SNEAKO - Shaykh Uthman Answers SNEAKO's Questions About Islam

00:00:00.000 What is the general consensus about Jews and Christians in the Muslim world?

00:00:06.260 Obviously, I think that we should free Palestine. 1.00

00:00:09.760 Of course.

00:00:10.480 But I would like to know your stance on this.

00:00:13.620 Look, my stance is the stance of the Quran.

00:00:15.960 It's the stance of the Hadith.

00:00:17.280 I don't take it.

00:00:18.140 It's not about politics.

00:00:20.400 In the Quran, for example, in Surah Al-Fatiha, it says,

00:00:23.000 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.

00:00:33.520 Rasulullah, the Prophet, he mentioned an authentic narration that

00:00:37.660 is referring to the Jews, that the tricks they played with the religion, when they changed the religion, 0.77

00:00:44.120 they earned the wrath of Allah.

00:00:45.900 And those that went astray, even though they had some sincerity,

00:00:51.000 but they're sincerely went astray, is referring to the Christians.

00:00:54.060 The Christians and Jews have a special place in Islam.

00:00:57.140 We call them Ahlul Kitab, the people of the book.

00:00:59.860 We have a special relationship between us and them because no doubt we believe in the same prophet.

00:01:06.600 We believe in the same God that sent those prophets.

00:01:10.380 The problem that gets to be is instead of sticking to the original message of Jesus,

00:01:16.240 peace and blessings be upon him, for example, the Christians, they went astray. 1.00

00:01:21.000 Hey, can you hear me?

00:01:24.060 Yes.

00:01:24.640 As-salamu alaykum wahtullah.

00:01:25.680 As-salamu alaykum.

00:01:26.620 It's great to speak to you again.

00:01:28.260 It's been a long time.

00:01:30.880 A long, long time, man.

00:01:32.060 But alhamdulillah, it's good to see you now.

00:01:34.160 Last time I spoke to you, you weren't Muslim, and now you're a Muslim, man.

00:01:37.060 Yeah, I would say that the debate we had actually was a big part in convincing me.

00:01:42.060 Alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah.

00:01:44.640 May Allah bless it for you.

00:01:45.640 May Allah protect you and keep you on the right path.

00:01:48.000 You too, brother.

00:01:48.640 So where are you right now?

00:01:50.020 What are you doing?

00:01:51.500 I'm in D.C. right now.

00:01:53.060 I'm in Virginia.

00:01:54.320 So alhamdulillah, it's been busy.

00:01:56.500 Last weekend we were in New York.

00:01:58.540 Alhamdulillah, in three days we had 30 people accept Islam.

00:02:02.240 Alhamdulillah, we're at Union Square, Times Square, Yankee Stadium.

00:02:06.140 This weekend I'm here in D.C.

00:02:07.640 We were just at the White House earlier.

00:02:09.680 So alhamdulillah, we're giving da'wah outside. 0.87

00:02:11.840 Alhamdulillah, we had three people accept Islam there.

00:02:14.400 Then I went to the masjid here in Ikna.

00:02:16.520 I just gave the speech where I called you from.

00:02:18.740 And now I'm back at the hotel.

00:02:20.340 So I'm going to go home tomorrow.

00:02:22.920 Bro, you don't even know I'm going home.

00:02:24.740 And in two days I'm flying to Canada.

00:02:26.800 What are you doing in Canada?

00:02:27.780 Why would you go there?

00:02:29.300 We're doing a da'wah workshop. 0.99

00:02:30.880 We're trying to explain people how to give da'wah.

00:02:32.740 And how to have good productive dialogue and all of that.

00:02:38.020 Yeah, I could probably do a better job of that.

00:02:40.840 I'm trying.

00:02:41.620 Because I recently reverted maybe two months ago.

00:02:45.000 And since then, just people constantly want to debate me.

00:02:47.840 They always want to challenge me on the Quran.

00:02:50.320 They want to see how much I know.

00:02:53.200 So I could use something like that I could benefit from.

00:02:58.280 Bro, you're always welcome, man.

00:02:59.380 Let me know any time.

00:03:00.360 We'll hook up, inshallah.

00:03:01.180 So what did you notice about...

00:03:04.780 Did you think that I was going to revert to Islam when we last spoke?

00:03:07.740 We spoke about last summer, I think, almost a year.

00:03:10.700 Yeah, about a year ago, yeah.

00:03:12.720 Allah knows the hearts.

00:03:14.020 But I saw you had a sincere want to know the truth.

00:03:18.960 You were fair.

00:03:19.880 You weren't...

00:03:20.700 Like, even in the discussion, you weren't being biased towards either side.

00:03:25.260 And when I see somebody with that openness, usually I end up seeing them become Muslim.

00:03:31.620 Alhamdulillah.

00:03:31.940 And so what is the process of giving da'wah like? 1.00

00:03:36.100 And how do you think I can effectively do that on my stream?

00:03:39.000 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. 0.96

00:03:48.100 Yeah, that's true.

00:03:50.820 No doubt to that.

00:03:51.820 If you do it right, if you do it sincerely for Allah.

00:03:54.160 So the thing with da'wah is we don't do it for fame. 0.89

00:03:57.320 We don't do it for money.

00:03:58.380 We don't do it for, you know, trying to get popularity.

00:04:02.180 We do it really because we want to connect people with their creator.

00:04:05.480 You know, and I challenge all these Christian apologists, atheists, you know, apostates and all this.

00:04:11.780 I challenge them, cancel your Patreon.

00:04:14.000 Don't take money and come debate me just for the sake of the truth.

00:04:19.040 And nobody took me up on that.

00:04:21.040 So, like me, I don't get paid for that.

00:04:23.500 I don't get paid from YouTube.

00:04:24.660 I don't get paid from One Message Foundation.

00:04:26.260 I don't get paid from my masjid.

00:04:27.800 I work a regular job.

00:04:29.080 I earn my money.

00:04:29.880 Even I'm out here, I paid my own ticket, you know.

00:04:32.260 So, what's the point is?

00:04:34.280 The point is that I want people to connect to their creator.

00:04:37.080 I don't want people to worship the creation.

00:04:39.120 I don't want people to worship Jesus or a Ram or a blue guy or a monkey or a cow. 0.89

00:04:44.660 I want people to worship the one that Jesus worshipped.

00:04:47.160 I want the people to worship the one Abraham and Moses and Muhammad. 0.88

00:04:50.520 Peace and blessings.

00:04:51.620 We want all of them.

00:04:52.500 We love all of them.

00:04:53.660 We want them to worship that creator.

00:04:55.740 So, when you do that sincerely, no doubt, Allah will give you a place in Jannah.

00:04:59.460 There was a moment, I had a debate yesterday with a Christian, and he was saying, like,

00:05:04.940 basically, people are trying to get me to convert to Christianity, and they're saying

00:05:09.740 that you're getting on your knees for Islam and all this stuff you're submitting.

00:05:14.500 And then afterwards, I read a comment, and it's like, this is how Jesus prayed in the Bible.

00:05:18.180 Jesus prayed like a Muslim, just like Jesus prayed like a Muslim did. 1.00

00:05:22.840 Exactly.

00:05:23.820 You know, I have my Bible right here, as you can see.

00:05:27.700 So do I have my Bible.

00:05:30.000 Excellent, excellent.

00:05:30.860 You know, when you look at Jesus in the Bible, you will find many things that will not fit

00:05:37.100 today's version of Christianity.

00:05:39.400 You look at Jesus, he says here in Mark 13, 32, and this is a verse we use all the time.

00:05:45.380 And this is actually the verse we use with young Don.

00:05:47.620 And again, shout out to young Don.

00:05:49.600 I know he's doing good on his journey.

00:05:52.340 I saw the video where he's rejecting Jesus being God now.

00:05:55.120 Anytime he wants, I'm ready to have a conversation offline.

00:05:58.800 I don't care about views or any of that, just to answer his questions, if he ever wants.

00:06:02.600 Yeah, for context, if I don't mean to interrupt, but he just released a video saying that he

00:06:07.460 rejects the idea of the Trinity, which was basically like a big point of contention that

00:06:12.180 we had in the debate last year.

00:06:13.280 And that made me think very differently about Christianity.

