 Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh Wa alaikum as-salam MashAllah Interesting, we're gathered here on Christmas Eve Talking about Isa alayhi as-salam You know when the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam When he entered into Medina to Munawwara He noticed that the Jews were fasting on Yomiya Ashura And he asked them why they were doing that And they told him that this is to commemorate Our master Musa alayhi as-salam The Prophet Moses, peace be upon him That Allah SWT Saved the Mani Israel from the Fira'un The Prophet sallallahu alayhi as-salam He said we have a greater right upon Musa alayhi as-salam We as the Ummah, the Ummah of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi as-salam Have a greater right over Musa alayhi as-salam So he also fasted on Yomiya Ashura But also to differentiate His Ummah from Mani Israel Also the fast before after So Sunnah fast And I would say also that And I think And I'm not a scholar, but all scholars would agree with me that That we have a greater right to Isa alayhi as-salam As well As Christians are gathering tonight In various churches around the world And the next day Worshiping Isa alayhi as-salam As-Ghāt What does the Qur'an say? It's very interesting How ironic the first words of Isa alayhi as-salam In the Qur'an On the day of his Mawlid Right So we're told So we're told that She brought the newborn Isa alayhi as-salam Within the sight of her family And then her family says Oh Maria This is a strange thing that you have A strange thing that has happened Or that you've brought Right So they're insiduating something About her You can imagine If you have a If you know a woman Who's saintly in your eyes Never done anything wrong And she says to you I heard voices And I was impregnated Miraculously A baby It would be very very difficult For you to believe her Right So something has to happen here Something out of the ordinary Right What we call Qawārik-ul-Ad-Dāt Breaks of natural law Or breaches of Physics As we know physics So Fa'ashārat ilay Fa'ashārat ilay She pointed to The baby How can we Talk to someone Who is a child in the cradle A newborn infant And we're told in the Qur'an That miraculously This is a miracle That Isa A.S. He spoke Qāli-unni Abdullāh Tāni al-kitābah Wa ja'alani nabiyyah Wa ja'alani mubāra Kana inama kuntū Wa awsāni Wa ṣ-ṣalātī Wa ṣ-ṣalātī Wa ṣ-ṣalātī Ma duṭhāiyyah So Isa A.S. He says Indeed I am The servant of Allah He has given me revelation And has made me a prophet And has maybe blessed Wherever I am These are the first words Of Isa A.S. According to the Qur'an And we're told in the Qur'an That Allah A.S. On the Yom al-Qiyamah He will ask Isa A.S. In front of the whole of humanity Ya Isa A.S. You said to people Take me And my Ummah is here Without Allah So oh Jesus The son of Mary Did you ever say To the people To take you As a divine being Or your mother As a divine being Other than Allah A.S. And the Immediate respect And of course Allah A.S. Knows the answer Right This is to establish So Imam Suyuti he says This is out of Tawbiq Out of centering The Nasara Right Not his Ummah Because the Christians are not The Ummah Of Isa A.S. He is in our Ummah Right Isa A.S. Is a companion Of the Prophet Muhammad He is a Sahabi by definition Right What is a Sahabi So a Sahabi is someone Who the Prophet Layed his blessed eyes On this person Because they were blind to him Right While they were both alive So You might have a dream In which you see The Prophet A.S. And he is looking at you Right And that is a true dream Because shaitan cannot imitate The Prophet A.S. But this is during his life Right His life in the dunya He has a different life now It's called Hayat Bar-Zakhia He has a different life In a different sense Right And then This person Who the Prophet A.S. Looked at Or gazed upon Believed in him At that moment So we know that Isa A.S. Did not die Right This is a major point Of contention we have With Christians But the Quran states it As a matter of fact The Quran We believe the Quran The author of the Quran Is Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Was direct access to history And he is simply telling us That this did not happen Something Something happened Right And we have Alama that Theorize What could have happened There is nothing definitive From the Prophet A.S. What I can show be Allah Something happened It was made to appear so That Isa A.S. Was crucified Wa ma'a ta'aloo wama salam But he was not killed or crucified What I can show be Allah Right But it was made to appear so So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala So he is a Sahaba in our Umma Isa A.S. Right And we believe in the second Coming of Isa A.S. This is something that has Stated in multiple hadith Over 20, 25 Sahaba relate this So the response of Isa A.S. On the Yom Al Qiyamah His initial response is Subhanak Right Which is to say Glory be to thee Imam Al-Haddad He mentions And others mention Imam Al-Razi mentions that Just the question itself Was Is very difficult Is going to be very difficult For Isa A.S. Even process Even here So he is going to start Sort of writhing And shaking So he says Subhanak Um So he says Glory be to you It was never for me to say anything That you did not command me I only said what you commanded me to say Right And you were the knower of Everything that is unseen I only said to them what you commanded me to say Glory be to Allah Glory be to your Lord Glory be to Allah Glory be to Allah He is my Lord And your Lord So The theology of Isa A.S. Is Renewed in a sense By the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam He He revived the true teachings Of the Prophet Isa A.S. Right And the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam He is a universal messenger So Isa A.S. We have to also understand this contextually He is dealing with a certain mentality at his time Right So some of his teachings Are not universal In some aspects Right So I remember Because it was Maybe 20 years ago Me and Abdul Rashid here Seedy Abdul Rashid This was after 9-11 Right There was a lot of