 Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim, insha'Allah. Sayyidina Muhammadin wa-na-Alihi wa-safi'i juma'in. As-salamu alaikum wa-rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Alhamdulillah, it's good to be here. I have a presentation here, and I want to share with you. Call it the Marbles of the Quran, of course. As-salaamu alaikum, may Allah preserve him. I said, this is the month of the Quran, the month of the Quran, the month of Ramadan, the month in which the Quran was revealed. Allah SWT revealed the Quran to his Habib, as-salaamu alaikum. And this is a great gift for us. The Quran is that which is recited. The word Quran means a recitation. Here is a verse from Surah Al-Nisa, Al-Falayah, tabaruna al-Quran. So Allah SWT sang, in meaning, some of the meanings may suggest. Don't they penetrate the meanings of the Quran? Tadabbur, ad-Dubur is the end of something. So tadabbur means to really have a deep, substantive engagement with something. Do they not engage deeply, substantively with the Quran? Well, al-Qanim and Al-Nisa, al-Qanim and Al-Qanim, al-Qanim and Al-Qanim, with the Quran. If the Quran was from other than Allah SWT, then there would have been discrepancies, contradictions, imbalances, asymmetries. In another ayah of the Quran, Surah al-Muhammad, S.A.W says, Allah says, أَسَلَ يَتَدَبْرُرُونَا قُرْآنَ عَمْ أَلَا قُلُوبٌ أَقْفَالُوْهَا Do they not penetrate the meanings of the Qur'an? Or are their hearts sealed off or locked off? According to Imam Al-Ghazali, the word qalb in the Qur'an means the mind. We call it the spiritual heart. لهم قلوبٌ لا يفقهون بها. They have qulub, they have hearts by which they don't understand. لهم قلوبٌ يقلون بها. They have hearts with which they reason. This is the spiritual heart. So not the physical heart of the chest, not the physical brain in our skull, but the spiritual heart which is metaphysical. I haven't moved anything yet. Sorry. Just talking about the title here. Yes. أجهة بالقرآن. The marbles of the Qur'an. So these are some subtleties about the Qur'an that I think maybe you'll find interesting. Insha'Allah, ta'ala, hopefully this won't be boring for you. So the style of the Qur'an is insuperable. So maybe people can take some notes here. At least mental notes. Insuperable means it's impossible to imitate. It's impossible to top. The Qur'an is mur'aj. Mur'aj means that it has an internal incapacitating element. Anyone who tries to imitate the Qur'an will be incapacitated. And this is the affidah of Ahlul Sunnah wa Jama'ah that it is not within human capacity to imitate the Qur'an, the style of the Qur'an, the eloquence of the Qur'an. So that's what we mean by insuperable. And this ayah in the Qur'an وَإِنْ كُنْ تُثِيرَيْبٍ مِمَّا نَزَّنَّا عَبْدِينَا فَأَتُوا بِسُورَةِ مِمِّسْلِجِ وَدْ أُرْشُهَدَاءَ أَكُمْ وِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِ إِنْ كُنْ تُمْ صَانَطِينَ. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says, amazing verse. If you are in doubt as to what we reveal is a chapter 2 verse 23, Qur'an 23. If you are in doubt as to what we reveal to our servant, meaning the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi wa sallam, from time to time, tanzil is a revelation that comes down from time to time. There's an Inzal which is from the Loha to the Suma'ah of Dunya which happened a little together. اِنَّ اِنْزَلْنَا عَبْدِينَا The Mustard is Inzal. نَزَّلْنَا عَلَى أَبْدِينَا tanzil that we have revealed from time to time to our servant. Then produce one Surah like unto it and call for your aid, your witnesses. وَذَرْ شُهَدَ أَكُمْ يَدُونِ لَا اِنْ كُنْ صَانَطِينَ If you speak the truth. إِنَّا مْتَثْعَلُوا وَالْلَانْ تَثْعَلُوا And if you can't do that, if you don't do that then you will not do that. فَتَقُونْ نَارْ Then fear the fire. اِنَّا تِبُوْهُدُونَا نَاسُوا وَالْتِجَارَ وَرْتَتْتِكَافِينَ Fear the fire as few as men and stones prepared for those who reject faith. This is Ajeeb. The Qur'an in Surah Al-Baqarah is making a prediction that the Qur'an itself will be a sui-generous text. Sui-generous means one of a kind, the absolute masterpiece in the Arabic language. It's the prophecy of the Qur'an. Nothing holds a candle to the Qur'an. You've had people in the past try to imitate the Qur'an in the late 90s. I remember a group of Christians, they wrote something called فُرْقَالُ حَقْ It was a total flop. It's collecting dust in the closets of churches all around the world. It's supposed to be a game changer. Most of the text is plagiarized from the Qur'an. There's nothing like the Qur'an. Chapter 10, verse 37. This Qur'an cannot be produced like other than Allah. Rather, it's a confirmation of what went before, a confirmation of Tafsil and explanation of revelation. No doubt it is from the Lord of the Worlds. This is the insuperability of the Qur'an. It's an open challenge. To this day, an open challenge called the تحدي, the challenge of the Qur'an to produce something like unto it. Nothing's even close. You know, it's interesting when the Western Orientalists, when they first looked at the Qur'an, and I'll come to this, they said, you know, because they're coming from a certain Western framework, a very linear framework. Once upon a time, then they lived happily ever after. The Qur'an is not like that. The Qur'an is circular. And we'll see that. It's chiastic. It's concentric. There's parallelism. So they said, this is jumbled, and what is going on here? It's going from this story to that story, going back in time, forward in time. It's going from third person to second person and all of this. And then they studied Semitic rhetoric. And they said, oh, there's no way that one man produced this. So there was a very popular theory, John Wandsboro, who was so as a school of Oriental and African studies in London. He was very popular, and he said that this must have been composed by a committee during the Abbasid period in the eighth century. A committee of scholars, of historians, of poets, of linguists that had to have been. And then, shortly thereafter, the entire Qur'an was found in seventh century manuscripts. The entire Qur'an is done many times over in seventh century Siki manuscripts, which absolutely falsifies this theory. Right? Nice try. So they admit it, this is a masterpiece. The Qur'an is multi-formic. What does multi-formic mean? This is another incredible aspect of the Qur'an. When I first discovered this, I had to lie down for a few seconds. This is amazing. In other words, you can read the Rasam, the continental skeleton of the Qur'an in different ways. In all of these readings, these Qura'at, these are reading traditions, they all go back to the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. They are all Qawatu, they all are multiply attested. Right? Very basic example. We say, Mali Qiyamuddin, the owner of the Day of Judgement. We also say, Mali Qiyamuddin, the king of the Day of Judgement. Right? Because a madic and owner may not make laws. A king makes laws. An owner may own something, but may not make laws. He's not the sharia. But a king makes laws, but he may not own something. Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala is both of these. How many times did the Sahaba hear the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam recite the Fatiha? I did the math one time. It's in the tens of thousands. You're telling me there's a different sort of opinion. They weren't sure. They didn't say Mali or Mali. Logically it doesn't. Forget about As-Saniyya. It doesn't work logically. Of course he said it both ways. They heard the Fatiha. They heard the Quran continuously. The Sahaba say that we learned surat al-Kahf just memorizing it from the khutbah of the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. This is how much he would recite surat al-Kahf in the khutbah. We just memorized the whole thing listening to his khutbah. They were constantly hearing the Quran. Another example we'll look at here chapter five or six. This is the verse about Udu. وَمْصَهُ بِرُؤُوسِكُمْ مَرَأَرْجُولَكُمْ إِلَا الْكَعْبَينَ وَمْصَهُ بِرُؤُوسِكُمْ مَرَأَرْجُولَكُمْ إِلَا الْكَعْبَينَ So anoint your heads and wash your feet. وَأَرْجُولِكُمْ another reading. Anoint your heads and anoint your feet. Both readings are attributed to the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Why? Because sometimes we wash our feet. And there are occasions in which we wipe our feet under conditions. This is a multi-formism of the Quran. It's incredible. No book is like this. And the Quran is polyvalent. It contains various levels of meaning. So Surat al-Kothar, right? Beautiful