 Topic is Isa alayhi salam and Islam and Christianity. It's a good topic, it's important for us to understand, especially given our context. I want to begin by telling you a true story. I used to have fellowship with several churches in the Bay Area. There was a church one time, it was a Methodist church, and usually the United Methodist church is very welcoming of Muslims. They really enjoy learning about different perspectives and things like that. Anyway, I was in the church and after the event, I walked down to the parking lot in a group of really hardcore evangelical Christians. They ambushed me and they were asking me, what are you doing in a church? You're a Muslim, what are you doing here? I said, well, we're here to have interfaith dialogue and there's one lady in particular who had a Bible with her. She was very distraught that we were in the church and she started saying things like, your prophet went into Europe and killed all of the Europeans. I said, okay, I don't know who you think my prophet is, but the prophet, he did not leave the Hejaz, the Arabian Peninsula in the 23 years of his ministry. He didn't leave the Hejaz. She said, no, it's well documented. I said, I don't know who documents that. I've never heard of that. Then she quoted a verse from the Quran out of context. You know, Kill the unbelievers wherever you find them. She looked at this verse and she tried to convince me that Muslims believe in unmitigated perpetual warfare against unbelievers. That's what Muslims believe. And I said, do you actually believe that's what I believe? And she said, yes. And I said, then it would be my duty right now to kill you. Wouldn't it be? We're not killing you. So obviously that belief, that's not what Muslims believe. And then I said to her, you know, you have to look at the context. There's a whole science. You know, when you study the Quran, there's a lot of Quran. You have to know Naskh, you have to know asbab and nozul. You have to know the logo. You have to know these different types of sciences. So asbab and nozul, this is a science that relates to the occasions of the revelations. What are the context of these ayat? Right? Very, very important. So I said that versus contextualized, very important to understand the context. And she said, no, no, no Muslims have to apply this. And I said, well, to give her an example of why it's important to look at the context. I said, you know, in the Gospel of Luke chapter 19 verse 27, Jesus says, those enemies of mine that do not accept me as their king bring them hither and slay them before me. So I read this translate. I read this verse and she didn't understand it because it's kind of strange in English. So I quoted to her the baronstein bear translation. So they have a kids translation, a children's translation of the Bible called the baronstein bear translation. It's very easy to. So this is what it says in the baronstein bear translation. Those who do not accept me as their king cut their throats in my very presence. And then she immediately said, that verse is not in my Bible. I expected her to say, well, there's a context, right? And then I would have made my point exactly every verse in scripture has a context. But she said, that's not in the Bible. There's no way that verse was in the Bible. So I said, can I see your Bible? She gave it to me and I showed her the verse. And she looked at it and she closed it and she looked at the cover as if, you know, it was a different book or it was her own Bible. And then she looked at me and she said, I know who you are Satan. I just thought it opened with that story. I have a lot of stories, by the way. Down the line, I'll tell you more stories. Very interesting stories. So anyway, she proceeded to do an exorcism on me. She thought it was possessed by a demon. And she's speaking in tongues and things like that. It's happened quite often. It's quite normal now. Anyway, we're talking about Isa, first thing we want to talk about our names. It's important to understand the names of prophets, the Asma of the Anbiya. Because in the names of the prophets, there are certain secrets and the names, right? So the name of the prophet is Muhammad. This is a passive participle, right? And it's on the second verbal form, which, you know, it's intensity or repetition and action. So one who is always and intensively praised, right? That's his name. It's really interesting. And you can write volumes on, you know, the name of the prophet. But one of the things that the Ulema mentioned is right now, somebody is shouting, That's happening right now. It's actually happening every second of every day, 24-7, around the clock, as long as there are believers on the earth. Somebody is shouting the praises of the prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. What a fa'ana like a zikraq, right? As Allah SWT says, in the Quran, out of consolation to his prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, There was a wizard, there was a burden on the back of the prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. An anqadah in Arabic means this, to crack. So this is majaz, this figurative. If I put bricks on this table, the legs are going to start buckling and they'll crack. So the back is a very explicit analogy, very graphic analogy. The back of the prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, it's like it's breaking because of the wizard, the burden of the da'wah, of the revelation that he is the universal messenger. And Allah SWT says to him, we remove that from you and raised high your remembrance. wa rafa'ana laka zikraq, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. So there's many things we can say about the name of the prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. The name Isma'il, which is pronounced Yishma'il in Hebrew. Does anyone know what this name means? Sometimes you read these really anti-Muslim, polemicist writings that are done by evangelical Christians and I say, Isma'il means something terrible because they're racist and they like the Arabs and they want to justify a war and things like that. But what does the name actually mean? Isma'il, Yishma'il, Yishma'il in Hebrew is a fi'il mudadir, is a present tense verb. It means to hear. He hears. Who hears? A'il. A'il in Hebrew means God, like ila. God will hear. This is the meaning of his name. Isma'il, Isma'il, God will hear. Very interesting. In the Quran we're told that Ibrahim A.S. and Isma'il A.S. were at the Kaaba and they prayed, Oh Allah, raise up a messenger amongst them from them. And this dua was answered. The Prophet SAW said, I am the fulfillment of my father Abraham and Isma'il was there at the time. And the glad tidings. Mushra, that's the meaning of gospel and the gospel of Isma A.S. What is the gospel? The coming of the Prophet SAW. So Isma'il, Isma'il. Any time you see the word el, either as a suffix or in the name somewhere. That's called a theophoric name. A theophoric name means the name of God is embedded in the name. This is why the Prophet SAW said, The best names are theophoric, like Abdullah. You have the abdu prefix and then Allah, Abdul Rahman. Abdul Latif, these are the best types of names. So like the name Gabriel, Gabriel, Gabriel in Hebrew. The name of God is in that name. It means the power of God. Or like Elijah or Elroy or El Ron Hubbard. I'm just just just kidding about that one. I apologize to the Scientologists in the room. The theophoric names. If you look at a name, Ishaq, another example. What does the name Ishaq mean? In Hebrew it's pronounced, it's very difficult. Yixhaq, excuse me. Hebrew is very guttural, even much more than Arabic. The meaning in Hebrew means laughter. Related to the verb D'haq. Idhaq, that's how you would say it, literally. Why is his name laughter? Because we're told in Surah Hud and also in the Torah. We're told that when angels came to the house of Ibrahim SAW, they said to Sarah, you're going to have a son. She says, I'm an old woman. And I'm an old woman. This is my husband. He's an old man. This is strange. So the name their son, laughter. So the names of prophets are very, very interesting. That there's something that happened before their birth or something will happen during their lives or something that's going to happen at the end of their lives. That will determine their names. The name Moses is Moshe in Hebrew, which means to draw someone out of something. Something extracted. Why does his name mean extracted? Who knows? Very good. He was extracted from the Neel, the Nile River. So they call his name Moshe. Now the name Isa A.S., his actual name, according to most scholars of the New Testament, his actual name, because Isa A.S. did not speak English, obviously. There was a governor of Texas. This is a true story. God bless our politicians. The first female governor of Texas, her name was Miriam Ferguson. This was, I don't know, maybe a hundred years ago or something. There was a court hearing. They were going to determine whether they were going to teach Texas school children Spanish. And she was against it. So she picked up the King James Version of the Bible. And she said, if English was good enough for Christ, it's good enough for our children. Yes. No, didn't speak English. You know. Probably knew a little bit of Koine Greek. The New Testament is in Greek, and that's an immediate disadvantage for the Christian. Because Isa A.S. probably did not speak Greek either. But it's interesting when you look at certain things in the Greek, compared to the English. This is the Gospel of Mark. And we can quote these things. The Prophet SAW said, quote the stories of the Israelites and there's nothing wrong with that. As long as they don't contradict our Aqidah. So Imam Ghazali, for example, Imam Atabari, they'll quote from the Bible. It's sort of like FYI. If they're writing research papers today, they probably put it in footnotes. But someone, Ibn Kathir, he says, don't quote it. It's not necessary. It's a difference of opinion. He says, good master, what must I do to gain eternal life? In the English, in the English, his response is, why do you call me good? There is no one good but one. That is God. Isn't it very clear that he's not God? He doesn't even accept the title of good. But in the Greek, it's even more emphatic. In the Greek, he says, what he does is, he brings the object to the front of the sentence. This is called if you want to emphasize something. If you want to say, I hit Zaid, which you want to emphasize, Zaidan darabtu, Zaid I hit. You bring the forward. This is what happens in the Greek. So basically, you're saying, me? You're calling good? There's no one good but one. And that is God. Very interesting. Anyway, he probably knew a little bit of Koine Greek, probably knew some Latin maybe, the lingua franca of the Roman Empire at the time in Palestine was Koine Greek, common Greek, which is very different than classical Greek. You guys heard of Nietzsche? He quipped one time. He's a big atheist. It was so nice of God to reveal his word in such a remedial form of Greek for our comprehension. Because I studied Greek for two years and then I studied Koine Greek, Biblical Greek, and then I studied the Polytechnic by Plato. I said, whoa, the whole new ball game. Anyway. What he spoke was a language called Syriac. Syriac. That's the language of Isaias. Syriac is also known as late Aramaic. It's kind of a late dialect of a language called Aramaic. Aramaic was a language of the Persian Empire. The Jews were in captivity in Babylon. They were taken there by a man named Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon. 538, Babylon was conquered by the Persians, King Cyrus. Iran number one. I'm from Iran, so I can pick on the Iranians a little bit. So anyway, the Persians conquered the Babylonians. And then the Jews, when they returned to Palestine, and many of them did not return. Many of them stayed in Babylon, which is modern day Iraq. Some of them actually went into the Hejaz, into Yathrib. Because there's prophecy that a prophet will come there. The ones that did return to Palestine, Hebrew ceased to be the spoken language. They would pray in Hebrew. It was a liturgical language. The spoken language was called Aramaic, which is still a Semitic language. It was related to Hebrew, related to Arabic. We call them Semitic languages after Sam, the son of Noah. So according to the Muslim of