sort of Interest in Islam And so And so We would literally Drive around and go to churches Right Just knock on the door And Sometimes they let us in Some I mean we look like We're friendly guys right Let us in the door And We talk to the pastor And we get different responses But There's one pastor I don't know if you remember Fremont Community Church He looked at us and We sort of said We want to have a dialogue with you The status of Issa Alayhi Salam And just You know sort of Teacher congregation about Islam And he said Yeah well You know You know what the word pastor means And I said Yeah it means a shepherd He said Very good It does mean shepherd So I'm a shepherd And I have to protect my flock From the wolves Yeah at least you're honest I don't want to show long But So I remember one night I was watching TV And there was this Story And it said that So there was this Herodium Christian pastor Apparently an apostate From Islam Who was going to give a He's going to give a lecture At a church The next day on Sunday And the sermon was called Why I'm not a Muslim Maybe I told the story before If you've heard it It's okay I could ask my wife I repeat a lot of things It's okay So anyway Why I'm not a Muslim So I said oh that's interesting So I called this brother here And we said let's Let's go with this Let's go to the sermon That he's going to give He said okay And there was maybe like Five or six of us actually I think Abdul was there A few of the brothers were there So we go to this church And remember we walked in And the pastor I'm not going to say his name Because Um Anyway Different issue But anyway he was there And I remember he looked up on us And he was His face went blank Like What are these guys doing here So you can tell they kind of You know Kind of change things up On the fly a little bit You know Kind of do some quick edits Right He was very uncomfortable He was sweating through his suit But we were there smiling And so anyway I said to him after I said Uh Do you want to do like a debate Um I think it'd be interesting Because you're a former Muslim And You know I'm Muslim And Maybe we can have like a debate And let people know what happened And let people judge You know the Quran tells us To engage in Jidal Right So I'm going to tell you About the wisdom And the wisdom of Hassana To engage in debate With the people of the book And the people of the book Which is the best With With With With wisdom Which you know What it means here With academic rigor sophistication And The wisdom of Hassana And with beautiful exhortation Or preaching Or they say You're with a good character Right This is the sunnah way Of making dawah Right Is to have a good Lagos Is Aristotle would say Good logic Right To have to be intelligent To use reason But also good ethos Or ethos Which means To have good character For sun Kholo khosun Uh Kholo khasun So he said Uh Yeah let's Let's discuss that It's okay So we I didn't think I'd ever hear from Again I mean I hear this all the time But lo and behold You know He called me And he said Let's meet at this restaurant That we can talk about The debate And the parameters And whatnot I said Great Uh So we go there And Um So I'll never forget He looked at me You know This Christian pastor Former Muslim Apparently And he said And he started speaking Farsi to me To you know To get on my First and foremost I'm a businessman Okay He said We can make A lot of money doing this So I guess I'm sitting there And I'm Clueless right And he's like I'm not hip to the game Apparently I'm uninitiated And he said And I said So he said What topics are you thinking About To do this topic this day You'll say this I'll say this We'll go back and forth We won't reveal too much And then the second debate You know We'll get more people We'll charge prices This and that I said Oh okay And then he kind of looked at me And he said You know sometimes They still recite the Quran So Okay And then suddenly It clicked in my mind I said to him Are you Muslim? And then he went like this Thanks I said So how Wow He said This is a very good job He said He had like a hummer outside You know And he lives in like Ruby Hills or something like that Wearing a harmony suit You know The prosperity gospel This is a very common Version Perversion I should say Of the message of Islam Even as it exists in the New Testament This idea And Christians in these countries This is really an American phenomenon They fill up Baseball stadium Basketball stadium The Staples Center It's filled up on Sunday Listening to the prosperity gospel This idea that If How do you know God loves you? He gives you money That's basically what it comes down to The more money you have The more God loves you It's very interesting You know Because if you read the New Testament What does Islam say in the New Testament? Of course There's no senate for these things Right So this is just sort of They're basically Very very weak hadith Many of them are Moldova But just for the sake of argument You know Because this is their hoodjah This is a text That they believe is sound You know Islam says It's easy for a camel To pass through the eye of the needle But for a rich man To enter paradise Right And some of the uremahs say This You know The needle There was like You know cities were gated And there was a little door Called the needle And you have to push the camel through This is a This is much later Aquinas mentions this And he Attributes it to Ambrose From the 11th century So this is a very late Sort of interpretation But if you look at earlier Like Jewish Like the Talmud Things like that Much closer to Issa Like Issa They always use this expression Sometimes an elephant Through a needle A donkey Through a needle A camel So this is Very literal This is what he means Quite literally It's easier for a camel To pass through the eye of the needle Than for a rich man To enter paradise Meaning it's impossible For a rich man To enter paradise And interestingly enough The analogy Or the parable Is in the Quran Right Allah SWT says Allah SWT says Those who rely Are signed And are