Lord.

00:53:04.840 He's making a clear distinction.

00:53:06.680 God is my God.

00:53:08.460 I'm not God.

00:53:09.300 I'm not his son.

00:53:10.100 He is God.

00:53:10.800 Whoever associates others with Allah, Allah has forbidden him paradise, and his dwelling is a fire.

00:53:18.240 The wrongdoers have no saviors.

00:53:19.960 SubhanAllah.

00:53:21.520 All right?

00:53:22.140 If you believe that Jesus is God, you are committing heresy against the true God.

00:53:27.980 Sure.

00:53:28.280 There can only be one God.

00:53:29.820 There can't be two gods together.

00:53:33.000 They disbelieve those who say Allah is a third of three.

00:53:36.340 But there is no deity except the one God.

00:53:38.560 if they do not refrain from what they say a painful torment will befall those among them

00:53:43.120 who disbelieve so what he's saying this is very important is that professor jang is doing dawa

00:53:47.980 bro he doesn't even realize that he's giving dawa and he sounds convinced of it am i wrong

00:53:54.060 when i saw him read the bible or when i saw him read the talmud i did not see that he was

00:53:59.940 convinced at all the way he's talking about this with righteousness in his voice this is different

00:54:03.840 am i am i obviously i'm biased but right here the way he's speaking as even the way he's

00:54:10.920 repeating this it sounds like he's convinced muhammad is saying the holy trinity the idea

00:54:17.240 is just nonsense they facts disbelief those who say allah is the third or three allah cannot be

00:54:24.380 a fraction of anything he is the one and only okay yes now yes in our time and we

00:54:33.700 hear this we don't really have emotional reaction but place yourself back in their time the year 622

00:54:43.060 most christians are being persecuted for refusing to accept the holy trinity so they become

00:54:48.740 scripture because it makes no sense we discussed this in class okay and now but if you say it

00:54:57.700 it makes no sense you could be killed okay you'll be persecuted for sure and no more and now

00:55:04.620 muhammad is saying you guys were right all along you should believe in yourself all along you were

00:55:11.800 right all along okay so let's use an analogy let's just say for example like the world government

00:55:17.820 okay we have a world government and for whatever reason the world government tells us the sky is

00:55:22.900 red and you're like wait a minute i know blue and i know red and the sky is blue but if you say

00:55:31.060 the sky is blue you will be put in jail you are not allowed to say the sky is blue and then you

00:55:38.500 have people teachers like me telling you the reason why you believe the sky is blue and not red is

00:55:47.460 your eyes lie to you you cannot trust yourself you your eyes are defective

00:55:54.500 that's a problem with human beings we can't trust what we see okay and you have to go through life

00:56:01.220 believing the sky is red even though you know in your heart it's blue but then one day someone like

00:56:07.140 a teacher says to you in class actually guys you're not like you all along the sky is blue

00:56:12.740 imagine your sense of

00:56:14.940 relief

00:56:15.880 and empowerment

00:56:17.800 and liberation

00:56:19.020 when someone

00:56:20.340 actually tells you

00:56:22.120 what you've always believed

00:56:35.300 that's what Muhammad is doing

00:56:37.480 Muhammad is confirming

00:56:38.760 to everyone

00:56:39.840 that what they believed

00:56:41.220 what they knew about God

00:56:42.300 was right all along

00:56:43.820 okay

00:56:47.780 so Muhammad's final

00:56:50.300 message to the people is

00:56:52.400 God

00:56:54.080 is God and only

00:56:56.340 God and he is everywhere

00:56:57.900 and you can see him you can touch

00:57:00.340 him because he's everywhere

00:57:01.660 and as such you can feel him

00:57:04.080 that's not true right no no that's not true

00:57:06.460 he got this one wrong

00:57:08.060 God

00:57:09.380 no, yeah, no, no, no, no.

00:57:12.860 You can touch him because he's everywhere.

00:57:15.500 No, no, no, no, no. His creation is everywhere.

00:57:18.720 But, yeah, you know, again, it's...

00:57:22.560 And as such, you can feel him and he can be inside of you.

00:57:26.480 No, no, no, no, no.

00:57:28.260 Sheikh, brother, astur Allah!

00:57:31.020 He was doing so well that he's tripping right now.

00:57:33.420 Okay?

00:57:34.660 And so this idea will actually occupy most of the Quran.

00:57:39.340 And this is what he says.

00:57:40.360 With him are the keys of the unseen.

00:57:43.360 None knows him except he.

00:57:45.140 And he knows everything on land and in the sea.

00:57:48.320 Not only falls, but he knows it.

00:57:51.540 And there is not a single grain in the darkness of earth,

00:57:54.400 nor is there anything wet or dry,

00:57:56.360 but is in the clear record.

00:58:00.020 All right?

00:58:00.780 God is everywhere.

00:58:02.040 You can see and touch him.

00:58:03.880 No!

00:58:05.440 How did he get that from this verse?

00:58:08.880 with him are ways of the unseen.

00:58:11.200 None knows them except he.

00:58:13.320 And he knows everything in the land and sea,

00:58:14.940 not a leaf falls, but he knows it.

00:58:16.640 And there's not a single grain in the darkness of earth,

00:58:18.760 nor is there anything wet or dry,

00:58:21.680 but isn't clear.

00:58:22.160 Yeah, he's talking about creation,

00:58:23.860 but that doesn't,

00:58:25.100 he's not understanding that creation

00:58:26.480 does not mean that it is God, literally.

00:58:32.900 Okay, and so, in other words,

00:58:35.180 what's happening is that Islam,

00:58:37.140 You can't, you know, you can't. He hasn't spent time really. He's a history guy. He's a geopolitics guy. He's an analysis guy, but he's not a faith guy. You can't really blame him for not knowing this stuff. It's just it's just his misinterpretation.

00:58:51.180 And again, seeing him get this wrong is important to take everything else in these notes with a grain of salt.

00:58:58.040 At the end of the day, he's not perfect.

00:58:59.800 He's just a professor, and he's obviously putting his bias on all this information.

00:59:04.000 So a reminder that all this information I have, how many pages of notes?

00:59:07.680 40 pages of notes from all of his lectures so far.

00:59:10.140 You can't take anything he's saying as complete fact.

00:59:15.120 It's really the first modern physics religion in the modern sense.

00:59:21.180 okay we think of monotheism we actually think of the Islamic version of

00:59:27.120 monotheism all right so what's the power of is that was shake with man

00:59:35.060 coming to go and correct him Islam is the power and beauty comes from how

00:59:40.620 Islam is able to unite two major intellectual traditions in the world the

00:59:47.580 The first is paganism, right?

00:59:49.000 Remember the Vikings?

00:59:50.400 The Vikings told stories, they acted out rituals.

00:59:52.620 And therefore, there was an intimacy, concreteness,

00:59:55.980 and interconnectedness to paganism

00:59:59.000 that made us feel happy and good.

01:00:04.120 Okay, it made us understand the world.

01:00:05.960 It made us feel as though we could influence the world.

01:00:09.080 That's the power of paganism.

01:00:10.400 But Islam is doing the same thing

01:00:12.400 by making God concrete, okay?

01:00:15.100 You can feel God, God is everywhere,

01:00:16.920 knows everything no well but what is some is also doing is he's seeing the

01:00:22.200 simplicity clarity and absoluteness of monotheism okay monotheism is nice

01:00:28.680 because with monotheism everything becomes clear to you right okay there's

01:00:34.680 one God therefore I just have to follow him I just have to believe in him there's

01:00:39.540 like a million gods in paganism so it's unclear what you should do or how you

01:00:44.520 you should relate to this million gods.

01:00:46.880 But here in modernism,

01:00:48.780 the relationship between God and you,

01:00:51.140 it's very, very clear.

01:00:52.980 Okay?

01:00:53.480 So in other words,

01:00:55.400 Islam is a major intellectual revolution

01:01:00.080 in human history.

01:01:02.020 And we have forgotten this

01:01:03.320 because Islam, the idea,

01:01:06.960 has embedded itself into modernity itself.

01:01:10.540 Okay?

01:01:11.540 Does that make sense?

01:01:12.140 well it always has islam always existed this is the idea of the innate feeling forgot the word

01:01:23.680 but the propensity that all humans have to worship one god it existed before islam islam

01:01:29.260 existed before islam if that makes sense everybody is born with this fitrah correct fitrah all right

01:01:37.320 So, what I will show you over the course of the semester is that Islam really is the proto-modernity.

01:01:45.940 When we say that modernity began in Europe, we forget that Islam really built the basis for modernity.

01:01:59.100 So, fulfillment of the law and prophets.

01:02:03.540 It's completing the story in the Bible.

01:02:07.320 It's bringing God to the people.

01:02:09.380 You can now touch God.

01:02:10.860 You can now know God.

01:02:12.140 That's the beginning of the idea of Protestantism, okay?

01:02:16.540 And create heaven on earth.

01:02:19.020 And this is the idea of science.

01:02:20.620 Why do we use science?

01:02:21.640 To make the world better.

01:02:22.800 Because God wants us to make the world better.

01:02:26.680 All right?

01:02:28.060 So a lot of the ideas that will underpin modernity,

01:02:33.240 that God can be in us,

01:02:34.860 And that God expects us to make the world better.

01:02:38.120 It's already there in the beginnings of Islam.

01:02:42.000 And that's why we will have this golden age.

01:02:45.260 Because they are propelled by their devoteness to the one true God.

01:02:53.360 Is this clear to you guys?

01:02:54.520 When I put things in parentheses, it's my edition, not his.

01:02:58.320 For the most part.