Ahmad, there's a hadith where the prophet said that Nuh had three sons that survived the flood. They're called Sam, Ham, and Jepeth. And Sam, he went to the Middle East. It was his progeny. So Al-Ughat of Samyat, the Semitic languages, they're related in that sense. So he spoke Syriac. So how do you say the name of Issa in Syriac? It's pronounced Yehshua. Yehshua. Yehshua Ha-Mashiach. Jesus the Christ. Yehshua Ha-Mashiach. What does this name mean? It's interesting. In Hebrew and Aramaic and Arabic, like we said, it's very closely related. Sometimes the same verbal scale applies across all three languages. So in Arabic, a first form passive participle has an oo sound in the middle of it. Mafool. Do you hear that oo? The wow. Mafool. That means it's passive participle. That means an action is done to it. Right? So the khatib is the active participle, the one writing. The mektub is that which is being written. Mektub. So this name, Yehshua, it also has the oo. It's called Shurek in Hebrew. So this is a passive participle. The name of Jesus is passive. The root here is Yasha which means to save. So how do you say this name as a passive participle? Knowing that the root means to save. The active would be saviour. The passive is the saved. The one saved. This is what his name means literally. The one who was saved. Why is he called that? Do you know what the Quran says? It says It says It says they did not kill or crucify Isa'a. No. They did not kill or crucify him. But it was made to appear so unto his enemies. For surety they killed him not. His name literally means the one saved by God. That's what his name literally means. Very, very interesting. You know there's a book in the Old Testament. The Old Testament is called Tanakh in Hebrew. It's called the Psalms. In some Muslim Ulema they say this is the Zabur. But there's an interesting verse in the Psalms. It's chapter 20 verse 6 of the Psalms. Psalms 26. This is what it says. And this is what it sounds like in Hebrew. It says David writes It says I know that God will save his Messiah. God will save his Messiah. He shall hear him from his holy heaven with the saving power of his right hand. Right? So this idea that Isa'a was not crucified this is not a Muslim invention. This has precedent and prophecy in the Old Testament. Right? This idea that Jesus wasn't crucified was not invented by the Quran. It also has historical precedent. You guys hear of the Nag Hammadi Library? There's a discovery of a library in 1947. It's called Nag Hammadi. It's in Egypt. You have heard of the Dead Sea Scrolls? That was discovered in 1947. That was two years after Nag Hammadi. So Nag Hammadi 1945. The Dead Sea Scrolls 1947. What's interesting about the Dead Sea Scrolls is they were found in 1947 and full disclosure of the scrolls was not given until 1991. The only two organizations that had permission to look at the scrolls were the State of Israel and the Roman Catholic Church, the Vatican. No independent scholars for 40 years. And we know the Vatican has the Vatican vault that's 52 miles of shelf space. God knows what they have down in the vault. But what they've disclosed is very interesting. Very clear descriptions of the Prophet in the Dead Sea Scrolls. We can talk about that later if you'd like. But this is a different topic, the Prophet in the Hebrew Bible. I'll give you one example of this and then we'll return to the Nag Hammadi Library. So Allah SWT says that those who follow the messenger the unlettered prophet and Nabil Ummi Ummi has different meanings in Arabic. Ummi could mean unlettered in the sense that one cannot read nor write. Or it could mean someone can read or write but chooses not to. So unlettered or uneducated illiterate is sort of a derogatory. I would use the word unlettered. No formal education. This is one of the meanings. Another meaning of Ummi is motherly. Because Ummi means mother. Right? Like Zaid ibn Haritha who the Prophet SAW through Tabani which has been abrogated. He said he went to the Ka'bah and said Zaid ibn Zaid ibn Muhammad that's been abrogated. But the father of Zaid ibn Haritha named Haritha came into Mecca with his uncle Ka'bah and they saw Zaid and they said Zaid come home and Zaid said talk to him and he pointed to the Prophet SAW and the Prophet SAW said put your money away ask Zaid if he wants to go with you he can go and his father said to Zaid come let's go home and Zaid said I'm not going to leave this man he is my father and my mother he said about the Prophet SAW and his father said you choose slavery over freedom you choose this man over your own father and he said I've seen things from this man that I can't even explain he is my father and my mother because the Prophet SAW not only did he have those Jalali domestic qualities but he had those Jamali beautiful qualities that are predominantly found in women he was very merciful for bearing he would weep he did not raise his voice SAW he would not raise his voice in the marketplace he wouldn't speak all that much very taciturn in speech like me the Prophet SAW would barely speak but when he spoke he spoke the truth and he always spoke the truth like Amr ibn Abdullah ibn Amr al-Qas who was writing some of the Hadith of the Prophet SAW when you're angry should I write it down he said by the one who sent me in truth nothing comes out of this except the truth and he pointed to his mouth and the only thing the Prophet SAW said is a form of inspiration when he was angry and he didn't raise his voice and he didn't raise his voice not that he didn't raise his voice so if you know a little bit Arabic if it's that he didn't raise his voice it could mean that when he is reciting the Quran he is not speaking from his caprice but when he doesn't raise his voice with the Mim alif strong negation whatever speaks from his caprice whatever he says is wahyun is inspiration I forgot my train of thought where is it going with this aha yes the Dead Sea Scrolls I want to give you one example of how the Prophet SAW is mentioned in the Bible so that's what the Quran says another meaning of ummi is gentile what is a gentile a non-Jew in Hebrew you call them the goyim how do you say gentile in Arabic ummi as the Quran says so nabil ummi could mean the gentile prophet very interestingly and it says that they'll find him mentioned in the Torah and in the Gospel now we know the story of the Laylatul Qadr the Prophet SAW when he was 40 years old he was in the mountain called Jabal An Noor and jibir alaihi salam he comes into the cave in the form of a man and he says in iqra and the Prophet says na'ana biqari so Isaiah 2912 says the book is given to one who does not know letters and it is said to him qira initial answer it shall be said to him qira in Hebrew and iqra in Arabic are exact cognates this is Isaiah 2912 initial answer I know with no letters na'ana biqari is a perfect prophecy of the Prophet SAW anyway now 1945 two years earlier the Nag Hammadi library was discovered and they found Gospels that clearly explicitly denied that Isa alaihi salam was crucified clearly denied it so before 1945 if a muslim and a christian would engage in a discourse the muslim would say why don't you believe that Jesus was crucified and the muslim would say well it says in the Quran and then the christian would say well who cares what the Quran says and the muslims are written in the first century all of them say he was crucified why do you give precedence over something written 500 years later in a foreign language and the muslim goes well I believe in the Quran I believe in the revelation of God and I believe that the Prophet SAW is asadik al-amin but that's his only argument basically but now we know there are other Gospels that explicitly deny the crucifixion there's a book that they found at Nag Hammadi the second treatise of the great sef that's what they called it the second treatise of the great sef which states very clearly that a man named Simon was crucified instead of Jesus very clearly and there was a large group of christians in the first century called the basilidians the basilidians who denied that Isa alaihi salam was crucified who is Simon so if you read Matthew, Mark and Luke in the New Testament it says that when they were going to crucify Jesus the Romans pulled a man out of the crowd named Simon and they compelled him to bear the cross many Christians in the first century believed this man was crucified instead of Jesus so in the Gospel of John the last of the four Gospels in the New Testament which is written around 100 of the common era John says very clearly Jesus bore his own cross he doesn't even mention that episode of Simon at this time there were Christians who categorically denied that Isa alaihi salam was crucified a crucified messiah is an oxymoron you know what an oxymoron is they say a four sided triangle can you draw a four sided triangle you don't like the atheists will say if God is all powerful can he create a stone that's so big he can't even carry it and then someone goes oh no I don't know how to answer because the very question is faulty you know who Stephen Hawking is a very smart man right in many areas at least in science Stephen Hawking came into this muster and I said do you think you're a smart man he said yes probably I don't know I said okay Stephen I want you to draw a four sided triangle he said I can't do that you're not the smartest man in the world you can't do something simple as drawing a four sided triangle so this question can Allah do something can he make a boulder so big that he can't carry it this question is faulty it's saying can Allah be so strong that he's weak can Allah be so strong that he's weak that doesn't make any sense it's like I asked you for example in which jungle does the great white shark swim can you answer this question no the question is faulty there's no answer to oh you don't know something the question is faulty it's against the nature of Allah SWT to have any type of weakness this is why we reject Christian theology Christian theology to us is mustahil it's inconceivable because God cannot become a man because men are limited by nature I'm limited right now I have a 5 foot 11 inch frame but in shoes I'm 6 feet tall so it's 6 feet in heels but I'm limited I can't touch those books over there unless I have the force this is the imperial empire inland empire maybe if I use the force I might be able to touch it but I can't I'm limited I can't fly around this room unless Allah gives me the ability to do that unless Allah gives me the ability to do that and he wants to break the hukum adi natural law and he can certainly do that because he has he is omnipotence but if I don't eat for a few days I'm dead if I don't drink water for a few days I'm dead if I go outside over here and walk around with no clothes on after a few days I'll be in jail or dead right if the earth would just tilt a little bit we're all dead if the moon would go back a little bit we're dead we're dependent on so many things if there's no gravity, we're dead right so Allah SWT is samad Allah, what is samad? this is called the ha-paks-la-gamanan it's one of the fancy words of the scholars like to use to confuse the masses ha-paks-la-gamanan what that means is this is the only occurrence of the word in the entire Qur'an Allah was samad in Surah Al-Ikhlas Ikhlas has different names of Ikhlas there's a Hadith that says there's weakness in the Hadith but many of the Ulama they quote it it says the seven heavens and the seven earths are sustained by which means what? according to the Ulama as long as there's one person on earth saying that God is Ahad the heavens and the earth remain intact the heavens and the earth remain intact so Allah SWT what does samad mean? samad means that Allah SWT doesn't need anything so he is not in need of anything but everything needs him this is the meaning of samad so I can't be Allah you can't be Allah because we need things we're in need we are al-fukara we are poverty-stricken Allah is independent he is the wealthy and the rich so even someone who claims to be God just by making the claim he's disqualified because we have in our theology what are known as asifatul ma'ani a qualitative attribute of God in other words these are qualities that God must have in order to be qualified or described as God one of them is he must be omniscient he must know everything so for example if I say I'm God immediately