SNEAKO - May 21, 2023
Shaykh Uthman Answers SNEAKO's Questions About Islam
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Summary
On this episode of the podcast, I speak with my good friend Abdurrahman Abu Ghazaleh, who was raised in a Christian home in the United States and converted to Islam a few years ago. In this episode, we talk about the differences between Jews and Christians in the Muslim world, as well as what it means to be a Muslim.
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What is the general consensus about Jews and Christians in the Muslim world?
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Obviously, I think that we should free Palestine.
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In the Quran, for example, in Surah Al-Fatiha, it says,
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That, you know, we ask Allah not to make us good on the path of those that went astray or those that earned the wrath of Allah.
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Rasulullah, the Prophet, he mentioned an authentic narration that
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is referring to the Jews, that the tricks they played with the religion, when they changed the religion,
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And those that went astray, even though they had some sincerity,
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but they're sincerely went astray, is referring to the Christians.
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The Christians and Jews have a special place in Islam.
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We call them Ahlul Kitab, the people of the book.
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We have a special relationship between us and them because no doubt we believe in the same prophet.
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We believe in the same God that sent those prophets.
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The problem that gets to be is instead of sticking to the original message of Jesus,
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peace and blessings be upon him, for example, the Christians, they went astray.
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Last time I spoke to you, you weren't Muslim, and now you're a Muslim, man.
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Yeah, I would say that the debate we had actually was a big part in convincing me.
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May Allah protect you and keep you on the right path.
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Alhamdulillah, in three days we had 30 people accept Islam.
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Alhamdulillah, we're at Union Square, Times Square, Yankee Stadium.
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Alhamdulillah, we had three people accept Islam there.
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I just gave the speech where I called you from.
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We're trying to explain people how to give da'wah.
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And how to have good productive dialogue and all of that.
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Yeah, I could probably do a better job of that.
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Because I recently reverted maybe two months ago.
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And since then, just people constantly want to debate me.
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So I could use something like that I could benefit from.
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Did you think that I was going to revert to Islam when we last spoke?
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We spoke about last summer, I think, almost a year.
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But I saw you had a sincere want to know the truth.
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Like, even in the discussion, you weren't being biased towards either side.
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And when I see somebody with that openness, usually I end up seeing them become Muslim.
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And so what is the process of giving da'wah like?
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And how do you think I can effectively do that on my stream?
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Because what I did hear, maybe this is a bit selfish of a question, but I did hear that if you do give da'wah properly, then you are almost guaranteed a spot in heaven.
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If you do it right, if you do it sincerely for Allah.
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So the thing with da'wah is we don't do it for fame.
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We don't do it for, you know, trying to get popularity.
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We do it really because we want to connect people with their creator.
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You know, and I challenge all these Christian apologists, atheists, you know, apostates and all this.
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Don't take money and come debate me just for the sake of the truth.
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Even I'm out here, I paid my own ticket, you know.
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The point is that I want people to connect to their creator.
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I don't want people to worship Jesus or a Ram or a blue guy or a monkey or a cow.
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I want people to worship the one that Jesus worshipped.
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I want the people to worship the one Abraham and Moses and Muhammad.
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So, when you do that sincerely, no doubt, Allah will give you a place in Jannah.
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There was a moment, I had a debate yesterday with a Christian, and he was saying, like,
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basically, people are trying to get me to convert to Christianity, and they're saying
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that you're getting on your knees for Islam and all this stuff you're submitting.
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And then afterwards, I read a comment, and it's like, this is how Jesus prayed in the Bible.
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Jesus prayed like a Muslim, just like Jesus prayed like a Muslim did.
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You know, I have my Bible right here, as you can see.
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You know, when you look at Jesus in the Bible, you will find many things that will not fit
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You look at Jesus, he says here in Mark 13, 32, and this is a verse we use all the time.
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And this is actually the verse we use with young Don.
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I saw the video where he's rejecting Jesus being God now.
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Anytime he wants, I'm ready to have a conversation offline.
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I don't care about views or any of that, just to answer his questions, if he ever wants.
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Yeah, for context, if I don't mean to interrupt, but he just released a video saying that he
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rejects the idea of the Trinity, which was basically like a big point of contention that
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And that made me think very differently about Christianity.
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And even yesterday I was debating two Christians and I asked them about the Trinity and they
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like, if you ever asked Christians about that, I bet you've noticed this too, debating
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They always have a different explanation for the Trinity.
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And I don't mean this in an insulting way, but I haven't heard any way that makes sense.
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I grew up with this idea and I don't fully understand.
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And there's, and then whenever they kind of get caught and it doesn't make God works in
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And, and that's such a funny thing because in the Bible we find God is not the author
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And every time I've ever debated a Christian about the Trinity, they've admitted that it
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And, you know, recently we had a debate, you'll see on the One Message Foundation channel in
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New York, we had three Christian preachers that were out there in Times Square and we had
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And each one of them was giving a different answer.
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And even one of them said, God, the Holy Ghost and Jesus, meaning the Father, they're
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And the other one standing right there next to him in the same preacher booth was like,
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We had a Trinity that got defeated by the oneness.
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So, you know, even if you look at right here in the Bible, in Revelations, you will find
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here that Jesus says to about the Father, this is my God.