01:02:59.260 i know he's adopting he's adding christian belief to islam the belief that god is within god is

01:03:10.820 love no god is god actually god is not us god is not the earth god is god and is separate and is

01:03:17.800 greater than his creation because only something greater is capable of creation and that's why god

01:03:25.240 is worthy of worship because he's greater than his creation but that's this belief that it's

01:03:30.860 within and this is kind of like a buddhist maybe he's eastern he's chinese so he's gonna

01:03:35.040 naturally believe i guess like asian fitra in a sense obviously that's incorrect but asian fitra

01:03:41.980 is like buddhism and it's within and it's meditative and god is all and god it's no no

01:03:47.480 god is greater god is the greatest

01:03:50.240 any questions so far i'm wrong how am i wrong are these not buddhist instincts

01:03:57.100 yeah but that's why he i might even write this as a note um jang believes god is within

01:04:05.960 we can touch god

01:04:10.680 because chinese by eastern i'll say eastern bias this is what a lot of eastern faith that's uh

01:04:20.220 All right, so let me really quickly answer the three

01:04:25.280 mysteries, OK?

01:04:26.940 The first problem is, why were there no written records?

01:04:32.120 The answer is, first of all, Islam marks a revolution, OK?

01:04:38.580 It is overturning the social order.

01:04:40.880 The problem, though, is that, eventually, Islam will

01:04:44.120 become the social order.

01:04:45.760 So you obviously don't want to paint Mohammed as a

01:04:49.040 revolutionary. Okay? That's the first problem. Mohammed represented a revolution against the

01:04:58.300 social order. All right? That's the first thing. Second thing is that we know that his early

01:05:07.880 followers, the companions, were all wiped out. Why could he not be considered a revolutionary?

01:05:13.560 Please mention these corrections to Jiang during your interview with him. Much love.

01:05:18.280 No, I definitely will.

01:05:20.600 Why would he not be considered a revolutionary?

01:05:24.860 Just because he said because he represents a revolution against the social order?

01:05:29.120 Isn't that, that could 100% be considered a revolutionary?

01:05:34.980 Maybe he continues.

01:05:36.600 They're all dead.

01:05:37.680 They all died.

01:05:39.200 The official history says that they died in military conflicts.

01:05:43.840 But here's the amazing thing about early Islam history.

01:05:46.240 We don't have that much evidence of military conflict between the Arabs and the Persians and the Byzantines.

01:05:56.040 We don't.

01:05:56.860 There's maybe one city, Caesarea, where there was a siege.

01:06:02.020 But we think that a lot of the conquers happened organically.

01:06:08.360 Or maybe their enemies surrendered to them rather than fight them.

01:06:14.660 Okay? And that's why I would say it's a revolution. It's not a conflict. It's not a conquest. It's a revolution where ordinary people were so disgusted with the current leadership that they opted for it.

01:06:28.620 He emailed me back for the interview. I'm not going to leak it, but he said, yes, okay, we could do it. Oh, on Sunday? Oh, we could do it on Sunday.

01:06:43.860 Yes, let's go.

01:06:44.880 Sunday works for me.

01:06:46.000 I look forward to...

01:06:47.840 I think the missing link for Jong is the Hadith,

01:06:50.420 which encodes the history and events.

01:06:53.780 I think the missing link for the Jong hadith.

01:06:56.000 Oh, yeah, yeah.

01:06:56.860 And it is missing...

01:06:57.900 Yeah, it's missing...

01:06:58.500 Yes, he wants to do Sunday.

01:07:00.420 Well, he wanted to do it much later in March,

01:07:02.860 but I want to do it.

01:07:03.480 You know me, man.

01:07:03.980 I work quick.

01:07:07.960 I'm not going to ask him for Discord.

01:07:09.500 I'm going to ask him for Zoom.

01:07:10.820 Does Zoom work for you?

01:07:13.060 I'll tell them we're watching your lecture now

01:07:16.160 or watching your lecture

01:07:18.780 on Islamic

01:07:20.780 Golden Age now.

01:07:25.260 Dope, bro.

01:07:27.580 Okay, so let's

01:07:28.160 Sunday,

01:07:30.620 Monday,

01:07:32.980 9 a.m. Beijing time.

01:07:34.820 What is that

01:07:35.340 in Eastern?

01:07:39.940 Oh, 8 p.m. Eastern.

01:07:41.000 Fucking perfect.

01:07:43.060 let's do it Sunday 9 a.m. the Jing 8 p.m. yes he works for me

01:07:58.440 makes your blank so quickly to zoom work for you we're watching a lecture on

01:08:01.500 Islamic olden age now I want to send him a photo of of the chat say um I'm gonna

01:08:07.920 send I'm gonna attach a photo to this email say okay how do you spell his name

01:08:11.900 right or shut up bro i'm not i'm gonna cancel the collab if you guys keep saying tip him

01:08:15.640 uh professor how do you say j-i-a-n-g right oh no his name is definitely here oh yeah so here's his

01:08:23.800 name is uh it's not leaking it's probably public anyway go i'm gonna pin this in chat and then

01:08:31.720 Repin the TTS after.

01:08:33.280 Go say W.

01:08:35.880 Shu Kan Jang.

01:08:38.120 Error.

01:08:38.880 Pin.

01:08:40.000 Why can't I fucking pin the message?

01:08:43.680 No, no, say his full name.

01:08:44.740 Say his full name.

01:08:46.020 Say his full name.

01:08:52.960 Boy, this is going to be dope.

01:08:54.060 I'm actually looking forward to this collab so much.

01:08:57.700 Can someone pin my chat?

01:08:59.360 Am I banned from my own chat?

01:09:01.720 Don't say Jackie Chan, you racist piece of shit.

01:09:05.640 You racist.

01:09:07.180 Am I banned from my chat?

01:09:08.280 Why can't I type anything?

01:09:09.920 Oh, there we go.

01:09:11.300 Yeah, okay.

01:09:12.240 W. Zhukun Chang.

01:09:16.440 Let me send a photo.

01:09:18.360 There we go.

01:09:18.940 Thanks, guys.

01:09:19.400 Thanks, guys.

01:09:19.760 Oh, my God.

01:09:20.140 Open the camera.

01:09:20.620 Open, open, open.

01:09:22.580 Let's go.

01:09:23.840 I'm going to actually send him this video.

01:09:26.760 Hello.

01:09:28.260 All the way in Beijing.

01:09:29.580 We look forward to the interview.

01:09:30.700 loving the lecture so far it's been extremely insightful we've been taking a lot of notes and

01:09:36.400 watching almost every single day see you soon they're very excited

01:09:41.280 there was a Jackie Chan thing in there but whatever he knows the internet he knows the

01:09:49.740 internet okay hold on let me go send hold on just send him send this email real quick

01:09:55.920 Give me a second, give me a second, give me a second.

01:10:02.880 Give me a second.

01:10:03.880 Almost done.

01:10:05.400 Attach the video.

01:10:07.900 Let's go, bro.

01:10:11.480 We're so disgusted with the current leadership that they opted for a new belief system.

01:10:20.300 Okay?

01:10:24.420 Messiah again.

01:10:25.280 problem though is that once you amass power and it's a coalition the question then is who's now

01:10:32.320 in charge so for the next 50 100 years there'll be a series of civil war to determine to determine

01:10:41.440 who will be in charge okay those early companions were probably purged the word we use is purge

01:10:47.360 they're wiped out including the jews and the christians we know for a fact that oh my god i

01:10:52.080 sent the wrong video i sent him i sent him a blueberry simp oh my i sent him a blueberry simp

01:10:58.040 edit i'm joking i didn't would that imagine wait i want to see actually let me double check and

01:11:04.300 see if i sent the right one yeah this one hello all the way in beijing we look forward to the

01:11:11.840 interview loving the lecture so far okay good w blaze right in the early days of islam jews

01:11:21.440 and Christians were part of the hierarchy.

01:11:24.660 There's a man named

01:11:25.620 St. John of Damascus

01:11:26.840 who was very famous, and he was

01:11:29.560 a leading official

01:11:31.420 in the Umayyad Caliphate.

01:11:33.700 We know that as a fact,

01:11:35.380 but eventually they were purged from the system.

01:11:37.240 If they're purged, what happens is they're also

01:11:39.320 purged to history.

01:11:42.320 Because if these are the

01:11:43.360 companions of Muhammad, Christians

01:11:45.320 and Jews, then they're legitimate.

01:11:47.540 They're more legitimate than you are. So therefore, they have to

01:11:49.360 purge that history.

01:11:51.440 But knowing that, and the third thing is that there will be a series of continued civil wars among the Arabs in order to determine who will be the caliph.

01:12:03.740 And obviously they want to disguise this history.

01:12:06.120 They want to disguise this history of civil conflict.

01:12:08.680 So the first 100 years, it was revolutionary.

01:12:11.560 It was also very tumultuous and bloody.

01:12:14.540 And that's why they had to disguise the first 100 years of Islamic history.

01:12:19.520 Does that make sense?

01:12:20.960 good to you guys. And again, this is my

01:12:22.940 explanation. I could be wrong.

01:12:24.900 Alright? There could be

01:12:26.700 other explanations. Yeah?

01:12:27.800 Let me just throw in another idea.

01:12:29.840 And I think what you said

01:12:31.620 doesn't contradict this either.

01:12:33.620 Can this nerd stop talking?

01:12:35.400 ...for us to imagine

01:12:37.060 is that our culture

01:12:39.520 would actually record its history

01:12:41.040 with a history author. It seems to us that it gets

01:12:43.400 right? That Chinese culture

01:12:45.600 is going back for

01:12:48.580 20 to 100 years.

01:12:50.400 and so on, right?

01:12:51.860 The Greeks had their ancient stories.

01:12:53.680 The Romans had their ancient stories.

01:12:55.440 But not every culture has its historians.

01:12:57.780 You hear his nerd voice.

01:12:59.100 It's always one of these nerds.

01:13:00.540 Like, what about Dakhwarah?

01:13:02.180 Shut up.

01:13:03.420 Let him teach.

01:13:04.200 But virgins didn't write history.

01:13:06.220 The Indians didn't write history.