I'm disqualified because you know I'm a human being and I'm limited but if you want to press the issue further and you say okay you're God I say yes you say okay what did you have for lunch 48 days ago you can't be God what is 1 million and 2 minus 566 times 245 I don't know I need my calculator it's just a knowledge alright there's a passage in the Gospel of Matthew 2436 where Issa alaihi salam comes to where Issa alaihi salam says of that day, the day of judgment nobody knows not the angels not even the son referring to himself and this doesn't mean son in the literal sense this means a servant of God this idea was corrupted by many Christians but only the father he doesn't know the yom ul qiyama he admits it in the Gospel of Matthew 2436 and later versions of Matthew they remove that little statement because they found it quite disturbing that Jesus doesn't know something because if Jesus doesn't know something he's automatically disqualified as being God you cannot qualify him as God anymore you ever heard of C.S. Lewis C.S. Lewis was a Christian philosopher Oxford or Cambridge Martin Lings was one of his colleagues or students J.R.R. Tolkien also who wrote the Hobbit The Lord of the Rings something like that I haven't seen those movies so yeah right anyway so C.S. Lewis says in Aristotelian logic this is called the principle of the excluded middle he's given you multiple choice and he says you have to choose one of these Jesus was either a liar or he's a lunatic or he's Lord right why is he saying this because for C.S. Lewis very clearly Jesus claims divinity in the New Testament he claims to be God you can only use this type of argument if your premise has been demonstrated that Jesus does in fact claim to be God but nowhere in the New Testament no where in the New Testament Matthew, Mark, Luke or John nowhere does E.C. Leeson claim that he is God nowhere does he say I am God nowhere does he say worship me nowhere so he says Jesus claims to be God so he's either lying or he's crazy he's only a crazy man because you see Berkeley there are two Jesuses on campus one on the south end and one on the north end there's Jesus and everything one of them has a sign around his neck it says Yeshua in Aramaic and he's holding a cane he's got the beard and he says I am Jesus and I said you're Jesus there's a guy over there saying he's Jesus and he goes he's a liar I am the Christ okay so or he says or he's a Lord right but we're saying is E.C. would never claim to be God ever and immediately disqualify him as being a prophet and this is what the Jews believe also this is by and large why Jews did not believe in E.C. after the first generation because they cannot possibly accept the Christian message that a man is God they can't accept that that goes against the very fabric of their theology right so he said God is a Wahid and Ahad we mentioned this briefly in the I am one man does that mean that you're not one man no you are one man you are one man so if I use the word Wahid this means one numerically but there could be in other words when I say I am not limiting the genus the species of man to myself there are other men so Allah is Wahid meaning he's one entity one person not three persons as the Trinitarians believe he's one person but Allah is also Ahad if I say what does this mean this means I've limited the genus of Rajul to myself there's no other man in existence there was I think it was a movie where the last man on earth or something and I heard about it I haven't seen it though so that man can say there's no other man in existence but somebody could say oh but there's women and women are comparable to men right they're similar to men there are things that women excel at that men do not women are better at multitasking and they're better in linguistics this is politically incorrect science by the way like men have better hand-eye coordination but women have better linguistic skill they're not done by Harvard University right so they're comparable they excel at things and men are sometimes better and women are sometimes better right and even if there were no women somebody could make the argument but chimpanzees are similar to men 98% of the DNA is similar right but with Allah SWT there's nothing even remotely close to Allah SWT he's one of a kind there's nothing like the likes of God there's nothing like there's nothing even close to the closeness of God there's emphasis here right so it's interesting in the Old Testament in the Hebrew Bible in the book of Hosea it says very clearly chapter 11 verse 9 it says in Hebrew indeed I am indeed I am God and not a man these are mutually exclusive God and man are mutually exclusive right in other words anyone who claims to be God who's a man cannot possibly be God so Islam it accepts as al-Masih but it corrects the Christology it corrects belief about him we believe as Muslims is the Messiah he is the anointed one of Bani Israel what's interesting also is that if you read the Quran there's a subtlety in the Quran and this is open to challenge but this is something interesting the Ulama mention is they say that Imam Sayyuti makes this argument he says who is the greatest companion of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam most people would say Abu Bakr Sadiq he's the greatest companion of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam he says think about this what about Isa alayhi sallam isn't he a companion what is a Sahabi what is a Sahabi how do you define a companion of the Prophet yes so somebody that the Prophet saw while this person because some of the Sahaba were blind Abdullah ibn Maktoum never saw the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam at least not with the Basar not with his physical eye the Prophet saw while that person believed in the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam and as far as we know this person died upon Islam that's a Sahabi so Abu Bakr Sadiq Sayyidina Omar Arthman Ali these are Sahaba but someone like the Najashi who converted to Islam right the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam never laid eyes on him although they're contemporaries they lived at the same time but since the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam never saw him he's considered a Tabi'i he's a follower he's not a Sahabi this is what the Ulema debate right so he says Isa alayhi sallam was he seen by the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam while Isa alayhi sallam was alive we know Isa alayhi sallam was never killed he wasn't killed and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam saw him on Lailatul Isfrawan Mi'araj right and we know that Isa alayhi sallam will die upon the faith he's a prophet he's going to come again in the second coming not in the capacity of a prophet but in the capacity of a leader a military leader so he's a companion of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam interestingly enough also according to Jewish Sharia right the Naseb or the tribal distinction of the child is taken from the mother's side it's matrilineal whatever your mother is that's what you are this is true in eleven of the twelve tribes except for the tribe of Levi the tribe of Levi is the tribe of Maryam alayhi sallam Ya'ukhdah Harun Harun alayhi sallam Musa and Harun are Levites that means that in order for her son to be from Bani Israel her husband has to be from Bani Israel right but she doesn't have a husband Isa alayhi sallam his birth we believe in the Mu'ajiza that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala performed that Isa alayhi sallam was created in the womb of Maryam alayhi sallam without any male intervention right that's why in the Quran Isa alayhi sallam is never quoted as saying Ya qawmi oh my people very interesting the subtlety in the Quran every other prophet says Ya qawmi because in order to say that in order to call a people qawm your father has to come from that people but Isa alayhi sallam doesn't have a father not even from Bani Israel but Rasulan ila Bani Israel he was sent to Bani Israel he's actually in our ummah he's a companion of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam that was sent before the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam and this is why we believe in the second coming he's going to come again this is mentioned in many many hadith it's indicated in the Quran that he's going to come back he's going to have a family going to make Hajj he's going to be buried next to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam he's going to question friends and neighbors we believe in the second coming of Jesus peace be upon him he's going to defeat the Antichrist you know the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam we don't want to talk too much about the Antichrist it makes people nervous by the way if somebody comes into the mosque and starts talking about the Mehdi and things like that be careful because a lot of these people are shayatin and human form that we're trying to get you to say something anyway the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam he said I'm going to tell you something about the Jadh, the Antichrist that no other Prophet told their people he said he's one eyed and your Lord is not one eyed and then he said on his forehead is written kafara or kafir and everyone will be able to read it whether they're literate or not you know what's trending nowadays what's trending began in the military but now I've seen it just average people they get kafir tattooed on their body kafir in Arabic I've seen it like on the arm you know on the bumper sticker I saw one on the neck it's moving up you know it's going to this is very common kafir they're going to start making hats probably kafara and you put it right here kafir allahu alam very interesting anyway that's enough about the Antichrist but what is his message is the message of the Antichrist is the opposite of the message of Isa alayhi sallam look at the hadith of Isa alayhi sallam there's a lot of hadith of him in our tradition some of it correlates to things in the New Testament some of it doesn't there's a hadith of Ahmad in which the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam he said that the disciples of Isa alayhi sallam the disciples of Jesus came to him one day and they said how is it that you can walk on water and Jesus said bill yakeen with certitude and they said we don't understand and he said bring to me three objects they said what he said bring gold bring stones and bring mud bring those three objects to me and they brought it to him and he said what do you say about these objects and the disciples said well you know gold is better than stones and stones are better than mud he says they're all the same to me they're all the same to me if you can understand the mystery of that then you can walk on water so the hadith of Isa alayhi sallam they deal with moat and akhira and zuhud death after life and asceticism that's the message of Isa alayhi sallam as delivered to us right so why is he like this why is he teaching these things like he says the similitude of the hubud dunya the love of mammon the love of the world is like a man who's out at sea on his boat he's lost he starts taking a handful of seawater into his mouth the more he drinks the thirstier he gets and then he dies from it the sea represents the dunya the world he'll never be satiated and he's going to kill you get away from the dunya this is his message because the religious establishment of his day they were called the the sadjuces they were the high priest of the temple they didn't even believe in an akhira they didn't believe in an afterlife did you know most jews today don't believe in an afterlife the majority of jews today don't believe in an afterlife back then the temple authority did not believe in an afterlife they were called the sadjuces are you ready for a bad joke when they're resurrected on the day of judgment they're going to be sad you see anyway so their message was one of complete materialism this is the only life there is that's the message of the dijal also salvation is through the dunya salvation is through the dunya that's why people you know it's really interesting people have these these competitions on facebook who has the most followers I want followers think about what that sounds like I want followers my teacher said that