arrogant towards that These The heavens will not be opened For them Nor will they enter paradise Into the camel Capacity of the eye of a needle Right So what does this mean I mean it means Again We take it literally It has two meanings That a rich man Has to give everything away Before he dies Or else he's in trouble According to the teachings Of Issa A.S. Or It could mean That the rich man Cannot let even One dinar Into his heart That if he were to Lose everything It would make no difference To him Because everything belongs To Allah SWT And this is the essence Of the teaching Of Issa A.S. This is something that The Christians just They got some things right But the major things They got wrong And Allah SWT He tells us In the Qur'an He says We made a covenant with them But they disregarded A portion of what we gave to them This is the true essence Right In the Prophet Who is Sunnah Is more universal He said There's nothing wrong with the rich man As long as he has Taqwa Allah SWT In his heart But then he said Every Ummah has a fitna Has a trial or tribulation And the tribulation Of my Ummah Is wealth Right That wealth prevents one From the zikr of Allah SWT Once starts to think of himself As independent Mustaghnan Right Allah SWT Is Al-Ghani Everything belongs to Allah SWT Is completely independent This is the teaching Of Issa A.S. In our tradition We have hadith of Issa A.S. In our tradition Some of them are strong Some of them are weak But they're in our tradition They're not in the New Testament Some of them have parallels Of the New Testament Right Like what I was mentioning earlier About on the Yom Luka Yama There's something similar to this In the Gospel of Matthew Matthew chapter 7 And we don't want to get too much Into the sort of Source criticism of the New Testament But many scholars believe that This section in the New Testament Actually comes from A much earlier source That predates Paul Because much of the Gospels In the New Testament Matthew, Mark, Luke and John Have been sort of Inspired Or I should say They've been sort of Tainted with Pauline theology Because Paul was the first writer Of the New Testament The Gospels came about 20, 30, 40 years later But in this section in Matthew 7 It comes from an independent source That Matthew had access to That's probably pre-Pauline But anyway Scholars call it special M Or mythian material But anyway Jesus says according to this Matthew chapter 7 verse 21 He says not everyone who says To be courier courier Which means rabbi rabbi And Christians They translate this as Lord, Lord, capital L Courier Rabbi means rabbi Rabbi, you ever thought about that? So when a Jewish guy says to his rabbi Rabbi, is he calling him God? Of course not They're completely ignoring the context So it's in Greek though Courier Rabbi, rabbi Not everyone who says to be rabbi rabbi I should enter the kingdom of heaven Only those of you The will of God On that day Many will come to me and say Courier courier Master, master Did we not prophesize in your name Cast out demons in your name And in your name Perform many miracles Right? This is in Matthew 7 Chapter 21 to 23 So who is Esa Aesada According to this source Which is very close to his life Again, it's very, very weak It's in the wrong language But it's pre-Pauline And that's very important If you know anything about New Testament studies That's very, very important Who is he talking to? Is he talking to Who? Is he talking to Jews? Is he talking to Christians? Is he talking to Hindus? So he's talking to It looks like Jews That kind of Did things in his name Kind of deified it, right? Who does these things In the name of Jesus In the name of Jesus Exorcisms In the name of Jesus So he's clearly talking about Christians Whether they're Jews or Gentiles He's talking to Christians What is his response? Right? So in the Qur'an His response is Subhanak Glory be to you And then he says To Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala According to the Qur'an Into adhidhum If you punish them They're your slaves And if you forgive them You are the great and wise Now a prophet would never ask Something from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala That is impossible Because that is that adab Musa A.S. What is Anvur Ilaik He said to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Reveal yourself to me So that I might gaze upon you Lan Tarani You will not see me In Imam Suyiti says That Allah did not say Lan Tarani Lan Tarani Lan Tarani Lan Tarani Lan Tarani Allah did not say Lan Ura I cannot be seen He said You will not see me Right? Say there's a possibility It's Munkin That in the Qur'an says this In different ayat We will see Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Ila Kaifiyah On the Day of Resurrection And in Jannah The people of Jannah We'll see Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Without any type of modality There's no how to it Right? There's an utter mystery It's called a beatific vision So here In essence In the Qur'an Is making Dua To Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala That if people Considered me to be Some sort of divine being But they did it out of ignorance They were misinformed If you forgive them Right? Making Dua for people And this is part of our theology Right? And this is Orthodox Normative Sunni theology This is not Berkeley theology Surfer theology Is that if Imam Ghazali says Imam Ghazali The champion of orthodoxy The Mujad did of his time Recognized the world over You know He says If someone is not Atal or Balad He doesn't have Salamat or Hawas Wa Balaghatu Ad-Dawatu Sahiha There's no tech leaf established on person In other words Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Will not put someone into hell Who did not Who was not reached With a sound prophetic summons Right? A message of Tuhid In a good form Must have reached this person And this person Understanding that message Rejected it Like for example Abu Jahl Right? Some people say Abu Jahl He was also a very gifted poet Al Waleed ibn Mughail See Dr. Rashid He mentioned Al Waleed ibn Mughail