01:13:08.400 And I'm guessing the Arabs didn't have a tradition

01:13:12.980 of writing down their history either, right?

01:13:15.280 And so this would actually be recorded in the sense

01:13:19.500 right that is a great point thank you doug so so so doug's point is oh doug doug is gassed up

01:13:29.760 because he shouted him out for going to morocco that's why the doug doug feeling himself doug

01:13:33.900 feeling himself he's gonna start yapping it was always a kid like that in class like the teacher

01:13:37.780 says oh you got an a on this and starts talking more um the idea of history comes to us from the

01:13:46.200 Greeks and the Romans who wrote everything down okay but as Doug says

01:13:50.520 there are many cultures who do not believe or do not they do not have

01:13:54.180 institutions to write down history we should take it for granted today but

01:13:57.900 back then it was actually a pretty rare thing to actually want to write down your

01:14:02.400 history okay so and the good a good reason why is that you write down the

01:14:07.500 history you're also constrained by the history right and and that's why a lot

01:14:12.360 of empires chose not write down their history okay so so so thank you yeah all

01:14:16.840 right second question is why didn't muhammad name successor again this is my

01:14:23.880 theory but if it's the end of days if it's the end of the world you don't need

01:14:29.640 to name a successor because god's coming right what's the point in fact if you

01:14:34.040 name successor then you are admitting defeat right what muhammad is saying to

01:14:39.720 everyone is that every of your traditions jewish christian zoroastrian are right it's the end of

01:14:46.600 days god is coming there'll be peace on the world therefore we will no longer need leaders you won't

01:14:52.680 need mohammed i'm the last prophet man okay as a moroccan doug is no longer welcome in morocco

01:15:00.520 get him out deport him get moroccan ice and kick him out of fez that's why i think he didn't name

01:15:05.560 successor but there could be other explanations okay do you have another explanation okay the

01:15:12.280 third is why did they build the al-akzak mosque on the second temp on the temple mount and this

01:15:20.440 explanation is going to be very controversial okay so the jews support the persians in the war

01:15:27.960 against the byzantines on the condition that the persians would allow them to return to jerusalem

01:15:35.560 but also on the condition that the Jews would be allowed to rebuild their temple,

01:15:43.200 which is exactly what Cyrus the Great did, right?

01:15:46.120 Cyrus the Great is called the Messiah in the Bible.

01:15:48.600 He's the only foreign leader called the Messiah in the Bible

01:15:52.540 because Cyrus the Great allowed them to rebuild the temple, okay?

01:15:58.980 So what I'm saying is this.

01:16:01.140 Al-Aqsaq Mosque was originally the third temple.

01:16:08.720 It is what the Arabs promised the Jews for the support.

01:16:15.420 But over time, as these purges happened, as civil conflicts happened,

01:16:21.140 then the Arabs needed to consolidate their authority.

01:16:24.520 So they turned the third temple into the Al-Aqsaq Mosque.

01:16:29.840 And that's what I think happened.

01:16:32.520 I don't have time to go into the very detailed history of how the Mass was built, but it

01:16:39.120 was a process that took about 200 years.

01:16:42.400 It's very possible during these 200 years, intentions changed, okay?

01:16:49.440 So again, I know this is an extremely controversial statement, but I think that's what happened.

01:16:54.120 Originally it was meant to be the Third Temple.

01:16:57.640 then over time their leaders changed their minds and thought to themselves

01:17:02.620 that if we do this then we make the Jews into very powerful political entity

01:17:09.140 within the Muslim world okay does that make sense to you guys all right okay

01:17:18.560 again like these are my explanations it's my interpretation this is not a

01:17:26.680 historical fact. All right. All this darkness can't outshine light. We're in a spiritual crisis.

01:17:33.900 We need to be light. True. First question is, why did Islam enter its golden age and Christian

01:17:39.980 Europe enter its dark age? Second question is, why did Islam make golden age? And third question

01:17:45.460 is, how did Christian Europe overtake the Muslim world? Okay, we answer these three questions.

01:17:56.680 All we have to do is compare and control.

01:17:58.560 I find it more interesting, to be honest, to watch people that are Muslim talk about these.

01:18:03.940 I find it more interesting from that lens because there's a different bias and from a different perspective.

01:18:11.800 He's coming at it from a more analytical angle.

01:18:15.200 And, yeah, I prefer this to straight up Sheikh Dawa.

01:18:20.960 It's just more interesting to me.

01:18:22.060 you know not because like everything is right but it's like i also think it's more universally

01:18:26.440 informational and interesting from this perspective right class these three major

01:18:34.080 religions together judaism christianity and islam and it helps me learn more it challenges my

01:18:40.920 belief system because obviously you know what i believe i liked um yeah it treating this more

01:18:48.000 like a class that I'm treating it like religious study all right that's

01:18:53.520 together Judaism Christianity and Islam all right there's both strengths and

01:19:01.560 weaknesses to all religions so it's very quickly compare contrast these three

01:19:06.480 major religions to see why they thrive in a certain historical context so

01:19:11.580 Judaism the Bible it's a wonderful piece of literature it has a very rich

01:19:17.340 history going back

01:19:19.040 a thousand years, right?

01:19:21.740 So the Jews were the first to

01:19:23.660 have a complete history

01:19:25.240 of themselves.

01:19:26.840 There are beautiful stories in the Bible

01:19:29.520 that still inspire today.

01:19:30.980 The stories of Adam and Eve. The stories of

01:19:33.360 the patriarchs. The story of Moses.

01:19:35.180 They still inspire us today, and they

01:19:37.100 inspire us to create great literature.

01:19:39.780 And then you have a literary culture.

01:19:41.700 So

01:19:42.000 the Jews were expected to

01:19:45.540 be people of the book.

01:19:47.340 thousand years and had a lot of British slaves as a bee we know okay to the Jews

01:19:54.420 were expected to be people of the book they were expected to be literate in

01:19:59.960 order to practice their religion okay and this help it helps it helps us

01:20:08.220 understand why Jews are so dominant in academia universities in the media and

01:20:17.160 in culture and in the legal profession, okay?

01:20:19.460 Because these are people of the book.

01:20:20.420 They have a tremendous respect for learning

01:20:23.420 and for literacy, okay?

01:20:25.520 That said, there are certain problems with the tradition.

01:20:30.480 The first is, it's contradictory.

01:20:33.480 When you read the Bible,

01:20:34.860 it's always contradicting itself, okay?

01:20:38.100 It's almost schizophrenic, you could say.

01:20:40.640 It's very hard.

01:20:43.540 Whoa, what is he gonna say about the Quran, though?

01:20:46.040 So, Jiang says, I'm not trying to laugh there, but it's, okay, Jiang says, Bible is contradictory.

01:20:54.480 And I literally have to write Jiang here because when I post these notes, people are going to get so mad.

01:20:58.320 Bible is contradictory and schizophrenic.

01:21:04.300 He got a definite message from the Bible.

01:21:08.480 And that's why the old tradition called the Torah is actually much more important.

01:21:12.480 and so Jews have to go

01:21:15.300 to the synagogue

01:21:16.900 all the time where the rabbi

01:21:19.540 will explain to them the meaning of

01:21:21.320 the Bible because if you read it by yourself

01:21:23.360 it's almost impossible to understand

01:21:24.440 second problem is

01:21:26.180 their God, Yahweh, he's very problematic

01:21:29.720 he's extremely

01:21:31.360 problematic as we know

01:21:33.480 from last semester when we looked at the Bible

01:21:35.520 he

01:21:36.380 doesn't seem to know what he's doing

01:21:38.500 and he's very very

01:21:40.060 violent

01:21:41.940 He often commands the Israelites to go kill all their enemies.

01:21:46.300 So he's a very problematic God.

01:21:50.500 The third major problem in the tradition is faith versus history.

01:21:56.480 If you believe that you are the chosen people, if you believe that Yahweh is only true God,

01:22:02.080 then why are you being persecuted all the time?

01:22:06.400 Why were the Romans able to kill you out of Jerusalem and burn out your temple,

01:22:11.360 which is the house of god why are you homeless why are you like a homeland why are you cooking

01:22:17.560 oh my god you're the chosen people why don't romans kick you out of your holy but that's

01:22:26.800 the debate i mean that's the that was the test that the jews faced and so many did not

01:22:32.120 pass the test properly and that that started the crisis of faith and that's why so many jews were

01:22:38.340 you know, shows hubris

01:22:41.080 and, okay,

01:22:43.460 shows where we focus on

01:22:44.400 why were

01:22:46.780 chosen's kicked out of

01:22:49.120 Jerusalem by Romans?

01:22:56.260 On

01:22:56.940 4,000 years.

01:22:59.040 And there are no easy

01:23:00.880 explanation to any

01:23:02.900 of these problems.