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You will never find anywhere in the Bible, the Father referring to Jesus as my God or the
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And, you know, for anybody who's Christian, this is this isn't an insult.
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This is really out of love, wanting you to realize what your scripture actually says,
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wanting you to worship the way Jesus worshiped.
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In the Bible, Jesus, he put his forehead on the ground and he prayed.
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Abraham and Moses, they put their forehead on the ground and they prayed.
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Today, when is the last time you went into a church and you saw people praying the way
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It's something that's been changed, something that's been diluted.
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We show Pat Robertson, one of the well-known Christian apologists.
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The tree, the eggnog, the Santa Claus, the gift.
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He admits this is all pagan and they have imported it into Christianity.
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And today, every church celebrates Christmas, even though you will not find any trace of it
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But you'll never see him celebrating Christmas.
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Today, every Christian apologist is celebrating a pagan festival knowing it's pagan.
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If you look in the Bible, in John 17, 3, and this is something very important.
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If you're a Christian, you know, get your own Bible, look it up.
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And it says, according to the Christian Bible, it says, and this is eternal life, that they
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Now, Jesus, according to Christians, is saying that he came to tell people that you need to
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God and Jesus Christ, whom he sent, he's separating himself from being from the one true God.
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He's saying that people need to get to know the one true only God and know that that God
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So when you talk about the Trinity, it always ends up not making sense.
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If they're equal, if they're co-equal, then why does Jesus pray to the Father?
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They say, well, Jesus, when he came to earth, he took a human form.
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Because according to the Bible, God knows everything.
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Is that you do see a hierarchy to the Trinity in the Bible.
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In fact, you don't even find the Trinity, but you do find a hierarchy where Jesus prays
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But according to Christian standard doctrine today, they're co-equal, co-existent.
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Now, we know that Jesus says that no one knows the hour in the Bible.
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And he clarifies by saying in Mark that no one knows the hour, not even the angels, nor
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So if you're equal, then you know the same amount.
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If you know more than me, we're no longer equal.
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And this Bible that I've got marked up, I didn't do it to debate.
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I studied the Bible in Christian church studies.
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Youth pastors were sitting down with me, going cover to cover.
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And when I found these inconsistencies, and every time I asked, either I get kicked out,
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or I just get shut up and believe, or it's a mystery.
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So, you know, alhamdulillah, when I came and started to study Islam,
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The true message of Jesus' peace and blessings be upon him.
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And that's why, even when people mock Jesus, like atheists,
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we Muslims get upset sometimes more than the Christians do.
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You know, we stand up, like they made a movie called Jesus Superstar,
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and it played, you know, mockingly in every Christian country.
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Muslim countries banned it because we love Jesus, but we don't worship him.
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He's kind of become a caricature in a lot of ways in Western culture,
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and Christians don't do a good job of defending it.
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They let pagans infiltrate the religion and make it materialistic,
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and they capitalize monetarily on a lot of things in Christian values,
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And I'm still in the beginning stages of the Quran.
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If you go on the One Message Foundation channel,
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you'll see when Sam Schumann, David Wood, and Anthony Rogers,
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You can watch the video of Sam Schumann kind of just walked away.
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When he's in his bathroom making videos at home, he's a lion.
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When he came in front of me, go watch the video.
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He's just somebody who sits around in his bathroom
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Obviously, I don't really know that much about him.
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But what do you think the next steps as a new revert,
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I've been going to Jumar Prayer for the past three weeks.
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I think that's what people are recommending I do.
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Obviously, people are being very critical of my lifestyle and everything,
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Islam is not something that you want to get overwhelmed by.
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The wife of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him,
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She said that if Islam, when it was revealed in the beginning,
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the first rules in Mecca were don't drink, don't gamble,
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In the beginning in Mecca, it was all about increasing your faith,
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And then when the companions of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him,
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when they went to Medina and they were able to handle it,
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then all the rulings and regulations started to come.
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The first thing I suggest for you is don't worry about what people say.
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I'll send you some videos we made on the evolution, step by step.
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The most important action in Islam is the five-time prayers.
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inshallah, when you are praying properly and correctly and on time,
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I have been trying, it's been like twice a day, if I'm going to be honest,
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I'm still trying to learn how to say everything properly.
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I got the motions down, but it's difficult to get.
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Inshallah, we made videos specially to help people learn.
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Just try to strive on your five-time daily prayers.
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you're going to start living a healthier lifestyle.
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You're going to be the best version of sneekho that you can be, inshallah.
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And use that platform for good, for positivity.
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people that caught up in meth and heroin and all of that.
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we've had more than 2,000 people become Muslim.
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Myself, I used to be involved in gangs and stuff.
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I was saying that a big reason why I resonate with Islam
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it doesn't seem like there's a lot of unnatural things.
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and turn his blood into wine and stuff like that.
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Like, is there anything supernatural in the Quran?
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So, of course, there are miracles the prophets had.
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if you look, you'll find scientific evidence for them.
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There is one of the beautiful miracles in the Quran
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and the fact that there's two sides of the moon,
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and there is a possibility that either two moons,
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I mean, NASA's not saying this miracle happened
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But NASA does talk about these cracks on the moon