Surah. A Surah of consolation of Tasliah to give consolation to the heart of the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. He says in a hadith that is sound that Kothar is نَهْرٌ في الجَنَّة in river and paradise. But كَوْثَرْ فَوْعَلْ This is a hapax. A hapax means this is the only occurrence of this word in the entire Quran. This word does not appear anywhere else in the Quran. Right? And the nature of the word كَوْثَرْ is مُبَادَهَة. It's extremely emphatic. So the Uelama mentioned one of the meanings obviously that's given to us from the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. This word is نَهْرٌ في الجَنَّة. It's a river in paradise and the waters flow into the howl into his basin which is just outside of paradise. May Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala give us the drink from the howl from his blessed hand Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Drink this, you'll never be thirsty again. This is one of the meanings that the Uelama mentioned other things. كَوْثَرْ They mentioned the مَطَام نَحْمُول on the Day of Judgement, they mentioned the وَحِي itself descending upon the heart of the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. They mentioned other things. And here's something interesting. Every Surah in the Quran is a coherent literary unit. And many of the Suwar they have this type of kayaastic structure. Circular structure. Structural coherence. Right? نِظَام as a guide as a guide to Tafseel. So this is very interesting. When you look at this Surah we have three ayat. We notice that the first and the third ayat they have sort of a semantic relationship with each other. They mirror each other. Look how they start. اِنَّا They start the same. One is اِنَّا and one is اِنَّا but that's حَرفَ تَوْكِيل. And look how they end. اِنَّا كَوْفَرْ اِنَّا أَبْتَرْ So we go to the books of Asbab al-Nuzur. Right? Asbab al-Nuzur is one of the disciplines. One of the Rulun al-Quran which is extremely important to study. The historical contextualizations of the Quran. We're told that the son of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Abdullah alayhi wa sallam the second son passed away in Mecca. And when his son passed away his neighbors were mushriqeen. They started celebrating. You can hear them celebrating. Do you imagine your son dies? Your child dies? And your neighbors are celebrating? A few days later in mushriqneng al-Aasid n-wahid he approached the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and he said, you are now uptar. You are like you're cut off. Al-Abtar means cut off. Your lineage is done. Your lineage dies with you. You have no sons. No one's going to remember your name after you. No one's going to remember his name after him. Wa-rafa'ana ala ka-dhikr. You know right now somebody is saying Ashadu anna Muhammadur sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Right now it's happening. This is happening into the Sa'a. Every second of time into the Sa'a somebody is saying, Ashadu anna Muhammadur sallallahu alayhi wa sallam His dhikr is raised. Continuously into the Sa'a. And the Yom al-Qiyamah. And in Jannah. Forever. Right? So Al-Abtar is someone whose lineage is cut off. Al-Qawthar is therefore a source of great lineage. Because these are Antonins. That's the interplay of these two ayat. Al-Qawthar and Al-Abtar are Antonins. Antithetical parallelism. This is very common in Semitic rhetoric. There's synonymic parallelism. Sometimes it's their synonyms. So let me ask you Who is Al-Qawthar? We've given you Qawthar. The family of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Specifically, a saint of Fatima Zahra. Alayhi wa sallam His daughter Fatima. This is from the Thasadis of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam The special qualities of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is that his Ahl al-Bait, his lineage is through his daughter. Right? And then it goes to Hassan and Hussain. So this shows the station, the rutba, the Daraja of our leech lady Fatima Zahra alayhi wa sallam The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam He said, Fatima, if you are more than me Fatima is a piece of me For those who are more than me For those who are more than me For those who are more than me For those who are more than me For those who are more than me Fatima is a piece of me You know, like we say She is my heart She is my sweetheart She is my liver Spanish, what do they say? You call us one You say to your sweetheart Literally, you are my heart So this is the darling of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam The sweetheart of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam So one of the names are written on the mention for Fatima alayhi wa sallam is Al-Qawthar al-Ajib She is the fountain that springs this incredible family Sadat So here is Ayatul Kursi The verse of the throne And Sahadah Tustaree Rahimullah He said, here is the greatest Ayat in the Quran This is the greatest Ayat in the Quran All of the Quran is great because it's all Wahi, obviously It's all Wahi So it's all the same in that respect But depending on the subject matter of the Ayat there is a hierarchy So Imam al-Ghazali He wrote a book called Chawahir al-Puran And it's translated And I recommend that you get this book The jewels of the Quran And he says in this book Imam al-Ghazali Rahimullah He says the Quran has six aims The Maqsa of the Quran has sita There are six aims of the Quran The first aim of the Quran is Ta'arifu mad'u ilayhi Is to acquaint you with the one that you are being called to with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala So there are certain Ayat in the Quran that describe Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala He says the vikru that the vikru sifat the vikru al-af'al They describe the essence They describe the attributes And they describe the actions of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala And these are the highest types of Ayat in the Quran These are the greatest Ayat in the Quran The reason is because Ma'rifatullah theology or noses of God is the greatest science The greatest ilm is the knowledge of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Right So he says that these are the Yawaqit of the Quran Yawaqit, these are the rubies of the Quran And then he says the second aim of the Quran Ta'arifu asirat al-mustaqin Is to acquaint you with the straight path How do you get to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala In Imam al-Razi says Asirat al-mustaqin is the sunnah of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam He is the Asirat al-mustaqin And he calls these verses ad-durar These are the pearls of the Quran So Imam al-Ghazali he says Why are you satisfied with just walking on the shore of the Quran You're walking on the shore collecting shells Right The Urum al-Sadaf as he calls it Basic meanings of the Quran He says dive into the ocean Right Dive into the oceans of its meanings Because the Quran is the Bahar The Quran is the ocean The bottom of the ocean You have to work hard When you get to the bottom of the ocean You find these pearls of these rubies These precious stones These jawahir and hubab As he calls them So here lies the pursi A piece of Semitic rhetoric Another chiastic Parallelism Mirror composition A'jeeb at the level of an ayah Look at this here You see the top statement A' Look at the relationship between these two Statements You see You have The divine name of Allah Followed by two of his names Two of his great names A'jeeb al-Qayyum A'jeeb al-Azeem They complement each other Look at B and B prime Not seizing him Are slumbered nor sleep Look at B prime And not burdening him As a preservation of them both These two verses What are they doing? They're negating They're negating anything that is Potentially inappropriate For Allah swt And maintaining his Absolute power So these verses have a semantical relationship These statements They're not verses, they're statements within a verse Look at C and C prime To him belongs whatever is in the heavens And whatever is on earth Look at C prime Repetition The Quran repeats itself Not for just no reason There's a great wisdom behind the repetition In the Quran Something's happening here To him belongs whatever is in the heavens That means Allah swt Owns everything We own nothing We don't own our houses We don't own your clothes We don't own our bodies We have autonomy over nothing My body, my choice You don't have a body You don't own your body Your body is on loan From Allah swt Whenever he wants he can take it back We have nothing