00:06:15.480 And even yesterday I was debating two Christians and I asked them about the Trinity and they

00:06:19.760 like, if you ever asked Christians about that, I bet you've noticed this too, debating 0.97

00:06:22.740 them.

00:06:23.080 They always have a different explanation for the Trinity.

00:06:26.240 There's nothing that concrete about it.

00:06:28.120 And I don't mean this in an insulting way, but I haven't heard any way that makes sense.

00:06:32.180 I've grew up Catholic.

00:06:33.200 I grew up with this idea and I don't fully understand.

00:06:36.200 And there's, and then whenever they kind of get caught and it doesn't make God works in

00:06:40.360 mysterious ways.

00:06:41.100 The mystery of the Trinity, right?

00:06:44.420 Right.

00:06:44.780 And, and that's such a funny thing because in the Bible we find God is not the author

00:06:48.460 of confusion.

00:06:49.580 And every time I've ever debated a Christian about the Trinity, they've admitted that it 0.98

00:06:53.640 is confusing.

00:06:55.140 And, you know, recently we had a debate, you'll see on the One Message Foundation channel in

00:07:00.060 New York, we had three Christian preachers that were out there in Times Square and we had

00:07:03.860 the debate live there.

00:07:05.500 And each one of them was giving a different answer.

00:07:07.900 And even one of them said, God, the Holy Ghost and Jesus, meaning the Father, they're

00:07:13.920 all equal.

00:07:14.500 And the other one standing right there next to him in the same preacher booth was like,

00:07:18.460 no, they're not equal.

00:07:19.400 There's a hierarchy.

00:07:20.500 So which one is it?

00:07:21.440 So you had a Trinity about the Trinity.

00:07:24.540 Right.

00:07:25.040 We had a Trinity that got defeated by the oneness.

00:07:27.800 So, you know, even if you look at right here in the Bible, in Revelations, you will find

00:07:36.160 here that Jesus says to about the Father, this is my God.

00:07:41.580 Right.

00:07:42.320 You see, it's a reference to my God.

00:07:45.340 You will never find anywhere in the Bible, the Father referring to Jesus as my God or the

00:07:51.120 Holy Ghost.

00:07:52.160 Right.

00:07:52.360 You will find God the Father.

00:07:53.940 And, you know, for anybody who's Christian, this is this isn't an insult.

00:07:57.020 This is really out of love, wanting you to realize what your scripture actually says,

00:08:02.200 wanting you to worship the way Jesus worshiped.

00:08:04.840 In the Bible, Jesus, he put his forehead on the ground and he prayed.

00:08:08.060 Abraham and Moses, they put their forehead on the ground and they prayed.

00:08:11.240 Today, when is the last time you went into a church and you saw people praying the way

00:08:14.920 Jesus prayed, the way Muslims pray? 1.00

00:08:17.520 Right.

00:08:18.120 It's something that's been changed, something that's been diluted.

00:08:21.060 Today, you look at Christmas.

00:08:22.300 Where is Christmas in the Bible?

00:08:23.940 Where is Santa?

00:08:25.740 You know, I have a video on the channel.

00:08:28.060 We show Pat Robertson, one of the well-known Christian apologists.

00:08:32.020 He comes out and says it's pagan.

00:08:33.880 It's all pagan. 0.97

00:08:34.780 The tree, the eggnog, the Santa Claus, the gift.

00:08:37.720 It's all pagan. 0.97

00:08:39.120 He admits this is all pagan and they have imported it into Christianity. 0.93

00:08:43.460 And today, every church celebrates Christmas, even though you will not find any trace of it

00:08:47.680 in the Bible.

00:08:48.360 You will not find it.

00:08:49.200 The disciples following it.

00:08:50.560 You will not find Jesus.

00:08:51.820 Peace and blessings be upon him.

00:08:52.960 You know, we love Jesus.

00:08:54.720 But you'll never see him celebrating Christmas.

00:08:57.080 Early church files all condemned it.

00:08:59.080 Today, every Christian apologist is celebrating a pagan festival knowing it's pagan.

00:09:04.020 But this is the problem.

00:09:05.920 If you look in the Bible, in John 17, 3, and this is something very important.

00:09:12.440 If you're a Christian, you know, get your own Bible, look it up.

00:09:15.080 I mean, it doesn't matter.

00:09:15.860 It's NIV, KGV.

00:09:17.080 And it says, according to the Christian Bible, it says, and this is eternal life, that they

00:09:23.320 may know you, the one true God.

00:09:27.140 The one only true God.

00:09:29.280 Now, Jesus, according to Christians, is saying that he came to tell people that you need to

00:09:34.320 get to know the one only true God.

00:09:36.860 God and Jesus Christ, whom he sent, he's separating himself from being from the one true God. 0.91

00:09:42.920 He's saying that people need to get to know the one true only God and know that that God

00:09:49.620 sent Jesus Christ.

00:09:50.640 And this is right here in the Bible.

00:09:53.320 So when you talk about the Trinity, it always ends up not making sense.

00:09:58.580 If they're equal, if they're co-equal, then why does Jesus pray to the Father?

00:10:03.160 The Father doesn't pray to Jesus.

00:10:04.740 They say, well, Jesus, when he came to earth, he took a human form.

00:10:07.300 Okay.

00:10:08.040 So that means he wasn't God anymore.

00:10:09.900 Right?

00:10:10.500 Because according to the Bible, God knows everything.

00:10:13.240 Right?

00:10:13.380 So there is a hierarchy in the Trinity.

00:10:16.660 Well, not according to Christian doctrine.

00:10:18.760 This is the confusing part, right?

00:10:20.640 Is that you do see a hierarchy to the Trinity in the Bible.

00:10:24.980 In fact, you don't even find the Trinity, but you do find a hierarchy where Jesus prays

00:10:28.140 to God.

00:10:29.020 God sends Jesus with a mission.

00:10:30.940 Right?

00:10:31.480 But according to Christian standard doctrine today, they're co-equal, co-existent.

00:10:37.000 So that would mean there is no hierarchy.

00:10:38.480 They're exactly equal.

00:10:39.980 Now, we know that Jesus says that no one knows the hour in the Bible.

00:10:46.340 No one knows the hour except the Father.

00:10:49.060 Right?

00:10:49.280 And he clarifies by saying in Mark that no one knows the hour, not even the angels, nor

00:10:57.420 the Son, only the Father.

00:10:59.640 Now, think about that.

00:11:01.080 He didn't just say God.

00:11:02.780 He didn't just say no one.

00:11:04.240 He clarified that only the Father.

00:11:08.320 And he clarified saying, nor the Son.

00:11:10.900 So if you're equal, then you know the same amount.

00:11:14.200 If you know more than me, we're no longer equal.

00:11:16.620 Right?

00:11:16.780 We're not one anymore.

00:11:18.420 If we're one, then we know the same thing.

00:11:21.160 So these things are very clear.

00:11:22.780 I didn't start out as a Muslim.

00:11:25.280 I started out going to church.

00:11:26.660 I grew up in San Diego.

00:11:28.120 I hung out with a Mexican gang member.

00:11:30.580 There's a whole different story there.

00:11:32.340 But, you know, growing up, I was in church.

00:11:34.520 I never went to a mosque.

00:11:35.360 And this Bible that I've got marked up, I didn't do it to debate.

00:11:39.920 I studied the Bible in Christian church studies.

00:11:43.840 Youth pastors were sitting down with me, going cover to cover.

00:11:47.460 And when I found these inconsistencies, and every time I asked, either I get kicked out,

00:11:52.140 or I just get shut up and believe, or it's a mystery.

00:11:56.460 God works in mysterious ways.

00:11:57.920 Don't ask questions.

00:11:59.020 Just accept it.

00:12:00.240 And it just didn't make sense anymore.

00:12:01.800 So, you know, alhamdulillah, when I came and started to study Islam,

00:12:06.180 I found the message of Jesus in Islam.

00:12:08.240 The true message of Jesus' peace and blessings be upon him.

00:12:11.680 And that's why, even when people mock Jesus, like atheists, 1.00

00:12:15.640 we Muslims get upset sometimes more than the Christians do.

00:12:18.440 You know, we stand up, like they made a movie called Jesus Superstar,

00:12:21.580 and it played, you know, mockingly in every Christian country.

00:12:25.620 Muslim countries banned it because we love Jesus, but we don't worship him.

00:12:30.160 That's the thing.