01:23:04.620 So within the Jewish faith

01:23:07.000 there's a lot of conflict and debate and doubt so the Christian faith was

01:23:14.440 created in many ways to try to resolve a lot of the issues within the Jewish

01:23:18.760 tradition the first major advantage of the Christian faith is it's the

01:23:22.600 persimlication and perfection of divinity right remember how we said that Yahweh

01:23:28.480 is problematic well now we have Jesus who we can understand and Jesus made

01:23:34.720 ultimate sacrifice therefore we know him to be the ultimate good okay second

01:23:39.820 advantage is okay now that there's a person we can for him deliver a

01:23:45.820 consistent message of being kind being merciful being loving okay the third

01:23:52.540 advantage is the idea of progress of history everything is leading to the

01:23:58.600 return of Jesus the second coming okay so you may suffer now but don't worry

01:24:02.800 because Jesus is returning and that will end history for us all right so these are the advantages

01:24:08.500 of Christianity but when you do that when you have Jesus personified God you create a lot of

01:24:15.040 issues okay the first issue is it's a really confusing story why would God come down to earth

01:24:23.140 manifest himself as a human and then I wish Nick was still here in the chat for this

01:24:27.880 sacrifice himself that's really really confusing like i know there's a lot of really good

01:24:34.260 explanations as to why this is the case still if you're just a normal person you can't understand

01:24:40.680 the story it makes no sense to you okay second is a lot of the idea no shout out to the christians

01:24:47.060 in the chat are there still a bunch of christians obviously there should be a lot of christians in

01:24:50.120 here but i'm just laughing because this is why i became muslim like this stuff didn't make sense

01:24:56.440 to me either like why why does god sacrifice himself that isn't this stuff doesn't make

01:25:03.600 logical sense they're in like the 3v1 three is one thing i think it's too straightforward yeah

01:25:11.240 i know it just but like islam is a very logical religion and you know what my prediction is he's

01:25:15.220 about to explain islam i think he's going to find a lot of logical explanations for islam i don't

01:25:21.300 think he's going to i'm wondering to see what his issues are but you're saying some things are

01:25:26.000 unexplainable but i just don't believe that to be true why that doesn't make sense faith it should

01:25:30.920 be based off of reason again that's that's why this statement here is another reason why i became

01:25:35.680 muslim he died for our sins okay but how does god die like and this is what jang is saying

01:25:40.860 not to get all dollar dollar but i just find it yeah i wasn't uh he's calling mary

01:25:52.340 calling her a whore.

01:25:54.180 Yeah, this is Jewish belief.

01:25:56.060 Christians and Muslims believe that

01:25:57.080 she performed a miracle birth.

01:26:02.480 Let's see. Let's keep watching.

01:26:03.960 In Christianity, it's just counterintuitive.

01:26:06.360 The Holy Trinity must be

01:26:08.020 the strangest idea in religion

01:26:09.720 where God, the Holy Spirit,

01:26:12.260 and Jesus are separate

01:26:14.200 but equal.

01:26:16.160 It makes no intuitive sense

01:26:18.100 to anyone.

01:26:20.660 And the third is

01:26:21.940 This is divinity.

01:26:23.760 Okay?

01:26:25.880 God is out there somewhere.

01:26:28.260 You don't know where.

01:26:29.480 You can't talk to him.

01:26:30.040 Jen, I've been saying it throughout these lectures that I thought that he has fitra

01:26:34.100 and that he was a Muslim but maybe didn't know it.

01:26:36.680 I've been saying that, right?

01:26:38.240 You can't see him.

01:26:39.720 You have no idea where he is.

01:26:41.280 It's a very distant divinity.

01:26:44.100 Islam is a distant divinity.

01:26:45.740 These are the disadvantages of Christianity.

01:26:48.340 And so Islam now makes sense because it's trying to remedy and rectify these failings of Christianity.

01:26:55.960 The first is that it takes the Jewish tradition and the Christian tradition and makes it part of itself.

01:27:03.540 So it is really the intuition and the perfection of the Jewish Christian tradition.

01:27:10.560 Second is the abstinence of God.

01:27:14.280 okay this is now true monotheism where god is everywhere what and you can see him no no but if

01:27:24.460 god no no no he no he just it's just a lack of understanding is there not one muslim in the

01:27:30.560 class who's going to correct him he's so everywhere and what's amazing is that you can now

01:27:37.080 that god can come inside you for your faith for your devotion what and for your practice

01:27:43.380 And so what this means is

01:27:46.280 You now know how to behave in the world

01:27:49.280 There's a clarity of purpose and action

01:27:51.220 You know that as long as you

01:27:52.620 Bro, John stuff a lot

01:27:54.060 He said that God comes inside you, bro

01:27:57.340 No, no, no, no

01:28:00.340 God doesn't come inside you

01:28:01.780 Oh, no, no, oh, no

01:28:06.080 To behave in the world

01:28:07.480 There's a clarity of purpose and action

01:28:09.400 You know that as long as you do those five things

01:28:12.040 those five pillars of islam your life will be good god is in you and that gives you strength

01:28:18.880 and purpose and power and guidance and this is these these ideas is what will start is i'm a

01:28:27.800 golden age and look what his weaknesses are his weaknesses okay so his weaknesses for judaism

01:28:33.440 he writes on the whiteboard his weaknesses for judaism it says well and contradictory problematic

01:28:41.440 god faith versus history so that it's contradictory right the chosen people face persecution or a

01:28:46.880 homeless problematic that yahweh is a violent god who wants the israelites to kill people other

01:28:51.420 people and also the historical problems his weaknesses in christianity the trinity makes

01:28:56.180 no sense it's counterintuitive and god doesn't make sense his weaknesses in islam here it says

01:29:01.020 it's too simple that is a strength that's not a weakness how is simplicity a weakness

01:29:07.460 subhanallah this is these these ideas is what will start this on a golden age and allow islam

01:29:16.640 to propel itself past everyone does he explain the weaknesses the problem though is it's too

01:29:25.240 simple and clear the advantage of being contradictory is you're too simple and clear

01:29:32.240 too simple and clear a weakness is that it makes sense

01:29:37.940 how could something be how could something be too clear

01:29:43.280 this is this is so this is why i like this uh more than dollar videos because it just proves

01:29:51.200 my faith even more jang is so high iq that the reason that he hasn't accepted islam is saying

01:29:57.780 that it makes too much sense it's too it's too easy but it's really that simple that's what the

01:30:06.220 truth is it makes logical sense jang believes the weakness in islam is simplicity and too clear

01:30:19.140 wow wait hold on it's so funny allow for different belief systems which come into conflict with each

01:30:28.980 other so and that it's too peaceful because it allows john believes weakness is allowing for

01:30:40.580 other faiths is that it's too much unity and with this contradiction and conflict

01:30:51.540 it allows for innovation that's why capitalism will eventually will

01:30:58.300 eventually give way to Protestant system okay but it's not an Islamic innovation

01:31:02.420 which is a reinterpretation so so he's saying he's saying that allowing for

01:31:06.900 other faiths so he's saying that the reasons that islam had the golden age is because it was

01:31:11.380 tolerant of other faiths but because of this tolerance faith diverts and that's why catholicism

01:31:18.440 and protestantism exist but he hasn't explained how this affected islam islam is maintained

01:31:23.800 islam didn't divert off into different factions obviously shia and sunni which he states the

01:31:30.060 difference is just who the caliph was right but catholicism and protestantism are completely

01:31:34.960 different religions. Go back to the second. That's why

01:31:38.920 Catholicism, it allows for innovation.

01:31:43.380 That's why Catholicism will eventually

01:31:45.740 give way to Protestantism.

01:31:50.400 We lost the point for the Protestantism. Okay, let's go back. Let me just listen.

01:31:52.740 Okay, hold on. Let's listen. Let's listen. You allow for different

01:31:56.800 belief systems, which come into conflict with each other.

01:32:00.140 And with this contradiction and conflict, it allows for innovation.

01:32:07.140 That's why Catholicism will eventually give way to Protestantism, okay?

01:32:14.120 Back more? Okay, look, you guys need it to be, are just people coping?

01:32:19.280 You said it like five times.

01:32:20.500 These ideas is what will start the Islamic golden age and allow Islam to propel itself past everyone.

01:32:28.420 Okay.

01:32:28.900 the problem though is

01:32:32.240 it's too simple

01:32:34.380 and clear

01:32:35.120 the advantage of

01:32:37.240 that is the craziest statement

01:32:39.460 that is the

01:32:41.840 craziest statement

01:32:44.180 it's almost like how sometimes your IQ

01:32:45.880 can end up being a weakness

01:32:48.360 on yourself

01:32:48.960 is that he can't accept it because it makes too much

01:32:52.500 sense and that the complexities of the world

01:32:54.500 he's dedicated his life to history and complicated

01:32:56.640 subjects and things that people haven't

01:32:58.560 uncovered geopolitical regime all this and it's very complex and it's very intertwined

01:33:06.740 right so everything that he's come to understand is extremely difficult and has been manipulated

01:33:13.900 has been changed it has been innovated and to get to the truth of history there's all these

01:33:18.640 complexities this is his way of understanding the world then he reads about islam and it's too

01:33:23.280 simple and he can't accept it because everything else that he learns everything else that he's

01:33:27.280 dedicated his life to has been extremely complex and so he's found truth through

01:33:32.680 complexity. It's very funny, huh? Being contradictory is you allow for different

01:33:39.880 belief systems which come into conflict with each other and with this

01:33:44.380 contradiction and conflict it allows for innovation. That's why capitalism

01:33:51.940 will eventually give way to Protestantism, okay?

01:33:56.600 Dude, you guys keep saying go back,

01:33:58.220 and he said exactly what we just explained.

01:34:01.140 There's nothing changed.

01:34:02.120 Which is a reinterpretation of the Bible.

01:34:05.740 But it's because the Bible is so contradictory.

01:34:07.780 Well, I'm seeing, look how many copers

01:34:09.900 are on the chat right now.

01:34:12.900 Sneakle, you're blinded by your faith.

01:34:14.380 You literally paused it.

01:34:17.540 Reinterpretation, what?

01:34:20.020 You paused it at the same point?

01:34:21.200 what pause i listened to it why are you guys rewind without bro i'm not rewinding it again

01:34:26.000 like just watch it for yourself do you guys think that rewinding it is going to change what he just

01:34:30.520 said we heard it like five times like why are people like but people are seething and coping

01:34:36.080 so hard right now this is incredible to see that this innovation is out to happen the bible was

01:34:42.600 extremely clear the quran is extremely clear but if that's the case then islam weaknesses sounds

01:34:48.300 like me talking about my weaknesses in a job exactly you're in a job interview it's like

01:34:53.260 what are your strengths my weaknesses that i work too hard i make too much sense i'm too direct with

01:34:58.780 people i say it how it is like my weaknesses are i just tell it like it is holy go back

01:35:06.060 he's saying the advantage of being contradictory is it allows innovation

01:35:11.820 the advantage no he's saying it's a weakness he said it's a weakness

01:35:15.260 rejection of the past

01:35:17.620 and embrace of the future, okay?