to say about it Everything is owned by Allah swt His throne extends over the heavens And there is a throne From the majestic creations of Allah swt Imam Al-Razi mentions But there's other meanings here The throne is the Seat of a king Which again demonstrates Allah swt's absolute ownership Of the entire universe The Samawat on the earth Is an idiom in Arabic Which means the cosmos The entire creation What is Al-Alamin? Everything except Allah swt And then look at this The center In the center In the center of Kothar This is called the The Amud So Al-Farahi and Al-Islahi It called us the Amud This is the center of the Kayazm Which is something that is More sort of universal That applies to the Ummah So the first and the third This is speaking directly to the Prophet And this ayat too in the middle There's a sort of Transcendental quality To the focus of the Kayazm Fasalli l-Rabbika wan-Khal So pray to your Lord In sacrifice This is sort of the pivot Around which the surah turns And here The pivot itself Is also a circle It's a'ajeeb So you have symmetry within symmetry Keep in mind The Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam Is not writing anything down Right? He's simply repeating these ayat That he's hearing from Jireed al-A'idah And for him to do something like this Even at this level Means he's a genius But we're going to see different levels This is a micro level We'll see the macro level But look at within the actual Center of the Kayazm What happens? What changes? Today Are describing Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala In the middle there's a change A type of ilti fat A type of thematic ilti fat So there's ilti fat of tense You know Past tense, present tense Of person like that First person, the third person But here the theme changes Now creation is brought in Who amongst creation Can intercede with him Except with his permission And then look at A prime And then look at A prime And then look at A prime Except with his permission Except what he will His repetition These two statements parallel each other So right in the middle of the middle The middle of the middle Of the ayat The knowledge of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala The knowledge of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala He noticed what is before them And behind them Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala knows everything about us And this is consolation Allah knows everything Sometimes we kill ourselves Trying to please humanity Please creation But you know It lasts for 15 minutes And it's done Who's going to remember us in our graves Long after we're dead Maybe our headstones You know Will be destroyed at some point No one even knows where we are But who knows us? Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Put all of our hope in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala So this is a book recommendation here This is by a Belgian priest actually Named Michel Kipers He's a man Michel is a It's a name for a man In the Europe of Germany So the composition of the Quran It's true That through assidious reading and textual analysis The exceptionally complex and erudite character Of this text has become more evident to us We hope to have demonstrated that In spite of the impression A superficial reading might leave But Quran is a text whose parts are linked according to Clearly definable principles of order And a consummate work of art Even though it's outside our western And modern mental habits So you know The non-Muslim scholars Or orientalists They're starting to come around In more advanced studies in the Quran They start to see that this Quran Is more than meets the eye We were completely misjudged the Quran Our initial first reading of the Quran Through our sort of Biblical lenses as it were Our Greek lenses Didn't help us So here is the entire Surah Yusuf This is 111 Ayat Kayasic compositional symmetry At the level of a Surah Prologue, epilogue Vision of Yusuf Accomplishment of the vision Problem of Yusuf's brothers trickery Of brothers with Yusuf Problems of Yusuf With brothers trickery of Yusuf Relative promotion of Yusuf Definitive promotion of Yusuf Attempted seduction of Yusuf Denouncement of the seduction Of the woman Joseph the prison interpreter Of two visions Joseph the prison interprets The vision of the king And then you have this center And the center Of Surah Yusuf Its self Is circular Again you have Concentricity Within concentricity Symmetry within symmetry If you're not writing this down And you're not playing with things Over hundreds of pages of Rough drafts There's no way you can do this Unless you have a 400 IQ Right in the middle All my fellow prisoners Arbabu mutfarribun Khairum amillah al-wahid al-taqhar This is the center of the Surah Toheed Very interesting This story is in Genesis In the Torah And it's very detailed But there's one thing missing There's one thing missing from Genesis Is the center In the Qur'an When Yusuf A.S. according to the Torah Is in prison And his cellmates tell him the dream He immediately interprets the dream Because the text of Genesis is very tribal We are Bani Israel Right? But the Qur'an's message Is more universal It's calling people to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala So there's this nice addition here In the Qur'an Very interesting that Toheed That Yusuf A.S. Before he interprets the dreams of his cellmates He makes da'wah to them Because he's a prophet of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala And this deen is for humanity When Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala commissioned To Musa A.S. And we find the Torah Go to Pharaoh and say Let my people go My people That's the Torah In the Qur'an Say to Pharaoh Say to him a gentle word Perhaps he might fear Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala Call him to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala This is missing in the biblical narrative These subtle differences A critical rewrite if you will The eloquence The universality Of the message given to the prophet Muhammad Sallallahu alayhi sallam This is another This is a cutting edge Western scholar Like I said they're starting to come around a little bit This is the Berkeley The first is the Qur'an And he's quoting here And these things are known by our scholars Imam al-Razi He calls this the Munasabat of the Qur'an Imam Ibn Umar al-Biqa'i Mentioned these things How the verses How they're symmetrical How the surahs How they follow each other In some sort of coherence Nidam, they mention these things You have modern day scholars Hamid al-Din al-Farqi Nidam al-Quran mentions this I mean Ahsan al-Islahi Tadab al-Quran in Urdu Which is being translated into English Unbelievable The verses of the Qur'an are joined together in such a matter That they are like a single word Harmoniously associated Structurally even Ibn Hisham said the Qur'an is like a jumlah It's like a single coherent statement Now this is the This is incredible This is al-Baqarah Surah al-Baqarah 286 verses A staggering Sophisticated Verses that surround a central pivot What is the pivot What is the center of the surah Verses 142 to 152 This is the sort of The central ideas of the surah So you have A and A prime Faith versus the unbelief Iman and kufr D and B prime Allah's creation C and C prime delivered to law D and D prime being tested It wasn't revealed You're done That's the canonical order That's not how it was revealed to the Prophet That's how he arranged it With Jibir alaihi salam So when he's receiving Qur'an He's receiving a few ayahs Put this in al-Ma'idah Put this in al-Nisa And you look at the end The final composition of these surahs And you find something like this Without him writing something down It's impossible I guarantee you This is impossible Because every surah is like this There's a symmetry to all these surahs Like I mentioned earlier He wrote a book called The Banquet A compositional study of surahs al-Ma'idah He says you find this in surahs al-Ma'idah And Nabi al-Umi, an unlettered prophet Able to produce something like this This is al-Wahil There's no doubt about it There's no way you can do this You put the computer You'll be hard to produce something like this So what is at the heart of al-Baqarah Seven ideas Verses 142-152 The change in the qiblah from Jerusalem to Mecca That does not mean that Jerusalem is not important It's still important People say oh it's a replace It's still important But there's a change from the qiblah From Jerusalem to Mecca The close relationship between Allah and His messenger