00:12:31.120 Just like the people that were around him.

00:12:32.760 He's kind of become a caricature in a lot of ways in Western culture,

00:12:35.340 and Christians don't do a good job of defending it.

00:12:37.960 They kind of let all of that happen.

00:12:39.520 They let pagans infiltrate the religion and make it materialistic,

00:12:43.260 and they capitalize monetarily on a lot of things in Christian values,

00:12:48.280 which cheapens it.

00:12:49.680 And that's why I had a hard time having faith.

00:12:53.780 And I'm still in the beginning stages of the Quran.

00:12:56.440 I'm reading the Sunnah right now.

00:12:58.540 I think that's how you pronounce it.

00:13:00.640 About male-female dynamics.

00:13:02.820 And there's a lot more that I have to learn.

00:13:04.760 So I have two questions.

00:13:06.040 I want to answer this before I forget.

00:13:08.980 They're asking if you know Sam Schumann.

00:13:12.380 Sam Schumann, yes.

00:13:14.360 If you go on the One Message Foundation channel,

00:13:16.820 you'll see when Sam Schumann, David Wood, and Anthony Rogers,

00:13:20.360 all three came out to debate me in San Diego.

00:13:22.840 You can watch the video of Sam Schumann kind of just walked away.

00:13:25.940 I even called him.

00:13:26.740 I said, hey, Sam, come talk to me.

00:13:28.380 And he just withered away.

00:13:30.480 When he's in his bathroom making videos at home, he's a lion.

00:13:34.280 When he came in front of me, go watch the video.

00:13:36.020 If you guys think...

00:13:36.780 I'll check it out.

00:13:37.320 If you don't believe me, go check it out.

00:13:38.960 Just the three of them.

00:13:40.460 Watch the part when I'm telling Sam,

00:13:42.320 hey, Sam, come talk to me.

00:13:44.060 And he comes, and then he just runs away.

00:13:46.560 So don't give me Sam Schumann.

00:13:48.140 Sam Schumann, he's not a literal...

00:13:50.280 He's not a Bible expert.

00:13:51.440 He's not a Quran expert. 0.88

00:13:52.380 He's just somebody who sits around in his bathroom 1.00

00:13:54.540 calling people's mothers whores and things. 1.00

00:13:56.820 And if that's Christianity, I'm good. 0.99

00:13:58.580 That's not very Christian. 0.98

00:14:00.320 Obviously, I don't really know that much about him.

00:14:02.680 But what do you think the next steps as a new revert,

00:14:07.460 because you've probably seen a lot of people.

00:14:09.400 What do you think the next steps are?

00:14:10.160 I've been going to Jumar Prayer for the past three weeks.

00:14:13.160 Excellent.

00:14:13.880 I think that's what people are recommending I do.

00:14:16.920 Obviously, people are being very critical of my lifestyle and everything,

00:14:20.320 which I don't know.

00:14:22.460 Don't worry about the haters, man.

00:14:24.160 I deal with this kind of stuff all day long.

00:14:26.400 People that hate, they're just going to hate.

00:14:28.580 You're new in Islam, alhamdulillah. 1.00

00:14:30.700 Islam is not something that you want to get overwhelmed by.

00:14:34.280 You want to take it step by step.

00:14:35.920 The wife of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him,

00:14:38.020 Aisha, she said a beautiful hadith.

00:14:40.780 It's a statement of hers.

00:14:42.180 She said that if Islam, when it was revealed in the beginning,

00:14:44.800 the first rules in Mecca were don't drink, don't gamble,

00:14:48.060 don't fornicate, don't do anything,

00:14:49.740 people wouldn't have been able to handle it.

00:14:51.660 In the beginning in Mecca, it was all about increasing your faith, 0.96

00:14:54.960 gaining your knowledge.

00:14:55.900 And then when the companions of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him,

00:14:59.460 when they went to Medina and they were able to handle it,

00:15:02.120 then all the rulings and regulations started to come.

00:15:05.020 The first thing I suggest for you is don't worry about what people say.

00:15:08.820 Increase your faith.

00:15:10.080 Increase your knowledge.

00:15:10.940 I'll send you some videos we made on the evolution, step by step.

00:15:15.160 We made them on how to pray, step by step.

00:15:17.760 The most important action in Islam is the five-time prayers.

00:15:21.140 You got to get on your prayers.

00:15:22.700 You know, whatever bad habits you may have,

00:15:25.760 inshallah, when you are praying properly and correctly and on time,

00:15:29.280 those bad habits will start going away.

00:15:30.860 Five times every day, okay?

00:15:33.420 I have been trying, it's been like twice a day, if I'm going to be honest,

00:15:37.240 like in the morning and at night.

00:15:38.360 I feel you.

00:15:39.140 I'm still trying to learn how to say everything properly.

00:15:42.080 I got the motions down, but it's difficult to get.

00:15:45.200 I got you.

00:15:45.920 Don't worry.

00:15:46.500 And if you need help, we're here for you, bro.

00:15:49.320 Thank you.

00:15:49.680 Inshallah, we made videos specially to help people learn.

00:15:53.080 We've got the transliteration, translation.

00:15:55.680 I'll send those to you, inshallah.

00:15:57.440 Start learning those.

00:15:58.760 Just try to strive on your five-time daily prayers.

00:16:01.120 You're already doing jamaah.

00:16:02.020 You're doing great.

00:16:03.220 And inshallah, slowly, slowly,

00:16:04.800 you're going to start living a healthier lifestyle.

00:16:06.640 You're going to be the best version of sneekho that you can be, inshallah. 1.00

00:16:10.180 And you're going to be a da'i. 1.00

00:16:11.760 Allah has given you a platform.

00:16:13.520 And Allah has blessed you with it.

00:16:14.940 And use that platform for good, for positivity.

00:16:18.580 You know, there's people caught up in drugs,

00:16:20.160 people that caught up in meth and heroin and all of that.

00:16:23.980 And Islam cures that. 0.99

00:16:25.300 We've seen so many people in San Diego.

00:16:27.220 Alhamdulillah, in the last two years,

00:16:28.880 we've had more than 2,000 people become Muslim.

00:16:31.880 Many of those, you can see the videos online,

00:16:33.640 you'll see them being lost.

00:16:35.380 Myself, I used to be involved in gangs and stuff.

00:16:37.760 If you read my past, you'd be shocked, right?

00:16:40.440 But how did I get out of all that?

00:16:41.740 Through Islam.

00:16:42.960 And not through just slogans.

00:16:44.180 And, you know, emotions.

00:16:45.540 But through knowledge and studying.

00:16:47.460 And slowly, slowly, inshallah, inshallah,

00:16:49.640 all your bad habits will go away.

00:16:51.520 Some people just want to hate.

00:16:52.800 What's the point of that?

00:16:53.720 And instead, take positive steps.

00:16:56.140 That seems...

00:16:57.980 I agree with everything you're saying.

00:16:59.940 One moment I had in a debate yesterday,

00:17:03.500 and some people were correcting me on this,

00:17:04.720 so I want to ask you.

00:17:06.680 I was saying that a big reason why I resonate with Islam

00:17:10.620 is that there's not a lot of mysteries,

00:17:13.560 and there's not a lot of ritualistic aspects,

00:17:16.220 and superhuman, supernatural.

00:17:18.800 So far, what I've read in the Quran,

00:17:20.440 it doesn't seem like there's a lot of unnatural things.

00:17:23.460 Like, Christianity talks a lot about how Jesus

00:17:26.060 was able to walk on water

00:17:27.200 and turn his blood into wine and stuff like that.

00:17:31.100 Wine, yeah.

00:17:31.640 Right.

00:17:32.180 Are there any supernatural instances?

00:17:35.580 Like, is there anything supernatural in the Quran?

00:17:38.800 So, of course, there are miracles the prophets had.

00:17:42.340 None of those are, for example,

00:17:44.840 unscientific or un-understandable, right?

00:17:48.380 Instead, all of the miracles of the Quran, 1.00

00:17:50.660 if you look, you'll find scientific evidence for them.

00:17:53.840 There is one of the beautiful miracles in the Quran

00:17:55.560 about the splitting of the moon.

00:17:56.940 In Surah Qamar, in the first verse,

00:17:58.800 it talks about how the moon split in two

00:18:00.400 and came back together.