01:35:21.340 Second problem then is

01:35:22.920 it's inflexible. It can't be as

01:35:25.080 innovative as Christianity and

01:35:27.260 Judaism. The third problem

01:35:29.080 You're low IQ? Okay. Holy

01:35:31.080 fuck, bro.

01:35:32.640 That of the Bible.

01:35:35.120 But it's because the Bible is so contradictory

01:35:36.580 that

01:35:38.320 this innovation is out to happen.

01:35:41.020 Because the Bible is contradictory, this

01:35:43.120 innovation happens. He does not say Islam

01:35:45.040 is contradictory i don't know why you guys are going to keep seething and coping but this is

01:35:48.800 an embrace of the future okay

01:35:51.780 second problem then is it's inflexible it can't be as innovative as christianity and judaism

01:36:00.320 the third problem is okay i see this can't be as innovative but innovation is why we have the

01:36:07.200 world's problems i don't see he's citing this he said he said it was a weakness but he's also saying

01:36:12.020 that is a problem within Islam.

01:36:13.880 So he has two different points of view on innovation.

01:36:17.440 Islam purports to stand outside of history.

01:36:24.000 Judaism is to be inside of history.

01:36:27.040 Christianity is inside of history as well.

01:36:30.700 But Islam is eternal.

01:36:33.580 When you read the Koran,

01:36:34.940 it's meant to be the eternal words.

01:36:37.160 These words are always true.

01:36:38.500 But then the problem then is how do you go about and interpret your actions through the lens of history?

01:36:48.960 And how do you improve your society based on this interpretation?

01:36:53.620 All right?

01:36:55.400 So another thing I noticed is that he always used these things in terms of geopolitical gain.

01:37:00.300 He views empire and faith and people in terms of what they can gain for themselves.

01:37:05.300 So he's viewing faith again from a lens where it could be advantageous.

01:37:11.500 In the beginning, the very aspects, the very strengths of Islam will give rise to a tremendous period of creativity.

01:37:19.820 But over time, you will have, these innovations will become dogma.

01:37:28.000 And they will ossify and they will prevent further growth in your society.

01:37:32.460 There you go.

01:37:32.920 so innovation is a blessing and a curse

01:37:35.420 where obviously

01:37:37.460 there shouldn't be innovation within your faith

01:37:39.040 he's saying Christianity innovated within its faith

01:37:40.820 that's how you get Protestantism and Catholicism

01:37:42.820 but innovation is also in terms of invention

01:37:45.000 and modernization

01:37:46.280 and everybody here

01:37:48.580 pros and cons I will say

01:37:50.460 is a blessing and a curse is a better way to describe it

01:37:53.120 innovation is a blessing and a curse

01:37:58.580 alright

01:38:01.420 so

01:38:02.660 does that make sense to you guys all right so let me reframe what it is said in a different way

01:38:08.860 all right so let's just compare sorry um let's christ is king trinity is not real and yahweh

01:38:18.480 is allah's true name debate me no like whatever bro i'm going to compare and contrast christianity

01:38:27.660 with

01:38:28.460 Islam. Oh, here we go.

01:38:30.960 So, and

01:38:32.080 this will be a bit more clear

01:38:34.940 to you.

01:38:37.360 Right?

01:38:43.280 But are there any questions

01:38:44.420 before I continue?

01:38:46.980 Is this clear to you guys?

01:38:50.080 So, I apologize.

01:38:51.600 I'm making a lot of generalizations,

01:38:53.240 but again, this is a

01:38:54.800 You could even feel

01:38:56.320 the uncomfortable blanket in that room

01:39:00.400 is also in the chat right now. This is interesting. Full view of history.

01:39:04.520 Alright, so let's look at Christianity

01:39:06.740 and compare it with Islam.

01:39:11.040 Alright? So as I have said

01:39:14.420 in previous classes, Christianity was developed by the

01:39:18.480 Roman Empire in order to co-opt first the Jews

01:39:22.660 and eventually these barbarian invaders and therefore the religion is one of

01:39:31.360 empire and power okay it's really about how to control people but Islam as I

01:39:43.420 just mentioned it is a revolutionary religion that must be open and

01:39:48.220 and inclusive and tolerant in order to attract as many followers as possible.

01:39:54.220 Porco, should I slap some sausages on the grill for you for the NASCAR tailgate?

01:40:00.220 It's a religion of openness, openness, okay.

01:40:05.220 And inclusive and inclusive.

01:40:08.220 It's a religion of openness and inclusivity.

01:40:12.220 It would be great to summarize these lectures in Project Why Short Films with Images.

01:40:17.220 for an empire is the idea of

01:40:19.600 orthodoxy, of possible.

01:40:23.540 Now, the main mechanism

01:40:25.840 of control

01:40:27.300 for an empire is the idea of

01:40:29.760 orthodoxy.

01:40:31.980 Orthodoxy just means

01:40:33.380 the correct thinking.

01:40:36.140 But if you're orthodoxy,

01:40:37.400 you have the idea of heresy.

01:40:41.700 Orthodoxy is with God,

01:40:43.440 heresy is against God.

01:40:44.680 If you agree that the sky is red, because I say the sky is red, then you are orthodox.

01:40:50.180 But if you insist the sky is blue, then it is heretical, okay?

01:40:54.640 And that constrains or limits the imagination.

01:41:00.580 So it is false. Heresy is false.

01:41:03.660 And the philosopher that you base your society on is Plato.

01:41:10.640 Really?

01:41:10.880 So the idea of the bishop, the idea of the pope, it's really the idea of Plato's philosopher king.

01:41:18.940 So I'll explain Plato's philosophy in a second.

01:41:23.800 But let's look at Islam.

01:41:26.000 So it's a revolutionary religion, and therefore you must activate the energy of all your followers.

01:41:33.080 You must get them to believe, and you must get them to fight.

01:41:35.880 Therefore, it's a religion based on intuition.

01:41:38.300 god is with you you know god god is inside you okay and the idea of intuition is what allows for

01:41:46.000 science you can discover the truth by just observing so be muslim dude why is this guy

01:41:53.940 not muslim you can literally prove islam based off of science and he's not muslim

01:41:59.540 intuition

01:42:02.900 intuition

01:42:05.760 okay

01:42:06.600 you can discover the truth

01:42:08.540 okay what do you say exactly?

01:42:10.220 You can discover the truth

01:42:11.420 by just observing.

01:42:16.000 So why

01:42:16.520 allows

01:42:19.160 for science

01:42:21.080 you can

01:42:22.980 discover truth

01:42:25.140 through observation.

01:42:28.480 It's almost like

01:42:29.020 teach you through funny. Through empirical observation, through your own analysis, through

01:42:35.380 your own belief, okay? And the person who argues this is, of course, Aristotle. So this is the

01:42:43.720 argument I'm making to you, okay? A lot of scholars believe... I think his sources of Islamic history

01:42:49.940 might be from early 20th century orientalists. Yeah, you can see the Eastern influence for sure.

01:42:55.200 an age happened because the Islam had books. They had wealth. But the Byzantines also had

01:43:04.940 access to all these major thinkers, Plato and Aristotle. Byzantines had a lot of wealth.

01:43:13.660 What I'm arguing is that a culture needs to have an attitude, a perspective, a worldview,

01:43:21.880 view and orientation. For the Byzantines and the Europeans, they chose Plato. But the Muslims

01:43:29.320 chose Aristotle. And that is the major difference.

01:43:33.540 I've never heard this before.

01:43:34.540 Okay. So let's go over, let's summarize Plato and Aristotle. How were the philosophies

01:43:42.640 different?

01:43:43.640 Okay.

01:43:44.640 How were you Aristotle?

01:43:45.640 the true God is called the form of the good.

01:43:49.840 The form of the good is the beginning of everything.

01:43:54.680 It is what is immutable.

01:43:56.740 That cannot be changed.

01:43:58.260 It is perfect and it's eternal.

01:44:02.300 Eternal means it was always there and it will always be there.

01:44:06.700 The form of the good, this God,

01:44:09.060 he thinks and he emanates new concepts called ideals,

01:44:13.480 like justice.

01:44:14.880 jester reason beauty power okay and these ideals will manifest themselves

01:44:21.660 into perfect forms okay like a horse like a perfect horse a perfect woman okay

01:44:31.280 this we can say is this heaven we live in something called a shadow world which

01:44:40.420 is just an imitation of heaven it's a bad imitation serving sucks okay so for

01:44:47.380 example if you fall down you break your leg it hurts because we live in a

01:44:53.020 shadow world so in this conception of the universe what we're trying to do is

01:44:58.480 return to the form of the good and for Plato he argues that you can do this

01:45:06.460 through mathematics and geometry, because mathematics is what is most like the form of

01:45:12.920 the good. It is immutable, perfect, and eternal. So by studying mathematics and geometry, you are

01:45:19.460 able to ascend back into the form of the good. But guess what? Augustine will take Plato and he will

01:45:29.140 adapt it to the Christian faith, right? Because how do you leave this world? By not sinning,

01:45:34.860 by having faith.

01:45:37.760 If you do that,

01:45:39.040 then you are allowed to go to heaven.

01:45:42.740 Okay?

01:45:43.680 So, in the platonic Augustine understanding,

01:45:49.100 we, in this world,

01:45:50.840 just, all we have to do is not make a mistake.

01:45:54.220 So do nothing.

01:45:56.000 Okay?

01:45:56.300 Do nothing and you'll be good.

01:45:59.780 Aristotle has a different conception of the universe.

01:46:03.840 He believes the formula of good is called a prime mover.

01:46:08.640 All right?

01:46:09.760 God is a prime mover.

01:46:11.140 So God is the first thing that acts and moves things.

01:46:15.920 Okay?

01:46:16.640 And when he does that, when he creates motion, other things start to happen as well.