And the messenger with us We see you looking at the heavens Looking at the sky The Prophet ﷺ in dua He just went like this He looked at the sky We will turn into a qiblah That pleases you The Prophet ﷺ looked to the sky In his heart he had a dua I wish the qiblah was Mecca Allah revealed the ayah Turn your face towards the inviolable mohs Give me the qiblah Turn your face towards the inviolable mohs Given Mecca Oh you can't turn your face But who is wujuhakum, the ummah of the Prophet SAW? So Allah SWT goes from addressing the Prophet immediately to addressing the ummah of the Prophet as a way of tashreef, as a way of honoring the ummah of the Prophet SAW. The Muslims are a middle nation. What verses this? 143 out of what? 286. You are a middle nation. It's just coincidence, apparently. Ya'rifunahukum wa ya'rifunahabnaahum The people of the book that recognize the Prophet, recognition means they already knew him. That's what a'rafa, ya'rifu, ma'rifa means to recognize something you already knew. He said, oh I know him. When he came into Medina, a'rafu anna wajjahu, they said he wajji kattab, a'rafu. Abdullah ibn Salam, a Jewish scholar. I recognized his face. It's not the face of a liar. Why? Because his description is in their books. They know him like they know one of their own sons. In Sahih al-Bukhari, we read that the Jews would sit at the Nabi SAW, they would sneeze on purpose. They would sneeze on purpose in hopes that the Prophet SAW would say to them, may Allah have mercy on you. Because they knew he was a prophet. But they would remain Jews. And maybe there was some family pressure and things like that. Maybe some of them. But the Prophet SAW would say, may Allah guide you and correct your understanding. Fear only Allah. The blessing of the Prophet SAW, again this is the center of al-Bukhara. Everything else sort of revolves around these themes. It's all wahi. It's all equally important. Because it's all wahi. But these are the central ideas. The blessing of the Prophet. The Prophet teaches us, al-Hikmah is the sunnah. The sunnah exeges the Qur'an. And tazkiah. And he purifies you. Ihsan. He gives you knowledge as to how to become dear and near to Allah SWT. This is ihsan. To worship Allah though you see him. If you can't see him know that he sees you. To enter into a relationship of love with Allah SWT. To ski to nafs. To draw out the diseases of the hearts. Imam Al-Wazali says, these are the du'r. These are the pearls we talked about earlier. This verses in the Qur'an he calls the pearls. They teach you the straight path. And part and parcel to the path he says is tahliyah. Tahliyah means a type of emptying the nafs of vice. Of kibir. Of riyah. Of ujjub. All of these diseases of the heart. The Qur'an tells us how to do this. The sunnah tells us how to do this. And then he says there's tahliyah. There's a way of adorning the nafs. So first you purge the nafs of vice. And then you take on prophetic qualities. The qualities of the Prophet Muhammad SAW. This is again some of the ta'if. Some really interesting subtleties. Just let me know when I'm out of time. If anyone has questions you can ask them immediately. Does anyone have any questions? Okay we'll keep going then. So the Exodus. So in the Torah we have the hijrah of Musa A.S. and Bani Israel. We have this in the Qur'an as well. But historical plausibility. One of the reasons why most secular historians reject the Biblical version of the Exodus is because of historical implausibilities in the narrative. Okay. What do I mean by historical implausibilities? So secular historians, modern historians, they make a distinction between something that is non-historical. Non-historical like a miracle. They don't deal with miracles. They don't deal with the supernatural. They don't necessarily deny them. But miracles are by definition the least plausible occurrence of something. So that's not how they do history. They're looking at everything as plausibility. Naturalistic plausibility. So let's say for example a miracle might have happened but it's not part of our paradigm we're not going to look at it. It's non-historical. We just don't deal with it. It doesn't factor in to our theory. But something that is making a naturalistic claim, something that's making a naturalistic claim and there's very little evidence of it, this is un-historical. They would call that un-historical. So look at this verse here in Exodus 1237. This is from the Torah. The Israelites journey, etc. 600,000 men on foot. Beside women and children. That means there's 3 million people making Exodus. 3 million people according to Torah making Exodus is a third of the population of Egypt. Highly implausible. Other nations would have noticed this. They would have recorded this. There would have been a large carbon footprint in the Sinai Desert. To this day we would find evidence of this. 3 million people, right? If you, somebody told me once, if 10 people were marching, 10 people across. The first in rows, 10 people across. 3 million people. When the first row reached Mount Sinai, the last row was still in Egypt. So these numbers are blown way out of proportion. So the Qur'an confirms the Exodus. But look at the subtlety in the Qur'an. It's haji. You know the common Orientalist's trope. The prophet is just copying the Bible. Why doesn't he copy the mistakes? And we reveal to Moses, journey by night with my servants will be pursued. So I will send them to the cities. And Pharaoh sent mobilizers to all cities. They are very close. Indeed, these are a small band. How many people made Hijrah from the Sahaba of the Prophet? It wasn't a big group. A few hundred people. Interesting. The Qur'an avoids. And this happens consistently. You'll see more examples. The Qur'an consistently avoids historical implausibilities that are found in the biblical narrative. There's an anachronism in the book of Genesis. Here's something interesting. You can ask an Egyptologist, because I did. The rulers of Egypt, ancient Egypt, they were not called Pharaoh until the 18th dynasty. This is just a fact. There's no evidence that the rulers of Egypt were called Pharaoh prior to the 18th dynasty. When did Yusuf A.S. live in Egypt? Probably the 16th dynasty. 16. Right after the Hixos. Now look at this verse here highlighted. And Pharaoh said to Yusuf, ah, that's an anachronism. The kings of Egypt were not called Pharaoh at the time of Yusuf. You know what anachronism is? Something that doesn't make sense historically. Something that is outside, you know, like you watch a movie about like the Middle Ages and you see a guy wearing a Rolex. You see, whoa, whoa, whoa. That's called an anachronism. If I told you Abraham Lincoln had a Tesla. Mashallah, there's a lot of Teslas in the parking lot. Why do the Teslas always go in trunk first? I don't know. Did you notice that? It's always a Tesla. Why do you guys do that? Anyone? You've earned the right. Mashallah. And he said, The Quran here, this is the king said to Yusuf A.S. the medic, not Pharaoh. But you read later in the Quran what does Allah say to Musa who's in the 18th dynasty or 19th dynasty. اِذْهَا بِلَا فِرْعَوْمْ إِنَّهُ تَغَالْ فَالْيَوْمَا مِنَجِيْكَ بِبَدَنِكَ بِتَكُونَ لِمَنْ خَلْفَكَ آيَةَ وَإِنَّ كَثِينَ مِنَ الْنَاسِ اَنْ آيَاتِنَا رَغَافِلُونَ This is what Allah SWT says to Pharaoh. Today we will save your body. Now, how did the classical exegesis in Mufasidah and the Quran how did they interpret this verse? And this is a correct interpretation is that the body of Pharaoh sort of washed up on shore and the many Israel they saw it and had like sort of this اِنَّ الْيَاكِينَ that the Pharaoh was dead. But interestingly this Pharaoh who's either Ramesses II or Tutmost III in my opinion, Tutmost III both of these bodies were discovered in the 19th century and they're on display right now at Cairo Museum. One of my friends who's a bit eccentric he visited the Cairo Museum and he was introduced to Ramesses II. The tour guide said this is to fill out of the exegesis and so the group left and then my friend went back up and he leaned over and he said where are you at now? Look at your body so that you might be a sign for those who come after you. But many people concerning these signs are heedless. Ajeeb. Masterful symmetry in the workplace Surah Maryam. Ka-tha ya'een-saaw. Look at this verse number two. Very short. ذِكُرُ رَحْمَتِ رَبِّكَ عَبْدَهُ زَكَرِيَّا The mention of the mercy of your Lord to his servant Zakariya. Did you know the words ذِكَرِ and زَخَرْيَا It's a Hebrew prophet's name. It's a Hebrew name. Zakariya Zakar comes from the same its exact cognate of