00:18:01.780 And this is mentioned in authentic narration.

00:18:03.740 Now, I have a video, if you check it,

00:18:05.840 if you put moon splitting,

00:18:08.020 Osman ibn Farouk, it'll come up on YouTube,

00:18:09.820 you'll see it,

00:18:10.700 where I present that even NASA talks about

00:18:12.740 the craters across the moon,

00:18:14.600 and the fact that there's two sides of the moon,

00:18:16.320 and there is a possibility that either two moons,

00:18:18.940 according to NASA,

00:18:19.760 I mean, NASA's not saying this miracle happened

00:18:21.960 or not happened, that's not NASA's job.

00:18:24.080 But NASA does talk about these cracks on the moon

00:18:26.580 and the possibility that the moon

00:18:27.840 was in two pieces at one time.

00:18:30.040 Now, we do have amazing things in the Quran,

00:18:33.000 no doubt to that.

00:18:33.920 The prophets had miracles,

00:18:35.700 but they were, so the people would know

00:18:37.360 that these are true prophets.

00:18:39.040 What we don't have is a lot of these things

00:18:41.800 that don't really make sense.

00:18:43.300 Like, for example, if you turn water into wine

00:18:46.420 and you're getting people drunk,

00:18:48.360 like, you see what I'm saying?

00:18:49.560 Like, what kind of a prophet does that, right?

00:18:51.880 If you look at David in the Bible,

00:18:54.900 in the Psalms of David,

00:18:56.260 he falls, and he gets attracted to some woman,

00:18:59.640 and then he, you know, a married woman, 0.96

00:19:01.640 and then he has intercourse with her, 0.89

00:19:03.560 whether it's consensual or not. 0.99

00:19:05.160 Then he has her husband,

00:19:06.620 which she gets pregnant, 1.00

00:19:07.800 called back from the forefront, 0.99

00:19:09.980 and has him killed.

00:19:10.720 And the New Testament calls him a prophet.

00:19:13.000 So, in Islam, we don't believe that.

00:19:14.760 We don't believe in those kinds of things.

00:19:16.280 Islam, all the prophets are righteous. 0.99

00:19:18.960 Lot having sex with his own daughters, 1.00

00:19:20.620 being drunk, we don't believe in that. 0.99

00:19:22.840 We believe that all the prophets that came,

00:19:25.060 they came with the same message

00:19:26.380 to worship the one creator,

00:19:28.220 follow the prophet of your time.

00:19:30.020 We do believe there were miracles,

00:19:31.720 but those were to let people know

00:19:33.480 that this is a true prophet.

00:19:35.200 You don't think that,

00:19:36.360 and so the rebuttal to this

00:19:37.760 is that you don't think,

00:19:38.480 and I'm sure you've heard this,

00:19:39.220 that NASA has an agenda.

00:19:40.980 NASA, for example,

00:19:41.860 I heard yesterday they bet

00:19:42.820 NASA means deception in Hebrew.

00:19:46.860 You know, to be honest,

00:19:48.520 I don't know enough Hebrew to say that,

00:19:50.840 and at the same time,

00:19:52.580 to take a word that,

00:19:53.760 like an acronym in English,

00:19:54.980 and try to tie it to another language

00:19:56.440 doesn't make sense, right?

00:19:57.900 I speak Pashto.

00:19:58.880 I mean, there's many words in Pashto

00:20:00.380 that if I take acronyms

00:20:01.440 would make no sense, right?

00:20:02.500 But, you know, I was in Hawaii.

00:20:05.160 They have a place called Kuna, right?

00:20:06.920 In person, that would mean but, right?

00:20:08.420 But that doesn't mean

00:20:09.800 that that's where it came from, right?

00:20:12.280 Regarding NASA and their agenda,

00:20:14.320 you know, doesn't really matter.

00:20:16.420 I mean, what NASA shows

00:20:18.560 with pictures about the moon

00:20:21.740 and the crack,

00:20:22.840 they're not saying the miracle happened

00:20:24.240 or didn't happen.

00:20:25.240 That's not their job.

00:20:26.240 Their job is to observe.

00:20:27.740 So when they show us this,

00:20:29.160 what we can't say

00:20:30.980 is scientifically

00:20:32.100 there is an evidence

00:20:33.560 of this miracle having had happened.

00:20:36.100 Now, when did it happen itself?

00:20:37.480 NASA doesn't get into that, right? 0.98

00:20:39.160 But we have historic evidence.

00:20:41.480 Now, Nico, for example,

00:20:43.580 do you believe

00:20:45.180 there was a man named Alexander

00:20:46.600 that conquered many countries

00:20:48.400 at a young age, right?

00:20:50.540 You heard of Alexander the Great?

00:20:51.660 I heard about that.

00:20:53.420 Yeah, in the book.

00:20:54.920 Yeah, history books have it, right?

00:20:56.560 Or, you know,

00:20:57.160 if you take Abraham Lincoln,

00:20:58.700 got shot in a theater, right?

00:21:01.220 That's history, right?

00:21:02.300 Okay.

00:21:02.640 But now, think about this.

00:21:04.740 Who was actually there

00:21:05.960 that saw it?

00:21:07.020 Like, obviously,

00:21:07.740 we don't have video, right?

00:21:09.340 Who was the first-hand reporter

00:21:11.020 that saw Abraham Lincoln get shot?

00:21:13.420 I don't know.

00:21:14.320 I don't think you know either, right?

00:21:16.180 We just believe it

00:21:17.320 because in history books, right?

00:21:19.040 Who was there

00:21:19.880 when Alexander the Great

00:21:21.040 conquered, you know, Egypt?

00:21:22.960 Who was the first-hand reporter

00:21:24.780 that wrote,

00:21:26.280 scrived that out?

00:21:27.300 We don't know, right?

00:21:28.880 Even if you look at the Bible,

00:21:30.500 the earliest semi-complete manuscript

00:21:33.260 is going to be from 4th century.

00:21:35.340 There is an author named Bart Ehrman.

00:21:37.180 He's an atheist.

00:21:37.860 He's not Muslim. 1.00

00:21:38.580 He's not Christian. 1.00

00:21:39.420 He used to be Christian.

00:21:40.700 And he's got many videos

00:21:41.640 where he talks about

00:21:42.380 that we don't even know

00:21:43.980 who wrote these books.

00:21:45.380 It's anonymous authors, right?

00:21:47.300 The McCarthy Study Bible,

00:21:48.620 which I have,

00:21:49.380 when it talks about

00:21:50.040 the chapter called Hebrews,

00:21:51.260 it goes, it's anonymous.

00:21:52.340 We don't even know who wrote it.

00:21:53.840 But now,

00:21:54.580 for the miracles of the Prophet Muhammad,

00:21:56.640 peace and blessings be upon him,

00:21:57.940 we can tell you who saw it.

00:22:00.020 Like the splitting of the moon,

00:22:01.340 Abdullah ibn Abbas,

00:22:02.500 for example,

00:22:03.060 he's one of the companions.

00:22:03.960 Anaf ibn Malik, right?

00:22:05.740 These are Abdullah ibn Umar.

00:22:07.600 These, we know,

00:22:08.720 who were the first-hand people

00:22:10.120 who saw the Prophet Muhammad,

00:22:11.920 peace and blessings be upon him,

00:22:13.300 and these miraculous things

00:22:14.560 that happened with him.

00:22:15.740 Not just that,

00:22:16.620 the enemies of the Prophet,

00:22:18.100 peace be upon him,

00:22:18.680 like Waleed ibn Mughayra,

00:22:19.980 who never became Muslim,

00:22:21.420 even he reported it.

00:22:22.720 He said, yes,

00:22:23.260 we did see this, right?

00:22:25.420 And at that time,

00:22:26.980 they thought maybe,

00:22:27.900 you know,

00:22:28.160 he did some magic or something, right?

00:22:30.180 So he asked the people

00:22:31.060 outside of Mecca.

00:22:32.720 Anaf ibn Malik was in Medina.

00:22:34.640 And there are reports out of India.

00:22:36.280 And again, just to be clear,

00:22:37.640 we have a very stringent science

00:22:39.840 in hadith,

00:22:40.780 how we check, verify,

00:22:41.980 and make sure a report is authentic.

00:22:44.480 Those reports from India 0.78

00:22:45.740 would not meet that standard.