the seeds of the claim of the pharaoh lie dormant in the heart of every man I am your lord most high the seeds of that claim lie dormant in the heart of every man and how do you water those seeds love of fame and love of leadership this is how you water those seeds right it's like justin beiber you know alright 10,000 believers the people who follow him on twitter he calls them believers from the word believer the people worship he has this god complex he can do whatever he wants he's above the law and this is who people are imitating nowadays I'm going to take a selfie of myself selfie means nafsi you translate selfie into arabic and nafsi this is my nafsi I have 500 followers masha'Allah I hope that works out for you you know anyway so we look at the hadith of israelislam he's dealing with the people that are steeped in materialism so you can imagine like if you have a piece of paper and you fold it and you crease it how do you get that paper to stand up straight again you can't just pick it up and hope it'll stay hell you have to crease it the other way and it's going to find an equilibrium so the jews at the time of israelislam were steeped in materialism so he brings pure spirituality but he does not negate the sharia this is where our christian friends and neighbors with all due respect you know pauline christianity they made a major error that they think that israelislam abrogated the sharia there's no more sharia and his adherence whereas israelislam he followed the sharia so we have sharia and haqiqa we have we have the law which we follow we also have spirituality and these two things are not in conflict many muslims again they buy into kind of this you know this protestant sort of idea that the law and the spirit are somehow intention to one another we don't believe that as muslims we never believe that you know rumi is the most popular selling poet in america and some people think rumi was this guy who twirled around and never prayed he was a qadi he was a judge in konya i mean this was a man of sharia a man who never missed prayer missed a prayer and heard of right but people don't see that because the protestant kind of mindset we sort of bought into is that the sharia and spirituality are intention to one another they've been bifurcated but that's not how we look at that's not our conception of religion the sharia is a means by which to attain spirituality right so that has to be important you know it's america imports a lot of things overseas there's different types of imperialism there's obviously going into a country with your tanks and bombs and so on and so forth but ebert saeed talks about imperialism that is done on the level of linguistics also and that's actually more harmful when people construct your own religion for you to find your terminology right so he said this is what jihad means unmitigated perpetual warfare against unbelievers so when the youth hear something like that and then they read the quran I can't be muslim I don't believe that because they've bought into this idea of this definition of daniel pipes that jihad means you have to kill everybody right so be very very careful who defines our religion sometimes we take from other people we don't even know what we're doing right so if you look at you know american Protestantism is very different than what we have in the middle east if you go to a church in the levant right like in syria and villages uh lebanon you'll go to a church you'll walk into the church and it looks like a musket looks similar to this people sitting on the ground the women behind the men the women are covered there's people are standing and they're prostrating they're reciting an aramaic right if you put one of those Christians in the staple center at a joel ostin revival you'd have no idea what's going on what's going on here there's a concert why? because the sanat this is the secret of our religion as muslims the secret of this religion is sanat transmission our knowledge is taken talaqi it's taken from someone who took from someone who took from someone who took from someone who took from a tabi'i who took from a sahabi who took from the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam who took from jibreel aleyhi salam this is our knowledge this is called sanat so the sanat in some of these places in the middle east the christianity there is stronger than the christianity in america so we can see more of the true isa aleyhi salam in some of those places the reality of isa aleyhi salam is in our umma that isa aleyhi salam was a muslim you know if isa aleyhi salam walked into this musket and i asked him oh isa aleyhi salam are you a christian? he wouldn't even know what i was talking about because he never heard this word in his life his entire life this is admitted i don't want to offend anybody this is a fact the book of aks tells us they were first called christians in anioch after the ascension of isa aleyhi salam and even that's an acronistic we want to get into details anyway i would expect isa aleyhi salam to say my religion is a religion of submission unto god submission unto god and that's what he says in the new testament whoever does the will of god is my mother, my brother, and my sister and isa aleyhi salam he believed in Allah i was flipping the channels years ago and there was this man named pat robertson if my father heard of him he ran for president in 1984 thank god he didn't win anyway i mean it's not like we got somebody much better anyway um so robertson he was flipping through the channels and i've seen this show three or four times and every single time he's talking about islam which leads me to believe he's always talking about islam in every show one of the things he says he said you know the moslems they believe in Allah and then the lady next to him who's a former beauty queen or whatever turned born again christian she said uh who's Allah and then he said the moon god god he's the moon god he said moon god how do you know that and he said well you ever seen the flag of pakistan there's a moon and they're like okay you know they also follow a lunar calendar you know the jews also follow a lunar calendar but no one's gonna say that they worship the moon god you know in the gospel of matthew five nine it says these are the peacemakers they shall be called the children of god and again children of god here is metaphorically this is manjazz that idad muqramun i mean servants raised to honor later on it was literal size it was made literal that jesus is the son of god begotten not made by the nicene council anyway if you translate that into aramaic which christians did in the fourth century this is what it sounds like Allah uses the word Allah for god how do you say god in syriac Allah that's the word he used himself right so this is when he comes back and he may come into this masjid it's conceivable we will leave in a second coming he's gonna be able to follow exactly what we're doing as muslims his language was similar the way he prayed was similar his beliefs are similar everything is similar it's like the lord's prayer the christians have this prayer called the lord's prayer that actually rhymes in aramaic there's a rhyme to it that you lose in translation one time i recited this in a church so the christians can hear you know our father in heaven that's called saja in arabic and i said listen to the quran now does it sound similar right so it's very interesting we have to he said spread or convey from me even one verse or statement so it's our responsibility as muslims to be a good example to give da'wah and da'wah means an invitation to a banquet and da'wah does not mean to stand up on a stage and give a speech if you're an a'lam that's what you do right because often times muslims do a lot more damage when they speak myself included for us da'wah for the laity the best thing we can do is just be a practicing muslim because the sunnah of the prophet is beautiful inherently even if he's just smiling at people opening a door giving up your seat you know one time i was on the subway system in the bay area it's called the bart train and this woman came into the bart train and i got up and i offered my seat to her i didn't know she was a feminist so i don't need your seat what do you think i am you have to be careful there's feminists out there but you should be you should be kind it just means for people it means to imitate men how can you be a feminist just imitate what men are doing that's not feminism you're just copying what men want to do you know like they used to have in the 1980s these shoulder pads in the business suits because women want to look bigger more imposing like a man very very strange you have to embrace how god how he made us like he said the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam there are three things from your dunya that i love a good smell the prayer which is a coolness of my eye and women and that does not mean what the orientalists say it means that he's it's some sort of lustful addiction or something that he has what he meant there according to the urlama is that he loves the feminine qualities of forbearance and mercy that he himself had sallallahu alaihi wasallam we all know the story in times right you know what happened after that in one version in ahmad musnad ahmad they went outside and this bed when he turned around all the men were leaving the masjid and he said allahuma irhamni wa muhammadan wa la tarhamma'ana ahadan he said oh allah have mercy on me and on muhammad and nobody else why because the sahaba tried to attack him when he was urinating in mid urination which is quite scary so the prophet says leave him and they say ok well wait till he's done and then it's over for him and he said no no no so the prophet went with rifq with gentleness he said you know bring the ahil arab oh my Arab brother you know these are masajid we don't do these things here salawat and qiraat at the car these are the things we do in the masjid and he didn't know they just don't know sometimes we get questions from non-muslims that seem to be offensive i got a question one time in a unitarian universalist church i'm thinking ok they're unitarian that's good but it was very difficult because people hear a lot of things raise his hand why do you abuse your wife me right so before you can ask why you have to know what so i said how do you know i abuse my wife he says well do you let your wife drive a car and i say i actually order my wife to drive a car then people don't know you know we have to be this other gentleman raised his hand and he said i'll never forget this one he said i have a question for you i said yes sir he said i want to go with you i said yes sir he said i want to go to turkey in the summer i said oh beautiful but i have a concern i said what is your concern i'm afraid that a group of Wahhabis are going to kidnap me and torture me and i said isn't that taken too i said have you seen that movie yeah no you'll be fine and don't worry about it now people just don't know right so he said have mercy on me and on muhammad and nobody else for the prophet laughed he thought that was funny that he made that dua leaving the mustad and the prophet said no don't restrict the mercy of god the mercy of god is vast it's vast you know how we hear all the time i don't know if you're familiar with sort of pietistic sort of representations of christianity and film on tv usually if they make a jesus movie they'll have the scene where jesus is crucified and then he says father forgive them right in greek he says did you know that verse is a fabrication to the new testament by consensus of new testament scholars that verse was added later to the new testament in other words jesus of course jesus was never crucified but from a standpoint of the new testament he never made that statement but we all know about it but how many people know that the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam on the day of ghazwat or hud with blood streaming down his face was trying to catch his blood in his hands he was like this absorbing the blood with his sleeves why? he told the sahaba if one drop of this blood should strike the earth then immediately our enemies are going to be obliterated these enemies that are fighting against him that have bloodied his face that are killing his companions that are cannibalizing his companions on the battlefield if