Incredible poet Why didn't he Become Muslim He doesn't Recognize The Quran is a Sui generous It's a one of a kind Of a masterpiece Of course he does It's because the Quran Is calling to a certain way of life Right? It's calling to a certain morality Of certain theology This is difficult for people Right? So anyway In the Bible In Matthew Going back to Matthew 7 What is the response Of Isa A.S. In the Greek he says He says He says He says He says He says He says The Greek is very very strong It's very difficult to translate But basically he says Never did I know you And then he says Like this Like get away from me And then he says He says You workers Very interesting wording Right? So usually this is translated as You workers of iniquity Get away from me You workers of iniquity But the actual Greek says You rejecters of Sharia Because nomos What does nomos mean? Nomos means law And in Greek Nomos Right? Like an antinomian Pauline Christianity Is antinomian They reject the Sharia Except for a few of the commandments So you see Christians are eating Pork Right? They're eating it Like it's water You know Why are you eating pork? Leviticus says don't eat pork I said no There's a new covenant New covenant Blood covenant New testament Did you ever eat pork? No Strange Are you followers of Isa? Who are you following? Who's your real lord? Paul That's what it is It's Paul Pauline Christianity This is very very interesting So The Torah in the Quran says Quoting Isa Musattikalimabayna yadayimina Torah I confirm the Torah But then he says I also Make certain things Halal That were haram Quoting Isa In other words And that's the affair of the Rasul He's the Rasul He can make amendments and addendums To the Sharia of Musa Isa Because he has the maqam of the Rasul Right? So certain things he did Make adjustments So So basically Isa Is confirming theology Theology never changes Theology is never opened To naskh or abrogation Aqida never changes Our aqida is exactly The aqida of Adam Isa Nothing changes in aqida Because Allah swt Is immutable But Sharia can change According to the circumstances But major principles of the Sharia Like maqasah and things like that Those things don't change The fundamentals of the Sharia Right? So in the Torah it says Lo yish el vichazeth Numbers 2319 Which means God Is not A man That he should lie Right? And at the college I have my students Memorize this verse in Hebrew It's not that long Lo yish el vichazeth God is not a man That he should lie Do you have it? Do you have it? Do you have it? Have you guys memorized it? Maybe not Maybe I skipped a couple God is not a man So what does this mean? God is not a man That he should lie It's very strange And again A lot of these translations Are very cryptic And it's hard to know What's happening here And the Qur'an actually says this The Qur'an says that There's a section from the people Of the book They twist their It literally says They twist their tongues Around the book They tahsabuhu min al-kitab Right? Twist their tongues Around the book What does that mean? Al-sina Means the literal physical tongue But in Qur'anic Arabic It's also the word for language Lisan Means language In the Qur'an The Qur'an doesn't use the word loha Loha is probably from Greek Logos Right? It's a lone word From Greek probably Lisan is the Semitic word And it means language In other words They're messing with translations Right? The people of the book They mess around these translations So what does this verse mean? It means whoever claims to be God Is a liar That's what it means It's very clear Whoever claims to be God Is a liar Right? What else does the Old Testament So-called Old Testament In Torah teach? It says every man shall be put To death for his own sin This is Deuteronomy 2417 In other places as well Ezekiel chapter 18 The entire chapter A very sustained argument Against inheriting sin Nobody inherits your sin You might inherit the circumstances Of your parents' sin The circumstances But not the sin itself You're free from that sin For example If your father shoots someone And goes to prison And your mother can't afford To take care of the kids And has to move in to release All the apartment While she's pregnant with you And then you're born In this small apartment You've inherited the sins Of your father The circumstances of his sin But not his literal sin You didn't commit murder That's not on your scroll On the Yom Kiyama Right? So this is a theology Of the Old Testament And in the Gospel of Luke Jesus Bees Be Upon Him Apparently says Have you ever heard of The prodigal son parable? Have you ever heard of that? The prodigal son The prodigal son returns Right? Hope you've heard this somewhere This comes from Luke 15 So what is this? So Jesus gives a parable And he says there's a man Who has two sons One of them stays with him The other one goes out And he's a Musrif Like he's a spendthrift And he's excessive And he's a hedonist He wastes all his money And he ends up sleeping A pig pen Right? And then so eventually He says I need to go home And apologize to my father So he starts walking back Towards his home And the father's sitting With his good son They're just sitting And they're chatting And then suddenly He sees his prodigal son Returning And he completely ignores His good son And he sees his son from afar And they run towards each other And they fall on each other's necks As it says That means they're hugging And they're crying Right? And that's the end of the parable What is he teaching? What is the epora Of this parable Of this method In the Gospel of Luke? Is he teaching Blood Covenant By vicarious atonement? Did the father slaughter his son When he saw him suddenly? Oh, you're back Slotters him This is for your sin No What is he teaching? He's teaching toba This is the entire moral The epora The lesson of this parable Is toba And toba is a very important Theological virtue Again, at the heart Of the true inji levitice So every man Is put to death for his own sin And then it also says Whoever is hanged on a tree Is accursed by God Is also in Deuteronomy Whoever