01:46:24.880 Yeah, so the real motion man is God.

01:46:26.880 Bang!

01:46:27.860 Ah!

01:46:28.840 Sorry.

01:46:29.400 other things start to happen as well okay so we're constantly moving about

01:46:36.300 where we're going is we are seeking truth and it's called telos telos means

01:46:42.900 purpose so each of us our nature has a purpose if you're if you're soldier your

01:46:49.920 purpose is to be the best warrior if you're a mathematician your purpose is

01:46:54.720 to be the best mathematician okay and that is the idea of truth to fulfill

01:47:00.660 your purpose and therefore you must be constantly acting okay number the beauty

01:47:06.960 of this idea of motion is you can now study it through empirical observation

01:47:13.740 you can observe things and then start to understand their nature and this gives

01:47:19.440 rise to the idea of science okay right so the Muslim world had a decidedly

01:47:32.940 Aristotelian perspective whereas the European world had a platonic

01:47:40.200 perspective now the great thing about history the great thing about civilization

01:47:47.640 is that what will happen is the Europeans will learn from the Muslims they'll

01:47:54.960 copy the Muslims right they'll bring back Aristotle they'll bring back

01:48:02.100 science and they'll bring back intuition and they will do so three major events the first is the

01:48:20.480 Renaissance where they bring back Aristotle the second is the Protestant Reformation where they

01:48:27.880 will bring back god god's name revealed to moises the same way god erased satan's true name in bible

01:48:35.500 where they will bring back god remember the catholic religion

01:48:40.160 where they bring back aristotle through the pope or the priest okay but the

01:48:50.940 Protestant religion is, no, God is with us.

01:48:54.420 God is in us.

01:48:55.600 For your actions, you can win God's favor, okay?

01:49:00.600 Dr. Roy Casagranda's top viewed video gave the sauce for free.

01:49:05.240 Yeah, thank you.

01:49:05.760 He's what you're searching.

01:49:06.420 Thank you again for the 80s yesterday telling me to watch a video that I'm not watching.

01:49:09.920 The scientific revolution.

01:49:12.620 And these are the three major events that will give us modernity.

01:49:20.940 okay but guess what the Europeans are just emulating the Muslims but and this

01:49:32.640 is really important they will improve on the Muslims okay so the problem with

01:49:41.100 science is yes in the beginning you will have this all this tremendous discovery

01:49:44.820 But this innovation will eventually lead to something called dogma.

01:49:50.900 And so what you need to do is create institutions to destroy dogma.

01:49:58.180 And that's what the Europeans will do.

01:50:00.400 And this idea that dogma can be destroyed through discussion and debate and analysis

01:50:07.280 is what will become the basis of the Southern Revolution,

01:50:10.600 which will create the modern world that we live in today, okay?

01:50:15.280 So we will go through all of these three major movements in future classes.

01:50:22.520 But please remember that it's the Islamic Golden Age

01:50:26.780 which will inspire the Europeans to do all three of these things

01:50:33.180 which in turn will create the modern world that we live in today.

01:50:37.780 And that's why I believe that Islamic Golden Age is really the proto-modernity of human history.

01:50:45.900 All right.

01:50:46.640 That is my argument to you.

01:50:49.360 Any questions?

01:50:51.480 Again, these are arguments.

01:50:52.400 Anything you aren't clear about.

01:50:53.740 Why are you not Muslim?

01:50:55.960 Shek Jang.

01:50:56.960 Was this clear?

01:50:58.920 I can't wait to interview him.

01:51:00.860 Bro, it's going to be so good on Sunday, bro.

01:51:02.920 Question or just an observation.

01:51:04.880 Sure.

01:51:05.240 Oh, my God.

01:51:06.020 Doug.

01:51:06.840 or can you go back a couple slides to the uh sure to the uh empire empire and power versus

01:51:13.820 okay sure right here why are you supposed to teach her he reminds me of my grandfather

01:51:19.660 i'm not trying to call him old but like he's exactly like my filipino grandfather

01:51:25.560 his explanation even look like i said this the other day the way he puts his hands behind his

01:51:30.040 back when he's in a pensive thinking like this is exactly how he does it

01:51:34.520 And so there's kind of two movements.

01:51:38.620 Doug sounds gay, doesn't he?

01:51:40.580 And a slum.

01:51:41.680 That's like, what's that?

01:51:42.440 What about a slum?

01:51:44.300 The first one is like with the Muayyad Khalifa, which lasts above the 100 years.

01:51:49.900 Right.

01:51:51.300 It was really kind of that revolution that Patrick talked about.

01:51:56.080 Very expensive.

01:51:57.220 I don't know if one of the time.

01:51:59.240 Oh, my God, Doug, shut up, bro.

01:52:00.760 Look at him.

01:52:01.120 Yeah, this is what happens when you gas up a student.

01:52:03.280 He thinks he's the shit now.

01:52:04.060 he's just still dude his question is taking three minutes he doesn't i hate those students so much

01:52:09.320 that don't even have a question they just want to talk so their voice is heard this is like

01:52:13.020 my number one why also why youtube lectures are better than school because i could just fast

01:52:18.140 forward i don't need to listen to these eric

01:52:19.780 shut the fuck up he's still going right yeah that's a great point so um that was a three

01:52:31.460 minute question let me elaborate on this point um so there's a little critic uh norfolk fry

01:52:37.600 right yep can we keep or call it's okay let's go review these notes real quick and

01:52:44.260 go over okay class oh maybe we can do the kahoot too i can go pull up that kahoot from earlier

01:52:52.400 so here is the lesson on the lecture on the islamic golden age right and again this is a lot

01:52:59.060 of his arguments there's a lot of his bias i think out of all the lectures this one you have to really

01:53:03.320 take it with a grain of salt right so the islamic golden age remember that there's two billion

01:53:07.960 christians you know uh two billion muslims and one billion christians why is this indonesia is the

01:53:13.540 most populated muslim country and this goes against the fact that they call it an arab religion

01:53:16.460 indonesia they they look like uh niggas like me bro ching chongs right shia is the belief that

01:53:23.500 only direct descendants of ali can be the caliph that's really the only difference like the

01:53:27.520 difference between protestantism and catholicism are so different um they're really completely

01:53:32.020 different religions about the authority and about trinity and about praying to mary and praying

01:53:36.400 all these different things shia they're still muslim they just believe in different uh different

01:53:42.040 caliphs and the descendants of that muhammad peace upon him so allah was the final prophet

01:53:46.560 jesus the penultimate prophet came right before muhammad's vision peace upon him was came from

01:53:52.200 angel gabriel who revealed the quran i wouldn't even say it's a vision the vision it wasn't a

01:53:56.640 Vision, it was, but that's how he's describing it.

01:53:58.980 Again, this is all Professor Jang.

01:54:01.160 And Vision was to reveal monotheism to a pagan society, right?

01:54:05.680 Because at the time, there were all these pagans, all these pagans in Mecca and in Arabia and that region of the world.

01:54:12.520 And so when Muhammad P. Sivan came, he was met with resistance, and he was forced to go from Mecca to Medina.

01:54:18.520 He becomes a leader against the Jewish tribes, which mainly populated Arabia at the time.

01:54:22.920 the constitution of medina which was written in the quran

01:54:25.440 of course he says i need to check that to let other faiths practice

01:54:29.560 right it was open and tolerant to other religions in comparison to other faiths

01:54:34.040 which is uh wants to control islam spread beyond

01:54:37.760 the middle east and conquered the bizantine and persian empire

01:54:40.440 they take jerusalem and build al-aksa mosque and it's muhammad peace upon him

01:54:45.260 that ascended to heaven from al-aksa and this is called the movement al-isra

01:54:49.940 while Miraj. Al-Aqsa was built on top of Temple Mount, the Jewish Temple. So one of the three

01:54:56.300 main questions that he answers this, that he speculates about, why did Islam build on top

01:55:00.400 of the Jewish Temple Mount? We'll go into his reasoning later. The Islamic Caliphate, they

01:55:07.700 conquered the Persian Empire and half of the Byzantine, the Roman Empire. The Byzantines were

01:55:12.660 impenetrable, right? That's why they couldn't finish it. They had Greek fire and walls preventing

01:55:17.580 and conquering. Islam spread from Arabia to most of the Middle East. It takes less than

01:55:21.460 100 years. They did this quick. The Umayyad Caliphate was the largest empire in the world

01:55:25.880 and the wealthiest one too. And there's the five pillars of Islam. Shahada, the declaration

01:55:30.380 which means I declare witness that there is none worthy of worship except God and Muhammad

01:55:39.600 peace be upon him is the final prophet. Second one is salah prayer. Third is zakat charity.

01:55:45.160 fourth is uh psalm which is ramadan fasting coming up very soon and the fifth one is hajj is taking

01:55:52.400 a pilgrimage to mecca at a specific time of the year john couldn't go to mecca because he's not

01:55:57.500 muslim right that's funny to write down because he really wanted to go see it but he didn't know

01:56:01.100 that in order to go to mecca you have to be muslim but i thought what's your muslim name

01:56:05.440 jews were a part of early islam and were literate so the question is like why were there no early

01:56:11.220 records of the first hundred years of Islam because Muhammad

01:56:13.140 peace on him, he was illiterate.

01:56:14.980 Why did Muslims war with two empires,

01:56:17.160 the Roman and Persians? Three questions.

01:56:19.240 Why did they war with the Roman and Persians?

01:56:21.120 Why did he not name it? Why did

01:56:22.520 the final prophet not name his successor?

01:56:25.100 And why did Muslims build on a Jewish temple?

01:56:27.820 John claims no one knows these two

01:56:29.080 questions.

01:56:31.060 Bukhar and Uzbekistan. I don't remember

01:56:33.140 the significance of that.