one drops his bill on the earth immediately the punishment of Allah s.w.t would descend on our enemies and the sahaba said great let it flow right and then they saw him a short time later and he had his hands raised and he was supplicating this is going to be they're done and they heard this is what he said oh Allah guide my people for they don't know this is what he said sallallahu alayhi wa sallam no one's heard of this but Isa alayhi wa sallam forgive them they've all heard of it but he didn't actually say that very strange why? because our religion again is being defined for us we have to define our own religion right and we can't be the sort of passive stance where who am I to do things no do things to your own capacity support organizations that can do that right this is very very important because if we don't define ourselves other people are going to define us whoever defines the terminology controls discourse and discourse is everything and right now the discourse is the good Muslims are Muslims who do not believe that the Quran is a word of God as articulated by the Rand report that was put up by the Rand corporation you know Dick Cheney and Rumsfeld and Condoleezza Rice the good Muslims are those who believe that the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is just a historical figure and that his life has little to no bearing on our life today there's no transcendent universal aspect and the Quran is history and poetry those are the good Muslims the bad Muslims they say are not the terrorists they're bad but he said even worse than the terrorists this is what they say even worse than the terrorists are traditionalists who say that the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is a messenger of God and that his example is alive today and is dynamic the Quran is the word of God and its universal revelation these are the bad Muslims these are the biggest threat to our what do they call it their strategies in the world whatever that means so you guys think about this very clearly in the Quran you have the messenger of God a beautiful example verily you dominate praiseworthy character you have to follow me you have to follow the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam then Allah will love you so we have to be careful and we can't be afraid nobody is doing anything wrong no one is advocating violence good citizens but we believe this to be a revelation of God everyone makes moral judgments right now in the academy western academy because I go to western academy the the main issue that divides the main issue that non-muslims use in western academy to determine whether a Muslim is a progressive forward thinker or a backwards antiquated traditionalist is how you feel about homosexuality this is the main issue how do you feel if you say I believe it's a sin oh you're a crazy traditionalist you're a prejudice and you're a hateful person it's mentioned when it says in the new testament new testament we're not saying we're not saying we should hate people or anything like that all of us are in a state of sin all of us but we start denying things that are explicitly this is very dangerous it says in a new testament after 10 he told his disciples he says go into the lands the towns of Israel but don't go to the towns of the Samaritans and then he says when you go to a city and you evangelize them with the gospel if they don't accept your city leave the city and shake the dust of that city off of your feet for verily Sodom and Gomorrah will fare better on the day of judgment than that city do you understand he sent his how are you in the disciples he sent them the gospel if they have kufr, if they reject the gospel shake the dust off your feet meaning that city is done it's done the Qomalut, Sodom and Gomorrah will have a better time on the day of judgment than that city very interesting you know the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam when he went to Taif he was stoned out of the city he didn't send Sahaba he went himself to the city his feet were covered in his own blood he lost consciousness under a tree right the angel descends the angel wrath and says give me the word and these people are done the Bani Thaqif of the Hawazan the people of Taif give me the word and they're done what did he say yeah let me shake the dust of the city I have hope in their descendants that people will come and worship Allah as their only god today the city of Taif is completely Muslim the city of Taif is the greatest exporter of roses today because the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam did not give up on them you know some people sometimes we have very short thresholds of da'wah I was in a masjid one time with a group of brothers the christian brother was there the christian brother was asking very critical questions that's okay he can ask questions, no problem whatsoever as long as it's done with adab and he was asking questions uncle walks into the masjid uncle we call him chacha said kaka said amu walks into the masjid he listens to the conversation for two minutes and he says in front of everybody including the christian brother he says you know these kafar these kafar Allah has put a cover on their eyes brothers their hearts are dead they are fueled for the naar he's going to burn khali danfiha leave him alone and the brothers what is he talking about no brother he's a local majnun he comes in sometimes you know okay thank you sir two minutes was a threshold you know abu sufyan ibn harb is fighting against the prophet for over 20 years actively fighting against him trying to kill him and killing ahlul bait killing sahaba actively and the prophet says to him one day after 20 years don't you think it's about time for you to become muslim and he said you're still you're still kind to me you still talk to me after what i've done so yeah of course isn't about time for you to become muslim you know when they're coming into mecca fatah mecca the prophet says some he gave the standard to saad ibn abadah and saad ibn abadah was saying al yawma yawma al yawma yawmul malhamah al dallallahu qureishan he was screaming this the debasement of the qureish and he's saying this coming into the haram and he passes abu sufyan ibn harb who had just become muslim today is a day of slaughter the debasement of the qureish and the prophet say salam was told this is what saad is saying so he sent a rider to go to saad to take the standard from him and saad said i'm not going to give it to you he said no i was sent by the prophet i don't believe you so the rider came back to the prophet and he says saad he's not giving it up i don't know what to do the prophet says some he takes off his blessed imamah he says present this to saad and say give up the standard the liwa and then he said but give it to his son qais who was next to him look at the khikmah of the prophet he knows that saad will have his feelings hurt if you take the standard but if you honor the son if i shake your son's hand i'm honoring you so he goes to saad and he says give up the standard here's the turban of the prophet immediately he gives it up and he said here give it to your son though and the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam he rides by abu sufian who is very obviously distraught by what he was hearing and he says to him yawmul marhamah yuizullahu qureishan today is a day of mercy the exaltation of the qureish this is the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam and he could have taken out the entire city you know it says in the taura in the christian bible it says that when you go to a city and conquer it if the people of that city don't willingly become your slaves kill the men and take the women and children as captives however if that city is in the lands that the lord thy god gives to you is in the lands that the lord thy god gives the as an inheritance meaning palestine save nothing that breathes destroy everything men women child animals you know what happened to jericho we don't read the bible very interesting complete decimation 31 city states total genocide the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam the people of mecca they know the saint thiana we've ward against him he could take us all out right now they come to my kareem you are a noble brother the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam he climbs abukhubais he's going to make an announcement and people think the meccans the qureish the mushlikeen they all were done what did he say la tafriba alaykum ulyom the qufrallahu lalakum with you. Allah has forgiven you. Exactly what Yusuf Aleyhi Salam said to his brethren when Yusuf when they came to Egypt. Subhanallah, this is rahmatil al-alameen and this is the message we have to tell people about the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi Salam. That the message of the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi Salam is perfectly in agreement with the true gospel of Isa Aleyhi Salam. Both of these are prophets. They're both brethren. There's a hadith of the Prophet Rees says, the closest to me in disposition is Isa Ibn Mariam. The closest to me in my character is Jesus the son of Mary and there's no prophet between us. These are all brethren. We believe in all of the prophets. And Islam restores the true theology of Isa Aleyhi Salam, the true gospel. I'll end with this when I'm open for questions. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, The unbelievers from the people of the book, meaning people of the Bible, Jews and Christians and the idolaters are not going to break away from their unbelief until there comes to them al-bayna. Clear evidence. What is clear evidence? The next verse. A messenger from God who recites to them purified scrolls. In these scrolls are books that are made correct. Qutub. Very interesting. The Mufasirin say here, why does Allah say Qutub? Why does he describe the Quran with the word books instead of Kitab like he does in other places? Because the essence, the truth of the Torah and the gospel and the Zabur are found in the Quran itself. The essence of that teaching. This is progressive revelation. Right? So becoming a Muslim is becoming truly a follower of Isa Aleyhi Salam. Becoming a true follower of Isa Aleyhi Salam. So we'll end it there, inshallah. I'm sorry if I said anything that offended anyone. It wasn't our intention. I'm sorry I spoke so long. Everyone's kind of tired. You can leave anytime you want. We won't be offended. But if you want to ask some questions or make some comments or throw things at me, please feel free. I'll talk under the table. Yes sir. Yeah. So many of these hadith have weakness in them. Many of these hadith. So usually they come from the Tabi'een. They come from the Tabi'een. So many of them don't actually go back to the Prophet So we approach them with caution. Some of them do go back to the Prophet like in Bukhari and Ahmad. What's that? He said it himself. Some of them come from Sahaba which could have Hukum Marfuor, which means that they could have heard it from the Prophet but we don't know for certain. So we approach those hadith with caution. Many of them originate with the Tabi'een. Imam Ghazali will quote a lot in the Ihi'a-Lum ad-Din. He'll quote a lot from Isa Aleyhi Salam. Acknowledging that many of the hadith have weakness in them. But Imam Ghazali is dealing with the same type of mentality that Isa Aleyhi Salam dealt with. This kind of emphasis on formalism, the emphasis on the exoteric aspect of the religion and not so much on the inner aspect. So he's dealing with symptoms that Isa Aleyhi Salam was dealing with as well. So for purposes of edification, you can quote weak hadith. A weak hadith does not mean it's forged. It's not Maudu'a. Imam Sayyuti has a book called Maudu'atul Kubra where he collects all of the forged hadith. No, Ibn Qayyim has a book. A hadith that is da'if means it passes but it's like a C-minus. If you get a C-minus on a test, you're like, well I passed. That's what a weak hadith is. So you don't use a weak hadith for aqida and you don't use it for shari'a but you can use it for nasiha. You can use it for advice edification. So that's what he's doing. Yes, sir. You have to get a report. It was put out a few years ago. It's called Fear Incorporated, the center of American progress. You can find that you can Google this. The organization that put it out is