is hanged on a tree What does hang on a tree mean? Again, it's like What are they talking about? They're talking about crucifixion Whoever is crucified Is accursed by God And what else does it say? Leviticus 3.17 You shall not drink blood An everlasting statute Throughout all your generations Everlasting statute So there are certain things In Jewish law Like I said, fundamental principles Or certain ceremonial laws That are never abrogated They're never open to nusk One of them is drinking blood Because it's a pagan practice Right? So what do Christians believe then? They believe God became a man Right? Who died for your sins That's breach number two How did he die? He's hanged on a tree And how do they commemorate this event? They drink his blood Right? And this is literal in the Catholic Church Literal they believe You know I don't know if they're going to do that Usually you have the Christmas Mass Live from the Vatican They're probably just going to start in a few hours Very strange but They believe that they have the wine And the Holy Spirit comes And magically transforms The essence of the wine Into the literal blood of Jesus Literal blood The accidents remain It looks like wine Smells like wine, tastes like wine The essence has changed The essence Right? So you can see now How the Quran Is correct In its Christology Right? That Isa al-Isra'an These cannot be the teachings of Isa al-Isra'an If Isa al-Isra'an is a rabbi Claimed to be God in the first century Why would he Expect any Jew to believe his claim? He says, whoever commits blasphemy Has to be stoned If you ask Christians Why did the Jews in John 8 Pick up stones to Stone Jesus? Christians will say he committed blasphemy He claimed to be God And then if you keep reading that section He says to the Jews that picked up stones You're children of Satan So let me get this straight then So Jesus who is supposed to be Of the many Israel at the time of Musa al-Isra'an Whoever claims to be God Has blasphemed and stoned them And then he Becomes a man And blasphemed And so the Jews are following What he had told them During the time of Musa al-Isra'an And then he calls them children of Satan And then he expects them to believe his claim And go against what he had already said He's setting them up for failure So the New Testament Jesus The New Testament Jesus The Christmas bells I take that as an exclamation to my point The New Testament Jesus Cannot be a true prophet Cannot be a true prophet Islam The Quran Redeem And give us the true teachings Of our Master Issa al-Isra'an So this is a very important point to make Right? I'll stop here But let's maybe have some Questions and comments And I want to open it up Inshallah Questions, burning questions you've always had It can be anything Like, you know, well, what's a Mormon Or yes, yes, brother Joseph, Inshallah We refer to Matthew, Martin, and John And I'm always in the office That they're referred to the riot As Paul We refer to Some writing from Matthew Can you explain How that was a pre-falling? Very good question So, when we look at Matthew and Luke's gospel Matthew and Luke definitely Have mark in their possession Using mark as a primary source But, Matthew and Luke If you can just imagine this Matthew and Luke are writing after mark Matthew and Luke also have Material in common That is missing from mark Okay? And it's verbatim It's word for word the same Which means Matthew and Luke have another document In front of them That Mark did not have access to And scholars believe the reason why Mark did not have access to it Is because it wasn't around at the time of Mark Who was writing around 70 In this document they call it The Q source document Or the sayings gospel Historians they call it the first gospel And this And it's a hypothetical source document So they don't have an actual manuscript of it But you see how they can reconstruct it In other words, whatever Matthew and Luke have in common Missing from mark, that's from Q And it's pre-falling even According to most scholars It's written before 50 And it's a Risaleh Salaam So when you isolate the Q source material Just put it on the board and you read it None of it disagrees with this law This is amazing They can reconstruct Q Jesus is a prophet He's a healer It talks about John the Baptist There's teachings about the coming kingdom of God The coming son of man Risaleh Salaam is prophesizing Someone's going to come called the Baranash The son of man with power on earth The kingdom of God on earth Right And nothing Let me quote John Dominic Crossan Who is one of the greatest historians Of the New Testament He says there's nothing, nothing, nothing There's a direct quote There's nothing, nothing, nothing About the crucifixion of resurrection In Q source document Nothing So whoever wrote this Q source document Obviously were Christians Christians Nazarenes Who believed in Risaleh Salaam If they believed that Risaleh Salaam was crucified It was of zero importance To them But what seems more logical is that They didn't believe it was crucified Yes Could you Do a wonderful thing about him? Yes So Risaleh Salaam He was born Around 4 BCE actually According to most historians He was born in the north of Palestine Sorry He was born in Judea in Bethlehem That's the dominant opinion There's a hadith that mentions this as well The hadith is a solitary hadith There's a hadith that mentions That on the night of the Isra He was on the Burak And he dismounted at certain locations And one of the places where he dismounted Was in Bethlehem Which means a house of bread Or a house of meat That's a place where Animals were raised Bread was made So he was born there And then he was raised in the northern In a city called Nazareth And Palestine at the time Was under Roman occupation In the colony of Rome And you have different groups of Jews In that area That's what the treat historian Describes these Jews So in the north In Galilee It was sort of the stronghold Of the zealots The zealots were basically Theocratic nationals Nationalists Who basically wanted to Cleanse the Holy Land Of