ذِكَرْ. It means the mention of the Lord. The mention of the mercy of your Lord to his servant the mention of the Lord. You see the symmetry in this ayah. If a Jew who speaks Arabic in the hijaz or an Arab who speaks Hebrew in the hijaz if he heard this verse it's very stunning. The symmetry. It's very eloquent. It's very beautiful. But these things are lost. These subtleties are lost. So you see the kaya. Even this verse in the center is what? To his servant. Obudiyah. This is at the center of these three Suwa. Surah Al-Isra. How does it begin? Subhanallah. Subhanallah. Surah Al-Kahaf. Alhamdulillah. To his servant the mention of the Lord. And we said that even the Surah itself is a big sort of symmetrical structure. At the very end of Surah Al-Mariam what does Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala say? He said, Take the mercy of his son. Bring him something to eat. Take the heaven. Take the heaven. Take the heaven. Take the heaven. Take the heaven. Take the heaven. Take the heaven. Take the heaven. Take the heaven. Take the heaven. Take the heaven. Take the heaven. Take the heaven. Take the heaven. Take the heaven. Take the heaven. Take the heaven. Take the heaven. Take the heaven. Take the heaven. Take the heaven. Take the heaven. Take the heaven. Take the heaven. Take the heaven. Take the heaven. Take the heaven. Take the heaven. Take the heaven. Take the heaven. Take the heaven. Take the heaven. Take the heaven. Take the heaven. Take the heaven. Take the heaven. Take the heaven. Take the heaven. Take the heaven. Take the heaven. Take the heaven. I thought you said, keep fasting. I was like, no, I'm not going to. I'm going to. Yes, I'm sure. So, sorry. At the end of Surah Maryam, Allah SWT says, and they say that Allah SWT has begun a sun. They brought forth something monstrous at it. The heavens are about to burst and the mountains are about to be rent asunder and the earth is about to be split open that they should invoke a sun for Allah SWT. It is not befitting for the most gracious to beget a sun. Everything in the heavens and the earth only approaches Allah as a servant. And this is a great honor as a servant. When the Prophet, SAW, when he heard the verses of the Qur'an, even Mas'ud would recite the Qur'an to him. He would tell even Mas'ud, Iqra' al-Alimah, like, read the Qur'an to me. And he said, it's revealed to you, you want me to recite it? I love hearing it from other than me. recited in the Masood Versaik and every time the word Abdullah would come and reference the Prophet he'd been Masood's father's tears coming from the face of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam This is a great title I am a servant of God Ataniel Kitaba This is the center of Surah Maryam I am the servant of God He's given me the book of wisdom and may be a prophet More masterful wordplay This is Surah Khud You get it? It's very stunning It's very eloquent It's very clever And his wife Sarah was standing and she laughed So he gave her Yixhaq Which in Hebrew means laughter And following after Isaac ya'atol which means to follow after So whoever composed this verse, we know it's Allah I'm speaking in sort of dramatic terms Whoever composed this verse was a master in Hebrew and Arabic And was a master composer in both languages This is why the Orientalists that don't like Islam are scratching their heads It must have been a committee But when? When? Good luck What does Allah say about Yahya Alaihi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam? See this word Hanana in red in Arabic It means compassion Hanana This is a hafax This is the only occurrence of this word in the entire Quran And it's describing Yahya Alaihi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam The Quran calls him Yahya because he was a shaheed Don't say about the shaheeds that they're amwatu They're alive They're alive Getting sustenance from their Lord But the name of John in Hebrew is Yohanan Yohanan means the Lord has shown Hanana The Lord has shown compassion Ajeeb This is the only occurrence of this word in the Quran And it's describing Yahya Alaihi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Whose name is related to this word There's just a coincidence apparently Coincidence I think not Whoever composed this New Arabic in Hebrew is a master composer He chose you and did not impose upon you difficulties to the religion It is a creed of your father Abraham What does Abraham mean? Abraham's father of many nations More wordplay Adding to the eloquence The inadmidability of the Quran The fact that the Quran is insuperable The fact that the Quran is insuperable The fact that the Quran is insuperable The fact that the Quran is insuperable The fact that the Quran is insuperable The fact that the Quran is insuperable Skating wordplay Double entendrous These are two famous verses from the Torah So the Israelites They said to God We hear and we obey We hear and we obey This is what that sounds like in Hebrew And then in Exodus And he Moses took the calf The people had made and burned it with fire And he ground it to powder He scattered it on the water and made the Israelites drink it So it's a very interesting story in Exodus According to Exodus The golden calf was melted down Put it to water And the Israelites had to drink it It's called a trial by ordeal And whoever drank it and was innocent Nothing would happen to their body But if you're guilty, something would happen to your body And that's how the people knew that these were The people who instigated the shirk Of the ajal of the golden calf In one verse, look at what Allah said So this This statement here is clearly A play on Deuteronomy 527 It sounds almost exactly Like we hear and we obey But it has the opposite meaning Because Allah is telling him And this is what actually happened It's very clever It's very scathing To drink something into your heart This is an Arabic expression It means to become devoted to something But there's a double entendre here Because the Torah actually says they literally drank the calf This one here, yeah So this is a verse that's often attacked by people Like secular people and Christians Because this verse denies the crucifixion But if you actually look at what this verse says It's very interesting By the way, what's up on top is not a translation That's a different verse Allah will, this is just sort of the theme Allah will demonstrate the truth of his words Even though the sinners might detest it So this verse says, and indeed They said, we killed the Christ Jesus Son of Mary, the messenger of God And the fact that they not kill him Nor the crucifixion that was made to appear so That they had, and indeed those who differ over him About it, they have no certain knowledge That follow conjecture for surety They killed him not So, differ Ichtilaf means there's a difference of opinion If you read the earliest Books of the New Testament I don't want to get too much into this Because it's probably going to be boring But the first books of the New Testament ever written Were the letters of Paul It's before the Gospels And a central theme in Paul's letters Is that there are people that have Ichtilaf About the crucifixion He calls it eras In Greek eras is the goddess of strife But it's also the word for fitna Ichtilaf Full of doubt, shak Shak means it can go either way It's kind of 50-50 So if one group of Christians saying he was Another group maybe saying he's not You have one ta'ifa, as the Quran says Who believed in Isa And another ta'ifa who disbelieved in him And then you have You have dan So dan is when there's a lot of evidence So there seems to be a preponderance Of plausibility But there's no certitude In other words, a lot of Christians Are saying that he was crucified Right? But there's nothing There's no elm It's not certain This is a verse from the Psalms That David wrote this It's very interesting God saves his Messiah Psalm 26 It says very clearly This is in the Bible The book of Psalms The Zavur This is the Zavur God saves his Messiah Interestingly, Jesus is the same name As Jeshua It's the same name If you read an English Bible You read about someone in the Old Testament called Jeshua It's a very common name, Jeshua That's actually Jesus' real name Jeshua But when you read a translation in English It's a different name One says Jeshua One says Jesus But in Hebrew, it's the same name Yehshua You see down at the bottom here This is a Christian source This is his name What does it say? He is saved Saviour? No He is saved Yehshua means the one that God saved Wa ma qataluhu wa ma salabuhu Wa lakum shukbi alamu I jeem