called the Center of American Progress called Fear Incorporated. And I think the subtitle is Tracing the Roots of Islamophobia in America. And this is phenomenal work that was done by these young people, many of whom are non-Muslim. The principal author is a brother named Wajahat Ali, who is actually related to me through marriage. But in that report, they document seven individuals that received over $40 million from various conservative think tanks for the express purpose of rewriting Islam in America, changing Islam from within, as they say. And how do you do that? You define the Muslim terminology for the Muslims, so that they have no choice but to conform to their definitions. So this is quite, you know, it's very, it's a big ambitious theological project that they're doing. It used to be like the Orientalist will just kind of outright slander the prophets of the Lali Saddam. So the Quran is from the Satan and so on and so forth. And one of them said, this was the Abbot of Clooney. They lie too, like outright, the Abbot of Clooney who's, I think his name was Peter, the so-called venerable. He said the Prophet S.A.W. died in the year 666, which is the mark of the beast in the book of Revelation, which is total lie, not even close to 632, 631, something like that. But you know, he's going to, he's going to lie. So, but now it's hard to just lie like that. So what they do is they bring this guy on TV who has a PhD in Islamic history or something. He's got to, he's got to tie on, you know, so he's legit, right? And then he gives these statements that no Muslim on earth actually believes, right? So he's building a straw man in philosophy that's called building a straw man, right? So you say, for example, if I go to a Christian and I say, and of course I would never say this, but this is an atheist would, I might say this and say, Jesus used to kill children. And then the Christians say, whoa, what are you talking about? Jesus used to kill children. What do you mean? It says in the infancy gospel of Thomas that when Jesus was a schoolboy, he used to kill children for fun. And the Christian response would be, I don't believe that's a canonical book that's not in the New Testament. That's spurious. That's apocryphal, right? So you can't use that in order to disprove Christianity because Christians don't believe in it. Do you see what I'm saying? So it's very important that the youth especially, and there's a faith crisis with the youth, many of them, there's a lot of ridda people leaving Islam, becoming Christian or leaving Islam. And it's because they don't have access to authentic authoritative knowledge. You have to stay in contact with the Ulama, even of your community. Now we have the internet. You can take lessons from Mashiach around the world. There's really no excuse if you have questions on Akida, because many of the immigrants like my parents that came to the country, there was an internet when they were small. Everyone was Muslim. They never heard Richard Dawkins give a lecture or they never, you know, let's listen to Christopher Hitchens, right? So most of their questions back then were related to orthopraxis, like Fikri issues, you know, that's their question. But nowadays the youth today, their questions are not orthopraxis. They have questions of orthodoxy. In other words, how do you know there is Allah? How do you know this is the word of God? How do you know he's a messenger of God? And the immigrant community is just not equipped to answer these questions. So the youth, they go elsewhere, they go to the internet, they go to Sheikh Google and Imam Wikipedia. They go there and they put in their question, the Prophet S.A.W. had many wives and they, oh, okay. And then next thing you know, I've met many youth that have confided to me personally that they're not even Muslim and they're in the musted with their father reading a mushaf, praying sunnah, because I'm going through motions because I don't want to disappoint my father. And I'm not even Muslim anymore. That's what they say because they're addicted to these things on the internet. So there's a difference between information and knowledge. What's on the internet is a lot of information. Knowledge, however, is different. Knowledge is information that has been verified through authoritative channels, right? And it's also something that's implemented. So it's very important that we take our knowledge, our dean, from authoritative scholars. I mean, this is just 101, right? Do you guys know who ELMO is? From Sesame Street? Someone like, you know ELMO, right? ELMO. ELMO. ELMO means God, by the way. It's a theophoric name, anyway. If ELMO goes on TV and says, you know, you shouldn't drink, I'm not going to do my ELMO impersonation in the musted. Usually I do it. Anyway, he says, if you drink Diet Coke, it's going to give you osteoporosis. Are you going to believe ELMO? You might think, well, ELMO is a puppet. He's best friends with Cookie Monster, who's a junkie. I'm not going to believe ELMO on this one, right? But what about ELMO who puts on a suit and tie? And he says, you know, so we have a bunch of ELMOs, Daniel Pipe, Steve Emerson's David Urushalami, Ayan Hirsi Ali, you know, these people, Steve Emerson, right? Who look legit, but it's really a bunch of ELMOs up there. Because they don't have, they've never studied traditional sciences. They don't know Islam. They have a few sound bites that they use. But if Dr. Oz, you know who Dr. Oz is, right? Dr. Mohamed Oz. His first name is Mohamed, by the way. Mehmed, the Turkish, they use Mehmed. If he says, don't drink Diet Coke, it gives you osteoporosis. You might go, okay, Dr. Oz, he knows what he's talking about. What's the difference? Dr. Oz is a doctor. He studied. He has knowledge that is from transmission from a doctor. He studied under a doctor. He studied under a doctor who studied under, I don't know, who's the first doctor, right? So the youth don't know how to navigate that. They read something on the internet by doctor, so and so. The prophet was this and that. Oh, a doctor said it. Or they go to the university. They take a philosophy class at the university. And he's a PhD in philosophy. And he's an atheist. And he's saying all of these crazy things about Muslims and Islam. And this youth who's 18, 19, 20 years old, he's completely swayed by it. And then he goes home to his father. This is what I heard. And his father says, don't worry about that. Go pray. Go make wudu. That's not going to help me. Go make wudu. So it's important that we have balance in our life, earn a living, raise a family, but also be in contact with the Muslim scholastic community. And always be in a program of study once a week, twice a week, something like that. Learn something, learn Quran, learn Tajweed, learn Arabic, learn theology, learn fiqh, whatever you want to learn. Learn one of these sacred sciences. It'll keep your iman fresh. And don't forget the zikr. Jadidu imanakum, the prophet renew your faith by saying la ilaha illallah. Say this. One of my teachers said, you can say la ilaha illallah without opening your mouth. Ready? You don't know what my tongue's doing. You can say it. I can't make, I can't take out my zikr beads on the train and I can't go on. People are going, oh, this guy is, he's insane. You don't have to do it internally. Make zikr, right? Make zikr. It has an effect on the heart. The name of Allah is wadi. There's a hadith of the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. He said, on a day of judgment, there's a prophecy. On the day of judgment, a man will come whose bad deeds are going to be presented on scrolls, 99 scrolls stretched out as far as the eye can see. And that's going to be placed on one side of the mizan of a scale. And then a card, a bitaqa, this is called hadithu A card is put on the other side of the scale, but written on the card is And the card will fall and the scrolls will rise. And Allah will say to the man, nothing is wader than my name. So we have to have a good opinion of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. This doesn't mean that we become lax in our deen and we start saying things like, you know, I get this a lot, I speak Farsi, you know. My Qalb is pure. And you say, why don't you come pray with us? My heart, you don't know? I have me and Allah, no brother, prayer is ford. No brother, I make dua. My prayer is in my heart. Like his brother said one time, I'm fasting in my heart. He's eating like this, brother, it's Ramadan, brother, Ramadan. I'm fasting in my heart. You know, as a brother, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam, whose maqamah Mahmood prayed six times a day. Salat al-Tahajjud, a third of the night, is wajib on him. He prayed six times a day, but you've transcended prayer. There was a great scholar, Sheikh Abdul Qadim al-Jilani, who's walking down the road, and he would have revelatory experiences, you know, muka'sha fat and things like that. And one time he says, walking down the road, and suddenly the heavens opened, and he felt this warmth come over him. And a soothing voice said, Ya Sheikh, you don't have to pray anymore. You're above the prayer. You've transcended the prayer. Masha'Allah for you. You know what the sheikh said? He said, you are accursed. And then the vision went away. Iblis, trying to mess around. Imam Abu Qasim al-Junaid, one of the great articulators of Tassawuf from Baghdad, he made dua. He wanted to speak to Iblis. He said, Allah, please send me Iblis. I'm going to ask him a question. This is what's related from him. He's walking down the streets of Baghdad. He sees a man motioning to him like this. And al-Junaid said, when he saw the man, he started shaking immediately. So he goes and he says, what do you want? And the man says, you're the one that, I'm the one that you've been wanting to ask. I'm shaitan. And then he composes himself and he says, why didn't you make sajda to Adam? What's wrong with you? Why did you make sajda? And shaitan says, stop for Allah. You want me to make sajda to a human being and not Allah? Are you kidding me? This is shaitan. And Junaid said, I said, no, you're a liar. That's not what you said. He said, I'm better than him. So he was trying to play with him. This is what shaitan does. And this is not a sajda of ibadah. When the angels made sajda, this is for ta'zim. This is for respect. And this has been abrogated in our religion. We don't make sajda in any form to any human being or creation, only to Allah. So there's no more sajda. Like when Yusuf, I read to Umli, I saw 11 stars in the sun and the moon make sajda to me. Sajda here again, it's for ta'zim. It's for respect because Yaqub, when he heard that, he didn't say, stop for Allah. Who do you think you are? God? No. He said, don't tell your brothers they're going to try to do something because he understood the context of that. But this is what shaitan does. He's going to play with the mind a little bit. And we have protections. We have to be in wudu. Wudu is a protection. We recite ayatul kursi. We recite al-mu'awwath at-taim, the two last surahs of the Qur'an. We recite suratul ikhlas. Say la ilaha illallah. Go to Salatul Juma'ah. Have these sorts of the prophetic invocations. Learn the ad'iyah of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. The Prophet used to have a dua for every occasion. When he goes into the bathroom, when he walks out of the bathroom, when he walks into the house, when he starts to eat, when he's done eating, when he goes to his wife, when he leaves his wife, there's always a dua. When he looks in the mirror, Allahumma kama hasant khalki, fa hasan khuluqi. Oh Allah, just as you have made my outward appearance beautiful, beautify my inward appearance. One time I said that to a brother and he said, well I'm ugly so I can't make that dua. I said, no brother, la qad karamna bani adama. Allah has ennobled, as long as you're a human being, whether you're black or white or tall or short or of long hair, short hair, man or woman, you're beautiful. Any questions from the sisters? You can write it down if you like to. Yes sir? Yeah, the thing is, debates are kind of, I don't recommend doing debates. I used to do a lot of debates when I was younger and it's hard to find people with adab. We can have academic debates at university and I continue to do things like that but many people don't have the adab, the etiquette for