00:22:47.280 But they have oral and written tradition

00:22:49.400 from kings in India

00:22:51.040 from different geographic locations

00:22:53.820 that also saw the splitting of the moon.

00:22:56.100 And then that king later on

00:22:57.360 becomes Muslim.

00:22:58.120 He built a mosque.

00:22:58.880 That mosque is still there.

00:23:00.380 The prime minister of India,

00:23:01.860 a Hindu nationalist,

00:23:03.380 Modi, 1.00

00:23:03.920 hates Muslims, 0.99

00:23:05.160 you know, 0.98

00:23:05.360 has laws that he's putting

00:23:06.520 against Muslims. 1.00

00:23:07.400 Even he admitted to this.

00:23:09.240 And he made a little gold replica

00:23:10.800 and sent it to the king of Saudi Arabia

00:23:12.280 as a gift,

00:23:13.540 showing that the kings in India

00:23:14.780 had seen the splitting of the moon.

00:23:15.880 So we have such evidence

00:23:18.000 for the miracles of Islam

00:23:19.540 that it's more compelling evidence

00:23:22.040 than most of history

00:23:22.920 that we have out there today.

00:23:24.760 Is the earth flat in the Quran?

00:23:28.700 Look,

00:23:29.360 Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala 0.81

00:23:29.940 talks about the earth

00:23:31.060 being spread out.

00:23:32.380 The majority of the scholars of Islam,

00:23:34.280 they talk about

00:23:34.980 the meaning there is

00:23:36.180 that the earth was made

00:23:37.440 where you can walk on it,

00:23:39.080 harm on it,

00:23:39.960 that Allah spread it,

00:23:41.080 that the meaning is not flat.

00:23:42.640 Right?

00:23:43.860 Whether the earth is flat or round,

00:23:45.760 this is something that's been discussed

00:23:47.020 even amongst Islamic scholars.

00:23:48.840 They've had this discussion

00:23:49.840 in the past.

00:23:50.880 And many of the scholars

00:23:51.660 like Ibn Hazm and others,

00:23:53.020 they took the world to be round

00:23:54.760 and they mentioned verses

00:23:56.100 from the Quran

00:23:56.600 to support that.

00:23:57.720 And there are those

00:23:58.440 that talked about

00:23:59.100 the flat earth theory

00:24:00.440 and they mentioned verses.

00:24:02.080 To be honest,

00:24:02.800 I mean,

00:24:03.220 this is not really something

00:24:04.400 that is a part of

00:24:06.360 Islamic creedal issue.

00:24:07.520 In Islamic creed,

00:24:11.320 whether the sun goes around the earth

00:24:13.820 or the earth goes around the sun,

00:24:15.460 it doesn't really matter.

00:24:16.540 Here,

00:24:17.300 these are things that

00:24:18.380 we discuss with scientists,

00:24:20.220 we discuss with evidences.

00:24:22.120 There are verses in the Quran

00:24:24.260 that do mention

00:24:25.640 that all of the heavenly bodies

00:24:27.220 have orbit.

00:24:28.560 Right?

00:24:29.120 And this is in Surah Al-Anbiya.

00:24:30.420 And that's something beautiful

00:24:31.420 because the Prophet Muhammad,

00:24:33.160 peace and blessings be upon him,

00:24:34.760 could not have known that

00:24:36.140 at that time.

00:24:37.520 He was not a literate man.

00:24:39.120 He was not an educated man.

00:24:40.980 He couldn't read or write.

00:24:42.300 He didn't study philosophy

00:24:43.720 or the Greek work.

00:24:45.020 He didn't astronomy

00:24:46.000 or any of that.

00:24:46.740 He was in a desert

00:24:47.400 more than 1400 years ago.

00:24:49.620 The Quran talks about this

00:24:51.180 in a way that

00:24:52.260 touches us today.

00:24:54.060 So we can see things

00:24:55.340 that could not have been known.

00:24:56.960 The development of the fetus

00:24:58.120 in the womb of the mother.

00:24:59.400 Those are amazing things

00:25:00.540 in the Quran.

00:25:01.340 The Prophet Muhammad

00:25:01.980 could not have known on his own.

00:25:04.080 Now,

00:25:04.840 the fact that

00:25:05.560 the sun moves

00:25:06.540 and the moon moves

00:25:07.440 and the earth moves

00:25:08.340 and there's all these,

00:25:09.660 every planet has an orbit.

00:25:11.700 This is something

00:25:12.100 we can observe today

00:25:13.080 and we can find scientifically.

00:25:15.980 But,

00:25:16.800 till very recently,

00:25:18.160 they said the sun

00:25:18.900 doesn't have an orbit.

00:25:20.320 Right?

00:25:20.480 very recently,

00:25:21.980 scientists said,

00:25:22.520 no,

00:25:22.660 even the sun has an orbit.

00:25:24.080 And that's something

00:25:24.660 we find in the Quran.

00:25:27.180 In the beginning stages

00:25:28.880 of the Quran so far,

00:25:30.760 you can see that

00:25:31.560 there's a lot of discussion

00:25:32.520 about Jews and Christians.

00:25:35.500 And one passage

00:25:37.660 that I really like

00:25:39.180 is how it's really

00:25:41.940 the concept of interest

00:25:45.160 and interest on loans

00:25:46.780 and everything

00:25:47.180 and how forbidden that is

00:25:48.800 and how immoral that is,

00:25:51.020 that practice,

00:25:52.340 and how certain other

00:25:53.840 groups of people

00:25:55.500 started,

00:25:57.420 they were in charge

00:25:58.840 of this beforehand,

00:25:59.660 right?

00:26:00.240 We're in rumble,

00:26:01.860 so we can talk about it.

00:26:03.040 But what is the general consensus

00:26:05.580 about Jews and Christians

00:26:07.760 in the Muslim world?

00:26:09.860 Obviously,

00:26:10.300 I think that we should

00:26:11.300 free Palestine.

00:26:13.380 Of course.

00:26:14.160 But I would like to know

00:26:15.100 your stance on this.

00:26:17.280 Look,

00:26:17.740 my stance is the stance

00:26:18.800 of the Quran.

00:26:19.580 It's the stance

00:26:20.080 of the hadith.

00:26:20.880 I don't take it.

00:26:21.740 It's not about politics.

00:26:24.020 In the Quran,

00:26:24.840 for example,

00:26:25.420 in Surah Al-Fatiha,

00:26:26.380 it says,

00:26:26.760 غير المغضوب

00:26:27.560 عليهم ولا الضالين

00:26:29.000 that,

00:26:30.160 you know,

00:26:30.320 we ask Allah

00:26:30.880 not to make us good

00:26:32.000 on the path of those

00:26:33.020 that went astray

00:26:34.300 or those that earned

00:26:35.260 the wrath of Allah.

00:26:36.080 Rasulullah,

00:26:37.840 the Prophet

00:26:38.200 عليه الصلاة والسلام,

00:26:39.440 he mentioned

00:26:39.900 in an authentic narration

00:26:40.900 that

00:26:41.280 مغضوب عليهم

00:26:42.480 is referring to the Jews

00:26:43.840 that the tricks 0.72

00:26:45.000 they played

00:26:45.500 with the religion

00:26:46.120 when they changed

00:26:46.820 the religion,

00:26:47.760 they earned

00:26:48.120 the wrath of Allah.

00:26:49.520 And

00:26:49.800 والدالين,

00:26:50.980 those that went astray

00:26:52.400 even though

00:26:53.440 they had some sincerity

00:26:54.620 but they sincerely

00:26:55.320 went astray

00:26:55.920 is referring to the Christians.

00:26:57.680 The Christians and Jews

00:26:58.760 have a special place

00:27:00.180 in Islam.

00:27:00.760 We call them

00:27:01.100 Ahlul Kitab,

00:27:02.080 the people of the book.

00:27:03.420 We have a special

00:27:04.300 relationship between us

00:27:06.000 and them

00:27:06.640 because no doubt

00:27:08.520 we believe in the same prophets.

00:27:10.360 We believe in the same God

00:27:11.840 that sent those prophets.

00:27:14.000 The problem that gets to be

00:27:15.380 is instead of sticking

00:27:17.520 to the original message

00:27:19.180 of Jesus,

00:27:19.860 peace and blessings

00:27:20.400 be upon him,

00:27:20.940 for example,

00:27:21.380 the Christians,

00:27:22.440 they went astray.