And this is just Just more evidence There's no eyewitnesses Nothing we have is written by an eyewitness Nothing that the Christians claim That That describes the crucifixion Was written by an eyewitness These are things that were discovered In the last few centuries Like when this ayah was revealed To the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi sallam In Medina that he wasn't crucified No doubt the Christians were saying But we have the gospels And two of them are written by eyewitnesses And they saw the crucifixion Nobody really believes that anymore A Christian that believes that these books Are written by eyewitnesses So I'll spare you the details Of this one Yeah I think I'll end with this one Insha'Allah So this is something amazing here So I want to sort of Revisit Some of these ayahs In light Of modern historical developments And the reason is because This will really demonstrate The Quran's ability to accurately Predict future events And there's some students here that Who got this part Yesterday in an apologetics class And by the way, this is not my personal Tawseer I'm not qualified to give Tawseer You have to have Mastered something 12th, 13th, even Jusayah Qalbisa Like 15 sacred sciences In order to give your opinion About something in the Quran So this is a Tawseer of modern Irama, in light of recent history Like those who have traditional training In the various records of disciplines So the Quran's semantical Polyvalence Allows for multiple correct interpretations In other words, the Quran's ability To communicate Meaning at different levels So Surah al-Isra Is also called Surah al-Tani Israel So listen to what Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala says We'll just look at the first eight verses And then verse 104 And then we'll be done, inshallah Glory be to the one Who took his servant on a night journey From the inviolable mosque in Mecca To the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem His precincts we did bless In order to show him some of our science Indeed he is hearing and seeing We gave Moses a revelation And made it a guidance for the children of Israel Stating, do not take other than me As a disposer of your affairs Indeed he knew I was a grateful servant Do not break us Do not break us in the earth For two times And we decreed for the children of Israel In the revelation So this could be the aforementioned Kitab, the Torah, or some or the other In the lower mahfouf In the preserved tablet You will certainly cause great corruption On the earth twice And you will become extremely arrogant Impressive While in a state of political power Right, so Rulu means to be in power Inna fir'awna a'la fir'a'ud Right So the promise of the first of the two came to pass Right, so like the end of the first Rulu We sent against you Our servants of great might Who ravaged your homes That was a promise fulfilled So the end here Means this is in the past This is done This is something that happened in the past There's no doubt about it So the word I'm going to mention here So when Manny Israel came into power With David 1000 BCE When did they lose power? What was the end of their ulur? It was in 580-60C The Babylonians attacked The southern kingdom of Judah They killed the last Davidic king They cut off David basically Everyone was brought into captivity in Babylon And they entered the homes Of the Israelites Just like the Warransahs And they pulled people out That were sort of the more Influential people And they took them as prisoners into Babylon Now this verse According to several exeges The khitaab changes here So now Allah SWT Is addressing the Muslims In the form of a prophecy This is the future Then we'll give you Muslims The upper hand over them An age with wealth and offspring And make you greater in number This is a prophecy that Bani Israel Will never be greater in number than anybody We'll give you power over that Over Bani Israel Jerusalem was conquered Shortly after during the Caliphate And the Muslims They conquered the Babylonian lands The Persian lands The Byzantine lands And then Allah SWT says To the Muslims If you do well Then you do well for yourselves But if you do wrong It is your own loss So when the time comes For the hereafter For the hereafter For the hereafter Then when the promise of the final Of the two ulur will come to pass This is the future They meaning the Jews will disgrace you Humiliate you And they will enter the Al Aqsa mosque And they will enter the Al Aqsa mosque What is Al Masjida here What was the last mention of the mosque The word Masjid What was the last mention of it What's the referent as the rule Subhanallah And they will enter the Aqsa mosque Like they did during the first time During their first ruling During the first ulur What will you tell What will you tell And they meaning the Jews Will destroy with utter destruction Asa Rabbukum An Yarhamukum And if you return And make us hell Perhaps Perhaps your lord will have mercy on you So here Asa in Arabic is called Fear It's a verb of Hope In other words This will happen God will have mercy on you It's going to be after some tests In the same Surah Asa Nathilatallak Asa An Yab'athaka Rabbuka Maqamam Mahmooda So Allah SWT In the night make Tahajjud It's an addition for you Perhaps your lord will raise you To the praiseworthy station And he has a Maqam Mahmood This is a cause of hope But if you return to sin We will return to punishment You know after the Some of them said How did this happen This is a response from Allah SWT This is from yourselves And we made hell a confinement for the disbelievers A strong warning to future generations So think about this How much have the Palestinians suffered For the injustices committed By others How much of the people of Gaza In particular suffered for the injustices Committed by others They inherited the consequences Of the bad decisions of non-Muslims Of course But also Muslims Bad decisions Bad alliances Nationalism Arab nationalism Turkish nationalism Secularism Rebellion against the caliphate Making alliances Revolution But the victory will come This is a promise of Allah SWT It's not going to be easy Perhaps your lord will have mercy on you But if you return to sin We will return to our punishments Now towards the end of the surah Remember how we said these surahs They have this kind of circular theme Towards the end of the surah We have this phrase again And some of you are going to say It's talking about the afterlife There's no reason to say That this is talking about the afterlife We said After that If you come If you come I promise you And we said to the children of Israel After that Dwell in the earth In Diaspora And when the promise of the final of the two Will come to pass We will bring you to the holy land The sixth assembly So the Jews from all over the world Will flood into the holy land This is the modern Zionist movement This is the second ulur This is the major indication Of their second façad In the earth Then what will they do According to the Quran They will oppress the Muslims And they will enter Masjidah And they will enter Masjidah Al-Aqsa And they will Absolutely destroy Palestine And it seems that these sort of Well anyway So from This is my finisher So from our perspective Eventually the pseudo-Messiah The Messiah at the Jal will emerge Isa alayhis salam The true messiah Will re-emerge Isa alayhis salam will defeat The pseudo-Messiah You know there in the holy land But also guide many of them So Allah SWT will gather them there As a lafifa A mixed assembly Ashkenazi Jews, Sephardic Jews Mizrahi Jews Gather them there As a mixed assembly for Isa alayhis salam To call them to Islam And eventually every Jew in Christian Will become Muslim Before the death of Isa alayhis salam This is with the Quran says The Quran says Before the death of Isa alayhis salam And the pronoun here according to most of the exigents Is referring to Isa alayhis salam And there is none of the people in the book That will believe in him before his death So very interesting You see the Quran It never ceases To be a relevant text As we move through life Century after century We go back to the book of Allah SWT And these incredible meanings Seemingly out of nowhere But the way the Quran is written Is such that these interpretations Make total sense We're not stretching the text The Christians they do that like the book of Revelation Something called the dragon The dragon, the beast, the mother of harlots The four horsemen What on earth is going on You can interpret these things nine ways to Sunday Who knows what's happening here The beast 