doing debates. Um uh you know Ahmad did that for him, Allah Ta'ala. He was, you know, he's one of my main inspirations. You know Sheikh Khaled Yassin, I spoke to Sheikh Khaled Yassin recently and he told me, Sheikh Khaled Yassin told me that in 1996 he visited Ahmad did that in Durban and Ahmad did that told him personally. He said in America, don't imitate my style. Don't imitate my style. This is what Ahmad did that told him personally. He said, I bulldozed it, now you have to plant seeds. Right. So um you know we have to, we have to be people of Rahmah, we have to be people of, you know Ahmad did that, you know, he was raised in a racist, a horrified government where he was picked on on a daily basis. So he had to chip on his shoulder and he did things for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. But there's different ways of dealing with problematic Christians for example like David Wood or you know these people. These people are not very academic to begin with. You know um their main impetus it seems like is to denigrate Muslims because somehow they may be um uh there might be some financial sort of gain in doing that for them writing books and things like that defaming us. So I encourage interfaith dialogue and it's important that in addition to in addition to you know telling people things that we have in common we also have to tell them things that we have in difference because a lot of Christians nowadays in particular um they're looking for an alternate theology. The trinity is just not working for a lot of Christians. It's just not working right. So they love Jesus which is good and they love his teaching and they love Christian ethics and Christian um ethical theory is is beautiful you know Thomas Aquinas is very similar to Imam Ghazali and Ibn Sina in that in that sense. But the theology isn't working so when we present our theology to them right many of them become Muslim because it answers their questions but we have to do it in a way with wisdom and with wise exhortation inshallah. Yes ma'am that's a good question. I'm I'm sure there's online academies that have female teachers. If you want to email me I can give you my information. I can probably find some of those online academies that specialize in issues related to women that have women scholars. Mashayikh there are actually women but there there are actually a lot out there. I think I think we're just kind of oblivious to the resources but there are actually a lot of online academies out there that have women scholars. Yes the the only thing that's reliable about Isa alayhi salam is found in the Quran and the sound hadith right. So this is what we call a delil. If it's in the Quran it's delil qata'i which means that it's a definitive proof there's no doubt about it this is this is what Isa alayhi salam said because Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us what he said Isa alayhi salam said a messenger is coming whose name is Ahmad and even if we can't find a single verse in the entire New Testament where he makes that claim it doesn't matter to us because we know that's true because we believe in the Quran and we believe that the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam is assadik wa lameen and even his enemies they call them assadik wa lameen. The enemies actually began calling him the truthful one right. So we believe in the Quran as a word of God and the Quran is not judged against any other book. Even with that said there are places actually in the New Testament where Isa alayhi salam does seem to indicate a messenger to come after him but we stop where Allah and his messenger has stopped and that is sure knowledge. After that it's kind of theorizing right and that's the realm of the scholar to do that. So what the Quran teaches about Jesus Christ peace be upon him what the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam said about the hawariyun in Isa alayhi sallam that's that's sure knowledge that's reliable. How many of the what's in yeah there's there's tens of thousands of hadith so you know we have the tradition of the sound six books right who knows the sound six books who's who's under 15 who knows the sound six Bukhari Muslim Ibn Maja An Nisa'i a Tirmidhi what's the one last one Abu Dawood Sunan Abu Dawood so these are called the sound six now there's other books of hadith you know a Tabarani you have Ahmad right that contains sound hadith as well so hadith authentication is a rigorous process but you know imam imam Bukhari there's some Muslims who believe that if imam Bukhari didn't say it then it doesn't exist I quoted a hadith one time in a in a khutbah and the brother right after the prayer he stood up and he said this brother he quotes hadith that is Maudur and his aqidah is batil and and I said what hadith are you talking about and he quoted the hadith I said and he said what book of hadith is it and I said this is a hadith that's in al-Bazar he said I've never even heard of that so I said so what does that mean it doesn't exist that's a non-secretary argument in logic so I said to the brother I said do you know my cousin Moe he said no but he exists just because you don't know him right so you know even imam Bukhari and his we call it sahib Bukhari but his title if you look at the full title right like umorun nabi umor fi ayaamin nabi al muhtasar actually the word muhtasar is included in his title meaning this is an abridgment of hadith imam Bukhari himself admits there are many many other hadith but this is just a few hadith right but generally speaking the sound six are considered to be the best books of hadith rigorously authenticated what does it mean for a hadith to be authenticated rigorously that means it's marufur if it's related to the prophet sallam marufur means that it says qala rasulullah the prophet said that's called marufur it's also meaning there's no breaks in the chain of transmission there's no missing links in the sanat of the hadith okay that's called muhtasar also uh everyone in the hadith is identified as being a person of adhala of outward religiosity of righteousness everyone is identified in the hadith as being truthful and being someone who's outwardly at least religious in the hadith scholars were very very meticulous about taking hadith from different people one of them said if i see a man standing up and drinking water i'm not going to take hadith from him even though it's totally permissible to stand and drink water but he wanted to be so stringent right because the prophet says to them he wouldn't stand and drink water he would sit and drink right another one imam bukhari he went he walked to another country to get one hadith from a man he saw the man at a distance pretending he had food in his hand to trick his horse and then imam bukhari turns around and goes home he's i'm not taking hadith from a man who's going to trick an animal they're so stringent so not only is the hadith marfur it's muhtasil everyone in the chain has adhala but in in addition to that um everyone in the chain has tam ad-bapt meaning they have very good memories and are known as being intelligent people educated people and in addition to that there's no illa there's no sort of irregularity in the chain of hadith so sometimes you might see that so-and-so heard from so-and-so and both people have adhala and both people have intelligence but it's just unlikely that these two people might have met because they're from different countries that affects the authenticity of the hadith when all of these things are met then the hadith is graded as sahir it's very very stringent if you want a good book on hadith i recommend a book by jonathan brown who's a muslim scholar young scholar i think he's at georgetown it's called hadith so jonathan a c brown right because there are a lot of misconceptions about hadith do we have to follow hadith what is a hadith is a hadith the same as a quran well you know which hadith are authentic you know off topic but what is the significance of the different motions of prayer urukur and suju etc i don't know i don't know i studied this a while ago and it's not coming to me but i'm sure maybe the brother knows um and it's okay to say i don't know imam adi used to say i used to love saying i don't know you know there was a man in morocco who traveled by foot he walked from morocco to medina to sit with imam malik ibn anas just to sit with the imam look how much trouble people would go through just to sit with a scholar now we have internet we can connect with scholars like that we don't do it right so he said he went to imam malik ibn anas right the codifier of the maliki school of fiqh the author of al muwata and he said i asked imam malik 36 questions 36 questions his answer to 32 of them was la adri allahu alam and then he answered four and i went back to morocco very happy that he answered four of my questions he answered 32 by saying i don't know god knows and he answered four so i'm using that story as my excuse i don't know is half of knowledge because hard to admit you don't know yes sir yeah the jews it's called kashrut they actually have a lot more rules and regulations concerning food for example they can't mix meat and dairy at all so you can't have a cheeseburger ever right you have to hold the cheese on the burger and many other rules like that there's a lot of different rules about seafood and things like that so the islamic shariah it really ameliorates it really makes it easier right Allah says in the Quran that the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam he's foretold in the Torah in the gospel and he removes from the ahl al-kitab the heavy yokes that are on their backs and the tafsir says in the form of so many rules and regulations that they made for themselves even the christians i mean if you're catholic you follow canon law and there's thousands of rules and canon law and you have for example protestants like methodists they have a whole code of conduct that they follow a lot of rules don't think all the christians they don't have any rules they have many many rules but when it comes to dietary laws the christians are very lax specifically when it comes to dietary laws because they do believe that the death of Jesus on the cross which is their belief this is from paul obviously hellenistic christianity abrogates it renders all of the ahkam of the Torah mansook all of the ahkam all the legal rulings of the old testament have been abrogated by the death of jesus so they can eat whatever they want right um but of course isa aley salam he followed the prohibitions so you know if he's your master then you should emulate him in that respect never ate pork what's that the old testament is simply one big christological typology it's in other words it's a foreshadowing of jesus so the laws that are revealed to the israelites they followed them but then they've been abrogated now stories in the old testament for christians like pharaoh slaughtering the firstborn of egypt that's a typology or a prophecy of what herod would do in bethlehem moses coming out of egypt is foreshadowing jesus coming out of egypt according to the gospel of matthew so it's one big sort of prophecy of christ that's the way they look at the old testament hey job in christianity orthodox christians women uh cover their hair i guess it says uh sorry i can't read the baby what do they say as to why their women don't even fuck over their heads yeah so it depends on what christians you talk to if you've ever been to a johova's witness kingdom hall probably not because they won't even let you in but in the kingdom halls uh the women sit behind the men and they're always wearing hijab and they're not allowed to speak either because the new testament says that a woman may not speak in church so they follow the new testament quite literally other christians have different readings of new testament like for them halls um prescriptions in the new testament um are contextualized to those times they're not universal in that sense they just have a different way of looking at revelation and scripture than what muslims do but in the in catholic tradition uh the habit right nuns wear a habit and according to which convent they belong to they don't give you the habit initially the habit is actually uh a daraja it's an actual it's kind of like a reward that they get when they prove after many years that they're actually