the pagan Roman occupiers So depending on your perspective They're either terrorists But they would commit excesses So they would kill Jews Through that didn't believe So they had these sort of harajie type Tendencies So this is where Issa A.S. Was basically raised In this area And then you have Pharisees The Pharisees are sort of the The girl of his time And so they learned Doctors and lawyers of the law And In the gospels Issa A.S. Was constantly butting heads With the Pharisees He basically calls them Wotorah Sibun Like Vahiriah You're just sort of exotericists He says to them He says to them You overlook the way to your demands Of the law Justice, mercy, and good faith He says You strain at the nat You swallow the camel He says Why did sepulchres On the outside You're washed, but on the inside You reek of death In other words, he's calling them hypocrites He's saying you don't practice what you preach He's saying you only word about the Vahiri, the Vahir You don't work on the ball tent You don't work on the inside So the essence of the teaching of Issa A.S. That we can draw from this Similar attestation in our sources Is that Issa A.S. Is essentially teaching them To ski to the nafs This is the essence of his teaching The essence of the Injil Is Tasawwuf That's what it is It's establishing a relationship With Allah SWT By mastering the self But following the Shari'ah And pseudo Sufis That would reject the Shari'ah Right? And just sort of do these weird Things and expect to get closer To Allah SWT Right? But true Sufism To use a different term True Sufism True Sufis They are Completely indebted They're completely grounded And Issa A.S. Even according to the Gospels Is a practicing rabbi Right? So like Imam al-Junaid Who is Sheikh Al-Ta'ifa The Sufis He said Our knowledge This sacred knowledge that I'm teaching Is grounded and tied To Islam This is the true Sufi Right? So Issa A.S. message What does the Injil mean? Good news Right? That's what it means Good news Good news of what? And they give you So Children of Israel And notice Issa A.S. says children of Israel They didn't say He is a Sahaba Sahabi in the Ummah Of the Prophet Muhammad SAW I am the messenger of God sent to you I am the messenger of God sent to you Confirming the Torah And they give you glad time Gospel of a messenger to come after me His name is Ahmed And Ahmed according to the Ulama Is the name of the Prophet Muhammad SAW In the Celestial realm In the world He also In the Celestial realm as well But Issa A.S. has given this baby knowledge Of the name of the Prophet SAW Unlike the Yom Al Fiam So this is his teaching Right? In our tradition Issa A.S. He is Teaching them the deception of this world Not to be fooled By this world So he says the similitude of this world Is like a man lost at sea Right? He is lost Imagine someone who is lost at sea on a boat And he says he starts taking Seawater into his mouth The more he drinks The thirstier he gets And then he dies from it This is the nature of the dunya He says the nature of the dunya Is like an old haggard prostitute Who has to Hide in alley ways And she sticks her hand out And it is bejeweled With rings and bracelets and so on and so forth And she waves men into the alley way And the men come And then she slaughters them Such as the dunya Issa A.S. said In our tradition He says to his disciples So the disciples come to him and say How is it that you can walk On water? And he said bring me three objects And they said what? He said gold Stones and dirt And they bring me these three objects And he says put them here What do you say about these things And they said the gold is better than stones And stones are better than dirt He says they're all the same to me If you can understand the secret of that You can walk on water You can break customary physics He was walking with his hawariyun And he was walking Like the prophet said he would actually walk behind the sahab He said leave my back for the malayika So Issa A.S. was walking behind the hawariyun They're walking sort of in a barren wasteland And they notice as the disciples They stop and they're looking at something And they start covering their mouth Like this, their noses Like this And they look and it's a decomposing carcass of a dog Right And they say how revolting And Issa A.S. looks at it and he says Ma apya da asnana And he walks away How white are its teeth What does that mean It means that Issa A.S. He saw the beauty He managed to find something beautiful Even in this very, very ugly Nasty rotting thing Like in our tradition We don't have this idea of him Attacking the Pharisees and things like that Probably something like that Inevitably happened Because he would engage in debates No doubt But in our tradition we have The Pharisees walking by him And they start saying something about him They start saying something about his mother Mariam A.S. And then Issa A.S. He looks at them and he just says Wa alaykum as-salam And they say Why don't you defend yourself And he said A vessel only overflows its contents It's like I don't even Because they were insulting him You can imagine what they were saying So that's not a civil debate I don't have that in me I can't even do that Right? So this is the essence of his teaching And unfortunately the essence Of his teaching is completely corrupted For the most part, I should say completely Is there, sorry It went on too long Yes, sir I attended the Shumah prayer In a big residence Last week and the topic Was about Muslims And effects on Christmas On Muslims Effects of Christmas On Muslims And the I felt the entire speech was About Issa A.S. It was sort of us Versus them And My question, I have to question What is The entire speech about Muslims identity And so I want A definition of a Muslim identity Living in a Muslim society Knowing the fact that A story from the brother He talked about that they are Some of our families are Christians Yeah, that's a very, very good question Very good The second part of the question Is about He mentioned that During our prayer We say And he mentioned The Christians And