00:27:24.300 They started to bring

00:27:25.300 pagan ideologies of God

00:27:27.040 having sons

00:27:27.760 and sons being gods

00:27:29.820 and demigods

00:27:30.660 and all these things

00:27:31.960 like we talked about Christmas,

00:27:33.220 we talked about these things.

00:27:34.160 They brought those ideas

00:27:35.760 into Christianity,

00:27:37.180 right?

00:27:37.820 So they went astray

00:27:38.800 and you will find

00:27:39.440 many Christians

00:27:40.180 that are sincere people,

00:27:41.900 they're good,

00:27:42.680 they're good-natured,

00:27:44.000 they do a lot of charity,

00:27:45.620 they have soft hearts

00:27:46.840 and many of them

00:27:48.320 you will see

00:27:48.840 that they will end up

00:27:50.200 becoming Muslims 0.82

00:27:50.900 because when they start

00:27:52.820 to really research

00:27:53.680 and study the Bible

00:27:54.680 and the Quran,

00:27:55.600 they realize the truth.

00:27:56.500 so there is

00:27:58.180 a special place

00:27:59.280 for them,

00:28:00.160 you know,

00:28:00.780 for example,

00:28:01.460 the Jews, 0.87

00:28:02.460 the zabhat that they make, 0.99

00:28:03.840 the meat that they slaughter, 0.94

00:28:05.180 whereas Muslims are allowed 0.88

00:28:06.080 to eat

00:28:06.540 as long as it's done

00:28:07.520 with certain conditions,

00:28:08.780 there's the meat

00:28:09.240 of the Ahlul Kitab.

00:28:10.660 Why?

00:28:11.060 Because their laws

00:28:12.420 also were the same.

00:28:13.900 But then as we see

00:28:14.720 in the Jewish faith today,

00:28:16.060 many things have changed,

00:28:17.200 many things have been

00:28:18.040 twisted,

00:28:19.100 you know,

00:28:19.600 I was in Palestine,

00:28:21.840 current day,

00:28:22.540 occupied Palestine,

00:28:23.600 and I saw some

00:28:25.140 of the Orthodox Jews

00:28:26.120 with the big hats

00:28:26.960 and the furry hats

00:28:28.000 and the curls

00:28:29.060 and the big,

00:28:29.900 you know,

00:28:30.180 I like to have conversations,

00:28:31.520 peaceful,

00:28:32.040 respectful conversations.

00:28:33.560 So I asked them,

00:28:34.260 like,

00:28:34.360 where did you get this from?

00:28:35.800 And one of them

00:28:36.520 was explaining to me

00:28:37.220 the fur hat

00:28:38.080 was started

00:28:38.920 because there's a king

00:28:39.960 in Austria

00:28:40.940 that made the Jews 1.00

00:28:42.200 wear oxtails

00:28:43.300 and it was kind of like

00:28:44.660 mocking them

00:28:45.580 and they kind of owned it.

00:28:46.820 They were like,

00:28:47.060 let's just go with it,

00:28:47.940 right?

00:28:48.560 And I was like,

00:28:48.960 well,

00:28:49.060 what does that have to do

00:28:49.780 with Moses or David

00:28:50.820 or the religion?

00:28:51.820 Like,

00:28:52.080 you're taking

00:28:52.560 mocks from Europe

00:28:54.560 and making it a part

00:28:55.460 of your faith.

00:28:56.200 Like the big black jackets,

00:28:57.660 that's not a part

00:28:58.380 of your faith.

00:28:59.280 You've introduced

00:29:00.040 all this,

00:29:00.800 you've changed.

00:29:01.780 There's a video

00:29:02.320 on the One Message

00:29:03.100 Foundation channel

00:29:03.840 you'll see,

00:29:04.600 I was speaking to an Israeli

00:29:05.620 when I was out

00:29:07.420 in Santa Monica

00:29:08.820 and I told him,

00:29:09.920 you guys changed

00:29:10.680 your religion,

00:29:11.320 you guys have changed

00:29:12.160 the laws of God

00:29:13.040 and they said,

00:29:13.380 yeah,

00:29:13.540 we have,

00:29:14.000 so what?

00:29:14.600 That's what he told me,

00:29:15.620 right?

00:29:16.360 I mean,

00:29:16.800 seriously,

00:29:17.760 just like that,

00:29:18.540 you see the video

00:29:19.040 yourself,

00:29:19.500 right?

00:29:19.880 He's like,

00:29:20.200 so what?

00:29:20.860 I'm like,

00:29:21.100 no,

00:29:21.340 you don't have

00:29:21.900 the right

00:29:22.380 to corrupt

00:29:23.260 the message of God

00:29:24.320 and if you do,

00:29:25.280 then it earns

00:29:25.780 the wrath of God,

00:29:27.060 right?

00:29:27.940 So we believe

00:29:29.200 that people

00:29:29.940 were given

00:29:30.660 the same laws

00:29:31.400 as far as

00:29:31.840 not dealing

00:29:32.320 with interest

00:29:32.960 but they started

00:29:33.780 to change up

00:29:34.440 the laws.

00:29:34.840 They started saying,

00:29:35.440 well,

00:29:35.960 we can charge

00:29:36.620 interest on

00:29:37.460 Gentiles,

00:29:38.560 the Guaym,

00:29:39.200 you know,

00:29:39.700 those non-Jews 1.00

00:29:41.080 and they started

00:29:41.540 to find ways

00:29:43.520 around it

00:29:44.360 until today

00:29:45.640 if you can go

00:29:46.500 check the top

00:29:47.380 CEOs of banks

00:29:48.320 and where they fall.

00:29:50.840 So we believe

00:29:52.620 that the system

00:29:53.680 of interest

00:29:54.380 is oppressive,

00:29:55.680 right?

00:29:56.180 Like you imagine

00:29:56.940 somebody,

00:29:57.560 you go out

00:29:58.040 to go buy a house,

00:29:58.940 you're struggling

00:29:59.660 but you come up

00:30:00.820 with like,

00:30:01.180 you know,

00:30:01.380 40 grand.

00:30:02.040 I mean,

00:30:02.180 I don't know,

00:30:02.800 where do you live?

00:30:03.520 Where are you from?

00:30:04.700 In the US?

00:30:05.260 From New York.

00:30:05.680 I live in Miami now.

00:30:06.700 New York.

00:30:07.200 Okay,

00:30:07.560 okay,

00:30:07.720 guys,

00:30:08.060 New York and Miami.

00:30:09.280 So both expensive

00:30:10.140 places too,

00:30:11.220 right?

00:30:11.780 So I'm in San Diego,

00:30:13.160 California,

00:30:13.680 right?

00:30:14.200 I mean,

00:30:14.560 you try to buy

00:30:15.200 an average house,

00:30:16.780 you're looking

00:30:17.080 at $800,000,

00:30:18.380 $600,000,

00:30:19.320 nothing less

00:30:19.840 than $600,000,

00:30:21.000 right?

00:30:21.880 So somebody goes

00:30:23.220 and comes up

00:30:23.720 with that down payment,

00:30:25.340 maybe they put

00:30:26.020 like 40 grand down,

00:30:27.520 right?

00:30:28.180 And then they get

00:30:28.960 a loan,

00:30:30.220 let's say,

00:30:31.080 you know,

00:30:32.180 at a 5% loan,

00:30:33.360 right?

00:30:34.020 So let me just

00:30:35.420 do some math

00:30:36.620 for you,

00:30:37.020 right?

00:30:37.520 So let's say

00:30:38.280 an $800,000 house.

00:30:39.840 You think that's

00:30:40.280 a good average

00:30:41.000 house,

00:30:41.340 right?

00:30:42.440 Times 0.07,

00:30:45.000 you know,

00:30:45.340 it's a good rate.

00:30:46.440 You're paying

00:30:47.220 $56,000

00:30:49.240 just in interest

00:30:50.940 every year.

00:30:52.940 Think about that.

00:30:54.060 That's a scam.

00:30:54.460 And they'll make

00:30:56.060 you pay the interest

00:30:56.940 first.

00:30:58.160 So if you look

00:30:58.620 at the mortgage,

00:30:59.780 you're paying interest.