01:56:35.300 So I'm going to delete this. Oh no, he says

01:56:37.120 it was an example of

01:56:38.420 example of

01:56:41.100 beautiful Islamic architecture architecture I don't know how to spell this here the main

01:56:50.280 cultural center of Islamic Golden Age is Baghdad Baghdad today I got a fact checked out so I don't

01:56:57.960 look dumb is in Iraq a Boston Caliphate was the height of the Islamic civilization it created

01:57:05.820 the world we have today connects the entire world to global globalization the Abbasids used global

01:57:10.420 networks and made them richer through trade routes traded heavily with the

01:57:13.400 Chinese Empire we learn later that the Chinese the ones who gave them paper and

01:57:18.100 books it created the maritime Silk Road trade routes the main center production

01:57:22.960 was called the House of Wisdom model called Library of Alexandria the first

01:57:27.520 university to systemize hallucinic through mass dissemination what's the

01:57:34.960 definition of hallucinic I don't know I'm not gonna pretend like I do

01:57:39.660 Hellasenic is, oh, it's a period of Alexander the Gates of Conquest.

01:57:50.040 Oh, what would you say for that?

01:57:55.680 Oh, Hellasenic?

01:57:56.920 Hellasenic, okay, okay, Hellasenic.

01:58:03.160 Like Greek teachings?

01:58:09.660 Through mass dissemination. Dissemination, the definition is the action

01:58:12.240 or fact of spreading something, especially information, widely. Greek culture,

01:58:16.360 okay. That's the same as teaching, similar.

01:58:21.160 Right, so the Islamic Empire took works from Aristotle and Plato

01:58:24.060 and disseminated, spread it across the world. Systemized and built on math.

01:58:28.320 So Islam is the reason that we have modern day math, the math we learned in school.

01:58:32.460 The Greeks, Jews, and Persians were all trading information in the house

01:58:36.120 of wisdom.

01:58:39.660 House of Wisdom, again, was in Baghdad, if I'm not mistaken.

01:58:45.280 Let's go fact-check that.

01:58:47.860 Was it Baghdad? Yeah, it was in Baghdad.

01:58:49.540 The Al-Aqsa Masjid was built on top of the hidden books of magic from Prophet Solomon time.

01:58:57.400 Oh, okay.

01:59:00.820 Again, these are his arguments.

01:59:02.380 The Arabian Nights was a main book of Islamic information.

01:59:06.080 At the time, poetry was considered high art.

01:59:08.200 This book was considered low art.

01:59:09.320 But eventually, the Europeans adopted it, and it was the basis of many Disney works and stories.

01:59:15.560 Rumi, from 1207 to 1273, was one of the major thinkers of the Islamic Golden Age.

01:59:20.420 He was a Persian poet and mystic philosopher.

01:59:24.980 Ibn Sina, from 1980 to 1037, was the most famous intellectual of the Islamic Golden Age.

01:59:30.760 His books were admired in Europe.

01:59:32.560 He inspired Leonardo Fibonacci.

01:59:34.440 Again, you get the Fibonacci sequence from him.

01:59:36.200 He went to Baghdad and imported ideas to Europe.

01:59:38.140 Ibn Rushd from 1126 to 1198 you know what's really interesting too you never learn about

01:59:43.160 the Islamic golden age in school did you I never learned any of this but again this goes back to

01:59:48.260 his idea that the English language has a supremacy ideology built into it which is why the British

01:59:54.900 empire spread so much and why the Chinese should prioritize themselves instead of the English

01:59:59.960 language because when you learn the English language and when you learn within English

02:00:03.080 it's going to promote things like Shakespeare and stuff and those ideologies with it probably a

02:00:07.840 reason why this is not taught in Western schools. I never learned any of this in

02:00:11.520 school. Ibn Rashid influenced Dante's divine comedy. He named Socrates, Plato

02:00:17.480 and also Abicenna, which is a nickname for a Latin name for Ibn Senna.

02:00:33.260 Islamic influence on Europe has been whitewashed. Without Islam, Europe would

02:00:37.540 not have modernized. Musa al-Kawar Izimi, from 780 to 850, he was nicknamed algorithmy. He was

02:00:48.480 the father of algebra. Algorithmy, the basis of modern algorithms. Algebra and algorithm were

02:00:53.560 Arabic words. Math we study in school was developed in Islamic golden age. Ibn al-Haytham

02:00:58.540 invented physics, becomes basis for the renaissance in Europe. The first 24-hour

02:01:03.640 Hospital was in Baghdad. Poor people could receive free medical treatment. Al Karawiyan from 859

02:01:10.600 was in Fez, Morocco. He had the first degree granting university. Oh no, it was founded by a

02:01:16.160 woman. Is this a woman? Iraq mentioned, shout out to Iraq. Oh no, this is the university.

02:01:33.640 funneled by a woman i don't know her name in 1258 the islamic golden age comes to an end

02:01:39.120 the mongols sack baghdad and burn all the books no baghdad had thriving bookstore culture and

02:01:44.800 they learned how to make paper and books from china but the mongols came in and they destroyed

02:01:49.400 it all the quran standardizes arabic and becomes the language of the muslim world

02:01:53.180 ibn khaldun was the father of social science example economics politics and he also says

02:01:58.560 something about history, but this is fine.

02:02:01.660 He founded Asabiyya,

02:02:03.220 which is social cohesion, the idea of how society

02:02:05.240 should run. He also wrote about why empires

02:02:07.340 rise and fall, and the reason is empires lose to more

02:02:09.320 free and open societies. So,

02:02:11.220 strict societies will often be overrun by

02:02:13.200 open and free ones. That's how you get an American empire

02:02:15.220 today, if you follow this logic.

02:02:16.900 From 1300 to 1700, even though the Islamic empire

02:02:19.140 fell,

02:02:21.400 during this period, it was dominated

02:02:23.340 by three empires, the Mughal, Ottoman,

02:02:25.400 and Safavid.

02:02:27.420 But in this time, Islam still dominated, which is strange, right?

02:02:29.980 In 622, Muhammad goes from Mecca to Manita.

02:02:33.900 This is going back in time again, obviously.

02:02:35.640 The Jews align with the Persians of the war against the Byzantines, Romans.

02:02:40.140 Byzantines are Romans.

02:02:41.080 I don't know why they always intertwine this.

02:02:43.100 In 70 AD, the Romans destroyed temple.

02:02:47.000 Destroyed Jewish temple.

02:02:48.820 And this is why they sided with the Persians.

02:02:50.480 In 135 AD, the Romans expelled Jews.

02:02:53.120 Jews want to return to Jerusalem and rebuild their temple.

02:02:55.400 the persians take jerusalem and push out the romans this is a gay i'm a numbers guy

02:03:00.920 persians linking up with the jews emperor heracles of the romans returned to jerusalem

02:03:05.860 in the first crusade emperor heracles right he expels the expel of jews oh no they expel the

02:03:15.920 jews they kill a lot of jews i don't want to put this on twitter it's going to get me banned

02:03:20.040 I'm not giving any trouble. They expel

02:03:23.620 and unalive

02:03:25.920 the Jews

02:03:26.820 Jews have nowhere

02:03:30.000 to go after Jerusalem expulsion

02:03:31.760 Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam

02:03:33.780 in Medina promises religious tolerance

02:03:35.480 Islam is now a distinct religion

02:03:37.420 Muslims at the time were called believers

02:03:39.280 because the word Muslim just means submission to God

02:03:41.660 all Abrahamic faiths were then considered

02:03:43.900 one religion

02:03:44.660 the constitution of Medina

02:03:47.040 the idea of religious tolerance in the Quran

02:03:50.600 Zoroastrianism was a monotheistic religion of the Persians.

02:03:54.240 And again, the Persians sided with the Jews.

02:03:55.960 The apocalyptic age all believed that this was the end of the world.

02:03:58.620 At the time, all, I'll put many,

02:04:01.300 because I don't think Muhammad and Muslims believed that this was the end of the world.

02:04:05.700 I don't think it was ever a belief system.

02:04:08.740 The Jews believed the Persians and the Romans' war was the Gog and Magog,

02:04:12.340 was the end of times.

02:04:13.160 Gog and Magog was the final battle, end of days.

02:04:14.880 The Jewish Messiah was to come and unite the Jews.

02:04:19.600 but they were mistaken.

02:04:21.460 The end of times is probably coming soon.

02:04:23.560 The Jews believed it could be Muhammad.

02:04:27.840 The final battle between Messiah and the Antichrist, right?

02:04:31.460 This is the end of times theory.

02:04:33.140 Official religion of Romans was the Holy Trinity.

02:04:35.120 Most Christians didn't believe in the Holy Trinity.

02:04:38.780 They were persecuted for their refusal to believe in Trinity.

02:04:41.920 Persecuted and a lot of them were killed.

02:04:43.420 Zorashians believe in the final between good and evil.

02:04:45.340 They also believed it was the end of times.

02:04:46.580 So everybody thought it was the end of times.

02:04:47.700 Muhammad peace upon him believes

02:04:50.660 we're all one to fight for God

02:04:52.700 hey we're all the same we're all part of the Abrahamic faith

02:04:55.100 why don't we just go fight for God

02:04:56.620 the Quran is the best evidence

02:04:58.860 for Muhammad peace upon him's life

02:05:00.660 there wasn't a lot written at the time

02:05:03.180 Jung argues

02:05:04.000 Abraham is our forefather

02:05:06.980 why are Abrahamic faiths arguing

02:05:08.820 this is from subtext

02:05:11.140 from Quran

02:05:11.740 Christianity arrived

02:05:16.960 Yeah, he's saying, oh, people of the book.

02:05:21.380 I'll put this here so we get this correct.

02:05:29.560 Christianity arrived from the debate about Jesus.

02:05:31.700 Muhammad, peace upon him, argued that Jesus was a prophet, not God.

02:05:34.560 He said, do not worship messengers.

02:05:36.540 That's shirk.

02:05:37.260 You're worshiping other than God.