And I wanted to make sure if this is What is meant by that The other way around In general In general The Quran is speaking In terms of generalities So this is a very important point That I mentioned as well The beginning of the Quran divides humanity Into three broad groups Very broad But obviously it's more nuanced than this Allah SWT is giving Something that's general Speaking in generalities The believers he describes in a couple of ayat The kufar, a couple of ayat Because that's easy Which takes 13, 14, 15 ayat Because it's a different type of animal But yeah Identity is tricky So we want to be Muslim But we don't want to We don't want to Do anything that is That is Against our sharia Something that is against our theology Right People might be tempted But it's just a tree It's okay The majority of Christians Do not celebrate Christmas by the way I don't know if people know that or not The majority of them don't celebrate Christmas They understand the origins of Christmas as we know what I should say Right This idea of taking trees And decking the halls And putting presents under the tree This is all paganism And this is something that is well established In part 10 verse 2 it says Following out the way of the heathen Who brings the tree into his house And decks it out in gold and silver Because tree worship The word tree comes from true Because they believe that trees contain true spirits So putting a gift under the tree Bowing to the tree Here's a gift for you tree So that's not my intention Yeah You're not intending to worship the tree But that's a little consequence According to our sharia We don't imitate the kufar And their feasts and holidays It's a very important point Regardless of your intention Because It's a slippery slope You open up that door You know Next thing you know You're marching in a parade of some sort And a lot of Muslims are doing that Say what's wrong with this These are our allies And that You know He's the Christ He's the messiah He also told us of the one Who was the opposite of Issa Right Masih ad-Dajjab The imposter messiah And the imposter Hadith very interesting He says He said that Part of the fitna The worst of fitna The history of humanity Is the fitna of the antichrist The imposter messiah And he said that It's so bad that a Muslim Who considers himself a firm Muslim Out of curiosity Will go to the antichrist The imposter messiah Just to see what's happening And this antichrist Will fill his head up with doubts With shubu hat Doubtful matters Erratical matters You can do this That's not your intention You're not Come on, it's okay Sometimes there's an opinion That's why we have to have recourse to the Erlamah The deen is vast But there's parameters These are called hudud Ahad also is the word for definition The word For definition in Arabic It's called haad Define also dey finis In latin Means towards the end of something When you define something You're limiting that something If I say to you what's the definition of the Quran It's Jins and fassal That's the definition The mother is a tuna brother I'm not too big on my logic But I'm kind of a logical but So it's Jins and fassal It's genus and differentiate So the logical definition of the Quran Is a scripture Revealed to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam Genus is different The genus is scripture What makes it different Revealed to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam That's called the had But when we stretch out So the deen is vast But then you have had You have parameters To move the goalposts Right? It's called radical hermeneutics Right? If you go to right now Take an intro to Islam class At any public university Most likely you're going to be exposed To radical hermeneutics Right? You know A Circus reading of The story of lute alayhi sallam But It means something else A feminist reading Of surat maria What is the lesson? It means that you don't need a man Who needs men Be a strong independent woman Strong independent As if men are strong and independent Who is strong and independent Who is al qawii Who is asamad This is shirk This is satanic You know You don't need no man Just You know What is it called? Self partner There's a new phenomenon going around It's called Solagamee You heard of this? You're going to hear about it Solagamee means Women marrying themselves This is becoming a phenomenon You're going to hear about it in the next couple Years Women marrying themselves There's a woman in India, she married herself And all these western liberals Yeah, she'll brave You know these liberals that we consider our allies Some of us consider these are our allies We can march with them She's so brave, they interviewed her She said I always wanted to be a bride But I don't want to be a wife So I don't know How do you No, no, it's okay You know The Quran says Don't enter the prayer while you're intoxicated Which means you can drink You just can't pray What? What are you talking about? No, that's how I understand it This is what the dijal does He puts all of these doubtful things These shubu hat in your mind To the point where You sort of retreat Away from the religion itself And it causes apostasy And the dijal tells you That your salvation Is in the dunya Is it really after life? That's what the prophet said He said I'm going to tell you something about the dijal No other prophet told their ummah He said He said the dijal is one eyed And your lord is not one eyed And the idol mentioned this is physical It's also symbolical in the sense that if you're one eyed If I cover up my eye So I mean I'm already sitting here But if you took me to a place I'm not familiar with And I just covered my eye I can't tell how far people are away from me I have no depth perception Right? That's why if you're a fighter And one of your eye closes in a fight The referee has to stop the fight Because you can't see the punches coming You can't judge the distance of punches So So the teaching of the dijal is Whatever is right in front of you That's all there is That's it What's right in front of the dunya Akhirah dunya