666 You gotta do a lot of Pushing and pulling with the text And so a lot of Christians And I'll do respect to them They do something called I call it hermeneutical waterboarding You know, so if you torture a text You choke a text long enough It'll eventually say whatever you want to say Right? Are there any questions? I've spoken too much now Thank you very much for your attention Thank you Dr. So those that are watching online After chat questions A lot of people from around the world watching Those that are in their room just raise your hand I'll come over to my getting to you though Oh my shala So thorough Dr. I think it's very late People looking over I gotta get to my Tesla We have one brave soul right here I'm not bitter Yes sir So every century As you mentioned The same Has been relevant Is relevant and will be relevant So how do we Come to the point that this is This surah or this ayah is relevant to me At this point of time Versus saying this is relevant To from historical point of view Or this ayah is relevant Not necessarily to me but in the future How do we make sense of that Or come to the conclusion We have to be in touch With ulama this is very important The downfall of the previous umam Is that they didn't preserve their language Number one Right as the Quran says Al-Baqarah the verses are Escaping me One of the downfalls of Bani Israel Is they did not preserve Their language And then many of them cut themselves Off from their scholars And made their scholars were also corrupt So always Have some sort of Connection with scholars This is extremely important He told us We live in an age right now Where scholars are being People are attacking them Making up these outlandish crazy things And lying about them slander These types of things They want to decentralize Islam Because they don't like this normative tradition Because the normative tradition What the Quran and Sunnah say on its surface Is very powerful And people see this as a threat So you decentralize the religion So that my opinion is just as good as anyone else's opinion So whatever I say on my comment On twitter Or whatever I tweet Whatever comment I make on youtube It's just as good as sheikhullah sallam Why not? I got a brain You know Honor the scholars They are the inheritors of the prophets Whoever honors the scholars Has honored Allah on his messenger So we should always have recourse to ulama This is very important Don't isolate yourself They say a little bit of knowledge is dangerous You have people that are very brilliant Out of didactics People that can Teach themselves arabic And they can do these online things And learn hadith and fifth in these things But this is a dangerous This is not a traditional way of study The traditional way of study Is to sit at the feet of a scholar Take knowledge directly There is sunnah These things are very very important Allah said That Adam took something from Allah What did he take from Allah According to The hadith That he said Allah forgive me for the sake of the prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam These words were taught to him Directly by Allah Subhanahu wa sallam So talaqi knowledge Very very important Ijazah Teaching licenses Again I don't want to Pick on the Christians too much Paul has no Ijazah He has no connection To the hawariyun He's the first person in history to say Jesus is crucified And his sunnah ends at him And he says it himself He said nobody taught me this I got this as a revelation From Jesus And then he really butts heads With actual disciples If you look at the injil It's almost perfectly in line According to most historians With what the original disciples would have actually preached So that's it Historically there's a connection But Paul's sunnah ends with him He has no sunnah He admits it In first Corinthians The people in Corinth they say Where is your letter of recommendation I don't need it I have a vision of Christ I have stigmata So Ask questions There's nothing wrong with asking questions In the Quran Ibrahim A.S Who has more iman Than all of us put together in this room He said to Allah how is it that you raise the dead Allah said to him do you not believe Allah knows the answer Of course I believe But for the itminan of my qalb I want to have certitude in my heart I want to have tranquility in my heart That's a good type of question It's coming from a place of conviction in iman I want to have a deeper understanding But the type of questioning That is reprehensible Allah says do this Sacrifice a bakar What's a bakar What color is it Really Really What day Do what you're commending So a type of questioning Coming from a place of rebellion This is something that's reprehensible But questioning Coming from a place of wanting to know At a deeper level of understanding This is totally fine And no scholar should be offended by it Mashallah we have brought them up In this room not me Sitting over here We have to have connection with them Can you hear me Thank you In light of this conversation I want to encourage this red cow And the sacrifice I knew it would come up Yes it's very important Can you please enlight us With your perspective Yes I was going to talk about it And then I decided to skip it Because people hear about this And they think this is some weird This is like some conspiracy stuff But it's not It's very real and it's very important So the parah aduma In the Torah In Jewish tradition So it says in a book of Numbers The fourth book of the Torah Numbers chapter 19 That in order for there to be a priesthood And therefore a temple The priests have to purify themselves With the ashes Of the between 2 and 3 year old Perfect red heifer So they have to sacrifice this red heifer And then they sort of They take the ashes And they purify They do some sort of ritual They purify the priests and their vestments And sort of the instruments of the temple There's only the nine In their entire history by the way It's very difficult to get a perfect red heifer Perfect meaning completely red No black or white hairs Ever Even red hooves No saddle So it's never given birth No one's ever basically touched it The first one according to So Maimonides he says in his Mishnah Torah Which is sort of a summary Of the entire Talmud Maimonides is a great theologian Probably the greatest theologian Philosopher in Jewish history He says that the first parah aduma The first red heifer was sacrificed On the second of Nisan And then the ashes Can last for hundreds of years The second one was sacrificed by Or Ezra like 6th century BCE And then he says there's been Seven more until the destruction Of the second temple And 70 of the common era by the Romans And then Maimonides says the 10th red heifer Will be sacrificed by the Davidic king Messiah So that's his opinion So what they have now is Four blemish free red heifers Born in Texas Christian Zionism Right Gee Christian Zionism They're probably genetically engineered But there was five Now they're down to four And they have The altar ready It's on the mount of Olives On the second of Nisan Which is in a few days On Wednesday That's the day they're planning to do the sacrifice When the Shayatina released But if they do that What's the significance of that If they do that Then they'll take it The Bani Israel They'll take that as Taufiq That they can push hard For a third temple And the priesthood They will take that as sort of divine permission That they can just As the Quran says When you tabiru Because the prize is the temple mount And the temple mount is called the Har Habayit Har Habayit Right So Gaza Is a bit of a distraction Obviously this We should pay attention to that Obviously But the real goal is West Bank Because East Jerusalem is where the temple mount is So you notice when they started attacking Gaza They also were pushing towards There's no Habas It's our homeless There's no homeless in the West Bank That's the real prize Is the temple mount And interestingly You know how it says So in the Quran They're going to humiliate you They'll enter the Masjid al-Aqsa And they'll destroy Palestine These latter two Are going to be really ramped up When they sacrifice the 10th red heifer It's our mission to do that And it's already started It's turned into a moonscape It looks like the surface of the moon Is what the Quran says they're going to do At the second ulu This is a sign of their downfall And then Rashid Khalidi who wrote that book 100 years war in Palestine He said before October 7th He would go on the temple mount And he would see pockets of Jews worshiping On the temple mount They're entering the Masjid