02:05:38.220 The University of El-Karawaiian founder is Fatima Al-Faria, and she is Tunisian.

02:05:42.800 Okay.

02:05:43.060 Oh, she's Tunisian?

02:05:44.020 Oh, that's good to know.

02:05:45.260 The Trinity is nonsense.

02:05:46.960 and that god is one not three in 622 christians uh were being persecuted for refusing the trinity

02:05:53.620 under the roman empire some were killed muhammad confirms these christians belief of monotheism

02:05:59.040 right he goes on this argument about if you're called crazy for so long and then somebody says

02:06:02.980 you're not you're going to follow them islam is the first monotheistic religion in the modern sense

02:06:06.960 power from islam comes from uniting paganism because paganism at the time helped us feel

02:06:11.720 and understand the world.

02:06:12.760 It made us feel good.

02:06:13.640 Feel good, yoga.

02:06:15.520 Islam had simplicity,

02:06:17.560 clarity,

02:06:18.060 and absoluteness

02:06:18.920 of monotheism.

02:06:20.320 Islam is a major

02:06:21.320 intellectual revolution

02:06:22.480 because of fitra,

02:06:27.560 because it describes

02:06:29.840 this innate feeling

02:06:30.740 that we're supposed

02:06:31.500 to worship the one God.

02:06:33.800 Islam as proto-modernity,

02:06:36.140 basically the baseness

02:06:36.980 of modernity,

02:06:38.660 which obviously,

02:06:40.740 in hindsight,

02:06:41.100 i don't know if that was a good thing but it's not the fault of islam is the fault of people who

02:06:45.820 took modernity and used it for greed john believes god is within we can touch god because of his

02:06:50.960 eastern bias he doesn't understand islam he believes he's saying that islam says god is

02:06:54.700 within and that it's everywhere it's not islam at all god is the idea of one true creator

02:07:00.080 right greater and that is not here within you know and around islam becomes a social order

02:07:06.100 Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam represented a revolution against the social order.

02:07:09.840 So he says, he argues that Islam is a revolutionary religion.

02:07:19.800 And again, I started realizing through his description why you see liberals start to side with Islam against Christianity.

02:07:26.800 If you follow Jiang's belief that Christianity is a religion based off of empire control and Islam is a religion of tolerance and acceptance, the acceptance of other faiths, it seems to be why liberals resonate with Islam compared to Christianity.

02:07:45.640 Early Muslim caliphs died in military conflict.

02:07:49.080 That's why we don't have information from early military records between empires.

02:07:53.020 The early days of Islam, Jews and Christians, in the early days of Islam, Jews and Christians were part of a hierarchy.

02:08:07.540 Civil war amongst Muslims to determine caliph.

02:08:12.320 Bloody early history, which is why the first 100 years were hidden.

02:08:15.800 This is John's explanation.

02:08:19.180 The idea of, I'm going to center this one.

02:08:23.020 The idea of history comes from Greeks and Romans who wrote it down.

02:08:27.820 Maybe because they believed it was the end of days, no point in writing.

02:08:30.660 That's, again, his argument for why.

02:08:35.880 I'm going to copy-paste this.

02:08:41.060 His oxal explanation is the Jews can't return to Jerusalem,

02:08:44.960 but then eventually they can under the condition they can...

02:08:47.640 Oh, the Jews can return to Jerusalem under the condition they can rebuild their temple.

02:08:52.200 and Cyrus the Great is called the Messiah in the Bible

02:08:54.680 because he allowed this to happen

02:08:56.180 I guess Old Testament

02:08:57.620 the process of Al-Aqsa Mosque took 200 years

02:09:00.260 and John says that it was always supposed to be the third temporal

02:09:03.260 and his also explanation for why Al-Aqsa was built over the temple

02:09:07.680 was because it was a deal from the Muslims to the Jews

02:09:09.580 I don't believe this to be true

02:09:10.640 again i usually don't put this in the notes but this is super speculative and divisive so i'm

02:09:23.760 going to include this because i'm publishing these notes jews were the first to have a complete

02:09:27.060 history adam and eve moses patriarchs they have literary culture jews were expected to be people

02:09:32.420 of the book um i'll put problem problem jews were expected to be people of the book wait oh no

02:09:43.320 that's not the problem yet that comes later learning and literacy is why they're dominant

02:09:50.180 in academia john says salem snake orthodox muslim wants to contact would be good i will send him

02:09:59.320 this clip cool um okay john says the bible is contradictory and schizophrenic it's hard to pick

02:10:09.720 up a definite message i'll say definitive tor is much more important rabbi explains the bible

02:10:18.540 rabbis have to explain the bible to people in synagogue because it makes no sense

02:10:26.280 That's what he's saying.

02:10:27.460 He's saying that Yahweh is problematic.

02:10:28.880 Yahweh is violent and he doesn't know what he's doing.

02:10:31.880 And in the Bible it says the chosen people,

02:10:34.040 the chosen people,

02:10:37.000 well, for you there's a question.

02:10:38.780 Hey, Sneak, you should look into the Avicis history

02:10:41.440 before he died.

02:10:43.040 Interesting story.

02:10:44.500 I'll look into that.

02:10:45.060 How are chosen people persecuted all the time?

02:10:51.480 And we talked about that in a previous lecture.

02:10:54.520 It's the crisis of faith.

02:10:55.760 why are chosen people

02:10:57.740 kicked out of Jerusalem

02:10:58.440 by Romans

02:10:58.960 this is redundant

02:11:00.720 I can delete this note

02:11:01.520 it also aligns better here

02:11:03.560 Christianity came to explain

02:11:05.000 the problems of Jewish faith

02:11:06.000 Jesus' sacrifice

02:11:11.740 helps us understand

02:11:13.740 ultimate good

02:11:14.520 suffering will end

02:11:15.740 under the return of Jesus

02:11:16.760 Jesus being God

02:11:17.960 is a confusing story

02:11:18.880 why would God come down

02:11:20.640 and sacrifice himself

02:11:21.600 Trinity is strange

02:11:22.840 and counterintuitive

02:11:23.600 counterintuitive

02:11:24.800 separate but equal

02:11:25.740 Islam rectifies failure of Christianity

02:11:28.720 takes Jewish and Christianity

02:11:30.020 and unites it as continuation

02:11:31.740 oh people of the book

02:11:35.000 great

02:11:36.000 great surah from the Quran

02:11:38.140 Islam has an absoluteness of God

02:11:40.480 Jiang believes God is within Islam

02:11:42.040 not true

02:11:42.740 God is not within us

02:11:44.360 and we can't touch God

02:11:45.240 but he says this over and over again

02:11:46.460 the five pillars give you strength and purpose

02:11:48.280 the idea of deen

02:11:49.200 the straight path

02:11:51.840 Islam propels beyond all

02:11:53.800 Jiang believes the weakness of Islam

02:11:55.700 is simplicity and too clear.

02:11:57.600 This is the craziest part of the lecture to me.

02:12:02.520 Giangali's weakness is allowing for other faiths.

02:12:09.520 Islam's weakness is allowing for other faiths.

02:12:11.760 But there's not really a weakness in Islam.

02:12:14.100 It's more about a weakness in humanity.

02:12:16.660 Because that's what we should do.

02:12:17.820 We should allow for other faiths.

02:12:19.000 We should be tolerant of people.

02:12:20.980 But we should be...

02:12:23.020 But the fact that that tolerance allows greedy people to subvert and take over and push their own agenda.

02:12:30.100 That's not really a weakness in Islam.

02:12:31.820 That's a weakness within human nature.

02:12:36.960 Because faith tolerance allows for innovation.

02:12:39.560 John believes innovation is a blessing and a curse.

02:12:41.820 It allowed for modernity, but it also allowed for diversion.

02:12:46.100 Islam gives way for creativity, which also prevents its empire.

02:12:49.640 The creativity and the growth and the benefits and the beauty of the Islamic empire also allowed for its downfall.

02:12:57.780 Because so much creativity and everything, you know, intolerance prevents empire.

02:13:01.640 Empire is only possible through control and power.

02:13:05.620 Here we are, Christianity vs. Islam.

02:13:07.040 Christianity was developed by Roman Empire to co-opt the Jews.

02:13:10.020 Christianity is a religion of empire and power.

02:13:12.560 How to control people.

02:13:14.660 Whereas Islam is a revolutionary religion of openness and inclusivity.

02:13:17.700 and the goal is to convert as many as possible

02:13:20.340 rather than control as many as possible.

02:13:25.300 Christianity method of control is orthodoxy.

02:13:30.740 Heresy is against God and Christianity heretical.

02:13:34.640 Heresy is philosophy from Plato.

02:13:36.980 Whereas Islam activates the energy of its followers.

02:13:39.360 Religion is based on intuition.

02:13:40.720 Intuition allows for science.

02:13:42.180 You can discover truth through observation.

02:13:44.140 Aristotle argues for intuition

02:13:47.400 this allows for science.

02:13:52.560 Christianity

02:13:52.980 is represented by

02:13:55.480 Plato.

02:13:59.180 Represented

02:13:59.740 by Plato.

02:14:04.320 Islam is represented

02:14:05.540 by Aristotle.

02:14:08.640 Plato

02:14:09.200 believes that we live in a shadow world, an imitation

02:14:11.620 of heaven. You go to heaven by not sinning.

02:14:14.060 But Aristotle says good comes from the

02:14:15.620 prime mover god and we seek we're here to seek truth and purpose and this idea gave birth to

02:14:22.360 science europeans learned and copied from muslims the renaissance brought back aristotle the

02:14:27.260 european renaissance uh renaissance protestants scientific revolution was the basis of modernity

02:14:34.140 all this came from muslims islamic golden age inspired europeans to create the modern world

02:14:38.480 proto-modernity of human history

02:14:40.460 So that was a great lesson, great lecture.

SHNEAKO - February 14, 2026

Is Professor Jiang Becoming A Muslim？

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