Who knows Yolo Hedonism What's right in front of you They love the akhirah The immediate purification And the end Right? This is the Hadith of the Prophet SAW The truly intelligent one Is the one who subdues his lower self And works for what comes after death Because death is eternal After life is eternal Everlasting Death in service of his hawa And has vain hopes In Allah SWT He says, I hope I'll go to Jannah, he says He's smoking a joint Drinking some vodka Missing his prayers One of my teachers said Non-praying Muslims are low-hanging fruit For the dijal Easy Easy Child's play Dain Al-Iman Al-Kufri Tarq Al-Sala Mantaraka Al-Sala Fakat Kafara These are Hadith of the Prophet SAW We need to implement the prayer People who aren't praying We have to implement the prayer This is absolutely essential Yes I don't know Based on the title for tonight I was thinking About Prophet's iPhone We're seeing the revelation I'm not the ghost of the Prophet And they're kind of expecting This new Prophet's iPhone This new iPhone So you can kind of describe Like What they would be doing Yeah, very good question Yes So In the Gospel of John Which is the last Gospel There's problems with the Gospel of John Historically But the subtext of the Gospel Reveals something very interesting That's happening historically The subtext So in John chapter 1 We're told that Jews send Messengers to John the Baptist And they ask him Who are you And then it says He did not He said He confessed, I am not the Christ And then they said So according to Jewish belief The Second coming of the Messiah Will be preceded by the second coming of the Prophet Ilyas Ilyahu In Hebrew And he said Are you the Prophet Are you the Prophet Not a Prophet Are you the Prophet So it's very interesting that the Jews in the first century According to the subtext Of this Gospel We're expecting the fulfillment Of three prophecies So the Prophet is not the Messiah Okay, and if you have a cross Reference in your Bible The Prophet is a reference to a Prophet The Prophet of Deuteronomy 1818 The Prophet like Moses So God told Moses in 1818 Deuteronomy the fifth book of the Torah It says a Prophet I will raise up A brethren who shall be like you A Prophet will be like Moses I'll put my words into his mouth and he shall say Whatever I command him Right So Three distinct lines of prophecy The Messiah The second coming of Ilyas And the Prophet Right, so for the Jews They're over three Right, for them the Messiah has not come By the way, they're Jews right now What's happening in Israel But the top rabbis In the world are saying Right now that the Messiah Has come He hasn't come out yet as it were But he's in secret talks In counsel with top, top rabbis So I don't know if you're familiar with This is very, very Important This is very consequential This doesn't happen Very often But anyway So they're still waiting for the Messiah And then Elijah hasn't come back And they don't have any Candidates for the Prophet Right The Christians what they do is they say Isaias is the Messiah, it's true John the Baptist is Elijah Sort of coming in sort of the Spirit and power of Elijah But then they say the Messiah is also the Prophet So they conflate the two prophecies But there's very clearly three Distinct lines of prophecy So when the Prophet said He received the initial revelation He went to Khadijah Al-Kubra A.S. And her Cousin was Waraqa bin Nufa Waraqa literally means scribe So he was a Christian scribe Whether he was a Trinitarian or a Unitarian A Nestorian Something like that, Allah Allah It says It says That he used to write the Gospel In Aramaic For Hebrew and Arabic So she said look You had this experience on The mountain of light And she said but I'm not a scholar I can't interpret it for you What had happened to you with Iqra And then the squeezing and things like that He said He said The first five verses And then when he walked out of the cave He started hearing Things greeting him So the veils have been lifted So he looked And there's like a tree and there's nothing there But things are greeting him So She said I'm not an Aalim But let's go to a scholar He said He once asked the people who have specialties If you don't know So he went to Waraq al-Naufal He was a scholar of Ahlul Kitab And he said So the great law of God Has come unto you just as it came To Moses In other words it's very clear here In my opinion that Waraq al-Naufal Is saying that you are the prophet Of Deuteronomy 1818 In Hebrew So he's actually paraphrasing And actually quoting Sort of quoting Some of the verse actually So in his It seems like he's paraphrasing And partially quoting Deuteronomy 1818 To the prophet Sayyidah That you are the prophet like unto Moses That God will put his words into his mouth And you shall speak unto them All of that God shall command you The prophet never speaks from Everything he says is And he never speaks from his And he's taught by one mighty power So that's one prophecy 1818 Deuteronomy that's what they were looking at There's other things as well Waraq Al-Naufal They consider that to be strong So this is going to be the last question We're going to eat and we're hungry And enough of being inshallah Sorry about that I tend to over talk Is it okay to say Merry Christmas You know it's a difficult one It's a difficult issue So especially if there are Non-Muslim people People in your family So You'd have to ask a mufti But from my limited understanding There's some dispensation with people that have Non- There's some allowance I should say But some people who have Non-Muslim family members But generally They're going to say not to You know somebody said to me the other day He said Merry Christmas And I know this guy And he wants to sort of Take it to me a little bit So he said Merry Christmas I was sitting at a pizza called Strange things happened So I was sitting there and he said Merry Christmas And I said Happy Kwanzaa And he said I don't celebrate And I said Ah And he was a white guy So he used to sing along Yeah All along Come near love What have we learned Don't follow women in alleyways