al-Aqsa They're getting ready to do that So the red bull Red bull sorry Red bull gives you wings The red heifer In sort of theory Will give them sort of divine permission To really ramp things up To a degree that we haven't even seen before Allahumma s.a.m But it is a big deal I mentioned that at Khutbah In December of 2022 here And some people are like What are you talking about red heifer Get a life This is weird This is not Khutbah stuff But you know it's very important Now everyone is talking about the red heifer Okay Okay Allah tells us they're going to lose Can you hear me? You had talked about the Book the jewels of the Quran Do you know if you had any other book recommendations On like the study of this Or that are similar what you used To make this presentation The jewels of the Quran Sort of similar to that Which part of the presentation What time? Like the Kind of the understanding Of the stories in the Quran And like the verses and how you explain them To what was happening now I can put a bibliography I'll send one to you I have a bibliography with this I can't think of the titles On the top of my head right now The deck is on the presentation The video online on YouTube as well I'll put it in the description That's a good question For the reading Sorry I can't bring that You're good We have a question here On that side Peace be upon you Thank you for the talk So Recently there's been Like among Christian apologetics More recently Like Jordan Peterson Bringing up a diagram Of cross references within the Bible The Old Testament, the New Testament And kind of Bragging about that The fact that there's so many Gives authority to the Bible And then they might compare with the Quran And many of those cross references That they put up I don't know if you've heard of this Or not, but is there any Is the argument that they're trying To make baseless Is there any base to it Christianity and Judaism Are Very very different religions Okay I mean Christianity is a sort of Little sister Of Judaism Which is the sort of mother religion But their understanding of what was everything Is vastly different Right Christian, like I said, Christian Zionism to me And like Jordan Peterson is a big Zionist And there's a group called Koufi Christians United for Israel, led by John Hage Again, Texas, is that a Texas? What's wrong with Texas? I don't know But the executive director of Israel was David Brog Who was cousins of Ehud Barak The former prime minister of Israel You can't make this stuff up The executive director of Christian John Everett Israel Was a Jewish Zionist And cousin of Ehud Barak Ba'adahum Awliya Uba Right? That's very strange to me, why? Because if you read in the Talmud What the rabbi said about Jesus You would Probably won't be able to eat lunch For a few weeks Think of the most Don't think of it But if someone was to, I always make this in a If someone was to go into a room for 24 hours And think of the most depraved thing You could possibly say about another human being You would not talk the rabbis In a Babylonian Talmud What they said about Isa And Maryam Allah SWT gives us an idea We kill this so called Christ This messenger of God Of yours You know Gives us an idea So this relationship is very strange to me Christian supporting Israel Because in the New Testament Jesus is the New Temple It's very clear If you read the New Testament Traditional Christianity Jesus is the New Temple Jesus is the New Temple Jesus never talks about a Third Temple He always talks about the destruction of the Second Temple And he refers to himself As the Next Temple So for Christians to support A Third Temple Where sacrifices can come back by priests This is total kufr According to Traditional Christianity Because Jesus is the ultimate sacrifice According to the New Testament Jesus is the ultimate High Priest And he is the Final Temple So it's a weird relationship They're kind of using each other Pardon the analogy Fair warning It's like a 19 year old girl Marrying a 90 year old man Who's very rich You know He wants something She wants something But they don't really like each other Right According to the book of Revelation Only 144,000 Jews Will be converted When Jesus comes again And they're all men And they're all virgins You read the New Testament You read early Church Fathers You read Christian Theologians All the way into the 19th Century This idea of Replacement Theology That the New Testament Replaces the Old Covenant with Moses It's Super Sessionism That's Traditional Christianity You have to believe in Jesus Or else you're no longer chosen by God That is advocating this dual Covenant Theology In other words, you can be Jew And still go to heaven You don't have to believe in Jesus Where does it come from? It's total bid-out Because from nowhere It comes from Shaitan So I don't agree with what the New Testament says I don't believe Jesus is a 3rd temple It's a sacrifice I don't believe these things I don't believe these things But if Christians would just believe their text They have no reason to support Zionism You know there was a rabbi who went to Israel He was a true story He was a Zionist as a young man He went there and then he looked around He said, this is horrible What we're doing with the Palestinians And then he said, no, we have become Pharaoh We have become Goliath We, any Israel has become Pharaoh But at least Pharaoh The original Pharaoh, right? At least he spared the women and the girls But Pharaoh He can't survive without Kaurun and Hamat Without economic And military vacuum Hence you have Christians like this Read a book by Stephen Seizer Stephen Seizer Road map to Armageddon Jezebel la Hela Wow Beautiful He's a Christian, Bible-believing Christian So they're out there But you don't hear about them Jews in the East Coast They fill up stadiums In protest against Israel They fill up stadiums They fill up The Brooklyn Nets Stadium They cover 10 square blocks You never hear about these people Five or six men Own everything we see On television or on the internet So regarding that The ayah about What did the scholar say about The actual manifestation Of the Rahna Is it like related to the Re-emergence of the ayah According to this understanding Yes Allah SWT Will have mercy on the Muslims In the sense it will give them victory Over their enemies According to this understanding It's an indication of the future victory We know that there's a future victory But it's very explicit in the hadith Quran here is It's sort of pointing to Isharah to it I think we should maybe end people Are leaving, I think people are tired Okay, sounds good. How about just because We have a lot of people online watching We have a lot of questions online Maybe you can answer just one of them Just so we don't let our online viewers down Please explain the concept of Majjadid in Islam And it's application now in the recent past So there's a hadith of the prophet Allah SWT At the head of every century Will send in Majjadid Majjadid is a renewer of the faith Renewer of the Of the teachings of the First generation So the foundation Is the understanding Of the prophet And the Sahaba But they're applying that foundation Stances as they arrive So in that sense they're renewing the religion So If you look throughout the centuries You know, they say that Imam Shafi' Of his century was the Majjadid They say Some of these There's a difference of opinion Imam Al Ghazali Was the Majjadid of the 5th century Some say Imam Abdullah Ibn Ali Haddad And then when you get into these later centuries It gets a little murkier Because just the nature of the end of time So Again, the general advice Is to cling to the ulama It's very important The people of knowledge This is a command from the Quran So we have this idea of Tajdeed The religion It's not a type of Reform People say, Islam needs a Reformation You need to Reinform yourself Reinformation Is what you need We don't need a reformation We need a reinformation Because what did the reformation do to Christianity? It produced this Scourge of Christian Zion This murderous ideology Is now dominant amongst Protestants Dominated And now is infecting the Catholic church I think that's good enough I always appreciate you Thank you so much for making time for us So we Have a good problem We can't fit everybody in here We do have it here on our night So we're going to do it in the prayer hall The time right now is 1.45 So we're going to do 10 minutes We'll beat you in the prayer hall But We'll explain to us how to do this And we'll do it out there So 1.55 Let's meet you in the prayer hall I I I I I I I I I I I I I I