dedicated to the convent and then they're awarded with a habit that's how much they honor the habit or the hijab so i remind my christian friends you know have you ever seen a picture of mary or an icon of mariam adi asana where she wasn't wearing a hijab right you know in first century palestine i said this one time and a woman came up and she was cussing at me so don't take this the wrong way this is just the fact i'm telling you right now that first century palestine uh a jewish woman a woman that did not wear hijab was either a Gentile meaning a non-jew or a prostitute that was just at that time don't take this the wrong way again i'm just giving you this historical information a man without a beard at that time was a Gentile or homosexual again don't take this the wrong way okay obviously these things don't cross over to our culture but just to emphasize to you the importance of the hijab and the beard at that time amongst the people of isa alaihi salam very very important right uh even if you look at you know christian movies mary magdalene whom they believe was a prostitute there's no evidence she was at all she might have actually been his wife the wife of isa alaihi salam but christian a pope made a comment pobleo in the fifth century that she was a prostitute before she becomes christian her head is uncovered but suddenly when she becomes a disciple suddenly she's wearing a hijab why because it's a symbol of religiously oriented women again i'm not saying women that don't wear hijab or prostitutes please don't say i'm saying that i'm just giving you some insight as to the cultural context of the time of isa alaihi salam in palestine okay um the new testament says paul says that a woman who prays with her head uncovered must have her hair shaved this is new testament this is an old testament that's been abrogated this is what paul says in the new testament he also says a woman who speaks in church uh is a he says uh it is a shameful act for a woman to speak in church this is what paul says let me tell you another one of my very interesting true stories i was in a church called st paul methodist church in fremont california and i'm up on the stage i'm having a dialogue with the pastor this christian woman in the back row uh who i later found out was a physician she's very educated in the middle of my talk she stands up and starts shouting at me and all i heard was like that so and i have a microphone and you know i'm not going to get into a shouting match but i don't want people to hear what she's saying either so i go right and then she you know she kind of exhausted herself and she sat down and i was thinking you know what did i i mean we're just having a nice civil conversation so i said to her i said what is the name of this church that we're in right now she said st paul methodist and don't you forget it i said let me quote to you from paul paul says a woman who speaks in church has done a shameful act which you just did right now was shameful he also says because i saw her earlier praying like this she won't like this and she was like praying against me or something i said a woman who prays with her head uncovered let's shave her head this is what paul says so i said please let's get out the clippers let's shave this woman's head and then she just she was obsessed but she actually was to follow me around the different massage it for months where you know i'd go to like uc davis which is hundreds of miles away and she would be there at the event i'd go give a khutba in the tenderloin in san francisco she's outside the musket she would follow me around and to one day my dad confronted her and dad don't play what is the best way to teach our youth children teen and preteen so imam ali said ali muauladakum thalafat khisal teach your children three things hubbu nabiyyikum teach your children the love of their prophet wa hubi ahli baytihi and the love of his family wa qiraatil quran and the recitation of the quran okay teach your children the love of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam that means you have to tell them who the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is because that's what's going to really impact them for the rest of their life if they love the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam from a young age they will continue to love him because childhood is when these things are set in stone right that's why it's very difficult for for people when they have these traumatic childhood experiences to move past them because things have been set in stone so if children's emotions are tied in love to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam that will stay there love of the prophet love of his family love of the ahli bayt of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and also reading recitation of the quran if they love to recite the quran they will continue to recite the quran and they'll learn to the meanings of the quran then they'll study the tafsir of the quran and then the ulum of the quran and they'll stay like that inshallah ta'ala there's a lot of wisdom in this saying of imam aliqa rabulahu wajha so how do you do it um you know get your children involved in um Sunday school and make sure this the teachers um you know we have a lot of teachers in Sunday schools that are well in tension but they're sort of out of touch with the youth right the youth can't really confide in them so a good thing to do is put your children in different halakat where there are younger speakers that you know that can that were raised in the society and they've sort of dealt with some of the challenges that they're going through right that can sort of mentor them youth need muslim mentors to guide them ask them questions we you know we had a halakat one you know a few years ago and i get questions all the time from youth that they would never ask their parents you know brother i want to do a secret nikah i'm in la right now and he's from san francisco and i want to do a secret marriage right now can i do it brother i want i'm sitting in the in a tattoo parlor right now should i do it you know this type of thing so and they're full of these questions and they need to have someone who's available who's not going to judge them or scold them in a harsh way so have them involved in the Sunday school program or they're learning you know different or rule with dean and also look for a mentor that's you know not quite as old as you are but not exactly a child kind of a go-betweener like i'm not really i'm i guess i am an uncle but you know with many of the high school youth i'm not old enough to be there actually i am old enough to be their father whatever so i'm sort of a go-betweener right so you know find people like you know that dynamic people that can that can help your children if they have issues you have to seek them out and you have to have patients and things like that hope that answers the question last question yes sir okay we'll do it james first there's nothing in our sources that mention james uh but historical sources mentioned western sources mentioned that very early on even first century there were two distinct forms of christianity there's james sony and christianity which is more semitic in its orientation more jewish in his orientation then you have pauline christianity which is more hellenistic in its orientation and that these two are in conflict if you read for example the book of galatians which is a letter that paul wrote uh paul has major major difference of opinion fundamental difference of opinion with other disciples of jesus and then you have to you have to ask the question why is paul lashing out against these other disciples if they're all christians and they believe in the same thing in galatians he calls them hypocrites and he calls them dogs and enemies of the cross and they identifies who his opponents are and he says they are kafa and yaakov and yochanan peter james and john these are the enemies of paul according to paul these are disciples of jesus so james is the brother of isa aley salam he's the successor he's the khalifa of isa aley salam in hebrew his name is yaakov hat sadiq james the just which is very interesting because his laqab hat sadiq is the same laqab as abu bakr as sadiq right in the gospel of thomas which is rejected by christians uh but very interesting gospel and i think there's a lot of truth in it in statement number 12 of the gospel of thomas jesus says when i am gone you must go to james the just for whose sake heaven and earth came into being james is very very important right so you have these two distinct forms of christianity so what happened to the james sony in school the james sony in school was eventually declared illegal because constantine the roman emperor he became christian and then he instituted pauline trinitarian christianity and there's no separation of church and state obviously so the roman emperor says this is a christianity that i'm endorsing all other forms are illegal so they go underground that's why they keep finding archaeologists they keep finding these you know gospels and writings that have been buried in the sands of egypt and syria and so on and so forth because these communities christian communities were suddenly declared heretics by roman imperial edict right but that strain of christianity was revived in islam islam is the uh the renewal the recapitulation of that original james sony and christianity that's submitted christianity that was originally preached preached by isa islam you know the other question that's just a brief answer because it's very late but the next question about the second coming no the the hadith that deal with the mehdi are weak but the hadith that deal many of them are weak but the hadith that deal with isa islam most of them are very strong that's why if you read the akida like abu ja'far at tahawi he wrote he wrote the akida at tahawiya akida is very very stringent as to what goes into it so akida is theology what do muslims have to believe right akida comes from akada which means to tie something right wahlu l-ukadatan millisani remove the knot from my tongue so these are beliefs that are binding upon muslims you have to believe in them akida looks at quran it looks at mutawatir hadith multiply attested hadith these are considered dhalil qata'i you have to believe in them and abu ja'far at tahawi he mentions the second coming of isa aley salam which means that the sources for it are very strong we have to believe in the second coming of isa aley salam even though it might not explicitly be mentioned in the quran it's multiply attested in hadith multiply attested what does multiple attestation mean what does it mean for hadith to be mutawatir it means groups and groups of muslims from all over the muslim world are reporting exactly the same statement from the prophet salallahu alayhi salam which would have made it impossible for them to have colluded in order to fabricate a hadith it's just true right it's it would be inconceivable for it to be a lie now in the quran actually will you call me monnasa fil mahdi wa kahlan isa aley salam will speak to the people in childhood and in maturity kahlan and ibn josey says that uh kuhulia right which is where you get the word kahlan from begins at age 35 so isa aley salam has not yet spoken kahlan as a mature person or as an old man sometimes it's translated because he ascended at 33 according to our consensus of belief also the quran says that he is a major sign of the sa'a of the day of judgment and almost all of the exigents of the quran say this is an indication of the rugur the second coming of isa aley salam there's there are things in the quran which you're right it's not explicit but the hadith is multiply attested so we believe in it when it comes to the mahdi there is a lot of weakness but we believe in that too right but there are some some weaknesses there's actually hadith that says the mehdi will not come the mehdi will come when people start saying there's no mehdi right there's another hadith that says uh when the khatib stops mentioning the the jhal on the minbar that's when he's going to come and that's what's happening right now people are afraid to talk about these things they're afraid to talk you know talk about the jhal and thing one eye what does that mean and no no brother no don't talk about this thank you very much