00:31:00.940 You're not making

00:31:01.740 any more progress

00:31:02.680 on owning the house

00:31:03.520 in the beginning.

00:31:04.020 Now,

00:31:05.060 times that

00:31:05.780 by 30,

00:31:07.380 that's

00:31:07.980 1.6 million,

00:31:10.020 1.680,000

00:31:11.940 of just interest

00:31:13.260 in your 30-year loan.

00:31:15.120 Now,

00:31:15.680 add your

00:31:16.220 $800,000

00:31:17.260 back for your principal,

00:31:19.520 that means

00:31:19.900 that $800,000

00:31:21.120 house costs

00:31:21.880 you

00:31:22.060 2.4 million,

00:31:23.560 80,000.

00:31:25.460 Right?

00:31:26.460 And now

00:31:26.980 what happened

00:31:27.460 is let's say,

00:31:29.600 you know,

00:31:29.780 may Allah protect us all.

00:31:31.020 You get COVID, 0.92

00:31:31.920 you get sick, 0.72

00:31:32.800 you lose your job,

00:31:33.760 you get banned online,

00:31:35.220 whatever.

00:31:35.900 You can't make your payment.

00:31:37.260 They take your down payment.

00:31:38.680 They take your house. 1.00

00:31:39.960 They kick you out.

00:31:41.100 They foreclose on it.

00:31:42.360 They don't give you a penny.

00:31:43.640 They take your credit.

00:31:44.880 You can't even get

00:31:45.400 a cell phone anymore.

00:31:47.060 They own you. 0.84

00:31:47.880 This is oppression.

00:31:49.600 This is slavery.

00:31:50.380 It's modern day slavery.

00:31:52.220 Because now,

00:31:53.100 let's say you sneak

00:31:54.040 or you say,

00:31:54.480 you know what?

00:31:55.060 I want to go out

00:31:55.860 to Africa

00:31:56.480 and dig wells

00:31:57.680 and I just want to do

00:31:58.440 good charity work

00:31:59.240 for a year.

00:32:00.100 Well,

00:32:00.320 if you got a mortgage

00:32:00.960 and your car is on payment,

00:32:02.600 you can't.

00:32:03.460 You can't leave your job

00:32:04.880 because you got to work

00:32:06.200 to make those bankers rich.

00:32:08.520 That's what I really like

00:32:09.720 about Islam

00:32:10.200 is that all the business

00:32:11.580 that you do,

00:32:12.120 it's really important

00:32:13.020 that it's all honorable.

00:32:14.480 You can't do anything,

00:32:15.820 sell anything degenerate.

00:32:17.020 You can't snake anybody.

00:32:18.280 What I read

00:32:19.340 in the Talmud,

00:32:21.540 and I'm not sure

00:32:22.160 if you've studied Judaism,

00:32:23.940 and I don't know

00:32:24.700 if this is true,

00:32:25.100 but they don't believe,

00:32:27.080 what I read in the Talmud

00:32:27.680 is that they don't believe

00:32:28.380 that it's a sin

00:32:30.040 to lie to people

00:32:31.360 who are goy.

00:32:32.820 They think that,

00:32:33.620 that's what it's,

00:32:35.020 I don't know

00:32:35.840 if I'm misquoting,

00:32:36.860 but in the Talmud,

00:32:37.440 I read that the Jews 0.97

00:32:38.820 think it's okay

00:32:40.000 to deceive people

00:32:40.780 who are non-Jewish.

00:32:41.660 Yeah, I mean,

00:32:43.700 I've studied Judaism

00:32:44.780 a little bit

00:32:45.380 when I first went

00:32:46.240 on my own search

00:32:47.540 for the truth.

00:32:48.380 I went to a temple

00:32:50.060 Bethel in San Diego

00:32:51.540 and I tried,

00:32:52.220 and to be honest,

00:32:53.060 they weren't very interested

00:32:53.960 in me learning

00:32:55.360 about their faith.

00:32:56.220 You know,

00:32:56.380 they were kind of like,

00:32:56.920 eh,

00:32:57.580 don't become Jewish. 0.99

00:32:58.400 It's horrible. 0.98

00:32:58.960 And I was like,

00:32:59.740 okay.

00:33:00.100 Because it's an ethno-religion. 0.72

00:33:01.360 They don't want people

00:33:02.020 who are not Jewish

00:33:03.240 to become Jewish

00:33:04.280 because you're not actually

00:33:05.960 a Jew,

00:33:06.580 you're just Jewish. 0.79

00:33:08.620 But that's kind of racist, right?

00:33:10.700 But that's what they believe.

00:33:11.960 There you go.

00:33:12.940 Islam is the only religion 1.00

00:33:14.500 that I've found

00:33:15.160 that fixes the race problem.

00:33:16.660 Since going to the mosque,

00:33:17.560 you see people

00:33:18.060 coming from work

00:33:18.900 all different colors

00:33:19.860 and everything like that.

00:33:20.580 Everybody's standing

00:33:21.140 next to each other

00:33:21.780 and nobody feels

00:33:22.880 any sense of superiority.

00:33:24.260 There's no

00:33:24.860 ethnocentric ideas about it.

00:33:26.640 Some people have criticized

00:33:27.420 saying that,

00:33:28.680 like I showed pictures

00:33:29.760 of the Nigerian,

00:33:32.920 or no,

00:33:33.360 of the Pope kissing

00:33:34.020 the feet

00:33:34.700 of the Nigerian president.

00:33:36.540 Basically,

00:33:36.980 him bowing down

00:33:38.360 as a political play.

00:33:40.280 And then someone criticized me

00:33:41.300 saying,

00:33:41.760 well,

00:33:42.320 Muslims are always submitting 1.00

00:33:43.660 to the oil sheiks

00:33:45.140 are in charge.

00:33:46.280 But no,

00:33:46.760 they have nothing to do.

00:33:47.760 They have nothing to do

00:33:48.860 with,

00:33:49.460 just because they're rich

00:33:50.640 doesn't make them

00:33:51.540 as a hierarchy

00:33:52.980 or have a position

00:33:54.000 of power in Islam.

00:33:55.160 The Pope,

00:33:55.680 there's actual positions

00:33:56.600 of power in Christianity.

00:33:58.180 They have...

00:33:58.820 Yeah, I mean,

00:33:59.500 look,

00:33:59.860 even our scholars,

00:34:01.400 we love our scholars.

00:34:02.320 We don't go and kiss

00:34:03.100 their feet.

00:34:04.020 I mean,

00:34:04.260 we don't go and bow to them.

00:34:05.960 The oil rich people,

00:34:07.680 I don't even know

00:34:08.300 who those are

00:34:09.180 and I've never had

00:34:10.120 any inclination

00:34:11.440 to try to bow down

00:34:12.400 to any of them,

00:34:13.100 right?

00:34:13.700 In Islam,

00:34:14.880 we have a very spiritual,

00:34:17.020 direct relationship

00:34:17.860 with our creator.

00:34:18.820 Every time I pray,

00:34:20.420 it's a direct conversation

00:34:21.720 with my creator.

00:34:22.960 If I confess,

00:34:23.940 if I sin,

00:34:24.580 I don't have to go

00:34:25.180 to a priest

00:34:25.660 and tell him,

00:34:26.500 forgive me,

00:34:26.840 Father,

00:34:27.100 for I have sinned

00:34:27.760 and this and all

00:34:28.360 that kind of stuff.

00:34:29.240 We don't have that.

00:34:30.380 We have that direct relationship.

00:34:32.400 We don't go

00:34:33.040 and you will never see 0.78

00:34:34.540 and if you do see a Muslim 0.99

00:34:35.720 putting his head down

00:34:36.600 to anybody but Allah,

00:34:37.900 then that Muslim 0.98

00:34:38.440 doesn't know what he's doing. 0.94

00:34:39.360 That's rejected. 0.95

00:34:40.500 You will never see a Muslim 1.00

00:34:41.500 go even to a king 0.88

00:34:42.440 to put his forehead down.

00:34:43.640 Never.

00:34:44.260 Never.

00:34:45.020 Even, you know,

00:34:45.700 we had the king of Sarabia

00:34:46.760 named Abdullah

00:34:47.320 before I read something from him

00:34:49.580 where people would come

00:34:50.660 just to kiss his hand

00:34:51.640 like, you know,

00:34:52.380 out of respect,

00:34:52.940 you told them,

00:34:53.340 no,

00:34:53.700 if you want to kiss, 0.99

00:34:54.520 kiss the hands of your parents. 0.99

00:34:55.980 Don't kiss my hand. 0.99

00:34:56.800 Like, that's how strict

00:34:58.240 we are about that.

00:34:58.980 The Prophet Muhammad,

00:35:00.260 the Prophet,

00:35:01.000 our beloved Prophet,

00:35:02.760 he said that nobody

00:35:04.300 should prostrate to anybody.

00:35:06.760 The companions wanted

00:35:07.620 to prostrate to him.

00:35:08.560 He said,

00:35:08.840 no, not even me.

00:35:10.120 Right?

00:35:10.600 So as Muslims,

00:35:11.220 we don't have that.

00:35:12.420 And in Islam,

00:35:13.480 you know,

00:35:13.680 we're told to be honest,

00:35:14.800 not to deal with interest,

00:35:15.940 not to deal with alcohol

00:35:18.340 or pork or drugs

00:35:20.180 or things that are harmful

00:35:21.280 and we don't have

00:35:23.460 the scapegoating idea

00:35:24.680 that like back in the days

00:35:26.020 when I was a gang member,

00:35:26.840 I can tell you,

00:35:28.040 Friday night,

00:35:29.020 Saturday night,

00:35:29.580 we would do all kinds

00:35:30.460 of craziness,

00:35:31.360 you know,

00:35:32.180 everything that you can imagine.

00:35:34.100 And then Sunday morning

00:35:35.260 we'd be in church

00:35:35.980 and we'd go into this little box

00:35:37.920 and there'd be a dude

00:35:38.560 on the other side

00:35:39.180 and we'd be like,

00:35:39.680 forgive me,

00:35:40.040 Father,

00:35:40.300 for I have sinned. 0.86

00:35:40.940 I stabbed a dude last night, 0.93

00:35:42.280 kidnapped somebody, 0.91

00:35:43.120 you know,

00:35:43.680 this and,

00:35:44.480 right?

00:35:44.720 Seriously,

00:35:45.060 I'm not even playing.

00:35:45.900 I don't know.

00:35:46.240 We used to go down to Tijuana

00:35:47.000 and then the priest would be like,

00:35:49.580 well,

00:35:49.760 don't do it.

00:35:50.480 Take these many Hail Marys.

00:35:51.480 Ten Hail Marys

00:35:52.280 and then you forget for stabbing.

00:35:53.520 And I would tell the priest myself,

00:35:55.820 I would tell him,

00:35:56.260 look,

00:35:56.780 Father,

00:35:57.240 let me just be honest with you.

00:35:58.420 You know,

00:35:58.620 I'm a gang member.

00:35:59.400 This is what we do.

00:36:00.220 I mean,

00:36:00.380 I'm not stopping this.

00:36:02.000 And he would tell me,

00:36:02.660 well,

00:36:03.360 see you next Sunday.

00:36:05.780 So,

00:36:06.460 you'd walk out a little block.

00:36:07.780 Oh,

00:36:07.980 I'm forgiven.

00:36:08.640 Jesus died for my sins.

00:36:09.620 I confess.

00:36:10.220 I'm good.

00:36:12.020 It's fooling yourself. 0.85

00:36:13.580 As a Muslim,

00:36:14.940 you know,

00:36:15.300 yes,

00:36:15.760 we believe that the right belief

00:36:17.260 is the entry into heaven,

00:36:18.840 but we still have to strive

00:36:19.920 and struggle.

00:36:21.040 One of the most beautiful chapters

00:36:22.580 in the Quran,

00:36:23.340 inshaAllah,

00:36:23.800 it's in the end of the Quran,

00:36:25.360 the very short chapter

00:36:26.220 called

00:36:26.480 Time.

00:36:28.440 Right?

00:36:28.740 It says,

00:36:28.980 Allah takes the oath 0.99

00:36:33.040 by time

00:36:33.740 that all of mankind

00:36:35.100 is going to be in loss.

00:36:36.620 People,

00:36:37.060 most people,

00:36:37.800 they're heading

00:36:38.320 in the wrong direction.

00:36:41.240 Except those who believe.

00:36:42.880 The first thing,

00:36:43.980 if you know what's right,

00:36:44.900 you have to have

00:36:45.380 the right belief.

00:36:46.800 But then Allah

00:36:47.360 doesn't stop there.

00:36:48.300 إِلَّا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا

00:36:49.620 وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ

00:36:50.860 And those

00:36:51.520 that do righteous deeds.

00:36:53.980 So as a Muslim,

00:36:55.020 I'm always trying to do good deeds.

00:36:56.800 It's not,

00:36:57.300 it's not just fooling myself

00:36:59.000 saying salvation is free,

00:37:00.340 you know,

00:37:00.520 and then that's it.

00:37:01.240 No,

00:37:01.600 I want to be the best person

00:37:03.160 I can.

00:37:03.700 Sorry.

00:37:05.520 And that's,

00:37:06.140 that's the,

00:37:06.820 the most important part.

00:37:09.920 I,

00:37:10.360 I've noticed that.

00:37:12.340 Just,

00:37:12.840 I feel more,

00:37:14.820 like,

00:37:15.040 like I want to do good more

00:37:16.700 in the world.

00:37:17.320 I want to contribute more.

00:37:18.420 Like,

00:37:18.740 I want to be more gracious

00:37:20.040 to everybody.

00:37:21.060 I just want to be a better,

00:37:22.780 I just want to contribute more

00:37:23.860 because it's,

00:37:24.340 it's extremely important.

00:37:25.500 Like,

00:37:25.720 if there's a lot of ideas

00:37:26.600 in the Quran

00:37:27.300 that are explained

00:37:28.360 that make more sense to me,

00:37:29.360 like,

00:37:29.940 the concepts of spirituality

00:37:31.580 and karma,

00:37:33.160 stuff that,

00:37:33.900 that you hear in the West

00:37:34.640 a lot of the time,

00:37:35.140 it's just,

00:37:35.500 it's explained logically

00:37:37.120 because this,

00:37:38.460 that's just what Allah

00:37:39.380 wants you to do.

00:37:40.780 That's just,

00:37:41.180 that's what we're supposed

00:37:42.260 to do as a situation.

00:37:44.520 Would you be,

00:37:45.140 would you be okay

00:37:47.520 debating somebody that,

00:37:49.900 I don't know if you're prepared

00:37:51.020 to do a debate right now,

00:37:52.120 but there's a Christian

00:37:53.120 that I've been.

00:37:53.520 Bring him,

00:37:53.760 bring him,

00:37:54.760 bring him.

00:37:55.880 Okay.

00:37:56.220 I don't need to prepare.

00:37:57.300 Ask Allah to protect us.

00:37:58.540 Have you ever lost a debate

00:37:59.900 and,

00:38:00.180 and what do you,

00:38:01.800 where do you see people

00:38:03.320 shift?

00:38:04.720 Like,

00:38:04.860 where do people make the final

00:38:06.220 decision to,

00:38:08.340 to revert

00:38:08.960 after having a conversation

00:38:10.880 like this?

00:38:11.840 When,

00:38:12.180 when do you see

00:38:13.440 most commonly people

00:38:14.560 shift from being a non-believer

00:38:15.800 to a believer?

00:38:17.840 Have I ever lost a debate?

00:38:19.700 I don't think so,

00:38:20.720 but I mean,

00:38:21.140 I don't really go out

00:38:22.400 to win or lose debates.

00:38:23.620 I go to convey a message,

00:38:25.140 right?

00:38:25.940 And,

00:38:26.620 I hope from Allah

00:38:27.720 that Allah will continue

00:38:29.020 to make me a means

00:38:30.160 of guidance for people.

00:38:31.140 That's all I really care about.

00:38:32.620 I'm not really a professional debater.

00:38:34.400 I'm a da'i. 0.84

00:38:35.160 I call towards Allah.

00:38:36.500 Sometimes I have to debate

00:38:37.660 just because

00:38:38.520 we want to clarify misconceptions.

00:38:45.460 That's it.

00:38:46.000 Is this your job?

SNEAKO - May 21, 2023

Shaykh Uthman Answers SNEAKO's Questions About Islam

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